Abstract:
Disclosed are a backlight assembly, a driving method thereof and a display apparatus. The backlight assembly includes: a light source unit which has a plurality of point light source strings; a plurality of driving elements which are connected to the plurality of point light source strings; a detector which detects currents flowing in the plurality of point light source strings; and a light source driver which generates driving pulses to drive the plurality of driving elements in a linear operating region, adjusts duty ratios of the driving pulses based on at least one of the detected currents so that the currents flowing in the plurality of point light source strings are within a range.
Abstract:
A Second Generation Digital Video Broadcasting via Satellite (DVB-S2) system is provided. More particularly, a method and apparatus for maintaining synchronization of a signal by changing an Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) method that is used for a conventional DVB-S2 system are provided. In the apparatus and method, an FEC frame of a variable length is formed by turbo encoding rather than Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) and Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoding, and a Physical Layer (PL) frame of a specific length is formed regardless of a modulation method, so that a satellite terminal receives a signal transmitted at a specific length regardless of a modulation method or a coding rate to easily maintain synchronization without interruption and efficiently transmit the signal.
Abstract:
A backlight assembly, a display device including the backlight assembly and a control method thereof are provided. The backlight assembly includes: a DC converter which converts input alternating current (AC) power into direct current (DC) power at various levels; a light source unit which has at least one point light source; and a power supply unit which receives the DC power output by the DC converter, converts the DC power into output power having a preset reference current level and supplies the output power to the light source unit.
Abstract:
Provided is a decoding method for detecting Physical Layer Signaling Codes (PLSCs) from frames of a satellite broadcasting system. The method includes: a) acquiring a summation vector and a subtraction vector from an inputted symbol vector; b) performing parallel Reed-Muller (32,6) decoding onto the summation and subtraction vectors based on a Hadamard matrix and estimating message bits of the summation and subtraction vectors; c) performing PLSC coding and modulation onto the message bits of the summation and subtraction vectors; d) calculating a first difference between symbols of the received symbol vector and the summation vector symbols, and a second difference between the symbols of the received symbol vector and the subtraction vector symbols; and e) when the first difference is smaller than the second difference, determining a Reed-Muller codeword is repeated, or when the first difference is larger than the second difference, determining that the Reed-Muller codeword is inverted.
Abstract:
A power supply circuit of an image display apparatus is provided. The power supply circuit uses a single DC-DC converter, and is capable of supplying low voltage when the image display apparatus is in standby mode, and supplying high voltage as required when the image display apparatus is in operating mode. As a result, power consumption and manufacturing costs are reduced.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a crystal device is provided. The method includes providing a package wafer including a plurality of internal and external connection terminals each having top and bottom ends respectively exposed to top and bottom surfaces of the package wafer; forming a height control member on the top end of the internal and external connection terminal and bonding one end of a crystal blank including an excitation electrode on the height control member; placing a bottom surface of a cap wafer having a cavity, which is open downward, on the top surface of the package wafer to which the crystal blank is mounted, and anodically bonding the package wafer with the cap wafer; and cutting the package wafer and the cap wafer in a direction across a bonding line formed by the bonding of the package wafer and the cap wafer to provide a plurality of crystal resonator that are individually separated.
Abstract:
A body biasing structure of devices connected in series on an SOI substrate is provided. According to some embodiments, the shallow junction of common source/drain regions enables all devices to bias by only one body contact on an SOI substrate like a conventional bulk MOSFET, and the floating body effect on an SOI substrate can be prevented.
Abstract:
Provided is a frame synchronization method for synchronizing frames with pilot blocks added thereto based on differential correlation information in a satellite communication system. The method can acquire a highly reliable frame synchronization estimation value by achieving a multi-step threshold value test using pilot blocks after a correlation analysis and a threshold test based on a sync signal in order to resolve the problem of a low signal-to-noise ratio and a large frequency error and acquire highly reliable frame synchronization performance, and can overcome distortion of a correlation analysis value caused by the frequency error by analyzing correlation based on differential information. The method includes the steps of: a) performing correlation analysis and a threshold test by using a sync word; and b) performing a multi-step correlation value test by using the pilot blocks added to the frames prior to the sync word.
Abstract:
Disclosed are a multi-layer printed circuit board and a method for manufacturing the multi-layer printed circuit board. Circuit layers and insulating layers are alternately stacked so that via holes of the circuit layers provided with plated inner walls without application of additional plating and conductive paste-filling steps are connected to via holes of the insulating layers filled with a conductive paste.
Abstract:
Provided are an apparatus and method for correcting a frequency offset in a satellite digital video broadcasting system. The apparatus includes: a frequency response transformer for receiving a satellite digital video broadcasting signal and acquiring a plurality of frequency responses divided into a positive frequency part and a negative frequency part; a rotation/difference value calculation unit for selecting one of the plurality of frequency responses inputted from the frequency response transformer and calculating a first area difference value indicating a difference in area between the positive frequency part and the negative frequency part without rotation for the selected frequency response, and calculating a second area difference value indicating a difference in area between the positive frequency component and the negative frequency component with rotation for the remaining frequency responses; a zero intersection point calculator for dividing an average slope of a straight line formed by the first area difference value and the second area difference value by the first area difference value, and calculating a zero intersection point of an area difference value on the straight line; and a frequency offset estimator for correcting the zero intersection point provided from the zero intersection point calculator to thereby estimate the frequency offset.