Abstract: A read circuit for an image sensor includes: a first analog-to-digital conversion unit configured to perform successive approximation high-bit analog-to-digital conversion on collected pixel data to obtain high-bit conversion data and residual pixel data; and a second analog-to-digital conversion unit electrically connected to the first analog-to-digital conversion unit and configured to perform single-slope low-bit analog-to-digital conversion on the residual pixel data to obtain low-bit conversion data, wherein a sum of a first conversion accuracy of the first analog-to-digital conversion unit and a second conversion accuracy of the second analog-to-digital conversion unit is equal to a preset conversion accuracy for the pixel data. In accordance with the read circuit, a high image conversion frame rate of the pixel data can be achieved with lower power consumption and less circuit area, and the conversion cycle of the pixel data is effectively shortened.

Abstract: A method and system to signal transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports to be used in a multiple input multiple output system, the method including providing a downlink control signal containing information for transmission layers or dedicated reference signal ports utilized, the dedicated reference signal ports being associated with the transmission layers; and using the information to demodulate data on each transmission layer.

Abstract: A pixel processing circuit, a reading method thereof and an image sensor are provided. The pixel processing circuit includes a pixel array comprising a plurality of pixel units arranged in a Bayer array, an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) module comprising a plurality of analog-to-digital converters and a plurality of switch selection modules. The analog-to-digital converters are respectively located on the opposite first side and second side of the pixel array. The switch selection modules are set between the pixel array and the analog-to-digital converters to switch the connectivity between the pixel units and the analog-to-digital converters on the opposite sides of the pixel array so that signals of green pixel units are read by first analog-to-digital converters located at the first side of the pixel array, and signals of remaining color pixel units are read by second analog-to-digital converters that are located at the second side of the pixel array.

Abstract: A metasurface unit includes a first metal layer, a first dielectric layer, a second metal layer, a second dielectric layer, and a third metal layer. The first metal layer includes a first dipole arm pair and a second dipole arm pair, the first dipole arm pair is disposed in a first direction, and the second dipole arm pair is disposed in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The second metal layer includes at least one of the following: metal unit structures arranged at an equal distance in a third direction, metal unit structures arranged at an equal distance in a fourth direction perpendicular to the third direction, and metal unit structures arranged at an equal distance in the third direction and the fourth direction. The third direction and the first direction or the second direction are parallel or have a first included angle.

Abstract: A thin safety door includes a baffle, a supporting frame and an elastic element. The baffle is provided with a front slope and a rear slope. The baffle is provided with a pair of sliders disposed side by side at a position between the front slope and rear slope of the baffle. A pair of slide ways are disposed on the left side and right side of the supporting frame. The baffle spans the supporting frame and the sliders are connected to the slide ways, so that the baffle can slide relative to the supporting frame. The elastic element abuts against the baffle, so that an elastic force is applied to the sliders of the baffle for returning to a higher position when located on the slide ways.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a vehicle positioning device for vehicle vision calibration, a positioning adjustment method, and a positioning adjustment system. The vehicle positioning device includes a base, a chassis, a translation mechanism and a rotation mechanism. A to-be-calibrated vehicle is placed onto the chassis, and the chassis is provided with a stopper. The translation mechanism is arranged between the chassis and the base, and configured to drive the chassis to move in an X-axis direction in a three-dimensional coordinate system relative to the base in accordance with a translation control instruction. The rotation mechanism is arranged between the chassis and the base, and configured to drive the chassis to rotate about a Z-axis in the three-dimensional coordinate system relative to the base in accordance with a rotation control instruction.

Abstract: A direct tensile and acoustic testing machine under rock seepage includes a sample and a support frame. A top of the support frame is fixed with a top plate, a bearing plate is provided above the top plate, the bearing plate is provided with a plurality of vertical force transferring rods, the force transferring rods vertically penetrate through the top plate and sliding fit with the top plate, lower ends of the force transferring rods are provided with a tensile base, a top of the tensile base is provided with a lower clamp holder, a bottom of the top plate is provided with an upper clamp holder, and a clamp center of the upper clamp holder overlaps with a clamp center of the lower clamp holder. An acoustic component and a seepage component are provided in the upper clamp holder and the lower clamp holder.

