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The present invention provides an apparatus and method for receiving and assessing an application made by an applicant. In one aspect, the apparatus includes: computing means configured or programmed to present a plurality of application forms to the applicant, to receive the forms once completed from the applicant and to assess the application; input means for the applicant to complete and return the forms to the computing means; and communication means for communicating or sending the assessment of the application to the applicant; wherein the computing means is configured or programmed to construct second and subsequent forms of the plurality of forms progressively on the basis of information provided by the applicant by means of the input means in the completed and received forms, to assess the application, and to communicate the assessment by means of the communication means.

A pixel capable of reducing leakage current (to display an image with desired brightness) is provided. The pixel includes: an organic light emitting diode (OLED) coupled to a second power source; a first transistor for controlling an amount of current that flows from a first power source to the second power source via the OLED; a second transistor coupled between a data line and the first transistor, and configured to turn on when a scan signal is supplied to a scan line; a third transistor and a fourth transistor serially coupled between the first transistor and an initializing power source; and a fifth transistor coupled between a first node coupled to a gate electrode of the first transistor, and a second node that is a common node between the third transistor and the fourth transistor, and configured to turn off in a period where current is supplied to the OLED.

A nonvolatile memory device using interleaving technology is provided. The nonvolatile memory device includes a first controller configured to allocate one of 2^N threshold voltage states to N-bit data where N is 2 or a natural number greater than 2, a second controller configured to set a difference between adjacent threshold voltage states among the 2^N threshold voltage states so that the difference increases as a threshold voltage increases, and a programming unit configured to form a threshold voltage distribution state corresponding to the allocated threshold voltage state and to program the N-bit data to a multi-level cell. The second controller controls the difference between the adjacent threshold voltage states to equalize the number of read errors for all intersections among the 2^N threshold voltage states at the end of life.

To facilitate rendering an image, e.g., a portion of a PDF page, at higher resolutions or locations than could be expressed using standard 32 bit fixed point integer values, an image is segmented and a user space coordinate system origin used for individual segment processing is transformed on a per segment basis to each segment locality before a render request is made to a rendering function library. After a new origin of a segment is established, the PDF page content contained within that locality corresponding to the individual segment being processed is rendered, e.g., using functions available in the PDF software library. The results of processing the segments is combined to produce a final high-resolution image. While the input to the rendering process may include values which can not be expressed in 32 bit fixed point notation, the segmentation process allows the individual segments to be rendered using rendering specified using such notation.

A method for optimizing a digital filter that produces an output signal from samples of an input signal is configured with filter coefficients that are selected by a prescribed filter coefficient search. The filter coefficient search uses a pre-scaling constant or an additive constant with the filter coefficients and canonical signed digits to reduce filter cost or filter execution time. The coefficient search includes a precision for the filter coefficients and an allowable number of nonzero digits for each coefficient to produce a filter coefficient set with a reduced overall number of nonzero digits. The resulting filter can generally be implemented with substantially less integrated circuit die area than that obtainable with previous design approaches.

Methods of cutting and installing carpet tiles in, among other applications, mass transit vehicles, particularly including aircraft. In some embodiments, the tile lengths in an installation are the same and the tile widths are customized to a particular section of the aircraft or other vehicle in which they are installed.

An organic light emitting display is capable of reducing or minimizing the number of wiring lines to improve an aperture ratio. The organic light emitting display includes scan lines and data lines that cross each other at crossing regions, sub pixels located at the crossing regions that display an image in accordance with an amount of current that flows from a first power source to respective organic light emitting diodes in the sub pixels, and first power source lines that are parallel to the data lines, each of the first power source lines corresponding to at least two of the data lines. The first power source lines include a first group of the first power source lines that receive the first power source and a second group of the first power source lines that receive a second power source.

Semiconductor process evaluation methods perform multiple scans of a test semiconductor substrate (e.g., test wafer) using ion beams under different ion implanting conditions. Parameters of the test semiconductor substrate that was scanned using the ion beams under different ion implanting conditions are then measured to conduct the semiconductor process evaluation.

One or more fiber optic rotary joints (FORJ), free space beam combiners, OCT, SEE and/or fluorescence devices and systems for use therewith, methods of manufacturing same and storage mediums are provided. One or more embodiments of FORJs may be used with numerous applications in the optical field, including, but not limited to, OCT and fluorescence applications. Examples of such applications include imaging, evaluating and diagnosing biological objects, such as, but not limited to, for Gastro-intestinal, cardio and/or ophthalmic applications, and being obtained via one or more optical instruments.

Apparatus and method for testing a device wafer having a plurality of devices formed thereon. One embodiment of the invention provides an interface wafer comprising a plurality of contact pads disposed on a first surface for contacting a plurality of device pads on the device wafer and a plurality of interface pads disposed on a second surface for contacting probe needles on a probe card, wherein the plurality of interface pads are electrically connected to the plurality of contact pads and wherein the plurality of interface pads are disposed in a relaxed-pitch arrangement as compared to the plurality of contact pads.

