| Samsung Electonics Co, LTD. Patent applications |
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| 20120099351 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - An electronic apparatus having reinforced power saving and safety functions, the electronic apparatus may include: a power supply which converts alternating current (AC) power input from an AC power source to direct current (DC) power to be outputted; an AC power switch provided on a first AC power input line connecting the AC power source and the power source and is turned on and off to selectively transmit the AC power to the power supply; a relay provided on a second AC power input line connecting the AC power source and the power supply in parallel with the AC power switch, and receives the DC power from the power supply to selectively transmit the AC power to the power supply; a switching unit which selectively transmits the DC power output from the power supply to the relay; and a controller which controls the switching unit to supply the DC power to the relay if the AC power switch is turned on. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20100134743 | DISPLAY SUBSTRATE, DISPLAY PANEL HAVING THE DISPLAY SUBSTRATE, AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE DISPLAY PANEL - A display substrate includes a base substrate, a gate line portion, a data line portion, and a pixel portion. The base substrate includes a display area divided into first to fourth divided display areas, and first to fourth peripheral areas. The gate line portion includes a plurality of first gate lines, and a plurality of second gate lines. The data line portion includes a plurality of first data lines, and a plurality of second data lines. The pixel portion is disposed in the display area to be electrically connected to the first and second gate lines and the first and second data lines, respectively. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100020657 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING POINTING INFORMATION - An information storage medium includes areas of disk-related information having disk-related information to record or reproduce data with respect to the information storage medium, wherein the disk-related information includes common disk-related information and changeable parameter information, and the areas of the disk-related information are arranged according to information about the changeable parameter information. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20090141838 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY CHANGING BROADCAST CHANNEL FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL ADAPTED TO RECEIVE DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST - Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for automatically changing the broadcast channel for a mobile communication terminal adapted to receive digital multimedia broadcasts. The apparatus includes a memory unit for storing an adjacent area database and an area-wise broadcast channel database; a search unit for searching for broadcast channels and receiving broadcasts; and a control unit for determining the received field strength of at least one adjacent area frequency based on the adjacent area database during digital multimedia broadcast playback, and when a predetermined threshold is exceeded, determining that a movement into a corresponding adjacent area is occurring, the control unit controlling the search unit to search through broadcast channels of the adjacent area in the area-wise broadcast channel database to find a broadcast channel identical to a broadcast channel used for playback before the movement into the adjacent area. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090134466 | DUAL WORK FUNCTION SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A method of manufacturing dual work function devices starting from a single metal electrode and the device resulting therefrom are disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes a single-metal-single-dielectric (SMSD) CMOS integration scheme. A single dielectric stack comprising a gate dielectric layer and a dielectric capping layer and one metal layer overlying the dielectric stack are first deposited, forming a metal-dielectric interface. Upon forming the dielectric stack and the metal layer, at least part of the dielectric capping layer is selectively modified by adding work function tuning elements, the part being adjacent to the metal-dielectric interface. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090098673 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR ARRAY PANEL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A TFT array panel-including a substrate, a gate line having a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer formed on the gate line, a data line having a source electrode and a drain electrode spaced apart from the source electrode, a passivation layer formed on the data line and the drain electrode, and a pixel electrode connected to the drain electrode is provided. The TFT array panel further includes a protection layer including Si under at least one of the gate insulating layer and the passivation layer to enhance reliability. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090060376 | BLOCKING EFFECT REMOVAL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A blocking effect removal system and method is provided. A blocking effect removal system, including: a pixel segment extraction unit to extract a pixel segment which satisfies a homogeneity with respect to each pixel group adjacent to a block boundary of an image; a filtering mode determination unit to determine a filtering mode corresponding to a filtering direction by considering a size of the extracted pixel segment; a direction vector determination unit to determine a direction vector which is applied to pixels adjacent to the block boundary considering the filtering mode; and a pixel segment filtering unit to filter an entire area of the pixel segment, adjacent to the block boundary, according to the filtering direction. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090021535 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY AND METHOD FO DRIVING THEREOF - A liquid crystal display includes a signal controller having a luminance controller receiving image data from an external graphic source and controlling the luminance of the image data such that the luminance at the gray expressed by a specific data value of the image data is established to be 80 cd/m | 01-22-2009 |
