Abstract: A method of adjusting a bitrate of an image based includes: identifying magnitudes of one or more frequency components in the image; determining a frequency filter based on a difference between a current bitrate and a target bitrate of the image such that the greater is the difference between the current bitrate and the target bitrate, magnitudes of the more high frequency components are reduced by the frequency filter; and applying the determined frequency filter to the magnitudes of the one or more frequency components.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an antibody specifically binding to PICP or a fragment thereof; an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit and a composition for diagnosing metabolic bone diseases, both of which contain the same; a method for detecting PICP by using the same; a polynucleotide encoding the antibody or a fragment, and a recombinant expression vector comprising the same; cells transformed by the recombinant expression vector; and a method for preparing an antibody specifically binding to PICP or a fragment thereof by using the recombinant expression vector, and a method for preparing a recombinant PICP protein.

Abstract: The present invention relates to: a fusion polypeptide in which an anti-inflammatory polypeptide and a ferritin monomer fragment are bound; and a pharmaceutical composition for treating inflammatory diseases, containing the same as an active ingredient and, more specifically, to: a fusion polypeptide in which an anti-inflammatory polypeptide is fused to an N-terminus and/or a C-terminus of a ferritin monomer fragment from which a portion of a fourth loop and a fifth helix, of a human derived ferritin monomer, are removed; and a use thereof for treating inflammatory diseases.

Abstract: Provided are an organic light-emitting diode (“OLED”) including a bottom electrode, a top electrode disposed opposite to the bottom electrode, and an organic layer that is interposed between the bottom electrode and the top electrode and includes a hole-transporting host and an electron-transporting host forming an exciplex and a phosphorescent dopant having a triplet energy which is lower than the triplet energy of the hole-transporting host, the triplet energy of the electron-transporting host, and the triplet energy of the exciplex, and a lighting device and a display apparatus including the OLED. Instead of a phosphorescent dopant, the fluorescent dopant having a singlet energy which is lower than the singlet energy of the exciplex may be also used.

Abstract: Various embodiments regarding an electronic device and a content providing method in an electronic device are described. An electronic device according to an embodiment comprises: a communication unit configured to transmit content and receive additional information of the content; a control unit configured to acquire information related to the secondary of the content on the basis of the additional information; and a display unit configured to display the content and the information related to the secondary of the content. Other various embodiments are also possible.

Abstract: A method of adjusting an output bitrate of an image by contrast adjustment includes: determining a maximum subtraction rate of a contrast of the image in response to a brightness of the image; comparing a current output bitrate of the image with a target bitrate while reducing the contrast of the image up to the determined maximum subtraction rate of the contrast of the image; and determining the contrast of the image to be the reduced contrast in response to determining that the reduced contrast of the image corresponds to the target bitrate.

Abstract: An image sensor having improved signal-to-noise ratio and reduced random noise and an image processing system are provided. The image sensor includes a pixel array including a pixel connected to a column line and configured to provide an analog pixel signal to the column line in response to at least one row control signal, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that receives and converts the analog pixel signal into a corresponding digital pixel signal. The pixel includes a group of sub-pixels simultaneously selected by the at least one row control signal, such that each one of the sub-pixels in the group of sub-pixels provides a sub-pixel signal, and the analog pixel signal is an average of the sub-pixel signals provided by the group of sub-pixels.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems, including computer-implemented methods, computer program products, and computer systems, for generating a velocity model for a subsurface area.

Abstract: A method for operation of a drinks preparation machine serves for creating a total product from a first part-product and at least a second part-product and a third part-product. The method includes detecting a user input for specifying three quantity shares and creating a total product as a combination of the three part-products with quantities that correspond to the specified quantity shares. A graphic representation of the quantity shares is represented, each with a share display per quantity share, wherein a size of the share display is essentially proportional to the respective quantity share, and the size of at least one of the share displays and thus of the respective quantity share can be adapted in accordance with a user input.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a device for controlling an operation of at least one electric device including a user interface unit having a conversation display window in which a conversation with the at least one electric device is displayed, a conversation input window configured to receive a character for controlling the operation of the at least one electric device, an icon selection window in which an icon corresponding to the at least one electric device is displayed, and a chatting screen on which a send button for transmitting the character received by the conversation input window is arranged, and a control unit configured to collectively control the operation of the at least one electric device based on a batch control instruction received by the conversation input window.

