Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for transmitting an object which includes packets and is significant for an application of a receiver, the method including calculating a network latency between a sender and a receiver through a control message for transmitting a plurality of packets constituting the object, detecting that a specific packet is lost among the plurality of packets, calculating a retransmission required time required for retransmitting the specific packet, comparing the retransmission required time with a deadline, and transmitting a NACK message including information related to retransmission of the specific packet to the sender when the retransmission required time is within the deadline, wherein the network latency is used for calculating the deadline determined by latency times for transmission of the object.

Abstract: A ceria-carbon-sulfur (CeO2—C—S) composite including a ceria-carbon (CeO2—C) composite in which cylindrical carbon materials having ceria (CeO2) particles bonded to surfaces thereof are entangled and interconnected to each other in three dimensions; and sulfur introduced into at least a portion of an outer surface and an inside of the ceria-carbon composite, a method for preparing the same, and positive electrode for a lithium-sulfur battery and a lithium-sulfur battery including the same.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are light sources (e.g., micro-LEDs and ?OLEDs), display electronics, and tiled display panels for high luminance, high resolution display panels used in near-eye display systems. Techniques for three-dimensional integration of multi-color LEDs, micro-LED surface loss reduction using band engineered sidewall passivation structures, micro-LED heat spreading materials and structures, and micro-LED light extraction efficiency improvement using etched outwardly tilted sidewall minors are described. Techniques for drive circuit supply voltage tracking and compensation, dynamic burn-in compensation using interpolation of compensation parameters, and digital misalignment calibration of tiled display panels are also described.

Abstract: A display apparatus can include a flexible substrate including a penetrating hole, a first thin film transistor including a first semiconductor layer, a second thin film transistor including a second semiconductor layer, and a first planarization layer on the first and second thin film transistors. The display apparatus can include a connection electrode on the first planarization layer electrically connected to the first or second thin film transistor, a second planarization layer on the first planarization layer, a first electrode on the second planarization layer electrically connected to the connection electrode, and a bank layer on the second planarization layer exposing a portion of the first electrode. The display apparatus includes a light-emitting layer on the portion of the first electrode exposed by the bank layer, the light-emitting layer including an emission material layer between first and second organic layers, and a second electrode on the light-emitting layer.

Abstract: A display apparatus can include a buffer layer on a flexible substrate; a first thin film transistor on the buffer layer including a first semiconductor pattern, a first gate electrode, a first source electrode and a first drain electrode, a second thin film transistor including a second semiconductor pattern, a second gate electrode, a second source electrode and a second drain electrode, and a passivation layer on the first and the second thin film transistors. Also, the display apparatus includes a planarization layer, a light-emitting device including a first electrode, a light-emitting layer and a second electrode on the planarization layer, and an encapsulating element on the light-emitting device. Also, the light-emitting device is electrically connected to the first thin film transistor, the first semiconductor pattern includes silicon, and the second semiconductor pattern includes an oxide semiconductor pattern, and the second gate electrode includes lower and upper electrodes.

Abstract: Systems and methods including determining and storing a respective user-defined weight value of each of a plurality of source playlists, and, in response to receiving a real time user request to play a user-defined mixed playlist (UDMP), performing real time dynamic playback of the UDMP based on the stored weight values. The method and system may be related to streaming media services, such as audio and/or video streaming media services.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an overcurrent protection inverter, and more particularly, to an inverter, which uses a leg-shunt resistor so as to detect an instantaneous maximum output current and an AD current, thereby performing an inverter protection operation. The present disclosure detects the instantaneous maximum output current and detects the AD current from the leg-shunt resistor so as to perform an overcurrent protection operation when an overcurrent occurs in the entire inverter operation section, thereby enabling protection of the inverter.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for updating an Internet-based malware detection engine using virtual machine scaling. The method may include creating a scaling group and an update group set based on a first virtual machine image, creating a second virtual machine image for a running virtual machine in response to occurrence of a snapshot event in the virtual update group run based on the first virtual machine image, modifying the scale-out image of the scaling group to the second virtual machine image, updating the scaling group by triggering a scale-out event and a scale-in event in the scaling group in response to occurrence of an update event, and modifying the scale-in image of the scaling group to the second virtual machine image.

Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a display area including pixels and a non-display area around the display area and including a pad area, and a circuit board attached to the pad area. Pad electrodes arranged along a first direction and a first alignment mark located at a side of the pad electrodes in the first direction and protruding more than the pad electrodes are disposed on the substrate in the pad area. The circuit board includes a base portion, and lead electrodes disposed on the base portion and respectively facing the pad electrodes. A first alignment mark hole is defined through the base portion at a side of the lead electrodes in the first direction, the first alignment mark and the first alignment mark hole have a same shape as each other, and the first alignment mark is accommodated in the first alignment mark hole.

