Abstract: The light-emitting device includes a substrate, a light-emitting chip unit formed on the substrate and including multiple chips, an isolation groove extending in a first direction and separating two adjacent ones of the chips, and a bridging structure. The isolation groove is defined by a bottom and two sidewalls and has a first groove section and a second groove section arranged in the first direction. The first groove section has a width in a width direction perpendicular to the first direction that is greater than a width of the second groove section in the width direction. At the first groove section, one of the sidewalls has a curved portion. The bridging structure is formed on the bottom and the sidewalls, covers the curved portion, and electrically connects the two adjacent ones of the chips.

Abstract: A combined catalytic viscosity reducing system includes a catalyst slug, a heat generating system slug, a gas injection slug, and a water-soluble viscosity reducing system slug. The catalyst slug includes 10%-15% of azacarbene iron, 15%-30% of tert-butyl hydroperoxide, 2%-5% of phosphoric acid, 2%-5% of hydrogen donor, and 0.5%-1% of emulsifier agent, and the others are solvent. The heat generating system slug includes 10%-30% of NaNO2, 8%-25% of NH4Cl, and 3%-10% of acid initiator, and the others are water, totaling 100%. The water-soluble viscosity reducing system slug, according to mass percentage, includes 0.2%-0.5% of surfactant and 2%-10% of alkali, and the others are water. The combined catalytic viscosity reducing system can effectively reduce viscosity without injecting steam, and the viscosity reduction rate can reach 96.5%.

Abstract: A successive-approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit includes a comparator circuit and a plurality of latch circuits. The comparator circuit is configured to compare an analog signal with a plurality of reference levels. The latch circuits, coupled to the comparator circuit and connected in series, are triggered sequentially in response to a plurality of trigger signals, respectively, to store a comparator output of the comparator circuit and accordingly generate a digital signal. A first latch circuit and a second latch circuit of the latch circuits are triggered in response to a first trigger signal and a second trigger signal of the trigger signals, respectively. The first latch circuit is configured to generate the second trigger signal according to the comparator output stored in the first latch circuit.

Abstract: A carrier configuration method and system for a distributed antenna system, a processing device, and a chip are provided. The distributed antenna system includes at least one access unit and at least one remote unit. The method includes: acquiring a configuration parameter of a carrier to be transmitted of at least one access unit, the configuration parameter including a mapping relationship between the at least one access unit and the at least one remote unit; and establishing a transmission channel between the at least one access unit and the at least one remote unit according to the mapping relationship.

Abstract: A method of fabrication of a multi-gate semiconductor device that includes providing a fin having a plurality of a first type of epitaxial layers and a plurality of a second type of epitaxial layers. The plurality of the second type of epitaxial layers is oxidized in the source/drain region. A first portion of a first layer of the second type of epitaxial layers is removed in a channel region of the fin to form an opening between a first layer of the first type of epitaxial layer and a second layer of the first type of epitaxial layer. A portion of a gate structure is then formed in the opening.

Abstract: An optoelectrical assembly includes a voltage conversion circuit, an optoelectrical semiconductor device, an optoelectrical detection circuit, and a controller. The voltage conversion circuit provides a bias voltage to the optoelectrical semiconductor device, and adjusts, by changing the bias voltage, an output optical power. A differential resistance value (Rdiff) of the optoelectrical semiconductor device within a range of a target optical power satisfies 0.1 ohm (?)?Rdiff?50?, and the differential resistance value is a ratio of a voltage variation to a current variation corresponding to the voltage variation. The optoelectrical detection circuit detects the output optical power, and outputs a detection signal to the controller. The controller determines a control signal based on the detection signal, and outputs the control signal to the voltage conversion circuit, where the control signal is used to adjust the bias voltage.

Abstract: An example network analysis system includes a memory storing telemetry data received from a plurality of network devices, the plurality of network devices includes extract entity information and connectivity information from the received telemetry data, wherein the entity information represents one or more network devices of the plurality of network devices and the connectivity information represents network connections between one or more devices of the plurality of network devices; and store the connectivity information and entity information as a network topology graph in a graph database, wherein the entity information is stored as nodes of the network topology graph and the connectivity information is stored as edges of network topology graph, and wherein the network topology graph represents an organization level topology of the organization network.

Abstract: There is provided a motion sensor including a pixel array and a processor. The motion sensor is embedded with multiple power consumption modes. In one of the multiple power consumption modes, the pixel array outputs image frames having different frame formats. The processor processes the image frames having different frame formats respectively using different algorithms so as to achieve the purposes of low power consumption and high detection sensitivity.

Abstract: A memory circuit includes a memory array including a plurality of memory cells, each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells including an n-type channel layer including a metal oxide material, and a gate structure overlying and adjacent to the n-type channel layer, the gate structure including a conductive layer overlying a ferroelectric layer. The memory circuit is configured to apply a gate voltage to each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells in first and second write operations, the gate voltage has a positive polarity and a first magnitude in the first write operation and a negative polarity and a second magnitude greater than the first magnitude in the second write operation.

