Abstract: An identification method and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) detection apparatus are provided. The identification method, as a method for preventing a collision that may occur in a process of detecting and identifying a plurality of UAVs flying in the air, detects a plurality of UAVs in the air and determines a legitimacy of flight of each of the plurality of UAVs using an identification information request message.

Abstract: A method of simulating a quantum state using a quantum computer is provided. The method includes simulating a quantum state of a target molecule using the quantum computer, measuring a Hamiltonian in a simulated quantum state of the target molecule, calculating energy from the Hamiltonian measurements, and calculating a ground state and ground energy of the target molecule through an optimization process of deriving a lowest energy state by adjusting parameters that determine the quantum state of the target molecule, wherein simulating of the quantum state is performed with the configuration of a quantum circuit in which one quantum bit (qubit) is assigned to a pair of spin orbitals.

Abstract: A Lactobacillus species strain isolated from kimchi or human feces is described. The particular Bacillus species strain described is highly safe by being isolated from kimchi or human feces and has various functionalities, such as excellent blood sugar control activity, anti-obesity activity, blood cholesterol-lowering activity, blood neutral lipid-lowering activity, arteriosclerosis-inhibiting activity or inflammation-inhibiting activity. Accordingly, the particular Bacillus species strain described can be used as a useful food and drug material for preventing, alleviating or treating a metabolic syndrome including diabetes, obesity, fatty liver, glycosuria, hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, arteriosclerosis and/or diabetes, an inflammatory disease, and the like.

Abstract: A Lactobacillus species strain isolated from kimchi or human feces is described. The particular bacillus species strain described is highly safe by being isolated from kimchi or human feces and has various functionalities, such as excellent blood sugar control activity, anti-obesity activity, blood cholesterol-lowering activity, blood neutral lipid-lowering activity, arteriosclerosis-inhibiting activity or inflammation-inhibiting activity. Accordingly, the particular bacillus species strain described can be used as a useful food and drug material for preventing, alleviating or treating a metabolic syndrome including diabetes, obesity, fatty liver, glycosuria, hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, arteriosclerosis and/or diabetes, an inflammatory disease, and the like.

Abstract: A Lactobacillus species strain isolated from kimchi or human feces is described. The particular bacillus species strain described is highly safe by being isolated from kimchi or human feces and has various functionalities, such as excellent blood sugar control activity, anti-obesity activity, blood cholesterol-lowering activity, blood neutral lipid-lowering activity, arteriosclerosis-inhibiting activity or inflammation-inhibiting activity. Accordingly, the particular bacillus species strain described can be used as a useful food and drug material for preventing, alleviating or treating a metabolic syndrome including diabetes, obesity, fatty liver, glycosuria, hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, arteriosclerosis and/or diabetes, an inflammatory disease, and the like.

Abstract: An electronic device and a control method thereof are provided, the method including receiving a message including text, analyzing the text included in the message, determining a type of the message and acquiring context information related to the type of the message, and determining a recommended image for responding to the message based on the context information and providing the recommended image.

Abstract: A content providing method and an electronic apparatus performing the content providing method are provided. The content providing method includes acquiring at least one content item from a content provider, extracting at least one tagged value from each of the at least one user content item, producing a tag list, based on the extracted at least one tagged value, and searching for content of interest by using the at least one tagged value included in the tag list.

Abstract: An image input/output apparatus, and the image input/output apparatus includes an ink-jet head including at least one nozzle unit having a length that is greater than or equal to a width of a recording medium and being movable in a sub scanning direction, and a scanning unit installed on the ink-jet head movable in the sub scanning direction relative to the ink-jet head.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a bubble removing apparatus to remove bubbles from a channel and a chip of a printhead by applying a pressure to an ink circulation line using a pumping unit. The pumping unit includes a housing, a vibration unit to generate pressure variations to move ink from the intake to the outlet including a circulation cam to circulate ink contained in the channel of the printhead along the ink circulation line and a purging cam to vibrate the vibration unit to discharge the ink contained in the chip of the printhead through a nozzle, and a clutch unit to transmit power from the motor to the circulation cam or the purging cam in a selective manner.

