Abstract: Disclosed herein is a cooking apparatus including a switch assembly configured to uniformly distribute light emitted around a switch. A cooking apparatus includes a main body having a cooking chamber and a switch assembly rotatably mounted on the main body. The switch assembly includes a switch rotatably provided, a switch holder coupled to the switch and a light guide disposed between the switch and the switch holder to uniformly emit light emitted from a light source.

Abstract: Disclosed are a source driver and a display device using the same, and the display device includes the source driver that generates sensing data by performing a pre-processing operation on pixel data obtained by sensing display pixels, and a timing controller that generates correction data for correction for pixel characteristics by performing a post-processing operation on the sensing data.

Abstract: Provided is an injection molding apparatus for a worm wheel, in which the worm wheel is not only integrally manufactured by an injection mold method, but a gear teeth structure of a gear forming unit is also manufactured as an injection mold without a hobbing operation, and the structure of the injection molding apparatus is also improved so that worm wheel products can be easily taken out from the injection mold. The injection molding apparatus includes: a boss injection mold; a product injection mold having a movable side core, a fixed side core, and a worm gear tooth-shaped core; and a take-out unit for taking out a worm wheel product formed with a worm gear by the product injection mold, wherein the take-out unit includes: a plurality of take-out pins; a take-out plate; and a guide unit guiding rotation of the worm gear tooth-shaped core.

Abstract: Disclosed is a source driver including a sensing circuit capable of sensing whether a short occurred between a data output line and a power line. The source driver may include: an output circuit configured to output a preset voltage to a display panel in a checking mode; and a sensing circuit configured to sense whether data output lines connecting the output circuit and the display panel are shorted, using the preset voltage, and output a sensing result signal.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a battery module includes preparing a plurality of cylindrical battery cells having electrode terminals respectively at upper and lower portions, and a module housing having an accommodation portion with a plurality of hollow structures to accommodate the cylindrical battery cells therein; adding an adhesive having thermally and ultraviolet curing properties to an inner surface of the accommodation portion; partially curing the adhesive by applying heat thereto to increase a viscosity of the adhesive; accommodating the cylindrical battery cells in the accommodation portion so that the partially-cured adhesive is between the accommodation portion of the module housing and the cylindrical battery cells; after the accommodating of the cylindrical battery cells in the accommodation portion, applying heat to the adhesive to lower the viscosity of the adhesive; and, after the viscosity is lowered by applying the heat, curing the adhesive by irradiating ultraviolet rays to the adhesive.

Abstract: Memory devices and methods of operating the same are provided. The memory device including at least one internal circuit including a memory cell array and a peripheral circuit configured to drive the memory cell array, a monitor logic configured to monitor a current flowing into the at least one internal circuit and output a monitoring result, a detect logic configured to detect whether a leakage current flows in the at least one internal circuit based on the monitoring result, and output detected information regarding the leakage current, and diagnosis logic configured to diagnose an error in the at least one internal circuit based on the detected information.

Abstract: A lock pin for a VCT device that has a locked position, locking a housing assembly relative to a rotor assembly of the variable cam timing device, and an unlocked position. The lock pin has a body comprising a first diameter with a first area, a second diameter with a second area, and a chamber formed between the first area of the first diameter and the second area of the second diameter for receiving fluid, the first area being greater than the second area. When fluid is applied to the chamber through the variable cam timing phaser, a difference between first area and the second area defining the chamber creates a force imbalance, such that the oil pressure applied to the chamber of the body assists in maintaining the Sock pin in the locked position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-invasive prenatal testing method and, more particularly, to a method for enhancing the sensitivity and accuracy of non-invasive prenatal testing by applying multi-dimensional threshold values based on multiple Z-scores. Designed to reduce false-positive and false-negative possibility by applying two or more Z-score threshold values to aneuploidy detection for one chromosome, the non-invasive prenatal testing method according to the present invention exhibits the effect of obtaining a more sensitive and more accurate test result. Further, the method can minimize test errors in spite of using a small number of nucleotide sequence fragments, with the resultant effect of reducing an experiment cost and thus expensive testing cost and rapidly performing testing with a low expense.

Abstract: A memory system includes a logic circuit and a phase locked loop (PLL) circuit. The logic circuit determines a first frequency of a first clock using a first signal and generates a second signal for adjusting the first frequency of the first clock. The PLL circuit receives a second clock, and generates the first clock having the first frequency determined by the logic circuit, using the second clock and the second signal. When a second frequency of the second clock varies, the logic circuit determines the first frequency of the first clock such that the first frequency of the first clock generated by the PLL circuit is uniform, and operates based on the first clock having the first frequency adjusted by the second signal.