Abstract: An integrated acoustic detection and rock direct tensile test machine includes a support frame. A top of the support frame is provided with a top plate and a bearing plate is provided above the top plate. The bearing plate is provided with force transferring rods, lower ends of which are provided with a tensile base. A top of the tensile base is provided with a lower clamp holder and a bottom of the top plate is provided with an upper clamp holder. An upper channel is provided inside the upper clamp holder. The upper channel is provided with an acoustic transmitting probe. A lower channel is provided inside the lower clamp holder. One end of the lower channel is communicated with the outside, the other end is provided with an acoustic receiving probe. The lower channel extends to a bottom of a clamping chamber of the lower clamp holder.

Abstract: A rock direct tensile test platform suitable for all material test machines includes a support frame. A top of the support frame is fixed with a top plate, and a bearing plate is provided above the top plate. The bearing plate is provided with a plurality of vertical force transferring rods. The force transferring rods vertically penetrate through the top plate and have a sliding fit with the top plate. Lower ends of the force transferring rods are provided with a tensile base. A top of the tensile base is provided with a lower clamp holder. A bottom of the top plate is provided with an upper clamp holder, and a clamp center of the upper clamp holder coincides with a clamp center of the lower clamp holder.

Abstract: This application discloses communication methods and communication apparatuses. In an implementation, a communication method includes: receiving first information that indicates first group configuration information and second group configuration information, the first group configuration information indicates a correspondence between P reference signal ports and Z layers, and the second group configuration information indicates a correspondence between N frequency domain base vectors and the Z layers; and sending a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) corresponding to the Z layers, where the PMI is determined based on the first information.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a surface-modified aramid fiber and a method for preparing the same. The method includes the following steps: modifying an aramid fiber having amino groups and carboxyl groups on the surface with siloxane ?-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxysilane to obtain a silicon methoxylated aramid fiber; reacting same with a cerium oxide coated with polydopamine modified chaotic boron nitride to obtain a surface-modified aramid fiber. The cerium oxide coated with polydopamine modified chaotic boron nitride has high ultraviolet absorption, and has extremely low catalytic activity, avoiding the damage to a fiber structure by photocatalysis during radiation, being an effective, safe and highly-efficient ultraviolet absorber. The surface-modified aramid fiber provided in the present invention has an ultraviolet-resistant function, high surface activity, good thermal performance, and better mechanical performance, providing excellent overall performance, and having higher utilization value.

Abstract: A signal transmitter is provided. The signal transmitter includes a signal splitting module, including M output interfaces, where the signal splitting module is configured to split a signal into N sub-signals, and output the N sub-signals through N of the M output interfaces, where M and N are integers, M?2, N?1, and M?N, an integrated array traveling-wave tube amplifier, including M radio frequency channels, where the M channels one-to-one correspond to the M output interfaces, each channel is configured to perform power amplification on a sub-signal that is output from a corresponding output interface, and each channel is openable and closeable, a power supply module, configured to supply power to the integrated array traveling-wave tube amplifier, and at least one transmit antenna, configured to send a signal obtained through power amplification.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for enhanced AM RLC for NB-IoT UE in the NTN. In one novel aspect, the UE is configured with HARQ disabled, and configured with fast polling and/or fast status report for AM RLC enhancement. In one embodiment, the UE is configured with shortened AM window size, and wherein the shortened window size is smaller than an AM window size for an NB-IoT device. In other embodiments, the fast polling is triggered based on PDU threshold or byte threshold, or triggered based on an NTN polling timer, or triggered based on a combination of an NTN polling timer and one or more threshold triggers. In one embodiment, UE is configured to autonomously send a status report when a reception failure of an RLC PDU is detected, and wherein the status report is sent by a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) uplink resource.

Abstract: The present application discloses a method and an apparatus for migrating payment card, an electronic device, a server and a medium. The method for migrating payment card includes: receiving payment card migration operation after an account is logged in on the first electronic device; displaying, in response to payment card migration operation, at least one device identifier which is an identifier of a target electronic device on which the account had been logged in; receiving a first selecting operation for a target device identifier of the at least one device identifier; and sending, in response to the first selecting operation, the target device identifier to a server, to cause the server to migrate a payment card bound to a second electronic device to the first electronic device, wherein the second electronic device is an electronic device corresponding to the target device identifier of at least one target electronic device.

