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20090326380 | Portable Ultrasonic Diagnostic Apparatus - Disclosed herein is a portable ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus. The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes a body part, a handle coupled to the body part and having a curved shape, and a display unit coupled to the handle. The handle has a curved shape to improve close contact feelings with an operator's palm, so that an operator does not experience palm fatigue even after extended use. | 12-31-2009 |
20100000447 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENT - Disclosed is a medical instrument. The medical instrument includes a main body including at least one of an operation part and a display part, and a detachable lever arranged on a rear portion of the main body, a cart including a desk on which the main body is positioned, a front detachable member disposed on the desk and adapted to attach and detach a front portion of the main body to/from the desk, and a rear detachable member disposed on the desk and adapted to attach and detach a rear portion of the main body to/from the desk and fix the main body to the desk by the detachable lever. | 01-07-2010 |
20100001149 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENT - Disclosed is a medical instrument. The medical instrument includes a main body including at least one of an operation part and a display part, a cart including a desk on which the main body is positioned, a front detachable member disposed on the desk and adapted to attach and detach a front portion of the main body to/from the desk, and at least one rear detachable member disposed on the desk and adapted to attach and detach a rear portion of the main body to/from the desk and elastically support the rear portion of the main body. | 01-07-2010 |
20100004535 | DUAL KEYBOARD INPUT DEVICE AND MOVABLE CART HAVING THE SAME MOUNTED THEREON - Disclosed is an ultrasonic diagnostic device. The ultrasonic diagnostic device includes a cart, a desk formed on an upper portion of the cart, and including at least one detachable member, and a main body mounted on the desk, including at least one of a button input part and a screen display part, and engaged with the detachable member. | 01-07-2010 |
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20110060592 | IPTV SYSTEM AND SERVICE METHOD USING VOICE INTERFACE - Provided is an IPTV system using voice interface which includes a voice input device, a voice processing device, a query processing and content search device, and a content providing device. The voice processing device performs voice recognition to convert voice into a text. The voice processing device includes a voice preprocessing unit, a sound model database, a language model database, and a decoder. The voice preprocessing unit performs preprocessing which includes improving the quality of sound or removing noise for the received voice, and extracts a feature vector. The decoder converts the feature vector into a text by using a sound model and a language model. Moreover, the voice processing device stores the profile and preference of a user to provide personalized service. The result of voice recognition is updated in a sound model database and a user profile database each time service for a user is provided, the performance of voice recognition and the performance of personalized service can continuously be improved. | 03-10-2011 |
20110087656 | APPARATUS FOR QUESTION ANSWERING BASED ON ANSWER TRUSTWORTHINESS AND METHOD THEREOF - Provides is an apparatus for question answering based on answer trustworthiness including: an answer indexer that indexes documents of which document trustworthiness satisfying a threshold value among documents included in a document collection and stores it in a knowledge Bases; an answer candidate extractor that extracts answer candidate documents for a user's question from the knowledge Bases; an answer source trustworthiness measurement unit; an answer extraction strategy trustworthiness measurement unit; and a trustworthiness integrator that generates an answer candidate trustworthiness list by ranking the answer candidate documents on the basis of the document trustworthiness, the source trustworthiness, and the extraction strategy trustworthiness of the answer candidate documents. | 04-14-2011 |
20110145251 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING NAMED ENTITY DICTIONARY - A system and method for constructing a named entity dictionary are disclosed. The method includes analyzing a structure of collected Web text, extracting tabulated or listed information from the Web text, extracting a named entity from the tabulated or listed information, categorizing the extracted named entity, and registering the categorized named entity in a named entity dictionary. | 06-16-2011 |
20110258223 | VOICE-BASED MOBILE SEARCH APPARATUS AND METHOD - The present invention relates generally to a voice-based mobile search apparatus and method, and, more particularly, to a voice-based mobile search apparatus and method, which can present optimized search results suitable for a mobile status while allowing a user to conveniently use a search service in a mobile environment. The voice-based mobile search apparatus according to the present invention includes a voice recognition unit for recognizing a user's voice transferred through a mobile terminal and then receiving a query. A status information collection unit collects status information of the mobile terminal and profile information of the user. An answer search unit searches a knowledge base based on the query, and extracts short answers matching the query. An answer provision unit processes the short answers in conformity with the status information of the mobile terminal and the profile information of the user, and provides the processed short answers. | 10-20-2011 |
