Abstract: Disclosed are a porous membrane having improved water permeability and elongation at break as well as high mechanical strength and impurity rejection rate and a method for manufacturing the same. The porous membrane of the present invention comprises a symmetric bead structure comprising a plurality of spherical crystallites. Each of the plurality of spherical crystallites comprises a plurality of sub-spherical crystallites.

Abstract: A super conductor is formed by a process including a first step of forming liquid-phase rare earth-copper-barium oxide by heat treating a superconductor precursor including a rare earth element, barium, and copper, a second step of forming a first superconductor of the rare earth-copper-barium oxide that is epitaxially grown from the liquid-phase rare earth-copper-barium oxide, and a third step of forming a second superconductor of the rare earth-copper-barium oxide by heat treating the first superconductor, wherein the heat treatment of the third step is performed in an atmosphere in which the rare earth-copper-barium oxide has no liquid phase.

Abstract: This invention relates to a light guide plate, which includes tunnels into which a light source may be inserted in a backlight unit assembly thus reducing light loss, and to a method of manufacturing the same.

Abstract: Disclosed are a porous membrane having improved water permeability and elongation at break as well as high mechanical strength and impurity rejection rate and a method for manufacturing the same. The porous membrane of the present invention comprises a symmetric bead structure comprising a plurality of spherical crystallites. Each of the plurality of spherical crystallites comprises a plurality of sub-spherical crystallites.

Abstract: Provided are a method of detecting a transition area and an apparatus for processing an image using the same. The apparatus includes a line representative value calculator configured to calculate line representative values of an image including a non-image display area, an image display area, and a transition area interposed between the non-image display area and the image display area, and a transition area detector configured to calculate first-order and second-order differentiations of the line representative values, calculate a threshold value of the transition area using first-order and second-order-differentiation-representative-values of a first line group including a plurality of lines in a window including a plurality of lines and first-order and second-order-differentiation-representative-values of a second line group including a plurality of lines, and detect the transition area.

Abstract: Provided is a method of forming a superconducting body. The method includes providing amorphous rare-earth-copper-barium oxide and performing a heat treatment on the amorphous rare-earth-copper-barium oxide to form a superconductor containing distributed rare-earth oxide grains.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a superconducting wire. A superconducting tape having an outer surface is provided, a copper layer is formed on the outer surface of the superconducting tape, and first metal tape and second metal tape are respectively attached on a first surface and a second surface of the superconducting tape on which the copper layer is formed.

Abstract: Provided is a method in which a Digital Pre-Distorter (DPD) performs digital pre-distortion on a received In-phase (I) signal, a received Quadrature-phase (Q) signal, a feedback I signal, and a feedback Q signal; a mixer mixes a signal output from the DPD with a frequency signal output from an oscillator; each of n phase shifters phase-shifts a signal output from the mixer according to a preset beamforming pattern; each of n Power Amplifiers (PAs) amplifies a signal output from an associated phase shifter according to a gain, the PAs connected to the associated phase shifter on a one-to-one basis; each of n envelope detectors detects an envelope signal from a signal output from an associated PA, the envelope detector connected to the associated PA on a one-to-one basis; and a control unit determines whether the n PAs operate normally, using the envelope signals output from the n envelope detectors.

Abstract: A method of motion estimation includes obtaining motion vectors of blocks in a plurality of frames corresponding to a block to be motion estimated, determining whether the obtained motion vectors of the blocks are converged by comparing the obtained motion vectors of the blocks, calculating motion vector dispersity of adjacent blocks of the block to be motion estimated in a state in which the motion vectors are converged, and setting a size of a search range so as to correspond to the calculated motion vector dispersity of the adjacent blocks.

Abstract: A method of calculating discontinuity of a motion vector includes obtaining at least any one of a k-th projected forward motion vector by a forward motion vector of a block and a k-th projected backward motion vector by the forward motion vector and at least any one of a k-th projected forward motion vector by a backward motion vector and a k-th projected backward motion vector by the backward motion vector; obtaining inconsistency of forward motion vector to k-th frame projection and inconsistency of backward motion vector to k-th frame projection by calculating a first difference function using the obtained vectors, and calculating discontinuity using the inconsistency of forward motion vector to k-th frame projection and the inconsistency of backward motion vector to k-th frame projection.

