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20080231725 | Image capturing apparatus and dark current component cancel processing method - An image capturing apparatus having a shutter for making an image capturing element enter a light-shielded state or a light-unshielded state comprises an image capturing condition storing unit for storing a plurality of image capturing conditions, a dark-time image data storing unit for storing a plurality of pieces of dark-time image data captured with the image capturing element under the image capturing conditions in the light-shielded state, a bright-time image data storing unit for storing bright-time image data captured with the image capturing element in the light-unshielded state, a dark-time image data extracting unit for extracting a dark-time image captured under an image capturing condition corresponding to an image capturing condition under which the bright-time image is captured, and a correcting unit for correcting the bright-time image data based on the dark-time image data extracted by the dark-time image data extracting unit. | 09-25-2008 |
20090073554 | SCANNING EXAMINATION APPARATUS - A scanning examination apparatus | 03-19-2009 |
20090148153 | SHOOTING APPARATUS FOR A MICROSCOPE - A camera head acquires a sample image by shooting a scaled up image of a sample obtained by a microscope body. A memory device records the sample image in a record medium. A CPU detects the completion of the sighting on an observed portion of a sample in a microscope body on the basis of a R. G. B data value of each pixel configuring a microscope image detected by the R. G. B data value. Furthermore, the CPU detects the completion of the focusing on the observed portion by the microscope boundary on the basis of the height of the contrast of the microscope image detected by the focusing completion detection unit. When both completion of the sighting and completion of focusing are detected, the CPU controls a memory device to record a sample image acquired by a camera head on a record medium. | 06-11-2009 |
20100295932 | IMAGE OBTAINING APPARATUS, IMAGE SYNTHESIS METHOD AND MICROSCOPE SYSTEM - An image sensor captures an observation image formed on a light-receiving surface. An order adjustment unit makes the image sensor capture an original entire-area image being a picture of the observation image for an entire area of the light-receiving surface under a first exposure condition, and makes the image sensor capture a partial-area image being a picture of the observation image for only a partial area of the light-receiving surface under a second exposure condition. A synthesizing unit synthesizes the original entire-area image and the partial-area image to obtain an entire-area image having a wider dynamic range than the original entire-area image. | 11-25-2010 |
20130250391 | LASER MICROSCOPE - A laser microscope includes an objective lens that radiates a laser beam onto a specimen; a stimulation optical system having an LCOS-SLM located at a position optically conjugate with the pupil position of the objective lens and which modulates the phase of the laser beam; and an observation optical system having a galvanometer mirror that scans the laser beam across the specimen, as observation illuminating light, and a PMT that detects the observation light coming from the specimen and collected by the objective lens. A control unit forms a three-dimensional image of the specimen and sets, in that image, stimulation sites in the specimen to be irradiated with a laser beam serving as a stimulation beam by the stimulation optical system at a plurality of different positions in the optical axis direction. The LCOS-SLM modulates the laser beam such that the stimulation sites are irradiated with the laser beam. | 09-26-2013 |
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20130033740 | Electrophoretic Display Device - An electrophoretic display device is provided. The device includes an array substrate including a plurality of pixels, an opposite substrate facing the array substrate, and an electrophoretic layer provided between the array substrate and the opposite substrate. The electrophoretic layer includes a non-polar solvent and at least two types of polar particles dispersed in the non-polar solvent that display different colors from each other. One of the array substrate and the opposite substrate includes a plurality of capturing holes configured to capture the polar particles when an electric field is applied between the array substrate and the opposite substrate. | 02-07-2013 |
20130208331 | ELECTRO-WETTING DISPLAY APPARATUS - An electro-wetting display apparatus includes a first base substrate, a plurality of first electrodes on the first base substrate, an insulating layer which overlaps the first electrodes, a pixel wall on the insulating layer, where the pixel wall partitions a plurality of pixels respectively corresponding to the plurality of first electrodes, a second base substrate which face the first base substrate, a second electrode on the second base substrate and including a plurality of openings, and a fluid between the first base substrate and the second base substrate and in the plurality of pixels. The movement of the fluid in the plurality of pixels is controlled by voltages respectively applied to the first electrodes and the second electrode. | 08-15-2013 |
20150146274 | ELECTRO-WETTING DISPLAY APPARATUS - An electro-wetting display apparatus includes a first base substrate, a plurality of first electrodes on the first base substrate, an insulating layer which overlaps the first electrodes, a pixel wall on the insulating layer, where the pixel wall partitions a plurality of pixels respectively corresponding to the plurality of first electrodes, a second base substrate which face the first base substrate, a second electrode on the second base substrate and including a plurality of openings, and a fluid between the first base substrate and the second base substrate and in the plurality of pixels. The movement of the fluid in the plurality of pixels is controlled by voltages respectively applied to the first electrodes and the second electrode. | 05-28-2015 |
