Abstract: The present invention provides an ultrasonic imaging device, comprising: an imaging assembly, the imaging assembly comprising an ultrasonic transducer for imaging tissue to be imaged; an adjustable arm, wherein one end of the adjustable arm is connected to the imaging assembly; a counterweight, the counterweight being connected to the other end of the adjustable arm through a cable; a frame, the frame being capable of guiding movement when the counterweight and/or adjustable arm moves; and a transmission assembly, the transmission assembly comprising a driving device and a transmission belt, wherein the driving device is connected to the transmission belt, and the transmission belt is connected to the counterweight; the driving device is capable of acting on the counterweight through the transmission belt, so as to adjust pressure applied by the imaging assembly onto the tissue to be imaged. The present invention further provides some imaging methods using the ultrasonic imaging device.

Abstract: A computer adjusts a set of presentation materials, comprising. The computer receives, from a source available to the computer, an initial set of presentation materials. The computer, in response to receiving the initial set of presentation materials, determines a reference presentation duration associated with initial set of presentation materials. The computer receives a target presentation duration from a target duration source available to the computer. The computer determines a presentation conversion value representing, at least in part, a ratio of the target presentation duration to the reference presentation duration. The computer applies a Machine Learning (ML) refactoring routine to revise the initial set of presentation materials in accordance, at least partially, with the presentation conversion value, thereby generating a refactored set of presentation materials having a revised conveyance duration substantially the same as the target duration.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display unit having a plurality of display areas, a touch sensor unit that detects a predetermined operation by an operation medium on one of the plurality of display areas and to detect a position of the operation medium during the predetermined operation, and a startup control unit that displays a menu of icons in the plurality of display areas upon the touch sensor unit sensing the predetermined operation, the menu of icons being different depending on a combination of an orientation of the display unit, and which of the plurality of display areas the predetermined operation occurred in. The startup control unit launches an application program corresponding to an icon selected by the operation medium from among the displayed icons in the menu.

Abstract: A spherical joint includes a body portion and a blocking portion. The body portion includes a ball portion and a joint portion. The ball portion and the joint portion have an inner surface that links the two portions together in an axial direction and an outer surface opposite to the inner surface. The outer surface of the ball portion includes a spherical surface. The body portion further includes a first section and a second section. Each of the first section and the second section intersects with the inner surface and the outer surface such that the two sections together define a gap. The blocking portion is detachably connected to the body portion and shaped to match the gap, so that the blocking portion blocks the gap to form a hollow spherical joint structure. Further disclosed in the present application are a spherical joint assembly and an ultrasonic imaging device.

Abstract: Provided in the present application is an ultrasonic probe, including: an ultrasonic transducer configured to send/receive an ultrasonic signal; a housing including a top plate and a side wall that collectively define a cavity with an opening located below the cavity, wherein a top portion of the ultrasonic transducer is configured to be accommodated in the cavity via the opening; and an elastic element accommodated in the cavity, the elastic element being connected to the top portion of the ultrasonic transducer and the top plate of the housing, and the elastic element being configured to provide an elastic force to the ultrasonic transducer to enable part of the ultrasonic transducer to retract and spring back within the cavity. Further provided in the present application are a scanning assembly including the ultrasonic probe and an ultrasonic imaging device including the scanning assembly.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a touchscreen display that detects, as a detection position, contact of an object on a screen of the touchscreen display, and a processor coupled to the touchscreen display, the processor being programmed to acquire a plurality of first detection positions on the screen, calculate a movement parameter representing movement of the object during detection of the plurality of first detection positions, and select, based on the movement parameter, a first smoothing algorithm or a second smoothing algorithm, the first smoothing algorithm and the second smoothing algorithm differing from each other in a processing delay between detecting a particular detection position and outputting a smoothed detection position corresponding to that particular detecting position, wherein the touchscreen display displays a movement locus on the screen based on the selected smoothing algorithm.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, includes: a display unit, a touch sensor unit placed on a screen of the display unit to detect contact with an object on the screen; an input processing unit that selectively performs prediction processing for predicting the next detected position data on the basis of a plurality of past detected position data on the screen detected at predetermined detection intervals by the touch sensor unit when an operating medium contacts the screen and noise reduction processing for removing noise from the detected position data detected by the touch sensor unit for smoothing, according to a drawing status based on the detected position data, and then outputs the detected position data of a result of the selectively-performed processing, and a display processing unit that causes the display unit to display a movement locus on the screen.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, includes: a display unit, a touch sensor unit placed on a screen of the display unit to detect contact with an object on the screen; an input processing unit that selectively performs prediction processing for predicting the next detected position data on the basis of a plurality of past detected position data on the screen detected at predetermined detection intervals by the touch sensor unit when an operating medium contacts the screen and noise reduction processing for removing noise from the detected position data detected by the touch sensor unit for smoothing, according to a drawing status based on the detected position data, and then outputs the detected position data of a result of the selectively-performed processing, and a display processing unit that causes the display unit to display a movement locus on the screen.

Abstract: Integrated circuit (“IC”) unit and a wafer for fabricating IC units. The wafer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. A redistribution metal layer may be formed on the first surface and may be patterned to have a redistribution metal layer pattern. A backside metal layer may be formed on the second surface and patterned to have a backside metal layer pattern so that the backside metal layer may be adapted to generate a backside stress on the wafer to at least partially offset a front side stress generated by the redistribution metal layer on the wafer.

