Abstract: Improved systems and methods of performing multimedia communications over multimedia communications networks, in which video data senders can maintain high video quality of experience (QoE) levels with increased reliability despite changes in available bandwidths of video data receivers. In the disclosed systems and methods, video encoding parameters employed by the video data senders, including at least the video frame size and/or the video frame rate, can be dynamically adapted to the available bandwidths of the video data receivers, taking into account possible effects of spatial scaling and/or temporal scaling of video frames on the resulting video QoE.

Abstract: The present invention provides a luminous keyboard, including: at least one key cap; a support plate; a support component, connected to the key cap and the support plate and capable of guiding the key cap to vertically move relative to the support plate; a thin film circuit board, disposed on the support plate; at least one light emitting component, configured to emit a light ray to the key cap; and a shield, covering the light emitting component, where there is a gap between the shield and the light emitting component, and the shield is provided with a diffraction grating at a position where the light ray passes through the shield.

Abstract: A plate assembly includes a first plate and a second plate positioned adjacent to one another. The first plate includes a first sealing member formed thereon. The second plate includes a second sealing member formed thereon. The first sealing member includes a first end surface and first opposing sides extending from the first end surface. The second sealing member includes a second end surface and second opposing sides extending from the second end surface. The first and second sealing members are offset relative to one another by a first offset distance (D1) in a first longitudinal direction. By varying the sealing member's base width periodically, a greater sealing force is achieved. By offsetting alignment of pairs of sealing members along the seal path, uniform pressure along the seal path is achieved.

Abstract: A system for printing on a multi-dimensional object includes a plurality of print heads, and a printing chase configured to receive an object holder for an object and provide accurate registration of the object. The system further includes an actuator configured to move the printing chase relative to the print heads. The system is configured to receive information corresponding to an object holder mounted on the printing chase, determine a position of at least one printable area using the retrieved information, receive information relating to print data to be printed on the at least one printable area, use the determined position of the at least one printable area to control a movement of the printing chase relative to the print heads, and operate the print heads to eject marking material onto the at least one printable area to print data on the at least one printable area.

Abstract: Methods of facilitating machine learning via a 2-D symbol are disclosed. Features of an object are received in a first computing system having a 2-D symbol creation application module installed thereon. A multi-layer 2-D symbol is formed from the features according to a set of symbol creation rules. 2-D symbol is a matrix of N×N pixels partitioned into a number of sub-matrices with each sub-matrix containing one feature, where N is a positive integer. Meaning of the combined features in the 2-D symbol is learned in a second computing system by using an image processing technique to classify the 2-D symbol transmitted from the first computing system. The symbol creation rules determine the importance order, size and location of sub-matrices in the 2-D symbol.

Abstract: A positioning foot block for the mounting of an upright bar is disclosed to include a support device having a bottom wall, two side walls respectively extended from opposing left and right sides of the bottom wall and a positioning space surrounded by the bottom wall and the side walls for receiving the upright bar. Each side wall of the support device has two side lugs respectively extended from opposing front and rear sides thereof toward the positioning space and respectively clamped on respective corner ends of the upright bar. Thus, the structural design of the positioning foot block can clamp the corner ends of the upright bar firmly, prohibiting the upright bar from vibration and enhancing its positioning stability.

Abstract: A peripheral interface multiplexing method. The method includes receiving, by using a first pin in a peripheral interface of user equipment, a coded signal sent by an external device, where the coded signal includes a first electrical characteristic value of the first pin; decoding the coded signal to obtain a decoded signal, where the decoded signal includes a control signal that corresponds to the first electrical characteristic value of the first pin, and the control signal is used to control the peripheral interface to transmit a target signal that a user requests to transmit; and controlling, according to the control signal, a pin that is in the peripheral interface and used for signal transmission to transmit the target signal. Therefore, communications interfaces of user equipment can be extended without increasing a quantity of peripheral interfaces, so that the user equipment provides more communications manners, and user experience is improved.

Abstract: A method and system for providing lead recommendations are disclosed. A server system stores profile information for a plurality of members of a server system. The server system then analyzes the stored profile information to identify one or more potential sales lead recommendations for a first member of the server system. The server system then ranks the one or more identified potential sales lead recommendations. The server system selects one or more of the identified sales lead recommendations and transmits the selected one or more identified sales lead recommendations to a client device associated with the first member of the server system.

Abstract: A pixel cell includes a second photodiode laterally surrounding a first photodiode in semiconductor material. The first and second photodiodes are adapted to photogenerate image charge in response to incident light. A floating diffusion is disposed in the semiconductor material proximate to an outer perimeter of the second photodiode. A first transfer gate is disposed proximate to the semiconductor material over a first channel region between the first and second photodiodes. The first transfer gate is coupled to transfer the image charge from the first photodiode to the second photodiode. A second transfer gate is disposed proximate to the semiconductor material over a second channel region between the second photodiode and the floating diffusion. The second transfer gate is coupled to transfer the image charge from the second photodiode to the floating diffusion.

Abstract: A deposition method relating to semiconductor technology is presented. The deposition method includes: conducting a first deposition in a reaction chamber at a first deposition temperature; conducting a cool-down process on the reaction chamber, and conducting a second deposition during the cool-down process. In the first deposition, the thin-films deposited on the periphery of a wafer are thicker than those deposited on the center of a wafer, while in the second deposition, the thin-films deposited on the periphery of a wafer are thinner that those deposited on the center of a wafer. Therefore the thin-films deposited by this deposition method are more homogeneous in thickness that those deposited with conventional methods.

