Abstract: Provided herein may be a memory controller and a method of operating the same. The memory controller may include a plurality of control cores configured to control a plurality of memory devices, respectively, a host core configured to allocate write requests received from a host to each of the plurality of control cores based on predefined criteria, and a shared memory configured to be accessed by the host core and the plurality of control cores, wherein, in response to occurrence of a sudden power-off, the host core is further configured to store, in the shared memory, dump information including information about logical addresses corresponding to the write requests, and wherein a first control core is further configured to store, in a memory device controlled by the first control core, the dump information of a second control core associated with the first control core.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a substrate with a conductive structure and a substrate encapsulant. The conductive structure has a lead with a lead via and a lead protrusion. The lead via can include via lateral sides defined by first concave portions and the lead protrusion can include protrusion lateral sides defined by second concave portions. The substrate encapsulant covers the first concave portions at a first side of the substrate but not the second concave portions so that the lead protrusion protrudes from the substrate encapsulant at a second side of the substrate. An electronic component can be adjacent to the first side of the substrate and electrically coupled to the conductive structure. A body encapsulant encapsulates portions of the electronic component and the substrate. The lead can further include a lead trace at the second side of the substrate.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for reconstructing a current block in units of sub-blocks included in the current block. The method includes: decoding transform coefficients in a transform block of the current block, sub-block information indicating a division form of the sub-blocks and transform type information indicating a transform type applied to the transform block from a bitstream; deriving a residual block of the current block from the transform coefficients on the basis of the transform type indicated by the transform type information and the sub-block information; and filtering boundaries of the sub-blocks in a reconstructed block of the current block derived on the basis of the residual block.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a polycarbonate resin composition, and more particularly, to a polycarbonate resin composition containing 90 wt % to 99 wt % of a polycarbonate resin, 0.3 wt % to 0.7 wt % of an anthraquinone-based black dye, and 0.2 wt % to 1.0 wt % of an acrylic polymeric chain extender, and a molded article containing the same.

Abstract: A display apparatus can include a substrate having a penetrating area and a separating area, the penetrating area including a substrate hole, a first buffer layer having a first-buffer lower layer, and a first-buffer upper layer, a first thin film transistor including a first semiconductor pattern, a first gate electrode, and a first source electrode and a first drain electrode, a first interlayer insulating film; a second interlayer insulating film, an opening extending through the second interlayer insulating film, the first interlayer insulating film, the first gate insulating film and the first-buffer upper layer, and a separation structure in the opening, the separation structure including a first separation layer having a same stacked structure as the first-buffer upper layer, a second separation layer having a same stacked structure as the first gate insulating film, and a third separation layer having a same stacked structure as the first gate electrode.

Abstract: Disclosed is an interface system including a first neuron cluster that outputs a first neuron signal including a first neuron request and first neuron data by performing a first arithmetic operation, and a first interface circuit that stores the first neuron data and outputs a first response, in response to the first neuron request. The first neuron cluster outputs a second neuron signal including a second neuron request and second neuron data by performing a second arithmetic operation, in response to the first response. Before the first data is transmitted to a second neuron cluster different from the first neuron cluster, the first interface circuit outputs the first response in response to a fact that the first neuron data is stored.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an encoding apparatus using a Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) scanning, which includes a mode selection means for selecting an optimal mode for intra prediction; an intra prediction means for performing intra prediction onto video inputted based on the mode selected in the mode selection means; a DCT and quantization means for performing DCT and quantization onto residual coefficients of a block outputted from the intra prediction means; and an entropy encoding means for performing entropy encoding onto DCT coefficients acquired from the DCT and quantization by using a scanning mode decided based on pixel similarity of the residual coefficients.

Abstract: Disclosed are a fingerprint forgery detection device and a method of operating the same. The fingerprint forgery detection device includes a memory that stores a first feature signal including biological channel feature information of a user, a transmitter including at least one transmission electrode for transmitting a pulse signal to the user, a receiver including at least one reception electrode for receiving a biological channel response signal in response to the transmitted pulse signal, and a signal processor for processing the biological channel response signal to detect whether a fingerprint is forged, and at least one processor that controls the memory, the transmitter, and the receiver.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for processing a multichannel audio signal. A multichannel audio signal processing method may include: generating an N-channel audio signal of N channels by down-mixing an M-channel audio signal of M channels; and generating a stereo audio signal by performing binaural rendering of the N-channel audio signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is an amplification circuit, which includes a first amplifier that receives an external signal and performs first band pass filtering on the external signal to output a first filter signal, and a second amplifier that receives the first filter signal and performs second band pass filtering on the first filter signal to output a second filter signal, and a frequency pass bandwidth of the second band pass filtering is narrower than a frequency pass bandwidth of the first band pass filtering.

