Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding images based on constrained offset compensation and a loop filter. The image decoding apparatus: receives, from an encoder, a first indicator indicating whether a sequence, a picture, a frame, a slice, a coding unit (CU), a prediction unit (PU), and/or a transform unit (TU) supports constrained offset compensation; receives, from the encoder, a second indicator indicating whether constrained sample adaptive offset (SAO) compensation or an adaptive loop filter (ALF) is applied; receives a parameter from the encoder; and applies the SAO compensation or the ALF to pixels of a restored image on the basis of the second indicator and the parameter.

Abstract: A waste heat recovery system of a vehicle generally comprises a heat source, an air-passage body, and a heat-preservation container. The heat source is provided with a pipe. The air-passage body is coupled to the pipe. The air-passage body defines therein a chamber and at least one passage communicating with the chamber, wherein the chamber communicates with the pipe for collecting the waste heat energy transferred by the pipe. The heat-preservation container, being placed above the air-passage body, communicates with the passage of the air-passage body and is provided with multiple heat-transfer elements therein. With the waste heat recovery system, the waste heat energy can be transferred via air from the heat source to the container to enable the container to keep at a lower temperature for food or articles required to be warmed. Furthermore, the waste heat energy enables a conversion module in the chamber to generate electrical power.

Abstract: A semiconductor package process includes the following steps, providing a first substrate having a first metal bump, the first metal bump comprises a joint portion having a first softening point; providing a second substrate having a second metal bump having a top surface, a lateral surface and a second softening point, wherein the first softening point is smaller than the second softening point; performing a heating procedure to make the joint portion of the first metal bump become a softened state; and laminating the first substrate on the second substrate to make the second metal bump embedded into the joint portion in the softened state to make the top surface and the lateral surface of the at least one second metal bump being clad extendedly by compressing the joint portion in the softened state.

Abstract: A fluid delivery and airway management device including a tubular member dimensioned for introducing a fluid into a trachea of a mammal, the tubular member having a proximal portion, a distal portion, and a middle portion between the proximal portion and the distal portion. The tubular member is dimensioned for positioning of the proximal portion in an oral cavity of a mammal, the middle portion in an oropharynx of the mammal and the distal portion in an esophagus of the mammal. An inflatable oral cavity balloon is positioned at the proximal portion and dimensioned to occlude the oral cavity. An inflatable esophageal balloon is positioned at the distal portion and dimensioned to occlude the esophagus. Apertures may be formed within the middle portion such that a fluid introduced into the tubular member is output through the apertures to a trachea.

Abstract: An integrated circuit for controlling a slave device is provided. The integrated circuit includes a pin, a micro-controller and an inter integrated circuit (I2C) bus controller coupled between the micro-controller and the pin. The I2C bus controller includes a transceiver unit coupled to the slave device via the pin, and an interface unit coupled between the transceiver unit and the micro-controller. The interface unit includes a start control register and a stop control register. The start control register provides a start signal to the slave device via the transceiver unit when the start control register is programmed by the micro-controller. The stop control register provides a stop signal to the slave device via the transceiver unit when the stop control register is programmed by the micro-controller. The micro-controller programs the stop control register according to an interrupt signal from the interface unit.

Abstract: In a nonvolatile memory device and a method for fabricating the same, a device comprises a substrate, a trench in the substrate and a first gate pattern comprising a first bottom gate electrode having a first portion in the trench and having a second portion on the first portion and protruding in an upward direction relative to an upper surface of the substrate. A second gate pattern comprising a second gate electrode is on the substrate at a side of the first gate pattern and insulated from the first gate pattern. An impurity region is present in the substrate at a side of the first gate pattern opposite the second gate pattern, and overlapping part of the trench.

