Abstract: An embodiment is battery charging system including an external voltage conversion device including an input unit configured to receive a system AC voltage, an output unit configured to output a charging DC voltage, and a power factor correction circuit including a first switching circuit connected to the input unit, a second switching circuit connected to the output unit, and a transformer connected between the first switching circuit and the second switching circuit, and an electrified vehicle including a charging port configured to receive the charging DC voltage, a battery, a motor having a plurality of windings, an inverter connected to each of one-side ends of the plurality of windings, and a relay connected between the charging port and a neutral terminal for the plurality of windings, the electrified vehicle controlling the relay upon recharging of the battery.

Abstract: In various aspects, a device-to-device communication system is provided including a first device and a second device. Each of the first device and the second device includes an antenna, a radio frequency frond-end circuit, and a baseband circuit. Each of the first device and the second device are at least one of a chiplet or a package. The device-to-device communication system further includes a cover structure housing the first device and the second device. Each of the first device and the second device are at least one of a chiplet or a package. The device-to-device communication system further includes a radio frequency signal interface wirelessly communicatively coupling the first device and the second device. The radio frequency signal interface includes the first antenna and the second antenna.

Abstract: A winding arrangement provided on a stator of an electric machine. The winding arrangement includes at least four windings. A first winding and a second winding occupied a first subset of slots; and a third winding and a fourth winding occupied a second subset of the slots. The first subset and the second subset of the plurality of slots are adjoined to each other. A span between two adjacent slots concerning the first winding, the second winding, the third winding, and the fourth winding is chosen from a full-pitch, a short-pitch, and a long-pitch to result in the winding arrangement where the first subsets in a first half of the slots is diagonal to the second subset in a second half of the slots, and the second subset in the first half of the slots is diagonal to the first subset in the second half of the slots.

Abstract: In various aspects, a radio frequency circuit is provided. The radio frequency circuit may include a substrate that may include a radio frequency front-end to antenna (RF FE-to-Ant) connector. The RF FE-to-Ant connector may include a conductor track structure and a substrate connection structure coupled to the conductor track structure. The substrate may include radio frequency front-end circuitry monolithically integrated in the substrate. The substrate connection structure may include at least one of a solderable structure, a weldable structure, or an adherable structure. The substrate connection structure may be configured to form at least one radio frequency signal interface with an antenna circuit connection structure of a substrate-external antenna circuit. The substrate may include an edge region. The substrate connection structure may be disposed in the edge region.

Abstract: An integrated circuit including a first active region and a second active region extending in a first direction and spaced apart from each other in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a power rail and a ground rail extending in the first direction and spaced apart from the first and second active regions and each other in the second direction; source/drain contacts extending in the second direction on at least a portion of the first or second active region, gate structures extending in the second direction and on at least a portion of the first and second active regions, a power rail configured to supply power through source/drain contact vias, and a ground rail configured to supply a ground voltage through source/drain contact vias.

Abstract: There is provided a method of processing a substrate that protects the photoresist pattern during the subsequent ion implanting process as well as improve the conformal properties. The method of processing the substrate includes steps of disposing a substrate in a reaction chamber, the substrate on which a photoresist pattern is formed; and forming a CD control film including a nitrogen-doped amorphous carbon on the substrate on which the photoresist pattern is formed, and the step of forming the CD control film may be performed at a temperature of 100° C. or less by a PECVD process.

Abstract: An apparatus for estimating blood pressure includes: a photoplethysmogram (PPG) sensor configured to measure a PPG signal from an object; a force sensor configured to measure a force signal acting between the object and the PPG sensor; and a processor configured to (i) divide a predetermined blood pressure range into a plurality of classes, (ii) input the measured PPG signal and the measured force signal into a blood pressure estimation model to obtain the probability values for each of the classes, and (iii) estimate blood pressure based on the obtained probability values for the respective classes.

Abstract: A memory system includes a memory device including a first memory block used for power-loss data protection and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller includes a hardware layer and a firmware layer. The hardware layer checks whether at least one write data entry belongs to a programmable range in the memory device after power loss occurs, determines whether a logical address associated with the at least one write data entry is repeated, and programs the at least one write data entry in the first memory block.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a WPE-based dereverberation apparatus using virtual acoustic channel expansion based on a deep neural network includes a signal reception unit for receiving as input a first speech signal through a single channel microphone, a signal generation unit for generating a second speech signal by applying a virtual acoustic channel expansion algorithm based on a deep neural network to the first speech signal and a dereverberation unit for removing reverberation of the first speech signal and generating a dereverberated signal from which the reverberation has been removed by applying a dual-channel weighted prediction error (WPE) algorithm based on a deep neural network to the first speech signal and the second speech signal.

