Abstract: A member notification method is disclosed for mobile terminals capable of short-range wireless communication. The member notification method includes forming a particular group of a first mobile terminal and one or more second mobile terminals; discovering, by the first mobile terminal, a second mobile terminal in a fixed-radius range using short-range wireless communication; and notifying, when the second mobile terminal is discovered, by the first mobile terminal, a user of the first mobile terminal of the presence of the discovered second mobile terminal. The group may accommodate mobile terminals that are different in design model and in serving mobile communication network. Member mobile terminals can discover one another, and their users can discover one another in crowded places without communication costs. The RuBee or ZigBee technology permits mobile terminals to operate at most times, enabling ready discovery of members at a close distance.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device includes a substrate, a gate line on the substrate, a data line crossing the gate line over the substrate, a switching thin film transistor near the crossing of the gate line and data line, a driving thin film transistor system including a plurality of sub-TFTs connected in parallel to the switching thin film transistor via a gate base, a power line crossing the gate line over the substrate and electrically connected with the plurality of sub-TFTs, a first electrode over the driving thin film transistor system in contact with the plurality of sub-TFTs, an organic electroluminescent layer on the first electrode, and a second electrode of transparent material on the organic electroluminescent layer.

Abstract: A strap holding structure (200) for an electronic device (100), which includes a body (20), a cover (10). The body has a knuckle (22) formed at one end thereof. The knuckle has a middle board (226) formed therein. The cover has a barrel (12) formed at one end. The strap holding structure includes a latching element (30) and a strap holder (40). The latching element is attached to the cover at one end. The strap holder has a pole (424) at a first end of the strap holder. A groove (444) is circumferentially defined in an outer wall of the strap holder and two notches (442) are axially defined in the outer wall thereof. The strap holder is engaged in the knuckle and the barrel. The latching element is received in the groove and the middle board is received in the notches.

Abstract: Methods are provided for fabricating three-dimensional electrically conductive structures. Three-dimensional electrically conductive microstructures are also provided. The method may include providing a mold having at least one microdepression which defines a three-dimensional structure; filling the microdepression of the mold with at least one substrate material; molding the at least one substrate material to form a substrate; and depositing and patterning of at least one electrically conductive layer either during the molding process or subsequent to the molding process to form an electrically conductive structure. In one embodiment, the three-dimensional electrically conductive microstructure comprises an electrically functional microneedle array comprising two or more microneedles, each including a high aspect ratio, polymeric three dimensional substrate structure which is at least substantially coated by an electrically conductive layer.

Abstract: A wireless communication terminal and program updating method are provided. The method downloads a binary file from a host computer to update a program. The method includes determining, if the wireless communication terminal is booted, whether the wireless communication terminal is in a binary file download mode or if the wireless communication terminal has been rebooted by generation of an undesired event; and if so, setting a start position for downloading the binary file according to the number of occurrences of the undesired event. Thereafter, even when downloading is interrupted by an undesired event, downloading is performed from a position at which it was interrupted, not from the start position of the file, so that the time required for downloading the file can be reduced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel thiourea derivatives as a modulator for vanilloid receptor (VR) and the pharmaceutical compositions containing the same. As diseases associated with the activity of vanilloid receptor, pain acute pain, chronic pain, neuropathic pain, post-operative pain, migraine, arthralgia, neuropathies, nerve injury, diabetic neuropathy, neurodegeneration, neurotic skin disorder, stroke, urinary bladder hypersensitiveness, irritable bowel syndrome, a respiratory disorder such as asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, irritation of skin, eye or mucous membrane, fervescence, stomach-duodenal ulcer, inflammatory bowel disease and inflammatory diseases can be enumerated. The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for prevention or treatment of these diseases.

Abstract: A nanowire electromechanical switching device is constructed with a source electrode and a drain electrode disposed on an insulating substrate and spaced apart from each other, a first nanowire vertically grown on the source electrode and to which a V1 voltage is applied, a second nanowire vertically grown on the drain electrode and to which a V2 voltage having an opposite polarity to that of the V1 voltage is applied, and a gate electrode spaced apart from the second nanowire, partially surrounding the second nanowire and having an opening that faces the first nanowire in order to avoid disturbing a mutual switching operation of the first nanowire and the second nanowire and to which a V3 voltage having the same polarity as that of the V2 voltage is applied.

Abstract: A host device having a notice function for setting environment and a setting environment method thereof are disclosed. The host device includes a download unit which downloads and stores an application provided from a broadcasting station, a control unit which executes the application stored in the download unit and thus to change a setting environment, and a display unit which displays the setting environment changed by the control unit on a screen.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display of compact size is disclosed. The liquid crystal display has a tape carrier package and a single integrated PCB for processing a gate driving signal and data driving signal. The tape carrier package includes a base substrate, a gate driver IC formed on said base substrate, an input pattern formed on said base substrate that applies gate driving signals input from an external device to the gate driver IC, a first output pattern formed on said base substrate that outputs a first gate driving signal processed in said gate driver IC, and a second output pattern formed on said base substrate, that outputs a second gate driving signal bypassing the gate driver IC among the gate driving signals.

