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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185098 | Mobile terminal using variable menu icons A method for controlling a mobile terminal includes setting a variable menu icon to represent different functions for first and second operating modes, displaying a plurality of menu icons including the variable menu icon during the first operating mode, and switchi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184571 | Method of changing a source coverage area to a target coverage area in a terminal, a switching frame and a reverse-channel quality indicator channel thereof A switching frame includes information on a carrier-to-interference ratio that is included on a first time slot corresponding to a boundary with a previous frame and corresponds to a target coverage area having a first power level, and at least on up/down command in... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184231 | Display device having a regular reflection part and a diffused reflection part on a front panel Disclosed related to a display device according to the present invention comprising an external housing; a display module accepted into the external housing; and an image signal processing unit supplying image signals to the display module, and the external housing ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183776 | Plasma display panel having a seal layer that contains beads A plasma display panel is provided. The plasma display panel includes a front substrate, a rear substrate positioned opposite the front substrate, a barrier rib positioned between the front substrate and the rear substrate, and a seal layer positioned between the fr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8169411 | Touch screen device and operating method thereof A touch screen device and an operating method thereof are provided. More specifically, a touch screen device is provided which allows a user to selectively restrict input through a touch screen. The touch screen device includes a screen that includes a display confi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169176 | Controlling method for driving a drawer of a refrigerator A movement structure for a drawer of a refrigerator is provided. The movement structure may a storage box to be automatically withdrawn from or inserted into a storage compartment of the refrigerator by pressing a button. This automatic movement of the storage box m... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169175 | System and method for driving a drawer in a refrigerator A system and method for driving a drawer of a refrigerator and a refrigerator employing this system is provided. This system and method allows for the automatic opening and closing of multiple drawers of a refrigerator either sequentially or simultaneously. The syst... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168928 | Cooking apparatus A cooking apparatus is provided. The cooking apparatus includes a cooking cavity, an upper space formed above the cooking cavity, lateral side spaces formed to at opposite lateral sides of the cooking cavity, a rear space formed behind the cooking cavity, and a lowe... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166782 | Drum type washing machine A drum type washing machine includes a cabinet, a tub fixed in the cabinet, and a drum that performs a washing process. A motor rotates the drum, a supporting device that extends from a rotation shaft of the motor to the cabinet rotatably support the drum. A bufferi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164260 | Dielectric composition and plasma display panel including the same A dielectric composition for plasma display panel and a plasma display panel including the same are disclosed. The dielectric composition includes about 38 to 68 parts by weight of Bi2O3, about 10 to 35 parts by weight of B2O3, about 1 to 17 parts by weight of SiO2,... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164036 | Cooking apparatus A cooking apparatus is provided. The cooking apparatus includes a cooking cavity, an upper space formed above the cooking cavity, lateral side spaces formed to at opposite lateral sides of the cooking cavity, a rear space formed behind the cooking cavity, and a lowe... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161766 | Refrigerator ice bin with thermal storage member The present invention relates to a refrigerator, and more particularly, to a structure for allowing ice, which is received in an ice-storing device provided in a refrigerating chamber door, to be in a frozen state without being melted. The refrigerator of the presen... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161763 | Method for controlling a compressor and a control valve of a refrigerator A refrigerator control method is disclosed which ensures efficient operation of a compressor. To control a refrigerator including a compressor, a first evaporator and a second evaporator connected to the compressor, and a refrigerant control valve that controls intr... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8157422 | Lighting apparatus A lighting apparatus is disclosed herein that may illuminate a space with light emitted from a light source or to concentrate the emitted light on a certain object. The lighting apparatus may include a lens and a main body that may house a light source. One or more ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156770 | Drum type washing machine A drum type washing machine is provided. The drum type washing machine includes a cabinet for forming an appearance; a tub fixed to an inner side of the cabinet and for storing washing water, a drum rotatably arranged in the tub for washing and dehydrating laundry, ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156659 | Filter cleaning apparatus and ductless dryer implementing the same Disclosed is a filter cleaning apparatus and a ductless dryer adopting the same, the dryer having a main body, a drum rotatably mounted at the main body, a hot air supplying unit supplying hot air into the drum, a heat exchanger condensing and removing moisture cont... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8152926 | Vacuum processing apparatus Disclosed herein is a vacuum processing apparatus for performing a desired process for a substrate after establishing a vacuum atmosphere therein. More particularly, the vacuum processing apparatus includes a vacuum chamber, which is divided into a chamber body and ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151105 | Convertible computer with selective activation of input devices and power consumption level based on a tablet or notebook mode A convertible computer is equipped with a notebook computer function and a tablet computer function. When a system power supply is turned on, a functionality or physical configuration such as rotation state of a display module can be detected, and an environment can... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150880 | Audio data player and method of creating playback list thereof An audio data player may include a storage unit for storing one of more sound source files containing tag information, and an extraction unit for extracting one piece of information among the tag information (e.g., information on artist, album, title, year, genre, a... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8148932 | System and method for driving a drawer in a refrigerator A system and method for driving a drawer of a refrigerator are provided. This system allows a drawer to be automatically withdrawn from and/or inserted into a main body of the refrigerator. This system also allows a drawer which has been stopped during the withdrawa... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147015 | Hinge assembly and refrigerator having the same An insertion-type hinge assembly may include a first hinge member including a mount unit and a shaft that is separated from and coupled to the mount unit, and that is positioned in parallel to the mount unit. The hinge assembly also includes a second hinge member th... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146265 | Display device of dryer A display device of a dryer, which can achieve the reliability of a function to display a clogging degree in the dryer, is disclosed. The display device includes a display unit for displaying a clogging degree of an air passage through at least one level indicator, ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144267 | Display apparatus A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus does not require a cover structure for enclosing a front peripheral portion of a front panel so that the screen of the display apparatus can be seemed to be large, and the display apparatus can have a neat appea... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143639 | Light emitting device and light emitting device package having the same Disclosed are a light emitting device and a light emitting device package. The light emitting device includes a light emitting structure including a first conductive type semiconductor layer, a second conductive type semiconductor layer, and an active layer between ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143560 | Cooking apparatus A cooking apparatus is provided. The cooking apparatus includes a cooking cavity, a door, an input selection device provided on an exterior of the door, and a control panel provided in the door and operably coupled to the input selection device. The input selection ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142160 | High speed type impeller having a reinforcing ring Disclosed is a high speed type impeller, including: a body having a shaft coupling hole into which a rotation shaft of a motor is coupled, the outer circumference of the body being widened from the top to bottom end in the insertion direction of the rotation shaft t... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142064 | Image display apparatus An image display apparatus includes a display for outputting an image, a supporting device supporting the display, the supporting device contacting directly on an installing surface and extending upward, the supporting device being provided with an inner hollow port... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140126 | Mobile terminal and control method thereof Disclosed are a mobile terminal capable of automatically displaying information relating to specific objects among objects displayed on a screen according to a user's manipulation, and a control method thereof. The method comprises: detecting a manipulated state of ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139449 | Method and apparatus for eliminating errors in a seek operation on a recording medium A method and apparatus for eliminating errors in a seek operation on a recording medium are provided. Given a target address on a recording medium, a reading device is moved to seek the target address, and it is determined whether or not a signal is read out at the ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136273 | Clothes refreshing apparatus and method for controlling the same A fabric refreshing apparatus is provided. The refreshing apparatus may include a case, and a receiving compartment, provided in the case to receive fabric articles. The apparatus may also include a steam generator, a fluid supply tank, and a drain tank. The steam g... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136052 | Touch screen device and operating method thereof A touch screen device and an operating method thereof are provided. The touch screen device is operated by touching a touch screen and moving a touch while the touch is maintained on the screen. A detector detects a touch point and a moving trajectory, and a control... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131227 | Method of transceiving driver software over the air and apparatus using the same A method and apparatus may be provided for over-the-air transmission of driver software configured as a plurality of download data blocks (DDBs). This may include transmitting or receiving first DDB data corresponding to the plurality of download data blocks, where ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130694 | Method for controlling transmission power of HS-SCCH in UMTS system A method for controlling a power of a shared control channel for high speed downlink shared channel (HS-SCCH) in a system adopting a high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) technique is disclosed, which can control power of HS-SCCH by using the DPCH channel config... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8129744 | Light emitting device A light emitting device is provided that includes a substrate, a light emitting unit formed on the substrate, and an encapsulation unit. The encapsulation unit may include a first region corresponding to the light emitting unit and a second region coalesced with the... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8127244 | Method and terminal for displaying character capacity A method of displaying an available character capacity in a character entry window includes calculating an available character capacity based on characters entered by a user, displaying the entered characters in a character entry window, and displaying an indication... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120711 | Display system and method of controlling a display system A display system and a method of controlling a display system are provided. The display system may include a receiving device to transmit a power control signal across a wireless communication link according to a power on/off command inputted from a user, to receive... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120602 | Flat panel display with clock being generated insider the data driver using XOR logic with the data signal and a second signal generated from the data signal using a encoding scheme as the two inputs that are transmitted to a clock generator inside the data driver The plasma display panel device according to the present invention includes a the data driver that includes a data IC applying a driving signal to at least one address electrode and a data driver applying a driving data signal to the data IC to reduce EMI and... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119955 | Device for preventing leakage of microwave for microwave oven The present invention relates to a device for preventing microwave leakage for a microwave oven. The present invention comprises a cavity assembly formed with an opening portion through which heating energy generated in an energy generating means is supplied into a ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119219 | Optical recording medium An optical recording medium is provided. The optical recording medium includes a first recording layer and a second recording layer. The second recording layer includes a compound in the form of (CuXM(1-X))YO(1-Y), where M... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119218 | Optical recording medium An optical recording medium is provided. The optical recording medium includes a first recording layer and a second recording layer. The first recording layer includes a compound in the form of M(1−X)OX, where M is one of Si, Zn or Sn, and X ... | 02/21/2012 |
