Abstract: An apparatus for determining visual activity information for a predetermined picture block of a video sequence including a plurality of video frames, the plurality of video frames including a current video frame and one or more timely-preceding video frames, wherein the one or more timely-preceding video frames precede the current video frame in time, is provided. The apparatus is configured to receive the predetermined picture block of each of the one or more timely-preceding video frames and the predetermined picture block of the current video frame. Moreover, the apparatus is configured to determine the visual activity information depending on the predetermined picture block of the current video frame and depending on the predetermined picture block of each of the one or more timely-preceding video frames and depending on a temporal high-pass filter.

Abstract: A user device for a wireless communication system is served by a base station and uses one or more frequency bands for a communication with one or more entities in the wireless communication system. The frequency bands include CORESETs, each including one or more search spaces carrying control information for the UE. The UE groups some or all of the CORESETs into respective CORESET groups, or some or all of the search spaces into respective search space groups. A CORESET group includes some or all CORESETs within a certain time window, and a search space group includes some or all search spaces within the certain time window. The grouping is responsive to one or more group IDs the UE is configured with, each group ID pointing to or indicating a CORESET group or a search space group, and/or determining CORESETs or search spaces to be within the same time window.

Abstract: An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal to obtain a reconstructed audio signal is provided. The apparatus includes a receiving interface, a delay buffer and a sample processor for processing the selected audio signal samples to obtain reconstructed audio signal samples of the reconstructed audio signal. The sample selector is configured to select, if a current frame is received by the receiving interface and if the current frame being received by the receiving interface is not corrupted, the plurality of selected audio signal samples from the audio signal samples being stored in the delay buffer depending on a pitch lag information being included by the current frame.

Abstract: An apparatus for rendering a sound scene having reflection objects and a sound source at a sound source position, includes: a geometry data provider for providing an analysis of the reflection objects of the sound scene to determine a reflection object represented by a first polygon and a second adjacent polygon having associated a first image source position for the first polygon and a second image source position for the second polygon, wherein the first and second image source positions result in a sequence including a first visible zone related to the first image source position, an invisible zone and a second visible zone related to the second image source position; an image source position generator for generating an additional image source position such that the additional image source position is placed between the first image source position and the second image source position; and a sound renderer for rendering the sound source at the sound source position and, additionally for rendering the sound

Abstract: Embodiments provide a casing for holding an ionic liquid comprising aluminum chloride, the casing being a multi-layer casing, the casing having a diffusion-tight layer, the casing having a layer comprising polyether ether ketone, PEEK, wherein, when the casing is filled with the ionic liquid having aluminum chloride, the layer having polyether ether ketone, PEEK, is arranged between the diffusion-tight layer and the ionic liquid having aluminum chloride.

Abstract: The invention relates a compound comprising (a) a peptide and (b) a carrier, wherein said peptide having at least the motif X-X-X-X-X-X-X, wherein at least one amino acid residue X is glycosylated, said peptide being linked to the peptide binding protein and said carrier comprises at least a MHC binding motif being linked to said peptide as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compound and the use of said compound or pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of a disease, such as an inflammatory joint disease. The subject matter of the application is exemplified with peptides derived from type II collagen such as peptides having at least the sequence AGFKGEA, or IAGFKGEQPKG, or the peptide AAAKAAA. Preferably a hydroxylysine in the peptides are glycosylated.

Abstract: A radio-frequency arrangement is described. The radio-frequency arrangement has a first radio-frequency component, a second radio-frequency component and a wiring substrate having a coaxial radio-frequency line formed in the wiring substrate, wherein the first radio-frequency component and the second radio-frequency component are connected via the coaxial radio-frequency line.

Abstract: A method for producing a helix includes a step of providing a permanent mold with mold halves which are joined together on a mold parting line. The method additionally has a step of joining together the mold halves of the permanent mold such that the permanent mold has a cavity, which defines the shape of the helix or the shape of a bent-up helix, when the permanent mold is joined together, wherein the helix or the bent-up helix has a flattened profiled winding cross-section which has two opposite flat sides, an outer side and an inner side opposite the outer side, and the mold parting line runs at least partly along the outer side and/or the inner side and/or edges of the profiled winding cross-section.

Abstract: A video decoder for decoding an encoded video signal including encoded picture data and indication data of a picture of a video to reconstruct the picture of the video is provided. The video decoder includes an interface configured for receiving the encoded video signal, and a data decoder configured for reconstructing the picture of the video by decoding the encoded picture data using the indication data. The picture is partitioned into a plurality of coding areas. One or more coding areas of the plurality of coding areas include two or more coding tree units of the plurality of coding tree units, wherein each coding area of the one or more coding areas which includes two or more coding tree units exhibits a coding order for the two or more coding tree units of the coding area.

Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for the generation and transmission/reception of a CSI report or CSI feedback report. The method performed by a UE includes: receiving from a network node a CSI report configuration indicating a number of antenna port groups or CSI-RS port groups; determining based on the CSI report configuration a precoder matrix for a number of antenna or CSI-RS port groups; generating, a CSI feedback report comprising a Precoder Matrix Indicator indicating the precoder matrix for the number of antenna or CSI-RS port groups; and reporting, to the network node, the CSI report or the CSI feedback report. The embodiments also relate to a method performed by a network node, a UE and a network node.

