• ETRI Journal
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.932-941
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• 2012

A powerful interaction mechanism is one of the key elements for the success of smart TVs, which demand far more complex interactions than traditional TVs. This paper proposes a novel interface based on the famous touch interaction model but utilizes long-range bare hand tracking to emulate touch actions. To satisfy the essential requirements of high accuracy and immediate response, the proposed hand tracking algorithm adopts a fast color-based tracker but with modifications to avoid the problems inherent to those algorithms. By using online modeling and motion information, the sensitivity to the environment can be greatly decreased. Furthermore, several ideas to solve the problems often encountered by users interacting with smart TVs are proposed, resulting in a very robust hand tracking algorithm that works superbly, even for users with sleeveless clothing. In addition, the proposed algorithm runs at a very high speed of 82.73 Hz. The proposed interface is confirmed to comfortably support most touch operations, such as clicks, swipes, and drags, at a distance of three meters, which makes the proposed interface a good candidate for interaction with smart TVs.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.525-530
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• 2014

This experimental research explores the effect of screen size of smart media on viewer's evaluation and presence. For this experimental research, 2 groups of subjects composed of university students were exposed to TV document video clips which were shown by two different size of smart media, and evaluation and presence related questions were asked analysed. This research found that subjects exposed to large smart media showed higher degree of image aesthetic evaluation and presence than those exposed to small media. but the effect of screen size of smart media on viewer's program evaluation was not found. Through this study, screen size of smart media is main factor which has effect on image aesthetics and presence of TV documentary.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.7
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• pp.725-735
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• 2016

Smart TV uses Webkit as a web browser engine to provide contents such as web surfing, VOD watching, and games. Webkit uses web resources, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images, in order to run applications. At the start of an application, Webkit loads resources to the memory and creates DOM tree and render tree, which is a time consuming process. However, DOM tree and render tree created by the smart TV application do not change over time because the smart TV application uses web resources stored in a disk. If DOM tree and render tree can be stored and reused, it is possible to reduce loading time of an application. In this paper, we propose FastIO technique that selectively adds persistency to dynamically allocated memory. FastIO reduces overall application loading time by eliminating the process of loading resources from storage, parsing the HTML documents, and creating DOM tree and render tree. Comparison of the application resource loading times indicates that the web browser with FastIO is 7.9x, 44.8x, and 2.9x faster than the legacy web browser in an SSD, Ramdisk, and eMMC environment, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.1390-1393
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• 2013

인터페이스가 제한된 단말에서 정보 검색 서비스를 제공하는 경우, 검색 재현율보다는 정확도가 중요하다. 데이터를 쉽게 구조화할 수 있고 검색 정확도가 중요한 한정된 도메인에서는 시맨틱 검색 기술을 통해 강력한 정보 검색 서비스를 제공할 수 있지만, 사용자 키워드 질의를 시스템 질의로 변환하는 과정에서 다양한 해석들이 존재할 수 있기에 개선의 여지도 많다. 본 논문에서는 해석 정확도와 확장성을 동시에 향상시키기 위한 새로운 모델을 제안한다. 제안 모델은 공간의 구조와 요소들의 해석을 제한함으로써 중간 탐색 공간의 크기를 점진적으로 줄이면서 사용자의 검색 의도는 가능한 보존할 수 있다. 실제 데이터로 이루어진 대용량 지식을 이용해 다른 최신 기술과 비교하여 실험적 평가를 제시하였다.

• It's Smart Media
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.22-28
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• 2014

스마트TV는 TV와 휴대폰, 그리고 컴퓨터 등 여러 개의 스크린을 활용하여 동영상을 볼 수 있는 TV를 의미한다. 스마트TV는 또한 콘텐츠를 인터넷에서 실시간으로 다운받아 볼 수 있고, 스포츠 결과, 사건 사고, 다른 나라의 소식, 그리고 이메일 등을 바로 확인할 수 있는 복합적인 커뮤니케이션 시스템이다. 반면에 이전의 TV는 단순한 방송을 시청하는 도구로 사용되었지만, 최근에 등장한 스마트TV는 방송을 보는 것과 참여하는 것, 그리고 선택하는 것을 포함하고 있다. 즉 TV에 네트워크 기능을 추가하며, 각종 앱을 설치하고, 이러한 앱들을 통해서 정보검색/물건구매, VOD 시청, 인터넷 게임, 소셜네트워크 사용 등 다양한 기능을 활용한다. 본 기사에서는 스마트TV 기술, 구성요소, 그리고 각 제조사별 특징을 분석하고, 스마트TV의 발전 방향 등 스마트TV의 현황 등에 대해서 정리한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.01a
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• pp.51-54
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• 2016

