Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present document may comprise the steps of: deriving a first variable indicating whether there is a valid coefficient in a region excluding a DC region from a current block; deriving a second variable indicating whether there is a valid coefficient in a second region excluding a first region formed at the upper left end of the current block; when the first variable indicates that the valid coefficient exists in the region excluding the DC region, and the second variable indicates that the valid coefficient does not exist in the second region, parsing an LFNST index from the bitstream; and applying an LFNST matrix derived on the basis of the LFNST index to transform coefficients in the first region, to derive the modified transform coefficients.

Abstract: The present invention is for beam selection for communication, and an electronic device may include a housing, at least one antenna array including antenna elements disposed in the housing, or formed in part of the housing, at least one processor electrically or operatively connected with the antenna array, and configured to form a plurality of reception beams (rx beams) having different directions, using the antenna array, and a memory operatively connected with the processor. The memory may stores instructions for causing the processor to measure, by using the plurality of the rx beams, signal strength values of a plurality of tx beams transmitted from at least one base station and having different directions, generate measurement results of (the number of the rx beams)×(the number of the tx beams), and select one of a plurality of methods for selecting one beam pair from among the (the number of the rx beams)×(the number of the tx beams)-ary beam pairs, based at least in part on the measurement results.

Abstract: A battery module includes: one or more cell assemblies; a main housing comprising a main boundary portion surrounding an accommodation space in which the one or more cell assemblies are positioned; a first plate comprising a first boundary portion coupled with the main boundary portion and a first exposure portion exposed from the main boundary portion and defining a side of a cooling fluid passage for cooling the accommodation space; and a second plate facing the first plate and comprising a second boundary portion coupled with the main boundary portion and a second exposure portion exposed from the main boundary portion and defining an other side of the cooling fluid passage.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrochemical device, more particularly to an electrochemical device including a first electrode, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode and an electrolyte filled between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the electrolyte comprises a salt form of a carbon quantum dot anion and a metal cation having an average diameter in the range of 2 to 12 nanometers (nm) and a surface potential of ?20 mV or less, the present invention provides an electrochemical device dramatically improving reliability, performance and durability by adopting an carbon quantum dot ion compound electrolyte having selective ion conductivity with a specific cation and suppressing side reactions caused by electrolyte as well as applicable in liquid, gel or solid phase.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to auditory nerve stimulation to create the perception of sound in the brain of a subject such as an animal or human being. In one form, a system includes an implantable electrode array including a plurality of spaced apart micro-needles. The system also includes a first electrical lead electrically coupled to and extending from the implantable electrode array, and an auditory signal device configured to produce one or more electrical signals representative of communications received from an external processor. An interposer is configured to electrically couple the implantable electrode array and the auditory signal device in an arrangement where one or more electrical signals produced by the auditory signal device may be transmitted through the first electrical lead to the implantable electrode array. Various novel stimulation strategies can be employed, such as place modulated stimulation signals.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a sensor device including a plurality of sensors, a failure determination device that monitors the plurality of sensors at preset periods, identifies a failed sensor among the plurality of sensors, and determines transmission data to be transmitted to a server using faulty data obtained by the failed sensor, a communication device that transmits the transmission data to the server and receives virtual data generated by the server in correspondence with the transmission data from the server, and an autonomous driving controller that performs autonomous driving control for a host vehicle using at least one of the virtual data, the transmission data, or any combination thereof.

Abstract: A method for cleaning a surface of a component includes placing a volume of a cleaning agent onto the surface of the component. The method further includes performing a repair operation of the component either before or after placing the volume of the cleaning agent. The repair operation results in a generation of contaminant particles. Upon contact of the cleaning agent with the contaminant particles, the cleaning agent absorbs the contaminant particles by adhesion. The method further includes removing the cleaning agent from the surface of the component after the contaminant particles are absorbed by the cleaning agent.

Abstract: According to embodiments of the present invention, a method and system for generating a training dataset for keypoint detection are provided. The system includes an optical marker-based motion capture system to capture markers as 3D trajectories; and video cameras to simultaneously capture sequences of 2D images. Each marker is placed on a bone landmark or keypoint of a subject. The method, performed by a computer in the system, includes projecting each trajectory to each image to determine a 2D location for each marker; interpolating a 3D position therefrom; generating a bounding box around the subject; and generating the training dataset including at least one image, and the determined 2D location of each marker and the bounding box therein. According to further embodiments, a method and system for predicting 3D locations of virtual markers on a marker-less subject using a neural network trained by the generated training dataset are also provided.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polarized light generating device based on an optical waveguide, which includes first to fourth input optical waveguides, respectively, for receiving input light from an outside, first to fifth optical splitters configured to receive at least one light and output the received at least one light as at least one light, and an optical converter configured to receive at least one light from the fifth optical splitter and convert the received light to generate polarized light. The polarized light generating device receives the input light through one of the first to fourth input optical waveguides, and generates a first polarized light, a second polarized light, a third polarized light, and a fourth polarized light. The first to fourth polarized lights belong to elements of two arbitrary two-dimensional mutually unbiased basis sets.

