Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes lower and upper substrates facing each other; signal lines disposed on the lower substrate, a conducting sealant, including conductive balls, applied between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, and a static electricity guiding line formed in an area on the lower substrate where the conductive sealant overlaps the signal lines.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a compensation film for compensating a viewing angle decline caused by improper alignment of liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal display panel, and an isotropic layer between the compensation film and the liquid crystal display panel.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates facing each other, a layer of liquid crystal molecules interposed between the first and second substrates, a plurality of color displaying sub-pixels including first, second and third sub-pixels defined on the first and second substrates, first common electrodes in the first, second and third sub-pixels on the first substrate, first pixel electrodes in the first, second and third sub-pixels on the first substrate and alternately arranged with the first common electrodes, color filter layers in the first, second and third sub-pixels on the second substrate, a plurality of viewing angle restricting sub-pixels including fourth, fifth and sixth sub-pixels defined on the first and second substrates, the fourth, fifth and sixth sub-pixels corresponding one-to-one with the first, second and third sub-pixels, second pixel electrodes in the fourth, fifth and sixth sub-pixels on the first substrate, and second common electrodes in the fourth, fifth an

Abstract: A data transition minimization method includes exclusive-NORing inputted nth image data (where n is a natural number) and (n?m)th image data (where m is a natural number smaller than n) expressing the same color as that of the nth image data to generate transition information data; generating inversion data indicative of inversion information by inverting all bits included in the transition information data and adding a unit bit having the logic value ‘1’ to the inverted transition information data when the number of unit bits having a logic value ‘1’ in the transition information data is larger than the number of unit bits having a logic value ‘0’ in the transition information data, and adding a unit bit having the logic value ‘0’ to the transition information data when the number of unit bits having the logic value ‘1’ in the transition information data is equal to or smaller than the number of unit bits having the logic value ‘0’ in the transition information data; exclusive-NORing the transition informati

Abstract: A fabricating method of a printing plate includes forming a first conductive layer on an upper surface of a printing plate, forming a second conductive layer on a lower surface of the printing plate, forming an etch-resist pattern by etching a portion of the first conductive layer, submerging the printing plate, the second conductive layer and the etch-resist pattern into an electrolytic solution, and applying an electrical field between the etch-resist pattern and the second conductive layer so that the electrolytic solution is dissociated to form an anisotropically etched fine pattern in the printing plate.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates bonded to each other, first column spacers on the first substrate, protrusions on the second substrate that contact a center portion of an upper surface of the spacers, respectively, recesses formed in the second substrate surrounding the protrusions, respectively, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: This invention describes a method for identifying and tracking an object from two-dimensional data pictorially representing said object by an object-tracking system through processing said two-dimensional data using at least one tracker-identifier belonging to the object-tracking system for providing an output signal containing: a) a type of the object, and/or b) a position or an orientation of the object in three-dimensions, and/or c) an articulation or a shape change of said object in said three dimensions.

Abstract: A backlight unit for a display device includes a frame; a first circuit board extending along one end of and on a first surface of the frame; lamps over the frame, one end of each of the lamps disposed on the first circuit board; a first line on the first circuit board and connected to the one end of each of the lamps; and a first inverter on a second surface of the frame and connected to the first line via a first hole through the frame.

Abstract: An image display device includes a display panel, and a barrier including a plurality of transmissive portions and a plurality of blocking portions on the display panel, wherein the plurality of transmissive portions and the plurality of blocking portions are arranged in a matrix, wherein 3Nth rows and (3N?1)th rows include the plurality of transmissive portions and the plurality of blocking portions, N being a positive integer, (3N?2)th rows include the plurality of transmissive portions excluding the plurality of blocking portions, , and the transmissive and blocking portions are alternately arranged.

Abstract: An apparatus for coating a polyimide layer includes a print table for receiving a substrate thereon, an inkjet head positioned over the print table and having a jetting surface with a plurality of nozzles for jetting polyimide liquid onto the substrate, and a polyimide liquid supply tank for supplying polyimide liquid, and a wiper movable from one side of the jetting surface to an other side of the jetting surface while the wiper contacts the jetting surface of the inkjet head.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, column spacers at designated areas of the second substrate, protrusions having a first height on the first substrate corresponding to portions of the column spacers, compensation patterns having a second height on the first substrate corresponding to the edges of the column spacers, the second height being lower than the first height, and a liquid crystal layer filling a gap between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having an upper substrate and a lower substrate that face each other with a layer of liquid crystal molecules therebetween, and a liquid powder display panel at a lower surface of the liquid crystal panel for blocking light.

Abstract: A backlight assembly driving apparatus for a liquid crystal display device includes a light emitting diode string of serially connected light emitting diodes, and switching devices connected in parallel to and in a one-to-one correspondence with the light emitting diodes to conduct or turn off current applied to a correspondingly parallel-connected light emitting diode.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method for mapping system transfer functions. Accordingly, some operations may include receiving a first intermediate signal that is at least partially based upon a first reference signal. A second intermediate signal is received that is at least partially based upon a second reference signal. An output signal is generated that is based upon the difference between the first intermediate signal and the second intermediate signal. A first anticipated differential change in the output signal is determined, the first anticipated differential change to occur based upon a transition in the first reference signal. A second anticipated differential change in the output signal is determined, the second anticipated differential change to occur based upon a transition in the second reference signal. Numerous other operations are also within the scope of the present disclosure.

Abstract: A driving apparatus for a DC brushless motor of a ceiling fan is provided. By setting at least one coder and one sensor outside the DC brushless motor, the driving apparatus can sense the position of magnetic poles of the motor for driving the motor. Meanwhile, a controller set with the motor stores the rotation speed of the motor before being turned off by detecting the turn-off time of a turn-on/off signal.

Abstract: An electroluminescence display device includes a first switching device for transferring a data current, which represents a data signal, using a first scan signal, a second switching device for transferring the data current from the first switching device using a second scan signal, a storage device for storing a charge voltage according to the data current transferred from the second switching device, a coupling unit for changing the charge voltage stored in the storage device in accordance with the first scan signal into a changed voltage, driving devices for generating a driving current in accordance with the changed voltage, and an organic light emitting diode for emitting light in accordance with the driving current.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for remote personnel tracking. A computer-implemented method of tracking a field-based employee includes, in a server system, receiving from a remote access device, a user identification (ID) representing the field-based employee, a first series of digits and a location code, generating a second series of digits in response to the received location code, a time representing receipt of the location code, and a remote access device ID associated with the location code, and storing the time and user ID associated with the location ID if the received first series of digits match the second series of digits.

Abstract: An array substrate for an in-plane switching liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, a gate line and a data line on the substrate and crossing each other to define a pixel region, a thin film transistor adjacent to a crossing of the gate line and the data line, a common electrode and a pixel electrode in the pixel region and spaced apart from each other, and a conductive pattern between the common and pixel electrodes.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining the concentration of chiral molecules in a fluid includes a first polarizer configure to polarize light in substantially a first plane to provide initially polarized light. A second polarizer is capable of polarizing the initially polarized light in a plurality of planes, at least one of the plurality of planes being different from the first plane, to provide subsequently polarized light. One or more receivers are included for measuring an intensity of the subsequently polarized light in one or more of the plurality of planes.