Abstract: An atomic layer etching method using a ligand exchange reaction may include a substrate providing step of putting a substrate with a thin film formed thereon into a reaction chamber, a halogenated thin film forming step of forming a halogenated thin film on a surface of the thin film by infusing a halogenated gas into the reaction chamber, and an etching step of etching the halogenated thin film by infusing a ligand without a metal or metal precursor into the reaction chamber with the substrate with the halogenated thin film.

Abstract: A method for controlling driving of a hybrid electric vehicle includes collecting driving data while the hybrid electric vehicle is driven, determining whether the hybrid electric vehicle enters a first mode corresponding to emergency driving of the hybrid electric vehicle or a second mode corresponding to control in preparation for the emergency driving, and controlling the hybrid electric vehicle in accordance with a mode that the hybrid electric vehicle enters among the first mode and the second mode.

Abstract: A coding tool setting method and a video decoding apparatus using the same are disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for setting whether or not to use a coding tool, and provides a coding tool setting method comprising the steps of: decoding, from a bitstream, a profile syntax element indicating a target profile among available profiles and a coding tool syntax element for configurable coding tools, the coding tool syntax element indicating whether or not to apply the coding tool; and setting, on the basis of the coding tool syntax element, target coding tools that are coding tools included in the target profile to be on or off.

Abstract: A coding tool setting method and a video decoding apparatus using the same are disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for setting whether or not to use a coding tool, and provides a coding tool setting method comprising the steps of: decoding, from a bitstream, a profile syntax element indicating a target profile among available profiles and a coding tool syntax element for configurable coding tools, the coding tool syntax element indicating whether or not to apply the coding tool; and setting, on the basis of the coding tool syntax element, target coding tools that are coding tools included in the target profile to be on or off.

Abstract: A hybrid communication device, an operation method thereof, and a communication system including the same are provided. The hybrid communication device includes a contact unit that includes an antenna for receiving a first communication signal and an electrode for receiving a second signal, a switch controller that includes a first switch and a second switch and controls the first switch and the second switch based on a change in capacitance of the electrode, and a signal processing unit that receives at least one of the first communication signal and the second communication signal from the contact unit via the first switch and processes the received signal. The first switch is connected to the contact unit, and the signal processing unit is connected to the first switch.

Abstract: There are provided a storage device and an operating method thereof. The storage device includes: a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks, a buffer memory configured to temporarily store data, and a memory controller configured to, in response to occurrence of a power loss, generate address information including logical addresses of write data that correspond to the data temporarily stored in the buffer memory and meta data, and control the memory device to store the address information and the write data in a predetermined backup block group included in the plurality of memory blocks.

Abstract: Provided herein may be a memory controller and a method of operating the same. The memory controller may include a plurality of control cores configured to control a plurality of memory devices, respectively, a host core configured to allocate write requests received from a host to each of the plurality of control cores based on predefined criteria, and a shared memory configured to be accessed by the host core and the plurality of control cores, wherein, in response to occurrence of a sudden power-off, the host core is further configured to store, in the shared memory, dump information including information about logical addresses corresponding to the write requests, and wherein a first control core is further configured to store, in a memory device controlled by the first control core, the dump information of a second control core associated with the first control core.

Abstract: A memory system may write, when operating in a force unit access mode, first write data requested by the host to a buffer for temporarily storing data to be written the memory device and a first memory block among the plurality of memory blocks, and may write, when the size of the data accumulatively stored in the buffer is greater than or equal to A which is a unit of a size in which data is written to a second memory block among the plurality of memory blocks, second write data of size A among the data stored in the buffer to the second memory block. The operation speed of the first memory block may be set faster than the operation speed of the second memory block and the storage capacity of the first memory block may be set smaller than the storage capacity of the second memory block.

Abstract: A system for detecting a pedestrian at a crosswalk and preventing an accident on the basis of artificial intelligence, the system comprising: a camera device installed on a mast arm installed at the top of a traffic light pole installed at a crosswalk to capture pedestrians and the vicinity of the crosswalk; a pedestrian detection module for detecting a pedestrian in an image captured by the camera device through a pre-installed image analysis solution; a color detection module for detecting a current blinking color of a traffic light consisting of a pedestrian traffic light and a driving traffic light; and a warning signal output module for outputting an unauthorized crossing warning message to the pedestrian waiting at the crosswalk according to a detection result of the color detection module and a detection result of the pedestrian detection module.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for providing a counseling service. A method of operating a counseling center server interworking with an instant messaging service includes acquiring, based on an input of a first user for requesting counseling through a channel of a second user registered in the instant messaging service, a counseling type of the requested counseling, creating a first type of counseling ticket corresponding to unmanned counseling or a second type of counseling ticket corresponding to manned counseling based on the counseling type, monitoring a state change event that changes a state of the counseling ticket, and controlling an interfacing object included in a chat interface for counseling provided to a terminal of the first user to correspond to the channel to indicate the counseling type and the changed state of the counseling ticket.