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| 20110050128 | MODULE FOR CONTROLLING LIGHT EMITTING DIODE CURRENT FOR SELECTIVE FEEDBACK, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRIVING LIGHT EMITTING DIODES USING THE SAME - The present invention provides a module for controlling an LED current for selective feedback, an apparatus and a method for driving LEDs using the same. The module for controlling the LED current, which is connected to a plurality of LED channels receiving driving powers supplied from at least one DC/DC converter and controls currents of the LED channels through a constant current, the LED current controlling module includes: an operation mode selector for selecting an operation mode according to an inputted enable signal level; a channel divider for dividing a plurality of LED channels into at least one group according to the selected operation mode; and a minimum voltage selector for selecting an LED channel with a minimum voltage, obtained by comparing voltages detected from each of lower ends of the LED channels included in each of one or more divided groups. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20120033144 | ACTIVE MATRIX ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DISPLAY THEREOF - An Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) display and a method of controlling a display thereof are provided. The AMOLED display includes an input unit, a controller, a display unit for displaying a low power mode screen, by enabling the controller to turn off an AMOLED and to turn on a cholesteric Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) in a low power mode, and for displaying a high picture quality mode screen, by enabling the controller to turn on the AMOLED and to turn off the cholesteric LCD in a high picture quality mode. When used in an indoor environment, the AMOLED display can operate in the high picture quality mode, and when used in an outdoor environment or as an e-book reader, the AMOLED display can operate in the low power mode. | 02-09-2012 |
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| 20090029218 | Fabrication Method of Anode and Electrolyte in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell - The present invention relates to a fabrication method of a solid oxide fuel cell. The fabrication method of a fuel electrode and electrolyte of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) in which a sheet cell including a fuel electrode sheet and an electrolyte sheet is positioned at an upper side of a surface of a fuel electrode pellet, includes the steps of (a) molding and heat-treating powder, in which a fuel electrode material is mixed with a pore forming agent, so as to prepare a fuel electrode pellet; (b) stacking the fuel electrode sheet containing the fuel electrode material and the electrolyte sheet containing an electrolyte material so as to prepare the sheet cell; and (c) coating an adhesive slurry containing the fuel electrode material on the sheet cell or the pellet and adhering the fuel electrode sheet of the sheet cell and the pellet and then heat-treating it. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20100138928 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING CONTENT BETWEEN DEVICES BY USING DOMAIN DRM - An apparatus for sharing content between devices by using a domain digital rights management (DRM) includes: a domain management unit for performing management of a domain within a specific area and registration of users and user devices; a user management unit for managing information about the users of the domain registered by the domain management unit; and a device management unit for managing domain clients of the domain registered by the domain management unit. The apparatus further includes a DRM management unit that has DRM information that supports the domain created through the domain management unit and update information about each DRM, and relays such that DRM content stored in each domain client is converted into domain DRM content and domain DRM license. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100161781 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL HOME DOMAIN MANAGEMENT - An apparatus for digital home domain management includes a home domain server which manages in one user domain all user terminals within a home group and provides each user terminal with a domain license in contents; and a DRM coupler which provides the contents and domain licenses converted to conform to a DRM type loaded in user terminals if contents sharing is requested among user terminals loaded with different DRMs within the home group. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100250439 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING CONTENTS STREAMED THROUGH RE-TRANSMISSION - An apparatus for protecting contents streamed through re-transmission, includes a content service site for servicing a content, managing end user and re-sender re-transmitting the content streamed from the content service site to another user, and issuing and managing a re-transmission license and a content license. The end user pays a charge to the content service site, receives an issued license from the content service site, and uses the content received from the re-sender through re-transmission. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100329639 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROTECTING COPYRIGHT FOR MOTION PICTURE AND RECORD MEDIUM - Provided are an apparatus and method for processing motion picture and a record medium, which decompose a motion picture into unit frames and insert copyright information into the unit frames, enabling to determine the infringement of copyright when the motion picture is illegally circulated. The apparatus includes a processing unit, a merging unit and an output unit. The processing unit decomposes a motion picture into a plurality of unit frames, and generates a main frame, a sub-frame including copyright information for the motion picture and a degree frame which is paired with the sub-frame, based on the unit frames. The merging unit merges the sub-frame into the main frame according to a degree of mergence of the degree frame. The output unit continuously outputs the merged frames in time order. