Abstract: An apparatus for driving a display device includes a plurality of stage connected to each other, wherein each stage includes first to seventh transistors and first and second capacitors, the seventh transistor is connected to one terminal of the first capacitor, and a ratio of an area of the first capacitor to a channel width of the seventh transistor is less than 40. Accordingly, since the ratio of the area of the capacitor to the channel width of the transistor is less than 40, deterioration may be remarkably reduced in a low temperature test.

Abstract: Provided is an early rehabilitation training system that increase the intensity of patient rehabilitation training to shorten the time it takes for patients to progress to a secondary rehabilitation training stage by allowing patients incapable of self-ambulation to be artificially rehabilitated in a prone, bed-ridden position. The system includes a treatment bed (2) configured with a mattress (2a), a base (2b) disposed below the mattress (2a) and coupled through a hinge to one end of the mattress (2a), and a tilting unit (2c) provided between the mattress (2a) and the base (2b) to adjust an upright angle of the mattress (2a); and a rotating unit (10) provided below the mattress (2a) of the treatment bed (2) to secure a patient's feet and provide artificial exercising of the patient's feet through gravity when the upright angle of the mattress (2a) is changed by the tilting unit (2c).

Abstract: A pulse control device is maintained with a constant pulse width corresponding to a change of process or temperature. The pulse control device comprises a fuse set for selectively outputting a delay increase signal and a delay decrease signal that have a different state based on a cutting or non-cutting state of a fuse on which information on a change of process is programmed, and a pulse generator provided with a plurality of delay cells with predetermined time delay for selectively increasing or decreasing the number of the plurality of delay cells depending on the delay increase signal and the delay decrease signal to generate an internal clock with a pulse width corresponding to the number of the increased or decreased delay cells.

Abstract: A circuit and method for controlling charge injection in a circuit are disclosed. In one embodiment, the circuit and method are employed in a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) Radio Frequency (RF) switch. In one embodiment, an SOI RF switch comprises a plurality of switching transistors coupled in series, referred to as “stacked” transistors, and implemented as a monolithic integrated circuit on an SOI substrate. Charge injection control elements are coupled to receive injected charge from resistively-isolated nodes located between the switching transistors, and to convey the injected charge to at least one node that is not resistively-isolated. In one embodiment, the charge injection control elements comprise resistors. In another embodiment, the charge injection control elements comprise transistors.

Abstract: A laser beam irradiation apparatus irradiates a laser beam onto a sealing unit disposed between a first substrate and a second substrate so as to seal the first substrate and the second substrate. The laser beam has a beam intensity which increases from a center portion to an end portion of the laser beam on a surface which is perpendicular to a proceeding direction of the laser beam. The beam intensity at the center portion of the laser beam is half of the beam intensity at the end portion of the laser beam or less, and the laser beam has a beam profile which is symmetrical relative to the proceeding direction of the laser beam.

Abstract: An image display apparatus and method are disclosed. The image display apparatus includes a light source unit to include at least one light source, an optical unit to generate a directional light using a light projected from the light source unit, a variable diffuser unit to control diffusion of the directional light, a pixel unit to selectively generate one of two-dimensional (2D) images and three-dimensional (3D) images to correspond to the control of the variable diffuser unit, and a vertical diffusion unit to diffuse the 3D images in a vertical direction.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus for removing ringing noise and an apparatus for removing noise. The apparatuses includes a representative value setting block dividing pixel data in one block including a plurality of pixel data into two groups through a K-means algorithm and setting a representative value in each of the groups; a parameter generator block calculating intervals and approaches between all the pixel data in the block and a pair of the representative values; and a correction block correcting an inputted pixel data value using the intervals and the approaches.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus having a gradient spacing created between a substrate support assembly and a gas distribution plate for depositing a silicon film for solar cell applications are provided. In one embodiment, an apparatus for depositing films for solar cell applications may include a processing chamber, a substrate support disposed in the processing chamber and configured to support a quadrilateral substrate thereon, and a gas distribution plate disposed in the processing chamber above the substrate support, wherein a bottom surface of the gas distribution plate has a perimeter that includes edges and corners, and wherein the corners of the gas distribution plate are closer to the substrate support than the edges of the gas distribution plate.

Abstract: A method and device for adaptive control of multilayered nonvolatile semiconductor memory are provided, the device including memory cells organized into groups and a control circuit having a look-up matrix for providing control parameters for each of the groups, where characteristics of each group are stored in the look-up matrix, and the control parameters for each group are responsive to the stored characteristics for that group; the method including organizing memory cells into groups, storing characteristics for each group in a look-up matrix, providing control parameters for each of the groups, where the control parameters for each group are responsive to its stored characteristics, and driving each memory cell in accordance with its provided control parameters.

