Abstract: Graphene coated hollow glass microspheres may be easily prepared by mixing Pristine Graphene Particles with hollow glass microspheres under conditions to associate the Pristine Graphene Particles on the external surface of the hollow glass microspheres by ionic interaction to form graphene coated hollow glass microspheres. Graphene coated hollow glass microspheres prepared by the methods as described herein are also provided. In an embodiment, graphene coated hollow glass microspheres comprise a graphene coating formed from Pristine Graphene Particles associated on the external surface of the hollow glass microspheres by ionic interaction.

Abstract: A prediction value determination method, an encoder and a decoder are provided. The method is applicable to an encoder or a decoder, and the method comprises: acquiring reconstructed blocks of a block to be encoded, a number of the reconstructed blocks being more than one; processing template pixel matrices of the reconstructed blocks according to preset processing parameters to obtain processed template pixel matrices; determining a matched block of the block to be encoded according to the processed template pixel matrices; and determining a pixel matrix of the matched block of the block to be encoded as a prediction of the block to be encoded.

Abstract: A gradual fiber cladding light stripper and its manufacturing method is disclosed to include an optical fiber that has a core, a cladding outside the core and an outer coating outside the cladding, the outer coating being removed by a preset cutting fixture to form a pre-stripping section, and a recoating section coated on the surface of the pre-stripping section at one time with a covering glue, the covering glue being irradiated and cured through a preset light curing device to form the recoating section with a gradual light stripping rate. The recoating section has a laser light input terminal with a relatively lower light stripping rate, and a laser light output terminal with a relatively higher light stripping rate.

Abstract: A coding method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: obtaining a to-be-coded sequence whose length is N, after an information bit is placed at an information bit position, wherein first preset bits are placed at shaping bit positions in a first position sequence, and shaping bit positions whose corresponding bits after polar coding belong to a same subcode of inner code belong to a same group; performing outer code coding on the to-be-coded sequence, to obtain a first outer code sequence whose length is N, based on which first outer code codeword bits corresponding to shaping bit position groups are obtained; obtaining a target outer code sequence based on the first outer code sequence and the first outer code codeword bits; and performing inner code coding on the target outer code sequence, to obtain and output a coded sequence. Probability amplitude shaping (PAS) coding latency can be reduced.

Abstract: A bottle is provided that incorporates a free flow filter that can passively filter water by the action of gravity as a user drinks from the bottle. The bottle uses an umbrella valve to vent air from the filter into the body of the bottle so that a continuous stream of filtered water is provided by the bottle as water is poured from the bottle. In an embodiment, the umbrella valve moves from a closed position to an open position when at least a threshold pressure is applied to a diaphragm of the valve. When in the open position, air may vent from the filter and into the body of the bottle.

Abstract: A method and a circuit for driving a display panel, and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes rows of sub-pixels. The method includes a display process, which includes: generating an initial driving signal for each row of sub-pixels according to image information of an image to be displayed; adjusting the initial driving signal for each row of sub-pixels according to a compensation gain of each row of sub-pixels, so as to obtain a target driving signal, the compensation gain of each row of sub-pixels is an actual brightness coefficient of the row of sub-pixels with respect to a reference row of sub-pixels during the display panel displaying an image with a test gray scale; and driving each row of sub-pixels to display according to the target driving signal for the row of sub-pixels, so as to enable each row of sub-pixels to reach target brightness.

Abstract: This application discloses an encoding method, a decoding method, and an apparatus. The encoding method includes: obtaining a first bit sequence and a target code length M; then performing first channel encoding on the first bit sequence, to obtain a second bit sequence; performing second channel encoding based on the second bit sequence, to obtain a third bit sequence; and outputting the third bit sequence. The first bit sequence includes K information bits, the second bit sequence includes N bits, and the third bit sequence includes the N bits and E check bits, where M>N, and E=M?N. M, K, N, and E are all integers greater than or equal to 1.

Abstract: A sound signal processing method and a headset device. A target filter and a first audio processing unit are added. The target filter processes an external sound signal collected by an external microphone, to obtain an environmental sound attenuation signal and a voice attenuation signal. The first audio processing unit removes, based on the environmental sound attenuation signal and the voice attenuation signal, a second external environmental sound signal and a second voice signal from an in-ear sound signal collected by an error microphone, to obtain a blocking signal, and transmits the blocking signal to a feedback filter. The feedback filter may generate an inverted noise signal corresponding to the blocking signal and play the inverted noise signal through a speaker.

Abstract: An encoding method, a decoding method, and a communication apparatus. The communication apparatus obtains an information bit sequence with a length K. A length K1 of a first sequence based on K or M is determined, where M is a quantity of modulation symbols. A first vector is obtained based on K, K1, and a predefined sequence. A length of the first vector is 2JM, J is a modulation order, the first vector indicates J coding sub-blocks, the J coding sub-blocks separately belong to a first-type sub-block including at least one coding sub-block or a second-type sub-block including at least one coding sub-block. The communication apparatus determines frozen bit locations in the first-type sub-block and information bit locations in the second-type sub-block and encodes the information bit sequence based on the frozen bit locations in the first-type sub-block, the information bit locations in the second-type sub-block, and the first vector.

Abstract: Provided are a method for driving a display panel, and a display device. The method includes: obtaining a gray scale value of each sub-pixels in a current row and a gray scale value of each sub-pixels in a previous row; determining a target gray scale value of each sub-pixel in the current row according to the gray scale value of each sub-pixel in the current row, the gray scale value of each sub-pixel in the previous row, and a target compensation value in a predetermined target compensation lookup table; and inputting a data voltage into a data line in the display panel according to the target gray scale value of each sub-pixel in the current row, to charge with a corresponding data voltage to each sub-pixel in the current row.

