Abstract: Disclosed is a portable computer comprising a main body, and a display part having a tablet allowing a user to input information with a pen, and displaying a picture based on a video signal transmitted from the main body. The portable computer has a pen-mounting portion to which the pen is detachably attached; an attachment/detachment sensor detects whether the pen is attached to or detached from the pen-mounting portion; and a controller controlling the display part to have a portrait display mode when the attachment/detachment sensor detects that the pen is detached from the pen-mounting portion, and controlling the display part to have a landscape display mode when the attachment/detachment sensor detects that the pen is attached to the pen-mounting portion.

Abstract: A flat panel display and method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The flat panel display includes a first substrate having a pixel region; a light-emitting element located on the pixel region; a second substrate located opposite the first substrate; and a sealant located between the first and second substrates to cover the light-emitting element. At least one of the first and second substrates includes a groove formed around at least a portion of the circumference surrounding the pixel region. When the first and second substrates are pressed together with the sealant between them, the sealant spreads, covering the light-emitting element, and at least partially filling the groove.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof. A liquid crystal is disposed between a first substrate and a second substrate, and R, G, and B color lights are sequentially applied to a plurality of pixels. A first common voltage and a first gray scale waveform corresponding to first gray scale data are applied to a first pixel in a field of a current frame, and a gray scale having a level half-way between gray scale levels of the first and second gray scale data is displayed by applying a second common voltage and a second gray scale waveform corresponding to the second gray scale data in the field of a next frame. The gray scale levels of the first and second gray scale data are different from each other by one level. By displaying gray scales having half-way levels, a milder screen having more smooth transitions between pixel intensities can be realized.

Abstract: A micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) package with a side sealing member and a method of manufacturing the package are disclosed. In the MEMS package and method of the present invention, a sealing member is formed on a side surface of a lid glass that is mounted on a spacer surrounding MEMS elements provided on a base substrate and covers the MEMS elements, so that the sealing member hermetically seals the MEMS elements from the external environment.

Abstract: Provided is a trench isolation for a semiconductor device. The device includes an insulating layer formed on the inner surface of a trench and includes at least an N-containing CVD oxide layer, and a nitride liner formed on the insulating layer.

Abstract: An LCD device includes a lower panel having a first substrate; an organic layer formed on the first substrate; a trans-reflection layer formed on the organic layer and having a reflection area reflecting a portion of incidence light from exterior and a transmission area transmitting other portion of the incidence light; color filters formed on the trans-reflection layer; an overcoating layer formed on the color filters; and a common electrode formed on the overcoating layer. A portion of the overcoating layer corresponding to the reflection area is thicker than a portion of the overcoating layer corresponding to the transmission area. The LCD device also includes an upper panel including a second substrate facing the first substrate with a predetermined gap; thin film transistors formed on the second substrate; and pixel electrodes connected to the thin film transistors; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the lower and upper panels.

Abstract: A digital broadcast transmitting and receiving system and a signal processing method thereof that improves the receiving performance of the system. A digital broadcast transmitter can include a randomizer to receive and randomize a data stream into a specified position of which stuff bytes are inserted, a stuff-byte exchange unit to generate known data having a predefined pattern and insert the known data into the specified position of the data stream into which the stuff bytes are inserted, an encoder to encode the data stream output from the stuff-byte exchange unit for an error correction, and a modulator and RF converter to modulate the encoded data stream, RF-convert the modulated data stream and transmit the RF-converted data. The digital broadcast receiving performance can be improved even in an inferior multi-path channel by detecting the known data from the received transmission and using the known data for synchronization and equalization in a digital broadcast receiver.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an image sensor module having an auto-aligned lens includes: a substrate on which an image sensor chip is mounted; a housing which has an opening to expose an upper surface of the image sensor chip, and which is attached onto the substrate; a lens holder which extends the opening vertically and upwardly; and a lens unit incorporating spacers which is fixed to an inner sidewall of the lens holder and is aligned automatically. Friction-caused particles are not produced, and focal alignment is readily automated.

Abstract: A high magnification zoom lens is provided. The zoom lens includes a first lens group including a single positive lens and having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, a third lens group having the positive refractive power, a fourth lens group having the positive refractive power, and a fifth lens group having the positive refractive power. The first through fifth lens groups are sequentially arranged from an object side toward an image side. The first lens group, the second lens group, and the third lens group are moved in a direction of an optical axis to change magnification. The fourth lens group is moved to compensate for a movement of a focal position occurring during the magnification change, and the fifth lens group is fixed. Accordingly, the zoom lens is compact, has high magnification, and satisfies conditions of a long back focal length and telecentricity that are required when a solid image pickup device is used.