Abstract: Provided is an inkjet image forming apparatus having a nozzle unit cleaning and capping means and a method of cleaning and capping the nozzle unit. The inkjet image forming apparatus includes an inkjet head including a nozzle unit with a length corresponding to a width of a sheet of paper, and a body having an opening formed at one side thereof, wherein the inkjet head slides through the opening in a main scanning direction to be mounted in or removed from the body. The nozzle unit is cleaned by a wiper and capped when the inkjet head is removed from the body.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a bubble removing apparatus to remove bubbles from a channel and a chip of a printhead by applying a pressure to an ink circulation line using a pumping unit. The pumping unit includes a housing, a vibration unit to generate pressure variations to move ink from the intake to the outlet including a circulation cam to circulate ink contained in the channel of the printhead along the ink circulation line and a purging cam to vibrate the vibration unit to discharge the ink contained in the chip of the printhead through a nozzle, and a clutch unit to transmit power from the motor to the circulation cam or the purging cam in a selective manner.

Abstract: An apparatus to automatically adjust nozzles used includes a sensing part disposed at an inlet side of a print head having a plurality of unit nozzles and to sense an area around at least one edge of a printing medium, and a nozzle use adjustment part to adjust unit nozzles to be used for printing from among the plurality of unit nozzles in the print head according to a position of the at least one edge of the printing medium detected from a data of the area around the at least one edge sensed by the sensing part. Therefore, the unit nozzles of the print head to be used for printing are automatically adjusted within a certain range by using the sensing part and the nozzle use adjustment part so that image information can be accurately printed on a printing area of the printing medium although the printing medium may not be accurately set on a reference position by a medium adjustment guide of a paper feeding cassette or is shifted from the reference position by a pick up roller when picked up or fed.

Abstract: An inkjet image forming apparatus including a drying device and a method of drying a printing medium. The inkjet image forming apparatus includes a carriage to selectively dry an area of the printing medium on which an ink spray density per unit area is high by using a heating source while being moved forward and backward in a main scanning direction within a movement span, and to adjust a width of the movement span according to a size of the printing medium.

Abstract: An image input/output apparatus, and the image input/output apparatus includes an ink-jet head including at least one nozzle unit having a length that is greater than or equal to a width of a recording medium and being movable in a sub scanning direction, and a scanning unit installed on the ink-jet head movable in the sub scanning direction relative to the ink-jet head.

Abstract: Provided is an ink-jet image forming apparatus. The ink-jet image forming apparatus includes an ink-jet printhead to form an image by ejecting ink onto a sheet of paper. A stopper is also provided to support a front end of the printed sheet of paper. An endless track is arranged between the ink-jet printhead and the stopper. The endless track circulates and travels in a vertical direction. A plurality of spaced apart blades being isolated from one another on the endless track to support rear ends of one of a plurality of discharged sheets of paper.

Abstract: Provided is an inkjet image forming apparatus having a nozzle unit cleaning and capping means and a method of cleaning and capping the nozzle unit. The inkjet image forming apparatus includes an inkjet head including a nozzle unit with a length corresponding to a width of a sheet of paper, and a body having an opening formed at one side thereof, wherein the inkjet head slides through the opening in a main scanning direction to be mounted in or removed from the body. The nozzle unit is cleaned by a wiper and capped when the inkjet head is removed from the body.

Abstract: An encoder of an image forming apparatus includes an encoder scale positioned along a movement path of a carriage that has a recording/reading head mounted thereon and reciprocates along the movement path, at least one sensor to measure displacement of the carriage with reference to the encoder scale, and at least one cleaning unit disposed opposite a surface of the encoder scale to clean the surface of the encoder scale. The at least one cleaning unit includes a rotary body disposed on the carriage, a plurality of unit blades protruding from the rotary body at regular intervals in a radial arrangement, and a cleaning member disposed at a leading end of each of the unit blades to clean the surface of the encoder scale. Since the cleaning members of the unit blades are rotated and are periodically used to clean the encoder scale, a cleaning efficiency can be maintained for an extended period of time.