Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for controlling tint of a display panel provided on a vehicle window to adjust light transmittance depending on ambient light conditions, thereby overcoming difficulties in securing a clear view, such as glare caused by sunlight or high-beam headlamps of a vehicle in the opposite direction lane during driving. The apparatus includes: a display panel film attached to a window glass of the vehicle, and having an adjustable tint; an operation unit setting the tint of the display panel film; a detection sensor unit quantifying a change in an external environment into data; and a control unit adjusting the tint of the display panel film according to a preset program by using the data received from the detection sensor unit.

Abstract: A touchscreen device includes: a touch sensing unit including a transmission module configured to transmit a touch measurement signal and a reception module configured to receive the touch measurement signal from the transmission module; a control unit configured to control the transmission module and the reception module and calculate a touch position according to an output signal of the touch sensing unit; a position indication unit disposed adjacent to the touch sensing unit and configured to emit visibly recognizable light; and a support member configured to support the touch sensing unit and the position indication unit. When the touch sensing unit senses a motion of a user in a sensing region, the control unit controls the position indication unit to emit light that is turned on and off to be visibly recognizable.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling a financial chip of a payment device, in which information for multiple cards is stored in a single USIM chip, to enable the payment device to use credit cards from multiple card companies as a payment means. The method includes: dividing storage of the memory of the financial chip into multiple sections and allocating a turn to each storage section; allocating a first turn to the first card company server and recording information on the credit card issued by the first card company server, an application for financial transactions, and an identifier for the application when the first card company server and the second card company server sequentially make a request for the record of credit card information to the financial chip; and providing card arrangement information including information on the first turn and a second turn to the second card company server.

Abstract: An electric brake system includes a hydraulic pressure supply device configured to generate hydraulic pressure using a piston which is operated by an electrical signal that is output corresponding to a displacement of a brake pedal, and including a first pressure chamber and a second pressure chamber, a first hydraulic flow path configured to communicate with the first pressure chamber, a second hydraulic flow path configured to communicate with the first pressure chamber, a third hydraulic flow path configured to communicate with the second pressure chamber, a fourth hydraulic flow path branching from the third hydraulic flow path and connected to the first hydraulic flow path, a fifth hydraulic flow path branching from the third hydraulic flow path and connected to the second hydraulic flow path.

Abstract: A context aware service provision method and apparatus for recognizing the user context and executing an action corresponding to the user context according to a rule defined by the user and feeding back the execution result to the user interactively are provided. The method for providing a context-aware service includes receiving a user input, the user input being at least one of a text input and a speech input, identifying a rule including a condition and an action corresponding to the condition based on the received user input, activating the rule to detect a context which corresponds to the condition of the rule, and executing, when the context is detected, the action corresponding to the condition.

Abstract: A radio frequency switch circuit is described including a radio frequency switch and a coupler. The radio frequency switch includes a first band switch circuit connected between a first signal port and a common port, and configured to switch a first band signal. The coupler includes a first coupling wiring, disposed adjacent to a signal wiring formed between the common port of the radio frequency switch and an antenna port, and configured to form a first coupling signal with the signal wiring. A resonant frequency of the first coupling wiring is based on an inductance of the first coupling wiring and a capacitance of the radio frequency switch.

Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for reconstructing a three-dimensional (3D) face based on a stereo camera, the method including: acquiring n images of a target by controlling a plurality of stereo cameras in response to an image acquirement request, wherein n denotes a natural number; extracting n face regions from the n images, respectively; and reconstructing a viewpoint-based face image based on the n face regions.

Abstract: A touch sensor integrated type display device includes first touch electrodes located in the active area and divided in first and second directions crossing each other; second touch electrodes located in the active area, divided in the first direction, and alternating with the first touch electrodes arranged in the first direction; and a plurality of first sub routing wires respectively connected to the plurality of first touch electrodes, and arranged side by side in the second direction, wherein the first touch electrodes located in outermost both sides of the active area in the first direction, among the first touch electrodes arranged in the second direction, are smaller in size than another first touch electrodes.

