Abstract: The present invention provides a high-efficient magnesium ion removal system for salt lake brine based on in situ alkali production using bipolar membrane electrochemical process, it is constructed with cathode, cathode cell, anode, anode cell, and anion exchange membranes, bipolar membranes, acid cells, alkali cells, mesh materials for precipitate aggregation, acid-washing cells.

Abstract: Various embodiments disclose a method for operating a printer apparatus that includes a print head. The method includes causing a media hub to retract a media in a retract direction along a media path. Further, the method includes causing a first media sensor to generate a first signal during retraction of the media. Furthermore, the method includes monitoring the first signal to detect at least one of a leading edge or a trailing edge of a label of the plurality of labels. Upon detecting the at least one of the leading edge or the trailing edge of the label, causing the media hub to retract the media by at least a predetermined distance, wherein the predetermined distance is a distance between the print head and the first media sensor.

Abstract: A three-stage tubular T-shaped degassing device with microbubble axial flow and spiral flow fields is provided, which is applied to quick degassing of a gas-liquid two-phase flow. The three-stage tubular T-shaped degassing device adopts a quick degassing technology combining a microbubble uniform mixed rotational axial flow field and a spiral runner conical spiral flow field with layered jet collision reversing depth degassing. A microbubble uniform mixer is configured to adjust gas-liquid two-phase flow containing big bubbles into microbubble uniform mixed axial flow. A microbubble cyclone is configured to adjust the microbubble uniform mixed axial flow into multiple strands of rotational axial flows containing microbubbles. A rotational axial flow degasser implements the horizontal type microbubble uniform mixed multiple strands rotational axial flow degassing operation to remove most microbubbles to form axial flow gas and axial flow liquid.

Abstract: A network node, wireless device, method and system are provided. In one or more embodiments, a network node (16) for servicing a plurality of wireless devices (22) using a plurality of carriers is provided. Each carrier of the plurality of carriers is configured with a respective plurality of beams. The network node (16) includes processing circuitry (68) configured to: determine a metric associated with Multiple User-Multiple Input Multiple Output, MU-MEMO, usage with respect to the plurality of carriers, and initiate at least one handover of at least one of the plurality of wireless devices (22) to a different carrier of the plurality of carriers based at least in part on the metric.

Abstract: Structures and active alignment methods thereof of a Transmitter Optical Sub-Assembly (TOSA) Structure are provided, that includes a light source sub-assembly including a light source component assembled on a light source bench; an optical sub-assembly including an optical component assembled on an optical bench; and a silicon chip including a coupler. A light emitted by the light source component is received by the coupler via the optical component along an optical path, the light source bench and the optical bench are thermally conductive to dissipate heat. The light source sub-assembly and the optical sub-assembly are actively aligned at the same time to optimize optical coupling between the light source sub-assembly and the optical sub-assembly by optimizing positions and a distance of the light source sub-assembly and the optical sub-assembly, the positions and the distance are flexibly adjusted during the active alignment process.

Abstract: A laser patterning method may include fabricating one or more precursor sites on a sample, generating an illumination beam including one or more pulse bursts, each pulse burst including two or more laser pulses, and scanning the illumination beam across the sample along a scan pattern including locations of the one or more precursor sites. At least one of intensities, temporal inter-pulse spacings, or spatial overlap between the two or more laser pulses in the illumination beam may be selected to selectively excite the one or more precursor sites to selectively modify the sample at the one or more precursor sites to form one or more patterned features, where a dimension of at least one feature in the one or more patterned features along at least one dimension is smaller than a size of the illumination beam on the sample.

Abstract: An optical transceiver sub-assembly (100) integrated with a silicon photonic platform having a folded optical path for transmitting and detecting a plurality of optical signals includes a housing chamber (105) and a top cover (110) to enclose elements of the optical transceiver sub-assembly (100) other than the housing chamber (105) and the top cover (110), a bottom housing module (115) accommodating an optical micro integration (130). In particular, the optical transceiver sub-assembly (100) is operably configured to establish an optical-electrical communication with an outside surrounding.

