Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a gate line and a data line formed on a substrate; a thin film transistor formed at an intersection of the gate line and the data line; a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; a common electrode substantially parallel to the pixel electrode; and a conductive pattern in contact with the common electrode at a lateral side surface of the common electrode.

Abstract: An apparatus and method to enhance a contrast includes a first operation part, a second operation part, and a mapping part. The first operation part calculates an average and a standard deviation of an input image. The second operation part calculates an average and a standard deviation of a target image based on the average and the standard deviation of the input image. The mapping part converts a pixel value of the input image by a mapping function generated by receiving the averages and the standard deviations of the input image and the target image from the first operation part and the second operation part, respectively, and outputs a pixel value of an output image.

Abstract: A portable lavatory, which is easily loaded into a freight box of a truck and is maintained in a stable loaded state in the freight box during transportation, is disclosed. In the portable lavatory (10), the capacities of both a fresh water tank (20) and a foul water tank (30) of a tank unit (12) are altered in inverse proportion to each other. The tank unit (12), integrated with a lower end of a lavatory facility unit (11), has a width and length shorter than those of the lavatory facility unit, thus being stepped inward from the lower end of the lavatory facility unit. The fresh water tank (20) and the foul water tank (30) are assembled with each other at flanged open ends thereof into a single structure, with a variable tank (40) provided in a junction part between the two tanks.

Abstract: A portable multimedia device and a method of operating the same enables operation of a display device by direct manipulation of a bracket housing a display window of a portable communication device such as an MP3 player, a portable multimedia player, or a digital camera. The portable multimedia device includes: a display bracket housing the display window; a PCB bracket installed at a rear surface of the display bracket and is movable within a limited range in a thickness direction; a PCB fixed in the PCB bracket between the display bracket and the PCB bracket; and a plurality of tact switches installed around a periphery of the PCB capable of contacting the rear surface of the display bracket. Each of the tact switches controls one or more function of the portable multimedia device.

Abstract: An image conversion apparatus to perform a motion compensation and a motion compensation method. The image conversion apparatus includes a first buffer, a second buffer, and a third buffer that store sequentially incoming video fields in sequence, a motion estimator that estimates a motion vector between a first field stored in the first buffer and a third field stored in the third buffer, a motion compensator that compensates for a motion between the first field and the third field using the motion vector output from the motion estimator and thereby outputs an interpolated field, an output unit that outputs at least one of the interpolated fields output from the motion compensator and a second field stored in the second buffer, and a field selector that selects a field to be output from the output unit according to a film mode of the sequentially incoming video fields.

Abstract: A motion estimation apparatus, method, and machine-readable medium capable of detecting scrolling text or graphic data, which can provide information of whether text or graphic data scrolling in a horizontal direction on a screen exists and information related thereto.

Abstract: An apparatus and method which includes estimating a motion vector of a frame and/or field to be interpolated and the accuracy of the motion vector using motion vectors of previous and next frames and/or fields; determining motion information by analyzing the estimated motion vector, and calculating a correlation between the motion vector of the current block and the motion vectors of neighboring blocks; generating pixels to be interpolated by performing motion compensation in a frame and/or field to be interpolated using the estimated motion vector and using pixels neighboring a pixel to be interpolated in the frame and/or field to be interpolated and pixels neighboring a pixel to be interpolated in the previous and next frame and/or field of the pixel to be interpolated; and outputting the generated pixels as interpolation values according to the accuracy of the estimated motion vector, the motion information, and the correlation.

Abstract: A motion adaptive image processing apparatus includes a classifier to classify a current field of a sequence of in put fields into one or more class regions, a calculator to calculate a variance based on pixel values of pixels located in a predetermined region around a certain pixel of the current field, a threshold calculator to calculate a maximum variance and a minimum variance which are pre-set according to the one or more class regions, the threshold calculator calculating a threshold based on the calculated maximum variance and the minimum variance, a motion calculator to calculate a motion change of an image using a previous field and a next field of the current field in the sequence of the input fields, and a weight calculator to calculate the weight to be applied to the certain pixel based on the calculated threshold and the calculated motion change of the image.

