Abstract: An activation method for a lithium secondary battery includes: a primary charging process charging a lithium secondary battery; a first degassing process discharging an internal gas containing oxygen to an outside of the lithium secondary battery or moving the internal gas containing oxygen to a gas pocket part after the primary charging process; an aging process aging the lithium secondary battery after the first degassing process; and a second degassing process removing gas from the aged lithium secondary battery.

Abstract: Disclosed is an automated liquid-phase immunoassay apparatus used with a cuvette having a plurality of chambers containing a reagent necessary for detection of an analyte in a biological specimen. The apparatus includes a movable cuvette module equipped with the cuvette, an optical reading module for optical assaying of a material resulting from a reaction between the specimen and the reagent, and a dispenser module which is positioned on the cuvette module and which dispenses the specimen and the reagent to the plurality of chambers of the cuvette and washes the specimen and the reagent therefrom.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for supporting BWP-based operations in sidelink communication. An operation method of a first terminal in a communication system may include receiving, from a base station, configuration information of a mapping relationship between an uplink (UL) bandwidth part (BWP) and a sidelink (SL) BWP; when a UL switching operation for the UL BWP is performed, performing an SL switching operation for the SL BWP mapped to the UL BWP based on the mapping relationship without separate signaling indicating execution of the SL switching operation; and performing sidelink communication with a second terminal in a switched SL BWP.

Abstract: An eddy current sensor for deriving an eddy current and sensing the derived eddy current in order to detect a crack in a battery cell, the eddy current sensor comprises: a core unit in which a coil is wound around a magnetic member; and a case for accommodating the core unit of which there are at least two, which are arranged so that the central axis of the coil is oriented in the thickness direction of the battery cell.

Abstract: Provided is a water examination device including: a main body; a cup accommodation unit formed inward from a surface of the main body such that a cup containing a fluid is accommodated therein; a wave source for irradiating a wave toward the cup accommodation unit; a detector for detecting a laser speckle generated by multiple scattering of the irradiated wave in the fluid, at every time point set in advance; and a controller for estimating whether foreign substances exist in the fluid in real-time by using the detected laser speckle.

Abstract: There is provided an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image encoding method of the present invention includes: determining whether or not to apply filtering to a filtering target sample; determining a filter type on the basis of the determination; and applying filtering to the filtering target sample by using the determined filter type.

Abstract: A Processing-in-Memory (PIM) computing system and a memory controller provide improved memory traffic efficiency and improved PIM operation efficiency by increasing a burst length of a PIM operation relative to a general memory request. In embodiments, the increased burst length allows the PIM operation to be performed in units of pages, wherein a page is management unit of a memory used in the PIM operation.

Abstract: Provided is a display device. The display device comprises a first substrate, wherein a first contact hole is defined in the first substrate, a barrier layer on the first substrate, wherein a second contact hole is defined in the barrier layer and connected to the first contact hole, a first connection line on the barrier layer and inserted into the second contact hole, a second substrate covering the first connection line and the barrier layer, and a thin-film transistor layer on the second substrate and including at least one thin-film transistor. The thin-film transistor layer further includes a second connection line connected between the first connection line and the at least one thin-film transistor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for estimating a road surface type by using an ultrasonic signal and, more particularly, to a method for estimating a road surface type by using an artificial neural network model machine-learned with respect to a reflected ultrasonic signal and an apparatus for performing same. According to the present invention, provided are a method and apparatus for providing highly accurate road surface information at low cost, by machine-learning both characteristics of an ultrasonic signal reflected from a road surface and a road surface state, establishing a model between the two, and then estimating the type of the road surface by utilizing the model. In particular, even a road surface where thin ice, that is, black ice, is formed, which was not detectable in the conventional method for estimating a road-surface friction coefficient, may be accurately estimated, thereby contributing to safer driving.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an intra prediction method including: deriving neighbor prediction mode information from a left neighbor prediction mode and an upper neighbor prediction mode; deriving an intra prediction mode for a decoding target unit by using the derived neighbor prediction mode information; and performing intra prediction on the decoding target unit based on the intra prediction mode. According to exemplary embodiments of the present invention, image encoding/decoding efficiency can be improved.

