Abstract: A robot and a control method thereof are provided. The method includes the following steps: receiving a manual control command from a remote control device, and accumulating a duration of issuing the manual control commands; estimating an estimated moving velocity corresponding to the manual control command; detecting a surrounding environment of the robot and generating an autonomous navigation command based on the surrounding environment; determining a first weighting value associated with the manual control command based on the duration, the estimated moving velocity and the distance to obstacles; determining a second weighting value associated with the autonomous navigation command based on the first weighting value; linearly combining the manual control command and the autonomous navigation command based on the first weighting value and the second weighting value to generate a moving control command; and moving based on the moving control command.

Abstract: A power-free wireless operation device of a portable electronic device includes a portable electronic device that includes a device-side matching unit, a radio frequency unit, a device-side wireless communication interface, and a message processing unit and a wireless operation mechanism that includes a matching unit, a current processing unit, a wireless communication interface, and an operation processing unit. As such, a keyboard is operable with power supply from a portable electronic device so that the keyboard does not need to be equipped with an own power supply, whereby the present invention allows for significant reduction of the size of a wireless operation device and, in manufacture and production, a design can be adopted to achieve the features of being light, thin, and compact and being readily foldable for easy carrying and providing an effect of environmental protection through regeneration.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cosmetic composition comprising: (i) boron nitride; and (ii) one or more kinds of inorganic powders selected from the group consisting of cerium oxide, titanium oxide, talc, aluminum oxide, iron oxide, zinc oxide and mica. UVA, UVB and near-IR may be simultaneously screened by applying the cosmetic composition.

Abstract: A system for learning driving information in a vehicle, includes a first camera mounted on an inner ceiling of the vehicle and configured to detect a projected position of a nose of a driver; and a second camera mounted on an inner front of the vehicle and configured to detect a front position of the nose of the driver. Further, the system includes a driver's status information processing unit configured to detect the line of sight of the driver by calibrating an image corresponding to the projected position and an image corresponding to the front position in real time, to analyze information about the line of sight that is detected, and to store the analyzed information in a learning data database.

Abstract: A method for transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), an aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS) in a wireless communication system; and the UE are discussed. The method includes receiving a downlink control information (DCI) format, which schedules a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and includes an SRS request for triggering transmission of an aperiodic SRS, from a base station (BS); detecting the SRS request; and transmitting, when the UE is not configured with a carrier indicator field (CIF), the aperiodic SRS to the BS on a first uplink (UL) component carrier (CC) in which the PUSCH is scheduled, or, when the UE is configured with the CIF, the aperiodic SRS to the BS on a second UL CC in which the PUSCH is scheduled with a value of the CIF.

Abstract: A method is provided for visualizing specified safety-critical information in a vehicle. First display data are (AD_1) are determined, which are representative of a first image (B1) to be visualized, which provides the specified safety-critical information in a specified first signalization form, the first display data (AD_1) being determined free of specified safety regulations. The first display data (AD_1) are sent to a display unit (DISP) of the vehicle and test data (DD) are read out, which are representative of an image visualized on the display unit (DISP). The test data (DD) are checked and, if the test data (DD) are representative of a faulty provision of the specified safety-critical information, second display data (AD_2) are sent to the display unit (DISP), which are representative of a second image (B2) to the visualized, which provides the specified safety critical information in a specified second signalization form, which differs from the first signalization form.

Abstract: A display device includes a lower display panel, an upper display panel facing the lower display panel, a metal oxide layer surrounding outermost surfaces of the upper display panel and the lower display panel, and a barrier layer surrounding the metal oxide layer. The barrier layer includes a self-assembled monolayer.

Abstract: The invention relates to an illumination system having a light scattering and conversion plate comprising a non-converting but scattering layer and a thinner converting layer. By separating scattering and conversion, the characteristics of the illumination system can greatly be increased.

Abstract: A device for replacing sanding elements of a polishing device includes a first support, a second support, a feeder assembly, a suction assembly, a first pushing assembly, a second pushing assembly, and a clamping assembly. The feeder assembly includes a receiving member configured to receive the sanding elements, and a supporting member positioned below the receiving member. The suction assembly includes a suction member configured to draw a sanding element from the receiving member, and a rotary actuator configured to rotate the suction member. The first pushing assembly is configured to receive the sanding element from the suction member and transport the sanding element to the polishing device. The clamping assembly is configured to attach an unused sanding element to, and detach a used sanding element from, a manipulator of the polishing device, and the second pushing assembly is configured to separate the sanding element from the clamping assembly.

