Abstract: A lithium-air battery system having a hermetic structure is provided and eliminates the need to be charged with additional oxygen gas. The system includes a lithium-air battery and an oxygen bombe that stores oxygen gas participating in a lithium-oxygen reaction. A first MFC adjusts a flow rate of oxygen gas supplied from the oxygen bombe to lithium-air battery cells. A blower repeatedly supplies oxygen gas flowing from the first MFC into the lithium-air battery cells. A compressor compresses oxygen generated from the lithium-air battery cells and passes through a second MFC, to a high pressure state to charge the oxygen bombe with the compressed oxygen during a charge operation. The second MFC adjusts a flow rate when oxygen gas generated from the lithium-air battery cells is supplied to the compressor during the charge operation. Additionally, an external power source supplies electric power to the compressor to charge the oxygen bombe.

Abstract: Disclosed is an inter-cell interference control method and apparatus. The inter-cell interference control method includes providing handover request information including interference information to a source base station, receiving handover completion information in accordance with the handover request information from at least one of the source base station and a target base station, and receiving interference control information in accordance with the interference information from the target base station. According to the present invention, inter-cell interference may be efficiently controlled, and overall performance of a network may be improved.

Abstract: A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof, which can reduce a size of the semiconductor device. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide for a reduction in package size based at least in part on patterning techniques for forming interconnection structures.

Abstract: A rechargeable battery includes: an electrode assembly formed by winding a positive and negative electrode plate and a separator between the electrode plates, and including a cavity along an axial direction of the electrode assembly; a center pin along the axial direction and housed in the cavity; a can having an opening; and a cap assembly configured to close the opening, wherein the center pin includes: a center portion along a radial direction of the center pin; a first perimeter portion coupled to a first end portion of the center portion and extending from the first end portion toward a second end portion of the center portion; and a second perimeter portion coupled to the first end portion of the center portion and extending from the first end portion toward the second end portion in a circumferential direction opposite to a circumferential direction of the first perimeter portion.

Abstract: Disclosed are a speech recognition error correction method and an apparatus thereof. The speech recognition error correction method includes determining a likelihood that a speech recognition result is erroneous, and if the likelihood that the speech recognition result is erroneous is higher than a predetermined standard, generating a parallel corpus according to whether the speech recognition result matches the correct answer corpus, generating a speech recognition model based on the parallel corpus, and correcting an erroneous speech recognition result based on the speech recognition model and the language model. Accordingly, speech recognition errors are corrected.

Abstract: The present invention provides a lithium-air hybrid battery and a method for manufacturing the same, which has a structure in which a liquid electrolyte electrode and a solid electrolyte electrode are stacked on both sides of an ion conductive glass ceramic. That is, disclosed is a lithium-air hybrid battery and a method for manufacturing the same, which has a structure in which a lithium metal negative electrode includes a liquid electrolyte and a porous air positive electrode comprising a carbon, a catalyst, a binder and a solid electrolyte are separately stacked on both sides of an impermeable ion conductive glass ceramic, and the liquid electrolyte is present only in the lithium metal negative electrode.

Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for discontinuously transmitting/receiving packets for low-power consumption of a terminal in a cellular system for packet transmission. The present research provides a method and apparatus that can perform a low-power consuming operation when a terminal is in active state in a cellular system. The method for discontinuously transmitting/receiving packet data to reduce power consumption of a terminal in a cellular system, including the steps of: a) establishing discontinuous reception/transmission (DRX/DTX) parameters including discontinuous DRX/DTX cycle information for terminals operating in a transmission suspension mode, which is a sub-state of an active state; and b) performing DRX/DTX based on the DRX/DTX parameters in the terminals operating in the transmission suspension mode.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for managing a resource in a small cell environment. The method for managing a resource in a small cell environment by a macro base station for controlling connection between user equipment (UE) and a gateway (GW), includes: configuring at least one packet path between the GW and the UE through a bearer of the macro base station; determining whether to add at least one small base station in the macro base station to the at least one packet path according to signal strength of the at least one small base station from the UE; and changing the at least one packet path using a bearer of a small base station based on the result.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a method of performing coordinated multipoint transmission and reception in an overlaid cellular system in which a first base station and a second base station overlay each other, the method comprising performing a handover using a coordinated multi-point transmission and reception scheme based on Channel State Indicator-Reference Signal (CSI-RS) information of user equipment by the first and second base stations.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for processing a dialogue based on processing instructing expression in a multi-modal environment and an apparatus therefor. The method for processing a dialogue in an information processing device capable of processing digital signals includes the steps of: extracting an instructing expression from an inputted sentence; generating an intermediate instructing expression representing the modifying relations between the words constituting the extracted instructing expression; and searching the object corresponding with the intermediate instructing expression in a predetermined object search range. Thus, a terminal can be effectively and conveniently used without separately clarifying various instructing expressions representing things or objects with the terminal.

