Abstract: A compact multilayer band-pass filter using an interdigital capacitor which can be integrated into a compact form in a relatively low frequency band. The band-pass filter filters only a signal of a predetermined frequency band from a signal applied through an input terminal, and outputs a filtered signal to an output terminal. The band-pass filter includes at least one pair of transmission lines, respectively formed between the input terminal and the output terminal provided on an uppermost layer, for generating an inductor component, a capacitance compensation unit, with the interdigital capacitor having a plurality of layers, for loading a specified capacitance to one end of the transmission line, and a ground layer coupled to a specified layer of the capacitance compensation unit and the other end of the transmission line and formed on a lowermost layer.

Abstract: An electronic programming guide (EPG) providing apparatus and method, in which an EPG is configured as a 3D form to facilitate a search for broadcasting program information included in the EPG. The EPG providing apparatus includes an EPG screen configuring unit and a control unit. The EPG screen configuring unit configures an EPG screen such that broadcasting program information is displayed on at least three faces of a 3D polyhedron. The control unit controls the EPG screen configuring unit to configure the EPG screen such that broadcasting program information corresponding to another broadcasting time zone or another broadcasting channel is displayed on the EPG screen based on a user input signal requesting a search for the broadcasting program information corresponding to another broadcasting time zone or another broadcasting channel.

Abstract: Provided is a method of a media server providing broadcast content received from an outside source in a universal plug and play (UPnP) network. The method includes receiving a message from a control point requesting to change to a second channel, while transmitting broadcast content of a first channel by setting a connection for streaming with a media renderer; and transmitting the broadcast content of the second channel instead of the broadcast content of the predetermined first channel by changing a broadcasting reception of the first channel while maintaining the connection.

Abstract: An electronic programming guide (EPG) providing apparatus and method to collectively manage broadcast content using stored EPG information are provided. The EPG providing apparatus includes a storing unit which stores broadcast content and EPG information, an EPG screen configuring unit which configures an EPG screen including information on past, current, and future broadcast content using the EPG information, and a control unit which collectively manages broadcast content provided on the EPG screen based on a user input signal.

Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate, the first substrate and the second substrate being provided with a predetermined gap therebetween. Barrier ribs are formed in a non-striped pattern between the first substrate and the second substrate, the barrier ribs defining a plurality of discharge spaces. A plurality of address electrodes are formed on the first substrate along a direction (y), the address electrodes being formed within and outside discharge spaces. A plurality of sustain electrodes are formed on the second substrate along a direction (x), the sustain electrodes being formed within and outside discharge spaces. The address electrodes include large electrode portions provided within discharge spaces and small electrode portions provided outside the discharge spaces. If a width of large electrode portions is AW, a width of small electrode portions is Aw, and a distance between barrier ribs along direction (x) is D, AW is larger than Aw, and AW is 40-75% of D.

Abstract: A method of realizing a personal video recorder (PVR) using a home network device is provided. A client receives contents and replays the contents in a home network. The client uploads first contents received from a real time broadcasting channel to the server from a time when an external time-shift input is received, terminates the uploading of the first contents if an external replay input is received during the uploading of the first contents, replays the first contents whose uploading is terminated from a portion requested by the external replay input, and simultaneously uploads second contents to the server, received from the real time broadcasting channel at a time when the uploading of the first contents is terminated. A user can watch a live broadcast using a time-shift function such as a PVR via a home network device without a separate PVR.

Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate, the first substrate and the second substrate being provided with a predetermined gap therebetween. Barrier ribs are formed in a non-striped pattern between the first substrate and the second substrate, the barrier ribs defining a plurality of discharge spaces. A plurality of address electrodes are formed on the first substrate along a direction (y), the address electrodes being formed within and outside discharge spaces. A plurality of sustain electrodes are formed on the second substrate along a direction (x), the sustain electrodes being formed within and outside discharge spaces. The address electrodes include large electrode portions provided within discharge spaces and small electrode portions provided outside the discharge spaces. If a width of large electrode portions is AW, a width of small electrode portions is Aw, and a distance between barrier ribs along direction (x) is D, AW is larger than Aw, and AW is 40–75% of D.

