Abstract: A multi-antenna module system includes a substrate, a plurality of first antenna modules, a plurality of second antenna modules, and a plurality of third antenna modules. The substrate has an opening. The first antenna modules are respectively disposed on the substrate and located on two opposite first sides and two opposite second sides for transmitting and receiving a first frequency band signal. The second antenna modules are respectively disposed on the substrate and located on two opposite third sides for transmitting and receiving a second frequency band signal. The third antenna modules are respectively disposed on the substrate and located on two opposite third sides and two opposite fourth sides for transmitting and receiving a third frequency band signal. The second antenna modules and the third antenna modules are respectively located between the first antenna modules.

Abstract: The present invention relates to bacteria conferring bioprotection and/or biofertilizer properties to plants into which they are inoculated. More particularly, the present invention relates to endophyte strains of Paenibacillus sp., plants infected with such strains and related methods.

Abstract: A media recommendation for a target item is provided while media information is displayed through an information display interface that includes detailed information of the target item when a display position of the media information meets a preset condition. A dynamic effect is displayed that the target item moves from the media information to a preset position in the detailed information while displaying the detailed information. The dynamic display of the target item enriches display of the target item to attract users' attention and focus, thereby improving the recommendation effect of the target item.

Abstract: Systems, methods and instrumentalities are described herein for automating a medical environment. The automation may be realized using one or more sensing devices and at least one processing device. The sensing devices may be configured to capture images of the medical environment and provide the images to the processing device. The processing device may determine characteristics of the medical environment based on the images and automate one or more aspects of the operations in the medical environment. These characteristics may include, e.g., people and/or objects present in the images and respective locations of the people and/or objects in the medical environment. The operations that may be automated may include, e.g., maneuvering and/or positioning a medical device based on the location of a patient, determining and/or adjusting the parameters of a medical device, managing a workflow, providing instructions and/or alerts to a patient or a physician, etc.

Abstract: A positioning method and device used for solving the problems of the existing method for determining an integer ambiguity being relatively difficult and relatively time-consuming. During positioning, the method includes a receiving device determining a virtual phase measured value according to at least two received C-PRS signals (600); determining a TOA measured value according to a received PRS signal (601); determining a virtual integer ambiguity according to the TOA measured value and the virtual phase measured value (602); and finally, determining the location of the receiving device according to the virtual integer ambiguity (603). An integer ambiguity search space is reduced, and the integer ambiguity is determined faster, thus improving the efficiency of determining the location of the receiving device.

Abstract: In some examples, a controller of a wearable device causes display by the wearable device of a test image, and adjusts a color property of the displayed test image. In response to an input provided by a user responsive to the displayed test image as the color property is adjusted, the controller determines a distribution of color wavelengths for an eye of the user, and detects a color vision deficiency of the user based on the determined distribution of color wavelengths. The controller provides control information to control a display device of the wearable device to compensate for the color vision deficiency.

Abstract: An embodiment is a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a fin on a substrate. A gate structure is over the fin. A source/drain is in the fin proximate the gate structure. The source/drain includes a bottom layer, a supportive layer over the bottom layer, and a top layer over the supportive layer. The supportive layer has a different property than the bottom layer and the top layer, such as a different material, a different natural lattice constant, a different dopant concentration, and/or a different alloy percent content.

Abstract: An anti-surge resistor and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The current anti-surge resistor includes a substrate made by a varistor material, a resistance layer disposed on the substrate, a first terminal electrode, and a second terminal electrode. In the fabrication method of the current anti-surge resistor, at first, the substrate made by the varistor material is provided. Then, the resistance layer is formed on the substrate to provide a main body, in which the main body includes the substrate and the resistance layer, and has two opposite terminals. Thereafter, the first terminal electrode is formed on one terminal of the main body, and the second terminal electrode is formed on the other terminal of the main body.

Abstract: A method may include forming a mask layer on top of a first dielectric layer formed on a first source/drain and a second source/drain, and creating an opening in the mask layer and the first dielectric layer that exposes portions of the first source/drain and the second source/drain. The method may include filling the opening with a metal layer that covers the exposed portions of the first source/drain and the second source/drain, and forming a gap in the metal layer to create a first metal contact and a second metal contact. The first metal contact may electrically couple to the first source/drain and the second metal contact may electrically couple to the second source/drain. The gap may separate the first metal contact from the second metal contact by less than nineteen nanometers.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a stack of semiconductor nanosheets, a dielectric wall, and a gate structure. The substrate includes a nanosheet mesa, and the stack of semiconductor nanosheets is disposed on the nanosheet mesa. The dielectric wall crosses through the nanosheet mesa and the stack of semiconductor nanosheets. The gate structure wraps the stack of semiconductor nanosheets and crosses over the dielectric wall, wherein a top of the dielectric wall has a recess.

