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Disclosed is a method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving data in a wireless communication system. The method includes: a terminal transmitting a coverage enhancement request or capability information for the terminal; a base station determining a channel setting for the terminal based on the transmitted request or information; and transmitting downlink data and performing random access on the basis of the determined channel setting. Namely, a scheme for adaptively transmitting and receiving data in consideration of the coverage of the terminal is proposed.

An electronic communication device is provided, which is capable of improving a way of using email applications and of enhancing efficiency of using memory. In a sub-menu of “email setting”, items of “email rule” and “folder setting” are provided. By using the “email rule”, search conditions that enable a name of a sender of received email or a name of an item to be specified are registered and actions to be taken when the conditions are met are designated. By using “folder setting”, “deleting schedule” is set. With timing of making an inquiry about arrival of email and/or received email at a center or renewing preset time for deleting, received email or email being already stored can be automatically deleted, moved to a folder or transferred.

Disclosed in a mobile communication system, and more particularly a method of re-transmitting data through a reverse link in a packet data system using ARQ (automatic repeat request) and a packet transmitting method and apparatus by which transmission efficiency is enhanced. The present invention discloses a method for re-transmitting data through a reverse link in Packet Data communication system using automatic repeat request (ARQ) adjusting data retransmission energy to be reduced at a predetermined ratio of one receiving energy for an initial data transmission to other receiving energy for a data re-transmission. The present invention also discloses a hybrid automatic repeat request system for packet transmission in which separate traffic-to-pilot power ratios are assigned to sub-packets when transmitting the sub-packets formed from one packet.

An interview method and system that allows a hiring individual to use a networked computer system to interview candidates without requiring the hiring individual to participate personally during the interview by devoting time and resources to a meeting, the capability of conducting on-line interviews is provided using generic or customized interview questions, collecting unrehearsed answers, distributing the answers to evaluators, accumulating the evaluations and provides the reporting capability consistent with the objective of clear and consistent hiring practices. A real time interview can be conducted in that the interviewee answers questions in real time, while it provides for the later evaluation and review of this interview.

Disclosed are a broadcast signal transmitter, a broadcast signal receiver, and a method for transceiving a broadcast signal in the broadcast signal transmitter/receiver. A method for transmitting a broadcast signal comprises the following steps: signaling in-band signaling information to at least one of a service component physical layer pipe (PLP) including at least one service component of a broadcast service, a first information PLP including first service information applied to one broadcast service and a second information PLP including second service information applied commonly to a variety of broadcast services; performing the FEC encoding on data included in each PLP; performing time-interleaving on the FEC encoded data; generating a transmission frame including the time-interleaved data; and modulating the transmission frame and transmitting a broadcast signal including the modulated transmission frame.

The present invention provides a method for chunking an object. The method is arranged to provide efficient chunking of objects such that objects can be efficiently updated between a remote machine and a local machine over a network. The chunking algorithm is applicable in networked application such as file synchronization using remote differential compression (RDC) techniques. The chunking algorithm provides enhanced efficiencies by locating chunk boundaries around local maxima.

A system and method for production of gas from a cryogenic fluid using an improved air vaporizer in cyclic production/regeneration modes with a forced air draft and an intermittent heating of ambient air entering the air vaporizer during regeneration mode and/or optionally during the production mode. The system and method may be used in geographical areas where the ambient air temperature can be below freezing. Particularly, the system and method may employ a plurality of these improved air vaporizers for regasification of liquefied natural gas (LNG), particularly for continuous production of natural gas in a base-load LNG regasification plant.

A portable hydration system comprising water disinfection, filtration and pump features. The system comprises an electrolytic oxidant generating cell which utilizes a salt to create oxidants for disinfecting liquids such as water.

Described herein are solar modules including spectral concentrators. In one embodiment, a solar module includes a set of photovoltaic cells and a spectral concentrator optically coupled to the set of photovoltaic cells. The spectral concentrator is configured to: (1) collect incident solar radiation; (2) convert the incident solar radiation into substantially monochromatic, emitted radiation; and (3) convey the substantially monochromatic, emitted radiation to the set of photovoltaic cells.

