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20140206161 | METHOD OF FABRICATING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE HAVING A CAPPING LAYER - A method of semiconductor device fabrication includes forming a first dummy gate structure in a first region of a semiconductor substrate and forming a second dummy gate structure in a second region of the semiconductor substrate. A protective layer (e.g., oxide and/or silicon nitride hard mask) is formed on the second dummy gate structure. The first dummy gate structure is removed after forming the protective layer, thereby providing a first trench. A capping layer (e.g., silicon) is formed in the first trench. A metal gate structure may be formed on the capping layer. The protective layer may protect the second dummy gate structure during the removal of the first dummy gate structure. | 07-24-2014 |
20140239354 | FinFETs and Methods for Forming the Same - A finFET and methods for forming a finFET are disclosed. A structure comprises a substrate, a fin, a gate dielectric, and a gate electrode. The substrate comprises the fin. The fin has a major surface portion of a sidewall, and the major surface portion comprises at least one lattice shift. The at least one lattice shift comprises an inward or outward shift relative to a center of the fin. The gate dielectric is on the major surface portion of the sidewall. The gate electrode is on the gate dielectric. | 08-28-2014 |
20140252432 | Semiconductor Device and Method for Forming the Same - A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a gate structure formed over the substrate. The semiconductor device further includes an insulator feature formed in the substrate. The insulator feature includes an insulating layer and a capping layer over the insulating layer. | 09-11-2014 |
20150187571 | Germanium-Containing FinFET and Methods for Forming the Same - A method includes forming isolation regions in a semiconductor substrate, forming a first semiconductor strip between opposite portions of isolation regions, forming a second semiconductor strip overlying and contacting the first semiconductor strip, and performing a first recessing to recess the isolation regions. A portion of the second semiconductor strip over top surfaces of remaining portions of the isolation regions forms a semiconductor fin. A second recessing is performed to recess the isolation regions to extend the semiconductor fin downwardly, with an inter-diffusion region of the first semiconductor strip and the second semiconductor strip being exposed after the second recessing. The inter-diffusion region is then etched. | 07-02-2015 |
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20100315353 | Flexible Touch Display Apparatus - A flexible touch display apparatus includes a flexible substrate, a display unit, a flexible insulation layer and a touch sensor layer. The display unit is disposed on the flexible substrate, the flexible insulation layer is disposed on the display unit, and the touch sensor layer is formed on the flexible insulation layer. The flexible touch display apparatus is light in weight, thin in thickness, flexible and unbreakable. | 12-16-2010 |
20110148288 | Organic Light-Emitting Device, Pixel Structure, and Contact Structure, and Method for Fabricating the Same - A contact structure for organic luminescent devices is provided. The contact structure includes a first conductive layer, at least one pillar, an organic light-emitting layer, and a second conductive layer. The first conductive layer has a contact region. The at least one pillar is positioned on the first conductive layer in the contact region. The organic light-emitting layer covers the first conductive layer in the contact region and exposing a portion of the first conductive layer around the pillar in the contact region. The second conductive layer covers an exposed portion of the first conductive layer in the contact region. In one embodiment of the present invention, the pillar has a top surface and a bottom surface, and the width of the top surface is larger than that of the bottom surface. | 06-23-2011 |
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20130244501 | INPUT/OUTPUT MODULE AND MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - An input/output module comprises a module body, a circuit board, and an input/output port. The circuit board is coupled to the module body and has a first surface and a second surface. A second connection portion is disposed on the second surface and electrically connected to a mobile electronic device body. The input/output port is disposed on the first surface and electrically connected to the second connection portion. The input/output port has an insertion end corresponding in position to an opening of the module body and connected to an external transmission connector. Further provided is a mobile electronic device having an input/output module, wherein the input/output module is replaceable such that the mobile electronic device has a transmission interface function and is expandable in applicability. | 09-19-2013 |
20130263998 | ULTRASONIC WELDING STRUCTURE AND ULTRASONIC WELDING METHOD - An ultrasonic welding structure includes a welding plane and an energy-directing edge. The welding plane is formed on a first object or a second object. The energy-directing edge is formed on the first object or the second object and corresponds in position to the welding plane. The welding plane is oblique to a lamination direction of an ultrasonic device. The first object and the second object are welded together by ultrasonic welding which requires laminating the first object to the second object in the lamination direction so as for the energy-directing edge to exert a contact pressure upon the welding plane. Due to the welding plane and the energy-directing edge, ultrasonic welding thus performed requires less welding area and alignment structure than are taught by the prior art and is conducive to miniaturization of mobile electronic products. | 10-10-2013 |
