Abstract: To provide an agent and a method for enhancing carbonation sensation whereby a natural carbonation sensation alone can be enhanced without imparting unnecessary smell or undesired tasted to foods and beverages having carbonate stimulation. A carbonation sensation enhancing agent for foods and beverages having carbonate stimulation said carbonation sensation enhancing agent comprising polygodial as an active ingredient and being characterized by further comprising spilanthol in combination with polygodial.

Abstract: An electric discharge device according to the present disclosure includes a discharge electrode, a counter electrode, a voltage application circuit, and a liquid supply unit. The discharge electrode is a columnar electrode. The counter electrode faces the discharge electrode. The voltage application circuit applies an application voltage between the discharge electrode and the counter electrode. The liquid supply unit supplies liquid to the discharge electrode. The liquid extends and contracts along a central axis of the discharge electrode by discharge. The counter electrode includes a peripheral electrode part and a projecting electrode part. In a direction along the central axis of the discharge electrode, a tip of the liquid in a state in which the liquid extends is located at the same position as an outer peripheral edge of the peripheral electrode part or located closer to the discharge electrode than the outer peripheral edge.

Abstract: An acoustic wave filter includes a longitudinally coupled resonator including IDT electrodes and a reflector. A standard deviation of a pitch deviation rate of at least one of the reflector and the IDT electrodes is greater than or equal to about 1.4%.

Abstract: A leg tube sliding locking mechanism for opening and closing a folding tent includes a sliding support sleeved on a leg tube, a jump bead, and a V-shaped spring. One end of the V-shaped spring is connected to the jump bead, and the other end of the V-shaped spring is fixed to an inner wall of the leg tube. A bushing is installed on an inner wall of the sliding support in a fitted manner. An upper end of the busing extends downward to form a pressing sheet, and the pressing sheet has a lower end extending outwards to a lower end of the sliding support. The pressing sheet covers the jump bead.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an audio processing method and an electronic device. The method includes: first obtaining text information corresponding to a to-be-processed audio, where the text information includes a to-be-processed text and a playback period corresponding to each field in the to-be-processed text; then receiving a first input on the to-be-processed text; in response to the first input, determining, as a to-be-processed field, a field indicated by the first input in the to-be-processed text; then receiving a second input on the to-be-processed field; obtaining a target audio segment in response to the second input; and finally modifying an audio segment at a playback period corresponding to the to-be-processed field according to the target audio segment, to obtain a target audio.

Abstract: The current disclosure describes a vertical tunnel FET device including a vertical P-I-N heterojunction structure of a P-doped nanowire gallium nitride source/drain, an intrinsic InN layer, and an N-doped nanowire gallium nitride source/drain. A high-K dielectric layer and a metal gate wrap around the intrinsic InN layer.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for encoding information bits for storage, including obtaining an information vector comprising a plurality of information bits, a static frozen vector comprising a plurality of static frozen bits, and a constraints vector which indicates at least one constraint; partitioning the information vector into a first information vector and a second information vector; partitioning the static frozen vector into a first static frozen vector and a second static frozen vector; determining an input vector by applying a plurality of matrix operations to the first information vector, the second information vector, the first static frozen vector, the second static frozen vector, and the constraints vector; computing an output codeword of a polar subcode based on the input vector; and transmitting the output codeword to the storage device.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image decoding method according to an embodiment, the image decoding method including: obtaining a first reference block and a second reference block, for bi-directional prediction of a current block; obtaining, from a bitstream, weight information for combining the first reference block with the second reference block; performing entropy decoding on the weight information to obtain a weight index; combining the first reference block with the second reference block according to a candidate value indicated by the weight index among candidate values included in a weight candidate group; and reconstructing the current block based on a result of the combining, wherein a first binary value corresponding to the weight index is entropy-decoded based on a context model, and the remaining binary value corresponding to the weight index is entropy-decoded by a bypass method.

