Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for signaling framework for flexible beam management in a wireless communications network.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an apparatus configured to partition a picture into leaf blocks using recursive multi-tree partitioning, block-based encode the picture into a data stream using the partitioning of the picture into the leaf blocks, wherein the apparatus is configured to, in partitioning the picture into the leaf blocks, for a predetermined block which extends beyond a boundary of the picture, reduce an available set of split modes depending on a position at which the boundary of the picture crosses the predetermined block in order to obtain a reduced set of one or more split modes, wherein the apparatus is configured to signal a selected split mode in the data stream.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for obtaining aging-resistant natural rubber, to a rubber composition comprising the thus-obtained natural rubber and to the use of this composition for producing consumer goods.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating a sound field description from an input signal having one or more channels including: an input signal analyzer for obtaining diffuseness data from the input signal; a sound component generator for generating, from the input signal, one or more sound field components of a first group of sound field components having for each sound field component a direct component and a diffuse component, and for generating, from the input signal, a second group of sound field components having only a direct component, the sound component generator being configured to perform an energy compensation when generating the first group of sound field components, the energy compensation depending on the diffuseness data and a number of sound field components in the second group, a number of diffuse components in the first group, or a maximum order of sound field components.

Abstract: An optical assembly for optical signal processing including a first input for coupling in a first light signal; a second input for coupling in a second light signal; a first beam splitter for splitting the first light signal into a first part and a second part; a second beam splitter for splitting the second light signal into a first part and a second part; a superposing unit; a detector; an electronic signal processing unit; at least one actuating unit; and a delay line for generating a delay of the running time of the first part of the first light signal and of the first part of the second light signal up to the superposing unit. The delay line is configured such that the first part of the first light signal and the first part of the second light signal pass through the delay line in opposite directions.

Abstract: Sub-picture extraction is rendered less complex by providing each slice with start position information which indicates a starting position from which onwards the picture is, along a coding path, encoded into the respective slice, relative to an onset position at which the coding path starts traversing a segment the starting position is located in. Alternatively or additionally, sub-picture extraction processes are treated like choosing one layer out of a multi-layer datastream.

Abstract: A method is proposed for generating single photons with a predetermined wavelength fV, with the following steps: i) generating a single photon, preferably in a source and a resonator, wherein the single photon has a resonator wavelength fR and a resonator bandwidth fBR, ii) measuring the resonator wavelength fR, preferably in a wavelength standard, wherein the single photon is guided from the resonator to the wavelength standard via a beam guide, iii) comparing the resonator wavelength fR with the predetermined wavelength fV and generating a control signal on the basis of the comparison, preferably in a controller, iv) adjusting the resonator using the control signal in order to change the resonator wavelength fR toward or to the predetermined wavelength fV, v) repeating steps i to iv) until the resonator wavelength fR corresponds to the predetermined wavelength fV and then coupling out.

Abstract: A multiple solar cell having at least two partial cells, at least being formed from a direct semiconductor, having an upper partial cell facing the light and a lower partial cell facing away from the light, an upper bandgap of the upper partial cell being greater than a lower bandgap of the lower partial cell, and an intermediate layer arranged on the lower partial cell side facing away from the light. An optical element including a lower mirror element is arranged on the intermediate layer side facing away from the light, and has a partial element having structural elements arranged in a lateral direction on the intermediate layer side facing away from the light. The structural elements have a mean spacing less than or equal to 1.3 times a spacing value that results from a ratio of a wavelength of the lower bandgap to a refractive index of the lower partial cell or the lower mirror element has a roughness having a root-mean-square value of less than 50 nm.

Abstract: The embodiments simulate an experience of comfort in a room. A digital model A is created of the room and indoor and/or outdoor conditions YR, XR which act on the room are defined. A first experience of comfort KR is calculated for at least one location within the room. A test environment includes at least one actuator that acts on a subject. The state XMR of the at least one actuator is changed such that a second experience of comfort KMR of the subject in the test environment substantially corresponds to the first experience of comfort KR at the one location within the room.

Abstract: A method for determining an efficiency and/or calibrating a torque of a drivetrain comprises two tests. The drivetrain has a motor-side end at a main shaft connectable to a motor and a generator-side end, with a generator arranged between the ends. In a first test, the motor-side end of the drivetrain is driven. A variable dependent on the main shaft torque is determined at the motor-side end of the drivetrain and an electrical power Pelec is determined at the generator-side end of the drivetrain. In a second test, the generator-side end of the drivetrain is driven and the variable dependent on the main shaft torque is determined at the motor-side end and the electrical power is determined at the generator-side end. An efficiency and/or calibration parameters is/are determined from the electrical power values and the variables dependent on the main shaft torque determined in the first test and second tests.

