Abstract: A multibeam antenna including a substrate, and further includes an antenna element, a first guiding apparatus, and a second guiding apparatus disposed on the substrate. The antenna element includes a first pole configured to receive a feeding signal and a second pole that is grounded. The first guiding apparatus enables a first beam generated by the antenna element to radiate in a first direction, and the second guiding apparatus enables a second beam generated by the antenna element to radiate in a second direction. A phase center of the antenna element is at an intersecting point of a first axis and a second axis, the first axis passing through a phase center of the first guiding apparatus and parallel to the first direction, and the second axis passing through a phase center of the second guiding apparatus and parallel to the second direction.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a communication module, an external module and a signal integration circuit. The signal integration circuit includes a first input port, a second input port, a third input port and an output port. The first input port is for inputting an input signal. The second input port is for selectively inputting a first L1 band signal. The third input port is for selectively inputting a second L1 band signal. The output port selectively outputs a first output signal or a second output signal. When the third input port is coupled to an external module, the third input port is for inputting the second L1 band signal, and the output port outputs the second output signal. When the third input port is not coupled to the external module, the second input port is for inputting the first L1 band signal, and the output port outputs the first output signal.

Abstract: An electronic device provided includes a communication module, an external module, and a signal integration circuit including first to fourth input ports, and first and second output ports. The first input port is for inputting an input signal. The second input port is for inputting a first L1 band signal. The third input port is for inputting a first L5 band signal. The fourth input port is for inputting a second L1 band signal and a second L5 band signal. The first output port selectively outputs a first output signal and a second output signal. The second output port selectively outputs the first L5 band signal and the second L5 band signal. When the fourth input port is not coupled to an external module, the first output port outputs the first output signal, and the second output port outputs the first L5 band signal.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for converting data to a tiling format when implementing convolutional neural networks are disclosed. A system includes at least a memory, a cache, a processor, and a plurality of compute units. The memory stores a first buffer and a second buffer in a linear format, where the first buffer stores convolutional filter data and the second buffer stores image data. The processor converts the first and second buffers from the linear format to third and fourth buffers, respectively, in a tiling format. The plurality of compute units load the tiling-formatted data from the third and fourth buffers in memory to the cache and then perform a convolutional filter operation on the tiling-formatted data. The system generates a classification of a first dataset based on a result of the convolutional filter operation.

Abstract: The present application relates to an optical device. The present application provides an optical device capable of varying transmittance, and such an optical device can be used for various applications such as eyewear, for example, sunglasses or AR (augmented reality) or VR (virtual reality) eyewear, an outer wall of a building or a sunroof for a vehicle.

Abstract: Disclosed is a translation system using a sound vibration microphone capable of fundamentally blocking noise by detecting vibrations generated from a user's voice using a piezo element. The translation system using a sound vibration microphone includes a first earset including a sound vibration sensor and a speaker, a first wearable acoustic device including a microphone and a speaker and performing wireless communication with the first earset, and a first electronic communication device performing wireless communication with the first wearable acoustic device and performing communication with a translation server, wherein the first wearable acoustic device and the first electronic communication device are in a communicatable state.

Abstract: A directional antenna and a communication device are provided in this disclosure. The directional antenna includes a first element, a second element and a first reflector. An operating frequency band of the first element is a first frequency band, and an operating frequency band of the second element is a second frequency band. An equivalent electrical length of the first reflector is equal to or slightly greater than one half of the wavelength of the first frequency band. The first reflector includes a first resonant circuit, the first resonant circuit includes a first capacitive part and a first inductive part that are connected in parallel. A resonance frequency of the first resonant circuit is within the second frequency band, and an equivalent electrical length of any part other than the first resonant circuit in the first reflector is less than one half of the wavelength of the second frequency band.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a system includes: a cassette comprising a slit opening configured to house a wafer; a blade configured to move the wafer to and from the slit opening by extending into the slit opening, wherein a blade thickness of the blade is at most ? of a height of the slit opening and wherein the blade is configured to secure the wafer within a pocket on the blade that is at least ? of a wafer thickness of the wafer.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided according to an embodiment of the present invention. The electronic device includes a housing, a first antenna module and a second antenna module. The housing has a side, and the side has an accommodating space. The first antenna module is arranged in the accommodating space, and is for transmitting and receiving a signal of a first frequency band. The second antenna module is arranged in the accommodating space, and is for transmitting and receiving a signal of a second frequency band. A virtual reference surface is defined below the housing, and a projection range of the first antenna module on the virtual reference surface partially overlaps with a projection range of the second antenna module on the virtual reference surface.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an RF frontend IC device includes a first RF transceiver to transmit and receive RF signals within a first frequency band and a second RF transceiver to transmit and receive RF signals within a second frequency band that is different than the first frequency band. The RF frontend IC device further includes a converter and a multi-band local oscillator (LO) generator to provide LO signals to the converter. The multi-band LO generator includes a phase-lock loop (PLL) circuit operating at a PLL operating frequency, wherein the PLL operating frequency is outside of the first frequency band and the second frequency band. The multi-band LO generator also includes multiple frequency multipliers coupled to the PLL circuit to upscale the PLL operating frequency and to generate an LO signal having a frequency within a predetermined proximity from the frequency band.

