Abstract: Search results may be provided to a user. A search query may be received from the user. A query feature vector may be formed for the search query. The query feature vector may be compared with news feature vectors associated with documents related to current events. An augmented query feature vector may be formed based on results of the comparison of the query feature vector with the news feature vectors. The augmented query feature vector may be compared with feature vectors related to target documents. Search results that include target documents may be identified based on results of the comparison of the augmented query feature vector with the feature vectors related to the target documents. The user may be made able to perceive at least some of the identified search results.

Abstract: Instant messages sent by a viewer of a video while the video is perceivable to the viewer may be monitored. An event of interest occurring in the video may be identified based on the monitored instant messages. Metadata that describes the event of interest may be generated and assigned to the video. A request for video content associated with the video may be received from a user. An indexed collection of videos that includes the video may be searched for the requested video content. Based on the search, it may be determined that the video satisfies the user's request. The event of interest occurring in the video may be identified based on the metadata assigned to the video. User perception of a scene from the video that includes the event of interest may be enabled.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to a semiconductor device, including a channel area; a gate line extending along the channel area so that the channel area can be set into a conductive state by activating the gate line; a plurality of terminals including an electrical connection to the channel area, so that the plurality of terminals is connectable to a predetermined voltage by activating the gate line.

Abstract: Search results may be provided to a user. A search query may be received from the user. A query feature vector may be formed for the search query. The query feature vector may be compared with news feature vectors associated with documents related to current events. An augmented query feature vector may be formed based on results of the comparison of the query feature vector with the news feature vectors. The augmented query feature vector may be compared with feature vectors related to target documents. Search results that include target documents may be identified based on results of the comparison of the augmented query feature vector with the feature vectors related to the target documents. The user may be made able to perceive at least some of the identified search results.

Abstract: Instant messages sent by a viewer of a video while the video is perceivable to the viewer may be monitored. An event of interest occurring in the video may be identified based on the monitored instant messages. Metadata that describes the event of interest may be generated and assigned to the video. A request for video content associated with the video may be received from a user. An indexed collection of videos that includes the video may be searched for the requested video content. Based on the search, it may be determined that the video satisfies the user's request. The event of interest occurring in the video may be identified based on the metadata assigned to the video. User perception of a scene from the video that includes the event of interest may be enabled.

Abstract: The invention relates to an unsaturated polyester resin mixture which can be cured by applying external pressure and which encompasses at least the following components: a) an unsaturated polyester resin whose weight-average molar mass is from 500 to 5000 g/mol; b) an ethylenically unsaturated monomer; c) a shrinkage-reducing component; d) an inert filler; and e) a reinforcing fibre; and f) from 0.01 to 1% by weight of a block copolymer, based on the total weight of the unsaturated polyester resin mixture comprising reinforcing fibre, where the block copolymer encompasses at least one A block and encompasses at least one B block, where the A block contains at least one amine-containing, ethylenically unsaturated monomer; and the B block contains at least one alkyl- and/or phenyl-containing, ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and is free from amine-containing, ethylenically unsaturated monomers.

Abstract: A data retention monitor for a memory cell including a voltage source and a voltage comparator. The voltage source is adapted to provide a selectable voltage to the memory cell. The selectable voltage includes a read voltage and a test voltage, with the test voltage being greater than the read voltage. The voltage comparator is adapted to compare a voltage of the memory cell with a reference voltage after the provision of the selectable voltage to the memory cell. The memory cell retains data when the memory cell voltage generated at least in part by the test voltage is substantially equal to the reference voltage.

Abstract: The invention relates a substrate for a package for an electronic circuit and methods for packaging an electronic circuit with a substrate. The substrate comprises at least one conduction region and an activation region arranged within the substrate. The activation region is generally in contact with the conduction region and is configured to change its electrical resistance when activation occurs.

Abstract: A method of operating a phase-change memory array. The method may comprise causing a first current to flow through a phase-change memory element in a first direction and causing a second current to flow through the memory element in a second direction.

Abstract: A memory cell including a substrate with a protruding portion, the protruding portion having a side wall and a bottom, an upper doped region connected to a bit line, a lower region being closer to a bottom of the protruding portion than the upper region, a substrate contact, a control element configured to control a current flow between the lower region and the substrate contact, and a wordline portion, a first insulator near the wordline portion, a floating gate near the wordline portion, and a second insulator between the floating gate and the side wall of the protruding portion, wherein the wordline portion and the floating gate are arranged so that the channel is generateable in the substrate near the side wall between the upper doped region and the lower region.

