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An apparatus and method for automatically controlling screens displayed on two display units installed in a mobile terminal are provided, in which, an event is identified, if an event occurs, and on and off states of the display units are controlled, if the event is identified as a control operation of the display units corresponding to a user's key input. If the event is identified as a control operation of the display units corresponding to an operation of a sensor, the display units are automatically controlled corresponding to rotation of the mobile terminal.

A method of storing service description documents in a computerised storage system in which each document is associated with at least one verb ontological node (204) and at least one noun ontological node (254), each verb ontological node having one or more links to other verb ontological nodes and each noun ontological node having one or more links to other noun ontological nodes whereby the verb nodes form a verb space (200) and the noun nodes form a noun space (250) and a method of retrieving service description documents from a plurality of service description documents stored in this way comprising the steps of: controlling a user interface to request from a user at least one verb request term (405) and at least one noun request term (410), associating the or each verb request term (405) with a corresponding verb node (204) and the or each noun request term (410) with a corresponding noun node (254), comparing the or each corresponding verb node (204) with the or each verb node (212, 214) associated with each of the stored service description documents, comparing the or each corresponding noun node (254) with the or each noun node (262, 266) associated with each of the stored service description documents, and selecting for retrieval zero or more of the stored service description documents on the basis of the comparison steps and controlling the user interface to inform the user of the selected documents to enable the user to retrieve one or more of the selected documents.

A password is effectively prevented from being leaked to enhance the degree of security and, at the same time, can be input without difficulty. There is provided a removable information storage apparatus equipped with a predetermined interface for connecting itself to an external appliance and a security section with limited accesses from the external appliance, which includes a password input unit to be used that inputs a password of a predetermined number of words to be notified only to the information storage apparatus without being output to the external appliance connected to it by way of the predetermined interface, a password collating unit that collates the password input by way of the password input unit, and an access authorizing unit that authorizes an access to the security section from the external appliance connected to it by way of the predetermined interface in response to the collation of the password by the password collating unit. The password input unit is adapted to be used for inputting a password of not greater than a predetermined number of words as the password to be collated by the password collating unit, and the password collating unit is adapted to collate the password of not greater than the predetermined number of words input by way of the password input unit.

A method, system and program product for managing and responding to receiving of mail items including the capture of a digital image by a mail item recipient taken of the outside of the mail item that includes the recipient and sender address blocks using, for example, a personal mobile intelligent communication device, and decoding a postal service barcode such as an Intelligent Mail Barcode.

In a recording-reproducing apparatus for recording a broadcast program, electronic program guide data distributed through a broadcast network is stored in an electronic program guide data storage area 8b of a hard disk, etc. When the user, etc., specifies any desired broadcast program, a system controller 9 retrieves the attribute of the specified broadcast program from the electronic program guide data stored in the electronic program guide data storage area 8b, determines whether or not commercials can be cut for the specified broadcast program based on the retrieved attribute, and displays the determination result on a display section 15 of a remote controller 14. If the displayed determination result indicates that commercials can be cut and the user, etc., gives a command to cut commercials, commercials are cut; if the user, etc., gives a command not to cut commercials, the broadcast program is recorded in a record area 8a of the hard disk, etc.

A Push-To-Talk (PTT) enabled mobile terminal, PTT service providing system, and sender location display method are disclosed. The sender location display method includes transmitting current location information of a calling PTT-enabled mobile terminal to a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server at initiation of a PTT call by a calling PTT-enabled mobile terminal, forwarding the location information from the calling PTT-enabled mobile terminal to a called PTT-enabled mobile terminal by the SIP server, and outputting the location information from the SIP server by the called PTT-enabled mobile terminal.

A display device includes a display panel, a light emitting device that provides backlight to the display panel, and a control device that determines the brightness of the backlight that the light emitting device should provide. The control device detects a timing when the brightness of the backlight illuminating the display panel is switched; recognizes an updated brightness level that should replace, as the one to be applied, an initial brightness level representing the brightness of the backlight at the detection timing; and changes the brightness of the backlight step by step after the detection timing from the initial brightness level to the updated brightness level.

