Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method, device and recording medium based on accumulation of a region of interest of the present disclosure may include partitioning a current image to acquire a region of interest, cumulatively expressing the region of interest in a reference image of the current image and decoding the current image based on a reference image in which the region of interest is cumulatively expressed.

Abstract: According to the embodiment of the present disclosure, an organo tin compound is represented by the following Chemical Formula 1: In Chemical Formula 1, L1 and L2 are each independently selected from an alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms and an alkylamino group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, R1 is a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 8 carbon atoms, and R2 is selected from a substituted or unsubstituted linear alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, a branched alkyl group having 3 to 4 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms, and an allyl group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Provided are an electric appliance and a method of manufacturing the same, the electric appliance having a smaller size and a reduced overall weight by preventing a fluid from flowing into a space unrelated to a heating component in a state where the fluid fills its case. The electric appliance includes: a case including a first space and a second space communicated to each other; a first component disposed in the first space; a second component disposed in the second space; a connection portion electrically connecting the first component and the second component to each other; and a potting pattern including a resin material and formed in the first space.

Abstract: A pouch film laminate according to the present disclosure may include a base material layer, a gas barrier layer, and a sealant layer. The gas barrier layer may be disposed between the base material layer and the sealant layer. The gas barrier layer may include stainless steel. The pouch film laminate may have a tensile rupture strength of about 130% to about 250% of a tensile rupture strength of the gas barrier layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a battery cell, which includes a battery case having an accommodation portion in which an electrode assembly is mounted, and a sealing portion formed by sealing an outer periphery thereof; an electrode lead electrically connected to an electrode tab included in the electrode assembly and protruding out of the battery case via the sealing portion; and a lead film located at a portion corresponding to the sealing portion in at least one of an upper portion and a lower portion of the electrode lead, wherein a gas discharge guiding unit is inserted in the lead film, the battery case includes a cover portion extending from the sealing portion, and the cover portion is located on the lead film and protrudes in an outer direction of the battery case.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a secondary battery comprising an electrode assembly having an electrode lead attached thereto, a case comprising a receiving portion in which the electrode assembly is received and a sealing portion comprising a sealant resin and configured to seal the electrode assembly, a lead film configured to cover a portion of an outer surface of the electrode lead and interposed between the electrode lead and the case, a vent area disposed in at least a portion of the case, and a vent member comprising a first layer comprising a resin having lower melting point than the sealant resin, and a second layer disposed on at least one surface of the first layer and comprising an adhesive material. The vent member may be inserted into the vent area. A thickness of the second layer may be equal to or smaller than 5 ?m.

Abstract: A graft copolymer, and a graft copolymer composition having excellent particulate dispersibility in a curable resin such as an epoxy resin and is applicable as a particulate impact reinforcing agent, a curable resin composition including same, and methods of preparing them.

Abstract: Provided is a ceiling storage system capable of correcting a working position and constantly checking stability of a structure by detecting an amount of change in a facility. According to the ceiling storage system, a transport vehicle moves to an upper portion of a first storage area of a plurality of storage areas in a state of gripping an article, and the transport vehicle measures a first distance value between the transport vehicle and the first storage area using a distance sensor and measures a relative position value between the transport vehicle and the first storage area using a vision sensor, before unloading the article from the first storage area.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to load data into an accelerator are disclosed. An example apparatus includes data provider circuitry to load a first section and an additional amount of compressed machine learning parameter data into a processor engine. Processor engine circuitry executes a machine learning operation using the first section of compressed machine learning parameter data. A compressed local data re-user circuitry determines if a second section is present in the additional amount of compressed machine learning parameter data. The processor engine circuitry executes a machine learning operation using the second section when the second section is present in the additional amount of compressed machine learning parameter data.

Abstract: A secondary battery includes: an electrode assembly including electrode sheets and a separator interposed between the electrode sheets; a pouch-like battery casing in which the electrode assembly is received; an electrode lead connected to the electrode assembly and protruding out from the battery casing; and a lead film covering the electrode lead and interposed between the electrode lead and the battery casing, wherein the lead film includes an outer layer covering the electrode lead and an inner layer disposed inside of the outer layer, and the inner layer includes a material having a higher air permeability as compared to the outer layer.

