Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a master latch circuit having a first clock input and a data output, a slave latch circuit having a second clock input and a data input electrically coupled to the data output of the master latch circuit, and a clock circuit. The clock circuit is electrically coupled to the first clock input by a first electrical connection configured to have a first time delay between the clock circuit and the first clock input. The clock circuit is electrically coupled to the second clock input by a second electrical connection configured to have a second time delay between the clock circuit and the second clock input. The first time delay is longer than the second time delay.

Abstract: A wrinkle detection method includes: obtaining an original image, where the original image includes a face; adjusting a size of an ROI region on the original image to obtain at least two ROI images of different sizes, where the ROI region is a region in which a wrinkle on the face is located. A terminal device processes all the at least two ROI images of different sizes to obtain at least two binary images, where a white region in each binary image is a region in which a wrinkle is suspected to appear. The terminal device fuses the at least two binary images to obtain a final image, where a white region on the final image is recognized as a wrinkle.

Abstract: The present invention provides a virtual keyboard for inputting Chinese characters and a configuring method thereof, an input method, and a Chinese character input system. The configuring method includes the following steps: setting a geometric layout of the virtual keyboard; and setting initials and finals on available keys of the virtual keyboard respectively using a cost function-based search algorithm so as to obtain an optimal layout of initial keys and final keys, wherein the initial keys and the final keys in the optimal layout are set based on a minimum cost function value for spelling all Chinese syllables, and the minimum cost function value is a minimum sum of weighted distances of the initial keys and the final keys for all the Chinese syllables.

Abstract: The invention provides a recombinant Escherichia coli strain for producing succinic acid and a construction method thereof. The by-product encoding genes in the E. coli strain FMME-N-2 are knocked out to obtain the E. coli strain FMME-N-5 (?focA-pflB-?ldhA-?pta-ackA); and the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase pck derived from Actinobacillus succinogenes and the phosphite dehydrogenase ptxD derived from Pseudomonas stutzeri were overexpressed. The constructed plasmid pTrcHisA-pck-ptxD was introduced into the expression host E. coli FMME-N-5 (?focA-pflB-?ldhA-?pta-ackA), and the cells were screened in a plate containing ampicillin, to obtain an engineered strain E. coli FMME-N-5 (?focA-pflB-?ldhA-?pta-ackA)-pck-ptxD that can efficiently produce succinic acid. After fermentation by a two-stage fermentation strategy, the production of succinic acid reaches 137 g/L, the yield of succinic acid is up to 1 g/g glucose, and the space time yield is 1.

Abstract: An electronic device, a method of determining a memory access efficiency for a memory, and a storage medium are provided, which relate to a field of computer technology, and in particular to fields of chip, memory and processor technologies. The electronic device includes: a memory configured to store executable instructions and data to be processed; and a processor configured to execute the executable instructions so as to at least: read a data block to be tested from the memory; determine a memory access description information according to a size information of the data block to be tested; and determine, according to the memory access description information and a channel description information, a memory access efficiency of the processor in reading the data block to be tested, where the channel description information describes a plurality of channels for the processor to read the data to be processed from the memory.

Abstract: Provided is an oral Pt(IV) anticancer prodrug containing a 3-bromopyruvate as an axial ligand, with a molecular formula of cis,trans,cis-[Pt(1R,2R-diaminocyclohexane)(OH)(3-bromopyruvate)(C2O4)]. It is a prodrug of oxaliplatin and 3-bromopyruvic acid is a small molecular glycolysis inhibitor. The prodrug is able to simultaneously act on DNA replication and glycolytic pathways of cancer cells, giving full play to the advantage of double-acting targets. The oral Pt(IV) anticancer prodrug is synthesized by using oxaliplatin as a starting material, performing axial oxidation with H2O2 and neutralizing the oxidized product with 3-bromopyruvic acid.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to an augmented expression system to generate and cause display of a specially configured interface to present an augmented reality perspective. The augmented expression system receives image and video data of a user and tracks facial landmarks of the user based on the image and video data, in real-time to generate and present a 3-dimensional (3D) bitmoji of the user.

Abstract: A wrinkle detection method includes: rotating a region, in a face image, in which a wrinkle needs to be detected, to obtain a plurality of to-be-detected images; determining wrinkle points from all pixel points based on grayscale values of the pixel points in each of the to-be-detected images with different angles; determining at least one wrinkle line based on the wrinkle points; and then displaying, by the electronic device, the wrinkle line in the region in which the wrinkle needs to be detected, where each wrinkle line indicates one wrinkle in each of the to-be-detected images.

Abstract: A display panel and a manufacture method thereof, and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel has a display region and a border region that surrounds the display region and includes a peripheral circuit region and a peripheral region; the peripheral circuit region is between the display region and the peripheral region. At least a part of a barrier structure of the display panel is in the peripheral circuit region, and the barrier structure includes an organic barrier layer including an opening passing through the organic barrier layer and an inorganic barrier layer covering the organic barrier layer and filling the opening; an extension direction of the opening is same as that of an edge, close to the opening, of the display panel the peripheral circuit is in the peripheral circuit region.

