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A wire grid polarizer with double metal layers for the visible spectrum. Parallel dielectric layers having a period (p) of 10˜250 nm and a trench between adjacent dielectric layers overlie a transparent substrate. A first metal layer having a first thickness (d1) of 30˜150 nm is disposed in the trench. A second metal layer having a second thickness (d2) of 30˜150 nm and a width (w) overlies on the top surface of each dielectric layer. The first and second metal layers are separated by a vertical distance (l) of 10˜100 nm. The first thickness (d1) is the same as the second thickness (d2). A ratio of the width (w) to the period (p) is 25˜75%.

A power pick-up for an Inductively Coupled Power Transfer (ICPT) system is provided having a resonant pick up circuit. The natural frequency of the pick-up circuit may be varied by controlling the conductance or capacitance of a variable reactive in the resonant circuit. The load being supplied by the pick-up circuit is sensed, and the effective capacitance or inductance of the variable reactive component is controlled to vary the natural resonant frequency of the pick-up circuit to thereby control the power flow into the pick-up to satisfy the power required by the load.

A wire grid polarizer with double metal layers for the visible spectrum. Parallel dielectric layers having a period (p) of 10˜250 nm and a trench between adjacent dielectric layers overlie a transparent substrate. A first metal layer having a first thickness (d1) of 30˜150 nm is disposed in the trench. A second metal layer having a second thickness (d2) of 30˜150 nm and a width (w) overlies on the top surface of each dielectric layer. The first and second metal layers are separated by a vertical distance (l) of 10˜100 nm. The first thickness (d1) is the same as the second thickness (d2). A ratio of the width (w) to the period (p) is 25˜75%.

A transflective LCD device with a single cell gap. First and second pixel electrodes are formed on the lower substrate. First and second common electrodes are formed on an inner surface of the upper substrate. The first pixel electrodes and the first common electrodes are located in the reflective region. The second pixel electrodes and the second common electrodes are located in the transmissive region. A first orientation control window having a slit width “Src” is formed between the first common electrodes in an area corresponding to each first pixel electrode. A second orientation control window having a slit width “Stc” is formed between the second common electrodes, satisfying Src<Stc. The second orientation control window is in an area corresponding to each second pixel electrode. Accordingly, maximum light efficiency can be achieved in both reflective and transmissive modes.

A storage device that includes: an address table; a cache memory; a flash memory device being a storage medium for user data; and a control circuit that is in charge of access management for the flash memory device. In the storage device, the control circuit makes access to the user data on the flash memory device via an address table, in the address table, with an index of an address value generated from an initial logical address, location information is acquired for the user data on the flash memory device corresponding to the index, and the address table is segmented in its entirety into a plurality of small address tables for every area of the index, and the small address tables being segmentation results are stored in the flash memory device, read as required when the user data is accessed, and expanded on the cache memory with entries of the small address tables.

A chip stacked package structure and applications are provided, wherein the chip stacked package structure comprises a substrate, a first chip, a patterned circuit layer and a second chip. The substrate has a first surface and an opposite second surface. The first chip with a first active area and an opposite first rear surface is electrically connected to first surface of substrate by a flip chip bonding process. The patterned circuit layer set on the dielectric layer is electrically connected to the substrate via a bonding wire. The second chip set on the patterned circuit layer has a second active area and a plurality of second pads formed on the second active area, wherein the second bonding pad is electrically connected to the patterned circuit layer.

A gesture-based remote control system includes a camera module (300), an image recognition module (100), a wireless transmitter (400), and a main-controlling electronic appliance (200). The image recognition module (100) is electrically connected to the camera module (300). The wireless transmitter (400) is electrically connected to the image recognition module (100). The main-controlling electronic appliance (200) is detachably connected to the image recognition module (100). The main-controlling electronic appliance (200) includes a monitor (202). A motion controlling command is obtained by recognizing an image of a user in the camera module (300) with the image recognition module (100). A key controlling command is obtained from the motion controlling command and a key code information by the image recognition module (100). The key controlling command is sent by the image recognition module (100) to the wireless transmitter (400). The key controlling command is sent to a controlled electronic application by the wireless transmitter to control the controlled electronic application.

