Abstract: The present disclosure relates, in general, to improved processes for the preparation of 4-{8-amino-3-[(2S)-1-(but-2-ynoyl)pyrrolidin-2-yl]imidazo[1,5-a]pyrazin-1-yl}-N-(pyridin-2-yl)-benzamide, particularly large-scale processes for manufacturing 4-{8-amino-3-[(2S)-1-(but-2-ynoyl)pyrrolidin-2-yl]imidazo[1,5-a]pyrazin-1-yl}-N-(pyridin-2-yl)benzamide and intermediates used in such processes.

Abstract: A method for managing connections associated with multiple subscriber numbers is provided. The method includes the following steps: using a first subscriber number and a second subscriber number to establish two data connections with two mobile communication networks; receiving a QoS update notification from one of the wireless transceivers in response to the first data connection being used for data transfer of an application; and enabling the data transfer of the application to switch from the first data connection to the second data connection in response to the QoS update notification indicating that the QoS of the first data connection fails to support the application and the QoS of the second data connection is capable of supporting the application. Advantageously, the performance requirement of the application may be maintained after switching to the second data connection, thereby ensuring smooth operation of the application.

Abstract: A method for providing a frame-based mel spectral representation of speech includes receiving a text utterance having at least one word, and selecting a mel spectral embedding for the text utterance. Each word in the text utterance has at least one syllable and each syllable has at least one phoneme. For each phoneme, using the selected mel spectral embedding, the method also includes: predicting a duration of the corresponding phoneme by encoding linguistic features of the corresponding phoneme with a corresponding syllable embedding for the syllable that includes the corresponding phoneme; and generating a plurality of fixed-length predicted mel-frequency spectrogram frames based on the predicted duration for the corresponding phoneme. Each fixed-length predicted mel-frequency spectrogram frame representing mel-spectral information of the corresponding phoneme.

Abstract: A method includes receiving an input text utterance to be synthesized into expressive speech having an intended prosody and a target voice and generating, using a first text-to-speech (TTS) model, an intermediate synthesized speech representation tor the input text utterance The intermediate synthesized speech representation possesses the intended prosody. The method also includes providing the intermediate synthesized speech representation to a second TTS model that includes an encoder portion and a decoder portion. The encoder portion is configured to encode the intermediate synthesized speech representation into an utterance embedding that specifies the intended prosody The decoder portion is configured to process the input text utterance and the utterance embedding to generate an output audio signal of expressive speech that has the intended prosody specified by the utterance embedding and speaker characteristics of the target voice.

Abstract: A mobile communication device including a wireless transceiver, a storage device, and a controller is provided. The wireless transceiver performs wireless transmission and reception using a Radio Access Technology (RAT). The storage device stores program code of a management program. The controller loads and executes the management program in an application framework layer to perform management of network slicing configuration, including: inquiring of the wireless transceiver about first network slicing configuration that is currently applied in the wireless transceiver; in response to an application being activated, determining whether the first network slicing configuration meets one or more requirement parameters of the application; and in response to the first network slicing configuration meeting the requirement parameters of the application, sending a first configuration success message to the application without requesting the wireless transceiver to reconfigure the first network slicing configuration.

Abstract: An asset manager controls power distribution within an aggregated distributed energy resources system (“DERs system”) having a plurality of assets. The asset manager is configured to operate with a given asset. As such, the asset manager has 1) an interface to receive asset information relating to the given asset and to communicate with another asset manager in the DERs system, and 2) a function generator configured to produce a local cost function using data relating to the given asset only. The local cost function represents a portion of a system cost function for the DERs system. The asset manager also has 3) a controller configured to use the local cost function for the given asset to manage operation of the given asset in the DERs system. In addition, the controller also is configured to determine, using the local cost function, an operating point for the given asset.

Abstract: A method determines the topology of a DERs system having a plurality of assets, where at least one of the assets is a controllable asset. The method injects a power signal at a given frequency from a controllable asset into the DERs system. The voltage at each of the plurality of assets is measured, and the magnitude of perturbation of the voltage at the given frequency is determined for each of the plurality of assets. The method then constructs the topology of the DERs system as a function of the differences of the magnitude of perturbations of each of the plurality of assets.

Abstract: A method for representing an intended prosody in synthesized speech includes receiving a text utterance having at least one word, and selecting an utterance embedding for the text utterance. Each word in the text utterance has at least one syllable and each syllable has at least one phoneme. The utterance embedding represents an intended prosody. For each syllable, using the selected utterance embedding, the method also includes: predicting a duration of the syllable by encoding linguistic features of each phoneme of the syllable with a corresponding prosodic syllable embedding for the syllable; predicting a pitch contour of the syllable based on the predicted duration for the syllable; and generating a plurality of fixed-length predicted pitch frames based on the predicted duration for the syllable. Each fixed-length predicted pitch frame represents part of the predicted pitch contour of the syllable.

Abstract: A method and a display driver apparatus for detecting panel defect on an electronic paper display (EPD) are provided. A sense voltage from the voltage for common (VCOM) electrode of the EPD is obtained and compared with an upper reference voltage and a lower reference voltage. As the sense voltage is proportional to a total capacitance of the plural display electrode capacitors on the EPD, a defective panel with capacitance abnormality or opened circuits can be identified.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a machine learning model to generate embeddings of inputs to the machine learning model, the machine learning model having an encoder that generates the embeddings from the inputs and a decoder that generates outputs from the generated embeddings, wherein the embedding is partitioned into a sequence of embedding partitions that each includes one or more dimensions of the embedding, the operations comprising: for a first embedding partition in the sequence of embedding partitions: performing initial training to train the encoder and a decoder replica corresponding to the first embedding partition; for each particular embedding partition that is after the first embedding partition in the sequence of embedding partitions: performing incremental training to train the encoder and a decoder replica corresponding to the particular partition.