Abstract: A method for controlling gas pressure for inflating a passenger-side frontal airbag in a vehicle comprises a determination of the type and number of passengers in the passenger seat and a determination of the nature and severity of the impact. When at least one passenger is resident in the passenger seat, the current passenger type is selected from a plurality of predetermined passenger types. The gas pressure for inflating the passenger-side frontal airbag is adjusted on the basis of the current passenger type and number, and the frontal impact generated from the collision.

Abstract: A temperature sensor can linearly adjust sensed temperature. The temperature sensor includes: a current generation circuit which generates a proportional-to-absolute temperature (PTAT) current and a conversely-proportional-to-absolute temperature (CTAT) current; and a temperature sensing unit which compares the PTAT current with the CTAT current, senses a temperature at which the PTAT current and the CTAT current are equal, increases the sensed temperature by reducing the PTAT current in response to a first control signal for controlling the sensed temperature to increase, decreases the sensed temperature by increasing the PTAT current in response to a second control signal for controlling the sensed temperature to decrease, and determines an adjustment amount of the sensed temperature which is increased or decreased in response to a third control signal for indicating the adjustment amount.

Abstract: A stable, low power consumption signal detecting circuit may include: a delay circuit, which receives a base clock signal and generates multiple versions thereof having time delay relationships thereto, respectively; dual amplifiers, which detect valid ones of input signals by comparing the input signals with reference voltage signals in response to the multiple versions of the base clock signal, respectively; a combining unit, which generates a combination signal in response to output signals of the dual amplifiers; and a sampling circuit, which samples the combination signal according to the base clock signal and generates an output signal.

Abstract: A plasma display panel. A first substrate and a second substrate are provided at a predetermined distance from the first substrate and form a vacuum assembly with the first substrate. Barrier ribs form pixels between the first substrate and the second substrate such that subpixels forming one grouping of pixels are arranged in a triangular configuration. A plurality of address electrodes is formed on a surface of the first substrate facing the second substrate and along a first direction of the first substrate. A plurality of discharge sustain electrodes is formed on a surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate and along a first direction of the second substrate. A phosphor layer and a discharge gas are provided between the first substrate and the second substrate.

Abstract: Temperature detectors include a temperature sensor that is configured to generate temperature tracking signals that indicate that a detected temperature is above, below or in a temperature range that corresponds to a selected one of a series of temperature control signals that indicate a series of temperature ranges. A control circuit is configured to sequentially supply the selected one of the series of control signals to the temperature sensor in response to the temperature tracking signals. The series of temperature control signals may indicate a series of overlapping temperature ranges, such that the temperature detector has a hysteresis characteristic. Analogous methods also may be provided.

Abstract: A flexible device, a flexible pressure sensor, and a fabrication method thereof. The present flexible device includes: a first flexible substrate formed of a flexible material to have a flexibility; an active element formed to have a predetermined thickness and a flexibility, and being attached on the first flexible substrate; and a second flexible substrate formed of a flexible material to have a flexibility, and being deposited on the active element. The flexible device and the flexible pressure sensor have a high flexibility, so that they may be applied for a medical treatment such as implantation to a living body, a human body and so forth. In addition, the flexible device has a high flexibility, so that it may be inserted to a curved surface, which contributes to remove the limit of space where the semiconductor package device may be inserted.

Abstract: A plasma display panel design having a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area. Within the display area are discharge cells, and within the peripheral area are dummy cells that serve as a location where fluorescent paste is injected onto in an early stage of making the display, enabling the injection amount and injection speed from a nozzle to stabilize before the fluorescent material is deposited into the discharge cells. A surface area that the fluorescent material is deposited on in the peripheral area is increased to provide for a more rapid stabilization of the injection pressure and injection amount of the paste in the making of the display. A sufficient gap is present between a sealant and the dummy structure so that air and foreign matter can be expelled.

