Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first device and a second device disposed adjacent to the first device; a conductive pillar disposed adjacent to the first device or the second device; a molding surrounding the first device, the second device and the conductive pillar; and a redistribution layer (RDL) over the first device, the second device, the molding and the conductive pillar, wherein the RDL electrically connects the first device to the second device and includes an opening penetrating the RDL and exposing a sensing area over the first device.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for converting data to a tiling format when implementing convolutional neural networks are disclosed. A system includes at least a memory, a cache, a processor, and a plurality of compute units. The memory stores a first buffer and a second buffer in a linear format, where the first buffer stores convolutional filter data and the second buffer stores image data. The processor converts the first and second buffers from the linear format to third and fourth buffers, respectively, in a tiling format. The plurality of compute units load the tiling-formatted data from the third and fourth buffers in memory to the cache and then perform a convolutional filter operation on the tiling-formatted data. The system generates a classification of a first dataset based on a result of the convolutional filter operation.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for human activity analysis and localization using channel state information (CSI). A streamlined data processing and feature extraction approach that addresses concept drifts for time series data is provided. Data obtained from CSI or any other mechanism is used to estimate the wireless channel between two different wireless nodes (e.g., an access point (AP) and an associated station (STA)), and can be used to train a robust system capable of performing room level localization. A phase and magnitude augmented feature space along with a standardization technique that is little affected by drifts is also used.

Abstract: A memory controller for use in a data storage device is provided. A low-density parity check (LDPC) process performed by the memory controller includes an initial phase, a decoding phase, and an output phase. The memory controller includes a variable-node circuit and a check-node circuit. During the initial phase, the variable-node circuit performs the following steps: obtaining a channel value, that is read from a flash memory, from a channel-value memory; transmitting the channel value to the check-node circuit to calculate a syndrome; and in response to the syndrome not being 0, setting a value of a register corresponding to each entry of a plurality of entries in a variable-node memory, and entering the decoding phase.

Abstract: An array substrate includes multiple pixel electrodes constituting first pixel electrode columns, second pixel electrode columns and third pixel electrode columns, and data lines including first data lines, second data lines and third data lines. A first data line, a first pixel electrode column, a second data line, a second pixel electrode column, a third data line and a third pixel electrode column are arranged in sequence in a row direction. Distances between the first pixel electrode column and the first data line, between the second pixel electrode column and the second data line, between the third pixel electrode column and the third data line, and between the first pixel electrode column and the second data line are a first distance to a fourth distance, respectively. The first distance is less than the fourth distance and greater than the second distance and/or the third distance.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to 7,8-dihydrobenzo[e]pyrido[3,4-c]azocine-2,5(3H,6H)-dione derivatives, stereoisomers, isotopologues, isotopomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, pharmaceutical compositions containing said compounds and the use of said compounds in the treatment and/or prophylaxis of thromboembolic disorders, inflammatory disorders and diseases or conditions in which plasma kallikrein activity is implicated.

Abstract: A lamination device includes: an elastic lamination seat, including a deformation bearing portion, the deformation bearing portion including a bearing surface for bearing a to-be-laminated flexible display panel, and the bearing surface being configured as a curved surface protruding towards the cover plate; an auxiliary bearing film, configured to pre-bend and fix the to-be-laminated flexible display panel onto the bearing surface when the elastic lamination seat is in a natural state; and a driving mechanism, connected to the elastic lamination seat and configured to drive the elastic lamination seat to move towards or away from the cover plate, wherein when the driving mechanism drives the elastic lamination seat to move towards the cover plate, the elastic lamination seat is squeezed to produce elastic deformation and the bearing surface gradually laminates the flexible display panel onto the cover plate from the middle to two sides.

Abstract: An organic polymer having an asymmetric structure, a preparation method thereof and a use as a photoelectric material thereof, where the organic polymer with an asymmetric structure is obtained by polymerization after performing Stille coupling reaction between an electron-donating unit D and an electron-withdrawing unit A in the presence of a solvent and a catalyst. The compound of the present application has good heat stability, controllable absorption level, and is suitable for the preparation of hole transport materials of high-performance perovskite solar cells with high efficiency, flexibility, good stability and a large area as well as donor materials of organic solar cells.

Abstract: A laminating device and a laminating method are disclosed. The laminating device is used for laminating a flexible panel together with a curved cover plate. The curved cover plate is provided with a central area and an edge bending area located in a first direction in the central area. The laminating device comprises a movable mechanism, which is arranged opposite the curved cover plate in a second direction and comprises: a first movable base table and a second movable base table, which are arranged opposite each other in the first direction; and an elastic supporting member, which is provided with an elastic supporting portion, the elastic supporting portion covering parts of the first movable base table station and the second movable base table station that are close to the curved cover plate, and being used for fixing the flexible panel.

Abstract: A method includes implanting a first dopant having a first dopant type into a substrate to define a plurality of source/drain (S/D) regions. The method further includes implanting a second dopant having the first dopant type into the substrate to define a channel region between adjacent S/D regions of the plurality of S/D regions, wherein a dopant concentration of the second dopant in the channel region is less than half of a dopant concentration of the first dopant in each of the plurality of S/D regions. The method further includes forming a gate stack over the channel region. The method further includes electrically coupling each of the plurality of S/D regions together.

