Abstract: Apparatus for generating an enhanced sound field description, including: a sound field generator for generating at least one sound field description indicating a sound field with respect to at least one reference location; and a meta data generator for generating meta data relating to spatial information of the sound field, wherein the at least one sound field description and the meta data constitute the enhanced sound field description. The at least one sound field description includes in a certain case a first sound field description related to the at least one reference location and a second sound field description related to a further reference location being different from the reference location, and the meta data relating to the spatial information indicates the reference location and the further reference location or one of both reference locations and a vector extending between both reference locations.

Abstract: Various concepts for media content streaming are described. Some allow for streaming spatial scene content in a spatially unequal manner so that the visible quality for the user is increased, or the processing complexity or used bandwidth at the streaming retrieval site is decreased. Others allow for streaming spatial scene content in a manner enlarging the applicability to further application scenarios.

Abstract: A multi-aperture imaging device includes an array of optical channels, wherein each optical channel includes optics for imaging a partial field of view of a total field of view onto an image sensor region of an image sensor. The multi-aperture imaging device includes a beam-deflecting unit for deflecting an optical path of the optical channels to a viewing direction of the multi-aperture imaging device. The multi-aperture imaging device includes a diaphragm structure arranged to at least partly close a gap between the array and the beam-deflecting unit.

Abstract: Articles containing metal, hard metal, cermet or ceramic and coated with a hard material, and a method for producing same. The hard material layers can be used as anti-wear layers for cutting tools, as protective layers for turbine blades, or as diffusion barriers in microelectronics. The hard material layers exhibit a high hardness, high oxidation resistance, and excellent wear resistance. The articles are coated with a single- or multi-layer layer system by a thermal CVD method without plasma excitation, where the single- or multi-layer layer system includes at least one nanocomposite layer with a first nanocrystalline phase of cubic titanium oxycarbonitride and a second, amorphous phase of silicon oxycarbonitride or silicon oxycarbide.

Abstract: Systems and techniques described herein include jointly decoding coded data of different codes, including different coding algorithms, finite fields, and/or source blocks sizes. The techniques described herein can be used to improve existing distributed storage systems by allowing gradual data migration. The techniques can further be used within existing storage clients to allow application data to be stored within diverse different distributed storage systems.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a transceiver, wherein the transceiver is configured to transmit or receive data in at least one transmission time interval on certain allocated resource elements of a wireless communication system, wherein the transceiver is configured to at least partially blank a transmission time interval for a data block to be transmitted or received by the transmitter, wherein the transceiver is configured (a) to signal to another transceiver a transmission grant in a blanked part of the at least partially blanked transmission time interval or (b) to at least partially blank the transmission time interval based on a blanking pattern received from another transceiver.

Abstract: An apparatus for distance measurement, having one or several optical detector modules and a readout module is provided. The optical detector modules each have a plurality of optical detector elements having one or several optical detectors and a counter indicating a count value, the optical detector elements each being in an active state or an inactive state. Each optical detector module has a timer element configured to determine a current time value and configured to continuously update the current time value, and a memory element for storing a plurality of time values stored.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a system for determining the capability of a sensor contained in a satellite to access a target region. The position of the satellite is ascertained, the viewing radius of the sensor in the direction of a target reference point in a target region is then determined, the extension of the target region in the direction of a satellite position point is ascertained, and the sensor is determined to be capable of accessing the target region if the distance between the satellite position point and the target reference point in the target region is less than or equal to the sum of the viewing radius of the sensor and the extension of the target region in the direction of the target reference point.

Abstract: A method for producing a printed magnetic functional element, in which a substrate is provided on one surface with at least one contact made of an electrically conductive material. Subsequently, a structure made of a material which has a magnetoresistive effect and is in the form of a paste, a gel, a dispersion or a suspension is printed on or onto the at least one contact and touches the contact directly, and the structure becomes electrically conductive and sensitive to magnetic fields by irradiation with electromagnetic radiation over a time period in the millisecond range.

Abstract: A micromechanical mirror device has: a plate-shaped mirror having a reflecting surface for reflecting light, the reflecting surface being configured to be planar; a closed frame structure supporting the plate-shaped mirror and completely framing an edge of the plate-shaped mirror; a spring arrangement having at least two spring structures arranged mirror-symmetrically and connecting the closed frame structure to a stationary support structure, the spring arrangement being configured such that the closed frame structure and the plate-shaped mirror can be brought into a resonant vibrational state with respect to the support structure; and a connecting arrangement having at least four connecting spring structures arranged mirror-symmetrically and each connecting the plate-shaped mirror to the closed frame structure; the connecting spring structures being configured to be elastically deformable and arranged such that they deform back and forth in the resonant vibrational state so that the plate-shaped mirror is p

Abstract: A laser beam is directed onto a pyramid-shaped element, wherein the beam is directed onto at least three reflecting surfaces and the respective reflected partial beams are incident on reflecting surfaces arranged on an optics carrier element. The partial beams are aligned such that they intersect in a common plane. An internal wire feed is arranged in a housing, having an outlet nozzle for a fusible wire-shaped material, which material is using the energy of the partial beams. The outlet nozzle is arranged in front of the plane in which the reflected partial beams intersect. The pyramid-shaped element and the reflecting surfaces are formed on a carrier element, which is arranged in such a way that it is displaceable following the outlet nozzle in two perpendicular directions to the optical axis of the laser beam or perpendicular to the central longitudinal axis of the wire-shaped material.

