Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Lg Electronics Inc.

Samsung Sdi Co., Inc.

Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Georgia Tech Research Corporation

Jin-Sung Park

Dae-Seok Byeon

Seung-Keun Lee

Ji-Hwa Kim

Woo-Seok Jang

Hyong-Sog Oh

Seung-Jae Lee

Ara Cho

Sung-Boem Park

Chang-Ho Lee

Young-Jin Kim

Tae-Hee Lee

Joy Laskar

Jae-Kyeong Jeong

Yeon-gon Mo

Jong-Han Jeong

Sung-soo Lee

Hyun-Soo Shin

Dong-Hun Kwak

Hun-Jung Lee

Tae-Kyung Ahn

Myong-Jae Kim

Sang-Hyun Woo

Kyeong-Bae Park

Eon-Pyo Hong

Kwang-Ha Suh

Ki-Chul Choi

Hong-Hee Park

Joon-Hwan Oh

Jong-Yoon Choi

Chul-Jung Yun

A portable terminal is provided, which includes a display, and a processor configured to receive a first user input for controlling a brightness of the display, control the display to display an indicator at a first position based on the first user input and control the brightness of the display based on a first brightness step corresponding to the first position, receive a second user input for controlling the brightness of the display, and control the display to display the indicator at a second position which is different from the first position based on the second user input, without displaying the indicator at any intermediate position between the first position and the second position and change the brightness of the display based on a second brightness step corresponding to the second position. A shape and size of the indicator displayed at the first position corresponds to the shape and the size of the indicator displayed at the second position.

Portable terminal capable of controlling display brightness and method for controlling display brightness thereof

A portable terminal is provided including a touch screen display; and a processor configured to control the touch screen display to display a brightness step selection interface for selecting a brightness step, receive, via the touch screen display, a first user input for selecting a first brightness step, control the touch screen display to display an indicator at a first position corresponding to the first brightness step and to control a brightness of the touch screen display based on the first brightness step, receive, via the touch screen display, a second user input for selecting a second brightness step, and control the touch screen display to change a position of the indicator from the first position to a second position corresponding to the second brightness step and to change the brightness of the touch screen display based on the second brightness step.

A verification method of a system on chip includes receiving a test generator and an exception handler; generating, by the test generator, a test program including an exception-causing instruction based on a test template; executing a first instruction at a first operating state as the test program is executed; stopping the execution of the test program and performing a fixed instruction sequence included in the exception handler when the exception-causing instruction is executed during the execution of the test program; and resuming the test program from a second instruction at a second operating state set after the fixed instruction sequence is performed, the second instruction corresponding to an address adjacent to an address of the exception-causing instruction.

System on chip and verification method thereof

Disclosed is a method for controlling a backlight of an electronic device, such as a portable terminal, which includes the steps of storing preset backlight brightness values so as to correspond to the backlight brightness values to backlight steps, detecting a backlight brightness value stored so as to correspond to the backlight step required by a user in backlight regulation mode, and regulating the backlight brightness according to the detected backlight brightness value. Further, since the present invention can regulate the backlight brightness at night, the illumination intensity of which is low, the consumption of the battery can be reduced.

Disclosed is a method for controlling a backlight of a portable terminal, which includes the steps of storing preset backlight brightness values so as to correspond to the backlight brightness values to backlight steps, detecting a backlight brightness value stored so as to correspond to the backlight step required by a user in backlight regulation mode, and regulating the backlight brightness according to the detected backlight brightness value. Further, since the present invention can regulate the backlight brightness at night, the illumination intensity of which is low, the consumption of the battery can be reduced.

Portable terminal capable of controlling backlight and method for controlling backlight thereof

A core pack and a battery pack using the same. A battery pack includes a plurality of bare cells electrically connected to one another. A protection circuit module (PCM) is positioned at an outside of the bare cells and electrically connected to the bare cells. A temperature measurement device is provided with a temperature sensing portion that senses the temperature of the bare cells, a contact portion connected to the PCM, and a connecting portion through which the temperature sensing portion and the contact portion are connected to each other. A case accommodates the bare cells, the PCM and the temperature measurement device. In the battery pack, the temperature sensing portion is positioned in a space formed between outer circumferential surfaces of bare cells disposed in parallel adjacent to each other. Accordingly, it is possible to improve the quality of the battery.

