Abstract: A method for making a semiconductor device may include forming shallow trench isolation (STI) regions in a semiconductor substrate defining an active region therebetween in the semiconductor substrate and a pad oxide on the active region. The method may further include removing at least some of the pad oxide, cleaning the active region to expose an upper surface thereof and define rounded shoulders of the active region adjacent the STI regions having an interior angle of at least 125°, and forming a superlattice on the active region. The superlattice may include a plurality of stacked groups of layers, each group of layers including a plurality of stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base semiconductor portion, and at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base semiconductor portions. The method may further include forming a semiconductor circuit including the superlattice.

Abstract: Methods, and systems, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for neural network architecture search.

Abstract: A switching power converter includes: a power stage circuit, including at least one transistor which is configured to operably switch an inductor to convert an input power to an output power; and an active EMI filter circuit, including at least one amplifier, wherein the at least one amplifier is configured to operably sense a noise input signal which is related to a switching noise caused by the switching of the power stage circuit, and amplify the noise input signal to generate a noise canceling signal, wherein the noise canceling signal is injected into an input node of the switching power converter, so as to suppress the switching noise and thus reducing EMI, wherein the input power is provided through the input node to the power stage circuit.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first display and a second display. The first display includes a first display body having a first side, a positioning recess located at the first side, and an engagement recess located in the positioning recess. The second display is detachably mounted at one side of the first display body, includes a second display body, a positioning protrusion, and a pendulum hook, and has a second side. The positioning protrusion is connected to the second side and has a cavity configured to accommodate the pendulum hook pivotally connected to the positioning protrusion and including an engagement protrusion. The positioning protrusion is inserted into the positioning recess. The second side contacts the first side. The engagement protrusion is configured to move out of the cavity and be engaged with the engagement recess or move away from the engagement recess and move back to the cavity.

Abstract: A treadmill with a safety monitoring function includes a running unit and a detection unit. The running unit includes a driving roller and a running belt for a runner to stand and run thereon. The detection unit includes a sensor for detecting whether the runner exists at a predefined height on the running belt. The detection unit can be moved to change the predefined height. A safety monitoring function for a treadmill includes adjusting a height of the sensor, detecting whether the runner exists at the predefined height above the running belt, and generating a first monitoring output. Through detecting whether the runner exists at the predefined height, it determines whether the driving roller can be driven by the driving unit to prevent accidental activation by a child. Since the detection unit can be moved to change the predefined height, it allows the use by runners of different body shapes.

Abstract: A treadmill with a safety warning function includes a miming unit, a driving unit, a detection unit and a control unit. The running unit includes a driving roller and a running belt provided for a runner to stand thereon. The detection unit includes a camera arranged at a predefined height range on top of the running belt for photographing images. The control unit determines a height of the runner based on the images photographed. The safety monitoring method for the treadmill includes obtaining an image above the running belt and determining whether the height of the runner is greater than the predefined height. By determining whether the height of the runner is greater than the predefined height, it is able to determine whether the driving roller can be driven by the driving unit to rotate, thereby preventing the hazard of accidental activation by a child of insufficient height.

Abstract: A network initialization communication storage system includes a host device coupled to a storage system and an initialization issue analysis system via a network. The host device includes an initialization subsystem coupled to each of a plurality of ports. During network initialization of the host device via the storage system, the initialization subsystem identifies network initialization communications transmitted via the port(s) and the network, filters the network initialization communications to remove a subset of network initialization information and provide filtered network initialization communications, and transmits the filtered network initialization communications for storage in a remote access controller subsystem in the host device.

Abstract: A method may include, in an information handling system comprising a basic input/output system (BIOS) embodied in non-transitory computer-readable media and configured to be the first code executed by a processor when the information handling system is booted and configured to initialize components of the information handling system into a known state: receiving an indication of installation of a protocol by a producer driver of a plurality of protocol drivers integral to the BIOS, storing metadata regarding the protocol in a protocol database of the BIOS, receiving a request to consume the protocol by a consumer driver of the plurality of protocol drivers, and obfuscating the metadata stored in the protocol database from the consumer driver to prevent the consumer driver from uninstalling the protocol.

Abstract: A network initialization monitoring system includes a host device coupled to a storage system and a monitoring system via a network, and including an initialization subsystem coupled to ports. During network initialization of the host device via the storage system, the initialization subsystem provides a first instance of a communication protocol for monitored port(s), and provides a second instance of the communication protocol for a monitoring port. During the network initialization of the host device via the storage system, the first instance of the communication protocol provided for each monitored port provides copies of network initialization communications transmitted via that monitored port and the network to the second instance of the communication protocol provided for the monitoring port, and the second instance of the communication protocol provided for the monitoring port provides the copies of the network initialization communications to the monitoring system.

