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20140155026 | METHOD FOR SETTING SPAM STRING IN MOBILE DEVICE AND DEVICE THEREFOR - The present invention relates to configuring spam strings in a mobile device which receives text messages through a wireless communication network. When a part or all of a received text message is selected on the screen showing the contents of the received text message, a menu for instantly registering the selected portion as a spam string is displayed. Accordingly, a user may avoid an inconvenience caused in memorizing the spam string, opening a spam filtering configuration menu and then manually typing the spam string accurately in the spam filtering configuration menu. Further, since the spam string to be set is directly copied from an actually received spam text message, a recent trend of spam text messages can be taken into consideration setting the spam string. | 06-05-2014 |
20150067570 | Method and Apparatus for Enhancing User Interface in a Device with Touch Screen - The present invention provides method and apparatus for providing an enhanced user interface at devices equipped with touch screens. The present invention enables users to more easily and accurately select an object among multiple selectable objects competing within limited screen space by enlarging the desired object as user's finger or a stylus pen approaches the object before physically touching it on the touch screen. | 03-05-2015 |
20150089369 | METHOD FOR SCROLLING THROUGH DIGITAL CONTENT IN MOBILE TERMINAL AND MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE FOR SAME - The present invention relates to a scrolling method in a mobile terminal. When a user drags a touch point drawing a circular trajectory on a screen, a scroll direction and a scroll speed are determined based on the dragging direction and the size of the circular trajectory, respectively. Therefore, according to the present invention, precise and intuitive scrolling control is enabled even when a multimedia file having a long playback time or a list having a lot of items is processed in spite of the small screen size of the mobile terminal. | 03-26-2015 |
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20150187303 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel including a plurality of display blocks; a driving circuit configured to control an image to be displayed on the display panel; and a timing controller configured to control the driving circuit in response to an image signal and a control signal and to provide a data signal to the driving circuit, wherein the timing controller comprises a memory storing gamma correction values corresponding to gray scales of the image signal, and wherein the timing controller outputs the data signal, and the data signal is obtained by correcting the image signal using the gamma correction values. | 07-02-2015 |
20150206472 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A display device is provided. The display device includes pixels, a data driver, a signal controller, a data processor. The data driver is configured to apply a first data voltage to a first pixel. The signal controller is configured to transfer an image data signal and a data control signal for controlling an operation of the data driver. The data processor is configured to detect a first region including a moving in a first image signal, to apply a first dynamic capacitance control (DCC) to the first region, to apply a second DCC to a second region other than the moving pattern region, to generate the second image signal by combining the first region to which the first DCC is applied and the second region to which the second DCC is applied, and to transfer the second image signal to the signal controller. | 07-23-2015 |
20150206497 | METHOD OF DRIVING A DISPLAY PANEL, DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE DISPLAY PANEL DRIVING APPARATUS - A method of driving a display panel includes respectively outputting first to j-th, where j is a natural number, gate signals to first to j-th gate lines disposed on a first area of the display panel during a load period when an image is displayed on the display panel due to an output of a data signal to the display panel, adjusting a blank gate voltage during a blank period between load periods to generate an adjusted blank gate voltage, generating a blank gate signal based on the adjusted blank gate voltage, and outputting the blank gate signal. Thus, display quality of a display apparatus may be improved. | 07-23-2015 |
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20100104097 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UCC CONTENTS PROTECTION - The present invention relates to a user created contents protection system and method. Copyright protection for protecting contents on user created contents is performed by using a contents upload server or a user terminal including a digital rights management (DRM) packager. Therefore, copyright protection of the user created contents is performed, and a user that legally provides user created contents can be rewarded. Also, when illegally distributed user created contents are generated, a person having initially attempted to distribute the contents is tracked to clarify responsibility. | 04-29-2010 |
