Abstract: The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for decoding video. The method includes receiving a bitstream including a coding unit of a video frame, the coding unit being coded in a skip mode or a direct mode; determining whether the coding units has a width greater than a threshold width or a height greater than a threshold height; in response to the coding unit having the width greater than the threshold width or the height greater than the threshold height, enabling a motion vector angular prediction process to store one or more motion vector angular prediction candidates in a candidate list storing a plurality of motion candidates associated with the coding unit; and performing an inter prediction to the coding unit according to the candidate list and an index parsed from the bitstream.

Abstract: Provided in embodiments of the disclosure are methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for data processing. Location information and personalized information of a user are obtained in real-time; then a target spatial region corresponding to the location information is determined, the target spatial region including at least one physical object matching the personalized information; and then shopping guide data is generated for the user based on the at least one physical object matching the personalized information. By obtaining the real-time location of the user in combination with the personalized information of the user such as a purchase preference of historical purchase behavior, a shopping place and a branded shop near the user are provided to guide the user to perform in-store shopping, thereby improving purchase efficiency for the user, effectively providing personalized shopping recommended content to the user, and greatly improving purchase experience of the user.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for migrating data in a data storage system. A method for migrating data comprises: transferring data from a storage cluster in a first data center to a migration cartridge of the first data center; converting, by the migration cartridge of the first data center, the data's format into an archival format; storing the data into a media card; and moving the media card from the first data center to a second data center, wherein the data is read from the media card into a migration cartridge of the second data center and stored into an archival cluster in the second data center according to the archival format of the data.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a video data processing method. The method includes: receiving a bitstream; decoding a first index from the bitstream; determining a maximum number of an adaptive loop filter (ALF) for a component of a picture based on the first index; and processing pixels in the picture with the ALF.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides storage nodes, integrated circuits, and methods for storage node management. A method for storage node management includes performing one or more network tasks by one or more first processing cores in a network engine of an integrated circuit; and performing one or more storage tasks by one or more second processing cores in a storage engine of the integrated circuit.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for encoding video. The method includes: determining whether a coded video sequence (CVS) contains equal number of profile, tier and level (PTL) syntax structures and output layer sets (OLSs); and in response to the CVS containing equal number of PTL syntax structures and OLSs, coding the bitstream without signaling a first PTL syntax element specifying an index, to a list of PTL syntax structures in the VPS, of a PTL syntax structure that applies to a corresponding OLS in the VPS.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for improving thermal control, including collecting data of a plurality of systems, each of the plurality of systems including at least one first cooling element and at least one first heat-generating element; conducting a first simulation using a simulation model based on the collected data to generate a first set of simulation results; conducting a first training on a control system using the first set of simulation results to obtain a first trained control system; and using the first trained control system to monitor a field system with a space having at least one second cooling element and at least one second heat-generating element and to control the at least one second cooling element and the at least one second heat-generating element.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method, device, and system for processing a medical image. The method includes obtaining, by one or more processors, a first medical image, wherein the first medical image includes a representation of a target organ, and processing, by the one or more processors, the first medical image based at least in part on a first machine learning model. A classification result associated with the first medical image and a first image of a target region in the first medical image are obtained based at least in part on the processing of the first medical image using the first machine learning model.

Abstract: A method for video data processing includes: determining a category index of a target chroma sample, wherein the category index is determined based on a first reconstructed value associated with a co-located luma sample and a second reconstructed value associated with the target chroma sample; determining an offset based on the category index; and adding the offset to a third reconstructed value associated with the target chroma sample.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for determining prediction weight for sub-block are provided. One exemplary method includes: partitioning a coding unit into a plurality of sub-blocks; determining a weight of a sub-block of the plurality of sub-blocks based on weights of control points, wherein the control points are neighboring corners of the coding unit; and bi-predicting the sub-block based on the determined weight.

Abstract: A method including in response to voice information, acquiring a response object to which corresponding voice information is registered and which occupies an interactive medium; and informing the response object to respond to the voice information. The technical solution enables an operating system to automatically determine a response object responding to voice information triggered by a user from numerous response objects in view of voice information registered at each response object and the occupation of interactive media by each response object. The technical solution removes the restriction that a user must speak a wakening phrase to activate a required response object each time before speaking voice information. Thus, a user only needs to speak short voice information that shows the intention for use thereof during a process of using a certain response object, thereby improving the convenience of a user performing voice interaction.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses video processing include: in response to receiving a video sequence, encoding first flag data in a parameter set associated with the video sequence, wherein the first flag data represents whether gradual decoding refresh (GDR) is enabled or disabled for the video sequence; when the first flag data represents that the GDR is disabled for the video sequence, encoding a picture header associated with a picture in the video sequence to indicate that the picture is a non-GDR picture; and encoding the non-GDR picture.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provides systems and methods for processing video content. The methods include: reconstructing a chroma block based on a plurality of luma samples associated with the chroma block, wherein reconstructing the chroma block includes: determining whether the chroma block has non-zero chroma residuals; and in response to a determination that the chroma block has no non-zero chroma residuals, bypassing a process of averaging the plurality of luma samples, wherein the process of averaging is used for reconstructing the chroma block.