Abstract: Provided is a monolithic metal-insulator transition device. The monolithic metal-insulator transition device includes a substrate including a driving region and a switching region, first and second source/drain regions on the driving region, a gate electrode between the first and second source/drain regions, an inlet well region formed adjacent to an upper surface of the substrate on the switching region, a control well region having a different conductivity type from the inlet well region between the inlet well region and a lower surface of the substrate, a first wiring electrically connecting the first source/drain region and the control well region, and a second wiring electrically connecting the second source/drain region and the inlet well region.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques for micro-light emitting diodes (micro-LEDs). According to certain embodiments, a micro-LED device includes a micro-LED comprising a semiconductor mesa structure configured to emit light, a spacer layer on the micro-LED, and a micro-lens on the spacer layer and configured to extract and collimate the light emitted by the micro-LED, where a thickness of the spacer layer is selected such that a focal point of the micro-lens is at a front surface of the semiconductor mesa structure.

Abstract: Proposed is an inspection device for a cooling plate capable of accurately inspecting cooling plates to reduce cooling plate defect rate. The device includes an inspection table including a base on which a cooling plate is seated, a support block located on each side of the cooling plate, a guide block, and a plurality of height blocks supporting a lower surface of a base plate, a clamp provided on the base and pressing an upper surface of the base plate, a plurality of gauge jigs and a plurality of gauge grooves, a first measurement unit measuring a distance at which the end of an extension plate is spaced from a bending plate, and a second measurement unit measuring a distance at which the end of the bending plate is spaced apart from the end of the base plate in the width direction, and measuring the flatness of the base plate.

Abstract: Described are LED devices and corresponding manufacturing techniques. In some embodiments, an LED device includes a first doped semiconductor layer, a second doped semiconductor layer having an opposite doping, and a two-dimensional (2D) array of light emitting cells. Each light emitting cell corresponds to a mesa of an individual pixel and includes at least one quantum well. The 2D array is located between the first doped semiconductor layer and the second doped semiconductor layer. The LED device further includes a flattening layer between the first doped semiconductor layer and the 2D array. The flattening layer comprises an undoped quantum barrier (QB) layer that completely covers sidewalls of each light emitting cell in the 2D array. The undoped QB layer quantum mechanically isolates the light emitting cells from each other. The flattening or undoped QB layer may also protect the light emitting cells against etch-induced defects during a mesa pixelation process.

Abstract: Systems and methods including, in response to receiving the indication of the user interaction with the status update link: accessing email addressee graphical user interface (GUI) information; and transmitting, over the network, the email addressee response GUI information; receiving response information; identifying whether the user input is a first response type or a second response type; when the user input is the first response type, updating a first value; when the user input is the second response type, updating a second value; and displaying the first value and the second value.

Abstract: A micro-light emitting diode device includes a backplane that includes drive circuits and a first bonding layer, and an array of micro-LEDs that includes an array of semiconductor mesa structures and a second bonding layer. The first bonding layer includes a first dielectric layer, and first metal interconnects that are at least partially in the first dielectric layer and electrically connected to the drive circuits. The second bonding layer includes a second dielectric layer, and second metal interconnects that are at least partially in the second dielectric layer and electrically connected to the array of semiconductor mesa structures. The first bonding layer is bonded to the second bonding layer. At least one of the first dielectric layer or the second dielectric layer includes a first dielectric material characterized by a thermal conductivity greater than 50 W/(m·K) at room temperature, such as AlN.

Abstract: Proposed are a copper sintering paste composition and a method of preparing the same. The copper sintering paste composition can replace conventional bonding material such as solder and lead-free solder and has excellent heat resistance, heat-generating properties, thermal conductivity, and bonding strength.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pumping type toothpaste composition capable of being provided as contained in a pumping type container, and relates to a pumping type transparent toothpaste composition comprising or not comprising an abrasive. The pumping type toothpaste composition of the present disclosure has excellent commercial value due to its transparent formulation.

Abstract: LED devices and corresponding techniques for manufacturing LED devices are described. In some embodiments, an LED device includes a plurality of mesas, each mesa corresponding to a separate LED and including a layered semiconductor structure. The layered semiconductor structure includes an active region and a quantum barrier (QB) layer. The active region has a matrix of quantum well (QW) cells that are quantum mechanically isolated by the QB layer. In particular, the QB layer can include ridge-shaped structures that laterally separate adjacent QW cells. The matrix of QW cells can be arranged as a two-dimensional array. In some embodiments, the QW cells are epitaxially grown such that each QW cell is thicker along a central region and thinner along a peripheral region, with the peripheral region corresponding to where the QW cell meets a ridge-shaped structure of the QB layer.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for predicting a state of a battery are provided. The apparatus includes a data measuring unit that measures information about the battery and outputs first data, a data producing unit that reflects a change in available capacity of the battery based on at least a portion of the first data to calculate a corrected state of charge and processes the first data based on the corrected state of charge to generate second data, and outputs the second data, and a battery state estimating unit that estimates state information of the battery based on the second data.

Abstract: A toothpaste composition for tooth whitening comprising first contents and second contents, wherein one of the first contents and second contents comprises a tooth whitening agent, and it is constructed such that the first contents and second contents are filled in a container having a diaphragm or separate containers and simultaneously used when brushing teeth is provided. The container is a dip tube container.