Abstract: A system to provide a multi-image head up display (HUD) in a vehicle includes a fixed mirror to project a far-plane image at a first distance from an occupant of the vehicle. Control of a position of display of the far-plane image is based on an eye height position of the occupant. The system also includes a rotatable mirror to project a near-plane image at a second distance, closer than the first distance, from the occupant. Control of a position of display of the near-plane image is based on a manual adjustment of a rotational angle of the rotatable mirror by the occupant. Processing circuitry automatically adjusts the position of display of the far-plane image based on inferring the eye height position of the occupant from the rotational angle of the rotatable mirror that controls the display of the near-plane image.

Abstract: A holographic display system is provided and includes a light source, a holographic projector, and a polarizer. The light source is configured to generate a first light beam. The holographic projector includes a spatial light modulator configured to adjust phases of respective portions of the first light beam to generate a phase hologram beam. The phase hologram beam comprises a first polarization and a second polarization. The polarizer is configured to filter out light having the first polarization from the phase hologram beam to provide at least a portion of a filtered phase hologram beam at a diffuser to generate a holographic image, wherein the filtered phase hologram beam includes light with the second polarization and does not include light with the first polarization.

Abstract: A memory device includes a staircase region and an array region, along a first lateral direction; a wall structure in the staircase region; and a first separation structure in the array region and arranged along the first lateral direction with the wall structure. The wall structure includes dielectric pairs of a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer stacked in the staircase region. The first separation structure is vertically through a stack structure in the array region. The stack structure includes pairs of the first dielectric layer and an electrode layer.

Abstract: A fast flexoelectro-optic switching device containing bimesogen-doped and polymer-stabilized vertical standing helix (PSVSH) in a cholesteric liquid crystal. The PSVSH device exhibits a response time of less than 0.7 millisecond, high contrast and negligible hysteresis which is suitable for applications including blur-free displays, field-sequential color displays and active optical elements.

Abstract: A memory device includes a substrate; and a stack structure, including alternately arranged first dielectric layers and electrode layers. In a first lateral direction, the memory device includes array regions and a staircase region arranged between array regions. In a second lateral direction, the stack structure includes a first block and a second block, each including a wall-structure region and extending along the first lateral direction. The wall-structure regions of the first block and the second block are adjacent to each other and together form a wall structure in the staircase region. The memory device also includes a first separation structure, formed through the stack structure and positioned between the first block and the second block in array regions along the first lateral direction; and second dielectric layers positioned between the first block and the second block in the staircase region, and alternated with the first dielectric layers.

Abstract: A head-up display system includes a housing having an interior surface and defining a cavity configured for receiving a ray of light. The head-up display system also includes a lens disposed within the cavity and configured for reflecting the ray of light towards the interior surface. Further, the head-up display system includes a first cured film formed from a coating composition, disposed on the interior surface, and configured for absorbing a ray of light within the cavity. The head-up display system also includes a second deposited film formed by an ionized gas treatment of the first cured film. The second deposited film is configured for transmitting the ray of light to the first cured film to thereby minimize scatter of the ray of light within the cavity. A device including the head-up display system is also described.

Abstract: Detecting systems configured to detect airborne viruses, and methods of forming the same, are provide. A method for preparing a system for detecting an airborne virus includes preparing a thin-film coating on a surface of a substrate; ablating the coating to form an optical grating structure; and associating a plurality of receptors having an affinity and specificity for the virus with the optical grating structure so that the structure is capable of indicating the presence of the virus. A detecting system includes the optical grating structure and an optical component. The optical component includes a cavity defined by two opposing reflecting surfaces and configured to receive the optical grating structure, and a light source disposed adjacent to an exterior surface of a first reflecting surface. The light source may be configured to direct light towards the first reflecting surface so that light in resonance enters the cavity.

Abstract: This application provides a neural network model compression method in the field of artificial intelligence. The method includes: obtaining, by a server, a first neural network model and training data of the first neural network that are uploaded by user equipment; obtaining a PU classifier based on the training data of the first neural network and unlabeled data stored in the server; selecting, by using the PU classifier, extended data from the unlabeled data stored in the server, where the extended data has a property and distribution similar to a property and distribution of the training data of the first neural network model; and training a second neural network model by using a knowledge distillation (KD) method based on the extended data, where the first neural network model is used as a teacher network model and the second neural network model is used as a student network model.

Abstract: A head-up display for a vehicle. The head-up display comprises a picture generating unit configured to project an image onto a glass surface and an optical stack. The optical stack comprises an infrared reflective waveplate and a dual brightness enhancement film. The infrared reflective waveplate transforms an incoming solar light beam from unpolarized light to incoming polarized light having an incoming S-polarization component and an incoming P-polarization component. The dual brightness enhancement film receives the incoming polarized light from the infrared reflective waveplate and eliminates substantially all of the incoming P-polarization component. The dual brightness enhancement film transmits substantially all of the incoming S-polarization component.

Abstract: A spatial light modulator includes a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of micro-mirrors arranged on the semiconductor substrate to modulate light. Each of the micro-mirrors has a center and a perimeter. Each of the micro-mirrors includes a layer of a reflective material arranged on the semiconductor substrate. In in each of the micro-mirrors, the layer of the reflective material extends horizontally from the center towards the perimeter for a predetermined distance and slopes downwards towards the semiconductor substrate after the predetermined distance.

Abstract: In a catalytic reaction, after a reaction product leaves a catalyst bed, an inert substance with a low temperature is sprayed, and through heat absorption and vaporization processes of the inert substance, the temperature of the reaction product drops rapidly when staying in a catalyst cushion layer at a discharge end of a fixed bed reactor, or in a space formed by the catalyst cushion layer at the discharge end of the fixed bed reactor and a reactor head, or in a space formed by a tube plate at the discharge end of the fixed bed reactor and the reactor head. The residence time of the reaction product is shortened due to the entrance of the inert substance in a gaseous state.