Abstract: A method for training an image processing model includes: acquiring a to-be-corrected eye image set matching a usage environment of the image processing model; performing style transfer on to-be-corrected eye images in the to-be-corrected eye image set through a style transfer network in the image processing model, to obtain a target eye image; acquiring a training sample matching the usage environment of the image processing model based on the to-be-corrected eye images and the target eye image, the training sample including object eye images matching different gaze positions; and training a correction network in the image processing model through the training sample matching the usage environment of the image processing model, to obtain a model update parameter matching the correction network, and generating a trained image processing model based on the model update parameter.

Abstract: In the field of artificial intelligence technologies, a gaze correction method and apparatus for a face image, a device, a computer-readable storage medium, and a computer program product are provided. The method includes: acquiring an eye image from a face image; determining an eye movement flow field based on the eye image and a target gaze direction, the target gaze direction being a gaze direction to which an eye gaze in the eye image is to be corrected; adjusting a pixel position in the eye image based on the eye movement flow field, to obtain a corrected eye image; and generating a face image with a corrected gaze based on the corrected eye image.

Abstract: An image gaze correction method, apparatus, electronic device, computer-readable storage medium, and computer program product. The image gaze correction method includes: acquiring a to-be-corrected eye image from a to-be-corrected image, generating, based on the to-be-corrected eye image, an eye motion flow field and an eye contour mask, the eye motion flow field being used for adjusting a pixel position in the to-be-corrected eye image, and the eye contour mask being used for indicating a probability that the pixel position in the to-be-corrected eye image belongs to an eye region, performing, based on the eye motion flow field and the eye contour mask, gaze correction processing on the to-be-corrected eye image to obtain a corrected eye image, and generating a gaze corrected image based on the corrected eye image.

Abstract: An image gaze correction method, apparatus, electronic device, computer-readable storage medium, and computer program product related to the field of artificial intelligence technologies are provided. The image gaze correction method includes: acquiring an eye image from an image; performing feature extraction processing on the eye image to obtain feature information of the eye image; performing, based on the feature information and a target gaze direction, gaze correction processing on the eye image to obtain an initially corrected eye image and an eye contour mask; performing, by using the eye contour mask, adjustment processing on the initially corrected eye image to obtain a corrected eye image; and generating a gaze corrected image based on the corrected eye image.

Abstract: An apparatus for laser processing of very wide non-woven fabric materials at high speeds. This invention enables a laser beam to sever, perforate and pattern a large piece of fabric materials planarly disposed at regular or irregular spatial intervals over the entire width while the fabric passes from one roller to another roller at high speeds by precisely managing focus and intensity of the beam at the focal point on the web. A control system managing the laser processing system enables rapid reconfiguration of perforation patterns. The fabric can be woven or nonwoven, homogeneous or nonhomogeneous material with uniform or nonuniform thickness. An optical sensor is provided to sense the laser processing as it is performed and provide feedback to a system controller to optimize laser processing performance in real time.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the preparation of the compound immunopotentiator and the application thereof in a foot-and-mouth disease vaccine of pigs. According to the present invention, the foot-and-mouth disease vaccine of pigs is taken as a research subject, and on this basis, several immunopotentiators having obvious immunopotentiating effects are selected for the compound immunopotentiator, and an antigen/vaccine is mixed with the immunopotentiator to prepare a vaccine-immunized pig. An animal experiment result shows that the present invention has obvious immunopotentiating effects. After immunizing the vaccine containing the compound immunopotentiator, a window period for antibody production can be significantly shortened to 7 days; a LPB-ELISA antibody titer is significantly improved, and an antibody pass rate is significantly increased; an immune protection period is also significantly extended, at least up to 7 months.

Abstract: An apparatus for laser processing of very wide non-woven fabric materials at high speeds. This invention enables a laser beam to sever, perforate and pattern a large piece of fabric materials planarly disposed at regular or irregular spatial intervals over the entire width while the fabric passes from one roller to another roller at high speeds by precisely managing focus and intensity of the beam at the focal point on the web. A control system managing the laser processing system enables rapid reconfiguration of perforation patterns. The fabric can be woven or nonwoven, homogeneous or nonhomogeneous material with uniform or nonuniform thickness. An optical sensor is provided to sense the laser processing as it is performed and provide feedback to a system controller to optimize laser processing performance in real time.