Abstract: Disclosed is an optical detection system for detecting a decomposition product of a high-voltage device, including: a measurement gas chamber and a measurement host. The measurement gas chamber is disposed on the high-voltage device and is in communication with a gas chamber of the high-voltage device, a collimator and a reflector are disposed on two sides of the measurement gas chamber respectively, and the measurement host is connected to the collimator. The collimator is used for emitting measurement laser to the measurement gas chamber according to a laser signal sent by the measurement host, and receiving reflected laser from the reflector and transmitting the reflected laser to the measurement host. In the present invention, data collection and backhaul between a measurement host and a measurement gas chamber are implemented through a laser signal, thus avoiding electromagnetic interference and improving the safety of measurement for a high-voltage device.

Abstract: A LED driving system for driving a LED matrix. The LED driving system includes an interconnection structure having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface and a plurality of driver dies/chips attached to the first surface of the interconnection structure. The LED matrix is divided into a plurality of sub LED matrix sections that are attached to the second surface of the interconnection structure. The interconnection structure is configured to electrically couple each one of the plurality of sub LED matrix sections to a corresponding one driver die/chip in the plurality of driver dies/chips.

Abstract: A moving-image decoder includes a decoding means configured to decode a bitstream representing a moving image including a block encoded using intra-prediction, an inverse processing means configured to generate difference values in pixels of the block by inverse-quantizing and inverse-transforming a level value of the block obtained from a result of decoding, an intra-prediction means configured to generate predicted values of pixels of the block according to intra-prediction based on pixel values of reconstructed blocks around the block, and a reconstruction means configured to reconstruct the block on the basis of the generated difference values and the generated predicted values, wherein the intra-prediction means is configured to generate a reference line for use in the intra-prediction by synthesizing a plurality of lines of the reconstructed blocks around the block.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display, a touch sensor disposed on a screen of the display unit detects an input position by an input medium on the screen, a main controller, and an embedded controller. The embedded controller predicts a subsequent input position of the input medium based on detected input positions of the input medium detected by the touch sensor at predetermined detection intervals, and output, to the main controller, the predicted subsequent input position as part of the detected input positions detected by the touch sensor. The main controller, based on the plurality of detected input positions received from the embedded controller, display a movement trajectory of the input medium on the screen.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display unit having a plurality of display areas, a touch sensor unit that detects a predetermined operation by an operation medium on one of the plurality of display areas and to detect a position of the operation medium during the predetermined operation, and a startup control unit that displays a menu of icons in the plurality of display areas upon the touch sensor unit sensing the predetermined operation, the menu of icons being different depending on a combination of an orientation of the display unit, and which of the plurality of display areas the predetermined operation occurred in. The startup control unit launches an application program corresponding to an icon selected by the operation medium from among the displayed icons in the menu.

Abstract: A non-metallic layer stranded optical cable with a reversal point capable of being positioned and a detection method thereof, which solves the problems of determining a reversal point of a cable core and performing an operation of drawing out an optical fiber from the optical cable. The present invention relates to a non-metallic layer stranded optical cable, and the key points of the technical solution thereof includes a cable core and a metal film provided at each reversal point of the cable core, and an outer sheath is provided on the cable core.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display, a touch sensor disposed on a screen of the display unit detects an input position by an input medium on the screen, a main controller, and an embedded controller. The embedded controller predicts a subsequent input position of the input medium based on detected input positions of the input medium detected by the touch sensor at predetermined detection intervals, and output, to the main controller, the predicted subsequent input position as part of the detected input positions detected by the touch sensor. The main controller, based on the plurality of detected input positions received from the embedded controller, display a movement trajectory of the input medium on the screen.

Abstract: A scanning assembly for an ultrasonic imaging device and the ultrasonic imaging device are provided in the present disclosure. The scanning assembly comprises: an ultrasonic transducer configured to send/receive an ultrasonic signal; a frame connected to an ultrasonic imaging device body; a lower housing comprising a hollow cavity having an upper open end and a lower open end, wherein the upper open end is detachably connected to the bottom of the frame, and the ultrasonic transducer is at least partially accommodated in the hollow cavity; and a film assembly detachably connected to the lower open end. The ultrasonic imaging device comprises the ultrasonic imaging device body. The ultrasonic imaging device body comprises a main device, a display, an adjustable arm, and the above scanning assembly connected to one end of the adjustable arm.

Abstract: A non-metallic layer stranded optical cable with a reversal point capable of being positioned and a detection method thereof, which solves the problems of determining a reversal point of a cable core and performing an operation of drawing out an optical fiber from the optical cable. The present invention relates to a non-metallic layer stranded optical cable, and the key points of the technical solution thereof includes a cable core and a metal film provided at each reversal point of the cable core, and an outer sheath is provided on the cable core.

Abstract: Provided are an architecture, method and apparatus for realizing communication between network functions. The network function establishes interworking with other communication domains via the interface function. An interworking interface between a network function and a selected interface function is identical to an interworking interface between the network function and a destination network function. With the architecture, the network function and the interface function are decoupled. The interworking between network functions within the communication domain and the interworking between the network function within the communication domain and the network function outside the communication domain are achieved by using only one type of interworking interface.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ultrasonic imaging device, comprising: an imaging assembly, the imaging assembly comprising an ultrasonic transducer for imaging tissue to be imaged; an adjustable arm, wherein one end of the adjustable arm is connected to the imaging assembly; a counterweight, the counterweight being connected to the other end of the adjustable arm through a cable; a frame, the frame being capable of guiding movement when the counterweight and/or adjustable arm moves; and a transmission assembly, the transmission assembly comprising a driving device and a transmission belt, wherein the driving device is connected to the transmission belt, and the transmission belt is connected to the counterweight; the driving device is capable of acting on the counterweight through the transmission belt, so as to adjust pressure applied by the imaging assembly onto the tissue to be imaged. The present invention further provides some imaging methods using the ultrasonic imaging device.