Abstract: A coil of a transformer has two side conducting brackets and at least one middle conducting bracket. The middle conducting bracket is elongated or spiral-shaped and has two terminals respectively connected to the side conducting brackets. The side conducting brackets and the at least one middle conducting bracket of some specific type are connected to form different numbers of loops or different types of circuits (series circuits or parallel circuits). Therefore, design and fabrication of the coil is flexible and materials and manufacturing costs are saved. Moreover, the side conducting brackets and the at least one middle conducting bracket require only two or four soldered joints so number of soldered joints required is limited and efficiency of the transformer is improved.

Abstract: A method for driving a liquid crystal display device provides sufficient charge time for a pixel unit by adjusting a main-charge time and a precharge time of the pixel unit according to the polarities of data driving signals applied during a main-charge period and a precharge period. Meanwhile, the method controls a write period during which a data driving signal is written into a pixel unit, so that each pixel unit can be equally charged.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a sealant and an electrostatic protection structure is provided. The first substrate and the second substrate are disposed in parallel. The sealant is for sealing the liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The electrostatic protection structure is disposed within a non-display area outside the sealant. The electrostatic protection structure includes a first line disposed on the first substrate and surrounding the edge of the first substrate.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide an improved electronic greeting card, which includes an automatic power-on device that can play pre-recorded message of the sender as soon as it is opened to surprise the receiver of the card. It also includes a slidable USB connector, which provides facilitates for users in transferring or re-recording digital data from/to the electronic greeting card.

Abstract: A cable structure includes a conductor, a shielding layer wrapped the conductor, a knit layer surrounding the shielding layer, and an insulating layer bound round the knit layer. The knit layer is interlaced by multiple knitting wires. Each of the knitting wires has a plurality of metallic wires which are arranged side by side to form a metallic strip, and at least one fiber filament arranged at an outer side of the metallic strip. The abreast knitting wires are arranged by means of each two adjacent metallic strips sandwiching at least one fiber filament therebetween.

Abstract: A hinge includes a shaft, a bracket, two washers, a resilient member assembly mating with the pole, and a fastener. The shaft includes a pole. The bracket includes a knuckle portion. The washers are mounted on the pole. The fastener is engaging with the pole and exerting force against the washers, and the resilient member assembly.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes an insulative base and a complimentary connector assembled therewith along an up-to-down direction instead of a left-to-right direction. Thus, a small assembly space will be achieved compared to the prior art.

Abstract: A method of reducing the amount of black in an image is disclosed. The method is using a computer to reduce the amount of or eliminate the black in an original digital image. The major procedure is to increase the pixels of the original digital image (by four or nine times) and then change the color information of the pixels.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image displaying method provides a data driving signal related to a right-eye image and a left-eye image. During a plurality of frame periods, the data driving signal switches polarities every m frame periods, wherein m is an integer larger than 1. The right-eye image is outputted during the odd-numbered frame periods among the plurality of frame periods, while the left-eye image is outputted during the even-numbered frame periods among the plurality of frame periods.

Abstract: A three dimensional display and a method thereof are provided. The display includes an image display device and a shutter glasses. The image display device receives a video signal to display a left eye frame or a right eye frame, and outputs a shutter synchronization signal according to whether the left eye frame or the right eye frame is displayed. The shutter glasses is coupled to the image display device to open a left eye glass or a right eye glass according to the shutter synchronization signal. Therefore, the display and the method prevents the left eye and the right eye from receiving an incomplete frame.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure and methods for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate; a gate stack on the semiconductor substrate; a SiGe region in the semiconductor substrate and adjacent the gate stack, wherein the SiGe region has a first atomic percentage of germanium to germanium and silicon; and a silicide region over the SiGe region. The silicide region has a second atomic percentage of germanium to germanium and silicon. The second atomic percentage is substantially lower than the first atomic percentage.

