Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus and computer program products for network function service discovery. A method implemented at a second network node in a wireless core network with service based architecture comprises: receiving a registration request for network function instance from a network function, the registration request comprising information identifying a subscriber group to which the network function instance is applicable; and storing the information in association with the network function instance. With embodiments of the disclosure, size of NF profile can be saved.

Abstract: This application discloses a data fusion method and a related device. The method includes: obtaining vehicle sensing data, where the vehicle sensing data is obtained by a vehicle sensing apparatus by sensing a road environment in a sensing range by using a vehicle sensor; obtaining roadside sensing data, where the roadside sensing data is obtained by a roadside sensing apparatus by sensing a road environment in a sensing range by using a roadside sensor; and fusing the vehicle sensing data and the roadside sensing data by using a fusion formula, to obtain a first fusion result. According to the foregoing solution, overlapping can be implemented between the sensing range of the roadside sensing apparatus and the sensing range of the vehicle sensing apparatus can be implemented, so that the sensing range is effectively extended.

Abstract: Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform and facilitate secure ladder computational operations whose iterative execution depends on secret values associated with input data. Disclosed embodiments use masking factors that re-blind secret data without exposing the unmasked secret data between iterations of the ladder computations. Some disclosed embodiments use Montgomery multiplication techniques to facilitate secret data masking by efficiently avoiding modular division operations. Disclosed embodiments significantly reduce the vulnerability of ladder computations to adversarial side-channel attacks.

Abstract: Waveguides comprising materials with refractive index greater than or equal to 1.8 and methods of patterning waveguides are disclosed. Patterned waveguides comprising materials with refractive index greater than or equal to 1.8 can be incorporated in display devices, such as, for example wearable display devices to project virtual images to a viewer.

Abstract: In a sensing session establishment process, an access point sends a first frame to a first station, where the first frame includes first information, the first information indicates a first role of the first station in a sensing session, the first role of the first station in the sensing session is a transmitter and/or a receiver, and the first station is a station participating in the sensing session in a second station associated with the access point; and the access point receives a second frame from the first station, where the second frame includes confirm information for the first frame.

Abstract: A vacuum switching valve and a suction system having the same. The vacuum switching valve comprises: a valve body, comprising a first end and a second end, the second end being provided with an air inlet, an air outlet and a through hole; a valve element movably arranged in the valve body; a cylinder, the cylinder being connected to the first end and the valve element, the cylinder drives the valve element to move in the valve body, to close or open the air inlet; a stopper passing through the through hole, the stopper comprising a third end and a fourth end, the third end being connected to the valve element, the fourth end being located on the side of the through hole away from the valve element.

Abstract: Disclosed are an interactive information processing method, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes establishing a correspondence between a multimedia data stream and a display text generated based on the multimedia data stream; presenting the multimedia data stream and the display text based on the correspondence; and in response to detecting a triggering operation triggering a display content in the display text, adjusting, based on a timestamp corresponding to the display content and the correspondence, the multimedia data stream to navigate to a playback position corresponding to the display content; the display content comprises a text corresponding to speech in the multimedia data stream; and the display text and the multimedia data stream are displayed on different display areas of a page respectively, and a display area occupied by the display text is not superimposed on a display area occupied by the multimedia data stream.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that include a processor executing a program to receive input text from a user. The processor is further configured to, for a predetermined number of iterations, input an initial image into a diffusion process to generate a processed image, back-propagate the processed image through a text-image match gradient calculator to calculate a gradient against the input text, and update the initial image with an image generated by applying the calculated gradient to the processed image. The pixel values of the processed image during a first portion of the predetermined number of iterations are value clamped to a first range, and pixel values of the processed image during a second portion of the predetermined number of iterations are value clamped to a second range that is a subset of the first range.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that include a processor executing a program to receive an input from a user, where the input including a first input text and a second input text. The processor is further configured to provide an initial image and, for a predetermined number of iterations, define a first and second regions of the initial image associated with the first and second input texts, respectively, define a plurality of patches of the initial image, input the initial image into a diffusion process to generate a processed image, back-propagate the processed image through a text-image match gradient calculator by generating an image embedding based on the processed image, generating a text embedding based on the region and the input text that are associated with a patch, and calculating a differential between the image embedding and the text embedding.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that include a processor executing a program to process an initial image through a first diffusion stage to generate a final first stage image, wherein the first diffusion stage includes using a diffusion model, a gradient estimator model smaller than the diffusion model, and a text-image match gradient calculator. The processor further executes the program to process the final first stage image through a second diffusion stage to generate a final second stage image. The second diffusion stage includes, for a second predetermined number of iterations, inputting the final first stage image to through the diffusion model, back-propagate the image through the text-image match gradient calculator to calculate a second stage gradient against the input text, and update the final first stage image by applying the second stage gradient to the final first stage image.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that include a processor executing a program to match sentences from a sentence dataset with artistic phrases from an artistic phrase dataset to generate a plurality of safe phrases. The processor is further configured to, for each of the safe phrases, generate a safe image by, for a predetermined number of iterations, performing steps to input an initial image into a diffusion process to generate a processed image, wherein the diffusion process includes a first diffusion model, back-propagate the processed image through a text-image match gradient calculator to calculate a gradient against the safe phrase, and update the initial image by applying the gradient to the processed image. The processor is further configured to pair each of the generated safe images with their respective safe phrase to form a plurality of safe phrase-image pairs.

