Abstract: An actuator includes an oscillating unit including two or more oscillation circuits each configured to output an oscillation signal including a frequency, which is changed in response to movement of a detection target, a frequency down-converting unit configured to down-convert frequencies of two or more oscillation signals respectively output from the two or more oscillation circuits, and a determining unit configured to calculate a position of the detection target in response to two or more down-converted oscillation signals output from the frequency down-converting unit.

Abstract: An actuator for a camera module includes two or more detectable elements, the detectable elements are respectively disposed on a first and second surface of a lens barrel, an oscillating element including a first oscillation circuit unit that includes two or more oscillation circuits facing the first surface of the lens barrel, and a second oscillation circuit unit that includes two or more oscillation circuits facing the second surface of the lens barrel, and a determining device that calculates a position of the lens barrel in response to oscillation signals output from the oscillating element. The determining device is configured to calculate the position of the lens barrel based on determined frequencies of oscillation signals of the first oscillation circuit unit and the second oscillation circuit unit.

Abstract: An actuator of a camera module includes a detected portion disposed on a lens barrel, and a position detector including a first sensing coil and a second sensing coil, disposed to face the detected portion, and a reference coil disposed outside of a region facing the detected portion, wherein the position detector detects a position of the detected portion in accordance with calculation results of inductances of the first sensing coil and the second sensing coil, and removes noise components by applying inductance of the reference coil to the calculation results of inductances of the first sensing coil and the second sensing coil.

Abstract: An actuator including a detection target disposed on a surface of a lens barrel, and a position detecting unit including two or more sensing coils and configured to detect a displacement of the detection target in a first direction perpendicular to an optical axis, wherein when the detection target moves in a second direction perpendicular to the optical axis, an area of overlap between each of the two or more sensing coils and the detection target is maintained constant.

Abstract: A wireless power transmitter includes a sampling controller setting different retrieval sampling points of time for each section, among candidate sampling points of time, in each section of a carrier frequency signal; and a sampling unit configured to sample points of the carrier frequency signal at the different retrieval sampling points of time. The sampling controller compares values sampled by the sampling unit with each other, and determines a determined sampling point based on a comparison result.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel imidazopyridine derivative, a method for preparing the same, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the same as an active ingredient for preventing or treating cancer. The novel imidazopyridine derivative according to the present invention, a stereoisomer thereof and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof can effectively inhibit cancer-related kinases, are excellent in inhibiting proliferation of cancer cells in a cancer cell line, and effectively inhibit proliferation of cancer cells (cancer cell apoptosis) in a cancer cell heterograft model, and thus can be useful as a pharmaceutical composition containing the same as an active ingredient for preventing or treating cancer.

Abstract: A wireless power transmitter includes a converter configured to output an alternating current (AC) voltage in response to a transmission control signal; a power transmitter including a power transmitting coil and configured to vary an impedance in response to a resonance control signal, and to receive the AC voltage to wirelessly transmit power; and a controller configured to determine whether a wireless power receiver is present while varying the transmission control signal and the resonance control signal.

Abstract: An actuator including a detection target disposed on a surface of a lens barrel, and a position detecting unit including two or more sensing coils and configured to detect a displacement of the detection target in a first direction perpendicular to an optical axis, wherein when the detection target moves in a second direction perpendicular to the optical axis, an area of overlap between each of the two or more sensing coils and the detection target is maintained constant.

Abstract: An actuator includes an oscillating unit including two or more oscillation circuits each configured to output an oscillation signal including a frequency, which is changed in response to movement of a detection target, a frequency down-converting unit configured to down-convert frequencies of two or more oscillation signals respectively output from the two or more oscillation circuits, and a determining unit configured to calculate a position of the detection target in response to two or more down-converted oscillation signals output from the frequency down-converting unit.

Abstract: An actuator for a camera module includes two or more detectable elements, the detectable elements are respectively disposed on a first and second surface of a lens barrel, an oscillating element including a first oscillation circuit unit that includes two or more oscillation circuits facing the first surface of the lens barrel, and a second oscillation circuit unit that includes two or more oscillation circuits facing the second surface of the lens barrel, and a determining device that calculates a position of the lens barrel in response to oscillation signals output from the oscillating element. The determining device is configured to calculate the position of the lens barrel based on determined frequencies of oscillation signals of the first oscillation circuit unit and the second oscillation circuit unit.

Abstract: A wireless power transmitter includes a sampling controller setting different retrieval sampling points of time for each section, among candidate sampling points of time, in each section of a carrier frequency signal; and a sampling unit configured to sample points of the carrier frequency signal at the different retrieval sampling points of time. The sampling controller compares values sampled by the sampling unit with each other, and determines a determined sampling point based on a comparison result.