최근 스마트폰이 급격하게 보급되면서 1인 1스마트폰 시대가 열렸다. 이에 스마트 TV를 이용할 때 스마트폰을 활용하여 기능을 더욱 향상시키는 기술이 주목받고 있다. 해당 프로젝트에서는 스마트 TV의 영상을 시청하고자 할 때 홈시어터 등의 장비 대신 스마트폰을 활용하고자한다. TV의 기본 2채널 스피커가 아닌 5.1 채널을 구축하고 다채널 서라운드를 지원하여 더욱 풍부한 음향이 제공되는 환경에서 스마트 TV의 영상을 관람 가능한 시스템을 구현하였다. 스마트 TV 1대와 스마트폰 3대를 이용하여 구축하였고, AllShare Framework를 통하여 디바이스 간 연결을 하고, FFmpeg과 Chord SDK로 사운드 채널 분리 및 디바이스 사운드 동기화 처리를 통하여 출력 딜레이를 최소화한다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.141-152
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• 2013

It's been several years since IPTV(Internet Protocol Television), which is typical conversed broadcasting communication service come up to a new growth power. Although our broadcasting communication infrastructure has global competitiveness, it's been late to be commercialized rather than other countries due to lack of timely supporting policies. Also rising of smart circumstances beginning with smart phone makes smart TV grow faster, so expansibility of IPTV become shrink. This study suggests IPTV the way to get over this circumstances and the effort of government or industries.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.117-123
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• 2013

The development of the latest emotional recognition and multimedia technology has changed the traditional broadcasting system. The previous broadcasting system, which was operated by the terrestrial broadcasters, is now transformed to the viewer-centered and bidirectional broadcasting through the convergence of internet, mobile and smart TV. In this paper, smart-phone application for estimating human emotion(sadness, anger, depression) has been developed and emerged with smart TV, thereby we can present broadcasting service for enhancing the sense of common humanity among people of same group. If there is friend in the depression, we can bring comfort to him by inviting one for TV program what I watch and having a honest talk with facial avatar or emoticon. The proposed emotional broadcasting service inter-working with smart-phone application can give feeling of belonging and happiness to the people suffering from the blues, and it can prevent him from attempting suicide. In addition, smart-phone based emotional broadcasting service can be expended to program recommendation service customized to user's emotion, emotional LED lighting service to maximize the sense of reality and home shopping service taking advantage of the mood of customer.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.401-407
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose the method to eliminate EMI (Electro-Magnetic Interference) in ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) band below 2 KHz for extending the gesture-recognition distance of smart TVs to more than 3m using electric potential sensor. First, we measure the electric field generated from the back panel of a TV and propose the effective arrangement of two sets of differential sensors as well as the shielding method using metal fiber. Also, we eliminate the PLN (Power Line Noise) and other noise generated from the TV and sensors as well as surrounding environments using filters. Using the proposed EMI eliminating methods, we evaluate displacement ratio on measured signals according to distance between sensors and a moving hand. Experiment results show that our proposed method can extend the hand-gesture sensing distance using EPS (Electric Potential Sensor) up to more than 3m, which is enough to satisfy applicability of EPS based remote control to Smart TVs.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.61-67
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• 2011

Smart TV System will lead to drastic change of communication and media industries as one of the emerging next generation network services. However, when the number of concurrent users increases rapidly, the issue of service quality degradation occurs because providing services to many users simultaneously stresses both the server and the network. The server limitation can be circumvented by deploying server clusters. but the network limitation is far less easy to cope with, due to the difficulty in determining the cause and location of congestion and in provisioning extra resources. In order to alleviate these problems, a number of schemes have been developed. Prior works mostly focus on reducing user-centric performance metrics of individual connection, such as the round-trip time(RTT), downloading time or packet loss rate, but tend to ignore the network loads caused by the concurrent connections or global network load balance. In this work, we make an in-depth investigation on the issue of user grouping for massive Smart TV services through simulations on actual Internet test-bed, PlanetLab.