Abstract: An electronic vaporization device includes a vaporizable material storage device and an electronic vaporization device body. The electronic vaporization device body includes a first light source, and a second light source. In response to a control signal indicating that a user is starting to use, the electronic vaporization device enters a start stage, and performs the following operations in the start stage: controlling the first light source to increase the brightness from first preset brightness at a first rate at a first time point, and the second light source to increase the brightness from the first preset brightness at a second rate at a second time point, where the first time point is earlier than the second time point, and the first rate is less than the second rate.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming tungsten features in semiconductor devices is provided. The method includes exposing a top opening of a feature formed in a substrate to a physical vapor deposition (PVD) process to deposit a tungsten liner layer within the feature. The PVD process is performed in a first processing region of a first processing chamber and the tungsten liner layer forms an overhang portion, which partially obstructs the top opening of the feature. The substrate is transferred from the first processing region of the first processing chamber to a second processing region of a second processing chamber without breaking vacuum. The overhang portion is exposed to nitrogen-containing radicals in the second processing region to inhibit subsequent growth of tungsten along the overhang portion. The feature is exposed to a tungsten-containing precursor gas to form a tungsten fill layer over the tungsten liner layer within the feature.

Abstract: A method includes transcoding a first block from a spatial region. The first block is associated with a first block tree pattern defining a structure of splitting a block into smaller blocks. A bit string of bits for the first block tree pattern is included in an encoded bitstream. The method determines a location of the first block in the spatial region when the first block tree pattern of the first block can be reused for a second block tree pattern of a second block. The spatial region includes blocks and the location is based on the first block being in the spatial region. Information for the second block is included in the encoded bitstream that indicates the location of the first block in the spatial region. The location allows the bit string for the first block tree pattern to be retrieved for use to decode the second block.

Abstract: A method and a device for a chip layout, computer equipment, and a medium. The method includes steps of: determining external interfaces and internal interfaces of a chip, where the internal interface is a port of a component of the chip; constructing, according to the external interfaces and the internal interfaces, an objective function, where the objective function is applied to describe a wiring length of the chip; determining a target value of the objective function through a preset genetic algorithm, where the target value is applied to determine a first layout diagram of the chip; determining, based on an operation temperature of an internal chip as the component of the chip, a second layout diagram of the chip; performing an image fusion on the first layout diagram and the second layout diagram to obtain a target layout diagram of the chip.

Abstract: This invention provides a system and method for detecting and acquiring one or more in-focus images of one or more barcodes within the field of view of an imaging device. A measurement process measures depth-of-field of barcode detection. A plurality of nominal coarse focus settings of a variable lens allow sampling, in steps, of a lens adjustment range corresponding to allowable distances between the one or more barcodes and the image sensor, so that a step size of the sampling is less than a fraction of the depth-of-field of barcode detection. An acquisition process acquires a nominal coarse focus image for each nominal coarse focus setting. A barcode detection process detects one or more barcode-like regions and respective likelihoods. A fine focus process fine-adjusts, for each high-likelihood barcode, the variable lens near a location of the barcode-like regions. The process acquires an image for decoding using the fine adjusted setting.

Abstract: A method and related system detail a split of an architecture of a monolithic application into an architecture of a micro service application. The method receives source code for the monolithic application, and maps the source code into a directed graph. The graph is split into subgraphs and optimized. The method further provides the detailing of the micro service application split, based on the subgraphs.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to predicting height information for an object. First distance data is determined at a first time when an object is at a first position that is only partially within the field-of-view. Second distance data is determined at a second, later time when the object is at a second, different position that is only partially within the field-of-view. A distance measurement model that models a physical parameter of the object within the field-of-view is determined for the object based on the first and second distance data. Third distance data indicative of an estimated distance to the object prior to the object being entirely within the field-of-view of the distance sensing device is determined based on the first distance data, the second distance data, and the distance measurement model. Data indicative of a height of the object is determined based on the third distance data.

Abstract: Provided is a method, computer program product, and system for fusing knowledge graphs to generate a larger knowledgebase for responding to cross document questions. A processor may extract contextual information from a plurality of documents. The processor may generate, based on the extracted contextual information, a knowledge graph for each document of the plurality of documents. The processor may analyze each knowledge graph to determine if one or more entities of each knowledge graph are linked. The processor may fuse, in response to an entity in a first knowledge graph being linked to an entity in a second knowledge graph, the first knowledge graph with the second knowledge graph to create a fused knowledge graph.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for assigning nodes in a circuit design to layers. The method includes identifying a plurality of structures in a circuit design. Each of the plurality of structures includes four nodes of the circuit design and each of the four nodes are connected to every other node in the respective structure. The method also includes removing, from the plurality of structures, an even number of pairs of connected nodes of the circuit design to form a reduced node structure and assigning circuit layers for the nodes in the reduced node structure. The method further includes assigning, by a processing device, circuit layers for the pairs of connected nodes removed from the plurality of structures based on the assigned circuit layers for the nodes in the reduced node structure.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for compressing data, and more particularly, to large-scale text data encoding and compression using absolute overfitting on pre-trained language models. Large-scale data is parsed into sentences. A unique token is generated for each sentence to form a token list. A generative (or compression) model is trained from the tokens in the token list to produce the corresponding sentence of each token through absolute overfitting of a pre-trained language model. The compressed text data is stored as the token list and generative model, resulting in a storage space savings.

Abstract: A method and related system detail a split of an architecture of a monolithic application into an architecture of a micro service application. The method receives source code for the monolithic application, and maps the source code into a directed graph. The graph is split into subgraphs and optimized. The method further provides the detailing of the micro service application split, based on the subgraphs.