Abstract: A method for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) to receive a user command on a touch screen, and a multimedia apparatus using the same. The method for providing a GUI includes determining whether an enlargement command for a GUI item is received, and enlarging the GUI item. Therefore, it is possible to enable a user to operate the GUI item more correctly, and to provide the superior visual effect when the GUI item is operated.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for spinning a test tray and an in-line test handler including the above apparatus, wherein the apparatus may include a supporting unit for supporting a test tray transported between first and second chamber units facing in the different directions, wherein the first chamber unit is provided at a predetermined interval from the second chamber unit; a base unit to which the supporting unit is spinnably connected; and a spinning unit which spins the test tray so that semiconductor devices received in the test tray are tested at the same arrangement in each of the first chamber unit and the second chamber unit.

Abstract: A method for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) to receive a user command on a touch screen, and a multimedia apparatus using the same. The method for providing a GUI includes determining whether an enlargement command for a GUI item is received, and enlarging the GUI item. Therefore, it is possible to enable a user to operate the GUI item more correctly, and to provide the superior visual effect when the GUI item is operated.

Abstract: Provided are a booting apparatus and method using a snapshot image. A snapshot image may be divided into a plurality of blocks. Each of the blocks may be stored in a nonvolatile memory in a compressed or non-compressed format. The snapshot image may be incrementally loaded in units of the blocks during booting. The loading and decompression of the blocks may be performed in parallel.

Abstract: A gas distribution plate that is installed in a chamber providing a reaction space and supplies a reaction gas onto a substrate placed on a substrate placing plate, wherein the gas distribution plate includes: first and second surfaces opposing to each other, wherein the second surface faces the substrate placing plate and has a recess shape; and a plurality of injection holes each including: an inflow portion that extends from the first surface toward the second surface; a diffusing portion that extends from the second surface toward the first surface; and an orifice portion between the inflow portion and the diffusing portion, wherein the plurality of inflow portions of the plurality of injection holes decrease in gas path from edge to middle of the gas distribution plate, and wherein the plurality of diffusing portions of the plurality of injection holes have substantially the same gas path.

Abstract: Provided are a booting apparatus and method using a snapshot image. A snapshot image may be divided into a plurality of blocks. Each of the blocks may be stored in a nonvolatile memory in a compressed or non-compressed format. The snapshot image may be incrementally loaded in units of the blocks during booting. The loading and decompression of the blocks may be performed in parallel.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a trench in a substrate, a gate filling a part of the trench, a tilted source on a side wall of the trench, the tilted source partially overlapping the gate, an interlayer insulating film on the substrate and filling the trench, and a contact hole penetrating parts of the interlayer insulating film and the substrate and contacting the tilted source, the contact hole having a tilted surface at an angle that is equal to or larger than 80 degrees and smaller than 90 degrees.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first region and a second region, a trench-gate transistor in the first region, the trench-gate transistor including a first trench in the substrate, a gate filling at least part of the first trench, and a source in the substrate and on each sidewall of the first trench, a first field diffusion junction in the second region, an interlayer insulating film on the substrate, the interlayer insulating film covering the trench-gate transistor and the first field diffusion junction, a first contact in the first region, the first contact passing through the interlayer insulating film and contacting the source, and a second contact in the second region, the second contact passing through the interlayer insulating film and contacting the first field diffusion junction, the first contact and the second contact having an equal height and including a same material.

Abstract: Disclosed are semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device includes active portions defined in a semiconductor substrate, a device isolation pattern in a trench formed between the active portions, a gate electrode in a gate recess region crossing the active portions and the device isolation pattern, a gate dielectric layer between the gate electrode and an inner surface of the gate recess region, and a first ohmic pattern and a second ohmic pattern on each of the active portions at both sides of the gate electrode, respectively. The first and second ohmic patterns include a metal-semiconductor compound, and a top surface of the device isolation pattern at both sides of the gate recess region is recessed to be lower than a level of a top surface of the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A method for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) to receive a user command on a touch screen, and a multimedia apparatus using the same. The method for providing a GUI includes determining whether an enlargement command for a GUI item is received, and enlarging the GUI item. Therefore, it is possible to enable a user to operate the GUI item more correctly, and to provide the superior visual effect when the GUI item is operated.

