Abstract: A ?-mannanase having increased enzymaic activity is disclosed. The ?-mannanase has a modified amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein the modification is a substitution of Tyrosine at position 216 with Tryptophan.

Abstract: A paper punch includes a base and a slide board is connected to the base. Multiple punch seats are located on the slide board and above the hole of the base. Each punch seat has a control member and a connection arm connected to the slide board. The control member is pivotably connected to the connection arm. The control member has an eccentric seat and an operation board. The eccentric seat is a cam and eccentrically connected to the connection arm. A first face is defined in the eccentric seat and located in opposite to the operation board. A second face is located adjacent to the first face. When switching the first face to the second face, the punch seat is movable along the slide board so as to obtain a desired distance between the punch seats.

Abstract: In a block-based motion compensated system, coding noises may arise due to lossy operations. Adaptive loop filter (ALF) is a technique used to improve the quality. A pixel adaptive (PA) ALF method was developed that uses the Sum-modified Laplacian Measure (SLM) to classify pixels and applies a respective ALF filter to each pixel according to the SLM. While the PA ALF achieves better performance over a conventional single filter (SF) based ALF, the PA ALF causes higher complexity and consumes more power due to the high complexity and per-pixel filter switching. Accordingly region based ALF scheme is disclosed which allows adaptive filter selection on a region by region basis and does not require per-pixel filter switching. In one embodiment according to the present invention, a picture is divided into M×N regions. The region based ALF also allows region merging for the M×N regions to improve performance.

Abstract: The disclosure provides an emergency message transmission method and an electronic device implementing the method. The electronic device stores a reference voltage value and comprises a smoke assessing unit. The method includes steps: capturing air composition around the electronic device, assessing whether the air composition has changed, if the air composition has changed, detecting an electrical current of the smoke assessing unit, amplifying the electrical current and converting the amplified current to a voltage value, comparing the converted voltage value with the reference voltage value, judging whether the converted voltage value reaches the reference voltage value, and if the converted voltage value reaches the reference voltage value, outputting a signal including an emergency message.

Abstract: A power LDMOS device including a substrate, source and drain regions, gates and trench insulating structures is provided. The substrate has a finger tip area, a finger body area and a palm area. The source regions are in the substrate in the finger body area and further extend to the finger tip area. The neighboring source regions in the finger tip area are connected. The outmost two source regions further extend to the palm area and are connected. The drain regions are in the substrate in the finger body area and further extend to the palm area. The neighboring drain regions in the palm area are connected. The source and drain regions are disposed alternately. A gate is disposed between the neighboring source and drain regions. The trench insulating structures are in the substrate in the palm area and respectively surround ends of the drain regions.

Abstract: A touch panel structure and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed, in which the manufacturing method includes the steps of: providing a bonding layer; and forming a conductive pattern layer on the bonding layer; wherein the conductive pattern layer is composed of at least one first and at least one second major conductors with an insulation layer interposed between the first and the second major conductors. Comparing with the prior art for manufacturing touch panels, the disclosure is advantageous in material cost, production cost, and production yield; moreover, the panel lamination process can be simplified and the touch panel structure can be joined to a planar or curvy panel and facilitate the design of a thinner product.

Abstract: A switching power supply includes an input terminal, a voltage converter, a feedback circuit, and a pulse width modulation (PWM) controller. The input terminal receives a first direct current (DC) voltage. The voltage converter transforms the first DC voltage into a second DC voltage and provides the second DC voltage to a load via transmission lines. The feedback circuit is configured for detecting voltage lost across the transmission lines. The PWM controller controls the voltage converter to adjust the second DC voltage according to the voltage loss.

Abstract: A touch panel including a substrate, a plurality of sensor units, a decoration layer, first signal lines, second signal lines, and at least one conductive component is provided. The substrate has an operation region and a periphery region surrounding the operation region. The sensor units are located within the operation region for sensing a coordinate of a touch point. The decoration layer is located within the periphery region. The first and second signal lines and the conductive component are located within the periphery region and disposed on the decoration layer. The conductive component has a widen portion located between the first and second signal lines, and the widen portion has a line width greater than those of the other portions of the conductive component.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a visual sensor and a display screen. The visual sensor senses whether a user is looking at the display screen. If the user is looking at the display screen, the electronic device adjusts a font size of a font being displayed on the display screen. If the user looks at the display screen for not less than a first predefined time, the electronic device prompts the user to have a rest and turn off the display screen. After the electronic device has been turned off for more than a second predefined time, the display screen is turned on again automatically.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for loop processing of reconstructed video in an encoder system are disclosed. The loop processing comprises an in-loop filter and one or more adaptive filters. The filter parameters for the adaptive filter are derived from the pre-in-loop video data so that the adaptive filter processing can be applied to the in-loop processed video data without the need of waiting for completion of the in-loop filter processing for a picture or an image unit. In another embodiment, two adaptive filters derive their respective adaptive filter parameters based on the same pre-in-loop video data. In yet another embodiment, a moving window is used for image-unit-based coding system incorporating in-loop filter and one or more adaptive filters. The in-loop filter and the adaptive filter are applied to a moving window of pre-in-loop video data comprising one or more sub-regions from corresponding one or more image units.

Abstract: This disclosure discloses a light-emitting chip comprises: a light-emitting stack, having a side wall, comprising an active layer emitting light; and a light-absorbing layer having a first portion surrounding the side wall and being configured to absorb 50% light toward the light-absorbing layer.

