Abstract: A disc grabbing device including a support body, a drive shaft, multiple first planetary gears, a center gear, multiple second planetary gears and a driver is provided. The support body includes a plate and a center column. When the disc grabbing device grabs the discs, the center column is located in the center holes of the discs. The drive shaft is rotatably disposed on the plate. The first planetary gears are respectively engaged with the drive shaft and connected to multiple first levers for driving the first levers to rotate. The second planetary gears are respectively engaged with the center gear and connected to multiple second levers for driving the second levers to rotate. The driver concurrently drives the drive shaft and the center gear to rotate the first planetary gears and the second planetary gears synchronically and make the first levers and the second levers rotate synchronically.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a broadcast control method and apparatus, and a terminal device. The method includes: when the one or more application programs run on a background and meet a first preset condition, sending a first control instruction; and when the first control instruction is received, freezing and buffering a broadcast to be sent to the one or more application programs.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for color index coding of a block of video data using index prediction based on reconstructed neighboring pixels are disclosed. In one embodiment, color index encoding or decoding is applied to the current pixel indices by deriving index prediction from neighboring pixel indices of the reconstructed neighboring pixels. The reconstructed neighboring pixel values are first transformed into the neighboring pixel indices according to a quantization table to map between major color indices and major color values of the current block. The quantization table can be based on a major color table for the current block or can also be derived at a decoder side. The decoding process may reconstruct the current pixels by converting decoded current pixel indices to reconstructed current pixel values according to the quantization table or by directly copying the reconstructed neighboring pixel values indicated by decoded current pixel indices.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate; a winding structure formed on a top side the semiconductor substrate, wherein the winding structure comprises one or more metal lines winding with respect to a center of the winding structure; and a backside metal formed under a backside of the semiconductor substrate; wherein a hollow slot is formed within the backside metal, and a projection of the winding structure is within the hollow slot.

Abstract: A computing device includes a rail mount chassis and a processor. The rail mount chassis includes a pressure sensor. The processor monitors the pressure sensor to obtain pressure sensor data; estimates a load exerted on a rail of the rail mount chassis using the obtained pressure sensor data; makes a determination that the load exerted on the rail exceeds a load rating of the rail; and in response to the determination, notifies a user that the rail may be damaged.

Abstract: Provided is a package structure includes a die having a first connector, a RDL structure disposed on the die, and a second connector. The RDL structure includes at least one elongated via located on and connected to the first connector. The second connector is disposed on and connected to the RDL structure.

Abstract: An image processing system is provided in the invention. The image processing system includes a head-mounted display and an image processing device. The image processing device includes a processor. The processor transmits helmet information corresponding to the head-mounted display to a User Mode Driver. According to the helmet information and a first framebuffer which is obtained from a Kernel Mode Driver, the User Mode Driver generates a second framebuffer. The processor directly generates display information according to the second framebuffer, and the head-mounted display receives the display information and displays a picture according to the display information.

Abstract: An image processing system is provided in the invention. The image processing system includes a head-mounted display and an image processing device. The image processing device includes a processor. The processor transmits setting information of the head-mounted display to a picture driver. The picture driver obtains 3D data from a User Mode Driver and generates a left-eye picture and a right-eye picture that correspond to the head-mounted display according to the setting information and the 3D data. The processor transmits the left-eye picture and the right-eye picture to the head-mounted display and the head-mounted display displays a picture according to the left-eye picture and the right-eye picture.

Abstract: A diagnostic ultrasound system has a 2D array transducer which is operated with 1×N patches, patches which are only a single element wide. The “N” length of the patches extends in the elevation direction of a scanned 2D image plane, with the single element width extending in the lateral (azimuth) direction. Focusing is done along each patch in the elevation direction by a microbeamformer, and focusing in the lateral (azimuth) direction is done by the system beamformer. The minimal width of each patch in the azimuth direction enables the production of images highly resolved in the azimuthal plane of a 2D image, including the reception of highly resolved multilines for high frame rate imaging.

Abstract: A glucose oxidase having improved thermostability is disclosed. The amino acid sequence of the glucose oxidase is a modified amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein the modification is a substitution of glutamate at position 129 with proline, and/or a substitution of glutamine at position 243 with valine.

Abstract: An analysis method of lane stripe images, an image analysis device and a non-transitory computer readable medium thereof are provided to perform steps of: setting a reference point as a center to recognize the lane stripe image in a plurality of default directions; defining a plurality of preset sections onto the lane stripe image and determining a characteristic value of the lane stripe image in each of the preset sections whenever the lane stripe image is recognized in one of the default directions; determining a first feature parameter according to the characteristic values of the lane stripe image in the preset sections when the lane stripe image is recognized in at least one of the default directions; and determining an actual lane parameter of the lane stripe image according to at least the first feature parameter.

