Abstract: Provided is a wafer processing apparatus including a laser source for generating a laser beam including a plurality of pulses, a wafer support configured to support a wafer, and a beam transmission optical system for transferring the laser beam output from the laser source to the wafer, wherein the laser source sets parameters of the laser beam so that the laser beam is collected inside the wafer by a self-condensing phenomenon while moving along the inside of the wafer.

Abstract: A camera module includes a first prism having refractive power, a first lens module disposed adjacently to an object-side surface of the first prism, and a first driving member driving the first lens module in a direction intersecting an optical axis.

Abstract: A ramp signal generating device and an image sensor for decreasing the latency of a ramp signal are provided. The ramp signal generating device may include a first circuit configured to detect a capacitance of a parasitic capacitor, a second circuit configured to charge the parasitic capacitor with a first voltage, and a third circuit configured to receive the capacitance as an input to generate a load current causing the ramp signal with a predetermined slope.

Abstract: An image signal processor, an image sensor, and an operating method of the image sensor are provided. The image sensor may include a pixel array including a plurality of sensing pixels each configured to convert a received light signal into an electrical signal, a readout circuit configured to convert the electrical signals into image data and output the image data, and an image signal processor configured to correct bad pixels occurring in a first pixel group of the image data, based on a neural network, encode position information representing a position of at least one bad pixel of the bad pixels to generate position data, and provide the position data to a first middle layer of a plurality of layers included in the neural network.

Abstract: An image sensor and an operating method thereof are provided. The image sensor comprises a voltage generator configured to receive a reference voltage and generate an operating voltage, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit configured to receive the operating voltage and output a digital code based on the operating voltage, and processing circuitry configured to receive the digital code, and calculate a settling time at which the operating voltage was stabilized based on the digital code and a desired settling threshold voltage value.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus and an operating method thereof are provided. The image processing apparatus includes: a line interleaving controller configured to generate output data based on line data received from channels respectively connected to image sensors; and an image signal processor configured to process the output data. The line interleaving controller includes: data packing circuits respectively corresponding to the channels and configured to generate packing data by packing the line data to a preset data size; a memory configured to store the packing data in a region indicated by an index assigned to a corresponding channel; a write controller configured to control a write operation of the memory; a line index controller configured to manage indexes respectively corresponding to the channels; a read controller configured to control a read operation of the memory; and an unpacking circuit configured to unpack read data output from the read controller.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a first housing; a second housing; a hinge structure foldably connecting the first housing and the second housing to each other; and a flexible display including a first portion on the first housing and a second portion on the second housing, the flexible display being foldable according to folding of the first housing and the second housing with respect to each other, wherein the flexible display may include a glass layer, the glass layer may include a flexible part that is bendable and may include a plurality of slits, and at least a portion of a side surface of each of the plurality of slits may include a rough surface.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a camera; a communication interface configured to communicate with an external device; and at least one processor configured to: receive, through the communication interface from the external device, first order information including an order of operations performed by the external device, based on receiving the first order information, obtain a plurality of captured images including the external device through the camera, obtain second order information indicating an order of operations performed by the external device based on the plurality of captured images, and based on the first order information matching the second order information, authenticate the external device.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus including: a communication interface; a memory to store meta data corresponding, respectively, to a plurality of contents including a first content and a second content; and at least one processor configured to acquire characteristic information corresponding to the first content and the second content, respectively, based on first content information of the first content and second content information of the second content received through the communication interface, provided the first content information of the first content and the second content information of the second content, do not match each other, and provide a chatting room for the first content and the second content provided the first content and the second content are a same content based on the received first content information and the second content information, the acquired characteristic information, and the meta data stored in the memory.

Abstract: A sensor may include a reflective electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer on the reflective electrode and including one or more photoelectric conversion materials, a semi-transmissive electrode on the photoelectric conversion layer, a light transmitting buffer layer on the semi-transmissive electrode, and a semi-transmissive auxiliary layer on the light transmitting buffer layer.

