Abstract: There are provided an apparatus for detecting coordinates, which may detect coordinates corresponding to an event occurring within a region of interest, and a display device, a security device, and an electronic blackboard, each including the same. The apparatus for detecting coordinates, which is provided in at least one side of a touch panel having a preset region of interest being surrounded by a frame having a predetermined length, the apparatus comprising: a light source body providing preset light; a scanner emitting the light provided from the light source body at a preset angle to scan the region of interest, and receiving light reflected by the region of interest; a photo diode receiving reflected light to convert the received reflected light to a voltage value; and a beam splitter transmitting the light provided from the light source body to the scanner via a first path, and transmitting, to the photo diode via a second path, the reflected light received from the scanner.

Abstract: An apparatus for enhancing the visibility of color images includes: a luminance value cumulative distribution calculator that calculates a cumulative distribution function of the number of pixels from a minimum value of luminance values; a baseband signal determining unit that determines baseband signal pixels having luminance values smaller than a threshold level; a luminance compensation value generator that generates luminance compensation values to apply the lower-level luminance compensation values as the pixels have higher-level luminance values, for the pixels having the luminance values larger than the threshold level; a luminance gain generator that determines a luminance gain applied to the luminance compensation values according to a mean luminance values of the input images and the level of the luminance values of the pixels to which the luminance compensation values are applied; and a luminance value enhancing unit that summing the luminance compensation values including the gain with the luminan

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor. The CMOS image sensor includes a pixel array, a frame memory, and an analog-to-digital converter. The pixel array includes N unit pixels for converting optical signals, caused by light, into electric signals. The frame memory eliminates offset voltage included in reset voltage and signal voltage transmitted from the pixel array and internal offset voltage, and performs Correlated Double Sampling (CDS) on the reset voltage and the signal voltage. The analog-to-digital converter converts an analog signal, transmitted from the frame memory, into a digital signal.

Abstract: An antenna device and a portable terminal having the antenna device are disclosed. As an antenna device installed in a portable terminal in which a solar cell module or a display module is installed, the antenna device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention can include a case, which has a housing part formed therein, a transparent protective window, which covers the housing part and allows a ray of light to pass through, and an antenna pattern, which is formed on the transparent protective window.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and ultrasonic image processing method. The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasonic transmission unit; An ultrasonic probe emits; An ultrasonic reception unit; An image processing unit; A sound velocity determination unit; and A control unit. Accordingly, there is an advantage in that the actual sound velocity of a reflected wave is estimated, so that high-quality ultrasonic images can be provided, and the time required for the estimation of a sound velocity can be reduced.

Abstract: There is provided a method of controlling auto white balance that can be appropriately used for a camera of an electric device that uses a wide-angle or a super wide-angle lens.

Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile phone that includes a body having a base layer formed on one surface thereof and a dye-sensitized solar cell mounted on one surface of the body to face the base layer and providing electricity to the body. The dye-sensitized solar cell includes a first transparent substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, a light absorption layer, a catalytic layer, an electrolyte and a second substrate, and the base layer forms a background against a pattern formed by a dye such that the pattern can be identified when viewed from the outside.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for measuring a location and a distance of an object by using a camera including: a camera module for photographing an external image; a parameter setup unit for setting internal and external parameters of the camera module; an image processor unit for receiving a captured image of an image photographed from the camera module, extracting a target object within the captured image, and extracting specific point coordinates of the extracted target object; and a location and distance calculating unit for calculating three-dimensional object location information in a two-dimensional camera coordinate system through the internal and external parameters of the camera module and coordinates of the target object, and calculating distance information from the location information of the object.

Abstract: Provided is a hybrid sensor module including first and second sensors that are attached on one surface of a printed circuit board (PCB) so as to detect two-axis signal components parallel to the PCB; a third sensor that is attached on one surface of the PCB such that the axial direction of the third sensor is tilted at a predetermined angle from a vertical direction of the PCB, the third sensor detecting a signal component sensed in the axial direction; and a signal correction unit that is connected to the first to third sensor and corrects signal components, detected from the respective sensors, into signal components of an orthogonal coordinate system.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for removing image noise and a method thereof. There is provided with an apparatus for removing image noise including a buffer register that divides image signals in an n*n area obtained from an image sensor into brightness components and chroma components to store them as pixel values; an image analyzing unit that classifies the n*n area stored in the buffer register into a contour area, a texture area, and a planarization area; and a noise reduction unit that designs noise removal filters according to the features of the classified areas to reduce image noise.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an active pixel array of a CMOS image sensor. The active pixel array includes a pixel sensor array in which a pixel sensor which detects first and second light signals, of which the wavelengths are different from each other, among all wavelengths of light signals so as to generate current and voltage signals and a pixel sensor which detects a third light signal with a predetermined wavelength so as to generate a current or voltage signal are alternately arranged; and a color filter array that is formed on the pixel sensor array and in which a filter which transmits all wavelengths of light signals and a filter which transmits the third signal with a predetermined wavelength are alternately arranged.

