Abstract: An object recognition method and apparatus are provided. The object recognition apparatus acquires localization information of a vehicle, acquires object information about an object located in front of the vehicle, determines a candidate region in which the object is predicted to exist in an image in front of the vehicle, based on the localization information and the object information, and recognizes the object in the image based on the candidate region.

Abstract: A display device, includes: a display area including an upper side, a lower side, a left side, a right side, and inclined corner portions where the upper, lower, left, and right sides meet; a demultiplexing circuit unit adjacent to the lower side of the display area and the corner portion connected thereto; and a scan transmission line which extends toward the display area from an outer side of the left side and overlaps with the demultiplexing circuit unit outside the corner portion, wherein the demultiplexing circuit unit includes a demultiplexer transistor, and the scan transmission line is formed of a different conductive layer from an electrode of a demultiplexer transistor.

Abstract: A connector includes at least one ground contact, at least one signal contact, and a member disposed near the at least one ground contact. The member is made of a magnetic conductivity material or a low electrical conductivity metal. An insulation body is provided for housing the at least one ground contact and the at least one signal contact. The member may be arranged at least one of on or within the insulation body for reducing resonance energy generated by the at least one signal contact.

Abstract: Even when frequency characteristics are changed in association with multiple communication bands, an attenuation required for a specific frequency band outside a pass band is obtained. A frequency-variable filter (10) includes multiple series-arm resonators (111, 112, 113), multiple parallel-arm resonators (121, 122, 123), a variable capacitor (21), and an inductor (31) having a fixed inductance. The multiple series-arm resonators (111, 112, 113) and the multiple parallel-arm resonators (121, 122, 123) are connected in a ladder shape. The variable capacitor (21) is connected in series with the parallel-arm resonator (121). The fixed inductor (31) is connected in series with the parallel-arm resonator (123).

Abstract: An application programming interface (API) service apparatus comprising a gateway device and a back-stage management device is provided, and the gateway device is configured to validate a request for invoking the API resources and to invoke the respective API resources in respective servers according to the request for invoking the API resources which has passed the validation; the back-stage management device is configured to receive publication information for the API resources, and to check the received publication information for the API resources.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a display apparatus, in which a defect rate in a manufacturing process is reduced and product reliability is increased, and a display apparatus manufactured according to the method are provided. The manufacturing method includes: forming a first pixel electrode on a substrate; forming an insulating layer; forming a first dam portion; forming a first lift-off layer; forming a first mask layer; forming a first intermediate layer; forming a first opposite electrode; forming a first insulating protective layer; and removing the first dam portion.

Abstract: One aspect relates to a guidewire system, a measuring system, and a method for manufacturing such guidewire system. The guidewire system includes a guidewire and a surface acoustic wave sensor device. A portion of a surface of the guidewire is coated by the surface acoustic wave sensor device. The surface acoustic wave sensor device may be configured for measuring a pressure change. The surface acoustic wave sensor device includes a piezoelectric substrate and a transducer. A thickness of the surface acoustic wave sensor device perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the guidewire is smaller than 100 ?m.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for producing fine particles includes a vacuum chamber, a material feeding device connected to the vacuum chamber and feeding material particles into the vacuum chamber from material feeing ports, and a plurality of electrodes connected to the vacuum chamber. Tip ends of the electrodes protrude into the vacuum chamber to generate plasma, and a collecting device is connected to the vacuum chamber and collects fine particles. The electrodes generate discharge inside the vacuum chamber and produce the fine particles from the material. The material feeding ports of the material feeding device are arranged in a lower side than (below) the plural electrodes in the vertical direction in the vacuum chamber.

Abstract: A parallel processing unit includes a plurality of main processing units and a decision processing unit. Each of the plurality of main processing units includes a main processing calculator for performing a calculation on one or more inputs, a main processing adder for adding an output of the main processing calculator and an output of a decision processing delayer, and a main processing comparator for making a comparison with an output of the main processing adder. The decision processing unit includes a decision processing calculator for adding outputs of the plurality of main processing calculators, a decision processing adder for adding an output of the decision processing calculator and the output of the decision processing delayer, the decision processing delayer for delaying an output of the decision processing adder, and a decision processing comparator for making a comparison with the output of the decision processing adder.

Abstract: Implementations of this specification provide for recognizing damage through image analysis. An example method includes obtaining a marked picture, the marked picture including one or more damage mark boxes, each damage mark box framing a respective portion of the marked picture depicting a damaged object; using a damage detection model to predict at least one damage prediction region in the marked picture, the at least one damage prediction region including a first damage prediction region; determining a location loss term related to a location deviation in a loss function for a current prediction, including determining whether any of the one or more damage mark boxes fully encompasses the first damage prediction region; and updating the damage detection model based on the loss function, such that the damage detection model is adjusted to reduce deviations between damage mark boxes and damage prediction regions.

