Abstract: A method for disentangled variational speech representation learning for voice conversion, performed by at least one processor, is provided. The method includes receiving input speech segments, encoding the input speech segments via a shared encoder to generate a speaker embedding and a content embedding, encoding the posterior distributions of the speaker embedding via a speaker encoder and encoding the posterior distributions of the content embedding via a content encoder to obtain encoded results, and decoding the encoded results by concatenating the encoded results to obtain a reconstructed speech output.

Abstract: A method includes displaying a virtual map of a virtual environment including an identification of a first virtual object and an identification of a second virtual object in the virtual environment, and displaying a hot zone display element on the virtual map in response to a determination that the first virtual object interacts with the second virtual object. The hot zone display element indicates a map area in which the first virtual object interacts with the second virtual object. The method further includes displaying a visual field picture of the virtual environment from a perspective of the first virtual object or the second virtual object in response to a trigger operation on the hot zone display element.

Abstract: Compounds useful as components of immunogenic compositions for the induction of an immunogenic response in a subject against viral infection, methods for their use in treatment, and processes for their manufacture are provided herein. The compounds comprise a nucleic acid construct comprising a sequence which encodes a Zika virus antigen.

Abstract: Creating a storage driver that is structured and configured to organize and operate a multiple layer file system on a cloud-based computing server, and more particularly to a containerized computing server. Additionally, the storage driver is used to improve the security of the containers and to define a static configuration of the multiple layer file system that is stored within the containers.

Abstract: An antenna apparatus includes a circuit board and an antenna body. The antenna body includes a first radiator and a second radiator that are indirectly coupled. The first radiator comprises a first stub and a second stub that are opposite to, but do not touch each other to form a first gap, the first stub and the second stub are located on a first side edge of the circuit board, a second gap is configured between the first stub and the first side edge, and also between the second stub and the first side edge. The second radiator is located on the circuit board to form a third gap in-between. A vertical projection of the second radiator is located on the first surface. The first stub and the second stub are electrically connected to reference ground of the circuit board separately.

Abstract: A camera optical lens is provided. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, an eighth lens, and a ninth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 2.00?f1/f?5.50; and 2.00?d7/d8?10.00, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens, f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens, d7 denotes an on-axis thickness of the fourth lens, and d8 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of the fourth lens to an object side surface of the fifth lens. The camera optical lens according to the present disclosure satisfies design requirements for large-aperture, wide-angle, and ultra-thin lenses while achieving good optical performance.

Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for an all-deep-learning based AEC system by recurrent neural networks. The model consists of two stages, echo estimation stage and echo suppression stage, respectively. Two different schemes for echo estimation are presented herein: linear echo estimation by multi-tap filtering on far-end reference signal and non-linear echo estimation by single-tap masking on microphone signal. A microphone signal waveform and a far-end reference signal waveform are received. An echo signal waveform is estimated based on the microphone signal waveform and a far-end reference signal waveform. A near-end speech signal waveform is output based on subtracting the estimated echo signal waveform from the microphone signal waveform, and echoes are suppressed within the near-end speech signal waveform.

Abstract: An example system includes an electronic device and a server. The electronic device includes a display; a first communicator; and a first controller configured to: control to transmit, to the server, location data identifying locations of the electronic device. The server includes a second communicator; and a second controller configured to: control to receive the location data; identify a course of travel; link photograph images to locations on the course of travel; and control to transmit to the electronic device the course of travel and the photograph images. The first controller of the electronic device is configured to control to receive the course of travel and the photograph images and to control to display on the display, at the same time, a map image, the course of travel, and one or more of the photograph images linked to a selected location on the course of travel.

Abstract: A method for compressing video signals based on adaptive compression rate and a circuit system thereof are provided. In the method, a digital signal processor is used to process a video so as to frame-by-frame obtain statistical data, for example, a maximum of compressed data. The maximum of compressed data of a previous frame is used to determine a compression state of a current frame. The compression state of the frame allows the processor to decide a direction to adjust a compression ratio. Next, statistical data of the previous frame is used to decide a stride to adjust the compression ratio. The statistical data can be a maximum of compressed data and a quantization table scale referred to rendering a prediction curve that allows the processor to determine the stride. A compression ratio is then determined according to the direction and the stride of adjustment.

Abstract: A standard unit (100) for a system on chip design includes a plurality of semiconductor devices and is configured to implement a basic logic function. The standard unit (100) includes a first transistor (110) of a first threshold type and a second transistor (120) of a second threshold type, the second threshold type is different from the first threshold type, wherein a threshold range of the first threshold type is different from that of the second threshold type.

Abstract: An antenna is provided, which includes: a main stub, a first parasitic stub, and a second parasitic stub. The first parasitic stub and the second parasitic stub are respectively arranged on two sides of the main stub. The first parasitic stub and the second parasitic stub are configured to excite resonances to improve main resonance efficiency or expand bandwidth. A frequency of the resonance excited by the first parasitic stub is greater than a frequency of a resonance excited by the main stub. A frequency of the resonance excited by the second parasitic stub is less than the frequency of the resonance excited by the main stub.

