Abstract: The present invention relates to an image encoding and decoding technique, and more particularly, to an image encoder and decoder using unidirectional prediction. The image encoder includes a dividing unit to divide a macro block into a plurality of sub-blocks, a unidirectional application determining unit to determine whether an identical prediction mode is applied to each of the plurality of sub-blocks, and a prediction mode determining unit to determine a prediction mode with respect to each of the plurality of sub-blocks based on a determined result of the unidirectional application determining unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is a case for a battery module including a body having an internal space; and an end plate disposed on an end of the body, wherein the body includes a bottom plate on which a coolant flow path through which a coolant flows is formed, and wherein the end plate includes a coolant flow tube through which the coolant flows and a connection portion extending from the coolant flow tube and coupled to the coolant flow path.

Abstract: Systems and methods for executing instructions for executing a virtual reality (VR)-based fire response simulation method for secondary battery production are disclosed. One method includes receiving a gaze direction and gaze location of a user identified from a head mounted display (HMD). Fire response content associated with a secondary battery production apparatus corresponding to the received gaze direction and gaze location is displayed on an area of a display of the HMD. The fire response content includes a plurality of fire response scenarios. User behavior information indicating a motion of the user determined from at least one of the HMD or a controller associated with the HMD is obtained. The fire response content associated with the secondary battery production apparatus is executed based on the obtained user behavior information.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image data generating method. Operations of emitting electromagnetic waves to an object and receiving scan signals scanning the object are performed by using a multi-static transceiver. First image data of a low resolution are generated based on the scan signals. when a first condition associated with the first image data is satisfied, second image data of a high resolution associated with a sub-region of the first image data are generated. When a second condition associated with the second image is satisfied, third image data based on the first image data and the second image data are generated.

Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate; a first conductive layer on the substrate and comprising a first signal line; an insulating layer pattern on the first conductive layer; a semiconductor pattern on the insulating layer pattern; a gate insulating layer on the semiconductor pattern; and a second conductive layer comprising a gate electrode on the gate insulting layer and a first source/drain electrode and a second source/drain electrode, each on at least a part of the semiconductor pattern, wherein the insulating layer pattern and the semiconductor pattern have a same planar shape, the semiconductor pattern comprises a channel region overlapping the gate electrode, a first source/drain region on a first side of the channel region and a second source/drain region on a second side of the channel region, and the first source/drain electrode electrically connects the first source/drain region and the first signal line.

Abstract: A wafer manufacturing method, an epitaxial wafer manufacturing method, and a wafer and epitaxial wafer manufactured thereby, are provided. The wafer manufacturing method enables the manufacture of a wafer with a low density of micropipe defects and minimum numbers of particles and scratches. The epitaxial wafer manufacturing method enables the manufacture of an epitaxial wafer that has low densities of defects such as downfall, triangular, and carrot defects, exhibits excellent device characteristics, and improves the yield of devices.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an image sensing apparatus including a driver disposed on a substrate and configured to drive a light emitter and a light receiver to emit a first optical signal toward an object and receive a second optical signal reflected from the object, a housing coupled to the substrate and surrounding the light emitter, the light receiver, and the driver, a diffuser disposed on the housing, and a transparent electrode disposed on the diffuser, wherein the driver includes a transparent electrode driver configured to detect whether the diffuser is damaged in a first mode and shields electromagnetic interference noise in a second mode by using the transparent electrode.

Abstract: A device for controlling a user interface may include a sensor configured to acquire information associated with a passenger of a vehicle, a user interface device configured to receive at least one user input of the passenger, and a processor. The processor may monitor, based on the information associated with the passenger, the passenger, determine, based on an abnormality associated with an appearance of the passenger, a passenger type for the passenger, and provide, based on the passenger type for passenger and via the user interface device, a user interface associated with the passenger type, wherein the user interface associated with the passenger type is configured to reduce a task completion time for the passenger type.

Abstract: Methods and systems for executing tracking and monitoring manufacturing data of a battery are disclosed. One method includes: receiving, by a server system, sensing data of the battery from a sensing system; generating, by the server system, mapping data based on the sensing data; generating, by the server system, identification data of the battery based on the sensing data; generating, by the server system, monitoring data of the battery based on the sensing data, the identification data, and the mapping data; and generating, by the server system, display data for displaying a simulated electrode of the battery on a graphical user interface based on the monitoring data of the battery.

Abstract: An elliptically polarizing plate and an organic light-emitting device. The elliptically polarizing plate has superior visibility and excellent reflection characteristics and color characteristics on the side as well as the front, and an organic light-emitting device comprising the same.