Abstract: A method includes defining a Center-of-Radiation Reference for a device under test, the CORR indicating a reference origin of an electromagnetic wave pattern formable with the DUT; determining a 3-dimensional orientation information with respect to the CORR, the 3-dimensional orientation information indicating a direction of the electromagnetic wave pattern; and providing the CORR and the 3-dimensional orientation information to a measurement system.

Abstract: A coding efficiency improvement is achieved by performing bit-plane coding in a manner so that coefficient groups for which the set of coded bit-planes is predictively signaled in the datastream, are grouped in two group sets and if a signal is spent in the datastream which signals, for a group set, whether the set of coded bit-planes of all coefficient groups of the respective group set are empty, i.e. all coefficients within the respective group sets are insignificant. In accordance with another aspect, a coding efficiency improvement is achieved by providing bit-plane coding with group-set-wise insignificant signalization according to the first aspect as a coding option alternative relative to the signalization for group sets for which it is signaled that there is no coded prediction residual for the coded bit-planes for the claim groups within the respective group set.

Abstract: A receiver, e.g. an IoT device, receives and processes a radio signal. The radio signal has at least a first frequency band and a second frequency band. The first frequency band includes a first signal, the second frequency band includes a second signal, and each of the first signal and the second signal includes a plurality of frames, each frame having a plurality of subframes (M-subframe). One or more of the subframes of the first signal include connecting information allowing a receiver to establish a connection with a wireless communication system. All of the subframes of the second signal are free of any connecting information. The receiver establishes the connection with the wireless communication system using the connecting information, and, after having established the connection with the wireless communication system and responsive to band information indicating the second frequency band, operate in the second frequency band.

Abstract: At least one surface of a FRP component is coated by impregnating a structure formed with textile fibres with a flowable polymeric matrix material so the fibres are completely covered to form the coating, a thickness of the flowable polymeric matrix material above the fibres of at least 100 ?m and at least one ply of pull-off fabric, mesh or gauze is laid on and wetted or impregnated completely with the flowable polymeric matrix material. The polymeric matrix material is cured then the at least one ply of pull-off fabric, mesh or gauze is removed by peeling and in this region a surface of increased roughness is obtained so between the surface of increased roughness and fibres there is a layer formed with the cured polymeric matrix material, having a thickness of at least 100 ?m. Coating the increased roughness surface with a thermal spraying process.

Abstract: A device includes an image sensor and an array of optical channels, each optical channel including an optic for projecting a partial field of view of a total field of view onto an image sensor area of the image sensor. A first optical channel of the array is configured to image a first partial field of view of the total field of view. A second optical channel of the array is configured to image a second partial field of view of the total field of view. The device includes a calculating unit configured to obtain image information of the first and second partial fields of view on the basis of the imaged partial fields of view, and to obtain image information of the total field of view, and to combine the image information of the partial fields of view with the image information of the total field of view so as to generate combined image information of the total field of view.

Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting device for at least one plant, comprising an artificial lighting unit for providing artificial light for lighting the plant; a sunlight unit for providing sunlight for lighting the plant; a mixing unit for generating a mixed light consisting of the artificial light and the sunlight; a distributing unit for distributing the mixed light and lighting the plant with the distributed mixed light; and an adjustment unit for adjusting a property of the mixed light. The invention provides a lighting device for at least one plant, i.e., one or more plants, wherein the device can be used in an energy-saving manner for indoor farming.

Abstract: A remote-controlled, semi-autonomous or autonomous recovery apparatus includes a drive as well as a unit for launch and recovery of an autonomous underwater vehicle. The drive is dimensioned such that a large range, such as more than 5 nautical miles, is obtained.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composite body, wherein at least one functional component is integrated into a shaped product, and to a method for producing the same. The shaped product can especially be an implant, a prosthesis, an industrial component or a multifunctionally useful sensor platform for the monitoring of materials, components and/or structural systems.

Abstract: An apparatus for encoding a multi-channel signal having at least two channels, has: a downmixer for calculating a downmix signal from the multi-channel signal; a parameter calculator for calculating a side gain from a first channel of the at least two channels and a second channel of the at least two channels and for calculating a residual gain from the first channel and the second channel; and an output interface for generating an output signal, the output signal having information on the downmix signal, and on the side gain and the residual gain.