Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for coding video data. Video data including a reference view and a current view is received. A co-located block in the reference view is identified for a current block in the current view. A predicted block vector is calculated based on an offset vector between the current block and the co-located block, and a disparity vector between the co-located block and the reference block in the reference view. The video data is encoded/decoded based on the calculated predicted block vector.

Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for coding video data. Video data including (1) a first frame comprising a first current view and a first reference view and (2) a second frame comprising a second current view and a second reference view is received. A co-located block in the first reference view is identified for a current block in the first current view. A predicted offset vector is calculated based on the motion vector between the co-located block and its reference block in the second reference view. The video data is encoded/decoded based on the predicted offset vector.

Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for video coding. Video data including one or more views is received. A composite depth image and a composite texture image corresponding to the one or more views are generated based on the received video data. The video data is decoded based on the generated composite depth image and composite texture image.

Abstract: The present patent relates to a parallel reproducing holographic disk reading method and device, and belongs to the technical field of optical holographic storage. According to an angle-shift multiplexing method included in the present patent, multiplex recording is performed by simultaneously changing an incident angle of a reference light and moving a medium with a fixed angle change amount and a fixed shift amount. In this method, the reference light can be split for incidence, and then holograms in different units can be simultaneously reproduced. According to the method disclosed by the patent, a recorded hologram can be read and written in real time, and a recorded signal can be checked under a condition of satisfying a response time required by the medium.

Abstract: An environmentally-friendly preparation method of a composition containing anti-inflammatory ingredients and use of the composition are provided. The method includes: S1. weighing a specified volume of water and adjusting the pH, adding Sophora flavescens roots, and subjecting a resulting mixture to extraction at a high temperature; S2. adjusting pH of an obtained solution in step S1, adding Glycyrrhiza inflata roots, and heating a resulting mixture to boiling for extraction; S3. adding Scutellaria baicalensis roots to an obtained boiling solution from the extraction in step S2, and subjecting a resulting mixture to extraction, filtration, and pH adjustment; S4. adding activated carbon to an obtained filtrate in step S3, and subjecting a resulting mixture to incubation and filtration; S5. adding a clarifying agent to an obtained filtrate in step S4, and subjecting a resulting mixture to standing and filtration; and S6. subjecting an obtained filtrate in step S5 to membrane separation.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices, apparatus and methods of improving the accuracy of an image-based assay. One aspect of the present invention is to sandwich a sample between two plates and add reference marks in the sample areas of the plates, with at least one of the geometric and/optical properties of the reference marks being predetermined and known, and taking images of the sample with the reference marks, and applying a machine learning model in the analysis of the image-based assay.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video processing. In some examples, an apparatus for video processing includes processing circuitry. For example, processing circuitry determines a frame interval for a current block in a current frame within a sequence of frames. The frame interval indicates a group of frames in the sequence of frames with collocated blocks of the current block that satisfy an error metric requirement comparing to the current block. Further, the processing circuitry determines a replacement block based on the collocated blocks in the group of frames, and replaces the current block in the current frame with the replacement block.

Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for video coding. Video data including one or more frames is received. A static background is estimated for each of the one or more frames based on a temporal average of the one or more frames. Pixels from among the one or more frames are identified as corresponding to the static background. Noise is removed in the static background based on the identified pixels.

Abstract: A method and system for separating light hydrocarbons are disclosed, wherein the method comprises compression, cooling, absorption, desorption, rectification, cracking, and recycling cracked gas to the compression step.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical field of holographic multiplexing storage, and in particular, to a multiplexing method for increasing storage capacity in a disc-type holographic storage medium. According to the method disclosed by the present invention, holograms with different grating vector directions can be overwritten and recorded in the same storage medium according to Bragg selection characteristics of volume holographic records, and the obtained holograms do not affect each other. According to the method disclosed by the present invention, on the premise of ensuring low crosstalk between data pages, the multiplexing number of shift multiplexing storage is increased by using a cross-shift multiplexing method, and the storage density is improved.

Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for coding video data. Video data including a reference view and a current view is received. A co-located block in the reference view is identified for a current block in the current view. A predicted block vector is calculated based on an offset vector between the current block and the co-located block, and a disparity vector between the co-located block and the reference block in the reference view. The video data is encoded/decoded based on the calculated predicted block vector.

Abstract: The present invention is related to, among other things, the devices and methods that improve the accuracy and reliability of an assay, even when the assay device and/or the operation of the assay device has certain errors, and in some embodiments the errors are random.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video processing. In some examples, an apparatus for video processing includes processing circuitry. For example, processing circuitry determines a frame interval for a current block in a current frame within a sequence of frames. The frame interval indicates a group of frames in the sequence of frames with collocated blocks of the current block that satisfy an error metric requirement comparing to the current block. Further, the processing circuitry determines a replacement block based on the collocated blocks in the group of frames, and replaces the current block in the current frame with the replacement block.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video processing. In some examples, an apparatus for video processing includes processing circuitry. For example, processing circuitry determines a frame interval for a current block in a current frame within a sequence of frames. The frame interval indicates a group of frames in the sequence of frames with collocated blocks of the current block that satisfy an error metric requirement comparing to the current block. Further, the processing circuitry determines a replacement block based on the collocated blocks in the group of frames, and replaces the current block in the current frame with the replacement block.

Abstract: A true triaxial testing system for disturbance experiment with broadband and low amplitude of a high pressure hard rock includes a low-frequency disturbance true triaxial mechanism, a variable-frequency low-speed disturbance rod mechanism and a rapid single-side unloading type specimen box. The low-frequency disturbance true triaxial mechanism and the variable-frequency low-speed disturbance rod mechanism are distributed along a straight line. The low-frequency disturbance true triaxial mechanism is independently used or cooperates with the variable-frequency low-speed disturbance rod mechanism for use. The rapid single-side unloading type specimen box cooperates with the low-frequency disturbance true triaxial mechanism for use.

Abstract: One aspect of the present invention is to provide systems and methods that improve the accuracy of an assay that comprise at least one or more parameters each having a random error.

Abstract: Among other things, the present invention is related to devices and methods for improving optical analysis of a thin layer of a sample sandwiched between containing between two plates.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for imaging: a side-view of a object on a surface, a Contact Angle of a liquid object, the color of an object, or combinations thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a descending type ceramic 3D printer comprising a rack, the middle part of the rack is provided with a charging block sealed with the four sides thereof, the lower part of the charging block is connected with a lifting device for printing, the lifting device for printing is mounted on the lifting mounting block arranged at the lower part of the rack, the upper left side of the rack is provided with a scraping device cooperating with the material in the charging block, the upper right side thereof is provided with a mounting rack, the mounting rack is provided with a light spot emission device and a light transmission block that cooperate with each other, and the mounting rack is further provided with a discharging device; the present invention aims to provide a descending type ceramic 3D printer in which the light transmission block and the light spot emission device are arranged above the charging block so that the charging block are descended gradually to realize the printin

Abstract: In certain embodiments, this disclosure provides novel methods of increasing the viable cell density of an N-1 large-scale bioreactor cell culture, comprising culturing a host cell expressing a recombinant polypeptide of interest in a non-perfusion-based culture system, and wherein the viable cell density is increased to at least 5×106 cells/mL. In certain embodiments, the disclosure provides novel methods for large-scale production of a recombinant polypeptide of interest, comprising: (1) culturing a host cell expressing a recombinant polypeptide of interest in an N-1 stage in a non-perfusion-based culture system, wherein the viable cell density is increased to at least 5×106 cells/mL; and (2) culturing N fed-batch production cells in an enriched media with high-seed density at least 1.5×106 cells/mL, wherein the N fed-batch production cells are inoculated from the N-1 stage in a non-perfusion-based culture system.