Abstract: An LCD and a method of manufacturing the same using at most six mask processes are provided. An active layer and a storage electrode are simultaneously formed by diffraction exposure. Multiple ion implantations are performed using a photoresist or the gate electrode to mask different areas of an underlying semiconductor. Source and drain electrodes and a pixel electrode are simultaneously formed by diffraction exposure. First and second connection electrodes that lower the contact resistance between the drain electrode and the active layer are formed by a lift-off process.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device includes forming first, second, and third active patterns on a substrate having a pixel region and a driving region, wherein the first and second active patterns are in the driving region and the third active pattern is in the pixel region, the first, second, and third active patterns each having an active region, a source region, and a drain region with the source and drain regions on opposing sides of the active region, forming a gate insulator on the first, second, and third active patterns, forming first, second, and third gate electrodes on the gate insulator, wherein the first, second, and third gate electrodes correspond to the active regions of the first, second, and third active patterns, respectively, doping the source and drain regions of the first, second, and third active patterns with n? ions using the first, second, and third gate electrodes as a doping mask, doping the n? doped source and drain regions of the second active pattern with p+

Abstract: A deinterlacing apparatus and method use a buffer unit having a previous field buffer, a current field buffer, and a next field buffer to store, sequentially, individual fields of an image signal; calculate a Sum of Absolute Difference (SAD) value of a predetermined search region unit with reference to a next field stored in the next field buffer and a previous field stored in the previous field buffer; determine whether the predetermined search region is a still region and whether a source of the image signal is a film based on the SAD value; uses a 3D interpolation unit to output adaptively a temporal interpolation value and a spatial interpolation value based on motion information; and adaptively select a deinterlacing result based on the previous field, the next field, and an output of the 3D interpolation unit according to a signal outputted from the still region/film mode detection unit.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device including first and second active layers over a substrate, a storage line over the second active layer, a first insulating layer over the storage line, a gate electrode on the first insulating layer and corresponding to the first active layer, a second insulating layer over the gate electrode, source and drain electrodes connected to the first active layer through the first and second insulating layers, a gate line connected to the gate electrode through the second insulating layer, a data line substantially perpendicularly arrange with respect to the gate line to define a pixel region, a pixel electrode connected to the drain electrode through the second insulating layer, and a connection line connected to one of the gate line and the data line through the second insulating layer.

Abstract: An apparatus for and a method of adaptive motion compensated de-interlacing of video data, in which one of a spatio-temporal method and a motion compensation method is adaptively selected according to a motion type. Motion vectors of a video field to be interpolated and an accuracy of the motion vectors are estimated using adjacent fields. An existence or non-existence of global motion is determined by analyzing the estimated motion vectors. Pixels generated according to a spatio-temporal interpolation method or pixels generated according to a motion compensated interpolation method are selected based on the accuracy of the estimated motion vectors and the existence or non-existence of global motion.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus using a judder-map and a method thereof. The image processing apparatus using a judder-map includes: a field storage block to receive an input interlaced video signal including an input image having a plurality of consecutive fields, a film detecting block to receive the plurality of the consecutive fields from the field storage block and to detect whether the input image is an image in a film mode, a judder-map generating block to detect judder created on a pixel or block of neighboring fields among the plurality of consecutive fields provided from the field storage block to generate a judder-map, and an image interpolating block to perform image interpolation using the judder-map if the input video signal is detected to be an image in the film mode and to generate and output a progressive video signal. The image processing apparatus prevents the creation of judder on CGI (Computer Graphic Imagery) or subtitles, to which pulldown technologies are not applied.

Abstract: An image conversion device and method of interpolating an input image by utilizing a motion estimation that is adaptive according to characteristics of the input image.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrical acoustic transducer applied to speakers, earphones, headphones, etc. The electrical acoustic transducer includes a frame having a cone, a voice coil provided on a lower end of the cone, a yoke and a permanent magnet that are provided on a lower end of the frame, a cap provided in the middle of the cone, a vent hole formed in the middle of the cap, and a resonance unit formed as a slot in the center of the yoke. The slot of the resonance unit is opposite to the vent hole. With the electrical acoustic transducer, drastic vibration of the cone is relieved by the resonance unit as well as the vent hole formed in the domed or flat cap, and thus a harsh sound is relieved. After being assembled, each speaker exerts its inherent performance to the maximum extent, so that it is possible to hear a clear and sweet sound.

Abstract: An image processing device and method to select a field to use in interpolation, if an input image is a film image. The image processing device includes a field selector to select a field to use to interpolate a current field based on difference values in field data among first, second, and third fields being consecutively input in an input image, the field to use to interpolate the current image being one of the first and the third fields and the current field being the second field, a film detector to generate a pattern based on the difference values in the field data between the first, second, and third fields and to determine whether the input image is a film image based on the generated pattern, and an interpolator to interpolate the second field using the one of the first and third field selected by the field selector if the film detector determines the input image to be a film image.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided to equalize a histogram using a cumulative distribution function (CDF) of an image. A model parameter estimator estimates parameters from the image using a Gaussian model. An error function storing unit stores error function values based on a Gaussian distribution. A CDF calculator calculates a CDF using one of the error function values from the error function storing unit and the estimated parameters. A histogram equalizer performs histogram equalization using the CDF.