Abstract: A method may include forming a dummy dielectric layer over a substrate, and forming a dummy gate over the dummy dielectric layer. The method may also include forming a first spacer adjacent the dummy gate, and removing the dummy gate to form a cavity, where the cavity is defined at least in part by the first spacer. The method may also include performing a plasma treatment on portions of the first spacer, where the plasma treatment causes a material composition of the portions of the first spacer to change from a first material composition to a second material composition. The method may also include etching the portions of the first spacer having the second material composition to remove the portions of the first spacer having the second material composition, and filling the cavity with conductive materials to form a gate structure.

Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for testing time parameters of an adaptor and systems. The method includes the following. After a testing system is coupled with an adaptor, a clock signal is received from the adaptor, where the clock signal is indicative of the transmission time of the instruction. A first valid interrupt of the clock signal, a square wave corresponding to the first valid interrupt, and a next valid interrupt of the first valid interrupt are acquired. A first falling edge and a first rising edge of the first valid interrupt, a second falling edge of the square wave, and a third falling edge of the next valid interrupt are acquired. A test result time parameters of the adaptor is generated according to the first falling edge, the first rising edge, the second falling edge, and the third falling edge.

Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, an underlying structure is formed. A surface grafting layer is formed on the underlying structure. A photo resist layer is formed on the surface grafting layer. The surface grafting layer includes a coating material including a backbone polymer, a surface grafting unit coupled to the backbone polymer and an adhesion unit coupled to the backbone polymer.

Abstract: A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same, the semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate structure and an epitaxial structure. The gate structure is disposed on the substrate, and the epitaxial structure is disposed in the substrate, at one side of the gate structure. The epitaxial structure includes a portion being protruded from a top surface of the substrate, and the portion includes a discontinuous sidewall, with a distance between a turning point of the discontinuous sidewalls and the gate structure being a greatest distance between the epitaxial structure and the gate structure.

Abstract: method to form an electrical component, comprising: overlaying a conductive and adhesive layer on a body and covering a first portion of a terminal part of a conductive element, wherein a second portion of the terminal part of the conductive element is not covered by the conductive and adhesive layer; and overlaying at least one metal layer on the conductive and adhesive layer and covering the second portion of the terminal part of the conductive element, wherein the at least one metal layer is electrically connected to the second portion of the terminal part of the conductive element for electrically connecting with an external circuit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an assistive glove for daily activities of stroke patient which comprises a main body, a first pulling member, a second pulling member, and plural circular strings. The main body comprises a thumb sleeve, at least one finger sleeve a palm portion connected to the thumb sleeve and the at least one finger sleeve by one side and a wrist portion connected to another side of the palm portion. The first pulling member and the second pulling member are disposed on the palm portion and having a first hook and at least one second hook corresponding to the thumb sleeve and the at least one finger sleeve. The plural circular strings are hung on the first hook and the at least one second hook and fixed to the thumb sleeve and the at least one finger sleeve respectively.

Abstract: A touch system has a touch device and an input device. The touch system executes a first mode and a second mode at different times. In the first mode, the touch device transmits a modulation signal to drive the touch electrodes and to be used as an uplink signal. The input device receives the modulation signal. In the second mode, the touch device receives the downlink signal from the input device. Thus, the touch device does not have to transmit the driving signal and the uplink signal at different times. Then the time is saved for the rest work periods so that every work periods get longer length of time.

Abstract: Techniques involve storing data. In particular, such techniques involve: obtaining first data to be stored; determining whether the first data is able to be compressed in a compression ratio exceeding a predetermined threshold; and storing, based on the determined result, the first data into a storage device. Accordingly, such techniques can execute corresponding processing for data in a predicted compression ratio, so as to store the data into a storage device. In this manner, such techniques can significantly cut down the overheads for processing data while minimizing a storage space required for storing data.

Abstract: A client device determines a local user gradient value based on a current user preference vector and a local item gradient value based on a current item feature vector. The client device updates a user preference vector by using the local user gradient value and updates an item feature vector by using the local item gradient value. The client device determines a neighboring client device based on a predetermined adjacency relationship. The local item gradient value is sent by the client device to the neighboring client device. The client device receives a neighboring item gradient value sent by the neighboring client device. The client device updates the item feature vector by using the neighboring item gradient value. In response to the client device determining that a predetermined iteration stop condition is satisfied, the client device outputs the user preference vector and the item feature vector.

Abstract: A touchpad device is used to connect a first fixing portion of a housing. The touchpad device includes a hinge structure and a circuit board. The hinge structure includes a main body and an elastic arm. The main body is located above the first fixing portion. The elastic arm is connected to the main body and includes a second fixing portion. The second fixing portion is fixed to the first fixing portion of the housing. A bottom surface of the circuit board is attached to a top surface of the main body.