Abstract: An exemplary method for optimizing a recording signal of an optical recording apparatus to record data onto a disc, the recording signal having a first pulse-width parameter, the method includes selecting an initial value of the first pulse-width parameter; generating adjusted values based on the initial value to record test data onto the disc respectively; measuring mark lengths of lands; determining average lengths of the mark lengths of lands; determining differences between the average lengths and a predetermined standard length; linear curve fitting the adjusted values and the differences employing the following linear curve fitting equation: Y=AX+B to obtain the constants A and B, wherein X represents the adjusted values, Y represents the differences; determining and storing an optimum value of the first pulse-width parameter to be used for recording the data onto the disc, this optimum value equals to ?B/A. An optical recording apparatus is also provided.

Abstract: A classifier (20) is trained by a feature matrix (18, 18?) made up of feature vectors (F11, . . . , Fkm). The feature vectors are generated by operating on each of a plurality (k) of training image data sets with each of a plurality (m) of image processing algorithms (121, . . . , 12m) to generate processed and segmented images. Features of the segmented regions are extracted (14) to generate the feature vectors. In this manner, the classifier is trained with data generated with a variety of image processing algorithms.

Abstract: An overdriving apparatus including a memory unit, a position unit and an overdriving unit is provided. The memory unit stores a present frame received and outputs a previous frame stored in the memory unit. The position unit generates pixel position information according to a display control signal of the present frame. The overdriving unit determines a corresponding relationship between several pixel grey values of the present frame and several display areas of a display panel according to the pixel position information, so as to select a corresponding specific table group of each of the pixel grey values from a plurality of overdriving tables. The overdriving unit further generates an overdriving frame by looking up the corresponding specific table group of each of the pixel grey values.

Abstract: A system and method of providing computer-aided analysis of medical images uses an image processor (910) to process medical image data. A decision engine (920) generates a diagnosis based on the image data (940). The decision engine estimates the probability of an illness based on the image data and assesses the relevance of any unavailable data. The result is used to request this unavailable data from the user for computing a more complete diagnosis or otherwise displaying the results in incomplete form due to either the lack of additional data or the confidence in the incomplete diagnostic results. The diagnostic results may be displayed on an output terminal (970) and may be stored in the database (930).

Abstract: A system and a method for driving light emitters of a liquid crystal display (LCD) backlight module is disclosed. The system drives the light emitters by supplying a constant current and a pulse width modulated current to an individual light emitter, the pulse width modulated current being determined in accordance with an optical output of the light emitter. Accordingly, the system can provide a desired amount of current to the light emitters, and individually control the optical output of the light emitters.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system for focusing, which modulates a broadband light into a dispersive light having a higher dispersion characteristic and a lower dispersion characteristic, and the dispersion light is projected onto an object so as to form an object light. By means of the filtering and dividing procedure, a first optical spectrum of the dispersion light with respect to the higher dispersion characteristic is utilized to detect a height information of the surface profile of the object. Then, according to the height information, a second optical spectrum of the dispersion light with respect to the lower dispersion characteristic is adjusted to focus onto the object so that an imaging sensing device is capable of sensing the object light with respect to the lower dispersion characteristic, and thereby obtaining a clear and focusing image corresponding to the surface of the object.

Abstract: A scanner includes a reference backing member, a scanning module, a transmission mechanism and a processing module. The scanning module scans the reference backing member and an original including first and second documents. The transmission mechanism moves one of the original and the scanning module relatively to the other. The scanning module scans the reference backing member and the original and successively obtains a first reference image signal representative of an image of the reference backing member, a first image signal representative of an image of the first document, a second reference image signal representative of the image of the reference backing member and a second image signal representative of an image of the second document. The processing module, coupled to the scanning module, compensates the first and second image signals according to the first and second reference image signals, respectively, to obtain first and second resulting signals.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system for selecting a sample phase based on channel capacity. A synchronizer calculates a carrier frequency offset, a sample timing offset, a sampling conversion rate and a frame timing, and counts the candidate sample phases. A digital mixer conducts frequency offset compensation to produce a frequency compensated baseband signal. An interpolator conducts interpolation to compensate and produce an interpolated baseband signal. A digital matched filter performs filtering to produce an over-sampled and filtered baseband signal. A buffer stores the over-sampled and filtered baseband signal. A channel estimator estimates and produces channel frequency responses. A sample phase selector calculates channel capacity corresponding to each candidate sample phase, and selects the one with maximum channel capacity. A down-sampler conducts down-sampling operation to produce the final symbol rate based baseband signal.