Abstract: Provided is a method of managing mobility of a user equipment. The method includes: establishing by a first base station a communication with the user equipment; transmitting by the first base station a Coordinated Multiple Point (CoMP) addition request to a second base station; establishing by the first and second base stations a CoMP communication with the user equipment according to the CoMP addition request; transmitting by the first base station an anchor cell change request to the second base station; and operating the second base station as an anchor cell of the CoMP communication according to the anchor cell switch request.

Abstract: Disclosed is a lithium-air battery or particularly, a high voltage lithium-air battery of a laminated type with a high density. The lithium-air battery may be constructed by laminating a plurality of cells, each of which may comprises a cathode that uses oxygen in air as an active material, a lithium metal anode, a separation film interposed between the cathode and the anode and an electrolyte for ion transmission. In particular, an electrically conductive bipolar plate having a flow path for supplying air to the cathode is interposed between a cathode and an anode of adjacent cell when the cells are laminated and an air inlet manifold for distributing air to the air flow path of the respective bipolar plate and an air outlet manifold for allowing the air passing through the air flow path of the respective bipolar plate to be discharged are provided in the lithium-air battery.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing a cloud virtual base station system are disclosed. The present invention comprises configuring an initial resource and reconfiguring the resource to add or remove a resource of an execution file of the cloud virtual base station system, monitoring an error of the cloud virtual base station system, a wireless resource, a status of the execution file, or a configuration status of the reconfigured resource, managing configuration information of a list of software added or removed during an operation, controlling the cloud virtual base station system in a predetermined specific mode, managing hardware information, file information, or control information of each module of the cloud virtual base station system, and managing the execution file for each module of the cloud virtual base station system by adding or removing the predetermined specific mode initially or during an operation.

Abstract: Provided is a method for transmitting paging information in a cellular system. An object of the method is transmitting paging information which can improve applicability of a limited radio resource by variably and flexibly setting up and mapping a transport channel and a physical channel in order to transmit information notifying start of downlink information from a base station to a terminal in a cellular system for packet transmission. The method includes the steps of: forming a paging channel (PCH) in a transport channel corresponding to generation of paging information; setting a paging indication channel (PICH) based on the paging information and forming the paging indication channel in a radio resource of a physical layer; and allocating the paging channel to the radio resource of the physical layer.

Abstract: A base station of a carrier aggregation system performs interference control of a first component carrier in which interference exceeds a threshold value among a plurality of component carriers based on an ABS pattern and changes the first component carrier to an available new component carrier, when interference of the first component carrier exceeds a threshold value after the interference control is performed.

Abstract: A voice dialog system and a voice dialog method that generate and use humorous speech are disclosed. The voice dialog system includes a speech analysis unit that analyzes a user's intention by receiving user speech and converting the user speech into text, a humorous speech generation unit that generates humorous speech using a core word or an abbreviated word included in the user speech based on the user's intention, a chatting speech generation unit that generates chatting speech as a response corresponding to the user's intention, and a final speech selection unit that selects final speech from among the humorous speech and the chatting speech. Thus, a user is provided with humorous speech so that the user does not feel bored and has fun using the chatting dialog system.

Abstract: A base station of a carrier aggregation system sets a time division duplex (TDD) component carrier of a plurality of TDD component carriers to a primary serving cell of a terminal and sets at least one frequency division duplex (FDD) component carrier of a plurality of FDD component carriers to a secondary serving cell of the terminal, and when a hybrid automatic repeat request-round trip time (HARQ RTT) value of a TDD component carrier of a primary serving cell of the terminal does not satisfy a quality of service (QoS) requirement of a service that the terminal requests, the base station changes a HARQ feedback transmitting resource that is set to the terminal.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for recognizing a statistical voice language using a statistical technique without using a manually tagged corpus. The method comprises: a dialog act clustering step of clustering speech utterances of sentences based on similar dialog acts; a named entity clustering step of extracting a named entity candidate group from the result of the dialog act clustering step and clustering named entities based on the neighboring contextual information of the extracted named entity candidate group; and a main act clustering step of clustering main acts for each region based on the clustered dialog acts and named entity.

Abstract: An all solid electrode structure having a solid electrolyte concentration gradient is provided and a method of improving an output performance is provided with improved ion diffusion and obtaining a high capacity battery, by disposing an anode or cathode electrode having a substantially continuous concentration gradient to have a greater solid electrolyte ratio as being closer to a solid electrolyte interface and have a greater active material ratio as being close to a current collector interface. The active material/solid electrolyte ratio of anode and cathode active material layers has a concentration gradient by a single process using an aerosol deposition method.

Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for discontinuously transmitting/receiving packets for low-power consumption of a terminal in a cellular system for packet transmission. The present research provides a method and apparatus that can perform a low-power consuming operation when a terminal is in active state in a cellular system. The method for discontinuously transmitting/receiving packet data to reduce power consumption of a terminal in a cellular system, including the steps of: a) establishing discontinuous reception/transmission (DRX/DTX) parameters including discontinuous DRX/DTX cycle information for terminals operating in a transmission suspension mode, which is a sub-state of an active state; and b) performing DRX/DTX based on the DRX/DTX parameters in the terminals operating in the transmission suspension mode.