Abstract: The present application discloses an interactive intelligent pet feeding device which belongs to the technical field of pet feeding devices, including a feeding device body, the feeding device body including a pet food feeding control device and a shake detection module, the pet food feeding control device being configured to realize quantitative feeding of pet food and prevent jamming of the pet food, the shake detection module being configured to detect the motion state of the feeding device body, the shake detection module being connected to a control module to implement data communication, and the control module implementing data communication with a mobile terminal through a wireless transmission module.

Abstract: A semantic segmentation model training method includes: performing, by a semantic segmentation model, image semantic segmentation on at least one unlabeled image to obtain a preliminary semantic segmentation result as the category of the unlabeled image; obtaining, by a convolutional neural network based on the category of the at least one unlabeled image and the category of at least one labeled image, sub-images respectively corresponding to the at least two images and features corresponding to the sub-images, where the at least two images comprise the at least one unlabeled image and the at least one labeled image, and the at least two sub-images carry the categories of the corresponding images; and training the semantic segmentation model on the basis of the categories of the at least two sub-images and feature distances between the at least two sub-images.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a video data processing method and device, and a readable storage medium, where the technical means is adopted which includes: processing, according to a preset trained deep learning algorithm model, input video data to be processed, to obtain a label vector of the video data; determining, according to a label vector of each music data in a music library and a preset recommendation algorithm, a recommendation score of the label vector of each music data with respect to the label vector of the video data; and taking, according to the each recommendation score, the music data matching the video data as background music. By means of the above, and further a deep learning algorithm model and a recommendation algorithm, the data processing efficiency of finding the background music of the video data in the music library is effectively improved, and the labor cost is reduced.

Abstract: An image style transform method includes: acquiring an initial image to be subjected to style transform; inputting a gradient of the initial image to an image style transform model, and obtaining a feature map of the initial image in a gradient domain from the image style transform model, where the image style transform model is obtained by being trained in the gradient domain based on a pixel-wise loss and a perceptual loss; and performing image reconstruction according to the feature map of the initial image in the gradient domain to obtain a style image.

Abstract: A semiconductor device including a fin field effect transistor (FinFET) with a cut metal gate (CMG) and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device are described herein. The method includes forming a CMG protective helmet structure at a top portion of a CMG dummy gate plug formed within a semiconductor substrate. The CMG protective helmet structure prevents consumption and damage of a dummy filler material in a CMG region and prevents undesirable polymer/residue byproducts from forming on top surfaces of epitaxial regions of the FinFET during etching processes.

Abstract: A codebook configuration method, a port configuration method and a device for the same are provided. A communication device determines configuration information of a codebook, where the configuration information of the codebook includes at least one of value range selection information of a base vector in a construction model of the codebook or value range selection information of a codeword in the codebook. The communication device sends the configuration information of the codebook to a communication peer end.

Abstract: A method is provided. Plural semiconductor fins are formed on a substrate, and plural trenches each of which is formed between two adjacent semiconductor fins. A silicon liner layer is deposited to be conformal to the semiconductor fins and the trenches. The silicon liner layer is deposited by using a silane compound. Then, an oxide layer is deposited on the silicon liner layer to fill the trenches and cover the semiconductor fins, in which depositing the oxide layer forms water in the oxide layer. Next, a surface of the silicon liner layer is reacted with the water, so as to remove the water from the oxide layer.

Abstract: The invention provides a touch display apparatus including a display device, a polarizer device, and a touch device. The polarizer device and the touch device are stacked on the display device. The touch device has a substrate with a thickness-direction phase retardation value Rth, and 0 nm?|Rth|?100 nm. The touch display apparatus has high display quality under the irradiation of an ambient beam.

Abstract: A method for parallelization of a numeric optimizer includes detecting an initialization of a numeric optimization process of a given function. The method computes a vector-distance between an input vector and a first neighbor vector of a set of neighbor vectors. The method predicts, using the computed vector-distance, a subset of the set of neighbor vectors. The method pre-computes, in a parallel processing system, a set of evaluation values in parallel, each evaluation value corresponding to one of the subset of the set of neighbor vectors. The method detects a computation request from the numeric optimization process, the computation request involving at least one of the set of evaluation values. The method supplies, in response to receiving the computation request, and without performing a computation of the computation request, a parallelly pre-computed evaluation value from the set of evaluation values to the numeric optimization process.

Abstract: An impact resistant structure for an electronic component. The impact resistant structure includes a resistance stack layer and a damping laminate. The resistance stack layer is disposed on a first surface of the electronic component, a thickness of the resistance stack layer is less than 10 ?m, and a Young's modulus of the resistance stack layer is between 40 GPa and 150 GPa. The damping laminate is disposed on a second surface of the electronic component. The second surface of the electronic component is opposite to the first surface. The damping laminate includes a soft film and a support film, where the support film is disposed between the soft film and the electronic component.