Abstract: An access control includes: performing, by a camera device, video data collection to obtain video data; performing, by the camera device, face image detection on the video data; in response to a face image being detected, performing, by the camera device, authentication on the face image; and outputting, by the camera device according to whether extracted feature data passes the authentication, a corresponding access control signal, so that an access control linkage apparatus opens or closes a door. Based on the embodiments of the present disclosure, the convenience and safety when a user passes through an access control are improved, the detection time is short, the detection efficiency is high, and the security of user data is improved.

Abstract: A high dynamic range imaging sensor includes a pixel array of pixel cells, a readout circuitry, a function logic and a control circuitry. Each pixel cell comprises one of a normal pixel and a base pixel, and each M rows by N columns pixels defines a pixel subarray. Each pixel subarray includes at least three normal pixels and at least one base pixel. The readout circuitry is coupled to read image data out from a plurality of pixels of the pixel array. The readout circuitry includes an Analog-to-Digital Converter associated to respective readout column. The function logic is coupled to receive the digital image data from the readout circuitry. The control circuitry is coupled to receive exposure levels from the function logic and to output each applied exposure level assigned to respective pixel subarray of the pixel array to control an exposure time of each pixel.

Abstract: A high dynamic range imaging sensor includes a pixel array of pixel cells, a readout circuitry, a function logic and a control circuitry. Each pixel cell comprises one of a normal pixel and a base pixel, and each M rows by N columns pixels defines a pixel subarray. Each pixel subarray includes at least three normal pixels and at least one base pixel. The readout circuitry is coupled to read image data out from a plurality of pixels of the pixel array. The readout circuitry includes an Analog-to-Digital Converter associated to respective readout column. The function logic is coupled to receive the digital image data from the readout circuitry. The control circuitry is coupled to receive exposure levels from the function logic and to output each applied exposure level assigned to respective pixel subarray of the pixel array to control an exposure time of each pixel.

Abstract: A method for demosaicing a raw image includes: (1) horizontally-interpolating a green channel formed of primary pixel-values Bg(x,y)g to yield a horizontally-interpolated green channel that includes both Bg(x,y)g and non-primary pixel-values Igh(x,y)r,b; (2) modifying each Igh(x,y)r,b, by horizontally-neighboring pixel-values, to yield a refined horizontally-interpolated green channel; (3) vertically-interpolating the green channel to yield a vertically-interpolated green channel that includes pixel-values Igv(x,y)r,b; (4) modifying each Igv(x,y)r,b by vertically-neighboring pixel-values, to yield a refined vertically-interpolated green channel; (5) generating a full-resolution green channel from the refined interpolated green channels and gradients thereof; (6) generating a full-resolution red channel by determining red pixel-values from a local-red mean value of neighboring pixel-values and the full-resolution green channel; (7) generating a full-resolution blue channel by determining pixel-values from a lo

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a speaker, comprising a basin frame with a receiving space, a vibration system disposed at the basin frame, and a magnetic circuit system configured for driving the vibration system to vibrate and thus generate sound, wherein, the vibration system comprises a sound radiation plate, a flexible circuit board for elastically supporting the sound radiation plate and a voice coil disposed at a lower side of the flexible circuit board, the flexible circuit board comprises coating layers laminated apart and a copper layer sandwiched between two adjacent coating layers, the coating layers are poly ether ether ketone layers and/or a thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer layers. The speaker provided by the present disclosure has a vibration system with a smaller mass, a higher sensitivity and a reduced cost.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a speaker, comprising a basin frame with a receiving space, a vibration system disposed at the basin frame, and a magnetic circuit system configured for driving the vibration system to generate sounds by vibration, the vibration system comprises a diaphragm with an outer edge fixedly held by the basin frame and a voice coil configured for driving the diaphragm to vibrate, the voice coil includes a first voice and a second voice coil fixedly connected to the first voice coil, the first and second voice coils are disposed in parallel and symmetrically, the first and second voice coils are integrally wound molded and the winding direction of the first voice coil is opposite to that of the second voice coil. The speaker provided by the present disclosure could improve utilization of magnetic field, provide better vibration effect and reduce resonance frequency.