Abstract: An array substrate, a display device and a fabrication method are provided. The array substrate includes a first metal layer at one side of a base substrate, the first metal layer including a light shielding part, a source, a drain in a display area; a second metal layer at a side, facing away from an active layer, of gate insulating layer, the second metal layer includes a gate, a source-landing electrode a drain-landing electrode in the display area, the source-landing electrode is in contact with the active layer and the source through a first via hole penetrating through the gate insulating layer and a buffer layer and exposing one end of the active layer, the drain-landing electrode is in contact with the active layer and the drain through a second via hole penetrating through the gate insulating layer and the buffer layer and exposing other end of the active layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a dynamic joint distribution alignment network-based bearing fault diagnosis method under variable working conditions, including acquiring bearing vibration data under different working conditions to obtain a source domain sample and a target domain sample; establishing a deep convolutional neural network model with dynamic joint distribution alignment; feeding both the source domain sample and the target domain sample into the deep convolutional neural network model with initialized parameters, and extracting, by a feature extractor, high-level features of the source domain sample and the target domain sample; calculating a marginal distribution distance and a conditional distribution distance; obtaining a joint distribution distance according to the marginal distribution distance and the conditional distribution distance, and combining the joint distribution distance and a label loss to obtain a target function; and optimizing the target function by using SGD, and training the

Abstract: This application provides a signal transmission method and an apparatus. A network device broadcasts a navigation reference signal and a communication signal. A terminal device may determine its position information based on the navigation reference signal. A communication sequence in the communication signal and a navigation sequence in the navigation reference signal are coupled by using a same even-number-stage m-sequence, so that the terminal device is supported in completing an integrated communication and navigation function based on the broadcast signal.

Abstract: A methylation detection method and kit for genomic DNA or cell-free DNA molecules in a biological sample are provided. The method includes: obtaining a converted DNA molecule through a chemical and/or enzymatic reaction; performing a methylation-specific multiplex PCR, through multiple pairs of methylation-specific primers, on one or more methylated areas of one or more genes in the converted DNA molecule serving as a substrate, in order to obtain a PCR amplification product; and detecting the methylation levels of different fragments of the amplification product. The detection method can detect DNA methylation in multiple genes in multiple samples at the same time, requires only a small initial amount of DNA, is suitable for detecting methylated fragments having a small copy number, and has such advantages as high sensitivity, high specificity, high accuracy, a low detection limit, and low detection cost.

Abstract: This application discloses a retransmission method and an apparatus. The method includes: obtaining a first bit sequence and a number E of to-be-retransmitted bits, performing second channel encoding based on the first bit sequence to obtain a second bit sequence, and performing retransmission based on the second bit sequence. The first bit sequence is obtained by performing first channel encoding based on K information bits, a length of the first bit sequence is N, N, E, and K are all integers greater than or equal to 1, and the second bit sequence includes the E to-be-retransmitted bits. According to the method, a code length can be flexibly extended based on different numbers E of to-be-retransmitted bits.

Abstract: There is provided a method comprising receiving at least one measured signal characteristic from a user equipment, the user equipment being located at a user equipment location; comparing the at least one measured signal characteristic to at least one of a plurality of signal characteristics, each signal characteristic being associated with a respective measurement point; and determining, based on the comparing, a probability that the user equipment location is a first location.

Abstract: This application discloses an audio signal processing method performed by an electronic device. According to this application, embedding processing is performed on a mixed audio signal by mapping the mixed audio signal to an embedding space, to obtain an embedding feature of the mixed audio signal in the embedding space; and generalized feature extraction is performed on the embedding feature, so that a generalized feature of a target component in the mixed audio signal can be obtained through extraction. The generalized feature of the target component has good generalization capability and expression capability, and can be used for different scenarios. Audio signal processing is performed on the mixed audio signal based on the generalized feature of the target component to obtain information of the audio signal of the target object, thereby improving the robustness and generalization of an audio signal processing process, and improving the accuracy of audio signal processing.

Abstract: An embodiment generates an initial set of training data from monitoring data. The initial set of training data is generated by combining outputs from a plurality of pretrained classifiers. The embodiment trains a new classification model using the initial set of training data to identify anomalies in monitoring data. The embodiment performs a multiple-level clustering of the data samples resulting in a plurality of clusters of sub-clusters of data samples, and generates a review list of data samples by selecting a representative data sample from each of the clusters. The embodiment receives an updated data sample from the expert review that includes a revised target classification for at least one of the data samples of the expert review list. The embodiment then trains another replacement classification model using a revised set of training data that includes the updated data sample and associated revised target classification.

Abstract: This application relates to the field of circuit technologies, and provides a step-up circuit and a step-up circuit control method. The step-up circuit includes a power supply, an inductor, N switch components, N-1 flying capacitors, N flyback diodes, a pre-charge unit, and an output unit. The N switch components are connected in series, a first switch component of the N switch components is connected to a first terminal of the power supply through the inductor, and an Nth switch component is connected to a second terminal of the power supply. At least two switch components of the N switch components have withstand voltage specifications different from each other. Values of voltages withstood by switch components with different withstand voltage specifications during normal operation are also different from each other. N is a positive integer.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a clock distribution method and apparatus in a network. A method performed at a clock distribution apparatus comprises: receiving a first clock signal; receiving a second clock signal; calculating an offset difference between the first clock signal and the second clock signal; compensating the second clock signal, based on the offset difference; and outputting a clock signal, based on the compensated second clock signal. The offset difference between the first clock signal and the second clock signal is calculated and used to compensate the second clock signal. The switching of the clock signal will be smoother for the downstream.