Abstract: A thermal management system for an energy storage battery pack includes energy storage battery packs and temperature control sub-units. Each energy storage battery pack includes battery modules and a main housing used for accommodating the battery modules; the temperature control sub-units are mounted on the energy storage battery packs, respectively; each temperature control sub-unit includes a speed regulation fan used for dissipating heat for the energy storage battery pack, a temperature detector used for sensing a temperature of the battery modules and a pulse width modulation (PWM) controller; the speed regulation fan, the temperature detector and the PWM controller of one of the temperature control sub-units are in signal connection, the PWM controller is used for adjusting the duty ratio of the speed regulation fan according to the difference value between the temperature of the battery modules and a temperature threshold; and the temperature threshold is a preset value.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes: depositing a gate dielectric layer on a first fin and a second fin, the first fin and the second fin extending away from a substrate in a first direction, a distance between the first fin and the second fin decreasing along the first direction; depositing a sacrificial layer on the gate dielectric layer by exposing the gate dielectric layer to a self-limiting source precursor and a self-reacting source precursor, the self-limiting source precursor reacting to form an initial layer of a material of the sacrificial layer, the self-reacting source precursor reacting to form a main layer of the material of the sacrificial layer; annealing the gate dielectric layer while the sacrificial layer covers the gate dielectric layer; after annealing the gate dielectric layer, removing the sacrificial layer; and after removing the sacrificial layer, forming a gate electrode layer on the gate dielectric layer.

Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes: a mating plug including plural conductive terminals; a circuit board being electrically connected to the mating plug and including: plural terminal pads located at a front of the circuit board and mechanically and electrically connected to the conductive terminals; plural cable pads located at a rear of the circuit board and including plural pairs of high-speed cable pads; and plural conductive traces each connecting a corresponding terminal pad and a corresponding cable pad; and a cable mechanically and electrically connected to the cable pads; wherein the cable includes plural pairs of high-speed wires for transmitting high-speed signals, the conductive traces include plural pairs of high-speed conductive traces connecting the plural pairs of high-speed cable pads and corresponding terminal pads, each pair of high-speed cable pads are connected to a nearest pair of terminal pads.

Abstract: A chef robot device includes a temperature sensing module, am image recognizing module, an odor detecting module, a central processing unit (CPU), and a robotic arm module. The temperature sensing module, the image recognizing module, and the odor detecting module respectively sense a temperature, a color, and an odor of foods in a cooker, and transmit a temperature sensing signal, a food color depth signal, and an odor concentration signal to the CPU. The CPU outputs motion instructions to the robotic arm module according to food statuses and a trajectory planning model. The robotic arm module performs motions for cooking the foods according to the motion instructions. The chef robot device can improve a food-cooking quality by training, and can resolve a problem of lacking experienced chefs.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose an optical module, a related apparatus, and an assembly method. in one example, an optical module includes a first circuit board, a second circuit board, and a connection board. The first circuit board includes a transmitter optical subassembly and a receiver optical subassembly. The second circuit board includes a processing unit. The first circuit board further includes a first connection port. The second circuit board further includes a second connection port. The transmitter optical subassembly and the receiver optical subassembly are separately connected to the first connection port. The processing unit is connected to the second connection port.

Abstract: A method of video decoding includes receiving a bitstream that comprises coded information of a current block, the coded information of the current block includes coded bits of quantized transform coefficients in a transform domain of the current block, the coded information is also indicative of at least a scaling factor to be used during a dequantization of the quantized transform coefficients. The method also includes determining one or more quantization shifting offsets for a reconstruction of transform coefficients in the transform domain based on at least the scaling factor, reconstructing the transform coefficients from the quantized transform coefficients based on the one or more quantization shifting offsets, calculating residuals in a spatial domain of the current block based on the transform coefficients in the transform domain, and reconstructing the current block according to the residuals in the spatial domain.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes an array substrate, a first electrode layer, a pixel definition layer, and a luminescent material layer laminated one on another. The pixel definition layer includes a first portion and a second portion, the first portion corresponds to and is arranged in an active area of the display panel, the second portion surrounds the first portion. A depression structure is arranged in the second portion, and an aperture of the depression structure is oriented to a side of the pixel definition layer away from the array substrate.

Abstract: A culture medium for culturing mammary epithelial cells, which medium contains ?-estradiol, insulin-like growth factor 1, basic fibroblast growth factor, tumor necrosis factor-?, and optionally fibroblast growth factor 10. A method for culturing mammary epithelial cells using the culture medium, and a method and the use of cells obtained using the culture method in evaluating or screening the efficacy of a drug.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are self-mixing interference (SMI) sensors, frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) sensors, and electronic devices that include SMI and FMCW sensors. Both types of sensors include a photonic crystal surface-emitting laser diode. The SMI sensors include a photonic crystal surface-emitting laser diode configured to undergo SMI between a primary emitted light from the photonic crystal surface-emitting laser diode and reflections thereof from an object. The SMI sensor includes a photodetector configured to receive a secondary light emission from the photonic crystal surface-emitting laser diode and detect a parameter related to the SMI, from which distance or motion to the object may be inferred. The FMCW sensors include a photonic crystal surface-emitting laser diode configured to emit a primary light emission toward the object and a secondary light emission toward a light beam combiner.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein include an optoelectronic sensing device having a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL), a resonance cavity photodetector (RCPD), and a tunnel junction. The VCSEL is at least partly defined by a first set of semiconductor layers disposed on a substrate. The first set of semiconductor layers includes a first active region. The VCSEL is configured to emit laser light towards the substrate, upon application of a first bias voltage, and undergo self-mixing interference upon reception of reflections or backscatters thereof. The RCPD is vertically adjacent to the VCSEL and is at least partly defined by a second set of semiconductor layers disposed on the substrate. The second set of semiconductor layers includes a second active region. The RCPD is configured to detect, upon application of a second bias voltage, the self-mixing interference. The tunnel junction is disposed between the first active region and the second active region.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of power electronics converters and discloses a grid-forming energy storage converter on/off-grid switching control method and system, where the method includes the following steps: S1: using a single-loop power control strategy in an off-grid state when an on-grid relay of target energy storage drops out; S2: using a parallel virtual impedance loop-based power control strategy in a transient on-grid state when the on-grid relay of target energy storage pulls in; and S3: using a cascaded dual-loop power control strategy with a virtual admittance voltage loop and an inner current loop when a stable on-grid state is established. The present invention solves the problems of large current impact and unstable switching process state in the existing working strategy for on/off-grid switching in the prior art.