Abstract: A non-volatile memory device includes a plurality of word lines, a plurality of sense lines, and a plurality of non-volatile memory cells. Each memory cell includes a floating gate transistor having a control gate, a floating gate separated dielectrically from the control gate, a drain connection and a source connection. The control gate is connected to one of the word lines and the source connection is connected to one of the sense lines, the drain connection being electrically isolated from the other memory cells. A method for reading the memory device and a method for operating the memory device are also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a semiconductor memory, particularly a DRAM, in which the memory cells in each case have a trench capacitor arranged in a lower area of a trench hole and a vertical selection transistor which is formed adjoining an upper area of the trench hole and which connects an inner electrode of the trench capacitor to a bit line, a conductive channel being capable of being formed in dependence on the potential of a word line in the channel area, the channel area completely enclosing the trench hole in its upper area, and the associated word line at least partially enclosing the channel area.

Abstract: A device for reading out memory information storable in a memory has an integrator and a comparator. The memory provides, in a hold phase, a leakage current, and in a readout phase, a readout current. The readout current is dependent on the stored memory information. The integrator is adapted to integrate a quantity derived from the leakage current during the hold phase, and to provide a leakage voltage corresponding to an integrated leakage current. The integrator is further adapted to integrate a quantity derived from the readout current during the readout phase, and to provide a readout voltage corresponding to an integrated readout current. The comparator may compare the leakage voltage to the readout voltage and provide, in dependence on the comparison, a readout value corresponding to the memory information.

Abstract: A chip with a chip plane includes a functional area, a contact structure vertical with respect to the chip plane for connecting the functional area, which includes a conductive material, which has a predetermined length, and a vertical dummy-contact structure, which extends vertically into the functional area and which has an electrically conductive material and an insulation layer, the insulation layer being formed so that a current flow from an upper end of the dummy-contact structure to the functional area is prevented.

Abstract: Memory cell having a trench capacitor that is constructed in a lower region of a substantially perpendicular trench hole, and which comprises an inner and an outer electrode, a dielectric layer being arranged between the inner and the outer electrodes, a vertical selection transistor that has a substantially perpendicular channel region, which is constructed adjacent to an upper region of the trench hole and which connects the inner electrode of the trench capacitor to a bit line, it being possible to construct a conductive channel as a function of the potential of a word line in the channel region, the channel region partially enclosing the trench hole in its upper region, and the associated work line at least partially surrounding the channel region.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling the reading-in of a data signal at an input of an electrical circuit to an input latch with the aid of a clock signal, with the data item, which is indicated by the data signal, being transferred to the input latch with a clock edge of the clock signal, with the clock edge of the clock signal being shifted in time as a function of a time delay between a signal edge of the input signal at the input and the clock edge, such that the time delay between the signal edge of the data signal and the clock edge is within a predetermined time window.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a TFA image sensor in which a multi-layer arrangement comprising a photo diode matrix is arranged on an ASIC switching circuit provided with electronic circuits for operating the TFA image sensor, such as pixel electronics, peripheral electronics and system electronics, for the pixel-wise conversion of electromagnetic radiation into an intensity-dependent photocurrent, the pixels being connected to contacts of the underlying pixel electronics of the ASIC switching circuit. The method enables conventionally produced ASIC switching circuits to be used without impairing the topography of the photoactive sensor surface. The CMOS passivation layer in the photoactive region and then the upper CMOS metallization are removed and replaced by a metallic layer which is structured in the pixel raster, for the formation of back electrodes.

Abstract: Search results may be provided to a user. A search query may be received from the user. A query feature vector may be formed for the search query. The query feature vector may be compared with news feature vectors associated with documents related to current events. An augmented query feature vector may be formed based on results of the comparison of the query feature vector with the news feature vectors. The augmented query feature vector may be compared with feature vectors related to target documents. Search results that include target documents may be identified based on results of the comparison of the augmented query feature vector with the feature vectors related to the target documents. The user may be made able to perceive at least some of the identified search results.

Abstract: A pipe clamp for connecting two partially insertable pipes has a clamping strap that is placed circumferentially about the spherical end sections of the pipes inserted into one another. The clamping strap has two outwardly projecting clamping jaws provided with a hole through which a clamping screw extends. The clamping strap is curved about a transverse axis that is positioned for coaxially inserted pipes in the untightened state of the clamping strap in a central plane of the clamping strap extending perpendicularly to the coaxial center axes of the pipes at a spacing from a center of the spherical end sections of the pipes. The inner radius of the clamping strap in the untightened state is smaller than the outer radius of the spherical end sections such that the sum of the spacing and of the inner radius is greater than the outer radius of the end sections.

Abstract: A clamp for securing a tubular or hose-shaped object on a support. The clamp includes a clamp jacket having first and second ends, wherein a first leg protrudes from the first end of the clamp jacket and a second leg projects from the second end of the clamp jacket. The first leg has a lug which in the open state protrudes in the direction of the second leg. The second leg includes a fastening section which can be inserted into a gap between the lug and a neighboring portion of the first leg located opposite the lug, wherein, in the closed state of the clamp, the lug is plastically deformed toward the outer side of the fastening section facing away from the first leg.