20120089634 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MULTIMEDIA SERVICE IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a method for providing multimedia services in a communication system, a request message for requesting contract information on users' multimedia services are received from a terminal according to service requests of the multimedia services to be received by the users. A query message for searching for the contract information in a database is generated corresponding to the request message, and the query message is transmitted to the database. The contract information is searched in the database through a Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) query format protocol based on the query message, and a query result message containing the contract information is received from the database in response to the query message. The contract information is acknowledged in the query result message, and a response message containing the contract information is generated. Then, the response message is transmitted to the terminal. | 04-12-2012 |
20120101903 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MOBILE INTELLIGENT ADVERTIZING SERVICE BASED ON MOBILE USER CONTEXTUAL MATCHING - Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for mobile intelligent advertizing service based on mobile user contextual matching. An apparatus for mobile intelligent advertizing service based on mobile user contexts includes: a contextual information collecting unit collecting user contextual information under a mobile environment; a contextual information analyzing unit analyzing the collected contextual information and classifying and storing the analyzed contextual information for each category; a contextual information modeling unit comparing and mapping the analyzed contextual information with a previously built-up contextual information database to formalize the compared and mapped contextual information and generalizing the formalized contextual information by using a wired/wireless communication network; a user action analyzing unit analyzing a user's action on the basis of the modeled contextual information and predicting the user's next action; and an advertisement contents recommending unit recommending advertisement contents suitable for the predicted user's next action. | 04-26-2012 |
20120124136 | CONTEXT INFORMATION SHARING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INTELLIGENT SERVICE BY SHARING CONTEXT INFORMATION BETWEEN ONE OR MORE TERMINALS - Provided are a context information sharing apparatus and method for providing an intelligent service by sharing context information between one or more terminals. The method includes collecting, at one or more terminals, user behavior-based preference information including user log information about each terminal and sensor-based context information, storing, at the one or more terminals, the collected preference information and context information in each terminal as a database, receiving, at a first terminal, a context information collection request for a target user group and identifying the target user group, collecting, at the first terminal, context information about at least one terminal included in the identified target user group, and providing, at the first terminal, preference information about the target user group extracted on the basis of the collected context information about the target user group to a user. | 05-17-2012 |
20120167153 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING BROADCAST SERVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING BROADCAST SERVICE - Disclosed are a system for providing a broadcast service and a method for providing a broadcast service. An example of the method for providing a broadcast service includes receiving a broadcast signal including broadcast contents and side information to provide the broadcast contents; reading out at least one of objects from question data that is input regarding the broadcast contents and primarily analyzing the read-out object to read out a subject of the question data; searching a social media site and collecting social media data relating to the subject from the searched social media site; secondarily analyzing the social media data and the side information in the broadcast signal on the basis of the subject; and configuring answer data corresponding to the subject using the analysis result and providing the answer data, and provides information which is extended and varied in real time. | 06-28-2012 |
20130197898 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSLATION - Disclosed is an apparatus for providing an accurate automatic language translation service. A user terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a display unit to display a translation option setting menu for a user with respect to a source sentence of which a category is designated and to be translated; a user input unit to receive, from the user, an input on setting of a translation option; a communication unit to transmit the translation option to a translation server, and to receive a translation result from the translation server; and a control unit to control operations of the display unit, the user input unit, and the communication unit. According to the present invention, a translation service for multilingual multimedia through a natural styled highly precise automatic translation is enabled. | 08-01-2013 |
