Abstract: A liquid crystal writing screen, including: first substrate and second substrates, and a bistable liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates, where the first substrate includes: a first base substrate; a plurality of pixel units on a side of the first base substrate proximate to the second substrate, each pixel unit including a thin film transistor, and a pixel electrode electrically connected to a first electrode of the thin film transistor; a passivation layer on a side of the thin film transistor distal from the first base substrate and in contact with the thin film transistor; where the pixel electrode is between the first base substrate and the passivation layer; and a spacer on a side of the passivation layer distal from the first base substrate and in contact with the passivation layer. A method for preparing the liquid crystal writing screen is further provided.

Abstract: A computer system can determine historical interval data of a freight operator from completed freight service requests associated with the freight operator. Additionally, while the freight operator is fulfilling a current freight service request, the computer system can determine at least a first likely downtime interval for a non-operating activity of the freight operator prior to the freight operator arriving at a pickup location or a destination location of the current freight service request, based on the historical interval data. Also, the computer system can determine an estimated arrival time for the freight operator to arrive at the pickup location or the destination location of the current freight service request, based at least in part on the first likely down time interval. Moreover, the computer system can update a record associated with the freight operator to reflect the estimated arrival time.

Abstract: A shift-register unit, a grid driving circuit and a displaying device, which relates to the technical field of displaying. In the present disclosure, the oxide-semiconductor layers of the oxide thin-film transistors may be delimited into regions according to the total channel widths and the channel lengths required by the oxide thin-film transistors in the shift-register unit, wherein the sum of the widths of the independent semiconductor branches obtained by the delimitation is equal to the required total channel width. Accordingly, one oxide thin-film transistor can realize the required total channel width by using the one or more semiconductor branches, to ensure the normal operation of the oxide thin-film transistor, whereby the oxide-semiconductor layers of the different oxide thin-film transistors can be configured differently, to realize the purpose of reducing the border frame of the displaying device.

Abstract: An array substrate includes a base substrate, including a display area and a peripheral area; a driving circuit layer, located at one side of the base substrate and including a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scanning lines, where the plurality of data lines extend along a first direction and are arranged at intervals along a second direction, the plurality of scanning lines extend along the second direction and are arranged at intervals along the first direction, and the data line and the scanning line intersect with each other to define a plurality of sub-pixel areas; and a metal layer, located at one side of the driving circuit layer away from the base substrate, where the metal layer includes a plurality of metal blocks arranged at intervals, and the metal block is located at an intersection of the data line and the scanning line.

Abstract: The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a display substrate including a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines. The plurality of gate lines each extend along a first direction, and the plurality of data lines each extend along a second direction. The plurality of data lines are spatially crossed with the plurality of gate lines to define a plurality of pixel regions, and at least one sub-pixel is provided in each of the plurality of pixel regions. At least three sub-pixels adjacent to each other along the second direction form one of a plurality of pixels. All the sub-pixels within one of the plurality of pixels are coupled to a same data line of the plurality of data lines.

Abstract: A method of personalized image retrieval includes obtaining a natural language query including a name; replacing the name in the natural language query with a generic term to provide an anonymized query and named entity information; obtaining a plurality of initial ranking scores and a plurality of attention weights corresponding to a plurality of images using a trained scoring model that inputs the anonymized query and the plurality of images; obtaining a plurality of delta scores corresponding to the plurality of images using a re-scoring model that inputs the plurality of attention weights and the named entity information; and obtaining a plurality of final ranking scores by modifying the plurality of initial ranking scores based on the plurality of delta scores. The trained scoring model performs semantic based searching and the re-scoring model determines a probability that faces detected in the plurality of images correspond to the name.

Abstract: An anti-reflective stack and a method of manufacturing the same, a display panel, and a display device. The anti-reflective stack includes: a substrate having a first refractive index and a first surface; an antistatic layer on a side of the substrate, the antistatic layer having a second refractive index and a second surface opposite to the first surface; and an anti-reflective layer between the substrate and the antistatic layer, the anti-reflective layer including at least one composite layer which includes a first anti-reflective layer having a third refractive index and a second anti-reflective layer having a fourth refractive index, where at most one first anti-reflective layer is attached with the first surface, and at most one second anti-reflective layer is attached with the second surface, and each of the second refractive index and the third refractive index is greater than the first refractive index and the fourth refractive index.

Abstract: The display panel includes: a display substrate, wherein the display substrate includes a color film substrate and an array substrate, a surface of the color film substrate away from the array substrate is provided with a color film polarizer, at least two preset points are provided on the display substrate, the at least two preset points are electrically connected to the color film polarizer, and the at least two preset points are electrically connected to the driving circuit, so as to form at least one first anti-static ring; and at least one grounding line, wherein the at least one grounding line is electrically connected to the array substrate, and electrically connected to the driving circuit, so as to form at least one second anti-static ring surrounding the display substrate. A display device is also provided.

Abstract: A connection mechanism includes a first connection unit, a second connection unit, and a separation and locking control structure. The second connection unit is separated from and locked with the first connection unit in an insertion method. The separation and locking control structure includes a first control member and a second control member. The first control member is connected to the first connection unit to drive the first connection unit to move between a first position and a second position. The second control member abuts against the second connection unit when the second connection unit is inserted into the first connection unit. The first control member and the second control member have a first status and a second status.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a first body, a second body, and a flexible screen. The second body is rotatably connected to the first body through a rotation shaft device to cause an opening and closing angle of the first body relative to the second body to be adjustable. The flexible screen is configured to display images. An end of the flexible screen is slidably arranged at the first body along a connection line direction of the first body and the second body. A second end is slidably arranged at the second body along the line connection direction. The first end and the second end are two ends of the flexible screen in the connection line direction. The first end and the second end of the flexible screen synchronously slide along the connection line direction to adjust a size of a part of the flexible screen located at the first body.

