Abstract: Provided are systems, methods, and apparatuses for up and down counting for efficient laser spot finding in LiDAR. In one or more examples, the systems, devices, and methods include dividing a pixel array into multiple macro blocks, a first macro block including at least a first pixel and a second pixel of the pixel array and initializing a first photon counter of the first pixel and a second photon counter of the second pixel. The systems, devices, and methods include determining an ambient photon count of the first photon counter based on performing a set number of ambient cycles with a laser transmitter off, determining a laser photon count of the first photon counter with the laser transmitter on, and using the first pixel to perform a time-of-flight measurement based on the first pixel being selected according to the ambient photon count and the laser photon count.

Abstract: Provided are systems, methods, and apparatuses for progressive transmit delays for systematic time-dependent error elimination in LiDAR. In one or more examples, the systems, methods, and apparatuses include a device configured to delay transmission of a pulse of light based on a fine resolution of the device, detect a signal based on a reflected portion of the pulse of light, determine a coarse time and a fine time of the signal, and determine a readout based on the coarse time and the fine time.

Abstract: A molecule generation method and a related apparatus are provided. The molecule generation method includes: receiving a constraint condition entered by a user on a terminal, where the constraint condition indicates a condition that a property of a molecule needs to meet, and the property of the molecule includes any one or more of a molecular weight, water solubility, lipid solubility, bioactivity, synthesizability, a docking binding affinity for a specific molecule, a similarity to a source molecule, an included specific substructure, pharmacokinetics, and toxicity of the molecule; generating a first molecule set based on the constraint condition, where the first molecule set includes one or more molecules; and returning information about the one or more molecules in the first molecule set to the terminal. The molecule generation method is used to generate molecules, to improve efficiency and reduce costs such as time costs and manpower, material, and financial resources.

Abstract: Provided is a water baffling structure, for keeping out condensate water generated on a small elbow (31) of an evaporator (30). The water baffling structure includes a water baffle body (10), the water baffle body (10) is mounted on a motor seat (20), and at least part of the water baffle body (10) covers the small elbow (31). An air conditioner with the water baffling structure is further provided.

Abstract: Disclosed is a single pass light detection and ranging (LiDAR) laser method, including building a coarse histogram, detecting a first peak of laser pulses in the coarse histogram, determining whether the first peak height is greater than a first threshold and a location of the first peak is less than or equal to a second threshold, when determining that the first peak height is greater than the first threshold and the location of the first peak is less than or equal to the second threshold, building a fine histogram, and detecting a peak of laser pulses in the fine histogram, and when determining that the first peak height is less than or equal to the first threshold and the location of the first peak is greater than the second threshold, continuing the building of the coarse histogram, and detecting a second peak of the laser pulses in the coarse histogram.

Abstract: Provided is a depth detection system and method of histogram binning for depth detection. The depth detection system includes a light source configured to emit a light pulse toward an object, an optical sensor configured to detect the light pulse reflecting off the object, the optical sensor including a first sensing pixel configured to detect the light pulse for a first event count according to the light pulse reflecting off the object, and a second sensing pixel configured to detect the light pulse for a second event count according to the light pulse reflecting off the object, and a processing circuit configured to determine a first aggregated histogram corresponding to the first sensing pixel based on the first event count and the second event count and determine a first peak of the first aggregated histogram to determine a first time of flight associated with the first sensing pixel.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a fan blade support assembly for a fan blade, an air duct assembly, and an air conditioner. The fan blade support assembly includes: a support base, the support base includes a support base body, and the support base body is provided with a support base hole; a support structure, provided in the support base hole, and the support structure is provided with a shaft hole; and a fan blade shaft, an end of the fan blade shaft is connected to a drive portion after passing through the shaft hole, and the fan blade shaft is movably provided relative to the support base, wherein, the fan blade shaft includes a first shaft section and a second shaft section connected with the first shaft section, and a diameter of the first shaft section is less than a diameter of the second shaft section.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) based acceleration in robot motion planning are described. In an embodiment, logic circuitry (such as an FPGA), coupled to a processor, accelerates one or more motion planning operations for a plurality of objects. A first memory, coupled to the logic circuitry, stores data corresponding to a plurality of Oriented Bounding Boxes (OBBs). The plurality of OBBs are to provide Bounding Volume (BV) models for the plurality of objects. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: A switch module, a terminal device, a method for controlling a terminal device. The switch module includes: a set of first-class pins configured to couple with a processing module; two sets of second-class pins, in which a first set of second-class pins is configured to couple with a first subscriber identification module (SIM) card, and a second set of second-class pins is configured to couple with a second SIM card; a first control pin coupled with a control output pin of the processing module and receive a switching signal; and a switch circuit, coupled with the first control pin, the first-class pills and two sets of second-class pins, in which the switch circuit is configured to turn on a path between the first-class pins and the first set of second-class pins or a path between the first-class pins and the second set of second-class pins according to the switching signal.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide an air sweeping assembly, an air regulating device and an air conditioner. The air sweeping assembly includes: a rotation shaft (10), the rotation shaft (10) being provided with blades (20) thereon; a driving device, the driving device including a fixing portion (31) and a driving portion disposed on the fixing portion (31); the driving portion being drivingly connected with the rotation shaft (10), and the driving portion being configured to drive the rotation shaft (10) to rotate; and a first position limiting member (40) disposed on the fixing portion (31); the first position limiting member (40) being configured to define an initial position of the rotation shaft (10) in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: Provided is a 3D depth sensing system and method of providing an image based on a hybrid sensing array. The 3D sensing system including a light source configured to emit light, a hybrid sensing array comprising a 2D sensing region configured to detect ambient light reflected from an object and a 3D depth sensing region configured to detect the light emitted by the light source and reflected from the object, a metalens on the hybrid sensing array, the metalens being configured to direct the ambient light reflected from the object towards the 2D sensing region, and to direct the light emitted by the light source and reflected from the object towards the 3D depth sensing region, and a processing circuit configured to combine 2D image information provided by the 2D sensing region and 3D information provided by the 3D depth sensing region to generate a combined 3D image.