20140136527 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR POWER USER IN SOCIAL MEDIA - Disclosed are an apparatus, a system, and a method for searching for a power user in social media. The apparatus according to the present invention includes an input unit configured to receive a keyword corresponding to an interested object from a user; a communication unit configured to transmit a search request message including the received keyword and receive a search response message corresponding to the transmitted search request message; a controller configured to, when receiving the search response message, extract a search list in which power users related to the keyword are arranged according to a preset power ranking from the received search response message; a display unit configured to sequentially display the power users related to the keyword received from the user according to the preset power ranking based on the extracted search list; and a storage unit configured to store the extracted search list. | 05-15-2014 |
20140297639 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR DETECTING COMPLEX ISSUES BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYSIS - Disclosed are an apparatus, a system, and a method for detecting complex issues based on social media analysis according to the present invention. A system for detecting complex issues based on social media analysis according to the present invention includes: a unit issue detecting unit configured to receive a keyword from a user terminal, and to detect per-type unit issues associated with the received keyword; a complex issue detecting unit configured to detect per-type complex issues from the detected per-type unit issues; a complex issue ranking unit configured to analyze the detected per-type complex issues, and to rank the per-type complex issues based on the analysis result; and a complex issue configuring unit configured to configure the ranked per-type complex issues in a predetermined form that enable users to induce a micro trend, and to provide the configured form to a user. | 10-02-2014 |
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20090022683 | Biodegradable and Thermosensitive Poly(Organophosphazene) Hydrogel, Preparation Method Thereof and Use Thereof - The present invention relates to a biodegradable and thermosensitive poly(organophosphazene) with a functional group, a preparation method thereof, and a use thereof for delivery of bioactive substances. According to the present invention, poly(organophosphazene) is a phosphagen-based polymer showing biodegradability, thermosensitivity, and sol-gel phase transition depending on temperature change, whereby when administered into a living body with bioactive substances such as drugs, the poly(organophosphazene) forms a gel-phase at body temperature to be capable of controlled release of the bioactive substances. Further, the poly(organophosphazene) has functional groups to chemically bind with bioactive substances through an ionic bond, covalent bond, or coordinate covalent bond to be capable of a sustained release of the bioactive substances due to its good binding property. Therefore, the poly(organophosphazene) is useful as a delivery material for bioactive substances. | 01-22-2009 |
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20130004455 | POLY(ORGANOPHOSPHAZENE) COMPOSITION FOR BIOMATERIALS - Provided are a use of chemically-crosslinkable, poly(organophosphazene)s for biomaterials, chemically-crosslinkable poly(organophosphazene)s with a physiologically active substance covalently-bonded thereto, a use thereof for biomaterials, and a process for preparing the same. The chemical crosslinkings can be made by UV irradiation, and/or a crosslinker, and/or an additive, and/or an enzyme, and/or a mixing of at least one polymer. | 01-03-2013 |
20140341997 | CONTINUOUS PROCESS FOR PREPARING MICROSPHERES AND MICROSPHERES PREPARED THEREBY - The present invention relates to a continuous process for preparing microspheres and microspheres prepared thereby, and in particular, a process for preparing microspheres comprising steps of injecting a first emulsion and a second emulsion at the same time to form microspheres instantaneously, applying high pressure to the microspheres formed, and injecting the microspheres into an agitator, wherein the steps can be carried out continuously, and microspheres prepared thereby. | 11-20-2014 |
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20090154868 | SEMICONDUCTOR OPTO-ELECTRONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME - Provided are semiconductor opto-electronic integrated circuits and methods of forming the same. The semiconductor opto-electronic integrated circuit includes: an optical waveguide disposed on a substrate and including an input terminal and an output terminal; an optical grating formed on the optical waveguide; and an optical active device disposed on the optical grating and receiving an optical signal from the optical waveguide through the optical grating to modulate the optical signal. | 06-18-2009 |
20090155942 | HYBRID METAL BONDED VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER AND FABRICATING METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a method of fabricating a vertical cavity surface emitting laser among semiconductor optical devices, comprising: bonding a dielectric mirror layer to an epi-structure having a mirror layer and an active layer; bonding these on a new substrate using a metal bonded method; removing the existing substrate; and fabricating a vertical cavity surface emitting laser on the new substrate. The method of fabricating the vertical cavity surface emitting laser is performed by moving and attaching a vertical cavity surface emitting laser to a new substrate using an external metallic bonding method, without electrically and optically affecting upper and lower mirrors and an active layer that constitutes the vertical cavity surface emitting laser. While using the existing method of fabricating the vertical cavity surface emitting laser, the VCSEL is fabricated by moving to a new substrate having good thermal characteristics so that good heat emission characteristics are accomplished, thus facilitating manufacture of the vertical cavity surface emitting laser having high reliability and good characteristics. | 06-18-2009 |
