Abstract: A vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication-based electronic toll collection system (ETCS) according to an embodiment of the present invention includes at least one roadside unit (RSU), a token issuer checking a de-identified token of a vehicle by communicating with an on-board unit (OBU) of the vehicle via the at least one roadside unit, and a clearing house communicating with the token issuer and charging a toll to a driver/owner of the vehicle. The token issuer generates toll information of the vehicle based on the de-identified token of the vehicle and location information of the at least one roadside unit involved in checking the de-identified token.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a clock generator and a display device including the same. The clock generator includes a first clock generation circuit configured to output a clock, data, and a timing control signal; a first wiring through which the clock is serially transmitted; a second wiring through which the data is serially transmitted; a third wiring through which a pulse of the timing control signal is serially transmitted; a second clock generation circuit connected to the first clock generation circuit through the first wiring, the second wiring, and the third wiring and configured to generate pre-clocks in which phases are sequentially shifted based on the data and the clock; and a clock adjustment circuit configured to receive the pulse of the timing control signal and the pre-clock and output an output clock.

Abstract: The present application relates to a sweetener including an oligosaccharide having increased acid resistance, a food composition including the same, and a method of increasing acid resistance of an oligosaccharide of an oligosaccharide-containing sweetener including applying allulose to the oligosaccharide.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a water treatment device, and more specifically to a water purifier capable of removing scale in a simple manner.

Abstract: In a method of predicting a position of an object at a future time point for a vehicle, video image information at a current time point and at a plurality of time points before the current time point acquired through a camera of the vehicle may be extracted as semantic segmentation image. A mask image imaging an attribute and position information of an object present in each of the video images may be extracted. A position distribution of the object may be predicted by deriving a plurality of hypotheses for a position of the object at a future time point through deep learning by receiving video images at the current time point and the time points before the current time point, a plurality of semantic segmentation images, a plurality of mask images, and ego-motion information of the vehicle, and calculating the plurality of hypotheses as a Gaussian mixture probability distribution.

Abstract: Silicon oxide-based negative electrode active materials and negative electrodes for a secondary battery are disclosed. In an embodiment, a negative electrode active material for a secondary battery includes a silicon oxide particle including a metal silicate; and a hydrocarbon coating layer on the silicon oxide particle, wherein a peak Pa in a Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectral analysis of the negative electrode active material is detected in a range from 2880 cm?1 to 2950 cm?1 and a peak Pb in a FT-IR spectral analysis of the negative electrode active material is detected in a range from 2800 cm?1 to 2865 cm?1.

Abstract: Provided is an overlay mark. The overlay mark comprises a substrate, a lower overlay in the substrate, a pattern layer on the substrate, and an upper overlay defining an opening on the pattern layer. The lower overlay does not overlap the upper overlay in a thickness direction of the substrate.

Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same are provided. According to the present invention, a semiconductor device comprises an active region formed in a substrate, and including flat surfaces and hole-shaped recess portions; upper-level plugs disposed over the flat surfaces; a spacer disposed between the upper-level plugs and providing a trench exposing the hole-shaped recess portions; a lower-level plug filling the hole-shaped recess portions; and a buried conductive line disposed over the lower-level plug and partially filling the trench.

Abstract: A neural processing unit may comprise a first circuitry including a plurality of processing elements (PEs) configured to perform operations of an artificial neural network model, the plurality of PEs including an adder, a multiplier, and an accumulator, and a clock signal supply circuitry configured to output one or more clock signals. When the plurality of PEs include a first group of PEs and a second group of PEs, a first clock signal among the one or more clock signals, may be supplied to the first group of PEs and a second clock signal among the one or more clock signals, may be supplied to the second group of PEs. At least one of the first and second clock signals may have a preset phase based on a phase of an original clock signal.

Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) weak magnetic field detection sensor includes a ferromagnetic core, a pickup coil disposed to surround the ferromagnetic core, a substrate that includes an opening, a core pad connected to the ferromagnetic core and a coil pad connected to the pickup coil, and an insulating tube interposed between the ferromagnetic core and the pickup coil. The insulating tube includes a bobbin around which the pickup coil is wound, and a core hole formed to pass through the bobbin and configured to accommodate the ferromagnetic core.

