Abstract: A multilayer capacitor includes a capacitor body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrodes and having first and second surfaces opposing each other, third and fourth surfaces connected to the first and second surfaces and opposing each other, and fifth and sixth surfaces connected to the first and second surfaces, connected to the third and fourth surfaces, and opposing each other, first and second side portions disposed on the fifth and sixth surfaces of the capacitor body, respectively, and first and second external electrodes disposed on the third and fourth surfaces of the capacitor body, respectively, and connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively. The first and second internal electrodes have protrusions at one-side edge in a direction perpendicular to the fifth and sixth surfaces of the capacitor body.

Abstract: A method for motion estimation is provided that includes determining a first motion vector for a first child coding unit (CU) of a parent CU and a second motion vector for a second child CU of the parent CU, wherein the first child CU, the second child CU, and the parent CU are in a CU hierarchy, wherein the first and second child CUs are smallest size CUs in the CU hierarchy, and wherein a first motion search type is used to determine the first motion vector and the second motion vector, selecting the first and second motion vectors as candidate predictors for the parent CU, selecting a predictor for a prediction unit (PU) of the first parent CU from the candidate predictors, and refining the predictor using a second motion search type to determine a motion vector for the PU.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a microorganism for producing an L-amino acid with enhanced activity of ?-glucosidase and a method for producing an L-amino acid using the same. According to the present disclosure, the microorganism of the genus Corynebacterium producing an L-amino acid has enhanced activity of ?-glucosidase, thereby improving L-amino acid production yield. Therefore, the microorganism may be very usefully used for L-amino acid production.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of first gate electrodes sequentially stacked on a substrate, a second gate electrode on the plurality of first gate electrodes, a first channel structure extending through the plurality of first gate electrodes and a portion of the second gate electrode, a buried insulation pattern on a sidewall of the first channel structure, of which an upper surface is at a higher level than a top end of the first channel structure, a second channel structure extending through a remainder of the second gate electrode, the second channel structure connected to the first channel structure, and a buried conductive pattern on a sidewall of the second channel structure.

Abstract: The substrate processing apparatus includes a processing unit and a transfer unit that transfers a substrate into the processing unit. The processing unit includes a support unit that supports the substrate in the process chamber. The support unit includes a support on which the substrate is placed and an edge ring that surrounds the substrate placed on the support and that is detachable from the support. The transfer unit includes a hand having a top side on which the substrate is placed and a fixing member that is provided in the hand and that fixes the edge ring to a bottom side of the hand with an electrostatic force. The fixing member includes a first electrode and second electrode, and the transfer unit further includes a voltage applying device that applies voltages of different polarities to the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: A method for determining coding unit (CU) partitioning of a largest coding unit (LCU) of a picture is provided that includes computing a first statistical measure and a second statistical measure for the LCU, selecting the LCU as the CU partitioning when the first statistical measure does not exceed a first threshold and the second statistical measure does not exceed a second threshold, and selecting CUs in one or more lower layers of a CU hierarchy of the LCU to form the CU partitioning when the first statistical measure exceeds the first threshold and/or the second statistical measure exceeds the second threshold.

Abstract: A method for motion estimation is provided that includes determining a first motion vector for a first child coding unit (CU) of a parent CU and a second motion vector for a second child CU of the parent CU, wherein the first child CU, the second child CU, and the parent CU are in a CU hierarchy, wherein the first and second child CUs are smallest size CUs in the CU hierarchy, and wherein a first motion search type is used to determine the first motion vector and the second motion vector, selecting the first and second motion vectors as candidate predictors for the parent CU, selecting a predictor for a prediction unit (PU) of the first parent CU from the candidate predictors, and refining the predictor using a second motion search type to determine a motion vector for the PU.

Abstract: A vertical-type memory device includes a plurality of gate electrodes stacked on a substrate; and a vertical channel structure penetrating through the plurality of gate electrodes in a first direction, perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate. The vertical channel structure includes a channel extending in the first direction, a first filling film that partially fills an internal space of the channel, a first liner on at least a portion of an upper surface of the first filling film and an upper internal side wall of the channel extending beyond the first filling film away from the substrate. The first liner includes n-type impurities. The vertical channel structure includes a second filling film on at least a portion of the first liner, and a pad on the second filling film and in contact with the first liner.

Abstract: An embodiment includes a method and an encoder for SSIM-based bits allocation. The encoder includes a memory and a processor utilized for allocating bits based on SSIM, wherein the processor estimates the model parameter of SSIM-based distortion model for the current picture and determines allocates bits based on the SSIM estimation.