20100125736 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING CONTENTS WITH REMOVABLE STORAGE - Disclosed is a content sharing method and system using an external memory. A method for transmitting encrypted contents to an external memory device list includes receiving a device list and public keys for devices, encrypting a domain key by using a public key to generate at least one device domain key, and transmitting the device domain key to the external memory. The method for performing encrypted contents further includes checking a public key of a device, extracting a device domain key corresponding to a public key checked by at least one device domain key stored in an external memory, decoding the extracted device domain key, decoding the encrypted contents by using the decoded device domain key, and performing the decoded encrypted contents. According to the present invention, since a single piece of contents stored in an external memory is reproducible by a plurality of devices, the existing problem of repeatedly settling the single piece of contents is solved and external memory resources are efficiently used. | 05-20-2010 |
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20080218442 | METHOD FOR DRIVING PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL - A method for driving a plasma display panel including a plurality of pixels, a plurality of first electrode lines, a plurality second electrode lines, and a plurality of third electrode lines crossing the first electrode lines and the second electrode lines, and being driven by dividing a frame into a plurality of subfields, each subfield including a reset period, an address period and a sustain discharge period, the method including: applying a first pre-address signal to a first group of third electrode lines among the plurality of third electrode lines in a pre-address period, the pre-address period being between the reset period and the address period in at least one of the subfields; and applying a second pre-address signal to at least a second group of third electrode lines among the plurality of third electrode lines in the pre-address period. | 09-11-2008 |
20090040209 | PLASMA DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - In a driver for driving an address electrode in a plasma display, a power recovery switch is coupled between a power recovery capacitor and the address electrode, and a driving switch is coupled between a power source for supplying an address voltage and the address electrode. A grounding switch is coupled between a ground terminal and the address electrode. The power recovery switch, the driving switch, and the grounding switch are formed in one integrated circuit. The address electrode driver turns on the power recovery switch during a first period within a period for varying a voltage at the address electrode from a 0V voltage to a Va voltage and turns on the power recovery switch during a second period within a period for varying the voltage at the address electrode from the Va voltage to the 0V voltage. The power recovery switch is turned on for about 62 ns. | 02-12-2009 |
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20080239114 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO DETECT A DEAD PIXEL OF AN IMAGE SENSOR AND METHOD AND APPARATUS TO CAPTURE AN IMAGE FROM AN IMAGE SENSOR - A method and apparatus to detect a dead pixel in an image sensor having a pixel array to generate a plurality of image frames, and a method and apparatus to capture an image from the image sensor detect a dead pixel in the image sensor. A change of a scene of the image frames is sensed, and a detection operation to detect a dead pixel in the pixel array is performed if the change of the scene is sensed. | 10-02-2008 |
20100165827 | Victim System Detector, Method of Detecting a Victim System, Wireless Communication Device and Wireless Communication Method - A victim system detector for detecting whether a second wireless communication system uses frequency bands that are used by a first wireless communication system (detecting whether the second wireless communication system is a victim system) includes a correlator and a decision unit. The correlator calculates a correlation value between a frequency domain baseband signal associated with the first wireless communication system and a correlation sequence of the second wireless communication system. The decision unit determines, based on the correlation value, whether the second wireless communication system is a victim system. Therefore, the victim system is detected accurately and efficiently. | 07-01-2010 |
20110188615 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING SIGNAL IN A SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A Spatial Multiplexing Multiple Input Multiple Output (SM-MIMO) communication system, which generates a Q matrix and an R matrix through QR decomposing a channel matrix in an array order corresponding to an order of transmission antennas of a signal transmission device, determines a detection order of transmission symbols included in a transmission symbol vector, QR decomposes a reception signal vector and generates the QR decomposed reception signal vector as a transformed reception signal vector, substitutes all of transmittable candidate symbols for a transmission symbol corresponding to a first detection order among the transmission symbols and sequentially removes interference in the transformed reception signal vector, detects candidate symbols of transmission symbols corresponding to a remaining detection order from the interference-removed transformed reception signal vector, combines the detected candidate symbols, detects candidate symbol vectors, and calculates Log-Likelihood Ratio values of bits included in the transmission symbols by using the detected vectors. | 08-04-2011 |
