Abstract: The present invention relates to a waste battery discharge process for recycling a waste battery, and more particularly, to a process for checking stability, a state of charge, and a remaining life of the waste battery before reusing or recycling the waste battery (battery after use), and safely and cost-effectively discharging the waste battery.

Abstract: A refrigerant flow rate adjustment device and a system using the same include a refrigerant provided at a quantitative flow rate to a heat exchanger such that the occurrence of a liquid refrigerant is reduced at an outlet end of an evaporator. The refrigerant flow rate adjustment device and system prevent the occurrence of the liquid refrigerant at the outlet end of the heat exchanger, prevent an increase in load, and prevent a lubrication defect of a compressor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method capable of estimating a battery state of health, and more particularly, provides an apparatus and method for more accurately calculating the state of balance by voltage of a battery to reflect SOC information as well as the voltage distribution of the battery, and measuring the state of health of the battery on the basis of the state of balance by voltage.

Abstract: A magnetic component includes a magnetic body, wherein the magnetic body includes a plurality of magnetic particles including an Fe-based alloy, at least a portion of magnetic particles, among the plurality of magnetic particles, include a first layer disposed on surfaces of the at least a portion of magnetic particles and a second layer disposed on a surface of the first layer, the first layer includes an Fe oxide component and has an average thickness of less than 5 nm, and the second layer includes an Si oxide component and has an average thickness of 5 nm or more.

Abstract: A display device includes: a memory; a pixel unit including first pixels disposed with a first density in a first area and second pixels disposed with a second density smaller than the first density in a second area in contact with the first area; and a degradation compensator which updates degradation information stored in the memory, based on input grayscales for the first and second pixels, and changes the input grayscales to output grayscales, based on the degradation information. The degradation compensator stores the degradation information in the memory in a unit of block for the pixel unit. The memory stores only first degradation information for each of first blocks including only the first pixels, stores only second degradation information for each of second blocks including only the second pixels, and stores the first and second degradation information for each of third blocks including both the first and second pixels.

Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for processing confidence maps. For example, a computing device can obtain confidence maps associated with different classes of objects, where each different confidence map is associated with a different class of object. The computing device can determine a maximum value from at least a first value in a first position of a first confidence map and a second value in a first position of a second confidence map. The computing device can generate a combined confidence map for the plurality of confidence maps at least in part by including the maximum value in a first position of the combined confidence map.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for executing an application may execute a text string selected by a user or an application associated with a type of text string to input the text string to increase the user's convenience. The apparatus of executing an application includes a text string recognizer to determine a text string, a determiner to determine one or more candidate applications related to the text string, and an input location of the selected text string based on a type of the selected text string and the association model, an application list provider to generate and display a list of the candidate applications, and an application executer to execute a candidate application selected from the list and to input the selected text string into the input location of the candidate application.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for web page access and an apparatus and method for structuring a web page access history are provided. The apparatus for structuring a web page access history includes a topic extractor configured to analyze a web page accessed by a user to extract at least one topic related to the page, a mapper configured to map the at least one extracted topic onto a node of an ontology-based data structure, and a summary graph generator configured to extract a sub graph including the mapped node from the data structure, and to generate a summary graph based on the extracted sub graph.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for executing an application may execute a text string selected by a user or an application associated with a type of text string to input the text string to increase the user's convenience. The apparatus of executing an application includes a text string recognizer to determine a text string, a determiner to determine one or more candidate applications related to the text string, and an input location of the selected text string based on a type of the selected text string and the association model, an application list provider to generate and display a list of the candidate applications, and an application executer to execute a candidate application selected from the list and to input the selected text string into the input location of the candidate application.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for executing an application may execute a text string selected by a user or an application associated with a type of text string to input the text string to increase the user's convenience. The apparatus of executing an application includes a text string recognizer to determine a text string, a determiner to determine one or more candidate applications related to the text string, and an input location of the selected text string based on a type of the selected text string and the association model, an application list provider to generate and display a list of the candidate applications, and an application executer to execute a candidate application selected from the list and to input the selected text string into the input location of the candidate application.

