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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184899 | Method of detecting a defect on an object In a method of detecting a defect on an object, a preliminary reference image can be obtained from a plurality of comparison regions defined on the object. The preliminary reference image is divided into reference zones by a similar brightness. Each of the reference... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184256 | Display panel and method for manufacturing the same A display panel and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The display panel includes: a first substrate, a touch spacer formed on a first substrate, a common electrode formed on the touch spacer, a second substrate opposing the first substrate, a sensin... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184251 | Thin film transistor array and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a thin film transistor array substrate includes: forming a gate pattern on a substrate; forming a first gate insulating film and a second gate insulating film on the substrate; forming a source/drain pattern and a semiconductor pattern on t... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184228 | Display device and method of compensating for pressure changes thereof A display device includes a display panel, a touch screen panel and a receiving container. The display panel displays an image. The touch screen panel is spaced apart from the display panel. The receiving container receives the display panel and has a venting part f... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184222 | Display apparatus and method thereof A display apparatus includes a storage line, a main-storage electrode branched from the storage line, and sub-storage electrodes branched from the main-storage electrode. The main-storage electrode and the sub-storage electrodes form storage capacitors with a pixel ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184220 | Liquid crystal display, thin film transistor substrate and method thereof A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) capable of improving display quality includes a first insulating substrate, gate wiring lines formed on the first insulating substrate and extending in a first direction, pixel electrodes, each of which includes first and second ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184089 | Backlight level selection for display devices Display systems and methods for adjusting backlight illumination are disclosed for selecting a backlight illumination level that is low enough to reduce backlight power consumption while maintaining a desired level of image quality. The method 1) determines the peak... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184079 | Display device having reduced flicker A driving apparatus for a display device and display device having the driving apparatus. The display device has a plurality of pixels each having a switching element. The driving apparatus includes a gate line connected to the switching element, a gate driver to ap... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183884 | Output driving device in semiconductor device An output driving device prevents an inflow of external current through an output terminal even when there is no power supply. The output driving device includes an output circuit that maintains an output terminal at a low impedance state by receiving a supply of po... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183786 | Liquid crystal display and method of driving the same A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) includes; a liquid crystal panel which displays an image, and a plurality of light-emitting blocks which provide light to the liquid crystal panel, wherein each of the light-emitting blocks includes a first string having a plural... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183303 | Adhesive composition and adhesive film made therefrom Disclosed is an adhesive composition including a compound having a multi-functional urethane (meth)acrylate group and an adhesive film prepared by using it. The adhesive composition includes compounds represented by Chemical Formulae 1 to 3. The compound represented... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183141 | Methods of forming semiconductor devices Provided are a semiconductor device and a method of forming the same. The method may include forming a metal oxide layer on a substrate and forming a sacrificial oxide layer on the metal oxide layer. An annealing process is performed on the substrate. A formation-fr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183136 | Method of forming insulating layer and method of manufacturing transistor using the same Provided are a method of forming an insulating layer and a method of manufacturing a transistor using the method. The method of forming the insulating layer includes forming a preliminary insulating layer including silicon oxide (SiO2) on a silicon (Si)-c... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183113 | Methods of forming recessed gate structures including blocking members, and methods of forming semiconductor devices having the recessed gate structures A recessed gate structure in a semiconductor device includes a gate electrode partially buried in a substrate, a blocking member formed in the buried portion of the gate electrode, and a gate insulation layer formed between the gate electrode and the substrate. The ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182633 | Method of fabricating a flexible display device A method of fabricating a flexible display device. The method includes forming an adhesive layer on a first carrier substrate; laminating a first flexible substrate on the adhesive layer, so that a first separation layer of the first flexible substrate is disposed o... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182131 | Light guide plate and backlight unit having the same In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a light guide plate includes a first light incident surface receiving a first external light, a second light incident surface receiving a second external light and opposite to the first light inci... | 05/22/2012 |
| D660310 | Mobile terminal with a graphical user interface | 05/22/2012 |
| D660278 | Mobile phone | 05/22/2012 |
| D660275 | Mobile phone | 05/22/2012 |
| D660274 | Mobile phone | 05/22/2012 |
| D660273 | Mobile phone | 05/22/2012 |
| D660272 | Mobile phone | 05/22/2012 |