Abstract: A plurality of groups of portrait components and a region in which the plurality of groups of portrait components are located are recognized from a first image, each group of portrait components corresponding to one human body, and a target region that includes a human face is determined in the region in which the plurality of groups of portrait components are located, to blur regions other than the target region in the first target image. A target group of portrait components including the human face is recognized from the first image, so that the target region in which the target group of portrait components is located is determined as a foreground region, and limbs of other people without a human face are determined as a background region. The disclosed system and method improve the accuracy of recognizing a foreground person and reducing incorrect detection in portrait recognition.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are presented to locate a wireless communication device. A target device may be out of range of a source device for normal ranging communications according to a first radio access technology (RAT), such as ultra wideband (UWB) communications. A source device may therefore modify communications according to the first RAT, to increase the transmit power, while removing the data payload. The target device may utilize the signal strength and angle of arrival of the modified communications to guide the user to move toward the source device, e.g., until the target device is within range to perform normal ranging communications. A second RAT, such as Bluetooth, may be used to communicate between the two devices while the target device is out of range of the first RAT. For example, the target device may use the second RAT to communicate to the source device to start/stop transmitting modified communications.

Abstract: Some embodiments include a system, method, and computer program product for managing the Ultra Wideband (UWB) systems, especially when the UWB system is collocated with another wireless system (e.g., WiFi) to transmit and/or receive UWB signals with an occupied bandwidth (OBW) that satisfies a UWB OBW standard (e.g., a UWB OBW>=500 MHz.) In some embodiments a TailBit signal (e.g., a periodic signal at a selected frequency) is added to a UWB packet to generate frequency components at the selected frequency that enables the power spectrum of the TailBit UWB signal to satisfy the UWB OBW standard. In some embodiments an altered code sequence is used to generate an altered spread signal, where the altered code sequence reduces or removes a frequency component peak near DC frequency of the power spectrum of an altered UWB signal, resulting in altered UWB OBW that satisfies the UWB OBW standard.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are presented to locate a wireless communication device. A target device may be out of range of a source device for normal ranging communications according to a first radio access technology (RAT), such as ultra wideband (UWB) communications. A source device may therefore modify communications according to the first RAT, to increase the transmit power, while removing the data payload. The target device may utilize the signal strength and angle of arrival of the modified communications to guide the user to move toward the source device, e.g., until the target device is within range to perform normal ranging communications. A second RAT, such as Bluetooth, may be used to communicate between the two devices while the target device is out of range of the first RAT. For example, the target device may use the second RAT to communicate to the source device to start/stop transmitting modified communications.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the preparation of the compound immunopotentiator and the application thereof in a foot-and-mouth disease vaccine of pigs. According to the present invention, the foot-and-mouth disease vaccine of pigs is taken as a research subject, and on this basis, several immunopotentiators having obvious immunopotentiating effects are selected for the compound immunopotentiator, and an antigen/vaccine is mixed with the immunopotentiator to prepare a vaccine-immunized pig. An animal experiment result shows that the present invention has obvious immunopotentiating effects. After immunizing the vaccine containing the compound immunopotentiator, a window period for antibody production can be significantly shortened to 7 days; a LPB-ELISA antibody titer is significantly improved, and an antibody pass rate is significantly increased; an immune protection period is also significantly extended, at least up to 7 months.

Abstract: Some embodiments include a system, method, and computer program product for managing the Ultra Wideband (UWB) systems, especially when the UWB system is collocated with another wireless system (e.g., WiFi) to transmit and/or receive UWB signals with an occupied bandwidth (OBW) that satisfies a UWB OBW standard (e.g., a UWB OBW>=500 MHz.) In some embodiments a TailBit signal (e.g., a periodic signal at a selected frequency) is added to a UWB packet to generate frequency components at the selected frequency that enables the power spectrum of the TailBit UWB signal to satisfy the UWB OBW standard. In some embodiments an altered code sequence is used to generate an altered spread signal, where the altered code sequence reduces or removes a frequency component peak near DC frequency of the power spectrum of an altered UWB signal, resulting in altered UWB OBW that satisfies the UWB OBW standard.