Abstract: An ADC and an analog-to-digital conversion method are provided. The ADC includes: a clock generator, including M transmission gates, where the M transmission gates are configured to receive a first clock signal that is periodically sent and separately perform gating control on the first clock signal, so as to generate M second clock signals, M is an integer that is greater than or equal to 2; M ADC channels that are configured in a time interleaving manner, configured to receive one analog signal and separately perform, under the control of the M second clock signals, sampling and analog-to-digital conversion on the analog signal, so as to obtain M digital signals, where each ADC channel is corresponding to one clock signal of the M second clock signals; and an adder, configured to add the M digital signals together in a digital field, so as to obtain a digital output signal.

Abstract: A container for liquid cosmetics may include a container unit having which includes a container which is filled with a liquid cosmetic product and combined with cup-shaped packing in which an accepting pit, through which discharging holes penetrate, is formed and a liquid cosmetic product applying unit which includes a cap combined with the container, is assembled so that a sponge, which is assembled to the front end of an inner cylinder elastically supported with elasticity of a compression spring assembled inside the cap, tightly comes in contact with the accepting pit of the packing to assume the shape of the accepting pit and protrudes, when the cap is removed, the inner cylinder to a predetermined distance to restore the sponge to its original state.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for fast protection switching in multicast, where the method includes: determining a primary path and a secondary path to a source node, where the secondary path and the primary path have minimum tail coincidence; receiving, by using both the primary path and the secondary path, multicast traffic replicated by an upstream neighboring node, and replicating multicast traffic received by the primary path to a downstream neighboring node; and if the primary path is faulty, replicating multicast traffic received by the secondary path to the downstream neighboring node. In the present invention, primary and secondary paths can have minimum tail coincidence, which overcomes a problem that fault protection switching in a multicast network requires that primary and secondary paths existing from a routing node to a multicast source are completely separate in physical topology.

Abstract: A mobile apparatus travels within a predetermined service provision area and, in response to receiving an instruction to provide a service from at least one user present in the service provision area, travels to the user to provide the service to the user. The mobile apparatus moves to a priority stand-by position which is determined based on a location of the at least one user from a plurality of stand-by positions provided within the service provision area and waits for the instruction to provide a service.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a processor configured to control an operation of the electronic device, a memory device coupled to the processor, where the memory device is configured to operate as a main memory of the electronic device, and a display device coupled to the processor, where the display device is configured to display an original image based on first image data for the original image at a first frame, and to display a bioeffect image based on second image data for the bioeffect image at a second frame.

Abstract: There is provided a communication device including (1) a communication controller that causes a control frame for synchronization to be transmitted during a control frame transmission period to a transmission destination of a data frame such that the data frame is transmitted after transmission of the control frame has completed, (2) a transmission section that continuously transmits the control frame for the control frame transmission period, (3) a reception section that receives a frame transmitted by a communication device of the transmission destination, (4) a control frame transmission information saving section that saves information for respective destination addresses, (5) a control frame transmission controller that references the information saved in the control frame transmission information saving section, and determines the control frame transmission period for when to transmit the next control frame, based on the control frame transmission period from the past and the data frame transition resul

Abstract: The vehicle exterior moving object detection system includes a surrounding-area image input section for capturing images in areas surrounding its own vehicle and delivering the captured images as surrounding-area images, a combined image constructing section for constructing a combined image including a result output from the detection of a moving object by combining the surrounding-area images, and an output section for presenting the combined image to the user.

Abstract: A lighting apparatus for a vehicle may include a flexible printed circuit board of which at least one lighting source may be mounted on an upper surface of the flexible printed circuit board, and a cover which may be made of flexible material, and connected on the printed circuit board for the at least one lighting source to be disposed within the cover, wherein the cover distributes a light emitted from the at least one lighting source to an upper direction of the cover.

Abstract: A verification method of a system on chip includes receiving a test generator and an exception handler; generating, by the test generator, a test program including an exception-causing instruction based on a test template; executing a first instruction at a first operating state as the test program is executed; stopping the execution of the test program and performing a fixed instruction sequence included in the exception handler when the exception-causing instruction is executed during the execution of the test program; and resuming the test program from a second instruction at a second operating state set after the fixed instruction sequence is performed, the second instruction corresponding to an address adjacent to an address of the exception-causing instruction.

