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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7497963 | Etching method In this etching method, since an etching gas is introduced before introduction of free radicals into a processing chamber, the etching gas has been adsorbed on the surface of substrates when the free radicals are introduced. Accordingly, the free radicals react with... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7488235 | Polishing apparatus and related polishing methods Polishing apparatus and related methods employ aligned first and second magnetic field sources to adjust the compressive force and/or pressure applied by a carrier head against a target workpiece (such as a wafer) by selectively and controllably generating a repella... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7481882 | Method for forming a thin film A method for forming a film includes forming the film on a substrate, followed by performing a first annealing of the film at a temperature lower than a crystallization temperature of the film. A second annealing of the film is performed at a temperature higher that... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7472331 | Memory systems including defective block management and related methods A memory system may include a plurality of non-volatile memory cells and a memory controller coupled to the plurality of non-volatile memory cells. The plurality of non-volatile memory cells may be arranged in blocks with each block including a plurality of pages of... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7456921 | Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: a first substrate; a first signal line formed on the first substrate; a second signal line formed on the first substrate and intersecting the first signal line; a thin film transistor connected to the first and t... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7446826 | Display panel and method of manufacture A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a connecting member and a strength-reinforcing member. The second substrate faces the first substrate, and includes a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area. The connecting memb... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7446841 | Liquid crystal display apparatus In an LCD apparatus, a pixel area defined by data lines and gate lines intersected with each other has a V-shape. A first electrode having the V-shape is formed in the pixel area disposed adjacent to a data line corresponding to a present stage among the data lines ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7438459 | Optical unit, backlight assembly having the same and display device having the same An optical unit includes a base, a light-condensing member disposed on the base to condense a first portion of light that is incident onto the base and protrusion members disposed on a surface of the light-condensing member to scatter a second portion of the light t... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7423625 | Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof A liquid crystal display is provided, which includes: a plurality of pixel row groups, each pixel row group including at least one pixel row that includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix and including switching elements; a plurality of gate lines connecte... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7414680 | Liquid crystal display apparatus and tablet personal computer having the same A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display panel, a driver printed circuit board, a backlight assembly and a receiving container. The driver printed circuit board is electrically connected to the liquid crystal display panel to provide the ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7403184 | Liquid crystal display having dual shift clock wire Disclosed is an LCD system including an LCD panel having a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines intersecting the data lines in a substantially perpendicular state, and a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix configuration and each having a... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7397092 | Phase changable memory device structures A phase-changeable memory device may include a substrate, an insulating layer on the substrate, first and second electrodes, and a pattern of a phase-changeable material between the first and second electrodes. More particularly, the insulating layer may have a hole... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397522 | Method for illuminating liquid crystal display device, a back-light assembly for performing the same, and a liquid crystal display device using the same A method for illuminating a liquid crystal display device, a back-light assembly for performing the same and a liquid crystal display device using the same can improve the front luminance and production yield. Lights from a lamp is incident to a LCD panel side, whic... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7388631 | Parallax compensating color filter and black mask for display apparatus A color display device comprising at least two substrates spaced from each other, the substrates each having an internal and an external surface, the internal surfaces of the two substrates facing each other, at least one of the substrates being transparent; electro... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7388641 | Liquid crystal display and method for manufacturing the same having particular pad unit Disclosed are a liquid crystal display (LCD) and a method for manufacturing the same, in which connection stability is improved when connecting a COG, A COF, or an FPC to a driving circuit. A substrate of the LCD has a display region and a non-display region at a pe... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7385598 | Driver for operating multiple display devices A driver chip for controlling a high-resolution display panel is presented. The driver chip is not much larger than a conventional driver chip that is currently used for lower resolution display panels. The driver chip applies data signals to the data lines of the d... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7378203 | Charge transport materials having at least a metallocene group Improved charge transport material comprises the formula: where M comprises a metallocenyl group; Y comprises a functional group selected from the group consisting of a metallocenyl... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7371493 | Charge transport materials having a 1,3,6,8-tetraoxo-1,3,6,8-tetrahydrobenzo[][3,8]phenanthroline-2,7-diyl group Improved charge transport material having the formula: Y-Z-X-E where E comprises a functional group selected from the group consisting of a reactive ring group, a vinyl ether group, an acrylamido group, and a methacrylami... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369445 | Methods of operating memory systems including memory devices set to different operating modes and related systems A method of operating a memory system including a plurality of memory devices coupled to a command address bus may be provided. In particular, a first memory device of the plurality of memory devices may be set to a first operating mode, and a second memory device o... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364825 | Charge transport materials having a nitrogen-containing-heterocycle hydrazone group Improved organophotoreceptor comprises an electrically conductive substrate and a photoconductive element on the electrically conductive substrate, the photoconductive element comprising: (a) a charge transport material having the ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7358014 | Electrophotographic organophotoreceptors with novel charge transport compounds A novel charge transport compound, a novel process using that novel compound and an organophotoreceptor includes: (a) a novel charge transport compound having the formula | 04/15/2008 |