Abstract: Method and apparatus of video coding using decoder derived motion information based on bilateral matching or template matching are disclosed. According to one method, merge index for merge candidate group comprising bilateral matching merge candidate and/or template matching merge candidate are signalled using different codewords. According to another method, the first-stage MV or the first-stage MV pair is used as an only initial MV or MV pair or used as a central MV of search window for second-stage search. According to yet another method, after the reference template for a first reference list is found, the current template is modified for template search in the other reference list. According to yet another method, the sub-PU search is disabled for the template search. According to yet another method, block difference calculation is based on reduced bit depth during MV search associated with the decoder-side MV derivation process.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a fin structure with tensile stress includes providing a structure divided into an N-type transistor region and a P-type transistor region. Next, two first trenches and two second trenches are formed in the substrate. The first trenches define a fin structure. The second trenches segment the first trenches and the fin. Later, a flowable chemical vapor deposition is performed to form a silicon oxide layer filling the first trenches and the second trenches. Then, a patterned mask is formed only within the N-type transistor region. The patterned mask only covers the silicon oxide layer in the second trenches. Subsequently, part of the silicon oxide layer is removed to make the exposed silicon oxide layer lower than the top surface of the fin structure by taking the patterned mask as a mask. Finally, the patterned mask is removed.

Abstract: A video data processing method comprises receiving input data associated with a current picture, determining a size for a current coding tree unit (CTU) or a current coding unit (CU) in the current CTU, and if the size, a width, or a height of the current CTU or CU is greater than a threshold, the encoder or decoder splits the current CTU or CU into multiple blocks until each block is not greater than the threshold. The current CTU or CU is processed for prediction or compensation and transform or inverse transform. The current CTU is processed according to CTU-level syntaxes signaled in a video bitstream. The encoder or decoder encodes or decodes the current CTU. The threshold corresponds to a maximum supported transform unit (TU) size for the encoder or decoder.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for deriving a motion vector predictor (MVP) candidate set for a block are disclosed. Embodiments according to the present invention determine a plurality of spatial neighboring blocks of the block, obtain one or more spatial MVP candidates from motion vectors associated with the spatial neighboring blocks, determine whether one or more redundant MVP candidates exist in the spatial MVP candidates, generate a first MVP candidate set, wherein said generating the first MVP candidate set comprises not including the determined one or more redundant MVP candidates into the first MVP candidate set, and generate a final MVP candidate set according to the first MVP candidate set.

Abstract: A method and apparatus of entropy coding for a video encoder or decoder using multiple-table based Context-Based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coder (CABAC) are disclosed. In one embodiment, a current bin of a binary data of a current coding symbol is encoded or decoded according to a probability of a binary value of the current bin and the probability of the binary value is updated according to the binary value of the current bin for a next bin by using multiple-parameter probability models. Each multiple-parameter probability model is updated using at least one lookup table with the individual set of probability state as a table index to access contents of said at least one lookup table. In another embodiment, the range update is calculated for a range interval based on middle value of the range interval.

Abstract: A disc grabbing device including a disc grabbing body, a weight sensing unit and a counter is provided. The disc grabbing body is used for grabbing or unloading at least one disc. The weight sensing unit is disposed on the disc grabbing body for sensing a weight of the at least one disc grabbed on the disc grabbing body. The counter is connected to the weight sensing unit used for obtaining a disc quantity of the discs grabbed on the disc grabbing body according to the weight.

Abstract: The method of operation of a meter includes placing a sample on a test strip, assigning a first electrode of the test strip to be a counter electrode, applying a first signal to the test strip during a first period of time, assigning a second electrode of the test strip to be the counter electrode, applying a second signal to the test strip to measure the concentration of an analyte in the sample.

Abstract: A disc pick-and-place device for picking and clamping multiple discs and unloading the multiple discs is provided. The disc pick-and-place device includes a supporting body, multiple picking members and a driver. The picking members are disposed around a support body and flexibly abut the edges of the discs. Each picking member includes a flexible rod, a first carrying portion and a second carrying portion. The first carrying portion and the second carrying portion are located on the flexible rod and separated by an interval. The first carrying portion and the second carrying portion partly overlap with each other in an axial direction of the flexible rod. The driver is for driving each flexible rod to rotate and move each first carrying portion and each second carrying portion to a disc releasing position or a disc holding position.

Abstract: A method of palette index map coding of blocks in a picture by grouping coded symbols of the same type is disclosed for video encoder and decoder. In one embodiment, all syntax elements corresponding to the pixel index are grouped into a pixel index group, and all syntax elements corresponding to the escape pixel are grouped into an escape pixel group. All syntax elements corresponding to the run type and run length are grouped into an interleaved run type/run length group, or grouped into separate run type group and run length group. In another embodiment, the system parses from the video bitstream a last-run mode syntax element for a current block, where the last-run mode syntax element indicates whether a last run mode is a copy-index mode or a copy-above mode. Information associated with the last-run mode syntax element is used for reconstructing palette index map.