Abstract: Provided is a system for monitoring a state of a user. The system includes a chair including a backrest and a seat plate, at least one flexible tactile sensor positioned in the back plate or seat plate and configured to sense a motion of a user who sits on the chair. The system further includes a monitoring apparatus configured to monitor the state of the user based on the sensed value received from at least one flexible tactile sensor.

Abstract: Provided is a method for CT image denoising based on deep learning, and the method for CT image denoising based on deep learning includes: extracting examination information from an input CT image; selecting at least one deep learning model corresponding to the examination information from multiple previously trained deep learning models; and outputting a CT image denoised from the input CT image by feeding the input CT image into the selected at least one deep learning model.

Abstract: A wearable device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes: a sensor array having a plurality of sensors each detecting a physical change in epidermis of a corresponding body area and a body movement determination unit configured to determine movement of a body part based on sensing signals respectively received from the plurality of sensors.

Abstract: An encoding method for encoding input information bits using an encoder implemented with concatenation of a CRC-? coder and a polar coder is provided. The method includes performing Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) coding on as many information bits as a determined number of CRC coding bits among input information bits and performing polar coding on the CRC-coded information bits and other information bits than the CRC-coded information bits.

Abstract: The described technology relates to a hand gesture recognition sensor. In one aspect, the hand gesture recognition sensor includes at least one strain unit configured to measure a physical change in an epidermis of a human body. The hand gesture recognition sensor also includes at least one bump unit located in a measurement direction of the at least one strain unit so as not to overlap the at least one strain unit, the at least one bump unit configured to amplify the physical change.

Abstract: A content providing method of a content providing system is executed on at least one computer and includes configuring a page to be provided in content, recognizing an area that is configured using a single color and has a size greater than or equal to a preset size by analyzing the final image that configures the page, and reconfiguring the final image by removing the recognized area.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a superparamagnetic nanocomposite and a superparamagnetic nanocomposite manufactured using the same, and more particularly to a method of manufacturing a superparamagnetic nanocomposite suitable for use in magnetic separation for the detection of a target biomaterial and a superparamagnetic nanocomposite manufactured using the same. The method of manufacturing the superparamagnetic nanocomposite according to the present invention has a higher yield and a high rate without complicated processing than a conventional method of manufacturing a magnetic nanoparticle for magnetic separation and is capable of mass production of the superparamagnetic nanocomposite having excellent properties with uniform size and particle size distribution, high aqueous solution dispersibility and high magnetization and being capable of maintaining superparamagnetism.

Abstract: Disclosed is an X-ray tube for improving electron focusing, which allows thermoelectrons emitted from a filament to efficiently reach a target of an X-ray irradiation window. To achieve this, the X-ray tube includes: a thermionic emitter configured to emit thermoelectrons by application of a negative high voltage; a focusing tube configured to focus the thermoelectrons emitted from the thermionic emitter; an X-ray irradiation window configured to irradiate X-rays outside by the thermoelectrons bombarded on a target distributed on the X-ray irradiation window, to generate the X-rays after the thermoelectrons pass through the focusing tube; a tube part including both the thermionic emitter and the focusing tube; and a housing surrounding the tube part, wherein the focusing tube and the housing are configured to have a same potential such that movement directions of the thermoelectrons are directed to the X-ray irradiation window.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and method for displaying cartoon data. The device for displaying cartoon data includes a storage unit configured to store a first layer as a main cut of cartoon data and second to Nth layers as sub cuts having additional information to be added to the main cut, wherein the first to Nth layers are displayed in a display region of a user terminal, a detection unit configured to detect a surrounding environment of the user terminal or data input to the user terminal, and a control unit configured to initiate a display of any one of the second to Nth layers in the display region of the user terminal according to a detection result of the detection unit.

Abstract: An encoding method for encoding input information bits using an encoder implemented with concatenation of a CRC-? coder and a polar coder is provided. The method includes performing Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) coding on as many information bits as a determined number of CRC coding bits among input information bits and performing polar coding on the CRC-coded information bits and other information bits than the CRC-coded information bits.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a metallic nanospring includes preparing a nanotemplate having a nanopore and including a working electrode disposed on its one surface, preparing a first metal precursor mixture including ascorbic acid (C6H8O6), vanadium (IV) oxide sulfate (VOSO4.xH2O), and a metal precursor solution including a metal desired to be deposited, preparing a second metal precursor mixture by mixing the first metal precursor mixture with nitric acid (HNO3), depositing a metallic nanospring into the nanopore using electrodeposition by dipping the nanotemplate into the second metal precursor mixture and applying current between a counter electrode inserted into the second metal precursor mixture and the working electrode, and selectively removing the working electrode on the nanotemplate with the deposited metallic nanospring and the nanotemplate.

