Abstract: A rechargeable lithium battery includes a positive electrode; a negative electrode; and an electrolyte, where the positive electrode includes a carbon nanotube as a conductive material, and the electrolyte includes an imide cesium salt compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 as an additive:

Abstract: Disclosed are a negative electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same. The negative electrode includes a current collector; a first layer on the current collector, the first layer consisting of a Si-based material, a linear conductive material, a spherical conductive material, and a first binder; and a second layer on the first layer, the second layer consisting of crystalline carbon and a second binder.

Abstract: Herein provided are a feature encoding/decoding method, a recording medium storing a bitstream generated by the feature encoding method and a method of transmitting the bitstream. The feature decoding method may comprise obtaining channel information of a current coding unit, determining a context model for the current coding unit based on the channel information; and decoding the current coding unit based on the context model. The channel information may comprise channel grouping information of a feature map including the current coding unit, and the context model is determined based on the channel grouping information.

Abstract: An image sensor includes: a first substrate including: a first side, a second side, a pixel array region, and an edge region; and a micro lens array on the second side, which includes micro lenses. Each of the micro lenses includes a first lens layer and a second lens layer on the first lens layer. A second mean curvature radius of the second lens layer is smaller than a first mean curvature radius of the first lens layer. A first eccentric degree of the second lens layer on an edge of the pixel array region is greater than a second eccentric degree of the second lens layer at a center of the pixel array region.

Abstract: A purging system and a purging method for a boil-off gas reliquefaction apparatus for ships are disclosed. The purging system includes: a storage tank disposed in a ship to store a low-temperature liquefied gas and provided with an insulating portion including a vacuum insulation layer; a compressor compressing boil-off gas generated from the storage tank; a heat exchanger in which the compressed gas compressed in the compressor is cooled; and a refrigerant circulation line in which a refrigerant to be subjected to heat exchange with the compressed gas in the heat exchanger circulates, wherein, upon N2 purging of the reliquefaction apparatus, the purging system supplies N2 after suctioning and venting a gas from the refrigerant circulation line using a vacuum pump provided to maintain an internal vacuum state of the vacuum insulation layer of the storage tank.

Abstract: Provided is a pattern inspection method including obtaining an image of a substrate on which a pattern is formed, extracting a contour based on the image, detecting positions of a target pattern based on the contour, generating pattern inspection data by performing a curve-fitting on the detected positions of the target pattern, and analyzing the pattern based on the pattern inspection data, wherein the curve-fitting is performed by using at least one of a Sigmoid function, a hyperbolic tangent function, and a Fermi-Dirac function, and wherein the pattern inspection data includes a width in a first direction, a height in a second direction, and a pattern slope of the target pattern.

Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a terminal device, a method, an apparatus and a computer readable storage medium for irregular channel bandwidth support mechanism. In some embodiments, a terminal device may receive a configuration of irregular channel bandwidth from a network device and further configure multiple bandwidths for multiple filters based on the configuration. In some embodiments, at least two of the multiple bandwidths are different. As such, the filter configurations at the terminal device may support the irregular channel bandwidths, even when the terminal device does not update the analog filters in hardware.

Abstract: A layout analysis system, comprising at least one processor configured to: detect a cell of each of a plurality of scales from in a document image showing a document including a plurality of components; acquire cell information relating to the cell of each of the plurality of scales; and analyze a layout relating to the document based on the cell information on each of the plurality of scales.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of developing a tissue-specific vascular endothelial cell line based on iPSCs derived from human tissue-specific cells. When an organoid is manufactured using the cell line based on the iPSCs derived from human tissue-specific cells, the organoid manufacturing period may be significantly shortened, thereby solving the problem of sustainability, which is a major drawback known in the related art, and may be stored conveniently, and thus may be easily used during each experiment, thereby greatly increasing efficiency. Also, the organoid manufactured from the cell line of the present invention may be usefully used in the manufacture of blood vessel organoids in that the organoid is not only tissue-specific but also exhibits an excellent level of morphological and functional maturity.

Abstract: An ultrasonic generator with an adjustable ultrasonic focusing depth includes a cartridge housing in which an ultrasound generation portion generating ultrasonic waves is provided, a hand piece in which the cartridge housing is detachably mounted, the hand piece having a first actuator thereinside, and a main shaft to which the ultrasound generation portion is coupled so as to reciprocate in a horizontal direction, parallel to the bottom of the cartridge housing and a vertical direction, perpendicular to the bottom of the cartridge housing. One end of the main shaft is coupled to one end of the first actuator of the hand piece, and an other end of the main shaft is located inside the cartridge housing. The hand piece includes an adjustment portion adjusting an ultrasonic focusing depth of the ultrasound generation portion.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for decoding an image. A method includes receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding the image; dividing a first coding block into a plurality of second coding blocks; generating a prediction block of a second coding block based on syntax information obtained from the bitstream; and reconstructing the second coding block based on the prediction block and a residual block of the second coding block, the residual block being obtained by performing a dequantization and an inverse-transform on quantized transform coefficients from the bitstream. The first coding block has a recursive division structure. The first coding block is divided based on at least one of a quad tree division, a binary tree division or a triple tree division.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material, a method of preparing the same, and a positive electrode and a lithium secondary battery including the same are provided. The positive electrode active material includes a particulate positive electrode active material and a coating layer formed on a surface of the particulate positive electrode active material, the coating layer including a phosphorus (P)-doped aluminum oxide, and the coating layer having a thickness of 0.1 nm to 2.0 nm.

