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An optically controlled microwave antenna that reduces the optical power consumed by the antenna and to enable polarimetric detection an optically controlled microwave antenna comprises an antenna array and a feed for illuminating said antenna array with and / or receiving microwave radiation. The antenna array comprises a plurality of antenna elements each including a waveguide, two optically controllable semiconductor elements arranged within the waveguide in front of the light transmissive portion of the second end portion, a controllable light source arranged at or close to the light transmissive portion of the second end portion for projecting a controlled light beam onto said semiconductor element for controlling its material properties, and a septum arranged within the waveguide in front of the light transmissive portion of the second end portion and separating said waveguide into two waveguide portions.

A mobile apparatus is provided with: a display module configured to display an image; a camera disposed on a same side as a side on which the display module is provided and configured to capture a camera image including a user's face; a motion detecting module configured to detect a motion state and a stop state of the mobile apparatus; an image controller configured to determine a face orientation of the user's face from the camera image and control a display orientation of the image to be displayed in the display module; and a camera activating module configured to activate the camera when the motion detecting module detects a change from the motion state to the stop state, and to turn off the camera when the image controller completes a determination on the face orientation.

A method of producing a semiconductor device wherein an already formed opening portion inner wall of an organic based interlayer insulation film is prevented from changing in quality or corroding when performing etching on other organic material. The production method includes a step of depositing organic based interlayer insulation films (4, 6), a step of forming an opening on the organic based interlayer insulation films (4, 6), and a step of silylating a wall surface portion of the organic based interlayer insulation films (4, 6) exposed in the opening portion for reforming (forming reformed layers (4a, 6a) by silylation). A more preferable production method further includes a step of forming protective layers (4b, 6b) including an inorganic based insulation material on a surface of the silylated opening portion wall surface.

Dynamically Configurable Logic Gate Using a Nonlinear Element A dynamically configurable logic gate includes an input summer for receiving a first input signal and a second input signal to generate a summed input signal. Further the dynamically configurable logic gate includes a nonlinear element that applies a nonlinear function to the summed input signal to produce a nonlinear output signal. The dynamically configurable logic gate output signal corresponds to one of a plurality of different logic gates responsive to adjusting the summed input signal and / or the nonlinear function. In another embodiment, the dynamically configurable logic gate includes feedback to one of the inputs. The dynamically configurable logic gate receives the two inputs and operates as one of a plurality of different logic gate types so as to produce an output signal that corresponds to a memory latch according to a selection of the control signal. An array structure of dynamically configurable logic elements is also disclosed.

A method and system for advanced media access control delegated from a host device, such as a WiFi device, to a smart wireless communications module. In an embodiment, the host signals to the wireless module a list of one or more preferred networks. The wireless module offloads from the host the processing required to scan for the preferred network(s), as well as possibly other management tasks. The wireless communications module may automatically reassign the network connection from an existing network to a preferred network, or may report to the host when a preferred network is discovered. In either case, the wireless communications module may monitor the wireless environment, and scan for preferred networks, in parallel with maintaining an existing connection. The method and system allows rapid adaptation to a changing network environment, and enables lower system power consumption by distributing management functions between the host and the lower-powered wireless communications module.

A handheld device for capturing image is provided, where a micro flat panel display serves as a viewfinder for capturing image as well as a display for displaying image, so that size and power consumption of the device are both significantly reduced. A structure with a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector configures the device to directly hookup a USB interface of a computer, thus neither a cable nor an external stand is required for connection purpose. On the other hand, it is quite handy for a user to charge the device through USB as the device transmits data to a computer via direct connection.

Provided are a method and base station for paging terminals in a radio resource control (RRC) connected state in a packet based mobile communication system. The method for paging terminals in a RRC connected state in a packet based mobile communication system having a RRC processor, a medium access control (MAC) processor, and a physical layer processor includes the steps of: a) at a MAC processor of a base station, generating a paging message when it is necessary to page the terminals and transferring the generated paging message to the physical layer processor, b) at the physical layer processor, transmitting a paging indicator having a unique identifier of the terminal to the terminal; and c) transmitting radio resource information to the terminal through a control channel when an acknowledgement for the paging indicator is received from the terminal.

