Abstract: A cutting tool has a main body provided with a pocket part and a cutting insert seated in the pocket part. The pocket part includes at least one side wall and bottom surface. The bottom surface of the pocket part includes a pocket part base surface, a first pocket part inclined surface connected to an inner end of the base surface on an inside of the main body, and a second pocket part inclined surface connected to an outer end of the base surface on an outside of the main body. The cutting insert has an upper surface, a lower surface and side surfaces connecting the upper surface and the lower surface. The lower surface of the cutting insert includes an insert base surface, a first inclined surface inclined upwardly from a first side of the base surface towards a first side surface, and a second inclined surface inclined upwardly from a second side of the base surface towards a second side surface.

Abstract: A photoresist composition for fabricating a probe array is provided. The photoresist composition includes a photoacid generator having an onium salt and an i-line reactive sensitizer.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a light emitting device to supply light to the display panel. The light emitting device includes a light emitting element emitting a first light and a fluorescent layer receiving the first light, transmitting a portion of the first light, converting a remaining portion of the first light to a second light having a wavelength range different from the first light, and emitting the second light. The second light emitted by the fluorescent layer has a full width at half maximum equal to or larger than 110 nanometers (nm) and a light emission spectrum having a peak wavelength within a wavelength range of about 530 nm to about 560 nm. The second light has a light emission intensity corresponding to 10 to 30 percent of a peak light emission intensity of the first light.

Abstract: In polymers for an anti-reflective coating, compositions for an anti-reflective coating and methods of forming a pattern of a semiconductor device using the same, the compositions for an anti-reflective coating include a polymer that includes a first repeating unit having a basic side group, a second repeating unit having a light-absorbing group, and a third repeating unit having a cross-linkable group; a photoacid generator; a cross-linking agent; and a solvent. The polymer for the anti-reflective coating, which may have a basic side group chemically bound to a backbone of the polymer, may properly adjust diffusion of an acid in an anti-reflective coating layer to improve the profile of a pattern.

Abstract: Provided is a method for converting a first image signal expressed in a first color space into a second image signal expressed in a second color space on a subword parallelism basis.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for measuring the quality of a signal on an optical disc based on level information of a viterbi decoder are provided. The signal quality measuring apparatus includes: a binary unit that generates binary signals from input RF signals; a channel identifier that receives the input RF signals and the binary signals output from the binary unit and outputs reference level values corresponding to the binary signals; and an information calculator that receives the reference level values and detects a signal quality value.

Abstract: A heat pump controls heating and/or cooling using a refrigeration cycle unit and a booster module, The refrigeration cycle unit includes a compressor to compress a coolant, a first heat exchanger to condense the coolant compressed in the compressor, an expansion mechanism to expand the coolant condensed in the first heat exchanger, and a second heat exchanger to evaporate the coolant expanded in the expansion mechanism. The booster module separates a gaseous coolant from the coolant flowing from the first heat exchanger to the expansion mechanism and then allows for compression of the separated gaseous coolant or coolant evaporated in the second heat exchanger.

Abstract: An air includes: a compressor for compressing a refrigerant; an indoor heat exchanger for cooling or heating indoor with a refrigerant; an outdoor heat exchanger for exchanging heat of a refrigerant and outdoor air; an outdoor fan for ventilating outdoor air with the outdoor heat exchanger; a cooling/heating switching valve for switching cooling/heating; a first expansion device installed between the indoor heat exchanger and the outdoor heat exchanger; a CNT heater module installed between the outdoor heat exchanger and the cooling/heating switching valve to evaporate a refrigerant; a second expansion device installed between the outdoor heat exchanger and the CNT heater module; and a controller for sustaining a heating mode of the cooling/heating switching valve.

Abstract: An optical disc reproducing apparatus includes an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter which converts an analog signal obtained from an optical disc to a digital signal; an asymmetry compensator which detects and corrects an offset of the digital signal; a phase locked loop (PLL) which estimates a clock of the digital signal and compensates for a frequency error; a binary module which converts the digital signal to binary data; an equalizer which equalizes a particular frequency of the digital signal; and a channel identifier which detects a reference level of the binary module, based on an input signal of the equalizer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a lamp. The lamp is formed by arranging lamp electrodes in a lamp body provided therein with a discharge space and a fluorescent material. A first conductive layer is formed on a base conductor and a second conductive layer is formed on the first conductive layer by allowing the first conductive layer to react with a reaction solution including a solvent and metallic salt, thereby forming the lamp electrodes.