Abstract: A cleaning device may include a body unit movable along one plane, a first suction unit extending in a first direction and arranged under the body unit, and through which waste is suctionable, a second suction unit extending in the first direction and arranged under the body unit, and through which waste is suctionable, a partition unit extending in the first direction and arranged between the first suction unit and the second suction unit, a roller unit arranged in the first suction unit, extending in the first direction, and arranged to be rotatable around one axis extending in the first direction, a brush extending by a first length from an outer circumferential surface of the roller unit, and a driving unit generating power such that the roller unit rotates around the one axis.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the disclosure, an ultrasonic probe may be provided, the ultrasonic probe including a first housing, a second housing coupled to the first housing, an acoustic module at least partially arranged in the first housing and including a transducer and a lens portion, the transducer being capable of converting an ultrasonic signal and an electrical signal, and the lens portion being capable of changing a path of the ultrasonic signal, a first connector connected to an inner surface of the first housing, and a second connector at least partially arranged in the second housing and connected to the first connector, wherein the first connector is configured to connect the second connector and the first housing to each other, such that the first housing is coupled to the second housing.

Abstract: An air conditioning system includes a temperature control unit, first and second filter units, and clean room equipment. The temperature control unit discharges temperature-controlled purified air through at least one of first or second outlets. The first and second filter units each filter purified air received from the temperature control unit based on using respective first and second filter modules. The first and second filter units include separate, independent housings. The air conditioning system blocks air flow from the temperature control unit into the second filter unit during an operation of the first filter module to filter purified air received at the first filter unit from the temperature control unit, and blocks air flow from the temperature control unit into the first filter unit during an operation of the second filter module to filter purified air received at the second filter unit from the temperature control unit.

Abstract: A PCM steel sheet for a home appliance and a refrigerator including the same. The PCM steel sheet may include a steel sheet, a basecoat layer provided on the steel sheet, a hairline layer formed on the basecoat layer, a clearcoat layer provided on the hairline layer, and a primer layer between the steel sheet and the basecoat layer to provide adhesion. The PCM steel sheet for a home appliance does not include a metal mesh layer. The PCM steel sheet for a home appliance may have a brightness (flop index) of about 20 or more.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a mask assembly and a method of manufacturing a mask assembly. The mask assembly includes a frame including a frame opening and grooves, each arranged in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a mask including support lines each inserted into a corresponding one of the grooves. Each of the support lines includes a carbon nanotube fiber.

Abstract: A semiconductor chip splitting method using a laser includes: performing a back-end-of-line (BEOL) process comprising forming wiring at or above a front surface of a semiconductor substrate; forming a lower trench at a rear surface of the semiconductor substrate; forming a laser scribing line on the semiconductor substrate along a region overlapping the lower trench; and splitting the semiconductor substrate into chips by a process comprising cutting along the laser scribing line.

Abstract: A drum-type washing machine including a casing having an inlet through which laundry is loaded and unloaded, a tub arrangeable in the casing so that while the tub is arranged in the casing, an inside of the tub is accessible through the inlet, the tub being able to store water, a drum arrangeable in the tub to rotate about an axis extending in forward and rearward directions while the laundry is loaded into the drum, a plurality of pipe connection portions, arrangeable on a side surface of the tub, to be connected to pipes, and an air-flow noise reduction mechanism, arrangeable in at least one pipe connection portion among the plurality of pipe connection portions, to control air-flow caused by rotation of the drum.

Abstract: A matting agent-free matt metallic steel sheet for a home appliance, including a primer layer formed on the steel sheet, a basecoat layer formed on the primer layer, a print layer formed on the basecoat layer, and a clearcoat layer formed on the print layer, wherein the clearcoat layer includes an acrylic resin having a weight average molecular weight Mw range of 70,000 to 100,000.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services.

Abstract: A method for selecting an artificial intelligence (AI) model in neural architecture search, includes: measuring a scale of receptive field for a plurality of neural network layers corresponding to each of a plurality of candidate AI models; determining a first score for a first group of neural network layers among the plurality of neural network layers based on the scale of the receptive field for the first group of neural network layers, the scale of the receptive field for each of the first group of neural network layers being smaller than a size of an object; determining a second score for a second group of neural network layers among the plurality of neural network layers based on the scale of the receptive field for the second group of neural network layers, the scale of the receptive field for each of the second group of neural network layers being greater than the size of the object; determining a third score for each of the plurality of candidate AI models as a function of the first score and the seco

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus configured to measure radical spatial density distribution including a process chamber including a viewport, a driving device configured to move a moving wall inside the process chamber, a light source configured to generate light, a collimator disposed in the viewport of the process chamber and configured to transmit light received from the light source to the moving wall and receive light reflected from the moving wall, and a spectrometer configured to receive the reflected light from the collimator, and measure radical spatial density based on analyzing an absorption amount of a spectrum of the received light.

