Abstract: A method of assisting object registration in a smart home system including a plurality of objects is disclosed. The disclosed method may include allowing a user to select an object from among a plurality of objects, capturing a plurality of pointing gestures by allowing the user to perform the plurality of pointing gestures at the selected object, configuring a pointing ray using each of the plurality of captured pointing gestures, estimating a position of a nearest point extending from the plurality of pointing rays, and registering the estimated position of the nearest point as a position of the selected object.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an injector, a combustor comprising same, and a gas turbine comprising same. The injector comprises: an injector body; and a slit portion formed through the injector body in a reference direction, wherein the slit portion comprises: a first slit portion having a shape extending along the circumferential direction of a virtual reference circle having a virtual reference axis extending in the reference direction as a center thereof; and a second slit portion having a shape extending in the radial direction of the reference circle.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells coupled between a multiplicity of word lines and one or more bit lines; and an operation circuit configured to perform a multiplication and accumulation (MAC) operation with one or more first multi-bit data provided from the one or more bit lines and one or more second multi-bit data, wherein a plurality of memory cells coupled to a bit line store a plurality of bits included in a corresponding one of the one or more first multi-bit data, and wherein the memory cell array sequentially provides the plurality of bits included in the corresponding first multi-bit data to the operation circuit.

Abstract: Provided is a memory-based reinforcement learning method and system capable of storing optional information in streaming data. A question-answering (QA) method using memory-based reinforcement learning method includes receiving, in an episodic memory reader (EMR), streaming data about an input context that is input from a user; analyzing, in the EMR, the received streaming data and storing preset semantic information used for QA in an external memory; and, in response to an input of a question front the user, determining, in a pretrained QA model, an answer to the input question based on semantic information stored in the external memory.

Abstract: The present disclosure in some embodiments provides a system for and a method of providing a live video in real-time by transmitting the live video and patches which are a fraction of a frame of the live video by allocating and using bandwidth for transmitting the live video and bandwidth for transmitting the patches, respectively, and by subjecting, based on the patches, a deep neural network-based super-resolution model to online learning and thereby super-resolution processing the live video into a super-resolution live video.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a radiative cooling device which is sensitive to the ambient temperature and in which the emissivity changes depending on the infrared wavelength range and emission angle, and a method of cooling an object using the radiative cooling device.

Abstract: An embodiment ceria-alumina support (CeO2—Al2O3 support) includes a nano-ceria having a shape of a polygonal bipyramid or a truncated polygonal bipyramid supported on alumina. An embodiment noble metal catalyst for treating exhaust gas includes a noble metal deposited on a ceria-alumina support (CeO2—Al2O3 support) that includes a nano-ceria having a shape of a polygonal bipyramid or a truncated polygonal bipyramid supported on alumina. An embodiment method for affecting resistance to sulfur-poisoning of a noble metal catalyst through structural transformation of nano-ceria supported on alumina includes performing a hydrothermal treatment of ceria supported on ?-alumina.

Abstract: Disclosed are a wavelet-based progressive fast recompression method and system for large-deformed mesh data. Given mesh data is compressed. The compressed mesh data is recompressed by propagating part of a deformed mesh to all meshes based on information extracted from the compressed data when the mesh data is deformed.

Abstract: An electronic device and method for partitioning an accelerator and scheduling batches are disclosed. An electronic device includes one or more processors, and a memory storing instructions configured to cause the one or more processors to, for a first partitioning of an accelerator into partitions of different sizes, based on resource utilization of the partitions batch of different sizes input to the partition, determine correspondences between the sizes of the batches and the sizes of the partitions in the first partitioning, determine numbers of partitions for the respective determined sizes of the partitions based on the correspondences between the sizes of the batches and the sizes of the partitions in the first partitioning, and partition the accelerator into a second partitioning based on the determined numbers of the respective sizes of the partitions.

Abstract: A buckling prevention device for an endoscope overtube according to an embodiment is a buckling prevention device for an endoscope overtube, which includes a plurality of supports capable of supporting an endoscope overtube and a base for supporting the plurality of supports. The plurality of supports includes: an endoscope support which is slidably connected to the base and can support an endoscope body; an overtube support which is fixed to a side of the base and supports an overtube connected to the endoscope body; and at least one additional support for supporting the overtube, the additional support being installed between the endoscope support and the overtube support and slidably with respect to the base, wherein according to a sliding operation of the endoscope support, spacings between every pair of supports, which are most adjacent to each other, among the plurality of supports may have the same amount of change.

Abstract: An apparatus for assisting a finger motion, including a palm support installed to surround a part of a hand-back and a wrist; an extension assist unit secured at a first side thereof to a middle phalanx region of a finger and connected at a second side thereof to the palm support to assist extension of the finger through an elastic force between both ends; and a flexion assist unit comprising a distal phalange support mounted on an end of the finger, and a first flexion wire and a second flexion wire mounted on a part of the finger and assisting flexion of the finger on the basis of tensile force supplied from an outside.

