Abstract: A constant-temperature water supply system employing a carbon dioxide heat pump includes a primary side loop, a secondary side water supply pipeline, a carbon dioxide heat pump water heater in the primary side loop, and a heat exchanger between the primary side loop and the secondary side water supply pipeline; the temperature of return water is detected and the temperature of a return water tank is detected, so even if the temperature of return water flowing out of a first heat exchange tube fluctuates, the return water can be input at a position in the return water tank having a close temperature, such that water in the return water tank is always in a stably layered state, and therefore allows for constant-temperature water supply.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for sericin removal. Since sodium borohydride has a high hydrogen storage performance, a convenient hydrogen release, and relatively-stable chemical properties, the sodium borohydride in a sodium borohydride aqueous solution reacts with water slowly to release hydrogen. A large number of accumulated hydrogen bubbles pass through silk fibers, and produce an upward pulling force to the sericin on a fiber surface along the silk fibers under the action of inertial force and surface tension, thereby achieving the sericin removal at room temperature. Moreover, the method for sericin removal has a simple process, a complete sericin removal effect, and no damage to the structure of silk fibroin fibers, and can prepare the silk fibroin fibers with high flexibility and bright color.

Abstract: A hot water system with transcritical carbon dioxide single-stage or double-stage compression and a control method therefor is provided. The hot water system includes a first-stage compressor, a first heat exchanger for exchanging heat with cooling water on user side, a second-stage compressor, a second heat exchanger for exchanging heat with the cooling water on user side, a third heat exchanger for exchanging heat between a liquid phase refrigerant and a gas phase refrigerant, an expansion valve, a fourth heat exchanger for exchanging heat with ambient air, a buffer water tank, a first proportional valve, a second proportional valve, a third proportional valve, a fourth proportional valve, a defrosting valve, and a refrigerant circuit bypass valve. The hot water system can switch between the single-stage compression ad the double-stage compression in high-temperature and low-temperature weather, ensuring that the system has good heating capacity and energy efficiency ratio.

Abstract: The present application provides a chain-type roller coating apparatus, including a liquid coating roller and a synchronizing wheel. The synchronizing wheel is provided with a mounting hole. A proximity switch is arranged on an outer side of the synchronizing wheel. The synchronizing wheel is further provided with a trigger element which is configured to be sensed by the proximity switch. The liquid coating roller is assembled with the mounting hole of the synchronizing wheel by a connecting shaft. A shaft main body of the connecting shaft is equipped with a rotation support device configured to support a rotation of the shaft main body. The rotation support device is equipped with a first lifting driving device configured to drive the rotation support device to ascend or descend vertically. A ranging sensor is arranged exactly above the liquid coating roller.

Abstract: A multi-layer low-pass filter is used to filter a first frame of video data representing at least a portion of an environment of an individual. A first layer of the filter has a first filtering resolution setting for a first subset of the first frame, while a second layer of the filter has a second filtering resolution setting for a second subset. The first subset includes a data element positioned along a direction of a gaze of the individual, and the second subset of the frame surrounds the first subset. A result of the filtering is compressed and transmitted via a network to a video processing engine configured to generate a modified visual representation of the environment.

Abstract: Systems within materials handling facilities or retail establishments are programmed to receive images from cameras, process clips of the images to generate sets of features representing product spaces and actors depicted within such images, and to classify the clips as depicting or not depicting a shopping event. The images are dynamically cropped to reduce amounts of data that must be processed to in order to determine whether the images depict shopping events. The images are cropped by calculating a center point based on positions of points on product spaces and detected overlaps of hands and the product spaces. Features of clips determined to depict a shopping event are combined into a sequence and transferred, along with classifications of such clips, to a multi-camera system that generates a shopping hypothesis based on such features.

Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that incorporate enhanced metadata into spatial and/or mixed reality capture environments. For example, a process may include capturing an original video content recording that includes one or more frames depicting a first view provided by a head mounted device (HMD) at one or more instants in time. The process may further generate an adapted video content recording by adapting brightness of the one or more frames of the original video content recording to account for a difference between a first viewing condition associated with the first view and a second viewing condition associated with non-immersive viewing. The process may further generate metadata comprising information associated with the first viewing condition and the metadata may be associated with the adapted video content recording.

Abstract: An internal and external coupling shear resistance locking control system and monitoring method of tunnel surrounding rocks, comprises an internal shear resistance and monitoring system of tunnel surrounding rocks, an external shear resistance and monitoring system of tunnel surrounding rocks, a relative shear displacement monitoring system of the tunnel walls and the roof and floor layers, and an anchor agent installation system; holes are expanded in the anchor cable drilling holes passing through coal-rock interface areas of the coal walls and roof and floor rock layers to form shear misalignment tolerance cavities; monitoring pressure values of measuring bags and liquid discharge in the shear misalignment tolerance cavities to determine shear deformations of the shear misalignment tolerance cavities, monitoring forces on anchor cables, compensating pull rods and shear resistance steel strips, and adjusting the shear resistance of the anchor cable and steel belt through the compensation rod structure.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to data transmission methods, systems, and apparatuses. In one example method, a first device sends first information of a first data block to a second device. The second device searches, based on the first information, a first index for a second data block similar to the first data block, and sends second information of the second data block to the first device. The first device locally obtains, based on the second information, a reference block that is the same as the second data block, compresses a difference part of the first data block relative to the reference block to obtain first compressed information, and sends the first compressed information to the second device. The second device obtains the first data block based on the first compressed information and the second data block.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for roller-coating a liquid material, including roller-coating the liquid material on a silicon wafer with a liquid coating roller, and controlling a thickness of the liquid material carried on the liquid coating roller with a liquid taking roller, where a liquid retaining structure is provided at two ends of the liquid coating roller and/or two ends of the liquid taking roller, and the liquid retaining structure is configured to prevent the liquid material from flowing out from the two ends of the liquid coating roller and the two ends of the liquid taking roller.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a directional radiation device and its use, which regulates radiation by specifying angles or angular ranges to achieve infrared broadband angular-asymmetric directional thermal radiation. Additionally, the geometric structure of the asymmetric unit can be adjusted to enhance infrared radiation at specific angles; by changing the material of the spectral selection layer, the wavelength of thermal radiation can be controlled, enabling spectrally selective emission in the infrared band. A porous film is attached to the directional radiation device to enhance its reflectivity in the solar wavelength range, thereby truly achieving passive radiative cooling on vertical and inclined surfaces.

