Abstract: Disclosed are a vehicle positioning method based on environment matching, a vehicle positioning device based on environment matching, a vehicle and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining current environment data and a current road image of a location of a vehicle to be located; searching for an environmental impact road image set matching with the current environment data; matching the current road image with an environmental impact road image in the environmental impact road image set respectively to obtain a target environmental impact road image matching with the current road image; and determining current location information of the vehicle to be located based on the target environmental impact road image.

Abstract: A magnetic device includes a base plate, a cover plate, a first winding column, a second winding column, a primary winding, a secondary winding and a supporting column. The base plate, having a first concave portion, is opposite to the cover plate. The first winding column and the second winding column are disposed between the bottom plate and the cover plate, respectively. The primary winding and the secondary winding are wound around the first winding column and the second winding column. The supporting column is disposed between the base plate and the cover plate. A first concave portion concaves from a first side of the base plate towards the first winding column and the second winding column along multiple directions. The primary winding and the secondary winding are wound and stacking along an extension direction of the first winding column and the second winding column.

Abstract: A method includes bonding a second package component to a first package component, bonding a third package component to the first package component, attaching a dummy die to the first package component, encapsulating the second package component, the third package component, and the dummy die in an encapsulant, and performing a planarization process to level a top surface of the second package component with a top surface of the encapsulant. After the planarization process, an upper portion of the encapsulant overlaps the dummy die. The dummy die is sawed-through to separate the dummy die into a first dummy die portion and a second dummy die portion. The upper portion of the encapsulant is also sawed through.

Abstract: A method for forming semiconductor devices includes providing a substrate with a conductive pad formed thereon; forming a transparent structure over the substrate, wherein the transparent structure includes a plurality of collimating pillars adjacent to the conductive pad; forming a light-shielding structure over the plurality of collimating pillars and the conductive pad; performing a cutting process to remove one or more materials directly above the conductive pad, while leaving remaining material to cover the conductive pad, wherein the material includes a portion of the light-shielding structure; and performing an etching process to remove the remaining material to expose the conductive pad.

Abstract: A method of compact-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control in the presence of measurable disturbances includes establishing a dynamic data model of a controlled plant subject to measurable disturbances, wherein the dynamic data model is described by a pseudo Jacobian input matrix and a pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix; constructing cost functions and solving their optimization problems to find optimal values of the pseudo Jacobian input matrix and the pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix; designing a compact-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control law in the presence of measurable disturbances; constructing an energy function and solving it by using a momentum gradient descent method to find optimal values of the compact-form adaptive input matrix and the compact-form adaptive disturbance matrix; controlling the controlled plant by using the control law.

Abstract: A mobile device attachment adapted for a mobile device and a container for food or liquid is provided. The mobile device attachment includes a magnetic connecting member and a connecting member. The magnetic connecting member is selectively magnetically connected to the mobile device and adapted to extend in an escaping direction. The connecting member is disposed between the container and the magnetic connecting member. The mobile device has an image capturing range. When the magnetic connecting member extends in the escaping direction, the container, the magnetic connecting member and the connecting member are located outside the image capturing range. Besides, a container including the mobile device attachment is also provided.

Abstract: A method of full-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control in the presence of measurable disturbances, includes establishing a dynamic data model of a controlled plant subject to measurable disturbances, wherein the dynamic data model is described by a pseudo Jacobian input matrix and a pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix; constructing cost functions and solving their optimization problems to find optimal values of the pseudo Jacobian input matrix and the pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix; designing a full-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control law in the presence of measurable disturbances; constructing an energy function and solving it by using a momentum gradient descent method to find optimal values of the full-form adaptive input matrix and the full-form adaptive disturbance matrix; controlling the controlled plant by using the control law.

Abstract: An electroporation system including one or more of a pipette, a pipette tip, a pipette docking assembly, and a pulse generator. The pipette docking assembly includes a pipette station, a pipette station guard, and a reservoir (e.g., a buffer tube). A method for transfecting a cell with a payload including providing an electroporation system, providing the cell, providing the payload, introducing the cell and the payload into a pipette tip, and electroporating the cell within the pipette tip by operating the electroporation system.

Abstract: A container for containing food or liquid is provided. The container includes a body portion, a lid and an attachment. The lid is detachably disposed on the body portion. The attachment is configured to be disposed on the lid or the body portion and includes a magnetic attraction member and a connecting structure. The magnetic attraction member is adapted to be magnetically connected to a mobile electronic device. The connecting structure is disposed between the magnetic attraction member and the container for selectively fixing the magnetic attraction member at a first position or a second position. The connecting structure includes a fastening member, and the fastening member is adapted to be detachably fastened to the body portion or the lid.

Abstract: A method of partial-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances includes establishing a dynamic data model of a controlled plant subject to unmeasurable disturbances, wherein the dynamic data model is described by a pseudo Jacobian input matrix and a pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix; constructing cost functions and solving their optimization problems to find optimal values of the pseudo Jacobian input matrix and the pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix; designing a partial-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control law in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances; constructing an energy function and solving it by using a momentum gradient descent method to find optimal values of the partial-form adaptive input matrix and the partial-form adaptive disturbance matrix; controlling the controlled plant by using the control law.