Abstract: An interface method for a mobile terminal includes: receiving in the order of time and saving two or more types of messages corresponding to two or more types of first applications; integrating and configuring the two or more types of messages using a second application, which integrates and manages the two or more types of first applications; and displaying the two or more types of messages with the identification information on the type of each of the messages using the second application.

Abstract: A method for guiding location includes commencing a call between a first terminal and a second terminal, the first terminal requesting the collection of location information from the second terminal, receiving the location information of the second terminal and displaying on the first terminal a geographic information map displaying the location information, and the user of the first terminal transmitting to the second terminal direction information that is displayed on the geographic information map. As a result, more intuitive and convenient location guidance is provided.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: an active region defined by a device isolation layer on and/or over a substrate; a second conductive well on and/or over the active region; an extended drain formed at one side of the second conductive well; a gate electrode on and/or over the second conductive well and the extended drain; and a source and a drain formed at both sides of the gate electrode, in which extended regions are formed at the corners of the second conductive well under the gate electrode.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for measuring the characteristics of a semiconductor device is disclosed. The measuring apparatus may include first to M-th (wherein M is a positive integer not less than 1) starved devices each being biased in response to a bias voltage varying in accordance with a variable first supply voltage, thereby varying an amount of current flowing through a semiconductor device included in the starved device. Interconnect lines may interconnect the first to M-th starved devices. A measuring unit measures at least one of a delay time caused by the semiconductor devices of the starved devices themselves, and a compound delay time caused by the semiconductor devices of the starved devices themselves plus a delay time caused by the interconnect lines. The measured results can be analyzed under conditions more approximate to diverse situations exhibited in practical chips in accordance with development of manufacturing processes and techniques.

Abstract: A device and method process voice communication service. A mobile terminal device of the present disclosure includes a microphone arranged at one end of a body of the device; a speaker arranged close to the microphone; a transceiver arranged at the other end of the body; a codec including a coder connected to the microphone, a decoder connected to the speaker, and a switch of which one node is connected to one of the coder and the decoder selectively and the other node is connected to the transceiver; and a communication controller which controls the switch to establish a path between the coder and the transceiver and enables the speaker in speakerphone mode.

Abstract: Provided are a booting apparatus and method using a snapshot image. A snapshot image may be divided into a plurality of blocks. Each of the blocks may be stored in a nonvolatile memory in a compressed or non-compressed format. The snapshot image may be incrementally loaded in units of the blocks during booting. The loading and decompression of the blocks may be performed in parallel.

Abstract: Provided is a method of booting a computing system which performs boot image transmission and device initialization in parallel. For example, using an Internal RAM and direct memory access (DMA), hardware initialization and loading of boot image from a main storage medium to a main memory are performed in parallel, thereby reducing time spent on booting.

Abstract: Novel benzoarylureido compounds and a use thereof for prevention and/or treatment of the neurodegenerative brain disease are provided. The neurodegenerative brain diseases may include Alzheimer's disease, dementia, Parkinson's disease, stroke, amyloidosis, Pick's disease, Lou Gehrig's disease, Huntington's disease, Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, and the like.

Abstract: A physical structure, apparatus for recording/reproducing on/from a recording medium using the same and method thereof are disclosed, by which the physical structure suitable for such a recording medium as BD and the like may be provided. The present invention includes a plurality of recording layers. Each of the recording layers includes a power test area not provided to a physically same position and a management area not provided to a physically same position, wherein a layer having the power test zone and the management area allocated consecutively includes a test area buffer allocated to the power test zone.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for detection timeout of each channel, which is a socket connection, in a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Offload Engine (TOE) using TCP accelerating hardware, and a method thereof. The timer managing apparatus of the TOE using the TCP accelerating hardware, including: a command register for receiving a command for a retransmission timer or a delayed ACK timer from an embedded processor of the TOE; a finite state machine (FSM) for storing information of a timer in operation by analyzing the command for the retransmission timer or the delayed ACK timer stored in the command register and controlling an entire operation of the timer managing apparatus; and a timeout checker for checking timeout of a timer in operation by using the stored timer information and notifying the timeout to the FSM.