Abstract: Provided are a foreign substance detecting circuit, an electronic device including the foreign substance detecting circuit, and a method of detecting foreign substance. The electronic device includes a connector connected to an external cable and including a plurality of pins, a foreign substance detecting circuit configured to, when the cable is connected to the connector, detect a resistance from a first pin that is set to be in an open state or to be connected to a pull-down resistor from among the plurality of pins in a state where the cable is connected, and determine whether there is a foreign substance in the connector, and an application processor configured to control operations in the electronic device for performing a post-process when there is the foreign substance in the connector, according to a detection result from the foreign substance detecting circuit.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate having an active region, a gate structure on the active region, the gate structure including a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode layer, and the gate electrode layer having a rounded upper corner, and gate spacer layers on side surfaces of the gate structure, the gate spacer layers having an upper surface at a lower height level than an upper surface of the gate electrode layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for transmitting or receiving data through a supplementary uplink carrier (SUL carrier) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, from a base station, random access channel configuration (RACH configuration) information in the supplementary uplink carrier through a cell common signal of a downlink component carrier (downlink carrier: DL carrier); measuring a reference signal received power (RSRP) in the downlink component carrier; comparing the measured reference signal received power with a threshold for selection of the supplementary uplink carrier; and when the measured reference signal received power is smaller than the threshold, performing random access in the supplementary uplink carrier, wherein the threshold for the selection of the supplementary uplink carrier is included in the random access channel configuration information.

Abstract: Provided is an ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer having excellent environmental stress crack resistance.

Abstract: A manufacturing and packaging method for a semiconductor die is provided. The method prepares a wafer which has a seal-ring region, forms a first interlayer insulating film on the wafer, forms a metal wiring in the first interlayer insulating film, forms a second interlayer insulating film on the first interlayer insulating film, forms metal pads on the second interlayer insulating film, forms a passivation layer on the metal pads, removes a portion of the passivation layer in a region adjacent to the seal-ring region to expose the second interlayer insulating film, etches a portion of the second interlayer insulating film, forms a bump on the metal pads, removes the first interlayer insulating film and the second interlayer insulating film in the region adjacent to the seal-ring region by a laser grooving process, and dices the wafer into a first semiconductor die and a second semiconductor die.

Abstract: An imaging device is described which, in some examples, includes general pixels and phase difference pixels. The general pixels, when operated by control signals, receive light from a subject and generate currents or voltages that are measured; a depth is estimated based on the measurements. The phase difference pixels generate currents based on a switched charge source. Data obtained from the currents generated by the phase difference pixels is used to adjust the control signals and thereby improve an accuracy of the depth estimation.

Abstract: A protocol model generator according to the present disclosure includes: a memory in which a protocol model generating program is stored; and a processor configured to execute the program. Herein, upon execution of the program, the processor extracts multiple strings from a binary corresponding to a protocol, generates a message pool including multiple candidate messages to be used in the protocol corresponding to the binary on the basis of the extracted multiple strings, and generates a protocol model corresponding to the protocol and configured to include nodes corresponding to the respective candidate messages included in the message pool. Further, the candidate messages include messages generated on the basis of the strings and response messages generated corresponding to the messages, and the protocol model is generated including one or more nodes and transition information between the nodes.

Abstract: A display panel includes an amorphous silicon gate driver in which a lower voltage than the gate-off voltage output from the gate driver is applied to an adjacent stage as a low voltage transmission signal.

Abstract: Disclosed are: a communication technique for merging, with the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, a 5th-generation (5G) communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4th-generation (4G) system; and a system therefor. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retailing, security and safety related services) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT related technology.

Abstract: A display panel includes an amorphous silicon gate driver in which a lower voltage than the gate-off voltage output from the gate driver is applied to an adjacent stage as a low voltage transmission signal.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels and photo gate controller circuitry. Each pixel may transmit a pixel signal, corresponding to a photoelectric signal, in response to a photo gate signal in a frame. The photo gate controller circuitry may generate photo gate signals and transmit photo gate signals to the pixels. The photo gate controller circuitry includes a first delay circuit configured to transmit first delay clock signals each being delayed with respect to a reference clock signal by a certain amount of time and a second delay circuit configured to transmit second delay clock signals each being delayed with respect to the reference clock signal by a certain amount of time. The pixels are each configured to selectively receive signals, as the photo gate signals, among the delay clock signals output from the first delay circuit and the delay clock signals output from the second delay circuit.

Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel including a first surface on which an image is displayed and a second surface opposing the first surface, and a touch sensor, wherein the touch sensor includes a plurality of driving electrodes, a plurality of sensing electrodes disposed to intersect the plurality of driving electrodes, and a touch controller supplying driving signals to the plurality of driving electrodes, wherein, as the display panel is folded or curved, the touch controller sequentially supplies driving signals to the plurality of driving electrodes or simultaneously supplies the driving signals to at least two driving electrodes among the plurality of driving electrodes.

Abstract: A method for determining a sharpness index of a pulse wave signal according to an embodiment comprises the steps of: receiving a pulse wave signal; determining a first reference line starting point and a second reference line starting point on the basis of a curvature of the pulse wave signal; determining a first reference line connecting the first reference line starting point and a first reference line ending point by determining the first reference line ending point by applying an intersecting tangent method to the first reference line starting point, and determining a second reference line connecting the second reference line starting point and a second reference line ending point by determining the second reference line ending point by applying the intersecting tangent method to the second reference line starting point; and determining a sharpness index by using a peak point of the pulse wave signal, the first reference line, and the second reference line.

Abstract: The invention provides a plasmid comprising two or more anti-obesity genes. Also provided by the invention are compositions and host cells comprising the plasmid and methods of increasing the metabolic activity in a mammal. The invention provides a plasmid comprising two or more of (a) a nucleic acid sequence encoding islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP), (b) a nucleic acid sequence encoding leptin (LEP), and (c) a nucleic acid sequence encoding fibronectin type III domain containing 5 (FNDC5).

Abstract: A method, performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system, of transmitting and receiving data information is provided. The method includes receiving multiple transmission unit scheduling information, receiving information about whether demodulation reference signal (DMRS) time bundling is feasible with respect to DMRS information respectively contained in a plurality of transmission units scheduled according to the multiple transmission unit scheduling information, and when the information indicates that the DMRS time bundling is feasible, performing decoding on data information based on at least one of a hybrid automatic request (HARQ) acknowledge (ACK)/negative acknowledge (NACK) transmission time, a size of a frequency resource of a downlink (DL) physical data channel to which the data information scheduled according to the multiple transmission unit scheduling information is assigned, a timing advance value, and a time required for a valid data process.

Abstract: A touch panel and method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the touch panel includes a substrate, a first touch electrode line formed over the substrate and including a plurality of first touch electrodes which are electrically connected to each other, and a second touch electrode line formed to cross the first touch electrode line and being electrically insulated therefrom. The second touch electrode line can include a plurality of second touch electrodes which are electrically connected to each other. The touch panel can also include a plurality of connecting wires respectively connected to the first and second touch electrode lines. At least one of the first touch electrode line, the second touch electrode line, and the connecting wires can include at least one photosensitive conductive layer having a metal nanowire.

Abstract: Provided are an image processing system and an image processing method. An image processing method includes: constructing a plurality of grids on an image; extracting features of the image; estimating a grid motion vector of each of the plurality of grids, based on a first motion vector of each of the features; estimating a second motion vector of each feature based on the grid motion vector; and detecting a moving object based on a difference between the first motion vector and the second motion vector.

Abstract: A display device includes: a first substrate; a display area with a plurality of pixels on the first substrate; a pad portion adjacent to a first side of the display area and including a plurality of connecting pads positioned on the first substrate; a first common power wire positioned between the display area and the pad portion and connected to a first connecting pad as at least one of the plurality of connecting pads to receive a power voltage; a second common power wire positioned adjacent to a second side of the display area facing the first side; an encapsulation layer positioned on the display area to protect the plurality of pixels; and a first path wire including one end connected to a second connecting pad of the plurality of connecting pads and the other end connected to the second common power wire and positioned on the encapsulation layer.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided in a wireless communication system in which configuration information for at least one subband for the terminal is received from a base station via higher layer signaling. Information indicating an active subband among the at least one subband is received from the base station. The active subband is identified based on the information. Control information or data is received from the base station in the active subband, The at least one subband is within a downlink transmission bandwidth.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided in a wireless communication system in which DCI is received from a base station and includes a subband indicator indicating a subband among at least one subband configured for the terminal as an active subband and information indicating at least one frequency resource allocated for a PDSCH within the active subband. The active subband is identified based on the subband indicator. The PDSCH is received from the base station in the active subband based on the information. A size of the DCI is configured based on a size of the active subband.