Abstract: A dustproof member includes a base plate, a dustproof plate, and a connecting portion. A first through hole is defined by an inner surface of the base plate. A second through hole is defined by an inner surface of the dustproof plate. The connecting portion has a shape of a hollow barrel and defines a hollow cavity. Two opposite ends of the connecting portion are respectively connected to an end of the inner surface of the base plate and an end of the inner surface of the dustproof plate, thereby forming a dust collecting groove between the base plate and the dustproof plate. A camera module having the dustproof member and an electronic device having the camera module are also provided.

Abstract: A decoder includes memory and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: generate a first coefficient value by applying a CCALF (cross component adaptive loop filtering) process to a first reconstructed image sample of a luma component; clip the first coefficient value such that the clipped first coefficient value is within a first range from ?27 to 27?1; generate a second coefficient value by applying an ALF (adaptive loop filtering) process to a second reconstructed image sample of a chroma component; clip the second coefficient value such that the clipped second coefficient value is within a second range different from the first range; generate a third coefficient value by adding the clipped first coefficient value to the clipped second coefficient value; and generate a third reconstructed image sample of the chroma component using the third coefficient value.

Abstract: A Pseudomonas monteilii strain with salinity-alkalinity tolerance is provided. The strain is Pseudomonas monteilii 9-2, which has been deposited in China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center (CGMCC) on Oct. 25, 2021, with an accession number of CGMCC No. 23666; and an internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequence is shown in SEQ ID NO: 1. This application further provides an application of the Pseudomonas monteilii strain in the degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons in a saline-alkali environment.

Abstract: An amplifier circuitry includes a first amplifier, a second amplifier, a voltage generating circuitry, and a control circuitry. The first amplifier circuitry configured to amplify a first signal. The second amplifier circuitry configured to amplify a second signal which forms differential signals together with the first signal. The voltage generating circuitry configured to generate at least one of a first bias voltage to be applied to the first signal and a second bias voltage to be applied to the second signal. The control circuitry configured to control the voltage generation circuitry so as to decrease a difference between a DC component of an output of the first amplifier circuitry and a DC component of an output of the second amplifier circuitry.

Abstract: A vortex beam-excited precision grating displacement measurement apparatus, which performs displacement measurement by taking a vortex beam carrying topological charges as an excitation light source of a grating and by using the interference of a ±m-order diffracted vortex beam. In the vortex beam-excited precision grating displacement measurement method and apparatus, the displacement p/m of the measured displacement corresponds to the rotation of a circle 2? rad of an interference petal pattern, and then the rotation of 1° of the interference petal pattern corresponds to the measured displacement amount of p/360m. Compared with a conventional grating measurement method, the present disclosure provides a grating interference sensing signal that realizes a higher optical subdivision rate itself.

Abstract: A horizontally arranged six-degree-of-freedom constant-stiffness mechanism is provided, and includes an upper platform, a bottom plate, three composite spherical hinges, spherical hinges, support rods, guide rail slider assemblies, and six electromagnetic adjustable stiffness units. Two ends of a shaft on which a permanent magnet is fixed in each electromagnetic adjustable stiffness unit are fixed to the bottom plate via shaft supports. Axially moving housings of electromagnetic adjustable stiffness units are fixed on sliders of the guide rail slider assemblies via slider backing plates respectively. Guide rail slider assembles are fixed on the bottom plate. Tops of the housings are mounted with the spherical hinges respectively. A bottom of the upper platform is uniformly mounted with the composite spherical hinges. One end of each support rod is threadedly connected to a corresponding one of the spherical hinges, and another end is connected with a corresponding one of composite spherical hinges.

Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry, in response to a first reconstructed image sample being located outside a virtual boundary, duplicates a reconstructed sample located inside and adjacent to the virtual boundary to generate the first reconstructed image sample. The circuitry generates a first coefficient value by applying a CCALF (cross component adaptive loop filtering) process to the first reconstructed image sample of a luma component. The circuitry generates a second coefficient value by applying an ALF (adaptive loop filtering) process to a second reconstructed image sample of a chroma component. The circuitry generates a third coefficient value by adding the first coefficient value to the second coefficient value, and encodes a third reconstructed image sample of the chroma component using the third coefficient value.

Abstract: An amplifier circuitry includes a first amplifier, a second amplifier, a voltage generating circuitry, and a control circuitry. The first amplifier circuitry configured to amplify a first signal. The second amplifier circuitry configured to amplify a second signal which forms differential signals together with the first signal. The voltage generating circuitry configured to generate at least one of a first bias voltage to be applied to the first signal and a second bias voltage to be applied to the second signal. The control circuitry configured to control the voltage generation circuitry so as to decrease a difference between a DC component of an output of the first amplifier circuitry and a DC component of an output of the second amplifier circuitry.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pneumatic hand tool with adjustable operating angle, comprising a grip body and a tool head body interconnected with each other. The grip body has a grip flow channel, and said tool head body has a tool head flow channel. The grip body and said tool head body are interconnected through two rotary joint faces to form a joint portion capable of adjustment of the operating angle. The two rotary joint faces respectively have connecting areas for uniform circumferential motion and high pressure air ports configured along the rotation center. And the two rotary joint faces are inclined to facilitate adjustment of the operating angle of said tool head, and to ensure good air tightness of the high pressure air ports inside the joint portion.

Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: encodes information for deriving a parameter into a header of a bitstream; filters reconstructed samples in a first image using a filtering process, to generate a second image; determines whether the parameter has a predefined value; encodes a third image using the second image when the parameter has the predefined value; and encodes the third image using the first image when the parameter does not have the predefined value.

Abstract: Methods and systems provide for providing dynamic chapter generation for a communication session. In one embodiment, the system connects to a communication session with a number of participants; receives a transcript of a conversation between the participants produced during the communication session, the transcript including timestamps for a number of utterances associated with speaking participants; segments the utterances into a plurality of contiguous topic segments; generates a title for each topic segment, the generating comprising: labeling one or more of the topic segments based on one or more labeling rules, extracting one or more top phrases from each topic segment, determining a ranking of the top phrases for each topic segment, and generating the title for each topic segment based on the top ranked phrase for the topic segment; and transmits, to one or more client devices, a list of the topic segments with generated titles for the communication session.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel aminobenzimidazole derivatives. The present invention is also directed to methods of treating a histone deacetylase (HDAC)-associated disease or inhibiting the histone deacetylating activity of a HDAC isoform in a cell or with one or more of the aminobenzimidazole derivatives.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technical solution related to tagging user behavior data. The processing device and method may determine and tag user behavior data according to an application to which the user behavior data belong based on analysis on an inheritance relationship between tasks associated with the user behavior data, so as to facilitate selectively deleting the user behavior data later.

Abstract: An encoder determines, based on a width and a height of a block, whether or not to disable a prediction mode in which the block is split along a partitioning line defined by a distance and an angle and then prediction is performed; and encodes the block with the prediction mode disabled or not disabled according to a result of the determination on whether or not to disable the prediction mode. Here, the distance is the shortest distance between the center of the block and the partitioning line, and the angle is an angle representing a direction from the center of the block toward the partitioning line in the shortest distance. The encoder determines to disable the prediction mode when (i) a width-to-height ratio is at least 8 or (ii) a height-to-width ratio is at least 8.

Abstract: A face key point detection method includes determining, according to an image containing a face, a multi-channel feature map of the image; converting the multi-channel feature map into a predetermined channel quantity of target feature maps; performing a convolution operation on each target feature map in the predetermined channel quantity of target feature maps by using a convolution kernel corresponding to each target feature map; generating a feature vector corresponding to the image based on a result of the convolution operation on each target feature map; and determining key point coordinates of the face on the image according to the feature vector.

Abstract: An encoder determines, based on a width and a height of a block, whether or not to disable a prediction mode in which the block is split along a partitioning line defined by a distance and an angle and then prediction is performed; and encodes the block with the prediction mode disabled or not disabled according to a result of the determination on whether or not to disable the prediction mode. Here, the distance is the shortest distance between the center of the block and the partitioning line, and the angle is an angle representing a direction from the center of the block toward the partitioning line in the shortest distance. The encoder determines to disable the prediction mode when (i) a width-to-height ratio is at least 8 or (ii) a height-to-width ratio is at least 8.

Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: encodes information for deriving a parameter into a header of a bitstream; filters reconstructed samples in a first image using a filtering process, to generate a second image; determines whether the parameter has a predefined value; encodes a third image using the second image when the parameter has the predefined value; and encodes the third image using the first image when the parameter does not have the predefined value.

Abstract: A video editing method, apparatus and storage medium are provided. The method includes obtaining an object, the object including one or more images; determining a content element of the object for video editing, the content element having a content type identifier; determining a material set identifier corresponding to the content type identifier according to a first behavior tree logic; determining a video editing material set corresponding to the material set identifier; and obtaining an edited video according to the content element and the video editing material set.

Abstract: Methods and systems provide for providing intelligent topic segmentation within a communication session. In one embodiment, the system connects to a communication session with a number of participants; receives a transcript of a conversation between the participants produced during the communication session, the transcript including timestamps for a number of utterances associated with speaking participants; shifts a window over the utterances to generate blocks of utterances; for each shift of the window over one utterance, identifies topic model (“TM”) clusters (hereinafter “TM clusters”) and generates TM cluster scores to assign text labels for each cluster; aggregates the scores for the TM clusters to generate a number of utterance level scores; converts the utterance level scores into topic segments each including a start time, end time, and associated text label; and transmits, to one or more client devices, a list of the topic segments for the communication session.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of locating subsurface geohazards in a geographical area that includes: receiving a plurality of seismic trace signals in the geographical area based on a shot gather from a seismic shot source; isolating and stacking the plurality of seismic trace signals to generate a windowed trace signal associated with refraction traces from the seismic shot source; transforming the windowed trace signal to a frequency domain; calculating a low frequency to high frequency ratio for the transformed trace signal; outputting the calculated ratio to a two-dimensional array representing the geographical area at a source location and at a mean receiver location; repeating the steps for a plurality of other shot gathers in the geographical area; and multiplying each source location ratio with one or more mean receiver location ratios on the two-dimensional array to generate a final frequency ratio map.