Abstract: An electrical contact apparatus having low silver content and defined thickness and length geometry. The electrical contact apparatus has a contact body made of a silver-containing alloy having SC?60 wt. %, and having L/T?5.4, wherein L is a longest contact length dimension of the contact body, T is a maximum contact thickness dimension of the contact body, SC is the silver content in wt. %, and L/T is a contact dimension ratio. Electrical contact assemblies, circuit breaker electrical contact subassemblies, and methods of operating a circuit breaker electrical contact subassembly are disclosed, as are other aspects.

Abstract: An electrical contact apparatus having low silver content and defined thickness and length geometry. The electrical contact apparatus has a contact body made of a silver-containing alloy having SC?60 wt. %, and having L/T?5.4, wherein L is a longest contact length dimension of the contact body, T is a maximum contact thickness dimension of the contact body, SC is the silver content in wt. %, and L/T is a contact dimension ratio. Electrical contact assemblies, circuit breaker electrical contact subassemblies, and methods of operating a circuit breaker electrical contact subassembly are disclosed, as are other aspects.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a novel use of a polysaccharide mixture for the treatment of hyperglycemia and/or disorders related thereto (e.g., diabetes mellitus). The polysaccharide mixture comprises about 30-50% (wt %) of ?(1?3) glucan and ?(1?6) glucan, and has a molecular weight of at least 500,000. The polysaccharide mixture may be administered to a subject suffering from hyperglycemia in a dose of about 1 to 1,000 mg/Kg to ameliorate or alleviate symptoms associated with hyperglycemia.

Abstract: A server rack configured to provide electrical connections with data storage modules upon contact includes a shell and a slide rail module slidably installed on the shell. The shell includes a power supply module. The slide rail module itself is electrically conductive and provided with a cable at each end. The cables are connected with the power supply module and the data storage module, and the data storage module is electrically connected with the power supply module.

Abstract: A server rack includes a shell and a plurality of brackets configured to receive a plurality of data storages. The data storages are electrically connected to the bracket. The shell includes a power supply module configured to provide power to the data storages, and an adapter plate connected with the power supply module through a cable. The bracket is electrically connected to a connecting device. When the bracket is slid in the shell, the connecting device closely contacts the adapter plate to be electrically connected with the adapter plate, and the data storages are thus electrically connected with the power supply module.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for processing a high dynamic range (HDR) image, and a terminal device to improve quantization quality, where the method includes obtaining brightness information of an image, processing the brightness information to obtain processed image information, quantizing the processed image information to obtain quantized image information, and encoding the quantized image information to obtain encoded image information.

Abstract: A server rack able to maintain electrical connections to its components during replacements includes a shell and brackets for data storage devices. The data storage devices are electrically connected to the bracket. The shell includes a power supply module and a connecting device electrically connected to the power supply module. The connecting device includes a resilient ring and a cable, one end of the cable is secured on the resilient ring, and the other end of the cable is electrically connected to the bracket. When the bracket is slid in the shell, the resilient ring elastically deforms to release cable or take back the slack cable, to maintain the electrical connections at all times.

Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a motor housing with an open end and an end cover mounted to the open end. The rotor includes a rotor shaft that extends through the end cover. The end cover includes a bearing that supports the rotor shaft. The rotor shaft and motor housing are made of an electrically conductive material and are electrically connected with each other. The motor housing, end cover, bearing and rotor shaft cooperatively form an electromagnetic shield suppressing electromagnetic interference generated by the motor. Optionally, the rotor shaft drives a coaxial worm shaft of a gearbox by an insulating member, which further suppresses electromagnetic interference.

Abstract: An method of generating a featured scan pattern for test includes: providing a plurality of predetermined test patterns to perform test on a plurality of devices under test (DUT) under a stress condition to generate a plurality of test responses of each DUT; grouping a plurality of specific test responses of each DUT from the test responses of each DUT to determine a feature value corresponding to a failure feature for each DUT; and generating at least one featured test pattern according to the feature value of each DUT.

Abstract: A server rack configured to provide electrical connections with data storage modules upon contact includes a shell and a slide rail module slidably installed on the shell. The shell includes a power supply module. The slide rail module itself is electrically conductive and provided with a cable at each end. The cables are connected with the power supply module and the data storage module, and the data storage module is electrically connected with the power supply module.

Abstract: A server rack includes a shell and a plurality of brackets configured to receive a plurality of data storages. The data storages are electrically connected to the bracket. The shell includes a power supply module configured to provide power to the data storages, and an adapter plate connected with the power supply module through a cable. The bracket is electrically connected to a connecting device. When the bracket is slid in the shell, the connecting device closely contacts the adapter plate to be electrically connected with the adapter plate, and the data storages are thus electrically connected with the power supply module.

