Abstract: Provided are an electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery including a non-aqueous organic solvent, a lithium salt, and an additive, wherein the additive is a composition including a first compound and a second compound, the first compound is a cesium salt compound, and the second compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same. Details of Chemical Formula 1 are as described in the specification.

Abstract: Provided are an electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery including a non-aqueous organic solvent, a lithium salt, and an additive, wherein the additive is a composition including a first compound and a second compound, the first compound is a cesium salt compound, and the second compound includes a second compound represented by Chemical Formula 1A or Chemical Formula 1B, and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same. Details of the above Chemical Formula 1A and Chemical Formula 1B are as described in the specification.

Abstract: A method of rendering object-based audio and an electronic device performing the method are provided. The method includes identifying a bitstream, determining a reference distance of an object sound source based on the bitstream, determining a minimum distance for applying distance-dependent attenuation, based on the reference distance, and determining a gain of object-based audio included in the bitstream based on the reference distance and the minimum distance.

Abstract: Disclosed are an electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same, the electrolyte including a non-aqueous organic solvent, a lithium salt, and an additive, wherein the additive is a composition including a first compound and a second compound, the first compound is a cesium salt compound, and the second compound is represented by Chemical Formula 1. Details of Chemical Formula 1 are as described in the specification.

Abstract: Provided is an encoding apparatus for integrally encoding and decoding a speech signal and a audio signal, and may include: an input signal analyzer to analyze a characteristic of an input signal; a stereo encoder to down mix the input signal to a mono signal when the input signal is a stereo signal, and to extract stereo sound image information; a frequency band expander to expand a frequency band of the input signal; a sampling rate converter to convert a sampling rate; a speech signal encoder to encode the input signal using a speech encoding module when the input signal is a speech characteristics signal; a audio signal encoder to encode the input signal using a audio encoding module when the input signal is a audio characteristic signal; and a bitstream generator to generate a bitstream.

Abstract: Disclosed is an LPC residual signal encoding/decoding apparatus of an MDCT based unified voice and audio encoding device. The LPC residual signal encoding apparatus analyzes a property of an input signal, selects an encoding method of an LPC filtered signal, and encode the LPC residual signal based on one of a real filterbank, a complex filterbank, and an algebraic code excited linear prediction (ACELP).

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for audio encoding/decoding that is robust against coding distortion in a transition section. An audio encoding method includes outputting a frequency domain signal by time-to-frequency (T/F) transform of an input signal, outputting a frequency domain residual signal in which a frequency axis envelope is removed from the frequency domain signal by applying frequency domain noise shaping (FDNS) encoding to the frequency domain signal, outputting a time domain residual signal in which a time axis envelope is removed by performing linear prediction coefficient (LPC) analysis based on the frequency domain residual signal, and quantizing and transmitting the time domain residual signal.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an organic electroluminescent compound and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same. By comprising the organic electroluminescent compound of the present disclosure, an organic electroluminescent device having improved driving voltage, luminous efficiency, and/or lifespan characteristics can be provided.

Abstract: A Unified Speech and Audio Codec (USAC) that may process a window sequence based on mode switching is provided. The USAC may perform encoding or decoding by overlapping between frames based on a folding point when mode switching occurs. The USAC may process different window sequences for each situation to perform encoding or decoding, and thereby may improve a coding efficiency.

Abstract: Provided are an electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same, the electrolyte including a non-aqueous organic solvent, a lithium salt, and an additive, wherein the additive is a composition including a first compound and a second compound, the first compound is a cesium salt compound, and the second compound includes a composition including a second compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 or Chemical Formula 2. Details of the Chemical Formula 1 and Chemical Formula 2 are as described in the specification.

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: An electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the electrolyte, the electrolyte including a non-aqueous organic solvent; a lithium salt; and an additive, wherein the additive includes a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1: in Chemical Formula 1, R1 is a cyano group, a substituted or unsubstituted C2 to C10 alkenyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted C2 to C10 alkynyl group.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus for encoding an audio signal and a method of an operation thereof. An audio signal encoding method includes obtaining quantized linear prediction (LP) coefficients by performing a linear predictive coding (LPC) analysis and quantization on an input audio signal, generating a reference signal by applying discrete Fourier transform (DFT) to the input audio signal, obtaining LP residual coefficients from the reference signal, scaling magnitudes of the LP residual coefficients using the quantized LP coefficients and the reference signal, and quantizing phases of the LP residual coefficients and the scaled magnitudes of the LP residual coefficients.

Abstract: The present invention relates to technology capable of labeling a certain site of an antibody with a certain number of chemical functional groups or cargo moieties. The present invention may provide an antibody product having high uniformity. The present invention may provide an antibody product whose antibody functions are not degraded. That is, the present invention may provide an antibody product whose antibody binding affinity and half-life are not degraded. The present invention is of great significance as being the first technology allowing site-specific labeling of an antibody without any complicated processes.

Abstract: Provided are an additive represented by Chemical Formula 1, an electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery including the same, and a rechargeable lithium battery. The details of Chemical Formula 1 are as set forth in the specification.

Abstract: A positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material, a binder, a conductive material, and an additive represented by Chemical Formula 1 or Chemical Formula 2: A rechargeable lithium battery includes the positive electrode a negative electrode in a negative electrode active material; and an electrolyte solution for the rechargeable lithium battery.

Abstract: Disclosed is an LPC residual signal encoding/decoding apparatus of an MDCT based unified voice and audio encoding device. The LPC residual signal encoding apparatus analyzes a property of an input signal, selects an encoding method of an LPC filtered signal, and encode the LPC residual signal based on one of a real filterbank, a complex filterbank, and an algebraic code excited linear prediction (ACELP).

Abstract: A method and apparatus for rendering a volume sound source are disclosed. The method of rendering a volume sound source may include identifying information about a listener and information about the volume sound source, determining a corresponding area in which a source element is disposed in the volume sound source in consideration of the information about the listener, determining an angle between the listener and the corresponding area based on the information about the listener and the information about the volume sound source, determining a number of source elements disposed in the corresponding area according to the angle, determining a position and a gain of the source element using i) the number of source elements and ii) a distance between the listener and the volume sound source, and rendering the volume sound source according to the position and the gain of the source element.

Abstract: A method, executed by a processor for compressing an audio signal in multiple layers, may comprise: (a) restoring, in a highest layer, an input audio signal as a first signal; (b) restoring, in at least one intermediate layer, a signal obtained by subtracting an upsampled signal, which is obtained by upsampling the audio signal restored in the highest layer or an immediately previous intermediate layer, from the input audio signal as a second signal; and (c) restoring, in a lowest layer, a signal obtained by subtracting an upsampled signal, which is obtained by upsampling the audio signal restored in an intermediate layer immediately before the lowest layer, from the input audio signal as a third signal, wherein the first signal, the second signal, and the third signal are combined to output a final restoration audio signal.

Abstract: An encoding apparatus extracts features of an image by applying multiple padding operations and multiple downscaling operations to an image represented by data and transmits feature information indicating the features to a decoding apparatus. The multiple padding operations and the multiple downscaling operations are applied to the image in an order in which one padding operation is applied and thereafter one downscaling operation corresponding to the padding operation is applied. A decoding method receives feature information from an encoding apparatus, and generates a reconstructed image by applying multiple upscaling operations and multiple trimming operations to an image represented by the feature information. The multiple upscaling operations and the multiple trimming operations are applied to the image in an order in which one upscaling operation is applied and thereafter one trimming operation corresponding to the upscaling operation is applied.