An image sensor device and fabrication method thereof. An image sensing array is formed in a substrate, wherein the image sensing array comprises a plurality of photosensors with spaces therebetween. A first dielectric layer with a first refractive index is formed overlying the spaces but not the photosensors. A conformal second dielectric layer with a second refractive index is formed on a sidewall of the first dielectric layer. A third dielectric layer with a third refractive index is formed overlying the photosensors but not the spaces. The third refractive index is greater than the second refractive index. A light guide constructed by the second and third dielectric layers is formed overlying each photosensor, thereby preventing incident light from striking other photosensors.

The present invention discloses an electrode structure of a light emitted diode and manufacturing method of the electrodes. After formed a pn-junction 2, 3 of a light emitted diode on a substrate 1, a layer of SiO2 is deposited on the periphery of the LED die near the scribe line of the wafer, then a transparent conductive layer 5 is deposited, then a layer of gold or AuGe etc 6, is formed with an opening on the center of the die. After forming alloy with the semiconductor by heat treatment to form ohmic contact, a strip of aluminum (Al) 7 is formed on one side of the die on the front side for wire bonding and to be the positive electrode of the LED. The negative electrode 10 is formed on the substrate by metal contact. Another form of the electrode structure of the present invention is making both the positive electrode 7 and negative electrode 7a on the front side of the LED by etching the p-type semiconductor 3 of the pn-junction and forming a strip of negative electrode 7a on the n-type semiconductor area 2, the positive electrode is formed on the p-type semiconductor area.

An improved structure of inductance core and wire frame mainly provides a center post at the center portion of the core. A containing circumferential channel is also provided at the periphery of the center post to make the outer circumference of the containing circumferential channel form a surrounded circumferential side wall that has small area of indentation openings at the end corners only. A center hole is also provided at the center portion of the wire frame that accommodates the center post, and a bobbin for the winding of the coil is further provided at the outer circumference of the center hole. A salient lead-out seat is provided at the end corner of the wire frame, and brazing posts are also provided on the same side at the upper edge of each of the lead-out seat to connect to the drawing head of the coil. By the use of the center post of the core embedding into the center hole of the wire frame, as well as making use of the containing circumferential channel to contain the wire frame, each of the lead-out seat of the wire frame can stretch out through the openings of the core. The magnetic leakage can be lessened and the inductance efficiency can be improved by making use of the circumferential side wall to form an integral surrounded covering.

A liquid crystal display (LCD) device, with an organic electroluminescent display (OLED) element serving as a light source, a common electrode, and a polarizer which is a wire grid polarizer or a thin film polarizer are formed on a lower substrate. A pixel electrode is formed on an upper substrate. According to the invention, a thinner integrated LCD device with improved light utilization efficiency is obtained.

A device for locating an object behind a wall lining includes a housing having a front portion fitting substantially in the palm of a user's hand. Operating switches are located in juxtaposition to the grip portion so as to be operable by the user without substantially altering grip on the housing. The device also includes a sensor including a first capacitor plate and a pair of second capacitor plates. The capacitor plates are arranged serially, and calibrated by a pulse width modulator and integrator. Operating electronics are incorporated into an application specific integrated circuit.

A transflective LCD device with a single cell gap. First and second pixel electrodes are formed on the lower substrate. First and second common electrodes are formed on an inner surface of the upper substrate. The first pixel electrodes and the first common electrodes are located in the reflective region. The second pixel electrodes and the second common electrodes are located in the transmissive region. A first orientation control window having a slit width “Src” is formed between the first common electrodes in an area corresponding to each first pixel electrode. A second orientation control window having a slit width “Stc” is formed between the second common electrodes, satisfying Src<Stc. The second orientation control window is in an area corresponding to each second pixel electrode. Accordingly, maximum light efficiency can be achieved in both reflective and transmissive modes.

The present invention is related to a light emitting diode of an omnidirectional reflector providing with a transparent conductive layer. In the present invention, a cohesion layer is formed between a transparent layer and a metal reflection layer to improve the cohesive force therebetween and increase the reflectivity of the light emitting diode, so as the present invention can enhance the light-emitting efficiency of the light emitting diode.

The present invention relates to a micro-particle for extending satiety and controlling blood glucose and lipid levels, comprising a core having the protein extract from sweet potato, an active ingredient layer coated on the core, and a protection layer coated over the active ingredient layer as an external layer, wherein the protein extract from sweet potato contains trypsin inhibitor and glycoprotein. The micro-particle comprising a protein extract from sweet potato can effectively extend satiety, control blood glucose and lipid levels and increase metabolism effectively.

