Abstract: Disclosed are a semiconductor memory device and a method of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor memory device includes a device isolation layer defining active regions of a substrate, and gate lines buried in the substrate and extending across the active regions. Each of the gate lines includes a conductive layer, a liner layer disposed between and separating the conductive layer and the substrate, and a first work function adjusting layer disposed on the conductive layer and the liner layer. The first work function adjusting layer includes a first work function adjusting material. A work function of the first work function adjusting layer is less than those of the conductive layer and the liner layer.

Abstract: A wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) having a processor configured to receive a signal indicating a position and/or movement of the ambulatory patient while the ambulatory patient is wearing the support structure receive the ECG signal, determine from an ECG signal whether a shock criterion is met, determine a confirmation time period and/or a response time period based on the position and/or movement of the ambulatory patient, determine from the ECG signal whether the shock criterion is met after the confirmation time period has elapsed, cause the user interface to generate the shock alert signal based on the shock criterion determined after the confirmation time period has elapsed, and control the discharge circuit to discharge the stored electrical charge when a predetermined time period has elapsed after the shock alert signal.

Abstract: In embodiments a wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system is worn by an ambulatory patient. The WCD system analyzes an ECG signal of the patient, to determine whether or not the patient should be given an electric shock to restart their heart. If the WCD system determines that such a shock should be given, then it also determines whether or not a High Frequency (H-F) noise criterion is met by the ECG signal. If that H-F noise criterion is not met, the patient can be shocked. If, however, that H-F noise criterion is met, then the WCD system can confirm before shocking, by sensing another portion of the ECG signal, analyzing again, and so on. Thanks to the confirmation before shocking, the possibility is diminished that the ECG signal will indicate that a shock is needed falsely, due to H-F noise. This can further reduce false patient alarms, and so on.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device for selectively generating video using image data acquired at a frame rate changed according to the distance between a subject and a reference region; and an operation method. The electronic device includes a camera, memory, display and processor, which may be configured to acquire, at a first frame rate, a plurality of first images including an object of interest, identify the distance between a reference region, by using at least some first images of the plurality of first images; obtain, at a second frame rate higher than the first frame rate, a plurality of second images including the object of interest, based on the distance satisfying a first designated condition; identify whether the position of the object of interest at least temporarily belongs to the reference region, and generate video corresponding to the second frame rate for the object of interest.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first conductive line and a second conductive line spaced apart from the first conductive line. A semiconductor pattern is disposed between the first conductive line and the second conductive line. The semiconductor pattern includes a first semiconductor pattern having first-conductivity-type impurities disposed adjacent to the first conductive line. A second semiconductor pattern having second-conductivity-type impurities is disposed adjacent to the second conductive line. A third semiconductor pattern is disposed between the first semiconductor pattern and the second semiconductor pattern. The third semiconductor pattern includes a first region disposed adjacent to the first semiconductor pattern and a second region disposed between the first region and the second semiconductor pattern. At least one of the first region and the second region comprises an intrinsic semiconductor layer.

Abstract: A memory device includes a magnetic track layer extending on a substrate, the magnetic track layer having a folded structure that is two-dimensionally villi-shaped, a plurality of reading units including a plurality of fixed layers and a tunnel barrier layer between the magnetic track layer and each of the plurality of fixed layers, and a plurality of bit lines extending on different ones of the plurality of reading units, the plurality of reading units being between the magnetic track layer and corresponding ones of the plurality of bit lines.

Abstract: A capacitor comprises a first electrode, a second electrode provided on the first electrode, a ferroelectric film provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a dielectric film provided between the ferroelectric film and the second electrode, impedance of the ferroelectric film and impedance of the dielectric film are determined such that a control voltage applied between the first electrode and the second electrode is equal to a capacitance boosting operating voltage, and the capacitance boosting operating voltage is determined by the following equation: V MAX = ( 1 + ? Z 2 ? ? Z 1 ? ) ? t F ? E FM where VMAX is a capacitance boosting operating voltage, Z1 is impedance of the ferroelectric film, Z2 is impedance of the dielectric film, tF is a thickness of the ferroelectric film, and EFM is an electric field applied to the ferroelectric film having a maximum polarization.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of acquiring position information of a vehicle by a V2X communication device of a vehicle through V2I communication. Specifically, the method of acquiring position information of the vehicle includes receiving a first V2I message including position information, transmission power information, and coverage information of a first road side unit (RSU) from the first RSU; acquiring reception power of the first V2I message; and acquiring region information of the vehicle based on the reception power and the coverage information, wherein the region information indicates based on (1) the vehicle being located within the coverage of the first RSU or (2) a specific region within the coverage of the first RSU.

Abstract: According to an embodiment disclosed in the specification, an electronic device may include a display, a wireless communication circuit, a processor, and a memory storing a first application program having a first priority associated with use of a resource of the wireless communication circuit and a second application program having a second priority associated with the use of the resource. The memory may store instructions that cause the processor to execute the first application program, to execute the second application program, to compare the first priority with the second priority when the first application program is displayed on the display, and to cause the first application program to have a priority the same as the second application program or to have a priority higher than the second application program, based at least partly on the comparison.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method by which a decoding apparatus performs video coding, comprising the steps of: generating a motion information candidate list for a current block; selecting one candidate from among those included in the motion information candidate list; deriving control point motion vectors (CPMVs) of the current block based on the selected candidate; deriving sub-block-unit or sample-unit motion vectors of the current block based on the CPMVs; deriving a predicted block based on the motion vectors; and reconstructing a current picture based on the predicted block, wherein the motion information candidate list includes an inherited affine candidate, the inherited affine candidate is derived based on candidate blocks coded by affine prediction, from among spatial neighboring blocks of the current block, and the inherited affine candidate is generated up to a pre-defined maximum number.

