Abstract: An nth (where n is a natural number) stage is included in a scan driver of a display. The nth stage includes: a first input circuit for controlling a voltage of a first node in response to a carry signal of a previous stage; a second input circuit for controlling the voltage of the first node in response to a carry signal of a next stage; a first control circuit for controlling a voltage of an output terminal in response to the carry signal of the next stage; an output circuit for outputting an nth scan signal and an nth carry signal in response to the voltage of the first node and a voltage of a second node; and a leakage control circuit for supplying a control voltage to the first input circuit and the second input circuit in response to one of the nth scan signal and the nth carry signal.

Abstract: An appliance is provided. The appliance includes a transceiver, and a processor configured to, based on an external appliance being identified to be adjacent to the appliance, receive arrangement state information of the external appliance through the transceiver, identify whether the appliance is a slave device controlled by the external appliance or a master device to control the external appliance based on the arrangement state information of the external appliance and arrangement state information of the appliance, based on the appliance being identified as the slave device, transmit a control authority to the external appliance through the transceiver, and based on the appliance being identified as the master device, request the control authority from the external appliance identified as the slave device through the transceiver.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electron buffering material and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same in an electron buffer layer. It is possible to provide an organic electroluminescent device having excellent luminous efficiency and lifespan characteristics by using the electron buffering material according to the present invention.

Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a substrate and a semiconductor chip disposed over the substrate. The substrate includes: a base layer including an upper surface facing the semiconductor chip; an upper ground electrode plate disposed over the upper surface of the base layer and configured to transmit a ground voltage to the semiconductor chip; and a dummy power pattern disposed in the upper ground electrode plate and having a side surface which is surrounded by the upper ground electrode plate and is spaced apart from the upper ground electrode plate with an insulating material between the dummy power pattern and the upper ground electrode plate. A ground voltage transmission path from the upper ground electrode plate to the semiconductor chip is spaced apart from the dummy power pattern.

Abstract: Disclosed are a sorbent produced by recycling waste paper, which is an eco-friendly recycling paper resource, to adsorb and remove a marine spilled oil and other types of oil and a method of producing the same. The oil sorbent is produced by hydrophobizing a biomass material such as waste paper using a gas-grafting method. Compared to the oil sorbent of the prior art formed of synthetic resin, it is possible to provide excellent oil adsorption selectivity, a high oil adsorption rate, and a low water absorption rate. Therefore, an incineration process for processing the waste oil sorbent after use is easy advantageously. The oil sorbent generates less harmful substances during combustion because the eco-friendly material is used. Since a biomass material is hydrophobized using vegetable fatty acids, decomposition is performed fast within a short time in a landfill process, and there is no risk of environmental pollution.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for coding video data predictively based on predictions made from spherical-domain projections of input pictures to be coded and reference pictures that are prediction candidates. Spherical projection of an input picture and the candidate reference pictures may be generated. Thereafter, a search may be conducted for a match between the spherical-domain representation of a pixel block to be coded and a spherical-domain representation of the reference picture. On a match, an offset may be determined between the spherical-domain representation of the pixel block to a matching portion of the of the reference picture in the spherical-domain representation. The spherical-domain offset may be transformed to a motion vector in a source-domain representation of the input picture, and the pixel block may be coded predictively with reference to a source-domain representation of the matching portion of the reference picture.

Abstract: An etching composition contains phosphoric acid, phosphoric anhydride, a compound represented by the following Formula 1, and a silane compound comprising at least one silicon (Si) atom, excluding the compound represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, A is an n-valent radical, where n is an integer of 1 to 6, L is a direct bond or hydrocarbylene, Y is selected from NR1, O, PR2 and S, where R1 to R2 are independently hydrogen, halogen, a substituted unsubstituted hydrocarbyl group, or non-hydrocarbyl group, X and Z are independently selected from N, O, P and S, and Ra to Rc are independently an unshared electron pair, hydrogen, or a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl group.

Abstract: Provided are a system and a computer program for managing and predicting thyrotoxicosis using a wearable device. The system for predicting thyrotoxicosis is a system for predicting thyrotoxicosis using a resting heart rate, the system including a wearable device for measuring the heart rate of a patient at regular intervals, and a bio-signal computing device for receiving heart rate information from the wearable device, the bio-signal computing device outputting a warning alarm when a resting heart rate is greater than a reference heart rate when the patient is in a normal state.

Abstract: The present specification discloses a light-emitting diode (LED) driving apparatus in which a voltage drop phenomenon due to a common impedance is mitigated. In the LED driving apparatus according to the present specification, a circuit is configured by combining N-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS) transistors or P-type MOS (PMOS) transistors such that a positive power source or a negative power source is not connected to a source terminal of a metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET). To this end, it is possible to eliminate common impedance effects on the positive power source or the negative power source.