Abstract: Disclosed are a human-derived ferritin monomer fragment and a fusion polypeptide using the same, and more particularly, to a human-derived ferritin of which a portion of a fourth loop and a fifth helix of the ferritin monomer fragment are removed, and a fusion polypeptide in which a polypeptide or a protein is fused to an N-terminus or a C-terminus of the ferritin monomer fragment.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus capable of purifying air and maintaining freshness inside a refrigerator while minimizing deformation of the structure of an existing refrigerator, and a method for controlling the same. The apparatus for air purification and freshness maintenance according to the present invention is formed separately from a storage space (12) of a refrigerator (10) and is installed on a cooling passage (14) which communicates with the storage space (12) through an inlet (13) and an outlet (15), wherein a photocatalyst filter (30) is installed in the vicinity of the outlet (15) within the cooling passage (14), and a plurality of cells (32) forming an air vent are formed in the photocatalyst filter (30) in the same direction as the air flow direction within the cooling passage (14), in which a UV LED (41) for radiating ultraviolet rays toward the cells (32) of the photocatalyst filter (30) is installed.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems, including computer-implemented methods, computer program products, and computer systems, for generating geophysical images.

Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to analyze a network topology in a wireless communication system. A method for operating a node performing wireless communication comprises the steps of: decoding a packet in order to acquire information on peripheral links, for transmitting the packet, from the packet that does not use the node as a source or a destination; and transmitting, to a control node for performing scheduling, a message including the information on the peripheral links. In addition, the present invention includes the above-mentioned embodiment and the other embodiments.

Abstract: A method of operating a storage device includes receiving a first logical address from a host, determining whether first metadata stored in a volatile memory of the storage device and associated with the first logical address is corrupted, processing the first metadata as an uncorrectable error when the first metadata is determined to be corrupted, providing an error message to the host indicating that an operation cannot be performed on data associated with the first logical address when the first metadata is processed as the uncorrectable error, after the providing of the error message, receiving a second logical address from the host, determining whether second metadata stored in the volatile memory and associated with the second logical address is corrupted, and performing an operation of accessing the non-volatile memory based on the second metadata, when the second metadata is not determined to be corrupted.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to image sensors and electronic apparatuses including the same. An image sensor including: a pixel area including shared pixels, wherein each of the shared pixels includes at least two photodiodes that form a group and share a floating diffusion (FD) area; and a transistor (TR) area adjacent to the pixel area, wherein the TR area includes transistor sets corresponding to the shared pixels, wherein, when a first shared pixel and a second shared pixel are arranged adjacent to each other in a first direction, a first TR set corresponding to the first shared pixel and a second TR set corresponding to the second shared pixel share a source region of a first selection TR.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting display apparatus for selectively realizing circular polarization according to external light conditions, including a substrate; an organic light-emitting device on the substrate; a sealing member on the organic light-emitting device; a phase retardation layer on a surface of the substrate, the organic light-emitting device, or the sealing member; and a linear polarization layer on another surface of the substrate, the organic light-emitting device, or the sealing member, wherein the linear polarization layer is located to be closer to a source of external light than the phase retardation layer, and wherein the linear polarization layer comprises a photochromic material.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods for adjustably retaining an oral appliance to an abutment assembly are disclosed. In one variation, a securement apparatus can comprise a sleeve having a sleeve frame and a number of locking flaps. The sleeve can define a lumen therethrough for positioning upon an abutment assembly. The locking flaps can have varying length dimensions and can project radially inward or outward relative to the sleeve frame. The outward flaps can lock against surface features defined along an inner surface of a coping coupled to the oral appliance and the inward flaps can lock against surface features defined along a portion of the abutment assembly. The sleeve can release the oral appliance from the abutment assembly when the locking flaps of the sleeve are actuated by an actuation unit.

Abstract: A method of operating a storage device managing a multi-namespace includes storing first mapping information including a mapping between a first logical address space and a first physical address space to a mapping table, in response to a request to create a first namespace, the first logical address space being allocated to the first namespace, and storing second mapping information including a mapping between a second logical address space and a second physical address space to the mapping table, in response to a request to create a second namespace, the second logical address space being allocated to the second namespace and being contiguous to the first logical address space.

Abstract: Dental retention systems which facilitate the adjustment or removal of an oral appliance, e.g., a crown or bridge, from a reconfigurable abutment assembly are described. The adjustable abutment assembly may be secured to an anchoring implant within the mouth of a patient. The abutment assembly has a projecting abutment portion with one or more shape memory elements extending along the projecting abutment portion. Energy may be applied to the elements such that the arcuate portion self-flattens to allow for the oral appliance to be placed thereupon while removal of the energy allows the elements to reconfigure into its curved configuration thereby locking the oral appliance to the abutment. Removal of the oral appliance may be effected by reapplication of energy to the elements.