Abstract: A method and a device for producing a liquid containing liposomes is presented. The method comprises the conduction of a first liquid and a second liquid into a micromixer and to the output of the micromixer by gas pressure from at least one source of gas. The total flow rate of the liquids is adjusted in such a way that the total flow rate at the output of the micromixer is at least 10 mL/min. This allows the production of liquids, which contain liposomes having a narrow size distribution, on an industrial scale in a simple and reproducible manner. The embodiments also include a liquid containing liposomes having a narrow size distribution and to uses thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a spectrometer comprising a plurality of arrays of quantum dots, the arrays being arranged such that primary light emitted by a light source is incident thereon and excites the quantum dots such that the quantum dots emit secondary light such that the secondary light can be incident on a sample, the secondary light having a different spectral distribution to the primary light, at least one detector configured to receive the secondary light reflected or transmitted by the sample, and an evaluation device configured to determine spectral information of the secondary light received by the at least one detector. The invention also relates to a method for producing such a spectrometer.

Abstract: A method for testing a rotor blade of a wind turbine may include predefining a setpoint bending moment distribution. At least two active load-introducing means may be provided which each engage on a load frame. A first of the at least two active load-introducing means may be configured for introducing load in a pivot direction of the rotor blade and a second of the at least two active load-introducing means may be configured for introducing load in an impact direction of the rotor blade. Also provided is at least one passive load-introducing means. A cyclic introduction of load is effected by the at least two active load-introducing means, where a load introduction frequency of the first active load-introducing means and a load introduction frequency of the second active load-introducing means are selected such that the ratio thereof is rational. A testing device for carrying out the method is also provided.

Abstract: In accordance with a first aspect, an improved compression efficiency is achieved by letting a block-wise picture codec support a set of intra-prediction modes according to which the intra-prediction signal for a current block of a picture is determined by applying a set of neighboring samples of the current block onto a neural network. A second aspect of the present application is that, additionally or alternatively to the spending of neural network-based intra-prediction modes, the mode selection may be rendered more effective by the usage of a neural network dedicated to determine a rank or a probability value for each of the set of intra-prediction modes by applying a set of neighboring samples thereonto with the rank or probability value being used for the selection of one intra-prediction mode out of the plurality of intra-prediction modes including or coinciding with the set of intra-prediction modes.

Abstract: A method for producing a PUF-film includes printing a layer of dielectric material on a film substrate, such that a variable thickness of the layer is obtained by the printing. The method includes arranging a structured electrode layer on the dielectric material such that the structured electrode layer is influenced with respect to an electric measurement value due to the variable thickness.

Abstract: An apparatus for three-dimensional measurement of an object includes a trigger configured to obtain image information from a measurement camera and to trigger, in dependence on image content of the image information, a measurement output or an evaluation of the image information by an evaluator for determining measurement results. Further, a respective method and a respective computer program are described.

Abstract: An apparatus for processing an audio input recording to obtain a processed audio recording according to an embodiment is provided. The apparatus comprises an input interface (110) for receiving a plurality of audio input portions of the audio input recording. Moreover, the apparatus comprises a processor (120) for processing a plurality of audio input portions of the audio input recording to obtain a processed audio recording. The processor (120) is configured to determine, whether or not an audio input portion of the plurality of audio input portions comprises speech. If the processor (120) has detected that the audio input portion comprises speech, the processor (120) is configured to generate the processed audio recording by modifying the audio input portion to obtain a modified audio portion, and by generating the processed audio recording such that the processed audio recording comprises the modified audio portion instead of the audio input portion.

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: In multichannel audio coding, an improved coding efficiency is achieved by the following measure: the noise filling of zero-quantized scale factor bands is performed using noise filling sources other than artificially generated noise or spectral replica. In particular, the coding efficiency in multichannel audio coding may be rendered more efficient by performing the noise filling based on noise generated using spectral lines from a previous frame of, or a different channel of the current frame of, the multichannel audio signal.

Abstract: An apparatus for estimating an inter-channel time difference between a first channel signal and a second channel signal, includes: a calculator for calculating a cross-correlation spectrum for a time block from the first channel signal in the time block and the second channel signal in the time block; a spectral characteristic estimator for estimating a characteristic of a spectrum of the first channel signal or the second channel signal for the time block; a smoothing filter for smoothing the cross-correlation spectrum over time using the spectral characteristic to obtain a smoothed cross-correlation spectrum; and a processor for processing the smoothed cross-correlation spectrum to obtain the inter-channel time difference.

