Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes forming a masking structure with first openings over a semiconductor substrate and correspondingly forming metal layers in the first openings. The method also includes recessing the masking structure to form second openings between the metal layers and forming a sacrificial layer surrounded by a first liner in each of the second openings. In addition, after forming a second liner over the sacrificial layer in each of the second openings, the method includes removing the sacrificial layer in each of the second openings to form a plurality of air gaps therefrom.

Abstract: A thin film transistor includes a gate electrode embedded in an insulating layer that overlies a substrate, a gate dielectric overlying the gate electrode, an active layer comprising a compound semiconductor material and overlying the gate dielectric, and a source electrode and drain electrode contacting end portions of the active layer. The gate dielectric may have thicker portions over interfaces with the insulating layer to suppress hydrogen diffusion therethrough. Additionally or alternatively, a passivation capping dielectric including a dielectric metal oxide material may be interposed between the active layer and a dielectric layer overlying the active layer to suppress hydrogen diffusion therethrough.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a system for arranging base stations in a millimeter wave communication network. The method establishes a stochastic optimization framework for millimeter-wave base station deployment in the urban street geometry and provides a low-complexity user association arrangement which can well balance the workloads among BSs and reduce the outage probability by taking the time-varying nature of user equipments' positions and the susceptibility of millimeter-wave links to blockage effect into account. Compared with the state-of-the-art approaches, the present invention can effectively and efficiently reduce the outage probability in the long term.

Abstract: This application provides a networking method, a networking apparatus, a network access method, and user equipment. The networking method includes: determining a network association relationship between each remote radio unit (RRU) and each user equipment (UE) for all RRUs and all UEs managed by a baseband processing unit (BBU) resource pool, where the network association relationship includes whether the RRU is capable of providing a service for the UE, or a relationship between the UE and the RRU represented by a reference signal received power that corresponds to each RRU and that is reported by the UE; and configuring all the RRUs to M subnets based on the network association relationship between each RRU and each UE, where M?1, and M is not greater than a quantity of all the RRUs.

Abstract: A method for controlling an electrical appliance, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The control method comprises: receiving a voice control instruction (S101); when the identity of a user who issued the voice control instruction is determined to be a child, acquiring a child knowledge graph (S102); when determined that a control object is a first electrical appliance, determining whether a knowledge expression corresponding to the first electrical appliance exists in the child knowledge graph (S103); if a knowledge expression corresponding to the first electrical appliance doesn't exist in the child knowledge graph, then not responding to the voice control instruction; otherwise, carrying out processing on the voice control instruction according to the knowledge expression corresponding to the first electrical appliance in the child knowledge graph (S104).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a human-machine multi-turn conversation method and system for human-machine interaction, and an intelligent apparatus. The method includes: S1, establishing a knowledge graph of user conversation behavior information; S2, determining, according to information currently input by a user, a node corresponding to the information currently input and at least one child node of the node in the knowledge graph; S3, calculating a support degree of the at least one child node relative to the node according to the number of times of querying the node and the number of times of querying both the at least one child node and the node in a historical query record of the knowledge graph; and S4, determining whether to output semantic information of the at least one child node by determining a size relation between the support degree and a preset support degree threshold value.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a multi-object tracking algorithm based on an object detection and feature extraction combination model, including the following steps: S1, adding an object appearance feature extraction network layer behind a prediction feature layer of an object detection tracking network having an FPN structure; S2, calculating object fused loss of the object detection tracking network having the FPN structure and added with the object appearance feature extraction network layer; S3, forming a feature comparison database utilizing a neural network during multi-frame objection detection and tracking process; and S4, comparing current image object appearance features with features in the feature comparison database, drawing an object trajectory if the objects are uniform; else adding the current image object appearance features into the feature comparison database to form a new feature comparison database, and then repeating steps S2 and S3.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a feature compression algorithm based on neural network, including the following steps: S1, image data preparation: collecting facial images, and uniformly performing map processing to the facial images collected; S2, feature data acquisition: delivering the facial images processed into a face recognition system for face detection and feature extraction, and saving facial feature data; S3, setting up a neural network model; S4, model iteration training; S5, storing a parameter model; and S6, feature compression. The feature compression algorithm based on neural network of the disclosure can not only achieve compression of original feature data, but also retain its original semantic feature, which belongs to a higher-dimensional feature abstraction. The compressed feature data can be directly used.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a system for arranging base stations in a millimeter wave communication network. The method establishes a stochastic optimization framework for millimeter-wave base station deployment in the urban street geometry and provides a low-complexity user association arrangement which can well balance the workloads among BSs and reduce the outage probability by taking the time-varying nature of user equipments' positions and the susceptibility of millimeter-wave links to blockage effect into account. Compared with the state-of-the-art approaches, the present invention can effectively and efficiently reduce the outage probability in the long term.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a feature compression algorithm based on neural network, including the following steps: S1, image data preparation: collecting facial images, and uniformly performing map processing to the facial images collected; S2, feature data acquisition: delivering the facial images processed into a face recognition system for face detection and feature extraction, and saving facial feature data; S3, setting up a neural network model; S4, model iteration training; S5, storing a parameter model; and S6, feature compression. The feature compression algorithm based on neural network of the disclosure can not only achieve compression of original feature data, but also retain its original semantic feature, which belongs to a higher-dimensional feature abstraction. The compressed feature data can be directly used.