20140056457 | FIXER FOR LOUDSPEAKER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - A fixer for a loudspeaker includes a hollow frame, a pressing part, a positioning part and a fixing part. The hollow frame is disposed around a loudspeaker to limit the displacement of the loudspeaker. The pressing part is disposed on an inner surface of the hollow frame to press the loudspeaker. The positioning part is disposed on one side of the hollow frame, and the fixing part is disposed on another side of the hollow frame. An electronic device using the fixer for a loudspeaker is also disclosed. | 02-27-2014 |
20150255917 | PLUG CONNECTOR - A plug connector suitable for connecting with a socket connector including a first internal screw thread is provided. The plug connector includes an internal casing having an inside space, a set of terminals disposed in said inside space, a sleeve tube and an external casing. The sleeve tube is fixed to said internal casing and includes an external hook. The external casing is movably covered to said internal casing and includes a first external screw thread, an internal hook and a concaved slot caving in the inner surface of the external casing facing to said internal casing. The internal hook forms one of walls of said concaved slot. The external hook is movably disposed in said concaved slot. When said socket connector screws to said plug connector, said external casing is pulled toward said socket connector, and said internal hook of said external casing contact said external hook of said sleeve tube. | 09-10-2015 |
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20110071753 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR NAVIGATING VEHICLE - A method, a system, and a recording medium for navigating a vehicle are provided. In the present application, a current driving lane of the vehicle is first detected through a lane detection technique. Then, whether the current driving lane conforms to a navigation lane in navigation information is determined. If the current driving lane does not conform to the navigation lane, a notification of direction of the navigation lane relative to the current driving lane is generated. Accordingly, a driver can be instantly notified to switch to the appropriate lane. | 03-24-2011 |
20110230235 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SURROUNDING DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM USING THE SAME - A method for controlling a surrounding device and a communication device and a computer-readable medium using the same are proposed. The proposed method is adapted for a communication device, and includes following procedures. Firstly, a connection with a surrounding device is established through a wireless communication function. Then, a target setting value associated with a setting of the surrounding device is stored. Further, it is determined whether the communication device receives a communication request. Moreover, when the communication device receives the communication request, the setting of the surrounding device is modified from an original setting value to the target setting value. | 09-22-2011 |
20130009989 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND RELATED APPLICATIONS - The invention provides methods and systems for image segmentation and related application in a portable device. Movements of a input tool on an image is detected for determining a region to be segmented from the image. When image segmentation is done, segmented region can be applied with various visual effects. For example, background can be replaced with a plurality of other different images. | 01-10-2013 |
20130080539 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING QUICK LINK COMMUNICATIONS - Various systems and methods for performing quick link communications are described. One embodiment is a method for initiating communications on a communications device. The method comprises retrieving, by the communications device, communication information from a display terminal, the communication information being derived by the display terminal. The method further comprises displaying, by the communications device, at least one quick link according to the communication information. Based on a user input relating to the at least one quick link, a communications session is initiated by the communications device. | 03-28-2013 |
20130187862 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATION ACTIVATION - Methods and systems for operation activation are provided. An image is displayed on a touch-sensitive display unit. At least one object in the image is recognized using an object recognition algorithm, and at least one indicator for the at least one object is displayed on the touch-sensitive display unit. At least one operation is retrieved according to the at least one object. An instruction with respect to the at least one indicator is received via an input device, such as the touch-sensitive display unit, and the at least one operation regarding the at least one object is automatically performed according to the instruction. | 07-25-2013 |
20130300885 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR IMAGE REGISTRATION AND DISPLAY - A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for image registration and display are provided. In the method, a registration request is respectively sent to each of the electronic apparatuses to control the electronic apparatus to capture a local image and return the captured local image to the master apparatus. Next, an image registration is performed on the local images to obtain registration information among the local images. Then, a relative location between the master apparatus and each electronic apparatus is estimated according to the registration information. Finally, at least one frame to be displayed are oriented according to the estimated relative locations and sent to the electronic apparatuses for display. | 11-14-2013 |