A digital video broadcast network comprises a content provider and several transmitters. Each transmitter may transmit more than one signal, different signals having different frequencies, multiplexes and the like and relating to different network types. An integrated receiver / decoder (IRD) is mobile in the area around the transmitters. As well as transmitting service information as part of a network information table on a data layer, the transmitters provide in their output signals transmitter parameter information as TPS data on a physical layer. This TPS information includes information identifying whether there are other networks available, and preferably the number of other networks. Transmission parameters relating to the other networks are included in an other_network_descriptor, forming part of an NIT actual or a BAT, or alternatively in an NIT_other. This information is used by the IRD in signal scan. Using the described broadcast signals, signal scan can be made more efficient, resulting in reduced power consumption and scanning time. IRDs may also receive free field three dimensional models of signal levels created for a group of cells. The models may be in the form of bitmaps and used during handover procedures.

The method of encoding divides the image into a number of blocks, which are then transformed (200), in accordance with a linear transform, into blocks of transform coefficients. The transform coefficients are rearranged (202) into a set of groups, wherein subsets of the groups of coefficients are capable of being inversed transformed to reproduce the image or a resolution thereof. The groups (203) are then encoded in turn. In the method of decoding, a user first selects a resolution mode and the method decodes (300) a predetermined number of groups in response to said resolution mode. The method then rearranges (301) the decoded groups to form blocks of transform coefficients, wherein the arrangement is determined in response to the resolution mode. The method then inverse transforms said rearrangement (303), if necessary, wherein the inverse transform is dependent on the resolution mode and combines the blocks of pixels to reconstitute the image or a resolution thereof.

A liquid crystal mixture for a polymer stability alignment process includes at least a set of first liquid crystal compounds without any double bond, at least a set of second liquid crystal compounds having double bonds, and at least a set of reactive monomers having methacrylate group. The concentration of the second liquid crystal compounds is about 0.1-20% by weight of the total weight of the liquid crystal compounds.

An “IC card with display panel but without batteries” includes a contact / contactless communication interface (23), a microprocessor (24), an EEPROM (28), a rectifier / voltage regulator (27), a display driver (25), and a charge-pump (26) disposed therein, and a display panel (21) disposed thereon. The microprocessor (24), receives the external data, and displays them on the display panel (21) for the users to look up the external data. The display panel (21) is the one with double steady-state function having the characteristic that once the data are displayed, no persistent power supply for the display panel (21) is needed, thus the displayed data will be preserved persistently until the next time when data are updated. In this way, the users can exempt using batteries that can avoid being disturbed by the service life of the batteries.

A display device able to maximize an area of a luminous region in a pixel and realize an image display in bright and high-definition, wherein luminous elements having a first electrode defining a luminous region; a transparent second electrode facing and arranged to the first electrode; a luminous layer arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode are arranged in a first and second direction in matrix, a plurality of first electrode interconnections extending in the first direction and connected to a plurality of the first electrodes arranged in the first direction is arranged in the display region, and a plurality of second electrode interconnections arranged in parallel to the first electrode to extend in the second direction and commonly connected to a plurality of the second electrodes arranged in the second direction is also arranged.

An ultraviolet-and-ozone disinfection apparatus 200 providing an improvement on disinfection, includes a disinfection tank 202, a mercury UV lamp 210 enclosed by a quartz tube 208 for generating UV light with air trapped between them undergoing UV irradiation to generate ozone, an ozone transmitting tube 216, a spiral water transmitting tube 215 wrapping around the quartz tube in a spiral manner to achieve sufficient disinfection by mixing ozone in water, a sleeve barrel enclosing the spiral tube. Along the entire flow path, water is exposed to UV radiation to achieve sufficient disinfection and reduce excessive ozone that is harmful to human health.

A method of producing an edge-light type light guide plate having a light exiting surface and a light reflecting surface having light reflective dots formed thereon in a scattered fashion. The method includes (a) producing a first prototype of the light guide plate having primary dots formed on the light reflecting surface, (b) examining optical characteristics of the first prototype relating to light exiting from the light exiting surface thereof, and (c) producing a second prototype of the lightguide plate when the examined first prototype exhibits unsatisfactory optical characteristics. The second prototype has primary dots that are the same as the primary dots of the first prototype in size and distribution, and secondary dots arranged between the primary dots in at least part of the light reflecting surface. The steps (b) and (c) are repeated until a prototype is produced which exhibits satisfactory optical characteristics.

