Abstract: The simulation system for predicting heating and cooling loads of a building comprises the collection unit collecting measurement data of a target building from a BEMS, the identification unit identifying indoor and outdoor temperature, humidity, and insolation measured in the building in real time based on RTS method, the correlation derivation unit deriving a correlation between energy usage based on the BEMS measurement data collected by the collection unit and the cooling and heating loads according to indoor and outdoor temperature, humidity, and insolation identified by the identification unit, the simulation unit predicting a change in cooling and heating loads according to a change in at least one of pieces of measurement data based on the correlation derived from the correlation derivation unit to perform a simulation, and the information provision unit providing a simulation result from the simulation unit in a visible form to a user terminal.

Abstract: An optical imaging system includes: a first lens group including a plurality of lenses; a second lens group including a plurality of lenses; a first reflecting member disposed on an object side of the first lens group; and a plurality of second reflecting members arranged between the second lens group and an image sensor. One or both of the first lens group and the second lens group is movable along an optical axis, an interval along the optical axis between the first lens group and the second lens group is varied between a first interval and a second interval smaller than the first interval, and as at least one of the first lens group and the second lens group is moved, one or more of the second reflecting members are moved.

Abstract: An autonomous driving safety system for sharing a risk-based operation design domain includes an autonomous driving system configured to control a vehicle driving unit according to information detected by a sensor unit to perform autonomous driving, in which the autonomous driving system includes an operation design domain update unit configured to evaluate a risk of at least one of a static operation design domain and a dynamic operation design domain recognized by the sensor unit while driving to update the operation design domain.

Abstract: A heat treatment apparatus includes a furnace body, a roller inside the furnace body, a heater inside the furnace body, an upper and lower discharge pipes on the furnace body, and a lower supply pipe on the lower part of the furnace body. The furnace body includes areas having the upper and lower discharge pipes, the areas including a first area to an Nth area disposed sequentially along a second direction being a transport direction of each of the materials, a length of the first area in the second direction is shorter than lengths of the second area to the Nth area in the second direction, and in each of the first area to the Nth area, the upper discharge pipe and the lower supply pipe are not arranged in a straight line in a third direction being a height direction to be misaligned from each other.

Abstract: A vaporizer includes a liquid storage for storing an aerosol generating material, an upper cap having a liquid inlet through which the aerosol generating material is introduced, a lower cap coupled to the upper cap to form an aerosol generating space together with the upper cap, a liquid delivery element that is arranged in the aerosol generating space and absorbs the aerosol generating material delivered from the liquid storage, and a heating element that generates an aerosol by heating the aerosol generating material absorbed by the liquid delivery element, wherein the lower cap may include a support groove for supporting at least part of the liquid delivery element and inner walls facing both ends of the liquid delivery element.

Abstract: A complex number quantization-based audio signal encoding method may comprise: estimating a scale factor for each subband of an input audio signal; performing complex magnitude scaling for each subband based on the scale factor; and performing polar quantization on a complex frequency coefficient for each subband, wherein the performing the polar quantization for each subband comprises applying two or more different magnitude quantization techniques based on the magnitude of the complex frequency coefficient scaled for each subband.

Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens group having negative refractive power, a second lens group having positive refractive power, and a third lens group having negative refractive power, wherein the second lens group and the third lens group are configured to move in an optical axis direction to adjust a focal length and magnification, and the following conditional expression is satisfied, FNOt?3.6, where FNOt is an F value at a telephoto end of the optical imaging system.

Abstract: A vehicle body structure includes: a roof side assembly connecting upper ends of pillars of a vehicle body along the forward/backward direction of the vehicle body, the roof side assembly constituting an A-pillar of the vehicle body; and an outer garnish coupled to the outside of the roof side assembly, wherein the roof side assembly includes: a pipe having a closed cross-section shape and elongated in the forward/backward direction of the vehicle body so as to form a closed section; an upper reinforcement member coupled to the upper side of the pipe and elongated in the forward/backward direction of the vehicle body; a lower reinforcement member coupled to the lower side of the pipe and elongated in the forward/backward direction of the vehicle body; and an inner reinforcement member coupled to the vehicle body inner side of the pipe and elongated in the forward/backward direction of the vehicle body.

Abstract: An integrated circuit may include a first active region and a second active region, and the first and second active regions may extend on a substrate in a first horizontal direction in parallel to each other and have different conductivity types from each other. A first gate line may extend in a second horizontal direction crossing the first horizontal direction, and may form a first transistor with the first active region. The first transistor may include a gate to which a first input signal is applied. The first gate line may include a first partial gate line that overlaps the first active region in a perpendicular direction and that has an end on a region between the first and second active regions.