Abstract: Disclosed are an optical path system for quantum communication and a quantum communication method. The optical path system for quantum communication includes a light source module, an intensity and polarization modulation module, a polarization maintaining interference ring, a phase and intensity modulation module, a first isolator, a first polarization beam splitter, a second isolator, a beam splitter, a second polarization beam splitter, a second phase modulator, and a 90-degree Faraday rotator mirror. An optical signal may pass through a first polarization beam splitter, bypass a phase and intensity modulation module, and directly reach a polarization maintaining interference ring, thereby solving a problem of series mode interference in an optical signal circuit, and greatly improving a modulation speed of the circuit.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a thin film transistor liquid crystal display panel and a preparation method thereof. The display panel has an array substrate, an opposite substrate and a frame sealant, and has a substrate layer, a first protective passivation layer, an organic film layer, and a second protective passivation layer, wherein an orthographic projection of the second protective passivation layer on the substrate extends to an outer region outside the frame sealant. The display panel further has a water insulation layer, which covers a portion of the second protective passivation layer where its orthographic projection on the substrate layer is in the outer region, such that the second protective passivation layer is not in contact with an external environment of the display panel.

Abstract: This application relates to an audio synthesis method, a storage medium, and a computer device. The method includes: obtaining a target text; determining a target song according to a selection instruction; synthesizing a self-made song using the target text and tune information of the target song according to a tune control model, the target text being used as the lyrics of the self-made song. The solutions provided in this application improve an audio playback effect.

Abstract: A system and method for generating a computed tomography (CT) image of an object includes establishing a narrow-spectrum high-energy bin and other bins with wider-spectrum and lower-energies and acquiring a first dataset using the narrow-spectrum high-energy bin. The method also includes acquiring second or more datasets using the wide-spectrum, low-energy bins, reducing data attributable to scatter from the second or more datasets using the first dataset to create reduced-scatter datasets, and reconstructing CT images of the object from the reduced-scatter datasets.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for analyzing similarities associated with a plurality of shapes. The technique includes determining a first embedding for a first query shape associated with a first format and a first plurality of embeddings for a first plurality of shapes associated with a second format, wherein the first embedding and the first plurality of embeddings are generated by one or more trained machine learning models based on the first query shape and the first plurality of shapes. The technique also includes matching, based on the first embedding and the first plurality of embeddings, the first query shape to one or more shapes included in the first plurality of shapes. The technique further includes outputting the one or more shapes in a first response associated with the first query shape.

Abstract: The display panel includes: a display substrate, wherein the display substrate includes a color film substrate and an array substrate, a surface of the color film substrate away from the array substrate is provided with a color film polarizer, at least two preset points are provided on the display substrate, the at least two preset points are electrically connected to the color film polarizer, and the at least two preset points are electrically connected to the driving circuit, so as to form at least one first anti-static ring; and at least one grounding line, wherein the at least one grounding line is electrically connected to the array substrate, and electrically connected to the driving circuit, so as to form at least one second anti-static ring surrounding the display substrate. A display device is also provided.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for training machine learning models to generate embeddings for different shapes. The technique includes executing two or more machine learning models to generate embeddings from shapes associated with multiple formats. The technique also includes computing a first plurality of similarities between positive pairs of embeddings that include two different embeddings for the same shape, and computing a second plurality of similarities between negative pairs of embeddings that include embeddings for different shapes. The technique further includes training the machine learning models based on the computed similarities.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for step discovery and localization in an instructional video. In some embodiments, the method includes extracting, from the instructional video using a transformer model, a plurality of step slots corresponding to a plurality of procedure steps depicted in the instructional video, matching, using an order-aware sequence-to-sequence alignment model, a plurality of video segments of the instructional video to the plurality of step slots, generating a temporally-ordered plurality of video segments from the plurality of video segments, receiving a user query requesting a procedure step, selecting, from the plurality of video segments of the instructional video, a corresponding video segment corresponding to the requested procedure step, and providing, in response to the user query, the corresponding video segment and the matching textual step description of the corresponding video segment.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for performing data augmentation. In some embodiments, a method of performing data augmentation by a device includes obtaining a plurality of images from a dataset. The method further includes computing, for each image of the plurality of images, a corresponding saliency map based on a gradient of a full loss function of that image. The method further includes selecting, from a subset of arrangements of a plurality of possible arrangements, a rearrangement offset that maximizes an overall saliency of a resulting image combining the plurality of images. The method further includes generating, using the rearrangement offset and a plurality of mixing ratios, a new mixed image from the plurality of images and a new mixed label from corresponding labels of the plurality of images. The method further includes augmenting the dataset with the new mixed image and the new mixed label.

Abstract: A system and method for generating a computed tomography (CT) image of an object includes establishing a narrow-spectrum high-energy bin and other bins with wider-spectrum and lower-energies and acquiring a first dataset using the narrow-spectrum high-energy bin. The method also includes acquiring second or more datasets using the wide-spectrum, low-energy bins, reducing data attributable to scatter from the second or more datasets using the first dataset to create reduced-scatter datasets, and reconstructing CT images of the object from the reduced-scatter datasets.