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20100224068 | GAS ADSORPTION MEDIUM AND GAS ADSOPRTION PUMP APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A gas adsorption medium and an adsorption pump apparatus having the same are provided. The gas adsorption medium includes a multi-layered structure of which the layers formed of a material are spaced apart from each other, wherein an ion valence of the material is variable and the material includes extra electrons not participating in a chemical bond, and the adsorption pump apparatus includes the gas adsorption medium as described above. The gas adsorption medium can secure a large surface area by securing a space between the layers so that efficiency of the gas adsorption ability can be enhanced. | 09-09-2010 |
20100314609 | NANOWIRE MEMORY - Provided is a nanowire memory including a source and a drain corresponding to the source, and a nano channel formed to connect the source to the drain. Here, the nano channel includes a nanowire electrically connecting the source to the drain according to voltages of the source and drain, and a nanodot formed on the nanowire and having a plurality of potentials capturing charges. Thus, the nanowire memory has a simple structure, thereby simplifying a process. It can generate multi current levels by adjusting several energy states using gates, operate as a volatile or non-volatile memory by adjusting the gates and the energy level, and include another gate configured to adjust the energy level, resulting in formation of a hybrid structure of volatile and non-volatile memories. | 12-16-2010 |
20110008247 | METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY STORING GAS BY CONTROLLING GAS STORAGE SPACE OF GAS STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is a gas storage method of a gas storage medium having a multilayer structure in which crystalline structures are stacked to be spaced from each other, including selectively storing gas by relatively controlling a space between the crystalline structures or a lattice distance between crystals of each crystalline structure with respect to the van der Waals diameter of gas which is to be stored. According to the gas storage method, it is possible to selectively store gas. | 01-13-2011 |
20110193052 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL NANODEVICES INCLUDING NANOSTRUCTURES - Provided are three-dimensional (3D) nanodevices including 3D nanostructures. The 3D nanodevice includes at least one nanostructure, each nanostructure including an oscillation portion floating over a substrate and support portions for supporting both lengthwise end portions of the oscillation portion, supports disposed on the substrate to support the support portions of each of the nanostructures, at least one controller disposed at an upper portion of the substrate, a lower portion of the substrate, or both the upper and lower portions of the substrate to control each of the nanostructures, and a sensing unit disposed on each of the oscillation portions to sense an externally supplied adsorption material. Thus, unlike in a typical planar device, generation of impurities between a nanodevice and a substrate can be reduced, and mechanical vibration can be caused. In particular, since 3D nanostructures have mechanical and electrical characteristics, 3D nanodevices including new 3D nanostructures can be provided using nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS). Also, a single electron device, a spin device, or a single electron transistor (SET)-field effect transistor (FET) hybrid device can be formed using a simple process unlike in planar devices. | 08-11-2011 |
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20080254559 | Method of Fabricating Liquid Crystal Display Device - Provided is a method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device. The method includes fabricating a liquid crystal panel divided into transmission and non-transmission regions, and including an upper substrate and a lower substrate, which are spaced apart from and opposite to each other, and a liquid crystal layer filled between the substrates, wherein the lower substrate has a plurality of thin film transistors; depositing a transparent conductive layer having a certain thickness on the upper substrate exposed to the exterior of the liquid crystal panel; and performing an etching process for removing the entire transparent conductive layer and a portion of the upper substrate to form irregular prominences and depressions on a surface of the upper substrate exposed to the exterior. Therefore, it is possible to improve readability and contrast ratio by diffusely reflecting external light and scattering internal light. | 10-16-2008 |
20100239034 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING LOCATION BASED SERVICE -REFERENCE SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - A method for allowing a mobile station to detect a Location Based Service-Reference Signal (LBS-RS) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving LBS-RS setup information of at least one target cell participating in location measurement from a serving cell, acquiring a frequency offset value of the target cell using the LBS-RS setup information, and detecting the LBS-RS transmitted from the target cell using the LBS-RS setup information and the frequency offset value. In addition, the method further includes measuring a reception delay time of the detected LBS-RS, and transmitting a reception delay time to the serving cell. | 09-23-2010 |
20130148384 | INTEGRATED RESONANCE AND POWER FACTOR CORRECTION CONTROL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND POWER CONVERTER - Provided are a resonance and PFC integrated control IC and a power converter. The resonance and PFC integrated control IC includes an interleave PFC control block and a resonance control block. The interleave PFC control block is configured to control first and second switches of an interleave switching converter and correct a power factor. The interleave switching converter includes a first converter comprising the first switch and a second converter comprising the second switch, and the first converter and the second converter are connected in parallel. The resonance control block is configured to resonate and control a Direct Current (DC)-DC converter that receives and converts the output of the interleave switching converter. | 06-13-2013 |
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20080278608 | Camera module - There is provided a camera module including dual image sensors used for different purposes, which corrects optical defects of images imaged by the dual image sensors individually to suit purposes and processes the imaged images into image signals. The camera module includes: a plurality of image sensors imaging images with different optical properties from one another; a plurality of auxiliary image processors electrically connected to the plurality of image sensors, individually, the auxiliary image processors correcting different optical defects of the images from corresponding ones of the image sensors, respectively; and an image signal processing part selecting at least one of corrected images from the auxiliary image processors to process into an image signal capable of being displayed. | 11-13-2008 |
