Abstract: A system for detecting deception is provided. The system comprises a camera, an image processing unit, and a notification device. The camera is configured to capture an image sequence of a person of interest. The image processing unit is trained to determine a set of bitplanes of a plurality of images in the captured image sequence that represent the hemoglobin concentration (HC) changes of the person, and to detect the person's invisible emotional states based on HC changes. The image processing unit is trained using a training set comprising a set of subjects for which emotional state is known. The notification device provides a notification of at least one of the person's detected invisible emotional states.

Abstract: A method for automatically testing a voltage regulator, including: providing an auto-test setting to a test master, wherein the auto-test setting specifies an auto-sweep setting and a loop comprising an ordered set of serial command frames; producing, in the test master, a test suite comprising a plurality of serial command frames by executing the loop multiple times according to the auto-sweep setting until an array of a preset variable corresponding to the auto-sweep setting is traversed, wherein the preset variable is changed in each iteration of the loop; sequentially transmitting every serial command frame to the voltage regulator; and receiving every resulting behavior of the voltage regulator when operated in accordance with the every serial command frame.

Abstract: Keyboards include mechanisms that prevent and/or alleviate contaminant ingress. In some embodiments, a keyboard assembly includes a substrate, a key cap, a movement mechanism moveably coupling the key cap to the substrate, and a guard structure coupled to the key cap operable to direct contaminants away from the movement mechanism. In other embodiments, a keyboard includes a base; a web that defines apertures; keys moveably coupled to the base within the apertures; and a gasket coupled to the keys, the gasket fixed between the web and the base, operable to block passage of contaminants into the apertures.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cap assembly for a secondary battery and a secondary battery. The cap assembly includes a cap plate, a fixing member, a connecting member and an electrode terminal, wherein the cap plate has an electrode lead-out hole; the fixing member is fixed to the cap plate through the connecting member and provided with a weakened portion that is close to a center line of the cap plate in a width direction of the cap plate; and the electrode terminal includes a terminal board, wherein the terminal board has an outer peripheral surface at least partially surrounded by the fixing member so that the electrode terminal is fixed to the fixing member, and the terminal board is provided on a side of the cap plate and covers the electrode lead-out hole.

Abstract: In a production support system, process knowledge information is updated using machine learning on the basis of implementable process information, and implementable process information is output as a production plan of a product. Accordingly, production can be carried out considering factors, such as restart cost of facilities used in each of processes, for which skilled experience and knowledge are required with respect to the production of the product, and therefore the product can be produced effectively with low cost. Further, even when limitation conditions such as production capacity or quantity of a product exist for each of processes, suitable production can be carried out that satisfies these limitation conditions.

Abstract: A telescopic mechanism includes a mounting base, a telescopic block received within the mounting base, and a pushing rod received within the mounting base. The telescopic block is vertically arranged in the mounting base, and the pushing rod is horizontally arranged in the mounting base. The telescopic block defines a guiding channel. The pushing rod passes through the guiding channel. The pushing rod is driven through the guiding channel to cause the telescopic block to extend or retract relative to the mounting base.

Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic resonance temperature imaging method and apparatus, and relates to the field of magnetic resonance. According to the magnetic resonance temperature imaging method and apparatus, accuracy and precision of a water-fat tissue temperature image at a current moment are improved by using a two-step iterative temperature estimation algorithm, a magnetic resonance signal model includes multiple fat peaks, and a fourth strength amplitude value of a water signal, a fourth strength amplitude value of a fat signal, a fourth field drift caused by a non-uniform main magnetic field, and the water-fat tissue temperature image at the current moment that minimize a difference between signal strength and signal strength before fitting are estimated.

Abstract: An OLED display device includes a display area and a non-display area. A plurality of signal wires, a bending area, and a bonding area are disposed in the non-display area. The signal wires located at the bending area at least include a VDD signal wire and a VSS signal wire, and an organic layer insulation layer is disposed in the bending area. An edge length at an end of a part of the organic layer insulation layer between the VDD signal wire and the VSS signal wire is greater than or equal to 3000 micrometers.

Abstract: The examples provide a content item distributor computing system that is configured to determine characteristics of content providers and providing content items to certain categories of content providers. In one embodiment, the content item distributor receives a request from a content provider to receive content items and determines if a provided set of video content has a minimum number of viewers and meets a standard for upload content. In response to the determination, the content item distributor communicates a content item to the video content provider to present in conjunction with video content.

Abstract: A graphene-modified elastomer material and its preparation method. The elastomer material comprises a first component and a second component; the first component comprises isocyanate prepolymer obtained through reaction of polyol and isocyanate, and the isocyanate prepolymer has a —NCO content of 22-30%; the second component comprises the following components in parts by weight: 60-90 parts of polyetheramine, 1-10 parts of liquid amine chain extender, 1-5 parts of polytetrahydrofuran ether polyol, and 1-5 parts of graphenes. Through adjusting the —NCO content of the isocyanate prepolymer, increasing the hard segment content, and combining with the components in the second component, the invention ensures the elasticity of the polymer while improving its mechanical properties such as hardness and bending strength.

