Abstract: A method for controlling a vehicle is provided. The vehicle includes an image capturing device. The method includes: controlling the image capturing device to collect an image of a scene where the vehicle is located; acquiring projection information of a projection pattern in the image; determining image-altering information corresponding to the projection pattern according to the projection information; and controlling movement of the vehicle according to the image-altering information.

Abstract: A moulding composition contains a) 75 wt. % to 98.5 wt. % of a polyether block amide, based on a total weight of the moulding composition. The polyether block amide contains a subunit 1, composed of at least one lactam or ?,?-aminocarboxylic acid having 6 to 14 carbon atoms, and a subunit 2, composed of at least one amino- or hydroxy-terminated polyether having at least two carbon atoms per ether oxygen and at least two primary amino or at least two hydroxy groups at the chain ends. The moulding composition also contains b) 1.5 wt. % to 25 wt. % of at least one polyalkenamer, based on a total weight of the moulding composition. The at least one polyalkenamer contains at least one cycloalkene having 5 to 12 carbon atoms. A moulded article can be produced from the moulding composition, which can be a moulding, a film, a bristle, a fibre or a foam.

Abstract: A method of operating an electric power system, which may include: determining a charge state of a first battery unit and a charge state of a second battery unit; determining a difference between the charge state of the first battery unit and the charge state of the second battery unit; and determining whether to enable discharging simultaneously of both the first battery unit and the second battery unit, or to enable discharging of one of the first and second battery units, based on the difference between the charge state of the first battery unit and the charge state of the second battery unit. At least one of the first and second battery units may be a swappable battery unit. The disclosure further relates to an electric power system and to a computer executable code including instructions for operating an electric power system.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method and apparatus for displaying a virtual landscape picture, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes acquiring a plurality of landscape layer types comprised in the target landscape area to be displayed and determining a type weight corresponding to each landscape layer type in the plurality of landscape layer types; screening at least one target landscape layer type with a corresponding type weight which satisfies a condition from the plurality of landscape layer types, and acquiring an index value of a landscape layer corresponding to each of the screened at least one target landscape layer type; and sequentially storing the index value in each image color channel of the landscape layer index map to obtain the landscape layer index map corresponding to the target landscape area to be displayed.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to utilizing a neural network having a two-stream encoder architecture to accurately generate composite digital images that realistically portray a foreground object from one digital image against a scene from another digital image. For example, the disclosed systems can utilize a foreground encoder of the neural network to identify features from a foreground image and further utilize a background encoder to identify features from a background image. The disclosed systems can then utilize a decoder to fuse the features together and generate a composite digital image. The disclosed systems can train the neural network utilizing an easy-to-hard data augmentation scheme implemented via self-teaching. The disclosed systems can further incorporate the neural network within an end-to-end framework for automation of the image composition process.

Abstract: Aspects concern a battery pack for mounting on a vehicle. The battery pack may comprise an elongated cell rack comprising one or more battery cells arranged therein. The battery pack may comprise a tubular battery case at least partially surrounding the elongated cell rack. The battery pack may comprise a top seal cover sealing a top portion of the elongated cell rack. The battery pack may comprise a bottom seal cover arranged at a bottom portion of the elongated cell rack. The battery pack may comprise a female pin receptacle arranged on the bottom seal cover at the bottom portion of the elongated cell rack.

Abstract: Provided is a rhomboid structured triboelectric nanogenerator based on a built-in U-shaped support. The device includes a diamond-shaped bracket and two U-shaped supports. The U-shaped supports is connected with the diamond-shaped bracket through four connecting rods, and the supporting plates of U-shaped supports are sequentially adhered with metal conductor layer and a dielectric material layer, which forms the power generation unit. When the diamond-shaped bracket is closed, the dielectric material layers on the two supporting plates come into contact to produce friction charge; and then subjected to the reverse force after compression of the spring, the two dielectric material layers are separated, so as to generate an induction electric field by the friction charge and form a potential difference. Compared with an existing vibration energy harvester, the advantages will be small space occupation, a long service life, simple fabrication, and a high energy conversion rate.

