Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an ion thermoelectric elastomer, which exhibit excellent thermal and air stability as well as excellent mechanical properties even under tensile stretching by adjusting poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEGDA), 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate (2-HEA), and an ion conductive dopant to a certain content range, and exhibit excellent ionic thermoelectric properties compared to conventional materials by having a high Seebeck coefficient and ionic conductivity, and a thermoelectric element including the same. Accordingly, the thermoelectric element using the ion thermoelectric elastomer according to the present disclosure as a thermoelectric material exhibits excellent mechanical performance and thermal stability, and thus exhibits excellent and stable ionic thermoelectric properties, such as excellent compatibility with a high-temperature curved surface or skin curvature, while generating an output voltage even in various environments.

Abstract: Disclosed are a low-light image improvement apparatus and method. The low-light image improvement apparatus includes: an image component decomposition network module that analyzes a light image, a low-light image, and a mid-light image to decompose reflectance and illumination, respectively, wherein the mid-light image is generated using the light image and the low-light image; and a component improvement network module configured to include a mid-teacher network model that extracts a first feature map with improved reflectance and illumination of the mid-light image using the reflectance and illumination of the light image and a student network module that distills the extracted first feature map and then extracts a second feature map for the reflectance and illumination of the low-light image based on the distilled first feature map and acquires an image with improved light by reflecting a structural component of a multi-band near-infrared image in the second feature map.

Abstract: A gate driver includes a stage configured to output a gate signal, the stage including an input part configured to control a voltage of a first node and a voltage of a second node based on signals supplied to a first input terminal and a second input terminal, an output part configured to supply a voltage of a first power source or a voltage of a second power source as the gate signal to an output terminal based on a voltage of a third node and a voltage of a fourth node, a first signal processing part configured to supply the voltage of the second power source to the fourth node based on the voltage of the first node, or to electrically connect the second node and the fourth node through a fifth node based on a signal supplied to a third input terminal, and a second signal processing part including a first transistor connected between the third node and a sixth node to control the voltage of the third node based on an operation of the first transistor.

Abstract: A power supply system for an electric vehicle for autonomous driving may be capable of stabilizing power supply to power electric parts and indoor parts even when short circuit occurs in one or more nodes by variously configuring an architecture circuit for power supply to the PE parts and the indoor parts using one or more switching elements and a short-circuit detector associated with the one or more nodes.

Abstract: A side outer extraction method may include receiving, by at least one processor, an image, of a vehicle, preprocessed from three-dimensional (3D) data from a computer-aided design (CAD) module, detecting, using an artificial intelligence model, a classification value and a bounding box for each region, of a plurality of regions, corresponding to one of a plurality of target references of the preprocessed image, transmitting, to the CAD module, a signal indicating the classification value and the bounding box for each region of the plurality of regions, and causing extraction, by the CAD module, of the plurality of target references from the classification value and the bounding box for each region of the plurality of regions, based on the received signal.

Abstract: A heat converter according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a plurality of unit modules respectively arranged in a first direction and a second direction that intersects the first direction; and a frame, which supports the plurality of unit modules, allows cooling water to flow in through one surface arranged in the first direction, and allows the cooling water to be discharged through the other surface arranged in the first direction, wherein each unit module includes: a cooling water passage chamber having first and second surfaces arranged to be spaced in the first direction, third and fourth surfaces arranged to be spaced in a third direction that intersects the first direction and the second direction, a fifth surface arranged to be spaced in the second direction such that cooing water flows therein, and a sixth surface from which cooling water is discharged; a first thermoelectric module arranged on the first surface; and a second thermoelectric module arranged on the second surface

Abstract: An arc welding device for a secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an upper fixing portion in which a plurality of welding electrode units connected to one pole of a welding power are disposed and a lower fixing portion disposed to face the upper fixing portion with an object to be welded therebetween and connected to the other pole of the welding power. The upper fixing portion includes a first facing surface facing the object to be welded and formed to be concave toward the object to be welded and the lower fixing portion includes a second facing surface facing the first facing face and formed to be convex to correspond to the concave shape of the first facing surface.

Abstract: There is provided a method of decoding an image, the method comprising: decoding information for motion information prediction of a current block from a bitstream, predicting motion information of the current block based on the information, refining motion information of the current block by using the decoded information and the predicted motion information of the current block and reconstructing the current block based on the refined motion information of the current block.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an organic electroluminescent device. The organic electroluminescent device of the present disclosure shows high luminous efficiency and good lifespan by comprising a specific combination of the plural kinds of host compounds and a specific hole transport compound.