20140293012 | CONTROLLING METHOD OF DETECTING IMAGE-CAPTURING GESTURE - A controlling method suitable for an electronic apparatus is disclosed herein. The electronic apparatus includes a first image-capturing unit and a second image-capturing unit. The controlling method includes steps of: obtaining a plurality of second images by the second image-capturing unit when the first image-capturing unit is operated to capture a plurality of first images for a stereo process; detecting an object in the second images; calculating a relative displacement of the object in the second images; and, determining whether the first images are captured by an inappropriate gesture according to the relative displacement calculated from the second images. | 10-02-2014 |
20140307053 | METHOD OF PROMPTING PROPER ROTATION ANGLE FOR IMAGE DEPTH ESTABLISHING - A controlling method suitable for an electronic apparatus is disclosed herein. The electronic apparatus includes a motion sensor, an image capturing unit, a display unit and a processing unit. The controlling method includes following steps. An initial orientation of the electronic apparatus is obtained by the motion sensor when a first image is captured by the electronic apparatus. A predetermined rotation angle relative to the initial orientation is assigned. A rotation prompt indicating the predetermined rotation angle is displayed via the display unit. | 10-16-2014 |
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20080307227 | Digital-Invisible-Ink Data Hiding Schemes - A novel steganographic approach analogous to the real-world secret communication mechanism, in which messages to be concealed are written on white papers using invisible ink like lemon juice or milk and are revealed only after the papers are heated, is proposed. Carefully designed informed-embedders now play the role of “invisible ink”; some pre-negotiated attacks that can be provided by common content processing tools correspond to required “heating” process. Theoretic models and feasible implementations of the proposed digital-invisible-ink (DII) watermarking approach are provided. The proposed DII watermarking schemes can prevent the supervisor from interpreting secret messages even the watermark extractor, decryption tool, as well as session keys are available to the supervisor. Furthermore, under certain steganographic application scenarios, secret communication systems employing the DII watermarking schemes can aggressively mislead the channel supervisor with fake payloads and transmit genuine secrets at the same time. | 12-11-2008 |
20090052793 | DIGITAL CONTENT PROCESSING METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Digital content processing methods and systems are provided. First, an image property and a specific value corresponding to the image property are determined according to an image enhancement operation. Then, a specific region is sought within a first digital content, wherein pixels in the specific region have the specific value corresponding to the image property. Specific information is embedded in the specific region of the first digital content to generate a second digital content having the specific information. A digital content playback device performs the image enhancement operation on the second digital content to obtain the specific information. | 02-26-2009 |
20120168606 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SOLAR-TRACKING ACCORDING TO SENSOR - The invention discloses a device and method for solar-tracking according to sensor. The device calculates the angle of incidence and azimuth of the sunray through the illuminance sensed by the sensors in different positions. The device rotates the solar panel to the direction with the maximal solar irradiation. Then the solar panel can sense the maximum illuminance to have the maximal energy gain. | 07-05-2012 |
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20120096820 | DUST COLLECTOR STRUCTURE - The present invention provides a dust collector structure, especially a low-cost and simplified dust collector structure, which includes a leg frame set, an air-guiding box and a driving unit. The leg frame set includes two inverted U-shaped frame rods which are integrally formed and correspond to each other. The air-guiding box is arranged across top ends of the two frame rods, and is made by correspondingly closing an upper cover and a lower cover which are formed through integral draw molding. A driving unit for driving a blowing fan is arranged at an end of the air-guiding box. An air-filtering bag and a dust-collecting bag corresponding to each other are arranged at an end opposite to the driving unit on the upper and lower covers of the air-guiding box. Thus, structural components can be greatly simplified. Moreover, compared with a conventional locking or welding manner, since the upper and lower covers of the air-guiding box are integrally formed through a draw molding technique, the production yield and efficiency can be further improved, and the volume can be further reduced after the dust collector structure is folded away, so as to save space for transporting and storing. | 04-26-2012 |
20130067874 | DUST COLLECTION DEVICE - A dust collection device includes a machine body that forms an air chamber and a chassis arranged below the machine body. The chassis receives therein a dust collection tank. A mechanics case that contains a motor and blower assembly is arranged at one side of the machine body. The mechanics case includes a partition board to divide the mechanics case into an inlet flow channel communicating the air chamber and an outlet flow channel for discharging air. The partition board forms an air vent hole in communication with the outlet flow channel. A block unit is provided on the partition board and includes a block plate that selectively blocks the air vent hole. When a fire occurs inside the air chamber, the partition board prevents the fire flame from being drawn into the mechanics case, and the block plate timely blocks the air vent hole to improve operation safety. | 03-21-2013 |