Abstract: A display includes a display substrate and a flexible circuit board. The display substrate includes a silicon substrate, a driving circuit of which at least part is embedded in the silicon substrate, and a first pad electrically connected with the driving circuit. The driving circuit includes a transistor with a semiconductor layer; the flexible circuit board includes a flexible substrate, a first wiring layer, and a first reinforcement plate. The first wiring layer includes a main wiring portion and a second pad electrically connected with the main wiring portion, and the second pad is electrically connected with the first pad by a conductive adhesive layer. The first reinforcement plate covers the main wiring portion and does not cover the second pad. The first reinforcement plate is located outside the display substrate and there is a non-zero distance between the first reinforcement plate and the display substrate.

Abstract: A fan frame includes a central base, a frame wall, and a plurality of static blades radially extending from the central base to the frame wall, each static blade is connected to the central base at a first end and connected to the frame wall at a second end, the central base is provided with a first wire groove, the frame wall is provided with a second wire groove, the first wire groove and the second wire groove are configured for accommodating wires, and the second wire groove has a shape same as the second end of the static blade connected to the frame wall for gathering the wires to shape similar to the static blade. A fan assembly including the fan frame is also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multimass MEMS gyroscope featuring an orthogonal arrangement, which comprises an anchor point unit, a sensing unit and a driving unit; the anchor point unit comprises a central anchor point subunit located at the center of a rectangle and four corner anchor points located at the four corners of the rectangle respectively; the sensing unit comprises four detection mass blocks each of which has a frame structure and is elastically connected between the central anchor point subunit and the corresponding corner anchor point, receding spaces being formed between the detection mass blocks, and four detection decoupling parts; and the driving unit comprises four driving mass blocks, and driving decoupling parts. The gyroscope can improve the arrangement area of transducers and reduce the mass of the detection mass blocks to improve the Coriolis gain, thereby improving the mechanical sensitivity of the gyroscope.

Abstract: An automated checkout system accesses an image of an item inside a shopping cart and a location of the shopping cart within a store. The automated checkout system identifies a set of candidate items located within a threshold distance of the location of the shopping cart based on an item map. The item map describes a location of each item within the store and the location of each candidate item corresponds to a location of the candidate item on the item map. The automated checkout system inputs visual features of the item extracted from the image to a machine-learning model to identify the item by determining a similarity score between the item and each candidate item of the set of candidate items. After identifying the item, the automated checkout system displays a list comprising the item and additional items within the shopping cart to a user.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an AR/VR system includes a social-networking application installed on the AR/VR system, which allows a user to access on online social network, including communicating with the user's social connections and interacting with content objects on the online social network. The AR/VR system also includes an AR/VR application, which allows the user to interact with an AR/VR platform by providing user input to the AR/VR application via various modalities. Based on the user input, the AR/VR platform generates responses and sends the generated responses to the AR/VR application, which then presents the responses to the user at the AR/VR system via various modalities.

Abstract: A docker image is received. The docker image is for a container. The container contains files that allow for virtualization of applications that run within the container. The docker image is parsed to identify layer files in the docker image. Installed software components (e.g., installed files) and/or hardware components in the layer files are identified. Software application index calls are made to generate information that identifies relationships between the installed software components and/or hardware components. The relationships between the installed software components and/or hardware components are then displayed to a user.

Abstract: The present application disclosures a double production line and a rapid prefabrication process of a segmental beam. The double production line including two production machine and a track system provided on the construction ground; the production machine includes a fixed end mold, two side molds, a bottom mold trolley, a middle internal mold trolley and two side internal mold trolley; two side molds are positioned on two sides of the fixed end mold respectively, the fixed end mold and two side molds together define a pouring position with an end opening, two openings of the pouring position are arranged facing each other; the track system includes a transverse track and a longitudinal track communicated with each other, two pouring positions are both positioned in the extension path of the transverse track, and the longitudinal track is positioned between two pouring positions.

Abstract: A connector comprises a housing in a form of a bent tube. The housing includes a first tubular portion, a second tubular portion, and a bent portion connected between the first tubular portion and the second tubular portion. The first tubular portion and the second tubular portion extend at an angle of more than 0 degree and less than 180 degrees relative to each other. The housing is adapted to hold a cable extending through an interior thereof, wherein the cable is bent within the bent portion.

Abstract: A barcode decoding system decodes item identifiers from images of barcodes. The barcode decoding system receives an image of a barcode and rotates the image to a pre-determined orientation. The barcode decoding system also may segment the barcode image to emphasize the portions of the image that correspond to the barcode. The barcode decoding system generates a binary sequence representation of the item identifier encoded in the barcode by applying a barcode classifier model to the barcode image, and decodes the item identifier from the barcode based on the binary sequence representation.