Abstract: When performing a recycling operation on a storage device, a storage system may use or create a data buffer in the storage device, and designate the data buffer to temporarily store data of data blocks to be recycled in the storage device using direct memory access (DMA) operations that are performed internally in the storage device, without the need of reading the data of the data blocks from the storage device and writing the data into a host memory of the storage system, thereby saving or reducing the consumptions of the communication bandwidth of a communication channel between the storage system and the storage device, and the memory bandwidth of the host memory.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a superconducting qubit. The superconducting qubit includes: a Josephson junction and a non-Josephson junction area, wherein the non-Josephson junction area includes a first layer of superconducting material, the first layer of superconducting material being superconducting material deposited on the non-Josephson junction area before ion milling on the Josephson junction and the non-Josephson junction area during preparation of the superconducting qubit.

Abstract: A system-in-package including a logic die and one or more memory dice can include a reliability availability serviceability (RAS) memory management unit (MMU) for memory error detection, memory error prediction and memory error handling. The RAS MMU can receive memory health information, on-die memory error information, system error information and read address information for the one or more memory dice. The RAS MMU can manage the memory blocks of the one or more memory dice based on the memory health information, on-die memory error type, system error type and read address. The RAS MMU can also further manage the memory blocks based on received on-die memory temperature information and or system temperature information.

Abstract: A method is implemented by a computing node, and includes: sending a mounting request triggered for a target logical volume to a target storage node of multiple storage nodes included in a file system; receiving storage location information of a log segment and a checkpoint corresponding to the target logical volume sent by the target storage node; reading log metadata of the log segment and the checkpoint according to the storage location information to restore a data state of the target logical volume; and performing data access processing based on the data state of the target logical volume. When multiple computing nodes access a target logical volume, read and write consistency of the multiple computing nodes can be maintained based on log information of the target logical volume maintained by various storage nodes. Furthermore, reading and writing can be performed synchronously, thus avoiding read and write conflicts.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a processing in memory (PIM) enabled device for executing a neural network model. The PIM enabled device comprises a memory block assembly comprising a first array of memory blocks, a second array of memory blocks adjacent to the first array of memory blocks, a plurality of first data links associated with the first array of memory blocks and the second array of memory blocks, wherein each data link of the plurality of first data links communicatively couples two corresponding memory blocks of which are from the first array of memory blocks and the second array of memory blocks respectively, and a second data link communicatively coupled to the plurality of first data links. The data from a first memory block of the first array of memory blocks can be transferable to a second memory block of the second array of memory blocks via the plurality of first data links and the second data link.

Abstract: A method, a system, and a device for switching a service unit are provided. The method includes: determining a target service unit; and triggering the target service unit to publish first routing information according to configuration information of a first service unit for a first load balancing task, so as to replace the first service unit to provide a traffic distribution service for the first load balancing task. When the entire service network needs to perform disaster tolerance switching and capacity dispatching, the method provided in the embodiments of this application can effectively improve the real-time performance of traffic switching, and avoid the problem of relatively poor real-time performance of traffic switching caused by the influence of DNS cache in the existing technologies.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a controller area network (CAN) bus network access unit, a related network, a method, and an apparatus. The CAN bus network access unit includes: a first CAN bus; a second CAN bus; a first CAN bus transceiver and a second CAN bus transceiver, respectively communicatively coupled to the first CAN bus and the second CAN bus and respectively configured to communicate with another first CAN bus and another second CAN bus in another CAN bus network access unit; a first port, communicatively coupled to the first CAN bus; and a plurality of variable connection ports, where each variable connection port is communicatively coupled to one of the first CAN bus and the second CAN bus, or communicatively coupled to neither the first CAN bus nor the second CAN bus. In embodiments of the present disclosure, an electric control part used in a conveying line is standardized. A time-delay is reduced and costs of network wiring and device management are reduced.