Abstract: A method in a node (110, 115) comprises generating (604) a plurality of constituent polar codes, each of the plurality of constituent polar codes having an associated block length and an associated set of information bits. The method comprises coupling (608) at least a portion of the sets of information bits associated with each of the plurality of constituent polar codes to generate a spatially coupled polar code. The method comprises encoding (612) a wireless transmission using the spatially coupled polar code.

Abstract: An image encoding method and an image decoding method are provided. The image decoding method includes deriving a temporal merge candidate from a co-located block of a current block, generating a merge candidate list of the current block based on the derived temporal merge candidate, and generating a prediction block of the current block based on the generated merge candidate list. The deriving a temporal merge candidate includes scaling a motion vector derived from the co-located block based on a POC difference value between the current block and a reference picture of the current block and a POC difference value between the co-located block and a reference picture of the co-located block, and modifying the scaled motion vector based on motion vector scaling information between a neighboring block of the current block and a co-located block of the neighboring block.

Abstract: A repeating nail-feeding structure for pneumatic nailing machine, installed in a pneumatic nailing machine, includes an air stream guiding tube, automatic return cylinder, and shifting element. The tube enables working air stream from the machine to enter the cylinder, thereby a piston stein of the cylinder is driven to a retracted position. The piston stein is returned to an extended position by the pressing of a return spring within the cylinder. The shifting element is fixed to the piston stein and provided with a shifting lever. The shifting lever is moved along with the piston stein to advance the strip nail of the machine. Thereby, when the nail is ejected, the strip nail is advanced simultaneously by the discharged working air stream. The requirement of extensive use is fulfilled due to no limitation to length of the strip nail and successive nail-feeding capability.

Abstract: A system for pressurizing a tank of an agricultural air distribution system includes an air source configured to supply pressurized air and a plenum having an inlet fluidly coupled to the air source and configured to receive a flow of pressurized air. The plenum includes a face element positioned opposite from the inlet relative to a direction of flow of the pressurized air through the plenum. Moreover, the face element includes a pressurization port configured to direct the flow of pressurized air to the tank and at least one outlet port configured to couple to at least one hose to supply the pressurized air to an agricultural implement.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an elevator control device and method for evacuation, pertaining to the field of elevator control technologies. The elevator control device and method of the present invention control, according to the occupant information and disaster information of a plurality of evacuation floors, stopping of an elevator car at at least one of the plurality of evacuation floors. The present invention makes the evacuation process of a plurality of evacuation floors more efficient and reliable.

Abstract: A Successive Approximation Register (SAR) Analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes: a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a comparison circuit and a logic circuit. The DAC is configured to generate a transformed voltage according to a digital signal and a reference voltage, and the digital signal is generated by a digital signal generating circuit. The comparison circuit is coupled to the DAC and configured to compare the transformed voltage and an input voltage to generate a comparison result, and further configured to receive a control signal. The logic circuit is coupled to the comparison circuit, and configured to perform a logic transform operation upon the comparison result to generate an output signal to the digital signal generating circuit and the comparison circuit. The control signal controls the comparison circuit to enable or disable the SAR ADC.

Abstract: A method of aggregating and using medical device data from a plurality of remote institutions. The system and method electronically receives at a central computer system a plurality of established medical device data, each of the plurality of established medical device data being received from a respective medication delivery system, each of the respective medication delivery systems having a respective plurality of medical devices within the respective remote institution, such as medication delivery pumps, associated therewith and utilized therein. The system and method electronically combines and stores the plurality of established medical device data from each of the plurality of remote institutions within a memory, and electronically provides a remote client computer access to at least one of a central reporting application adapted for providing summary information to the remote client computer about the medical device data, and/or other applications.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system for generating and embedding a watermark in digital video frame include a processor obtaining a request to generate a watermark and embed the watermark in a digital video frame captured by a first monitor. Based on obtaining the request, the processor fetches from one or more pre-defined regions of a memory resource, digital video data captured by at least two monitors, where a timestamp of the digital video data is equal to a timestamp of the digital video frame. The processor generates a watermark from the digital video data by calculating a binary result of the digital video data. The processor embeds the watermark (binary result) in the digital video frame.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for integrating a CMOS image sensor and an image signal processor (ISP) together using an interposer to form a system in package device module are disclosed. The device module may comprise an interposer with a substrate. An interposer contact is formed within the substrate. A sensor device may be bonded to a surface of the interposer, wherein a sensor contact is bonded to a first end of the interposer contact. An ISP may be connected to the interposer, by bonding an ISP contact in the ISP to a second end of the interposer contact. An underfill layer may fill a gap between the interposer and the ISP. A printed circuit board (PCB) may further be connected to the interposer by way of a solder ball connected to another interposer contact. A thermal interface material may be in contact with the ISP and the PCB.

Abstract: A Deep Belief Network (DBN) feature extraction-based analogue circuit fault diagnosis method comprises the following steps: a time-domain response signal of a tested analogue circuit is acquired, where the acquired time-domain response signal is an output voltage signal of the tested analogue circuit; DBN-based feature extraction is performed on the acquired voltage signal, wherein learning rates of restricted Boltzmann machines in a DBN are optimized and acquired by virtue of a quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (QPSO); a support vector machine (SVM)-based fault diagnosis model is constructed, wherein a penalty factor and a width factor of an SVM are optimized and acquired by virtue of the QPSO; and feature data of test data are input into the SVM-based fault diagnosis model, and a fault diagnosis result is output, where the feature data of the test data is generated by performing the DBN-based feature extraction on the test data.