Abstract: A micro-gas pressure driving device includes a miniature gas transportation module, a covering plate and a tube plate. The miniature gas transportation module includes a convergence plate, a resonance membrane and a piezoelectric actuator. When the piezoelectric actuator is activated to feed a gas into an input tube of the tube plate, the gas is sequentially transferred through a first input chamber, a second input chamber, an inlet, a convergence channel and a central opening of the convergence plate, a central aperture of the resonance membrane, and transferred downwardly through the piezoelectric actuator and an output chamber, and outputted from an output tube of the tube plate. The first input chamber is arranged between the covering plate and the input tube. The second input chamber is defined between the covering plate and the convergence plate. The output chamber is defined between the tube plate and the piezoelectric actuator.

Abstract: A method of modeling a structure of a coronary artery of a subject may include: forming a learning-based shape model of the structure of the artery, based on positions of landmarks acquired from three-dimensional images; receiving a target image; and/or modeling the artery structure included in the target image, using the model. An apparatus for modeling a structure of a coronary artery may include: a memory configured to store a learning-based shape model of the artery, the learning-based shape model being formed based on positions of a plurality of landmarks acquired from three-dimensional images, the plurality of the landmarks corresponding to the artery; a communication circuit configured to receive a target image; and/or a processing circuit configured to model the artery structure included in the target image, using the model.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device having good emission efficiency is provided. The organic electroluminescence device includes an amine compound which includes a benzofluorene structure and an aryl group and/or a heteroaryl group, wherein the benzofluorene structure has a specific substituent at 9-position of the fluorene ring.

Abstract: An integrated circuit device includes a double-humped protrusion protruding from a surface of an inter-device isolation region. To manufacture the integrated circuit device, a plurality of grooves are formed in the inter-device isolation region of a substrate, a recess is formed by partially removing a surface of the substrate between the plurality of grooves, at least one fin-type active area is formed in a device region by etching the substrate in the device region and the inter-device isolation region, and the double-humped protrusion is formed from the surface of the substrate in the inter-device isolation region.

Abstract: The invention relates to a valve guide manufactured by a powder-metallurgical process for combustion engines, said guide comprising a central section, a cam-side end piece, and a duct-side end piece, wherein the central section consists of a first material and the duct-side end piece of a second material, with the second material having a hardness in excess of 70 HRB and the first material having a hardness that is by at least 10 HRB lower than that of the second material.

Abstract: A power supply circuit has a first voltage converter and a second voltage converter. The first voltage converter generates a first power supply voltage having a first voltage level based on an input voltage. The first power supply voltage drives a first power node of a display in a first mode. The second voltage converter generates a second power supply voltage having a second voltage level based on the input voltage. The second power node is driven by the second power supply voltage in the first mode and is driven by a ground voltage in a second mode.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a magnetic memory device includes forming a magnetic tunnel junction layer that includes a first magnetic layer, a tunnel barrier layer, and a second magnetic layer sequentially stacked on a substrate. First line mask patterns are formed extending in a first direction and spaced apart from each other in a second direction crossing the first direction. The magnetic tunnel junction layer is etched by a first ion-beam etch process using the first line mask patterns as an etch mask to form preliminary magnetic tunnel junctions. Second line mask patterns are formed extending in the second direction and spaced apart from each other in the first direction. The preliminary magnetic tunnel junctions are etched by a second ion-beam process using the second line mask patterns as an etch mask to form magnetic tunnel junctions.

Abstract: An apparatus for receiving and sorting disks includes a wheel having at least one well for receiving a disk, a motor coupled to the wheel, a collecting device positioned relative to the wheel, a disk sensor, an ejector, and a controller. The collecting device has at least a first collector and a second collector configured for receiving disks. The disk sensor is configured to detect a value of a parameter of a disk received in the well and generate a parameter value signal. The ejector is coupled to the wheel proximate the well and configured to eject a disk from the well in a plane parallel to a bottom surface of the wheel in response to an eject signal. The controller is operably coupled with the disk sensor and the ejector.

Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a base; a gate conductor disposed directly on the base and including a gate line and a gate electrode; a gate insulating layer disposed on the gate conductor and including an overlap portion, which overlaps with the gate conductor, and a non-overlap portion, which is connected to the overlap portion, does not overlap with the gate conductor, and is spaced apart from the base; and a semiconductor pattern disposed on the gate insulating layer and overlapping with the gate electrode, wherein edges of the gate insulating layer project further than edges of the gate conductor and edges of the semiconductor pattern.

Abstract: An electronic circuit component mounting machine including a suction nozzle lowered by a first linear motor and a second linear motor by two stages A drive circuit of the second linear motor includes a reaction force detecting section and a damage detecting section that detects damage of an electronic circuit component. A controller that controls the drive circuit includes an appropriate operation parameter determining section that determines an appropriate value of an operation parameter of the second linear motor using the reaction force detecting section and the damage detecting section.