Abstract: The described technology relates to a wearable electronic device. The wearable electronic device may include a touch display, a rim surrounding the touch display, a rim touch sensor disposed on at least a portion of the rim, a band portion that allows the wearable electronic device to be worn on a user's wrist, and a control unit configured to receive a rim touch on the rim through the rim touch sensor and generate a control signal for controlling the wearable electronic device based on at least one of attributes of the rim touch.

Abstract: Provided is a method of learning a touch point of a dual clutch transmission (DCT), and more particularly, to a DCT touch point learning method in which a touch point is learned based on a difference between a virtual input shaft speed and a clutch non-drive shaft input speed using a virtual input shaft reference speed calculated based on the speed of a traveling vehicle. In a traveling situation in which the touch point cannot be learned using the non-drive shaft according to the related art because the input shaft behavior of the non-drive shaft is rotationally synchronized with the input shaft behavior of the drive shaft by drag characteristics of the DCT, a virtual input shaft speed may be calculated, and the touch point of the clutch may be learned using the virtual input shaft speed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a separator comprising a coating layer and a battery using the same, the separator having improved adhesive force to an electrode, thereby minimizing the rate of thickness change. More specifically, the present invention relates to a separator having a coating layer on one or both surfaces of a base film, the coating layer comprising an acrylic-based copolymer having a glass transition temperature of less than or equal to 80° C. and an inorganic particle, so as to have improved adhesive force and heat resistance, thereby being applicable in electrochemical batteries of various sizes and having excellent thermal stability and dimensional stability.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a superparamagnetic nanocomposite and a superparamagnetic nanocomposite manufactured using the same, and more particularly to a method of manufacturing a superparamagnetic nanocomposite suitable for use in magnetic separation for the detection of a target biomaterial and a superparamagnetic nanocomposite manufactured using the same. The method of manufacturing the superparamagnetic nanocomposite according to the present invention has a higher yield and a high rate without complicated processing than a conventional method of manufacturing a magnetic nanoparticle for magnetic separation and is capable of mass production of the superparamagnetic nanocomposite having excellent properties with uniform size and particle size distribution, high aqueous solution dispersibility and high magnetization and being capable of maintaining superparamagnetism.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and method for displaying cartoon data. The cartoon data display device includes a display unit configured to display a display region of cartoon data, a reception unit configured to receive a first user event signal or a second user signal from a user and a control unit configured to perform control to display a first layer on the display unit while moving the first layer in a first direction in response to the reception of the first user event signal and display a second layer on the display unit while moving the second layer in a second direction in response to the reception of the second user event signal.

Abstract: Provided are a method of learning a torque-stroke relationship of a clutch, and more particularly, a clutch torque-stroke learning method in which, during a process of dividing a torque region on a torque-stroke curve (T-S curve) of a clutch into two or more regions and learning the T-S curve passing through two or more torque regions with different torque section values, by learning the curve for a first torque region (e.g., a high-torque region or a low-torque region) when the curve is learned for a second torque region with guaranteed reliability, it is possible to prevent a problem of the T-S curve not converging to a previously learned curve value when the T-S curve is continuously learned for the two or more different torque regions.

Abstract: A receiver and method of signal processing are provided. The receiver includes: an antenna configured to receive superposition coding signals from a plurality of base stations, and a signal processor configured to decode the superposition coding signals in modulation and coding scheme (MCS) block units of a plurality of layer signals constituting each of the superposition coding signals according to whether reception powers of the superposition coding signals satisfy a preset condition.

Abstract: A method of low complexity SCL decoding for polar codes is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a codeword vector generated using polar encoding, and sequentially decoding multiple bits included in a source vector from the received codeword vector based on the successive cancellation list (SCL) decoding, wherein the decoding is configured not to perform a comparison of reliability between candidate decoding paths for a subset of information bits included in the source vector, but to determine value of the subset of information bits based on a reliability of the corresponding bit.

Abstract: The described technology relates to a wearable electronic device. The wearable electronic device may include a touch display, a rim surrounding the touch display, a rim touch sensor disposed on at least a portion of the rim, a band portion that allows the wearable electronic device to be worn on a user's wrist, and a control unit configured to receive a rim touch on the rim through the rim touch sensor and generate a control signal for controlling the wearable electronic device based on at least one of attributes of the rim touch.