Abstract: A lighting device comprising LEDs with phosphor layers includes a plurality of LED sets which can emit light with a peak emission wavelength between 360 nm and 490 nm; and a plurality of sets of phosphor layers covering the corresponding LED sets among the plurality of LED sets. At least two of the plurality of LED sets respectively have peak emission wavelength different from each other. The dominant fluorescence wavelength of at least one of the plurality of sets of phosphor layers ranges from 500 nm to 580 nm, and the dominant fluorescence wavelength of at least one of the other sets of phosphor layers ranges from 590 nm to 650 nm.

Abstract: The disclosure provides an electronic device and a detecting position method adapted for the electronic device. The device stores an infrared sensing mode and a capture mode. The method includes steps of: entering the infrared sensing mode in response to an input signal and capturing infrared signals from an external environment, amplifying the infrared signals and converting the infrared signals into digital signals, evaluating whether part of the infrared signals falls into a predetermined waveband, if yes, focusing on an infrared thermal source whose infrared signals fall into the predetermined waveband, switching from the infrared sensing mode to the capture mode, taking a photo of the infrared thermal source, and processing the photo to identify a position of the infrared thermal source in the photo and displaying the position of the infrared thermal source in the photo.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for deriving a scaled MV (motion vector) for a current block based on a candidate MV associated with a candidate block are disclosed. Embodiments according to the present invention increase effective scaling factor of motion vector scaling. In one embodiment, a distance ratio of a first picture distance between a current picture and a target reference picture pointed to by a current motion vector of the current block to a second picture distance between a candidate picture corresponding to the candidate block and a candidate reference picture pointed to by the candidate MV is computed. The scaled MV is then generated based on the candidate MV according to the distance ratio, where the scaled MV has an effective scaling ratio between ?m and n, and wherein m and n are positive integers greater than 4. The values of m and n can be 8, 16 or 32.

Abstract: A rolled-up transmission line structure for a radiofrequency integrated circuit (RFIC) comprises a multilayer sheet in a rolled configuration comprising multiple turns about a longitudinal axis, where the multilayer sheet comprises a conductive pattern layer on a strain-relieved layer. The conductive pattern layer comprises a first conductive film and a second conductive film separated from the first conductive film in a rolling direction. In the rolled configuration, the first conductive film surrounds the longitudinal axis, and the second conductive film surrounds the first conductive film. The first conductive film serves as a signal line and the second conductive film serves as a conductive shield for the rolled-up transmission line structure.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for deriving a motion vector predictor (MVP) or a MVP candidate for a current block are disclosed. Embodiments according of the present invention receive a first motion vector associated a first reference picture in a first reference picture list and a second motion vector associated with a second reference picture in a second reference picture list of a spatially neighboring block. A MVP or at least one MVP candidate associated with a selected reference picture in a selected reference picture list for the current block is then determined based on the first reference picture, the second reference picture and the selected reference picture according to a pre-defined priority order. The MVP or MVP candidate is determined depending on whether the first reference picture is the same as the selected reference picture or whether the second reference picture is the same as the selected reference picture.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for deriving MVP (motion vector predictor) for a block for three-dimensional video coding or multi-view video coding are disclosed. Embodiments according to the present invention replace an unavailable inter-view MV of one neighboring block with a disparity vector derived from depth data of a subset of a depth block corresponding to one neighboring block. A method and apparatus for generating additional candidates for motion vector prediction associated with Merge mode or AMVP (Inter) mode for a block are disclosed. Embodiments according to the present invention generate one or more additional MVP candidates to add to the MVP list if the MVP list size is less than a given list size. The additional MVP candidates are generated either by reducing precision of an available MVP in the MVP list or by adding an offset to the available MVP in the MVP list.

Abstract: A method of detecting hepatocellular carcinoma includes the steps of: detecting a methylation level of a CpG site of HOXA9 gene in a biological sample taken from a suspected subject; and comparing the methylation level to a reference methylation level of a CpG site of HOXA9 gene in another biological sample taken from a normal subject not suffering from hepatocellular carcinoma, wherein when the methylation level is higher than the reference methylation level, the suspected subject is likely to suffer from hepatocellular carcinoma, and wherein each of the biological samples is selected from the group consisting of a blood sample, a serum sample, and a plasma sample.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of deriving a motion vector predictor (MVP) for a current MV of a current block in Inter, Merge or Skip mode are disclosed based on motion vector (MV) attribute search. The system determines first MV attribute search comprising whether a given MV pointing to the target reference picture in the given reference list, or whether the given MV pointing to the target reference picture in other reference list, and determines second MV attribute search comprising whether the given MV pointing to other reference pictures in the given reference list, or whether the given MV pointing to the other reference pictures in the other reference list. The MVP for the current block is then determined from the neighboring blocks according to a search order.

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 generate a complete full MVP candidate set based on the redundancy-removed MVP candidate set if one or more redundant MVP candidates exist. In one embodiment, the method generates the complete full MVP candidate set by adding replacement MVP candidates to the redundancy-removed MVP candidate set and a value corresponding to a non-redundant MVP is assigned to each replacement MVP candidate. In another embodiment, the method generates the complete full MVP candidate set by adding replacement MVP candidates to the redundancy-removed MVP candidate set and a value is as signed to each replacement MVP candidate according to a rule. The procedure of assigning value, checking redundancy, removing redundant MVP candidate are repeated until the MVP candidate set is complete and full.