Abstract: An apparatus for decoding a data structure from a data stream is configured for sequentially reconstructing a set of features, wherein the apparatus is configured for reconstructing a feature of the set of features by deriving a quantization index from the data stream using arithmetic decoding; mapping the quantization index to a reconstruction value in dependence on a quantization state, and assigning the reconstruction value to the feature; updating the quantization state in dependence on the quantization index and the quantization state; and deriving the data structure based on the set of features. The apparatus is configured for deriving probabilities for the arithmetic decoding of the quantization index in dependence on the quantization state.

Abstract: The method includes a step of generating a magnetic signal with an electromagnetic functional unit, wherein the electromagnetic functional unit is an actuator of a loudspeaker of the device or wherein the electromagnetic functional unit is an electromagnetic resonant circuit connected to the device, wherein the magnetic signal carries the data to be transferred from the device to the other device: Furthermore, the method includes a step of detecting the magnetic signal with an electromagnetic resonant circuit of the other device in order to obtain the data to be transferred from the device to the other device, wherein the magnetic signal is FSK-modulated, wherein a resonance frequency of the electromagnetic resonant circuit of the other device and a carrier frequency of the FSK-modulated magnetic signal are tuned with respect to each other.

Abstract: An article having a metal substrate and a channel in the metal substrate which is partly or completely open to the surface, wherein the cross section of the channel has a local width maximum (5) between the channel base (7) and the contact plane (1), measured parallel to the contact plane and at right angles to the longitudinal channel axis in the section perpendicular to the surface. (FIG. 1a).

Abstract: A method may be provided for stimulating the growth of a biomass, which is mixed with a liquid inside a bioreactor, by means of ionising radiation. The following method steps are used: a) exposing a first partial volume of the liquid in the bioreactor to ionising radiation, the first partial volume comprising at most 10% of the liquid volume in the bioreactor; b) mixing the first partial liquid volume, which has been exposed to ionising radiation, with the second partial liquid volume, which has not been exposed to ionising radiation, in the bioreactor; c) repeating method steps a) and b) multiple times, each partial volume of the liquid in the bioreactor being exposed to a total radiation dose of at most 50 Gy on statistical average.

Abstract: An apparatus having a processing unit configured to obtain scanning information, provided by a detection unit, from a scan of a surface, wherein the scanning information have information on an inherent feature of the surface. Furthermore, the processing unit is configured to extract extraction information for the inherent feature from the scanning information and to perform matching with a database based on the extraction information, wherein extraction information for a plurality of inherent features of the surface are stored in the database. Furthermore, the processing unit is configured to determine the position of the detection unit based on the matching.

Abstract: A method for dyeing leather with an organic colorant in a supercritical fluid. The method includes coating a surface of the leather to provide a coated surface of the leather. The method further includes dyeing the coated surface of the leather with the organic colorant in the supercritical fluid.

Abstract: A device for reducing vibrations in a hydraulic system may have a separating device which has a side for delimiting a fluid-conducting cavity of the fluid system. The device may also have a vibration-reducing unit, which is designed to mechanically adjust the rigidity of the separating device such that vibrations in the fluid system are reduced.

Abstract: Audio processor for performing audio rendering by generating rendering parameters, which determine a derivation of loudspeaker signals to be reproduced by a set of loudspeakers from an audio signal. The audio processor is configured to perform a delay processing so as to determine, based on a listener position, delays for generating the loudspeaker signals for the loudspeakers from the audio signal. Further, the audio processor is configured to control the delay processing by modifying a version of the listener position, based on which the delay processing is commenced, or any intermediate value determined by the delay processing based on the listener position so as to reduce artifacts in the audio rendition due to changes in the delays.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a reactor device (2) for converting powdered metal oxides, in particular metal oxides contained in regolith, to metal powder and molecular oxygen (O2), the reactor device (2) comprising a cathode reactor vessel (8) providing a receiving space (14) for the powdered metal oxides and adapted to be connected to an electron source (21) such that the powdered electrode oxides can be converted to the metal powder and oxygen ions (O2?) by the application of an electrical potential, and an anode reactor vessel (4) adapted to be connected to an electron sink (22) to attract the oxygen ions (O2?) travelling through an electrolyte (6) from the cathode reactor vessel (8) to the anode reactor vessel (4) during operation of the reactor device (2); wherein the anode reactor vessel (4) at least partially surrounds the cathode reactor vessel (8).