Abstract: This application relates to an image recognition technology in the field of computer vision in the field of artificial intelligence, and provides an image classification method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining an input feature map of a to-be-processed image; performing convolution processing on the input feature map based on M convolution kernels of a neural network, to obtain a candidate output feature map of M channels, where M is a positive integer; performing matrix transformation on the M channels of the candidate output feature map based on N matrices, to obtain an output feature map of N channels, where a quantity of channels of each of the N matrices is less than M, N is greater than M, and N is a positive integer; and classify the to-be-processed image based on the output feature map, to obtain a classification result of the to-be-processed image.

Abstract: A display comprises a substrate. Sets of light emitting diodes (LEDs) are arranged on the substrate. Each of the sets of LEDs comprises a red LED, a green LED, a blue LED, and each of the sets of LEDs forming a pixel of the display. A sensor is embedded in each of the sets of LEDs. The sensor is arranged in a plane in which the red, green, and blue LEDs are arranged in each of the sets of LEDs. A cover including a dielectric material covers the sets of LEDs. The sensor is configured to sense at least one of ambient light and proximity of an object to the cover.

Abstract: A system includes a display. The display includes an array of LEDs covered by a transparent material. The array of LEDs includes a plurality of first, second, third, and fourth LEDs respectively configured to emit red, green, blue, and violet light. The red, green, and blue light from the first, second, and third LEDs is visible to human eye. Violet light from the fourth LEDs is invisible to human eye. The system includes a photocatalytic coating disposed on the transparent material. The photocatalytic coating includes a photo-catalyst responsive to ultraviolet radiation present in sunlight and to the violet light emitted by the fourth LEDs in the array of LEDs. The system includes a controller configured to selectively turn on the fourth LEDs to activate the photo-catalyst in the photocatalytic coating disposed on the transparent material.

Abstract: A method includes placing a physical target on a windshield of a vehicle, mounting a fixture inside the vehicle to position a camera array on the fixture within a line of sight of a passenger, capturing images of the physical target using the camera array, and determining a difference between actual and target locations of the physical target in each image. In addition, the method includes controlling the HUD to display a virtual target on the windshield, capturing images of the virtual target using the camera array, and determining a target location of the virtual target in each image based on the difference. Further, the method includes determining an offset between an actual location of the virtual target in each image and the target location of the virtual target in each image, and adjusting the location of an image projected onto the windshield by the HUD based on the offset.

Abstract: A holographic projection system including first, second and third light sources, SLMs, a lens, a combiner and a control module. The first, second and third light sources generate respective light beams. The light beams have respective wavelengths. The SLMs respectively diffract the light beams. The lens is disposed to adjust a divergence angle of one of the light beams, such that diffracted light out of each of the SLMs is at a same diffraction angle. The SLMs encode phase holograms including respective versions of a graphic image based on light generated by the light sources including light output from the lens to provide phase hologram beams. The combiner combines the phase hologram beams to provide a combined phase hologram beam projected for viewing a combined graphic image. The control module encodes a prism hologram on one of the SLMs to align outputs of the SLMs.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for fabricating a semiconductor device having an first stack of alternating insulating layers and sacrificial word line layers arranged over a substrate, the first stack including a core region and a staircase region. The method can include forming a first dielectric trench in the core region of the first stack, forming a second dielectric trench that is adjacent to and connected with the first dielectric trench in the staircase region of the first stack, and forming dummy channel structures extending through the first stack where the dummy channel structures are spaced apart from the second dielectric trench.

Abstract: A replicator assembly includes reflective, transmissive, and transparent elements. The reflective element receives and reflects a hologram of a HUD system. The transmissive element includes a partially transmissive portion that receives a reflection of the hologram from the reflective element, outputs N replications of the hologram, and reflects N?1 replications of the hologram. The partially transmissive portion is implemented as a continuous transmission neutral density filter across different phase regions. The phase regions of the partially transmissive portion correspond respectively to the N replications. N is an integer greater than or equal to 2. The reflective element reflects the N?1 replications of the hologram. The transparent element is disposed between the reflective and transmissive elements and guides the N replications of the hologram between the reflective and transmissive elements.

Abstract: A direct-retina holographic projection system includes first and second spatial light modulators (SLMs) and a control module. The first SLM receives a beam of light and dithers the beam of light at a predetermined frequency to provide multiple instances of the beam of light. The second SLM receives the instances of the beam of light, displays an encoded phase hologram of a graphic image to be projected, and diffracts the instances of the beam of light to provide instances of the encoded phase hologram with the same graphic image but multiplied with dithered wavefronts. The control module: iteratively adjusts a parameter of the first SLM to generate the instances of the beam of light; and controls operation of the second SLM to, based on the instances of the beam of light, display multiple instances of the graphic image on a retina of an eye of a viewer.

Abstract: A memory device includes a substrate; and a stack structure, including alternately arranged first dielectric layers and electrode layers. In a first lateral direction, the memory device includes array regions and a staircase region arranged between array regions. In a second lateral direction, the stack structure includes a first block and a second block, each including a wall-structure region and extending along the first lateral direction. The wall-structure regions of the first block and the second block are adjacent to each other and together form a wall structure in the staircase region. The memory device also includes a first separation structure, formed through the stack structure and positioned between the first block and the second block in array regions along the first lateral direction; and second dielectric layers positioned between the first block and the second block in the staircase region, and alternated with the first dielectric layers.