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A method, system, computer system, and computer-readable medium to maintain consistent, up-to-date copies of primary data that enable quick resumption of operations upon failure of the primary node, the secondary node, and / or the network connecting nodes. The current status of individual storage locations is tracked, indicating whether data in each individual storage location is synchronized between a primary node and a secondary node. Transaction logging by a transaction-logging application, such as a file system or database system, is used to track individual storage locations updated with each transaction. Acknowledgements of these updates are tracked during replication to determine whether individual storage locations containing primary and secondary data are synchronized. This coordinated transaction logging and acknowledgement tracking enables write operations and replication to be performed efficiently while maintaining the information necessary to resynchronize only individual storage locations when primary and secondary data become unsynchronized.

A touch sensing apparatus utilizes the characteristics of orthogonal vectors is disclosed. A random spread spectrum (RSS) signal or a periodic wave is used to modulate a driving signal so as to driving a row of a sensing array, and the RSS signal or periodic wave is also use to extract touch information of a node from a sensing signal measured from a column of the sensing array. The node is an intersection of the driven row and the measured column. When different RSS signals and / or periodic waves are used to drive multiple rows simultaneously, multipoint touching information can be obtained from the same sensing signal at the same time by respectively using the RSS signals and / or periodic waves to extract touching information of multiple points which are the intersections of the driven rows and the measured column.

The present invention is directed to an image information encoding apparatus adapted for performing intra-image encoding on the basis of resolution of color components and color space of an input image signal. In the image information encoding apparatus (10), an intra prediction unit (23) serves to adaptively change block size in generating a prediction image on the basis of a chroma format signal indicating whether resolution of color components is that of any one of 4:2:0 format, 4:2:2 format and 4:4:4 format, etc., and a color space signal indicating whether color space is any one of YCbCr, RGB and XYZ, etc. In addition, an orthogonal transform unit (14) and a quantization unit (15) serve to also change orthogonal transform technique and quantization technique in accordance with the chroma format signal and the color space signal. A reversible encoding unit (16) encodes the chroma format signal and the color space signal to include the encoded signals thus obtained into image compressed information.

A text summarizer identifies relevant terms in a document, weights the terms and extracts one or more segments to produce a summary or abstract. The various terms in a particular are weighted in relation to an existing document collection. A term weight computer computes term weights for terms in the document, and a threshold comparator compares the term weights to determine if the corresponding terms are relevant to the document collection. Next, a term weight summer adds the term weights for each occurrence of each relevant term in the various segments of the document, and a summation comparator compares the summations to identify a text summarization segment representative of the document. Optionally, relevant terms can be highlighted in the term summarization segment.

An organic electroluminescent display device in which display pixels containing organic electroluminescent elements are arranged in a matrix, comprising:a correction value formula storage section for storing a correction value formula or coefficients thereof that prescribes a relationship of pixel positions for display and brightness correction data of those pixels;a correction value output section for receiving the input of data for the positions of respective pixels, and outputs correction values for the respective pixels using the correction value formula or coefficients thereof stored in said correction value formula storage section; andthe correction value output section corrects brightness data for each pixel using the correction value from said correction value output section according to the pixel position, to thereby perform display to the respective display pixels.

Disclosed is a method of reconstructing a sound field. The method comprises receiving measured values of a first acoustic quantity measured at a set of measurement locations; computing a second acoustic quantity for a target location from a superposition of plane waves. The method comprises storing a set of representations of interpolations of respective functions, each function being a function of two or less input parameters; and computing comprises computing each of a set of correlation functions, each correlation function being indicative of a correlation of the plane waves at a first one of said measurement locations with the plane waves at a second location, as a linear combination of values obtained from the set of representations of interpolations.

One embodiment of the invention provides a method for extending a schema of network parts types and part type attributes hard-coded by a CAD application. The network parts may be used to compose a CAD model. Users may extend the network part schema by adding an attribute or property for an existing network part, or define an entirely new part by associating the new network part with a set of part type attributes. At the same time, the CAD application may use either a hard-coded or dynamically assigned enumeration value to perform a variety of functions using both the hard-coded and user declared network part types and part properties. For example, functions such as searching a network part list or traversing the elements included in a CAD model may operate using the enumeration values, allowing the CAD application to perform these operations efficiently.