Abstract: An image encoding and decoding method, includes: determining location information of a target reconstructed image block of a current to-be-encoded image block, where the target reconstructed image block is a reconstructed image block used to determine motion information of the current to-be-encoded image block; determining a first transform core pair based on the location information of the target reconstructed image block; and transforming a residual signal of the current to-be-encoded image block based on the first transform core pair, to obtain a transform coefficient.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a reducer (100), an electric vehicle drive system, and a control method for the electric vehicle drive system. In the reducer (100), a first countershaft (2a) is transmittingly connected to a first input shaft (1a), a second countershaft (2b) is transmittingly connected to a second input shaft (1b), and a centralized driving piece (5) is transmittingly connected to a power input end of a differential apparatus (4). A first transmission assembly (X1) and a second transmission assembly (X2) are respectively configured to connect or disconnect power transmission between the first countershaft (2a) and the centralized driving piece (5) and connect or disconnect transmission assembly power transmission between the second countershaft (2b) and the centralized driving piece (5). A first output shaft (3a) and a second output shaft (3b) are transmittingly connected to two power output ends of the differential apparatus (4) respectively.

Abstract: The present invention provides a bamboo strip substrate board and a preparation method thereof, a bamboo strip floor and application thereof. The method for preparing a bamboo strip substrate board provided by the present invention includes the following steps: placing a bamboo strip curtain in a glue-containing solution for glue dipping and draining glue to obtain a glue-containing bamboo strip curtain; drying the glue-containing bamboo strip curtain and then performing assembly to obtain a bamboo strip board blank; and subjecting the bamboo strip board blank to hot pressing to obtain a bamboo strip substrate board. According to the present invention, an outdoor bamboo-based floor is further prepared on the basis of a bamboo strip substrate board. The present invention a simplified preparation process, so the production cost is effectively reduced, and the weather resistance of the floor is improved.

Abstract: Chroma deblock filtering of reconstructed video samples may be performed to remove blockiness artifacts and reduce color artifacts without over-smoothing. In a first method, chroma deblocking may be performed for boundary samples of a smallest transform size, regardless of partitions and coding modes. In a second method, chroma deblocking may be performed when a boundary strength is greater than 0. In a third method, chroma deblocking may be performed regardless of boundary strengths. In a fourth method, the type of chroma deblocking to be performed may be signaled in a slice header by a flag. Furthermore, luma deblock filtering techniques may be applied to chroma deblock filtering.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to cylindrical MRI coils with at least one row as a birdcage row in a transmit mode. One example embodiment is a MRI Radio Frequency (RF) coil array comprising two or more rows of four or more RF coil elements each. Each of the RF coil elements can be configured to resonate at a working frequency of the coil array in a receive mode. At least one of the rows can be configured as a birdcage coil in the transmit mode, and the two or more rows can inductively couple together such that all the two or more rows can resonate together in the transmit mode at the working frequency.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes a staircase structure disposed over a substrate. The staircase structure includes a plurality of layer stacks, where each layer stack is made of a first material layer over a portion of a second material layer. The staircase structure further includes a plurality of landing pads. where each landing pad is disposed over another portion of the second material layer of a respective layer stack.

Abstract: An amino silicone oil-modified elastomer material includes Component A and Component R. Component A includes isocyanate prepolymer obtained through reaction of polyol and isocyanate, and the isocyanate prepolymer has a —NCO content of 22-30%; Component R includes the following components in parts by weight: 45-60 parts of polyether amine, 1-6 parts of liquid amine chain extender, 1-10 parts of polysulfide rubber, 2-8 parts of nano silica, and 3-8 parts of amino silicone oil. The elastomer material of the invention ensures the elasticity of the polymer while improving mechanical properties. Moreover, it can improve elongation, wear resistance and water resistance of the polyurea material.

Abstract: Data reading method, device, and storage medium of a non-volatile memory are provided. The method includes obtaining address information and decoding the address information to determine an address of a corresponding memory cell; when the address of the memory cell is in a selected region, adjusting a first determination reference value to obtain a second determination reference value; applying a readout current to the memory cell, and obtaining a determination current outputted by the memory cell; and comparing a value range of the determination current outputted by the memory cell with the second determination reference value and reading out data content stored in the memory cell.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to a solid electrolyte and a preparation method thereof, and an electrochemical device and an electronic device comprising the same. The solid electrolyte of the present application includes a solid electrolyte material being represented by the chemical formula of Li1+2x?2yMyGa2+xP1?xS6, where M is selected from the group consisting of Sr, Ba, Zn, Cd and a combination thereof, 0?x?0.2 and 0?y?0.05. Embodiments of the present application provides a solid electrolyte having good stability with lithium and ionic conductivity by forming the solid electrolyte using lower cost solid electrolyte materials and optimizing the material composition and a crystal structure thereof. At the same time, this also reduces the manufacturing costs of the solid electrolyte, and improves the structural stability of the solid electrolyte.

Abstract: The invention discloses a caliper repairing clamp, which relates to the technical field of calipers and comprises a machine body, wherein a polishing disc is arranged inside the machine body, a protective cover is arranged on the outer surface of the polishing disc, a moving table is arranged below the machine body, a polishing table is arranged above the moving table, a fixed table is fixedly connected to the upper surface of the polishing table, a first bearing is fixedly embedded inside the machine body, a rotating handle is arranged below the moving table, and a first threaded rod is fixedly connected to the upper surface of the rotating handle.