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20150221921 | BUSBAR MODULE - A busbar module connects a first cell and a second cell adjacent to the first cell, arranged in a first direction and each having first and second electrode terminals spaced apart in a second direction normal to the first direction. The busbar module includes a busbar that electrically connects a first electrode terminal of the first cell and a second electrode terminal of the second cell to each other, and an insulating portion that accommodates the busbar. The busbar includes a first recessed mounting portion, the first recessed mounting portion and a protruding shape of the first electrode terminal having interfitting shapes and a second recessed mounting portion, the second recessed mounting portion and a protruding shape of the second electrode terminal having interfitting shapes, the first and second mounting portions, being slideably coupleable with the first and second electrode terminals. | 08-06-2015 |
20150228957 | BATTERY MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A battery module according to aspects of the present invention includes a plurality of battery cells each having a terminal, a reflective portion on the terminal, and a bus-bar coupled to the terminal to electrically connect the plurality of battery cells. The bus-bar may have an opening exposing at least a portion of the reflective portion. The reflective portion may be configured to reflect laser incident thereon through the opening. A method of manufacturing the battery module may include placing a bus-bar electrically connecting terminals of a plurality of battery cells, each of the terminals having a reflective portion on a top surface thereof, and the bus-bar having an opening exposing at least a portion of the reflective portion, and welding the bus-bar and the terminal to each other. The task of welding the bus bar may include irradiating a laser through the opening in the bus-bar. | 08-13-2015 |
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20090307158 | METHOD OF DISTRIBUTING ADVERTISING MATERIAL THROUGH RETAIL BUSINESS - Disclosed are various methods of advertising one business (advertiser) using another business, which is a retail service or retail sales business, and is not an advertising service business or agent. Some embodiments involve distributing an advertising material of the advertiser to customers of the retail business. The advertising material includes a useful item and advertisement of the advertiser integrated in the useful item. The useful item induces the customers to keep the advertisement for a relatively long period. Some embodiments involve affixing advertisement of the advertiser onto an automobile of a customer of the retail business and providing a value to the customer to induce acceptance of affixing the advertisement. | 12-10-2009 |
20100100488 | INFRASTRUCTURE COMMODITY SAVINGS ACCOUNT - Disclosed is a method and system for an infrastructure commodity savings account program in the context of supplying an infrastructure commodity to a plurality of designated premises for consumption. The method includes receiving a purchase request from a customer for purchasing the infrastructure commodity for future use and selling a quantity of the infrastructure commodity to the customer at a first time with a condition that the infrastructure commodity will not be supplied for consumption for a period from the sale. The method further includes saving the sold quantity of the infrastructure commodity in an infrastructure commodity savings account of the customer; receiving a withdrawal request for withdrawal of the infrastructure commodity from the infrastructure commodity savings account; and processing withdrawal of the infrastructure commodity from the infrastructure commodity savings account at a second time. In the system and method, at least one of receiving the purchase request, selling a quantity, saving the sold quantity, receiving withdrawal request and processing is performed by one or more computing device comprising a processor and a memory. | 04-22-2010 |
20110240049 | SCISSORS WITH BENT DISTAL PORTIONS - A pair of scissors is disclosed. The scissors includes two members that are pivotally connected. Each member includes a blade and a shank. Each blade includes a proximal portion and a distal portion that is substantially bent from the proximal portion. The distal portion is sized so as to enter a human nostril in its entirety. | 10-06-2011 |
20110264568 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IN-ROOM DRINKING WATER SERVICE IN A HOTEL - Disclosed is a system and method for providing an in-room drinking water service at a hotel. The system includes a plurality of drinking water dispensers provided in guest rooms of the hotel. The system further includes a computer program running on one or more computers of the hotel and configured to manage the in-room drinking water service. In the system and method, when providing of the service in a particular guest room is confirmed, the computer program coordinates charging a fee to an account of the particular guest room for the service. | 10-27-2011 |
20110282770 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IN-ROOM DRINKING WATER SERVICE IN A HOTEL - Disclosed is a system and method for providing an in-room drinking water service at a hotel. The system includes a plurality of drinking water dispensers provided in guest rooms of the hotel. The system further includes a computer program running on one or more computers of the hotel and configured to manage the in-room drinking water service. In the system and method, when providing of the service in a particular guest room is confirmed, the computer program coordinates charging a fee to an account of the particular guest room for the service. | 11-17-2011 |
