Abstract: Disclosed herein are a video decoding method and apparatus and a video encoding method and apparatus. In video encoding and decoding, multiple partition blocks are generated by splitting a target block. A prediction mode is derived for at least a part of the multiple partition blocks, among the multiple partition blocks, and prediction is performed on the multiple partition blocks based on the derived prediction mode. When prediction is performed on the partition blocks, information related to the target block may be used, and information related to an additional partition block, which is predicted prior to the partition block, may be used.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first electrode, the second electrode and the separator being wound around a winding axis to define a core and an outer peripheral surface. The first electrode and the second electrode include a first uncoated region and a second uncoated region along a winding direction, respectively, and an active material layer coating is absent in the first uncoated region and the second uncoated region. The battery further includes a housing receiving the electrode assembly through an opening formed at a bottom, a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and disposed within the housing, a cap covering the opening, a spacer interposed between the cap and the electrode assembly to fix the electrode assembly and seal the housing, and a terminal electrically connected to the second uncoated region.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a nanostructure for detecting viruses including an amphipathic polymer, and a diagnostic platform using the same, wherein the nanostructure is capable of specifically detecting viruses through silica-based nanoparticles with excellent stability and high dispersion and a biocompatible amphipathic polymer, such that it is possible to develop a diagnostic platform with high sensitivity through binding and agglomeration of the nanostructure and viruses and enable rapid and accurate diagnosis of a target virus.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same. In the electrode assembly, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound based on a winding axis to define a core and an outer circumference. The first electrode includes a first active material portion coated with an active material layer and a first uncoated portion not coated with an active material layer along a winding direction. At least a part of the first uncoated portion is defined as an electrode tab by itself. The first uncoated portion includes a first portion adjacent to the core of the electrode assembly, a second portion adjacent to the outer circumference of the electrode assembly, and a third portion interposed between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion or the second portion has a smaller height than the third portion in the winding axis direction.

Abstract: A light-emitting element transfer system includes raw film cutting device for forming a transfer member by cutting a raw film, a stretching device for stretching a transfer film with a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed thereon, a circuit board support member for supporting a circuit board and transport head for adsorbing the transfer member and transferring the light-emitting elements on the transfer film onto the circuit board by using the adsorbed transfer member.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode wound around a winding axis to define a core and an outer circumferential surface, the first electrode including a first uncoated region in which an active material layer is not coated along a winding direction; a housing accommodating the electrode assembly through an open portion at a lower end thereof; a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and disposed in the housing; a cap to cover the open portion; and a spacer between the first current collector and the cap and having a height corresponding to a distance between the first current collector and the cap.

Abstract: Provided are an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and vehicle including the same. An electrode assembly, in which a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound about an axis to define a core and an outer circumferential surface. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode includes, at a long side end portion, an uncoated portion exposed beyond the separator in a direction of the axis. At least a part of the uncoated portion is bent in a radial direction of the electrode assembly to define a bent surface region having overlapping layers of the uncoated portion. The bent surface region includes a welding target region having a number of the overlapping layers of the uncoated portion, and the welding target region extends along a radial direction of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first uncoated region and a second uncoated region; a battery housing accommodating the electrode assembly and electrically connected to the second uncoated region; a cap to cover an open portion on bottom of the battery housing; a first electrode terminal passing through a partially closed portion of the battery housing and being electrically isolated from the battery housing; and a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and connected to the first electrode terminal.

Abstract: A method for forming a semiconductor die, includes forming an interlayer dielectric layer on a substrate having a semiconductor die region, a seal-ring region, and a scribe line region, forming a metal pad and a test pad on the interlayer dielectric layer, forming a passivation dielectric layer on the interlayer dielectric layer, the metal pad, and the test pad, first etching the passivation dielectric layer and the interlayer dielectric layer existing between the seal-ring region and the scribe line region to a predetermined depth using a plasma etching process, second etching the passivation dielectric layer to expose the metal pad and the test pad, forming a bump on the metal pad, and dicing the substrate while removing the scribe line region by mechanical sawing.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same. In the electrode assembly, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound based on an axis to define a core and an outer circumference. The first electrode includes an uncoated portion at a long side end thereof and exposed out of the separator along a winding axis direction of the electrode assembly. A part of the uncoated portion is bent in a radial direction of the electrode assembly to form a bending surface region that includes overlapping layers of the uncoated portion, and in a partial region of the bending surface region, the number of stacked layers of the uncoated portion is 10 or more in the winding axis direction of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an outer housing that comprises a first surface facing a first direction, a second surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a side surface surrounding a space between the first surface and the second surface, a display adapted to expose at least a portion of the display through the first surface of the outer housing, a PCB arranged between the second surface and the display in an interior of the outer housing, a communication circuit arranged on or over the PCB, a first conductive structure formed of at least one of the first surface or at least a portion of the side surface is electrically connected to the communication circuit, and a second conductive structure formed of the portion of the display electrically connected to the first conductive structure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for prevention or treatment of a stress disease and depression, the pharmaceutical composition be safely useable without toxicity and side effects by using an extract of leaves of Vaccinium bracteatum Thunb., which is natural resource of Korea, so that the reduction of manufacturing and production costs and the import substitution and export effects can be expected through the replacement of a raw material for preparation with a plant inhabiting in nature.

