Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, second electrode, and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first electrode including a first region coated with an active material and a second region at a first side and adjacent to the first region, the second region being exposed beyond the separator, and at least part of the second region is an electrode tab; a housing including a first end with a first opening, the housing accommodating the electrode assembly; a first current collector including an edge portion on the electrode assembly, a second region coupling portion extending from the edge portion and coupled with the second region, and a terminal coupling portion spaced apart from the second region coupling portion; and a terminal coupled with the terminal coupling portion.

Abstract: A battery can include an electrode assembly, a battery housing, a terminal and a cap. The electrode assembly can have a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode. Each of the first electrode and the second electrode can have a first portion including an active material corresponding to the separator, and a second portion exposed beyond the separator and not coated with the active material. The battery housing can have a first end with a first opening and a second end with a second opening opposite the first end. The terminal can be electrically connected to the second portion of the first electrode and exposed out of the battery housing through the first opening of the battery housing at the first end.

Abstract: A battery, includes an electrode assembly having a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator, wherein each of the first electrode and the second electrode has a first portion including an active material corresponding to the separator, and a second portion exposed beyond the separator and not coated with the active material; a battery housing having a first end with a first opening and a second end with a second opening opposite the first end, the battery housing accommodating the electrode assembly through the second opening at the second end and electrically connected to the second portion of the second electrode; a terminal electrically connected to the second portion of the first electrode and exposed out of the battery housing through the first opening of the battery housing at the first end; and a cap covering and sealing the second opening at the second end of the battery housing.

Abstract: A battery can include an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode can have a pair of first sides and a pair of second sides extending between the pair of first sides, a first portion including an active material extending between the pair of first sides, and a second portion extending between the pair of first sides and exposed beyond the separator along a winding direction. The battery can further include a battery housing having a first opening at a first end and a second end with a second opening opposite the first end, a first current collector including a support portion positioned on the electrode assembly, and a housing cover which seals the first opening.

Abstract: An electrode assembly includes a first electrode; a second electrode; and a separator, the first electrode, the second electrode, and the separator wound about an axis defining a core and an outer circumference of the electrode assembly. The first electrode has a pair of first sides and a pair of second sides, a first portion extending between the pair of first sides, and a second portion extending between the pair of first sides, the first portion being coated with an active material, and at least a part of the second portion includes an electrode tab. The second portion includes a first part adjacent to the core of the electrode assembly, a second part adjacent to the outer circumference of the electrode assembly, and a third part between the first part and the second part. The first or second part has a smaller height than the third part.

Abstract: A battery can include an electrode assembly having a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator. The first electrode can include a first active material region coated with an active material layer along a winding direction and a first uncoated region not coated with the active material layer, and at least part of the first uncoated region used as an electrode tab. The battery can further include a first current collector coupled to at least part of the first uncoated region on the electrode assembly, a battery housing to accommodate the electrode assembly and the first current collector, and an insulator between an inner surface of the battery housing facing the first uncoated region or the first current collector and the first uncoated region or the first current collector to block the electrical connection between the first uncoated region and the battery housing.

Abstract: An electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same are provided. In the electrode assembly, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound based on an axis to define a core and an outer circumference. The first electrode includes a first portion coated with an active material and a second portion at a first side and adjacent the first portion, the second portion being exposed beyond the separator along a first axial direction of the electrode assembly. A part of the second portion is bent in a radial direction of the electrode assembly forming a first surface region including stacked layers of the second portion, and in a partial region of the first surface region, a number of the stacked layers of the second portion is 10 or more in the in the first axial direction.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, second electrode, and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first electrode including a first region coated with an active material and a second region at a first side and adjacent to the first region, the second region being exposed beyond the separator, and at least part of the second region is an electrode tab; a housing including a first end with a first opening, the housing accommodating the electrode assembly; a first current collector including an edge portion on the electrode assembly, a second region coupling portion extending from the edge portion and coupled with the second region, and a terminal coupling portion spaced apart from the second region coupling portion; and a terminal coupled with the terminal coupling portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fixing structure of an electrode terminal, and a battery, a battery pack and a vehicle including the same. The fixing structure of an electrode terminal includes a battery housing configured to be opened at one side and have a bottom at the other side in which a perforation hole is formed; an electrode terminal installed through the perforation hole not to contact an inner wall of the perforation hole; and a terminal gasket interposed between the electrode terminal and the perforation hole, and the electrode terminal includes a body portion inserted into the perforation hole; an outer flange portion configured to extend along an outer surface of the bottom of the battery housing from a first side of the body portion; an inner flange portion configured to extend toward an inner surface of the bottom of the battery housing from a second side of the body portion; and a flat portion provided to an inner side of the inner flange portion.

