Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power management method, a multi-processing unit system, and a power management module thereof. The multi-processing unit system comprises a plurality of local power management units and a global power management unit, each of the local power management units corresponds to a processing unit of the multi-processing unit system. The power management method comprises: obtaining, using the global power management unit, a global power budget for the multi-processing unit system; allocating, using the global power management unit, local power budget for each of the local power management units according to the global power budget and power management parameters of the processing units; managing, using the local power management unit, local power resources of corresponding processing unit based on the allocated local power budget; reporting, using the local power management unit, the power management parameters of the processing unit to the global power management unit.

Abstract: Managing data stored in a cache using a reinforcement learning agent may include: determining a set of current state observations with respect to a cache, wherein the set of current state observations is determined based on historical cache accesses to the cache; inputting the set of current state observations into an actor network of a reinforcement learning (RL) agent to obtain an action output by the actor network, wherein the RL agent is configured to manage data stored at the cache; inputting the set of current state observations and the action into a critic network of the RL agent to obtain a score corresponding to the action from the critic network; causing the RL agent to perform the action with respect to managing the data stored at the cache; using the score to update the actor network; and using a reward corresponding to the action to update the critic network.

Abstract: A display device and a controlling method thereof are provided. The display device includes a display panel, a backlight unit, and a time schedule controller. The display panel is configured to display images. Areas where afterimages of dynamic images occur are identified according to comparison results of dither values. Tailing phenomenon of the dynamic images may be relieved by transmitting backlight data without brightness to a second backlight sub-area corresponding to where the afterimages occur. Furthermore, because frequency multiplication is not applied, risks of display instability will not increase.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus, system and method for on-chip microfluids dispensing. The apparatus comprising a substrate; a plurality of first electrodes arranged one next to another on the substrate; a dielectric layer above and enclosing the plurality of first electrodes; and a second electrode on the substrate, wherein each of the plurality of first electrodes is in electric communication with a respective first driving signal input; wherein the second electrode is in electric communication with a second driving signal input; wherein the plurality of first electrodes define a continuous fluid path along a longitudinal direction for retaining microfluids, and wherein the second electrode is arranged within the continuous fluid path and defines a jetting position and an adjacent mixing position within the continuous fluid path.

Abstract: A central learning model is deployed as a user model and as an assistant model. Sensitive information utterances from a corpus of previously stored conversation language corresponding to user queries and chat agent responses thereto are used to train the user model to become an updated user model and to train the assistant model to become an updated assistant model, respectively. The user model provides user contexts corresponding to user queries to the assistant model and the assistant model provides assistant contexts corresponding to chat agent responses to the user model. During training, the user model does not provide plain-text queries to the assistant model and the assistant model does not provide plain-text responses to the user model. The updated assistant model may facilitate a federated training process produce an updated central model. An updated central model may be used to provide real-time chat agent responses to live user queries.

Abstract: Please replace Abstract with the following amended Abstract: A reference voltage generation circuit is provided. The reference voltage generation circuit reduces a potential difference between a reference voltage less than a first data driving voltage and a data driving voltage, namely, the potential difference between a lower reference voltage and the data driving voltage is reduced. Therefore, the power loss of a voltage dividing module is reduced to prevent the problems of reduced reliability and reduced service life of a drive circuit board due to excessive internal temperature.

Abstract: A reference voltage generation circuit is provided. The reference voltage generation circuit reduces a potential difference between a reference voltage less than a first data driving voltage and a data driving voltage, namely, the potential difference between a lower reference voltage and the data driving voltage is reduced. Therefore, the power loss of a voltage dividing module is reduced to prevent the problems of reduced reliability and reduced service life of a drive circuit board due to excessive internal temperature.

Abstract: Provided is a digital microfluidic device for quick polymerase chain reaction. The digital microfluidic device includes an enclosed chamber for holding droplets comprising PCR mixtures. The chamber has an upper layer and a lower layer, which provide a top heater and a bottom heater contained in a thermal electrode respectively to form dual heaters. The lower layer further has an array of electrodes and a dielectric layer, e.g. Norland Optical adhesive 61, coating thereon. Such arrangement of the digital microfluidic device allows quick and homogeneous heating of droplets to lower the heating voltage, shorten the reaction time, and prevent the dielectric layer from breakdown during the thermal cycle.

Abstract: A driving circuit, a display panel, and a panel are provided. The driving circuit includes a substrate and signal lines and a plurality of load components disposed on the substrate. The plurality of load components are distributed along a first direction. Each of the load components is connected to the signal lines. The signal lines include at least two signal input terminals. Signals are loaded to signal lines through the at least two signal input terminals.

Abstract: A backlight brightness control method, a backlight brightness control device, and a display equipment are provided. By using a constant current integrated circuit to input constant current to backlight sources in backlight partitions, uniformity of backlight brightness is allowed to be improved. By determining a target peak current inputted to the backlight sources in the backlight partitions according to a grayscale level of partition images, not only can the backlight brightness required by a high grayscale level be ensured, but fine adjustment of the backlight brightness under a low grayscale level can also be ensured.

