Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for adjusting an audible area of an avatar's voice is provided. The present invention may include receiving, at a microphone, a source audio; creating a received audio; calculating, by a generative model, a voice propagation distance of a user based on the source audio, the received audio, and a templated text sentence describing a category of a mixed reality environment experienced by the user; drawing a virtual circle within the mixed reality environment centered on a user avatar representing the user and with a radius equal to the voice propagation distance; and transmitting the source audio to one or more participants within the mixed-reality environment represented by one or more participant avatars located within the virtual circle.

Abstract: An interconnection structure and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The interconnection structure includes a first dielectric layer, a first conductive feature, a second dielectric layer, and a barrier layer. The first conductive feature is disposed on the first dielectric layer, the second dielectric layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer and surrounds the sidewalls of the first conductive feature, the barrier layer is disposed between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer and between the sidewalls of the first conductive feature and the second dielectric layer.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a first low dielectric constant (low-k) layer, a first metal layer, a metal cap layer, a dielectric on dielectric (DoD) layer, an etch stop layer (ESL), a second low-k layer, a metal via and a second metal layer. The dielectric constant of the first low-k layer is less than 4. The first metal layer is embodied in the first low-k layer. The first low-k layer exposes the first metal layer. The metal cap layer is disposed on the first metal layer. The DoD layer is disposed on the first low-k layer. The etch stop layer is disposed on the metal cap layer and the DoD layer. The second low-k layer is disposed above the etch stop layer. The metal via is embodied in the second low-k layer and connected to the first metal layer.

Abstract: A method includes forming a metal layer over a dielectric layer; forming hard masks over the metal layer; etching the metal layer using the hard masks as etch mask to form metal features; selectively forming dielectric liners on opposite sidewalls of each of the metal features, while leaving surfaces of the hard masks and the dielectric layer exposed by the dielectric liners; and forming an inter-metal dielectric layer laterally surrounding the metal features.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for adjusting an audible area of an avatar's voice is provided. The present invention may include receiving, at a microphone, a source audio; creating a received audio; calculating, by a generative model, a voice propagation distance of a user based on the source audio, the received audio, and a templated text sentence describing a category of a mixed reality environment experienced by the user; drawing a virtual circle within the mixed reality environment centered on a user avatar representing the user and with a radius equal to the voice propagation distance; and transmitting the source audio to one or more participants within the mixed-reality environment represented by one or more participant avatars located within the virtual circle.

Abstract: A power-free passive stabilizing device working at an interface of different media includes a hollow chamber body, a limiting structure and a valve cover. The hollow chamber body has a first end, a second end, a first opening at the first end and a second opening at the second end. The limiting structure is connected to the first end of the hollow chamber body. The valve cover is limited by the limiting structure and movably disposed on the first end of the hollow chamber body to close and open the first opening. A passive stabilizing system using the passive stabilizing device is also disclosed.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide enhanced system and methods for implementing generative converting 3D face landmarks. An enhanced disclosed system and non-limiting method effectively renders a third 3D face model of a first user that enables a second user to easily recognize the first user, where the second user is only familiar with a first face model that is significantly changed in a second face model of the first user in a current interaction of the first user and second user. This method effectively renders the third 3D face model of the first user that can gradually change from the first face model to the second face model, and can be easily recognized by the second user.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: preparing a conductive structure that includes a plurality of conductive features, adjacent two of which are spaced apart from each other by a corresponding one of a plurality of recesses; conformally forming a dielectric capping layer on the conductive structure; forming a dielectric cover layer on the dielectric capping layer to fill the recesses; and removing a portion of the dielectric cover layer and a portion of the dielectric capping layer to expose the conductive features, so as to form a plurality of spacer features respectively filled in the recesses; wherein each of the dielectric capping layer and the dielectric cover layer is made of a dielectric material doped with metal oxide.

Abstract: The disclosure belongs to the technical field of powder metallurgy, and provides a method for preparing an aluminum-based tubular target. The method includes: sleeve assembly, raw material mixing, powder filling, sleeve degassing, hot isostatic pressing, and finished product processing.

