Abstract: Proposed are a system and method for checking out a passenger hand-luggage in an airport. The system for checking out a passenger hand-luggage in an airport includes: a platform configured to load a passenger hand-luggage thereon; a weight measurer configured to measure a weight of the passenger hand-luggage loaded onto the platform; a size measurer configured to measure a size of the passenger hand-luggage loaded onto the platform; an allowance-information provider configured to provide allowance information based on the loaded passenger hand-luggage; and a regulation-based determiner configured to compare the weight and size of the passenger hand-luggage measured by the weight measurer and the size measurer with an allowance allowed for the loaded passenger hand-luggage, and provide check-out information about whether the passenger hand-luggage loaded onto the platform is within the allowance.

Abstract: Magnetic bearing control device and control method are disclosed. A magnetic bearing control device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a bearing control unit for outputting a plurality of switch control signals on the basis of gap information of a bearing coil and a rotor and current information applied to the bearing coil; and a coil driving unit for turning a plurality of self-formed switching elements on/off in accordance with the plurality of switch control signals and controlling the amount of current applied to the bearing coil and thus adjusting the magnetic field strength between the bearing coil and the rotor. The bearing control unit generates and outputs the plurality of switch control signals such that bootstrap capacitor charging time of the coil driving unit may be secured. Therefore, a magnetic bearing control circuit structure may be simplified by means of an additional bootstrap capacitor structure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition including vitrified periodontal tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells for prevention or treatment of male infertility. The pharmaceutical composition for prevention or treatment of male infertility according to the present invention recovers sex hormone levels in seminiferous tubules of atrophic testes and blood to normal levels through improvement in the activity of lipid metabolism enzymes in the liver, thereby exhibiting remarkable prophylactic and therapeutic effects on male infertility. In addition, the periodontal tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells which are an active ingredient in the present invention can be obtained in the most non-invasive manner and as such, are expected to be advantageously used as a cell therapy product for male infertility.

Abstract: A multiple perforation plate for fuel cell separators includes virtual flow path hole central lines spaced apart from each other at a constant interval in a length direction corresponding to a flow direction of reaction gas and formed in a width direction perpendicular to the flow direction of the reaction gas, a plurality of flow path holes formed at a constant interval on the flow path hole central lines in the width direction, and expansion parts formed at both sides of a middle point of each of the flow path holes in the width direction so as to have a greater width in the length direction than that of other points of each of the flow path holes.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a display area including emission areas and a light blocking area; and a non-display area adjacent to the display area; a thin-film transistor layer disposed on the substrate and including thin-film transistors; a light-emitting element layer disposed on the thin-film transistor layer and including light-emitting elements; a wavelength conversion layer disposed on the light-emitting element layer that converts a peak wavelength of a light from at least a part of the of light-emitting elements; and a color filter layer disposed on the wavelength conversion layer, and including color filters corresponding to the emission areas and a first light blocking part corresponding to the light blocking area and the non-display area. A transmittance of the first light blocking part with respect to a light having a wavelength of about 1000 nm or more is about 80% or more.

Abstract: An image sensor compensates for noise. The image sensor includes a pixel array that includes a common monitor output line, a first monitoring pixel outputting a first monitoring signal, a second monitoring pixel outputting a second monitoring signal, and an active pixel configured to output a sensing signal based on an incident light. The image circuit also includes a binning circuit that receives the first and second monitoring signals through the common monitor output line and generates an average monitoring signal by performing binning on the first and second monitoring signals, and an analog-to-digital converter that detects an alternating current (AC) component of the average monitoring signal and couples the sampled AC component of the average monitoring signal to the sensing signal, thereby compensating for noise.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a pixel configured to generate a pixel signal, using an analog signal processing voltage, a ramp signal generator configured to generate a ramp signal, using the analog signal processing voltage, a bias voltage generator configured to generate a bias voltage, using the analog signal processing voltage, and a noise compensator configured to generate a noise component, using a digital signal processing voltage and the analog signal processing voltage, and add the generated noise component to the generated bias voltage. The image sensor further includes a conversion circuit configured to generate a reference voltage, based on the generated ramp signal and the bias voltage to which the noise component is added, and generate an image signal by performing analog-to-digital conversion on the generated pixel signal, based on the generated reference voltage.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for generating random numbers based on reinforcement learning. The method is implemented with a computer, and includes: generating a first random number based on a deep learning-based first model through an agent unit; calculating respective similarities between at least one previously stored second random number and the first random number; performing reinforcement learning based on generative behavior of the first random number of the agent unit based on the respective similarities; and storing the first random number in a memory. The performance of the reinforcement learning is configured to provide compensation information based on the respective similarities to the agent unit through an environment unit, and then to control the agent unit to learn the first model based on the first random number.