Abstract: Provided is a polycarbonate composition comprising a polycarbonate and a light blocking agent, and an optical product formed therefrom. The polycarbonate composition has a low yellow index, unlike conventional yellowish blue light-blocking products, and thus various colors can be implemented. Accordingly, it is possible to provide optical products with various colors, and the polycarbonate composition is very suitable for spectacles required to have high transparency and to block blue light that is harmful to eyes.

Abstract: A communication device may include a millimeter wave (mm-wave) antenna array having antenna elements, a mm-wave element (e.g. lens), and one or more transceivers (e.g. first and second transceivers). The mm-wave lens may be configured to adjust the first beam and the second beam as the first and second beams pass through the mm-wave lens. The first transceiver can selectively couple to the antenna elements, the first transceiver being configured to drive a first selected antenna element of the antenna elements to transmit a beam from the selected first antenna element. The second transceiver may selectively couple to the antenna elements, the second transceiver being configured to drive a second selected antenna element of the antenna elements to transmit a second beam from the selected second antenna element.

Abstract: An integrated circuit including a first active region and a second active region extending in a first direction and spaced apart from each other in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a power rail and a ground rail extending in the first direction and spaced apart from the first and second active regions and each other in the second direction; source/drain contacts extending in the second direction on at least a portion of the first or second active region, gate structures extending in the second direction and on at least a portion of the first and second active regions, a power rail configured to supply power through source/drain contact vias, and a ground rail configured to supply a ground voltage through source/drain contact vias.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates facing and spaced apart from each other; a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates; a thin film transistor in a subpixel on an inner surface of first substrate; a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; a common electrode generating an electric field with the pixel electrode; a black matrix in a border portion of the subpixel on an inner surface of the second substrate, the black matrix including a metallic material, and a voltage applied to the black matrix; and a color filter layer in a center portion of the subpixel on the black matrix.

Abstract: A microelectronic package includes a substrate having a first surface. A microelectronic element overlies the first surface. Electrically conductive elements are exposed at the first surface of the substrate, at least some of which are electrically connected to the microelectronic element. The package includes wire bonds having bases bonded to respective ones of the conductive elements and ends remote from the substrate and remote from the bases. The ends of the wire bonds are defined on tips of the wire bonds, and the wire bonds define respective first diameters between the bases and the tips thereof. The tips have at least one dimension that is smaller than the respective first diameters of the wire bonds. A dielectric encapsulation layer covers portions of the wire bonds, and unencapsulated portions of the wire bonds are defined by portions of the wire bonds, including the ends, are uncovered by the encapsulation layer.

Abstract: A memory system which stores a journal including mapping change information, either in a first memory area or a second memory area, depending on available space of a memory device included in the memory system, being greater than a threshold.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a polycarbonate and a preparation method thereof, which has a novel structure with an improvement in weather resistance and refractive index, while having excellent mechanical properties.

Abstract: A memory system includes a memory device including memory blocks, and a controller configured to generate a result indicative of whether a number of free memory blocks satisfies a reference after beginning of garbage collection for the memory device, selectively perform a journaling operation for a request based on the result, and program data, collected by the garbage collection, in the memory device.

Abstract: A method of providing a chat service in a map-based virtual space includes receiving a place selection signal based on map information and/or a motion detection signal from user terminals, determining location information and FoV information of the corresponding account in the virtual space, determining image information of a perspective view and one or more other accounts to be displayed on the corresponding user terminal, receiving a chat request from a first user terminal, receiving a result regarding whether to accept a chat in response to the chat request from a second user terminal, determining whether an account of the first user terminal and the other account of the second user terminal on the street view satisfy a preset condition, and providing the chat service between the first user terminal and the second user terminal based on whether the chat is accepted and whether the preset condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) cavity antenna is described that enables dual frequency and broadband operation, as well as enhanced protection from radio frequency interference (RFI) that may be present within an electronic device environment. The SIW cavity antenna includes a capacitively-coupled feed that is disposed within the volume of the SIW cavity antenna, which is enclosed on four sides via a set of electrically-conductive plates. The SIW cavity antenna radiates using the remaining two open sides as apertures. The SIW cavity antenna may include a meander line radiator to facilitate the operation of a second frequency band, as well as the use of a tuning stub to further enhance the impedance bandwidth.

Abstract: For example, an apparatus may include a Printed Circuit Board (PCB); a Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar antenna on the PCB, the MIMO radar antenna comprising a plurality of Transmit (Tx) antenna elements configured to transmit Tx radar signals, and a plurality of receive (Rx) antenna elements configured to receive Rx radar signals based on the Tx radar signals; and a surface wave mitigator connected to the PCB, the surface wave mitigator configured to mitigate an impact of surface waves via the PCB on a radiation pattern of the MIMO radar antenna.