Abstract: An RF frontend integrated circuit (IC) device comprises one or more RF transceivers to transmit and receive RF signals within a first frequency band and a second frequency band that is higher than the first frequency band. The RF frontend IC device further comprises a bidirectional LO signal generation circuit coupled to the one or more transceivers to generate a bidirectional LO signal. The bidirectional LO signal is injected between the first frequency band and the second frequency band. The bidirectional LO signal generation circuit is to perform a high-side LO injection for the RF signals within the first frequency band by injecting the bidirectional LO signal having an LO frequency higher than the first frequency band and to perform a low-side LO injection for the RF signals within the second frequency band by injecting the bidirectional LO signal having the LO frequency lower than the second frequency band.

Abstract: A touch feedback and sensing device includes a circuit board, a piezoelectric ceramic actuator on the circuit board; and at least one strain sensor on the circuit board. The piezoelectric ceramic actuator includes a piezoelectric ceramic block, a cathode and an anode on the piezoelectric ceramic block. Different voltages are applied to the cathode and the anode to vibrate the piezoelectric ceramic block. The circuit board vibrates with vibration of the piezoelectric ceramic block. The at least one strain sensor is configured to detect and monitor vibration of the circuit board.

Abstract: A reconfigurable antenna includes a first antenna and a second antenna. The first antenna is an omnidirectional antenna, and the second antenna surrounds the first antenna. The second antenna includes a plurality of antenna element groups. Each antenna element group includes a transmission cable, a switch, a first antenna element, and a second antenna element. The transmission cable is connected to the first antenna element and the second antenna element. The transmission cable is connected to a feedpoint. The switch is connected to a first point and a second point on the transmission cable. A sum of a length of antennas and transmission cables in an antenna element group is slightly greater than ½ wavelength (?1), where ?1 is a wavelength of an electromagnetic wave on an operating frequency of the first antenna.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a transformer-based in-phase and quadrature (IQ) includes a differential balun having a first inductor and a second inductor. The first inductor has a first input terminal and a first output terminal. The second inductor has a second input terminal and a second output terminal. Additionally, the IQ generator circuit includes a third inductor magnetically coupled with the first inductor. The third inductor has a first isolation terminal and a third output terminal. The IQ generator circuit also includes a fourth inductor magnetically coupled with the second inductor. The fourth inductor has a second isolation terminal and a fourth output terminal. The IQ generator circuit additionally includes a first transistor coupled to the first input terminal of the first inductor. Further, the generator circuit includes a second transistor coupled to the second input terminal of the second inductor.

Abstract: A test apparatus includes a first module configured to structurally support a target semiconductor device, and a second module reversibly attachable to the first module. The first module includes a first housing including one or more inner surfaces at least partially defining an inner space, a volume control unit configured to control a volume of the inner space, a mounting unit at least partially exposed to the inner space and configured to be exposed to the target semiconductor device, and a magnetic force control unit in the first housing. The second module includes a second housing, a test board in the second housing, and an attachable/detachable member in the second housing. The test board may be electrically connected to the target semiconductor device. The magnetic force control unit may control a magnetic property of the attachable/detachable member to cause the attachable/detachable member to attach/detach to/from the magnetic force control unit.

Abstract: The present specification relates to a method for manufacturing a polarizer and a polarizer manufactured by using the same, and more particularly, to a method for manufacturing a polarizer, which includes a cross-linking and elongating step using an aqueous solution including a polyvalent carboxylic acid compound and a boric acid compound, and a polarizer manufactured by using the same.

Abstract: Provided is a silica sol, a silica aerogel blanket using the same, and a method for manufacturing the same, wherein a hydrophobizing agent, a base catalyst, an organic solvent, and water are included in a catalyst composition when manufacturing the silica aerogel blanket, so that a wet aging step which is performed under high-temperature conditions and increases the amount of a solvent used, and a surface modification step which uses a large amount of an organic solvent and an expensive surface modifier, resulting in a process that is complex and long and thus inhibiting economic feasibility and productivity, can be omitted.

Abstract: A microfluidic device and a microfluidic chip are provided. The microfluidic device includes the microfluidic chip, a pouring element, a flow adjustment element and a processor. The microfluidic chip includes a sorting assembly, a sample outlet channel, a pouring channel, a collection channel and a waste channel. The sorting assembly includes a sample inlet channel and a sorting chamber. The pouring element is connected to the pouring channel. The flow adjustment element is connected to a distal end of the sample outlet channel. The processor is configured to control the pouring element to pour a guiding fluid into the pouring channel entering the sample outlet channel and control the flow adjustment element to adjust a flow resistance of a drain section of the sample outlet channel.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an aramid-based epoxy resin and a method of making same, including the steps of reacting aramid fiber powder as a raw material with a metallization reagent; grafting a plurality of ethylene oxide, propylene oxide or a mixture thereof to an activated amide group of the aramid to introduce a reactive functional group hydroxyl; and then conducting a ring-opening and closing reaction by using epichlorohydrin to obtain a liquid aramid-based epoxy resin.

Abstract: There is provided wireless transmitter that includes a poly phase filter (PPF) configured to receive an input differential intermediate frequency (IF) signal and to generate an in-phase differential IF signal and a quadrature differential IF signal. The wireless transmitter further includes a transformer-based circuit configured to receive an input differential local oscillator (LO) signal and to generate an in-phase differential LO signal and a quadrature differential LO signal based on the input differential LO signal.