Abstract: Various examples and schemes pertaining to enabling or disabling hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for multi-transport block (multi-TB) in an Internet-of-Things (IoT) non-terrestrial network (NTN) are described. A user equipment (UE) receives a configuration (e.g., from a network). Then, the UE applies the configuration to disable or enable a HARQ feedback regarding multiple TBs.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for GNSS position fix in connected state. In one novel aspect, the UE reports GNSS assistance information to the network entity in the NTN system, wherein the GNSS assistance information includes a GNSS position fix time duration for measurement. When the UE detects the GNSS position out-of-date condition in the RRC_CONNECTED stated, the UE determines whether the GNSS position fix time duration for measurement is smaller than the network scheduled duration for GNSS measurement and performs the GNSS position acquisition procedure in the RRC_CONNECTED state if determined yes. In another embodiment, the network scheduled duration for GNSS measurement is configured for the UE to re-acquire GNSS position fix in the RRC_CONNECTED state and may further include duration to re-acquire downlink (DL) synchronization with or without NTN system information block (SIB). In one embodiment, the network scheduled duration for GNSS measurement is a new scheduling gap or a GNSS timer.

Abstract: A pixel processing circuit, a reading method thereof and an image sensor are provided. The pixel processing circuit includes a pixel array comprising a plurality of pixel units arranged in a Bayer array, an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) module comprising a plurality of analog-to-digital converters and a plurality of switch selection modules. The analog-to-digital converters are respectively located on the opposite first side and second side of the pixel array. The switch selection modules are set between the pixel array and the analog-to-digital converters to switch the connectivity between the pixel units and the analog-to-digital converters on the opposite sides of the pixel array so that signals of green pixel units are read by first analog-to-digital converters located at the first side of the pixel array, and signals of remaining color pixel units are read by second analog-to-digital converters that are located at the second side of the pixel array.

Abstract: A read circuit for an image sensor includes: a first analog-to-digital conversion unit configured to perform successive approximation high-bit analog-to-digital conversion on collected pixel data to obtain high-bit conversion data and residual pixel data; and a second analog-to-digital conversion unit electrically connected to the first analog-to-digital conversion unit and configured to perform single-slope low-bit analog-to-digital conversion on the residual pixel data to obtain low-bit conversion data, wherein a sum of a first conversion accuracy of the first analog-to-digital conversion unit and a second conversion accuracy of the second analog-to-digital conversion unit is equal to a preset conversion accuracy for the pixel data. In accordance with the read circuit, a high image conversion frame rate of the pixel data can be achieved with lower power consumption and less circuit area, and the conversion cycle of the pixel data is effectively shortened.

Abstract: This application discloses a card management method, a user terminal, a server, a system and a storage medium. A security element of a user terminal stores a first type and a second type of universal card instance, a first matching universal card instance is configured for transaction verification of a binding card, the first matching universal card instance includes a first matching universal card identifier, and the first matching universal card identifier is a first type of universal card identifier or a second type of universal card identifier matching a card type of the binding card. The method includes: sending a card binding message to a server, wherein the card binding message includes a security element identifier and binding card authentication information, so that the server allocates a card transaction identifier for the binding card; receiving the card transaction identifier; storing the card transaction identifier to the security element.

Abstract: A method and a system for reducing column noise of an image sensor are provided. The method includes: reading dark pixel data in each image frame and reading initial effective pixel data in each image frame, where dark pixels and initial effective pixels are both arranged in N columns; sequentially calculating the dark pixel data to obtain an average value of each column of dark pixels and an entire average value of the dark pixels in each image frame; obtaining a corrected value of each column according to the average value of each column of dark pixels and the entire average value of the dark pixels; and calculating the corrected value of each column and the corresponding initial effective pixel data in each image frame to obtain target effective pixel data. In the method, the dark pixel data is pre-processed.