Abstract: A display apparatus comprises a substrate, a plurality of scan lines, a plurality of data lines crossing the scan lines on the substrate, a plurality of light emitting units disposed in a display area of the substrate and at least a control integrated circuit (IC) chip. The control IC chip is disposed within the display area of the substrate and electrically connected to at least one of the scan lines and at least one of the data lines. The light emitting units are electrically connected to at least one of the control IC chip, which is controlled by at least one of the scan lines and receives a data signal from at least one of the data lines to control the luminous states of the light emitting units according to the data signal.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a secure boot method for an electronic device including an embedded controller and a processor. The method includes the steps of verifying a secure loader by the embedded controller, unlocking a peripheral hardware of the electronic device by the embedded controller, and executing the secure loader by the processor.

Abstract: Provided are a smart card service method and an apparatus for performing the same. The smart card service method includes receiving a certificate generation request from a terminal, transmitting the certificate generation request to an authentication processing device, and storing credential information with respect to the generated certificate in a virtual machine associated with the terminal in response to a certificate generation success message provided from the authentication processing device. Thus, it is possible to reduce costs in accordance with manufacturing smart card hardware, and support smart card services in a more enhanced security environment.

Abstract: The present invention features a long-term controlled release formulation of the nalbuphine pro-soft drug, Sebacoyl dinalbuphine ester, in combination with commonly used pharmaceutical excipient biodegradable polymer PLGA. Said formulation was selected from the following groups of pharmaceutical formulations including such as: tablets, capsules, soft capsules, granules, suspensions, microspheres, oral implants, implantable injections and others. Said long-term controlled release formulation significantly improved the dosage and frequency for administering nalbuphine to once per half month or few months, compared to four to six times per day in the traditional way, which is one of the major features and effects of the present invention. The major improvement of this invention can be achieved by confirmation of the pharmacokinetic profiles and the duration time of efficacy level of drug through in vivo experiments, subsequently improves the dosage and frequency of the traditionally used nalbuphine injections.

Abstract: A phosphor and a light emitting device containing the phosphor are provided. According to an embodiment, the phosphor is expressed in a chemical formula of LxMyCz1Nz2:Aa where L is at least one of an alkaline earth metal, a transition metal, Zn, Cd, Al, Ga, In, Ti, Ge, and Sn; M is at least one of B, Si, P, S, F, Cl, I, and Se; and A is at least one of an alkaline rare earth metal and the transition metal, and where 0<x?5, 0?y?5, 1?z1?10, 1?z2?10, and 0<a?1.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for optimizing the system capacity of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system that uses with Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antennas. In a receiver, a target quality of service (QoS) metric and reference data rate are set. The target QoS metric may be set to a predetermined value and/or may be adjusted dynamically with respect to packet error rate (PER) by a slow outer-loop control processor. The QoS of received signals are compared to the target QoS. Depending on the comparison, the receiver generates a channel quality indicator (CQI) which is sent to the transmitter. The CQI is a one or two bit indicator which indicates to the transmitter to disable, adjust or maintain data transmission rates of particular sub-carriers, groups of sub-carriers per transmit antenna, or groups of sub-carriers across all transmit antennas. At the transmitter, the transmitted data rate is disabled, adjusted or maintained.

Abstract: A wearable robot for assisting muscular strength of the lower extremity of a user: The wearable robot can be worn on user's legs and includes a central securing part, a hip joint part hingably coupled to either side of a lower end of the central securing part, a femur part fastened to the hip joint part and having rigidity, a knee part including an outer frame and a knee assistant, and a drive unit fastened to one of the hip joint part and the knee joint part to allow operation of the joint part. The outer frame includes an upper side outer frame fastened to a lower end of the femur part and a lower side outer frame fastened to the upper side outer frame by a rotatable knee joint part Both the upper side outer frame and the lower side outer frame are fastened to the knee assistant worn by the user.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cord controller to be mounted on a top rail of a window covering. The cord controller includes a base, a cord controlling device, and a cord regulating device. The base has a chamber therein and an inlet and an outlet on opposite sides of the chamber, and the cord controlling device and the cord regulating device are received in the chamber. The cord controlling device has a gap between the inlet and the outlet for the cord to pass through. The cord regulating device is adjacent to the outlet and has cord pressing bar to form a passageway between the cord pressing bar and the base for the cord to pass through. Therefore, the cord controller may avoid the cords twisting and keep a smooth movement of the cords.

Abstract: A fan includes a frame and an impeller. The impeller is disposed in the frame and the impeller has a plurality of blades. Each blade has a wing part and a flap part, and the wing part and the flap part form a predetermined angle. A blade is also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cable structure with indicating function, which comprises a cable, a first connector plug and an indication unit. The first connector plug has a main body and a connection part, and coupled with one end of the cable; and the indication unit is fastened in the main body and installed with at least an indicating device coupled with a circuit board and having an indicating function on the main body, the circuit board is connected to a power circuit between the cable and the first connector plug through a wire, and through a detecting circuit of the circuit board performing a comparison operation, the indicating device is enabled to respectively display the indication of charging in progress and charging finished. As such, a user can directly observe the charging status of the hand-held device through the display of the indication unit without needs of actuating the screen of the hand-held device.

