Abstract: A method and apparatus for reproducing data from a recording medium are disclosed. The method and apparatus calls for downloading data associated with data read from the recording medium. The downloaded data is stored in a local storage using an organization ID directory. The downloaded data from the local storage and the data from the recording medium are ultimately bound together to form a virtual package.

Abstract: Systems and methods for content (e.g., advertisements) delivery. An initial advertisement received by a user can include instructions for requesting a secondary advertisement. A user can follow the instructions to respond to the initial advertisement. A response to the initial advertisement can include a device identification. A secondary advertisement addressed to the device identification can be provided responsive to receiving a response from the user to the initial advertisement.

Abstract: A mold with a protruding pattern is provided that is pressed into a thin polymer film via an imprinting process. Controlled connections between nanowires and microwires and other lithographically-made elements of electronic circuitry are provided. An imprint stamp is configured to form arrays of approximately parallel nanowires which have (1) micro dimensions in the X direction, (2) nano dimensions and nano spacing in the Y direction, and three or more distinct heights in the Z direction. The stamp thus formed can be used to connect specific individual nanowires to specific microscopic regions of microscopic wires or pads. The protruding pattern in the mold creates recesses in the thin polymer film, so the polymer layer acquires the reverse of the pattern on the mold. After the mold is removed, the film is processed such that the polymer pattern can be transferred on a metal/semiconductor pattern on the substrate.

Abstract: The method includes the steps of receiving the multiview video data stream including a random access picture including a random access slice, the random access slice referencing only slice corresponding to a same time and a different view of the random access picture, obtaining initialization information of a reference picture list for the random access slice, the initialization information representing a reference relation for a single direction or a bi-direction between a plurality of views with view number information and view identification information, obtaining type information indicating whether the random access slice is predicted for a single direction or a bi-direction, initializing the reference picture list using the view number information and the view identification information according to the type information, obtaining modification information for the initialized reference picture list from a multi-view video data stream, the modification information representing how to assign an inter-view r

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that optimizes a circuit design during a logic design stage to reduce routing congestion during a placement and routing stage. During operation, this system identifies a first circuit structure in the circuit design which is expected to cause routing congestion during the placement and routing stage. Next, the system generates a second circuit structure which is functionally equivalent to the first circuit structure, and is not expected to cause routing congestion during the placement and routing stage. The system then replaces the first circuit structure in the circuit design with the second circuit structure, thereby mitigating routing congestion during the placement and routing stage.

Abstract: An LED lamp includes a housing defining an opening, an LED module received in the housing, a light-guiding cover covering the LED module and a transparent plate hermetically coupled to the housing via glue. The housing includes a main body, a pair of lateral plates secured to two opposite ends thereof and a pair of cushioning plates tightly sandwiched between the lateral plates and the two opposite ends of the main body. Each cushioning plate defines a recessed side edge, whereby two opposite end edges of the transparent plate, the recessed side edges and tops of the lateral plates cooperatively define a pair of receiving grooves at the two opposite ends of the main body of the housing. An outer edge of the transparent plate is hermetically coupled to the housing via glue filled in the receiving grooves.

Abstract: The Hat Liner is an adjustable, one-size-fits-all synthetic fabric liner to be worn beneath any hat or cap, and thus protect the hat or cap from the perspiration the hat or cap would otherwise absorb. The Hat Liner is reusable and disposable, such that the user wears it as many times as he wished, then either launder the Hat Liner in any washing machine, or simply discard the used Hat Liner and start again with a fresh one. The Hat Liner is produced in a polyester or other fabric, and is configured to cover the wearer's head in the manner of a skullcap.

Abstract: A card connector, comprising: an insulative housing having a base, a pair of first and second raised sidewalls, and third raised sidewalls to form a receiving cavity therebetween, an insertion opening located opposite to said third raised sidewall, said base having thereon a window, each of said first and second raised sidewalls having a resilient locking arm invading laterally toward said receiving cavity; a contact module disposed within said window of the housing with a plurality of contact sections extending above a top face of the base; a metal shielding member assembled to the housing, the metal shielding member having resilient reinforcement pieces respectively located outside of said resilient locking arms.