| 7351508 | Organophotoreceptors with a charge transport material having multiple vinyl-containing hydrazone groups Improved organophotoreceptor comprises an electrically conductive substrate and a photoconductive element on the electrically conductive substrate, the photoconductive element comprising: (a) a charge transport material having the ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348112 | Polymeric charge transport materials having repeating units comprising an aromatic group and a —S— linkage Improved organophotoreceptor comprises an electrically conductive substrate and a photoconductive element on the electrically conductive substrate, the photoconductive element comprising: (a) a polymeric charge transport material h... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339568 | Signal transmission film and a liquid crystal display panel having the same A liquid crystal display of compact size is disclosed. The liquid crystal display has a signal transmission film and a single integrated PCB for processing a gate driving signal and data driving signal. The signal transmission film includes a base substrate, a gate ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336951 | System and method for performing handover in mobile communication system using paging procedure A system and method for handing over a terminal from a first base station to a second base station in a mobile communication system while the terminal is in communication with the first base station. Upon determining that the terminal must hand over to the second ba... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7329722 | Polymeric charge transport materials having carbazolyl repeating units Improved organophotoreceptor comprises an electrically conductive substrate and a photoconductive element on the electrically conductive substrate, the photoconductive element comprising: (a) a polymeric charge transport material h... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7312130 | Methods of forming capacitor structures including L-shaped cavities Methods of forming capacitor structures may include forming an insulating layer on a substrate, forming a first capacitor electrode on the insulating layer, forming a capacitor dielectric layer on portions of the first capacitor electrode, and forming a second capac... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310452 | Offset adjustment methods of signal converting circuits An image sensor includes a photosensitive element that generates an electrical signal corresponding to light incident thereon and a ramp signal generator that generates a ramp signal. Generation of the ramp signal is initiated in response to activation of a ramp ena... | 12/18/2007 |
| D553165 | Container for kimchi refrigerator | 10/16/2007 |
| D553164 | Refrigerator control | 10/16/2007 |
| D553077 | Charger for headset | 10/16/2007 |
| D553229 | Dehumidifier | 10/16/2007 |
| 7263525 | Query processing method for searching XML data The present invention relates to a query processing method for searching XML data by which performance of XML query processing can be improved by equivalence class and a path expression reduction algorithm. The query processing method of the present invention includ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7257263 | Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding motion vectors There is provided a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding motion vectors. Motion vectors are encoded through the steps of: (a) predicting motion vectors of a type identical to that of a present block and obtaining predictive motion vectors with respect to n... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7253799 | Backlight using planar hologram for flat display device The backlight for a flat display device including a light source, a light guide plate and a surface hologram is provided. The light guide plate is installed at one side of the light source, and light from the light source travels in the light guide plate while being... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251276 | Loop-filtering method for image data and apparatus therefor A loop-filtering method for reducing quantization effect generated when an image data is encoded and decoded, and an apparatus therefor. The loop-filtering method includes the steps of extracting a flag indicating whether the image data requires loop-filtering using... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245762 | Color image processing method A color image processing method is provided. The color image processing method includes the step of: (a) indexing a color image by assigning representative colors of an image to a color space divided into a plurality of regions. The color image processing method may... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7244645 | Methods of forming electronic devices including high-k dielectric layers and electrode barrier layers and related structures Methods of forming a microelectronic device can include providing a gate dielectric layer on a channel region of a semiconductor substrate wherein the gate dielectric layer is a high-k dielectric material. A gate electrode barrier layer can be provided on the gate d... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242820 | Image sensors including offset adjustment and related methods An image sensor includes a photosensitive element that generates an electrical signal corresponding to light incident thereon and a ramp signal generator that generates a ramp signal. Generation of the ramp signal is initiated in response to activation of a ramp ena... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7241539 | Photomasks including shadowing elements therein and related methods and systems A photomask for patterning an integrated circuit device using a patterning radiation may include a transparent substrate, a pattern of radiation blocking regions, an array of radiation blocking regions, and an array of shadowing elements. The transparent substrate m... | 07/10/2007 |