Abstract: A mobile terminal capable of breaking a phase-noise signal caused by a high power transmission signal of a mobile phone such as GSM when receiving digital TV broadcasting such as DVB-H and a method of reducing interfering phase-noise in the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a first RF transmitter/receiver; a first signal coupler; a phase-noise filter; a phase shifter; a VGA amplifier; and a signal combiner.

Abstract: An apparatus for auto white balance includes a histogram generation unit writing respective histograms of Cb values and Cr values with regard to pixels included in an input image frame, a single-tone determination unit comparing respective maximum values of the histograms of Cb values and Cr values with a first threshold value, and determining the input image frame as a single-tone image if at least one of the maximum values is higher than the first threshold value, and an auto white balance gain computation unit computing and an auto white balance gain by using color information of an input image frame and outputting the computed auto white balance gain, wherein if the input image frame is determined to be a single-tone image, the auto white balance gain computation unit outputs an auto white balance gain computed with respect to a previous input image frame.

Abstract: A color interpolation apparatus includes: a threshold value determining unit that calculates a luminance value of each of a plurality of areas set based on each pixel of a bayer pattern image generated by an image sensor, and determines edge determining threshold values used for determining each edge of the set areas; an edge information calculating unit that calculates pixel value variations in multiple directions of horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and central directions of the corresponding set areas by using pixel values of pixels included in each set area, and calculates edge information regarding each set area by using the calculated multi-directional pixel value variations; an area determining unit that determines a type of an edge present in each set area by using the edge determining threshold values deterred by the threshold value determining unit and the edge information calculated by the edge information calculating unit; and a color interpolation unit that applies a color interpolation filter prev

Abstract: There is provided a method of grouping pixels in a 2D digital image that assigns labels to regions of objects to differentiate between objects separated in the input image and groups a region of an object having the same label into one group when pattern recognition and image process are performed on the 2D digital image. A method of grouping pixels in a 2d digital image according to an aspect of the invention may include: determining whether a target pixel in an input image is included in a labeling section; determining whether the target pixel is connected to a previous pixel of the target pixel and an upper pixel located adjacent to and above the target pixel to perform a labeling process, and renewing a label table while saving a labeling result in a line memory when the target pixel is included in the labeling section and is a valid pixel including object information; and grouping pixels of the input image using the labeling result and the renewed label table, and renewing a group.

Abstract: An auto-exposure control method includes: creating an exposure table and an analog gain table including an exposure time and an analog gain of an image sensor set according to an index, respectively; calculating an average luminance value of an image frame obtained by the image sensor; checking whether or not the average luminance value is within a pre-set range including a prescribed final target value; if the average luminance value is not within the pre-set range, determining a shift step from indexes which have been applied to a current image frame according to the difference between the average luminance value and the final target value in order to determine indexes of the exposure table and the analog gain table to be applied to a next image frame; and repeatedly performing of reading an exposure time and an analog gain corresponding to the indexes shifted by the shift step determined from the indexes applied to the current image frame, from the exposure table and the analog gain table, applying the sam

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus and method for controlling auto exposure (AE) that is used in digital imaging devices. The apparatus which controls the luminance of an image being outputted from an image sensor by controlling exposure time and analog gain of the image sensor includes: a luminance operation unit operating and outputting a mean luminance of the image outputted from the image sensor; a shutter index determination unit comparing a predetermined target luminance with the mean luminance of the outputted image and determining a shutter index in different manners according to the magnitude of the difference between the target luminance and the mean luminance of the outputted image; and an exposure time/analog gain determination unit generating exposure time and analog gain corresponding to the shutter index determined in the shutter index determination unit and applying the generated exposure time and analog gain to the image sensor.

Abstract: There is provided a method of controlling a mechanical shutter that can ensure faster shutter speed by preventing a reduction of the shutter speed of the mechanical shutter caused by signal loss and physical loss caused by inertia. A method of controlling a mechanical shutter according to an aspect of the invention may include performing a row reset operation to remove image information remaining in an image sensor according to input of a trigger event generated by a user to acquire an image; transmitting a shutter close operation start signal for a mechanical shutter to the mechanical shutter before the row reset operation ends after a predetermined delay time from a time when the row reset operation starts; exposing the imager sensor right after the row reset operation ends; and fully closing the mechanical shutter.

Abstract: A telephone signal cancellation circuit, a digital broadcasting reception circuit and a portable digital broadcasting reception apparatus is provided. The telephone signal cancellation circuit, includes a signal coupler for separating a part of a reception signal, a telephone signal selection filter for passing a telephone signal among signals from the signal coupler, a phase shifter for performing phase inversion on the telephone signal among the signals from the telephone signal selection filter, and a combiner for combining the signal from the phase shifter and the reception signal, and canceling the telephone signal included in the reception signal.

Abstract: There is provided a method of controlling auto white balance that can be appropriately used for a camera of an electric device that uses a wide-angle or a super wide-angle lens.