Abstract: The earphone includes a sound generation component including a transducer; at least a portion of the sound generation component extending into a concha cavity of a user; and an ear hook including a first portion and a second portion, the second portion being connected to the first portion, and being connected to the sound generation component to place the sound generation component at a position near an ear canal without blocking an opening of the ear canal. The sound generation component has a first projection on a sagittal plane, and the auricle has a second projection on the sagittal plane. A centroid of the first projection may have a first distance from a highest point of the second projection in a vertical axis direction. A ratio of the first distance to a height of the second projection in the vertical axis direction may be in a range of 0.35-0.6.

Abstract: The present application relates to a power supply station and a charging and discharging method thereof, and relates to the technical field of energy sources. The power supply station includes a base assembly to be placed on a plane, and configured to mount an end cap assembly and a connecting assembly; a connecting assembly disposed on the base assembly, configured to insert a lithium battery pack therein and electrically connect the lithium battery pack, and configured to distribute energy from the lithium battery pack; the lithium battery pack, slidably connected to the connecting assembly, and configured to provide electrical energy; the end cap assembly, disposed on the base assembly, and configured to fix the connecting assembly; a locking assembly, disposed on the connecting assembly, and configured to lock the lithium battery pack; and an illumination assembly disposed on the end cap assembly and configured for illumination.

Abstract: A system is disclosed. The system may include a processor that may issue a byte level protocol request including a byte address. The system may also include a first storage device and a second storage device. The first storage device and the second storage device may support a cache coherent interconnect protocol, the cache coherent interconnect protocol including a block level protocol and a byte level protocol. The first storage device and the second storage device are included in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID). The first storage device may include a first address range, and the second storage device may include a second address range. The second storage device may provide a RAID address range associated with the first address range and the second address range. A decoder associated with the second storage device may be configured to receive the request from the processor. The decoder may determine that the byte address in the RAID address range is associated with a target address range.

Abstract: An integrated circuit structure is provided. The integrated circuit structure includes a die that contains a substrate, an interconnection structure, active connectors and dummy connectors. The interconnection structure is disposed over the substrate. The active connectors and the dummy connectors are disposed over the interconnection structure. The active connectors are electrically connected to the interconnection structure, and the dummy connectors are electrically insulated from the interconnection structure.

Abstract: A low density parity check (LDPC) channel encoding method is used in a wireless communications system. A communication device encodes an input bit sequence by using an LDPC matrix, to obtain an encoded bit sequence for transmission. The LDPC matrix is obtained based on a lifting factor Z and a base matrix. The base matrix may be one of eight exemplary designs. The encoding method can be used in various communications systems including fifth generation (5G) telecommunication systems, and can support various encoding requirements for information bit sequences with different code lengths.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: receiving an image having characters that correspond to a language, and using a text recognition algorithm to determine a first language believed to correspond to the characters. A first confidence level associated with the first language is also computed, and a determination is made as to whether the first confidence level associated with the first language is outside a predetermined range. In response to determining that the first confidence level associated with the first language is not outside the predetermined range, the first language is output as the given language. The text recognition algorithm is trained using a simple shallow neural network and a generated mixed language corpus. The generated mixed language corpus is formed by: randomly sampling libraries having vocabulary and/or characters therein, and combining the randomly sampled vocabulary and/or characters to form the generated mixed language corpus.

Abstract: A calibration and verification system for a directional sensor, including an industrial control computer and a directional sensor, wherein the industrial control computer is connected to a sensor signal acquisition system, a first triaxial Helmholtz coil and a second triaxial Helmholtz coil, respectively, wherein a heating calibration turntable is disposed in the first triaxial Helmholtz coil and configured to heat and calibrate the directional sensor, and wherein a high-precision inclination and azimuth test turntable is disposed in the second triaxial Helmholtz coil and configured to verify the directional sensor.

Abstract: A vaporizer comprises an absorber, a heating element, and a porous cover layer. The absorber is configured to absorb a material to be vaporized. The heating element is configured to heat and vaporize the material to be vaporized in the absorber, and includes a first electrode portion, a second electrode portion, and an electrically conductive connecting member connected between the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion. The porous cover layer covers at least a portion of the heating element without covering the first and second electrode portions. A ratio of an area of the porous cover layer to an area of the electrically conductive connecting member is defined as a covering ratio, which is at least 50%. A porosity of the porous cover layer ranges from 30% to 75%.

Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for analyzing medical images to localize body regions using deep learning techniques. A combination of convolutional neural network (CNN) and a recurrent neural network (RNN) can be applied to medical images, identifying axial slices of a body region. In accordance with embodiments, boundaries, e.g., superior and inferior boundaries of various body regions in computed tomography images can be automatically demarcated.