Battery pack

A printed circuit board includes a base substrate, at least one through-hole in the base substrate, a connection tab extending through the through-hole, an electrical element on the base substrate and adjacent to the through-hole, and at least one groove portion in the base substrate and adjacent to the electrical element.

Printed circuit board and battery pack using the same

An ice maker and a refrigerator having the same include an ice making container which is maintained at a temperature higher than a freezing point of water. Ace core rods having the temperature lower than the freezing point are inserted into the ice making container to cause water in the container to freeze. Accordingly, water at the periphery of the ice making container remains liquid which the water surrounding the ice core rods freezes. As a result, air bubbles generated when the ice is made can be discharged from the liquid portions of the water at the outer edges of the container. This results in ice without trapped air bubbles, which allows excellent transparent ice pieces to be formed. In some embodiments, the exterior surfaces of the ice making container are maintained at a temperature lower than the freezing point of water, and thawing rods maintained at the temperature higher than the freezing point of water are inserted into the center portions of the ice making container. In this embodiment, water at the edges of the ice making container are frozen first, while the water surrounding the thawing rods remains liquid. This also allows air bubbles to escape during formation of the ice, which results in transparent ice pieces.

Ice maker and refrigerator having the same

Disclosed is a thin film transistor which has an oxide semiconductor as an activation layer, a method of manufacturing the same and a flat panel display device having the same. The thin film transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer formed on a substrate and including a channel region, a source region and a drain region, a gate electrode insulated from the oxide semiconductor layer by a gate insulating film, and source electrode and drain electrode which are coupled to the source region and the drain region, respectively. The oxide semiconductor layer includes a first layer portion and a second layer portion. The first layer portion has a first thickness and a first carrier concentration, and the second layer portion has a second thickness and a second carrier concentration. The second carrier concentration is lower than the first carrier concentration.

Thin film transistor having an oxide semiconductor bilayer, method of manufacturing the same and flat panel display device having the same

A nonvolatile memory device that includes first and second storage areas, and a control logic configured to control the first and second storage areas, wherein when a program operation of the first storage area is passed before a program operation of the second storage area is passed, the control logic completes the program operation of the first storage area and continues the program operation of the second storage area is provided.

Flash memory device and program method thereof

A reciprocating motor and a reciprocating compressor having the same are provided. One side of each of outer and inner cores forming a stator are connected to each other, to prevent a magnetic flux generated by the coil and a magnet from leaking out of the stator. Hence, it is possible to fabricate components of the reciprocating compressor employing such a reciprocating motor by using a relatively low-cost magnetic substance, resulting in a decrease in fabricating costs of the compressor. Also, a length of the magnet may be reduced, which results in a reduction of the cost for the magnet, thereby decreasing fabricating costs of the reciprocating motor and the reciprocating compressor employing the reciprocating motor.

Reciprocating motor and a reciprocating compressor having the same

A flash memory device that includes a voltage generator circuit configured to generate a program voltage, a pass voltage, and a high voltage; a plurality of planes configured to perform a program operation in response to the program, pass, and high voltages and to verify the program operation, respectively; and control logic configured to control the planes in response to verification results from the planes, wherein the control logic controls the planes so as to interrupt the program and pass voltages or the high voltage from being applied to program-passed planes.

A method of programming a non-volatile memory device includes receiving data to be programmed into memory cells of the memory device, programming the memory cells with the data, and selectively performing one of a plurality of program verify operations based on a current program loop number to determine whether the memory cells have been successfully programmed. For example, one of a wired-OR pass/fail check operation and a Y-scan pass/fail check operation may be performed according to the current program loop number. Related methods and devices are also discussed.

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Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Jin-Sung Park