Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Lg Electronics Inc.

Korea Institute of Science and Technology

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Kwangwoon University Industry-academic Collaboration Foundation

Industry-university Cooperation Foundation Sogang University

Wooshin Industrial Co., Ltd.

Dong Kyu Lee

Ja Min Goo

Ji Hyun Park

Hyung Woo Kim

Bum Suk Kim

Kyung Hee Lee

Jun Sung Park

Ju Yeong Lee

Tae Sung Lee

Seung Hyuk Yu

Kwang Hee Lee

Yun Ki Lee

Ji Min Kim

Eun Young Kim

Ki Won Kim

Chan Won Lee

Joo Namkung

Jin Hong Jeong

Dong Min Keum

Si Hak Jang

Yong Ju Yu

Sae Gee Oh

Chul Kwi Kim

Im Sung Lee

Seong Hoon You

Ki Young Kwon

Hui Yong Kim

Sung Chang Lim

Jin Ho Lee

Jin Soo Choi

Jung Won Kang

Dong San Jun

Hyun Suk Ko

Dong Gyu Sim

Jae Hun Kim

Sang Hyun Lee

Yong Jo Ahn

Sea Nae Park

Yong Wook Kim

Yong Kim

Jung Min Lee

Young Tae Kim

Young Wan Seo

Tae Chan Kim

Young Min Jhon

Young Hyun Kim

Chan Woo Park

Tae Han Kim

Min Hyoug Boo

Seoung Jun Oh

Jung-Saeng Kim

Sung Jin Ann

Ji Hyun Moon

Min Ah Seo

Taik Jin Lee

Jung Kee Lee

Jung Hwan Park

Chul Ki Kim

Won Woo Cho

Ji Won Moon

Bo Ram Namgoong

Tae Kwang Oh

Je Heon Park

Gwang Hui Lee

Nam Yong Park

Ho Jin Jang

Young Ok Kim

Kyu Young Hong

Du Kyung Jung

Rae Hong Park

Geun Chang Choi

Kyung Suk Bae

Hyung Kwon Kim

Yang Woong Choi

Young Seo Park

Kyung Ii Hong

Chun Ho Baek

Kwang Hee Nam

Hae Jin Ju

Joong Yeal Choi

Gang Heok Kim

Seoung Hwi Kim

An image sensor includes a substrate including a first surface on which light is incident and a second surface opposite to the first surface, unit pixels in the substrate, each including a photoelectric conversion layer, color filters on the first surface of the substrate, a grid pattern on the first surface of the substrate defining a respective light receiving area of each of the unit pixels, and microlenses on the color filters, each of the microlenses corresponding to a respective one of the unit pixels, wherein the unit pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel sharing a first color filter which is one of the color filters, and a first light receiving area of the first pixel is different from a second light receiving area of the second pixel.

Image sensor having pixels with different light receiving areas

Provided may be a method for providing an extended function to a vehicle according to an embodiment, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining first image information required for providing an extended function, through a first photographing unit; obtaining predetermined running information related to the running of a vehicle; performing image processing for providing an extended function, through a first ECU on the basis of the running information and the first image information; and displaying a result of the image processing. Furthermore, provided may be an extended function providing apparatus capable of performing the extended function providing method, and a non-volatile computer-readable recording medium in which a computer program for performing the extended function providing method is contained.

Apparatus and method for providing extended function to vehicle

An image sensor that provides a uniform sensitivity for pixels having color filters of the same color to increase the image quality is provided. The image sensor includes a substrate, a first grid pattern disposed on the substrate and including a first side wall and a second side wall opposite to the first side wall, a first pixel including a first photoelectric conversion element and a first color filter, and a second pixel including a second photoelectric conversion element and a second color filter. The first color filter contacts the first side wall and the second color filter contacts the second side wall. The first color filter and the second color filter are color filters of same color, and a first thickness of the first color filter is greater than a second thickness of the second color filter.

Image sensor with varying same-color color filter thickness

An image sensor in which a shading phenomenon is decreased and the quality is increased is provided. The image sensor includes a light-receiving region including a plurality of unit pixels. The image sensor further includes a first region with unit pixels adjacent to a center of the light-receiving region, and a second region with the unit pixels spaced apart from the center of the light-receiving region. In both regions, a plurality of color filters corresponding to the plurality of unit pixels is disposed on a first face of the substrate, as well as a grid pattern interposed between the plurality of color filters defining boundaries between the unit pixels. A width of the grid pattern in the second region is greater than a width of the grid pattern in the first region, thereby adjusting light receiving areas near the edge of the image sensor to correct for a shading phenomenon.

Image sensor with varying grid width

An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a microphone, a camera, an output device, a memory, and a processor. The processor implements the method, including receiving a voice input and/or capturing an image, and analyze the first voice input or the image to determine at least one of a user's intent, emotion, and situation based on predefined keywords and expressions, identifying a category based on the input, selecting first information based on the category, selecting and outputting a first query prompting confirmation of output of the first information, detect a first responsive input to the first query, and when a condition to output the first information is satisfied, output a second query, detecting a second input responsive to the second query, and selectively outputting the first information based on the second input.