Abstract: A method of compact-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances, includes establishing a dynamic data model of a controlled plant subject to unmeasurable disturbances, wherein the dynamic data model is described by a pseudo Jacobian input matrix and a pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix; constructing cost functions and solving their optimization problems to find optimal values of the pseudo Jacobian input matrix and the pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix; designing a compact-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control law in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances; constructing an energy function and solving it by using a momentum gradient descent method to find optimal values of the compact-form adaptive input matrix and the compact-form adaptive disturbance matrix; controlling the controlled plant by using the control law.

Abstract: A method of full-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances, includes establishing a dynamic data model of a controlled plant subject to unmeasurable disturbances, wherein the dynamic data model is described by a pseudo Jacobian input matrix and a pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix; constructing cost functions and solving their optimization problems to find optimal values of the pseudo Jacobian input matrix and the pseudo Jacobian disturbance matrix; designing a full-form model-free adaptive disturbance compensation control law in the presence of unmeasurable disturbances; constructing an energy function and solving it by using a momentum gradient descent method to find optimal values of the full-form adaptive input matrix and the full-form adaptive disturbance matrix; controlling the controlled plant by using the control law.

Abstract: A container for containing food or liquid is provided. The container includes a body portion, a lid and an attachment. The lid is detachably disposed on the body portion. The attachment includes a magnetic attraction member and a connecting structure. The magnetic attraction member is independent from the lid and adapted to be magnetically connected to a mobile electronic device. The connecting structure is disposed between the magnetic attraction member and the container for selectively fixing the magnetic attraction member at a first position or a second position. At least a portion of the connecting structure is fixed to the container.

Abstract: A media marker mechanism may be used to send, to a cloud service, up-to-date context regarding playback of a media content stream on a user device. The cloud service may insert a media content item into a media content stream and/or combine media content items into a media content stream. The cloud service may implement the media marker mechanism to tag a content item with metadata that can be read by the user device. The user device can play the streaming media content and, when the tagged content item plays, read the metadata and send it to the cloud service. The cloud service can use the metadata to enrich the media content delivery by, for example, providing a companion image that the user device can display while paying the tagged content item, providing a link to make the companion image clickable, handling requests referring to the media content, etc.

Abstract: A level shifter includes a buffer circuit, a first shift circuit, and a second shift circuit. The buffer circuit provides a first signal and a first inverted signal to the first shift circuit, such that the first shift circuit provides a second signal and a second inverted signal to the second shift circuit. The second shift circuit generates a plurality of output signals according to the second signal and the second inverted signal. The first shift circuit includes a plurality of first stacking transistors and a first voltage divider circuit. The first voltage divider circuit is electrically coupled between a first system high voltage terminal and a system low voltage terminal. The first voltage divider circuit is configured to provide a first inner bias to gate terminals of the first stacking transistors.

Abstract: Provided is a method for regulating a thermal boundary conductance between a metal and an insulator, including: arranging a metal on a surface of an insulator, a contact surface between the metal and the insulator being a boundary between the metal and the insulator; and the insulator including a ferroelectric, a piezoelectric, or a pyroelectric; applying an external electric field or stress to the ferroelectric, and adjusting a magnitude of the external electric field or stress, or an included angle between a direction of the external electric field or stress with the boundary to regulate the thermal boundary conductance; or applying a stress to the piezoelectric, and adjusting a magnitude of the stress, or an included angle between a direction of the stress with the boundary to regulate the thermal boundary conductancer; or adjusting a temperature of the pyroelectric to regulate the thermal boundary conductance.

Abstract: A system and a method for performing unified human motion prediction (HMP) are provided. In operation, the system provides a unified HMP module, which includes an encoder configured to encode a plurality of existing two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) pose sequences into a shared latent space V and a decoder configured to predict a plurality of predicted future 2D and 3D pose sequences based on the encoded shared latent space V, thus forming four pathways of knowledge flow. The system then trains the unified HMP module and the shared latent space V in a weakly supervised manner with input features Xwith actual future 2D and 3D pose sequences by 10 minimizing a loss between the predicted future 2D and 3D pose sequences and the actual future 3 D and 3D pose sequences. Once the training is complete, the unified HMP may be performed using the trained encoded shared latent space V.

Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates an integrated chip including a substrate. A conductive interconnect feature is arranged over the substrate. The conductive interconnect feature has a base feature portion with a base feature width and an upper feature portion with an upper feature width. The upper feature width is narrower than the base feature width such that the conductive interconnect feature has tapered outer feature sidewalls. An interconnect via is arranged over the conductive interconnect feature. The interconnect via has a base via portion with a base via width and an upper via portion with an upper via width. The upper via width is wider than the base via width such that the interconnect via has tapered outer via sidewalls.

Abstract: Disclosed is a network access method, including that a station receives a first radio frame from a first access point, where the first radio frame indicates a resource unit for a random-access operation; and when the sending address of the first radio frame is a public identity or a private identity, the station performs the random-access operation. Also disclosed are a network access apparatus and a storage medium.

Abstract: A method for determining a plant growth curve includes obtaining color images and depth images of a plant to be detected at different time points, performing alignment processing on each color image and each depth image to obtain an alignment image, detecting the color image through a pre-trained target detection model to obtain a target bounding box, calculating an area ratio of the target bounding box in the color image, determining a depth value of all pixel points in the target boundary frame according to the aligned image, performing denoising processing on each depth value to obtain a target depth value, generating a first growth curve of the plant to be detected according to the target depth values and corresponding time points, and generating a second growth curve of the plant to be detected according to the area ratios and the corresponding time points.