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110029768 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING CONTENTS FOR CONTENTS MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY INTERWORKING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING PROGRAM THEREOF - A DRM technique interoperability system includes an exporter and an importer. The exporter cancels the DRM technique from the contents to which the DRM technique of a DRM device is applied to generate a contents stream, generates a plurality of packets from the contents stream, and transmits the packets to the importer. The importer receives a plurality of packets from the exporter, generates a contents stream from the plurality of packets, applies a DRM technique of a second DRM device to the contents stream, and provides it to the second DRM device. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110249817 | METHOD OF MANAGING GROUP KEY FOR SECURE MULTICAST COMMUNICATION - A group key management method for secure multicast communication includes: creating a tree having a root node, internal nodes and leaf nodes to manage group keys of a receiver group by a group key management server; generating user keys of all nodes excluding the root node in the tree on the basis of Chinese Remainder Theorem; assigning the leaf nodes of the tree to users of the receiver group; and sending the user keys of the leaf nodes to the corresponding users for group key management. Further, the group key management method for secure multicast communication includes generating group keys of all non-leaf nodes; computing a solution of congruence equations based on the user key and group key by using Chinese Remainder Theorem for each non-leaf node; and multicasting a group key update message to each user of the respective leaf nodes. | 10-13-2011 |
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| 20090013415 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ABNORMAL OPERATION - A semiconductor device includes a pull-up unit pulling up a voltage of an output node to a first voltage in response to a control signal, a photo sensing unit pulling down a voltage of the output node to a second voltage in response to an incident light, and a CPU, the CPU reset in response to the voltage of the output node produced in response to the incident light. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20100153811 | METHOD FOR DECODING USING DYNAMIC SCHEDULING SCHEME FOR LOW DENSITY PARITY CHECK CODES AND APPARATUS THEREOF - Disclosed is a decoding method and device for low density parity check codes using dynamic scheduling. The low density parity check codes are sequentially decoded, and the messages are scheduled in the descending order of the difference between values before and after updating the message transmitted from the variable node to the check node. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100174888 | Memory System - A memory system includes a storage device storing a plurality of instructions and a central processing unit processing an instruction fetched from the storage device, wherein the central processing unit detects a change in the instruction fetched from the storage device while processing the instruction. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20110189964 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING IMPEDANCE MATCHING FOR HIGH-FREQUENCY SIGNAL TRANSMITTER - In accordance with another representative embodiment, a high-frequency signal transmitter a power amplifier configured to supply a high-frequency signal; an antenna configured to transmit the high-frequency signal; a transmission line configured to transfer the high-frequency signal from the power amplifier to the antenna; and an impedance matching circuit connected to the transmission line. The high-frequency signal transmitter also comprises a mismatch detector. The mismatch detector is configured to designate a comparatively poor linearity region and a comparatively good linearity region by dividing a Smith chart into the two regions based on Adjacent Channel Power Ratio (ACPR) contours drawn on the Smith chart at a point on the transmission line where the impedance matching circuit is connected, to measure a time-dependent reflection coefficient of the high-frequency signal transmitter in terms of a phase and a magnitude, to determine whether the reflection coefficient is located in the comparatively poor linearity region or the comparatively good linearity region, and based on a result of the determination, to improve the linearity of the high-frequency signal transmitter. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110234316 | IMPEDANCE MATCHING CIRCUIT CAPABLE OF EFFICIENTLY ISOLATING PATHS FOR MULTI-BAND POWER AMPLIFIER - In accordance with a representative embodiment, an impedance matching circuit for use at an output stage of a power amplifier is disclosed. The impedance matching circuit comprises: an input port for receiving a frequency band signal; and a plurality of paths, each path being allocated with a principal band signal to be transmitted therethrough and including a path on-off network and a fixed-value impedance matching network. Depending on a type of the received frequency band signal, the path on-off network is configured to activate a selected one of the plurality of paths by rendering an input impedance of the selected path to have a lower absolute magnitude so that the signal is transmitted therethrough, and to deactivate the remaining paths of the plurality of paths by rendering the input impedance thereof to have a higher absolute magnitude so that the signal is not transmitted therethrough. The fixed-value impedance matching network matches a load impedance of the output port of each path to the input impedance thereof, thereby rendering the input impedance thereof to have a prescribed reference value with respect to the principal band signal when said path is activated by the path on-off network. | 09-29-2011 |