Abstract:
An electrode assembly, a rechargeable battery including the same, and a method of manufacturing an electrode thereof, the electrode assembly including a first electrode, the first electrode including a mesh-type first electrode current collector having a plurality of pores, and a first electrode active material layer adhered to the first electrode current collector, wherein an edge active material layer protrudes from a side of the first current collector; a second electrode including a second electrode current collector, and a second electrode active material layer adhered to the second electrode current collector; and a separator interposed between the first and second electrodes.
Abstract:
A receiver and reception method for estimating a channel in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system is provided. The receiver includes a delay estimator for estimating, from a signal received from a transmitter through multipaths, at least one of an average time delay of the multipaths and a time delay of one of the multipaths having a maximum power among the multipaths, a rotator for circular-rotating the received signal using the estimated delay, and a channel estimator for estimating a channel impulse response of the circular-rotated signal.
Abstract:
A rechargeable battery that can improve heat dissipating characteristics is provided. The rechargeable battery includes: an electrode group including a positive electrode; an electrode group that has at least one terminal; a case that defines a recess that receives the electrode group wherein the case includes an opening that provides access to the recess; a film cover that extends over the opening so as to secure the electrode group within the recess of the case; and a heat dissipating member positioned on the case so as extend outward from the case to dissipate heat from the recess containing the electrode group. Multiple batteries can be assembled into modules where the batteries are stacked so that the film covers are protected from external impact.
Abstract:
An image output apparatus and a method for outputting an image thereof are provided. The method of the image output apparatus determines whether a difference in grayscale values between a current image frame and a previous image frame is greater than or equal to a pre-set value, if the difference in the grayscale values is greater than or equal to the pre-set value, at least one of a maximum grayscale value and a minimum grayscale value of the current image frame is adjusted, a grayscale of the current image frame according to an input and output grayscale function having the adjusted maximum grayscale value and minimum grayscale value is adjusted and an image is output. Accordingly, a crosstalk phenomenon of a 3D stereoscopic image is removed.
Abstract:
A method for driving a display panel and a display apparatus applying the same are provided. The method includes driving all lines of the display panel in a first scanning section of a section to display one frame, and driving one of an even line and an odd line of the display panel in a second scanning section of the section to display the one frame. Accordingly, a crosstalk phenomenon in the display apparatus is removed and image quality of a 3D stereoscopic image is improved.
Abstract:
A method of driving a liquid crystal display device includes inputting source image data, each of which has one of m gray level values, wherein m is a natural number, defining T error data from the source image data, wherein the error data have top k gray level values, and T and k are a natural number, generating conversion image data having larger gray level values than the source image data using one having a largest gray level value from the source image data excluding the error data, inputting the conversion image data to a liquid crystal panel, controlling a brightness of a backlight unit in accordance with the conversion image data, forming a bitmap corresponding to the conversion image data, wherein the bitmap shows positional distribution of pixels with the error data, counting error areas by scanning the bitmap, wherein each of the error areas includes the predetermined number of the pixels having the error data, and controlling the T according to the number of the error.
Abstract:
Detection apparatus and method for achieving performance close to a Maximum Likelihood (ML) detection having optimal performance and reducing computational complexity in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system including a plurality of transmit antennas and receive antennas are provided. The apparatus includes a hard decision part for confirming an initial hard decision value of a receive symbol vector; a candidate symbol selector for selecting candidate symbols restricted to neighbor values of the initial hard decision value; and an interference canceller for canceling interference in the selected candidate symbols and selecting a final candidate symbol from the received symbols using a result of the interference cancellation.
Abstract:
A method for authenticating a mobile device and a display apparatus using the same, and a mobile device authentication system are provided. In the method for authenticating the mobile device by the display apparatus, the display apparatus generates a code image in which information on the display apparatus is encrypted if the mobile device is sensed, displays the code image on a screen, receives information on the mobile device which is transmitted using the code image and authenticates the mobile device using the information on the mobile device. Accordingly, the user controls the display apparatus using the mobile device easily and intuitively.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an active material for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same. The active material includes an active material and a fiber-shaped or tube-shaped carbon conductive material attached to the surface of the active material. The active material includes a conductive shell including a fiber-shaped or tube-shaped carbon conductive material and increases discharge capacity due to improved conductivity and improves cycle-life efficiency by maintaining paths between active material particles during charge and discharge cycles.
Abstract:
The method of preparing a negative active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte rechargeable battery includes mixing a vanadium compound and a lithium compound and then subjecting the mixture to first firing to obtain Li1.0(VxMy)1.0O2 having a layered halite type structure (where 0.5≦x≦1.0, 0≦y≦0.5, x+y=1, and M is selected from the group consisting of group 2 to 15 elements of the periodic table and combinations thereof); and adding a lithium compound to the Li1.0(VxMy)1.0O2 and then subjecting the resultant to second firing. The negative active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte rechargeable battery prepared according to the preparing method has high crystallinity, and excellent charge and discharge characteristics at a high rate.