A user authentication device provided on an apparatus as an object of operation acquires feature data representing notable portion of the user, using a camera device, after user authentication. Based on the acquired feature data, the user authentication device tracks the user by the camera (step S1030). If it is detected by the tracking that the user has left the apparatus, the user authentication device displays a log-in screen image on an operation panel (step S1060). If it is detected that the user once left the apparatus has returned to a position where he/she can operate the apparatus, the user authentication device displays the screen image that has been previously operated by the user. On the other hand, if it is detected that the tracking has been interrupted after the user left the apparatus, the user authentication device executes a log-out process (step S1120).

Multi-function apparatus and related method integrated with positioning/orientation mechanism. The apparatus of the invention works under a forward mode for recording reference coordinates/altitudes of a departure point and passing points along a track which a user moves. When the user wants to trace back, the apparatus works under a backward mode for comparing each of the recorded reference coordinates/altitudes with a current coordinate/altitude of the user, and providing direction/altitude orientation for the user so that the user can trace back to the original departure and/or passing points.

A rotisserie convection oven including a rotatable drum assembly which allows cooking of food items therein without added cooking oils is disclosed. The present oven is designed for cooking of pre-prepared or frozen foods with minimal ingestion of cooking oils and residual oil byproducts of concern to the health-conscious consumer. The present oven provides a countertop appliance having an enclosed cooking chamber with tubular heating elements wherein a rotatable drum containing foodstuffs is coupled to a rotisserie drive assembly. An integrated control chamber protects electrical components and encloses a convection fan assembly which is disposed in air transfer communication with the cooking chamber to enable circulation of air across the heating elements and through the rotatable drum during the cooking cycle. In one embodiment the rotatable drum is constructed of wire mesh to permit the continuous circulation of heated air therein to reduce cooking temperatures and shorten the cooking cycle.

A limiting plate control device is for a scooter luggage. The device includes first and second shells that form a cavity shell, and a sliding pressing block, first and second sliders, and first and second elastic elements that are all located within the cavity shell. The device comprises an extrusion mechanism configured to allow the first slider protrusion to retract into the cavity shell by pushing the pressing block and to allow the second slider protrusion to retract by further pushing the pressing block. The device has a simple structure and is easy to operate. Moreover, a button shell for a scooter luggage is provided. The button shell has a spilt frame which includes a first baffle with a limiting bump and a second baffle with a limiting groove. The button shell has a simple structure and is easy to assemble and operate.

A data presentation apparatus having a function to generate a pointer image pointing a position in a presentation image is provided and includes: an image transmission section that transmits an image data of the presentation image to a terminal; a receiver that receives a control signal to determine a display position of the pointer image in the presentation image, the control signal being transmitted from the terminal; and an image generation section that generates an image data of a composite image based on the control signal, the composite image including the presentation image and the pointer image displayed in the presentation image.

A printing information service system and a method of providing printing information, based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. The system and method retrieve a printing status of a user of a printer, locate the user from among users each having a RFID card by determining whether personal identification information stored in the RFID card of the user is acquired depending on a communicating distance between the RFID reader equipped in the printer and the RFID card of the user, and provide information by displaying the printing status of the user identified by the personal identification information, on the printer, when the personal identification information is acquired as a result of the determining. The system and method provide printing information to different locations of the user, and individually informs the print completion status, thus greatly improving the convenience of printing by the user.

The present disclosure provides an indoor navigation and information push system and method using LED lighting devices. The indoor navigation and information push system includes three LED lighting devices, each with a built-in Wi-Fi module and an information storage and navigation server configured to wirelessly communicate with LED lighting devices, store and transmit promotion data and product information. The information storage and navigation server and the LED lighting devices form an indoor wireless network. The indoor navigation and information push system further includes a user terminal configured to wirelessly communicate with the LED lighting devices and sends service requests to or receives data from the LED lighting devices.

Provided are a method of recovering from a duplex jam for an image forming apparatus and the image forming apparatus using the method. The method includes sensing a paper jam on a duplex transport section, opening and closing the duplex printing unit if the paper jam is sensed, re-sensing the paper jam, and immediately resuming printing if the paper jam is not re-sensed. Thus, if a paper jam occurs during duplex printing by an image forming apparatus including a duplex printing unit, a recovery operation can be performed by merely eliminating the paper jammed on a duplex transport path without a need to open and close a main body cover, thereby continuing printing and thus providing convenience to a user by relieving a cumbersome process from the user and allowing the user to conveniently and promptly continuing printing.