Abstract: A method for determining exposure levels of an image-sensor pixel array includes (a) storing a first plurality of pixel values representing a first captured image, captured with the image sensor in an applied exposure configuration, each distinct region of the pixel array having a respective first exposure level, (b) determining pixel-value global statistics, (c) estimating, from the global statistics, a global pixel value of the first captured image, (d) determining, for each distinct region, a respective local statistics of the first pixel values, (e) assigning, to each distinct region, a respective scale factor based on the local statistics of the distinct region, (f) determining a refined exposure configuration including, for each distinct region, a second exposure level proportional to a product of its respective first exposure level and its respective scale factor, and (g) capturing second pixel values with the image sensor configured in the refined exposure configuration.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing a mesoporous carbon material with layered structure using humin. The preparation method provided by the present invention may prepare a mesoporous carbon with layered structure, especially a mesoporous carbon with layered structure having a regular frame. Prepared by the present invention, the mesoporous carbon with layered structure having the regular frame has a specific surface area up to 1000 m2/g and an average pore diameter of 3 nm-6 nm Such method solves the present problems of low use efficiency of humin and severe waste of resources.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an Internet of Vehicles technology, and particularly to a driving behavior correction method and device based on the Internet of Vehicles. The driving behavior correction method based on the Internet of Vehicles comprises: a first information acquirer acquiring information about a vehicle in real time, and a second information acquirer acquiring vehicle condition information about the other surrounding vehicles on a travelling road in real time; and a determination unit arranged in the vehicle or at a cloud determining in real time, according to the information about the vehicle and the vehicle condition information about the surrounding vehicles, whether a driving behavior of the vehicle is dangerous, and if so, issuing a driving behavior correction prompt to the driver of the vehicle, which can intervene in and correct the driving behavior of the driver in real time.

Abstract: A method for demosaicing a raw image includes: (1) horizontally-interpolating a green channel formed of primary pixel-values Bg(x,y)g to yield a horizontally-interpolated green channel that includes both Bg(x,y)g and non-primary pixel-values Igh(x,y)r,b; (2) modifying each Igh(x,y)r,b, by horizontally-neighboring pixel-values, to yield a refined horizontally-interpolated green channel; (3) vertically-interpolating the green channel to yield a vertically-interpolated green channel that includes pixel-values Igv(x,y)r,b; (4) modifying each Igv(x,y)r,b by vertically-neighboring pixel-values, to yield a refined vertically-interpolated green channel; (5) generating a full-resolution green channel from the refined interpolated green channels and gradients thereof; (6) generating a full-resolution red channel by determining red pixel-values from a local-red mean value of neighboring pixel-values and the full-resolution green channel; (7) generating a full-resolution blue channel by determining pixel-values from a lo

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses have been disclosed for a high speed, low power, isolated buffer having architecture and operation that control current flow to minimize coupling and power consumption. Buffer architecture may include one or more of BiCMOS components, an input disabling circuit operated to additionally disable an input circuit when it is also disabled by a selection circuit and a buffer disabling circuit operated to disable the buffer when the input circuit is disabled by the selection circuit. Any one or more of these features may be implemented to improve isolation performance. The selection circuit, input disabling circuit and buffer disabling circuit may be operated by the same control signal.

Abstract: A method for determining exposure levels of an image-sensor pixel array includes (a) storing a first plurality of pixel values representing a first captured image, captured with the image sensor in an applied exposure configuration, each distinct region of the pixel array having a respective first exposure level, (b) determining pixel-value global statistics, (c) estimating, from the global statistics, a global pixel value of the first captured image, (d) determining, for each distinct region, a respective local statistics of the first pixel values, (e) assigning, to each distinct region, a respective scale factor based on the local statistics of the distinct region, (f) determining a refined exposure configuration including, for each distinct region, a second exposure level proportional to a product of its respective first exposure level and its respective scale factor, and (g) capturing second pixel values with the image sensor configured in the refined exposure configuration.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a speaker, including a frame, a magnetic circuit system and a vibration system accommodated in the frame; the frame includes a main body defining an accommodating space and a mounting portion extending from the main body toward the vibrating diaphragm; the vibrating diaphragm is fixed at the mounting portion; the main body and the mounting portion are integrally formed through double-shot molding by using two kinds of plastics, where the main body is made of PPA, and the mounting portion is made of LCP. According to the speaker provided in the present disclosure, a glued surface between the vibrating diaphragm and the mounting portion has good flatness, which helps to improve waterproof performance and performance yield of the speaker, and firmness of gluing the magnetic circuit system with the main body is high, which helps to improve reliability of the product when the product falls.