An electrostatic discharge protection structure contains a short ring surrounding a display region comprising pixel electrodes and thin film transistors, a plurality of switching elements disposed between the display region and the short ring corresponding to the scan lines and data lines, at least one of which is turned on to electrically connect the short ring and the scan lines and the data lines for introducing electrostatic charges to the short ring when a specific amount of electrostatic charges accumulate on the scan lines and the data lines, a conducting wire electrically connecting a storage capacitor line and the short ring, and a floating conductive pattern crossing over and not contacting the conducting wire, thereby assisting the electrostatic charges in distributing in the floating conductive pattern. Thus, an electrostatic discharge protection can be performed efficiently without increasing the substrate size.

A method and apparatus for performing a membership verification or an access control in a wireless communication system is provided. A mobility management entity (MME) performs the membership verification or the access control of a user equipment (UE), and transmits verified UE membership information to a target HeNB.

To provide an apparatus construction which makes it possible to perform a water treatment sequence by automatic control for reducing nitrate (nitrite) ions in water being treated through an electrochemical reaction and substituting nitrogen gas for the resulting ammonia for removal of ammonia from the water; and a detecting method using the apparatus for automatically detecting the progress of reduction or denitrification, or degradation of the treating capability of cathode or anode. The water treatment apparatus comprises a cathode (15) which reduces nitrate (nitrite) ions through an electrochemical reaction, an anode (16), an electrolytic bath (10) containing the cathode and the anode, and a hydrogen gas sensor (30) which measures a hydrogen gas concentration in the electrolytic bath (10). Water to be treated is introduced into the electrolytic bath (10), and an electric current is applied to the water. The completion of the reduction of the nitrate (nitrite) ions or the degradation of reduction capability of the cathode (15) can be detected on the basis of a value measured by the hydrogen gas sensor (30) or a control electric current value of the electrolytic bath (10).

A cleaning device for use in the production of semiconductor components comprises two feed devices with which a fluid medium is guided across a respective surface of an object to be cleaned so that different faces of the object are simultaneously cleaned. At least two gas feeding devices, having one means each for directing a gas flow onto the surface of the object to be cleaned, open into a cleaning chamber supplying a pressurized cleaning gas. At least two extraction means are connected to the outside of the cleaning chamber for discharging the gas fed to the cleaning chamber. The object can be introduced into the cleaning chamber through at least one gap. At least two ionization means are used to ionize the gas and the particles that are present in the cleaning chamber. One ionization means each is mounted between a direction means and an extraction means.

A multi-bit flip-flop includes a plurality of multi-bit flip-flop blocks that share a clock signal. Each of the multi-bit flip-flop blocks includes a single inverter and a plurality of flip-flops. The single inverter generates an inverted clock signal by inverting the clock signal. Each of the flip-flops includes a master latch part and a slave latch part and operates the master latch part and the slave latch part based on the clock signal and the inverted clock signal. Here, the flip-flops are triggered at rising edges of the clock signal. Thus, the multi-bit flip-flop operating as a master-slave flip-flop may minimize (or, reduce) power consumption occurring in a clock path through which the clock signal is transmitted.

Clients using standard software protocols may access stored validation functions in order to perform validation functions on data via a number of methods including Internet applications, a Java RMI server, a CORBA gateway server and graphical screen interphase applications. The system allows for the efficient performance of validation services on data based on dynamically-maintained, centrally-stored validation functions.

A non-contact power transmission device includes an alternating current power supply, a resonant system, a load, an impedance measuring section and an analyzing section. The resonant system has a primary coil connected to the alternating current power supply, a primary-side resonant coil, a secondary-side resonant coil and a secondary coil. The load is connected to the secondary coil. The impedance measuring section can measure the input impedance of the resonant system. The analyzing section analyzes the measurement results obtained from the impedance measuring section.

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting an acknowledgement / not-acknowledgement (ACK / NACK) signal in a wireless communication system. The method includes the steps of: receiving a transmission block; and transmitting an ACK / NACK signal for the transmission block in a first subframe or a second subframe according to the size of the transmission block, wherein, when the size of the transmission block is smaller than or equal to a reference value, the ACK / NACK signal is transmitted in the first frame, when the size of the transmission block is greater than the reference value, the ACK / NACK signal is transmitted in the second subframe, and the second subframe is behind the first subframe in a time domain.