Abstract: Provided is an aerosol-generating article including a wrapper which is discolored as the aerosol-generating material is heated, the aerosol-generating article including: a tobacco rod; a front-end plug arranged on a side of the tobacco rod; a filter rod arranged on the other side of the tobacco rod; and the wrapper surrounding the tobacco rod, the front-end plug, and the filter rod, wherein the wrapper includes a thermochromic material which is heated and discolored by an aerosol-generating device when the aerosol-generating article is inserted into the aerosol-generating device.

Abstract: A display device comprises a display area and a non-display area, sub-pixels in the display area, each sub-pixel including a first electrode and a second electrode extended in a first direction and light-emitting elements disposed on the first electrode and the second electrode, sub-lines disposed in the non-display area and extended in a second direction, and conductive patterns extended in the first direction, each conductive pattern being connected to at least one of the plurality of sub-lines. The sub-lines comprise first, second, and third sub-lines sequentially disposed from the first sub-line toward the display area. The conductive patterns are disposed in at least one of the sub-pixels closest to the sub-lines. The conductive patterns comprise a first conductive pattern connected to the first sub-line, second conductive patterns connected to the second sub-line, and a third conductive pattern connected to the third sub-line.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for reusing wastewater. The method for reusing wastewater disclosed herein includes: generating a mixed wastewater by mixing multiple types of wastewater (S20); performing a first purification by passing the mixed wastewater through a flocculation-sedimentation unit (S40); performing a second purification by passing an effluent of the flocculation-sedimentation unit through a membrane bioreactor (MBR) (S60); performing a third purification by passing an effluent of the MBR through a reverse-osmosis membrane unit (S80); and reusing an effluent of the reverse-osmosis membrane unit as cooling water or industrial water (S100).

Abstract: A transition dichalcogenide homojunction structure may include a lower high resistance layer including a plurality of PtX2 layers and an upper low resistance layer which includes the plurality of PtX2 layers and has different thickness and number of growth layers from the lower high resistance layer. And the lower high resistance layer and the upper low resistance layer may form a homojunction. The heat transfer characteristic of the lower high resistance layer may increase by the interface induced Seebeck effect with the upper low resistance layer. The transition dichalcogenide homojunction structure may generate the interface induced Seebeck effect at the interface of the homojunction to generate a thermal voltage. Further, the transition metal dichalcogenide homojunction structure may measure the Seebeck effect of the lower high resistance layer using the upper low resistance layer without separate measurement equipment.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrolyte solution and a secondary battery including the same. According to the present invention, the present invention has an effect of providing a secondary battery having improved charging efficiency and output due to low discharge resistance and having a long lifespan and excellent high-temperature capacity retention by suppressing gas generation and increase in thickness.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of printing a nanostructure including: preparing a template substrate on which a pattern is formed; forming a replica pattern having an inverse phase of the pattern by coating a polymer thin film on an upper portion of the template substrate, adhering a thermal release tape to an upper portion of the polymer thin film, and separating the polymer thin film from the template substrate; forming a nanostructure by depositing a functional material on the replica pattern; and printing the nanostructure deposited on the replica pattern to a substrate by positioning the nanostructure on the substrate, applying heat and pressure to the nanostructure, and weakening an adhesive force between the thermal release tape and the replica pattern by the heat.

Abstract: Disclosed herein relates to an electrode for a lithium secondary battery including an insulating layer. The insulating layer is formed on a first insulating layer containing a first binder and on the first insulating layer, and includes a second insulating layer containing inorganic particles and a second binder, wherein the first binder is PVDF (Polyvinylidene fluoride), and the second binder is SBR (styrene butadiene rubber). Accordingly, the insulating layer of the present invention is excellent in wetness adhesion and electrical safety.