Abstract: A wide field fundus camera is disclosed to implement multiple illumination beam projectors and to capture multiple retinal images at various viewing angles to facilitate wide field retinal examination. The wide field fundus camera contemplates an ultra-wide field lens that can provide edge to edge imaging of the entire retina at a single alignment. The wide field fundus camera contemplates configuration of said multiple illumination beam projectors to provide visualization of retina and Purkinje reflections simultaneously to facilitate determination of proper camera alignment with the eye. The wide field fundus camera further contemplates control of multiple illumination beam projectors in a programmable manner to further assess alignment of each illumination beam projector with the eye and to capture said multiple retinal images.

Abstract: An electronic device with an auxiliary illumination function and an operation method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a first body, a display screen, a light-emitting module, and a processing module. The first body has a first surface. The first surface includes a screen area and a border area, and the border area surrounds the screen area. The display screen is disposed in the screen area of the first body. The light-emitting module is disposed in the border area of the first body. The processing module is disposed in the electronic device and is coupled to the display screen and the light-emitting module. The processing module activates the light-emitting module in the border area to emit an auxiliary illumination light according to a required condition.

Abstract: A substrate processing system includes a plasma generator configured to supply (radio frequency) RF power to an electrode arranged in a processing chamber. A sensor is configured to sense a parameter of the RF power supplied to the electrode. A controller is configured to compensate variations in a rate of a plasma process due to variations in bulk resistivity of a substrate arranged on a substrate support by causing the sensor to sense the parameter at least one of prior to plasma processing of the substrate and after a predetermined period after the plasma processing of the substrate begins; and adjusting the parameter of the RF power for the substrate during the plasma processing of the substrate based on the parameter sensed for the substrate.

Abstract: A system for designing an integrated circuit having pre-layout RC information is disclosed. The system includes: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the system to: generate current and voltage information for a schematic having device array layout constraint included; create interconnection topology patterns and realizing route for the schematic; generate RC information according to the route; and determine if the schematic having the device array layout constraint and the RC information included violates one or more of the system design rule constraints. An associated method and a computer readable medium are also disclosed.

Abstract: A backlight module is provided, including a light guide plate, an optical film, and a light source module. The optical film is disposed on the light guide plate and has an accommodating space. The light source module has at least one light-emitting surface, which can be divided into a light-emitting area and a frame area. The light-emitting area faces the light guide plate, and at least a portion of the frame area enters the accommodating space.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a flexible cover plate, a force sensing module, a touch display module, and a metal thin plate. The force sensing module includes a flexible electrode and a flexible force-sensitive composite layer. The flexible force-sensitive composite layer includes at least one flexible electrode layer and at least one functional spacer layer. The flexible electrode layer has a first resistivity. The functional spacer layer has a second resistivity greater than the first resistivity. The flexible electrode layer and the functional spacer layer are disposed under the flexible electrode. The touch display module is disposed between the flexible cover plate and the force sensing module and includes an organic light emitting display unit and a touch sensing layer. The metal thin plate is disposed under the force sensing module and serves as a contact electrode of the force sensing module.

Abstract: A method of display user movement in a computing device of a virtual reality system is disclosed. The method comprises generating a first image in a first-person perspective with a first-person control, simulating an avatar according to a first control signal received from a controller of the virtual reality system, and generating a second image including the avatar in the first-person perspective with a third-person control, wherein the first-person perspective indicates that a user sees images as if seen through the avatar's eyes, and a field of view of the avatar is controlled by the user, the first-person control indicates that a user's movement is displayed by a relative position between the avatar and a scene of the images, and the third-person control indicates that the user's movement is displayed by different locations of the avatar in the images.

Abstract: A method for collecting a body fluid sample of a person to be examined is provided. The method comprises steps of: providing a body fluid sample collecting device and a body fluid sample inspection device for collecting the body fluid sample according to a test sampling requirement, wherein the body fluid sample collecting device includes a body fluid sample collecting region having an open hydrophilic layer with a specific layer area, and configured for collecting a predetermined amount of the body fluid sample; from a body surface of the person to be examined, causing the body fluid sample to be collected onto the body fluid sample collecting region until the body fluid sample covers the hydrophilic layer completely; and receiving the body fluid sample from the body fluid collecting region to be inspected in the body fluid sample inspection device.

Abstract: A planar volumetric device for quantifying and handling a body fluid sample is provided. The device has a planar main body, a body fluid sample flow path, an air pump and an air passage. The planar main body includes a first planar surface and a second planar surface. The body fluid sample flow path is disposed in the main body, and has a body fluid sample inlet, a middle junction and a body fluid sample outlet, wherein the middle junction and the body fluid sample outlet define therebetween a specific path segment, by which it is possible to externally observe to which extent the body fluid sample has filled up with the path segment. The air pump is configured to provide an operating air pressure. The air passage has a first end and a second end, wherein the first and the second ends are connected to the air pump and the middle junction respectively, and the specific path segment has a constant volume.

Abstract: A positioning method for a specific sound source is provided. An acoustic signal in each of multiple positions of on a preset path is respectively collected through a sensor. A pre-processing is performed on the acoustic signal to obtain multiple signal features. The signal features are used as an input of a deep learning model. The deep learning model is used for a signal recognition to obtain multiple specific sound signals of each position. An autocorrelation function operation is performed on the specific sound signals obtained at a same position to obtain multiple autocorrelation coefficients. A representative value among the autocorrelation coefficients is selected as a representative coefficient corresponding to each position. A specific sound source position is found according to the representative coefficient of each position.