Abstract: A server rack able to maintain electrical connections to its components during replacements includes a shell and brackets for data storage devices. The data storage devices are electrically connected to the bracket. The shell includes a power supply module and a connecting device electrically connected to the power supply module. The connecting device includes a resilient ring and a cable, one end of the cable is secured on the resilient ring, and the other end of the cable is electrically connected to the bracket. When the bracket is slid in the shell, the resilient ring elastically deforms to release cable or take back the slack cable, to maintain the electrical connections at all times.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a video encoding method, a video decoding method, a video encoder, and a video decoder. The video encoding method includes: obtaining a to-be-encoded HDR image frame, where the HDR image frame includes multiple image blocks; determining, in multiple preset optical-electro transfer functions according to a statistical luminance value of each of the multiple image blocks, an optical-electro transfer function corresponding to the image block; performing optical-to-electrical conversion on the image block according to the optical-electro transfer function corresponding to the image block; and encoding the multiple image blocks on which the optical-to-electrical conversion has been performed. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, one corresponding optical-electro transfer function is set for each image block, so as to improve a video encoding effect and better adapt to an existing video encoding framework.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an image encoding method, an image decoding method, an encoding device, and a decoding device. The method includes: determining a conversion function parameter of a current image block; determining a conversion function parameter of a neighboring image block corresponding to the current image block; determining, according to a correlation between the conversion function parameter of the current image block and the conversion function parameter of the neighboring image block, whether to perform merge encoding on the conversion function parameter of the current image block and the conversion function parameter of the neighboring image block, and determining a first indicator, where the first indicator is used to indicate whether to perform merge encoding on the conversion function parameter of the current image block and the conversion function parameter of the neighboring image block; and encoding the first indicator.

Abstract: A circuit modeling method, computer readable medium and apparatus for automatic test pattern generation. An analog circuit representation of a circuit is received. A switch-level representation of the circuit is produced by replacing analog circuit elements of the analog circuit representation with switches and modeling faults in the circuit as switches.

Abstract: A mobile phone cover having a phone back, phone front, and a manipulable objects affixed to the phone back. The manipulable objects are configured to provide a user with sensory feedback that is tactile, visual, or audible or a combination of two or of three. A first tactile feedback includes a depress/release button and a corresponding audible feedback is a clicking sound. A second tactile feedback is rotary turning-in-place, and a corresponding audible feedback is a clicking sound or no sound. A third tactile feedback is a rocker motion and a corresponding audible feedback is a snapping sound. A fourth tactile feedback is an omnidirectional rolling ball and a corresponding audible feedback is no sound. A fifth tactile feedback is turnable gears and the corresponding audible feedback is a snapping sound. A sixth tactile feedback is depress/release half-domes and the corresponding audible feedback is a popping sound.

Abstract: Determining of still/movement may be performed with reference to quantization noise of a first section to which a first pixel belongs, and for different results of determining of whether the first pixel is in a movement area or a still area, different frame difference thresholds applicable to the movement area and the still area are separately set, and different frame difference calculation manners are used, different blending coefficients applicable to the movement area and the still area are selected according to the different frame difference thresholds applicable to the movement area and the still area and the frame difference calculation manners, and a noise reduction blending manner is selected according to the different blending coefficients applicable to the movement area and the still area, the frame difference calculation manners, and a pixel value of the first pixel in a current frame.

Abstract: An image processing method and apparatus are provided. The image processing method includes collecting at least two exposure frames with different brightness in a same scene during different exposure time; combining, for each exposure frame, a raw data unit arranged repeatedly in the exposure frame to obtain first brightness data after the combining; acquiring a correction parameter of all exposure frames according to all first brightness data and performing weighting processing on all the exposure frames by using the correction parameter to obtain a high dynamic range (HDR) image of corrected raw data. The foregoing method can resolve a problem in the prior art that colors, brightness, and contrast of an image obtained from Raw data are severely distorted.

Abstract: An method of generating a featured scan pattern for test includes: providing a plurality of predetermined test patterns to perform test on a plurality of devices under test (DUT) under a stress condition to generate a plurality of test responses of each DUT; grouping a plurality of specific test responses of each DUT from the test responses of each DUT to determine a feature value corresponding to a failure feature for each DUT; and generating at least one featured test pattern according to the feature value of each DUT.

Abstract: A video processing method and apparatus, which relate to the field of multimedia, and the method includes acquiring, by an video processing apparatus, two field images of an interlaced frame image in an interlaced video; performing temporal deinterlacing on either field image in the two field images to obtain a temporal virtual field image, and performing spatial deinterlacing on the either field image to obtain a spatial virtual field image; performing directional combing detection on the temporal virtual field image along a preset candidate combing detection direction with reference to the other field image in the interlaced frame image, to determine whether combing exists in the temporal virtual field image; and according to this, selecting the temporal virtual field image or the spatial virtual field image to be fused with the other field image to generate a new image.