Abstract: Memory devices are provided. A memory device includes a voltage generation circuit that includes an offset compensator configured to receive a reference voltage and an offset code and to link the offset code to the reference voltage. The voltage generation circuit includes a comparator configured to compare the reference voltage linked to the offset code with a bit line pre-charge voltage and to output driving control signals. The voltage generation circuit includes a driver configured to output the bit line pre-charge voltage at a target level of the reference voltage in response to the driving control signals. The voltage generation circuit includes a background calibration circuit configured to generate the offset code for performing control so that a target short current flows through an output node of the driver from which the bit line pre-charge voltage is output. Related methods of generating a bit line pre-charge voltage are also provided.

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 apparatus for generating a broadband single-sideband signal based on a laser diode includes a first optical coupler configured to receive an optical carrier signal to divide the optical carrier signal into signals corresponding to a plurality of paths, a hybrid coupler configured to perform Hilbert transform on a radio frequency (RF) signal, a first slave laser and a second slave laser each configured to modulate optical output powers of the divided optical carrier signals by using a Hilbert-transformed RF signal, and a second optical coupler configured to receive an optical output power-modulated optical carrier signal to output a single-sideband signal.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a plant material recommendation apparatus including a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium communicatively coupled to the processor. The processor stores a plant material environment and a plant material pre-constructed in a currently installed plant facility, receives a coarse intended plant material environment, creates a standard plant material environment, converts the standard plant material environment into an actual plant material environment, provides at least one recommended plant material configured to be used in the actual plant material environment to a user terminal, receives a candidate material selection reason for each of at least one candidate plant material, and analyzes candidate material selection reasons for at least one candidate plant material to a final plant material.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device. The present electronic device comprises a display, and a processor configured to display, through the display, a UI based on use patterns of a plurality of devices connected to a same network, wherein the UI comprises a device axis and a time axis, and provides information related to use of at least one device in a region where the device axis and the time axis intersect each other.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for measuring video quality based on a perceptually sensitive region. The quality of video may be measured based on a perceptually sensitive region and a change in the perceptually sensitive region. The perceptually sensitive region includes a spatial perceptually sensitive region, a temporal perceptually sensitive region, and a spatio-temporal perceptually sensitive region. Perceptual weights are applied to a detected perceptually sensitive region and a change in the detected perceptually sensitive region. Distortion is calculated based on the perceptually sensitive region and the change in the perceptually sensitive region, and a result of quality measurement for a video is generated based on the calculated distortion.

Abstract: An optical repeater performs an electrical-to-optical conversion based on a power level of an optical signal or an optical modulation index (OMI) required by a radio unit or a host unit connected to the optical repeater. Further, the optical repeater performs an optical-to-electrical conversion based on a power level of a radio frequency (RF) signal required by the radio unit or the host unit connected to the optical repeater.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a video decoding method and apparatus and a video encoding method and apparatus. In image encoding, encoding using multiple quantization parameters is performed on a transform coefficient. Two quantized coefficients are generated through encoding that uses two quantization parameters. Based on the two quantized coefficients, a quantized coefficient difference is generated. Information about the quantized coefficient difference is transmitted from an encoding apparatus to a decoding apparatus through binary encoding. The information about the quantized coefficient difference may be selectively transmitted. By means of the information about the quantized coefficient difference, a high-quality video may be provided.

Abstract: A vertical memory device includes a substrate having a cell array region and a connection region adjacent to the cell array region, a plurality of gate electrode layers stacked on the cell array region and the connection region of the substrate, and forming a stepped structure in the connection region, a first metal line dividing the plurality of gate electrode layers and connected to the cell array region and the connection region of the substrate, and a second metal line dividing a portion of the plurality of gate electrode layers and connected to the connection region of the substrate. A depth of a lower end portion of the second metal line may be greater than a depth of a lower end portion of the first metal line in the cell array region, based on an upper surface of the substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a context-adaptive entropy model for end-to-end optimized image compression. The entropy model exploits two types of contexts. The two types of contexts are a bit-consuming context and a bit-free context, respectively, and these contexts are classified depending on the corresponding context requires the allocation of additional bits. Based on these contexts, the entropy model may more accurately estimate the distribution of each latent representation using a more generalized form of entropy models, thus improving compression performance.