Abstract: A mobile communication device including a wireless transceiver, a storage device, and a controller is provided. The wireless transceiver performs wireless transmission and reception using a Radio Access Technology (RAT). The storage device stores program code of a management program. The controller loads and executes the management program in an application framework layer to perform management of network slicing configuration, including: inquiring of the wireless transceiver about first network slicing configuration that is currently applied in the wireless transceiver; in response to an application being activated, determining whether the first network slicing configuration meets one or more requirement parameters of the application; and in response to the first network slicing configuration meeting the requirement parameters of the application, sending a first configuration success message to the application without requesting the wireless transceiver to reconfigure the first network slicing configuration.

Abstract: A method for representing an intended prosody in synthesized speech includes receiving a text utterance having at least one word, and selecting an utterance embedding for the text utterance. Each word in the text utterance has at least one syllable and each syllable has at least one phoneme. The utterance embedding represents an intended prosody. For each syllable, using the selected utterance embedding, the method also includes: predicting a duration of the syllable by encoding linguistic features of each phoneme of the syllable with a corresponding prosodic syllable embedding for the syllable; predicting a pitch contour of the syllable based on the predicted duration for the syllable; and generating a plurality of fixed-length predicted pitch frames based on the predicted duration for the syllable. Each fixed-length predicted pitch frame represents part of the predicted pitch contour of the syllable.

Abstract: An asset manager controls power distribution within an aggregated distributed energy resources system (“DERs system”) having a plurality of assets. The asset manager is configured to operate with a given asset. As such, the asset manager has 1) an interface to receive asset information relating to the given asset and to communicate with another asset manager in the DERs system, and 2) a function generator configured to produce a local cost function using data relating to the given asset only. The local cost function represents a portion of a system cost function for the DERs system. The asset manager also has 3) a controller configured to use the local cost function for the given asset to manage operation of the given asset in the DERs system. In addition, the controller also is configured to determine, using the local cost function, an operating point for the given asset.

Abstract: A method determines the topology of a DERs system having a plurality of assets, where at least one of the assets is a controllable asset. The method injects a power signal at a given frequency from a controllable asset into the DERs system. The voltage at each of the plurality of assets is measured, and the magnitude of perturbation of the voltage at the given frequency is determined for each of the plurality of assets. The method then constructs the topology of the DERs system as a function of the differences of the magnitude of perturbations of each of the plurality of assets.

Abstract: A method for providing a frame-based mel spectral representation of speech includes receiving a text utterance having at least one word, and selecting a mel spectral embedding for the text utterance. Each word in the text utterance has at least one syllable and each syllable has at least one phoneme. For each phoneme, using the selected mel spectral embedding, the method also includes: predicting a duration of the corresponding phoneme by encoding linguistic features of the corresponding phoneme with a corresponding syllable embedding for the syllable that includes the corresponding phoneme; and generating a plurality of fixed-length predicted mel-frequency spectrogram frames based on the predicted duration for the corresponding phoneme. Each fixed-length predicted mel-frequency spectrogram frame representing mel-spectral information of the corresponding phoneme.

Abstract: A light source unit for thermally-assisted magnetic head includes a substrate member having a bonding surface, multiple layers formed on the bonding surface and comprising a base layer, a connection pad layer, an insulation layer and a bonding layer; a light source assembly attached on the bonding layer of the substrate member and having a laser diode embedded therein and connected to the connection pad layer on the bonding surface, so as to form a laser diode circuit; and a heater buried in the insulation layer and connected to the connection pad layer, so as to form a heater circuit. The light source unit can maintain stable heat power for facilitating performance of the thermally-assisted magnetic head, and further reduce the sizes of the light source unit and substrate member.

Abstract: A method for representing an intended prosody in synthesized speech includes receiving a text utterance having at least one word, and selecting an utterance embedding for the text utterance. Each word in the text utterance has at least one syllable and each syllable has at least one phoneme. The utterance embedding represents an intended prosody. For each syllable, using the selected utterance embedding, the method also includes: predicting a duration of the syllable by encoding linguistic features of each phoneme of the syllable with a corresponding prosodic syllable embedding for the syllable; predicting a pitch contour of the syllable based on the predicted duration for the syllable; and generating a plurality of fixed-length predicted pitch frames based on the predicted duration for the syllable. Each fixed-length predicted pitch frame represents part of the predicted pitch contour of the syllable.

Abstract: A method and a display driver apparatus for detecting panel defect on a non-volatile type display panel are disclosed. The present invention obtains a sense voltage from the VCOM electrode or the source lines of the display panel, comparing the sense voltage with an upper reference voltage and a lower reference voltage, and determining a condition of the display panel. As the sense voltage is proportional to a total capacitance of the plural display electrode capacitors on the display panel, a defective panel with abnormal capacitance can be identified.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining an auto white balance (AWB) gain based on determined depth information. The method may include receiving an image captured by an image sensor, determining depth information associated with the captured image, assigning weights to a plurality of illuminants based on the determined depth information, determining an auto white balance gain based on the assigned weights and statistics of the captured image, and applying the auto white balance gain to the captured image.