Abstract: A wireless power transmitter includes a converter configured to output an alternating current (AC) voltage in response to a transmission control signal; a power transmitter including a power transmitting coil and configured to vary an impedance in response to a resonance control signal, and to receive the AC voltage to wirelessly transmit power; and a controller configured to determine whether a wireless power receiver is present while varying the transmission control signal and the resonance control signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an adaptive filter, which includes an analog filter; an analog-digital converter; a modem; a control unit connected to the modem to detect an adjacent interference signal adjacent to an interested channel signal; and a filter control signal generating unit connected to the control unit to generate a filter control signal for controlling a capacity of a variable capacitor, and a method of adaptive filtering and can control a filter passband adaptively to the adjacent interference signal.

Abstract: There are provided a power factor correction apparatus, a direct current/direct current (DC/DC) converter, and a power supplying apparatus, capable of preventing unstable feedback control due to a ripple component by controlling power switching based on a median value between a maximum value and a minimum value of a voltage level of the output power that is received as feedback. The power factor correction apparatus includes a power factor corrector switching input power and correcting a power factor thereof; and a controller detecting a voltage level of power factor-corrected power and controlling the switching of the power factor corrector, based on a median value between a maximum value and a minimum value of the voltage level of the power factor-corrected power detected for a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: There is provided a low drop-out regulator. The low drop-out regulator includes an amplifier including an odd number of operational amplifiers connected to one another in series, and an output unit including a pass transistor operated by an output from the amplifier and generating an output voltage to be applied to a load, wherein the pass transistor is an N-channel transistor, and the amplifier controls a feedback loop gain between an output terminal of one of the odd number of operational amplifiers and the output unit. The feedback loop gain may be controlled independently from the trans-conductance of the pass transistor, whereby the stable output voltage may be generated, even in the case that the load and the input voltage are changed, and the design parameter may be simplified.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an impedance matching apparatus. The impedance matching apparatus includes: a multilayer printed circuit board; a signal line including a plurality of signal layers with the same pitch and formed by sequentially arranging the plurality of signal layers on the multilayer printed circuit board; and a ground plane including a plurality of ground layers, wherein the plurality of ground layers are arranged to get closer to a bottom surface of the multilayer printed circuit board from a region corresponding to one side of the signal line to a region corresponding to the other side of the signal line. The impedance matching apparatus can implement a line width without any problem of a process yield by determining specific impedance by a distance between the signal layer and the ground layer formed in corresponding positions, thereby improving the process yield.

Abstract: There is provided a receiver with a sigma-delta structure, the receiver including: a low noise amplifier amplifying a received signal according to a detection signal; a mixer converting an RF signal of the low noise amplifier into an IF signal; a sigma-delta A/D converter converting the IF signal from the mixer 200 into a digital signal; a 1 bit detector determining whether a voltage of the output signal of the mixer is greater than that of a predetermined reference voltage and outputting the detection signal including a result of the determination; and a demodulator obtaining an FFT result with respect to the signal from the sigma-delta A/D converter and adding or subtracting a predetermined gain value to or from the FFT result to calculate received signal strength indication (RSSI).

Abstract: Provided is a low-power ZigBee device provided with a sleeping mode and an active mode including a power supplying unit for supplying a power; a Medium Access Control (MAC) processing unit for receiving a wake-up packet and for controlling a modem unit and an Radio Frequency (RF) unit; and a Central Processing Unit (CPU) for receiving and processing a data packet, wherein the MAC processing unit makes the power supplying unit apply a power to the CPU based on a result of checking an identification (ID) of the wake-up packet.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for selecting an antenna of a diversity antenna system that includes an antenna selector selecting one of a first antenna and a second antenna in accordance with an antenna selection signal, a receiver measuring a quality value of a signal from the antenna selected by the antenna selector and determining detection of the signal by comparing whether or not the measured quality value of the signal is higher than a predetermined first reference value, and a selection controller determining an antenna change error by comparing whether or not an antenna stay time when the signal is continuously detected is within a predetermined error available time when the signal is detected in the receiver and controls the changing of the antenna to a previous antenna when the antenna stay time is within the error available time.

Abstract: A direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) transceiver including a DSSS transmitter and a DSSS receiver, wherein the DSSS transmitter includes: an integral code mapping unit mapping source bit data in one of 2N (N is a natural number) of predetermined symbols by N bits and mapping the symbol in one of integral code words that are obtained by previously integrating each of 2N of bi-orthogonal code words; and a radio frequency (RF) transmitting unit transmitting the integral code words mapped by the integral code mapping unit over an RF carrier wave, and the DSSS receiver includes: an RF receiving unit removing an RF carrier wave from an RF signal from the RF transmitting unit and converting an analog signal obtained by removing the RF carrier wave from the RF signal into a digital signal; a differential circuit unit differentiating and converting the digital signal from the RF receiving unit into bi-orthogonal code words; and a symbol detection unit detecting a symbol corresponding to a maximum value of correlat