Systems and methods for supporting symmetric-bilinear-map and asymmetric-bilinear-map identity-based-encryption (IBE) key exchange and encryption schemes are provided. IBE key exchange schemes use an IBE encapsulation engine to produce a secret key and an encapsulated version of the secret key. An IBE unencapsulation engine is used to unencapsulate the encapsulated key. IBE encryption schemes use an IBE encryption engine to produce ciphertext from plaintext. An IBE decryption engine is used to decrypt the ciphertext to reveal the plaintext. The IBE unencapsulation engine and decryption engines use bilinear maps. The IBE encapsulation and encryption engines perform group multiplication operations without using bilinear maps, improving efficiency. IBE private keys for use in decryption and unencapsulation operations may be generated using a distributed key arrangement in which each IBE private key is assembled from private key shares.

An automatic vehicle washing system is described. The vehicle washing system incorporates an elongated overhead cleaning platform for cleaning the front, top and rear surfaces of a vehicle. The overhead cleaning platform is attached to a single lift mechanism at a first end and is suspended from a belt at a second end, wherein the belt is also operatively connected to the first end. Accordingly, vertical movement of the lift actuator causes both ends of the platform to uniformly rise or descend. The platform further comprises a pivotal boom with fluid nozzles attached thereto, and a reciprocating pivotal actuator. The reciprocating pivotal actuator is capable of pivotal movement to any number of angular orientations within its operative range of motion. Advantageously, the pivotal and vertical positions of the nozzles can be independently varied, permitting the location of the overhead cleaning nozzles to be optimized for various vehicle profiles.

A construction management system includes a handheld computer adapted to collect construction data including an Inspection Checklist from the field; a planning system to track budgetary information; a design system to perform site engineering assessment; and a construction system to track material consumption and progress for each project, the construction system adapted to receive data collected from the handheld computer.

A monitoring device (1) for monitoring the electrical properties of a medium voltage overhead line (3) in a medium voltage network comprises three separate measurement sensors (2a, 2b, 2c), each being adapted for direct connection onto a medium voltage overhead line. Each of the measurement sensors has means to draw operating power from the medium voltage overhead line. The measurement sensors measured results may be combined for accurate measurement analysis.

An intra prediction method and a device using the intra prediction method are provided. The intra prediction method using a DC mode includes setting a bottom-right pixel to a DC-predicted value, interpolating the bottom-right pixel and an n-th top reference pixel to derive predicted values of an n-th column and interpolating the bottom-right pixel and an n-th left reference pixel to derive predicted values of an n-row, and performing bidirectional linear interpolation to derive predicted values of pixels included in a prediction unit other than the n-th row and the n-th column.

A lattice-matched solar cell having a dilute nitride-based sub-cell has exponential doping to thereby control current-carrying capacity of the solar cell. Specifically a solar cell with at least one dilute nitride sub-cell that has a variably doped base or emitter is disclosed. In one embodiment, a lattice matched multi junction solar cell has an upper sub-cell, a middle sub-cell and a lower dilute nitride sub-cell, the lower dilute nitride sub-cell having doping in the base and/or the emitter that is at least partially exponentially doped so as to improve its solar cell performance characteristics. In construction, the dilute nitride sub-cell may have the lowest bandgap and be lattice matched to a substrate, the middle cell typically has a higher bandgap than the dilute nitride sub-cell while it is lattice matched to the dilute nitride sub-cell. The upper sub-cell typically has the highest bandgap and is lattice matched to the adjacent sub-cell. In further embodiments, a multi junction solar cell according to the invention may comprise four, five or more sub-cells in which the one or more sub-cells may each comprise exponentially doped dilute nitride alloys.

A method for enhancing efficiency of charge pump circuit, and a charge pump control selector are provided. Power consumption of output, delivered from the charge pump unit to the load circuit, is detected. A sample signal is obtained and compared with a reference signal to generate a comparison signal. The comparison signal is converted to a control signal to provide feedback for tuning the input frequency of the charge pump unit. The detection of load is categorized in two detection modes, the voltage detection mode, and the current detection mode. The detection modes detect variations of ripple amplitudes of the output voltage of the charge pump circuit and variations of the load currents. The comparator converts the sample signal to a comparison signal. According to the comparison signal, the control method of the controller is determined. The controllers are categorized as continuous controller and discontinuous controller.