Abstract: Provided are a method for motion estimation and an apparatus for processing an image. The method includes extracting a pattern from any one frame, classifying the extracted pattern as any one of predetermined basic patterns, counting basic patterns of regions included in macroblocks according to types of the basic patterns to set representative basic patterns of the macroblocks, calculating at least one of a sum of absolute difference (SAD) term coefficient and a smoothness constraint (SC) term coefficient from a correlation between representative basic patterns of macroblocks included in a macroblock group, and calculating a cost function result using at least one of the calculated SAD term coefficient and SC term coefficient.

Abstract: Provided are a method of detecting a transition area and an apparatus for processing an image using the same. The apparatus includes a line representative value calculator configured to calculate line representative values of an image including a non-image display area, an image display area, and a transition area interposed between the non-image display area and the image display area, and a transition area detector configured to calculate first-order and second-order differentiations of the line representative values, calculate a threshold value of the transition area using first-order and second-order-differentiation-representative-values of a first line group including a plurality of lines in a window including a plurality of lines and first-order and second-order-differentiation-representative-values of a second line group including a plurality of lines, and detect the transition area.

Abstract: This invention relates to a light guide plate, which includes tunnels into which a light source may be inserted in a backlight unit assembly thus reducing light loss, and to a method of manufacturing the same.

Abstract: A block-based image denoising method includes determining similarities between a current block and reference blocks within a search range around the current block, from among certain-sized blocks divided from an input image; determining weights of the reference blocks with respect to the current block based on the similarities; and generating resultant blocks by denoising the current block with respect to every block of the input image based on the weights of the reference blocks.

Abstract: An image scaling apparatus and method, with enhancement of image quality. The method includes generating a plurality of intermediate pixels positioned near a plurality of resultant pixels to be generated to scale an input image using pixels of the input image; determining the image characteristics of the plurality of resultant pixels using a predetermined region of the input image or the plurality of intermediate pixels within the predetermined region; determining a filter for generating the plurality of resultant pixels based on the image characteristics with respect to the resultant pixels, and generating the plurality of resultant pixels through filtering of the plurality of intermediate pixels using the determined filter. The apparatus includes an intermediate pixel generation unit which generates a plurality of intermediate pixels. A filter determination unit determines a filter for generating the plurality of resultant pixels.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device, and more particularly, to a display device in which a front cover and so on exposed to an outside of the display device have a gradation effect.

Abstract: A head lamp apparatus for a vehicle may include a reflector provided with a light source that emits light to reflect the light emitted from the light source in a forward direction, the reflector having an upper end at which a first auxiliary reflective surface may be formed, and a lower end at which a second auxiliary reflective surface may be formed, and a bezel mounted in front of the reflector and having an upper part on which a first reflective hole that corresponds to the first auxiliary reflective surface may be formed, and a lower part on which a second reflective hole that corresponds to the second auxiliary reflective surface may be formed.

Abstract: A motor for a compressor and a hermetic compressor having the same are provided. An aluminum coil is used in the motor for the compressor, and sectional areas of main and sub slot portions and numbers thereof are adjusted to be suitable for usage conditions, whereby fabricating costs of the motor for the compressor and the hermetic compressor may drastically be reduced. Also, as the aluminum coil of the motor for the compressor is coupled to a lead wire in a welding manner, breaking of the aluminum coil, which may occur when coupling the aluminum coil to the lead wire, may be prevented, resulting in improvement of assembly reliability of the reciprocating compressor.

Abstract: Disclosed are a motor for a compressor and a hermetic compressor having the same. An aluminum coil cheaper than a copper coil is used in the motor for the compressor, a ratio between the aluminum coil and a stator core is set, and sectional areas of main and sub slot portions of the stator core and the numbers thereof are adjusted to be suitable for usage conditions, whereby fabricating costs of the motor for the compressor and the hermetic compressor can drastically be reduced and efficiencies thereof can be improved.

Abstract: Provided are an image encoding method and apparatus, in which a distribution of difference values included in an image unit is adjusted using a predetermined offset, an image unit including the adjusted distribution of the difference values is divided into an image plane corresponding to upper bits and an image plane for lower bits, and then the image planes are entropy-encoded.