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20110150087 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING USING ARBITRARY PIXELS IN A SUB-BLOCK - A video encoding/decoding method and apparatus using arbitrary pixels in each sub-block are disclosed. The present disclosure comprises an extractor, a first predictor, a first subtractor, a first transformer, a first quantizer, a first inverse quantizer, a first inverse transformer, a first adder, a second predictor, a second subtractor, a combiner for combining arbitrary residual pixels, a second transformer, a second quantizer, and an encoder whereby arbitrary pixels may be extracted from the respective sub-blocks of a current block and then encoded and decoded into reconstructed arbitrary pixels, which are used to predict and encode the remaining pixels of the respective sub-blocks. According to the disclosed encoding and decoding of a video, an intra prediction of pixels in a block to currently encode or decode is improved in accuracy to increase the video coding efficiency. | 06-23-2011 |
20110158315 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING USING PREDICTION DIRECTION CONVERSION AND SELECTIVE ENCODING - The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for encoding/decoding videos using prediction direction change and selective encoding. The present disclosure provides a video encoding apparatus that encodes the current block of a video, comprising a rectangle encoder for dividing and then successively encoding the current block at input into rectangular block units to output a rectangularly encoded bitstream; a square encoder for encoding the current block at input in square block units to output a squarely encoded bitstream; and an encoding selector for calculating the encoding costs of the rectangularly encoded bitstream and the squarely encoded bitstream so as to output the bitstream with a minimum encoding cost. According to the present disclosure, the prediction accuracy may be increased when encoding or decoding videos so that video encoding efficiency can be improved. | 06-30-2011 |
20110211640 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING MOTION VECTOR, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE USING SAME - A method and an apparatus for encoding a motion vector, and a method and an apparatus for encoding/decoding an image using the same are closed. The apparatus includes: a prediction candidate selector for selecting one or more motion vector prediction candidates; a predicted motion vector determiner for determining a PMV among the one or more motion vector prediction candidates; and a differential motion vector encoder for calculating a differential motion vector encoder for calculating a DMV by subtracting the predicted motion vector having been determined, from the current motion vector, and encoding the d having been calculated. The apparatus encodes a motion vector by using the prediction motion vector which is more accurately predicted, and reduces an amount of bits required for encoding information of the predicted motion vector, thereby improving the compression efficiency. | 09-01-2011 |
20120106631 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING MULTI-DIMENSIONAL INTEGER TRANSFORM - The present disclosure relates to a video encoding/decoding apparatus and method using a multi-dimensional integer transform. The video encoding method of the present disclosure includes: decomposing subblocks in units of a rectangular block and successively encoding rectangular block units to output a rectangularly encoded bitstream of each subblock; encoding the subblocks in units of a square block to output a squarely encoded bitstream of each subblock; calculating an encoding cost involving at least one rectangularly encoded bitstream; calculating an encoding cost not involving the rectangularly encoded bitstream; and on the basis of the calculations, using one or more of the squarely encoded bitstream and the rectangularly encoded bitstream to generate and output the bitstream of the macroblock. According to the disclosure, since the coding scheme for encoding or decoding a video with a higher efficiency is selectively determined, the prediction accuracy can increase and thereby improve the video encoding efficiency. | 05-03-2012 |
20120328015 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to a video encoding/decoding apparatus and method, in which skip information indicating whether a block is a skip block is encoded, partition information of the block and skip motion information of the block are encoded or prediction information of the block containing the partition information of the block and intra prediction mode information or motion information are encoded according to the skip information, residual signal information of the block is predictive-encoded based on the prediction information and the transform information, and an encoded signal is reconstructed. The method and the apparatus can improve the video compression efficiency by efficiently encoding the encoding information used for the video encoding and selectively using various encoding methods and decoding methods in encoding the video. | 12-27-2012 |