Abstract: Provided are an overlay correction method for effectively correcting an overlay due to degradation of a wafer table, and an exposure method and a semiconductor device manufacturing method, which include the overlay correction method, wherein the overlay correction method includes acquiring leveling data regarding a wafer, converting the leveling data into overlay data, splitting a shot into sub-shots via shot size split, extracting a model for each sub-shot from the overlay data, and correcting an overlay parameter of exposure equipment on the basis of the model for each sub-shot, wherein the correction of the overlay parameter is applied in real time to an exposure process for the wafer in a feedforward method.

Abstract: A steam generator is disclosed. The steam generator includes: a recovery chamber which includes a first inlet, a second inlet, a steam outlet, and a drain outlet; a first pipe configured to receive water through a first end of the first pipe and which is connected at a second end of the first pipe to the first inlet; a second pipe which is connected at a first end of the second pipe to the drain outlet and is connected at a second end of the second pipe to the second inlet; and a heater device configured to heat water moving through at least one of the first pipe and the second pipe.

Abstract: A character input keyboard including a first key area where character keys corresponding to a first character group are arranged, a second key area where character keys corresponding to a second character group are arranged, and a conversion key arranged between the first key area and the second key area. A processor is configured to display a first character corresponding to a selected character key based on selection of a character key in the first key area or the second key area, and display a second character associated with the first character in place of the first character based on selection of the conversion key while the first character is being displayed.

Abstract: An air drying system includes drying devices, each including an intake port and an exhaust port, measuring devices installed on respective exhaust pipes coupled to the exhaust ports of the drying devices, and measuring flow rates of air discharged from the drying devices, valves installed on the exhaust pipes to control the flow rates of air discharged from the drying devices, and a controlling device that receives data from the measuring devices, and controls the valves such that the flow rates of air discharged from the drying devices are uniform. The drying devices are controlled such that air is discharged from the drying devices at a uniform flow rate.

Abstract: An imaging lens 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 at intervals from an object side of the imaging lens system. The imaging lens system satisfies 1.5<Nd5<1.6, 30<V5<50, and TTL/2IH<0.730, where Nd5 is a refractive index of the fifth lens, V5 is an Abbe number of the fifth lens, TTL is a distance from an object side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane, and 2IH is a diagonal length of the imaging plane.

Abstract: Provided are a method for processing a graph and system therefor. The method according to some embodiments may include calculating spectral information associated with a target graph, and generating an embedding representation of the target graph based on information on nodes constituting the target graph and the spectral information.

Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens having a convex object-side surface, a fifth lens having a concave image-side surface, and a sixth lens, wherein the first to sixth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side to an imaging plane. An F-number of the optical imaging system is 1.7 or less.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes: a main body forming a storage chamber; a first door rotatably coupled to the main body to open and close at least a portion of the storage chamber; a second door adjacent to the first door and rotatably coupled to the main body to open and close at least another portion of the storage chamber; and a rotating bar rotatably coupled to the first door and configured to cover a gap between the first door and the second door when the first door and the second door are closed, wherein the rotating bar may include: a case; a case cover coupled to the case, the case cover and the case together forming an inner space; and a foamed heat insulator disposed in the inner space and couples the case and the case cover to each other.

Abstract: A display device includes a first electrode disposed on a substrate; a pixel defining layer that has an opening exposing the first electrode; a second electrode disposed on the pixel defining layer and the first electrode; an encapsulation layer that covers the second electrode; a color filter disposed on the encapsulation layer; and an upper light blocking layer that has an upper opening corresponding to the color filter, wherein the upper light blocking layer overlaps an overlapping portion where adjacent color filters overlap each other in a plan view.

Abstract: A non-line-of-sight radar apparatus includes a first radar receiver to convert a first frequency radar signal received through a non-line-of-sight into a digital signal and to output a first path signal; a first signal processor to receive a second path signal from a direct-line-of-sight detection apparatus detecting a direct-line-of-sight, to cancel a direct-line-of-sight signal irrelevant to the non-line-of-sight included in the first path signal using the second path signal, and to extract a non-line-of-sight signal; and a first signal detector to detect an object on a non-line-of-sight based on the non-line-of-sight signal.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a memory configured to store instruction thereon; and a processing circuitry configured to execute the instructions. The processing circuitry is configured to execute the instructions to cause the image processing device to divide input video data into a plurality of input video sub-data corresponding to a plurality of sub-areas, generate a plurality of output video sub-data by performing image processing operations on the plurality of input video sub-data, respectively, generate output video data corresponding to the input video data by merging the plurality of output video sub-data. Each of the plurality of input video sub-data includes main input sub-data corresponding to a respective sub-area among the plurality of sub-areas, and boundary input sub-data corresponding to a portion of an adjacent sub-area adjacent to the respective sub-area among the plurality of sub-areas.

Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having refractive power, a third lens having refractive power, a fourth lens having refractive power, a fifth lens having negative refractive power, wherein the first to fifth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side, and a reflective member having a plurality of reflective surfaces to reflect the light refracted by the fifth lens multiple times, wherein 3<BFL/TL<7 is satisfied, where BFL is a distance on an optical axis from an image-side surface of the fifth lens to an imaging plane, and TL is a distance on an optical axis from an object-side surface of the first lens to the image-side surface of the fifth lens.

Abstract: A supersampling method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving a low-resolution three-dimensional (3D) image comprising a current frame and receiving a previous frame preceding the current frame; generating a low-resolution partial image by repeatedly sampling sub-pixel regions of the current frame; warping a high-resolution image, of the previous frame, which has been outputted from a neural network, to a current view corresponding to the current frame; replacing a partial region of the warped high-resolution image of the previous frame with image data from the low-resolution partial image; and generating a high-resolution image of the current frame by applying the high-resolution image of the previous frame, in which the partial region has been replaced, to the neural network.

Abstract: An optical imaging system includes a first lens group that can move in an optical direction and has negative refractive power; a second lens group that can move in the optical direction and has positive refractive power; and a third lens group that can move in the optical direction and has negative refractive power. The first lens group, the second lens group, and the third lens group include seven lenses in total, and at least one of the seven lenses includes an aspherical surface.

Abstract: An adaptive super sampling method includes: rendering frames of a three-dimensional (3D) model, the frames including a current frame and a previous frame preceding the current frame; determining motion vectors indicating a correspondence relationship between pixels in the current frame and pixels in the previous frame; generating a geometric identifier maps (G-ID maps) respectively corresponding to the current frame and the previous frame based on 3D geometrical properties associated with the pixels in the current frame and the previous frame; based on the motion vectors and the G-ID maps, generating an artifact map predicting where artifacts will occur from inter-frame super sampling of the current frame; and performing adaptive super sampling on the current frame based on the artifact map.

Abstract: A firmware upgrade method of a network storage includes inquiring, by the network storage, about a latest firmware version for the network storage from a firmware upgrade platform through a network, and based on the latest firmware version being inconsistent with a current firmware version of the network storage, downloading, by the network storage, the latest firmware version from the firmware upgrade platform through the network and performing a firmware upgrade based on the latest firmware version.

Abstract: An electronic device, including one or more processors configured to execute instructions; and a memory storing the instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, configures the one or more processors to generate high-quality feature data of a current frame, by implementing a feature restoration model that is provided reference feature data, received by an electronic device, and corresponding to compressed feature data of a reference image corresponding to a first time that is different from a second time to which the current frame corresponds, and low-quality feature data received by the electronic device, and corresponding to compressed data of the current frame, that has a lower image quality than the reference image; and generate a current frame of a third image quality higher than the second image quality, based on the high-quality feature data

Abstract: A method is performed by an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining an application use history of the electronic device; determining first applications of the electronic device, based on the application use history of the electronic device; identifying a user group including a user of the electronic device, based on information about the first applications; performing an correlation analysis with respect to a plurality of applications including the first applications, based on an application use history of other electronic devices of the user group; based on a result of the correlation analysis and the information about the one or more first applications, determining one or more second applications to be recommended to the user of the electronic device; generating a personalized application menu including the first applications and the second applications; and displaying the personalized application menu.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a memory configured to store instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to receive a text of a first language, generate, based on the text of the first language, style information indicating a translation style to be applied to the text of the first language and machine-translate the text of the first language into text of a second language based on the generated style information.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a display panel including a folding area and first and second non-folding areas spaced apart from each other with the folding area between the first and second non-folding areas, and a digitizer including a first non-folding portion overlapping the first non-folding area, a second non-folding portion overlapping the second non-folding area, and a folding portion overlapping the folding area and including holes. The digitizer includes first loop coils in a first direction and second loop coils in a second direction and insulated from and intersecting with the first loop coils. The second loop coils may include non-folding coils respectively in the first and second non-folding portions and folding coils, at least one of which is in the folding portion. The non-folding coils are driven in a first mode, and the folding coils are driven in a second mode.