Abstract: Aircrafts flying near Earth or naval vessels are used as active scattering platforms in a multipath communications channel in MIMO communications systems. These man-made platforms in a communications channel, with techniques of beam forming and wavefront multiplexing in both transmitters at source and receivers at destinations enhance the ability to coherently combine the power of the communication signals, and improve the signal-to-noise ratio in addition to the MIMO advantage of multiple times of channel capacity over a finite bandwidth via frequency reuse. These platforms may be stationary, mobile ground based, or ocean surface based. They may also be airborne, or space borne. A swarm of 10's micro-UAV based mini-transponders is an example through active scattering of these micro-UAV to generate 10× more available bandwidth between a base station and ground mobile users over same bandwidth.

Abstract: An asymmetric multilayer film for an ostomy pouch includes a barrier layer including a first side and a second side. At least one layer is arranged on the first side of the barrier layer, and at least one layer arranged on the second side of the barrier layer, in which the combined thickness of the at least one layer arranged on the first side of the barrier layer is at least two times greater than the combined thickness of the at least one layer arranged on the second side of the barrier layer. The asymmetric multilayer film has a thickness of about 25 ?m to about 50 ?m.

Abstract: The present application provides an electronic apparatus including a substrate including a first electrode pad, a second electrode pad and an intermediate pad each disposed on one surface of the substrate and separated from one another. An electronic device is disposed on the substrate and including a first electrode unit and a second electrode unit. The first electrode unit has an adhesion surface facing the first electrode pad and the intermediate pad. The second electrode unit has an adhesion surface facing the second electrode pad.

Abstract: The invention pertains to the generation and utility of antibodies that can bind effectively to C?mX domain on membrane-bound IgE (mIgE) expressed on the surface of human B lymphocytes. The C?mX domain of 52 amino acid residues, located between the CH4 domain and the C-terminal membrane-anchor peptide on human membrane-bound epsilon chain, had been suggested as an antigenic site for immunological targeting of B cells expressing mIgE. Previous reported monoclonal antibodies, including a20, which bind to RADWPGPP (SEQ ID NO:1) peptide at the C-terminal of C?mX, have now been found to bind poorly to mIgE on human B cells. We have discovered that only monoclonal antibodies specific for certain segments, such as GLAGGSAQSQRAPDRVL (SEQ ID NO:2) and HSGQQQGLPRAAGGSVPHPR (SEQ ID NO:3), of C?mX can bind effectively to mIgE on human B cells and hence have the utility for targeting those B cells for the treatment of diseases mediated by IgE.

Abstract: An image access method applicable to an image access device is provided. The method includes: providing a plurality of codes that respectively represent a plurality of image sources; determining a plurality of sets of access settings according to a pixel format arrangement, each set of access setting corresponding to a code arrangement combination composed of the codes; and sequentially accessing data of the image sources by the image access apparatus according to the code arrangement combinations corresponding to the access settings.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an LED (light emitting diode) package comprises following steps: providing an electrically insulated base, the base having a first surface and a second surface opposite thereto; an annular voltage stabilizing module is formed on the first surface; a first electrode is formed on the first surface, wherein the first electrode is attached to and encircled by the voltage stabilizing module; a second electrode is formed on the first surface, wherein the second electrode is attached to and encircles the voltage stabilizing module; an LED chip is mounted on the first electrode, wherein the LED chip is electrically connected to the first and second electrodes, and the LED chip and the voltage stabilizing module are connected in reverse parallel. Finally, an encapsulative layer is brought to encapsulate the LED chip.

Abstract: A hydroponic apparatus and a collecting device are provided. The collecting device includes at least two hollow containers, a connection part and two handles. Each of the hollow containers has an interior adapted to be stuffed with a porous adsorption material. The connection part is adapted to physically connecting one of the hollow containers to next one of the hollow containers in order. The two handles are disposed on the outermost two of the hollow containers.

Abstract: Methods and devices for migrating a virtual machine from a source server to a destination server. Information identifying a multicast group of the virtual machine on the source server is received. Before the virtual machine migrates to the destination server, a destination interface of a destination network device connected to the destination server is added to the identified multicast group such that the virtual machine continues to receive multicast traffic of the multicast group after the migration.

