Abstract: An electronic panel includes a first substrate; a conductive line disposed on the first substrate and extending along a first direction; a conductive element extending along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and an active layer disposed between the conductive element and the first substrate. In a top view, the active layer includes a first overlapping region overlapping a portion of the conductive line; a first contact region electrically connected to a connecting portion of the conductive element through a first via hole; and a turning region between the first overlapping region and the first contact region. The turning region doesn't extend along the first direction and the second direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optimization method and system for minimizing network energy consumption based on traffic grooming. The method includes: generating a set of service requests in an elastic optical network, and calculating a reachable node set of shortest paths from source to destination nodes for each service request; establishing a virtual reachable path in the reachable node set of shortest paths; and establishing a target function of an integer linear programming model of the minimizing network energy consumption, and sequentially determining whether a bandwidth capacity constraint of a single spectrum slot, a path uniqueness constraint, a spectrum allocation constraint, and an optical regenerator quantity constraint are satisfied, where if all constraints are satisfied, the service request is successfully established, or if any of the constraints is not satisfied, the service request fails to be established. The present invention helps to improve the energy efficiency of service requests.

Abstract: A turbomachine airfoil element includes an airfoil that has pressure and suction sides spaced apart from one another in a thickness direction and joined to one another at leading and trailing edges. The airfoil extends in a radial direction a span that is in a range of 1.01-1.15 inch (25.7-29.3 mm). A chord length extends in a chordwise direction from the leading edge to the trailing edge at 50% span and is in a range of 0.54-0.66 inch (13.6-16.8 mm). The airfoil element includes at least two of a first mode with a frequency of 2033 ± 15% Hz, a second mode with a frequency of 7023 ± 15% Hz, a third mode with a frequency of 12082 ± 15% Hz and a fourth mode with a frequency of 19769 ± 15% Hz.

Abstract: This application discloses a power supply system, including: A first end of a bus capacitor is connected to a first end of a power supply, and a second end of the bus capacitor is connected to a second end of a semiconductor switch device. A first end of the semiconductor switch device is connected to a second end of the power supply. An input end of a power conversion circuit is connected to the bus capacitor. Two ends of a resistor are respectively connected to the first end and the second end of the semiconductor switch device. When the semiconductor switch device is switched off, the power supply supplies power to the bus capacitor by using the resistor. When a voltage of the bus capacitor is greater than a first preset voltage, an auxiliary power supply is powered on and the semiconductor switch device is switched off.

Abstract: The invention provides a resource allocation method and system in a quantum key distribution optical network. The method includes steps of: setting a topological structure of a quantum key distribution optical network, and initializing parameters in the topological structure; generating a service request, and categorizing a security level of a service according to a security requirement degree of the service, where the security level corresponds to a security score; establishing an optimization objective function to maximize a security score of the quantum key distribution optical network and minimize an occupancy of wavelength and timeslot resources; and establishing a constraint satisfying the optimization objective function, and allocating corresponding wavelength and timeslot resources to the service request under the constraint. The invention implements a joint optimization objective of maximizing a security score of a network and minimizing the occupation of wavelengths and timeslots.

Abstract: An optical system includes an eye-tracker and a head-mounted display for providing accurate eye-tracking in interactive virtual environment. The eye-tracker includes a sensor module captures one or multiple eye images of a user. The head-mounted display includes a processor and a display for presenting the user interface. The processor provides a user interface which includes one or multiple UI elements based on one or multiple gaze points of the user which are computed based on the one or multiple eye images, acquires the distance between an estimated gaze point of the user and each UI element, acquires the score of each UI element based on the distance between the estimated gaze point and each UI element, and sets a specific UI element with a highest score as the target UI element associated with the estimated gaze point of the user.

Abstract: A flash memory device and method of making the same are disclosed. The flash memory device is located on a substrate and includes a floating gate electrode, a tunnel dielectric layer located between the substrate and the floating gate electrode, a smaller length control gate electrode and a control gate dielectric layer located between the floating gate electrode and the smaller length control gate electrode. The length of a major axis of the smaller length control gate electrode is less than a length of a major axis of the floating gate electrode.

Abstract: A display panel includes a first substrate; a scan line and a data line disposed on the first substrate and extending in a first direction and a second direction, respectively, wherein the data line intersects the scan line; a polysilicon layer disposed on the first substrate. In a top view, the polysilicon layer includes: a first channel region overlapping a portion of the scan line; a second channel region overlapping another portion of the scan line; a non-channel region not overlapping the scan line and connected between the first channel region and the second channel region; a long region extended in the second direction; wherein a portion of the non-channel region extends in the first direction, the portion has a first width in the second direction, the long region has a second width in the first direction, and the first width is greater than the second width.

Abstract: A multi-purpose in-situ contamination sampler includes an inner frame surrounded by a plurality of removable or attachable pieces, each of which include of a single witness surface configured to collect both particulate and molecular contamination within an environment on a payload or a spacecraft.

