Abstract: An optical circuit includes one or more input waveguides, a plurality of output waveguides, and a reflector structure. At least a portion of the reflector structure forms an interface with the one or more input waveguides. The portion of the reflector structure has a smaller refractive index than the one or more input waveguides. An electrical circuit is electrically coupled to the optical circuit. The electrical circuit generates and sends different electrical signals to the reflector structure. In response to the reflector structure receiving the different electrical signals, a carrier concentration level at or near the interface or a temperature at or near the interface changes, such that incident radiation received from the one or more input waveguides is tunably reflected by the reflector structure into a targeted output waveguide of the plurality of output waveguides.

Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring sleep quality includes a plurality of sensors, a plurality of actuator modules, a transceiver, and a processor operatively coupled with the plurality of sensor modules, the plurality of actuator modules, and the transceiver. The processor is configured to monitor a sleep session of a user utilizing the apparatus. To monitor the sleep session, the processor is further configured to monitor a sleep state of the user, monitor a sleep stage of the user, and monitor a sleep condition. The processor is further configured to select a sleep facilitating action, control the sleep facilitating action based on the monitoring, and collect data related to the sleep session, and update a sleep history database associated with the user based on the data related to the sleep session.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for anti-tampering apparatus servicing data implemented by a calculation device connected to a target device, the method comprising: identifying a contract identification code and obtaining a contract package file and a contract authentication code from at least one remote device; obtaining a microservice file corresponding to the target device from the remote device when a device embedded code of the calculation device is matching the contract authentication code; performing the microservice file to enable the target device according to the contract package file and generate an execution report; publishing the execution report to the remote device to obtain an acceptance certification code; and combining and hashing the device embedded code, the contract authentication code and the acceptance certification code to generate a hash value, and sending the hash value to a blockchain.

Abstract: The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to a method of generating a prognosis for a patient. The method includes accessing automatically segmented pericoronary adipose tissue (PCAT) corresponding to a patient within an electronic memory. A plurality of non-confounding PCAT features are generated by measuring values of Hounsfield units for an imaging unit within the PCAT. The measured values of the Hounsfield units are predominately free of iodine confounding and artifacts. The plurality of non-confounding PCAT features are provided to a regression model.

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a sunroof device having a window frame assembly, a pair of linkage assemblies, a panel assembly, a first electrical connector and a second electrical connector. The window frame assembly has a pair of rails. The linkage assemblies are disposed on the rails respectively. The panel assembly is disposed on the pair of linkage assemblies. The first electrical connector on the window frame assembly has a plugging slot and an opening, the opening is located at a side of the first electrical connector and extended to a top of the first electrical connector. The second electrical connector on the panel assembly has a conductive terminal. When the panel assembly rotates, the conductive terminal is plugged in the plugging slot through the opening and movable with the panel assembly in the opening.

Abstract: A bearing for a bicycle has an outer collar, an inner collar, and an annular gasket. The outer collar is made of self-lubricating material. The inner collar is made of self-lubricating material and is mounted rotatably in the outer collar. The annular gasket is mounted between the outer collar and the inner collar, abuts with corresponding surfaces of the outer collar and the inner collar, and is made of a material having a hardness harder than a hardness of the materials for the inner collar and the outer collar.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a device includes: a package component including: integrated circuit dies; an encapsulant around the integrated circuit dies; a redistribution structure over the encapsulant and the integrated circuit dies, the redistribution structure being electrically coupled to the integrated circuit dies; sockets over the redistribution structure, the sockets being electrically coupled to the redistribution structure; and a support ring over the redistribution structure and surrounding the sockets, the support ring being disposed along outermost edges of the redistribution structure, the support ring at least partially laterally overlapping the redistribution structure.

Abstract: A grid structure in a pixel array may be at least partially angled or tapered toward a top surface of the grid structure such that the width of the grid structure approaches a near-zero width near the top surface of the grid structure. This permits the spacing between color filter regions in between the grid structure to approach a near-zero spacing near the top surfaces of the color filter regions. The tight spacing of color filter regions provided by the angled or tapered grid structure provides a greater surface area and volume for incident light collection in the color filter regions. Moreover, the width of the grid structure may increase at least partially toward a bottom surface of the grid structure such that the wider dimension of the grid structure near the bottom surface of the grid structure provides optical crosstalk protection for the pixel sensors in the pixel array.

Abstract: A TCAM comprises a plurality of first search lines, a plurality of second search lines, a plurality of memory cell strings and one or more current sensing units. The memory cell strings comprise a plurality of memory cells. The current sensing units are coupled to the memory cell strings. In a search operation, a determination that whether any of the data stored in the memory cell strings matches a data string to be searched is made according to whether the one or more current sensing units detect current from the memory cell strings, or according to the magnitude of the current flowing out from the memory cell strings detected by the one or more current sensing units. Each memory cell includes a first transistor, a second transistor and an inverter. The first search line is coupled to the second search line by the inverter.

