Abstract: Disclosed in the present application is a method for fitting spontaneous emission noise of a lidar system or an optical fiber sensing system. The method includes: providing a trigger collection signal by a signal source; triggering, based on the trigger collection signal, a co-located transceiver module and a distributed transceiver module to perform synchronous detection on a detection target; receiving co-located data and distributed data returned by the detection target; subtracting local noise from the co-located data and the distributed data, respectively; selecting a linear interval to normalize the co-located data; performing subtraction operation on the normalized co-located data and the distributed data to obtain spontaneous emission noise; and fitting the spontaneous emission noise by a function.

Abstract: A stabilizing fixture to hold and stabilize a server contained within different sizes of server cabinets includes a base, a pressing component and an adjusting component. The pressing component is slidably coupled with the base in a first direction. A first pressing surface is defined on the pressing component for pressing a server. The adjusting component includes a screw and a nut. When the screw is rotated relative to the nut, the nut is driven to move in a second direction, and the nut acts on the pressing component to drive the pressing component in the first direction to press the server. As the pressing component moves along the first direction, the distance between the two pressing component changes to accommodate servers of different sizes.

Abstract: A system and a method are provided to create an indoor thermal environment based on impinging jet ventilation (IJV) and ductless personalized ventilation (DPV), the system includes an IJV duct installed on a wall of a room and a DPV device installed on a table. An air inlet of the IJV duct is connected to an air conditioning system and an air outlet of the IJV duct is close to ground. An upper duct and a lower duct of the DPV device are disposed on two opposite sides of a tabletop, the upper duct is provided with an air supply panel, the lower duct is provided with a duct fan with an air supply volume being adjustable, and the duct fan is configured to send air absorbed from a ground air lake to a user's face area through the air supply panel of the upper duct.

Abstract: The invention discloses a device for condensate water recovery and atomization to cool the condenser of a household split air conditioner. Includes: an air conditioner outdoor unit with a drain pipe at the bottom and a condensed water storage tank on top, connected to a condensed water inlet pipe; A filter unit is in the storage tank; The condenser is inside the outdoor unit, with an atomization unit installed directly opposite it. The atomization unit is connected to the storage tank, and a temperature sensing unit is on the condenser. The condensate water inlet pipe connects to the outdoor unit's water pipe. The atomization unit uses purified condensate to cool the condenser in stages, avoiding poor refrigeration and increased compressor power consumption due to high condenser temperature.

Abstract: A multi-area artificial fog pipe network control method and system based on a you only look once version 5 (YOLOv5) algorithm are provided. The method includes: obtaining thermal sensation data of each target person based on facial skin temperature; calculating group thermal sensation data of each subarea and total group thermal sensation data of an artificial fog pipe network area; determining a total flow of fog-making water introduced into the artificial fog pipe network according to target number of people and total group thermal sensation data; controlling opening gears of atomization nozzles on the artificial fog pipe networks in subareas according to a number of the target person in each subarea, the group thermal sensation data and a micro-action type of each target person.

Abstract: Disclosed is a two-phase access authentication method integrating spatial-temporal features in space-air-ground integrated networks. In the method, an access authentication is divided into two phases: a primary authentication phase and a continued authentication phase. In the primary authentication phase, a user equipment and a satellite are respectively initialized and registered through a ground network control center. In the authentication phase, a fast and secure access is achieved by using a user ID, facial features, and other authentication factors. In the continued authentication phase, data of a user flow and behavior features are acquired, and feature comparison is performed by using historical user data; and a security level and an authentication decision are output.

Abstract: Systems and methods for generating attention masks are provided. In particular, a computing system can access sensor data and map data for an area around an autonomous vehicle. The computing system can generate a voxel grid representation of the sensor data and map data. The computing system can generate an attention mask based on the voxel grid representation. The computing system can generate, by using the voxel grid representation and the attention mask as input to a machine-learned model, an attention weighted feature map. The computing system can determine using the attention weighted feature map, a planning cost volume for an area around the autonomous vehicle. The computing system can select a trajectory for the autonomous vehicle based, at least in part, on the planning cost volume.