Provided are a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate and a method of manufacturing the same. A TFT substrate includes: a substrate defining a pixel area, a first TFT including: an oxide semiconductor layer, a first gate electrode on the oxide semiconductor layer, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode, a second TFT including: a second gate electrode, a polycrystalline semiconductor layer on the second gate electrode, a second source electrode, and a second drain electrode, a first gate insulating layer under the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode, the first gate insulating layer covering the oxide semiconductor layer, a second gate insulating layer under the polycrystalline semiconductor layer, the second gate insulating layer covering the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode, and an intermediate insulating layer on the first gate electrode and the polycrystalline semiconductor layer, the intermediate insulating layer including a nitride layer.

In one embodiment, virtual storage drives are allocated to RAID arrays so that no two virtual storage drives of a RAID array are mapped to the same physical storage drive. In another aspect, error handling routines are limited to virtual storage drives impacted by an error in a physical storage drive so that virtual storage drives of the physical storage drive not impacted by the error are bypassed. In yet another aspect, cache operations to a target virtual storage drive may be throttled as a function of both a limit imposed on cache operations directed to the RAID array to which the virtual storage drive is allocated, and a separate limit on cache operations directed to a group of virtual storage drives which are mapped to the same physical storage drive as the target virtual storage drive. Other features and aspects may be realized, depending upon the particular application.

One or more spectrally encoded endoscopy (SEE) devices, systems, methods and storage mediums for characterizing, examining and/or diagnosing, and/or measuring viscosity of, a sample or object using speckle detection are provided. Examples of such applications include imaging, evaluating and diagnosing biological objects, such as, but not limited to, for Gastro-intestinal, cardio and/or ophthalmic applications, and being obtained via one or more optical instruments. Preferably, the SEE devices, systems methods and storage mediums include or involve speckle intensity autocorrelation function(s). One or more embodiments involve a serial time-encoded 2D imaging system with speckle detection to reconstruct images, store reconstructed images of the sample or object, and/or measure viscosity of the sample or object.

A cleat with automatic line-locking, includes a frame having proximate and remote sides and formed with a passageway, extending between the proximate and remote sides, for receiving a line for movement along a first line moving direction from the proximate to the remote sides and an opposing line pulling direction from the remote to the proximate sides, and defining a line bearing surface or limit stop on one side of the passageway for limiting excessive transverse movements of the line in a direction to the one side of the passageway. Fasteners attach the frame to a support surface. A cam is provided on the frame on the other or opposite side of said passageway and has a line engaging portion normally spaced a predetermined distance from the line. The cam is movable between a line releasing position and a line locking position and is arranged to normally disengage from the line, engagement of the line by the cam to the line locking position while advancing the line in the first line moving direction creating a force couple that wedges the line between the line bearing surface or limit stop and the cam that tends to arrest or stop the line relative to the frame fixed on the support surface. The cam is formed of generally flat sheet material defining a cam plane and the line engaging portion being formed of a plurality of generally flat pressure-engaging segments or pressure pads that are angularly offset to opposite sides of said cam plane and together generally defining a line-receiving region having a generally uniform cross-section configured to frictionally engage the line in the line locking position. Auxiliary sheave assemblies may be used to provide automatic failsafe operation by means of the cleat when raising or lowering an object on a hook or loop. A pusher may be used to urge the line to move in the direction of the cam especially when the line is released.

A Caching Recommendation Engine in one embodiment improves the delivery quality of IP services by performing real-time reinforcement learning of the content distribution network behavior, and continuously computing caching recommendations by leveraging novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to maximize the content distribution network caching efficiency and performance.

Systems and methods that automatically arrange, or re-arrange, object nodes in a diagram such that the total length of all associations between nodes and the number of overlapping associations is reduced or minimized. In mathematical terms, the process simplifies the graphical representation of an arbitrary graph. In one aspect, processes of the invention use a physical model of particle interactions to determine a minimal energy state, with object nodes modeled as particles and the associations between the object nodes modeled as interaction forces. Perturbations applied to the system allow for a determination of a minimal energy state

A scan driver includes a plurality of signal lines configured to transfer a scan line selection signal for selecting a target scan line among a plurality of scan lines, and a plurality of logical elements respectively connected to some or all of a plurality of signal line groups respectively including grouped ones of the signal lines based on a combination calculation, the plurality of logical elements being respectively connected to the scan lines, and being configured to provide output signals to the scan lines, wherein a number of the signal line groups is greater than, or equal to, a number of the logical elements.

Method and apparatus for testing a plurality of devices on a device wafer. One embodiment provides a test circuitry wafer having a first surface and a second surface, the test circuitry wafer comprising a plurality of contact pads disposed on the first surface for contacting a plurality of device pads on the device wafer, a plurality of interface pads disposed on the second surface for contacting probe needles on a probe card and one or more test features disposed in the test circuitry wafer, wherein the one or more test features are electrically connected to at least one of the contact pads and the interface pads.