Abstract: A high-efficiency yield-increasing exploitation method for natural gas hydrates includes steps of drilling of natural gas hydrate reservoirs along horizontal wells, seepage increasing by fracturing for fracture forming and stability improvement by grouting in the natural gas hydrate reservoirs, and yield improvement by combined exploitation of depressurization of the horizontal wells and heat injection; according to the present invention, drilling time is shortened by rapid drilling along the horizontal wells, the permeability of the reservoirs can be effectively improved by fracturing for fracture forming, the stability of the reservoirs can be improved by injecting foam cement slurry into the reservoirs, and the yield of the natural gas hydrates can be improved by the combined exploitation method of depressurization of the horizontal wells and heat injection.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and media are provided for loop filtering across raster scan slices. One example includes obtaining the video data comprising one or more pictures and a first block of a picture having a pixel subject to filtering. A second block is determined to be located in the first slice in a particular relation to the second block. A third block that includes pixels for filtering the pixel is determined to be in a second slice at a diagonal corner of the first block, with filtering across slice boundaries disabled. First one or more pixels of the second block are identified as available for performing loop filtering of the pixel and second one or more pixels of the third block identified as unavailable for performing the loop filtering of the pixel of the first block. The first one or more pixels and the second one or more pixels are padded.

Abstract: A high-efficiency yield-increasing exploitation method for natural gas hydrates includes steps of drilling of natural gas hydrate reservoirs along horizontal wells, seepage increasing by fracturing for fracture forming and stability improvement by grouting in the natural gas hydrate reservoirs, and yield improvement by combined exploitation of depressurization of the horizontal wells and heat injection; according to the present invention, drilling time is shortened by rapid drilling along the horizontal wells, the permeability of the reservoirs can be effectively improved by fracturing for fracture forming, the stability of the reservoirs can be improved by injecting by the combined exploitation method of depressurization of the horizontal wells and heat injection.

Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to wireless communications and, more particularly, to systems and methods for determining an adaptive random access response window length in non-terrestrial networks. In one embodiment, a method performed by a communication device includes: receiving system information from a communication node, wherein the communication node communicates using a satellite in orbit or a high altitude platform station (HAPS); and determining an adaptive random access response window length based on the system information and whether the communication device has access to situation information that: characterizes a location of the communication device, an ephemeris of the satellite or a trajectory of the HAPS, and a payload type of the satellite or the HAPS.

Abstract: A dual-frequency and dual-polarization antenna for simultaneously transmitting and receiving dual-frequency 5G signals comprises: a first substrate; a first polarization antenna comprising a first radiation portion disposed on a first surface of the first substrate and a second radiation portion disposed on a second surface of the first substrate; a second polarization antenna comprising a third radiation portion disposed on the first surface of the first substrate and a fourth radiation portion disposed on the second surface of the first substrate; a second substrate located in a side of the second surface of the first substrate, a surface of the second substrate close to the first substrate is a copper-clad surface; and layout directions of the first polarization antenna and the second polarization antenna are orthogonal to each other in the first substrate. An electronic device comprising the dual-frequency and dual-polarization antenna is also provided.

Abstract: An example method includes decoding, via a first syntax level of a video bitstream, a first deblocking filter control syntax element with a value that specifies whether deblocking filter information is present in a second syntax level of the bitstream; decoding, via the first syntax level of the bitstream, a second deblocking filter control syntax element with a value that specifies whether deblocking override is enabled; responsive to the first deblocking filter control syntax element specifying that the deblocking filter information is present in the second syntax level of the bitstream and regardless of the value of the second deblocking filter control syntax element, decoding, via the second syntax level, one or more syntax elements that specify deblocking filter information; and applying, based on the deblocking filter information, a deblocking filter to a block of the video data.

Abstract: A video encoder and/or video decoder are configured to apply an adaptive loop filter to a reconstructed block of video data. The video encoder and/or video decoder may be configured to determine a value of a gradient for a sample in the reconstructed block of video data, including performing a gradient calculation for the sample using an available sample that corresponds to an unavailable sample that is outside of one of: a picture, a slice, a tile, or a tile group that includes the reconstructed block of samples, determine an adaptive loop filter for the reconstructed block of video data based at least in part on the determined value of the gradient for the sample, and apply the determined adaptive loop filter to the reconstructed block of video data to generate a filtered block of video data.