An example control signal generating circuit CTL for controlling the writing into pixels PIX instructs a data signal line drive circuit SD2, which is for driving pixels in a non-display area, to write a voltage VB or a voltage VW which are for non-displaying, not only in the first frame but also once in a predetermined number of frames. In other words, the pixels in the display area are refreshed at intervals longer than those in the case of refreshing the pixels in each frame. Thus, even if the mobility of an active element is high and the leak current on the occasion of OFF-state is large, or even if a large amount of electric charge is accumulated because of the photoelectric effect due to the use of a backlight, it is possible to prevent unnecessary displaying on the display area, which is caused because the writing into the pixels in the display area influences on the pixels in the non-display area, and hence it is possible to improve the quality of partial displaying, while restraining the power consumption.

A magnetic memory device and a method of manufacturing the same, which are advantageous not only in that both the improvement of storage sensitivity and the reduction of power consumption can be achieved, but also in that a buried wiring having low resistance and high reliability can be formed in reduced time in a stable manner. Soft magnetic material layers forming the cladding structure of a word line and a bit line constituting an MRAM are formed by electroless plating, and the soft magnetic material layers are formed around main wirings (especially copper) of the word line and bit line so that the soft magnetic material layers individually have a uniform, satisfactory thickness, and further they are deposited with improved uniformity on the surface with which the electroless plating solution is in contact, and therefore the uniformity of cladding is improved at not only the bottom surface but also the sidewall of a wiring trench.

Hinge (1) for a door which covers at least in part a compartment, of the type comprising a fixed support (2) coupled to the compartment frame, and a mobile support (3) coupled to the door, wherein such mobile and fixed supports are at least rotatably constrained one to the other. The hinge also comprises means to impose a predefined law of motion to the mobile support with respect to the fixed support during opening and / or closing of the door and controlled motor means (5) for aiding opening and / or closing of the door applying a push and / or a pull force onto said mobile support with respect to the fixed one.

A device (2) with a switchable capacitance comprises a first and a second electrode (12, 20) facing each other, a dielectric layer (14) between a first and a second capacitor electrode (12, 20), and a switching member (18) between the second electrode (20) and the dielectric layer (14), the switching member (18) comprising a switching material reversibly switchable between a lower conductivity state and a higher conductivity state, each of the lower conductivity state and the higher conductivity state being persistent, wherein the capacitance of the device (2) depends on the conductivity state of the switching material.

Disclosed is a skin washing apparatus using a brushless DC motor, including: a case for the skin washing apparatus; an operation unit installed outside the case, commanding ON / OFF operation and switching operation for forward and reverse rotations in unit of a predetermined angle; power supply installed at one end of an interior of the case; a brushless DC motor installed inside the case to be operated by electric power received from the power supply as to be rotated forwardly and reversely in unit of a predetermined angle; a control unit for outputting an electrical signal for controlling forward and reverse rotations of the brushless electric motor by a predetermined angle in response to a switching signal of the operation unit; and a skin washing brush mounted on a shaft of the brushless electric motor to be rotated forwardly and reversely according to an operation of the brushless electric motor.

The present invention discloses an electro-phoretic display comprising an electro-phoretic panel, a column driver, a row driver, for selecting a row to be driven; and a controller, for determining whether to update a pixel of a current frame according to a compared result between a pixel value of the pixel and a pixel value of a corresponding pixel of a previous frame; wherein, the column driver provides a data signal to the pixel and the row driver provides a selecting signal according to the pixel if the pixel needs to be updated.

The present solution provides methods and systems for realizing hardware efficient mismatched filters for pulse compression codes. For pulse compression codes with sufficiently small sidelobe structures, such as in the cases of odd length Barker codes, the proposed filters require a small number of adders and multipliers per output. This translates to significantly reduced chip-area and lower power consumption when implemented on a chip.In one aspect, the present application features a method for suppressing an undesired part of a waveform. The method includes filtering a signal via a filter. In one embodiment, the signal includes an expected waveform that can be represented as a sum of the desired part and the undesired part. The impulse response of the filter can be represented a sum of the desired part and a negative of the undesired part.