Abstract: A flexible ionizer uses soft X-ray and has a head unit generating soft X-ray whose wavelength is 1.2˜1.5 ?, a soft X-ray protect unit shielding the leak of the soft X-ray from the head unit, and a power control unit supplying a control signal and control voltage to the head unit. The head unit is positioned outside of the soft X-ray protect unit with the flexible ionizer further having a flexible tube protecting a high voltage cable that connects the head unit and power control unit from external impact or vibration and letting the user bend the head of the head unit at an arbitrary angle toward a charged body if necessary, a connecting device letting the ions generated at the window positioned inside of the body of the ionizer emit toward the charged body by connecting one end of the flexible tube and the head unit, and a connecting device connecting the other end of the flexible tube and the body of the ionizer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel and a method of manufacturing the liquid crystal display panel capable of reducing or eliminating metal erosion in an area in which a conductive dot is formed. In some embodiments, a display panel comprises a common electrode formed on an upper substrate, a first electrode formed on a lower substrate opposing the upper substrate and configured to receive a common voltage, a conductive dot formed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate and positioned to supply the common electrode with the common voltage, an insulating layer having a contact hole exposing the first electrode, and a second electrode formed on the insulating layer to connect the conductive dot and the first electrode, wherein a cross sectional area of the conductive dot between the upper substrate and the lower substrate is greater than a cross sectional area of an opening of the contact hole.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a sidewall oxide layer covering an inner wall of a trench, a nitride liner on the sidewall oxide layer and a gap-fill insulating layer filling the trench on the nitride liner. A first impurity doped oxide layer is provided at edge regions of both end portions of the sidewall oxide layer so as to extend from an entry of the trench adjacent to an upper surface of the substrate to the nitride liner. A dent filling insulating layer is provided on the nitride liner in the trench to protect a surface of the first impurity doped oxide layer. Related methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A data line and an amorphous silicon pattern are formed on a substrate. The first electrode pattern is extended from the data line and overlaps an edge of the amorphous silicon pattern. The second electrode pattern is made of the same metal as the first electrode pattern and overlaps the edge of the amorphous silicon pattern at an opposite side of the first electrode pattern. Edges of the first and the second electrode patterns are sharply formed so that a tunneling effect easily occurs through the amorphous silicon pattern. An indium-tin-oxide pattern for a capacitor is formed at the end of the second electrode pattern. The capacitor is formed between the ITO pattern and a common electrode.

Abstract: In the data structure, a data area of the recording medium stores a transport stream of at least video data. The transport stream is divided into transport packets. Each of the transport packets is associated with one of the multiple reproduction paths, and the transport packets of each reproduction path are interleaved with one another.

Abstract: Disclosed is a multi-nozzle inkjet print head using an electrostatic field induced type. The inkjet print head in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: a first electrode being formed in each nozzle; and a second electrode located on a side spaced from the nozzle and arranged to block between any two adjacent nozzles and inducing an electrostatic field for discharging ink from the nozzle by forming an electric potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: Disclosed are a nano fiber reinforced composite and a method of manufacturing the same. A spinning dope (nano fiber forming spinning dope) having a viscosity capable of fiber formation upon electrospinning and a spinning dope (spinning dope for matrix) having a viscosity incapable of fiber formation upon electrospinning are electrically spun onto the same collector with a high voltage applied thereto through different nozzles of the same nozzle block with a high voltage applied thereto. In the nano fiber reinforced composite, nano fibers are uniformly arranged between matrix components with no fibers formed therein, the nano fibers being arranged at an orientation angle of 90° or less relative to the longitudinal axis of the composite material.

Abstract: An apparatus for supplying mixed fuel includes a water container storing water; a fuel container storing fuel, including at least gaseous fuel, the fuel container being coupled to the water container by a pressure pipe for transferring internal pressure of the fuel container to the water container; and a mixer coupled to the water container through a water supplying pipe and coupled to the fuel container through a fuel supplying pipe, the mixer outputting mixed fuel through a mixed fuel supplying pipe. A water supplying unit includes a water container storing water and connected to a water supplying pipe, the water container having an outlet; and a pressure applying unit coupled to the water container for applying gas pressure to an inside of the water container to discharge water from the water container through the outlet.

Abstract: Novel proteins are provided herein, including proteins capable of catalyzing the acetylation of glyphosate and other structurally related proteins. Also provided are novel polynucleotides capable of encoding these proteins, compositions that include one or more of these novel proteins and/or polynucleotides, recombinant cells and transgenic plants comprising these novel compounds, diversification methods involving the novel compounds, and methods of using the compounds. Some of the novel methods and compounds provided herein can be used to render an organism, such as a plant, resistant to glyphosate.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of gate trenches, each of which has first inner walls, which face each other in a first direction which is perpendicular to a second direction in which active regions extend, and second inner walls, which face each other in the second direction in which the active regions extends. An isolation layer contacts a gate insulating layer throughout the entire length of the first inner walls of the gate trenches including from entrance portions of the gate trenches to bottom portions of the gate trenches, and a plurality of channel regions are disposed adjacent to the gate insulating layers in the semiconductor substrate along the second inner walls and the bottom portions of the gate trenches.

Abstract: Provided is a method for preparing a substrate for growing gallium nitride and a gallium nitride substrate. The method includes performing thermal cleaning on a surface of a silicon substrate, forming a silicon nitride (Si3N4) micro-mask on the surface of the silicon substrate in an in situ manner, and growing a gallium nitride layer through epitaxial lateral overgrowth (ELO) using an opening in the micro-mask. According to the method, by improving the typical ELO, it is possible to simplify the method for preparing the substrate for growing gallium nitride and the gallium nitride substrate and reduce process cost.

Abstract: The invention provides methods and systems for alkylating a paraffinic feed stream in a microchannel utilizing the staged addition of olefin.