Abstract: An information reporting method, an information reporting configuration method, a user equipment and a network side device are provided. The information reporting method is applied to the user equipment and includes reporting information of a frequency domain location where the user equipment is located recorded by the user equipment and/or information of a frequency domain location where the user equipment is currently located.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a random access method, a UE and a network side device. The random access method includes: initiating random access on one or more SS blocks; and sending random access information on each SS block to the network side device.

Abstract: A device for decoding video data may be configured to apply a deblocking filter to a block of video data to determine a first filtered block; apply a second filter to the block of video data in parallel with the deblocking filter to determine a second filtered block, wherein the second filter comprises one of a guided filter, a bilateral filter, or an adaptive loop filter; combine the first filtered block and the second filtered block to determine a combined block; apply a third filter to the combined block to determine a third filtered block; process the third filtered block to determine a decoded version of the block of video data; and output the decoded version of the block of video data.

Abstract: An example device for decoding video data includes one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: decode a coding tree unit (CTU) of video data, the CTU including a luminance (luma) block and a chrominance (chroma) block, to produce a decoded luma block and a decoded chroma block; determine that a chroma sample of the decoded chroma block is on a first side of an adaptive loop filter (ALF) virtual boundary and that a co-located luma sample of the decoded luma block is on a second side of the ALF virtual boundary, the co-located luma sample being co-located with the chroma sample, the first side being different than the second side; and in response to determining that the chroma sample is on the first side and the luma sample is on the second side, disable cross-component adaptive loop filtering (CC-ALF) for the chroma sample.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure discloses a 5G millimeter-wave novel dual-polarized horn antenna. The antenna includes an upper plate, a lower plate, a front plate, a rear plate and a cover plate, the cover plate is disposed on a rear end of the antenna, the front plate and the rear plate are disposed between the upper and lower plate, an excitation cavity structure is defined in the upper plate, the lower plate, the front plate, the rear plate and the cover plate, an excitation cavity with a rectangular cross section is formed in the cavity structure, the cross section of the excitation cavity is gradually reduced from right to left and then kept unchangeable, the left end of the excitation cavity is sealed through the cover plate, the upper plate, the lower plate, the front plate and the rear plate in the excitation cavity all include a curve ridge.

Abstract: A physiological sensor system that may include an analyte sensor configured to measure at least one analyte at varying depths at a tissue site of a user. The analyte sensor may include a plurality of electrodes patterned on a semi-rigid substrate meant to penetrate the skin of a user. The substrate may be varying lengths to increase the number of electrodes at the penetration site of the user and decrease the likelihood of a bad reading due to poor placement of the electrodes. The electrodes may be patterned on both sides of the substrate to increase number of measurement sites. The analyte sensor can be positioned in an electrochemical cell disposed in the body of the user.

Abstract: The technical problem of removing an object depicted in a selected region of an image to create a natural-looking edited image is addressed by providing systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media to perform automatic image inpainting. The method includes replacing the selected region using a color mask. A color mask can be generated using a mean color of pixels from a portion of the image that is distinct from and outside of the selected region.

Abstract: A method for the prevention, delay of progression or treatment of cancer in a subject, comprising administering to the subject in need thereof a Btk inhibitor, particularly, (S)-7-(1-acryloylpiperidin-4-yl)-2-(4-phenoxyphenyl)-4,5,6,7-tetra-hydropyrazo-lo[1,5-a]pyrimidine-3-carboxamide or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, in combination with an immune checkpoint inhibitor or a targeted therapy agent. A pharmaceutical combination comprising a Btk inhibitor, particularly, (S)-7-(1-acryloylpiperidin-4-yl)-2-( 4-phenoxyphenyl)-4,5,6,7-tetra-hydropyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine-3-carboxamide or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, in combination with an immune checkpoint inhibitor or a targeted therapy agent.