Abstract: A memory storage device, a memory controller thereof, and a method for automatically creating a fill-file thereof are provided. In the present method, a plurality of logical addresses is configured and grouped into a plurality of logical blocks to be mapped to physical blocks of a memory chip in the memory storage device. When a host system is powered on, whether the logical addresses have been formatted into a partition is determined. If the logical addresses have been formatted into a partition, whether a fill-file of a predetermined file capacity exists is determined. If the fill-file does not exist, data related to the fill-file is respectively filled into a file allocation table (FAT) and a root directory of the formatted partition when the host system reads the FAT and the root directory, so as to automatically create the fill-file.

Abstract: A server device may identify that a user device is connected to a first radio access network (“RAN”), via a first technology. The server device may identify that the user device is capable of accessing a second RAN, via a second technology, where the second RAN is different from the first RAN, and where the second technology is different from the first technology. The server device may also receive an indication that the first RAN is congested. The server device may further determine, based on the indication that first RAN is congested, and further based on identifying that the user device is capable of accessing the second RAN via the second technology, that the user device should be handed over to the second RAN. Additionally, the server device may instruct the user device to connect to the second RAN via the second technology.

Abstract: A method includes forming an etch stop layer over and contacting a gate electrode of a transistor, forming a sacrificial layer over the etch stop layer, and etching the sacrificial layer, the etch stop layer, and an inter-layer dielectric layer to form an opening. The opening is then filled with a metallic material. The sacrificial layer and excess portions of the metallic material over a top surface of the etch stop layer are removed using a removal step including a CMP process. The remaining portion of the metallic material forms a contact plug.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for allowing tables to be adaptively backed up are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for operating a memory system with a non-volatile memory that includes a reserved memory area, a plurality of physical blocks and a plurality of data structures including an erase count block involves determining when contents associated with at least one data structure of the plurality of data structures are to be substantially backed up. A request to substantially back up the contents associated with the at least one data structure is executed when it is determined that the contents associated with the at least one data structure are to be substantially backed up. Executing the request allows contents associated with the at least one data structure are substantially backed up in the reserved memory area.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is described here that categorizes images by extracting regions and describing the regions with a 16-dimensional subscene feature vector, which is a concatenation of color, texture, and spatial feature vectors. By comparing the spatial feature vectors in images with similarly-obtained feature vectors in a Gaussian mixture based model pool (obtained in a subscene modeling phase), the images may be categorized (in a subscene recognition phase) with probabilities relating to each region or subscene. Higher probabilities are likelier correlations. The device may be a single or multiple core CPU, or parallelized vector processor for characterizing many images. The images may be photographs, videos, or video stills, without restriction. When used real-time, the method may be used for visual searching or sorting.

Abstract: A device includes a buried well region and a first HVW region of the first conductivity, and an insulation region over the first HVW region. A drain region of the first conductivity type is disposed on a first side of the insulation region and in a top surface region of the first HVW region. A first well region and a second well region of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type are on the second side of the insulation region. A second HVW region of the first conductivity type is disposed between the first and the second well regions, wherein the second HVW region is connected to the buried well region. A source region of the first conductivity type is in a top surface region of the second HVW region, wherein the source region, the drain region, and the buried well region form a JFET.

Abstract: A detecting device and method for a capacitive touch screen is proposed. The present invention employs a multiple-electrode driving mode, which sequentially drives sets of driving electrodes among driving electrodes. A reduced image is generated from the signals of a plurality of detecting electrodes. In addition, a single-electrode driving mode is employed to drive the first and the last driving electrodes, respectively, thereby obtaining first- and second-side 1D sensing information for single-electrode driving from the signals of the detecting electrodes, respectively. An expanded image can be generated based on the first-side 1D sensing information for single-electrode driving, the reduced image and the second-side 1D sensing information for single-electrode driving in order to detect approaches or touches made by external conductive objects to the capacitive touch screen.

Abstract: Provided is a high-shielding reflective film, and its manufacturing method. This film is fabricated from an optical reflective film and a polarizer. The optical reflective film and the polarizer are combined by a means of a specific scheme. The optical reflective film is formed by stacking multiple layers of dielectric optical interference films with different materials. The optical reflective film particularly applies a principle of optical interference to reflect the most of the incident light, and allow some transmission. The polarizer is to absorb half of the incident light, and allow the other half to pass through. Since the characteristics of reflection between the reflective film and the polarizer are different, the reflectance difference therefor may increase. By which, the high-shielding reflective film achieves a one-way mirror with anti-peep effect since it substantially increases the reflectance difference among the incident lights from the various directions.