Abstract: A transparent display panel and a transparent display device including the same are disclosed. In a transparent display panel, a VSS voltage line does not surround an outer periphery of a display region. Rather, upper and lower VSS voltage lines respectively disposed on upper and lower sides to the display region are electrically connected to each other via at least one VSS voltage connection line extending across the display region. Thus, left and right non-transparent and thick VSS voltage lines disposed on the left and right sides to the display region may be omitted. Thus, a transparent region of the transparent display panel and a bezel of a transparent display device may be increased or maximized or the bezel thereof may be made slim.

Abstract: Disclosed are a solid-liquid composite electrolyte, and a semi-solid secondary battery including the same, the solid-liquid composite electrolyte including a sulfide-based solid electrolyte and a liquid electrolyte, wherein the liquid electrolyte includes a salt and a fluorinated organic solvent that dissolves the salt, and the solid-liquid composite electrolyte further comprises at least one of an additive, a diluent, and a polymer.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an organic electroluminescent device comprising a compound represented by formula 1, and can provide an organic electroluminescent device having a plurality of light-emitting layers, which is superior in driving voltage, luminous efficiency, external quantum efficiency, and/or color coordinate properties as compared to the conventional organic electroluminescent device.

Abstract: Disclosed is an air conditioning device. The air conditioning device comprises: a communication interface including a circuit; a temperature sensor; a compressor; and at least one processor, comprising processing circuitry, individually and/or collectively, configured to control the operation of the compressor based on a set temperature value set in the air conditioning device, a first temperature value acquired by the temperature sensor, and a second temperature value received from the air sensor device through the communication interface. At least one processor, individually and/or collectively, may be configured to: identify the difference between the first temperature value and the second temperature value, and, based on the identified difference being at least a threshold value, control the operation of the compressor based on the set temperature value and the first temperature value.

Abstract: A method for decoding a 360-degree image includes: receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding a 360-degree image; generating a prediction image by making reference to syntax information obtained from the received bitstream; combining the generated prediction image with a residual image obtained by dequantizing and inverse-transforming the bitstream, so as to obtain a decoded image; and reconstructing the decoded image into a 360-degree image according to a projection format. Here, generating the prediction image includes: checking, from the syntax information, prediction mode accuracy for a current block to be decoded; determining whether the checked prediction mode accuracy corresponds to most probable mode (MPM) information obtained from the syntax information; and when the checked prediction mode accuracy does not correspond to the MPM information, reconfiguring the MPM information according to the prediction mode accuracy for the current block.

Abstract: An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a first and second camera, display, memory and processor. The processor implements the method, including acquiring image data of an external environment via the first camera, detecting a plurality of objects included in the image data, identifying a first object corresponding to the detected gaze among the detected plurality of objects, configuring a first precision for spatial mapping of the identified first object and a second precision of at least one other object from among the detected plurality of objects, wherein the first precision is higher than the second precision, executing 3D spatial mapping on the image data using the first precision for the identified first object and the second precision for the at least one other object, and displaying a 3D space generated based on the image data and the spatial mapping.

Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for producing a nitrogen compound through vapor phase growth using a gas supply module having a nozzle surface which faces a substrate, in which a plasma source gas containing a nitrogen element is converted into a plasma, the plasma is discharged toward the substrate from a plasma nozzle having an opening placed on the nozzle surface, a raw material gas is discharged from a raw material nozzle that opens around the outside of the plasma nozzle on the nozzle surface, and an active species containing nitrogen contained in the plasma is reacted with the raw material gas to form a nitrogen compound film on the substrate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a riveting apparatus capable of preventing fastening omission and a riveting method using the same, and more particularly to a riveting apparatus including a riveting unit, a moving unit connected to the riveting unit, the moving unit being configured to move the riveting unit, a first moving guide unit configured to guide the longitudinal movement of the moving unit, a pair of second moving guide units located at longitudinal opposite ends of the first moving guide unit, the pair of second moving guide units being configured to guide the transverse movement of the first moving guide unit, a first position sensor provided under one end of the first moving guide unit, and a second position sensor provided under one end of one of the pair of second moving guide units and a riveting method using the same.