Abstract: A method for manufacturing semiconductor devices includes providing a substrate having a first region and a second region defined thereon, and a shallow trench isolation (STI) formed in between the first region and the second region, the first region comprising a first gate structure and the second region comprising a second gate structure respectively formed therein; forming a patterned protecting layer covering at least the entire STI and the second region on the substrate; forming recesses not exposing the STI in the substrate respectively at two sides of the first gate structure; and forming an epitaxial layer in the recesses respectively, the epitaxial layer filling up the recesses.

Abstract: A broadband antenna includes a substrate, a ground plane, a radiating path, a shorting path, a first connection path, a second connection path and a coupling path. The ground plane has a shorting point, a first grounding point and a second grounding point. The radiating path has a feeding point and a first connecting point. Two ends of the shorting path are respectively electrically connected with the shorting point and the feeding point, and the shorting path has a second connecting point. Two ends of the first connection path are respectively connected with the first connecting point and the second connecting point. Two ends of the second connection path are respectively connected with the first grounding point and the feeding point. One end of the coupling path is connected to the second grounding point and another end of the coupling path is separated from the shorting path.

Abstract: A method for producing a light reflecting structure in a transflective or reflective liquid crystal display uses one or two masks for masking a photoresist layer in a back-side exposing process. The pattern on the masks is designed to produce rod-like structures or crevices and holes on exposed and developed photoresist layer. After the exposed photoresist is developed, a heat treatment process or a UV curing process is used to soften the photoresist layer so that the reshaped surface is more or less contiguous but uneven. A reflective coating is then deposited on the uneven surface. One or more intermediate layers can be made between the masks, between the lower mask and the substrate, and between the upper masks and the photoresist layers. The masks and the intermediate layers can be made in conjunction with the fabrication of the liquid crystal display panel.

Abstract: A touch panel includes a display module, a touch sensor, an anti-noise unit and a signal processing unit. The display module generates a noise. The touch sensor is disposed above the display module and outputs an abnormal signal, wherein the abnormal signal includes the noise and a sensing signal. The anti-noise unit is adapted to receive the abnormal signal and then reject the noise so as to form the sensing signal. The signal processing unit is adapted to process the sensing signal.

Abstract: A power tool is provided with a perforated material remover to remove perforated material from power tool cutting implements. The power tool also includes a rip guide which has a long guide edge and two attachment points to the shoe/base of the saw. The rip guide is attached to the base/shoe via a pair of L-shaped openings that accept L-shaped support arms of the rip guide. The rip guide can also be folded for compact storage. The power tool also includes dual bevel scales for quickly and easily setting the bevel angle on the power tool.

Abstract: A soft-in-soft-out (SISO) decoder for a general block code includes a source bit generator which generates k guessed source bits; a channel encoder which maps the k guessed source bits to an n-bit channel codeword; a QAM symbol mapper which generates a locally generated symbol sequence comprising m consecutive QAM symbols based on the n-bit channel codeword; a correlator which receives a symbol sequence, a channel state information sequence, and the locally generated symbol sequence to calculate a correlation associated with the received symbol sequence based on the received symbol sequence, the channel state information sequence, and the locally generated symbol sequence; and a log-likelihood ratio calculator which is connected to the source bit generator and the correlator to thereby calculate the required log-likelihood ratios associated with all coded bits corresponding to the received symbol sequence.

Abstract: A keystone jack includes a main body, a printed circuit board, a terminal base, and a plurality of terminals. Both sides of the main body have two first troughs and two second troughs. The printed circuit board is inserted into the main body and has two first hooks engaged with the two first troughs on its both sides. The terminal base is disposed on the printed circuit board and assembled with the main body. Both sides of the terminal base are formed with two second hooks engaged with the two second troughs. Both ends of each terminal are fixedly inserted into the printed circuit board and the terminal base respectively. By these two engaging means, the engagement strength of the components of the keystone jack is increased to thereby prevent the keystone jack from suffering damage.

Abstract: A touch system for increasing a report rate includes a touch panel and a readout circuit. The touch panel is used for being touched by at least one object. A first axial direction of the touch panel has N first sensing lines and a second axial direction of the touch panel has M second sensing lines. The readout circuit is used for transmitting driving signals to each at least two first sensing lines of the N first sensing lines simultaneously, receiving sensing signals corresponding to the at least two first sensing lines through the M second sensing lines in turn, and calculating and outputting coordinates of at least one object touching the touch panel to a host according to the sensing signals corresponding to the at least two first sensing lines. The driving signals corresponding to the at least two first sensing lines partially overlap each other.

Abstract: A method for controlling grouped devices is disclosed. The method includes receiving a group setting from a group switch on each of the electronic devices, the electronic devices being divided into a plurality of groups according to the group setting of the group switch; a control device emitting a wireless signal comprising group data and operation data to the electronic devices; each of the electronic devices determining whether the group data matches the group setting of the group switch; and if the group data matches the group setting of the group switch, the electronic devices with the group setting matching the group data performing an operation according to the operation data.