There is provided a display device capable of displaying an image that barely changes with low power consumption on the basis of video data included in a transmitted command, and there is also provided a method for driving the same.A display timing controller (31) determines every frame period whether or not an externally transmitted command includes updated video data. As a result, when it is determined that no updated video data is included, screen refreshing is paused by not reading video data stored in frame memory (36). Moreover, when it is determined that updated video data is included, screen refreshing is performed by reading video data stored in the frame memory (36).

Disclosed herein is a method of controlling power consumption of a mobile communication terminal, and a mobile communication terminal in which the method is implemented. The mobile communication terminal, having peripheral devices, such as a speaker, Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and a camera, and a diversity unit for implementing a diversity function, includes a power measurement unit and a control unit. The power measurement unit measures power consumed in the diversity unit. The control unit controls the power consumption of the peripheral devices based on the amount of consumed power read from the power measurement unit. Accordingly, the power consumption of the peripheral devices is appropriately controlled, so that unnecessary power consumption can be reduced, therefore the lifespan of a battery can be prolonged.

Methods are proposed for object positioning for an X-Y projected capacitive touch panel. In an embodiment, capacitance sensing under inphase excitation of traces is applied to set a base value when the capacitive touch panel is not touched and to obtain capacitances at intersections when the capacitive touch panel is touched, and the base value is compared with the measured capacitances to identify touch points. In other embodiments, X-Y projected sensing and all-point sensing are combined to reduce the amount of calculation and achieve the same positioning effect as an all-point capacitive touch panel.

A transflective display has a viewing side and a non-viewing and includes a front polarizer with a transmission axis arranged in a first direction; a front substrate coupled to the non-viewing side of the front polarizer; a liquid crystal (LC) layer coupled to the non-viewing side of the front substrate; a quantum rod layer with one or more quantum rods aligned in a second direction, wherein the quantum rod layer is coupled to the non-viewing side of the LC layer; a rear substrate coupled to the non-viewing side of the quantum rod layer; and a backlight coupled to the non-viewing side of the quantum rod layer, wherein the quantum rod layer emits partially polarized light with a major axis substantially parallel (i.e. within ±15°) to the second direction. Each of the one or more quantum rods includes a long axis and a short axis, and the long axis is substantially parallel to the second direction.

A phosphor has the general formula (M2x,M3y,M4z)mM1O3X(2 / n), wherein M1 represents at least one element including at least Si and selected from the group consisting of Si, Ge, Ti, Zr, and Sn, M2 represents at least one element including at least Ca and selected from the group consisting of Ca, Mg, Cd, Co, and Zn, M3 represents at least one element including at least Sr and selected from the group consisting of Sr, Ra, Ba, and Pb, X represents at least one halogen element, M4 represents at least one element including at least Eu2+ and selected from the group consisting of rare-earth elements and Mn, m is in the range 1≦m≦4 / 3, n is in the range 5≦n≦7.

To provide a semiconductor device with low power consumption, in a semiconductor device including a differential amplifier to which an input potential and a reference potential are input, a gain stage, and an output stage from which an output potential is output, a potential supplied from the gain stage can be held constant by providing the output stage with a transistor with low leakage current in an off state. As the transistor with low leakage current in an off state, a transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer and a channel formation region included in the oxide semiconductor layer is used.

A device (1) is described for controlling and / or regulating a hydraulically activatable shifting element. The shifting element (2) is configured with a piston-cylinder unit (3) that can be acted upon by a hydraulic operating pressure (p) and can be arranged in an installation space that is connected to an oil sump of the gearing mechanism device. In addition, the device (1) is provided with an electric motor (5) that can be actuated by a control and / or regulator unit (4), and which is provided with a drive-transformer device (6) that has a functional connection to the electric motor (5), by way of which the rotational drive of the electric motor (5) can be transformed into the hydraulic operating pressure (p) for the shifting element (2).