Abstract: A magnetic bearing control apparatus includes a plurality of output elements configured to generate electromagnetic force, a magnetic bearing configured to float a rotation shaft from a surface of the magnetic bearing based on the electromagnetic force generated by the plurality of output elements, at least one displacement sensor configured to sense a displacement of the rotation shaft, and a controller. The controller is configured to control a current supplied to the plurality of output elements, to control a position of the rotation shaft based on the current supplied to the plurality of output elements according to the displacement of the rotation shaft, and to determine a failure of the displacement sensor.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an OLED display panel for minimizing the size of a bezel and includes: an active area including data lines, scan lines intersecting the data lines, and sub-pixels arranged at each intersection; and a stage of a GIP driving circuit distributed and arranged in a plurality of unit pixel regions driven by m (m being a natural number) scan lines in the active area, to supply scan pulses to the corresponding scan lines, wherein the active area further includes m GIP internal connection lines parts respectively adjacent to the m scan lines, and a plurality of internal connection lines for connecting elements constituting each stage is distributed and arranged in the m GIP internal connection line parts.

Abstract: The display panel includes an active region including data lines, gate lines crossing the data lines, and pixels arranged in a matrix, and a shift register arranged distributively in the active region and configured to supply a gate pulse to the gate lines.

Abstract: An image sensor compensates for noise. The image sensor includes a pixel array that includes a common monitor output line, a first monitoring pixel outputting a first monitoring signal, a second monitoring pixel outputting a second monitoring signal, and an active pixel configured to output a sensing signal based on an incident light. The image circuit also includes a binning circuit that receives the first and second monitoring signals through the common monitor output line and generates an average monitoring signal by performing binning on the first and second monitoring signals, and an analog-to-digital converter that detects an alternating current (AC) component of the average monitoring signal and couples the sampled AC component of the average monitoring signal to the sensing signal, thereby compensating for noise.

Abstract: A unit cell for a fuel cell includes a membrane electrode body, a pair of gas diffusion layers disposed on both sides of the membrane electrode body, and a pair of separators disposed outside the gas diffusion layers, and including a gas path formed on a surface facing each of the gas diffusion layers and configured to allow reaction gas to flow therethrough, and a coolant path formed on a surface opposite to the surface facing each of the gas diffusion layers and configured to allow coolant to flow therethrough, wherein an inverse forming portion is formed on at least one of both sides of an outermost region in a transverse direction of each of the separators to be bent towards the surface opposite to the surface facing each of the gas diffusion layers.

Abstract: Provided is a cosmetic composition for skin improvement including a green barley extract.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a pixel array including a pixel array comprising a first pixel and a second pixel which are electrically connected to a first column line, a row driver configured to receive a clamp voltage and a selection voltage, select the first pixel based on the clamp voltage and select the second pixel based on the selection voltage. A voltage of the first column line is determined based on a higher voltage among a first output voltage of the first pixel and a second output voltage of the second pixel during a read operation of the second pixel.

Abstract: An image sensing system includes a pixel array, an analog-to-digital converter circuit, and an average calculator. The analog-to-digital converter circuit converts a first pixel signal to first pixel data and converts a second pixel signal to second pixel data. The average calculator generates a first average bit based on a first bit of the first pixel data and a first bit of the second pixel data during a first time and generates a second average bit based on a second bit of the first pixel data and a second bit of the second pixel data during a second time.

Abstract: An optical film includes a first pattern layer including a base part and protrusion part groups on the base part and having a first refractive index, and a second pattern layer on the first pattern layer and having a second refractive index greater than the first refractive index. Each of the protrusion part groups includes first and second protrusion parts adjacent to each other. Each of the first and second protrusion parts includes a bottom surface, an upper surface, a first side surface and a second side surface. The first and second protrusion parts are symmetrical with respect to a reference line passing through a center of each of the protrusion part groups and perpendicular to the base part. The first and second protrusion parts are asymmetrical with respect to a center line passing through a center of the upper surface and perpendicular to the bottom surface.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a positive electrode for a secondary battery including a positive electrode active material layer formed on a surface of a positive electrode collector, wherein the positive electrode active material layer has a multilayer structure including a first positive electrode active material layer formed on the positive electrode collector and a second positive electrode active material layer formed on the first positive electrode active material layer, the first positive electrode active material layer includes a positive electrode active material, a first binder which is a melamine-based compound, and a second binder which is different from the melamine-based compound, and the second positive electrode active material layer includes a second positive electrode active material and the first binder which is a melamine-based compound, and provides a lithium secondary battery including the positive electrode for a secondary battery.

Abstract: A level shifter circuitry is provided. The level shifter circuitry includes a first sub-circuit connected to a first power supply voltage, a second sub-circuit connected to a second power supply voltage and a shifting circuit which is connected to the first and second sub-circuits and outputs the first power supply voltage or the second power supply voltage to an output terminal or an inverted output terminal in response to a signal applied to an input node in accordance with an enable signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a bandgap reference circuit, which includes a first current generator that generates a first current proportional to a temperature, a second current generator that outputs a second current obtained by mirroring the first current to a first node at which a reference voltage is formed, a first resistor that is connected with the first node and is supplied with the second current, and a first bipolar junction transistor (BJT) that includes an emitter node connected with the first resistor, a base node supplied with a first power, and a collector node supplied with a second power different from the first power.