Abstract: The embodiments relate to methods and apparatuses for enabling transmission of at least one PUSCH. A method comprises: configuring a UE to receive a single PDCCH or a higher layer grant that schedules at least one PUSCH transmission occasion. If one PUSCH transmission occasion is scheduled: scheduling the UE to transmit at least two segments of the PUSCH, each segment is associated with a transmission setting comprising a set of transmission parameters, at least one transmission parameter associated with one of the segments is different from the corresponding transmission parameter associated with at least one other segment. If more than one PUSCH transmission occasion is scheduled, each PUSCH transmission occasion is associated with a transmission setting, wherein at least one transmission parameter associated with one of the PUSCH transmission occasions is different from the corresponding transmission parameter associated with one other PUSCH transmission occasion.

Abstract: An audio decoder for providing at least four audio channel signals on the basis of an encoded representation is configured to provide a first residual signal and a second residual signal on the basis of a jointly encoded representation of the first residual signal and of the second residual signal using a multi-channel decoding. The audio decoder is configured to provide a first audio channel signal and a second audio channel signal on the basis of a first downmix signal and the first residual signal using a residual-signal-assisted multi-channel decoding. The audio decoder is configured to provide a third audio channel signal and a fourth audio channel signal on the basis of a second downmix signal and the second residual signal using a residual-signal-assisted multi-channel decoding. An audio encoder is based on corresponding considerations.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of stabilizing organic materials and plastics, wherein the method involves incorporating into the organic material or plastic a stabilizing compound selected from the group consisting of dieugenol, eugenol oligomers, eugenol cooligomers, eugenol polymers, and eugenol copolymers. A secondary antioxidant can be included further. Also disclosed are stabilized organic materials and plastics.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an antenna arrangement including a magnetic antenna and a tuning element. The magnetic antenna includes a loop interrupted one or several times and a tuning element for tuning the magnetic antenna. The tuning element is configured to provide a tuning signal (e.g., control signal) for tuning the magnetic antenna, and to control the tuning element with the tuning signal to tune the magnetic antenna.

Abstract: In transform coefficient coding, predetermined sets of transforms may be used. Embodiments of the present invention provide an encoder and a decoder for encoding a picture into/from a data stream using block-based prediction and block-based residual coding, the encoder and decoder supporting a set of transforms for the block-based residual coding. The encoder and decoder are configured to determine a transform candidate list of transforms for a current residual block out of the set of transforms based on a height and a width of the current residual block, and to encode/decode a prediction residual within the residual block using one selected transform out of the selectable list of transforms and selectively signal/derive the selected transform in/from the data stream.

Abstract: There are disclosed techniques (e.g., apparatus, methods) for estimating an impulse response of a linear system. An apparatus is configured to generate a transmit signal on the basis of a first sequence. The apparatus is configured to obtain a receive signal and to multiply the receive signal with a second sequence, to obtain a modified receive signal, wherein the second sequence is different from the first sequence. The apparatus is configured to analog-to-digital, ADC, convert an integration result in order to obtain a sample value, the integration result being based on an integration of the modified receive signal over a period of time. The apparatus is configured to obtain an estimate of the impulse response on the basis of a plurality of sample values.

Abstract: Audio splicing is rendered more effective by the use of one or more truncation unit packets inserted into the audio data stream so as to indicate to an audio decoder, for a predetermined access unit, an end portion of an audio frame with which the predetermined access unit is associated, as to be discarded in playout.

Abstract: Embodiments provide a data receiver, the data receiver being configured to receive a signal including a sequence of N bits so as to obtain a reception signal, wherein N is a natural number greater than or equal to eight, N?8, wherein the data receiver is configured to sample the reception signal with a sampling rate that corresponds, with an intentional deviation of up to 2/N, to one sample value per bit of the sequence of N bits so as to obtain a sequence of received bits, wherein the data receiver is configured to correlate the sequence of received bits with K different sequences of N-1 reference bits so as to obtain K partial correlation results, wherein K is smaller than or equal to N-1 and greater than or equal to three, N-1?K?3.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention an encoder for encoding an audio signal has an analyzer configured for deriving prediction coefficients and a residual signal from a frame of the audio signal. The encoder has a formant information calculator configured for calculating a speech related spectral shaping information from the prediction coefficients, a gain parameter calculator configured for calculating a gain parameter from an unvoiced residual signal and the spectral shaping information and a bitstream former configured for forming an output signal based on an information related to a voiced signal frame, the gain parameter or a quantized gain parameter and the prediction coefficients.

Abstract: Audio encoder for encoding a multichannel signal is shown. The audio encoder includes a downmixer for downmixing the multichannel signal to obtain a downmix signal, a linear prediction domain core encoder for encoding the downmix signal, wherein the downmix signal has a low band and a high band, wherein the linear prediction domain core encoder is configured to apply a bandwidth extension processing for parametrically encoding the high band, a filterbank for generating a spectral representation of the multichannel signal, and a joint multichannel encoder configured to process the spectral representation including the low band and the high band of the multichannel signal to generate multichannel information.