Abstract: Closed cavity adjustable sensor mount systems and methods are disclosed. The sensor mount systems include a sealed, closed cavity enclosing a sensor and forming a closed cavity sensor assembly. The closed cavity sensor assembly may be tilted and/or translated relative to a platform in order to adjust the orientation of the sensor to align it with an imaging optical axis. Following alignment, the closed cavity sensor assembly may be permanently or reversibly fixed in place. The closed cavity adjustable sensor mount systems may be part of medical imaging systems such as endoscopic imaging systems and/or open field imaging systems.

Abstract: A method can include (a) extruding a bi-component fiber comprising: a first component comprising a first polypropylene homopolymer; and a second component comprising a blend that comprises a propylene-based elastomer and a second polypropylene homopolymer, wherein the blend has a melt flow rate that is at least 20% greater than or at least 20% less than a melt flow rate of the first polypropylene homopolymer; (b) cooling the bi-component fiber; and (c) thermally and/or mechanically activating the bi-component fiber to cause the bi-component fiber to curl.

Abstract: The present invention relates to chemically-modified RNAi constructs for reducing expression of a target gene. In particular, the invention relates to specific patterns of modified nucleotides to be incorporated into RNAi constructs to improve in vivo stability and efficacy. Also described are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the chemically-modified RNAi constructs and methods of inhibiting target gene expression in vivo by administering the chemically-modified RNAi constructs, for example, to treat or ameliorate various disease conditions.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes an electrical connector and a metal casing. The electrical connector includes an insulating body and a number of conductive terminals. The insulating body includes a slot. Each conductive terminal includes an abutting portion. The metal casing includes a receiving cavity. When a mating connector is inserted into the receiving cavity and has not yet made contact with the conductive terminals of the electrical connector, a better shielding effect can be achieved. Some of the abutting portions are adapted for electrically connecting with a circuit board, and some of the abutting portions of the conductive terminals are connected with a cable. The metal casing includes a hook portion locking with a lock surface of the circuit board. Therefore, the metal casing can be prevented from detaching from the circuit board in case an external force is applied to pull the cable.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a touch substrate and a touch display device. In the touch substrate, the first touch control electrodes are provided with the shadow elimination structures at the first intersections, and the orthographic projections of the shadow elimination structures on the base substrate cover the orthographic projections of the connection through holes on the base substrate, so that shadows of the connection through holes can be shielded by the shadow elimination structures, when the user watches the touch substrate from the side, away from the signal line layer, of the base substrate, and thus the ghosting shadow problem of the connection through holes can be resolved.

Abstract: Disclosed are an information providing method and system. In an embodiment, the method includes: acquiring product data and/or historical operation data; determining at least one feature description tag of an industrial product based upon the product data, and taking the at least one feature description tag of the industrial product as a feature of the industrial product; and/or determining at least one feature description tag of a user based upon the historical operation data, and taking the at least one feature description tag of the user as a feature of the user. The method further includes sending the feature of the industrial product and/or the feature of the user to a human-machine interactive device for display on a human-machine interactive interface. An embodiment further provides a reference suggestion for operative control of the industrial product by the user.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device, the method including forming an active pattern on a substrate such that the active pattern includes sacrificial patterns and semiconductor patterns alternately and repeatedly stacked on the substrate; and forming first spacer patterns at both sides of each of the sacrificial patterns by performing an oxidation process, wherein the first spacer patterns correspond to oxidized portions of each of the sacrificial patterns, wherein the sacrificial patterns include a first semiconductor material containing impurities, wherein the semiconductor patterns include a second semiconductor material different from the first semiconductor material, and wherein the impurities include an element different from semiconductor elements of the first semiconductor material and the second semiconductor material.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body, a number of conductive terminals and a connection module. The insulating body includes a mating surface and a slot extending through the mating surface. The slot is adapted to receive at least a part of a mating connector along a mating direction. Each conductive terminal includes a tail portion and a contact portion extending into the slot. The connection module includes a mounting block and a number of connection terminals fixed with the mounting block. The connection terminals and the conductive terminals are disposed separately, thereby improving the anti-interference performance of the electrical connector. Each connection terminal includes an abutting portion to contact the tail portion of the conductive terminal and a mounting foot for being mounted to a circuit board.

Abstract: A memory device including: a first core of memory bitcells; a second core of memory bitcells; pre-decoding circuitry shared by the first core and the second core; and a row decoder coupled to the pre-decoding circuitry, the first core, and the second core, the row decoder including a first set-reset (SR) latch coupled to a first wordline of the first core and a second SR latch coupled to a second wordline of the second core.

Abstract: Disclosed are a non-volatile memory device and a method of operating the non-volatile memory device. A non-volatile memory device in which m logical pages are stored in a single physical page includes: a plurality of registers configured to be included in a flash translation layer (FTL) and to store at least part of the data of a write command received from a file system; and a controller configured to control operations of the plurality of registers based on the write command; wherein each of the plurality of registers is further configured to have a storage space associated with the size of the m logical pages; and wherein the controller is further configured to program the data of the write command into the non-volatile memory device and to store the data of the write command in the plurality of registers.