20110256676 | Methods of Manufacturing a Semiconductor Device - Methods of manufacturing a semiconductor device include forming integrated structures of polysilicon patterns and hard mask patterns on a substrate divided into at least an NMOS forming region and a PMOS forming region. A first preliminary insulating interlayer is formed on the integrated structures. A first polishing of the first preliminary insulating interlayer is performed until at least one upper surface of the hard mask patterns is exposed, to form a second preliminary insulating interlayer. The second preliminary insulating interlayer is etched until the upper surfaces of the hard mask patterns are exposed, to form a third preliminary insulating interlayer. A second polishing of the hard mask patterns and the third preliminary insulating interlayer is performed until the polysilicon patterns are exposed to form an insulating interlayer. The polysilicon patterns are removed to form an opening. A metal material is deposed to form a gate electrode pattern in the opening. | 10-20-2011 |
20120122283 | METHODS OF MANUFACTURING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method includes forming a plurality of dummy gate structures on a substrate, each dummy gate structure including a dummy gate electrode and a dummy gate mask, forming a first insulation layer on the substrate and the dummy gate structures to fill a first space between the dummy gate structures, planarizing upper portions of the first insulation layer and the dummy gate structures, removing the remaining first insulation layer to expose a portion of the substrate, forming an etch stop layer on the remaining dummy gate structures and the exposed portion of the substrate, forming a second insulation layer on the etch stop layer to fill a second space between the dummy gate structures, planarizing upper portions of the second insulation layer and the etch stop layer to expose the dummy gate electrodes, removing the exposed dummy gate electrodes to form trenches, and forming metal gate electrodes in the trenches. | 05-17-2012 |
20120315732 | METHOD FOR FABRICATING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND DEVICE USING SAME - In a method for fabricating a semiconductor device, a substrate may be provided that includes: a base, an active fin that projects from an upper surface of the base and is integrally formed with the base, and a buffer oxide film pattern formed on the active fin in contact with the active fin. A first dummy gate film may be formed on the substrate to cover the buffer oxide film pattern and the first dummy gate film may be smoothed to expose the buffer oxide film pattern. A second dummy gate film may be formed on the exposed buffer oxide film pattern and the first dummy gate film. | 12-13-2012 |
20130089121 | METHOD OF DEMODULATING MDCM SIGNAL USING HARD DECISION AND METHOD OF DEMODULATING MDCM SIGNAL USING SOFT DECISION - A method of demodulating a modified dual carrier modulation (MDCM) signal using hard decision includes generating real symbol vector candidates and imaginary symbol vector candidates which correspond to an MDCM signal pair; calculating a first norm between a real part of the MDCM signal pair and each of the real symbol vector candidates and determining as a real symbol vector a real symbol vector candidate that has the minimum first norm among the real symbol vector candidates; and calculating a second norm between an imaginary part of the MDCM signal pair and each of the imaginary symbol vector candidates and determining as an imaginary symbol vector an imaginary symbol vector candidate that has the minimum second norm among the imaginary symbol vector candidates. | 04-11-2013 |
20130101013 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO DETECT A SYMBOL IN RECEIVER INCLUDING MULTIPLE RECEIVING ANTENNAS - A receiver of a wireless communication system and method thereof include antennas configured to receive data, wherein the data comprises a preamble, a header, and a payload. The receiver also includes a synchronizer configured to perform time synchronization of the data received through corresponding paths of each antenna using corresponding preambles of the data. The receiver includes a header detector configured to detect a header from the data of each of the paths. A surviving path selector in the receiver is configured to select a signal of a surviving path from among the paths based on the header or the preamble. The receiver also includes combiner configured to combine the signal existing in the surviving path to demodulate the payload. | 04-25-2013 |
20130163345 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A method of operating a semiconductor memory device includes an operation of applying a first voltage to selected bit lines, a second voltage to unselected bit lines and a common source line, and turning on drain and source selection transistors, an operation of applying a program voltage to a selected word line and a switch voltage to a switch word line, and applying a first pass voltage to first unselected word lines disposed between the switch word line and a common source line and between the selected word line and a bit line, and elevating the switch voltage to generate hot electrons and inject the hot electrons to a selected memory cell of the selected word line to program the selected cell. | 06-27-2013 |
