Abstract: A fixture for facilitating the serial engraving of a plurality of cylindrical objects such as glasses or mugs mounted on individual serially arranged stations along a master base plate. Each station includes a drive structure and, spaced therefrom, a passive support structure. The two structures in each station can be gang-adjusted for object length. In addition, the support structures can be height-adjusted to level the engraved surfaces of tapered objects. All of the drive structures include drive wheel pairs and all are driven by a single stepper motor via a single shaft and individual belt and pulley systems.

Abstract: A portable blowing device configured for being worn around a neck of a human body, includes two arms each defining an airflow channel therein; and fans received in the arms respectively. The arm includes an inner side wall close to the neck and an outer side wall connected to the inner side wall. The arm includes an air inlet and an air outlet in communication with the airflow channel respectively. The air inlet is arranged at the inner side wall and/or the outer side wall. The fan is configured to generate an airflow passing through the air inlet, the airflow channel and the air outlet in sequence.

Abstract: The present invention belongs to the technical field of 3D reconstruction in the field of computer vision, and provides a dataset generation method for self-supervised learning scene point cloud completion based on panoramas. Pairs of incomplete point cloud and target point cloud with RGB information and normal information can be generated by taking RGB panoramas, depth panoramas and normal panoramas in the same view as input for constructing a self-supervised learning dataset for training of the scene point cloud completion network. The key points of the present invention are occlusion prediction and equirectangular projection based on view conversion, and processing of the stripe problem and point-to-point occlusion problem during conversion. The method of the present invention includes simplification of the collection mode of the point cloud data in a real scene; occlusion prediction idea of view conversion; and design of view selection strategy.

Abstract: Disclosed are a map construction method, a robot, and a storage medium. A center of a lidar of a mapping robot is taken as a starting point, and a radar probe is arranged according to a preset distance; the radar probe is configured to determine a reference point cloud; the lidar of the mapping robot is controlled to scan the target environment to obtain scanning data; the target environment includes a wall and an obstacle; according to the scanning data, a virtual wall corresponding to the wall is determined; according to the scanning data, the reference point cloud determined by the radar probe is fitted to update the virtual wall to obtain an updated virtual wall; a target map including the updated virtual wall is generated.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to systems and techniques for executing a documentation application displaying a graphical user interface having a content-creation field configured to receive textual input. A link-creation window may be generated, which facilitates browsing third-party content without leaving a current application. Using the disclosed interface, a user can generate a selectable graphical object that links to third-party content from within the context of the content-creation field interface.

Abstract: A mannanase at least 75% identical to SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 3, or SEQ ID NO: 4, a poly-nucleotide encoding mannanase, an expression construct comprising the polynucleotide, and a host cell comprising the polynucleotide or the expression construct.

Abstract: A round-trip time (RTT) evaluation system includes sending, by a first device, a plurality of packets to a second device on a path, where each of the packets carries a timestamp indicating a sending time of a corresponding packet, determining, by the second device based on a statistical value of one-way delays (OWDs) of the packets, timestamps carried in the packets, sending, by the second device, an acknowledgements (ACKs) to the first device, where the ACKs include the timestamps and ACK time information, and determining, by the first device, measurement values of an RTT of the path based on the timestamps, the ACK time information, and times when the ACKs are received.

Abstract: A mannanase at least 75% identical to SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 3, or SEQ ID NO: 4, a polynucleotide encoding the mannanase, an expression construct comprising the polynucleotide, and a host cell comprising the polynucleotide or the expression construct.

Abstract: A vehicle-user interaction system for a vehicle includes: an editor configured to receive one or more inputs from a user of the vehicle and edit the one or more inputs into a rule script, the rule script including a user-defined rule based on the one or more inputs, the user-defined rule defining a trigger condition and a vehicle operation performed when the trigger condition is satisfied; a parser configured to create a list of monitoring elements and a list of functional elements based on the rule script, the list of monitoring elements including sensor elements that directly or indirectly describe the trigger condition, and the list of functional elements including functional elements that are associated with the vehicle operation; and an actuator configured to monitor sensor detection information associated with the sensor elements, determine whether the trigger condition is satisfied, and execute the functional elements to implement the user-defined rule in the vehicle.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments relate to a protein engineering pipeline configured to optimize or improve proteins for specified functions. The problem space of such a task can grow quickly based on the sequence of the protein being optimized and the functions for which the protein is being designed. The solutions described herein allow the problem space to be efficiently searched by applying a combination of a protein design pipeline and an evaluation procedure performed on a quantum computer. As a result, single or multiple amino acid substitutions at a site of interest may be predicted in order to generate optimized protein variants.