Abstract: A slide staining apparatus for staining of cells and tissue samples on slides before pathological analysis. The apparatus is operable to stain multiple sets of slides simultaneously and configured with a reagent system having a plurality of reagents. The Apparatus includes a slide counter, a controller having a non-transitory memory component with instructions thereon, and a processor configured to determine a count of a set of received slides since the regent system was installed. When the count is below a threshold, the first protocol is used. When the count is above the threshold, slides in-progress are stained, and newly received slides are stained with a second protocol, the first protocol having an eosin reagent step followed by a 95% ethanol reagent step of a first duration, the second protocol having an eosin reagent step followed by a 95% ethanol reagent step of a second duration less than the first duration.

Abstract: There is provided a locker with a motion sensor. The motion sensor identifies whether an object is put into or taken out from the locker by calculating coordinates of the object using a motion detection algorithm, by calculating a moving vector of the object using an image time differential algorithm or by comparing a current image frame and a background image frame, and outputs a put-in signal and a taken-out signal to a post control system.

Abstract: A motion detection method applied into an image sensor device includes: providing a plurality of regions of interest (ROIs) on at least one monitoring image; for each region of interest (ROI): detecting whether at least one motion event occurs within the each ROI; and determining a priority level of the each ROI according to at least one feature information of the at least one motion event; and determining an alarm schedule of the ROIs for a user according to a plurality of priority levels of the ROIs.

Abstract: A computer-implemented framework and/or system for cyberbullying detection is disclosed. The system includes two main components: (1) A representation learning network that encodes the social media session by exploiting multi-modal features, e.g., text, network, and time; and (2) a multi-task learning network that simultaneously fits the comment inter-arrival times and estimates the bullying likelihood based on a Gaussian Mixture Model. The system jointly optimizes the parameters of both components to overcome the shortcomings of decoupled training. The system includes an unsupervised cyberbullying detection model that not only experimentally outperforms the state-of-the-art unsupervised models, but also achieves competitive performance compared to supervised models.

Abstract: An optical sensor, for sensing a sensing frame corresponding to a flicker period of ambient light, comprising: a pixel array, configured to perform N times of exposure operations via at least one pixel of the pixel array in N exposure time intervals to generate N sub-frames, wherein a summation of the N exposure time intervals equals to a sensing interval and the sensing interval is less than or identical to a first flicker period. The optical sensor adds the N sub-frames to generate a summing sub-frame. The sensing frame comprises the summing sub-frame. The adding operation can also be performed to digital signals generated from the sub-frames. The influences caused by the fluctuation of ambient light can be neutralized, since the frame or portion of the frame is sensed at least twice at different phases of a single flicked period. By this way, the conventional flicker issue can be improved.

Abstract: A motion detection method applied into an image sensor device includes: providing a plurality of regions of interest (ROIs) on at least one monitoring image; for each region of interest (ROI): detecting whether at least one motion event occurs within the each ROI; and determining a priority level of the each ROI according to at least one feature information of the at least one motion event; and determining an alarm schedule of the ROIs for a user according to a plurality of priority levels of the ROIs.

Abstract: There is provided a pixel circuit for performing analog operation including a photodiode, a first temporal circuit, a second temporal circuit and an operation circuit. Within a first interval, the photodiode detects first light energy to be stored in the first temporal circuit. Within a second interval, the photodiode detects second light energy to be stored in the second temporal circuit. Within an operation interval, the first temporal circuit outputs a first detection signal having a first pulse width according to the first light energy and outputs a second detection signal having a second pulse width according to the second light energy for being calculated by the operation circuit.

Abstract: A computer network includes a camera node, a network access node, a verification node, and a display node. Video content recorded by a camera at the camera node is transmitted to the display node and to the verification node for verification. The video content is verified at the display node and at the verification node. Recording metadata of the video content is stored in a distributed ledger and retrieved by the display node to verify the video content. The verification node receives, from the network access node, verification data for verifying the video content.

Abstract: There is provided a pixel circuit for performing analog operation including a photodiode, a first temporal circuit, a second temporal circuit and an operation circuit. Within a first interval, the photodiode detects first light energy to be stored in the first temporal circuit. Within a second interval, the photodiode detects second light energy to be stored in the second temporal circuit. Within an operation interval, the first temporal circuit outputs a first detection signal having a first pulse width according to the first light energy and outputs a second detection signal having a second pulse width according to the second light energy for being calculated by the operation circuit.

Abstract: A method of an optical sensor device includes: using an oscillator circuit to generate a clock signal; and generating monitoring frames according to the clock signal; wherein the clock signal is calibrated in response to at least one of: a first communication signal, transmitted for multiple times from a monitoring system externally coupled to the optical sensor device, is received by the optical sensor device; a data length of the first communication signal transmitted for only one time from the monitoring system externally coupled to the optical sensor device; and, a data length of an encoded data portion of the first communication signal transmitted for only one time.