20140044222 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING RECEIVED SIGNAL USING MEDIAN ABSOLUTE DEVIATION - A method of detecting a received signal, includes determining correlation between a received signal in a predetermined signal interval and training symbols, and determining a median absolute deviation (MAD) of the received signal in a predetermined reference interval. The method further includes detecting a presence of the received signal based on the correlation and the MAD. | 02-13-2014 |
20140270010 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOFT-DECISION DETECTION IN 2X2 MIMO SYSTEM - A method for detecting soft-decisions in a 2×2 MIMO system includes detecting all candidate symbol vector sets S in which there exist all values of a real part and an imaginary part, and calculating a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) with respect to the candidate symbol vector sets S from | 09-18-2014 |
20150023441 | OPERATING METHOD OF WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK STATION - A method of operating a wireless local area network (WLAN) station. The WLAN station receives at least one desired signal and at least one interference signal from an access point (AP) capable of simultaneously transmitting desired signals to multiple WLAN stations. The method includes estimating a channel and generating a channel matrix estimated based on the estimated channel, separating a channel matrix of the desired signal and a channel matrix of the interference signal from the estimated channel matrix, generating the matrix of a virtual channel by combining the separated channel matrixes, and executing a sphere decoding (SD) algorithm using the matrix of the virtual channel. | 01-22-2015 |
20150056795 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of manufacturing a semiconductor devices includes providing a semiconductor substrate that includes a channel region. The method includes forming a gate electrode material film including a stepped portion on the channel region. A sacrificial material film that has an etch selectivity that is the same as an etch selectivity of the gate electrode material film is formed. The sacrificial material film is planarized until a top surface of the gate electrode material film is exposed. The stepped portion is reduced by removing an exposed portion of the gate electrode material film. | 02-26-2015 |
20160087702 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CANCELLING INTERFERENCE IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING MULTI-USER MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT SCHEME - A method of canceling interference by a signal receiving apparatus in a communication system supporting a multi-user Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) scheme and a signal receiving apparatus is provided. The method includes determining whether there is a need for using an interference cancellation scheme while performing a signal detecting operation; and performing the signal detecting operation using the interference cancellation scheme, or performing the signal detecting operation without using the interference cancellation scheme based on determining whether there is the need for using the interference cancellation scheme. | 03-24-2016 |
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20120130952 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING DATA IN CONNECTED DEVICES - A network-connectable terminal can synchronize data in connected devices. The network-connectable terminal includes a memory unit and a synchronization unit. The memory unit stores metadata updated according to update of data. The synchronization unit updates the metadata, creates version information indicating whether the metadata are updated, and exchanges version information with peripheral devices to determine a peripheral device and data requiring synchronization. | 05-24-2012 |
20120284342 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONNECTING DEVICES - A system and method is capable e of connecting devices including receiving from a first device a request to select a plurality of second devices according to predetermined conditions required by the first device. The system also can generate a virtual device channel for connecting the plurality of second devices to the first device. | 11-08-2012 |
20150257262 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND THE METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A printed circuit board includes a core insulating layer including an isotropic resin, a first circuit pattern filled in a circuit pattern groove at an upper portion or a lower portion of the core insulating layer, a first insulating layer provided in a top surface thereof with a circuit pattern groove and covering the first circuit pattern, and a second circuit pattern to fill the circuit pattern groove of the first insulating layer. A material, such as polyimide, having an isotropic structure is employed for the core insulating layer, thereby preventing the substrate from being bent without glass fiber. Since the glass fiber is not included, the buried pattern is formed at the upper portion or the lower portion of the core insulating layer, so that the thin substrate is fabricated. | 09-10-2015 |