Abstract: An input device is provided, including a curved segment, a sensing segment and a second sensing structure. The sensing segment is pivotally connected to the curved segment and includes a first sensing structure. The second sensing structure covers the curved segment and the sensing segment. The curved segment includes a plurality of connecting bodies and a supporting element. Each connecting body includes a recess. Adjacent connecting bodies are mutually pivotally connected, and the recesses are connected to each other to form an accommodation space. The supporting element is disposed in the accommodation space and connected to the connecting bodies.

Abstract: A multiplication circuit includes an addition subcircuit configured to obtain logarithmic field data a and b that correspond to A and B, and perform an addition operation on a and b to obtain c, where c includes an integral part and a fractional part, an exponentiation operation subcircuit configured to perform an exponentiation operation in which a base is 2 and an exponent is the fractional part of c, to obtain an exponentiation operation result, a shift subcircuit configured to shift the exponentiation operation result based on the integral part of c to obtain a shift result, and an output subcircuit configured to output a product of A and B based on signs of a and b and with reference to the shift result.

Abstract: A light source system and a lighting apparatus comprising: a light-emitting module which emits first light along a first light path and second light along a second light path; a wavelength conversion device which received the first light to emit excited light with a different color from that of the first light; and a compensation device which guides the second light and adjusts a luminous intensity distribution of the second light so that the luminous intensity distribution of the second light exiting from the compensation device is substantially identical to that of the excited light. The second light exiting from the compensation device is combined with the excited light to form third light to be emitted from the light source system. The luminous intensity distributions of the first light and the second light in the third light are substantially the same, and illumination light spots have a uniform color.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a binary weighted current source and a digital-to-analog converter, which include: a driving voltage generating circuit, generating a driving voltage based on a preset current; a current dividing circuit, connected to an output terminal of the driving voltage generating circuit; a current steering circuit, connected to the current dividing circuit. The current dividing circuit divides the driving voltage through resistors in series, and drives each of a plurality of current output transistors to output a current in response to a voltage across the current output transistor. Currents output by the plurality of current output transistor are binary weighted currents, each two of the binary weighted currents have a binary relationship, and the binary weighted currents are produced by successive binary divisions of the preset current.

Abstract: A method for assessing transportation risk is adapted to an object transported by a vehicle. The method comprises disposing a sensor on a floor of the vehicle to generate and collect a vibration signal, with the floor being configured to carry the object, a computing device performs a time-domain processing procedure according to the vibration signal to output a first data, performs a frequency-domain processing procedure according to the first data to output a second data, performs a risk assessing procedure to output a risk level according to the second data and a reference data, wherein the second data comprises an actual vibration intensity and an actual vibration duration and the reference data comprises a reference vibration intensity and a reference vibration duration.

Abstract: Filtering incoming calls according to predicted preferences of a user. User preferences are predicted by analysis of user behavior, online activity, oral queues, and purchasing history. Data analysis includes weighting caller and user attributes according to a scheme that is dynamically updated by applying user feedback and/or machine learning processes.

Abstract: There is provided a navigation device including an image sensor and a processor. The image sensor outputs a reference frame and a comparison frame. The processor calculates a correlation search window by changing a relative position of the comparison frame with respect to the reference frame. The processor ignores a part of pixel data of the comparison frame without being processed while calculating each correlation value of the correlation search window to reduce total computation load.

Abstract: Described herein is a sensor device. The sensor device includes a housing with a front plate and a back plate. The front plate includes mounting holes and the back plate includes second mounting holes and alignment holes. The sensor device includes a printed circuit board encased by the housing, wherein the printed circuit board comprises an image sensor, an image sensor processor, and a serializer.

Abstract: A PCIe/SAS female connector includes a frame body, a terminal assembly, and a cover member; the frame body including a groove disposed on an end thereof; the terminal assembly including a Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) 7 pin signal and grounding terminal inserted in the frame body and having a head portion and a foot. When the SATA 7 pin signal and grounding terminal is inserted in the frame body, the head portion is in the groove. The cover member includes an elastic plate and a foot; the elastic plate disposed on the head portion of the cover member. When the PCIe/SAS female connector is engaged with a male connector, the head portion of the SATA 7 pin signal and grounding terminal contacts the elastic plate of the cover member. The foot of the SATA 7 pin signal and grounding terminal and the foot of the cover member are welded in an identical Printed Circuit Board (PCB) pad.

Abstract: Disclosed is an inorganic-organic hybrid core-shell nanorod (200) and a light valve having the nanorod (200). The nanorod (200) comprises a nanorod inner core composed of a metal oxide and a nanorod shell composed of an inorganic-organic complex containing carbon and nitrogen atoms. The nanorod inner core is titanium dioxide TiO2. The core-shell nanorod employs the metal oxide as a core body and the inorganic-organic complex as a shell to account for the many advantages of inorganic-organic hybrid materials, nanomaterials, and the core-shell structure. The synergistic effect of multiple characteristics allows the material to have unique properties. The light valve made of the material has excellent performance, can adjust the light transmittance in a wider range, and has excellent application prospects.