Abstract: A display panel including a substrate that includes a display region and a non-display region, the display region including a first and second display region spaced apart from each other, and the non-display region including an edge non-display region that surrounds the display region and an intermediate non-display region between the first and second display region; a plurality of first pixels arranged on the first display region; a plurality of second pixels arranged on the second display region; a first and second voltage wiring on the non-display region to transmit a first and second driving voltage to the first and second pixel; and an auxiliary wiring extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, on the intermediate non-display region, the auxiliary wiring crossing between the first and second display region, and being connected to one of the first and second voltage wiring.

Abstract: A refrigerator having an ice making device, comprises: a case having an opening at one side thereof; a tray accommodation portion having opened upper and lower surfaces, and configured to be inserted into or withdrawn from the case through the opening; an ice tray accommodated in the tray accommodation portion, and containing water to be frozen to ice cubes; and an accommodation portion coupling unit for coupling the tray accommodation portion to the case. Water is poured onto the ice tray in a state that the ice tray has been accommodated in the tray accommodation portion, and then the ice tray is carried to be mounted to the case. This may solve the conventional problem that each ice tray has to be carried. Furthermore, since an external force such as hand trembling is transmitted to the ice tray via the tray accommodation portion, overflow of water is minimized.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for modifying a contour line of an object are provided. The method involves displaying a contour line of an object on a screen, receiving a plurality of touch points, matching each of the plurality of the received touch points with corresponding contour line points on the contour line, generating touch point movement data by tracing a movement path of each of the plurality of the received touch points, determining a curvature variation of the contour line based on the touch point movement data, and modifying the contour line by moving each of the corresponding contour line points based on the touch point movement data and applying the curvature variation to a section connected between each of the moved corresponding contour line points to generate the section.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a lower insulating layer on a substrate, a lower wiring layer extending on the lower insulating layer, a lower surface of at least a part of the lower wiring layer being covered by the lower insulating layer, a plurality of via plugs extending in a first direction on the lower wiring layer, the plurality of via plugs including a real via plug and a first dummy via plug connected to the part of the lower wiring layer covered by the lower insulating layer, and an upper wiring layer overlapping the lower wiring layer and extending in a second direction different from the first direction on the real via plug, the upper wiring layer not overlapping the dummy via plug.

Abstract: An access method of a nonvolatile memory device included in a user device includes receiving a write request to write data into the nonvolatile memory device; detecting an application issuing the write request, a user context, a queue size of a write buffer, an attribute of the write-requested data, or an operation mode of the user device; and deciding one of a plurality of write modes to use for writing the write-requested data into the nonvolatile memory device according to the detected information. The write modes have different program voltages and verify voltage sets.

Abstract: A touch sensing method, a touch sensing circuit, and a touch display device perform multifrequency touch driving by varying the frequencies of touch driving signals when sensing a touch or a touched position by outputting pulse-type touch driving by which one or more touch electrodes among a number of touch electrodes disposed on a display panel are driven sequentially. Undesired parasitic capacitance that would otherwise be caused by touch driving signals is prevented from occurring, and EMI influence is reduced.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a lithium secondary battery including a positive electrode including lithium iron phosphate and layered lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide as a positive electrode active material and a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material having a potential difference of 3.10 V or higher from the lithium iron phosphate at a point of 50% state of charge (SOC) afforded by the entirety of the lithium iron phosphate.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a heat sink with two or more separated channels. The heat sink according to the present disclosure includes a cooling channel through which a refrigerant passes to cool a secondary battery by an indirect cooling method, the secondary battery including a cell assembly in which at least two unit cells are stacked, each unit cell including a positive electrode plate, a separator, and a negative electrode plate, and a plurality of positive and negative electrode tabs protruding from the positive and negative electrode plates of each unit cell is electrically connected to positive and negative leads, respectively, wherein the cooling channel has two or more separated channels, and an insulation material is interposed between at least one of the two or more separated channels and a heat source. According to the present disclosure, provision of a heat sink having a uniform cooling effect is enabled.

Abstract: A method of fabricating an array substrate including forming an oxide semiconductor layer on a substrate; sequentially forming a gate insulating layer and a gate electrode corresponding to a central portion of the oxide semiconductor layer; forming source and drain areas having conductive properties in the oxide semiconductor layer by irradiating X-rays or UV rays to the oxide semiconductor layer exposed outside the gate electrode; forming an inter insulating layer on the gate electrode and having first contact holes that expose the source and drain areas; and forming source and drain electrodes on the inter insulating layer and contacting the source and drain areas through the first contact holes, respectively.