20080297605 | APPARATUS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - An apparatus for image processing includes an image sensor including a pixel array of a plurality of pixels, the pixel array having equal vertical and horizontal lengths; a buffer storing image signals scanned at the image sensor; and a controller reading out the image signals stored in the buffer according to a gradient of the image sensor with respect to a reference direction set to a predetermined value on an X-Y plane. | 12-04-2008 |
20080316329 | CAMERA MODULE - There is provided a camera module including: first and second image sensors having different optical characteristics and sensing images; first and second auxiliary image processors electrically connected to the first and second image sensors, respectively, and correcting optical defects of the images sensed by the first and second sensors, respectively; and an image signal processing section selecting at least one image between the images corrected by the first and second auxiliary image processors, and processing the selected image into an image signal that can be displayed, wherein at least one of the first and second image sensors may include: a center pixel array having a square shape; and first to fourth pixel arrays having one set of sides connected to sides of the center pixel array and having the same length as the sides of the center pixel array. | 12-25-2008 |
20100097492 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AUTO EXPOSURE - There is provided an apparatus and method for controlling auto exposure (AE) that is used in digital imaging devices. The apparatus which controls the luminance of an image being outputted from an image sensor by controlling exposure time and analog gain of the image sensor includes: a luminance operation unit operating and outputting a mean luminance of the image outputted from the image sensor; a shutter index determination unit comparing a predetermined target luminance with the mean luminance of the outputted image and determining a shutter index in different manners according to the magnitude of the difference between the target luminance and the mean luminance of the outputted image; and an exposure time/analog gain determination unit generating exposure time and analog gain corresponding to the shutter index determined in the shutter index determination unit and applying the generated exposure time and analog gain to the image sensor. Therefore, the apparatus may be useful to stably reproduce an image with an adequate luminance even when there is a rapid change in brightness of a subject for photography. | 04-22-2010 |
20120013528 | Distance measurment module, display device having the same, and distance measurement method of display device - A distance measurement module includes: an image pickup lens capturing an image of a subject; a light source unit disposed to be adjacent to the image pickup lens and irradiating reference light to the subject; a light receiving unit extracting image information of the subject and distance information to the subject upon receiving light which is reflected from the subject and made incident through the image pickup lens; and a calculation unit calculating the distance to the subject by using a phase difference between the reference light and the reflected light. | 01-19-2012 |
20120154110 | COORDINATES DETECTING DEVICE, DISPLAY APPARATUS, SECURITY APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC BLACKBOARD INCLUDING THE SAME - There are provided a coordinates detecting device for detecting coordinates of an event generated in a region of interest, and a display apparatus, a security apparatus and an electronic blackboard including the same. The coordinates detecting device provided on at least one side of a touch panel having a preset region of interest surrounded by a frame having a predetermined length, includes: a voltage generator providing a preset driving voltage; an acoustic wave to voltage converter receiving the driving voltage from the voltage generator, to thereby generate a predetermined ultrasonic wave, and receiving the ultrasonic wave reflected from the region of interest to convert the received ultrasonic wave to a corresponding voltage level; and a calculator calculating a position from which the ultrasonic wave is reflected according to the voltage level converted from the acoustic wave to voltage converter. | 06-21-2012 |
20120162074 | USER INTERFACE APPARATUS AND METHOD USING TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE SENSOR - There are provided a user interface apparatus and method using a two-dimensional (2D) image sensor capable of setting an object for an interface from a user image detected by the 2D image sensor and performing a user input accordingly. The user interface apparatus includes: a two-dimensional (2D) image sensor; and a user interface unit detecting a movement of a user captured by the 2D image sensor, setting the detected movement as an object, and outputting the movement of the object detected by the 2D image sensor to a system in which the user intends to establish an interface. | 06-28-2012 |
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20090078975 | CMOS image sensor - There is provided a CMOS image sensor including: a photodiode receiving light to generate photogenerated charges; a transmission gate unit transmitting the photogenerated charges generated by the photodiode to a first floating diffusion area, and increasing the capacitance of the first floating diffusion area; a transfer transistor transferring the photogenerated charges of the first floating diffusion area transmitted by the transmission gate unit to a second floating diffusion area; and a drive transistor converting the photogenerated charges of the second floating diffusion area into a detection voltage. | 03-26-2009 |
20110194007 | CMOS IMAGE SENSOR - Disclosed herein is a Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor. The CMOS image sensor includes a pixel array, a frame memory, and an analog-to-digital converter. The pixel array includes N unit pixels for converting optical signals, caused by light, into electric signals. The frame memory eliminates offset voltage included in reset voltage and signal voltage transmitted from the pixel array and internal offset voltage, and performs Correlated Double Sampling (CDS) on the reset voltage and the signal voltage. The analog-to-digital converter converts an analog signal, transmitted from the frame memory, into a digital signal. | 08-11-2011 |
20140185343 | SWITCHING MODE POWER SUPPLY AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - There is provided a switching mode power supply having primary and secondary induction coils inductively coupled to each other and converting a voltage applied to the primary induction coil to supply the converted voltage to the secondary induction coil, the switching mode power supply including a power switching unit switching the voltage applied to the primary induction coil, a load information obtaining unit obtaining load information relating to a load connected to the secondary induction coil, a bias current controlling unit controlling a switching driving current based on the load information; and a driving unit driving the power switching unit based on the load information and the switching driving current. | 07-03-2014 |