20100133590 | SHARED PHOTODIODE IMAGE SENSOR - An image sensor with a shared photodiode is provided. The image sensor includes at least two unit pixels, each of which includes a photodiode, a diffusion region which gathers electrons from the photodiode, a transfer transistor which connects the photodiode with the diffusion region, and a readout circuit which reads out a signal from the diffusion region. Photodiodes of neighboring unit pixels are disposed symmetrically to be adjacent to one another to form a shared photodiode. The image sensor does not have a STI region which causes a dark current restricting its performance and does not require a basic minimum design factor (a distance or an area) related to a STI region. A region corresponding to a STI region may be used as a region of a photodiode or for additional pixel scaling. Therefore, a limitation in scaling of a photodiode is overcome, and pixel performance is improved in spite of pixel scaling. | 06-03-2010 |
20100144123 | METHODS OF FORMING A COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING A DIFFUSION REGION - Provided is a method of forming a compound semiconductor device. In the method, a dopant element layer is formed on an undoped compound semiconductor layer. An annealing process is performed to diffuse dopants in the dopant element layer into the undoped compound semiconductor layer, thereby forming a dopant diffusion region. A rapid cooling process is performed using liquid nitrogen with respect to the substrate having the dopant diffusion region. | 06-10-2010 |
20100278477 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS INCLUDING OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR CHANGING OPTICAL PHASE - Provided is a semiconductor integrated circuit. The semiconductor integrated circuit includes a semiconductor pattern disposed on a substrate and including an optical waveguide part and a pair of recessed portions. The optical waveguide part has a thickness ranging from about 0.05 m to about 0.5 μm. The recessed portions are disposed on both sides of the optical waveguide part and have a thinner thickness than the optical waveguide part. A first doped region and a second doped region are disposed in the recessed portions, respectively. The first and second doped regions are doped with a first conductive type dopant and a second conductive type dopant, respectively. An intrinsic region is formed in at least the optical waveguide part to contact the first and second doped regions. | 11-04-2010 |
20120104531 | AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES AND METHODS OF FABRICATING THE SAME - Provided are an avalanche photodiode and a method of fabricating the same. The method of fabricating the avalanche photodiode includes sequentially forming a compound semiconductor absorption layer, a compound semiconductor grading layer, a charge sheet layer, a compound semiconductor amplification layer, a selective wet etch layer, and a p-type conductive layer on an n-type substrate through a metal organic chemical vapor deposition process. | 05-03-2012 |
20130163916 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE PLATFORM WITH HYBRID-INTEGRATED OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND OPTICAL ACTIVE DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed are an optical waveguide platform with integrated active transmission device and monitoring photodiode. The optical waveguide platform with hybrid integrated optical transmission device and optical active device includes an optical waveguide region formed by stacking a lower cladding layer, a core layer and an upper cladding layer on a substrate; a trench region formed by etching a portion of the optical waveguide region; and a spot expanding region formed on the core layer in the optical waveguide region, in which the optical transmission device is mounted in the trench region and the optical active device is flip-chip bonded to the spot expanding region. The monitoring photodiode is flip-chip bonded to the spot expanding region of the core layer of the optical waveguide, thereby monitoring output light including an optical coupling loss that occurs during flip-chip bonding. | 06-27-2013 |
20130209094 | OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL FOR BIDIRECTIONAL WAVELENGTH-DIVISION-MULTIPLEXING OPTICAL NETWORK - The present disclosure relates to an optical line terminal, the disclosure includes: an optical transmitter for generating a low speed downstream optical signal; a wavelength-multiplexer for wavelength-multiplexing the downstream optical signal; a first optical power branching tap coupler for allowing wavelength-multiplexed downstream optical signal to branch off; a wavelength band separator/coupler for separating between the wavelength-multiplexed downstream optical signal and a wavelength-multiplexed upstream optical signal; a circulation type wavelength-demultiplexer for wavelength-demultiplexing a downstream optical signal branched off by the first optical power branching tap coupler and an upstream optical signal separated by the wavelength band separator/coupler; an optical receiver for outputting a downstream electrical signal by using the wavelength-demultiplexed optical signal; and a signal processing module for controlling an optical power and a wavelength of the optical transmitter according to a strength of the downstream electrical signal. | 08-15-2013 |