Abstract: A system for designing an integrated circuit having pre-layout RC information is disclosed. The system includes: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the system to: generate current and voltage information for a schematic having device array layout constraint included; create interconnection topology patterns and realizing route for the schematic; generate RC information according to the route; and determine if the schematic having the device array layout constraint and the RC information included violates one or more of the system design rule constraints. An associated method and a computer readable medium are also disclosed.

Abstract: An electronic device, a network switch and an interrupt transmitting and receiving method are provided. The electronic device includes a slave chip and a main chip. The slave chip is configured to generate a plurality of data segments and at least one interrupt message and includes an encoder. The encoder is configured to encode the data segments and the interrupt message to generate a digital data. The interrupt message is arranged between the data segments. The main chip, which is coupled to the slave chip, is configured to receive the digital data and includes a decoder and a control circuit. The decoder is configured to decode the digital data to obtain the data segments and the interrupt message. The control circuit is coupled to the decoder and is configured to process the interrupt message.

Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to wireless time sensitive networking. A device may identify, using an 802.3 protocol stack, an 802.3 frame received from a second device using a wired Ethernet connection, and extract, using the 802.3 protocol stack, a redundancy tag from the 802.3 frame, the redundancy tag including a sequence number. The device may generate, using an 802.11 protocol stack, an 802.11 frame with a subnetwork access protocol (SNAP) field, the SNAP field including an organizationally unique identifier (OUI) and the sequence number, the OUT including an indication of an Ethertype protocol. The device may send the 802.11 frame using a wireless connection.

Abstract: An apparatus of a cellular data communication device includes one or more memory devices configured to store data corresponding to a plurality of service data units (SDUs) from a protocol layer higher than a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer of a cellular data network, and one or more processors operably coupled to the one or more memory devices and configured to concatenate the plurality of SDUs into a single protocol data unit (PDU) above the PDCP layer.

Abstract: A wide field fundus camera is disclosed to implement multiple illumination beam projectors and to capture multiple retinal images at various viewing angles to facilitate wide field retinal examination. The wide field fundus camera contemplates an ultra-wide field lens that can provide edge to edge imaging of the entire retina at a single alignment. It also contemplates configuration of said multiple illumination beam projectors to provide visualization of retina and Purkinje reflections simultaneously to facilitate determination of proper camera alignment with the eye. It further contemplates control of multiple illumination beam projectors in a programmable manner to capture said multiple retinal images. It further contemplates a real-time algorithm to reduce said reflected and scattered light haze in said retinal images.

Abstract: Methods for inserting dummy boundary cells in an integrated circuit (IC) are provided. A plurality of macros and a top channel are merged into floorplan of the IC. The top channel is arranged between the macros and is filled with a plurality of first dummy boundary cells, and each of the macros includes a macro boundary and a main pattern surrounded by the macro boundary. The first dummy boundary cells within the top channel and between a first macro and a second macro are replaced with a plurality of second dummy boundary cells. The macro boundaries of the first and second macros are formed by the second dummy boundary cells. First gate length of dummy patterns within the first dummy boundary cells is greater than second gate length of dummy patterns within the second dummy boundary cells. The first and second dummy boundary cells are the same size.

Abstract: A circuit for multiplying a number N of first operands each by a corresponding second operand, and for adding the products of the multiplications, with N?2; the circuit comprising: N input conductors; N programmable conductance circuits connected each between one of the input conductors and at least one output conductor; each programmable conductance circuit being arranged to be programmable at a value depending in a known manner from one of the first operands; each input conductor being arranged to receive from an input circuit an input train of voltage spikes having a spike rate that derives in a known manner from one of the second operands; and at least one output circuit arranged to generate an output train of voltage spikes having a spike rate that derives in a known manner from a sum over time of the spikes received on the at least one output conductor.

Abstract: A circuit for performing energy-efficient and high-throughput multiply-accumulate (MAC) arithmetic dot-product operations and convolution computations includes a two dimensional crossbar array comprising a plurality of row inputs and at least one column having a plurality of column circuits, wherein each column circuit is coupled to a respective row input. Each respective column circuit includes an excitatory memristor neuron circuit having an input coupled to a respective row input, a first synapse circuit coupled to an output of the excitatory memristor neuron circuit, the first synapse circuit having a first output, an inhibitory memristor neuron circuit having an input coupled to the respective row input, and a second synapse circuit coupled to an output of the inhibitory memristor neuron circuit, the second synapse circuit having a second output. An output memristor neuron circuit is coupled to the first output and second output of each column circuit and has an output.

Abstract: A motion-sensing circuit for determining a direction of motion and a velocity of an object includes a first photo-receptor for sensing the object, an excitatory active memristor neuron circuit coupled to the first photo-receptor, a second photo-receptor for sensing the object, an inhibitory active memristor neuron circuit coupled to the second photo-receptor, and a self-excitatory active memristor output-counter neuron circuit coupled to the excitatory active memristor neuron circuit and coupled to the inhibitory active memristor neuron circuit.