Abstract: An internal and external coupling shear resistance locking control system and monitoring method of tunnel surrounding rocks, comprises an internal shear resistance and monitoring system of tunnel surrounding rocks, an external shear resistance and monitoring system of tunnel surrounding rocks, a relative shear displacement monitoring system of the tunnel walls and the roof and floor layers, and an anchor agent installation system; holes are expanded in the anchor cable drilling holes passing through coal-rock interface areas of the coal walls and roof and floor rock layers to form shear misalignment tolerance cavities; monitoring pressure values of measuring bags and liquid discharge in the shear misalignment tolerance cavities to determine shear deformations of the shear misalignment tolerance cavities, monitoring forces on anchor cables, compensating pull rods and shear resistance steel strips, and adjusting the shear resistance of the anchor cable and steel belt through the compensation rod structure.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for roller-coating a liquid material, including roller-coating the liquid material on a silicon wafer with a liquid coating roller, and controlling a thickness of the liquid material carried on the liquid coating roller with a liquid taking roller, where a liquid retaining structure is provided at two ends of the liquid coating roller and/or two ends of the liquid taking roller, and the liquid retaining structure is configured to prevent the liquid material from flowing out from the two ends of the liquid coating roller and the two ends of the liquid taking roller.

Abstract: A multi-parallel carbon dioxide heat pump control method based on target load control, wherein the multi-parallel carbon dioxide heat pump comprises a carbon dioxide circulation loop, a heat source pipeline and a hot water pipeline, and the control method comprises: adjusting the opening degree of an electronic expansion valve (3) according to the temperature of an inlet of the hot water pipeline, the temperature of an outlet of the hot water pipeline, the flow in the hot water pipeline and a target outlet temperature set by a user, such that the steady-state change of system pressure can be realized by adjusting the electronic expansion valve (3) on the basis of the fluctuation of parameters such as user side temperature and flow, thus a target outlet temperature change curve is rapidly and stably converged to a target value, and the outlet temperature can be rapidly stabilized.

Abstract: A capacity adjustment method applied to a storage system and a related apparatus are provided. The method includes: analyzing cold and hot attributes of data stored in the storage system, to obtain an amount of hot data and an amount of cold data in the data; determining, based on the amount of hot data and the amount of cold data, a capacity of a cache required by the storage system and a capacity of a persistent storage required by the storage system, where the cache required by the storage system comes from a first storage medium set, and the persistent storage required by the storage system comes from a second storage medium set; and adjusting, based on the capacity of the cache and the capacity of the persistent storage, a purpose of a storage medium comprised in the storage system.

Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques to concurrently capture several redundant (e.g., overlapping) video image streams on electronic devices having multiple image capture devices (e.g., on mobile devices having two or more digital video cameras). The techniques described herein advantageously capture at least one “compressed” video image stream, such that the overall multi-video image stream capture process uses significantly less power than capturing each stream independently in an “uncompressed” fashion. These techniques provide an electronic device with the ability to provide a user with more video streams that are of a higher frame rate and/or higher quality for a longer capture time-without exceeding the device's thermal limits.

Abstract: This application provides example data processing methods and systems. One example data processing method includes obtaining a first metadata stream of a first file system, where the first metadata stream is a streaming structure and includes multiple records, and each of the multiple records includes an identifier of a node in the first file system, an identifier of a parent node of the node, and an attribute of the node. A hierarchy of multiple nodes in the first file system is determined based on the first metadata stream.

Abstract: In one implementation, a method includes receiving a warped image representing simulated reality (SR) content (e.g., to be displayed in a display space), the warped image having a plurality of pixels at respective locations uniformly spaced in a grid pattern in a warped space, wherein the plurality of pixels are respectively associated with a plurality of respective pixel values and a plurality of respective scaling factors indicating a plurality of respective resolutions at a plurality of respective locations of the SR content (e.g., in the display space). The method includes processing the warped image in the warped space based on the plurality of respective scaling factors to generate a processed warped image and transmitting the processed warped image.

Abstract: A method of designing a passive metasurface system within an environment includes receiving a three-dimensional model of the environment including one or more transmitter locations and one or more target locations, and determining one or more metasurface designs and placements to achieve a given objective. The method may also include computing a received signal strength at the one or more target locations based on the three-dimensional model of the environment, computing the received signal strength at the one or more target locations based on the three-dimensional model of the environment and the one or more metasurface designs and placements, and/or calculating ray traces and/or using machine learning to determine the received signal strength at the one or more target locations on the three-dimensional model of the environment and the one or more metasurface designs and placements.

Abstract: A carbon dioxide overlapping type heating system and a control method therefor, in which the heating system includes a low-temperature-stage loop, high-temperature-stage loop and a heating loop, in which a temperature-stage compressor (3) and a high-temperature-stage compressor (7) are both variable-frequency compressors; and a water pump (10) is a variable-frequency water pump.