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20140202526 | SOLAR CELL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A solar cell and a method for manufacturing the same are discussed. The solar cell includes a substrate containing impurities of a first conductive type, an emitter region which is positioned at a front surface of the substrate and contains impurities of a second conductive type opposite the first conductive type, a back passivation layer which is positioned on a back surface of the substrate and has openings, a back surface field region containing impurities of the first conductive type, a first electrode connected to the emitter region, and a second electrode connected to the back surface field region. The back surface field region includes a first back surface field region positioned on the back passivation layer and a second back surface field region, which is positioned at the back surface of the substrate exposed by the openings of the back passivation layer. | 07-24-2014 |
20140313218 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING TRANSPARENCY IN PORTABLE TERMINAL HAVING TRANSPARENT DISPLAY UNIT - A method and an apparatus for controlling a transparency of a portable terminal, including a transparent display unit configured to display an application and a controller configured to: receive an event information to execute the application, determine a display mode of the application based on the received event information, and control the transparent display unit to adjust a transparency of the transparent display unit according to the determined display mode. | 10-23-2014 |
20150214396 | SOLAR CELL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A solar cell and a method for manufacturing the same are discussed. The method for manufacturing the solar cell includes forming an amorphous silicon layer on a back surface of a crystalline semiconductor substrate containing impurities of a first conductive type, performing a first diffusion process for diffusing impurities of a second conductive type opposite the first conductive type into a portion of the amorphous silicon layer to form an emitter region, and performing a second diffusion process for diffusing impurities of the first conductive type into a remaining portion except the portion of the amorphous silicon layer having the impurities of the second conductive type to form a back surface field region. When at least one of the first diffusion process and the second diffusion process is performed, the amorphous silicon layer is crystallized to form a silicon layer. | 07-30-2015 |
20160126368 | SOLAR CELL - A solar cell is discussed. The solar cell according to an embodiment includes a semiconductor substrate containing impurities of a first conductive type, a metal oxide layer positioned on the semiconductor substrate, an emitter region positioned on the metal oxide layer and having a second conductive type opposite the first conductive type, a first electrode connected to the emitter region, and a second electrode connected to the semiconductor substrate. | 05-05-2016 |
20160126400 | SOLAR CELL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A solar cell and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The solar cell includes a semiconductor substrate containing impurities of a first conductive type, a tunnel layer positioned on the semiconductor substrate, an emitter region positioned on the tunnel layer and containing impurities of a second conductive type opposite the first conductive type, a dopant layer positioned on the emitter region and formed of a dielectric material containing impurities of the second conductive type, a first electrode connected to the semiconductor substrate, and a second electrode configured to pass through the dopant layer and connected to the emitter region. | 05-05-2016 |
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20140085188 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING SPLIT VIEW IN PORTABLE DEVICE - An apparatus and a method for processing a split view in a portable device. The method of processing a split view in a portable device, includes: displaying a plurality of applications as a split view corresponding to split display regions of a display unit; displaying an input panel on a display region of an application of the plurality of applications that did not call for the input panel when the input panel is called; and processing data input through the input panel by an application calling the input panel. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089832 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING SPLIT VIEW IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - A method of displaying a view in a portable terminal includes: displaying a plurality of applications as a split view corresponding to a split display region of a display unit; reducing and displaying an application of the split view and switchable candidate applications in a switch mode; displaying an application selected from the candidate applications and changing an application displayed on the split view in a previous state to the candidate application; and enlarging and displaying the split view when the switch mode is terminated. | 03-27-2014 |
20140143265 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND DATA PROVISION METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal capable of transmitting and receiving messages and a data processing method thereof for retrieving data from a database and transmitting the data to a network in a message efficiently are provided. The method includes displaying at least one first message; extracting at least one first keyword from the first message; determining whether an attach request event occurs; searching, when the attach request event occurs, a database for a first data corresponding to the extracted at least one first keyword; displaying, according to a result of the search, at least one of the first data and a first icon representing the first data; and transmitting a second message including the first data. | 05-22-2014 |