A system provides for the efficient delivery of messages from one or more message originators to one or more message recipients via a plurality of communication or messaging platforms. A message originator can create a single message and specify one or more message recipients, multiple communication platforms and delivery scheduling, all from a graphical user interface on a mobile communication device or a computer. The message will be formatted for the selected message recipients, the available and desired communication platforms in the desired priority order, and scheduled for delivery to the message recipients at selected time(s). Additionally, messages may be screened to reduce or eliminate potentially duplicate messages via one or more duplication filters. On the message recipient side, each message recipient can specify the desired communication platform and preference priority for receipt of messages, along with the desired timing for delivery of messages from each potential message originator.

An aircraft engine nacelle nose cowl has a supply duct to deliver pressurised hot gas into an internal compartment of the nose cowl. A slot is provided in the nose cowl to enable pressurised hot gas to pass out of the compartment through the slot. As the pressurised hot gas passes out of the compartment through the slot, this causes a film of water on an outer surface of the nose cowl to detach from the nose cowl. The slot is of restricted dimensions which causes localised heating of the nose cowl around the slot as the pressurised hot gas pass out of the compartment through the slot. In this manner ice is prevented from accumulating on the outer surface of the nose cowl and/or ice is removed from the outer surface of the nose cowl.

Provided is a steroscopic video encoding and/or decoding apparatus that supports multi-display modes, the encoding/decoding method thereof, and computer-readable recording medium for recording a program that implements the encoding/decoding method. The encoding apparatus of this research incorporates: a field separating means for separating right and left-eye input images into an odd field of the left-eye image (LO), even field of the left-eye image (LE), odd-numbered field (RO) of the right-eye image, and even-numbered field (RE) of the right-eye image; an encoding means for encoding the fields separated in the field separating means by performing motion and disparity compensation; and a multiplexing means for multiplexing the essential fields among the fields received from the encoding means, based on the user display information.

A working system for a circuit substrate enabling a control of stopping the substrate without inconvenience. A PWB detector 308 held by a Y-axis slide 252 of an XY robot 266 moving a component mounting head, has reflection type photoelectric sensors 310, 312 spaced from each other in a direction of conveyance of a PWB 12 by a conveyor 14. When the PWB 12 carried in the system, the sensors 310, 312 are moved to a position corresponding to a downstream-side edge of the PWB 12 stopped at a predetermined stop position. The PWB 12 is decelerated when detected by one of the sensors on the upstream side, and stopped at a desired position regardless of its shape, dimensions and conveying direction, when detected by the other or downstream sensor. Electronic circuit components 16 can be supplied to plural kinds of PWBs 12 with one component supply device.

The present invention relates to an entropy decoding method and to a decoding apparatus using same. The entropy decoding method according to the present invention comprises: a step of decoding a bin of a syntax element; and a step of acquiring information on the syntax element based on the decoded bin. In the step of decoding the bin, context-based decoding or bypass decoding is performed for each bin of the syntax element.

Some embodiments provide a method that parses an unstructured document that includes a number of primitive elements. The method stores the primitive elements in a random order in a first storage. The method stores references to the primitive elements in a second storage in an order based on locations of the primitive elements in the unstructured document. The method receives instructions to perform a document reconstruction operation. The method performs the received instructions without storing any new references to the primitive elements.

A method for performing a space-time coding of an information signal to be transmitted by a multi-channel communication system includes demultiplexing received signals into at least two first space-time coded signals and at least two second space-time coded signals, obtaining a first decoding output signal by using a first decoder performing a first space-time decoding based on the at least two first space-time coded signals and a first a-priori probability signal, applying the output of one of a first decoder or a first conversion unit converting the output of the first decoder to a first substracting unit where an a-priori information signal is subtracted, scrambling the output of the first subtracting unit so as to generate a scrambled extrinsic information, applying one of the scrambled extrinsic information or an output of a second conversion unit converting the scrambled extrinsic information as a second a-priori probability to a second decoder receiving that at least two second space-time encoded signals, applying the output of one of the second decoder or a third conversion unit converting the output of the second decoder to a second subtracting unit which has another input receiving the scrambled extrinsic information, generating a descrambled signal based on the output of the second subtraction unit, and applying the descrambled signal or an output of a fourth conversion unit as the first a-priori probability signal to the first decoder.

A wireless communication system and a terminal providing a wireless communication service and to a method by which a base station and a terminal transmit and receive data in an evolved universal mobile telecommunications system (E-UMTS) evolved from universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) or a long term evolution (LTE) system, are disclosed. In transmitting RACH MSG 3 by a terminal to a base station, the terminal transmits the RACH MSG 3 by applying different cyclic redundancy checks (CRCs) according to types of data included in the RACH MSG 3, to thereby reduce overhead of a medium access control protocol data unit (MAC PDU) included in the RACH MSG 3.

