Abstract: A method is presented for enhancing search results by segmenting documents into smaller passages and utilizing those passages as the search unit. This method integrates the passage rankings from two search models to produce a new document ranking and arranges the documents accordingly. The ranking of document is also rearranged based on the proportion of passages taken from the same document versus the total number of passages in that document. The final search ranking system combines document-level and passage-level search rankings to rank documents. This method ensures that when conducting a passage search, the search results consider the general relevance of the entire document, which leads to better performance compared to searching only by document-level or passage-level searches.

Abstract: A method of transmitting an electronic attack signal includes obtaining channel information about each of objects to be attacked, generating a beamforming matrix, based on the channel information, determining respective intensities of electronic attack signals to be respectively transmitted to the objects, based on the channel information and the beamforming matrix, and transmitting the electronic attack signals of the intensities respectively determined for the objects to the objects, respectively.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a video decoding method and apparatus and a video encoding method and apparatus. Coding decision information of a representative channel of a target block is shared as coding decision information of a target channel of the target block, and decoding of the target block is performed using the coding decision information of the target channel. Since the coding decision information of the representative channel is shared with an additional channel, repeated signaling of identical coding decision information may be prevented. By means of this prevention, the efficiency of encoding and decoding of the target block or the like may be improved.

Abstract: A display element of an optical stack assembly in an augmented reality (AR) near-eye display device may be protected against ultraviolet (UV) and/or infrared (IR) exposure through one or more protective coatings on various surfaces of the elements of the optical stack assembly. A photochromic coating on one of the surfaces of the elements of the optical stack assembly may also be used instead of or in addition to the protective coatings.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite material through a wet compression molding (WCM) process is disclosed. The internal pressure of a mold is controlled so that productivity may be improved due to process automation through application of a resin using a robot. Quality of the composite material may be improved due to minimization of deformation of a foam core through control of the internal pressure of the mold.

Abstract: In a sound system that uses over-the-air (OTA), a blockchain platform server is configured to support performance of a virtual sound transaction in a virtual environment. An OTA server is configured to manage a virtual sound transmitted from the blockchain platform server. A vehicle communication control device is configured to perform wireless communication with the OTA server. The vehicle communication control device is configured to download the virtual sound from the OTA server, determine whether the virtual sound is similar to a predetermined specific sound, perform an OTA state test of the virtual sound when the virtual sound is not similar to the predetermined specific sound, and control a sound processing device to play the virtual sound when the virtual sound passes the OTA state test.

Abstract: A multifunction peripheral (MFP) includes user selectable functions that call home applications on the device that direct it to work cooperatively with cloud service providers. To avoid requiring users to login to each cloud service each time they use it, they are registered with an authorization server to establish and grant identity and authorization tokens. When a user logs in to an MFP, they are redirected to login to the authorization server which then sends tokens to the MFP identifying the user and their permissions and licenses. Home applications associated by the tokens are displayed for selection. Each time a home application using a cloud service is selected, a background application sends the user's session tokens with a service request to an associated cloud service resource server. The resource servers processes authenticated requests and return the result to the MFP which completes the selected home application function.

Abstract: According to the present invention, an image encoding apparatus comprises: a motion prediction unit which derives motion information on a current block in the form of the motion information including L0 motion information and L1 motion information; a motion compensation unit which performs a motion compensation for the current block on the basis of at least one of the L0 motion information and L1 motion information so as to generate a prediction block corresponding to the current block; and a restoration block generating unit which generates a restoration block corresponding to the current block based on the prediction block. According to the present invention, image encoding efficiency can be improved.

Abstract: This application relates to a noise signal generating apparatus. In one aspect, the apparatus includes a bandwidth expansion unit configured to generate a noise signal having a second bandwidth by expanding a noise source signal having a first bandwidth to the second bandwidth that is greater than the first bandwidth. The apparatus may also include a randomization unit configured to perform randomization and output the generated noise signal having the second bandwidth.