Abstract: A memory device may include a first data line driver circuit that generates a first reference voltage set based on a first code and a second code associated with a first data line, and determines bit values of the first input data received through the first data line, based on the first reference voltage set. A second data line driver circuit may similarly generate a second reference voltage set. The reference voltages may have levels based on a decision feedback equalization (DFE) technique to reduce bit errors otherwise caused by inter symbol interference.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of detecting a shooting direction and apparatuses performing the method, the method including calculating a crossed angle between an object and a shadow of the object in an image and detecting a shooting direction of a shooting apparatus used for capturing the image based on the crossed angle and a reference angle corresponding to a time and a position at which the image is captured.

Abstract: A voltage trimming circuit includes a comparator, a code generator, nonvolatile storage device, a switch circuit, and a voltage generator. The comparator compares a reference voltage with a feedback voltage. The code generator generates a plurality of trimming codes for trimming the feedback voltage based on the comparison result of the comparator. If the feedback voltage is less than the reference voltage, the code generator adjusts up codes to increase the feedback voltage, from among the plurality of trimming codes and maintains down codes to decrease the feedback voltage, from among the plurality of trimming codes at an initial value. If the feedback voltage is greater than the reference voltage, the code generator adjusts the down codes and maintains the up codes at an initial value.

Abstract: A memory device includes memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells that store data, a first transmitter that transmits the data to an external device through a first data line, and a ZQ controller that performs a ZQ calibration operation to generate a first ZQ code for impedance matching of the first data line. The first transmitter encodes the first ZQ code and the first data based on a first clock and drives the first data line based on the encoded result based on a second clock.

Abstract: A test circuit includes a first logic gate that receives a test signal or a first voltage, a second logic gate that receives the test signal, a third logic gate that receives an output of the first logic gate, an output of the second logic gate, or a second voltage, a fourth logic gate that receives the output of the first logic gate or the output of the second logic gate, and a power circuit that prevents the second and fourth logic gates from being driven by supplying power to the second and fourth logic gates when the first logic gate receives the first voltage and the third logic gate receives the second voltage.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of processing an object in an image and a system for the same. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a method of processing an object in an image, the method including: detecting a first object from a first image obtained by a first network camera; detecting a second object from a second image obtained by a second network camera; checking similarity between the first and second objects in consideration of feature information of the first and second objects, installation location information of the first and second network cameras, and location information of a terminal device; and determining whether the first object is equal to the second object on the basis of the similarity between the first and second objects.

Abstract: A network management apparatus and method for remotely controlling a state of an IT device in order to use WOL to change a remote device from an inactive state to an active state over an IP network. The network management apparatus includes a detection pattern generator, a remote state controller, and a wake-up cause analyzer. By activating an inactivated PC connected over an IP network and positioned at a remote site using WOL to control a state of another IT device interoperating through the IP network as well as a state of the PC, it is possible to inactivate the device without unnecessarily having to leave the device on and then control the device as necessary, thereby reducing power consumption of the device and extending a lifetime of the device.

Abstract: An intravascular sensor delivery device for measuring a physiological parameter of a patient, such as blood pressure, within a vascular structure or passage. In some embodiments, the device can be used to measure the pressure gradient across a stenotic lesion or heart valve. The sensor delivery device can be sized to pass over different sizes of guidewires to enable usage in coronary and peripheral arteries, for example.

Abstract: The migration of dislocations into pristine single crystal material during crystal growth of an adjacent conductive strap is inhibited by a conductive barrier formed at the interface between the layers. The conductive barrier may be formed by implanting carbon impurities or depositing Si:C layer that inhibits dislocation movement across the barrier layer, or by forming a passivation layer by annealing in vacuum prior to deposition of amorphous Si to prevent polycrystalline nucleation at the surface of single crystalline Si, or by implanting nucleation promoting species to enhance the nucleation of polycrystalline Si away from single crystalline Si.

Abstract: A memory device includes an output pin, a mode register, a signal generator configured to generate a detection clock output signal including one of a random data pattern and a hold data pattern in response to first and second control signals from the mode register, and output the detection clock output signal through the output pin. The random data pattern includes pseudo-random data generated by the memory device. The hold data pattern is a fixed pattern pre stored in the memory device. The detection clock output signal is used for a clock and data recovery operation.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to self-aligned nanotube structures and methods of manufacture. The structure includes at least one nanotube structure supported by a plurality of spacers and an insulator material between the spacers and contacting the at least one nanotube structure.