Abstract: An electrolyte for a lithium-ion battery, a lithium-ion battery, a battery module, a battery pack, and an apparatus are provided. The electrolyte includes an organic solvent, an electrolyte lithium salt dissolved in the organic solvent, and an additive, where the additive is a compound represented by following formula I. The electrolyte can inhibit generation of lithium dendrites in the lithium-ion battery, improve cycle performance of the battery, and also improve flame retardancy of the battery, thereby effectively resolving defects in the existing technology.

Abstract: A method for processing a video includes performing a conversion between a current video block and a bitstream representation of the current video block, wherein the current video block is unsymmetrically split into four partitions using an unsymmetrical quad-Tree (UQT) splitting, wherein the four partitions includes a first partition having a dimension of W1×H1, a second partition having a dimension of W2×H2, a third partition having a dimension of W3×H3, and a fourth partition having a dimension of W4×H4, wherein W1, W2, W3, W4, H1, H2, H3, and H4 are integers.

Abstract: A method of generating compensation data for a display device is disclosed that includes acquiring a first captured image by capturing an image displayed on the display device based on reference data having a reference grayscale, acquiring a second captured image by capturing an image displayed on the display device based on evaluation data having a compensation target grayscale, calculating a similarity index based on a difference between the first captured image and the second captured image at a plurality of positions of a display panel of the display device, calculating a quality index based on an actual measured grayscale of the second captured image after compensation of the second captured image, generating a compensation prediction model based on the similarity index and the quality index, and generating the compensation data based on the first captured image, the second captured image, the similarity index, and the compensation prediction model.

Abstract: A visitor management system, which can accurately determine if a visitor presents a proper ticket for the visitor's personal attribute, includes: a reader configured to read ticket information in a ticket medium; a camera configured to capture an image of the visitor; a control device configured to acquire a personal attribute of the visitor from the captured image, determine if consistency is achieved between the ticket information from the reader and the acquired personal attribute, and generate a management screen including determination result information; and a display configured to display the management screen. The determination result information generated by the control device may include a number of persons for each ticket type and a number of persons for each personal attribute, and inconsistency information indicating that consistency is not achieved.

Abstract: A winding die is disclosed, including: a gear baffle, where a middle portion of the gear baffle is provided with a first opening for placing an iron core post, and the gear baffle is provided with a first surface; and a cylinder, where the cylinder is arranged on the first surface of the gear baffle and connected with the gear baffle. The middle portion of the gear baffle is provided with the first opening for placing the iron core post, the gear baffle is fixedly connected with the cylinder, an external device is connected with a gear, and the cylinder on the gear baffle is driven to rotate around the iron core post by pulling the gear, so that a foil or an insulating material on the cylinder can be wound on the iron core post, finally realizing a foil winding.

Abstract: The illumination device has a plurality of light-emitting pixels which are individually on/off controllable, and emits a reference light having a random intensity distribution. The photodetector detects light reflected from an object. The processing device reconstructs an image of the object OBJ, by calculating a correlation between a detection intensity b based on an output of the photodetector, and the intensity distribution I of the reference light. The plurality of light-emitting pixels are divided into the m (m?2) areas each containing n (n?2) adjoining light-emitting pixels. By selecting one light-emitting pixel from each of the m areas without overlapping, the n light-emitting pixel groups are determined. The imaging apparatus carries out sensing for every light-emitting pixel group.

Abstract: A speech signal processing method and apparatus. The method includes preprocessing a speech signal that is in a first frequency band and that is collected by an ear canal speech collector, to obtain a first speech signal; preprocessing a speech signal that is in a second frequency band and that is collected by at least one external speech collector, to obtain an external speech signal, where frequency ranges of the first frequency band and the second frequency band are different; performing correlation processing on the first speech signal and the external speech signal to obtain a second speech signal; and outputting a target speech signal, where the target speech signal includes the first speech signal and the second speech signal.