Abstract: A method for coding image information includes generating prediction information by predicting information on a current coding unit, and determining whether the information on the current coding unit is the same as the prediction information. When the information on the current coding unit is the same as the prediction information, a flag indicating that the information on the current coding unit is the same as the prediction information is coded and transmitted. When the information on the current coding unit is not the same as the prediction information, a flag indicating that the information on the current coding unit is not the same as the prediction information and the information on the current coding unit are coded and transmitted.

Abstract: An aerosol generating device according to an aspect comprises a main body that comprises a battery and a controller, a cartridge which is coupled to the main body and comprises a liquid storage that contains liquid composition and an atomization portion that generates an aerosol by heating the liquid composition contained in the liquid storage, and a cover that forms an inner space by being coupled to the main body such that the cartridge is arranged in the inner space, wherein the main body further comprises a light source that emits light toward an inside of the liquid storage, and the cover comprises a window hole through which light entitled from the light source toward the inside of the liquid storage is transmitted to the outside of the cover.

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.

Abstract: Disclosed is an odor removal device. The odor removal device includes: a case; an activation device installed in the case and coming into contact with an object to activate surrounding materials according to a dielectric barrier discharge principle, wherein the activation device includes: a dielectric having an outer surface exposed to an outside and provided as a curved surface; and an electrode positioned inside the dielectric in which power is applied to the electrode.

Abstract: An optical imaging system includes: a first lens group including a plurality of lenses; a second lens group including a plurality of lenses; a first reflecting member disposed on an object side of the first lens group; and a plurality of second reflecting members arranged between the second lens group and an image sensor. One or both of the first lens group and the second lens group is movable along an optical axis, an interval along the optical axis between the first lens group and the second lens group is varied between a first interval and a second interval smaller than the first interval, and as at least one of the first lens group and the second lens group is moved, one or more of the second reflecting members are moved.

Abstract: A memory controller includes a plurality of processors, a memory device and a memory manager. The memory device includes a plurality of segments, which are divided into a plurality of segment groups, to which group identifiers are respectively assigned. The memory manager is configured to map a first buffer identifier to a first group identifier from among the group identifiers, select one or more segments only from a first segment group, to which the first group identifier is assigned among the plurality of segment groups, map the first buffer identifier to the one or more segments, and allocate, to a first processor from among the plurality of processors, the first buffer identifier and the one or more segments.

Abstract: An autonomous driving safety control system based on edge infrastructure includes an autonomous driving system controlling autonomous driving, an error detection unit detecting a fallback situation, and a safety controller driving a safety process for each fallback situation by interworking with an edge infrastructure when a fallback situation occurs, wherein the safety controller transmits a fallback situation and location information of a passenger through the edge infrastructure.

Abstract: Disclosed is an activation device. The activation device, which serves as a device coming into contact with an object to activate surrounding materials according to a dielectric barrier discharge principle, includes: a dielectric having a predetermined thickness and formed with an outer surface coming into contact with the object and an inner surface facing the outer surface; and an electrode provided inside the dielectric and having an outer surface facing the inner surface of the dielectric, wherein the outer surface of the electrode includes a contact area that comes into contact with the inner surface of the dielectric, and a non-contact area that does not come into contact with the inner surface of the dielectric.

Abstract: A movable curtain disinfection device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes frames installed on an upper portion of a support, spaced apart from each other to face each other, and configured to define a disinfection space for a curtain provided between the frames, rotary rollers provided so that a pair of rotary rollers thereof is mounted on an inner surface of each of the frames, the rotary rollers being configured to rotate so that the curtain passes through the disinfection space, rotary belts each configured to surround an outer portion of each of the pairs of rotary rollers, the rotary belts being configured to guide a movement of the curtain while rotating in conjunction with rotations of the rotary rollers, and disinfection modules disposed between the pairs of rotary rollers and configured to disinfect the curtain passing through the disinfection space.

Abstract: An oscillator device includes a touchpad, and an oscillator that includes an oscillation core having a second terminal configured to output an oscillation signal generated by the oscillation core based on an input to a first terminal of the oscillation core, a first capacitor connected between the first terminal and a ground, and a second capacitor connected between the second terminal and the ground, where the first capacitor is connected to the touchpad, and where a total capacitance of the first capacitor is different from a total capacitance of the second capacitor.

Abstract: A tunable oscillator includes a current bias circuit configured to generate a reference bias current, a variable voltage bias circuit configured to receive the reference bias current and generate a bias voltage varied based on a voltage control signal, an oscillation signal generator circuit configured to generate an oscillation signal based on the reference bias current and a switching control signal, and a switching control circuit configured to generate the switching control signal based on the bias voltage and the oscillation signal. A frequency of the oscillation signal is varied based on a magnitude of the bias voltage.