Abstract: A processing system and method for a data strobe signal (DQS). A counter circuit counts falling edges of the DQS within a valid region of the DQS and thereby generates a plurality of counting signals. An OR logic circuit receives the counting signals and a DQS window start signal and thereby generates a DQS window signal. A filter circuit is provided to gate the DQS according to the DQS window signal. The DQS window start signal is kept asserted until at least one of the counting signals changes due to the counting.

Abstract: A vertical shaft steel wire rope cage guide sliding sleeve wear amount detection device includes flexible printed circuit (FPC) flat cable units, voltage detection circuit units, a control system, and data display equipment. Two end faces of a vertical shaft steel wire rope cage guide sliding sleeve are provided with the FPC flat cable units, the FPC flat cable units being sequentially attached to end portion surfaces of the sliding sleeve along an outer periphery of a rope hole of a steel wire rope to form an enclosure; each FPC flat cable unit is connected to one voltage detection circuit unit; a signal input end of the control system is connected with the voltage detection circuit units, and a signal output end of a control module is connected to a wireless transmission module; and the data display equipment receives data transmitted by the wireless transmission module.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject technology relate to gaze-dependent visual encryption of electronic device displays. Each display frame that is displayed on the electronic device display may include a clear-display region around the user's gaze location and an obscured region outside the clear-display region. In this way, only the display content that the user is actively viewing is recognizable and understandable and an onlooker such as an unwanted observer looking over the user's shoulder is unable to understand what is displayed. The obscured region of each display frame may be generated such that the overall look and structure of that region is unchanged, but the content is unintelligible. In this way, the visual experience of the user is not disrupted or distracted by the visual encryption and the eye of the onlooker is not guided to the clear-display region by the visual encryption.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for controlling a HVAC system of a vehicle. An exemplary method may comprise: collecting data describing environmental measurements and one or more states of the HVAC system; predicting one or more target values by inputting the collected data into one or more inference models that include a personal inference model, wherein the personal inference model is used to predict a personal target value for the vehicle or a user of the vehicle; and outputting the one or more target values including the personal target value for the vehicle or the user of the vehicle to control the HVAC system of the vehicle.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for improving displayed image quality of an electronic display that includes a display pixel. The electronic display displays a first image frame directly after a second image frame by applying an analog electrical signal to the display pixel. To facilitate display of the first image frame, circuitry receives image data corresponding to the image frame, in which the image data includes a grayscale value that indicates target luminance of the display pixel; determines expected refresh rate of the first image frame based at least in part on actual refresh rate of the second image frame; determines a pixel response correction offset based at least in part on the expected refresh rate of the first image frame; and determines processed image data by applying the pixel response correction offset to the grayscale value, in which the processed image data indicates magnitude of the analog electrical signal.

Abstract: Liquid crystal display systems and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, a liquid crystal display pixel cell includes an insulation layer spanning over a passivation layer and the plurality of signal electrodes such that it separates the signal electrodes from polymer alignment layer for the liquid crystal. In an embodiment, a method of operating a liquid crystal display panel includes temporal compensation of the Vcom value as a function of time and one or more operating parameters.

Abstract: A vertical shaft steel wire rope cage guide sliding sleeve wear amount detection device includes flexible printed circuit (FPC) flat cable units, voltage detection circuit units, a control system, and data display equipment. Two end faces of a vertical shaft steel wire rope cage guide sliding sleeve are provided with the FPC flat cable units, the FPC flat cable units being sequentially attached to end portion surfaces of the sliding sleeve along an outer periphery of a rope hole of a steel wire rope to form an enclosure; each FPC flat cable unit is connected to one voltage detection circuit unit; a signal input end of the control system is connected with the voltage detection circuit units, and a signal output end of a control module is connected to a wireless transmission module; and the data display equipment receives data transmitted by the wireless transmission module.

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display. Input-output circuitry in the electronic device may be used to gather input from a viewer of the display. The input-output circuitry may include a gaze tracking system that gathers point-of-gaze information, vergence information, and head position information, may be a biometric sensor, may be an input device such as a button or touch sensor, may capture hand gestures, and/or may gather other information. The display may include a pixel array for producing images. An adjustable reflectance and transmittance layer may overlap the pixel array. Control circuitry in the electronic device may individually adjust different areas of the adjustable reflectance and transmittance layer. The control circuitry may place each area in a reflective mirror more or in a content-displaying mode and may move the areas in response to the information.

Abstract: A reliability robust design method for multiple failure modes of an ultra-deep well hoisting container, including: defining randomness of a structural parameter, a material property, and a dynamic load of a hoisting container, and solving a random response of a structural failure for a random parameter using a design of experiment method; establishing reliability performance functions of each failure modes in accordance with failure criterion of the hoisting container; establishing a joint probability model of correlated failures using a copula theory in consideration of probability correlation between the failure modes; establishing, a system reliability model with failure correlation of the hoister container; establishing a sensitivity model concerning each random parameter for system reliability of the hoisting container; and establishing, in conjunction with an optimization design model, a reliability robust optimization design model for the hoisting container using a joint failure probability and paramet

Abstract: A controller includes an input/output circuit and a reference voltage generating circuit. The input/output circuit includes a plurality of receiving circuits. Each receiving circuit receives and processes one data bit and generates an output bit accordingly. The reference voltage generating circuit is coupled to the input/output circuit and includes a plurality of circuit units for providing a plurality of reference voltages. One of the circuit units is coupled to one of the receiving circuits to provide a reference voltage to the corresponding receiving circuit and the receiving circuit processes the data bit according to the received reference voltage.

