Abstract: An automated cage-to-cage fitting technique is used to fit three-dimensional (3D) geometry to target 3D geometry for 3D avatars in a 3D environment, such as an online game. Each graphical representation of items of clothing is provided with an inner cage and an outer cage. The inner cage of a clothing item (a current layer) is mapped to the outer cage of another clothing item (a previous/underlying layer) that has been fitted on the 3D avatar. This mapping enables the current layer to conform to the shape of the previous layer. The technique allows any body geometry to be fitted with any clothing geometry, including enabling layers of clothing to be fitted over underlying layer(s). Hidden surface removal (HSR) operations may be performed to identify surfaces of an underlying layer that are hidden by an overlying layer, and such hidden surfaces are not rendered.

Abstract: A device is disclosed. The device includes a plurality of pixels disposed over a first surface of a semiconductor layer. The device includes a device layer disposed over the first surface. The device includes metallization layers disposed over the device layer. One of the metallization layers, closer to the first surface than any of other ones of the metallization layers, includes at least one conductive structure. The device includes an oxide layer disposed over a second surface of the semiconductor layer, the second surface being opposite to the first surface, the oxide layer also lining a recess that extends through the semiconductor layer. The device includes a spacer layer disposed between inner sidewalls of the recess and the oxide layer. The device includes a pad structure extending through the oxide layer and the device layer to be in physical contact with the at least one conductive structure.

Abstract: A method for micro-ridge mixed-sowing cultivation of dryland crops includes the following steps: S1: cleaning ditches and draining away water in dryland; S2: harvesting the preceding crop, leaving the stubble, smashing the stalks of the preceding crop, and then spreading the smashed stalks on the stubble; S3: trenching the dryland to form ecological trenches; S4: flattening the standing stubble and the smashed stalks on the seedbed surface to form an underlying surface, molding seed-fertilizer-soil compounds into a ridge shape and allowing the seed-fertilizer-soil compounds to fall on the underlying surface to form ecological ridges, wherein a plurality of ecological ridges are formed between adjacent ecological trenches, an ecological depression is formed between adjacent ecological ridges, and after sowing, an irrigation is carried out, including: draining water shortly after the irrigation, without leaving a water layer in the field.

Abstract: Bride combiners with resonators for radio-frequency applications. A bridge combiner can be implemented as a coupling circuit that includes a common node and configured to couple the common node to a first group of filters through a first path and to couple the common node to a second group of one or more filters through a second path. The coupling circuit can include a resonator such that an impedance provided by each filter of the first group for a signal in each band of the second group results in the signal being sufficiently excluded from the first path, and such that an impedance provided by each filter of the second group for a signal in each band of the first group results in the signal being sufficiently excluded from the second path.

Abstract: A method includes obtaining first user input identifying at least one LIDAR point in a set of LIDAR points associated with an object in an image, and obtaining second user input identifying the object in the image. The method may also include generating a constraint on a relationship between a LIDAR sensor used to capture the set of LIDAR points and a camera used to capture the image. The method may additionally include reducing a cost associated with the LIDAR point being inconsistent with the object in the image subject to the constraint.

Abstract: A controller may receive information identifying a rogue access point operating on a channel in the WLAN. In response, the controller may provide instructions to at least a subset of the access points, where the instructions indicate that at least the subset of the access points collaboratively attack the rogue access point, and where a given instruction for a given access point specifies a schedule of attacks by the given access point. In some embodiments, the controller selects at least the subset of the access points based at least in part on one or more parameters, including: an ability to receive transmissions from the rogue access point; traffic loading; communication performance; a number of associated electronic devices; proximity to the rogue access point; and/or operating channels.

Abstract: Within examples, a laser includes a first electrode and a second electrode; a first transport layer and a second transport layer that are between the first electrode and the second electrode; a gain layer positioned between the first transport layer and the second transport layer, where the gain layer comprises a material having a Perovskite crystal structure; and a substrate on which the first electrode, the second electrode, the first transport layer, the second transport layer, and the gain layer are formed, where a distributed feedback (DFB) waveguide is formed within the first transport layer, and where the laser is configured such that a current flowing through the gain layer between the first electrode and the second electrode causes the gain layer to emit coherent light. Examples also include methods for fabricating the laser, as well as additional lasers and methods for forming those lasers.

Abstract: A 3D memory array has data storage structures provided at least in part by one or more vertical films that do not extend between vertically adjacent memory cells. The 3D memory array includes conductive strips and dielectric strips, alternately stacked over a substrate. The conductive strips may be laterally indented from the dielectric strips to form recesses. A data storage film may be disposed within these recesses. Any portion of the data storage film deposited outside the recesses may have been effectively removed, whereby the data storage film is essentially discontinuous from tier to tier within the 3D memory array. The data storage film within each tier may have upper and lower boundaries that are the same as those of a corresponding conductive strip. The data storage film may also be made discontinuous between horizontally adjacent memory cells.