Abstract: An adhesive film and a display member including the same are disclosed. The adhesive film is formed of an adhesive composition including: a copolymer of a monomer mixture including a hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylate and a comonomer; and nanoparticles. The adhesive film has a creep at ?20° C. of about 50 ?m to about 100 ?m and a gel fraction of about 50% to about 75%.

Abstract: A vehicle control system may include a controller that detects an object outside a vehicle, calculates an angle based on a ratio of a relative speed between the object and the vehicle to a speed of the vehicle, and updates a phase curve reflecting a phase distortion of an input signal based on the calculated angle.

Abstract: An indoor lighting device of a vehicle includes: a substrate, a plurality of light sources assembled with the substrate to be arranged in a row, and a light guide panel including: a plurality of incidence parts such that light emitted by the light sources is incident thereupon, a diffusion area part provided behind the incidence parts to diffuse and reflect the light incident upon the incidence parts, a visual field area part provided behind the diffusion area part to emit the light diffused and reflected by the diffusion area part outside, and light diffusion holes provided behind the respective incidence parts. In particular, each of the light diffusion holes is surrounded by a transmission plane, a pair of reflection planes and a diffusion plane.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a general area including first subpixels, and a sensor area including second subpixels and light-transmitting area. Each of the first subpixels and the second subpixels includes a first active layer disposed on a substrate and formed of a first material, a first gate layer disposed on the first active layer, a second gate layer disposed on the first gate layer, a second active layer disposed on the second gate layer and formed of a second material different from the first material, a third gate layer disposed on the second active layer, and a light-blocking layer disposed between the substrate and the first active layer and overlapping the second active layer in a thickness direction.

Abstract: A display device may include a display panel, and an anti-reflection layer disposed on the display panel. The display panel may include a first area including a first alignment mark, a bending area extending from the first area, and a second area extending from the bending area. The anti-reflection layer may include a second alignment mark overlapping the second area in a plan view.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying the predicted type of one or more microorganisms. In one aspect, a system comprises a phase-contrast microscope and a microorganism classification system. The phase-contrast microscope is configured to generate a three-dimensional quantitative phase image of one or more microorganisms. The microorganism classification system is configured to process the three-dimensional quantitative phase image using a neural network to generate a neural network output characterizing the microorganisms, and thereafter identify the predicted type of the microorganisms using the neural network output.

Abstract: A method for decommissioning a nuclear facility includes: floating the nuclear reactor pressure vessel above the cavity; rotating the reactor pressure vessel so that the upper portion of the nuclear reactor pressure vessel is closer to the bio-protective concrete than the lower portion; mounting the upper portion of the nuclear reactor pressure vessel on the neighboring upper surface of the bio-protective concrete; and cutting and decommissioning the nuclear reactor pressure vessel mounted on the neighboring upper surface.

Abstract: A pouch-type secondary battery includes: an electrode assembly including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and a pouch case including a sealing portion sealed along an edge thereof to accommodate the electrode assembly therein, and a terrace portion formed to extend toward the sealing portion in which an electrode lead is disposed, wherein a notch portion at which a body of a perforator is seated is formed in the sealing portion to form a perforation portion on the terrace portion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to image processing, and more particularly, to a video coding/decoding method using a clipped motion vector and an apparatus thereof. An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of decoding an image. The method includes clipping a motion vector of a reference picture in a predetermined dynamic range to generate a clipped motion vector, storing the clipped motion vector in a buffer, deriving a motion vector of a coding treeblock using the motion vector stored in the buffer, and performing inter prediction decoding process using the motion vector of the coding treeblock. According to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a size of a memory required for storing motion vectors may be reduced.