Abstract: A chemical mechanical polishing method may include polishing a polishing object at a first temperature using a chemical mechanical polishing slurry; and removing the chemical mechanical polishing slurry on the polishing object at a second temperature different from the first temperature. The chemical mechanical polishing slurry may include abrasive particles, a thermoresponsive inhibitor, and deionized water. The thermoresponsive inhibitor may include a thermoresponsive polymer exhibiting a phase-transition between the first temperature and the second temperature. The thermoresponsive polymer may be adsorbed to the hydrophobic layer at the first temperature and desorbed from the hydrophobic layer at the second temperature.

Abstract: A tablet form of an epoxy resin composition for encapsulation of semiconductor elements, where the tablet form of the epoxy resin composition: (i) includes 97 wt % or more of tablets having a diameter of 0.1 mm to less than 2.8 mm and a height of 0.1 mm to less than 2.8 mm, as measured using an ASTM standard sieve; (ii) satisfies the following Equation 1, ? ? ? D × ? ? ? H ? ? ? D + ? ? ? H ? 1.0 , where ?D is a standard deviation of tablet diameters and ?H is a standard deviation of tablet heights, as measured with respect to 50 tablets arbitrarily selected from the tablets; and (iii) the tablets have a compression density of 1.2 g/mL to 1.7 g/mL.

Abstract: A polishing pad for chemical mechanical polishing includes a polymer matrix and a temperature sensitive agent dispersed in the polymer matrix and constituting 1 to 40% by volume of the polishing pad, wherein the temperature sensitive agent includes a two-dimensional (2D) sheet material having a thermal conductivity of 1 W/(m·K) or more.

Abstract: Slurry compositions for chemical mechanical polishing, chemical mechanical polishing apparatuses using the same, and methods for fabricating a semiconductor device using the same are provided. The slurry composition for chemical mechanical polishing may include polishing particles in an amount of 0.1% to 10% by weight of the slurry composition, an oxidant in an amount of 0.1% to 5% by weight of the slurry composition, a thermo-sensitive agent in an amount of 0.01% to 30% by weight of the slurry composition. The thermo-sensitive agent may include metal nanoparticles or metal oxide nanoparticles, and water, wherein the slurry composition has a pH of 1 to 8.

Abstract: Cerium oxide nanoparticles and methods of fabricating the same are provided. The cerium oxide nanoparticles may be fabricated by a method that may include injecting metal ions into cerium oxide particles and then removing (e.g., desorbing) at least some of the injected metal ions from the cerium oxide particles.

Abstract: A tableted epoxy resin composition for encapsulation of semiconductor devices and a semiconductor device encapsulated using the tableted epoxy resin composition, the tableted epoxy resin composition satisfying the following conditions (i) a proportion of tablets of the tableted epoxy resin composition having a diameter of greater than or equal to 0.1 mm and less than 2.8 mm and a height of greater than or equal to 0.1 mm and less than 2.8 mm is about 97 wt % or more, as measured by sieve analysis using ASTM standard sieves; (ii) the tablets have a packed density of greater than about 1.7 g/mL; and (iii) a ratio of packed density to cured density of the tablets is about 0.6 to about 0.87.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for distributed image data processing. The method for distributed image data processing includes performing machine learning on an original image to produce a plurality of different task outputs, combining the plurality of task outputs to extract at least one final output, and compressing the final output and transmitting the final output to a server.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to load data into an accelerator are disclosed. An example apparatus includes data provider circuitry to load a first section and an additional amount of compressed machine learning parameter data into a processor engine. Processor engine circuitry executes a machine learning operation using the first section of compressed machine learning parameter data. A compressed local data re-user circuitry determines if a second section is present in the additional amount of compressed machine learning parameter data. The processor engine circuitry executes a machine learning operation using the second section when the second section is present in the additional amount of compressed machine learning parameter data.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward techniques and configurations enhancing the performance of hardware (HW) accelerators. Disclosed embodiments include static MAC scaling arrangement, which includes architectures and techniques for scaling the performance per unit of power and performance per area of HW accelerators. Disclosed embodiments also include dynamic MAC scaling arrangement, which includes architectures and techniques for dynamically scaling the number of active multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) within an HW accelerator based on activation and weight sparsity. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Abstract: A processor includes a front end including circuitry to decode a first instruction to set a performance register for an execution unit and a second instruction, and an allocator including circuitry to assign the second instruction to the execution unit to execute the second instruction. The execution unit includes circuitry to select between a normal computation and an accelerated computation based on a mode field of the performance register, perform the selected computation, and select between a normal result associated with the normal computation and an accelerated result associated with the accelerated computation based on the mode field.