Abstract: A two-terminal photon-effect transistor (PET) is described that simplifies the photo sensing pixel by combing photodiode and field effect transistor dual functions into one simple but effective unit. Photons excite electrons from the valance band of semiconducting material as the electrode-free gate to modulate resistivity between source and drain, which directly results in current amplification of photo signal without traditional photo-electrical conversion and electrical amplification dual processes. PET possesses significance in both structural simplification and functional enhancement. As an implementing example of PET, a nanowire camera (NC) with large sensing area and extremely high resolution is fabricated by integrating millions of vertically aligned nanowire arrays in-between of orthogonal top and bottom nano-stripe electrodes. Each nanowire works as independent three-dimensional (3D) PET pixel, enabling the NC an ultra-high resolution and much simplified architecture.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a plurality of latches and a plurality of logic gates. Each latch may be setable and resettable. The logic gates may be connected to the latches to form a multi-modulus divider that generates an output clock signal by dividing an input clock signal in response to a command signal. Each latch may be commanded into a corresponding initial state while the command signal is in an initialization state. Each latch is generally free to change states while the command signal is in a run state. A modulus division operation of the multi-modulus divider may start upon an initial edge of the input clock signal after the command signal changes from the initialization state to the run state.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling charging of charging devices, which includes: serially connecting the plurality of charging devices into a charging queue and detecting parameters of at least some charging devices in the charging queue; determining a relative location of each charging device in the queue; and starting or stopping charging of each charging device according to the parameters and the relative location of the charging device. Also disclosed is a charging control device. Accordingly, the connection of any number of charging devices into the queue at any time without exceeding the power load by controlling start and stop of charging each charging device. Overcharging phenomenon can be prevented by stopping charging in a timely manner, saving electric energy. Also, the charging device at the queue tail can be charged preferentially, making it convenient for picking up a trolley from the queue tail, and better satisfying operation needs.

Abstract: A signal may be arbitrarily delayed in discrete steps by an arbitrary delay buffer having an analog delay and a digital delay. An analog delay may have a number of selectable delay stages (e.g. ring oscillator with VCDL stages). A digital delay may have rising and falling edge detectors, resettable ring oscillators that oscillate in response to rising or falling edges and counters to count oscillations and generate rising and falling edge delay signals when oscillation counts reach rising and falling edge delay counts. A resettable ring oscillator may have a resettable stage (e.g. VCDL) that may be enabled and disabled. Selection of one or both digital and analog delays and respective delay times may be based on one or more characteristics. For example, an analog delay may delay an input signal or a delayed input signal received from the digital delay based on input signal frequency or total delay.

Abstract: A two-terminal photon-effect transistor (PET) is described that simplifies the photo sensing pixel by combing photodiode and field effect transistor dual functions into one simple but effective unit. Photons excite electrons from the valance band of semiconducting material as the electrode-free gate to modulate resistivity between source and drain, which directly results in current amplification of photo signal without traditional photo-electrical conversion and electrical amplification dual processes. PET possesses significance in both structural simplification and functional enhancement. As an implementing example of PET, a nanowire camera (NC) with large sensing area and extremely high resolution is fabricated by integrating millions of vertically aligned nanowire arrays in-between of orthogonal top and bottom nano-stripe electrodes. Each nanowire works as independent three-dimensional (3D) PET pixel, enabling the NC an ultra-high resolution and much simplified architecture.

Abstract: A vehicle start method, which is used for starting a vehicle using a mobile terminal and a vehicle key in a non-contact manner and comprises: a mobile terminal sending a start request; the mobile terminal acquiring a first security authentication code in response to the start request; the mobile terminal acquiring key information from the vehicle key; the mobile terminal generating a start data stream in a predetermined manner according to the key information and the first security authentication code, and sending the start data stream to the vehicle; the vehicle receiving the start data stream, and acquiring the first security authentication code and the key information from the start data stream; the vehicle verifying whether the first security authentication code is correct, and determining whether the key information matches the vehicle; and only when both of the results are positive, a vehicle controller starting the vehicle.

Abstract: An imaging system includes a primary imager and plurality of 3A-control sensors. The primary imager has a first field of view and includes a primary image sensor and a primary imaging lens with a first optical axis. The primary image sensor has a primary pixel array and control circuitry communicatively coupled thereto. The plurality of 3A-control sensors includes at least one of a peripheral imager and a 3A-control sensor. The peripheral imager, if included, has a second field of view including (i) at least part of the first field of view and (ii) a phase-difference auto-focus (PDAF) sensor and a peripheral imaging lens, the PDAF sensor being separate from the primary image sensor. The 3A-control sensor, if included, is separate from the primary pixel array and communicatively connected to the control circuitry to provide one of auto-white balance and exposure control for the primary pixel array.