Abstract: An optical system may include optical transmitters to provide respective optical signals. Each of the respective optical signals may provide one or more carriers in an optical channel. The optical channel may include multiple carriers associated with the respective optical signals. First and second carriers, of the multiple carriers, may have a particular carrier space width. The particular carrier space width may include a frequency error associated with one or more optical signals of the respective optical signals. The optical system may include a control system to determine the frequency error and cause one or more of the optical transmitters to adjust the particular carrier space width based on the adjusted frequency error.

Abstract: A method of fabricating semiconductor devices may include forming a mold structure on a lower layer, the mold structure including an etch stop layer doped at a first impurity concentration, a lower mold layer doped at a second impurity concentration, and an undoped upper mold layer. The method may include forming a trench exposing the lower layer in the mold structure using dry etching, extending a width of the trench in the etch stop layer using wet etching, and forming a first conductive pattern in the extended width trench, wherein an etch rate of the etch stop layer with respect to the dry etching may be smaller than an etch rate of the lower mold layer with respect to the dry etching, and an etch rate of the etch stop layer with respect to the wet etching may be proportional to the first impurity concentration.

Abstract: An apparatus including a first plurality of electrodes and a second plurality of electrodes is disclosed. Each electrode of the first plurality of electrodes is configured to measure an electric field associated with a position of a moving object. The second plurality of electrodes is disposed further away from the moving object in comparison to the first plurality of electrodes. The second plurality of electrodes is configured to measure a signal associated with ambient noise.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing a hydrosilane using heteroatom-containing activated carbon, more particularly to a method for economically preparing a high-purity hydrosilane by redistribution of a chlorosilane using a heteroatom-containing activated carbon catalyst.

Abstract: A display device, configured to receive a video signal including a plurality of frames having an odd field and an even field, including a processor and a display module. The processor performs the following steps: respectively determining whether the odd fields and the even fields of each current frame and its previous frame are similar; generating a first pattern, a second pattern, a third pattern, or a fourth pattern corresponding to the current frame according to a determining result; accumulating the first patterns, the second patterns, the third patterns, and the fourth patterns in a first cycle; determining whether the video signal is a video converted from film according to the accumulations; generating output frames according to the pattern of each current frame when the video signal is the video converted from film. The display module displays the output frames by progressive scanning.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pyrazolopyran of the general formula I wherein the variables are defined according to the description, including a tautomer, salt, cleavable prodrug, or mixtures thereof, in particular to said pyrazolopyran for use as a medicament and/or an inhibitor of the enzyme serinehydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT). The invention also relates to a process the preparation of a pyrazolopyran of the formula I, to compositions comprising said compound and processes for the preparation of these compositions. Further it relates to use of the pyrazolopyran of formula I as an herbicide as well as to a method of controlling undesired vegetation.

Abstract: A magnetic multilayer film for a temperature sensor is disclosed. The magnetic multilayer film comprises: a bottom magnetic composite layer provided on a substrate, the bottom magnetic composite layer having a direct pinning structure, an indirect pinning structure, a synthetic ferromagnetic structure, or a synthetic anti-ferromagnetic structure; a spacer layer provided on the bottom magnetic composite layer; and a top magnetic composite layer provided on the spacer layer, the top magnetic composite layer having the direct pinning structure, the indirect pinning structure, the synthetic ferromagnetic structure, or the synthetic anti-ferromagnetic structure, wherein a ferromagnetic layer of the bottom magnetic composite layer closest to the spacer layer has a magnetic moment anti-parallel with that of a ferromagnetic layer of the top magnetic composite layer closest to the spacer layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to an acrylic adhesive composition, more particularly, to an adhesive composition which: specifies the contents of a (meth)acrylic ester-based monomer and an aromatic group-containing monomer of an acrylic copolymer as a composition having little or no difference of birefringence; has excellent durability; and can reduce light leakage due to flexure by mixing a crosslinkable functional group-containing acrylic copolymer (A) and an acrylic copolymer (B) which does not contain the crosslinkable functional group, in a ratio of 1:9 to 5:5.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a miniaturized separation column for chromatographic purposes including a porous stationary phase anchored in the column, including the following steps: (a) preparing a flat substrate of silicon, glass, glass ceramic or ceramic; (b) etching at least one channel structure into the flat substrate; (c) introducing a non-porous precursor material for the porous stationary phase into at least one portion of the channel structure (s); (d) forming a porous, three-dimensional network from the precursor material; and (e) fluid-tight covering of the channel structure(s) on the top side of the flat substrate.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle control apparatus and a control method thereof, and the vehicle control apparatus may include a body portion comprising an outer frame constituting an external appearance of a vehicle and an inner frame formed to allow a user to get on, a sensing unit configured to sense a user's input from at least one sensing region formed on the body portion, and a controller configured to drive at least one of functions that can be executed in the vehicle based on at least one of a location of the sensing region at which the user's input is sensed and the user's input to the sensing region.