Abstract: A steep-slope field-effect transistor and a fabrication method thereof are disclosed. The steep-slope field-effect transistor according to an embodiment of the inventive concept includes a source, a channel region, and a drain formed on a substrate; a gate insulating film formed on an upper portion of the channel region; a floating gate formed on an upper portion of the gate insulating film; a transition layer formed on an upper portion of the floating gate; and a control gate formed on an upper portion of the transition layer. The steep-slope field-effect transistor applies a reference potential or more to the control gate to discharge or bring in at least one charge stored in the floating gate.

Abstract: Disclosed are an electronic device and an operating method thereof. The electronic device and operating method are configured to detect the number for splitting one piece of content and allowing a plurality of edge nodes to split and store at least some of packets split from the content based on the number. Detecting the number may be performed based on an average amount of storage of the edge nodes for the content.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a 3D holographic imaging apparatus and method for projecting multiple point light sources to one plane such that qubits can be detected at rapid rate by allowing a 3D qubit model arranged in three dimensions to be simultaneously photographed in two dimensions. For this, the present invention provides a 3D holographic imaging apparatus comprising: a fluorescent unit configured to cause each qubit composing a 3D qubit model to emit qubit fluorescent beams; a lens unit configured to change the qubit fluorescent beams to a desired route; a light modulator configured to modulate each phase of the qubit fluorescent beams for each predetermined position, and control a position of a focal point; and an imaging unit configured to image the qubit fluorescent beams modulated by the light modulator in a two-dimensional (2D) image.

Abstract: An example embodiment provides a calculating method using a zero-knowledge proof-friendly one-way function, performed by a computing device, the calculating method including: calculating a first intermediate bit stream by inputting an input bit stream of a one-way function to an augmented matrix, calculating a second intermediate bit stream by dividing the first intermediate bit stream into a predetermined number of bit streams and inputting each of the predetermined number of divided bit streams to a substitution-box (S-box), and outputting an output bit stream of the one-way function by inputting the second intermediate bit stream to a reduced matrix.

Abstract: Disclosed is a neuromorphic memory element, which includes a first electrode; a second electrode; a first thin film layer adjacent to the first electrode between the first electrode and the second electrode and that is configured to emulate a neuronal plasticity by performing a volatile storage function based on a voltage difference between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a second thin film layer between the first thin film layer and the second electrode and that is configured to emulate a synaptic plasticity by performing a non-volatile storage function.

Abstract: A method of using open domain information for understanding a context of temporal relation information is implemented as a computer program and performed using a computing device. Unnecessary elements is removed by data pre-processing from an input text in a natural language, and then linguistic characteristics of the pre-processed input text are analyzed to generate a linguistic analysis result in a structure form. Candidates for temporal relation information included in the input text are generated by analyzing temporal information and open domain information included in the input text using the linguistic analysis result, then validity of the candidates is verified to generate verified temporal relation information.

Abstract: The multi-photon microscope comprises a repetition rate tuner that lowers an optical pulse train emitted from a pulsed laser to a repetition rate for time-gated detection, a scanner that scans the optical pulse train transmitted from the repetition rate tuner in x-axis and y-axis directions, an objective lens that irradiates an optical signal scanned by the scanner to the sample and acquires a fluorescence signal emitted from the excited fluorescent material, a photodetector that photoelectrically converts the fluorescence signal acquired by the objective lens, an amplifier that converts a current signal output from the photodetector into a voltage signal, a digitizer that samples the voltage signal output from the amplifier, and a computing device that separates sampling data output from the digitizer with a detection window set in time domain, and generates an image based on the sampling data separated by the detection window.

Abstract: Provided is a computer system for providing a tactile interface for a real-time two-dimensional (2D) tactile input/output interaction of a visually impaired person and an operating method thereof. The computer system may be configured to generate a tactile output corresponding to 2D visual information for a first body surface of a user through a tactile output module that is in contact with the first body surface, sense a tactile input for a second body surface of the user through a tactile input module, and generate a control signal for the 2D visual information based on the tactile input. Here, one of the first body surface and the second body surface may be a ventral surface of one body portion of the user, and the other one of the first surface and the second body surface may be a dorsal surface corresponding to the ventral surface in the one body portion.

Abstract: An electronic device and an operating method thereof may be configured to detect input data having a first time interval, detect first prediction data having a second time interval based on the input data using a preset recursive network, and detect second prediction data having a third time interval based on the input data and the first prediction data using the recursive network. The recursive network may include an encoder configured to detect each of a plurality of feature vectors based on at least one of the input data or the first prediction data, an attention module configured to calculate each of pieces of importance of the feature vectors by calculating the importance of each feature vector, and a decoder configured to output at least one of the first prediction data or the second prediction data using the feature vectors based on the pieces of importance.