20130139482 | STRUCTURE OF DUST COLLECTOR - A dust collector includes a housing and a case. The housing forms therein an air chamber in which filter cylinders are mounted. The case has an interior space divided by a separation board into an air inlet compartment communicating the air chamber of the housing and an air outlet compartment communicating the air inlet compartment. A blower unit is mounted to the separation board and includes blast box mounted to the separation board in the air inlet compartment and a motor arranged in the air outlet compartment in such a way that an output spindle of the motor extending into the blast box and carrying a blade assembly. With such an arrangement, resonance caused by wind shear sound of the blade assembly is eliminated. Heat generated by the operation of the motor can be removed by air flow passing through the air outlet compartment to realize cooling of the motor. | 06-06-2013 |
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20100165459 | LENS UNIT AND PROJECTION SCREEN MADE OF THE SAME - A lens unit and a projection screen made of the same are disclosed. The lens unit includes a micro lens having a light incident surface and a light emergent surface opposing to the light incident surface; a light absorbing layer formed on the light emergent surface of the micro lens and having a cavity formed therein; a scattering layer formed in the cavity of the light absorbing layer and including a transparent resin blended with scattering particles; and a reflective layer formed on the light absorbing layer and the scattering layer. The projection screen includes a plurality of the lens units, thereby achieving high contrast and high energy utilization efficiency of incident light with a large viewing angle. | 07-01-2010 |
20120083560 | BIO-BASED MATERIAL COMPOSITION AND OPTICAL DEVICE EMPLOYING THE SAME - The invention provides a bio-based material composition and an optical device employing the same. The composition can be a petroleum resin-free composition, including a polylactic acid resin, a filler, and a light diffusion agent. Further, the composition can be a composition with petroleum resin, including a polylactic acid resin, a petroleum resin, a light diffusion agent, and an antioxidant. | 04-05-2012 |
20140147649 | COATING, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE COATING AND FILM FORMED BY THE COATING - A coating includes an organosiloxane polymer and a mesoporous silica material bonded with the organosiloxane polymer. A monomer of the organosiloxane polymer is | 05-29-2014 |
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20090168143 | Bi-stable projection screen - A bi-stable projection screen includes a light diffusion unit and a bi-stable display unit stacked together. The bi-stable display unit, when actuated, selectively operates in a first mode or a second mode. When operating in the first mode (e.g., a transmission mode or a reflection mode), the bi-stable display unit receives a projection light from a front projection or a rear projection, and emits the projection light after modulation. When operating in the second mode (a non-transmission mode or a non-reflection mode), the bi-stable display unit is a pattern to become a part of a scene. The light diffusion unit receives and diffuses the modulated projection light to be perceived by human eyes. | 07-02-2009 |
20130208488 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE - An illumination device including a base, at least one LED light source and a first diffusing element is provided. The base has a supporting plane. The LED light source disposed on the supporting plane has a light emitting surface substantially parallel to the supporting plane. The first diffusing element disposed on the supporting plane is a hollow column surrounding the LED light source. An inner diameter width of the first diffusing element is gradually reduced outward from the base. The first diffusing element has a rough surface comprising a plurality of surface structures. | 08-15-2013 |
20140141355 | GRAPHENE ELECTRODE, ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE EMPLOYING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING THE SAME - The disclosure provides a graphene electrode, an energy storage device employing the same, and a method for fabricating the same. The graphene electrode includes a metal foil, a non-doped graphene layer, and a hetero-atom doped graphene layer. Particularly, the hetero-atom doped graphene layer is separated from the metal foil by the non-doped graphene layer. | 05-22-2014 |
20150055351 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE - An illumination device including a base, at least one LED light source and a diffusing element is provided. The base has a supporting plane. The LED light source disposed on the supporting plane has a light emitting surface substantially parallel to the supporting plane. The diffusing element disposed on the supporting plane to cover the at least one LED light source. The diffusing element includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion located above the at least one LED light source. The second portion connected between the first portion and the base. An optical characteristic of the first portion is different from that of the second portion so that a non-continuous boundary is defined between the first portion and the second portion. | 02-26-2015 |