Abstract: Discussed is a battery including an electrode assembly having a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator wound about an axis, and each of the first electrode and the second electrode has a first portion including an active material corresponding to the separator, and a second portion exposed beyond the separator and not coated with the active material, a housing having a first end with a first opening and a second end with a second opening opposite the first end, the housing accommodating the electrode assembly, a terminal electrically connected to the second portion of the first electrode and exposed out of the housing through the first opening of the housing at the first end, a cap at the second end of the housing, and an insulating gasket having an extended shape to cover the outer circumferential surface of the terminal.

Abstract: Discussed is a battery including an electrode assembly having a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, a battery housing having a first end with a first opening and a second end with a second opening opposite the first end, the battery housing accommodating the electrode assembly and electrically connected to the second electrode to have a second polarity, a terminal electrically connected to the first electrode to have a first polarity, the terminal being exposed out of the battery housing through the first opening of the battery housing at the first end, and a cap covering and sealing the second opening at the second end of the battery housing. The cap overlaps the battery housing at the second end and has no polarity.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for generating a 3D avatar. The method, performed by the apparatus, includes performing a 3D scan of the body of a user using an image sensor and generating a 3D scan model using the result of the 3D scan of the body of the user, matching the 3D scan model and a previously stored template avatar, and generating a 3D avatar based on the result of matching the 3D scan model and the template avatar.

Abstract: Provided is a method of reconstructing a three-dimensional (3D) model of an object. The method includes sequentially performing, by a camera module, first and second object scanning processes of scanning the same object, reconstructing, by a processor module, a 3D object model, based on a first object image obtained through the first object scanning process, performing pose learning on an object to generate learning data, based on data obtained through a process of reconstructing the 3D object model based on the first object image, and reconstructing, by the processor module, a final 3D object model, based on a second object image obtained through the second object scanning process and the learning data.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for generating a 3D avatar. The method, performed by the apparatus, includes performing a 3D scan of the body of a user using an image sensor and generating a 3D scan model using the result of the 3D scan of the body of the user, matching the 3D scan model and a previously stored template avatar, and generating a 3D avatar based on the result of matching the 3D scan model and the template avatar.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for reconstructing 3D information of an object. The method of reconstructing 3D information of an object may include: reconstructing 3D information of a background space, using at least one of images of the background space for three-dimensionally reconstructing the object; separating the object from the background space on the basis of at least one of images of the object in the background space, and of obtaining a depth image of the object separated from the background space; and generating 3D information of the object based on images taken by at least one of cameras in consideration of position relationships between the depth image of the object and the cameras.

Abstract: Provided is a method of reconstructing a three-dimensional (3D) model of an object. The method includes sequentially performing, by a camera module, first and second object scanning processes of scanning the same object, reconstructing, by a processor module, a 3D object model, based on a first object image obtained through the first object scanning process, performing pose learning on an object to generate learning data, based on data obtained through a process of reconstructing the 3D object model based on the first object image, and reconstructing, by the processor module, a final 3D object model, based on a second object image obtained through the second object scanning process and the learning data.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing a realistic 2D/3D AR experience service based on a video. Particularly, the present invention provides a method of providing a realistic AR service with high quality based on AR by using a 2D video image and 3D information in association thereto at the same time, filming a cybernaut and AR content by using two sensors having viewpoints different from each other, and arranging 2D/3D content being an object to be matched within the AR content and which has a 3D position different to a position of the cybernaut in association with a dynamic 3D position of the cybernaut and with a dynamic viewpoint of a service sensor.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a virtual content-mixing method for augmented reality and an apparatus for the same. The virtual content-mixing method includes generating lighting physical-modeling data based on actual lighting information for outputting virtual content, generating camera physical-modeling data by acquiring a plurality of parameters corresponding to a camera, and mixing the virtual content with an image that is input through an RGB camera, based on the lighting physical-modeling data and the camera physical-modeling data.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing a realistic 2D/3D AR experience service based on a video. Particularly, the present invention provides a method of providing a realistic AR service with high quality based on AR by using a 2D video image and 3D information in association thereto at the same time, filming a cybernaut and AR content by using two sensors having viewpoints different from each other, and arranging 2D/3D content being an object to be matched within the AR content and which has a 3D position different to a position of the cybernaut in association with a dynamic 3D position of the cybernaut and with a dynamic viewpoint of a service sensor.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for reconstructing 3D information of an object. The method of reconstructing 3D information of an object may include: reconstructing 3D information of a background space, using at least one of images of the background space for three-dimensionally reconstructing the object; separating the object from the background space on the basis of at least one of images of the object in the background space, and of obtaining a depth image of the object separated from the background space; and generating 3D information of the object based on images taken by at least one of cameras in consideration of position relationships between the depth image of the object and the cameras.