Abstract: The embodiment of the present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for sounding reference signal configuration and triggering in wireless communications network such as advanced 5G networks. A method performed by a user equipment comprising: receiving a higher layer configuration that associates SRS resource, with a control resource set pool index which is a higher-layer parameter in a configuration of CORESET comprising resources on which a PDCCH is transmitted from a network node and deriving a spatial relation or a reference signal as pathloss reference for said SRS resource with reference to at least one reference signal from quasi-colocation (QCL) information of a CORESET associated with the control resource set pool index; wherein the QCL information comprises a relationship between one or more reference signals and DMRS port(s) of the PDCCH transmitted on the CORESET and the relationship indicates parameter(s) that are obtained from the reference signals.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for dividing a transparent workpiece (1) by means of pulsed laser radiation (2) by way of creating a beam convergence zone (3) in the volume of the workpiece, in which the intensity of the laser radiation (2) exceeds a threshold value for non-linear absorption, wherein the beam convergence zone (3) and the workpiece (1) are moved relative to each other, thereby creating a two-dimensional weakening in the workpiece (1) extending along a predetermined separating line (4), and wherein the workpiece (1) is subsequently divided along the separating line (4). The invention proposes that by selecting the duration of the energy input generated by the non-linear absorption of the pulsed laser radiation and by spatial beam shaping, non-linear propagation of the laser radiation (2) in the volume (1) of the workpiece outside the beam convergence zone (3) is suppressed.

Abstract: A method for generating an electromagnetic useful radiation having a useful frequency is provided and includes generating and radiating an electromagnetic pump radiation with a pump frequency, coupling the pump radiation into an external optical resonator having a resonance frequency. The resonance frequency is at least initially substantially equal to the pump frequency, such that resonator electromagnetic radiation oscillates in the resonator at the resonance frequency.

Abstract: A video encoder is configured to entropy encode an absolute value of a quantization level of a current transform coefficient at position (xC, yC), wherein the absolute value is encoded using context adaptive binary arithmetic encoding of bins of a first binarization. The video coder is further configured, for the current transform coefficient, to encode a bin of the first binarization by using a context which is determined based on a sum of minimum absolute values of transform coefficient quantization levels, based on encoded bins of the first binarization, at one or more transform coefficient positions among (xC+1, yC), (xC+2, yC), (xC+1, yC+1), (xC, yC+1), and (xC, yC+2).

Abstract: An embodiment provides a method for synchronizing a plurality of super frames to a beam switching time plan defining a plurality of dwell times, the beam switching time plan scheduling a switching between at least two beams which are transmitted using a high-altitude platform or a satellite, wherein each beam covers a respective service area so as to forward a respective data frame to the respective service area via the respective beam; wherein each super frame comprises a data frame to be forwarded by the satellite to the respective service area.

Abstract: A casting core for casting moulds can include a central core and a core shroud arranged around the central core. The core shroud containing contains or consists of ceramic particles bound to a binder. The central core contains ceramic particles bound to a binder, wherein the ceramic particles of the central core contain at least one component, which exhibits, at a temperature in a range from 100° C. to 1500° C., a thermally induced phase transformation, and/ or at least two components, the thermal expansion coefficients of which at 20° C. differ by at least 5·10?6K?1.

Abstract: The application relates to a communication device [e.g., UE] for communicating with one or more other communication devices using multiple-input-multiple-output, MIMO, communication, wherein the communication device is configured to: select [e.g., from ?] one or more preferred beams [e.g., bi]; and find one or more other beams [e.g., those such that INRk(cl)>?1] which have a comparatively high spatial correlation with the one or more preferred beams or which have a comparatively high probability of interference with the one or more preferred beams [e.g., if INRk(cl)>?1], wherein the communication device is configured to provide, to a coordinating communication device [e.g., BS, gNB]: first information [e.g., Fk,1] identifying the one or more preferred beams [e.g., Fk,1 is made of columns identifying the preferred beams]; and second information [e.g., rk,i,1, rk,i,2] identifying the one or more found other beams or a region [e.g.

Abstract: A production method includes fixing ball elements of a semiconductor material to a carrier substrate by means of heat and pressure; and one-sided thinning of the ball elements fixed to the carrier substrate to form plano-convex lens elements of a semiconductor material.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a terminal point of a communication system, wherein a control signal is emitted in the communication system for coordinating the participants of the communication system, wherein the control signal is transferred distributed in correspondence with a frequency hop-based occupancy of resources of the frequency band, indicated by a control signal hopping pattern, wherein the terminal point has a receiver, wherein a receive bandwidth of the receiver is smaller at least by the factor 3 than a bandwidth of the frequency hop-based occupancy of resources of the frequency band, indicated by the control signal hopping pattern, wherein the terminal point is configured to receive a reference signal, the reference signal having information on the control signal, wherein the terminal point is configured to receive the control signal based on the information on the control signal.

Abstract: The embodiments relate to a method for producing a solar cell having a rear-side contact with a tunnel barrier. A monocrystalline wafer having a front side and a rear side may be provided with silicon and a dopant. A tunnel barrier is produced on the wafer, and a polycrystalline or amorphous layer is deposited on the tunnel barrier. The polycrystalline or amorphous layer includes silicon and a dopant. The polycrystalline or amorphous layer is removed on the front side by gas-phase etching.