Abstract: Computer implemented methods and computerized apparatus for identifying planes of a 3D object in a 3D scene are provided. The method comprises receiving a point cloud and performs plane segmentation. In one embodiment, the point cloud is voxelized into a plurality of voxels of equal dimensions and the plurality of voxels are classified into three categories, wherein each first category voxel satisfies a planar requirement and a first neighborhood constraint, each second category voxel satisfies the planar requirement and a second neighborhood constraint, and each third category voxel does not satisfy the planar requirement.

Abstract: Disclosed are a magnetic-resonance imaging method, apparatus and system, and a storage medium. The method includes acquiring an initial model of magnetic-resonance imaging and establishing an initial imaging model according to an iterative algorithm used for solving the initial model, where the iterative algorithm includes at least one of an undetermined parameter, an undetermined solving operator or an undetermined structural relationship; training the initial imaging model on the basis of sample data to generate a magnetic-resonance imaging model, where training of the initial imaging model is used for learning the at least one of the undetermined parameter, the undetermined solving operator or the undetermined structural relationship in the iterative algorithm; and acquiring under-sampled K-space data to be processed, inputting the under-sampled K-space data into the magnetic-resonance imaging model, and generating a magnetic-resonance image.

Abstract: A method and a device for encoding/decoding images are disclosed. The method for encoding images comprises the steps of: deriving a scan type of a residual signal for a current block according to whether or not the current block is a transform skip block; and applying the scan type to the residual signal for the current block, wherein the transform skip block is a block to which transform for the current block is not applied and is specified on the basis of information indicating whether or not transform for the current block is to be applied.

Abstract: A method and a device for encoding/decoding images are disclosed. The method for encoding images comprises the steps of: deriving a scan type of a residual signal for a current block according to whether or not the current block is a transform skip block; and applying the scan type to the residual signal for the current block, wherein the transform skip block is a block to which transform for the current block is not applied and is specified on the basis of information indicating whether or not transform for the current block is to be applied.

Abstract: An actuator includes a first magnet whose magnetic pole surface has an N pole and a second magnet whose magnetic pole surface has an S pole. When current flows from one end of a first wiring to the other end, the current circulates in one direction at least partially on the first magnet in a first area, while it circulates in a direction opposite to the one direction at least partially on the second magnet in the first area. When current flows from one end of a second wiring to the other end, the current circulates in the direction opposite to the one direction at least partially on another first magnet in the second area, while it circulates in the one direction at least partially on another second magnet in the second area.

Abstract: A method and a device for encoding/decoding images are disclosed. The method for encoding images comprises the steps of: deriving a scan type of a residual signal for a current block according to whether or not the current block is a transform skip block; and applying the scan type to the residual signal for the current block, wherein the transform skip block is a block to which transform for the current block is not applied and is specified on the basis of information indicating whether or not transform for the current block is to be applied.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrode layer and a method of manufacturing a capacitor using the same are provided. The method of manufacturing the electrode layer includes performing a first sub-cycle sequentially providing a tin precursor and an oxygen source on a substrate, performing a second sub-cycle sequentially providing a tin precursor, a tantalum precursor, and an oxygen source on the substrate on which the first sub-cycle is performed, and repeating a cycle including the first sub-cycle and the second sub-cycle to form a tantalum-doped tin oxide layer on the substrate. A tantalum concentration in the tantalum-doped tin oxide layer is determined by the tin precursor provided in the second sub-cycle.

Abstract: A method of processing a quality-of-service flow and a communication device are provided. The method includes: acquiring a first identifier of a target quality-of-service flow; creating a second identifier of the target quality-of-service flow according to the first identifier of the target quality-of-service flow; wherein, a length of the second identifier of the target quality-of-service flow is less than or equal to a length of the first identifier of the target quality-of-service flow.

Abstract: An ultrasonic imaging device includes an ultrasonic generating unit and an ultrasonic imaging processing unit. The ultrasonic generating unit repeatedly turns on N of M ultrasonic array elements of the ultrasonic probe multiple times as a group of array elements for linear scanning, and each scan is to emit an ultrasonic signal by each group of array elements and receive an echo signal of the ultrasonic signal. The ultrasonic imaging processing unit extracts a central echo signal from the echo signal in each scan to form a channel signal, and according to the arrival time of the echo signals, each central echo signal in the channel signal is delayed and summed to generate a modified channel signal. The modified channel signal is subjected to image synthesis process to obtain an ultrasonic image.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a microwave-to-optical (M2O) transducer using magneto-optical field interactions with spin states of an ensemble of ions doped into a crystal structure is presented. According to one aspect, the crystal structure is a (171Yb3+:YVO) doped crystal structure that provides a substrate for an on-chip implementation of the transducer. According to one aspect, coupling of microwave and optical signals to the ions is based on respective microwave and optical waveguides fabricated in or on the doped crystal structure. According to another aspect, coupling of microwave and optical signals to the ions is based on respective microwave and optical resonant cavities fabricated in or on the doped crystal structure. Transduction can be based on either a three-level system with near-zero applied external magnetic field or on a four-level system with zero applied external magnetic field. The transducer can operate reversibly as an optical-to-microwave (O2M) transducer.