Abstract: Embodiments are related to a masking threshold determinator, wherein the masking threshold determinator is configured to obtain a plurality of bandpass signals using a plurality of filters having different bandwidths; and wherein the masking threshold determinator is configured to obtain a masking threshold information associated with a given frequency region on the basis of bandpass signal values of at least two bandpass signals. Furthermore, audio encoders, methods and computer programs are disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cone penetration testing device comprising a probe, which has a probing cone (1), and in particular a skin friction sleeve (2), as well as an inclinometer and a pore pressure gauge, and comprising a transport linkage (4, 5, 6), which is configured to be connected to the probe at a first of the ends (7) thereof and to push the probe by applying pressure, into a soil region to be probed, as well as a seismic measuring device (9, 10, 11, 12) for capturing seismic signals. The object of capturing the seismic measurement data via a plurality of channels is achieved by the seismic measuring device comprising a plurality of seismic sensors (for example pressure sensors, accelerometers, geophones) (9, 10, 11, 12), which are integrated into one or more elements (4, 5, 6) of the transport linkage and arranged spaced apart from one another along the longitudinal direction of the transport linkage.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating one or more audio output signals from one or more encoded audio signals according to an embodiment is provided. The apparatus has an input interface for receiving the one or more encoded audio signals and for receiving additional audio information data. Furthermore, the apparatus has a signal generator for generating the one or more audio output signals depending on the encoded audio signals and depending on second additional audio information. The signal generator is configured to obtain the second additional audio information using the additional audio information data and using first additional audio information, if the additional audio information data exhibits a redundancy state. Moreover, the signal generator is configured to obtain the second additional audio information using the additional audio information data without using the first additional audio information, if the additional audio information data exhibits a non-redundancy state.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a catalyst material includes the steps of: providing a body having an open-porous foam structure and comprising at least a first metal or alloy; providing particles, each of which particles comprising at least a second metal or alloy; distributing the particles on the body; forming a structural connection between each of at least a subset of the particles and the body; and forming an oxide film on at least the subset of the particles and the body, wherein the oxide film has a catalytically active surface.

Abstract: A sorting system includes a first number of entry points configured to provide sorting goods. The sorting system further has a second number of terminal points configured to receive the sorting goods, and a third number of driverless sorting vehicles configured to transport the sorting goods between the first number of insertion points and the second number of terminal points. Further, a control device is provided, configured to control the driverless sorting vehicles between the first number of insertion points and the second number of terminal points.

Abstract: Devices and methods for promoting the growth of plants, which transport the plants using a conveyor belt where roots of the plants protrude into a region located below a lower surface of the conveyor belt and at least parts of leaves and/or fruits of the plants protrude into a region located above an upper surface of the conveyor belt which opposes the lower surface. The conveyor path moves along a closed circular or oval path such that a deflection occurs in the region of an upper deflection point and in the region of a lower deflection point, which interconnect vertical sections.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a method for sharing unused resources between at least two transceivers of a wireless communication system, at least a second transceiver of the at least two transceivers operating in a sidelink in-coverage, out of coverage or partial coverage scenario, in which resources for a sidelink communication over a sidelink are pre-configured by the wireless communication system or scheduled autonomously by the second transceiver, the method having: reporting, by a first transceiver of the at least two transceivers, a set of unused resources of the first transceiver to the second transceiver, determining, by the second transceiver, a set of candidate resources out of the resources of the sidelink, the set of candidate resources comprising at least a part of the unused resources of the first transceiver, performing, by the second transceiver, a sidelink transmission using selected resources selected out of the set of candidate resources.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating one or more audio output signals from one or more encoded audio signals according to an embodiment is provided. The apparatus comprises at least one entropy decoding module for decoding encoded additional audio information, when the encoded additional audio information is entropy-encoded, to obtain decoded additional audio information. Moreover, the apparatus comprises a signal processor for generating the one or more audio output signals depending on the one or more encoded audio signals and depending on the decoded additional audio information.

Abstract: A sensing device that includes (a) an image sensor matrix that comprises a first pixel and a second pixel; wherein the first pixel is configured to generate a first detection signal indicative of a presence of a first analyte; wherein the second pixel is configured to generate a second detection signal that is indifferent to the presence of the first analyte; and (b) a processing circuit that is configured to determine the presence of the first analyte based on at least a relationship between the first detection signal and the second detection signal.

Abstract: A device and method for manipulating an audio signal includes a windower for generating a plurality of consecutive blocks of audio samples, the plurality of consecutive blocks including at least one padded block of audio samples, the padded block having padded values and audio signal values, a first converter for converting the padded block into a spectral representation having spectral values, a phase modifier for modifying phases of the spectral values to obtain a modified spectral representation and a second converter for converting the modified spectral representation into a modified time domain audio signal.

Abstract: A device and method for manipulating an audio signal includes a windower for generating a plurality of consecutive blocks of audio samples, the plurality of consecutive blocks including at least one padded block of audio samples, the padded block having padded values and audio signal values, a first converter for converting the padded block into a spectral representation having spectral values, a phase modifier for modifying phases of the spectral values to obtain a modified spectral representation and a second converter for converting the modified spectral representation into a modified time domain audio signal.