Abstract: The present disclosure provides a scan driving circuit, which includes a pull-up output charging circuit, a pull-down discharge circuit, a pre-charge circuit, an anti-noise start-up circuit and an anti-noise pull-down discharge circuit. The pull-up output charging circuit is electrically connected to an output terminal, and the pull-down discharge circuit is electrically connected to the output terminal. The pre-charge circuit is electrically connected to the pull-up output charging circuit and the pull-down discharge circuit through a driving node. The anti-noise start-up circuit is electrically connected to the pre-charge circuit. The anti-noise pull-down discharge circuit is electrically connected to the anti-noise start-up circuit, and the anti-noise pull-down discharge circuit is electrically connected to the driving node.

Abstract: An illumination system provides an illumination beam and includes a red light source, a green light source, a blue light source, a first supplementary light source, a first X-shaped light-splitting assembly, a first light-splitting element, and a light-uniforming element. The red light source provides a red beam. The green light source provides a green beam. The blue light source provides a blue beam. The first supplementary light source provides a first supplementary beam. The first X-shaped light-splitting assembly guides the first supplementary beam and the blue beam to the first light-splitting element. The first light-splitting element guides the red beam, the green beam, the blue beam, and the first supplementary beam to the light-uniforming element. The first supplementary beam is a red supplementary beam or a blue supplementary beam, and the illumination system includes at least five light-emitting elements. A projection apparatus including the above illumination system is also provided.

Abstract: In order to reduce the occurrence of current alarms in a semiconductor etching or deposition process, a controller determines an offset in relative positions of a cover ring and a shield over a wafer within a vacuum chamber. The controller provides a position alarm and/or adjusts the position of the cover ring or shield when the offset is greater than a predetermined value or outside a range of acceptable values.

Abstract: A driver structure for an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) device is provided. The driver structure includes a front-end-of-line (FEOL) layer; a back-end-of-line (BEOL) layer disposed on the FEOL layer; and a customer BEOL layer disposed on the BEOL layer. The BEOL layer includes a customer BEOL electrical checking structure. The customer BEOL electrical checking structure has a plurality of memory cells that include a first memory cell vertically aligned with and corresponds to two adjacent pixel regions. The customer BEOL layer includes six bottom structures corresponding to the two adjacent pixel regions and connected in series to form a first electrical path and a second electrical path each electrically connected to the first memory cell. The first memory cell is configured to detect an anomaly of electrical resistance of the first and second electrical path.

Abstract: An optical fiber transmission device includes a substrate, a photonic integrated circuit, and an optical fiber assembly. The photonic integrated circuit is disposed on an area of the substrate. The substrate has a protruding structure at an interface with an edge of the photonic integrated circuit. The optical fiber assembly includes an optical fiber and a ferrule that sleeves the optical fiber. The protruding structure of the substrate is configured to abut against the ferrule to limit the position of the optical fiber assembly in a vertical direction of the substrate, such that the protruding structure is a stopper for the optical fiber assembly in the vertical direction.

Abstract: An optical fiber network device includes a fiber and a photonic integrated circuit. Fiber receives a first optical signal and transmits a second optical signal. A first wavelength of first optical signal is different from a second wavelength of second optical signal. Photonic integrated circuit includes a laser chip, a photodetector, a wavelength division multiplexing coupler, a first optical modulation element and a second optical modulation element. Laser chip is disposed on photonic integrated circuit, and is configured to generate first optical signal. Photodetector detects second optical signal. Wavelength division multiplexing coupler is configured to couple first optical signal to fiber, and receives second optical signal. First optical modulation element is coupled to wavelength division multiplexing coupler and laser chip, and is configured to modulate first optical signal.

Abstract: A device includes: a complementary transistor including: a first transistor having a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region; and a second transistor stacked on the first transistor, and having a third source/drain region and a fourth source/drain region, the third source/drain region overlapping the first source/drain region, the fourth source/drain region overlapping the second source/drain region. The device further includes: a first source/drain contact electrically coupled to the third source/drain region; a second source/drain contact electrically coupled to the second source/drain region; a gate isolation structure adjacent the first and second transistors; and an interconnect structure electrically coupled to the first source/drain contact and the second source/drain contact.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a power management method. The power management method is applicable to an electronic device. The electronic device is electrically coupled to an adapter, and includes a system and a battery. The adapter has a feed power. The battery has a discharge power. The power management method of the disclosure includes: reading a power value of the battery; determining a state of the system; and discharging power to the system, when the system is in a power-on state and the power value is greater than a charging stopping value, by using the battery, and controlling, according to the discharge power and the feed power, the adapter to selectively supply power to the system. The disclosure further provides an electronic device using the power management method.

