Abstract: An LED filament module and an LED light bulb are disclosed. The LED filament module includes one or more LED filaments, a first connecting portion, and a second connecting portion. The LED filaments are spaced from each other. Each of the LED filaments includes a first conductive electrode and a second conductive electrode opposite to the first conductive electrode. The first connecting portion is connected with the first conductive electrodes. The second connecting portion is connected with the second conductive electrodes. The LED filament module has a first type. The LED filaments, the first connecting portion, and the second connecting portion of the first type are in a three dimensional form. One or two between the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion of the first type has a torus shape.

Abstract: A method of preventing fraud and theft during automated teller machine (ATM) transactions includes recording a video stream using a camera mounted on or near the ATM, the camera being positioned to record the face of a user of the ATM and a background behind the user, providing a facial model database containing images of a large number of people taken from different angles, the facial model database containing images of unobscured faces as well as obscured faces, and receiving insertion of a bank card into the ATM. The method further includes comparing images captured from the recorded video stream with images contained in the facial model database, and producing a corresponding first face comparison result, and issuing a notice for the user to uncover the user's face when the first face comparison result indicates that the user's face is obscured.

Abstract: Example implementations relate to determining lengths of acknowledgment delays for input/output (I/O) commands. In example implementations, a length of an acknowledgment delay for a respective I/O command may be based on cache availability, and activity level of a drive at which the respective I/O command is directed, after the respective I/O command has been executed. Acknowledgments for respective I/O commands may be transmitted after respective periods of time equal to respective lengths of acknowledgment delays have elapsed.

Abstract: A ribonucleic acid (RNA) reverse transcription amplification method, comprising the steps of reverse transcription of RNA into cDNA and immediate amplification of cDNA, characterized in that the process of reverse transcription of RNA into cDNA is completed during the process that a cDNA amplification reaction system is heated to reach the reaction condition for cDNA amplification. The RNA reverse transcription amplification method can combine the reaction condition for reverse transcription of RNA into cDNA with the reaction condition for cDNA amplification, thereby significantly shorten the time required for RNA reverse transcription amplification. And in the whole process of RNA reverse transcription amplification, there is no need to change the instrument temperature, and thus, it is possible to achieve detection at any time.

Abstract: A fabrication method of a vertical light-emitting diode, such as an infrared light-emitting diode, includes heating the reaction chamber during growth of the reflective layer to pre-diffuse the metal molecules of the reflective layer into the epitaxial layer. As a result, the diffusion of the metal molecules in the reflective layer into the epitaxial layer during high-temperature fusion of the reflective layer and the epitaxial layer slows down, and the blackness level of conventional ohm contact holes is reduced.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for accessing a random access channel (RACH) during handover are disclosed. A handover procedure is initiated and a maximum handover interruption timer is activated. A dedicated preamble is transmitted in an attempt to access the RACH on a condition that the dedicated preamble is reserved in a current random access opportunity and the maximum handover interruption timer has not expired. A contention-based preamble is transmitted in an attempt to access the RACH on a condition that a dedicated preamble is not reserved in a current random access opportunity. If the maximum handover interruption timer has expired, a contention-based preamble is transmitted in an attempt to access the RACH.

Abstract: A method and apparatus may be used for supporting multiple hybrid automatic repeat request (H-ARQ) processes per transmission time interval (TTI). A transmitter and a receiver may include a plurality of H-ARQ processes. Each H-ARQ process may transmit and receive one TB per TTI. The transmitter may generate a plurality of TBs and assign each TB to a H-ARQ process. The transmitter may send control information for each TB, which may include H-ARQ information associated TBs with the TBs. The transmitter may send the TBs using the associated H-ARQ processes simultaneously per TTI. After receiving the TBs, the receiver may send feedback for each of the H-ARQ processes and associated TBs indicating successful or unsuccessful receipt of each of the TBs to the transmitter. The feedback for multiple TBs may be combined for the simultaneously transmitted H-ARQ processes, (i.e., TBs).

Abstract: Role based assessment for an IT management system, includes maintaining a plurality of roles, each role attributable to a user type within an IT management system. Mappings are defined between the plurality of user roles and assets of the IT management system. An assessment for the IT management system is then assembled from the perspective of a selected one of the plurality of roles based on mappings between the selected user role and the assets.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a method for achieving a clear and precise optical zooming mechanism, which is applied to an electronic device equipped with a wide-angle image capturing element and a long-focus image capturing element. The wide-angle image capturing element and the long-focus image capturing element are controlled by the electronic device for capturing a wide-angle image and a long-focus image of a same spot simultaneously and respectively. The method enables the electronic device to sequentially perform an exposure and white balance adjustment process, a robust image matching algorithm and an image morphing fusion process to the wide-angle image and the long-focus image, respectively, so as to generate a clear and precise optical zooming image of the spot without having a significant skipping phenomenon occurred in an object within two zooming images.

Abstract: A Node-B sends a polling message to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The WTRU sends an uplink synchronization burst in response to the polling message without contention. The Node-B estimates an uplink timing shift based on the synchronization burst and sends an uplink timing adjustment command to the WTRU. The WTRU then adjusts uplink timing based on the uplink timing adjustment command. Alternatively, the Node-B may send a scheduling message for uplink synchronization to the WTRU. The WTRU may send a synchronization burst based on the scheduling message. Alternatively, the WTRU may perform contention-based uplink synchronization after receiving a synchronization request from the Node-B. The WTRU may enter an idle state instead of performing a handover to a new cell when the WTRU moves to the new cell. A discontinuous reception (DRX) interval for the WTRU may be set based on activity of the WTRU.