Abstract: Content for products can be identified. For each identified content, at least one class to which the first content pertains can be predicted using an artificial intelligence multiclass model. For each identified first content that corresponds to the at least one class, a support level of the product with regard to at least one class can be predicted using artificial intelligence binary class models. For each identified product, data indicating the product and the support level of the product with regard to the at least one class can be added to a data table. A product features map based on the data indicating the products and a support level of each product with regard to the at least one class can be generated and output.

Abstract: A flash memory device and method of making the same are disclosed. The flash memory device is located on a substrate and includes a floating gate electrode, a tunnel dielectric layer located between the substrate and the floating gate electrode, a smaller length control gate electrode and a control gate dielectric layer located between the floating gate electrode and the smaller length control gate electrode. The length of a major axis of the smaller length control gate electrode is less than a length of a major axis of the floating gate electrode.

Abstract: Various embodiments described herein relate to methods, apparatuses, and systems for recovering gas sensors from silicone poisoning. In an example embodiment, a method of recovering a gas sensing apparatus from silicone poisoning is provided. The method includes exposing the gas sensing apparatus to a predetermined hydrogen concentration for a period of hydrogen exposure time. The predetermined hydrogen concentration breaks down the silicon oxide bonds formed on a catalytic bead of the gas sensing apparatus. The method also includes providing a methane concentration to the gas sensing apparatus for a period of methane exposure time. The method further includes determining that the gas sensing apparatus satisfies a predetermined calibration sensitivity based on the reaction of the gas sensing apparatus to the methane concentration.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a computer-implemented method of operating a multi-screen virtual reality environment. The computer-implemented method includes performing a wall arrangement and transmission (WA&T) protocol that includes receiving at a second module a function transmitted by a first module over a network to the second module. The second module and the function received over the network are used to generate priority data that identifies a priority of each of a plurality of individual video streams generated by a plurality of video sources. Based at least in part on the priority, the second module is used to generate reduced-size video streams that include selected ones of the plurality of individual video streams. The second module transmits the priority data and a multi-screen video stream that includes the reduced-size video streams and non-reduced-size video streams of the plurality of individual video streams.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a polyimide polymer, which includes a repeating unit represented by formula (I). Formula (I) is defined as in the specification. The present disclosure further provides a polyimide mixture and a polyimide film, wherein the polyimide mixture is prepared by the polyimide polymer, and the polyimide film is prepared by the polyimide mixture.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a combinational therapy for enhancing efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade for tumors with immune suppressive microenvironment. More specifically, this combination therapy involves the treatment of cancer through immune checkpoint inhibitors and CpG-oligodeoxynucleotides.

Abstract: Methods, systems, computer program products for Program Integrated Information (PII) translation management of an application are provided. The method, according to an embodiment of the present invention, PII translation corresponding to the application of a base version is determined as PII translation of a base version by one or more processing units, and then differences between PII translation corresponding to the application of a subsequent version and PII translation of the base version is determined as PII translation of a subsequent version. Then, in a data structure, it is recorded with PII translation of the base version as a starting node of the data structure and PII translation of the subsequent version as a subsequent node of the starting node, wherein nodes in the data structure are correlated to and accessible to the application of corresponding versions.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for encoding a polar code concatenated with a cyclic redundancy check (CRC), where M bits are selected from K bits in the sequence to perform CRC encoding. The M bits are determined based on reliability of K polarized subchannels on which the K bits are placed and/or row weights of K rows, in a first matrix, corresponding to the K polarized subchannels on which the K bits are placed. The first matrix is an encoding matrix of polar encoding. Polar encoding is performed on the K bits and obtained CRC check bits. An encoded codeword is output.

Abstract: During an eye-tracking operation of an optical system, one or multiple eye images are captured. One or multiple gaze points of the user are computed based on the one or multiple eye images of the user. A user interface containing one or multiple UI elements is provided based on the one or multiple gaze points of the user. A performance map of the eye-tracking operation is provided based on the one or multiple eye images of the user. At least one UI element is adjusted based on the performance map of the eye-tracking operation.

Abstract: An optical system includes an eye-tracking module and a head-mounted display. The eye-tracking module includes a first sensor module configured to capture an eye image of a user. The head-mounted display includes a processor configured to provide a user interface based on a gaze point of the user computed based on the eye image, and a display configured to present the user interface. The user interface includes a virtual FoV and at least one UI element for receiving a gaze command from the user. The at least one UI element is arranged within the FoV of the user and located outside a range of the virtual FoV of the user interface.

Abstract: An optical system includes an eye-tracker and a head-mounted display for providing accurate eye-tracking in interactive virtual environment. The eye-tracker includes a sensor module captures one or multiple eye images of a user. The head-mounted display includes a processor and a display for presenting the user interface. The processor provides a user interface which includes one or multiple UI elements based on one or multiple gaze points of the user which are computed based on the one or multiple eye images, acquires the distance between an estimated gaze point of the user and each UI element, acquires the score of each UI element based on the distance between the estimated gaze point and each UI element, and sets a specific UI element with a highest score as the target UI element associated with the estimated gaze point of the user.