Abstract: A closed mode switch mechanism. The closed mode switch mechanism includes an antenna controller; an antenna coupled to the antenna controller; and, an antenna closed mode switch system coupled to the antenna controller and the antenna, the antenna closed mode switch system providing antenna impedance matching for the antenna when an information handling system is configured in a closed mode of operation.

Abstract: A flexible supporting layer and a flexible display device. The flexible supporting layer is applied in a flexible display device, and the content of a flexible supporting layer material per unit volume increases in the curl direction of the flexible display device.

Abstract: Various implementations relate to asynchronous training of a machine learning model. A server receives feedback data generated by training the machine learning model from a worker. The feedback data are obtained by the worker with its own training data and are associated with previous values of a set of parameters of the machine learning model at the worker. The server determines differences between the previous values and current values of the set of parameters at the server. The current value may have been updated for once or more due to operation of other workers. Then, the server can update the current values of the set of parameters based on the feedback data and the differences between values of the set of parameters. Thus, the updating does not only take the training result of each worker into consideration but also makes proper compensation for delay between different workers.

Abstract: Provided are a method and system for measuring a composition and property of a formation fluid. The method includes: acquiring a measuring model used for measuring a composition and a property of a formation fluid; using a signal measured by a sensor on a downhole hydrocarbon formation tester in real-time as input data and inputting the input data into the measuring model; processing the input data by the measuring model; and directly outputting a processing result as data on the composition and the property of the real-time formation fluid, or parsing the data on the composition and the property of the real-time formation fluid according to the processing result.

Abstract: A method includes forming a mask layer above a substrate. The substrate is patterned by using the mask layer as a mask to form a trench in the substrate. An isolation structure is formed in the trench, including feeding first precursors to the substrate. A bias is applied to the substrate after feeding the first precursors. With the bias turned on, second precursors are fed to the substrate. Feeding the first precursors, applying the bias, and feeding the second precursors are repeated.

Abstract: An immersion cooling system includes a tank, a first condenser, an enclosure, a second condenser and a connecting pipe. The tank has a first space. The first space is configured to accommodate a cooling liquid for at least one electronic equipment to immerse therein. The first condenser is disposed inside the tank. The enclosure is disposed outside the tank. The enclosure forms a second space together with the tank. The second condenser is disposed in the second space. The connecting pipe includes a first end and a second end opposite to the first end. The first end is connected with the second condenser. The second end is communicated with the first space.

Abstract: In one or more embodiments, the present invention is directed to an electrically conductive polymer composition comprising a conductive metal filler material comprising a plurality of metal particles and one or more carbon-based filler material substantially homogenously dispersed throughout a polymer matrix, wherein the aspect ratio of the one or more carbon-based filler material is at least ten times greater than the aspect ratio of the conductive metal filler material comprising a plurality of metal particles. In one or more embodiment, the carbon-based filler material will comprise at least one of carbon nanotubes, multi-walled carbon nanotubes and edge-functionalized graphene.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The method includes following operations. A substrate including active regions and isolation regions is provided. First trench structures are formed on the substrate, the first trench structure passing through the active region and the isolation region. Bit line contact structures are formed in the first trench structures. Bit line structures are formed on the bit line contact structures, at least part of the bit line structure being positioned in the first trench structure. Bit line protection structures are formed on the bit line structures, the bit line protection structure at least covering an upper surface of the bit line structure. Capacitor contact assemblies are formed, the capacitor contact assembly including a first capacitor contact structure and a second capacitor contact structure which covers an upper surface and part of a side wall of the first capacitor contact structure.

Abstract: In a rotating magnetic field-variable pyramid energy cabin, shielding plate permanent magnets are disposed on inner surfaces of three triangular shielding plates forming a pyramid shape, to form a stable magnetic field in the triangular shielding plates. A top rotating magnet is disposed at a top of the triangular shielding plates. A bottom rotating magnet is disposed below a seat. The magnetic field in the triangular shielding plates is rotated, to enable a vortex in turbulence of magnetic lines of force to generate a torsion field. The torque of the torsion field changes the spin states of electrons and atomic cores in a hypoxic microfield in the body of a patient, to arrange the electrons and atomic cores in a uniform magnetic field direction. The magnetic actuation of the electrons and atomic cores can make the microfield environment serialized and orderly and increase the negentropy.