Abstract: A semantic understanding method and apparatus, and a device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring a recognition character string that matches speech information; acquiring, from an entity vocabulary library, at least one entity vocabulary respectively corresponding to each recognition character in the recognition character string; and according to a situation of each entity vocabulary hitting the recognition character string, determining a matching entity vocabulary as a semantic understanding result of the speech information. By means of the method, insofar as a completely matching entity vocabulary is not acquired, a matching entity vocabulary can still be determined according to an entity vocabulary library, and semantic information of speech is thus accurately understood; and the method also has relatively high fault tolerance for situations such as wrong words, added words, and omitted words, such that the semantic understanding accuracy of speech information is improved.

Abstract: An in vitro rescue method for immature embryo of avocado includes: collecting immature avocado hybrid fruits, stripping immature zygotic embryos from the sterilized fruits; inducing maturation of zygotic embryos in different media selected according to the maturities of zygotic embryos; and avocado seed embryos growing to normal plants under light conditions after germination. Provided is a technology for the in vitro culture rescue of immature embryo of avocado, wherein the zygotic embryos at different developmental stages are induced to maturation under in vitro conditions, and after maturation, the seed embryos are induced to germinate and form healthy plants. The present invention can effectively improve the survival rate of hybrid avocado zygotic embryo, increase the success rate of hybrid avocado, rescue the hybrid offspring, reduce the loss of hybrid offspring, ensure the genetic integrity of hybrid group, and provide the key technology for hybrid breeding and genetic research of avocado.

Abstract: A power supply on-off detection circuit includes: a signal acquisition circuit, a signal conversion circuit, and a signal processing circuit. The signal acquisition circuit is coupled to a power supply through a switch, and is configured to collect an alternating current signal output by the power supply, and to output the alternating current signal to the signal conversion circuit. The signal conversion circuit is configured to convert the alternating current signal into a voltage signal, and to output the voltage signal to the signal processing circuit. The signal processing circuit is coupled to the signal conversion circuit, and is configured to convert the voltage signal into a level signal. The level signal is used to determine whether the power supply is on or off by determining whether the switch is switched on or off.

Abstract: Provided are a decoding method, a decoding device and a decoder. The method includes: setting a decoder parallelism P, and splitting soft information of a block to be decoded according to the parallelism P; performing decoding calculation on the block to be decoded according to the split information, and outputting decoded hard bit information; and recombining the hard bit information according to the parallelism P.

Abstract: A method for preparing organic-inorganic hybrid nanoflower by electrodeposition is provided, which relates to the technical field of enzyme immobilization. An aqueous solution of a rare earth nitrate is mixed with a biological enzyme and a nitrate to obtain a mixed solution; the rare earth ions in the rare earth nitrate are one or more selected from La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Yb and Y ions; the biological enzyme is ?-amylase, horseradish peroxidase or laccase; then, the mixed solution is electrodeposited with a three-electrode system consisting of a working electrode, a counter electrode and a reference electrode to obtain an electrodeposited film on the surface of the working electrode; thereafter, the electrodeposited film is washed and dried successively to obtain organic-inorganic hybrid nanoflower.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for accurately, efficiently, and flexibly generating harmonized digital images utilizing a self-supervised image harmonization neural network. In particular, the disclosed systems can implement, and learn parameters for, a self-supervised image harmonization neural network to extract content from one digital image (disentangled from its appearance) and appearance from another from another digital image (disentangled from its content). For example, the disclosed systems can utilize a dual data augmentation method to generate diverse triplets for parameter learning (including input digital images, reference digital images, and pseudo ground truth digital images), via cropping a digital image with perturbations using three-dimensional color lookup tables (“LUTs”).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that utilizes a neural network having a hierarchy of hierarchical point-wise refining blocks to generate refined segmentation masks for high-resolution digital visual media items. For example, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize a segmentation refinement neural network having an encoder and a recursive decoder to generate the refined segmentation masks. The recursive decoder includes a deconvolution branch for generating feature maps and a refinement branch for generating and refining segmentation masks. In particular, in some cases, the refinement branch includes a hierarchy of hierarchical point-wise refining blocks that recursively refine a segmentation mask generated for a digital visual media item.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for monitoring vehicle overload based on gravity anomaly, which includes the following steps of: setting a plurality of measuring positions on a single lane, arranging a gravimeter to acquire gravity anomaly values caused by a vehicle when the middle position along the length direction of the vehicle reaching each measuring position, using a monitoring camera to judge the category of the vehicle, acquire three geometric dimensions of the vehicle, and determine the position of the vehicle. The vehicle is simplified as a cuboid, and the mass density distribution is simplified as a piecewise constant function along the length direction of the vehicle. Calculating values of the piecewise constant function according to the gravity anomaly values, calculating a total weight of the vehicle according to the mass density distribution, comparing the total weight with the weight limit of the vehicle to judge whether the vehicle is overloaded. (FIG.