| D660271 | Mobile phone | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180976 | Programming non-volatile memory devices based on data logic values A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell array, a data scanning unit, and a program unit. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cells, where each of the memory cells is programmable to store data have a first logic value or a second logic va... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180939 | Memory devices implementing clock mirroring scheme and related memory systems and clock mirroring methods A memory device is configured to operate in first and second data input/output modes. The memory device includes a first electrode pad, a second electrode pad, a clock signal line, a first switching unit, and a second switching unit. The clock signal line is configu... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179938 | Light-emitting element capable of increasing amount of light emitted, light-emitting device including the same, and method of manufacturing light-emitting element and light-emitting device A light-emitting element capable of increasing the amount of light emitted, a light-emitting device including the same, and a method of manufacturing the light-emitting element and the light-emitting device include a buffer layer having an uneven pattern formed ther... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179732 | Flash memory devices including ready/busy control circuits and methods of testing the same A flash memory device includes a chip disable fuse circuit that has a fuse and that outputs a chip disable signal when the fuse is cut out, and a ready/busy control circuit that forcibly activates a ready/busy signal representing an internal operational state in res... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179727 | NAND flash memory devices and methods of LSB/MSB programming the same Multiple bits are programmed in a NAND flash memory device by programming a memory cell with an LSB; storing the LSB into a cache register from the memory cell; programming the memory cell with an MSB that is stored in a main register; storing a data bit into the ma... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179711 | Semiconductor memory device with stacked memory cell and method of manufacturing the stacked memory cell In a semiconductor memory device and method, resistive-change memory cells are provided, each including a plurality of control transistors formed on different layers and variable resistance devices comprising a resistive-change memory. Each resistive-change memory c... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179685 | Printed circuit board and display apparatus having the same A printed circuit board on which a connector is mounted includes an insulating layer through which holes are formed and a supporting layer. An upper surface of the supporting layer is attached to the connector. The supporting layer is disposed on an upper surface of... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179491 | Thin film transistor having improved fabrication and performance characteristics and display device having the same A thin-film transistor (TFT) is provided. The TFT includes a gate electrode; a dielectric layer and an active layer which are formed on the gate electrode; and source and drain electrodes which are formed on the active layer, each of the source and drain electrodes ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179482 | Touch panel display and method of manufacturing the same A display having a touch panel capability is provided. The display includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposing each other, a thin-film transistor for pixel driving formed on the first substrate, and a thin-film transistor for touch position detection ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179407 | Method of driving a display apparatus, and display apparatus and timing controller for performing the method A method of driving a display apparatus for an embodiment comprises a light source module divided into a plurality of light-emitting blocks to provide light to a display panel, a local dimming driving part driving the light-emitting blocks, and a timing controller c... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179385 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal panel includes a gate line, a data line, and a switching element connected to the gate line and the data line; a gate driver applying a gate signal; and a data driver selecting gray voltages and applying the selected gray voltages to the data line. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179365 | Electrophoretic display device having improved color gamut An electrophoretic display device has a first substrate that defines a plurality of sub-pixel areas; with shaped pixel electrodes formed in the sub-pixel areas. A second substrate is attached in facing relation to the first substrate during mass production. The seco... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179350 | Display device A display device including a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix including rows and columns and a plurality switching elements coupled with the pixel electrodes; a plurality of gate lines coupled with the switching elements and extending in a row dire... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179345 | Shared buffer display panel drive methods and systems Methods of driving source lines and/or circuits/systems for driving source lines are provided. Source lines of a display device are driven by comparing first data for driving a first buffer associated with a first source line of the display device and second data fo... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178928 | Intermediate structures having reduced width contact holes that are formed during manufacture of memory cells having contact structures Intermediate structures are provided that are formed during the manufacture of a memory device. These structures include first and second spaced apart gate patterns on a semiconductor substrate. A source/drain region is provided in the semiconductor substrate betwee... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178621 | Composition for crosslinkable polyimide precusor, method of manufacturing cross-linked polyimide, and polyimide film A polyimide precursor composition includes an oligomer or polymer having a substituted or unsubstituted carbonyl group only in a side chain and a diamine compound. A method of manufacturing a polyimide, and a polyimide film, are also disclosed. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178424 | Method of fabricating light-emitting apparatus with improved light extraction efficiency and light-emitting apparatus fabricated using the method Provided are a method of fabricating a light-emitting apparatus with improved light extraction efficiency and a light-emitting apparatus fabricated using the method. The method includes: preparing a monocrystalline substrate; forming an intermediate structure on the... | 05/15/2012 |