A facility for cleaning substrates such as semiconductor wafers includes a loading / unloading part, an aligning part where wafers are repositioned from a horizontal state to a vertical state, a cleaning part performing etchant-treating, rinsing, and drying processes for wafers and having a plurality of process chamber stacked, and an interface part where a transfer bath is disposed to transfer wafers between the process chambers. When the wafers are transferred between the process chamber, the transfer bath is filled with deionized water (DI water) to prevent their exposure to the air. Wafers drawn out of the loading / unlading part are repositioned from a horizontal state to a vertical state and are transferred to a first process chamber being one of the process chambers to be subjected to a part of processes. After the wafers are transferred to a second process chamber being the other one of the process chambers to be subjected to the other processes, they are repositioned from a vertical state to a horizontal state. That is, the wafers are transferred along a loop shape to be processed.

When a client PC receives a request for printing output data, an imaging apparatus captures an image of a user. The image data of the user captured by the imaging apparatus and the output data is transferred to a management server. The management server performs predetermined image processing on the acquired image data, calculates a characteristic amount of the image data of the user, and registers the calculated characteristic amount and the output data by associating with each other. When the user requests printing of the output data from an image forming apparatus, image data of the user captured by the imaging apparatus is transferred to the management server. The management server calculates a characteristic amount of the acquired image data of the user, compares the calculated characteristic amount with the characteristic amount in the management server, and transfers the output data to the image forming apparatus.

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for connecting a first device to a second device using Bluetooth low energy (LE). According to the present invention, provided are a method and an apparatus which receive, from the second device, a first advertising message comprising first interval information indicative of the transmission interval of the advertising message; adjust the size of a scan window for searching for peripheral devices on the basis of the first advertising message; receive a second advertising message from the second device or an external device via the scan window; and establish a Bluetooth LE connection with the second device if the transmission interval indicated by the interval information is the same as the interval at which the first advertising message and the second advertising message are transmitted.

A method and apparatus for performing device authentication and user authentication in a mobile communication network are provided. A connection is established between an MS and an SRNC that controls communications of the MS through a BS. The SRNC receives a D-MSK for device authentication of the MS from an AAA server that has completed an EAP negotiation with the MS and stores the D-MSK by the SRNC, when the BS triggers an EAP authentication after the connection establishment. The SRNC receives an R-MSK from an AG and stores the R-MSK after the connection establishment. The R-MSK is generated using a U-MSK for user authentication of the MS received from the AAA server by the AG. The SRNC generates a PMK for use during a session using at least one of the D-MSK and the R-MSK, and one of the BS and the SRNC generate a key set using the PMK, for use in at least one of data encryption, data integrity check, and session management during the session.

A method is disclosed for conducting a query to transform data in a pre-existing database, the method comprising: collecting database information from the pre-existing database, the database information including inconsistent dimensional tables and fact tables; running an entity discovery process on the inconsistent dimensional tables and the fact tables to produce entity mapping tables; using the entity mapping tables to resolve the inconsistent dimensional tables into resolved dimensional tables; and running the query on a resolved database to obtain a query result, the resolved database including the resolved dimensional table.

Provided are a method of generating hollow cathode plasma and a method of treating a large area substrate using the hollow cathode plasma. In the methods, the hollow cathode plasma is generated by a gas introduced between a hollow cathode in which a plurality of lower grooves where plasma is generated is defined in a bottom surface thereof and a baffle in which a plurality of injection holes is defined. A substrate disposed on a substrate support member is treated using the hollow cathode plasma passing through the injection holes. The uniform plasma having high density can be generated by hollow cathode effect due to the hollow cathode having the lower grooves and the injection holes of the baffle. Also, since the substrate can be treated using a hydrogen gas and a nitrogen gas in an ashing process, a damage of a low dielectric constant dielectric can be minimized.

Techniques are disclosed for tracing a ray within a parallel processing unit. A first thread receives a ray or a ray segment for tracing and identifies a first node within an acceleration structure associated with the ray, where the first node is associated with a volume of space traversed by the ray. The thread identifies the child nodes of the first node, where each child node is associated with a different sub-volume of space, and each sub-volume is associated with a corresponding ray segment. The thread determines that two or more nodes are associated with sub-volumes of space that intersect the ray segment. The thread selects one of these nodes for processing by the first thread and another for processing by a second thread. One advantage of the disclosed technique is that the threads in a thread group perform ray tracing more efficiently in that idle time is reduced.