Abstract: A method and system of relaying data are provided. The data is encoded into a turbo codeword by using a convolutional turbo code, and the turbo codeword is transmitted from a source to a relay and a destination by first puncturing the turbo codeword. The first punctured turbo codeword which is received in the relay is decoded and the decoded turbo codeword is transmitted from the relay to the destination by second puncturing the decoded turbo codeword. The turbo codeword received from the source and the relay to the destination are totaled respectively as a single turbo codeword and the totaled single turbo codeword is decoded and the data is recovered.

Abstract: In a flash memory device, which can maintain an enhanced electric field between a control gate and a storage node (floating gate) and has a reduced cell size, and a method of manufacturing the flash memory device, the flash memory device includes a semiconductor substrate having a pair of drain regions and a source region formed between the pair of drain regions, a pair of spacer-shaped control gates each formed on the semiconductor substrate between the source region and each of the drain regions, and a storage node formed in a region between the control gate and the semiconductor substrate. A bottom surface of each of the control gates includes a first region that overlaps with the semiconductor substrate and a second region that overlaps with the storage node. The pair of spacer-shaped control gates are substantially symmetrical with each other about the source region.

Abstract: A low profile connector (1) includes an insulative housing (2) having an opening (221) surrounded by an upper wall (20), a lower wall (21), a pair of opposed side walls (23) and a back wall (24). A plurality of contacts (3) is assembled with the back wall for being fastened with the housing. The back wall defines at least one protrusion (25) extending into the opening. The protrusion is dissymmetrical about a plane perpendicular to the back wall.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a plurality of image bearing bodies in a predetermined sequence, an intermediate transfer medium for running in contact with each of the plurality of image bearing bodies, and a plurality of supporting rollers for driving the intermediate transfer medium. At least two image bearing bodies are oriented such that radius deviations of the respective image bearing bodies are in substantial registration along the intermediate transfer medium.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device, includes: a first substrate including a first pixel region, the first pixel region including first, second and third sub-pixel regions; an array element layer on an inner surface of the first substrate, the array element layer including a thin film transistor in each sub-pixel region; a second substrate facing the first substrate and being spaced apart from the first substrate, the second substrate including a second pixel region corresponding to the first pixel region, and the second pixel region including fourth, fifth and sixth sub-pixel regions; an organic electroluminescent diode on an inner surface of the second substrate in each sub-pixel region; and a connection electrode electrically connecting the first substrate to the second substrates, wherein the fourth, fifth and sixth sub-pixel regions have different sizes from each other.

Abstract: A demultiplexer using sample/hold circuits, and a display device using the same. The demultiplexer includes a first sample/hold circuit group with first and second sample/hold circuits for sampling the data current according to a first sampling order during a first interval, and programming the current corresponding to the sampled and stored data to at least two signal lines during a second interval. The demultiplexer further includes a second sample/hold circuit group with third and fourth sample/hold circuits for sampling the data current according to a second sampling order during a second interval, and programming the current corresponding to the sampled and stored data to the signal lines during a third interval. The first and second sampling orders in even the even frames are different from the sampling orders in the odd frames.

Abstract: Digital to Analog Conversion and sample conversion blocks are combined in order to reduce hardware and/or computational complexity. A novel DSM design is used to perform sample rate conversion. The DSM may also be used to perform other digital filtering functions, thus providing a single hardware/software technique to perform both functions. The invention includes a method and apparatus for converting input data samples provided at a first sample rate to an analog output signal. Input data samples are converted by a Delta Sigma Modulator (DSM) in a Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) to output data samples, where internal states of the DSM are updated at a second sample rate unequal to the first sample rate. At least one internal state of the DSM s modified to account for the time difference in response to a new input sample arriving at a time different from an update of the internal states of the DSM.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for detecting beam power generated by a plurality of light sources, using a single device. The apparatus includes a light-receiving unit that receives the beam power generated by one of a plurality of light sources, and an amplifying unit that selects a gain, amplifies the beam power received by the light-receiving unit according to the selected gain, and outputs the beam power amplified as a detected beam power. According to the apparatus and method, received beam power (or amplification gain) is amplified by a gain determined according to the characteristics of the respective light sources. Thus, it is possible to provide the detected beam power in consideration of a sufficient dynamic range for the each light source, thereby realizing effective APC.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to record data on an optical recording medium include generating a recording waveform having an erase pattern comprising a predetermined pulse having a high level which is higher than an erase power level and having a low level which is lower than the erase power level.

Abstract: Provided are 1-phenylpiperidin-3-one derivatives and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, having cysteine protease inhibitory activity, pharmaceutical compositions containing the same as an active ingredient, and processes for the preparation thereof.

Abstract: A method and system varying super-frame length information in a wireless network according to characteristics of transmitted data frames and/or a channel status after a basic service set (BSS) is initiated. Characteristics of a data frame to be transmitted on a MAC layer after the BSS initiation is monitored, and if determined as a result of the monitoring that the super-frame length information needs to be changed due to a variation in a transmission duration of the data frame, the super-frame length information is changed.