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20160026744 | LAYOUT DESIGN METHODS AND LAYOUT DESIGN SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING THE LAYOUT DESIGN METHODS - A layout design method may include receiving predetermined values related to first to third normal fin designs extending in a first direction and arranged in parallel in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, generating dummy fin designs based on the predetermined values, generating mandrel candidate designs based on the first to third normal fin designs and the dummy fin designs, decomposing the mandrel candidate designs to first and second mandrel mask designs, and generating a final mandrel mask design using one of the first and second mandrel mask designs that satisfies a predetermined condition. A first interval distance in the second direction between the first normal fin design and the second normal fin design may be different from a second interval distance in the second direction between the second normal fin design and the third normal fin design. | 01-28-2016 |
20160047853 | TEST SYSTEM THAT PERFORMS SIMULTANEOUS TESTS OF MULTIPLE TEST UNITS - A test system includes row decoder, column decoder, row test controller, and test circuit. The row decoder activates one of first through M-th row signals based on plurality of row input signals. The column decoder activates one of first through N-th column signals based on plurality of column input signals. The row test controller outputs first through N-th column output signals, which are activated, when row test enable signal is activated. The row test controller outputs the first through N-th column signals as the first through N-th column output signals respectively when the row test enable signal is deactivated. The test circuit includes first through M-th row test blocks, each of which includes first through N-th test units. The test circuit simultaneously performs short test of the first through N-th test units included in row test block when the row test enable signal is activated. | 02-18-2016 |
20160070838 | METHOD OF DECOMPOSING LAYOUT OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING THE SAME - In a method of decomposing a layout of a semiconductor device, a polygon, which includes a plurality of intersections at each of which at least two lines are crossed, among polygons included in the layout of the semiconductor device may be determined as a complex polygon. A first stitch may be inserted between the plurality of intersections on the complex polygon. A plurality of decomposed patterns may be generated by performing a pattern dividing operation on the layout. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070848 | METHOD OF DECOMPOSING LAYOUT OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FOR QUADRUPLE PATTERNING TECHNOLOGY PROCESS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE USING THE SAME - A method of decomposing a layout of a semiconductor device for a quadruple patterning technology (QPT) process includes dividing the layout of the semiconductor device into a first temporary pattern, which includes rectangular features having a rectangular shape, and a second temporary pattern, which includes cross couple features having a Z-shape, generating a third temporary pattern and a fourth temporary pattern by performing a pattern dividing operation on the first temporary pattern in a first direction, generating a first target pattern and a second target pattern by incorporating each of the cross couple features included in the second temporary pattern into one of the third temporary pattern and the fourth temporary pattern, and generating first through fourth decomposed patterns by performing the pattern dividing operation on the first target pattern and the second target pattern in a second direction. | 03-10-2016 |
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20120236855 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MULTI-SINK/MULTI-PATH ROUTING SENSOR NETWORK AND SENSOR NETWORK USING THE SAME - A method for controlling a multi-sink/multi-path routing sensor network and a sensor network system using the same are provided. The method for controlling the sensor network includes generating, at a sensor node, sensing data; transmitting, at the sensor node, the sensing data to a plurality of sink nodes; and forwarding, at the sink nodes receiving the sensing data from the sensor node, the sensing data to a gateway. Hence, it is possible to satisfy the reliability required in the safety-critical system with the minimum traffic. Both of the two conflicting requirements which are the reliability enhancement of the sensor network and the minimization of the network traffic in the repeated data transmission, can be satisfied adequately. | 09-20-2012 |
20140331144 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING NUI - A method and system for providing a Network-based User Interface (NUI) is provided. The method for providing the NUI includes: selecting one from among devices connected to a network; acquiring a UI regarding the selected device through the network; and interacting with the device by using the acquired UI. Accordingly, the user terminal can acquire the UI regarding the device connected to the network through the network and interact with the device, so that the user can easily manipulate the device at a remote distance and can easily grasp the statue of the device. | 11-06-2014 |
20150201022 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTERNET OF THINGS SERVICE - A method for providing an IoT service is provided. The method for providing the IoT service may provide the IoT service by using a D-platform, a P-platform, an M-platform, and an S-platform, and thus may provide an open type IoT service. Therefore, an IoT service developer may reduce the time and cost required to develop and an IoT service user may access the IoT service intuitively and systematically. | 07-16-2015 |