Abstract: A liquid crystal display capable of preventing a residual image phenomenon from occurring after power is cut off. The liquid crystal display includes: a voltage generating unit outputting a gate-on voltage to a first output node, outputting a gate-off voltage to a second output node, and pulling up the voltage level of the second output node to a level of a positive discharge voltage after a power supply voltage is cut off; a gate driving unit sequentially supplying the gate-on voltage and the gate-off voltage; a data driving unit supplying an image data voltage; and a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of pixels that are turned on or off according to the gate-on voltage or the gate-off voltage, so as to display an image corresponding to the image data voltage.

Abstract: A pixel-data selection device providing motion compensation, and a method thereof. A first and a second storage parts store a current frame/field including first pixel-data and a previous frame/field including second pixel-data, respectively, corresponding to at least one of the inputted candidate motion vectors. A first and a second pixel-data extraction parts extract the first and the second pixel-data corresponding to the candidate motion vector, respectively from the first and the second storage parts. A first and a second compensation pixel calculation parts calculate first and second compensation pixel-data for motion compensation, respectively, by adaptively applying a predetermined first weight according to the abstracted first and second pixel-data. Therefore, the first and the second pixel-data can be calculated based on motion trajectories of a current block to be interpolated and peripheral blocks, and thus, block artifacts can be prevented as the motion compensation is performed adaptively.

Abstract: Provided is a buffer system for adjusting first-in first-out, more particularly, a buffer system that temporarily stores a plurality of substrates and is capable of adjusting first-in first-out. The buffer system includes one or more buffer layers having shafts and rollers fitted and fixed to the shafts so as to temporarily store or transfer substrates, a vertically moving unit moving the buffer layers up or down such that a buffer layer having thereon a substrate to be transferred is connected to a driving unit, and the driving unit rotating the shafts of the buffer layer having thereon the substrate to be transferred to transfer the substrate.

Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning a flat panel display and a roll brush used therein are provided. The apparatus includes an internal wall, hollow cylindrical joint parts, each of which is joined with the internal wall and having an opening therein, and roll brushes, each of which includes a rotation shaft passing through the opening of the hollow cylindrical joint part, a hollow cylindrical liquid blocking member integrated with the rotation shaft to have an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of the joint part, and a brush.

Abstract: This invention is related to an apparatus for treating substrates. According to the present invention, the substrate is cleaned by injecting high temperature and high pressure steam on substrate. A steam generator is configured to continually provide steam on substrate. After cleaning by steam, cleaning by brush may be followed.

Abstract: Provided are a method for analyzing a video signal from a camera and determining the position, orientation and direction of motion of a predetermined object and a device for the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the IL-12p40 subunit mutant gene which can produce IL-12(interleukin 12) of human and mouse origin with high activity, the expression vector including above mutant gene and the use of them to DNA vaccine adjuvant. Particularly, it relates to IL-12p40 mutant gene which inhibits the secretion of IL-12p40 but normally secretes active IL-12p70 by making mutation at Asn-222(human) or Asn-220(mouse) amino acid of IL-12p40, which acts as a competitive inhibitor of active form of IL-12, IL-12p70. Therefore, the IL-12p40 mutant gene of the present invention can be useful for DNA vaccination and gene therapy against various diseases, for example, AIDS, hepatitis C or hepatitis B, cancer, influenza, tuberculosis and malaria, which essentially require cellular immune responses for their therapy.

Abstract: This application relates to monomers of the general formula (I) for the preparation of PNA (peptide nucleic acid) oligomers and provides method for the synthesis of both predefined sequence PNA oligomers and random sequence PNA oligomers: wherein E is sulfur or oxygen; J is nitrogen or C—R?; R1, R? is independently H, halogen, alkyl, nitro, nitrile, alkoxy, halogenated alkyl, halogenated alkoxy or a functional group having one of following general formulae: wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, is independently selected from H, halogen such as F, Cl, Br or I, CF3, alkyl, preferably C1–C4 alkyl, nitro, nitrile, alkoxy, preferably C1–C4 alkoxy, halogenated (such as F, Cl, Br and I) alkyl, preferably halogenated C1–C4 alkyl, halogenated (such as F, Cl, Br and I) alkoxy, preferably halogenated C1–C4 alkoxy, phenyl, and halogenated (such as F, Cl, Br and I phenyl; R2 is H or protected or unprotected side chain of natural or unnatural ?-amino acid; and B is a natural or unnatural nucleobase, wherein when said nuc

Abstract: A liquid crystal display driving device that reduces horizontal crosstalk and a liquid crystal display employing the driving device are presented. The driving device includes a common voltage generator that generates first and second common voltages, and the common voltage generator includes a first capacitor provided between a first terminal for outputting the first common voltage and a second terminal for outputting the second common voltage. Since the capacitor is provided between two output terminals of the two common voltages, it reduces the distortion components of the common voltages, thereby reducing horizontal crosstalk. The invention reduces the number of parts in the driving device conferring the added benefit of reduced manufacturing cost.

