Abstract: The watermarked information embedding apparatus which inputs an image and embeds watermarked information in the input image, comprises: picture element determining means which determines whether it is a picture element constituting a background image for each of picture elements which constitute the input image; background picture element removing means which removes all of background picture elements determined as picture elements constituting the background image by the picture element determining means; and watermarked information embedding means which embeds the watermarked information in an image constituted by a picture element from which the background picture element constituting the input image is removed by the background picture element removing means.

Abstract: An extensible base pad module and an electrical device with the same are disclosed. The electrical device has a base and an extensible base pad module. The base has an opening. The extensible base pad module has a push bar, a flange and a pad. The push bar is able to be levelly moved in the opening, and has a through hole thereon. The flange is disposed in the base, and has an arc-shaped rail of which two ends are respectively close and remote from the opening. One end of the pad is moveably provided in the arc-shaped rail, the other end is extensible in the through hole.

Abstract: An insulated transformer, which can suppress aging deterioration and can reduce the influence of noise caused by external magnetic flux, while improving reliability and environmental resistance, and can send and receive signals while electrically insulating a low-voltage side and a high-voltage side. A secondary coil is formed on a semiconductor substrate, and a primary coil is formed on one face of a glass substrate. The primary coil fixes the glass substrate formed on one face onto the semiconductor substrate through the other face of the glass substrate by an adhesive layer.

Abstract: When a facsimile transmission is carried over a packet network such as the Internet that disallows the use of non-standard facilities with which the facsimile terminals may be provided, a communication apparatus that mediates the transmission blocks signals requesting the use of non-standard facilities, but replaces the blocked signals with modified data not requesting the use of such facilities. Consequently, even if a facsimile terminal sends a lengthy non-standard facilities signal, the facsimile terminal with which it is communicating will not time out due to non-reception of data, and the facsimile transmission can be completed using standard facilities.

Abstract: An optical disc clamping device is provided. A driving bar is moved away from a center hole to synchronously drive a first linking bar and a second linking bar. A first pivotal rod and a second pivotal rod are respectively driven by the first slider and the second slider to move towards the center hole to drive a carrier which carries a chucking disk disposed thereon to contact a spindle motor. A suppresser is fixed at the rim of the center hole to press on the chucking disk to clamp the disc stably.

Abstract: The present invention supplied a display apparatus using plastic substrate instead of glass substrate, which can solve such problems that the plastic substrate has a low heat conductivity and its heat release performance becomes bad so that it is difficult to obtain stable performance and reliability. In the display apparatus, inner surface electrode integrated with vertical wiring between plastic substrate and thin film LED 102 is accumulated, the inner surface electrode acts as a heat release layer for releasing heat produced inside the thin film LED 102.

Abstract: Provided is a transparent transistor including a substrate, source and drain electrodes formed on the substrate, each having a multi-layered structure of a lower transparent layer, a metal layer and an upper transparent layer, a channel formed between the source and drain electrodes, and a gate electrode aligned with the channel. Here, the lower transparent layer or the upper transparent layer is formed of a transparent semiconductor layer, which is the same as the channel. Thus, the use of the multi-layered transparent conductive layer can ensure transparency and conductivity, overcome a problem of contact resistance between the source and drain electrodes and a semiconductor, and improve processibility by patterning the multi-layered transparent conductive layer all at once, while deposition is performed layer by layer.

Abstract: A multi-loop antenna module with wide beamwidth includes a grounding unit and a plurality of first loop units and second loop units. The first loop units are vertically disposed on outer peripheral sides of the grounding unit. Each first loop unit has a first shorting pin disposed on the grounding unit, a first feeding pin separated from the first shorting pin and suspended above the grounding unit, and a first loop radiating body connected between the first shorting pin and the first feeding pin. The second loop units are vertically disposed on outer peripheral sides of the grounding unit. Each second loop unit has a second shorting pin disposed on the grounding unit, a second feeding pin separated from the second shorting pin and suspended above the grounding unit, and a second loop radiating body connected between the second shorting pin and the second feeding pin.

Abstract: A transmitter for transmitting data in a communication system includes: a serial/parallel (S/P) conversion unit configured to convert data into an I signal and a Q signal; multiplication units configured to multiply the converted I and Q signals by orthogonal sequences, respectively; conversion units configured to Hilbert-transform the I and Q signals multiplied by the orthogonal sequences; addition units configured to add the I and Q signals multiplied by the orthogonal sequences and the Hilbert-transformed Q and I signal, respectively; and an intermediate frequency (IF)/radio frequency (RF) unit configured to up-convert the added I signal and the added Q signal and transmit the converted I and Q signals.