Abstract: A memory device includes a plurality of memory cells; a word line, connected to one of the plurality of memory cells, that is configured to provide a first WL pulse having a rising edge and a falling edge that define a pulse width of the first WL pulse; a first tracking WL, formed adjacent to the memory cells, that is configured to provide, via being physically or operatively coupled to a bit line (BL) configured to write a logic state to the memory cell, a second WL pulse having a rising edge with a decreased slope; and a first tracking BL, configured to emulate the BL, that is coupled to the first tracking WL such that the pulse width of the first WL pulse is increased based on the decreased slope of the rising edge of the second WL pulse.

Abstract: A device includes a semiconductor fin, and a gate stack on sidewalls and a top surface of the semiconductor fin. The gate stack includes a high-k dielectric layer, a work-function layer overlapping a bottom portion of the high-k dielectric layer, and a blocking layer overlapping a second bottom portion of the work-function layer. A low-resistance metal layer overlaps and contacts the work-function layer and the blocking layer. The low-resistance metal layer has a resistivity value lower than second resistivity values of both of the work-function layer and the blocking layer. A gate spacer contacts a sidewall of the gate stack.

Abstract: A memory device is provided. The memory device includes a stacked structure, a tubular element, a conductive pillar and memory cells. The tubular element includes a dummy channel layer and penetrates the stacked structure. The conductive pillar is enclosed by the tubular element and extending beyond a bottom surface of the dummy channel layer. The memory cells are in the stacked structure and electrically connected to the conductive pillar.

Abstract: An apparatus, system and method for providing a consumable level monitor for association with a solid content-filled consumable. The embodiments may include a sensing module embedded in a label associated with the consumable suitable to sense the consumable level; and a visual indicator suitable to receive the consumable level from the sensing module, and for communicating the consumable level to a user.

Abstract: A power control system comprises a battery system including N battery packs. A plurality of contactors selectively connects N battery packs of a battery system in a first configuration supplying a first voltage level, a second configuration supplying a second voltage level, and a disconnected configuration. M power inverters connect the battery system to M electric machines, respectively. A controller is configured to determine when to transition between the first configuration and the second configuration. The controller is configured to transition between the first configuration and the second configuration by causing one of a positive torque transient and a negative torque transient to be generated by at least one of the M electric machines, transitioning the battery system from one of the first configuration and the second configuration to the disconnected configuration, and transitioning from the disconnected configuration to the other one of the first configuration and the second configuration.

Abstract: An apparatus, system and method for providing a consumable level monitor for association with a content-filled consumable. The embodiments may include a sensing module suitable to sense the consumable level; and a communications module suitable for receiving the consumable level from the sensing module, and for communicating the consumable level to a user.

Abstract: A convolution circuit includes a buffer memory and a computation circuit. The computation circuit receives an input element according to a memory access sequence, and determines whether a filter location corresponding to each weight of a weight matrix is within an operation range. For each weight within the operation range, the computation circuit calculates an index of the buffer memory, reads a temporary value located at the index, multiply the input element and the weight to obtain a product, and accumulate the product to the temporary value. If accumulation times of the temporary value meet a predetermined number of times, the temporary value is output. If the accumulation times do not meet the predetermined number of times, the temporary value is stored back into the buffer memory.

Abstract: The disclosed system and method reduce on-chip power IR drop caused by large write current, to increase the write IO number or improve write throughput and to suppress write voltage ripple at the start and end of a write operation. The disclosed systems and methods are described in relation to stabilizing the bit line voltage for MRAMs, however, the disclosed systems and methods can be used to stabilize the bit line voltage of any memory configuration that draws large currents during short write pulses or, more generally, to selectively assist a power supply generator in supplying adequate power to a load at times of large power consumption.

Abstract: An electrode controls transmittance of a blocking layer over a photodiode of a pixel sensor (e.g., a photodiode of a small pixel detector) by changing oxidation of a metal material included in the blocking layer. By using the electrode to adjust transmittance of the blocking layer, pixel sensors for different uses and/or products may be produced using a single manufacturing process. As a result, power and processing resources are conserved that otherwise would have been expended in switching manufacturing processes. Additionally, production time is decreased (e.g., by eliminating downtime that would otherwise have been used to reconfigure fabrication machines.

Abstract: A projection device includes a casing, a projection lens, a light valve module, a light source module, a first heat dissipation module, a second heat dissipation module, a fan, and a guiding member. The first heat dissipation module is disposed corresponding to a first air inlet of a first side cover and connected to the light valve module, and the second heat dissipation module is disposed corresponding to a second air inlet of a second side cover and connected to the light source module. An airflow in an accommodating space of the casing is guided to the guiding member by the fan, and is transferred from the guiding member to an air outlet to flow out of the casing. A direction of an image beam of the projection lens is different from an airflow direction flowing out from the air outlet of a third side cover.