Abstract: A backlight unit and a display device including the backlight unit are discussed. By arranging at least one electronic element for driving a light source and the backlight unit on a surface where the light source is disposed in a printed circuit and arranging a pattern having a reflective characteristic in an area where the electronic element is disposed, an image quality of the backlight unit can be maintained and a design structure of the backlight unit can be simplified. In addition, the light source and the electronic element can be disposed on a same surface of the printed circuit so that a space is not present between an opposite surface of the surface of the printed circuit where the light source is disposed and a cover bottom, so the performance of a heat dissipation can be improved in an area where the light source or the electronic element overlaps.

Abstract: An electric motor assembly for, for example, a hair dryer, includes an impeller, an outer housing in which the impeller is accommodated, an inner housing concentrically disposed in the outer housing, a stator having one side thereof accommodated in the inner housing, a rotor provided with a rotating shaft having one end coupled to the impeller and rotatably accommodated in the stator, a first bearing disposed at one side of the rotor, a second bearing disposed at another side of the rotor, and a bracket coupled to the stator and the outer housing so as to support the second bearing. Accordingly, initial alignment of the stator and the rotor may be securely maintained.

Abstract: An image signal processor that generates a display signal receives an input image signal having a first pedestal level from an image sensor, generates a first signal from the input image signal, the first signal including a second pedestal level, the second pedestal level being different from the first pedestal level and being determined in accordance with the first pedestal level and a processing gain of the image signal processor, generates a second signal having the second pedestal level by amplifying the first signal in accordance with the processing gain, generates a third signal having the second pedestal level by removing a noise signal from the second signal; and generates a fourth signal by subtracting the second pedestal level from the third signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is an inter prediction method which includes deriving control points (CPs) for the current block, wherein the CPs include a first CP and a second CP, deriving a first motion vector predictor (MVP) for the first CP and a second MVP for the second CP based on neighboring blocks of the current block, decoding a first motion vector difference (MVD) for the first CP, decoding a difference of two MVDs (DMVD) for the second CP, deriving a first motion vector (MV) for the first CP based on the first MVP and the first MVD, deriving a second MV for the second CP based on the second MVP and the DMVD for the second CP, and generating a predicted block for the current block based on the first MV and the second MV.

Abstract: An electric motor assembly includes an outer housing, an impeller rotatably disposed in the outer housing, an inner housing that is disposed in the outer housing and defines an air flow path at an outside of the inner housing, a stator disposed in the inner housing, a rotor disposed in the inner housing, the rotor comprising a rotating shaft coupled to the impeller, a first bearing that is disposed in the inner housing and supports a first side of the rotating shaft, a second bearing that disposed in the inner housing and supports a second side of the rotating shaft, and a bracket that is disposed at the second bearing and that is in contact with an end of the stator. The bracket is coupled to the inner housing in an axial direction of the inner housing.

Abstract: A wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) comprises a plurality of electrocardiography (ECG) electrodes, a right-leg drive (RLD) electrode, and a plurality of defibrillator electrodes to contact the patient's skin when the WCD is delivering therapy to the patient, a preamplifier coupled to the ECG electrodes and the RLD electrode to obtain ECG data from the patient as one or more ECG vectors, a processor to receive ECG data from the preamplifier and an abort signal from a user interface, an isolation barrier to isolate the preamplifier from the processor, and a high voltage subsystem to provide a defibrillation voltage to the patient through the defibrillator electrodes in response to a shock signal received from the processor. A shock is provided when an abort signal is not received within a predetermined time period of a shock criterion being met. Less than one false alarm occurs every ten patient-days.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for fabricating of a semiconductor device. The method includes receiving a first layout including patterns for the fabrication of the semiconductor device, performing machine learning-based process proximity correction (PPC) based on features of the patterns of the first layout to generate a second layout, and performing optical proximity correction (OPC) on the second layout to generate a third layout.

Abstract: A method includes placing standard cells based on a standard cell library and generating layout data, and placing a filler cell selected from among a first type filler cell and a second type filler cell by using the layout data. The filler cell is placed based on a density of a pattern formed in the standard cell. The standard cell library includes data defining the first and second type filler cells. A density of a contact formed on an active region of the second type filler cell to contact the active region of the second type filler cell is lower than a density of a contact formed on an active region of a first type filler cell to contact the active region of the first type filler cell.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch screen display including an organic light emitting layer that is formed of a plurality of pixels, a wireless communication circuit, a processor operatively coupled with the display and the wireless communication circuit, and a memory operatively coupled with the processor.

Abstract: A wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) including a support structure configured to be worn by an ambulatory patient, an energy storage module configured to store an electrical charge, a discharge circuit coupled to the energy storage module, electrodes configured to render an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal of the patient while the patient is wearing the support structure, a user interface configured to output an alarm in response to a noise alarm signal, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive the ECG signal, determine whether noise is present on the ECG signal, determine from the ECG signal whether a shock criterion is met, and cause the user interface to generate the noise alarm signal when the noise is present on the ECG signal and the shock criterion is met and not generate the noise alarm signal when noise is present on the ECG signal and the shock criterion is not met.