Abstract: In one aspect, a method of fabricating an electronic device includes the following steps. An alternating series of device and sacrificial layers are formed in a stack on an SOI wafer. Nanowire bars are etched into the device/sacrificial layers such that each of the device layers in a first portion of the stack and each of the device layers in a second portion of the stack has a source region, a drain region and a plurality of nanowire channels connecting the source region and the drain region. The sacrificial layers are removed from between the nanowire bars. A conformal gate dielectric layer is selectively formed surrounding the nanowire channels in the first portion of the stack which serve as a channel region of a nanomesh FET transistor. Gates are formed surrounding the nanowire channels in the first and second portions of the stack.

Abstract: Some embodiments relate to methods and apparatus for mitigating high metal concentrations in photoresist residue and recycling sulfuric acid (H2SO4) in single wafer cleaning tools. In some embodiments, a disclosed single wafer cleaning tool has a processing chamber that houses a semiconductor substrate. A high oxidative treatment unit may apply a high oxidative chemical pre-treatment to the semiconductor substrate to remove a photoresist residue having metal impurities from the semiconductor substrate in a manner that results in a contaminant remainder. A SPM cleaning unit apply a sulfuric-peroxide mixture (SPM) cleaning solution to the semiconductor substrate to remove the contaminant remainder from the semiconductor substrate as an SPM effluent. The SPM effluent is provided to a recycling unit configured to recover sulfuric acid (H2SO4) from the SPM effluent and to provide the recovered H2SO4to the SPM cleaning unit via a feedback conduit.

Abstract: A radiolabeled nucleoside analogue is provided, which includes radioactive iodine 123I/131I, and a nucleoside analogue selected from a group consisting of cytidine, thymidine, uridine, and a derivative thereof. A method for preparing the radiolabeled nucleoside analogue, and a use thereof are further provided. The nucleoside analogue, prepared through the preparation method with a short synthesis time and a high radiochemical yield, has a long in vivo physiological half life and a high stability in serum, and, as a radiopharmaceutical composition, is useful in development of tumor proliferation diagnosis or therapy prognosis evaluation, and further assists in observation of long-time in vivo metabolism of a drug.

Abstract: Apparatus includes a machine readable storage medium for storing a template library having at least one template. The template is to include a first layout representation of at least one pattern to be formed by multi-patterning a single layer of an IC. The pattern has a plurality of portions to be formed using a plurality of respectively different photomasks. The first layout representation includes data identifying on which photomask each portion is to be located. An electronic design automation (EDA) tool includes a processor configured to receive a hardware description language representation of at least a part of a circuit and generate a second layout representation of the part of the circuit having a plurality of polygons. The EDA tool has a matching module that identifies and outputs an indication of whether one or more of the plurality of portions matches a subset of the plurality of polygons.

Abstract: Techniques are described herein for detecting and recovering over-erased memory cells in a flash memory device. In one embodiment, a flash memory device includes a memory array including a plurality of blocks of memory cells. The device also includes a command interface to receive a command from a source external to the memory device. The device also includes a controller including logic to perform a leakage-suppression process in response to the command. The leakage-suppression process includes performing a soft program operation to increase a threshold voltage of one or more over-erased memory cells in a given block of memory cells and establish an erased state.

Abstract: A method for performing thread scheduling in an electronic device having a hardware processor configured for executing an operating system is provided. The operating system includes a thread scheduler and a queue manager. The method includes the following steps. In response to one of a plurality of predefined conditions is met, enable a virtual manager executed by the hardware processor. Receive a request by the thread scheduler for scheduling a thread to be executed. Mask the scheduler by the virtual manager from accessing a first queue including a plurality of first threads in a runnable state. Direct the scheduler to a first virtual queue including a first portion of the plurality of first threads in the first queue for selecting the thread to be executed. The first portion of the first threads associated with at least one application currently running. Schedule execution of the selected thread by the hardware processor.