Abstract: Disclosed is a display apparatus including a first display and a second display located in a vehicle, a signal processing device including a processor for the first display and the second display, and a second signal processing device for a third display, wherein the processor executes first to third virtual machines on a hypervisor, and the first virtual machine is configured to transmit a remote processing request from at least one of the second virtual machine or the third virtual machine to the second signal processing device, receive image data processed by the second signal processing device in response to the remote processing request, and display an image related to the received image data on at least one of the first display or the second display.

Abstract: An optical imaging system includes: a first lens group including a plurality of lenses; a second lens group including a plurality of lenses; a first reflecting member disposed on an object side of the first lens group; and a plurality of second reflecting members arranged between the second lens group and an image sensor. One or both of the first lens group and the second lens group is movable along an optical axis, an interval along the optical axis between the first lens group and the second lens group is varied between a first interval and a second interval smaller than the first interval, and as at least one of the first lens group and the second lens group is moved, one or more of the second reflecting members are moved.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to extracellular vesicles, e.g, exosomes, comprising an NLRP3 antagonist. In some aspects, the NLRP3 antagonist comprises an antisense oligonucleotide (ASO). Also provided herein are methods for producing the exosomes and methods for using the exosomes to treat and/or prevent diseases or disorders, such as, for example, a peripheral neuropathy.

Abstract: The simulation system for predicting heating and cooling loads of a building comprises the collection unit collecting measurement data of a target building from a BEMS, the identification unit identifying indoor and outdoor temperature, humidity, and insolation measured in the building in real time based on RTS method, the correlation derivation unit deriving a correlation between energy usage based on the BEMS measurement data collected by the collection unit and the cooling and heating loads according to indoor and outdoor temperature, humidity, and insolation identified by the identification unit, the simulation unit predicting a change in cooling and heating loads according to a change in at least one of pieces of measurement data based on the correlation derived from the correlation derivation unit to perform a simulation, and the information provision unit providing a simulation result from the simulation unit in a visible form to a user terminal.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of display areas; a driving circuit to control the display panel; a timing controller to control the driving circuit to display an image on the display panel; a storage medium to store a plurality of weight tables respectively corresponding to the plurality of display areas; and a load value generator to generate a first load value corresponding to a first data unit of input image data, and to apply a weight to the first load value based on a first weight table corresponding to a display area in which the first data unit is to be displayed, among the plurality of weight tables. The timing controller controls the driving circuit with reference to a weighted first load value.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a glasses-type augmented reality apparatus, and system with compact dimensions. An aspect of the present embodiment provides an augmented reality apparatus which provides a wearer with a digital holographic image incident from the outside as a holographic image, the apparatus including a plurality of holographic optical elements (HOEs) arranged in the form of concentric circles having different radii inside an optical configuration worn by the wearer to diffract the incident digital holographic image and provide the diffracted digital holographic image to the wearer.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide random number generators and methods that are able to generate numbers with infinite possible outcomes while being able to estimate efficiently the probability of random number generation failure due to hardware constraint(s).

Abstract: A surgical platform and trolley assembly and an interface of a robotic system are provided. The surgical platform and trolley assembly includes a trolley portion and a surgical platform portion. The trolley portion supports the surgical platform portion, and affords positioning and repositioning of the surgical platform portion relative to the interface of the robotic system. An end portion of the surgical platform portion is attachable relative to the robotic system via engagement to the interface.

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) cell including: a first logic gate comprising a first polysilicon structure and a first pin; a second logic gate comprising a second polysilicon structure and a second pin, wherein the second polysilicon structure is spaced apart and adjacent to the first polysilicon structure in a cell row direction; and a source region, common to the first and second logic gates, situated between the first and second polysilicon structures, wherein the first and second pins are on a first metal track directly over the common source region.

Abstract: An oral dosage tablet for delivery of hydrophobic active ingredients to a patient and method of forming the same are described. The oral dosage tablet includes one or more layers of an active ingredient adjacent one or more layers of a lipid, such as a phospholipid. The layers are alternating and have a thickness of between 0.1 and 0.8 millimeters. The method of forming the tablet includes forming a lipid paste and an active ingredient paste of the respective components and applying alternating layers of each in layers of between 0.1 millimeters to 0.8 millimeters. The oral dosage tablet is subsequently dried and stored until treatment conmmences.

Abstract: A storage device capable of performing erase operations in units smaller than blocks may include nonvolatile memory, and processing circuitry configured to, apply an erase voltage to a first bit line of the plurality of bit lines of at least one memory block of the plurality of memory blocks, apply an erase prohibition voltage to a second bit line of the plurality of bit lines, the erase prohibition voltage having a voltage level lower than a voltage level of the erase voltage, and float the common source line to cause an erasure of data stored in at least one first memory cell included in at least one first cell string connected to the first bit line by floating the common source line, and preserve data stored in at least one second memory cell included in at least one second cell string connected to the second bit line.