Abstract: A wearable device that is capable of harvesting kinetic energy from wrist motions using piezoelectric and/or electromagnetic energy harvesters is disclosed. A first part of the device is worn on the user and second part of the device is movable against the second part to accentuate the frequency of movements.

Abstract: An integrated targeted kyphoplasty system includes a piercing head, a tube body and a tube body handle. The tube body has an end connected to the piercing head and is provided with a balloon and a guider at an end of the balloon, and another end connected to the tube body handle and provided with a guide knob for controlling the guider to be bent and a pressure pump connector communicating the balloon. The piercing head is provided with a cement outlet, a cement channel is in center of the tube body, and the tube body handle is provided with a cement inlet. The cement outlet, cement channel and cement inlet communicate with each other. The device requires for only one piercing to complete entire KP surgical treatment without changing any tools, greatly decreasing radiation exposure rate of the patient during operation and the pain caused by multiple operations.

Abstract: A method of coding implemented is provided. The method includes the following operations: obtained the height and width of a prediction block without applying clipping operation; calculating a value of a vertical component of an intra prediction sample based on the height and width of the prediction block; calculating a value of a horizontal component of the intra prediction sample based on the height and width of the prediction block; and generating the intra prediction sample based on the value of the vertical component and the value of the horizon component.

Abstract: A system and method of decoding of a video or picture bitstream implemented by a decoding device are described. The bitstream can include data representing a current video coding layer. Furthermore, when determining that the current video coding layer is the only one layer in the bitstream, the method can include using the identifier of a NAL unit of the current video coding layer as the identifier of the current video coding layer.

Abstract: A spur dike type fishway inlet includes an upstream flow block wall, an extra water supply nozzle, and an artificial fish reef. The upstream flow block wall is arranged upstream of a fishway inlet; the starting end of the upstream flow block wall is connected with the upstream side wall of the fishway inlet through a connecting shaft and a hydraulic strut. The extra water supply nozzle is installed in the fishway inlet and is connected to the upstream of a power station through a pipeline to directly supply water to a high water head. The artificial reef is set up within the shielding range of the upstream flow block wall. A device for luring the fish by adopting fish target keeping behavior is provided.

Abstract: A method of decoding of a video or picture bitstream implemented by a decoding device, the bitstream including a current sequence parameter set (SPS) comprising syntax elements that apply to a video sequence, the method comprising: obtaining a first syntax element used to determine a maximum number of temporal sublayers that is allowed to be present in each coded layer video sequence) referring to the current SPS, wherein a value of the first syntax element is in a range of 0 to a first value, wherein the first value is a value of a second syntax element used to determine the maximum number of temporal sublayers that is allowed to present in a layer in each coded video sequence referring to a video parameter set, when the second syntax element is referred to by the SPS; decoding the bitstream based on the value of the first syntax element.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and devices. A video method of coding implemented by a decoding device, comprising: when a prediction mode of a current coding block is intra prediction, and the current coding block is processed by using Intra sub-partition coding mode, determining whether a width of a current transform block is larger than or equal to a first threshold or not, and whether the width of the current transform block is smaller than or equal to a second threshold or not, the current transform block corresponding to the current coding block; when the width of the current transform block is larger than or equal to the first threshold and the width of the current transform block is smaller than or equal to the second threshold, performing transform process on the current transform block, wherein a transform core based on DST 7 is used on horizontal direction transform.

Abstract: A swing/rotating gas metal arc welding torch, include a hollow shaft motor and a feeder panel. An upper extending shaft of the feeder panel penetrates through a brush mechanism, and is fixedly connected to a lower extension shaft of the hollow shaft by means of a coupling, and a lower extending shaft of the feeder panel penetrates through a support bearing mounted in a brush base and is then connected to an eccentric or bent conductive rod mechanism; the motor base is fixedly connected to the brush base by means of connecting screws, and a welding shielding gas is provided and welding torch cooling is achieved by means of inner holes of the connecting screws as well as a built-in gas passage and a cooling water passage of the brush base; the length of the conductive rod mechanism is adjusted by means of modulation or extension and retraction.

Abstract: A method to derive candidate intra prediction modes, comprising: recording an intra prediction mode of at least one previous coding unit, wherein the previous coding unit is not adjacent to a to-be-processed coding unit; adding at least one recorded intra prediction mode into a set of candidate intra prediction modes, when the number of the candidate intra prediction modes is less than a preset threshold.

Abstract: The present invention is applicable to the technical field of marine equipment and provides a hybrid-driven mooring chain cleaning and structural inspection underwater robot and a working method thereof. The hybrid-driven mooring chain cleaning and structural inspection underwater robot includes at least one frame structure; a buoyancy system disposed on the frame structure and used for adjusting the buoyancy of the robot; a driving system disposed on the frame structure; underwater observation and communication systems disposed on the frame structure and used for underwater observation; a cleaning system disposed on the frame structure and used for cleaning a mooring chain; an active clasping/unclasping system disposed on the frame structure; and a structural inspection system disposed on the frame structure.