An LED current control circuit including a current adjusting unit, a detecting unit, and a current control unit is provided. The current adjusting unit has a current control end coupled to an LED string for determining an amount of current flowing through the LED string according to a current control signal. The detecting unit detects the current control end and determines whether to generate a protecting signal according to a protecting voltage value. The current control unit generates the current control signal to control the amount of current flowing through the LED string of and determines whether to stop the current flowing through the LED string according to the protecting signal.

Light-emitting elements have a problem that their light-extraction efficiency is low due to scattered light or reflected light inside the light-emitting elements. The light-extraction efficiency of the light-emitting elements needs to be enhanced by a new method. According to the present invention, a light-emitting element includes a first layer generating holes, a second layer including a light-emitting layer for each emission color and a third layer generating electrons between an anode and a cathode, and the thickness of the first layer is different depending on each layer including the light-emitting layer for each emission color. A layer in which an organic compound and a metal oxide are mixed is used as the first layer, and thus, the driving voltage is not increased even when the thickness is increased, which is preferable.

A liquid crystal display device with a built-in touch screen comprising a substrate having a pixel region, a thin film transistor formed at the pixel region, the thin film transistor including at least an active layer, a gate electrode, an insulating layer, and a data electrode, a first passivation layer formed on the thin film transistor, a first contact hole formed through a portion of the first passivation layer to expose the data electrode, a common electrode formed on at least one portion of the first passivation layer including inside the first contact hole, the common electrode operable to sense touch, a conductive line formed on at least one portion of the first passivation layer including inside the first contact hole, a second passivation layer formed on the common electrode and the conductive line, a second contact hole formed through a portion of the second passivation layer to expose the conductive line corresponding to the data electrode, and a pixel electrode electrically connected with the conductive line, the pixel electrode formed on the second passivation layer and inside the second contact hole, wherein the data electrode and the pixel electrode are electrically connected via the common electrode and the conductive line.

An LED comprising a light-generating semiconductor region having an active layer sandwiched between two confining layers of opposite conductivity types. A cathode is arranged centrally on one of the opposite major surfaces of the semiconductor region from which is emitted the light. An array of discrete gold regions are formed via transition metal regions on the other major surface of the semiconductor region at which is exposed one of the confining layers which is of n-type AlGaInP semiconductor material. The gold is thermally diffused into the confining layer via the transition metal regions at a temperature less than the eutectic point of gold and gallium, thereby creating an array of ohmic contact regions of alloyed or intermingled gold and gallium, which are less absorptive of light than their conventional counterparts, to a thickness of 20 to 1000 angstroms. After removing the transition metal regions and gold regions from the surface of the light-generating semiconductor region, a reflective layer of aluminum is formed so as to cover both the ohmic contact regions and the exposed surface portions of the AlGaInP confining layer. An electroconductive base-plate of doped silicon is then bonded to the reflective layer.

A liquid crystal display device is provided in which its cold cathode fluorescent tube serving as a surface light source block can reliably light up and efficiency of feeding light to a liquid crystal panel can be enhanced. When timing signals are fed to frequency setting sections, a frequency of each of driving pulse voltages becomes as high as a frequency being near to a resonant frequency corresponding to a floating capacitance occurring at start time of lighting of backlights and then becomes as low as a frequency being near to a resonant frequency corresponding to floating capacitance occurring at a stabilized period of lighting of the backlights. Therefore, the backlight, even if lighting duration of its cold cathode fluorescent tube is long, lights up reliably and a power factor is improved to improve efficiency of feeding light to the liquid crystal panel.

First-order effects of hypothesized fault conditions are determined by propagating discrete test packets between select nodes and noting the change of path, if any, taken by the test packet under each condition relative to the fault-free path. Tools are provided to create classes of node pairs of interest, and test packets are created only for select classes. The network is analyzed to identify fault conditions that are likely to impact system performance, and only these fault conditions are simulated. By providing a methodology for selecting classes of node pairs to test, and prioritizing the faults to simulate, a first-order survivability analysis of large networks can be performed efficiently and effectively. The efficiency of this technique is also enhanced by providing test packets that are representative of a wide range of possible source-destination combinations, and by evaluating only the source-destination combinations that may be directly affected by each fault condition.