Abstract: A display substrate, a method for manufacturing the same and a display device are provided. The method includes steps of forming a common electrode line, a semiconductor pattern, and a data line on a base substrate, so that the semiconductor pattern is located between the common electrode line and the data line; and irradiating the semiconductor pattern by using light in a predetermined wavelength range from a side of the base substrate distal to the semiconductor pattern, to generate a dangling-bond defect state in a band gap of the semiconductor pattern.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including monitoring a video session to determine key performance indicators for cross-layer interactions between a network providing video session video data and user equipment receiving the video session video data, wherein the key performance indicators include a requested quality for a video chunk requested by the user equipment, a transmission control protocol congestion window size that corresponds to the video chunk requested by the user equipment, and an instantaneous radio access network throughput while downloading the video chunk requested by the user equipment, and determining a quality of service for the user equipment during the video session according to a residual length of content in a playback buffer for the user equipment based on the requested quality for the video chunk, the transmission control protocol congestion window size, and the instantaneous radio access network throughput. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: There is provided a method for preparing an orally disintegrating tablet (ODT) composition comprising microparticles of one or more taste-masked active pharmaceutical ingredient(s), rapidly-dispersing microgranules, and other optional, pharmaceutically acceptable excipients wherein the ODT disintegrates on contact with saliva in the buccal cavity forming a smooth, easy-to-swallow suspension. Furthermore, the microparticles (crystals, granules, beads or pellets containing the active), coated with a taste-masking membrane comprising a water-insoluble polymer and one or more gastrosoluble inorganic or organic pore-formers (practically insoluble in water and saliva, but soluble in an acidic buffer), exhibit acceptable taste-masking when placed in the oral cavity and provide rapid, substantially-complete release of the dose on entry into the stomach.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide an image processing equipment and method, for enabling an electronic device having a plurality of image capturing elements installed thereon to capture calibration sample images of a parameter calibration module and verification sample images of a parameter verification module, wherein the parameter calibration module is formed by four calibration identification boards each having a chess board pattern printed thereon and arranged parallelly in a predetermined angle with each other, the parameter verification module is formed by four verification identification boards each having a chess board pattern printed thereon and arranged in parallel with each other, so as for the electronic device to promptly calibrate the intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of the mage capturing elements according to the calibration sample images and then to promptly verify the correctness of the calibrated intrinsic and extrinsic parameters according to the verification sample images.

Abstract: The present disclosure provide a laser beam scanning display device and augmented reality (AR) glasses, comprising a focusing lens, a laser emitter located at a focal point of the focusing lens, a beam combiner, a micro-electromechanical assembly and a projection lens. The laser emitter emits trichromatic laser signals, which are irradiated into the beam combiner via the focusing lens. The beam combiner converges the trichromatic laser signals into a convergent laser signal and emits it to the micro-electromechanical assembly. The micro-electromechanical assembly scans the received convergent laser signal to generate a content to be displayed. In the above laser beam scanning display device, the content to be displayed, which is generated by the micro-electromechanical assembly, is displayed on the screen via the projection lens, which dispenses with any laser signal reflecting or transmitting means, thus reducing the volume of the device.

Abstract: An example storage system may include storage media and a storage controller. The storage controller may be to establish virtual volumes, private data stores, and a deduplication data store, each being a virtual storage space of the storage media, wherein each of the private data stores is associated with one of the virtual volumes and the deduplication data store is shared among the virtual volumes. The storage controller may, in response to receiving input data that is to be stored in a given one of the virtual volumes, determine a signature for the input data and select between storing the input data in the private data store associated with the given one of the virtual volumes and storing the input data in the deduplication data store.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, selecting a set of traffic counters, wherein the traffic counters provide a profile of viewing habits of a user, and wherein the traffic counters are extracted from video streaming by the user; predicting a size of a video buffer based on the traffic counters selected; and building the video buffer based on the predicted size. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a processing system that performs operations including collecting encrypted network traffic flow data from user interaction with an application, deriving a first set of traffic feature vectors from the encrypted network traffic flow data collected, training a machine learning algorithm on the first set of traffic feature vectors to classify each traffic feature vector in the first set of traffic feature vectors as associated with a type of the application or not associated with the type of the application, and classifying whether an encrypted network traffic flow as the type of the application by applying the machine learning algorithm to a traffic feature vector of the encrypted network traffic flow. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: A display device is disclosed, which includes: a substrate; a first pixel and a second pixel disposed on the substrate and arranged along a first direction; and a first data line and a second data line disposed on the substrate and arranged along a second direction different from the first direction, and the first and second pixels are disposed between the first and second data lines, wherein the first data line is electrically connected to the first pixel, the second data line is electrically connected to the second pixel, a first conductive portion of the first data line is electrically connected to a second conductive portion of the first data line through a first conductive via, and a first conductive portion of the second data line is electrically connected to a second conductive portion of the second data line through a second conductive via.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for efficient hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process utilization for semi-persistent and dynamic data transmissions, wherein a reserved HARQ process identification (ID) can be reused. A subset of a plurality of HARQ process IDs is reserved to use for a semi-persistent allocation, and data is transmitted based on the semi-persistent allocation. A dynamic allocation is received via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). At least one of the reserved HARQ process IDs is selectively used for transmitting data based on the dynamic allocation.