Abstract: The semiconductor package substrate module including a substrate, a plurality of first wires, at least one second wire, a chip, and an encapsulating body, wherein the first wires electrically connect to a first electrical contact point of the substrate and a second electrical contact point of the chip. Besides, one end of the at least one second wire connects to the at least one grounding transfer area or a first ground contact point of the substrate, and another end of the second wire extends toward a cutting area. The encapsulating body encapsulates the substrate, the first and second wires, and the chip. The semiconductor package substrate module is cut and separated along the cutting area of the substrate to form a plurality of semiconductor packaging components. A side surface of the encapsulating body exposes the first wires or at least one second wire of each semiconductor packaging component.

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 includes depositing a high-k gate dielectric layer over and along sidewalls of a semiconductor fin. The method further includes depositing an n-type work function metal layer over the high-k gate dielectric layer and performing a passivation treatment on the high-k gate dielectric layer through the n-type work function metal layer. The passivation treatment comprises a remote plasma process. The method further includes depositing a fill metal over the n-type work function metal layer to form a metal gate stack over the high-k gate dielectric layer. The metal gate stack comprising the n-type work function metal layer and the fill metal.

Abstract: An electronic device and a method for determining scenario data of a self-driving car are provided. The method includes: obtaining training scenario data by using scenario data, a loss function and a self-driving program module; training an encoding module and a decoding module by using the training scenario data, and generating a scenario space by using the trained encoding module; obtaining a monitoring module by using the scenario space; and executing the monitoring module to determine whether current scenario data belongs to an operational design domain by using the current scenario data and the trained encoding module.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for affine CPMV or ALF refinement are mentioned. According to this method, statistical data associated with the affine CPMV or ALF refinement are collected over a picture area. Updated parameters for the affine CPMV refinement or the ALF refinement are then derived based on the statistical data, where a process to derive the updated parameters includes performing multiplication using a reduced-precision multiplier for the statistical data. The reduced-precision multiplier truncates at least one bit of the mantissa part. In another embodiment, the process to derive the updated parameters includes performing reciprocal for the statistical data using a lookup table with (m?k)-bit input by truncating k bits from the m-bit mantissa part, and contents of the lookup table includes m-bit outputs. m and k are positive integers.

Abstract: Provided are FinFET devices and methods of forming the same. A dummy gate having gate spacers on opposing sidewalls thereof is formed over a substrate. A dielectric layer is formed around the dummy gate. An upper portion of the dummy gate is removed and upper portions of the gate spacers are removed, so as to form a first opening in the dielectric layer. A lower portion of the dummy gate is removed to form a second opening below the first opening. A metal layer is formed in the first and second openings. The metal layer is partially removed to form a metal gate.

Abstract: Encoding methods and apparatuses include receiving input video data of a current block in a current picture and applying a Cross-Component Adaptive Loop Filter (CCALF) processing on the current block based on cross-component filter coefficients to refine chroma components of the current block according to luma sample values. The method further includes signaling two Adaptive Loop Filter (ALF) signal flags and two CCALF signal flags in an Adaptation Parameter Set (APS) with an APS parameter type equal to ALF or parsing two ALF signal flags and two CCALF signal flags from an APS with an APS parameter type equal to ALF, signaling or parsing one or more Picture Header (PH) CCALF syntax elements or Slice Header (SH) CCALF syntax elements, wherein both ALF and CCALF signaling are present either in a PH or SH, and encoding or decoding the current block in the current picture.

Abstract: Methods and systems for thermal management of hardware resources that may be used to provide computer implemented services are disclosed. The disclosed thermal management method and systems may improve the likelihood of data processing systems providing desired computer implemented services by improving the thermal management of the hardware resources without impairment of storage devices. To improve the likelihood of the computer implemented services being provided, the systems may proactively identify whether storage devices subject to impairment due to dynamic motion are present. If such storage devices are present, then the system may automatically take action to reduce the likelihood of the storage devices being subject to dynamic motion sufficient to impair their operation.

Abstract: The present invention provides a white light LED package structure and a white light source system, which includes a substrate, an LED chip, and a wavelength conversion material layer. The peak emission wavelength of the LED chip is between 400 nm and 425 nm; the peak emission wavelength of the wavelength conversion material layer is between 440 nm and 700 nm, and the wavelength conversion material layer absorbs light emitted from the LED chip and emits a white light source; and the emission spectrum of the white light source is set as P(?), the emission spectrum of a blackbody radiation having the same color temperature as the white light source is S(?), P(?max) is the maximum light intensity within 380-780 nm, S(?max) is the maximum light intensity of the blackbody radiation within 380-780 nm, D(?) is a difference between the spectrum of the white light LED and the spectrum of the blackbody radiation, and within 510-610 nm, the white light source satisfies: D(?)=P(?)/P(?max)?S(?)/S(?max), ?0.

