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| 20100015008 | MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE FOR ANALYZING THE STATUS OF A PARTICLE - The present invention provides a device for analyzing the status of a biological entity. The device comprises a base substrate having a recess defined therein by two opposing lateral walls and a base wall, a filler member having at least a portion thereof occupying the recess, and a channel defined in the portion of the filler member occupying the recess, wherein the channel comprises a first aperture and a second aperture, the first aperture being arranged on a first lateral wall of the filler member, and the second aperture being arranged on a second lateral wall of the filler member, said first lateral wall of the filler member being arranged in opposing relationship with the second lateral wall of the filler member, and at least a portion of the first and the second lateral walls of the filler member being at least substantially perpendicular to the opposing lateral walls defining the recess. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100055673 | TRANSPARENT MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE - A device for analysing the status of a biological entity. The device ( | 03-04-2010 |
| 20110193183 | NANOWIRE SENSOR, NANOWIRE SENSOR ARRAY AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - A method of fabricating a sensor comprising a nanowire on a support substrate with a first semiconductor layer arranged on the support substrate is disclosed. The method comprises forming a fin structure from the first semiconductor layer, the fin structure comprising at least two supporting portions and a fin portion arranged there between; oxidizing at least the fin portion of the fin structure thereby forming the nanowire being surrounded by a first layer of oxide; and forming an insulating layer above the supporting portions; wherein the supporting portions and the first insulating layer form a microfluidic channel. A nanowire sensor is also disclosed. The nanowire sensor comprises a support substrate, a semiconducting fin structure arranged on the support substrate, the fin structure comprising at least two semiconducting supporting portions and a nanowire arranged there between; and a first insulating layer on a contact surface of the supporting portions; wherein the supporting portions and the first insulating layer form a microfluidic channel. | 08-11-2011 |
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| 20080317331 | Recognizing Hand Poses and/or Object Classes - There is a need to provide simple, accurate, fast and computationally inexpensive methods of object and hand pose recognition for many applications. For example, to enable a user to make use of his or her hands to drive an application either displayed on a tablet screen or projected onto a table top. There is also a need to be able to discriminate accurately between events when a user's hand or digit touches such a display from events when a user's hand or digit hovers just above that display. A random decision forest is trained to enable recognition of hand poses and objects and optionally also whether those hand poses are touching or not touching a display surface. The random decision forest uses image features such as appearance, shape and optionally stereo image features. In some cases, the training process is cost aware. The resulting recognition system is operable in real-time. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090003687 | Segmenting Image Elements - A method of segmenting image elements into a foreground and background is described, such that only the foreground elements are part of a volume of interest for stereo matching. This reduces computational burden as compared with computing stereo matching over the whole image. An energy function is defined using a probabilistic framework and that energy function approximated to require computation only over foreground disparities. An optimization algorithm is used on the energy function to perform the segmentation. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20120087575 | RECOGNIZING HAND POSES AND/OR OBJECT CLASSES - There is a need to provide simple, accurate, fast and computationally inexpensive methods of object and hand pose recognition for many applications. For example, to enable a user to make use of his or her hands to drive an application either displayed on a tablet screen or projected onto a table top. There is also a need to be able to discriminate accurately between events when a user's hand or digit touches such a display from events when a user's hand or digit hovers just above that display. A random decision forest is trained to enable recognition of hand poses and objects and optionally also whether those hand poses are touching or not touching a display surface. The random decision forest uses image features such as appearance, shape and optionally stereo image features. In some cases, the training process is cost aware. The resulting recognition system is operable in real-time. | 04-12-2012 |