20140152698 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AUGMENTED REALITY CONTENTS AND DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING THE SAME - Disclosed are methods of operating augmented reality (AR) contents, and a device and a system supporting the same. In one method, a real world image is captured using a camera in a portable device. A virtual space corresponding to the real world image is built, by partitioning image elements included in the virtual space into plural background objects and displaying the background objects. Augmented reality contents are generated by mapping one or more user contents onto the background objects. In other embodiments, location information of the portable device is used to obtain AR contents for enhancing captured images. | 06-05-2014 |
20150017952 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING MESSAGE FUNCTION IN CONNECTION WITH NOTE FUNCTION - Disclosed herein are a method and an apparatus for viewing messages. A message is displayed and a memo addition event is detected. Input memo data is associated with the message. | 01-15-2015 |
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20120153729 | MULTI-INPUT BIDIRECTIONAL DC-DC CONVERTER - Provided is technology for charge and discharge control of a plurality of energy storage modules having different properties. For achieving the technology, there is provided a multi-input bidirectional DC-DC converter including: a first bidirectional DC-DC converter including a first input unit which stores an input current from a first energy storage module, a primary-side first half-bridge which is connected to the first input unit and controls an input current from the first energy storage module, an output unit which includes an output capacitor, a secondary-side half-bridge which is connected to the output unit and controls the output voltage, and a first transformer whose primary side is connected to the primary-side first half-bridge, whose secondary side is connected to the secondary-side first half-bridge, and which transforms a voltage at the primary side or at the secondary side according to a power mode; and a n-th bidirectional DC-DC converter. | 06-21-2012 |
20120163035 | MULTI-PHASE INTERLEAVED BIDIRECTIONAL DC-DC CONVERTER - Provided is power conversion technology for charge and discharge control of an energy storage module such as battery or super capacitor. For achieving the technology, there is provided a multi-phase interleaved bidirectional DC-DC converter including: a first bidirectional DC-DC converter including a input unit which includes a first input inductor and an energy storage module which stores input current from the energy storage module, a first primary-side half-bridge which is connected to the first input inductor of the input unit and controls the input current from the energy storage module, an output unit which includes an output capacitor, a first secondary-side half-bridge which is connected to the output unit and controls the output voltage, and a first transformer whose primary side is connected to the first primary-side half-bridge, whose secondary side is connected to the first secondary-side half-bridge, and which transforms a voltage at the primary side or at the secondary side according to a power mode; and a n-th bidirectional DC-DC converter, wherein the n-th bidirectional DC-DC converter is composed of one or more n-th bidirectional DC-DC converters. | 06-28-2012 |
20130003423 | MULTI-INPUT BIDIRECTIONAL DC-DC CONVERTER WITH HIGH VOLTAGE CONVERSION RATIO - A multi-input bidirectional DC-DC converter with a high voltage conversion ratio is provided. The multi-input bidirectional DC-DC converter with a high voltage conversion ratio implements phase control loops independent from one another so as to realize independent control of charge and discharge in a plurality of energy storage modules, and thus a failure in one of energy storage modules does not affect the other energy storage modules. In addition, it is possible to easily add or remove a control loop that is controlled independently from other control loops. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003424 | MULTI-PHASE INTERLEAVED BIDIRECTIONAL DC-DC CONVERTER WITH HIGH VOLTAGE CONVERSION RATIO - A multi-phase interleaved bidirectional DC-DC converter with a high voltage conversion ratio is provided. The multi-phase interleaved bidirectional DC-DC converter with a high voltage conversion ratio allows effective control of charge/discharge in multi-energy storage modules including a battery cell module or a super capacitor module, which is characterized in low voltage and high current output. Accordingly, a high-efficiency bidirectional DC-DC converter for use in battery charge/discharge can be implemented. | 01-03-2013 |
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20130285627 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PLURALITY OF POWER CONVERTING MODULES AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING POWER QUANTITY IMBALANCE - Disclosed is a technology related to an apparatus for controlling or analyzing a power converting module, and more particularly, to a technology for improving imbalance of power quantities processed by a plurality of power converting modules. Relative power quantities processed by the modules are detected through a common circuit element installed in an input terminal or an output terminal shared by the plurality of modules, without detecting information acquired through current or voltage sensors individually installed in respective modules, and control values of the respective modules may be compensated for through the detected relative power quantities or may be output in a form where a user can easily identify them. | 10-31-2013 |