Abstract: A method of activating a secondary battery includes an operation of deriving a reduction reaction voltage according to an electrolyte additive, a pre-charging operation of pre-charging the secondary battery into which an electrolyte containing the electrolyte additive is injected, and a pre-aging operation of wetting an electrode assembly accommodated in the secondary battery with the injected electrolyte and aging the electrode assembly. A charging termination voltage in the pre-charging operation is less than the reduction reaction voltage.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a decoding method and apparatus and an encoding method and apparatus for deriving an intra-prediction mode. An intra-prediction mode may be derived using a method for deriving an intra-prediction mode based on a neighbor block of the target block, a method for deriving an intra-prediction mode using signaling of the intra-prediction mode of the target block, or a method for deriving an adaptive intra-prediction mode based on the type of a target slice. An MPM list may be used to derive the intra-prediction mode, and a temporal neighbor block or the like may be used to configure the MPM list.

Abstract: A neural processing unit may comprise a first circuit configured to perform operations for an artificial neural network (ANN) model, and arranged for a plurality of groups of processing elements (PEs) including a plurality of PEs; a second circuit arranged to output a plurality of clock signals to the first circuit; a third circuit configured to measure a ratio of peak power and average power of at least the first circuit; and a fourth circuit, arranged to dynamically calibrate a phase of at least one of the plurality of clock signals of the second circuit based on the ratio of peak power and average power measured in the third circuit.

Abstract: Provided are a method for fabricating a human nasal turbinate-derived mesenchymal stem cell-based 3D bioprinted construct, and a use thereof, wherein the human nasal turbinate-derived mesenchymal stem cell-based, 3D bioprinted construct is advantageous over conventional mesenchymal stem cell-based, 3D bioprinted constructs in that the former can survive and proliferate stably in vitro and/or in vivo and shows high osteogenic differentiation ability as well, therefore is expected to make a great contribution to the practical use of cellular therapeutic agents.

Abstract: According to an example of the present disclosure, a neural processing unit (NPU) capable of encoding is provided. The NPU comprises one or more processing elements (PEs) which perform operations for a plurality of layers of an artificial neural network and generate a plurality of output feature maps. The NPU also comprises an encoder which encodes at least one particular output feature map among a plurality of output feature maps into a bitstream and then transmits thereof.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a display device including an oxide semiconductor pattern. The disclosure provides a driving thin film transistor and a switching thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor pattern as an active layer. Each of the driving thin film transistor and the switching thin film transistor includes a light shielding pattern. The light shielding pattern includes a semiconductor material layer doped with P-type impurity ions. By virtue of the light shielding pattern including the semiconductor material layer, each of the driving thin film transistor and the switching thin film transistor exhibits an increase in threshold voltage and, as such, freedom of circuit design is secured.

Abstract: Discussed is a bolting device that effectively protects an internal configuration of a battery pack and increases manufacturing efficiency during a bolting operation. The bolting device for manufacturing a battery pack includes an electric screwdriver provided with a rotation motor; a driver bit connected to the rotation motor to enable a rotation movement and configured to rotate a bolt; a bit guide member provided with a hollow tube such that the driver bit is inserted into an inside of the hollow tube to be movable; and a guide jig provided with a main body configured to be mounted on an upper portion of a pack housing, the main body having a plate shape and having at least one through hole, and a fixing member inserted into the through hole and mounted therein, and having an insertion hole.

Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method is provided. An image decoding method of the present invention may comprise deriving an intra-prediction mode of a current luma block, deriving an intra-prediction mode of a current chroma block based on the intra-prediction mode of the current luma block, generating a prediction block of the current chroma block based on the intra-prediction mode of the current chroma block, and the deriving of an intra-prediction mode of a current chroma block may comprise determining whether or not CCLM (Cross-Component Linear Mode) can be performed for the current chroma block.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an allulose storage package for increasing storage stability of allulose syrup and a method for increasing the storage stability of allulose.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an image decoding method, the method including generating a candidate list including motion information derived from a spatial neighboring block and a temporal neighboring block adjacent to a current block; deriving motion information of the current block using the candidate list; generating a prediction block of the current block using the derived motion information; and updating the derived motion information in a motion information list, wherein the generating of the candidate list is performed in such a manner as to include at least one information of the motion information included in the updated motion information list in a block decoded before the current block.