Abstract: A method of making a thin film transistor, the method includes: providing a semiconductor layer; arranging a first photoresist layer, a nanowire structure, a second photoresist layer on the semiconductor layer, wherein the nanowire structure includes a single nanowire; forming one opening in the first photoresist layer and the second photoresist layer to form an exposed surface, wherein a part of the nanowire is exposed and suspended in the opening; depositing a conductive film layer on the exposed surface using the nanowire structure as a mask, wherein the conductive film layer defines a nano-scaled channel, and the conductive film layer is divided into two regions, one region is used as a source electrode, and the other region is used as a drain electrode; forming an insulating layer on the semiconductor layer to cover the source electrode and the drain electrode, and locating a gate electrode on the insulating layer.

Abstract: There is provided an OLED array substrate, a production method thereof, and a display apparatus. This OLED array substrate comprises: a substrate; a plurality of pixel defining layers which are provided at intervals on the substrate; and a conductive structure which is at least partly located in at least one of the plurality of pixel defining layers.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an electronic component, a package, a substrate and a plurality of first conductors and second conductors. The package is over the electronic component. T substrate is between the electronic component and the package. The substrate includes a first portion covered by the package, and a second portion protruding out of an edge of the package and uncovered by the package. The first conductors and second conductors are between and electrically connected to the electronic component and the substrate. A width of a second conductor of the plurality of second conductors is larger than a width of a first conductor of the plurality of first conductors, the first conductors are disposed between the second portion of the substrate and the electronic component, and the second conductors are disposed between the first portion of the substrate and the electronic component.

Abstract: One illustrative integrated circuit product disclosed herein includes a first final gate structure for a first transistor device, a second final gate structure for a second transistor device, the first and second transistors having a gate width direction and a gate length direction that is substantially normal to the gate width direction, and an insulating gate separation structure positioned between the first and second final gate structures, the insulating gate separation structure comprising an upper portion and a lower portion, the lower portion having a first lateral width in the gate width direction that is substantially uniform throughout a vertical height of the lower portion, the upper portion having a substantially uniform second lateral width in the gate width direction that is substantially uniform throughout a vertical height of the upper portion, wherein the second lateral width is less than the first lateral width.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an optical assembly. The optical assembly comprises: a first optical film comprising a first surface; an adhesive disposed on the first surface of the first optical film; and a second optical film comprising a second surface, wherein the second surface of the second optical film comprises a plurality of microstructures, wherein the plurality of microstructures are bonded to the adhesive; wherein the adhesive is made of a first material and the plurality of microstructures are made of a second material, wherein the hydrophilic/hydrophobic characteristic of the first material is configured with respect to the hydrophilic/hydrophobic characteristic of the second material such that the adhesive force between the adhesive and the plurality of microstructures of the second optical film is greater than 100 g/25 mm and the optical gain of the optical assembly is greater than 1.5.

Abstract: A network device is connected to user device and includes a processor and a memory storing executable code executed by the processor. The network device is configured to receive first keyword data and speech data followed by the first keyword data; determine whether the first keyword data corresponds to a first keyword; in response to determining that the first keyword data corresponds to the first keyword, recognize word information from the speech data to generate at least one word recognition result; send the at least one word recognition result through a first communication path to a first network; and in response to determining that the first keyword data corresponds to a second keyword, stop recognizing the word information from the speech data followed by the first keyword data, and send the speech data through a second communication path to the first user device.

Abstract: A light emitting device driver circuit includes: a power conversion circuit, an error amplifier circuit, a sample-and-hold circuit, a load current generation circuit and a feed-forward capacitor. When the light emitting device driver circuit is in a disable phase, the sample-and-hold circuit connects a feedback signal with a second reference voltage and the sample-and-hold circuit disconnects the feedback signal from a load node, whereby the feed-forward capacitor samples a sample voltage and holds it after the disable phase transits to an enable phase. In the enable phase, the sample-and-hold circuit disconnects the feedback signal from the second reference voltage and the sample-and-hold circuit connects the feedback signal with the load node, so that during a predetermined period following the transition, there is a sufficient difference between two input terminals of the error amplifier circuit so that the load current is raised to a desired current level within the predetermined period.

Abstract: A communication path switching method and device, where the method includes receiving, by a first base station, a first message from a first terminal, where the first message requesting to switch the first terminal from a first path for independently accessing a network to a second path for accessing the network using a second terminal, and the first base station serves the first terminal, determining, by the first base station according to the first message, a second base station serving the second terminal, obtaining, by the first base station, configuration information from the second base station, where the configuration information enabling the first terminal to access the network using the second terminal, and sending, by the first base station, the configuration information to the first terminal. Therefore, communication path switching for different complex application scenarios can be implemented.

Abstract: A method comprises (a) collecting (i) a set of chest computed tomography angiography (CTA) images scanned in the axial view and (ii) a manual segmentation of the images, for each one of multiple organs; (b) preprocessing the images such that they share the same field of view (FOV); (c) using both the images and their manual segmentation to train a supervised deep learning segmentation network, wherein loss is determined from a multi-dice score that is the summation of the dice scores for all the multiple organs, each dice score being computed as the similarity between the manual segmentation and the output of the network for one of the organs; (d) testing a given (input) pre-processed image on the trained network, thereby obtaining segmented output of the given image; and (e) smoothing the segmented output of the given image.

Abstract: A process for preparing cangrelor tetrasodium comprising: a) reacting a compound of formula M1 with morpholine to form a compound of formula M2; and b) reacting the compound of formula M2 with clodronic acid to provide cangrelor tetrasodium