Provided is a base station capable of searching cells of different frequencies without losing a chance of data communication by effectively performing SCH data communication. The base station (100) includes: an encoding unit (101) for encoding SCH data; a modulation unit (102) for modulating the encoded SCH data; encoding units (103-1 to 103-N) for encoding user data (#1 to #N), modulation units (104-1 to 104-N) for modulating the encoded user data (#1 to #N); a frame format setting unit (105) for setting a frame format of each frame; and an IFFT unit (106) for mapping the SCH data and the user data (#1 to #N) to sub carriers (#1 to #K) and performing IFFT to generate an OFDM symbol. The frame format setting unit (105) changes the data communication sub frame for each frame so as to change the position of the data communication section within a frame for each frame.

One or more embodiments of the invention set forth techniques to perform integer division using a floating point hardware unit supporting floating point variables of a certain bit size. The numerator and denominator are integers having a bit size that is greater than the bit size of the floating point variables supported by the floating point hardware unit. Error correcting techniques are utilized to account for any loss of precision caused by the floating point operations.

Aspects of the present invention include a method of dynamically routing requests within multiple cloud computing networks. The method includes receiving a request for an application from a user device, forwarding the request to an edge server within a content delivery network (CDN), and analyzing the request to gather metrics about responsiveness provided by the multiple cloud computing networks running the application. The method further includes analyzing historical data for the multiple cloud computing networks regarding performance of the application, based on the performance metrics and the historical data, determining an optimal cloud computing network within the multiple cloud computing networks to route the request, routing the request to the optimal cloud computing network, andreturning the response from the optimal cloud computing network to the user device.

A method and apparatus for transmitting an uplink indication for extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) detects that an event related to eDRX occurs, and transmits an uplink indication related to eDRX to a network. When the event related to eDRX is that an eDRX timer expires or an eDRX command indicating stop of eDRX is received, the uplink indication may indicate stop of eDRX. When the event related to eDRX is that no uplink data is to be transmitted, the uplink indication may indicate start of eDRX.

A molding machine is provided for easily setting molding conditions. Molding navigation is stored in a microcomputer portion for performing drive control of the molding machine. When the molding navigation is activated, a plurality of setting screens required for setting molding conditions are displayed in a predetermined sequence on a display portion, and in each of the displayed setting screens, setting item display fields to which the molding conditions are to be input are displayed in a color different from the surrounding. An operator inputs predetermined setting values in the displayed sequence in the setting item display fields displayed in the color different from the surrounding. Thereby, the setting of the molding conditions can be completed. All molding conditions required for operating the molding machine can be set exhaustively, and the setting of the molding conditions can be performed highly efficiently and reliably, without special skills.

Provided is a wireless transmitting apparatus, a wires receiving apparatus and a wireless communication method, by which contents of an RRC message can be changed in retransmission by an RRC and setting corresponding to the change can be efficiently performed. At the time of retransmitting the RRC message from a transmitting apparatus (100), a retransmission message including information (flag) indicating the relation between the SN of the original message which has been transmitted and the original message. Then, a receiving apparatus (150) which received the retransmission message processes the retransmission message, based on the information indicating the relation between the SN of the message which has been received and the message which has been received.

An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel, an OLED display device, and a method of driving the same are discussed, which can improve image quality by enabling compensation for the unique characteristics of a driving transistor without an influence on gradation under any circumstances.

Provided is a wireless network system and a method for transmitting and receiving data in the wireless network, which have a particular time period for a beam search in a superframe thereof in order to enable stations, which carry out directional communications with a high frequency bandwidth, to efficiently perform a beam search. A wireless network coordinator in the wireless network system includes a media access control unit generating a beacon frame which constitutes a superframe including at least one channel time block; a bandwidth management unit setting a specific channel time block among the channel time blocks to a time period during which a packet for a beam search is transmitted and received among stations in a network; and a transmission unit transmitting the beacon frame having information on the setting through a predetermined communication channel.