A correction stick equipped pen and pen cap relating to an ink pen with a detachable pen cap, wherein the pen has a dual purpose of writing with ink on one end and whiting out mistakes on the other end with a correction stick; and the pen cap also has a dual purpose of capping the pen and whiting out mistakes with a correction stick as well. It includes a main tubular body having a first end portion comprising a writing end and a second end portion comprising a correcting end wherein the second end portion is formed with a neck with an inner circular flange and a circular recess above said circular flange wherein a correction stick is snugly-fitted into said circular recess; and a correction stick equipped pen cap, wherein a correction stick is snugly seated at a circular recess at the tip of the said pen cap.

An apparatus and method for receiving a broadcasting service in a digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) system. In a method for changing a broadcasting service in a terminal for receiving DMB services, it is determined if a reserved decoding resource element is present while data of a first broadcasting service is decoded and output. If the reserved decoding resource element is present, it is determined if an operation for decoding a pilot channel will be stopped. If the operation for decoding the pilot channel is stopped, data of a second broadcasting service is received and decoded using the reserved decoding resource element and a decoding resource element for decoding the pilot channel. When a user makes a change to the second broadcasting service, the data of the first and second broadcasting services is simultaneously output.

The present invention provides a transmission apparatus and method which realize a redial function and prevents the leakage of transmission information to the outside by inhibiting the display of the information including a destination to which retransmission is made, when it is determined that a predetermined condition is satisfied, whereby security can be enhanced.

When the transmission of image data is not completed, a control section performs a retransmission process for transmitting again the image data to the same destination with the use of the redial function, and counts the number of times of the transmission. The control section determines whether the number of times of the transmission is greater than a predetermined value or not. When the number of times of the transmission is greater than the predetermined value, the control section reports a transmission error and deletes the information including the destination.

The present disclosure provides a display screen adjusting method, a display screen adjusting apparatus and a display device. The method comprises the steps of: acquiring visual angle information and fixation point position information of a user relative to a display screen; determining a reference point position to which the display screen needs to be adjusted according to the fixation point position information; and adjusting the angle and position of the display screen according to the visual angle information, the reference point position and the current position of the display screen in light of a predetermined rule. The display screen adjusting method, the display screen adjusting apparatus and the display device can automatically adjust the angle and position of the display screen simultaneously without manual operation, thereby improving the user's viewing experience.

Disclosed are an around view monitor system and a method of controlling the same. The around view monitor system includes: a travel information receiving unit configured to receive gear information from a transmission of a vehicle; a touch input receiving unit configured to receive a touch signal for a display device provided in the vehicle; and a control unit configured to control an output effect to be applied to image data around the vehicle output to the display device according to the gear information transmitted from the travel information receiving unit and the touch signal transmitted from the touch input receiving unit.

The invention provides a deformation-free self-stick memo pad holder that mainly comprises an inner case and an outer case; the inner case further is composed of a case cover and a bottom plate. On the case cover surface there are long strips of accommodating space formed by alternate rectangular bump strips and a bottom plate for the embedment of self-stick memo pad stacks. There is also an opening at a proper location of the surface. There is support at the four corners. The outer case can accommodate the insertion of the inner case and there is a groove on its surface corresponding to the opening on case cover surface. After assembly, the invention can facilitate the withdrawal of memo pad. Particularly, the alternate rectangular bump strips on the shell surface of the inner case and the support at the four enable full support and fixation for the outer case, so it prevents deformation or twist by external forces and keeps the inner case immobile.

In an information providing system insertion of a card into a navigation apparatus is detected, and information about a facility specifically related to the card is provided. If one of a wireless communication card, a memory card, an ETC card, an HDD card, and a credit card is inserted into a card slot or an ETC card slot, traffic information or facility information related to the inserted card is transmitted from an information center to the navigation apparatus, and the traffic information or the facility information specifically related to the inserted card is provided to a user, in addition to normal route guidance information.