Abstract: An electronic device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a display, an eye-tracking unit, and a processor. The processor determines a user's region of interest of an image, collects context information of the electronic device, determines first attribute information relating to image processing for the region of interest of the image and second attribute information relating to image processing for the remaining region other than the region of interest of the image, based at least on the context information, and displays, on the display, a first partial image obtained by the image processing for the region of interest using the first attribute information and a second partial image obtained by the image processing for the remaining region using the second attribute information.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a primer set for preparation of a library used for next generation sequencing (NGS), and a method and a kit for making an NGS library using the same. The method for making the next generation sequencing (NGS) library using the primer set according to the present disclosure is able to simply analyze large amounts of samples as compared to the existing method for making a library, which is effectively usable for analysis of target DNA sequences or for database construction, in large amounts of samples.

Abstract: One or more system, apparatus, method, and computer readable media is described below for automated data type precision control capable of improving rendering quality on a graphics processor. Perceptible rendering quality is dependent at least in part on number format precision (e.g., FP16 or FP32) employed for shader program variables. In accordance with embodiments, shader variables implemented in lower precision data formats are tracked during shader compile to identify those that might trigger a floating point overflow and/or underflow exception. For shaders including one or more such variable, resources are provided to automatically monitor overflow and/or underflow exceptions during shader execution. In further embodiments, shader code is automatically re-generated based, at least in part, upon occurrences of such exceptions, and an increased number format precision specified for one or more of the tracked shader variables.

Abstract: Systems and methods for dimming control using TRIAC dimmers are provided. An example apparatus for a power conversion system includes: a process-and-drive component configured to receive an input signal and output a drive signal to a switch to affect a current that flows through a primary winding of a power conversion system. The input signal includes a first pulse associated with a first input period and a second pulse associated with a second input period. The drive signal is associated with a first modulation period for the first input period and a second modulation period for the second input period. The process-and-drive component is further configured to: determine the first modulation period for the first input period; change the drive signal between a first logic level and a second logic level at a modulation frequency during the first modulation period; determine the second modulation period for the second input period.

Abstract: A method for dynamic dosing of disinfectant solution in a medical device reprocessing system includes calculating a volume of an initial dose of concentrated disinfectant solution for dilution to make a first in-use disinfectant solution. The initial dose of concentrated disinfectant solution is diluted with diluting fluid to make the first in-use disinfectant solution comprising a target concentration of disinfectant agent. The first in-use disinfectant solution is applied to a medical device. A concentration of the disinfectant agent in the first in-use disinfectant solution is then calculated. The actual concentration of the disinfectant agent in the concentrated disinfectant solution is then calculated based upon the concentration of disinfectant agent in the first in-use disinfectant solution. It is then determined whether a volume of a second dose of concentrated disinfectant solution is increased or about the same as the volume of the initial dose to make a second in-use disinfectant solution.

Abstract: A method for determining a pair of compliance events is provided. A set of event data collected by a PET detector may be divided into N sub-sets, and each of the N sub-sets of event data may be sorted according to an occurrence time of each event included in the event data, wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 2. A K stage heapsort may be performed on the sorted N sub-sets of event data according to the occurrence time of each event, so as to sequentially output data of each event in the sorting order, wherein K is an integer greater than or equal to 1. A time compliance determination and a space compliance determination may be performed on the sequentially-outputted event data, and a pair of compliance events may be determined if both the time compliance determination and the space compliance determination are passed.

Abstract: Various embodiments are described herein for a double-rotor switched reluctance machine. In one example embodiment, the double-rotor switched reluctance machine comprises an interior rotor, an exterior rotor spaced from the interior rotor and coaxially and concentrically disposed outside the interior rotor, and at least one stator disposed concentrically with the interior rotor and the exterior rotor. The interior rotor, the exterior rotor and the at least one stator are disposed within one machine set to provide an interior switched reluctance machine and an exterior switched reluctance machine. The interior switched reluctance machine and the exterior switched reluctance machine can operate as two motors, two generators, or a motor and a generator simultaneously.

Abstract: A spring for use in a garment hanger is disclosed. The hanger is of the type that includes a hook and a body with clips at either end of the arms of the body. The clips include a pair of clip portions between which the garment is clamped under the biasing for of a spring. The spring is generally U-shaped and has convex ribs both on the inner and outer services of its curvature. The ribs are located adjacent each other so that they form a sine-wave-like cross-section and are of sufficient depth that in their formation they causes the sides of the spring adjacent the ribs to be drawn inwards.

Abstract: A system for airbag deployment within a vehicle may include an airbag, a bumper beam, at least one sensor, and an electronic control unit (ECU). The bumper beam may include a left crush can and a right crush can. The left crush can and the right crush can may each include a first zone associated with a first stiffness in a vehicle longitudinal direction and a second zone associated with a second stiffness in the vehicle longitudinal direction. The sensor may receive one or more signals associated with an impact on the vehicle. The ECU may deploy the airbag at a timing based on one or more characteristics of one or more of the signals and one or more predetermined characteristics associated with the first stiffness of the first zone and the second stiffness of the second zone, thereby providing robust discrimination between a front flat impact mode and an front offset impact mode.

Abstract: In an approach for generating a file, a computer opens a first file within application software that includes content. The computer receives an indication to generate a second file based on the opened first file and an indication of a file format for the second file. The computer provides a selection window associated with the second file, wherein the selection window is at least partially transparent and at least partially overlays the opened first file. The computer identifies content within the first file that is overlaid by the provided selection window associated with the second file. The computer transfers a copy of the identified content within the first file that is overlaid by the provided selection window associated with the second file.