Abstract: A method includes forming a first conductive feature over a semiconductor substrate, forming an ILD layer over the first conductive feature, patterning the ILD layer to form a trench, and forming a conductive layer over the patterned ILD layer to fill the trench. The method further includes polishing the conductive layer to form a via contact configured to interconnect the first conductive feature with a second conductive feature, where polishing the conductive layer exposes a top surface of the ILD layer, polishing the exposed top surface of the ILD layer, such that a top portion of the via contact protrudes from the exposed top surface of the ILD layer, and forming the second conductive feature over the via contact, such that the top portion of the via contact extends into the second conductive feature.

Abstract: A care system monitoring method for sensing the movement state of a bedridden person is provided. The care system monitoring method includes the following stages. Initial-state information is sensed. A first warning signal is issued to remind the caregiver to perform a movement action on the bedridden person when the time that the bedridden person has been in the initial state exceeds the threshold period. First-state information (which is information that is collected when the bedridden person is in the first state) is sensed after completing the movement action. It is determined whether the bedridden person was moved correctly according to the initial-state information and the first-state information. The first-state information is reset as the initial-state information if it is determined that the bedridden person has been moved correctly. A second warning signal is issued if it is determined that the bedridden person has been moved incorrectly.

Abstract: Provided is a core structure of an inductor element. The manufacturing method thereof is to embed a magnetic conductor including at least one magnetic conductive layer in a core body and to from a plurality of apertures for passing coils around the magnetic conductor in the core body. Accordingly, the magnetic conductor is designed in the core body by using the integrated circuit carrier board manufacturing process, such that the overall size and thickness of the inductor element can be greatly reduced, thereby facilitating product miniaturization using the inductor element.

Abstract: A semiconductor device package includes a supporting element, a transparent plate disposed on the supporting element, a semiconductor device disposed under the transparent plate, and a lid surrounding the transparent plate. The supporting element and the transparent plate define a channel.

Abstract: An antenna correcting system is provided. The antenna correction system compares amplitudes of antenna signals that are emitted or received respectively by a plurality of antenna units with each other to select one of the amplitudes as target amplitude. The antenna correction system corrects the amplitude of each of the antenna signals according to the target amplitude. As a result, the amplitudes of the antenna signals are the same as each other or approximate to each other. After the amplitudes of the antenna signals are corrected, the antenna correction system compares phases of the antenna signals with each other to select one of the phases as a target phase. The antenna correction system corrects the phase of each of the antenna signals according to the target phase. As a result, the phases of the antenna signals are the same as each other or approximate to each other.

Abstract: A method for processing an integrated circuit includes forming first and second gate all around transistors. The method forms a dipole oxide in the first gate all around transistor without forming the dipole oxide in the second gate all around transistor. This is accomplished by entirely removing an interfacial dielectric layer and a dipole-inducing layer from semiconductor nanosheets of the second gate all around transistor before redepositing the interfacial dielectric layer on the semiconductor nanosheets of the second gate all around transistor.

Abstract: An electrical connection structure is provided. The electrical connection structure includes a through hole, a first pad, a second pad and a conductive bridge. The through hole has a first end and a second end. The first pad at least partially surrounds the first end of the through hole and is electrically connected to a first circuit. The second pad is located at the second end of the through hole and is electrically connected to a second circuit. The conductive bridge is connected to the first pad and second pad through the through hole, thereby making the first and second circuits electrically connected to each other.

Abstract: A probiotic composition for improving an effect of a chemotherapeutic drug of Gemcitabine on inhibiting pancreatic cancer is disclosed in the present disclosure. The probiotic composition comprises an effective amount of Lactobacillus paracasei GMNL-133, an effective amount of Lactobacillus reuteri GMNL-89, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, wherein the Lactobacillus paracasei GMNL-133 was deposited in the China Center for Type Culture Collection on Sep. 26, 2011 under an accession number CCTCC NO. M 2011331, and the Lactobacillus reuteri GMNL-89 was deposited in the China Center for Type Culture Collection on Nov. 19, 2007 under an accession number CCTCC NO. M 207154. A method for improving the effect of the chemotherapeutic drug of Gemcitabine on inhibiting pancreatic cancer is further disclosed in the present disclosure.

Abstract: Various schemes pertaining to pre-encoding processing of a video stream with motion compensated temporal filtering (MCTF) are described. An apparatus determines a filtering interval for a received raw video stream having pictures in a temporal sequence. The apparatus selects from the pictures a plurality of target pictures based on the filtering interval, as well as a group of reference pictures for each target picture to perform pixel-based MCTF, which generates a corresponding filtered picture for each target picture. The apparatus subsequently transmits the filtered pictures as well as non-target pictures to an encoder for encoding the video stream. Subpictures of natural images and screen content images are separately processed by the apparatus.

Abstract: A method includes etching a dielectric layer of a substrate to form an opening in the dielectric layer, forming a metal layer extending into the opening, performing an anneal process, so that a bottom portion of the metal layer reacts with a semiconductor region underlying the metal layer to form a source/drain region, performing a plasma treatment process on the substrate using a process gas including hydrogen gas and a nitrogen-containing gas to form a silicon-and-nitrogen-containing layer, and depositing a metallic material on the silicon-and-nitrogen-containing layer.