Abstract: A modular display apparatus is disclosed. The modular display apparatus includes a plurality of display modules, and a controller configured to control the plurality of display modules, and the plurality of display modules include a plurality of scan groups, respectively, the controller is configured to transmit an image signal corresponding to the respective display modules based on an image frame, and the respective scan groups included in a first display module from among the plurality of display modules includes a plurality of scan lines arranged in one direction, a plurality of data lines arranged in a direction perpendicular to the plurality of scan lines, light emitting diodes generated at a cross area of the scan lines and the data lines, and at least one driver integrated circuit.

Abstract: In a data backup method of a storage device, environment information is received from at least one environmental sensor such that an operating environment in which the storage device is operating is monitored. An event detection signal is generated based on the environment information. In response to generating the event detection signal at least first data is immediately backed up to an external device located outside the storage device. The storage device includes a first port configured to be used to store the plurality of data in the storage device, and a second port different from the first port. In response to generating the event detection signal, the at least first data among the plurality of data are immediately output from the storage device through the second port.

Abstract: A memory device is provided. The memory device includes: a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cell rows; a refresh control circuit configured to output a refresh row address to control a refresh operation to be performed on at least one memory cell row among the plurality of memory cell rows; and a control logic circuit configured to receive, from a memory controller, error check and scrub (ECS) setting data corresponding to a mode among a plurality of modes, store the ECS setting data in a mode register, and provide a target row address of a memory cell row to be refreshed to the refresh control circuit based on a value of the ECS setting data in response to a refresh command provided from the memory controller.

Abstract: A method of controlling an electronic device for enabling a context transfer from a virtual session to an environment external to the virtual session, includes detecting at least one user in an a virtual session; based on detecting the at least one user, obtaining a context of at least one virtual device content present in the virtual session, based on detecting the at least one user; obtaining at least one user interest related with the at least one virtual device content using at least one user input in the virtual session; obtaining correlation information between the at least one user interest and at least one content capability of a plurality of real world user devices of the at least one user; and providing at least one real world user device, among the plurality of user devices, to the at least one user for transferring the context of the at least one virtual device content based on the correlation information.

Abstract: A storage system is provided. The system includes: a network interface device configured to communicate with a host and including a first computing circuit configured to support first offloading functions and first algorithms corresponding thereto; a computing storage device configured to store data and including a second computing circuit configured to support second offloading functions and second algorithms corresponding thereto; and a system controller configured to perform a management operation to control an offloading computing operation to be performed by one of the first computing circuit and the second computing circuit according to an offloading request of the host, based on offload capability information about the first offloading functions, the second offloading functions, the first algorithms, and the second algorithms.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic apparatus that includes: a display; a communication interface; a memory storing at least one instruction; and at least one processor operatively connected with the display, the communication interface, and the memory. The electronic apparatus is configured to: based on identifying a capture event, obtain a first image that captures a screen of an external apparatus providing a first content, and obtain a second image that captures a screen of the display providing a second content, the external apparatus being communicatively connected, through the communication interface, with the electronic apparatus, obtain a third image comprising the first content and the second content based on the first image and the second image, and store the third image in the memory.

Abstract: Provided is a memory device including a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cell rows, the plurality of memory cell rows being grouped into a plurality of segments, a row decoder connected to the plurality of memory cell rows, and a refresh control circuit configured to generate a refresh control signal for controlling a refresh operation on the plurality of memory cell rows.

Abstract: Disclosed is a storage device including a nonvolatile memory and a storage controller connected to the nonvolatile memory through a plurality of channels and controlling the nonvolatile memory. The storage controller is configured to receive a command from a host device, check a workload of a mapping channel, to which the command is to be allocated, from among the plurality of channels, and queue the command without allocating the command to the mapping channel in response to the workload of the mapping channel exceeding a threshold workload, increase the workload of the mapping channel in response to the workload of the mapping channel not being greater than the threshold workload, and allocate a descriptor for performing an operation according to the command to the command.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a microphone, a memory and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to acquire utterance data corresponding to a voice of a user through the microphone, determine an intent and provide content to the user based on the intent. When intent determination fails, then one or more models are updated using text obtained from the utterance data. The intent determination may fail when there is no verb (predicate) in the user utterance. The models are updated by searching for named entities and determining domains to be used for the model updates. The domains are determined based on categories. The categories are found using a named entity search (NES). Examples of categories are music artists, music albums, movie titles, TV program channels, video clip channels, radio programs, and podcast titles.