Abstract: A high color expression display device and a method for adjusting the displayed color are provided. The display device includes a backlight source, a transmittance adjusting layer, and a display panel for receiving light from the backlight source. The display panel has a color filter disposed above the backlight source. A CIE standard illuminant C test result of the color filter falls into a predetermined scope. In a transmittance spectrum of the transmittance adjusting layer, an average transmittance at wavelength shorter than 495 nm is smaller than that at wavelength greater than 570 nm.

Abstract: A keystone jack includes a main body, a printed circuit board, a terminal base, and a plurality of terminals. Both sides of the main body have two first troughs and two second troughs. The printed circuit board is inserted into the main body and has two first hooks engaged with the two first troughs on its both sides. The terminal base is disposed on the printed circuit board and assembled with the main body. Both sides of the terminal base are formed with two second hooks engaged with the two second troughs. Both ends of each terminal are fixedly inserted into the printed circuit board and the terminal base respectively. By these two engaging means, the engagement strength of the components of the keystone jack is increased to thereby prevent the keystone jack from suffering damage.

Abstract: A decoding system for LDPC code concatenated with 4QAM-NR code in a DTMB system is a two-stage decoding system. An NR decoder performs a 4QAM-NR decoding to obtain hard decision information. Then, the so obtained hard decision information together with corresponding soft symbol and channel state information are sent to a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) device for further computing a log-likelihood ratio after an adder adds a correction term associated with the hard decision information to a computed log-likelihood ratio without the hard decision information. An LDPC decoder receives the LLR for decoding.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing metal nano particles having a hollow structure is provided. First, a suitable reducing agent is added into a first metal salt solution, and first metal ions are reduced to form first metal nano particles. Next, after the reducing agent is decomposed, a second metal salt solution with a higher reduction potential than that of the first metal is added. Then, the first metal particles are oxidized to form first metal ions when the second metal ions are reduced on the surface of the first metal by electrochemical oxidation reduction reaction, and thus, second metal nano particles having a hollow structure and a larger surface area are obtained. The method is simple and the metal nano particles with uniform particle size are obtained by this method.

Abstract: A cable modem in communication with a cable modem termination system (CMTS) scans and tries to lock onto a primary channel, tries to receive a media access control domain description (MDD) message includes subsidiary channels from the CMTS if the primary channel is locked, and tries to lock onto the subsidiary channels in the received MDD message. The cable modem further retains the cable modem to work with the DOCSIS 3.0 standard upon the condition that the primary channel and the subsidiary channels are all locked or retains the cable modem to work with the DOCSIS 2.0 standard upon the condition that the MDD message is not received or the subsidiary channels are not successfully locked.

Abstract: The mechanisms of forming an interconnect structures described above involves using a reflowed conductive layer. The reflowed conductive layer is thicker in smaller openings than in wider openings. The mechanisms may further involve forming a metal cap layer over the reflow conductive layer, in some embodiments. The interconnect structures formed by the mechanisms described have better electrical and reliability performance.

Abstract: A system for aiding report authoring is disclosed. The system comprises a set of associations (1), wherein an association links at least one first concept term in a knowledge domain with at least one second concept term in the knowledge domain, wherein the association indicates a frequent co-occurrence of the at least one first concept term and the at least one second concept term in reports in the knowledge domain. The system comprises a concept term extractor (2) for extracting at least one first concept term (6) relating to a particular subject from a data record (7) associated with the particular subject, the data record (7) comprising an at least partially completed report (5) relating to the particular subject.

Abstract: A detecting station of a winding product and a method for detecting an inter-turn short circuit are provided. The method includes following steps. First, a high voltage pulse is input to two ends of a winding of a winding product. Next, a voltage value of an electrifying process of the winding is extracted for generating an extracting data. Finally, a time-frequency converting operation is performed to the extracting data, and a time-frequency analysis information is generated for indicating whether or not the inter-turn short circuit is occurred in the winding.

Abstract: A gate driver includes a shift register, a logic control circuit, and an output enable control circuit. The shift register generates a plurality of scan signals according to a vertical synchronous signal and a vertical clock signal. The output enable control circuit generates a second output enable signal according to the vertical synchronous signal, the vertical clock signal, and an output enable signal. After the vertical synchronous signal and the vertical clock signal are both triggered together for two times, the second output enable converts from a high level to a low level. The logic control circuit outputs the plurality of scan signals when the second output enable signal is at the low level.

Abstract: An embodiment of present disclosure provides a state tracking system via a social network interface comprising a detecting module, a state information processing module, and a social network interface. The detecting module can detect at least one tracking target according to a detecting frequency to obtain the state information of the tracking target. The state information processing module can receive the state information and determine whether the present state information of the tracking target is different from the previous state information of the tracking target. If the present state information is different from the previous state information, the state information processing module releases the present state information on the social network interface. If the present state information is the same as the previous state information, the state information processing module does not release the present state information on the social network interface.