Abstract: An electronic component footprint verification system and a method thereof are provided in the present disclosure. The system is available to an external user for selecting an electronic component footprint to be verified, reading a verification rule checklist in an external database, extracting characteristics of the electronic component footprint, accessing characteristic data from the electronic component footprint, verifying the characteristic data based on the verification rule checklist, and displaying a verification result.

Abstract: An automated electronic component footprint setup system and a method thereof are provided in the present disclosure. The system is available to not only an external first user for configuring characteristic parameters of an electronic component for the database but also an external second user for configuring setup parameters of an electronic component footprint to be created. Then, the system is to create an electronic component footprint of a specific electronic layout system according to the characteristic parameters of the electronic component, component setup regulations and the setup parameters, all of which correspond to the electronic component footprint.

Abstract: An electronic device may generate content that is to be displayed on a display. The display may have an array of liquid crystal display pixels for displaying image frames of the content. The display may be operated in at least a normal viewing mode, a privacy mode, an outdoor viewing mode, and a power saving mode. The different view modes may exhibit different viewing angles. In one configuration, the display may include a switchable phase retarder that can be selectively activated to help reduce contrast ratios at higher viewing angles. A rotated pixel design that includes one or more groups of parallel fingers can be used to help properly align the low contrast regions. In another configuration, the display may include multiple electrically controlled birefringence (ECB) layers that can be selectively activated to provide a desired cone of vision, a region outside of which exhibits substantially reduced contrast ratios.

Abstract: This application relates to systems, methods, and apparatus for compensating voltage for pixels of a display panel based on the location of the pixels within the display panel. An amount of voltage compensation is assigned to each pixel or a group of pixels within the display panel in accordance with a calibration of the display panel. During operation of the display panel, pixel data is generated for a location of the display panel, and the pixel data is modified according to the amount of voltage compensation corresponding to the location. By modifying the pixel data in this way, spatial variations in voltage across the display panel can be mitigated in order to reduce the occurrence of certain display artifacts at the display panel.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for numerically simulating seismic-wave propagation in tilted transversely isotropic (TTI) media, using an adaptive Lebedev staggered grid. In various embodiments, the adaptive grid includes multiple horizontal zones having different associated grid spacings, which may be determined based on a vertical wave-velocity model. The numerical simulation may involve iteratively solving a set of finite-difference equations including finite-difference coefficients that vary spatially depending on the grid spacing. Additional embodiments and features are described.

Abstract: The application relates to a method and device for removing a scanning bed from a CT image. The method includes steps: reading a three-dimensional CT image, counting an amount of kernels in a CT apparatus and initializing sub-algorithms through a main thread of an image processing apparatus; extracting two-dimensional scanning images from the input three-dimensional CT image, automatically allocating the two-dimensional scanning images to kernels through the main thread of the image processing apparatus by sharing a memory, thereby realizing a multi-thread parallel processing to perform a bed removing operation on the two-dimensional scanning images; and ending the parallel processing and outputting a three-dimensional CT image without scanning bed information through the image processing apparatus. The method of the disclosure is very effective and accurate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to fusion proteins for the expression of G-protein coupled receptor proteins (GPCR) with the fusion partners, as inserted fragments, from mammalian cells. The fusion partners are from a fragment of APJ protein (“the APJ protein fragment”) or a fragment with homology of more than 90% similarity to the APJ protein fragment; or a fragment of RGS16 protein (the “RGS16 protein fragment”) or a fragment with homology of more than 90% similarity to the RGS16 protein fragment; or the fragment of DNJ protein (the “DNJ protein fragment”) or a fragment with homology of more than 90% similarity to DNJ protein fragment. The fusion expression of GPCR with the above mentioned fusion partners can improve the protein yield and stability when purified from cells. Therefore, these fusion protein partners can be widely used for the study of GPCR proteins.

Abstract: An electronic component footprint verification system and a method thereof are provided in the present disclosure. The system is available to an external user for selecting an electronic component footprint to be verified, reading a verification rule checklist in an external database, extracting characteristics of the electronic component footprint, accessing characteristic data from the electronic component footprint, verifying the characteristic data based on the verification rule checklist, and displaying a verification result.

Abstract: An automated electronic component footprint setup system and a method thereof are provided in the present disclosure. The system is available to not only an external first user for configuring characteristic parameters of an electronic component for the database but also an external second user for configuring setup parameters of an electronic component footprint to be created. Then, the system is to create an electronic component footprint of a specific electronic layout system according to the characteristic parameters of the electronic component, component setup regulations and the setup parameters, all of which correspond to the electronic component footprint.

Abstract: Depositing funds onto smart cards for use during processing of purchases. A device creates a deposit request and transmits the request to a remote system. The remote system processes the request and transmits a deposit record to the device, which in turn transmits the record to the smart card. If the device has network access, it transmits a deposit confirmation to the remote system, which updates the smart card account to include the confirmation. If the device unable to connect to the remote system, the deposit confirmation is transmitted when the smart card is involved in a future transaction. During the future transaction, the smart card transmits its transaction history, which comprises the deposit confirmation, to the device, and the device transmits the transaction history to the remote system. The remote system updates the smart card account to include the deposit confirmation.