Abstract: The present invention relates to an intra prediction method and apparatus. The image decoding method according to the present invention may comprise decoding information on intra prediction; and generating a prediction block by performing intra prediction for a current block based on the information on intra prediction. The information on intra prediction may include information on an intra prediction mode, and the intra prediction mode may include a curved intra prediction mode.

Abstract: An instrument for biological analysis includes a base, an excitation source, an optical sensor, an excitation optical system, and an emission optical system. The base is configured to receive a sample holder comprising a plurality of biological samples. The optical sensor is configured to receive emissions from the biological samples in response to the excitation source. The instrument may additionally include a sensor lens enclosed by a lens case and a focusing mechanism including a gear that engages the lens case, the focusing mechanism being accessible outside the enclosure for adjusting a focus. The instrument may further include a sensor aperture dispose along an emission optical path and a blocking structure disposed to cooperate with the sensor aperture such that none of the reflected radiation from an illuminated surface near the sample holder is received by the optical sensor that does not also reflect off another surface of the instrument.

Abstract: Provided are an implantable medical device control system and a control method therefor, the system comprising: an implantable medical device implanted into the body so as to stimulate a specific area in the body; a management terminal for controlling the driving of the implantable medical device by communicating with the implantable medical device through a wireless communication method; and a management server connected with the management terminal so as to be capable of communicating therewith, assigning priority to each parameter included in patient condition information and storing and managing same, and providing the stored information, and thus, since priority is assigned to each parameter included in patient 10 condition information and stimulation applied to a specific part in the body is adjusted according to the assigned priority, the entire parameter can be controlled such that a patient condition is maintained in a stabilized state by satisfying a preset reference value.

Abstract: A server may include one or more processors, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the server to, collect, from a first mobile device, location information associated with a specified area, store reference data, associated with a relative location between a second mobile device and the specified area, determine, based on at least one of the location information or the stored reference data, whether an error calculated satisfies a threshold value, generate, based on the determination, new reference data, and cause, based on the new reference data and the location information, the second mobile device to adjust driving direction.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining at least one correction parameter for a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner including a plurality of detector units is provided. For each line of response (LOR) of a plurality of lines of response (LORs) associated with the plurality of detector units, the methods may include determining, based on scan data of one or more scans of a phantom at a plurality of positions, a first sum of coincidence events on the LOR, wherein the phantom is moved to the plurality of positions along an axis of a field of view of the PET scanner during the one or more scans, and a length of the phantom is less than a length of the field of view of the PET scanner along the axis; determining, based on the first sum of coincidence events, at least one correction parameter associated with the LOR.

Abstract: A display device including a display panel including a flat area including a first display area and a first peripheral area adjacent to the first display area and a bending area including a second display area and a second peripheral area adjacent to the second display area, and an input sensing unit on the display panel. The input sensing unit includes first touch sensors having a mesh shape, extending in a first direction parallel to a bending axis of the bending area, and arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction, second touch sensors having a mesh shape, extending in the second direction, and arranged in the first direction, first connection electrodes respectively connected to ends of the first touch sensors, second connection electrodes respectively connected to ends of the second touch sensors, and touch signal lines connected to the first connection electrodes and the second connection electrodes.

Abstract: An inspection system and method, the system includes: a ray source rotatable between at least two scanning positions around a rotation axis, a rotation angle of the ray source between two adjacent scanning positions being greater than an angle of adjacent target spots of the ray source relative to the rotation axis; a detector assembly; and a conveying device for carrying an object. The ray source and the detector assembly are movable in a traveling direction relative to the conveying device so that the object enters an inspection region. When the ray source is at one of the scanning positions, the ray source and the detector assembly move in the traveling direction and the ray source emits X-rays; and when the ray source and the detector assembly move a predetermined distance in the traveling direction, the ray source rotates around the rotation axis to another one of the scanning positions.

Abstract: High-strength, lightweight core-shell aggregates are formed from waste materials. The aggregates include porous core materials which may be one or more of perlite, vermiculite, cenospheres, expanded polystyrene, or biochar. Formed on the core materials is at least one layer of shell material which includes one or more of GGBS, fly ash, recycled concrete powder, recycled glass powder, or biochar powder. The high-strength, lightweight core- shell aggregates have a loose bulk density less than approximately 980 kg/m3, a crushing strength higher than approximately 4 MPa, a water absorption of less than 20%, and a carbon emission of approximately 181 kgCO2eq/t or less. Lightweight concrete is formed by incorporating the high-strength, lightweight core-shell aggregates with cement to create concrete with a density of 1900 kg/m3 or less.

Abstract: An autonomous driving control apparatus includes a sensor device, a communication device, a memory storing instructions, and a controller. The autonomous driving control apparatus receives a control signal including user vehicle information from a server using the communication device; controls a mobility device to a specified place based on the control signal; obtains at least one piece of image data about at least one vehicle in the specified place using the sensor device; detects at least one of 2D data, 3D data, or a combination thereof for each of the at least one vehicle based on the at least one piece of image data; and searches for a user vehicle among the at least one vehicle based on at least one of the at least one piece of image data, the 2D data, the 3D data, the user vehicle information, or a combination thereof.