Abstract: Hierarchical network operation and resource control system and method for a mega satellite constellation, belonging to the field of spatial information technology, are provided. The hierarchical network operation and resource control system includes a service layer, a global organization layer, a local coordination layer and a resource layer. The service layer is used as an input to drive operation of whole system. The global organization layer is to realize “operation, measurement and control” integrated control and decision of whole network. The local coordination layer is to realize local management decision and management slice generation. The resource layer is to provide physical resource and physical device and realize resource virtualization.

Abstract: A display panel and a driving method thereof are provided, including a time schedule controller and at least one driver integrated circuit (driver IC). Pulse width modulation (PCM) data between the time schedule controller and the driver IC is transmitted in a decoded manner, and pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) data is transmitted in an undecoded manner, reducing a transmission rate between the time schedule controller and the driver IC, and thereby reducing or eliminating risks of electromagnetic interference (EMI). Furthermore, using this transmission method can reduce the number of latches used in the driver IC.

Abstract: Lightweight inter-satellite handover device and method for a mega LEO satellite network are provided. An attribute extraction sub-module extracts attributes of handover users in a user information storage unit. Based on the attributes of the handover users, a cluster sub-module clusters the handover users into user clusters. A decision set generator sub-module generates target satellite sets of the user clusters, determines each target satellite of the target satellite sets of the user clusters of each LEO satellite whether belongs to LEO satellites in a management domain of a handover decision point of managing the LEO satellite based on management domain information in a LEO satellite information storage unit, and if YES, performing inter-satellite handover by a centralized decision unit, otherwise performing inter-satellite handover by a distributed decision unit.

Abstract: A display device and a controlling method thereof are provided. The display device includes a display panel, a backlight unit, and a time schedule controller. The display panel is configured to display images. Areas where afterimages of dynamic images occur are identified according to comparison results of dither values. Tailing phenomenon of the dynamic images may be relieved by transmitting backlight data without brightness to a second backlight sub-area corresponding to where the afterimages occur. Furthermore, because frequency multiplication is not applied, risks of display instability will not increase.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method. The system includes: a storage device storing a set of instructions; and one or more processors in communication with the storage device. When executing the set of instructions, the one or more video processors: synchronize a signal with a first PN sequence, wherein the signal includes a plurality of second PN sequences, marked as 0 PN sequence, 1 PN sequence, . . . , (k?1) PN sequence, k sequence, wherein k is a positive integer number; determine that the signal is synchronized with the first PN sequence; determine a first target distance between the (k?1) PN sequence and the k sequence; and determine a formality standard of the signal based on the first target distance.

Abstract: This disclosure provides a computation unit, a related apparatus, and a method. The computation unit includes: a weight buffer adapted to store a row vector fetched from an M×K? sparsified weight matrix, where M and K are respectively a number of rows and a number of columns of the weight matrix before being sparsified, and ? is a sparsity coefficient; an excitation buffer adapted to store a K×N excitation matrix; an index selector adapted to store a selection index corresponding to the row vector, and select a row of the excitation matrix based on the selection index, to obtain a K?×N selected excitation matrix; and a dot product computation unit adapted to multiply the row vector by the selected excitation matrix. This disclosure implements a manner of running a DNN on hardware. In such a manner, structured sparsity of a DNN can be fully utilized, so that inference efficiency is improved; moreover, a register file occupies relatively small bandwidth, and a timing constraint is weak.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for adjusting a user emotion are provided. In one example, the method includes obtaining, by a terminal device, data that represents a physical condition of a user, where the data comprises first data, and the first data is at least one parameter value detected for the user by a wearable device connected to the terminal device. The method also includes obtaining, by the terminal device, emotion information determined based on the data and performing, by the terminal device, an operation corresponding to the emotion information.

Abstract: A hydroformylation catalyst, a preparation method thereof and a use thereof. The hydroformylation catalyst including an active component and a carrier carrying the active component, wherein the active component includes a transition metal as a center atom, and a polyhydroxy aromatic ring group bonded to the transition metal; and the transition metal and the polyhydroxy aromatic ring groups are bonded by at least one of metal-hydroxyl coordination bond and at least one of metal-oxygen covalent bond, and the active component has at least one of the metal-hydroxyl coordination bond and at least one of the metal-oxygen covalent bond.

Abstract: The embodiment of the present disclosure discloses a display method and system for an indicator arrow in a navigation map. The method comprises: acquiring at least one indicator arrow information in a navigation route, the at least one indicator arrow information including at least one set of points representing the indicator arrow; determining a highest point of the indicator arrow on a screen based on the at least one indicator arrow information; determining a display position of the indicator arrow on the screen after placing the highest point at a preset position of the screen; and displaying the indicator arrow on the screen.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a preparation method for 4-phenylthio-benzenethiol. The preparation method comprises the following steps: subjecting phenyl sulfide as a raw material to a halogenation reaction to obtain 4-halophenyl sulfide; subjecting the 4-halophenyl sulfide to a sulfhydrylation reaction to obtain a 4-phenylthio-phenylthiolate; and subjecting the 4-phenylthio-phenylthiolate to acidification. The preparation method of the present disclosure avoids the use of materials such as thiophenol which pollutes the environment, and realizes efficient recycling of the reaction materials, solvents, water and the like. The preparation method of the present disclosure is a green process for the synthesis of 4-phenylthio-phenylthiol without organic waste, waste acid and waste water discharge.