Abstract:
The present invention relates to a system for managing electric power demands in real time through an AMI gate way sharing a public IP network. The system obtains information about the electric power load of parts of a house or the entire house and manages basic data demands such as on/off operation or storage of a load. The system enables the sharing of the public IP network for external communication with an external demand management DB through an in-house AMI gateway box. In addition, the system allows ZigBee wireless communication for internal communication with an in-house digital gauge. Therefore, the system is able to secure demand management resources.
Abstract:
The image scanning apparatus includes a light source including at least one light emitting diode (LED) to irradiate light to a document which is a scan target, a light source control unit to control a lighting-up point of time of the light source, an image sensor to transform an image formed by light reflected from the document into an electric signal according to a result of controlling the lighting-up point of time, and an output unit to output image data corresponding to the transformed electric signal.
Abstract:
A vehicle door locking system, in which a push lock function is added to the door lock release lever of an existing vehicle, integrates a lock release function and a safety lock function into a single integrated lever to thereby permit the number of parts and the cost of production to be reduced. To this end, the vehicle door locking system includes a door latch assembly installed on one side of a door, an integrated lever operating the door latch assembly, and a cable connecting the integrated lever with the door latch assembly. The door is put in an open state when the integrated lever is pulled, an unlocked state when the integrated lever is in a neutral state, and a safety locked state when the integrated lever is pushed.
Abstract:
An image reading device having an improved shading compensation capability and a method thereof are disclosed. The image reading device includes an automatic document feed unit to deliver documents along a document delivery path. A light source unit including a light source to illuminate a first criterion image at a first position within the image reading device, and to illuminate the documents delivered by the automatic document feed unit at a second position. The image reading device further includes a second criterion image arranged to opposingly face the light source unit when the light source unit is located at the second position. The second criterion image extends along a sufficient length to cover the scanning range of the light illumination by the light source unit along a main scanning direction. An image acquisition unit is provided to acquire criterion shading data, auxiliary shading data and image data by receiving light reflected from the first criterion image, the second criterion image and the documents, respectively. A control unit is able to update the criterion shading data using the auxiliary shading data, and to use the updated criterion shading data to compensate the image data.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus and a control method thereof are disclosed. The disclosed image forming apparatus includes a white reference sheet provided at one side of a flat bed, for scanning an object, an image sensor module including an image sensor to detect light reflected from the white reference sheet in a scanning operation for the white reference sheet and light reflected from an image on the object in a scanning operation for the object, and to output analog image signals respectively corresponding to the reflected lights, an analog front end (AFE) to convert each analog image signal output from the image sensor to a digital image signal, a shading memory to store shading data obtained in the scanning operation for the white reference sheet, and a controller to calculate differences among outputs from R, G, and B channels of the image sensor, using the stored shading data, to correct the stored shading data, based on the calculated output differences, and to correct image data outputs generated from the R, G, and B channels in the scanning operation for the object, based on the calculated output differences. The image forming apparatus can correct different physical offset values possibly present at different color channels in a color scanning operation. Accordingly, it is possible to adjust the color balance of a scanned image, and thus to achieve an enhancement in the color quality of the image.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device with different gate oxide layers. Oxidation is controlled in accordance with the active area dimension so that oxide grows thin at a wider active width (peripheral region) and grows thickly at a narrower active width (cell array region). A gate pattern is formed on a semiconductor substrate having different active areas. Gate spacers are formed and then active dimension dependent oxidation process is performed to grow the oxide layers differently from one another.
Abstract:
This disclosure relates to various configurations or methods of displaying push information such as a number or a substance of push information which is received by an app implemented to a data processing terminal such as a smartphone. More particularly, this disclosure relates to various methods of creating and using (1) an unread content which a sender selects a user as a labeled receiver but the user has not yet confirmed or read), and (2) a labeled icon badge which can represent a number of such unread labeled contents or a substance of such labeled contents. This disclosure also relates to various methods of creating and using a labeled icon badge which can distinguish a labeled content from an unlabeled content, where the labeled content is the one with more need for a user to confirm and where the unlabeled content is the one with less need for a user to confirm.
Abstract:
This disclosure relates to various configurations or methods of displaying push information such as a number or a substance of push information which is received by an app implemented to a data processing terminal such as a smartphone. More particularly, this disclosure relates to various methods of creating and using (1) an unread content which a sender selects a user as a labeled receiver but the user has not yet confirmed or read), and (2) a labeled icon badge which can represent a number of such unread labeled contents or a substance of such labeled contents. This disclosure also relates to various methods of creating and using a labeled icon badge which can distinguish a labeled content from an unlabeled content, where the labeled content is the one with more need for a user to confirm and where the unlabeled content is the one with less need for a user to confirm.
Abstract:
This disclosure generally relates to various directional input units of a mobile communication terminal, where such directional input units receive a single user input or multiple concurrent user inputs and then acquires at least one selecting (user) sub-input therefrom while a terminal is in its powered-off state or its off-state. After acquiring the selecting user sub-input, a terminal runs at least one pre-selected operation which is selected from a set of multiple pre-selected operations and which matches the selecting user sub-input when a terminal powers on from its powered-off state or wakes up from its off-state. A directional input unit may acquire the selecting user sub-input from a movement of at least a portion thereof, a contact between at least a portion thereof and a user body part, or the like. As a result, a terminal can provide a user with more seamless operations.
Abstract:
A resistive memory device includes a memory cell array, an input/output (I/O) sense amplifier unit, an address input buffer, a row decoder, and a column decoder. The memory cell array includes unit memory cells, and operates in response to a word line driving signal and a column selecting signal, each unit memory cell includes a resistive device and a compensation resistive device. The I/O sense amplifier unit amplifies data output from the memory cell array to generate first data, and transfers input data to the memory cell array. The address input buffer generates a row address signal and a column address signal based on an external address. The row decoder decodes the row address signal and generates the word line driving signal based on the decoded row address signal. The column decoder decodes the column address signal and generates the column selecting signal based on the decoded column address signal.