Abstract: The present invention is related to a superabsorbent polymer composition and a method of manufacturing a superabsorbent polymer. The superabsorbent polymer composition includes a water solution containing carboxylic acid monomers, a hydrolyzed collagen, a crosslinking agent, and a polymerization initiator. The superabsorbent polymer composition includes a specific amount and a specific molecular weight of hydrolyzed collagen, and thus the obtained superabsorbent polymer has high absorbent properties and dryness properties as well as proper biodegradability.

Abstract: An example method of encoding or decoding video data includes determining a motion vector for a block of video data using a decoder side motion vector derivation process that includes performing an iterative search process, wherein performing the iterative search process includes: determining a minimum cost through a previous search iteration; updating an overall minimum cost through a current search iteration; and terminating the iterative search process early based on a comparison of the minimum cost through the previous search iteration and the overall minimum cost through the current search iteration; and encoding or decoding the block of video data using the motion vector.

Abstract: An integrated chip having an integrated function capable of providing cell image and biochemical detection is provided and includes a sequentially stacked and sealed laminate set. The laminate set includes an upper laminate, a middle laminate and a lower laminate. The upper laminate has one or more holes for sample injection and sample or air discharging of. The middle laminate includes at least two hollow structures that define an imaging chamber and a biochemical detection area. The lower laminate includes at least one filtering element and at least one electrode sensing element disposed in the biochemical detection. The filtering element is for blocking suspended particles, and the electrode sensing element has electrode terminals for connecting to instruments or equipment to perform the measurements and analysis of electrochemistry and impedance.

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) chip with polish stop layers and a method of fabricating the IC chip are disclosed. The method includes forming a first IC chip having a device region and a peripheral region. Forming the first IC chip includes forming a device layer on a substrate, forming an interconnect structure on the device layer, depositing a first dielectric layer on a first portion of the interconnect structure in the peripheral region, depositing a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer and on a second portion of the interconnect structure in the device region, and performing a polishing process on the second dielectric layer to substantially coplanarize a top surface of the second dielectric layer with a top surface of the first dielectric layer. The method further includes performing a bonding process on the second dielectric layer to bond a second IC chip to the first IC chip.

Abstract: A video decoder can be configured to determine that a current block of the video data is coded in a bi-prediction inter mode; receive a first syntax element identifying a motion vector predictor from a first candidate list of motion vector predictors; receive a second syntax element identifying a motion vector difference; determine a first motion vector for the current block based on the motion vector predictor and the motion vector difference; determine a second motion vector for the current block from a second list of candidate motion vector predictors based on bilateral matching; and determine a prediction block for the current block using the first motion vector and the second motion vector.

Abstract: A video decoder determines that a current block of size width (WCB)×height (HCB) is coded in an affine prediction mode; predicts each subblock of a first plurality of subblocks using an affine motion model to determine an initial prediction block, each subblock having a size of width (WSB)×height (HSB) and WSB being less than WCB and HSB being less than HCB; applies a bi-directional optical flow process to first and second subblocks of a second plurality of subblocks to determine first and second refined prediction subblocks, each subblock having a size of width (WSBIPB)×height (HSBIPB), WSBIPB being less than or equal to WCB and less than or equal to WSB and HSBIPB being less than or equal to HCB and less than or equal to HSB; and determines a refined prediction block based on the first refined subblock and the second refined subblock.

Abstract: An example device includes a memory configured to store video data; and a processing system comprising one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: construct a merge candidate list for a current block of video data, wherein the processing system is configured to add a first merge candidate that was predicted using a first convolutional cross component model (CCCM) to the merge candidate list and add a second merge candidate that was predicted using a second CCCM to the merge candidate list, the first CCCM being different than the second CCCM; decode a merge index value for the current block of video data, the merge index value indicating the first merge candidate; in response to the merge index value indicating the first merge candidate, form a prediction block for the current block using the first CCCM; and decode the current block using the prediction block.

Abstract: A device for decoding video data determines a luma prediction block for a luma block of a current block using an initial motion vector; applies one or more decoder-side motion vector refinement processes to the luma prediction block to determine a refined luma prediction block and refined motion vectors, the one or more motion vector refinement processes comprising a bi-directional optical flow (BDOF) process; for a chroma sample of a chroma block, determines a motion vector for the chroma sample based on refined motion vectors of one or more co-located luma samples of the luma block; determines a chroma prediction sample for a chroma prediction block based on the motion vector for the chroma sample; and determines a decoded version of the current block based on the refined luma prediction block and the chroma prediction block.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a semiconductor package structure. The semiconductor package structure includes a substrate, a first electronic component and a support component. The first electronic component is disposed on the substrate. The first electronic component has a backside surface facing a first surface of the substrate. The support component is disposed between the backside surface of the first electronic component and the first surface of the substrate. The backside surface of the first electronic component has a first portion connected to the support component and a second portion exposed from the support component.