Abstract: A messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine has emerged as a promising direction to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. This requires an mRNA sequence that is stable and highly productive in protein expression, features to benefit from greater mRNA secondary structure folding stability and optimal codon usage. Sequence design remains challenging due to the exponentially many synonymous mRNA sequences encoding the same protein. The present disclosure presents embodiments of a linear-time approximation (LinearDesign) reducing the design to an intersection between a Stochastic Context Free Grammar (SCFG) and a Deterministic Finite Automaton (DFA). Embodiments of the LinearDesign may implement an mRNA sequence design using much reduced time with very limited loss. Various methodologies, e.g., finding alternative sequences based on k-best parsing or directly incorporating codon optimality, are presented for incorporating the codon optimality into the design.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that utilize a progressive refinement network to refine alpha mattes generated utilizing a mask-guided matting neural network. In particular, the disclosed systems can use the matting neural network to process a digital image and a coarse guidance mask to generate alpha mattes at discrete neural network layers. In turn, the disclosed systems can use the progressive refinement network to combine alpha mattes and refine areas of uncertainty. For example, the progressive refinement network can combine a core alpha matte corresponding to more certain core regions of a first alpha matte and a boundary alpha matte corresponding to uncertain boundary regions of a second, higher resolution alpha matte. Based on the combination of the core alpha matte and the boundary alpha matte, the disclosed systems can generate a final alpha matte for use in image matting processes.

Abstract: An electric power system for an electric vehicle, including: first charging and discharging current paths connected to a first battery unit; second charging and discharging current paths connected to a second battery unit; third charging and discharging current paths for a connection with an electric control system of the vehicle; a first power switch between the first discharging current path and the third discharging current path; a second power switch between the second discharging current path and the third discharging current path; a controlling unit to set the first and second power switches based on states of the accumulators, at least one of the first and second battery units being swappable. A controller, a method, and a vehicle comprising the system are also disclosed.

Abstract: A roller embossing method for flexible graphite polar plates of fuel cells comprises: (1) adjusting a clearance of an embossing roller pair of a roller press to a target thickness value of a monopolar plate; (2) feeding a flexible graphite slab in front of the embossing roller pair, and entangling the flexible graphite slab by means of opposite rotation of the embossing roller pair; (3) after the slab is entangled, continuing to forward roll the slab for 10-100 mm, and then reversely rolling the slab for 5-90 mm by means of synchronous and opposite rotation of an upper and a lower embossing roller, wherein one time of forward rolling and one time of reverse rolling are referred to as reciprocal rolling; (4) forming a polar plate after several times of reciprocal rolling, and separating the polar plate from the embossing rollers; (5) performing subsequent treatment on the roll-formed flexible graphite polar plate.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrostatic self-powered displacement grid sensor used for measuring the displacement of a component to be measured. The device structure includes a sliding chute and a sliding sheet, wherein the sliding chute is fixed to a fixed end, and the bottom of the inner side of the sliding chute is provided with a sensing array; the sliding sheet is fixedly connected with the component to be measured, and the lower end of the sliding plate is in contact with the bottom of the inner side of the sliding chute. When the sliding sheet slides over the sensing array; a corresponding electrical signal is produced, and the number of segments and the distance on sensing units on a single sensing array over which the sliding sheet slides can be obtained according to numbers and output current of sensing units in the sensing array indicated by the signal, and therefore the structural displacement is obtained.