Abstract: Disclosed is a single pass light detection and ranging (LiDAR) laser method, including building a coarse histogram, detecting a first peak of laser pulses in the coarse histogram, determining whether the first peak height is greater than a first threshold and a location of the first peak is less than or equal to a second threshold, when determining that the first peak height is greater than the first threshold and the location of the first peak is less than or equal to the second threshold, building a fine histogram, and detecting a peak of laser pulses in the fine histogram, and when determining that the first peak height is less than or equal to the first threshold and the location of the first peak is greater than the second threshold, continuing the building of the coarse histogram, and detecting a second peak of the laser pulses in the coarse histogram.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and system for time-of-flight detection. There may be two or more photodetectors in a photodetector circuit that capture photon activity. There is logic that processes the responses of the photodetectors and returns the leading edge of the arrival of the first photon and the leading edge of the arrival of the last photon, if at least two photons are received during an overlapping pulse width.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and system for imaging a scene. The method includes generating a shutter pattern and applying the shutter pattern to a photodetector array. The system includes a sensor architecture in three dimensions, where elements of the sensor architecture are stacked in two or more layers. Some elements of the sensor architecture include a photodetector array, register array, a generator to generate shutter patterns, readout circuitry, and an ISP.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a shaft sleeve assembly, a blade mounting structure and an air conditioner. The shaft sleeve assembly is configured to connect a blade shaft and a motor shaft and includes: a blade shaft sleeve a first end of the blade shaft sleeve being configured to be connected with the blade shaft; and a motor shaft sleeve, a first end of the motor shaft sleeve being configured with be connected to the motor shaft and a second end of the motor shaft sleeve being connected with a second end of the blade shaft sleeve and at least one of the blade shaft sleeve and the motor shaft sleeve is an injection molded member.

Abstract: An air conditioner indoor unit is provided. The air conditioner indoor unit includes: a base module, having a base part which is arranged with a fan motor; a heat exchange module having a heat exchanger and a connection pipeline for connecting the heat exchanger to an air conditioner outdoor unit; the heat exchanger and the connection pipeline are arranged in such a way that in a mounted state, the heat exchanger and the connection pipeline are entirely located at a front side of the base module; an air and water duct module having an air duct assembly; the air duct assembly is suitable to be entirely disassembled from the base part without disassembling the fan motor in the base part. During mounting, pre-assembly is first performed and then general assembly is performed; in such manner, the time needed to assemble the whole unit may be reduced.

Abstract: A LiDAR system is disclosed that includes a SPAD unit array and J read group (RG) channels. The SPAD unit array is arranged in M rows and N columns of pixel read groups. Each row includes K pixel read groups. Each pixel read group outputs a detection signal in response to a light pulse that is incident on the pixel read group. Each RG channel corresponds to at least one row of pixel read groups and includes L time-to-digital converters that respectively generate timestamp information corresponding to detection event signals of each of L pixel read groups in the at least one row of pixel read groups in which J<M and L?K. Each RG channel stores the timestamp information in an accumulator bin of a histogram circuit corresponding to a value of the timestamp information using hardwired addressing based on the value of the timestamp information.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve resource utilization for binary tree structures. An example apparatus to improve resource utilization for field programmable gate array (FPGA) resources includes a computation determiner to identify a computation capability value associated with the FPGA resources, a k-ary tree builder to build a first k-ary tree having a number of k-ary nodes equal to the computation capability value, and an FPGA memory controller to initiate collision computation by transferring the first k-ary tree to a first memory of the FPGA resources.

Abstract: A direct time-of-flight (DTOF) LiDAR system includes a sensor array, a first gated time-to digital converter (TDC) circuit and second TDC circuit. The sensor array includes pixels arranged to detect a first disparity location on the sensor array of a reflection signal received from a first object at a first range with respect to a second disparity location on the sensor array of a reflection signal received from a second object at a second range that is greater than the first range. The first TDC circuit generates first timestamp information relating to detection of the first reflection signal in which the first gated TDC circuit is gated based on the first disparity location. The second gated TDC circuit generates second timestamp information relating to detection of the second reflection signal in which the second gated TDC circuit is gated based on the second disparity location.

Abstract: A pixel of an image sensor includes a pinned photodiode (PPD), a switching device and an output circuit. A first terminal of the switching device is coupled to the PPD. A second terminal of the switching device is coupled to a floating diffusion (FD). A third terminal of the switching device is coupled to a first enable signal and a second enable signal. The switching device is responsive to the first enable signal to transfer a first charge on the PPD to the FD, and responsive to the second enable signal to transfer a second charge on the PPD to the FD. The output circuit outputs a first voltage based on the first charge and outputs a second voltage based on the second charge in which the first voltage corresponds to a time of flight of one or more detected photons and the second voltage corresponds to a greyscale image.