Abstract: An illumination system for providing an illumination beam includes red, blue, and green light source modules, a first light combining element, and a light uniforming element. The red light source module includes a first red light emitting element emitting first red light and a second red light emitting element emitting second red light. A peak wavelength of the second red light is greater than a peak wavelength of the first red light. The blue light source module includes a first blue light emitting element emitting first blue light and a second blue light emitting element emitting second blue light. A peak wavelength of the second blue light is less than a peak wavelength of the first blue light. The green light source module generates green light. The first light combining element guides these lights into the light uniforming element, so that the illumination system outputs the illumination beam.

Abstract: A projection device, including an illumination system, a control element, a driving element, a light valve, and a projection lens, is provided. The illumination system includes multiple light sources for providing multiple light beams to be combined into an illumination light beam. The driving element respectively drives the light sources in a first mode or a second mode, so that the light beams have respective luminous brightness, and the driving element is switched from the first mode to the second mode according to a first signal. The control element provides the first signal to the driving element according to an optical state or a time state of the projection device. The light valve is adapted to convert the illumination light beam into an image light beam. The projection lens is adapted to project the image light beam out of the projection device.

Abstract: The disclosure provides an electronic device. The electronic device includes a computer system, a light emitting module, and a control unit. The computer system is adapted to execute a boot procedure, the boot procedure lasting for a first time period. A light emitting module includes a plurality of indicator lights, each indicator light providing an indication function. The control unit is electrically connected to the light emitting module. The control unit controls the indicator lights to generate a first light emitting effect within a second time period when the computer system enters the boot procedure. The second time period is shorter than the first time period.

Abstract: A method for adjusting the uniformity of a display is provided. The method includes the following steps. An angle sensor is disposed on a display. The display opposite to a measurement device is disposed on a rotation axis. The uniformity of a frame of the display at at least one use angle is measured by the measurement device, wherein the display is adjusted to a first use angle and is left still for a period of time, so that the uniformity of the display arranged at the first use angle has a first uniformity correction parameter; and a correspondence table relevant to the first use angle and the first uniformity correction parameter is stored to the display.

Abstract: In some examples, the disclosure describes a device that includes a stand enclosure that includes a first end to interact with a work surface and a second end to be coupled to a display device, a plurality of input ports coupled to the stand enclosure, and a connection interface coupled to the second end of the stand enclosure to allow communication between the display device and the plurality of inputs when the connection interface is coupled to the display device.

Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a plurality of metal lines extending along a first direction, the plurality of metal lines being separated, in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, by integral multiples of a nominal minimum pitch. The integrated circuit further includes a plurality of standard cells, at least one of the plurality of standard cells having a cell height along the second direction being a non-integral multiple of the nominal minimum pitch.

Abstract: An integrated circuit designing system includes a non-transitory storage medium, the non-transitory storage medium being encoded with a layout of a standard cell corresponding to a predetermined manufacturing process, the predetermined manufacturing process having a nominal minimum pitch of metal lines along a predetermined direction, the layout of the standard cell having a cell height along the predetermined direction, and the cell height is a non-integral multiple of the nominal minimum pitch. The integrated circuit designing system further includes a hardware processor communicatively coupled with the non-transitory storage medium and configured to execute a set of instructions for generating an integrated circuit layout based on the layout of the standard cell and the nominal minimum pitch.

Abstract: An electric connector includes an insulative body, multiple conductive terminals, a shielding sheet, and a shielding shell. The insulative body includes a base and a tongue. The conductive terminals include an upper row of terminals and a lower row of terminals, which are disposed on an upper side and a lower side of the tongue, respectively. The shielding sheet is embedded in the insulative body and located between the upper row of terminals and the lower row of terminals. Two sides of the shielding sheet are extended with an extending section respectively. A distal end of each extending section is folded back to form an engaging portion. The shielding shell is adapted to sheathes the insulative body. Two sides of the shielding shell are respectively provided with an engaging trough engaged with one of the engaging portions to make the shielding shell contact with the shielding sheet.

Abstract: A novel distributed graph database is provided that is designed for efficient graph data storage and processing on modern computing architectures. In particular a single node graph database and a runtime & communication layer allows for composing a distributed graph database from multiple single node instances.

Abstract: A novel distributed graph database is provided that is designed for efficient graph data storage and processing on modern computing architectures. In particular a single node graph database and a runtime & communication layer allows for composing a distributed graph database from multiple single node instances.

Abstract: A novel distributed graph database is provided that is designed for efficient graph data storage and processing on modern computing architectures. In particular a single node graph database and a runtime & communication layer allows for composing a distributed graph database from multiple single node instances.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for optimizing a convolutional neural network (CNN). A respective measure of importance is calculated for each of a plurality of elements within a CNN. A first one of the measures of importance is calculated by back propagating a second one of the measures of importance through the CNN. One or more of the plurality of elements is pruned from the CNN, based on the calculated measures of importance.