Abstract: This application relates to a coating layer composition and a coating layer formed using the coating layer composition. The coating layer composition includes a heat-resistant binder, a hydroxy group-containing polyimide particle, a silane cross-linking agent, and a solvent. The hydroxy group-containing polyimide particle and the functional group-containing silane cross-linking agent form a core-shell structured organic particle in which a core portion is derived from the hydroxy group-containing polyimide particles and a shell portion that is derived from the functional group-containing silane cross-linking agent. The shell portion is on the surface of the core portion in the core-shell structured organic particle. The application also relates to a separator for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the separator having a coating layer formed using the coating layer composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a plurality of host materials and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same. By comprising a specific combination of a plurality of host compounds, the organic electroluminescent device according to the present invention provides high efficiency and long lifespan.

Abstract: Nonvolatile memory devices, operating methods thereof, and memory systems including the same. A nonvolatile memory device may include a memory cell array and a word line driver. The memory cell array may include a plurality of memory cells. The word line driver may be configured to apply word line voltages to a plurality of word lines connected to the plurality of memory cells, respectively. Magnitudes of the word line voltages may be determined according to locations of the plurality of word lines.

Abstract: An electronic system includes a host and a memory system. The host includes: a request merge manager configured to generate one or more operation request sets; a first request set queue configured to store one or more of transmission request sets and operation request sets, and sequentially output the operation request sets and the transmission request sets to a memory system; a first scheduler configured to control the priorities of the operation request sets and the transmission request sets; a second request set queue configured to store the operation request sets sequentially output from the first request set queue; a second scheduler configured to generate a transmission request set, and transmit the transmission request set to the first request set queue; and a request set detector configured to transmit, to the first scheduler, request information on a request set having a highest priority.

Abstract: Provided is a display. A rotary polarized light emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; a light exiting layer, first light having a polarization state in which the first light rotates in a first direction, and exit, toward the second electrode, second light having a polarization state in which the second light rotates in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction.

Abstract: Provided are an electronic device for precision behavior profiling for transplanting humans' intelligence into AI and an operating method thereof, which may be configured to theoretically design at least one environmental factor, fit a first level model from human's processing data for a task based on the environmental factor, fit a second level model from processing data of the first level model for the task based on the environmental factor, and determine the second level model as a transplant model for humans' intelligence based on a correlation between the first level model and the second level model through profiling for the first level model and the second level model. According to various embodiments, the human's processing data may include at least any one of behavioral data or a brain signal generated while the human processes the task.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a scroll compressor that includes a first bearing rotatably supporting a rotary shaft relative to a casing at one side of the rotary shaft with respect to a motor, a second bearing rotatably supporting the rotary shaft relative to the casing at the other side of the rotary shaft with respect to the motor, and a third bearing rotatably supporting the rotary shaft relative to an orbiting scroll at the opposite side of the first bearing with respect to the second bearing, wherein the distance between a first bearing center and a third bearing center may be a predetermined distance, the distance between a motor center and the third bearing center may be longer than the distance between the motor center and the first bearing center, and the distance between a second bearing center and the motor center may be longer than the distance between the second bearing center and the third bearing center. Thus, it is possible to prevent the damage of the second bearing under poor load conditions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an antireflection film which includes a hard coating layer and a low refractive index layer formed on the hard coating layer, wherein a roughness skewness (Rsk) of the concavo-convex shape of the surface is greater than 0.5 and less than 5, and a slope angle of the concavo-convex shape of the surface is greater than 0.01 degree and less than 0.2 degree, and a display device comprising the antireflection film.

Abstract: Systems and methods for coding a video to be overlaid by annotations are devised. A motion compensated predictive coding is employed, wherein coding parameters of video pixel blocks are determined based on the pixel blocks' relation to the annotations. A decoder decodes the video and annotates it based on metadata, obtained from the coder or other sources, describing the annotations' appearance and rendering mode.

Abstract: A display device and a method of driving the same are provided. The method of driving the display includes a display area to display an image. The method includes performing a first pixel shift driving by shifting an image by a first range in the display area without loss of image information due to enlargement or reduction of the image, checking whether a change of a block grayscale value is greater than or equal to a threshold in an interest area in the display area, and performing second pixel shift driving by shifting an image having the loss of image information.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting control signal via a PUCCH in a wireless communication system, and to an apparatus for the method, wherein the method comprises the following steps: joint-coding a plurality of pieces of control information to obtain a single codeword; obtaining a first modulation symbol sequence from the single codeword; obtaining, from the first modulation symbol sequence, a plurality of second modulation symbol sequences corresponding to each slot in the PUCCH; cyclically shifting the plurality of second modulation symbol sequences in a time domain to obtain a plurality of third modulation symbol sequences; performing a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) precoding process on the plurality of third modulation symbol sequences to obtain a plurality of complex symbol sequences in a frequency domain; and transmitting the plurality of complex symbol sequences via the PUCCH.