Abstract: A protocol security system includes a protocol producer driver stored in a first memory range on a primary memory system, a protocol consumer driver stored on the primary memory system, and a firmware interface engine provided via the primary memory system. The firmware interface engine receives a protocol pointer from the protocol consumer driver, and identifies that the protocol pointer was provided by the protocol producer driver. If the firmware interface engine determines that the protocol pointer is not stored in the first memory range on the primary memory system, it generates a protocol security violation. If the firmware interface engine determines that the protocol pointer is stored in the first memory range on the primary memory system and points to an architectural protocol, it determines whether the protocol producer driver originated from a secondary memory system and, if not, generates a protocol security violation.

Abstract: A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for identifying residual video data. This data describes data that is lost during a compression of original video data. For example, the original video data may be compressed and then decompressed, and this result may be compared to the original video data to determine the residual video data. This residual video data is transformed into a smaller format by means of encoding, binarizing, and compressing, and is sent to a destination. At the destination, the residual video data is transformed back into its original format and is used during the decompression of the compressed original video data to improve a quality of the decompressed original video data.

Abstract: An electronic device, including a host, a main display, an auxiliary display, and a lifting mechanism, is provided. The main display is pivoted to the host. The auxiliary display is disposed on the host. The lifting mechanism is disposed between the auxiliary display and the host. The lifting mechanism is configured to lift the auxiliary display and maintain a lifting height of the auxiliary display.

Abstract: A semiconductor device may include a semiconductor substrate, and shallow trench isolation (STI) regions in the semiconductor substrate defining an active region therebetween in the semiconductor substrate, with the active region having rounded shoulders adjacent the STI regions with an interior angle of at least 125°. The semiconductor device may further include a superlattice on the active region including stacked groups of layers, with each group of layers including stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base semiconductor portion, and at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base semiconductor portions. The semiconductor device may also include a semiconductor circuit on the substrate including the superlattice.

Abstract: Methods, and systems, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for neural network architecture search.

Abstract: An electronic device, including a host, a main display, an auxiliary display, and a lifting mechanism, is provided. The main display is pivoted to the host. The auxiliary display is disposed on the host. The lifting mechanism is disposed between the auxiliary display and the host. The lifting mechanism is configured to lift the auxiliary display and maintain a lifting height of the auxiliary display.

Abstract: An abnormal packet detection apparatus and method are provided. The abnormal packet detection apparatus stores a whitelist corresponding to a protocol port, wherein the whitelist includes at least one legal packet record. Each legal packet record includes a legal packet length, a legal source address, and a legal variation position set, and corresponds to a reference packet. The abnormal packet detection apparatus determines that a current packet length and a current source address of a to-be-analyzed packet are respectively the same as the legal packet length and the legal source address of a reference packet record among the at least one legal packet record, determines a current variation position of the to-be-analyzed packet by comparing the to-be-analyzed packet with the reference packet corresponding to the reference packet record, and generates a detection result by comparing the current variation position with the legal variation position set of the reference packet record.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for ignoring a wakeword received at a speech-enabled listening device when it is determined the wakeword is reproduced audio from an audio-playing device. Determination can be by detecting audio distortions, by an ignore flag sent locally between an audio-playing device and speech-enabled device, by and ignore flag sent from a server, by comparison of received audio played audio to a wakeword within an audio-playing device or a speech-enabled device, and other means.

Abstract: An optical phase shifter array includes: 1st˜nth optical-splitting elements, wherein each has an input end, a first output end and a second output end, and the input end of the 1st optical-splitting element receives an input light and outputs an evenly distributed optical signal to the optical-splitting element of the next stage, and n is a positive integer above 1; a plurality of first optical waveguides respectively connected to the input end of the optical-splitting element of the odd-numbered column of the next stage and the first output end of the optical-splitting element of the previous stage; a plurality of second optical waveguides respectively connected to the input end of the optical-splitting-element of the even-numbered column of the previous stage; and phase shifters of the 1st to the kth stage, which makes the optical signal passing through the optical waveguides produce a phase shift by heating or electro-optic effects.

Abstract: A MEMS transducing apparatus includes a substrate, a conductive pad, a stacked structure of a transducing device, a first polymer layer, a second polymer layer and a third polymer layer. An upper cavity is formed through the substrate. The conductive pad is formed on a first surface of the substrate to cover a first opening of the upper cavity. The stacked structure of the transducing device is formed on the conductive pad. The first polymer layer is formed on the first surface of the substrate. A lower cavity is formed through the first polymer layer. The stacked structure of the transducing device is exposed within the lower cavity. The third polymer layer is formed on a second surface of the substrate to cover a second opening of the upper cavity. The second polymer layer is formed on the first polymer layer to cover a third opening of the lower cavity.

Abstract: A system and method for providing unsupervised domain adaption for spatio-temporal action localization that includes receiving video data associated with a surrounding environment of a vehicle. The system and method also include completing an action localization model to model a temporal context of actions occurring within the surrounding environment of the vehicle based on the video data and completing an action adaption model to localize individuals and their actions and to classify the actions based on the video data. The system and method further include combining losses from the action localization model and the action adaption model to complete spatio-temporal action localization of individuals and actions that occur within the surrounding environment of the vehicle.