Abstract: Devices and methods for Intra prediction are provided. The method includes: obtaining a value of an indication information of a current block. When the value of the indication information indicates the intra prediction mode of the current block is not comprised in the set of most probable modes, deriving the intra prediction mode IntraPredModeY of the current block by the following ordered steps: i. IntraPredModeY is set equal to intra_luma_mpm_remainder[xCb][yCb], ii. The value of IntraPredModeY is incremented by one. The method can improve the efficiency to determine the intra prediction mode of the current block.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of decoding implemented by a decoding device, comprising: obtaining a value of a reference line index for a current block; constructing a most probable mode, MPM, list for the current block; obtaining a value of intra-prediction mode index for the current block; when the value of the reference line index is not equal to 0, obtaining an intra prediction mode of the current block according to the MPM list for the current block and the value of the intra-prediction mode index for the current block, wherein the value of the intra-prediction mode index indicates a position that corresponds to the intra prediction mode of the current block among angular intra-prediction modes in the MPM list. The disclosure also relates to a coding apparatus and a non-transitory machine-readable medium.

Abstract: Embodiments provide methods and devices (encoder and/or decoder) of coding a picture. A History Based Motion Vector Prediction (HMVP) list for a current Coding Tree Unit (CTU) row within a tile of a picture is initialized and a CTU of the current CTU row is processed based on the initialized HMVP list.

Abstract: A prediction method for an image block comprising a first prediction sub-block and a second prediction sub-block, the prediction method comprising: parsing a first index from a bitstream, wherein the first index is used to obtain prediction information of the first prediction sub-block; parsing a second index from the bitstream; comparing the first index with the second index; adjusting the second index in the event that the second index is equal to or greater than the first index; and obtaining prediction information of the second prediction sub-block according to the adjusted second index.

Abstract: There is provided a perpendicular speed reducer including an input shaft, a reduction mechanism that reduces a speed of rotation of the input shaft, an output shaft that outputs the speed-reduced rotation, and a casing that accommodates the reduction mechanism. The input shaft and the output shaft are perpendicular to each other. The casing includes a bearing hole formed on a first side surface to support the output shaft, a fin provided along a direction toward the bearing hole, and a groove portion provided along an axial direction of the output shaft on a second side surface adjacent to the first side surface.

Abstract: A method of coding implemented by a decoding device and a decoder are disclosed, the method comprising: obtaining a bitstream for a current picture; obtaining a quantity of tiles in a tile row of the current picture; obtaining a value of an address of a current slice, the current slice is comprised in the current picture; obtaining a value of tileX according to the value of the address of the current slice; parsing an indication value for a slice width from the bitstream for the current picture, when a difference value between the quantity of tiles in the tile row of the current picture and the value of tileX is not equal to a first threshold.

Abstract: A method of coding implemented by a decoding device, comprising initializing a dedicated buffer for intra block copy (IBC) referencing, when a current coding tree unit (CTU) to be decoded is a first CTU of a CTU row, determining whether a current block in the current CTU is predicted using IBC mode, obtaining an IBC block vector for the current block when the current block is predicted using IBC mode, and obtaining predicted sample values for the current block, based on reference samples from the dedicated buffer and the IBC block vector for the current block.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and devices of construct a candidate merge list for Intra block copy (IBC) mode, the method comprising: inserting a block vector of a left neighboring block of a current block into an initial merge list, when the left neighboring block is available and the left neighboring block is using IBC mode; inserting a block vector of an above neighboring block of the current block into the initial merge list, when the above neighboring block is available, the above neighboring block is using IBC mode and the block vector of the above neighboring block is not same as the block vector of the left neighboring block; inserting a block vector of the last candidate in a history based motion vector predictor (HMVP) into the initial merge list; obtaining a block vector of the current block according to the initial merge list.

Abstract: A decoding method for decoding an encoded picture which is partitioned into coding tree blocks which are further partitioned into coding blocks with different sizes, comprises parsing a first indication from the sequence parameter set (SPS)/picture parameter set (PPS)/slice header/tile header of a bit stream containing the encoded picture, determining the partition mode of the coding tree blocks, which are confined by block size restriction parameter and partition depth restriction parameter included in the SPS/PPS/slice header/tile header when the first indication is first value, or determining the partition mode of the multiple coding tree blocks, which are confined by default by block size restriction parameter and default partition depth restriction parameter when the first indication is second value or not presented in the SPS/PPS/slice header/tile header, and partitioning the coding tree blocks into the coding blocks according to the partition mode, and decoding the coding blocks.

Abstract: A method of coding implemented by a decoding device, comprising obtaining a bitstream; obtaining a value of an indicator for a current block according to the bitstream; obtaining a value of a first parameter for the current block and a value of a second parameter for the current block, according to the value of the indicator and a predefined lookup table; obtaining a value of a sample distance for a sample which is located in the current block, according to the value of the first parameter and the value of the second parameter; obtaining a prediction value for the sample, according to the value of the sample distance for the sample.