Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to a system and method for providing flexible receiver configuration in wireless communication systems, such as 802.11 WLAN systems. In one embodiment, a wireless device may transmit a first data frame including first configuration information specifying a first configuration of the receiver to notify a remote device that the wireless device intends to configure its receiver according to the first configuration. After receiving an acknowledgement frame confirming the first configuration information, the wireless device may configure the receiver according to the first configuration. In another embodiment, a wireless device may receive a first data frame including first configuration information and further including a request that the wireless device configure its receiver according to the first configuration. In response, the wireless device may configure the receiver according to the first configuration.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing multi-transmission and reception point operation in a wireless communication system. A plurality of transmission control indication states may be indicated for future use, e.g., using one or more separately identified lists. A subset of the indicated states may be activated. One or more states of the subset may be used for performing multi-transmission and reception point operation in a single downlink control information mode.

Abstract: A touch control structure is provided. The touch control structure includes a plurality of first mesh electrodes along a row direction and a plurality of second mesh electrodes along a column direction. The touch control structure is limited in a touch control region and absent in a window region surrounded by the touch control region. The plurality of second mesh electrodes includes a first mesh block and a second mesh block; and a first conductive bridge connecting the first mesh block and the second mesh block. A second segment of the first conductive bridge is in a layer different from a first segment of the first conductive bridge.

Abstract: An image-based lighting effect processing method and apparatus, and a device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining an image, a lighting effect material picture, and a first position of a simulated light source in a three-dimensional space, wherein the lighting effect material picture comprises lighting information; according to an object image in the image, generating a first three-dimensional mesh model of an object on the surface of the object image; determining lighting information of a point on the first three-dimensional mesh model according to the first position of the simulated light source, a distance between the point on the first three-dimensional mesh model and the surface of the image, and the lighting effect material picture; and rendering the object image in the image according to the lighting information of the point on the first three-dimensional mesh model to obtain a first lighting effect rendered picture.

Abstract: A radio-frequency identification (RFID) printer is provided. The RFID printer may include an RFID antenna component and a rotatable antenna bracket component. The rotatable antenna bracket component may include a first knob portion, a first elongated portion and a first side portion projecting from a first end of the first elongated portion and connecting the first elongated portion to the first knob portion. The RFID antenna component may be secured in the first elongated portion.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to semantic parsing for short text. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a method is proposed. The method comprises: obtaining a set of sentences associated with a short text, each of the set of sentences containing all of words in the short text; determining a set of syntactic features associated with the set of sentences, each of the set of syntactic features indicating at least one of a constituency relation and a dependency relation of the corresponding sentence; and determining a semantic structure of the short text based on the set of syntactic features.

Abstract: Methods are provided for producing a biaxially oriented nanoporous UHMWPE membrane. The method can include combining a petroleum jelly, an ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE), and an antioxidant, forming a suspension, feeding the suspension into an extruder to produce a gel filament, pressing the gel filament to form a gel film, subjecting the gel film to an annealing temperature, and extracting the petroleum jelly from the gel film.

Abstract: A chuck for use with a power driver having a rotatable drive spindle is provided. The chuck may include a sleeve comprising a sleeve tightening surface that may be configured to engage with a nut tightening surface to tighten a nut when the sleeve is rotated into a tightening position. With the sleeve disposed in a sleeve locked position, a click pawl may be engaged with a click stopping edge of one of the plurality of click teeth to inhibit rotation of the nut in a first rotational direction to loosen the nut. A lock pawl may also be engaged with a lock stopping edge of one of the plurality of lock teeth to inhibit rotation of the sleeve in a second rotational direction due to the inertia in the sleeve that would tend to further tighten the nut.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a large-area volume grating includes: (1) splitting a laser beam into two or more laser beams, converging the two or more laser beams into a sample at an angle less than 60° to form a first plasma grating; (2) moving the sample in a longitudinal direction of a plane vertical to the first plasma grating to etch out a first prefabricated volume grating; (3) moving the sample laterally to form a second plasma grating, an effective cross section of the first prefabricated volume grating partially overlapping with that of the second plasma grating, then moving the sample in a longitudinal direction of a plane vertical to the second plasma grating to etch out a second prefabricated volume; and (4) repeating steps (2) and (3) n times to obtain a volume grating in any size.

Abstract: A hydrophilic silica/polymer blend is provided comprising (a) a hydrophilic silica powder; and (b) a thickening polymer powder, comprising (i) structural units of C4-8 alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer; (ii) structural units of (meth)acrylic acid monomer; (iii) structural units of (methoxy) poly(ethylene glycol) (meth)acrylate monomer; and (iv) structural units of multiethylenically unsaturated monomer; wherein the weight ratio of hydrophilic silica powder to thickening polymer powder in the hydrophilic silica/polymer blend is 1:9 to 9:1. Also provided are personal care compositions containing same and methods of using same.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of a device that determines a physical downlink shared channel scheduling resource for a user equipment device and a base station is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device selects a plurality of component carriers from a pool of available component carriers associated with a wireless link established between the user equipment device and the base station. In addition, the device selects a virtual component carrier from the plurality of component carriers. Furthermore, the device determines a physical downlink shared channel scheduling resource based on at least the virtual component carrier.

Abstract: A holographic display system, a holographic display method and an electronic device are provided. The holographic display system includes a backlight module configured to emit a backlight beam, a spatial light modulator configured to perform phase and amplitude modulations on the backlight beam, and a plurality of liquid crystal grating modules that are sequentially arranged in a first direction. Based on a polarization direction of incident light, a liquid crystal grating module is capable of changing or maintaining a propagation direction of the incident light. A first optical rotator disposed on a light-incident side of the liquid crystal grating module is capable of rotating the polarization direction of the incident light, to make at least one liquid crystal grating module change the propagation direction of the incident light, and at least one liquid crystal grating module do not change the propagation direction of the incident light within a preset duration.

Abstract: A semiconductor package structure includes a substrate, including first conductive pads and packaging pads opposite to the first conductive pads, one or more semiconductor chips stacking on the substrate, a molding compound encapsulating the semiconductor chips, first metal wires connecting the semiconductor chips to the packaging pads, a first metal pad on a side of the molding compound opposite to the substrate, and a second metal wire located in the molding compound and connecting the first metal pad to a chip-contact pad of a semiconductor chip of the semiconductor chips.

Abstract: A camera attachment for measuring a temperature of a surface, and related methods of measuring the temperature of the surface, employ a temperature reactive material that is thermally coupled with the surface and imaged to provide image data of the temperature reactive material that is analyzed to measure the temperature. A camera attachment for measuring a temperature of a surface includes a distal surface configured to be thermally coupled with the surface, a frame configured to be coupled with a camera that has a field of view, and a temperature reactive material coupled with the frame and thermally coupled with the distal surface. The frame positions the temperature reactive material within the field of view of the camera so that an image captured by the camera includes at least a portion of the temperature reactive material.