Abstract: Memory devices are provided. A memory device includes a voltage generation circuit that includes an offset compensator configured to receive a reference voltage and an offset code and to link the offset code to the reference voltage. The voltage generation circuit includes a comparator configured to compare the reference voltage linked to the offset code with a bit line pre-charge voltage and to output driving control signals. The voltage generation circuit includes a driver configured to output the bit line pre-charge voltage at a target level of the reference voltage in response to the driving control signals. The voltage generation circuit includes a background calibration circuit configured to generate the offset code for performing control so that a target short current flows through an output node of the driver from which the bit line pre-charge voltage is output. Related methods of generating a bit line pre-charge voltage are also provided.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a video decoding method and apparatus and a video encoding method and apparatus. In the encoding and decoding of a video, a prediction mode may be selected from among multiple prediction modes using prediction mode information for a target block, and prediction may be performed on the target block based on the selected prediction mode, wherein the prediction mode information includes information related to a reference block, and wherein the reference block comprises one or more of a spatially neighboring block that is spatially adjacent to the target block and a temporally neighboring block that is temporally adjacent to the target block. When the selected prediction mode includes a plurality of prediction modes, a prediction mode to be used for prediction of the target block may be decided on among the plurality of selected prediction modes through signaling of the prediction mode decision information.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel promoter, a vector comprising the promoter, a microorganism comprising the promoter or the vector, and a method for producing a target product using the microorganism.

Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image encoding method performed by an image encoding apparatus may comprise determining an intra-prediction mode of a current block, configuring a reference sample of intra prediction by using at least one of a neighbor pixel of the current block in a current picture and a pixel of a reference picture, and performing intra prediction for the current block based on the intra-prediction mode and the reference sample.

Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method performed by an image decoding apparatus of the present invention may comprise decoding an indicator indicating whether or not partition information of a current block is derived from partition information of a corresponding block of the current block, obtaining the partition information of the current block based on the decoded indicator, and partitioning the current block based on the obtained partition information.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for adjusting a modulation index of an analog optical signal using an interference phenomenon of a coherent light, the method including dividing an analog optical signal for a first path and a second path, extracting an optical carrier from an analog optical signal divided for the first path, controlling an intensity and a phase of the optical carrier, and controlling a modulation index of the analog optical signal by combining an analog optical signal divided for the second path and the optical carrier of which the intensity and the phase are controlled.

Abstract: A transmission performance monitoring method for monitoring a transmission performance based on an analog optical link and an apparatus performing the method. The transmission performance monitoring method and apparatus centrally monitor an RF signal transmission performance in an analog optical link-based mobile haul or indoor distributed antenna system.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a video decoding method and apparatus and a video encoding method and apparatus. In video encoding and decoding, multiple partition blocks are generated by splitting a target block. A prediction mode is derived for at least a part of the multiple partition blocks, among the multiple partition blocks, and prediction is performed on the multiple partition blocks based on the derived prediction mode. When prediction is performed on the partition blocks, information related to the target block may be used, and information related to an additional partition block, which is predicted prior to the partition block, may be used.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an image encoding method and an image decoding method. The image decoding method includes partitioning a picture into a plurality of coding units, constructing a coding unit group including at least one coding unit of the plurality of coding units, obtaining coding information in units of one coding unit group, and decoding at least one coding unit of the plurality of coding units included in the coding unit group by using the obtained coding information.

Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method of the present invention comprises decoding first information indicating whether a maximum of N intra prediction modes are used or a maximum of M intra prediction modes are used for an intra prediction for a current block, in which the M is smaller than the N, deriving an intra prediction mode of the current block, inverse-mapping the derived intra prediction mode on a corresponding intra prediction mode among the maximum N intra prediction modes when the decoded first information indicates that the maximum M intra prediction modes are used for the intra prediction for the current block, and generating an intra prediction block by performing an intra prediction for the current block, based on the inverse-mapped intra prediction mode.