Abstract: A recordable and/or rewriteable recording medium for storing still picture data, and recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor. The recording medium stores still picture group information for grouping a plurality of still pictures in order to manage the still picture at a group level, and stores audio group information for grouping additional audio data added to the still picture data after the still picture data are recorded. Therefore, large-capacity still picture data and additional audio data added thereto can be recorded using a minimum amount of management information. Further, during reproduction, data can be displayed and edited in units of the respective still pictures. Also, it is possible to cope with after-recording of the audio data.

Abstract: A rechargeable battery having electrical stability includes an electrode assembly, a case, a cap assembly, and a spacer. The electrode assembly includes an anode, a cathode, and a separator interposed between the anode and the cathode. The case has an opening in which the electrode assembly is inserted and has a first thickness portion having a first thickness and a second thickness portion having a second thickness smaller than the first thickness. The cap assembly is coupled to the opening of the case and electrically connected to the electrode assembly. The spacer is fixed to an end of the case, and includes a supporting protrusion that engages with a portion of the case where the first thickness portion and the second thickness portion are connected to each other.

Abstract: A method for scheduling broadcast messages to transmit system information is disclosed. This method for scheduling broadcast messages having system information classifies a plurality of system information into one or more groups. For example, the system information may be control information for a network entry and initialization of a mobile station, or a burst profile. Then, the scheduling method allocates different numbers of transmission times to the individual groups, and determines transmission start times of system information of the individual groups according to the allocated transmission times.

Abstract: Provided are a user interface for processing digital data, a method for processing a media interface, and a recording medium thereof. The user interface is used for converting a selected script into voice to generate digital data having a form of a voice file corresponding to the script, or for managing the generated digital data. In the method, the user interface is displayed. The user interface includes at least a text window on which a script to be converted into voice is written, and an icon to be selected for converting the script written on the text window into voice.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for removing color noise including: a color interpolation unit performing color interpolation on a bayer pattern image output from an image sensor; a high-pass filter unit performing high-pass filtering on each of the pixels of the bayer pattern image to generate high-pass filtered values of each of the pixels; a high frequency region determining unit comparing pixel values of a target pixel, from which color noise is removed, and pixels adjacent to the target pixel with the high-pass filtered values to determine whether the target pixel is included in a high frequency region; and a color noise region determining unit using differences between color values of the target pixel interpolated by the color interpolation unit and determining whether the target pixel is included in a color noise region when it is determined that the target pixel is included in the high frequency region.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a printed circuit board having a metal bump, including: forming a recess for creation of the metal bump on a metal carrier; forming a barrier layer on the metal carrier including the recess; forming an upper circuit layer on the barrier layer, the upper circuit layer including the metal bump charged in the recess and a circuit pattern; preparing an insulating layer, and transferring the upper circuit layer to the insulating layer; and removing the metal carrier and the barrier layer.

Abstract: Provided is a method of efficiently processing a Short-Term Key Message (STKM) in the mobile broadcast supporting the mobile terminal. A structure of a response message according to processing the STKM in the smart card is also provided. In particular, a variety of information necessary for reproducing in the player is included in the response message and delivered to the mobile terminal, thereby the mobile terminal can easily obtain the desired information through the response message. Therefore, when the STKM is processed in the mobile terminal, there is no need to process operations except for a resending check, and the information does not need to be stored separately.

Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to scan for available frequency bands, and a controller configured to assign a frequency band identification information to each available frequency band and to assign channel identification information to each channel included in a corresponding available frequency band.

Abstract: Provided are moving picture encoding apparatus and method skipping intra prediction in encoding mode determination using rate-distortion (RD) costs and determining an encoding mode at high speed. The moving picture encoding method includes the steps of: setting the lowest one of rate-distortion costs of macroblocks adjacent to a macroblock to be encoded as a threshold value; setting the lowest one of mode-specific distortion costs obtained by inter prediction for the macroblock to be encoded as an optimum inter mode distortion cost; comparing the threshold value with the optimum inter mode distortion cost; and when the threshold value is larger than the optimum inter mode distortion cost, as a result of the comparison, skipping intra prediction and setting a mode having the optimum inter mode distortion cost as a final encoding mode.

Abstract: Semiconductor device having an on-chip type electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The on-chip type ESD protection circuit may include a first junction diode having a first conductive type region contacting a second conductive type region in a semiconductor substrate, and a first schottky diode having a metallic material layer arranged on and contacting the first conductive type region of the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: A plasma display device includes a plasma display panel for displaying an image by a gas discharge. A chassis base is attached to the plasma display panel and supports the plasma display panel. At least one printed circuit board is mounted on the a side of the chassis base at opposite the side supporting the plasma display panel. At least one flexible printed circuit connects electrodes of the plasma display panel and terminals of the printed circuit boards. An anisotropic conductive film is between the terminal of the printed circuit board and a terminal of the flexible printed circuit and connects the terminal of the printed circuit board and the terminal of the flexible printed circuit. The printed circuit board includes at least one dummy groove outside a region of the printed circuit board facing the flexible printed circuit.