Abstract: A layered semiconductor light emitting device includes a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements each of which includes a light emitting region that converts electricity into light and emits the light. The semiconductor light emitting elements are layered in a layering direction perpendicular to the light emitting regions, and are bonded to each other via a planarizing layer having electrical insulation property. The planarizing layer includes a first planarizing region disposed above or below the light emitting regions of the semiconductor light emitting elements in the layering direction and formed of a first planarizing film having higher refractive index than air, and a second planarizing region other than the first planarizing region and formed of a second planarizing film having lower refractive index than the first planarizing film. In the layering direction, the upper semiconductor light emitting element transmits light emitted by the lower semiconductor light emitting element.

Abstract: To provide a medium storing and advancing apparatus which orderly piles up bills even when not flat. The medium storing and advancing apparatus includes a tongue piece roller having tongue pieces having the length thereof predetermined. While the tongue piece roller is rotated to slap the rear end of a bill with the tongue pieces to orient the latter downward, the front end of a following bill is superimposed on the downward-oriented rear end of the preceding bill.

Abstract: When a receive signal strength received from a target network that will perform the handoff is larger than a reference strength, software related to the target network is previously installed in the corresponding portable terminal, a wireless connection environment with the target network is configured by driving the software related to the target network at the time of determining that the handoff is performed, and performs the handoff to the target network in the portable terminal.

Abstract: A method for correcting red-eye is described. Through facial features, at least one facial region is obtained in an image, a nose position in each facial region is obtained by using a nose feature, and at least one eye position is obtained based on a relative position relation between the nose and the eyes. After a color gamut of the image is converted, a red region is obtained from the eye position, and a plurality of edges is formed by using a luminance of the color gamut on the image with the converted color gamut according to the eye feature, so as to exclude the red region out of the plurality of edges, thereby improving accuracy of the red region on the eye position. Then, the red region is covered by an iris color, so as to correct the red-eye.

Abstract: A semiconductor device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a semiconductor layer, an insulating film formed on the surface of the semiconductor layer, a first insulator embedded in the semiconductor layer with a thickness larger than the thickness of the insulating film, and a resistive element formed on the first insulator. A semiconductor device according to another aspect of the present invention includes a semiconductor layer, an insulating film formed on the surface of the semiconductor layer, a resistive element formed on the insulating film, and a floating region formed on a portion of the semiconductor layer opposed to the resistive element through the insulating film and electrically floating from a periphery thereof.

Abstract: A thermal module and method for controlling heat-dissipation wind amount thereof is provided. The thermal module is figured in an electronic apparatus having a first heat source and a second heat source. The thermal module includes at least a first wind outlet, a second wind outlet and a first wind-amount adjuster. The first wind outlet is for providing a first wind amount to the first heat source while the second wind outlet is for providing a second wind amount to the second heat source. The first wind-amount adjuster, disposed at the first wind outlet, is for adjusting the first wind amount according to temperature of the first heat source and the second heat source.

Abstract: A semiconductor chip, an electrode structure and a method of manufacture, the chip including a semiconductor substrate having a multi-level interconnection and an electrode pad connected to the interconnection, a protective film on the substrate, an insulating film on the protective film, a bump of a metal on the electrode pad, and a barrier layer between the side of the bump and the insulation film.

Abstract: An information processing system is supplied capable of holding a security; and transferring an output authority which is had by a transfer source portability terminal to a transfer destination portability terminal.

Abstract: There is provided a method of fabricating a semiconductor including: forming a first and a second bipolar transistors on a semiconductor substrate; forming a dummy layer on, or on the periphery of, at least one region of the emitter region, the base region, or the collector region of the second bipolar transistor and on an area surrounding a contact region for establishing an electrical connection to the outside in the at least one of the emitter region, the base region, or the collector region; forming an insulation layer so as to cover the first bipolar transistor, the second bipolar transistor, and the dummy layer; forming, together with the insulation layer and in a contact region of each region of the first bipolar transistor and the second bipolar transistor, a contact hole for establishing contact with each of those regions; and embedding a conductive member in the contact holes.