Abstract: A digital moving picture photographing apparatus is provided for increasing user convenience by excluding unnecessary parts of a recording moving picture and starting/stopping a photographing operation automatically, as is an appertaining method and computer readable recording with code to implement the method. The digital moving picture photographing apparatus includes: an image capture device for generating image data from incident light; and a storage medium for storing the image data generated by the image capture device. The method includes: starting storing data of frame images, when a movement of a subject is sensed from the frame images of image data generated by the image capture device in a shooting mode; and stopping the recording of the moving picture when the movement of the subject is not sensed from the frame images of the image data generated by the image capture device during storing of the frame images in the storage medium.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for measuring the quality of a signal on an optical disc based on level information of a viterbi decoder are provided. The signal quality measuring apparatus includes: a binary unit that generates binary signals from input RF signals; a channel identifier that receives the input RF signals and the binary signals output from the binary unit and outputs reference level values corresponding to the binary signals; and an information calculator that receives the reference level values and detects a signal quality value.

Abstract: An electrical connector that prevents generation of static electricity is presented. The connector includes a body portion having a receiving space and a bottom surface that forms an inner wall of the receiving space. A terminal portion is disposed on the body portion, and a cover portion is positioned to enclose the receiving space when closed. A protecting member is disposed on the cover portion and protrudes beyond the outer surface of the terminal portion. By using this connector, damage to circuit parts or circuit elements caused by static electricity may be prevented.

Abstract: A method of determining characteristics of a signal and an apparatus using the method. The apparatus for determining characteristics of a signal includes: a level detector receiving sample values of a radio frequency (RF) signal and binary data obtained by binarizing the RF signal, generating selection signals based on the binary data, classifying each of the sample values of the RF signal into one of a plurality of levels using the selection signals, and outputting average values of sample values of each level; and a signal characteristics determiner determining a characteristics value that indicates the characteristics of the RF signal using the average values of the sample values belonging to each level.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for measuring the quality of a signal on an optical disc based on level information of a viterbi decoder are provided. The signal quality measuring apparatus includes: a binary unit that generates binary signals from input RF signals; a channel identifier that receives the input RF signals and the binary signals output from the binary unit and outputs reference level values corresponding to the binary signals; and an information calculator that receives the reference level values and detects a signal quality value.

Abstract: A light emitting lamp, a backlight assembly and a display device including the same are provided. The light emitting lamp includes a lamp tube longitudinally extended along an extension line, and a plurality of set electrodes disposed on a periphery of the lamp tube and along the extension line. The periphery of the lamp tube is divided into a first region and a second region by a plane including the extension line, and each of the set electrodes includes a first electrode disposed on the first region and a second electrode disposed on the second region.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of producing biofuel, more specifically a method of producing biofuel comprising the steps of generating monosugars from marine algae, or from polysaccharides extracted from marine algae by treating the marine algae or the polysaccharides with a hydrolytic enzyme and/or a hydrolytic catalyst; and fermenting the monosugars using a microorganism to produce biofuel. The method of producing biofuel of the present invention solve the problem of raw material suppliance since it uses marine algae as a raw material for biomass, and reduce the production costs by excluding lignin eliminating process that has been required by the conventional method using wood-based raw materials, resulting in economic and environmental advantages.

Abstract: An optical disc reproducing apparatus includes an A/D converter; an asymmetry compensator for detecting 4T sampling signals; a phase locked loop including a frequency detector that counts and detects run-length signals from the digital signals and compensates frequency errors of the digital signals; a binary module including a Viterbi decoder, a slicer, and a minimum T compensator that compensates the digital signal with a minimum signal having a unit cycle; an equalizer; an adaptive level error detector detecting a base level of the Viterbi decoder from both an input signal into the equalizer and an output signal from the Viterbi decoder, and computing a filtering coefficient of the equalizer from the base level; and a signal quality measurer measuring a jitter or an SbER of the digital signal.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes; a data driver integrated in one chip and which outputs data signals; a gate driver which sequentially outputs gate signals, a display panel which includes; a plurality of data lines which receive the data signals, a plurality of gate lines which receive the gate signals, and a plurality of pixels connected to a corresponding gate line and a corresponding data line, a voltage generator which generates a common voltage and a storage voltage and provides them to the display panel, and a voltage compensator which receives the storage voltage fedback from the display panel and generates a compensation signal, wherein the display panel further includes a feedback line which provides the voltage compensator with the storage voltage, and wherein the feedback line is electrically connected to the voltage compensator through the data driver.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes an LCD panel displaying an image, a light source providing the LCD panel with light, a light source flexible printed circuit board (FPCB), a printed circuit board (PCB), and a receiving container. The PCB is electrically connected to the LCD panel. The PCB is in contact with two ends of the light source FPCB. The receiving container is combined with the light source FPCB and the PCB. The receiving container has a through-hole through which the light source FPCB passes. According to the present invention, the receiving container applies pressure so that both ends of the light source FPCB make contact with the PCB and the light source FPCB is electrically connected to the PCB. The light source FPCB, the receiving container, and the PCB are secured to each other. Therefore, the number of steps required to assembly the LCD device may be reduced.