Abstract: RNA editing tools for use in systems designed to measure RNA in vivo and manipulate specific cell types are disclosed herein. An RNA sensor system comprising a) a single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) sensor comprising a stop codon and a payload; optionally wherein the ssRNA sensor further comprises a normalizing gene; and b) an adenosine deaminase acting on RNA (ADAR) deaminase; wherein the sensor is capable of binding to a ssRNA target to form a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) duplex that becomes a substrate for the ADAR deaminase; wherein the substrate comprises a mispairing within the stop codon; and wherein the mispairing is editable by the ADAR deaminase, which editing can effectively remove the stop codon so as to enable translation and expression of the payload. A method of quantifying ribonucleic acid (RNA) levels using the RNA sensor system is also disclosed.

Abstract: Some aspects of the disclosure provide a method of video decoding. The method includes: receiving a bitstream that comprises coded information of one or more pictures; generating, according to the bitstream, at least a to-be-filtered sample, and input samples for filtering the to-be-filtered sample in an in-loop filter, the in-loop filter using a Wiener-based filter with an adaptive filter shape; determining a modified filter shape for the Wiener-based filter, the modified filter shape being adapted according to a relationship between the to-be-filtered sample and the input samples; and applying the Wiener-based filter with the modified filter shape on the input samples to generate a filtered output of the to-be-filtered sample.

Abstract: A client device that is not originally compliant with a particular security standard (e.g., FIPS) is brought into compliance through the addition of a standard-compliant software-based cryptographic library. In order to adapt the cryptographic library to integrate with the hardware-backed keystore, a non-hardware-backed software keystore is used to store keys used by the cryptographic library. Additionally, in order to provide appropriate security for the software keystore, the software keystore (and/or the keypairs within the software keystore) is protected by a password, and the password is in turn protected by the hardware-backed keystore. Thus, to obtain the password needed to obtain a keypair from the software keystore that is in turn needed to use the cryptographic library, a user must authenticate with the operating system, e.g., by providing biometric credentials.

Abstract: A method in a reconfigurable computing system includes connecting a plurality of tensor consumers to their corresponding tensor producers via skip-buffers, which generates a plurality of skip-buffers. The method includes determining that at least one skip-buffer of the plurality of skip-buffers corresponding to a first set of tensor consumers and at least one skip-buffer of the plurality of skip-buffers corresponding to a second set of tensor consumers, are compatible to wholly or partially merge. The method also includes merging, wholly or partially, the compatible skip-buffers to produce a merged skip-buffer having a minimal buffer depth. The described method may reduce memory unit consumption and latency.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech synthesis. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining an audio representation of speech of a target speaker, obtaining input text for which speech is to be synthesized in a voice of the target speaker, generating a speaker vector by providing the audio representation to a speaker encoder engine that is trained to distinguish speakers from one another, generating an audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker by providing the input text and the speaker vector to a spectrogram generation engine that is trained using voices of reference speakers to generate audio representations, and providing the audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker for output.

Abstract: A method includes forming a fin protruding over a substrate; forming a conformal oxide layer over an upper surface and along sidewalls of the fin; performing an anisotropic oxide deposition or an anisotropic plasma treatment to form a non-conformal oxide layer over the upper surface and along the sidewalls of the fin; and forming a gate electrode over the fin, the conformal oxide layer and the non-conformal oxide layer being between the fin and the gate electrode.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for video decoding. The apparatus includes processing circuitry that determines motion information of a current block. The motion information indicates one or more reference blocks of the current block. If a motion information constraint indicates that the one or more reference blocks are within picture boundaries of respective one or more reference pictures, the processing circuitry reconstructs the current block based on the one or more reference blocks. If a first motion vector (MV) points from a region in the current block to a first reference region of a first reference block that is outside a picture boundary of a first reference picture, the processing circuitry determines a first clipped MV pointing from the region to an updated first reference region by clipping the first MV where the updated first reference region is within the picture boundary.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to novel compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods for inhibiting the activity of PI3K? enzymes with the compounds and compositions of the disclosure. The present disclosure further relates to, but is not limited to, methods for treating disorders associated with PI3K? signaling with the compounds and compositions of the disclosure.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for video decoding. The apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry applies an intra prediction mode with a multiple reference line (MRL) prediction to a current block. For each weight candidate combination including a respective first weight candidate and a respective second weight candidate in a plurality of weight candidate combinations, a subset of samples in the current block is predicted using intra prediction fusion that is based on a first reference line weighted by the respective first weight candidate and a second reference line weighted by the respective second weight candidate. The subset of samples includes top samples in a top-most row and left samples in a left-most column. A gradient cost is determined based on the predicted subset of samples and reconstructed samples outside the current block. A weight candidate combination is selected based on the gradient costs.