Abstract: A V2V charging system including an on-board system that includes a battery; a detection unit configured to detect a position of the EV, a battery condition of the battery and a destination of a current trip of the EV, wherein the battery condition includes an amount of remaining energy, a number of charge and discharge cycles, and current battery capacity; a communication unit configured to send a charge request to a server and receive one or more candidate charging solutions corresponding to the charge request from the server, the communication unit being further configured to send a selected charging solution that is selected by a user from the one or more candidate charging solutions to the server and receive a standstill charging location from the server; and a human-machine interface (HMI). The HMI includes a navigation module, an energy condition module, a charge request module, and a charging solution module.

Abstract: Variant polypeptides having beta-amylase activity and methods of making and using the enzymes in baking, detergents, personal care products, in the processing of textiles, in pulp and paper processing, in the production of ethanol, lignocellulosic ethanol, or syrups; as viscosity breakers in oilfield and mining industries.

Abstract: A laser engraver comprises a generally rectangular housing with an open bottom adapted to rest on supports provided at the top plane of an open carriage. Thumb wheel screws operating in fixed nuts on the left and right sides of the laser housing and resting on supports at the top plane of the carriage allow the laser housing can be raised, lower and tilted. A plate can be removably and adjustably mountable within the housing directly under the laser for carrying smaller objects. A cart capable of carrying objects to be engraved can be moved into the space between the carriage side panels and is provided with height and level adjustments to support an object to be engraved by the laser when the removable plate is taken out of the laser housing.

Abstract: An image processing method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium are provided. The image processing method includes: obtaining key points of a reference region of an object in an image; determining the orientation of the reference region according to the key points of the reference region; and performing deformation processing on a region to be adjusted of the object based on the orientation of the reference region, where the region to be adjusted is the same as or different from the reference region.

Abstract: A number of addition instructions are provided that have no data dependency between each other. A first addition instruction stores its carry output in a first flag of a flags register without modifying a second flag in the flags register. A second addition instruction stores its carry output in the second flag of the flags register without modifying the first flag in the flags register.

Abstract: System analysis by receiving a model of a complex system design. The model includes at least one layer. The analysis includes performing a plurality of simulations of the performance of the layer. The number of simulations is determined according to a number of system components associated with the layer. The analysis further includes determining a worst-case result for a set of simulations from the plurality of simulations and assigning the worst-case result to an overall system simulation.

Abstract: Provided are a robot positioning method and apparatus, an intelligent robot, and a storage medium. The method includes: configuring a camera and various sensors on a robot so that the robot may acquire an image collected by the camera and various sensing data collected by the various sensors (step 101); next extracting semantic information contained in the collected image (step 102) and identifying, according to the semantic information, a scenario where the robot is currently identified (step 103); finally, determining a current position of the robot according to target sensing data corresponding to the scenario where the robot is located (step 104). In the method, the sensing data used during determining the pose of the robot is not all the sensing data, but is the target sensing data corresponding to the scenario. Therefore, the basis for determining the pose is more targeted, thus further improving the accuracy of the pose.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for method for image processing, and a computer storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining a first image, identifying a target object in the first image, and obtaining leg detection information of the target object; respectively determining a contour line and a target line of a leg region of the target object based on the leg detection information; and performing image deformation processing on the leg region based on the contour line and the target line of the leg region to generate a second image.

Abstract: An advice providing apparatus for a vehicle including: a first interface configured to communicate with one or more human-machine interface APPs of one or more human-machine interfaces (HMIs) of the vehicle; a second interface configured to receive data from in-vehicle devices including a database, a sensing unit and a communication unit; and a processing module configured to: calculate one or more predictions for a potential query from a user of the vehicle based on the received data; select a prediction from the calculated predictions that is associated with a nonrepresentational input received via at least one HMI of the one or more HMIs from the user; generate an operation advice based on the selected prediction; and output the generated operation advice to an HMI APP of the one or more HMI APPs.

Abstract: An antenna for use in a distributed antenna system is provided. The antenna includes: (a) a feeding circuit on a first side of a first dielectric defining an edge perpendicular to the first side, a coplanar waveguide comprising a signal feed and a signal return coplanar with and interfittedly apart from the signal feed; (b) a radiator circuit on a second side of a second dielectric, a monopole radiator and a radiator return being copolanar and spaced apart from each other, the first dielectric capacitively coupling the signal feed to the monopole radiator; and (c) an edge connection along the edge for electrically connecting the signal return to the radiator return. A cover encloses the feeding circuit, including its impedance matching, in a water-resistant enclosure. The antenna ceiling-mounts indoors, is coated with a fire-resistant coating, and is operable at VHF (132-174 MHz), UHF (350-520 MHz), and 698-960 MHz.