Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a terminal for recognizing a two-dimensional code are provided. The two-dimensional code includes an image region and an encoding region. The image region and the encoding region have no overlap. The method includes selecting, from pixels of the two-dimensional code, a pixel included in a code element in an encoding region. The method further includes determining a value of the code element in the encoding region according to the pixel included in the code element in the encoding region. The method further includes recognizing the two-dimensional code according to the value of the code element in the encoding region.

Abstract: A washing machine comprises an inner drum, wherein a drum bottom of the inner drum is installed with an inner drum bottom cover, and the inner drum bottom cover is in sealed connection with the drum bottom of the inner drum to form a sealed space. Such a setting avoids problems of breeding of bacteria and generation of smudge caused when washing water enters the inner drum bottom cover and is deposited in a chamber formed between the inner drum bottom cover and the drum bottom of the inner drum in a process of washing clothes by a washing machine.

Abstract: Current approaches to transmitting uplink data in a network often require resources to be granted. In an example, a node or apparatus may configure a plurality of devices to operate in a grant-less mode in accordance with a respective grant-less access allocation. Grant-less operations may be managed, for example, to meet the reliability and latency requirements and battery life requirements for different types of devices. For example, the state transition between grant-less and grant based may be managed.

Abstract: Improved methods, systems, devices, or apparatuses that support search space design are described. The described techniques enhance the number and utility of applied control channel candidates in the presence of blind decoding and control channel element (CCE) channel estimation limitations. The techniques allocate available blind decodes using a nested mapping scheme over one or more dimensions, based on a prioritization. In some other cases, the number of blind decodes may be allocated, either uniformly, or proportionally, between the plurality of search space set occasions. In some cases, the applied control channel candidates may be determined by dropping control channel candidates along one or more dimensions (e.g., search space set, or search space set occasion), until the blind decoding limitation or CE limitation is satisfied.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving circuit, a display device and a driving method. The driving circuit includes a shift register including: a first input unit for controlling a first node based on signals at first and second clock signal terminals, an input signal terminal, a second node and an output signal terminal; a second input unit for providing a signal at a first constant potential terminal to the second node under control of the first clock signal terminal and providing the signal at the input signal terminal or the first clock signal terminal to the second node under control of the first node; and an output unit for providing a signal at the second clock signal terminal to the output signal terminal under control of the first node and providing a signal at a second constant potential terminal to the output signal terminal under control of the second node.

Abstract: The present invention provides a scanning method of a photoelectric remote sensing system including the following steps: providing a photoelectric remote sensing system that is suspended in the air; and S20, driving the photographing device by the pan-tilt device to scan a target area along a plurality of circular trajectories, driving the photographing device by the pan-tilt device to switch between the circular trajectories, so as to enable a scanning area of the photographing device to cover the entire target area; and adjusting an optical parameter of the photographing device while the photographing device is switched between the circular trajectories, so as to enable pictures photographed at all scanning points to have the same spatial resolution. The scanning method of the present invention can ensure that the scanning area fully covers a target area and pictures photographed at different target points have the same spatial resolution.

Abstract: The present application discloses a mutual capacitive touch substrate comprising a matrix of a plurality of electrode units, adjacent electrode units complementarily matching each other. Each electrode unit comprises a first electrode having a first undulating boundary; a second electrode having a second undulating boundary; and a fill pattern between the first electrode and the second electrode, having an undulating boundary substantially complementary to corresponding portions of the first undulating boundary and the second undulating boundary. The first electrode, the second electrode, and the fill pattern in a same electrode unit are electrically isolated from each other.

Abstract: A manufacturing system and method for recycling and smelting crushed silica from silicon plants, including a crushed silica storage device, granulator, submerged arc furnace, transfer device, forming device and cooling system. Firstly silicon waste is collected, then crushed silica is output to a granulator. The granulator mixes the waste irregular crushed silica with water, and granulates and produces small particles having an uniform grain size as the raw material for smelting. The raw material is smelted in the submerged arc furnace. The forming device evenly pours the silicon liquid into the cooling system according to a set flow rate. The silicon liquid is solidified to form silicon pellets, and then a lift system is used to lift the formed silicon pellets, wherein the silicon liquid poured into the cooling system has a uniform diameter. The system can rapidly and efficiently smelt the silicon waste from the silicon plants.

Abstract: The invention provides the use of non-polyaminated lipocalin-2 and/or polyaminated lipocalin-2 as biomarkers for cardiometabolic disease as well as antibodies, assays and devices related to these biomarkers.

Abstract: A method and system for cooperative charging between an unmanned aerial vehicle and an unmanned surface vessel includes: using the unmanned aerial vehicle to capture an image of the unmanned surface vessel; analyzing the relative position of a capturing device and the velocity of the unmanned surface vessel; controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle to approach the capturing device, and making the unmanned aerial vehicle to hover at a certain height within the capture range; detecting whether the unmanned aerial vehicle is within the capture range and, if within the range, using the unmanned surface vessel to capture the unmanned aerial vehicle or using the unmanned aerial vehicle to re-capture an image of the unmanned surface vessel; using the capturing device to adjust the position of the unmanned aerial vehicle and performing wireless charging.

Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes, in a radio frequency (RF) deposition chamber, depositing a titanium film using physical vapor deposition and forming a graded hard mask film by reactive sputtering the titanium film with nitrogen in the RF deposition chamber. The graded hard mask film is a titanium nitride film with a graded vertical concentration of nitrogen. The method may further include, during deposition of the titanium film and during formation of the graded hard mask film, modulating one or more parameters of the RF deposition chamber, such as modulating an auto capacitance tuner (ACT) current, modulating the RF power, and modulating the pressure of the RF deposition chamber.

Abstract: This application provides a transmission method for retrieving old context of a terminal device, the method includes: a first network node sends a first message to a first system, where the first message is received from a terminal device and includes CRNTI allocated previously by the first network node for the terminal device; the first system sends a second message to the first network node, the second message comprises identification information of the terminal device which is in association with old context information of the terminal device that is stored at the first network node, and is used by the first network node to retrieve the old context information of the terminal device.

Abstract: Computer system and method for managing storage requests in a distributed storage system uses congestion signals associated with storage requests, which are generated based on congestion at local storage of the computer system that supports a virtual storage area network. The storage requests are differentiated between a first class of storage requests and at least one other class of storage requests. For a storage request of the first class of storage requests, an actual ratio of a current average bandwidth of the first class of storage requests to a current average bandwidth of a second class of storage requests is calculated and compared with an expected ratio. The congestion signal associated with the storage request is then adjusted and transmitted to at least one source of storage requests for storage request fairness control.

Abstract: An apparatus may use inactive uplink portions of a downlink CC to transmit SRS to an eNB. At times there may be a collision between the SRS transmission and uplink transmissions or downlink transmissions on another CC. The apparatus receives a carrier aggregation configuration for a first downlink CC and a second CC, determines to transmit an uplink transmission on the second CC or to receive a downlink transmission on the second CC, determines that the SRS would at least partially collide with the uplink transmission or the downlink transmission, and determines to adjust at least one of the uplink transmission, the SRS transmission, or reception of the downlink transmission based on the determination of the collision and an interruption time to transmit the SRS in the uplink portion of the first CC.

Abstract: Provided are antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof that specifically bind to human neuropilin-2 (NRP2) polypeptides, including those that modulate binding interactions between human NRP2 and at least one NRP2 ligand, for example, human histidyl-tRNA synthetase (HRS), and which thereby modulate subsequent NRP2-mediated downstream signaling events, including related therapeutic compositions and methods for modulating NRP2 activity and treating diseases such as NRP2-associated diseases

Abstract: A method of forming a fin field effect transistor is provided. The method includes forming an elevated substrate tier on a substrate, and forming a fin mesa on the elevated substrate tier with a fin template layer on the fin mesa, wherein the elevated substrate tier is laterally larger than the fin mesa and fin template layer. The method includes forming a fill layer on the substrate, wherein the fill layer surrounds the fin mesa, elevated substrate tier, and fin template layer, forming a plurality of fin masks on the fill layer and fin template layer, and removing portions of the fill layer, fin template layer, and fin mesa to form a plurality of dummy fins from the fill layer, one or more vertical fins from the fin mesa, and a dummy fin portion on opposite ends of each of the one or more vertical fins from the fill layer.

Abstract: A system and method of recognizing a hard disk movement, the system and method including recognizing hard disk information recorded in a hard disk in response to the hard disk being moved to a slot in a hard disk array, determining the movement type of the hard disk based on the recognized hard disk information, judging validity of the hard disk movement based on the movement type, and updating the hard disk information of the hard disk in response to the hard disk movement being judged as valid, wherein the hard disk information comprises position information of the hard disk in the hard disk array.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides for adaptive resource management in new radio operations that favors the usage of resources for pilot signals and channel estimation in the transition slots of a slot burst, and the transmission of data in the subsequent slots of the slot burst. A device such as a user equipment (UE) and/or a base station may determine that the UE is operating in a transition state. The device may adapt a first numerology including a first number of symbols per slot used for transmission in the transition slots during the transition state, to a second scaled numerology including a second number of symbols per slot used for transmission in the subsequent slots after the transition state. A ratio of reference signal symbols to data symbol symbols may be greater in the transition slots than in the subsequent slots.

Abstract: The present invention provides a repetition frequency-tunable optical frequency comb generated by basis of optical feedback. The optical frequency comb comprises a single-frequency laser resonant cavity, a wavelength division multiplexer, a single-mode semiconductor pump light source, an optical circulator, a first optical fiber coupler, a second optical fiber coupler, a photoelectric detector, a highly-stable signal source, an error signal processing system, a laser frequency modulation device and a tunable laser-delay module. The present invention performs delay-time processing to the single-frequency laser by the tunable laser-delay module, and achieves an optical feedback by the optical circulator for injecting to the resonant cavity, generating a series of tunable laser longitudinal modes with equal frequency space.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes prediction information for a current block in a current coded picture that is a part of a coded video sequence. The prediction information indicates whether a planar motion vector prediction mode is used for the current block. The current block is partitioned into a plurality of sub-blocks. When it is indicated that a planar motion vector prediction mode is used for the current block, the processing circuitry determines, in response to the use of the planar motion vector prediction mode, at least one temporal motion vector predictor (TMVP) candidate for a bottom-right (BR) corner of the current block. Then the processing circuitry reconstructs the current block according to one of the at least one TMVP candidate for the BR corner.