Abstract: A binary-code translation device includes a translation circuit, a memory and a processor. The processor executes a first program code translated from a second code by the translation circuit. The first program code is temporarily stored in the memory and has a program execution address. At least one function library is temporarily stored in the memory and includes a first and a second function, which are located at a first and a second function address in the memory respectively. When the processor is still executing the first program code and calls the first function, the translation circuit translates the first program code to acquire the second function subsequent to the first function, and the processor acquires the second function address. When the first program code calls the first function and the first function is executed completely, the processor directly executes the second function without returning to the program execution address.

Abstract: A method for controlling a walking assistant apparatus includes: scanning a user so as to generate information associated with gait of the user; detecting a torque applied to a torque sensor; estimating a speed of the user based on the information; calculating a compliant motion speed, and a compliant rotational speed; and controlling the motion unit to move at the compliant motion speed and to turn at the compliant rotational speed. This disclosure provides an autonomous obstacle avoidance mechanism; by combining the obstacle avoidance mechanism and the compliance controls, the walking-assistance apparatus is able to help user prevent from collisions with obstacles when walking in an environment with obstacles.

Abstract: A method for adjusting exposure of a camera device is provided to include steps of: using first to Mth camera modules to continuously capture images in sync; reducing an exposure value of the first camera module according to a first current image captured at a latest time point by the first camera module until a first condition associated with the first current image is met; adjusting an exposure value of an ith camera module according to an ith current image, which is captured at the latest time point by the ith camera module, and an (i?1)th previous image, which is captured at a time point immediately previous to the latest time point by an (i?1)th camera module.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a compound for releasing nitric oxide; the compound has the structure of formula (I): The present disclosure also provides a pharmaceutical composition containing the compound of formula (I). The present disclosure further provides a method of releasing nitric oxide, the method includes: administrating the compound of formula (I). The present disclosure also provides a method of treating disease in a patient, the method includes administrating a therapeutically effective amount of the compound of formula (I). The present disclosure also provides the method for synthesizing the compound of formula (I).

Abstract: A color sequential image method for displaying images using two color fields includes analyzing and sorting percentages of a plurality of colors constituting an input color image, in which a first color possesses a most percentage, a second color possesses a middle percentage, and a third color possesses a third percentage. The method further includes forming a first color field image according to the first color and the third color, and a second color field image according to the second color and the third color.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a preferably oriented nanotwinned Au film, a method of preparing the same, and a bonding structure comprising the same. The nanotwinned Au film has a thickness direction. The nanotwinned Au film is stacked along a [220] crystallographic axis orientation in the thickness direction. At least 50% by volume of the nanotwinned Au film is composed of a plurality of nanotwinned Au grains which are adjacent to each other, arranged in a direction perpendicular to the thickness direction, and stacked along a [111] crystallographic axis orientation.

Abstract: A nerve impulse signal stimulation device and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The nerve impulse signal stimulation device includes: a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a first metal layer formed on the first surface of the substrate; a second metal layer formed on the first metal layer; a plurality of openings exposing a portion of the first surface of the substrate, a portion of the first metal layer and a portion of the second metal layer; and a ferromagnetic material attached to the second surface of the substrate. The openings cause the nerve impulse signal stimulation device to obtain a parallel circuit structure, thereby increasing the current load and the magnetic field intensity, reducing the size of the device, and ensuring the safety of operations.

Abstract: A control system for an electrolytic cell includes a voltage converter converting an input voltage into a decomposition voltage, a temperature sensor generating a sensed temperature, an electric power sensor generating a sensed voltage, and a control unit storing voltage-temperature characteristics. The control unit determines a voltage that corresponds to the sensed temperature according to one of the voltage-temperature characteristics, and generates, according to a difference between the voltage thus determined and the sensed voltage, a control signal which is provided to the voltage converter such that the decomposition voltage decreases along with increase in the sensed temperature.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for improving imaging resolution of electrical impedance tomography (EIT). More specifically, the present disclosure forms virtual electrode(s) using an electric current steering technique, which is used to improve imaging resolution of an EIT system without physically increasing a number of conducting electrodes. The EIT system of the present disclosure may includes a plurality of conducting electrodes, at least one signal generator, at least one signal receiver and at least one electric current steering device. In other words, the present disclosure applies both the electric current steering technique and the virtual electrode technique to EIT. Consequently, imaging resolution of EIT can be improved without physically increasing the number of conducting electrodes.

Abstract: Visual or photic stimuli generating methods, devices and control systems for inducing steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) from human viewers without causing discomfort to the viewers or distorting the embedding images are disclosed. The control system includes a stimuli-generating device and an electroencephalography (EEG) sensing device. The stimuli-generating device includes a first and a second light source. The first light source generates a flickering light with a first wavelength while a second light source generates another flickering light with one or more wavelength(s) differ from that of the first one. Together, the light sources generate visual/photic stimuli flickering above their critical flicker fusion threshold while maintaining the colorfulness and hue of the embedding images. At least one electrode of the EEG sensing device is connected to each viewer, configured to receive and analyze his/her EEG signals in order to detect and determine his/her responses to the stimuli.