Abstract: An electronic vaporizer for generating an aerosol includes a housing to be installed to an electronic device by being coupled to the electronic device through a connecting interface of the electronic device, and including: a connecting interface that receives power from a battery included in the electronic device when coupled to the connecting interface of the electronic device, a liquid storage for storing a liquid aerosol generating material and supplying the liquid aerosol generating material to a wick when the housing is disposed in a predetermined posture, an atomizer that includes a wick and a heater for generating an aerosol by heating the liquid aerosol generating material supplied to the wick, and a control circuit that controls heating of the heater for generating the aerosol, based on the power supplied from the battery.

Abstract: A quantum dot including a core that includes a first semiconductor nanocrystal including zinc and selenium, and optionally sulfur and/or tellurium, and a shell that includes a second semiconductor nanocrystal including zinc, and at least one of sulfur or selenium is disclosed. The quantum dot has an average particle diameter of greater than or equal to about 13 nm, an emission peak wavelength in a range of about 440 nm to about 470 nm, and a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of an emission wavelength of less than about 25 nm. A method for preparing the quantum dot, a quantum dot-polymer composite including the quantum dot, and an electronic device including the quantum dot is also disclosed.

Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens disposed in order from an object side. A refractive index of the second lens is greater than a refractive index of each of the first lens and the third lens. The optical imaging system satisfies TTL/(2×IMG HT)<0.6 and 0<f1/f<1.4, where TTL is a distance on an optical axis from an object-side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane, IMG HT is half a diagonal length of the imaging plane, f is a total focal length of the optical imaging system, and f1 is a focal length of the first lens.

Abstract: A compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 and an organic light emitting device including the same are provided. The compound is used as a material for an organic material layer of the organic light emitting device, and provides improved efficiency, low driving voltage, and increased lifespan of the organic light emitting device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for manufacturing a lithium electrode, comprising a cutting stage, a laser irradiation portion and a lithium metal film supply portion, in which a plurality of adsorption holes and a plurality of unit electrode pattern grooves are formed on the upper surface of the cutting stage.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an anti-FcRn antibody or an antigen binding fragment thereof with improved stability and uses thereof. The anti-FcRn antibody or antigen binding fragment thereof binds to FcRn non-competitively with IgG and the like compared to the parent antibody, HL161AN, thereby having improved stability, such as reducing the production rate of aggregates while maintaining the biological activity of significantly reducing the amount of pathogenic autoantibodies in the blood. Therefore, it may be utilized more efficiently for the treatment of an autoimmune disease.

Abstract: A bulk-acoustic wave (BAW) resonator includes a central portion in which a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode are sequentially stacked on a substrate, and an extension portion extending externally from the central portion, and an insertion layer and a loss prevention film are disposed in the extension portion between the substrate and the second electrode. The loss prevention film is formed to have a thickness of 50 ? to 500 ?. The insertion layer is stacked on the loss prevention film, and has a side surface opposing the central portion, the side surface is formed as a first inclined surface having a first inclination angle. The loss prevention film has a side surface opposing the central portion, the side surface is formed as a second inclined surface having a second inclination angle. The second inclination angle is formed to be greater than the first inclination angle.

Abstract: Disclosed is a nozzle block applied to an electrospinning device. At least one piercing unit (means of piercing) having a diameter smaller than the inner diameter of a spinning nozzle is coaxially disposed inside the spinning nozzle in order to prevent solidification of a solution at a tip of the spinning nozzle. The present disclosure includes a first cleaning mechanism for cleaning the spinning nozzle by reciprocating the piercing unit and the spinning nozzle relative to each other so that the tip of the spinning nozzle is unclogged, and a second cleaning mechanism for cleaning aggregates deposited around and outside the tip of the spinning nozzle through chemical cleaning and/or physical cleaning when the electrospinning process is temporarily stopped or after the electrospinning process is completed.

Abstract: A wafer manufacturing method, an epitaxial wafer manufacturing method, and a wafer and epitaxial wafer manufactured thereby, are provided. The wafer manufacturing method enables the manufacture of a wafer with a low density of micropipe defects and minimum numbers of particles and scratches. The epitaxial wafer manufacturing method enables the manufacture of an epitaxial wafer that has low densities of defects such as downfall, triangular, and carrot defects, exhibits excellent device characteristics, and improves the yield of devices.

Abstract: A molding method for a cover window includes: locally heating a peripheral portion of a glass substrate around a central portion of the glass substrate to a temperature of about 610° C. to about 670° C., forming a cover window by pressing the glass substrate, and annealing and cooling the cover window. Accordingly, a cover window in which each of edges has an outwardly convex curved surface through a glass substrate may be formed. In addition, the surface roughness of a cover window formed through a glass substrate may be improved.