Abstract: A neural-network-based-implemented ophthalmologic intelligent consultation method includes: performing correction filtering on a consultation voice of a patient, framing the voice into a consultation voice frame sequence, generating a consultation text corresponding to the consultation voice frame sequence based on phoneme recognition and phoneme transcoding, and extracting an ophthalmologically-described disease; performing gray-level filtering, primary picture segmentation, and size equalization operation on an eye picture set of the to-be-diagnosed patient to acquire a standard eyeball picture group; extracting eye white features, pupil features and blood vessel features from the standard eyeball picture group, performing lesion feature analysis on the eye white features, the pupil features and the blood vessel features to acquire an ophthalmologically-observed disease, and based on the ophthalmologically-observed disease and the ophthalmologically-described disease, generating a consultation result.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a machine vision-based automatic focusing and automatic centering method and system, which belongs to the technical field of machine vision-based automatic control. An object stage is controlled to move in an imaging distance range of an electron microscope, and images scanned by the electron microscope when the object stage is at different imaging distances are acquired. The image definition of an object stage image is calculated according to a gray-scale value of each pixel in the object stage image, the imaging position when an image definition value is the maximum is determined, and the object stage is controlled to move to the position, so as to realize machine vision-based accurate focusing.

Abstract: A method for sounding-interval adaptation using link quality for use in an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a sounding transceiver. The method includes the following steps: periodically transmitting a sounding packet to a beamformee through a downlink channel from the apparatus to the beamformee according to a first sounding interval; in response to the sounding transceiver receiving a data packet or a report packet from the beamformee, obtaining a current first channel profile from the received data packet or the received report packet; and adaptively adjusting the first sounding interval according to a first mobility indicator which is calculated according to the current first channel profile and the previous first channel profile.

Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer, including a piezoelectric element with physical characteristics of radial resonant frequencies and thickness resonant frequencies, and with an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to each other through the piezoelectric element and a lateral surface connecting the upper surface and the lower surface, and an acoustic matching layer set on the upper surface of the piezoelectric element and having a first resonant matching part and a second resonant matching part, wherein a thickness of the first resonant matching part in a direction perpendicular to the upper surface is greater than a thickness of the second resonant matching part in the direction, and the thickness of the first resonant matching part matches one radial resonant frequency of the piezoelectric element and the thickness of the second resonant matching part matches another radial resonant frequency or one of the thickness resonant frequency of the piezoelectric element.

Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer includes a piezoceramic element with a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other through the piezoceramic element and a lateral surface connecting the first surface and the second surface, an acoustic matching layer with a third surface and a fourth surface opposite to each other through the acoustic matching layer and the third surface connecting with the second surface of the piezoceramic element, a first damping element with a fifth surface and a sixth surface opposite to each other through the first damping element and the sixth surface connecting with the first surface of the piezoceramic element, and a second damping element encapsulating the first damping element and the lateral surface of the piezoceramic element.

Abstract: A stator includes a stator core and at least one fastener, the stator core includes a lamination, a shaft disposed through the lamination, and at least one insulator disposed on the lamination and configured to be wound with a wire. The fastener is disposed on the at least one insulator and configured for the wire to be wound thereon and for fixing at least one cable coming out from the shaft so as to electrically couple the wire and the at least one cable.

Abstract: Provided is a memory device including a memory structure including a substrate, a channel region, first and second doped regions, a floating gate and a dielectric layer. The channel region is disposed on the substrate. The first and the second doped regions are disposed on the substrate and respectively located at two sides of the channel region. The floating gate is disposed on the channel region. The dielectric layer is disposed between the floating gate and the channel region, the first doped region and the second doped region. The floating gate and the first doped region are partially overlapped, and/or the floating gate and the second doped region are not overlapped and a sidewall of the floating gate adjacent to the second doped region and a boundary between the second doped region and the channel region are separated by a distance.

Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer includes a carrier with a first surface and a second surface which are opposite to each other, a piezoceramic element attached on the first surface of the carrier, a first acoustic matching layer with a third surface and a fourth surface which are opposite to each other, the third surface is attached on the second surface of the carrier, wherein the first acoustic matching layer includes a mesh with openings, and the thickness of first acoustic matching layer is smaller than ¼ wavelength of an ultrasonic wave emitted by the piezoceramic element in the first acoustic matching layer in an operating frequency, and a total area of the openings of mesh is larger than 30% area of the third surface of first acoustic matching layer, and a second acoustic matching layer disposed on the fourth surface of the first acoustic matching layer.