Abstract: Various embodiments provide a frequency hopping processing method and a device. In those embodiments, a symbol used to transmit a demodulation reference signal of a shared channel can be determined by a communications device. A time domain frequency hopping location of the shared channel based on the symbol used to transmit the demodulation reference signal can be determined by the communications device. In this way, frequency hopping processing of a shared channel in an NR network is implemented.

Abstract: This application provides a method for determining a reference signal sequence, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, first indication information sent by a network device; determining, by the terminal device, a target resource based on the first indication information; determining, by the terminal device, a reference signal sequence based on parameters of a first bandwidth and parameters of a second bandwidth; and sending or receiving, by the terminal device, the reference signal sequence on the target resource. Based on the method for determining a reference signal sequence provided in this application, the reference signal sequence can be determined based on the parameters of the first bandwidth and the parameters of the second bandwidth.

Abstract: A semiconductor device of electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection is provided, including a deep N-type region, disposed in a substrate; a deep P-type region, disposed in the substrate; a first P-type well, disposed in the deep N-type region; a first N-type well, abutting to the first P-type well, disposed in the deep N-type region. Further, a second P-type well abutting to the first N-type well is disposed in the deep P-type region. A second N-type well abutting to the second P-type well is disposed in the deep P-type region. A side N-type well is disposed in the deep N-type region at an outer side of the first P-type well. A side P-type well is disposed in the deep P-type region at an outer side of the second N-type well.

Abstract: This application discloses a communication method and apparatus. The method includes receiving by a terminal device a subchannel indication from a network device, and performing sidelink communication on K subchannels based on the subchannel indication. The subchannel indication is used to indicate the K subchannels used for sidelink communication, the K subchannels belong to M resource pools in N resource pools, and the N resource pools are resource pools corresponding to a BWP used for sidelink communication. A quantity of bits of the subchannel indication is determined based on a quantity of subchannels included in a reference resource pool, and the reference resource pool is a resource pool in the N resource pools.

Abstract: An electrostatic discharge circuit is provided. The electrostatic discharge circuit includes a cascade transistor configuration and a control circuit. The cascade transistor configuration includes a first transistor and a second transistor coupled between a power supply node and a ground node. The control circuit is coupled to the cascade transistor configuration, and coupled between the power supply node and the ground node. The control circuit includes a voltage drop circuit coupled to the power supply node and the first transistor, and an electrostatic discharge detecting circuit between the voltage drop circuit and the ground node. The electrostatic discharge detecting circuit is coupled to the first transistor and the second transistor.

Abstract: An uplink resource grant method includes receiving, by a terminal, configuration information from a network device, where the configuration information includes information about a first uplink resource and information about a second uplink resource, and searching, by the terminal, a search space for a downlink control channel to obtain grant information. The search space includes a first control channel candidate set when the downlink control channel carries grant information of the first (or the second) uplink resource, and the search space includes a second control channel candidate set when the downlink control channel carries grant information of the second (or the first) uplink resource or grant information of a downlink resource. The first control channel candidate set is the same as the second control channel candidate set.

Abstract: A method for sending uplink control information, a method for receiving uplink control information, and a device are provided. The method for sending uplink control information includes: obtaining, by user equipment, uplink control information; and mapping, by the user equipment, the uplink control information to at least two transmission time units, to send the uplink control information to a network device.

Abstract: In certain embodiments, this disclosure discloses a signal transmission method. The method may include receiving first configuration information from a network device. The first configuration information includes at least two sets of control channel parameters, and each set of the at least two sets of control channel parameters corresponds to at least one time unit. The method may include determining, based on an index of a time unit and the first configuration information, a control channel parameter corresponding to the time unit represented by the index.

Abstract: The present disclosure an ELISA-based assay that uses a glycosylated polypeptide fragment derived from the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (Covid-19) receptor binding domain (S1RBD) that has affinity for the extracellular domain of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2). The S1RBD polypeptide is generated by expression of an encoding nucleic acid by a human cell expression system resulting in glycosylation of the expressed spike receptor binding domain (S1RBD) protein at least at the N343 N-glycosylation site thereof, and which surprisingly and significantly increases the affinity of the S1RBD for ACE2, provides a significant increase in the sensitivity of the assay compared to other known assays.

Abstract: A resource indication method, a device, and a system relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: allocating, by a base station, a BP to a terminal device, and sending, to the terminal device, a first message indicating a resource position of the BP; and receiving, by the terminal device, the first message sent by the base station, and then determining the resource position of the BP based on resource position information of at least one sub-BP, where the BP includes the at least one sub-BP, the BP is not greater than a maximum bandwidth supported by the terminal device, and the first message includes the resource position information of the at least one sub-BP. The BP is allocated by using a sub-BP as a granularity, so that signaling overheads can be reduced while a requirement for more flexible resource allocation is satisfied.