Abstract: A video encoding method is provided in the invention. In such method, after a current encoding frame among a sequence of input frames is received, each coding unit in the current encoding frame may be optionally split into two oblong prediction units, and each of the prediction units may be optionally split into a plurality of sub-blocks so as to thereby improve the matching accuracy for a matching reference block from a reference frame. A video decoding method corresponding to the aforesaid video encoding method is also provided.

Abstract: A trial frame includes a trial frame body and at least one measurement subject having a visual invariant geometric characteristic. The trial frame body has at least one key parameter. The measurement subject is disposed on the trial frame body and collaborates with a measurement method. A two-dimensional image of the measurement subject is recorded by an image capturing device when the trial frame body fits to a user, and the key parameter is deduced from the two-dimensional image of the measurement subject.

Abstract: A hydrogen sensing device includes a multi-layered structure member. The multi-layered structure member includes a stack of alternatingly disposed magnetic layers and non-ferromagnetic layers. One of the magnetic layers is a topmost layer of the multi-layered structure member. The topmost layer includes a palladium-based material to detect hydrogen.

Abstract: One time programming and repeatably random read integrated circuit memory has a storage device that programs the information by using dielectric-fuse mechanism. The main characteristics of dielectric fuse mechanisms is that by applying an electric field on the dielectrics, the ions or atoms in the dielectrics are drifted-out, or the dielectrics are burned-out, that create damage of the dielectric structure in a form of porosity, and the conductivity (resistivity) of tunneling current through the dielectrics changes the state from high conductivity (resistivity) to low conductivity (resistivity). The dielectric fuse mechanism has been integrated in VLSI circuits, completed the validation, and implemented by the fabrication of CMOS process.

Abstract: An atmospheric-pressure plasma jet generating device is disclosed, which comprises a housing, a discharge tube, an air inlet, and an outlet. The air inlet is connected to the outlet and the discharge tube. The discharge tube includes an internal electrode, a first dielectric material, and an external electrode. The first dielectric material is placed between the external electrode and the internal electrode, and there are some channels between internal electrode and first dielectric tube. An external power source is electrically connected to the internal electrode and the external electrode to generate a high electric field within the discharge tube. When the working gas flows through the discharge tube from the air inlet, the plasma is generated by the high electric field, and then flows out through the outlet. The present invention can generate non-thermal atmospheric-pressure plasma jet for biomedical processing.

Abstract: A backward depth mapping method for stereoscopic image synthesis includes: providing a first coordinate and a first depth value of a pixel of a virtual view in a stereoscopic image; calculating a second coordinate and a second depth value of a pixel of reference view, which is obtained by mapping the virtual view, based on the first coordinate and the first depth value of the pixel of the virtual view; calculating an error value corresponding to the first depth value based on the second coordinate and second depth value; and determining a third depth value of the pixel of the virtual view based on the error value. As a result, it is possible to avoid the virtual view producing a crack and the pixel of the background from appearing at the crack of the foreground.

Abstract: A method and a system for data transmission are provided. The method includes: determining a size of a first block and a first degree distribution for a first data transmission according to a parameter which is related to a hardware specification of a receiving node; determining a channel loss rate of a channel between a sending note and the receiving node when completing the first data transmission; determining a size of a second block and a second degree distribution for a second data transmission according to the channel loss rate; and performing, by the sending node and the receiving node, the second data transmission according to the size of the second block and the second degree distribution.

Abstract: A turbo decoder system decodes L-length digital data consisting of a systematic code and 1st and 2nd parity check codes, and includes a trellis controller obtaining the ratio of the bit-number Ep of the 1st/2nd parity check code to the bit-number D of an original systematic code and generating, based on the code rate of the digital data, a trellis control output indicating a target decoding trellis, which is selected by a turbo decoder to perform decoding operations. A zero-patch module patches zeros into the systematic code, and patches, based on the value of Ep/D, one or more zeros into the 1st/2nd parity check code so that parity check bits of the 1st/2nd parity check code and the zero-bit(s) form a periodically depunctured parity check code.

Abstract: A cooperative transmission system and a cooperative transmission method used in multiple access points in a wireless local network are provided. The cooperative transmission system includes a plurality of access points, a clustering controller and at least one cluster controller. Each of the access points serves at least one user device within a serving range of the access point. The clustering controller clusters the access points into a plurality of clusters according to locations of the access points and the serving range. The at least one cluster controller controls cooperative synchronous downlink transmissions among all the access points within a cluster governed by the cluster controller, and the clusters, when intersecting with one another, employ an interference suppression mechanism to eliminate interference generated by the user devices or neighboring access points located in different clusters.

Abstract: A fabrication method for two-dimensional materials of the present invention includes the following steps: forming a thin film having at least one two-dimensional element on a substrate; forming at least one capping layer on the thin film; annealing the thin film to form a two-dimensional material film after the capping layer is formed.