Abstract: A guiding board for a ball placement machine has a board body. The board body has a top surface, a bottom surface, a ball-dropping area, and multiple guiding grooves. The ball-dropping area is defined on the top surface. The guiding grooves are defined in the ball-dropping area and are parallel to each other. Each guiding groove has a bottom and multiple ball-dropping holes defined in the bottom and extending through the bottom surface of the board body.

Abstract: A heat storage member including: a substrate containing a SiC sintered body as a principal ingredient; a coating layer disposed at least to a part of surface of the substrate; and a heat storage material disposed at least to a part of a surface of the coating layer and configured to store and radiate heat by a reversible chemical reaction with a reaction medium or a heat storage material configured to store and radiate heat by physical adsorption to a reaction medium and by physical desorption from a reaction medium. A softening point of the coating layer is a temperature at 1000° C. or less.

Abstract: A transferring control method and apparatus, and a transferring configuration method and apparatus are described. The transferring control method includes connecting to a server by a predetermined account; sending to the server a transferring request for requesting the server to perform transferring configuration, wherein the transferring configuration sets a message transferring relationship among a plurality of electronic devices connected to the server by the predetermined account, and the plurality of electronic devices comprise the first electronic device and at least one second electronic device.

Abstract: The present application provides a broadcasting method and device for wireless communications, and relates to the field of communications. The broadcasting method includes: a broadcasting interception step of sending a broadcasting message with a current power and performing interception; a power decrease step of, when a request is intercepted, judging whether a sender of the request is identical with a sender of at least one historical request, and if yes, recording the current power as a historical power, and decreasing the current power; and a power determination step of judging whether a current broadcasting event ends, if yes, determining the historical power as a working reference power; otherwise, returning to the broadcasting interception step. The broadcasting method and device are conductive to reducing power consumption of communications.

Abstract: A lighting control system controls a light source that emits light to a space in which subjects stay. The lighting control system includes: an communication interface that obtains stay schedule information indicating scheduled periods in an operation period after a first time and before a second time later than the first time, the scheduled periods being periods during each of which a corresponding one of the subjects is to stay in the space; and a processor that creates an illumination schedule for causing the light source to emit the light, based on the stay schedule information, and causes the light source to emit the light according to the illumination schedule created. The processor creates, based on the stay schedule information, the illumination schedule for causing the light source to emit the light during a period including a scheduled period common to at least two of the subjects.

Abstract: A leak detector assembly for use with a backflow prevention device includes a housing defining a passageway for receiving a fluid. A flap assembly couples to the housing for generating a low flow error signal indicating minimal fluid passing through the passageway and a fully actuated error signal indicating significant fluid passing through the passageway. The flap assembly includes a flap mounted in the passageway such that significant flow of the fluid moves the flap to generate the fully actuated error signal. The flap assembly also includes a sensing element on the flap to determine a presence of the fluid without movement of the flap to generate the low flow error signal based on a low flow of the fluid.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has at least one proximity communication device. The image forming apparatus is an apparatus in which information in a storage area in the at least one proximity communication device is capable of being provided for an external apparatus. The information in the storage area is rewritten in accordance with transition of an apparatus state of the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: A method of operating a heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) monitoring system includes, at a remote monitoring apparatus, receiving and storing frames of data from a local monitoring device installed at a building. Each of the frames includes time domain current data based on a measured aggregate current supplied to a plurality of components of an HVAC system of the building and frequency domain data based on the measured aggregate current. The method includes, based on the frequency domain current data and exclusive of individual current data from a plurality of individual current sensors, determining an individual contribution of a first component of the HVAC system to the measured aggregate current. The method includes transmitting information based on the stored current data to an HVAC manufacturer. The method includes, if a problem is identified with the first component using the determined individual contribution, transmitting an alert message.

Abstract: A dual-mode voice control method is disclosed. The method may comprise determining whether a user has executed an operation of activating an operate-to-speak stop determination mode in a voice input interface. The method may further comprise, in response to determining that the user has executed the operation of activating the operate-to-speak stop determination mode, determining whether a microphone is in a busy state. The method may further comprise, in response to determining that the microphone is in the busy state, switching a voice mode from a directly-speak automatic stop determination mode to the operate-to-speak stop determination mode. Before the user executes the operation of activating the operate-to-speak stop determination mode, the voice mode is in the directly-speak automatic stop determination mode if the microphone is in the busy state.

Abstract: A display device and a data compensating method thereof are disclosed. The display device includes: a liquid crystal display panel having a plurality of pixels; a color temperature compensation unit configured to determine a color temperature at each position of a light guide plate using a thermal conductivity of the light guide plate and a color temperature at a reference position of the light guide plate, and determine a color temperature compensation value at positions of the light guide plate using the color temperature; and a timing controller configured to correct at least one of an R gain value and a B gain value of the image data using the color temperature compensation value.

