Abstract: Provided are an imaging encoding method and device. When carrying out image encoding for a block within a slice, at least one block in a restored block of the slice is set as a reference block. When this is done, the encoding parameters of the reference block are distinguished, and the block to be encoded is encoded adaptively based on the encoding parameter.

Abstract: A cell assembly according to the present disclosure includes a cell stack including one pouch-type battery cell or two or more pouch-type battery cells stacked; and a cell cover covering two side portions of the cell stack along a widthwise direction of the cell stack and a top portion of the cell stack, wherein the cell cover is configured to adjust a width of the cell cover according to a width of the cell stack.

Abstract: Provided are an imaging encoding method and device. When carrying out image encoding for a block within a slice, at least one block in a restored block of the slice is set as a reference block. When this is done, the encoding parameters of the reference block are distinguished, and the block to be encoded is encoded adaptively based on the encoding parameter.

Abstract: An air compressor having a housing; a rotating shaft extending in the longitudinal direction inside the housing; a compression unit disposed in front of the rotating shaft and rotated by the rotating shaft to compress and discharge air that flows in; a motor unit which rotates the rotating shaft; a control board which controls the motor unit; a filter unit which supplies external electrical power to the control board and filters the noise of the electrical power; and a bus bar assembly which transfers the electrical power from the control board to the motor unit.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing an intrinsically stretchable organic solar cell, a manufacturing method thereof, and an electronic device comprising the same. The intrinsically stretchable organic solar cell of the present invention is characterized that wherein excellent interfacial bonding among stretchable constituent elements constituting each layer is induced so that the constituent elements are seamlessly integrated into a single system, thereby ensuring excellent initial power conversion efficiency (PCE), and mechanical robustness showing that 70% or more of initial PCE is maintained in spite of repetitive tensile strains. Thus, the organic solar cell is useful for an electronic device applied to any one selected from a group consisting of sensors, electronic skins, flexible displays, and stretchable displays.

Abstract: Example embodiments include a battery insulation sheet having a structure in which a first substrate, an aerogel layer, and a second substrate are laminated, wherein opposite surfaces of the aerogel layer is in contact with the first substrate or the second substrate adjacent thereto. Example embodiments also include a method of manufacturing a battery insulation sheet, and a battery module including the battery insulation sheet.

Abstract: An imaging lens system includes: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially disposed from an object side. The fourth lens has negative refractive power and the fifth lens has negative refractive power, and a ratio (TTL/2ImgHT) between a distance (TTL) from an object-side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane and a diagonal length (2ImgHT) of the imaging plane is 0.6 or less.

Abstract: Provided are a positive active material for a lithium secondary battery, a positive electrode including the same, and a lithium secondary battery including the same, the positive active material for lithium secondary batteries including a first metal oxide, which includes nickel, cobalt and manganese, being in single particle form; and a second metal oxide that contains nickel, cobalt, and manganese and is in the form of a secondary particle containing a plurality of primary particles and has an average particle diameter D50 larger than that of the first metal oxide; wherein, a nickel content of the second metal oxide is 0.8 mol or more, based on 1 mole of the total of nickel, cobalt and manganese in the second metal oxide, and a nickel content of the first metal oxide is 0.03 mole to 0.17 mole more than the nickel content of the second metal oxide.

Abstract: Disclosed decoding method of the intra prediction mode comprises the steps of: determining whether an intra prediction mode of a present prediction unit is the same as a first candidate intra prediction mode or as a second candidate intra prediction mode on the basis of 1-bit information; and determining, among said first candidate intra prediction mode and said second candidate intra prediction mode, which candidate intra prediction mode is the same as the intra prediction mode of said present prediction unit on the basis of additional 1-bit information, if the intra prediction mode of the present prediction unit is the same as at least either the first candidate intra prediction mode or the second candidate intra prediction mode, and decoding the intra prediction mode of the present prediction unit.

