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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8052319 | Diffusion plate and display apparatus having the same Disclosed are a diffusion plate and a display apparatus having the same. The diffusion plate includes a base and a plurality of convex portions. The base includes a front surface and a rear surface. Each convex portion has a crescent of an ellipse formed on a front ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050488 | Method of analyzing a wafer sample In a method of analyzing a wafer sample, a first defect of a photoresist pattern on the wafer sample having shot regions exposed with related exposure conditions is detected. A first portion of the pattern includes the shot regions exposed with an exposure condition... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8026171 | Method of fabricating metal interconnection and method of fabricating image sensor using the same A method of fabricating a metal interconnection and a method of fabricating image sensor using the same are provided. The method of fabricating a metal interconnection including forming a interlayer dielectric layer on a substrate, forming an interconnection formati... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8009476 | Semiconductor memory device using variable resistor Example embodiments relate to a variable resistance semiconductor memory device including: a plurality of memory blocks belonging to different memory sectors and alternately arranged in a memory bank including the memory sectors so as to be adjacent to each other; a... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8008855 | Organic light emitting display with micro-lenses and method of manufacturing the same An organic light emitting display includes a base substrate, a driving transistor arranged on the base substrate, a first electrode electrically connected to the driving transistor, an organic light emitting layer arranged on the first electrode to generate a light,... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8003469 | Method of manufacturing non-volatile semiconductor devices A non-volatile semiconductor device includes a memory cell in a first area of a substrate, a low voltage transistor in a second area of the substrate, and a high voltage transistor in a third area of the substrate. The memory cell includes a tunnel insulation layer ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7999368 | Semiconductor package having ink-jet type dam and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor package includes a substrate which includes a chip mounting unit disposed on a first surface thereof and a pad forming unit disposed on an outer region of the chip mounting unit. The semiconductor package further includes a plurality of pads disposed... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7999294 | Semiconductor device which may prevent electrical failures of contacts A semiconductor device includes a first insulation film having a plurality of openings which exposes predetermined regions of a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of first conductive patterns partially filling the openings and a plurality of second conductive patt... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995028 | Timing controller, liquid crystal display comprising the same and driving method of liquid crystal display A timing controller, a liquid crystal display (LCD) comprising the same and a driving method of the liquid crystal display, in which the LCD includes an LCD panel, a light source unit divided into n light-emitting blocks providing light to the LCD panel, a side memb... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7990360 | Backlight assembly and display device having the same A backlight assembly a plurality of first light-emitting chips for emitting light and a thermistor for indicating the temperature of the first light-emitting chips. The first light-emitting chips emit first color light and are connected in series to each other. The ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7885404 | Cryptographic systems and methods supporting multiple modes Cryptographic systems and methods that support multiple modes of operation, such as CBC, CTR and/or CCM modes. In one aspect, a method for encrypting data includes reading a plaintext data block from a memory, storing the plaintext data block in an input buffer, enc... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7869545 | Channel estimation method and apparatus determining a channel impulse response (CIR) distribution area using two adjacent windows A channel estimation method and apparatus based on two adjacent windows. The channel estimation method includes scanning a signal containing noise and channel impulse response (CIR) information with a first window and a second window, detecting a CIR distribution ar... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7838365 | SONOS memory device having curved surface and method for fabricating the same A new SONOS memory device is provided, in which a conventional planar surface of multi-dielectric layers (ONO layers) is instead formed with a curved surface such as a cylindrical shape, and included is a method for fabricating the same. A radius of curvature... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7814359 | High-speed phase-adjusted quadrature data rate (QDR) transceiver and method thereof A high-speed double or quadrature data rate interface semiconductor device and a method thereof are provided. A transmitter (e.g., a data transmitting semiconductor device) for high-speed data transmission transmits a first strobe signal and a second strobe signal, ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7792203 | Equalization method and apparatus for time domain synchronous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing receiver An equalization method and apparatus for a Time domain synchronous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (TDS-OFDM) receiver. The equalization method includes estimating a channel impulse response (CIR) based on a baseband sampled complex signal and locally sto... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7774044 | System and method for augmented reality navigation in a medical intervention procedure A method for augmented reality navigation of a medical intervention includes providing a stereoscopic head mounted display, the display including a pair of stereo viewing cameras, at least one tracking camera, and a stereoscopic guidance display. During a medical in... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7765025 | Systems and methods for programming motion control Systems, methods and computer program code for the programming of motion control in load transportation systems are provided which may include programming motion control by specifying desired load motions. ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7760174 | Apparatus and method for driving small-sized LCD device An apparatus and method for driving a small-sized or low-powered liquid crystal display (LCD) device are provided to reduce the amount of energy consumed in driving the LCD device while displaying a high-quality moving image on a small-sized LCD panel without distor... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7760172 | Method of driving a transistor, a driving element using the same, and a display panel and a display apparatus having the driving element A method of driving a transistor, a driving element using the same, and a display panel and a display apparatus having the driving element are provided. The method for driving a transistor comprises: receiving a bias voltage at a first electrode of a driving transis... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7755531 | Analog reference voltage generator, method thereof, analog-to-digital converter including the same, and image sensor including the same An analog reference voltage generator for generating a monotonously increasing or decreasing analog reference voltage includes a plurality of dump cells in front of an operational amplifier and controls the dump cells using a plurality of clock signals, respectively... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7746397 | Image device having color filter An image device comprises an image sensor including an array of photodiodes for converting an optical image into electrical signals, a color filter comprising an array of red, green and cyan filter elements disposed opposite the array of photodiodes, and a color pro... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7746128 | Clock multiplier and clock generator having the same A clock multiplier includes a phase-frequency detector, a voltage-current converter, a duty ratio control circuit, a plurality of variable delay cells and an edge combiner. The phase-frequency detector generates control signals. The voltage-current converter convert... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7739499 | Check anti-fraud security system A system and method for check anti-fraud security includes a system installed with an optional printer for printing the check base identification, a camera/scanner/reader coupled to the production printer for imaging/scanning/reading check base identification and MI... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7733680 | Non-volatile memory module for preventing system failure and system including the same A non-volatile memory module for preventing system failure and a system including the same, in which the non-volatile memory system includes a first socket and a second socket each having a notch coupler, a first memory module, a memory controller configured to cont... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7697130 | Apparatus and method for inspecting a surface of a wafer A surface inspection apparatus and method increase wafer productivity, wherein to increase an efficiency of the surface inspection apparatus to detect defects during a scanning of the wafer surface, a scanning speed for a subsequent defect detection is varied accord... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7692648 | System and method for empty space skipping in sliding texture based volume rendering by trimming slab polygons A method for volume rendering a digitized image includes providing a pair of adjacent 2-dimensional images of texture data, identifying a plurality of polygons extending in slabs between said adjacent two dimensional textures, and finding the first and last visible ... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7671909 | Method and apparatus for processing Bayer-pattern digital color video signal Provided are a method and apparatus for processing a Bayer pattern digital color video signal, where the video signal processing apparatus includes a BP detector that generates the pixel information signal PIS representing whether the current pixel is good or bad fr... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7652538 | Circuits and methods for improving slew rate of differential amplifiers Circuits and methods are provided for providing high speed operational amplifiers and, in particular, operational amplifiers having frequency compensation circuits that provide improved slew rates with low power dissipation when configured with feedback. Frequency c... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7652367 | Semiconductor package on package having plug-socket type wire connection between packages A semiconductor package on package includes a tower package, an upper package stacked over the lower package, a plug wire combined to any one of an upper portion of the tower package and a lower portion of the upper package, and a socket wire combined to any one of ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7642019 | Methods for monitoring and adjusting focus variation in a photolithographic process using test features printed from photomask test pattern images; and machine readable program storage device having instructions therefore Systems and methods are provided for detecting focus variation in a lithographic process using photomasks having test patterns adapted to print test features with critical dimensions that can be measured and analyzed to determine magnitude and direction of defocus f... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7602965 | Object detection using cross-section analysis In a method of 3-D object detection, an image is pre-processed. Using cross-section analysis, a confidence array is built. A plurality of peaks in the confidence array are detected, wherein the peaks signify a likelihood of a 3-D object of interest. ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7539970 | Method of manufacturing mask A method of manufacturing a mask includes designing a second mask data pattern for forming a first mask data pattern, creating a first emulation pattern, which is determined from the second mask data pattern, using a first emulation, creating a second emulation patt... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7536612 | Field spike monitor for MRAM A method for monitoring field events in an MRAM memory device comprises providing a first magnetic storage cell having a switching threshold less than or equal to a switching threshold of a second magnetic storage cell, writing the first magnetic storage cell in a f... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7486757 | Optical driver including a multiphase clock generator having a delay locked loop (DLL), optimized for gigahertz frequencies An optical (disc) driving system including the DLL based multiphase clock generator circuit capable of generating 32 different phases from input clock having a frequency of 800 MHz or greater. The multiphase clock generator includes on a delay locked loop (DLL) havi... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7484075 | Method and apparatus for providing fast remote register access in a clustered VLIW processor using partitioned register files Effective remote register file access time can be reduced in a clustered VLIW processor using partitioned register files and some additional hardware for pre-fetching remote registers. An instruction pre-fetcher and an instruction pre-decoder is used for pre-fetchin... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7480401 | Method for local surface smoothing with application to chest wall nodule segmentation in lung CT data We present an algorithm for local surface smoothing in a defined Volume of Interest (“VOI”) cropped from three-dimensional (“3D”) volume data, such as lung computer tomography (“CT”) data. Because the VOI is generally a smooth and piecewise linear surfac... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7451310 | Parallelizable authentication tree for random access storage This invention relates to a method and apparatus for generating a cryptographic authentication code of a set of plaintext blocks, while allowing incremental updates to the set of plaintext blocks. Additionally, an aspect of the invention, allows the updated authenti... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7422939 | Semiconductor device having one-time programmable ROM and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor device with a one-time programmable (OTP) ROM disposed over a semiconductor substrate including a memory cell area and a peripheral circuit area includes a MOS transistor and an OTP ROM capacitor. The MOS transistor has a floating gate electrode and ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7415537 | Conversational portal for providing conversational browsing and multimedia broadcast on demand A system and method for providing conversational (multi-modal) access to information over a communications network from any location, at any time, utilizing any type of client/access, through a conversational (multi-modal) portal. In one aspect, a conversational por... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7405774 | Light guide plate and liquid crystal display having the same A liquid crystal display apparatus (100) comprising a liquid crystal display panel (2009 and a touch panel (300) is disclosed. A first transparent electrode (350) is disposed on an upper surface of the liquid crystal display panel (200... | 07/29/2008 |