Abstract: The instant disclosure relates to methods for preventing, controlling and/or inhibiting the rare events of adventitious viral infection or viral replication/amplification after reactivation of latent viral infection during cell culture in the manufacturing process of cell-based drug products, including CAR T cell drug products. Also provided are in vitro cell culture models for HHV-6 latent infection and methods of making the same.

Abstract: A method and a device for positioning are provided. The method for positioning includes: measuring, by a first vehicle, a positioning reference signal PRS and a carrier phase reference signal C-PRS sent by a plurality of positioning reference devices, to obtain a plurality of PRS measurement results and a plurality of C-PRS measurement results, the plurality of positioning reference devices including a network side device and other vehicles; performing, by the first vehicle, a positioning operation according to the plurality of PRS measurement results and the plurality of C-PRS measurement results.

Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a locating method for an uplink time difference of arrival, and an apparatus thereof.

Abstract: A tri-band antenna module includes a substrate, a first radiator, a second radiator, and a short-circuit structure. The substrate has a signal feed-in terminal and a ground terminal. The signal feed-in terminal is connected to the first radiator, and the ground terminal is connected to the second radiator. The first radiator includes a first extension block and a second extension block, and the second radiator includes a third extension block and a fourth extension block. The first extension block and the second extension block are separated by a first interval, and the third extension block and the fourth extension block are separated by a second interval. The short-circuit structure is connected between the first extension block and the third extension block, and the short-circuit structure is respectively separated from the first extension block and the third extension block by a first slot and a second slot.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for performing voice activity detection, including: receiving audio data from an audio source of an electronic device; generating a plurality of model input features using a hardware-based feature generator based on the received audio data; providing the plurality of model input features to a hardware-based voice activity detection model; receiving an output value from the hardware-based voice activity detection model; and determining a presence of voice activity in the audio data based on the output value.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for processing input data by a set of configurable nonlinear activation function circuits, including generating an exponent output by processing input data using one or more first configurable nonlinear activation function circuits configured to perform an exponential function, summing the exponent output of the one or more first configurable nonlinear activation function circuits, and generating an approximated log softmax output by processing the summed exponent output using a second configurable nonlinear activation function circuit configured to perform a natural logarithm function.

Abstract: Systems, methods and instrumentalities are described herein for automating a medical environment. The automation may be realized using one or more sensing devices and at least one processing device. The sensing devices may be configured to capture images of the medical environment and provide the images to the processing device. The processing device may determine characteristics of the medical environment based on the images and automate one or more aspects of the operations in the medical environment. These characteristics may include, e.g., people and/or objects present in the images and respective locations of the people and/or objects in the medical environment. The operations that may be automated may include, e.g., maneuvering and/or positioning a medical device based on the location of a patient, determining and/or adjusting the parameters of a medical device, managing a workflow, providing instructions and/or alerts to a patient or a physician, etc.

Abstract: An AGV navigation device is provided, which includes a RGB-D camera, a plurality of sensors and a processor. When an AGV moves along a target route having a plurality of paths, the RGB-D camera captures the depth and color image data of each path. The sensors (including an IMU and a rotary encoder) record the acceleration, the moving speed, the direction, the rotation angle and the moving distance of the AGV moving along each path. The processor generates training data according to the depth image data, the color image data, the accelerations, the moving speeds, the directions, the moving distances and the rotation angles, and inputs the training data into a machine learning model for deep learning in order to generate a training result. Therefore, the AGV navigation device can realize automatic navigation for AGVs without any positioning technology, so can reduce the cost of automatic navigation technologies.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for efficient depthwise convolution. A convolution is performed with a compute-in-memory (CIM) array to generate CIM output, and at least a portion of the CIM output corresponding to a first output data channel, of a plurality of output data channels in the CIM output, is written to a digital multiply-accumulate (DMAC) activation buffer. A patch of the CIM output is read from the DMAC activation buffer, and weight data is read from a DMAC weight buffer. Multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations are performed with the patch of CIM output and the weight data to generate a DMAC output.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a processor, comprising: a configurable nonlinear activation function circuit configured to: determine, based on a selected nonlinear activation function, a set of parameters for the nonlinear activation function; and generate output data based on application of the set of parameters for the nonlinear activation function, wherein: the configurable nonlinear activation function circuit comprises at least one nonlinear approximator comprising at least two successive linear approximators, and each linear approximator of the at least two successive linear approximators is configured to approximate a linear function using one or more function parameters of the set of parameters.