Abstract: This application provides a networking method, a networking apparatus, a network access method, and user equipment. The networking method includes: determining a network association relationship between each remote radio unit (RRU) and each user equipment (UE) for all RRUs and all UEs managed by a baseband processing unit (BBU) resource pool, where the network association relationship includes whether the RRU is capable of providing a service for the UE, or a relationship between the UE and the RRU represented by a reference signal received. power that corresponds to each RRU and that is reported by the UE; and configuring all the RRUs to M subnets based on the network association relationship between each RRU and each UE, where M?1, and M is not greater than a quantity of all the RRUs.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic device. The electronic device includes an electronic device body; an external antenna; and a built-in antenna, wherein the built-in antenna is disposed inside the electronic device body, and the external antenna is connected to the electronic device body via an interface of the electronic device body.

Abstract: A method and a device for restraining edge touches are provided. The device acquires locations of one or more touch points sensed by a terminal at two edges of a screen of the terminal. The device determines a holding manner indicating how the terminal is held according to the locations of the one or more touch points. When the holding manner is a single-hand holding manner indicating that the terminal is held by a single hand, the device determines to trigger a touch restraining detection in a restraining region at one edge of the screen corresponding to the single-hand holding manner, such that touch points sensed within the restraining region do not trigger the terminal to respond to operations input by a user.

Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for waking up a screen in the field of application of electronic technologies. The method may be implemented by a device including a screen and a frame at least partially surrounding the screen. In the method, the device activates at least one temperature transducer according to a predetermined sequence when the screen is in an off state, where the at least one temperature transducer is disposed at least partially in the frame. The device may obtain a temperature measurement through the activated temperature transducer. When any one of the temperature measurement is within a preset range of temperature, the device may trigger the screen to be switched from the off state to an on state.

Abstract: A rules engine is provided that can work with various heterogeneous calling applications. Such a rules engine can be part of a larger framework which, for example, can provide calibration alerts and the like when certain rule conditions are met. In some implementations, the framework can allow for the identification and mitigation of bias against certain employees and/or classes of employees within a larger organization.

Abstract: A method is provided for identifying an image type. The method includes acquiring a histogram of a channel in a preset color space of an image to be identified, calculating a ratio between a quantity of pixels of a gray-scale value and a quantity of pixels of an adjacent gray-scale value in the channel according to the histogram, and determining a type of the image according to the ratio.

Abstract: A mobile terminal and an antenna determining method are provided. The mobile terminal includes a housing, a processor, at least two antennas and at least two pressure sensors. The pressure sensors are configured to acquire values of pressures applied to a surface of the housing and send the acquired pressure values to the processor; the processor is configured to receive pressure values sent by the pressure sensors, to determine at least one contact position between a user and the mobile terminal based on pressure values sent by at least one of one or more first side pressure sensors and at least one of one or more second side pressure sensors, to determine an antenna to receive or send signals from the at least two antennas based on the at least one contact position.

Abstract: A display method and a display device are disclosed. The method includes: detecting whether a displayed content in a display screen changes; controlling the display screen to update alternately display data respectively corresponding to a first part and a second part of a display unit in each column of display unit, in response to detecting that the displayed content does not change. The number of updated pixels of the display screen each time may be reduced, while the original refresh frequency is maintained, so the problem that the splash screen phenomena is caused in the display screen by reducing the refresh frequency of the display screen may be solved, thus achieving effects of avoiding the splash screen phenomena of the display screen and of reducing the power consumption of the display screen while maintaining the original refresh frequency of the display screen.

Abstract: A method and a device for restraining edge touches are provided. The device acquires locations of one or more touch points sensed by a terminal at two edges of a screen of the terminal. The device determines a holding manner indicating how the terminal is held according to the locations of the one or more touch points. When the holding manner is a single-hand holding manner indicating that the terminal is held by a single hand, the device determines to trigger a touch restraining detection in a restraining region at one edge of the screen corresponding to the single-hand holding manner, such that touch points sensed within the restraining region do not trigger the terminal to respond to operations input by a user.