Abstract: An image processing device for performing an image blurring method includes an image preprocessor configured to determine an in-focus area and an out-of-focus area for sub-images of an externally received image, the sub-images generated based on pixel values of the externally received image. The image processor is also configured to calculate disparity values between the sub-images in the out-of-focus area. The image processing device further includes an image combiner configured to perform a blur operation on the out-of-focus area depending on a strength of the blur operation determined based on the disparity values and to sum sub-images on which the blur operation is performed.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of blocks on a substrate. Trenches are disposed between the plurality of blocks. Conductive patterns are formed inside the trenches. A lower end of an outermost trench among the trenches is formed at a level higher than a level of a lower end of the trench adjacent to the outermost trench. Each of the blocks includes insulating layers and gate electrodes, which are alternately and repeatedly stacked. Pillars pass through the insulating layers and the gate electrodes along a direction orthogonal to an upper surface of the substrate.

Abstract: An electrode assembly, a battery, a battery pack and a vehicle are provided. 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 along a winding direction and a first uncoated portion not coated with an active material layer, the first uncoated portion includes a plurality of independently bendable segments, a cut groove is interposed between adjacent segments along the winding direction, and a lower portion of the cut groove has a round portion.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a conductive pattern includes forming a conductive metal material layer and a conductive capping material layer on a substrate, forming a photoresist pattern as an etching mask on the conductive capping material layer, forming a first conductive capping pattern by etching the conductive capping material layer with a first etchant, forming a conductive metal layer and a second conductive capping pattern by etching the conductive metal material layer and the first conductive capping pattern with a second etchant, and forming a conductive capping layer by etching the second conductive capping pattern with a third etchant. The second conductive capping pattern includes a first region overlapping the conductive metal layer and a second region not overlapping the conductive metal layer, and the forming of the conductive capping layer includes etching the second region of the second conductive capping pattern to form the conductive capping layer.

Abstract: An apparatus for classifying fake images according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an artifact remover configured to receive an input image to generate an artifact-removed image from which artifacts are removed, an artifact image generator configured to generate an artifact image by using a difference between the input image and the artifact removal image, and a determiner configured to determine whether the artifact image is a real image or a fake image by receiving the artifact image.

Abstract: A system for circulating air through double pipes for supplying gas, includes double pipes connected to a gas handling device and supplied with gas; a gas supply unit for supplying gas to the gas handling device through an inner pipe of the double pipes; an air supply unit for supplying air through an outer pipe of the double pipes; and an air suctioning means for suctioning and circulating the air, which is supplied to the outer pipe by the air supply unit, by the introduction of a high pressure fluid. Rather than circulating air through the outer pipe of the double pipes by a fan, air can be circulated through the double pipes for gas supply by a simpler structure and more effective configuration.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system for planning electric field cancer treatment based on absorbed energy including: an image classification unit to classify a patient's medical image into an organ and a tumor; a property information setting unit to set property information for each region classified by the image classification unit; a prescription information determination unit to set a prescription method; a dose calculation unit to initially set the number and location of electrodes used for electric field cancer treatment and the electric field intensity for each electrode; and a dose optimization unit to optimize the dose by changing at least one electrode.

Abstract: An electric field cancer treatment apparatus using a rotating alternating current (AC) electric field according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a plurality of electrode pairs configured to transmit AC electric fields to a target area in a body, a plurality of AC electric field generators respectively connected to the plurality of electrode pairs and configured to generate AC electric fields to be applied to the plurality of electrode pairs, and a controller configured to control generation of AC electric fields by the plurality of AC electric field generators.

Abstract: Disclosed is a display device having a thin film transistor substrate, which may prevent afterimage and flicker defects by reducing the non-uniformity of an electric field. In the thin film transistor substrate, a pixel electrode includes a transparent edge electrode and a transparent inner electrode, which are spaced apart from each other with a first slit having a first width interposed therebetween, and a common electrode is exposed from the other-side end of the transparent edge electrode by a second width, which is smaller than the first width, in the width direction of a data line. As such, an inner area and an edge area in each sub pixel have uniform electric field distribution.

Abstract: Provided is a thermoelectric module. The thermoelectric module includes a thermoelectric element including a first substrate, a first electrode disposed on the first substrate, a semiconductor structure disposed on the first electrode, a second electrode disposed on the semiconductor structure, and a second substrate disposed on the second electrode, a heat sink disposed on the second substrate, and an adhesive layer configured to bond the second substrate to the heat sink. The heat sink has a shape in which predetermined patterns are regularly repeated and connected. Each pattern includes a first surface disposed opposite to the second substrate, a in second surface which extends upward from one end of the first surface, a third surface which extends from the second surface to face the second substrate, and a fourth surface which extends upward from the other end opposite to the one end of the first surface and is connected to a third surface of an adjacent pattern.