Abstract: Electronic devices and antenna structures are described. An example electronic device includes an antenna structure, wherein the antenna structure includes: a first radiator and a second radiator, wherein the first radiator includes a first end and a second end, and the second radiator includes a first end and a second end. The first end of the first radiator and the first end of the second radiator face each other and are not in contact with each other, and a slot is formed between the first end of the first radiator and the first end of the second radiator. The first radiator and the second radiator are disposed in a bent manner, and a spatial region formed between the first radiator, the second radiator, and the slot is T-shaped; and the second end of the first radiator is grounded, and the second end of the second radiator is grounded.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a groundwater circulation well system with pressure-adjustable hydrodynamic cavitation, including a circulation well body, a sucked and injected water circulation assembly and a hydrodynamic cavitator. The sucked and injected water circulation assembly is based on a water suction and injection pump. The hydrodynamic cavitator is provided, inside a vortex chamber, with a vortex water inlet column capable of changing a water passing aperture. The hydrodynamic cavitator is capable of changing a bubbling pressure and a breaking pressure of hydrodynamic cavitation bubbles in the vortex water inlet column. The hydrodynamic cavitator generates vortices in the circulation well body to accelerate uniform mixing of a remediation agent and the groundwater. Energy from collapsing and bursting of the hydrodynamic cavitation bubbles activates the remediation agent such that contaminants in the groundwater are efficiently degraded.

Abstract: An antenna system and a terminal device, where the antenna system includes a first feed point, a first ground point, a second feed point, a second ground point, a third ground point, a fourth ground point, a first radiator, a second radiator, a first resonance structure, and a second resonance structure, where the first feed point is coupled to the first radiator, the second feed point is coupled to the second radiator, the first radiator is coupled to the first ground point, and the second radiator is coupled to the second ground point, the first resonance structure is electromagnetically coupled to the first radiator at a first distance from the first radiator, and the second resonance structure is electromagnetically coupled to the second radiator at a second distance from the second radiator.

Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for converting a singing first singing voice associated with a first speaker to a second singing voice associated with a second speaker. A context associated with one or more phonemes corresponding to the first singing voice is encoded, and the one or more phonemes are aligned to one or more target acoustic frames based on the encoded context. One or more mel-spectrogram features are recursively generated from the aligned phonemes and target acoustic frames, and a sample corresponding to the first singing voice is converted to a sample corresponding to the second singing voice using the generated mel-spectrogram features.

Abstract: Compounds useful as components of immunogenic compositions for the induction of an immunogenic response in a subject against viral infection, methods for their use in treatment, and processes for their manufacture are provided herein. The compounds comprise a nucleic acid construct comprising a sequence which encodes a Zika virus antigen.

Abstract: An antenna apparatus and an electronic device. The antenna apparatus includes a feed source, a transmission line, a first radiator including a first feed point, and a second radiator including a second feed point. The transmission line is electrically connected to the feed source. A second end part of the second radiator is disposed away from the first radiator compared to the first end part of the second radiator, a first gap is formed between the first end part of the first radiator and the first end part of the second radiator, the first end part of the first radiator is a ground end, and the first end part of the second radiator is an open end. The two feed points are electrically connected to the transmission line, and the transmission line input a radio frequency signal in a same frequency band to the two feed points.

Abstract: A camera optical lens includes first to fifth lenses from an object side to an image side, which are first and fourth lenses having positive refractive power, and second, third and fifth lenses having negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies 0.90?f1/f?1.30; ?5.00?f3/f??2.50; 10.00?d1/d2?25.00; and 0?(R7+R8)/(R7?R8)?0.90, where f, f1 and f3 respectively denote focal lengths of the camera optical lens, the first lens, and the third lens, R7 denotes a curvature radius of an object side surface of the fourth lens, R8 denotes a curvature radius of an image side surface of the fourth lens, d1 denotes an on-axis thickness of the first lens, and d2 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of the first lens to an object side surface of the second lens. The camera optical lens has good optical performance and satisfies design requirements of a large angle, a wide angle and ultra-thinness.

Abstract: An audio processing apparatus and an audio processing method for dynamically adjusting an audio clock are provided. The audio processing apparatus includes a first interface, a buffer, a clock generator, a processor, and a second interface. The first interface receives audio data from the host. The buffer stores the audio data to generate a first audio packet and determines relationships between a data volume of the first audio packet and a first upper threshold and a first lower threshold. The second interface outputs the first audio packet and a clock signal to a codec apparatus. In response to the data volume of the first audio packet being less than the first lower threshold, the buffer outputs an underflow interrupt signal. In response to the data volume of the first audio packet being greater than the first upper threshold, the buffer outputs an overflow interrupt signal.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide self-regulating heater cables having improved heat transfer efficiency as well as improved reliability and endurance. The heater cable assembly includes an outer sheath that surrounds a core. The outer sheath includes a conductive ground layer disposed between an inner jacket and outer jacket. The core includes first and second bus wires configured to carry electrical power and a self-regulating resistive heating element that extends along a path to electrically connect the first and second bus wires and convert electric current into thermal energy. The path can be defined by an electrically insulating material disposed in the core and/or the inner jacket.