Abstract: In one example, an electronic device comprises a substrate comprising a conductive structure and a dielectric structure, the dielectric structure comprising an upper dielectric layer, an electronic component over a top side of the substrate and coupled with the conductive structure, an encapsulant over the top side of the substrate and adjacent a lateral side of the electronic component, and a shield over the top side of the electronic component and contacting a lateral side of the encapsulant and a first lateral side of the substrate. The conductive structure comprises a first tab structure at the first lateral side of the substrate, and wherein the first tab structure contacts the shield and extends above the upper dielectric layer. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein.

Abstract: A coil component includes a body including a first surface and a second surface opposing each other and first to fourth side surfaces connecting the first and second surfaces; a first coil disposed within the body and including a first lead-out portion and a second lead-out portion extending to at least one of the first to fourth side surfaces of the body; a second coil disposed within the body and including a third lead-out portion and a fourth lead-out portion extending to at least one of the first to fourth side surfaces of the body; first to fourth external electrodes disposed on two adjacent side surfaces of the first to fourth side surfaces of the body and respectively connected to the first to fourth lead-out portions.

Abstract: Proposed is a precursor composition for forming a metal film including a zirconium compound represented by any one of Chemical Formulas 1 to 3 and a hafnium compound represented by any one of Chemical Formulas 4 to 6.

Abstract: A touch sensor includes first touch cells disposed in a first touch sensing area, the first touch cells each including a first touch pattern and a first dummy pattern, and second touch cells disposed in a second touch sensing area, the second touch cells each including a second touch pattern and a second dummy pattern. An area of a first dummy pattern area in which the first dummy pattern is disposed is greater than an area of a second dummy pattern area in which the second dummy pattern is disposed.

Abstract: A coil component includes a body, a supporting member disposed in the body and including one surface and the other surface opposing the one surface in a first direction, a first coil including a first winding portion disposed on one surface of the supporting member, a second coil including a second winding portion disposed on the other surface of the supporting member, a first external electrode and a second external electrode connected to one end and the other end of the first coil, respectively, a third external electrode and a fourth external electrode connected to one end and the other end of the second coil, respectively, and a first connection electrode and a second connection electrode disposed on the other surface side of the supporting member and connecting one end and the other end of the first coil to the first and second external electrodes, respectively.

Abstract: Disclosed are a BCTZ-based lead-free piezoelectric ceramic composition and a method of preparing a BCTZ-based lead-free piezoelectric ceramic which provide high piezoelectric properties and speaker characteristics. The method of preparing a lead-free piezoelectric ceramic includes preparing a mixture in which copper oxide is added to a BCTZ-based base material and sintering the mixture at a temperature of 1300° C. to 1600° C. for 1 to 5 hours, wherein a weight ratio of the copper oxide in the mixture is 0.6 wt %.

Abstract: A storage device includes a memory device including a memory block including memory regions, and a controller configured to store read results of read operations by performing the read operations on the memory regions, to determine first reference values of the memory regions, respectively, based on the read results, to determine a second reference value of the memory block based on the first reference values, and to determine whether the memory block is a potential bad block based on the second reference value. Each of the read results is the number of error bits that are included in data that has been read from the memory region in a corresponding read operation, each of the first reference values is the smallest value among the read results of a plurality of read operations for a corresponding memory region, and the second reference value is the greatest value among the first reference values.

Abstract: A service identifying and processing method using a wireless terminal message according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes (a) receiving a wireless terminal message by a first entity which is a mobile device; and (b) expressing, by a first agent which is an information processing application program installed on the first entity, entity information of second entity based on the wireless terminal message and service confirmation information related to service provided by the second entity, through an application screen by the first agent.

Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; and a filling layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate comprises a support substrate comprising a display area in which emission areas associated with sub-pixels, are arranged; a light-emitting element layer disposed on one surface of the support substrate; and an encapsulation layer disposed on the light-emitting element layer. The encapsulation layer comprises a first inorganic layer covering the light-emitting element layer; an organic layer disposed on the first inorganic layer and overlapping the light-emitting element layer; and a second inorganic layer disposed on the first inorganic layer and covering the organic layer. A thickness of the first inorganic layer is smaller than a thickness of the second inorganic layer.

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: A unit page buffer block includes first to fourth page buffer pairs. Each of the page buffer pairs includes a common column decoder block; and an upper page buffer stage and a lower page buffer stage electrically and commonly connected to the common column decoder block. Each of the upper page buffer stages includes an upper selection block; an upper latch block; and an upper cache block. Each of the lower page buffer stage includes a lower selection block; a lower latch block; and a lower cache block. Each of the upper selection blocks includes first to fourth sub-selection blocks. Each of the upper and lower latch blocks includes first to twelfth upper sub-latch blocks. Each of the upper and lower cache blocks includes first to twelfth upper sub-cache blocks. Each of the common column decoder block includes first to third sub-common column decoder blocks arranged in a row direction.