Abstract: A flat panel display device. The device includes a plurality of self-luminant devices, each of which includes at least a light emitting layer, formed on every pixel, and a lens sheet having a plurality of condensing lenses that correspond to the self-luminant devices and direct the light emitted from the self-luminant devices toward a predetermined direction. A distance between the light emitting layer and an exterior portion of the condensing lens in the direction of propagation of the light is between 50 and 500 microns so as not to overlap images of neighboring sub-pixels, that are expanded by the condensing lenses. Therefore, a lowering of image sharpness that is caused by the condensing lenses can be prevented, while a light coupling efficiency and a brightness are improved.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device having a capacitor is disclosed. The capacitor includes a bottom capacitor surface formed of a silicon-germanium crystalline layer or a dual layer in which a silicon-germanium crystalline layer covers a silicon crystalline layer. The bottom capacitor surface is uneven and is conventionally formed by an epitaxial method. The silicon germanium crystalline layer is approximately 5 to 50 percent germanium content by weight. The method of fabricating the semiconductor memory device comprises: selectively exposing the surface of a crystalline silicon substrate at the region where the capacitor bottom electrode is formed; supplying a source gas to grow a silicon germanium crystalline layer at the surface of the selectively exposed silicon substrate; stacking a dielectric layer over the silicon germanium crystalline layer; and stacking a conductive layer over the dielectric layer to form a capacitor top electrode.

Abstract: A cup holder comprising a pin formed on a tray and an arm with an inserting hole. The pin is inserted into the inserting hole with a silicon-rubber ring friction-fitted between the outer surface of the pin and the inner surface of the inserting hole. The arm rotates in a constrained manner with respect to the pin due to the friction of the silicon-rubber ring while an external force, lager than the friction between the silicon-rubber ring and the inserting hole of the arm, such as a forcible manipulation of the user is applying to the arm. When the external force to the arm is released, the movement of the arm is restricted by the friction of the silicon-rubber ring, so that the arm can firmly support a container.

Abstract: A fuse area of a semiconductor device capable of preventing moisture-absorption and a method for manufacturing the fuse area are provided. When forming a guard ring for preventing permeation of moisture through the sidewall of an exposed fuse opening portion, an etch stop layer is formed over a fuse line. A guard ring opening portion is formed using the etch stop layer. The guard ring opening portion is filled with a material for forming the uppermost wiring of multi-level interconnect wirings or the material of a passivation layer, thereby forming the guard ring concurrently with the uppermost interconnect wiring or the passivation layer. Accordingly, permeation of moisture through an interlayer insulating layer or the interface between interlayer insulating layers around the fuse opening portion can be efficiently prevented by a simple process.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining the rate of data transmitted at variable rates. In the method and apparatus, received data is pre-decoded at receivable rates by pre-decoders which adopt a simple structure and perform pre-decoding rapidly, quality information of the pre-decoded data is detected, and the rate of the received data is estimated based on the quality information of the pre-decoded data. Therefore, the decoding speed of the received data and the decision speed of the data rate increase, reducing power consumption.

Abstract: A grating assembly drive means is connected to control the movement of the movable grating between OPEN and CLOSED positions relative to a fixed grating. The drive means moves the movable grating through yieldable connection when moving toward CLOSED position, whereby when such movement is blocked by a foreign object the movable grating stops without damaging the object or the drive. On the other hand movement by the drive means toward OPEN position is direct after removal of any slack caused by a previous yielding.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ashing method using rapid heat transfer under high pressure. The present method, applicable to all photoresist ashing processes, can rapidly remove hardened photoresists without popping at the ashing step by baking high dose ion implanted silicon substrate on a hot plate, enhancing the ashing quantity, by drastically reducing the ashing process time, while allowing conventional equipments to be used further. The present method comprises an in situ baking step, wherein a silicon substrate is baked for a predetermined time period under a pressure of 10 Torr or more while it is placed on a hot plate; a vacuumizing step, wherein a stable vacuum status is achieved while the silicon substrate is placed on the hot plate; a gas processing step, wherein selected reaction gas is introduced into a reaction chamber; and an ashing step, wherein plasma is generated until almost all of the photoresists are removed.

Abstract: A shift register comprises stages connected to each other, in which each stage generates an output signal in response to any one of clock signals and an output from each of two different stages. Each clock signal has a duty ratio of less than 50% and a different phase from each of the other clock signals. A display device includes pixels, signal lines, and first and second shift registers each having stages connected to each other and generating output signals to signal lines. Each stage includes a set terminal, a reset terminal, a clock terminal, and first and second output terminals.

Abstract: In the method of conversion, at least one of a protocol and a data format may be changed without requiring software processing. A data conversion apparatus is provided which may convert between at least one of a protocol and a data format without requiring software processing. A data processing system is provided including the data conversion apparatus.

Abstract: A connector includes a first connection part having connection pins electrically connected with a driving module, a supporting body for holding the connection pins, and a guide body extended from a end of the supporting body, which has a guide groove formed at an inner face of the guide body, and a second connection part having connection slots for receiving the connection pins to provide electrical connection between the connection pins and an external device, a side face extended from a front face of the second connection part, a guide step formed on the side face to be inserted into the guide groove, and a warpage preventing protrusion formed on the guide step to prevent the connection pins from being bent at the time of detaching the first connection part from the second connection part.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing technetium or rhenium complex for radiopharmaceuticals, through reaction of pertechnetate or perrhenate with a ligand in the presence of a reducing agent, wherein the reducing agent is a borohydride exchange resin (BER). The borohydride exchange resin of the present invention has advantages of being stable in a wide range of Ph, including acidic or alkaline condition(Ph 2˜14) and thus being applicable to biological materials as well as being easily removable through filtration when being administrated. Also since the radiolabelled complex is produced under conditions milder than those required for the conventional reducing agents as well as has high radiochemical purity and high labeling efficiency, the conventional reducing agents can be replaced by the BER of the present invention.