Abstract: A hammer drill is provided including at least one cylinder, in which at least one piston is mounted such that it can be moved axially between an upper and a lower end position, wherein the cylinder has at least one lower fluid supply, which can be cyclically supplied with a drive fluid, wherein the cylinder is closed with an upper cover and a lower cover, wherein, in the lower end position, the piston is in contact with an inner side of the lower cover and a ring gap is formed between the entire casing surface of the piston and the inner wall of the cylinder. A method for deep drilling using a hammer drill of this type is also provided.

Abstract: The inventive concept described herein concerns a microfluidic component, comprising a membrane actuator with a membrane element and an actuator element for deflecting the membrane element. A signal generation device is configured to generate an electric control signal having a time-variant signal curve for controlling the membrane actuator, by which the actuator element actuates the membrane element. A signal processing device is configured to detect, during operation of the microfluidic component, an influence on the temporal signal curve of the control signal, caused by one or more external influencing factors, and, on the basis of this influence on the temporal signal curve, to identify and/or classify at least one causal external influencing factor.

Abstract: In a method for producing semiconductor capacitors having different capacitance values on a common substrate, firstly a partially processed semiconductor substrate is produced as a semi-finished product with hole structures and filled with a layer sequence of a dielectric and an electrically conductive layer—independently of the semiconductor capacitors to be produced subsequently. The production of the semiconductor capacitors having different capacitance values only then takes place in a second production phase by corresponding metallization and structuring. The semiconductor capacitors are then separated along dividing regions through which different groups of holes are separated from one another during the production of the semi-finished product. The method enables a more cost-effective production of semiconductor capacitors having different capacitance values in small numbers of items in make-to-order fabrication (foundry process).

Abstract: A method of augmenting a view of a real-world environment with a view of a volumetric video object on a user device is disclosed. The method includes determining a current pose information (CPI) indicating a current pose of the view of the real-world environment and a desired pose of the volumetric video object in the real-world environment. The method further includes sending the CPI to a remote server. The method further includes receiving a rendered view of the volumetric video object that has been rendered in accordance with the CPI from the remote server. The method also includes augmenting the view of the real-world environment by at least mapping the rendered view of the volumetric video object onto a planar mapping surface arranged according to the desired position of the volumetric video object.

Abstract: An arrangement for an antenna for generating or receiving terahertz radiation can comprise a photoactive layer which can be activated by optical radiation in the range 1200 nm to 1700 nm, a substrate that is transparent to optical radiation and to which the photoactive layer is attached, and a first adhesion-promoting layer. The first adhesion-promoting layer is arranged between the photoactive layer and the substrate and connects them to each other, wherein first adhesion-promoting layer has a layer thickness of no more than 5 ?m. The arrangement can also include and a carrier transparent to the optical radiation. The substrate is attached to the carrier and is arranged between the photoactive layer and the carrier. The substrate and the carrier can be made of the same material.

Abstract: An encoder for encoding an audio signal is configured to encode the audio signal in a transform domain or filter-bank domain, is configured to determine spectral coefficients of the audio signal for a current frame and at least one previous frame, and is configured to selectively apply predictive encoding to a plurality of individual spectral coefficients or groups of spectral coefficients which are separated by at least one spectral coefficient.

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: The present invention relates to an edge-emitting laser diode which has a semiconductor heterostructure consisting of at least one active layer or layer sequence (4) between two wave-guiding semiconductor layers or layer sequences(3, 5), which extend between a rear (9) and a front facet (10) of the laser diode. Between the rear (9) and the front facet (10), the two wave-guiding semiconductor layers or layer sequences (3, 5) each have one or more modified portions (14), in which vertical leakage currents from the active layer or layer sequence (4) are reduced or suppressed by a design of the two wave-guiding semiconductor layers or layer sequences (3, 5) that is modified in comparison with the remaining portions. The modified portions (14) are arranged in positions in which undesired excessive temperature increases would occur if the laser diode were operated without said reduction or suppression of the vertical leakage currents.

Abstract: A decoder configured to decode residual levels, and sequentially dequantize the residual levels by selecting a quantizer out of a set of default quantizers depending on a current transition state, and updating the current transition state depending on a current residual level's characteristic obtained by an application of a binary function onto the current residual level, and depending on a quantization mode information contained in the data stream. The current transition state transitions, according to a surjective mapping which depends on the quantization mode information, from a domain of combinations of a set of one or more transition states with the current residual level's characteristic onto the set of one or more transition states, wherein a cardinality of the set of one or more transition states differs depending on the quantization mode information.

Abstract: An embodiment of an apparatus for generating audio subband values in audio subband channels includes an analysis windower for windowing a frame of time-domain audio input samples being in a time sequence extending from an early sample to a later sample using an analysis window function including a sequence of window coefficients to obtain windowed samples. The analysis window function includes a first number of window coefficients derived from a larger window function including a sequence of a larger second number of window coefficients, wherein the window coefficients of the window function are derived by an interpolation of window coefficients of the larger window function. The apparatus further includes a calculator for calculating the audio subband values using the windowed samples.