Abstract: A method for foundation consolidation combining vacuum preloading and geomembrane bag assembly loading, which comprises: digging a slurry pit, filling mud into the slurry pit and conducting vacuum preloading pumpdrainage for multiple times, laying the geomembrane bag assemblies above the soft slurry seam processed through vacuum preloading pumpdrainage inside the slurry pit to form a plurality of loading layers, and laying the geomembrane bag assemblies by piling geomembrane bags. In view of the engineering complexity and uneven settlement resulting from conventional vacuum preloading using slag loading, geomembrane bag for loading to overcome the adverse effects of slag loading. In the present invention, the drainage system and the geomembrane bag assemblies are laid out to fully leverage their perspective properties, so as to improve the transmission of vacuity in the whole soil mass, speed up the drainage rate, and increase the degree of consolidation.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that apply neural networks such as, for example, convolutional neural networks, to sparse imagery in an improved manner. For example, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can be included in or otherwise leveraged by an autonomous vehicle. In one example, a computing system can extract one or more relevant portions from imagery, where the relevant portions are less than an entirety of the imagery. The computing system can provide the relevant portions of the imagery to a machine-learned convolutional neural network and receive at least one prediction from the machine-learned convolutional neural network based at least in part on the one or more relevant portions of the imagery. Thus, the computing system can skip performing convolutions over regions of the imagery where the imagery is sparse and/or regions of the imagery that are not relevant to the prediction being sought.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed for high quality and low power dynamic region of interest (ROI) cropping. An example apparatus disclosed herein provides a first image to image signal processor (ISP) circuitry, the ISP circuitry to implement an image processing pipeline to process the first image. The example apparatus also downscales the first image to generate a second image having lower resolution than the first image and identifies a region of interest (ROI) in the second image. The example apparatus further provides coordinates of the ROI to the ISP circuitry, the ISP circuitry to crop the first image based on the coordinates and to output a third image based on the cropped first image.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of magnesium metallurgy, and in particular to a device and method for magnesium smelting by vacuum carbothermal reduction of calcined dolomite. The device includes a reaction chamber, a condensation chamber, a first temperature regulation module and an air pressure regulation module, and the reaction chamber is communicated with the condensation chamber via a gas-guide tube. In the present disclosure, different condensation zones are utilized to sequentially condense gaseous products based on dew points, effectively preventing impurities from entering the condensation process of magnesium.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure, and a semiconductor structure. The manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure includes: forming a plurality of cylindrical capacitors in an initial structure; removing part of the initial structure to form trenches, the trenches expose partial sidewalls of the cylindrical capacitors and a substrate of the initial structure; forming a dielectric layer, the dielectric layer at least covers an exposed surface of each of the cylindrical capacitors; forming a first top electrode, the first top electrode covers a surface of the dielectric layer; and forming a second top electrode, the second top electrode covers a surface of the first top electrode. In an axial direction of each of the cylindrical capacitors, the second top electrode formed in each of the trenches has a discontinuous part, and an air gap is formed in the discontinuous part of the second top electrode.

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) includes a plurality of first metallization layers on a front side of a circuit layer and a plurality of second metallization layers on a back side of the circuit layer. A semiconductor substrate on the back side of the circuit layer of the IC is thinned to improve access to devices from the back side. The plurality of second metallization layers are employed to provide increased interconnection among the devices without increasing area and may provide increased access to external contacts. Thinning the semiconductor substrate reduces structural rigidity needed for processing, so the IC also includes a stiffening layer on one of the plurality of first metallization layers and the plurality of second metallization layers to increase rigidity and first vias extending through the stiffening layer to couple to first contacts.

Abstract: Provided is a method for preparing high-purity indium (In). The method for preparing the high-purity In includes: distilling refined In to obtain an In vapor-containing gas; and condensing the In vapor-containing gas to obtain the high-purity In; where the distilling is conducted at a temperature of 1,000° C. to 1,100° C. under a vacuum degree of 1.0×10?3 Pa to 5.0×10?2 Pa; and the condensing is conducted at a temperature of 700° C. to 900° C. under a vacuum degree of 1.0×10?3 Pa to 5.0×10?2 Pa. The In vapor-containing gas is obtained by controlling the temperature and vacuum degree of the distilling to evaporate In and impurities with a vapor pressure higher than the In. The temperature and vacuum degree of the condensing are adjusted to condense the In in the In vapor-containing gas.

Abstract: A high-concentration high-entropy electrolyte and its preparation method and battery were disclosing in the present disclosure. A high-concentration high-entropy electrolyte, including a solvent, a first solute salt and added salts, the first solute salt is a solute salt with high solubility in the solvent, while the added salts are composed of at least three solute salts, the molar concentration range of the solute salts in the high-concentration high-entropy electrolyte is between 20 M-60 M, the molar concentration of the first solute salt is greater than 20 M, and the molar concentration of the first solute salt is greater than 50% of the molar concentration of the high-concentration high-entropy electrolyte. The sodium-carbon dioxide batteries assembled with high-concentration high-entropy electrolytes not only have higher power density, but also have excellent discharge specific capacity and rate performance.

Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a remodeling plan for a property are disclosed. An exemplary system includes a communication interface configured to receive a floor plan of the property and a remodeling preference. The system further includes at least one processor configured to obtain structural data of the property based on the floor plan and obtain a neural network model based on the remodeling preference. The neural network model is trained using sample floor plans and sample remodeling data for the remodeling preference. The at least one processor is further configured to learn structural remodeling information based on the floor plan and the structural data using the neural network model. The at least one processor is also configured to generate the remodeling plan for the property based on the structural remodeling information. The remodeling plan identifies one or more structures in the floor plan for remodeling.

Abstract: A method for preparing a semiconductor device is provided. The method for preparing the semiconductor device includes: providing a substrate, and forming a first dielectric layer on one side of the substrate, where the substrate includes an array area and a peripheral area arranged outside of the array area; forming an initial mask pattern on one side of the first dielectric layer away from the substrate; performing at least two patterning processes on the initial mask pattern, to form a first mask pattern in the array area and to form a second mask pattern in the peripheral area. The first mask pattern has a first height, the second mask pattern has a second height, and the second height is greater than the first height. Both of the array area and the peripheral area are exposed by using each of the at least two patterning processes.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a resistive random access memory, wherein a resistive random access memory chip manufactured thereby includes a first-type resistive random access memory cell and a second-type resistive random access memory cell, a resistive layer of the first-type resistive random access memory cell includes a high voltage material layer, and a resistive layer of the second-type resistive random access memory cell is a high dielectric constant material layer. The first-type resistive random access memory cell is characterized by a long storage time, and the second-type resistive random access memory cell characterized by a fast response and a high computing speed. The method for manufacturing a resistive random access memory has an innovative process that allows process integration of two types of resistive random access memory cells, so that the manufactured random access memory chip is able to meet two types of performance demands.