Abstract: This application relates to monomers of the general formula (I) for the preparation of PNA (peptide nucleic acid) oligomers and provides method for the synthesis of both predefined sequence PNA oligomers and random sequence PNA oligomers: wherein E is nitrogen or C—R?; J is sulfur or oxygen; R?, R1, R2, R3, R4 is independently H, halogen, alkyl, nitro, nitrile, alkoxy, halogenated alkyl, halogenated alkoxy, phenyl or halogenated phenyl, R5 is H or protected or unprotected side chain of natural or unnatural ?-amino acid; and B is a natural or unnatural nucleobase, wherein when said nucleobase has an exocyclic amino function, said function is protected by protecting group which is labile to acids but stable to weak to medium bases in the presence of thiol.

Abstract: A micro-mirror device package including a micro-mirror device; a substrate, on which the micro-mirror device is mounted; and a window lid mounted on the substrate to cover the micro-mirror device. The window lid has a light transmitting part, which is sloped in relation to the micro-mirror device, and through which laser beams are transmitted to the micro-mirror device, and supporting parts downwardly extending from the light transmitting part. When a laser beam is inputted, the package separates the laser beam from noise beams, thereby improving the quality of image on a screen. By fabricating an array of window lids which correspond to micro-mirror devices, respectively, it is possible to fabricate the above-mentioned micro-mirror device package through a batch process performed in terms of a wafer size.

Abstract: This application relates to monomers of the general formula (I) for the preparation of PNA (peptide nucleic acid) oligomers and provides method for the synthesis of both predefined sequence PNA oligomers and random sequence PNA oligomers: wherein E is nitrogen or C—R?; J is sulfur or oxygen; R?, R1, R2, R3, R4 is independently H, halogen, alkyl, nitro, nitrile, alkoxy, halogenated alkyl, halogenated alkoxy, phenyl or halogenated phenyl, R5 is H or protected or unprotected side chain of natural or unnatural ?-amino acid; and B is a natural or unnatural nucleobase, wherein when said nucleobase has an exocyclic amino function, said function is protected by protecting group which is labile to acids but stable to weak to medium bases in the presence of thiol.

Abstract: This application relates to monomers of the general formula (I) for the preparation of PNA (peptide nucleic acid) oligomers and provides method for the synthesis of both predefined sequence PNA oligomers and random sequence PNA oligomers: wherein E is nitrogen or C—R?; J is sulfur or oxygen; R?, R1, R2, R3, R4 is independently H, halogen, alkyl, nitro, nitrile, alkoxy, halogenated alkyl, halogenated alkoxy, phenyl or halogenated phenyl, R5 is H or protected or unprotected side chain of natural or unnatural ?-amino acid; and B is a natural or unnatural nucleobase, wherein when said nucleobase has an exocyclic amino function, said function is protected by protecting group which is labile to acids but stable to weak to medium bases in the presence of thiol.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a display apparatus comprising a display panel; a controller to analyze input video data into frequency components, and create first and second video data different in the frequency component from each other on the basis of analyzed results; and a panel driver to drive the created first and second video data to be displayed in sequence as images on the display panel. Thus, the present invention provides a display apparatus and a control method thereof, in which first video data and second video data are created by analyzing a frequency component of input video data and output in sequence, thereby decreasing a motion blur through a simple operation without hardware change.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for mass-production of human follicle stimulating hormone, more precisely, to an expression vector containing human follicle stimulating hormone gene, a transformant transfected with the expression vector and a method for mass-production of human follicle stimulating hormone by using the same. Human follicle stimulating hormone can be produced largely by using an expression vector and a transformant of the present invention. Therefore the expression vector and the transformant of the present invention can be effectively used for the treatment of infertility.

Abstract: A service provider discovery method in a wireless network environment, includes receiving, by the gateway, a service request (SREQ) packet which is broadcast from a first mobile node in the ad-hoc network; updating and transmitting, by the gateway, the SREQ packet to a service repository which stores at least one service provider information, in the infrastructure network; transmitting, by the service repository, a service reply (SREP) packet containing information relating to a service provider which provides a service requested by the SREQ packet to the gateway, and updating and transmitting, by the gateway, the SREP packet to the first mobile node. Accordingly, the service can be used in association with the ad-hoc network and the infrastructure network.

Abstract: A wireless ad-hoc network for transmitting packets to target regions, and a packet transmission method thereof, are provided. The ad-hoc network includes at least one relay node for receiving a packet containing location information of at least two target regions each including at least one node, separating the received packet by the location information, forming a new packet for each instance of the location information separated from the received packet, and forwarding the new packets to corresponding target regions; and a source node for generating the packet containing the location information and transmitting the packet to the relay node. The present invention can reduce the packet transmission overhead, the packet transmission delay, and the power required for the packet transmission. Therefore, the packets can be delivered to the target regions in an efficient manner.

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: 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 apparatus and method for detecting a bio-bonding includes monitoring of a change of an electrical property before and after bio-bonding. The apparatus includes a signal transducer section having a substrate, a metallic thin film stepped on a surface of a certain region of the substrate, probe biomolecules formed on the metallic thin film, an input port connected with one side of the signal transducer section and into which a signal for monitoring an electrical property of the signal transducer section is input and a detector section for characteristic quantity connected with the other side of the signal transducer section so as to monitor an electrical property of the signal transducer section. The probe biomolecules are immobilized on the metallic thin film. The bio-bonding is detected through monitoring the electrical property of the signal transducer section before and after the bio-bonding.