Abstract: A block-chain-based Mydata transaction method in a method of trading block-chain-based Mydata using at least one processor according to embodiment of present invention comprises a transmission step of sending a Mydata download request to the data providing company, a download step of downloading the Mydata from the data providing company, a storage step of storing the downloaded Mydata in the form of a block-chain-based DID (Decentralized Identifier), a receiving step of receiving a Mydata purchase request from a data purchasing company and a providing step of providing Mydata stored with the DID to the data purchasing company in response to the Mydata purchase request.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for updating an Internet-based malware detection engine using virtual machine scaling. The method may include creating a scaling group and an update group set based on a first virtual machine image, creating a second virtual machine image for a running virtual machine in response to occurrence of a snapshot event in the virtual update group run based on the first virtual machine image, modifying the scale-out image of the scaling group to the second virtual machine image, updating the scaling group by triggering a scale-out event and a scale-in event in the scaling group in response to occurrence of an update event, and modifying the scale-in image of the scaling group to the second virtual machine image.

Abstract: A system for determining a tumor treatment plan using dose based on impulse is provided. The system comprises an information receiving unit classifying organs and a tumor of a medical image, and receiving three-dimensional image information including the organs and the tumor, and to receive physical property information including electrical conductivity and permittivity of the medical image; a dose receiving unit receiving a prescription dose information based on the impulse to the tumor; a candidate treatment plan establishing unit making at least one candidate treatment plan including number of treatment electrodes, position of the treatment electrode, treatment frequency, treatment voltage or current density and treatment time using the information received from the information receiving unit and the dose receiving unit; and a treatment plan determining unit determining a candidate treatment plan as a selected treatment plan from at least one candidate treatment plans.

Abstract: A quantization device includes: a trellis-structured vector quantizer which quantizes a first error vector between an N-dimensional (here, “N” is two or more) subvector and a first predictive vector; and an inter-frame predictor which generates a first predictive vector from the quantized N-dimensional subvector, wherein the inter-frame predictor uses a predictive coefficient comprising an N×N matrix and performs an inter-frame prediction using the quantized N-dimensional subvector of a previous stage.

Abstract: A novel modified polypeptide having an isopropylmalate synthase activity, a polynucleotide encoding the same, a microorganism including the polypeptide, and a method of producing L-leucine by culturing the microorganism.

Abstract: Disclosed is a display device having a thin film transistor substrate, which may prevent afterimage and flicker defects by reducing the non-uniformity of an electric field. In the thin film transistor substrate, a pixel electrode includes a transparent edge electrode and a transparent inner electrode, which are spaced apart from each other with a first slit having a first width interposed therebetween, and a common electrode is exposed from the other-side end of the transparent edge electrode by a second width, which is smaller than the first width, in the width direction of a data line. As such, an inner area and an edge area in each sub pixel have uniform electric field distribution.

Abstract: An electric field cancer treatment apparatus using a rotating alternating current (AC) electric field according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a plurality of electrode pairs configured to transmit AC electric fields to a target area in a body, a plurality of AC electric field generators respectively connected to the plurality of electrode pairs and configured to generate AC electric fields to be applied to the plurality of electrode pairs, and a controller configured to control generation of AC electric fields by the plurality of AC electric field generators.

Abstract: An oil recovery structure for cooling a motor includes a rotor connected to a rotary shaft, a stator disposed on the rotor, a housing surrounding the rotor and the stator, and an oil housing disposed on the housing, in which the oil housing includes a first inlet through which the oil is introduced from a space defined on one side of the rotor, a second inlet through which the oil is introduced from a reducer connected to the rotary shaft, and a discharging port discharging the oil inside the oil housing to an oil filter.

Abstract: A motor cover structure sealing a housing of a motor includes a partition wall disposed on one side of a stator disposed within the motor to contact a cover contacting the housing, and a body part mounted with the partition wall, in which an oil recovery line is defined between the partition wall and the body part, and the oil flows to the oil recovery line in a space of one side of a rotor disposed within the motor.

Abstract: The presently-disclosed subject matter includes a multi-coordinate gold-phosphine compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.