Abstract: Systems and methods for thermal transport in space for cryogenic propellant storage tank chilldown are described. In order to maximize the storage tank chilldown thermal efficiency for the least amount of required cryogen consumption, the embodiments relate to quenching heat transfer concepts that can include the combination of cryogenic spray quenching cooling, thermal insulator thin-film coating on the tank inner surface, and spray flow pulsing. The boiling heat transfer physics that supports the concepts are described. The completed flight experiments successfully demonstrated the feasibility of the concepts and discovered that spray cooling can be an efficient cooling method for the tank chilldown in microgravity. In microgravity, the data shows that the chilldown thermal efficiency can reach 30% with a thermal insulator coating alone. Further thermal efficiencies can be made up to 50% with flow pulsing.

Abstract: An example device for decoding video data includes a memory configured to store video data; and a processing system including one or more processors implemented in circuitry, the processing system being configured to: determine that a previously coded block of video data was coded using uni-prediction mode for which a bi-prediction syntax element is not assigned a value; determine that a current block of the video data is to be coded using a bi-prediction mode and that motion information of the current block is to be predicted from the previously coded block, including from the bi-prediction syntax element of the previously coded block; and in response to the bi-prediction syntax element of the previously coded block not having an assigned value, decode the current block using a substitute value for the bi-prediction syntax element.

Abstract: Devices and methods are described for coding a chroma block of video data. An example device includes one or more memories configured to store the video data. The device includes one or more processors in communication with the one or more memories. The one or more processors are configured to determine that single-tree block partitioning is used on a block of the video data. The one or more processors are configured to apply an intra chroma copy mode to a chroma block of the block. The one or more processors are configured to encode or decode the chroma block based on single-tree block partitioning and the intra chroma copy mode.

Abstract: A semiconductor device may include a compound substrate and a 3-dimensional inductor structure. The compound substrate may include a front surface and a back surface. The 3-dimensional inductor structure may include a front conductive stack, a back conductive layer, and at least one through-hole structure. At least one portion of the front conductive stack may include a first conductive layer disposed on the front surface of the compound substrate, and a second conductive layer disposed on the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer has a thickness ranging between 30 micrometers and 400 micrometers. The back conductive layer is disposed on the back surface of the compound substrate. The at least one through-hole structure penetrates through the compound substrate, and electrically connects the front conductive stack to the back conductive layer.

Abstract: An example device for decoding video data includes a memory configured to store video data; and one or more processors configured to: decode data representing an initial motion vector for a current block of the video data, the initial motion vector having integer-motion vector difference (MVD) precision; determine a search range around a reference area identified by the initial motion vector in a reference picture; perform a template matching search process in the search range to identify a best matching region; determine error values for neighboring pixels to the best matching region; use the error values for the neighboring pixels to perform a model-based fractional-pixel motion vector refinement to derive motion vector difference values; apply at least one of the motion vector difference values to the initial motion vector to determine a refined motion vector for the current block; and decode the current block using the refined motion vector.

Abstract: At least some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a semiconductor device package. The semiconductor device package includes a substrate with a first groove and a semiconductor device. The first groove has a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion, and the second portion is between the first portion and the third portion. The semiconductor device includes a membrane and is disposed on the second portion of the first groove. The semiconductor device has a first surface adjacent to the substrate and opposite to the membrane. The membrane is exposed by the first surface.

Abstract: An aerial vehicle includes a communication unit configured to receive a wireless signal from a geo-fencing device, and a flight controller configured to generate one or more control signals that cause the aerial vehicle to operate in accordance with a set of flight regulations generated based on the wireless signal. The geo-fencing device is configured not for landing of the aerial vehicle. The set of flight regulations includes rules for controlling at least one of the aerial vehicle, a carrier carried by the aerial vehicle, or a payload of the aerial vehicle.

Abstract: An operation method of a heater device with a memory unit, wherein the heater device includes a plurality of heater circuits, each of the plurality of heater circuits includes a first transistor and a second transistor. In a burning mode, selectively turning on at least one of the first transistors according to a first signal, so that a first current generated by voltage signals coupled to two terminals of the first transistor passes through the memory unit. In a reading mode, sequentially turning on the first transistors to determine states of the memory units. In a heating mode, selectively turning on at least one of the second transistors according to a second signal, so that a second current generated by voltage signals coupled to two terminals of the second transistor passes through a heater.

Abstract: A video coder may be configured to determine a partitioning for a block of video data using geometric partitioning mode; construct two uni-prediction motion vector candidate lists for the block of video data, and code the block of video data using uni-prediction based on at least one of the two uni-prediction motion vector candidate lists to generate a decoded block of video data.

Abstract: A device for decoding video data includes memory configured to store the video data and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to determine that a current block of the video data is inter-predicted in a combined inter-intra prediction (CIIP) mode or a geometric partitioning mode (GPM), determine that template matching is enabled for the current block, generate a motion vector for the current block based on template matching; determine a prediction block for the current block based on the motion vector in accordance with the CHIP mode or the GPM, and reconstruct the current block based on the prediction block.

Abstract: The application provides a wireless communication method and a wireless communication device. A part of payload is pre-fetched from a host to a data buffer under a store-and-forward mode before transmission begins. When data transmission begins, the part of the payload pre-fetched in the data buffer is transmitted to an antenna. A remaining part of the payload is fetched to the data buffer under a cut-through mode for payload transmission, wherein the remaining part of the payload is sent from the data buffer to the antenna for radiation.