Abstract: A plasma display panel (PDP) is characterized such that the strength of barrier ribs can be maintained, impurity gases can be easily exhausted, and a discharge gas can be smoothly filled in the discharge cells when manufacturing the PDP. The PDP includes: a transparent front substrate; a rear substrate disposed facing the front substrate; a plurality of discharge electrodes disposed between the front substrate and the rear substrate; a plurality of barrier ribs disposed between the front substrate and the rear substrate, and defining a plurality of discharge cells which are spaces for generating a discharge, the barrier ribs having side walls that define an exhaust channel formed in at least a portion between the discharge cells, at least one of the side walls having an arc-like shape; a phosphor layer disposed in each of the discharge cells; and a discharge gas filled in the discharge cells.

Abstract: A compact multilayer band-pass filter using an interdigital capacitor which can be integrated into a compact form in a relatively low frequency band. The band-pass filter filters only a signal of a predetermined frequency band from a signal applied through an input terminal, and outputs a filtered signal to an output terminal. The band-pass filter includes at least one pair of transmission lines, respectively formed between the input terminal and the output terminal provided on an uppermost layer, for generating an inductor component, a capacitance compensation unit, with the interdigital capacitor having a plurality of layers, for loading a specified capacitance to one end of the transmission line, and a ground layer coupled to a specified layer of the capacitance compensation unit and the other end of the transmission line and formed on a lowermost layer.

Abstract: A method for controlling a plurality of devices including a master device having AV terminals and slave devices connected to the master device through a communication control line, with the use of a single remote control. The method includes detecting the slave devices, and allocating a device ID to each of the slave devices, identifying to which slave device each AV terminal is connected, by controlling the detected slave devices to be powered on or off through the communication control line with the use of the device ID, receiving a predetermined key code from a user's remote control, and determining which device among the master device and the slave devices to control and determining an operation of the device, by referring to an item of mapping table corresponding to the key code, and controlling operation of the device through the communication control line with the use of the device ID.

Abstract: A plasma display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate, the first substrate and the second substrate being provided with a predetermined gap therebetween. Barrier ribs are formed in a non-striped pattern between the first substrate and the second substrate, the barrier ribs defining a plurality of discharge spaces. A plurality of address electrodes are formed on the first substrate along a direction (y), the address electrodes being formed within and outside discharge spaces. A plurality of sustain electrodes are formed on the second substrate along a direction (x), the sustain electrodes being formed within and outside discharge spaces. The address electrodes include large electrode portions provided within discharge spaces and small electrode portions provided outside the discharge spaces. If a width of large electrode portions is AW, a width of small electrode portions is Aw, and a distance between barrier ribs along direction (x) is D, AW is larger than Aw, and AW is 40-75% of D.

Abstract: A plasma display panel includes designed to improve optical efficiently and to reduce misdischarging between discharge cells. The address electrodes have varying widths so that they are narrow in discharge cells and are relatively wide outside of discharge cells. Discharge gas filling the discharge cells have an elevated Xe content, preferably 10 to 30%. Other variations further include having striped and matrix patterned barrier ribs, forming the discharge sustain electrodes in tabs extending in pairs into the middle of the discharge cells, and varying the width of address electrodes at various locations outside of the discharge cells.

Abstract: A method and device for controlling slave devices with a master device. The device performs specific functions to control operations of slave devices with a master device, and includes a user input receiving unit that receives an input from a user, a memory unit that stores command sets, each command set corresponding to a series of operation controls of the master device or one of the slave devices, and a control unit that generates operation control signals of the master device or one of the slave devices when an operation control command set is selected, the operation control signals corresponding to the selected operation control command set.