Abstract: A virtual port group abstraction can facilitate automated configuration of devices in a data center. For example, a data center administrator can define a virtual port group to include a set of logical and physical interfaces for devices allocated to a particular department or other group within a company. An administrator for the department can then utilize a user interface to perform actions with respect to the virtual port group. The actions can include configuration actions, modeling actions and/or deployment actions. An action received by a network management controller such as a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) controller can be converted into the appropriate actions for the relevant logical and physical interfaces that are configured to be part of the virtual port group.

Abstract: A power supporting arrangement for a power grid includes a first and a second voltage source converter with an AC side and a DC side. A DC link interconnects the DC sides of the voltage source converters. A first switching arrangement includes a number of settable positions. The AC side of the second voltage source converter is connected to the power grid and the first switching arrangement is connected between a first synchronous machine. The AC side of the first voltage source converter and the power grid and operable to selectively connect the first synchronous machine to the power grid or to the AC side of the first voltage source converter.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a positive electrode material for a lithium ion battery and its preparation. The positive electrode material in accordance with the present disclosure has an intrinsic specific surface area of 5-13 m2/g. The positive electrode material in accordance with the present disclosure has an intrinsic specific surface area and an intrinsic pore size within the required ranges. In this regard, the positive electrode material in accordance with the present disclosure has excellent particle strength, excellent Li ion transference ability, and good resistance to electrolyte erosion. When used in lithium batteries, it may impart the batteries with excellent rate performance and cycle performance. The present disclosure also relates to a method for preparing the positive electrode material.

Abstract: Methods and systems for generating, storing, and modifying data for feature engineering purposes. In particular, methods and systems for automatically generating feature engineering pipelines by chaining multiple transformers (models and/or function trained to transform data in specific ways) and estimators (e.g., algorithms trained with input data to generate transformers) in a sequential order based on feature attributes. To determine the specific transformers and estimators, the system may access a shared knowledge database, graph engine, and pipeline engine.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a segment routing over internet protocol version 6 (SRv6)-based communication method and a related apparatus. A layer 2 gateway generates an Ethernet virtual private network instance (EVI) media access control (EVI-MAC route), where the EVI-MAC route includes an Ethernet virtual private network instance segment identifier (EVI SID), the EVI SID is an SRv6 SID applied for by an EVI from the layer 2 gateway, and a MAC address carried in the EVI-MAC route does not include a MAC address of each host in the EVI. The layer 2 gateway advertises the EVI-MAC route to a layer 3 gateway. After the layer 2 gateway advertises the EVI-MAC route to the layer 3 gateway, the layer 3 gateway does not receive a MAC address of a host from the layer 2 gateway.

Abstract: Techniques for predicting and recommending item bundles in a multi-round conversation to discover a target item bundle that would be accepted by a client. An example method includes receiving an input response in reply to a first item bundle that includes one or more items. A state model is updated to reflect the input response to the first item bundle. A machine-learning (ML) conversation module is applied to the state model to determine an action type as a follow-up to the input response to the first item bundle. Based on selection of a recommendation action as the action type, an ML bundling module is applied to the state model to generate a second item bundle different than the first item bundle. The second item bundle is then recommended.

Abstract: Provided are techniques for identifying and correcting model focus drift during model training. A model is trained using an original dataset with data, and the is classified into clusters. A representation is assigned to each of the clusters. A first visualization dashboard with visualizations is generated, where each visualization represents a first data distribution of an associated cluster using the representation assigned to that cluster. The model is fine-tuned using a fine-tune dataset. A second visualization dashboard is generated by updating each visualization, where each visualization represents a second data distribution of the associated cluster. It is determined that a cluster of the clusters has focus drift based on changes between the first data distribution and the second data distribution. The focus drift is corrected by: adding the data of the cluster to the fine-tune dataset to form a combined dataset and fine-tuning the model using the combined dataset.

Abstract: A laser speckle contrast imaging system includes a laser beam, configured to emit an object; an image capturing module, configured to capture an image data of the object; and a processing unit, coupled to the laser beam and the image capturing module, configured to generate a first image and a second image corresponding to the laser beam according to the image data, and to perform an auto-tracking function for an interest of region (ROI) of the second image and update the second image according to an auto-tracking result of the ROI.

Abstract: A titanium alloy blade tip with a wear-resistant protective coating and a preparation method thereof are provided. The method includes: (1) spraying MCrAlY alloy powder on a surface of a titanium alloy blade tip by high velocity oxygen fuel (HVOF) spraying at a spraying distance of 300-400 mm to obtain the titanium alloy blade tip with a MCrAlY layer on the surface; where M is one of Ni and NiCo; (2) pre-plating Ni at a current density of 4-10 A/dm2; (3) placing the pre-plated titanium alloy blade tip in a Watt solution, covering a surface of the pre-plated titanium alloy blade tip obtained in the step (2) with abrasive particles, and then performing composite electroplating at a current density of 0.5-2 A/dm2. In the method, the wear-resistant protective coating with the high adhesion strength is prepared on the titanium alloy blade tip, and the wear-resistant protective coating has good wear resistance.