Abstract: A semiconductor wafer serving as a treatment target has a stack structure in which a high-dielectric-constant gate insulating film is formed on a silicon base material with an interface layer film of silicon dioxide sandwiched therebetween, and a metal gate electrode containing fluorine is further formed thereon. A heat treatment apparatus radiates flash light from a flash lamp to the semiconductor wafer in an atmosphere containing hydrogen to carry out heating treatment for an extremely short period of time of 100 milliseconds or less. As a result, diffusion of nitrogen contained in the metal gate electrode is inhibited, at the same time, only the fluorine is diffused from the high-dielectric-constant gate insulating film to an interface between the interface layer film and the silicon base material to reduce an interface state, and reliability of the gate stack structure can be improved.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a redox flow battery using an electrolyte concentration gradient, capable of increasing the efficiency of the redox flow battery, and to an operation method thereof. The redox flow battery includes a catholyte tank having an electrolyte inlet at the top thereof and an electrolyte outlet at the bottom thereof and having a partition plate for forming a concentration gradient of a catholyte received therein, an anolyte tank having an electrolyte inlet at the top thereof and an electrolyte outlet at the bottom thereof and having a partition plate for forming a concentration gradient of an anolyte received therein, and a stack for charging and discharging power by receiving the catholyte and the anolyte supplied from the catholyte tank and the anolyte tank.

Abstract: A data reading method is provided. The method includes using X read voltage sets to read a target word line, so as to obtain X read results; in a first order, updating a final Gray code index of each of a plurality of target memory cells of the target word line, and obtaining (X?1) abnormal Gray code count sets according to the X read results, wherein an ith read result among the X read results includes a Gray code corresponding to an ith read voltage set of each of the target memory cells, and the Gray code corresponds to one of N Gray code indexes; and selecting (N?1) optimized read voltages from (X?1)*(N?1) read voltages of the corresponding (X?1) read voltage sets to form an optimized read voltage set according to the obtained (X?1) abnormal Gray code count sets.

Abstract: An electronic device and a control method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a memory configured to include a non-secure region operating in a normal world and a secure region operating in a secure world, and a processor configured to selectively operate in one of the normal world and the secure world, check integrity of a plurality of code blocks loaded on a first area of the non-secure region while operating in the secure world, and when one of the plurality of code blocks is compromised, change a memory region corresponding to a compromised code block to a secure region, and load an original code block of the compromised code block on a second area of the non-secure region.

Abstract: A mood monitoring device, system and method are provided. The mood monitoring device includes one or more processors; and a storage. The storage stores one or more programs which are configured to be executed by the one or plurality of processors. The one or more programs comprise instructions for performing the following operations: receiving a status message that is sent by a terminal and indicates a mood status of a user, the terminal and the mood monitoring device having a binding relationship; and presenting a message that reflects the mood status of the user in accordance with the status message.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-crushing casting system including mold units for receiving a molten material from a melting furnace and casting the molten material to form a plurality of unit shape materials having a predetermined size; and a conveyor unit for performing infinite looping of mold units to detach the unit shape materials of the cast molten material, and for conveying and discharging the detached unit shape materials. According to the present invention, to manufacture a subsidiary raw material for steel manufacture having a certain unit size, ferromanganese or ferrosilicon is melted, and then cast in molds having a predetermined size.

Abstract: A support for dip coating, wherein the inner peripheral surface at an end in the axial direction of the support has an arithmetic average roughness Ra of 0.26 ?m or less and a maximum height roughness Rz of 2.3 ?m or less.

Abstract: Provided is a method for blockchain-based recordkeeping and implementable by a terminal device. The method comprises: obtaining target data; computing a data digest of the target data, and extracting a key segment from the target data; signing, in a secure operation environment included in the terminal device, the data digest and/or the key segment based on a private key associated with the terminal device to generate a signature; and submitting to a blockchain the data digest, the key segment, and the signature, for one or more nodes in the blockchain to verify the signature based on a public key corresponding to the private key, and to record the data digest and the key segment in the blockchain in response to the signature being verified to be valid.

Abstract: The present application relates to an FPC connector, comprising a first insulating layer, a first circuit layer comprising a plurality of conductive strips, and a second insulating layer, wherein the first circuit layer and the second insulating layer each has a forepart extending beyond a front end of the first insulating layer; the first circuit layer comprises a plurality of conductive strips having foreparts arranged in parallel at equal intervals, a metal layer is plated with or deposited on the foreparts of the first circuit layer, the metal layer and the foreparts of the first circuit layer constitute metal fingers; conductive strips on other circuit layers connect to the conductive strips of the layer by vias and metallic coating or deposition. A position located at a bottom of the FPC corresponding to the metal fingers is covered by a layer of reinforcing plate.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a belt slippage determination unit which determines whether or not slippage of a belt has occurred based on rotation of a drive pulley and rotation of a driven pulley, an output state determination unit which determines an output state of a sensor that acquires a signal corresponding to the rotation of the driven pulley, and a speed of rotation limitation unit which controls an upper limit of the speed of rotation of the drive source based on the output state of the sensor when slippage of the belt is detected by the belt slippage determination unit.