The method generates a compressed digital image from a original image. The compressed digital image allows random access to portions of the compressed image at a number of resolutions. The original image is first transformed (103) by a multi-level DWT to form a non redundant multiple resolution frequency domain representation of the image. The representation comprises a DC subband and a plurality of high frequency subbands arranged as levels, where each level represents a frequency contribution between adjacent resolutions and where each subband comprises a plurality of tiles. The DC subband is then entropy encoded (104) into the bitstream. The high frequency subbands are next entropy encoded (108,109, and 110) into the bitstream in level order (105,113,114) and tile order (107,111).

The present invention provides a method for constructing a chair-type, self-supported earth retaining wall used for retaining external forces such as earth pressure prior to an excavation. The method of the present invention forms a first column of piles having a plurality of piles arranged along the circumference of the region to be excavated. Subsequently, the method comprises forming a second column of piles having a plurality of piles by consecutively perforating a plurality of holes by a predetermined spacing at predetermined positions outwardly from the first column of piles, along the circumference of the region to be excavated, inserting H-beams into the respective holes, filling left and right spaces of the webs of the H-beams with soil, and filling the outer spaces of the flanges of the H-beams with a flowable stiffening material. The method subsequently comprises interconnecting the first column of piles and the second column of piles by a connection member. The first column of piles and the second column of piles are formed along the circumference of the region to be excavated, with an outward spacing, and connected to each other by the connection member.The present invention provides a method for constructing a chair-type, self-supported earth retaining wall used for supporting external forces such as earth pressure prior to an excavation. The method of the present invention comprises forming a first pile array 20 having a plurality of piles 22 arranged along a circumference of an region to be excavated. Subsequently, the method comprises forming a second pile array 30 having a plurality of piles arranged along a circumference of the to-be-excavated region by consecutively drilling a plurality of boreholes 31 at predetermined intervals at predetermined positions outwardly spaced apart from the first pile array, inserting H-beams into the respective boreholes, filling left and right spaces of webs 34 of the H-beams 32 with soil 40, and filling the outer spaces of flanges 36 of the H-beams with a flowable hardening material 50. The method subsequently comprises fixedly interconnecting the first pile array and the second pile array using a connection member. The first pile array and the second pile array are formed in such a fashion as to be outwardly spaced apart from each other along the circumferences of the to-be-excavated region, and are connected to each other by the connection member to construct an underground earth retaining wall.

The invention discloses a recommended system and a method with facing social network for context awareness based on the tensor decomposition, and relates to the field of the data mining and the information retrieval. Firstly, the method makes use of a social network massive data set to collect users and projects and contexts, to pay attention to the list information, to establish an original the user-the project-the context mark matrix, to calculate the users similarity, and to establish a user-user similarity matrix; Secondly, aim at the extreme sparsity of the original mark matrix, a sparse mark matrix is predicated and filled by using the tensor decomposition; Thirdly, aim at a problem that the user similarity matrix is sparse, a sparse user similarity matrix is predicated and filled by using the matrix decomposition; Finally, according to some similar interest tendencies of some similar users in the social network, a social normalization item is taken to optimizing the mark matrix. The method deals with the problem that a traditional predicated mark matrix does not consider that the context information and the relationship between users have an effect on marking. Also, the method deals with an obstruction which is caused by the sparsity of the mark matrix brings to the recommended system, thus the accuracy of the recommended system is improved. The method can be widely applied to the fields of the social network, the electronic commerce and the like.

There is provided an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) including an engine and an airframe, including means for performing a deep stall maneuver at least one inflatable sleeve connected or connectable to the airframe, and means for inflating the sleeve during flight, wherein the inflated sleeve extends along the lower side of the airframe so as to protect same during deep stall landing. A method for operating an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV), including an engine and an airframe is also provided.

A panel unit (2) for constructional purposes has at least two joining flanges (10, 12) on opposite surfaces (4, 4′) located at, or adjacent to, a common edge of the panel unit, and projecting in mutually opposite directions. Two such panel units (2) may be juxtaposed end to end and secured by a two-part connector (17) having a base portion (18) that is adapted for attaching to a fixed structural element (20) and for anchoring to the flanges (12) on a first surface (4′) of the panel units 2, and a cap (19) adapted for anchoring to the flanges (10) on an opposite surface (4) of the panel units (2) and for anchoring to the base portion.