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| 20080224628 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRIVING A LIGHT SOURCE, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An apparatus and a method for driving a light source are provided. The apparatus includes a power converting unit which converts a direct current (DC) power into an alternating current (AC) power for driving the light source, and a control unit which controls the power converting unit to convert the DC power into the AC power according to a pulsewave. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20090128544 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus includes a display panel, a light source unit including a plurality of light sources that irradiate the display panel with light, a first control signal generating unit that inverts and forward rectifies a scan signal for scanning of the light source unit, a second control signal generating unit that inverts and backward rectifies an overdrive signal for overcurrent emission of the light source unit and has its output port coupled to an output port of the first control signal generating unit, and an inverter that supplies current to the light source unit based on a control signal output from the output port of the first control signal generating unit and the output port of the second control signal generating unit. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20100253665 | CURRENT BALANCING APPARATUS, POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS, LIGHTING APPARATUS, AND CURRENT BALANCING METHOD THEREOF - A current balancing apparatus, a power supply apparatus, a lighting apparatus, and a current balancing method for preventing luminance imbalance are provided. The current balancing apparatus includes a balancer for balancing an AC current and a rectifier for generating a DC current by rectifying the balanced current. Hence, the luminance imbalance caused by dispersion of a light source can be addressed. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100309597 | APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING OVER/UNDER VOLTAGE, LIGHT EMITTING MODULE, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - An apparatus for preventing abnormal voltage, a light emitting module, and a display apparatus are provided. The present apparatus for preventing abnormal voltage extracts the highest voltage and the lowest voltage among voltage applied from a plurality of loads, includes two voltage distribution units distributing the highest voltage and the lowest voltage, and detects whether the highest voltage and the lowest voltage applied from the voltage distribution unit are within a predetermined range. Accordingly, the apparatus for preventing abnormal voltage is not affected greatly in terms of its size and cost even if the number of loads to be protected increases. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20110057960 | BACKLIGHT APPARATUS AND DISPLAY APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A backlight apparatus and a display apparatus are provided. The backlight apparatus includes N first switch units to switch a plurality of currents flowing in respective N light emitting element arrays according to an input brightness control signal, N second switch units to switch a plurality of currents flowing in respective N capacitors according to the input brightness control signal, and a reference current generation unit to generate and output a reference current based on the input brightness control signal. An inverter unit adjusts a total current supplied to all of the light emitting element arrays in total to be equal to the reference current if the total current is different from the reference current. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110089849 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND BACKLIGHT UNIT FOR CONTROLLING PLURALITY OF LAMPS, AND DISPLAY DRIVING METHOD - A display apparatus and a backlight unit which control a plurality of lamps, and a display driving method are provided. The display apparatus includes a display, and a backlight unit which provides a backlight to the display. The backlight includes a plurality of lamps, and a lamp driver which adjusts a frequency of power supplied to the plurality of lamps until all of the plurality of lamps enter a running mode. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110102475 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, BACKLIGHT UNIT, AND BACKLIGHT PROVIDING METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PLURALITY OF LED STRINGS - A display apparatus, a backlight unit, a backlight providing method for controlling a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) strings are provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel, and a backlight unit (BLU) which projects backlight onto the display panel, wherein the BLU includes a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) strings, and a power supply unit which supplies minimum voltage from among the voltages needed to operate the plurality of LED strings to the plurality of LED strings. Therefore, the plurality of LED strings can have the same luminance. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110122167 | BACKLIGHT UNIT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A backlight unit and a display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes a power supply unit which outputs a first voltage; a light emitting unit which includes a first end connected to the power supply unit, and a second end, the first end receiving the first voltage from the power supply unit; and a compensation unit which includes a first end connected to the second end of the light emitting unit, and which compensates a deviation between the first voltage and a rated voltage of the light emitting unit. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110122169 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND BACKLIGHT UNIT - A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a display panel; and a backlight unit which provides the display panel with backlight. The backlight unit includes: a converter which converts a voltage of a received power and outputs an output power, a plurality of light source modules which receives the output power from the converter, and a control unit which determines powering conditions to operate the plurality of the light source modules in a specific state for each of the plurality of light source modules, and controls the converter sequentially based on the determined powering conditions. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110222153 | 3D GLASSES CHARGEABLE BY REMOTE CONTROLLER, REMOTE CONTROLLER AND CHARGING SYSTEM USING THE SAME - Three-dimensional (3D) glasses which are capable of being charged by a remote controller, the remote controller, and a charging system using the same are provided. The charging system includes: a remote controller and 3D glasses, wherein the remote controller generates a signal for wirelessly charging the 3D glasses, and the 3D glasses are charged by receiving the generated signal from the remote controller and generating power using the received signal. Therefore, the 3D glasses may be charged while being used, thereby improving a user convenience. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110234012 | POWER RECEIVING APPARATUS AND WIRELESS POWER TRANSCEIVING SYSTEM - A wireless power transceiving system includes a power transmitting apparatus which converts power into a resonance wave and transmits the resonance wave, and a power receiving apparatus which receives the transmitted resonance wave and converts the resonance wave into DC power using a series resonant rectifier circuit which is impedance matched with impedance of the power receiving apparatus at a frequency of the resonance wave. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110234186 | HIGH VOLTAGE POWER SUPPLY - A high voltage power supply is provided. The high voltage power supply includes a soft-start circuit unit which outputs a natural voltage that decreases exponentially as time elapses and converts the natural voltage into a forced voltage having a predetermined scale if an enable signal is applied, a controller which compares the natural voltage output from the soft-start circuit unit with a reference voltage and outputs a control signal, and a converting unit which delays outputting a final voltage during a first predetermined time period and outputs the final voltage, which gradually increases as time elapses according to the control signal. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110242853 | HIGH VOLTAGE POWER SUPPLY - A high voltage power supply is provided. The high voltage power supply includes an inverter which converts a DC voltage input to the high voltage power supply into a first AC voltage, a transformer including an input winding unit and a plurality of output winding units, wherein the input winding unit receives the first AC voltage from the inverter and the plurality of output winding units generates and outputs a second AC voltage, and a voltage multiplier unit which boosts the second AC voltage output by the transformer and outputs a boosted voltage, and the voltage multiplier unit includes a plurality of voltage multipliers which are connected to each other in series and the plurality of voltage multipliers may be connected to the plurality of output winding units respectively. | 10-06-2011 |
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| 20090176903 | FOAMABLE COMPOSITIONS BASED ON EPOXY RESINS AND POLYESTERS - Expandable, thermally curable compositions containing at least one epoxy resin, at least one polyester, at least one blowing agent, and at least one curing agent are useful as adhesives and structural reinforcement materials. When foamed and adhered to a metal substrate surface, such polyester-modified foamable compositions can exhibit improved adhesion to the substrate surface after exposure to a corrosive environment, as compared to compositions that do not contain polyester. Furthermore, these compositions can exhibit improved flow properties in the uncured state at temperatures between 50 and 100° C. They are granulatable, with the granules produced thereby having non-tacky surfaces at room temperature and being capable of being readily processed into molded objects by injection molding processes. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20100130655 | CURABLE EPOXY RESIN-BASED ADHESIVE COMPOSITIONS - This invention relates to compositions useful as adhesives and more particularly to epoxy-based adhesive compositions with improved impact resistance. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100176650 | METHOD OF ATTACHING WHEEL OVERLAYS - A decorative overlay comprised of thin plastic or metal may be securely fastened to a wheel using one or more preformed, solid, dimensionally stable, heat-activatable adhesive bodies. The use of such adhesive bodies offers significant processing and performance advantages over conventional methods for cladding wheels. | 07-15-2010 |
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| 20090010870 | Hydrophobic Flourinated Polymer Surfaces - The invention at hand concerns hydrophobic polymer surfaces, in particular superhydrophobic polymer surfaces, comprising at least one homo- or copolymer, which comprises at least one side chain with at least one fluoro-substituted aryl group. Furthermore, the invention at hand concerns a method for the production of polymer surfaces of this type, their use and polymers of the general formula I: | 01-08-2009 |
| 20110160426 | HYDROLYTICALLY DECOMPOSABLE IONIC COPOLYMERS - The invention at hand provides hydrolytically degradable ionic copolymers. These ionic copolymerizates are composed of one cyclic ketene acetal A, one anionic or cationic methacrylic acid derivative B, selected from 2-methyl-methacrylate, [2-(2-methyl-1-methylene-allyloxy)]ethanesulfonate, [2-(2-methyl-1-methylene-allyloxy)ethyl]phosphonate or a quaternary amine of the N,N-dimethylaminoethylmethacrylic acid (DMAEMA) and, optionally, a neutral methacrylic acid derivative C. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20120107900 | Electrospun Polymer Fibers Comprising Particles of Bacteria-Containing Hydrogels - The present invention provides electrospun polymer fibers comprising bacteria-containing hydrogel particles. Bacteria-containing hydrogel particles are produced by crosslinking water-soluble polymers to form hydrogels and mixing them with a bacteria suspension. The crosslinking is suitable to be carried out either chemically before the addition of the bacteria suspension or physically before or after this addition. Subsequently, these hydrogel particles are electrospun together with an electrospinnable polymer solution to form fibers or fibre non-wovens. | 05-03-2012 |
