Abstract:
A self-service machine using a communications terminal and a service providing method thereof. The self-service machine includes an antenna for receiving a radio signal including identification information of the self-service machine and price information, a radio transceiver for processing the radio signal from the antenna, an information processor for extracting the price information from the signal processed by the radio transceiver if the identification information from the radio transceiver is identical to its actual identification information, a controller for controlling the self-service machine so as to provide a predetermined service according to the price information from the information processor, a service providing unit for providing the predetermined service under the control of the controller, and a memory for storing predetermined information about the service provided by the self-service machine after the provision of service by the service providing unit. Therefore, the self-service machine such as a vending machine or a ticket vending machine, can be used by a cellular phone or a wire/wireless telephone, without the need for cash or a card.
Abstract:
A digital data multiplying circuit has a double clock alternating sampler for alternately sampling the digital data applied from a plurality of input buses by a time-division system in accordance with a first system clock, a dual coefficient alternating multiplier for alternately multiplying digital data of each bus sampled by the double clock alternate sample with the multiplying coefficient corresponding to the digital data according to a first system clock and first and second primary clocks, and a data restorer for dividing the synchronized product data of the dual coefficient alternating multiplier into input data units according to the first system clock, a second system clock and the second primary clock and for outputting the result on a plurality of output buses. As a result, the digital data input to a plurality of input buses can be multiplied by a single multiplier.
Abstract:
A memory system comprises a controller that generates a processor clock, and a plurality of memory devices each comprising an internal clock generator that generates an internal clock in synchronization with the processor clock, and a memory that performs a peak current generation operation in synchronization with the internal clock, wherein at least two of the memory devices generate their respective internal clocks at different times such that the corresponding peak current generation operations are performed at different times.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for revising video data for en electron emission display device to improve image quality by reducing non-uniformity in luminance of a plurality of pixels. In an exemplary embodiment, a display region includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel comprising at least one electron emission device. A scan driver and a data driver control the pixels through electrodes coupled to the display region. A revision coefficient unit is coupled to the display driver, for storing a plurality of revision coefficients, receiving and revising video data utilizing the revision coefficients, and sending revised video data to the data driver. The revision coefficients correspond to first average luminance values of first lines of pixels extending in a first direction, and second average luminance values of second lines of pixels extending in a second direction.
Abstract:
A memory system includes a controller that generates a processor clock, and a plurality of memory devices each including an internal clock generator that generates an internal clock in synchronization with the processor clock, and a memory that performs a peak current generation operation in synchronization with the internal clock, wherein at least two of the memory devices generate their respective internal clocks at different times such that the corresponding peak current generation operations are performed at different times.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a method of selectively growing zinc oxide microstructures and the zinc oxide microstructures prepared using the method. The method includes the steps of applying an organic material or an inorganic material on a substrate, forming a pattern having a predetermined specific location and a predetermined interval on the substrate using a physical or chemical etching method, and selectively growing zinc oxide microstructures at the location where the pattern is formed using various growth methods such as hydro-thermal synthesis, physical vapor deposition, chemical vapor deposition method or the like.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method are shown for superimposing an overlapping image signal on an original image signal while preserving the original image. An embodiment of a method according to the present invention includes generating a color difference signal for a shape of the overlapping image responsive to a color difference signal of the original image and a signal which includes a gain coefficient for a magnitude of a color difference to be expressed in an edge of the overlapping image and generating a color difference signal for the edge of the overlapping image responsive to a signal which includes a magnitude and phase of the color difference of the edge of the overlapping image. The method then involves selecting one of the color difference signal of the original image, the color difference signal for the shape of the overlapping image, and the color difference signal for the edge of the overlapping image responsive to a signal which includes the shape and position of the overlapping image, wherein the color difference signal for the shape of the overlapping image is selected to coincide with positions inside of the position of the edge of the overlapping image, the color difference signal for the edge of the overlapping image is selected to coincide with the position of the edge of the overlapping image and the color difference signal of the original image is selected for display at positions that do not coincide with the position of the edge of the overlapping image and the positions inside the edge of the overlapping image.