Abstract: A display device includes a display substrate; a thin film transistor over the display substrate; a bank layer covering the thin film transistor, where an opening is defined through the bank layer; an emission layer in the opening and including a micro p-n diode; a first electrode electrically connected between the thin film transistor and the emission layer; a second electrode over the emission layer; and a sealing layer covering the second electrode. The thin film transistor and the emission layer are adjacent to each other in a horizontal direction of the display substrate.

Abstract: In a method of controlling an electronic device using a wearable device, the electronic device is paired with the wearable device. A cryptographic key, which corresponds to the electronic device, is stored in a secure storage device included in the wearable device. A distance between the wearable device and the electronic device is estimated by the wearable device. An unlock signal including the cryptographic key, which is stored in the secure storage device, is transmitted from the wearable device to the electronic device when the estimated distance is smaller than a threshold distance. The electronic device is unlocked based on the unlock signal.

Abstract: A method for triggering a registrar protocol interaction. The method includes: receiving, by an access point, a probe request sent by at least one station, where the probe request includes an identifier of the access point; determining, by the access point, a first station in the at least one station according to the probe request sent by the at least one station, where the identifier included in the probe request sent by the first station matches an identifier of the access point, and a signal strength of the probe request sent by the first station is greater than a signal strength threshold; and automatically triggering, by the access point, a registrar protocol interaction with the first station.

Abstract: A command processing method and a storage controller using the same are provided. The command processing method includes: receiving a plurality of I/O commands; categorizing the I/O commands into a plurality of groups according to a processor effort index of the I/O commands; selecting a first group from the groups, resetting a timer and obtaining an expiration time corresponding to the first group according to the I/O commands of the first group, and executing the I/O commands of the first group; and selecting a second group from the groups and resetting the timer when the expiration time of the first group expires, wherein when the processor effort index of the first group is less than a threshold, a clock frequency of the processor is lowered before the expiration time expires.

Abstract: Provided are multilayer video encoding/decoding methods. The multilayer video decoding method includes obtaining, from a bitstream, instantaneous decoder refresh (IDR) alignment information specifying whether at least one intra random access point (IRAP) picture for a random access and comprised in a same access unit is limited to being an IDR picture; and reconstructing a multilayer video by decoding encoded data by using the IDR alignment information.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus for generating a sound field on the basis of an input audio signal. The apparatus comprises a plurality of transducers, wherein each transducer is configured to be driven by a transducer driving signal ql of the respective transducer; a plurality of filters configured to generate for each transducer the transducer driving signal ql of the respective transducer; and a control unit configured to provide or receive a first transducer driving signal vector q0 of dimension L such that the gradient of J(q;?) with respect to q is zero in (q0;?0), the control unit is further configured to provide a second transducer driving signal vector {tilde over (q)} of dimension L such that the gradient of the cost function J(q;?) with respect to q is [approximately] zero in ({tilde over (q)}; {tilde over (?)}), the control unit is configured to provide the second transducer driving signal vector {tilde over (q)}.

Abstract: Embodiments disclose an automatic gain control method and a communications device in a wireless local area network. The method includes generating a physical layer packet, where the physical layer packet includes a high efficiency long training field, the high efficiency long training field includes N symbols, a length of a cyclic prefix (CP— of a first symbol in the N symbols is greater than or equal to a minimum length required by a receiver device to perform automatic gain control (AGC) estimation, and N is a positive integer. The method also includes sending the physical layer packet to the receiver device.

Abstract: Various embodiments provide a position indicator including a retaining mechanism that can fix a core body securely and which can electrically transmit a signal from an internal circuit to the core body reliably. The position indicator includes a core body having conductivity, a conductive elastic member including a holding portion for holding and fixing the core body, a core body holder having conductivity and fitted with the conductive elastic member to retain the core body fitted in the conductive elastic member, a signal transmitter, and an electric connecting member for establishing an electric connection between the core body holder and the signal transmitter. The core body is detachably fitted into the conductive elastic member. A signal from the signal transmitter is transmitted from the core body through the electric connecting member, the core body holder, and the conductive elastic member.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a lactase solution having excellent thermal stability. [Solution] A lactase solution in which the ratio of a lactase fraction having a molecular weight of about 120 kDa measured by SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is 20% or more.

Abstract: A method for predicting the location of mark is performed for a substrate which includes a plurality of electronic device regions each electronic region includes a mark and a reference indication on a first surface and a sawing indication on a second surface opposite to the first surface. The method includes obtaining first and second image information for the first and second surfaces, extracting a sawing line based on the sawing indication in the second image information, calculating a first spaced distance between the sawing line and the reference indication in the first information, calculating a second spaced distance between the sawing line and the reference indication, and predicting the location of the mark based on whether the first and second spaced distances correspond to a predetermined reference distance. The mark is on each of the electronic device regions separated from each other along the sawing line.