Abstract: A terminal and a method for sharing content are provided. A terminal includes an image acquirer configured to acquire face image data from a camera while content is being displayed, a face recognizer configured to recognize a face included in the face image data, a face change detector configured to detect whether the recognized face is different from a face recognized in a previous image data, a contact searcher configured to, in response to the detection that the recognized face is different from the face recognized in the previous image data, search a contact corresponding to the recognized face, and an information transmitter configured to transmit content usage information to the searched contact.

Abstract: A method of displaying electrocardiograms comprises displaying a reference electrocardiogram; and displaying a measured electrocardiogram so that the reference electrocardiogram and the measured electrocardiogram are displayed in an overlapping state.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for speech recognition and for generation of speech recognition engine, and a speech recognition engine are provided. The method of speech recognition involves receiving a speech input, transmitting the speech input to a speech recognition engine, and receiving a speech recognition result from the speech recognition engine, in which the speech recognition engine obtains a phoneme sequence from the speech input and provides the speech recognition result based on a phonetic distance of the phoneme sequence.

Abstract: A portable device and a method for transmitting signals at maximum data transmission rate are disclosed herein. The method includes checking minimum transmission power levels of first and the second transmission signals to prevent interrupted transmissions; determining the power levels of the first and the second transmission signals having the maximum data transmission rate based on the minimum transmission power levels and highest transmission power levels satisfying the specific absorption rate (SAR) regulations according to a stored SAR table; transmitting the first and the second transmission signals at the respective determined power levels using a main antenna; and transmitting the second transmission signal using an auxiliary antenna.

Abstract: A method is provided. The method includes in response to a new query or new input data being input, calculating a required minimum number of cycles per unit time which corresponds to the minimum number of cycles per unit time that is required to process the new query or the new input data, selecting a query to execute first, calculating the number of cycles to be processed during the time period set in advance by multiplying the calculated, required minimum number of cycles per unit time with a time period that is allocated to process the selected query or the input data and is set in advance, and putting a system into a dormant state for a remaining period of time in response to the calculated number of cycles being completely executed within the time period set in advance.

Abstract: A method of searching a pattern in sequence data includes setting a plurality of interest pattern models each including an interest pattern length, an allowed mismatch value, and a minimum support; calculating a support of a candidate pattern that is generable within the interest pattern length based on the allowed mismatch value of at least one of the plurality of interest pattern models; and determining whether the support of the candidate pattern fulfills a condition of the minimum support of at least one of the plurality of interest pattern models.

Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for speech recognition, and a method and an apparatus for training transformation parameter. A speech recognition apparatus includes an acoustic score calculator configured to use an acoustic model to calculate an acoustic score of a speech input, an acoustic score transformer configured to transform the calculated acoustic score into an acoustic score corresponding to standard pronunciation by using a transformation parameter, and a decoder configured to decode the transformed acoustic score to output a recognition result of the speech input.

Abstract: An apparatus for providing a call log includes a call detail information generator configured to generate call detail information of a call; a call recorder configured to record a call content of the call; a call content summarizer configured to convert the recorded call content into a transcribed text, and generate call content summary information based on the transcribed text; a call log generator configured to generate a call log including the call detail information and the call content summary information; and a call log provider configured to output the call log.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for transmitting only sensor data actually used to process a user request among sensor data received from a sensor when communication restarts between a sensor data management device and a sensor data analysis device. Accordingly, the amount of data transmitted to the sensor data analysis device is reduced. The sensor data analysis device may analyze the sensor data received from the sensor data management device to process the user request.

Abstract: A clustering apparatus of probabilistic graphs, includes a center selection unit configured to select one or more centers among the probabilistic graphs. The clustering apparatus further includes a center determination unit configured to calculate a minimum bound and a maximum bound of a distance with respect to each of the centers, for each of the probabilistic graphs, and determine a center, among the centers, to which the probabilistic graphs are to be allocated based on the minimum and maximum bounds. The clustering apparatus further includes a clustering unit configured to allocate the probabilistic graphs to the center to generate one or more clusters.