Abstract: A multi-channel optical sub-assembly includes a printed circuit board with a signal processor mounted thereon, a package window mounted on the printed circuit board, the package window including a transparent material, a package mounted on the package window, and an optical device accommodated into an inner space of the package and configured to convert an electrical signal, input from the signal processor, into an optical signal, wherein the electrical signal sequentially passes through a window through electrode buried in the package window and a package through electrode buried in the package and is input to the optical device.

Abstract: Provided is a transform coefficient scan method including: determining a reference transform block for a decoding target block; deriving a scanning map of the decoding target block using scanning information of the reference transform block; and performing inverse scanning on a transform coefficient of the decoding target block using the derived scanning map. According to the present invention, picture encoding/decoding efficiency may be improved.

Abstract: There is provided an image decoding method comprising: deriving a first prediction value of a current block by using at least one sample included in a reference block, obtaining an illumination compensation parameter on the basis of a predetermined reference region, deriving a second prediction value of the current block by applying the illumination compensation parameter to the first prediction value and reconstructing the current block on the basis of the second prediction value.

Abstract: An intra prediction method according to the present invention comprises the following steps: performing a directional prediction using at least one of a neighboring pixel of a current block and a left upper corner pixel positioned at a left upper corner of the current block so as to obtain a first prediction value for the current block; obtaining a second prediction value for the current block using the reference sample positioned in the current block; and weighted summing the first prediction value and the second prediction value using a weighting matrix so as to obtain a final prediction value for the current block. According to the present invention, image encoding/decoding efficiency may be improved.

Abstract: An inter prediction method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: selecting candidate units from among reconstructed neighbor units; creating a candidate unit set with respect to units to be decoded, using the selected candidate units; determining a reference unit from among the candidate units which constitute the created candidate unit set; and performing inter prediction on the units to be decoded, using the determined reference unit. According to the present invention, image encoding/decoding efficiency can be improved.

Abstract: Provided are an image encoding method and device. When carrying out image encoding for a block within a slice, at least one block in a restored block of the slice is set as a reference block. When this is done, the encoding parameters of the reference block are distinguished, and the block to be encoded is encoded adaptively based on the encoding parameters.

Abstract: A seat adjustment apparatus for a vehicle includes a plurality of connection frames provided along two opposite sides of a seat frame and two opposite sides of a back frame and configured to move forward or rearward depending on a folding direction of the back frame, guide parts provided at middle points of the plurality of connection frames and configured to be moved upward or downward by forward or rearward movements of the connection frames, and a seat cushion pipe provided inside the two connection frames and configured such that front ends of the seat cushion pipe are connected to the guide parts, and a position of a rear end of the seat cushion pipe is adjusted upward or downward by upward or downward movements of the guide parts.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present inventive concept provides a display device including: a mother substrate on which a plurality of display modules are located; and a mother film located on a rear surface of the mother substrate, wherein the mother film may include a first layer, and a second layer disposed between the first layer and the mother substrate, the second layer has a thickness of from about 40 ?m to about 60 ?m, and a thickness of the first layer may be greater than that of the second layer.

Abstract: Provided are an image encoding method and device. When carrying out image encoding for a block within a slice, at least one block in a restored block of the slice is set as a reference block. When this is done, the encoding parameters of the reference block are distinguished, and the block to be encoded is encoded adaptively based on the encoding parameters.

Abstract: A storage device may read a plurality of data units from a host memory buffer prior to entering a low power mode, release a communication link with the host after reading the plurality of data unit, execute a background operation based on at least one of the plurality of data units, and enter into the low power mode after executing the background operation.

Abstract: Provided is a method for performing intra-prediction, using an adaptive filter. The method for performing intra-prediction includes the steps of: determining whether or not to apply a first filter for a reference pixel value on the basis of information of a neighboring block of a current block; applying the first filter for the reference pixel value when it is determined to apply to the first filter; performing intra-prediction on the current block on the basis of the reference pixel value; determining whether or not to apply a second filter for a prediction value according to each prediction mode of the current block, which is predicted by the intra-prediction performance on the basis of the information of the neighboring blocks; and applying the second filter for the prediction value according to each prediction mode of the current block when it is determined to apply to the second filter.