Abstract: Provided is a method of driving multi electrical field emission devices. The method includes: respectively connecting first current control circuit devices for current path formation to a plurality of electric field emission devices; commonly connecting a second current control circuit device to the first current control circuit devices to commonly control the first current control circuit devices; and driving the first current control circuit devices at different timings when the second current control circuit device is driven.

Abstract: Provided is an X-ray tube. The X-ray tube includes an electrode on which an electron beam impacts to generate an X-ray, and a window on which the electrode is disposed and through which the X-ray generated from the electrode is transmitted. The electrode includes a channel passing through the electrode, and the electron beam is provided into the channel to generate the X-ray.

Abstract: Provided is a current controlling device for controlling an electric field emission current in connection with an electric field emission device which emits electrons in response to an applied voltage, the device including: a first current controlling transistor forming a current path in response to a first gate voltage; a second current controlling transistor connected between the field emission device and the first current controlling transistor and forming a current path in response to a second gate voltage; and a control logic controlling the first and second gate voltages, wherein the control logic controls a upper limit of the field emission current by using the first gate voltage.

Abstract: The present disclosure may provide a micro X-ray tube with a filter tube to filter X-rays and at the same time to serve as an insulator. For this, the X-ray tube may include a filter tube between a second electrode and a gate electrode, hence separating from each other. The second electrode may have a target and the gate electrode may accelerate an electron-beam to collide with the target. The filter tube includes an alumina (Al2O3). The target is inclined to allow the X-rays to be directed toward the filter tube.

Abstract: Provided herein is a field emission device. The field emission device includes a cathode which is connected to a negative power supply and emits electrons, an anode which is connected to a positive power supply and includes a target material receiving the electrons emitted from the cathode, and a ground electrode which is formed to face the anode and has an opening through which the electrons emitted from the cathode pass. The ground electrode is grounded so that when an arc discharge occurs due to high voltage operation of the anode, electric charge produced by the arc discharge is emitted to a ground.

Abstract: The present disclosure may provide a field emission device with an enhanced beam convergence. For this, the device may include a gate structure disposed between a cathode electrode and an anode electrode, wherein the gate structure includes a gate electrode and an atomic layer sheet disposed on the gate electrode, the gate electrode facing an emitter and having at least one aperture formed therein.

Abstract: A field emission device and a method of driving the multi-electrode field emission device having a single driving power source are disclosed. The field emission device includes a cathode electrode, one or more gate electrodes, a voltage division unit, and a power source unit. The cathode electrode is figured such that at least one emitter is formed thereon. The gate electrodes are disposed between an anode electrode and the cathode electrode, and each have one or more openings through which electrons emitted from the emitter can pass. The voltage division unit has one or more divider resistors, and divides a voltage applied from the power source unit using the divider resistors and then applies partial voltages to the one or more gate electrodes. The power source unit includes a single power source, and applies the voltage to the voltage division unit.

Abstract: An image processing method, including: receiving image content and metadata of the image content, the metadata content comprising flag information indicating whether to perform image processing on the image content and image processing information; determining whether to perform the image processing for each frame based on the flag information; performing, in response to determining to perform the image processing for an image frame, the image processing based on the image processing information on the image frame; and outputting the image processed image frame on which the image processing is performed.

Abstract: A method of processing an image is provided. The method includes performing a noise filtering operation with respect to an input image, acquiring a differential image where an image to which the noise filtering operation is performed is excluded from the input image and removing a noise in a level higher than a predetermined level from the differential image, and acquiring an output image by adding the differential image from which the noise is removed and the image to which the noise filtering operation is performed.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus and method include a receiver configured to receive an image, a display configured to display the received image, an extractor configured to extract a first object contour by applying a preset algorithm to an area of the displayed image designated by a user and extract a second object contour based on the designated area, an image analyzer configured to analyze the displayed image, and a controller configured to determine weight values for the first and second object contours based on an analysis result of the image analyzer and extract an object contour based on the first and second object contours to which the determined weight values are applied. The image processing apparatus extracts an object intended by a user even in a heavily noisy image.

Abstract: A particulate sensor apparatus may include an exhaust line through which exhaust gas flows, and a sensor that may be disposed at one side in the exhaust line and generates electrical charges when a particulate passes near vicinity of the sensor, wherein an electrode portion may be formed on a front surface of the sensor facing the particulate.

Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method of a CNT emitter with density controlled CNT, comprising: (i) fabricating a CNT paste by dispersing a carbon nanotube (CNT) powder, two kinds or more of inorganic fillers which have a lower melting temperature than the CNT and different oxidation degrees of the CNT, and an organic binder in a solvent; (ii) coating the CNT paste on an electrode formed above a substrate; (iii) sintering the substrate coated with the CNT paste to selectively oxidize the CNT around one kind of inorganic filler among two kinds or more of the inorganic fillers; and (iv) treating the surface of the CNT paste so that the surface of the CNT paste is activated.

Abstract: An X-ray tube is provided. The X-ray tube includes a first housing including an X-ray window formed therein, a second housing being rotatable about a rotational shaft installed within the first housing, an anode installed on the rotational shaft within the second housing and positioned in one side of the rotational shaft in an extending direction of the rotational shaft, an emitter installed on the rotational shaft within the second housing, positioned in the other side of the rotational shaft in the extending direction of the rotational shaft, and emitting electron beams, a lens unit installed between the anode and the emitter and focusing the electron beams emitted from the emitter to the anode, and an electron beam deflection unit installed on the rotational shaft to deflect an angle of electron beams moving toward the anode from the lens unit.

Abstract: An electronic device and an image processing method thereof are provided. The method includes acquiring image detail information by applying a filter to an image, detecting an edge region and a texture region from the image detail information, and correcting the image detail information by dividing the edge region into a plurality of regions and applying different gain values to image signals corresponding to at least two of the plurality of regions, and applying a gain value to an image signal corresponding to the texture region according to a magnitude of the image signal corresponding to the texture region.

Abstract: An X-ray tube is provided. The X-ray tube includes a cathode electrode which is disposed in one end of a vacuum container and includes an emitter emitting an electron; a gate electrode which is disposed in the vacuum container to be adjacent to the cathode electrode; an anode electrode which is disposed in the vacuum container of the other end of a direction in which the vacuum container extends and inclines with respect to the cathode electrode; and a focusing electrode which is disposed in the vacuum container along an inner circumference surface of the vacuum container between the gate electrode and the anode electrode. The focusing electrode has an opening of which a plan cross section has a maximum width and a minimum width different from each other.

Abstract: Provided is a method of driving multi electrical field emission devices. The method includes: respectively connecting first current control circuit devices for current path formation to a plurality of electric field emission devices; commonly connecting a second current control circuit device to the first current control circuit devices to commonly control the first current control circuit devices; and driving the first current control circuit devices at different timings when the second current control circuit device is driven.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a stacked x-ray tube apparatus using a spacer, and more particularly, to a stacked x-ray tube apparatus using a spacer that makes it possible to reduce the size of an x-ray tube by forming a stacked structure, with electric insulation and predetermined gaps maintained for each electrode, by forming a stacked x-ray tube by inserting insulating spacers (for example, ceramic) between a exhausting port, a cathode, a gate, a focusing electrode, and an anode and bonding them with an adhesive substance, and then inserting a spacer between a field emitter on a cathode substrate and a gate hole connected with a gate electrode.

Abstract: Provided are a field emission device and a method of manufacturing the same. The field emission device includes an anode electrode and a cathode electrode which are opposite to each other, a counter layer provided on the anode electrode, and a field emitter provided on the cathode electrode and facing the counter layer. Herein, the field emitter includes a carbon nanotube emitting cold electrons and a photoelectric material emitting photo electrons.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electric field emission x-ray tube apparatus equipped with a built-in getter, and more particularly, to an electric field emission x-ray tube apparatus equipped with a built-in getter that makes it possible to reduce the size of an x-ray tube by forming a stacked structure, with electric insulation and predetermined gaps maintained for each electrode, by manufacturing an x-ray tube having a stacked structure by inserting insulating spacers (for example, ceramic) between an exhausting port, a cathode, a gate, a focusing electrode, and an anode and bonding them with an adhesive substance, and then inserting a spacer between a field emitter on a cathode substrate and a gate hole connected with a gate electrode.

Abstract: Provided is an X-ray tube. The X-ray tube includes an electrode on which an electron beam impacts to generate an X-ray, and a window on which the electrode is disposed and through which the X-ray generated from the electrode is transmitted. The electrode includes a channel passing through the electrode, and the electron beam is provided into the channel to generate the X-ray.