Abstract: A communication method, a terminal, and a network device are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, a downlink reference signal sent by a network device in a first cell, and determining a downlink path loss estimate between the terminal and the first cell based on the downlink reference signal; and sending, by the terminal, an uplink signal in a second cell, where uplink transmit power used by the terminal to send the uplink signal is determined based on the downlink path loss estimate.

Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling a smart device are provided. The methods may include acquiring a state switching instruction including first password information. The methods may further include acquiring information of a preset periodic password related to the smart device. The preset periodic password becomes valid each time after a predetermined time has passed. The methods may further include determining whether to switch a state of the smart device based on the information of the password and the information of the preset periodic password.

Abstract: This application discloses a communication method that includes: receiving first control information of a first bandwidth part (BWP) and second control information of a second BWP, and receiving a first data channel and a second data channel based on the first control information. The first BWP includes a first frequency domain resource and a second frequency domain resource. The second BWP includes a third frequency domain resource, and the third frequency domain resource and the second frequency domain resource overlap. The first data channel is located on the first frequency domain resource, and the second data channel is located on the third frequency domain resource. The foregoing method provides a manner of transmitting data on the first and second BWPs that partially overlap.

Abstract: A method, system, and device for resource block (RB) indexing in a user equipment (UE) is provided. In an embodiment, the method includes obtaining, at the UE, a UE-independent frequency reference point. The method also includes determining, by the UE, a UE-independent index of an RB according to the UE-independent frequency reference point.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: A terminal receives first configuration information from a network device, and determines a time unit aggregation based on the first configuration information, where the time unit aggregation includes at least one time unit. The terminal receives control information from the network device, and determines at least one first time subunit and at least one second time subunit in the time unit aggregation based on the control information. The terminal receives, in the at least one first time subunit, data corresponding to a first transport block, and receives, in the at least one second time subunit, data corresponding to a second transport block.

Abstract: A system and methods for automatically delineating OARs in whole-volume medical images through a two-stage DCNN model, the DCNN model comprising an OAR detection network and an OAR segmentation network, and the method comprising the steps of: inputting the whole-volume medical images to the OAR detection network; extracting image features through a sequence of downsampling blocks; generating a final detection feature map via upsampling and concatenation; detecting at least one OAR candidate by branching the final detection feature map, wherein the at least one OAR candidate is defined by a predicted bounding box with a class label; inputting the predicted bounding box and corresponding class label to the OAR segmentation network; cropping the final detection feature map and a downsampling block in the OAR detection network according to the predicted bounding box; concatenating the cropped feature maps and generating a predicted binary mask delineating OARs according to the class label.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a method and apparatus for determining a transport block size. The method includes: obtaining a target overhead value based on a target time-frequency resource and one or more of at least two overhead values, where the target time-frequency resource is used for uplink data transmission or downlink data transmission and includes one or more time-frequency resource units, and each overhead value is corresponding to at least one time-frequency resource unit; and determining a transport block size based on the target overhead value. It can be learned that, according to the method and apparatus for determining a transport block size provided in the embodiments of this application, a corresponding target overhead value may be determined for each of different target time-frequency resources. This is not only applicable to a scenario in which a dynamic time-frequency resource is scheduled, but also improves accuracy of determining the transport block size.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and a system for offline verification code generation based on a smart door lock system. The method may include in response to an unlocking event, recording, by a mobile terminal, a trigger time of the unlocking event; in response to the unlocking event, sending, by the mobile terminal, a request for unlocking verification information to a cloud server, wherein the request for the unlocking verification information is used to request the cloud server to return a verification code of a smart door lock, and the unlocking verification information includes a private key seed of the smart door lock and the trigger time; and receiving, by the mobile terminal, the verification code of the smart door lock for opening the smart door lock generated by the cloud server based on the private key seed and the trigger time.

Abstract: A capability configuration method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: sending, by a network device, capability configuration information to a terminal device, where the capability configuration information is used to indicate a capability corresponding to an air-interface slice supported by the terminal device, and the capability corresponding to the air-interface slice supported by the terminal device is determined from a capability candidate set reported by the terminal device; and communicating, by the network device, with the terminal device by using the air-interface slice supported by the terminal device.

Abstract: This application provides a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: A terminal receives first control information, where the first control information is used to trigger a channel state information (CSI) operation corresponding to a first secondary component carrier, the first secondary component carrier is in a deactivated state, and the CSI operation includes one or more of the following: aperiodic CSI reporting, aperiodic CSI measurement, semi-persistent CSI reporting, or semi-persistent CSI measurement. The terminal performs, based on the first control information, the CSI operation corresponding to the first secondary component carrier.