A new clock driver is described for the use in the phase detector of a clock and data recovery circuit (CDR). By building a resonant LC tank, whose center frequency is similar to the clock frequency, a low power clock driver is realized. A method based upon minimizing power consumption is described for determining the value of the programmable capacitance. A programmable capacitance adjusts the center frequency of the tank so it matches the frequency of the clock and a finite state machine at startup determines the value of this programmable capacitance. A criterion for tuning the center frequency of the tank is to choose the capacitance which leads to the lowest power consumption. A low Q tank affords a reasonable compromise between power efficiency and performance in the CDR circuit.

A transmitting device for communicating via a multimedia communication link includes a compression circuitry that receives blanking period data corresponding to blanking states of video blanking periods. The compression circuitry compresses the blanking period data into compressed blanking period data. The transmitting device also includes an interface that transmits signals corresponding to the compressed blanking period data via one or more multimedia channels of the multimedia communication link.

A pixel circuit with a dual gate PMOS is formed by forming two P+ regions in an N− well. The N− well is in a P− type substrate. The two P+ regions form the source and drain of a PMOS transistor. The PMOS transistors formed within the N− well will not affect the collection of the photo-generated charge as long as the source and drain potentials of the PMOS transistors are set at a lower potential than the N− well potential so that they remain reverse biased with respect to the N− well. One of the P+ regions used to form the source and drain regions can be used to reset the pixel after it has been read in preparation for the next cycle of accumulating photo-generated charge. The N− well forms a second gate for the dual gate PMOS transistor since the potential of the N− well 12 affects the conductivity of the channel of the PMOS transistor. The addition of two NMOS transistors enables the readout signal to be stored at the gate of one of the NMOS transistors thereby making a snapshot imager possible. The circuit can be expanded to form two PMOS transistors sharing a common drain in the N− well.

A threshing and separating mechanism for a combine includes an elongated rotor mounted for rotation about a rotor axis on the combine within a rotor housing. The rotor has a threshing portion and a separating portion. The housing has a threshing section and a separating section corresponding to the threshing portion and the separating portion. The housing surrounds the rotor and is spaced from the rotor to form an annular space between the rotor and the housing for crop material to flow through in an axial crop flow direction from an inlet end of the housing to an outlet end of the housing. The housing includes a smooth transition section between the threshing section and the separating section of the housing.

A display device with high productivity and high display quality and a driving method thereof are provided by suppressing generation of a luminescent spot. A first switching element and a second switching element each of which has a different polarity are disposed in series between a power source line for supplying power to a light-emitting element and a power source line having a potential which is equal to or lower than a threshold voltage of the light-emitting element; one electrode of the light-emitting element is connected to a connecting node of the two switching elements; and in the case where a potential which is equal to or higher than the threshold voltage of the light-emitting element is applied to the light-emitting element regardless of an on / off state of the first switching element, a potential applied to the light-emitting element is set to be lower than the threshold voltage by turning the second switching element on. Thus, generation of a luminescent spot is prevented.

A hybrid latch flip-flop is applied to an LCD. The hybrid latch flip-flop includes a negative pulse generation unit, a latch flip-flop, and a buffer unit. The latch flip-flop includes a sampling unit and a hold unit. One feature of the present invention is that fewer transistors are employed in the hybrid latch flip-flop, which gives rise to low power consumption. Another feature of the present invention is that, by employing the negative pulse generation unit of a double edge trigger type, the data processing capacity of the hybrid latch flip-flop is doubled without changing the clock frequency.

An electroluminescent display device includes a substrate on which first and second pixel regions are defined, a passivation layer over the substrate, a first electrode in each of the first and second pixel regions on the passivation layer, a bank layer exposing the first electrode, a light emitting layer on the first electrode exposed by the bank layer, and a second electrode on the light emitting layer, wherein the bank layer includes first and second openings exposing the first electrodes corresponding to the first and second pixel regions, respectively, and a depth of the second opening is larger than a depth of the first opening.

A sampling voltage is periodically applied between contacts of a switch of a device to determine a status of the switch. When a CPU is in a sleep state and the status of the switch is determined closed, the CPU is activated. The sampling voltage when the CPU is in the sleep state is adjusted lower than the one when the CPU is in the wakeup state. This reduces power consumption for the switch status determination. The sampling voltage adjusted at the lower level periodically adjusted to a higher level to reduce errors in the determination due to insulation films on the contacts.