20130293012 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING ELECTRIC POWER, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SYSTEM - Disclosed is technology regarding a system and a method for power conversion, particularly technology for converting power, which is supplied from a plurality of power supply sources, using a plurality of power conversion modules. A plurality of power conversion modules, which can process all of various types of supplied power, are used to convert power according to the type of supplied power. An intermediate connection unit, which can selectively connect the power supply sources and the power conversion modules, is used so that, when one of the power conversion modules has a problem, another power conversion module is used instead to guarantee stable power supply. This construction makes the power processing path flexible and enhances system stability because, even if one of the power conversion modules malfunctions, power conversion can continue through another path. | 11-07-2013 |
20150115891 | POWER-SHARING CHARGING SYSTEM, CHARGING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - The present disclosure provides a charging system including: at least two charging devices including at least two output units configured to supply connected automobiles with charging power, a first bus electrically connected to the output units and configured to transfer charging power to the output units, and a power processing unit configured to process power, which is supplied from a power source, using a first capacity and supply the first bus with the processed power; and a second bus configured to connect a first bus of a first charging device and a first bus of a second charging device, wherein, when a total capacity of charging power supplied to automobiles connected to the first charging device exceeds the first capacity, a part or all of lacking capacity is supplied via the second bus. | 04-30-2015 |
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20090096875 | CAMERA-FITTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL DEVICE - When instructions for retrieval is given in a portable information device, together with a camera image obtained by a camera, additional information including position information provided by a CPS device, orientation information of the camera provided by a geomagnetic sensor, lens focal length information and photographing magnification information of the camera is transmitted to a retrieval service server. The retrieval service server, based on the additional information, retrieves a target within a photographing range from the current position of the camera, and recognizes the target by image recognition or character recognition of the camera image, and returns these target-related information as a retrieval result to the portable information device. The portable information device, by specifying a desired target based on the retrieval result, can acquire contents of this target from a contents service server. | 04-16-2009 |
20100079677 | Input Apparatus - An input apparatus includes an input unit that receives a predetermined motion image signal, a motion detecting unit that detects a motion from the motion image signal received by the input unit, a video signal processing unit that outputs a predetermined video signal when a motion detected by the motion detecting unit is a predetermined motion, and a control unit that controls the video signal processing unit, in which the control unit controls the motion detecting unit not so as to detect a motion when the predetermined video signal is being outputted by the video signal processing unit, thereby providing a useful input apparatus for a user. | 04-01-2010 |
20100243381 | OPERATION DEVICE AND ELEVATOR APPARATUS WITH OPERATION DEVICE - In a method of marking pictograms, for reducing the number of erroneous operations, on an operation apparatus conducting mutually different operations such as opening and closing operations, a concretized human pictogram indicating mutually different state changes such as state changes represented by use of a face with opened eyes and a face with closed eyes associated with operation signals assigned to a pair of operation switches and a pictogram in which the human pictogram is combined with an operation pictogram representing a state in which a door concretizing an operation target to operate in response to an operation signal is opened or is being completely closed are respectively attached to the operation switches disposed adjacent to each other. | 09-30-2010 |
20100245680 | TELEVISION OPERATION METHOD - A television operation method whereby a desired content screen can be easily shown on a TV receiver by control operation on the display of a remote terminal. When the TV display of the TV receiver shows a received program screen and the remote display of the remote terminal shows another received program screen, if the screen shown on the remote display is transferred to the TV display, a reception remote control screen to enable channel selection appears on the remote display. If buttons are operated so as to show a related web screen on the remote display and transfer the related web screen to the TV display, a web remote control screen for control of a cursor on the related web screen appears on the remote display. | 09-30-2010 |
20120249767 | Input Apparatus - An input apparatus includes an input unit that receives a predetermined motion image signal, a motion detecting unit that detects a motion from the motion image signal received by the input unit, a video signal processing unit that outputs a predetermined video signal when a motion detected by the motion detecting unit is a predetermined motion, and a control unit that controls the video signal processing unit, in which the control unit controls the motion detecting unit not so as to detect a motion when the predetermined video signal is being outputted by the video signal processing unit, thereby providing a useful input apparatus for a user. | 10-04-2012 |