Abstract: An electron beam lithography system and an electron beam lithography process are disclosed herein for improving throughput. An exemplary method for increasing throughput achieved by an electron beam lithography system includes receiving an integrated circuit (IC) design layout that includes a target pattern, wherein the electron beam lithography system implements a first exposure dose to form the target pattern on a workpiece based on the IC design layout. The method further includes inserting a dummy pattern into the IC design layout to increase a pattern density of the IC design layout to greater than or equal to a threshold pattern density, thereby generating a modified IC design layout. The electron beam lithography system implements a second exposure dose that is less than the first exposure dose to form the target pattern on the workpiece based on the modified IC design layout.

Abstract: A data storage device includes a disc, an actuator arm assembly, a servo clock, and a feedback and control system. The disc includes a top and bottom surfaces and a servo wedge. The servo wedge includes a top surface boundary and a bottom surface boundary. The actuator arm assembly supports a head pair configured for interaction with the top and bottom surfaces. The servo clock is configured to determine a top time at which the head pair encounters the top surface boundary and a bottom time at which the head pair encounters the bottom surface boundary during a disc read/write interaction. The feedback and control system is configured to determine an operation time difference; compare the operation time difference to a certification time difference correlating to a target vertical position of the actuator arm assembly relative to the disc; and move the actuator arm assembly to the target vertical position.

Abstract: Provided is a method of fabricating an image sensor device. An exemplary includes forming a plurality of radiation-sensing regions in a substrate. The substrate has a front surface, a back surface, and a sidewall that extends from the front surface to the back surface. The exemplary method further includes forming an interconnect structure over the front surface of the substrate, removing a portion of the substrate to expose a metal interconnect layer of the interconnect structure, and forming a bonding pad on the interconnect structure in a manner so that the bonding pad is electrically coupled to the exposed metal interconnect layer and separated from the sidewall of the substrate.

Abstract: This application provides a vehicle and a control method for a vehicle suspension. The vehicle includes a first component, a second component, and a vehicle suspension. The vehicle suspension is located between the first component and the second component. The first component is a component that the vehicle suspension bears, the second component is configured to bear the vehicle suspension and the first component, and the vehicle suspension includes a variable damper connected between the first component and the second component. The variable damper is configured to provide a first force to the first component based on a first acceleration of the first component, to control a displacement of the first component relative to the second component in a height direction of the vehicle. In the embodiments of this application, bumps in a driving process of the vehicle can be effectively reduced, so that vehicle ride comfort is improved.

Abstract: A packaged device (110) includes a substrate (114) and one or more contacts (118) disposed on a side of the substrate (114). Structures of the packaged device (110) define at least in part a recess region (120) that extends from the side of the substrate (114) and through the substrate (114), where one or more contacts (124) of a second hardware interface are disposed in the recess region (120). The one or more contacts (118) of the first hardware interface enable connection of the packaged device (110) to a printed circuit board. The one or more contacts (124) of the second hardware interface enable connection between one or more IC dies of the packaged device (110) and another IC die (150) that is a component of the packaged device (110) or of a different packaged device.

Abstract: The present teaching, which includes methods, systems and computer-readable media, relates to providing query suggestions based on a number of data sources that include person's personal data and non-personal data. The disclosed techniques may include receiving an input from a person, obtaining a first set of suggestions based on a person corpus derived from at least one data source private to the person, obtaining a second set of suggestions based on information from an additional data source, ranking the first and second sets of suggestions to generate a ranked list of suggestions, and presenting at least some of the ranked suggestions.

Abstract: A method of substitutional neural residual compression is performed by at least one processor and includes estimating motion vectors, based on a current image frame and a previous reconstructed image frame, obtaining a predicted image frame, based on the estimated motion vectors and the previous reconstructed image frame, and subtracting the obtained predicted image frame from the current image frame to obtain a substitutional residual. The method further includes encoding the obtained substitutional residual, using a first neural network, to obtain an encoded representation, and compressing the encoded representation.

Abstract: A power electronic assembly includes a board having metal layers laminated onto or between electrically insulating layers, and a laminate inlay embedded in the board. A first metal layer provides electrical contacts at a first side of the board. A second metal layer provides a thermal contact at a second side of the board. A third metal layer is positioned between the first metal layer and the laminate inlay and configured to distribute a load current switched by the laminate inlay. A fourth metal layer is positioned between the second metal layer and the laminate inlay and configured as a primary thermal conduction path for heat generated by the laminate inlay during switching of the load current. A first electrically insulating layer separates the fourth metal layer from the second metal layer so that the fourth metal layer is electrically isolated from but thermally connected to the second metal layer.

Abstract: A method of video decoding performed in a video decoder is disclosed. A syntax element can be received from a bitstream of a coded video indicating that residual blocks of a current coding unit (CU) are processed with a color space conversion. The residual blocks of the current CU can include a luma residual block, a first chroma residual block, and a second chroma residual block. In response to receiving the syntax element indicating that the residual blocks of the current CU are processed with the color space conversion, one of two options of color space conversion equations can be selected based on a transform skip flag and a quantization parameter (QP) corresponding to each of the residual blocks of the current CU. An inverse color space conversion can be applied using the selected option of color space conversion equations to the residual blocks of the current CU.

Abstract: Provided is a genetically modified non-human animal, in which at least one copy of the endogenous nucleotide sequence encoding Protein C in the genome of said the non-human animal has been replaced by a nucleotide sequence encoding human Protein C or a functional fragment or variant thereof. Also provided are vectors, cells, and methods for the production of such non-human animals. Further provided are methods of testing agents for their ability to alter to the level and/or functional activity of human protein C, for example, to test their potential therapeutic efficacy.