Abstract: Provided is an air conditioner including: a housing; an outlet configured to discharge air introduced into the housing; a discharge panel arranged in front of the outlet and having a plurality of discharge holes to discharge air; and a support member arranged between the outlet and the discharge panel and on which the discharge panel is to be supported. The support member includes a first frame to support one side of the discharge panel and formed to extend in a first direction, a second frame to support another side of the discharge panel and arranged parallel with the first frame, and a third frame arranged between the first frame and the second frame and formed to extend in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the third frame is formed of a metal material.

Abstract: An active sound design (ASD) tuning device and a method thereof may include an ASD device that generates a virtual engine sound for each vehicle situation and a control device that outputs a composite sound by correcting and synthesizing the virtual engine sound and an internal sound measured for each vehicle situation based on a binaural vehicle impulse response (BVIR).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the preparation of citrullinated vimentin antigen-specific immune tolerogenic dendritic cells and a composition for preventing or treating heart failure after myocardial infarction comprising the same. According to the present disclosure, it is confirmed that immune tolerogenic dendritic cells differentiated by treating immature dendritic cells with citrullinated vimentin regulate the expression of immune-related factors and have an excellent therapeutic effect on heart failure caused by myocardial infarction.

Abstract: A display device includes: a blue color filter layer in a blue transmission region of an upper substrate, and including first scattering particles; a green color filter layer in a green transmission region of the upper substrate, and including second scattering particles; a red color filter layer in a red transmission region of the upper substrate; a partition wall on the upper substrate and defining a blue transmission opening, a green transmission opening, and a red transmission opening, which overlap the blue transmission region, the green transmission region, and the red transmission region, respectively; a color conversion layer including red color conversion particles and third scattering particles, and accommodated in the red transmission opening; a light emitting element layer on a lower substrate facing the upper substrate; and a filling material between the upper substrate and the lower substrate.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display device includes providing an adhesive material layer on a display panel, curing the adhesive material layer to form an adhesive layer, providing a cover layer on the adhesive layer, and adhering the cover layer to the adhesive layer, and a modulus of the adhesive layer at room temperature is in a range of about 103 Pa to about 106 Pa.

Abstract: Provided are methods and apparatuses for improving compression efficiency in directional intra-prediction. A video encoding apparatus, which does not need to record intra mode information, includes a mode selector that selects one from among a plurality of intra modes on the basis of a directionality of at least one neighboring block that has already been reconstructed before a current block is reconstructed, an intra predictor that obtains a prediction block of the current block from the at least one neighboring block according to the directionality of the selected mode, and obtains a residual block by subtracting the prediction block from the current block, and a unit for encoding the obtained residual block.

Abstract: A circular resonator, and an optical modulator and an optical element comprising same. The circular resonator includes a first material, formed in a circular shape, including a plurality of nano holes and having a thermo-optic coefficient varying at a predetermined ratio according to temperature, and a second material having a thermo-optic coefficient varying in a direction opposite to the direction of change of the thermo-optic coefficient of the first material depending on temperature, the second material being filled in the plurality of nano holes, wherein an interval between the plurality of nano holes is formed at a pitch shorter than the wavelength of incident light.

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an encoding method and decoding method, and a device using the same. The encoding method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: specifying an intra prediction mode for a current block; and scanning a residual signal by intra prediction of the current block, wherein the step of scanning the residual signal can determine a scanning type for a luminance signal and a chroma signal of the current block according to an intra prediction mode for a luminance sample of the current block.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cover window for a flexible display device including a polymer substrate including a polyamide resin; and a hard coating layer formed on at least one surface of the polymer substrate, wherein a yellow index of the polymer substrate measured in accordance with STM E 313 is 4.00 or less, and an elastic modulus of the polymer substrate measured at a strain rate of 12.5 mm/min in accordance with ISO 527-3 is 4 to 9 GPa.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic apparatus and a method thereof. The method includes identifying pickup item information, identifying at least one storage place corresponding to the pickup item information among a plurality of storage places in the item storage center based on information on or regarding an item group located at each of the plurality of storage places, and providing information on the identified storage place and the pickup item information to a manager terminal, wherein the item group comprises at least one same item corresponding to an item group, and at least a portion of a plurality of item groups comprising a same item are stored in different storage places in the item storage center.