Abstract: A mass spectrometry system includes a sample holder provided in a vacuum changer and on which a sample is disposed, an irradiator configured to perform sputtering or ionization on the sample, an analyzer configured to analyze an ionized sample generated from the sample by the irradiator, and a controller configured to control the irradiator or the analyzer and perform a first process and a second process. The first process is to determine position information of materials in the sample by irradiating a laser or ion beam to a portion of the sample, and the second process is to irradiate a laser or ion beam of a first output value to another portion of the sample in a section in which the materials in the sample change and irradiate a laser or ion beam of a second output value in other sections.

Abstract: When imaging bright objects, a conventional detector array can saturate, making it difficult to produce an image with a dynamic range that equals the scene's dynamic range. Conversely, a digital focal plane array (DFPA) with one or more m-bit counters can produce an image whose dynamic range is greater than the native dynamic range. In one example, the DFPA acquires a first image over a relatively brief integration period at a relatively low gain setting. The DFPA then acquires a second image over longer integration period and/or a higher gain setting. During this second integration period, counters may roll over, possibly several times, to capture a residue modulus 2?? of the number of counts (as opposed to the actual number of counts). A processor in or coupled to the DFPA generates a high-dynamic range image based on the first image and the residues modulus 2??.

Abstract: In an embodiment, there is provided a light guide for an edge-lit light panel. The light guide includes a first light coupling surface; a second light coupling surface; a first light output surface; and a second light output surface. The second light coupling surface opposes the first light coupling surface. The second light output surface opposes the first light output surface. The first light output surface and the second light output surface are coupled between the first light coupling surface and the second light coupling surface. Each light coupling surface is configured to receive incident light from a respective light source and to produce at least a portion of a batwing light beam inside the light guide. The at least a portion of the batwing light beam is concentrated adjacent the first light output surface, the first light output surface corresponding to a first light extraction surface.

Abstract: An intelligent separation device has gas explosion, stirring, drying and negative pressure adsorption devices. The gas explosion device receives conveyed peanut materials with red coats to be removed, and the materials are subjected to gas explosion, so that the peanut kernels and the peanut red coats are preliminarily separated. The stirring device shifts the preliminarily separated peanut kernels and peanut red coats into the drying device. The drying device compresses and heating external air, transfers heat through hot air, and heats and dries the preliminarily separated peanut kernels and peanut red coats, so that the peanut red coats and the peanut kernels are fully separated. The negative pressure adsorption device collects the fully separated peanut kernels and red coats with different densities and masses in a negative pressure adsorption mode.

Abstract: A DC management method, performed by a first communication node constituting an IAB network in a communication system, may comprise: receiving, from a first IAB node that is a lower node of the first communication node, a first capability report including information of DC-related capability of the first IAB node; based on the first capability report, identifying whether the first IAB node supports a multi-TRP function; based on the first capability report, identifying whether the first IAB node supports an intra-carrier DC; and based on the identified whether the first IAB node supports the multi-TRP function and whether the first IAB node supports the intra-carrier DC, configuring a DC for the first IAB node together with a second communication node that is an upper node of the first IAB node.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for combinatorial assessment of nanoscale droplets, as specifically exemplified by massively parallel assessment of spatially-directed (while agnostic as to precise droplet content) combinations of droplets harboring distinct and independently identifiable microbial types and/or chemical compounds or mixtures. More particularly, the disclosure relates to a platform and methodologies for identifying advantageous (including synergistic, additive, etc.) microbial interactions and/or chemical compound or mixture interactions with microbes in a manner that allows for binary, trinary, etc. combinatorial assessments to be performed across a range of many discrete input types of microbes (e.g., 6-16 or more discrete input microbial types), to an extent capable of approaching comprehensive sampling and measurement of microbial community combinations from a selected panel of microbial inputs, optionally also in the presence of chemical compounds or mixtures (e.

Abstract: A method for screening host cells expressing a target protein is provided. The method includes the following steps: providing an expression vector, the expression vector including a promoter, a gene encoding a target protein and an FTH1 gene; transfecting the host cells with the expression vector; culturing the host cells in a medium; and adding iron ions to the medium, and screening the surviving host cells to obtain the host cells expressing the target protein. An expression vector and a method for establishing a cell line stably expressing an exogenous recombinant gene are also provided.

Abstract: Disclosed are bifunctional compounds comprising a GDC-0068 analog that binds AKT isoforms AKT1, 2 and 3, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods for treating diseases or conditions mediated by dysfunctional AKT activity.

Abstract: An improved method for preparing porous mullite ceramic from Pickering emulsions stabilised by hetero-aggregate of oppositely charged fumed oxide particles. The method uses oppositely charged fumed oxide nano-particles (silica and alumina) to stabilize oil-in-water Pickering emulsions wherein the stabilized Pickering emulsions can be used as a template for preparing porous mullite material. An optimised Pickering emulsion template that is stabilised with fumed oxide nano-particles (silica and alumina) is used to produce a green body that is transformed into solid porous material with a controlled porosity and pore size by sintering.

Abstract: A robotic arm system includes first robotic arm, second robotic arm and main controller. The first robotic arm and the second robotic arm are configured to grab object. The main controller is configured to: determine whether first force vector of first force applied by the first robotic arm to the object is equal to second force vector of second force applied by the second robotic arm to the object; when the first force vector and the second force vector are not equal, obtain a first difference between the first force vector and the second force vector; and according to the first difference, change at least one of the first force applied by the first robotic arm to the object and the second force applied by the second robotic arm to the object so that the first force vector and the second force vector are equal.