Abstract: There is provided an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image decoding method comprises decoding size information of a quantization group from a bitstream, acquiring a delta quantization parameter of a current block on the basis of the size information of the quantization group, and deriving a quantization parameter for the current block on the basis of the delta quantization parameter.

Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic body, a plurality of first and second internal electrodes having a dielectric layer therebetween in the ceramic body, first and second external electrodes including a body portion covering both end surfaces spaced apart from each other along a length direction of the ceramic body, respectively, a first band portion extending from the body portion and covering a part of a first surface of the ceramic body in a thickness direction, and a second band portion covering a part of a second surface facing the first surface and being longer than the first band portion, first and second cover layers that are disposed in the ceramic body along the thickness direction of the ceramic body, and a first cladding layer between the second cover layer, the second band portion of the first external electrode, and the second band portion of the second external electrode.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a cassette storage case includes a body defining an internal storage space for a cassette. The body includes a lower body part, and a shield body part extending upward from an upper surface outer region of the lower body part. The shield body part has an opening in an upper portion thereof. A load protruding portion extends outward from an outer bottom surface of the lower body part, and has a shape that corresponds to a shape of the opening.

Abstract: An outer terminal connection structure of a secondary battery, includes: a first current collector to be welded to non-coating portion tabs of an electrode assembly; a second current collector electrically connected to the first current collector; a cap plate above the second current collector, and connected to an opening of a case, the cap plate having a plate hole; an outer terminal above the cap plate, and electrically connected to the second current collector; an insulator passing through the cap plate to be located above and below the cap plate, the insulator to support the outer terminal at an upper side, and contact the second current collector at a lower side; and a terminal connection part passing through the plate hole to electrically connect the second current collector to the outer terminal. The outer terminal connection structure includes a rotation prevention structure to restrict a relative rotation.

Abstract: A secondary battery comprises an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a separator, and a second electrode alternately stacked and wound about a central axis. A first non-coating portion that is not coated with an electrode active material protrudes farther than the separator in a first direction along the central axis, and a second non-coating portion that is not coated with the electrode active material protrudes farther than the separator in a second, opposite direction along the central axis. The first non-coating portion contacts a first connection part disposed on an end of a first can of the battery, and the second non-coating portion contacts a second connection part disposed on an end of a second can. At least one of the first connection part or the second connection part comprises a protrusion having a shape protruding towards the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A device including a handpiece connector to which a filter is coupled can be combined with the handpiece and has a connector accommodating therein a filter with an increased cross-sectional area, which can be replaced in a detachable manner, so that it can prevent saliva, blood, bacteria, and foreign substances that may be mixed with the air flowing along inside the handpiece from being exposed to the inside of the patient's oral cavity, causing contamination or infection, and prevent performance degradation and a fault of the handpiece caused by foreign substances accumulating inside the handpiece.

Abstract: A method and a system for supervising safety ventilation of an underground gas pipeline corridor based on Internet of Things (IoT) are provided. The method is executed by a gas company management platform.

Abstract: The present invention relates to representation learning in an artificial neural network, and more specifically, to a device and method for learning representations using a spherization layer, which places all hidden vectors on a hyperspherical surface, and learns representations using only angles on the basis of hyperplanes fixed to the origin. According to an embodiment of the present invention, as all hidden vectors are represented on a hypersphere in a space of one dimension higher, and representation learning is performed thereon using only angles through the hyperplanes fixed to the origin, the problem of performance degradation of artificial neural networks can be solved by ensuring that all information learned by the artificial neural network from input data is contained in the angle without loss.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display device may include providing a support layer and a display panel on a digitizer. The display panel may include a folding region that is folded with reference to a folding axis extending in a first direction. The providing of the support layer may include forming an opening penetrating the preliminary support layer by providing a laser or an abrasive agent to one surface of the preliminary support layer. A first width of the opening on the one surface in a second direction and a second width of the opening on another surface in a second direction may be different from each other, and the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction.

Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially disposed in numerical order along an optical axis of the optical imaging system from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system, wherein the optical imaging system satisfies 0.5<L12345TRavg/L7TR<0.9, where L12345TRavg is an average value of overall outer diameters of the first to fifth lenses, L7TR is an overall outer diameter of the seventh lens, and L12345TRavg and L7TR are expressed in a same unit of measurement.

Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a driving method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes: a base substrate; and multiple subpixels provided at the base substrate, at least one of the multiple subpixels including a reflective electrode, wherein the reflective electrode at least includes a first reflective electrode and a second reflective electrode insulated and spaced apart from each other, the first reflective electrode is provided with a first through hole, the second reflective electrode is provided with a second through hole, and an area of the first through hole is different from an area of the second through hole.