Abstract: Several systems and methods for intra-prediction estimation of video pictures are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes accessing four ‘N×N’ pixel blocks comprising luma-related pixels. The four ‘N×N’ pixel blocks collectively configure a ‘2N×2N’ pixel block. A first pre-determined number of candidate luma intra-prediction modes is accessed for each of the four ‘N×N’ pixel blocks. A presence of one or more luma intra-prediction modes that are common among the candidate luma intra-prediction modes of at least two of the four ‘N×N’ pixel blocks is identified. The method further includes performing, based on the identification, one of (1) selecting a principal luma intra-prediction mode for the ‘2N×2N’ pixel block and (2) limiting a partitioning size to a ‘N×N’ pixel block size for a portion of the video picture corresponding to the ‘2N×2N’ pixel block.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymer coagulant including methacrylamide in a preferred range and an enlarged graft copolymer prepared using same. The polymer coagulant provided in the present invention may enlarge a conjugated diene-based polymer to a suitable particle diameter range, and there are advantages of achieving excellent impact resistance and flowability of a graft copolymer prepared from the polymer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of first gate electrodes sequentially stacked on a substrate, a second gate electrode on the plurality of first gate electrodes, a first channel structure extending through the plurality of first gate electrodes and a portion of the second gate electrode, a buried insulation pattern on a sidewall of the first channel structure, of which an upper surface is at a higher level than a top end of the first channel structure, a second channel structure extending through a remainder of the second gate electrode, the second channel structure connected to the first channel structure, and a buried conductive pattern on a sidewall of the second channel structure.

Abstract: A microorganism of the genus Corynebacterium producing L-amino acids, and a method of producing L-amino acids using the same.

Abstract: A substrate treatment apparatus includes a transport part to transport a transparent rectangular substrate, a substrate support part to support the substrate, light generators to irradiate two different lights onto the moving substrate, and sense the irradiated lights, and a controller to determine a posture of the substrate with reference to the sensed lights and control the transport part such that the substrate is seated on the substrate support part in a default posture that is preset. The controller determines the posture of the transparent rectangular substrate with respect to the default posture using a time difference between a time point at which a first light of the two different lights is not transmitted through an edge of the transparent rectangular substrate and a time point at which a second light of the two different lights is not transmitted through the edge of the transparent rectangular substrate.

Abstract: A method for determining coding unit (CU) partitioning of a largest coding unit (LCU) of a picture is provided that includes computing a first statistical measure and a second statistical measure for the LCU, selecting the LCU as the CU partitioning when the first statistical measure does not exceed a first threshold and the second statistical measure does not exceed a second threshold, and selecting CUs in one or more lower layers of a CU hierarchy of the LCU to form the CU partitioning when the first statistical measure exceeds the first threshold and/or the second statistical measure exceeds the second threshold.

Abstract: A vertical-type memory device includes a plurality of gate electrodes stacked on a substrate; and a vertical channel structure penetrating through the plurality of gate electrodes in a first direction, perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate. The vertical channel structure includes a channel extending in the first direction, a first filling film that partially fills an internal space of the channel, a first liner on at least a portion of an upper surface of the first filling film and an upper internal side wall of the channel extending beyond the first filling film away from the substrate. The first liner includes n-type impurities. The vertical channel structure includes a second filling film on at least a portion of the first liner, and a pad on the second filling film and in contact with the first liner.

Abstract: An embodiment includes a method and an encoder for SSIM-based bits allocation. The encoder includes a memory and a processor utilized for allocating bits based on SSIM, wherein the processor estimates the model parameter of SSIM-based distortion model for the current picture and determines allocates bits based on the SSIM estimation.

Abstract: Disclosed are a support unit and a substrate treating apparatus comprising the same. The inventive concept provides a support unit that may prove temperature uniformity between facing areas on a substrate the other areas of the substrate and may solve a problem of not easily separating a substrate by a negative pressure in a pin hole when the substrate is separated from the support unit, and a substrate treating apparatus.

Abstract: Provided is a substrate supporting unit. The substrate supporting unit includes a susceptor supporting the substrate and having a pin hole vertically formed therein, a lift pin provided to move up and down along the pin hole, a support plate supporting the lift pin, and a driving unit vertically moving the support plate. The lift pin has a first magnetic substance formed at a lower end thereof. The support plate has a second magnetic substance provided thereon and having an opposite polarity to a polarity of the first magnetic substance.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a manufacturing method of a spring pad interposed among a spring used in an automobile suspension system and an upper sheet and a lower sheet for supporting the spring, wherein the spring pad includes an insulator getting in contact with the spring to absorb shock and forming a body of the spring pad, and is manufactured through foam injection molding of the insulator to be lightweight.