20130209105 | WAVELENGTH-SHIFTED BIDIRECTIONAL WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING OPTICAL NETWORK - Disclosed is a wavelength-shifted bidirectional WDM optical network including: an optical line terminal including an optical line terminal (OLT) including a first optical transmitter transmitting a downstream WDM optical signal, a first high-density wavelength multiplexer/demultiplexer wavelength-multiplexing the downstream WDM optical signal or wavelength-demultiplexing a wavelength-multiplexed upstream WDM optical signal, and a first optical receiver receiving the wavelength-demultiplexed upstream WDM optical signal; a remote node (RN) including a second high-density wavelength multiplexer/demultiplexer shifting a center wavelength of the upstream WDM optical signal and wavelength-multiplexing the upstream WDM optical signal with the shifted center wavelength or wavelength-demultiplexing the wavelength-multiplexed downstream WDM optical signal; and multiple optical network units (ONUs) each including a second optical transmitter transmitting the upstream WDM optical signal and second optical receiver receiving the wavelength-demultiplexed downstream WDM optical signal. | 08-15-2013 |
20140023313 | HYBRID INTEGRATED OPTICAL DEVICE AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a hybrid integrated optical device capable of more easily implementing impedance matching of a transmission line by using a polymer material on which a low-temperature process may be performed when an optical waveguide platform is fabricated, and a fabrication method thereof. The hybrid integrated optical device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a substrate divided into a waveguide region and a line region; a lower clad layer formed of silica and formed on the substrate; a transmission line part formed on the lower clad layer of the line region; and a height adjustment layer, a core layer, and an upper clad layer formed of a polymer and sequentially formed on the lower clad layer of the waveguide region, in which an optical waveguide is formed on the core layer. | 01-23-2014 |
20140161445 | OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL FOR MONITORING AND CONTROLLING UPSTREAM/DOWNSTREAM OPTICAL SIGNALS - Disclosed is an optical line terminal for monitoring and controlling upstream and downstream optical signals, and more particularly, to an optical line terminal for monitoring and controlling upstream and downstream optical signals, which adds different low frequency monitoring signals to upstream and downstream wavelength division multiplexing optical signals in a bidirectional wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical network and senses and detects low frequency components of upstream and downstream optical signals to unite, monitor, and control optical outputs and wavelengths of the upstream and downstream wavelength division multiplexing optical signals into a single system. | 06-12-2014 |
20140206130 | AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES AND METHODS OF FABRICATING THE SAME - Provided are an avalanche photodiode and a method of fabricating the same. The method of fabricating the avalanche photodiode includes sequentially forming a compound semiconductor absorption layer, a compound semiconductor grading layer, a charge sheet layer, a compound semiconductor amplification layer, a selective wet etch layer, and a p-type conductive layer on an n-type substrate through a metal organic chemical vapor deposition process. | 07-24-2014 |
20140233945 | WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING OPTICAL TRANSMITTING APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD OF THE SAME - Provided is a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical transmitting apparatus including first to n-th optical transmitters configured to output first to n-th optical signals having different wavelengths, respectively; a wavelength multiplexer configured to multiplex the first to n-th optical signals and generate an output optical signal; a tap coupler configured to receive the output optical signal and generate a controlling optical signal based on some of the output optical signal; a controlling photodetector configured to receive the controlling optical signal and output an optical current based on the controlling optical signal; and a controller configured to control each of the first to n-th optical transmitters based on the optical current, wherein the controller comprises a look-up table, sequentially detects driving conditions for the first to n-th optical transmitters, stores the detected driving conditions in the look-up table, and controls the first to n-th optical transmitters based on the detected driving conditions. | 08-21-2014 |
20140270811 | MULTI-CHANNEL OPTICAL RECEIVING MODULE - A multi-channel optical receiving module includes a first substrate disposed on a bench, optical fibers disposed in grooves of the first substrate, a first lens disposed on the first substrate and collimating optical signals through the optical fibers, a second substrate disposed on the bench at a side of the first substrate, a light receiving device disposed on the second substrate, a second lens disposed over the light receiving device, a mirror reflecting the optical signals between the first lens and the second lens, and a block fixing the mirror. The block includes through-holes transmitting the optical signals between the first and second lenses without refraction of the optical signals. | 09-18-2014 |
20150063832 | MULTI-CHANNEL RECEIVER OPTICAL SUB ASSEMBLY - Disclosed is a multi-channel receiver optical sub assembly. The a multi-channel receiver optical sub assembly includes: a multi-channel PD array, in which a plurality of photodiodes (PDs) disposed on a first capacitor, and including receiving areas disposed at centers thereof and anode electrode pads arranged in an opposite direction at an angle of 180 degrees based on the receiving areas between the adjacent PDs is monolithically integrated; a plurality of transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs) arranged on a plurality of second capacitors, respectively, and connected with the anode pads of the respective PDs through wire bonding; a submount on which the first capacitor. | 03-05-2015 |