Provision of targeted advertisements based on user intent, emotion and context

Disclosed is an electronic device including a communication circuit, a microphone, a memory, speaker, and a processor, in which the processor receives the speech input and transmits first data associated with the speech input to a first server for supporting the speech recognition service, receives second data corresponding to processing of a part of the first data from the first server and outputs the second data at a first time that a first period of time has elapsed after the transmission of the first data, and outputs third data corresponding to processing of the rest of the first data at a second time that a second period of time has elapsed from the first time, while receiving the third data from the first server or a second server for supporting the speech recognition service before the second time.

Method for operating speech recognition service and electronic device and server for supporting the same

An electronic device includes an audio input module, a memory storing a speech recognition application, a first application, and a second application, a communication circuit communicating with a first NLU server associated with the first application and a second NLU server associated with the second application, and a processor electrically connected to the audio input module, the memory, and the communication circuit and executing the speech recognition application. The processor is configured to convert an utterance of a user received through the audio input module, into an audio signal, to transmit text data corresponding to the audio signal to the first NLU server and the second NLU server, to receive a first control message as a result of analyzing the text data, from the first NLU server, to receive a second control message as a result of analyzing the text data, from the second NLU server, to select one of the first control message or the second control message depending on a specified condition, to provide the first control message to the first application, when the first control message is selected, and to provide the second control message to the second application, when the second control message is selected.

Method for voice recognition and electronic device for performing same

A movable electronic device includes at least one camera module, a driving module configured to support movement on a specified path of the electronic device, and a processor electrically connected to the camera module and the driving module. The processor is configured to control the electronic device to perform capture while moving on a specified first path and to set the first path to a second path based on state information about at least one Internet of Things (IoT) device obtained based on a capture image on the first path.

Monitoring system control method and electronic device for supporting same

A semiconductor device includes a first electrode disposed on a substrate, a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) on the first electrode, a capping layer on the MTJ, a stress-inducing layer on the capping layer, and a second electrode on the stress-inducing layer. The stress-inducing layer may have tensile stress.

Semiconductor devices including stress-inducing layers and methods of forming the same

An unmanned aerial vehicle is disclosed. The unmanned aerial vehicle includes a memory, a sensor unit, a camera, a moving unit, and a processor. The sensor unit is configured to sense the unmanned aerial vehicle or a surrounding object. The camera configured to take an image. The moving unit configured to generate power to move the unmanned aerial vehicle. The processor is configured to determine whether a user makes contact with the unmanned aerial vehicle. The processor is also configured to control the moving unit to allow the unmanned aerial vehicle to hover at a second location when the unmanned aerial vehicle is moved from a first location to the second location by an external force of a predetermined magnitude or greater while the contact is maintained.

Method for controlling unmanned aerial vehicle and unmanned aerial vehicle supporting the same

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding an image and for adjusting a reconstructed pixel by scaling an offset of an in-loop filter having a scaled offset value. The method includes: obtaining information of a scale default value of a current block from a bitstream; obtaining offset parameter merge information of the current block from the bitstream; obtaining the offset parameter of the current block on the basis of the offset parameter merge information; determining whether a scale residual value of the current block is obtained from the bitstream on the basis of the offset parameter merge information; obtaining a scale value on the basis of the scale default value and the scale residual value; scaling an offset on the basis of the offset parameter and the scale value; and adjusting a pixel value of the current block on the basis of the scaled offset.

Method for decoding video using in-loop filter, and device therefor

An electronic device includes a housing including a head part that is rotatable, a plurality of microphones disposed in the head part, a sensor for detecting a rotation angle of the head part, a memory storing data classifying feature parameters for each of the plurality of microphones according to a plurality of rotation angles, a motor configured to rotate the head part; and a processor. The processor implements the method, including when detecting sound by the plurality of microphones originating from a sound source, driving the motor to rotate the head part until a designated portion of a surface of the head part is facing the sound source, and when the designated portion of the surface is facing the sound source, adjusting feature parameters for each the plurality of microphones based on the classified feature parameters and a current angle of the head part.

Electronic device for controlling microphone parameter

Disclosed is a terahertz trapping device including a substrate, and a film disposed on the substrate, wherein the film has a slot in a particular shape patterned to be engraved or a structure in a particular shape patterned by embossing the film to control motion of a particle using terahertz electromagnetic waves.

Terahertz trapping device

In image processing, a color fringe is removed. The processing includes selecting a maximum gradient magnitude among gradient magnitudes for each of color components in an image, calculating a boundary of a dilated near-saturation region in the image, detecting a transition region in the image according to the maximum gradient magnitude and the dilated near-saturation region, and removing a color fringe from the transition region.

Method and device for processing an image to remove color fringe

An exhaust manifold includes: an inlet portion which collects exhaust gas discharged through a first to a fourth exhaust ports; an outlet portion discharging the exhaust gas; and a tube portion connecting the inlet and the outlet portions. The inlet portion comprises: a first inlet portion one end of which communicates with the first and the second exhaust ports; and a second inlet portion one end of which communicates with the third and the fourth exhaust ports. Since the inlet portion is provided as two considering the combustion sequence, the productability and the economic feasibility can be enhanced, and the surrounding space can be enlarged to enhance the workability, and a simple exterior appearance can be obtained, and interference between exhaust gases can be effectively prevented, and since the size of the exhaust manifold can be increased, an engine load can be reduced to improve the fuel mileage.

Exhaust manifold

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Dong Kyu Lee