Abstract: An electronic apparatus performs a method of video coding. The method comprises: obtaining a video picture that includes a first component and a second component; determining a plurality of offsets associated with the second component; utilizing a sample value of the first component to obtain a class index associated with the second component; selecting an offset from the plurality of offsets for the second component according to the class index; and obtaining a sample value of the second component based on the selected offset, wherein the sample value of the first component is derived from one or more of collocated or neighboring samples of the first component relative to a sample of the second component, and wherein the sample value of the first component is derived differently for different chroma formats.

Abstract: This application provides a vehicle searching method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The method may include: receiving parking location information of a vehicle, where the parking location information includes parking space number information of a parking location of the vehicle; and receiving a first instruction, and controlling display of the parking location of the vehicle according to the first instruction, where the parking location includes a parking space number indicated by the parking space number information. This application may be applied to a vehicle searching field of an intelligent vehicle or an electric vehicle, and helps improve vehicle searching efficiency and accuracy of a user, to improve user experience.

Abstract: The current disclosure includes coronavirus vaccines that protect against pathogenic coronavirus species, as well as their variants. In certain embodiments, SARS-CoV-2 variant specific and multivalent coronavirus vaccines are described. The vaccines typically include a modified mRNA which encodes at least one coronavirus derived immunogen, such as a spike protein or a fragment thereof. The mRNA can be encapsulated into lipid nanoparticles or other carriers and formulated as pharmaceutical compositions which can be used to generate an immune response to coronavirus in a subject. The vaccines can be used to elicit potent B and T cell responses against SARS-CoV-2 variants and to confer protective immunity against SARS-CoV-2, as well as other pathogenic coronavirus species such as SARS-CoV and/or MERS-CoV.

Abstract: The present application discloses an array base plate and a method for manufacturing an array base plate. The array base plate includes: a substrate; a first metal layer located on a side of the substrate and including a first capacitor plate; a first insulation layer located on a side of the first metal layer away from the substrate, wherein the first insulation layer includes at least two layers, a first groove and a first via, the first groove is formed by recessing a surface of the first insulation layer away from the first metal layer, the first via penetrates through the first insulation layer; and a second metal layer located on a side of the first insulation layer away from the first metal layer and including a second capacitor plate, wherein at least a part of the second capacitor plate is located in the first groove.

Abstract: A method of constraining the operations of certain inter-mode coding tools in the derivation of motion vector candidates for inter-mode coded blocks employed in video coding standards, such as the now-current Versatile Video Coding (VVC), is performed at a computing device. The computing device determines whether one or more of the reference pictures associated with an inter-mode coded block involved in an operation of an inter-mode coding tool are long-term reference pictures, and constrains the operation of the inter-mode coding tool on the inter-mode coded block based on the determination.

Abstract: A method and device for generating a shared session secret with forward secrecy between a first device and a second device. The first and second devices perform mutual authentication. The first and second devices establish a first shared secret using a key encapsulation mechanism with a long-term cryptographic key pair of the devices. The first and second devices generate an ephemeral cryptographic key pair comprising an ephemeral public key and an ephemeral private key, respectively, and transfer the ephemeral public key of the device to the other device using the first shared secret. The first and second devices then establish a second shared secret using the key encapsulation mechanism with the ephemeral public keys of the first device and the second device. The second shared secret is used as a temporary shared session secret.

Abstract: Disclosed in the present disclosure are novel ultra-high-strength stainless steel and a manufacturing method. The novel ultra-high-strength stainless steel is composed of the following components in percentage by mass: C: 0.06-0.4%, Cr: 4-16%, Co: 8-17%, Ni: 2-15%, Mo: 1-7%, V: 0.1-0.8%, W: 0.2-3%, Nb: 0.01-0.3%, B: 0.1-0.3%, Si<0.1%, Mn<0.1%, Al<0.01%, Ti<0.015%, S<0.005%, P<0.008%, Cu<0.2%, La<0.2%, and the balance Fe and other inevitable impurities. The manufacturing process includes material melting, a high temperature diffusion process, cogging and forming of steel ingots, and material heat treatment. The novel ultra-high-strength stainless steel manufactured by using the method provided by the present disclosure has the tensile strength not lower than 2100 MPa, elongation not lower than 8%, reduction of area not lower than 40%, fracture toughness greater than 60 MPa ?{square root over (m)}, and a stress corrosion threshold greater than 40 MPa ?{square root over (m)}.

Abstract: Methods for video decoding and encoding, apparatuses and non-transitory computer-readable storage media thereof are provided. In one method for video decoding, a decoder may obtain a motion compensated chroma sample and a plurality of motion compensated luma samples for a current inter coding block. Furthermore, the decoder may obtain an adaptive cross-component filter and obtain a filtered motion compensated chroma sample based on the adaptive cross-component filter, the motion compensated chroma sample, and the plurality of motion compensated luma samples.

Abstract: Disclosed are an optical lens, and an imaging device comprising the optical lens.

Abstract: A compound with broad-spectrum antibacterial activity and its antibacterial composition are provided. The compound with broad-spectrum antibacterial activity has formula (I), which are antibacterial drug source compounds with a broad antibacterial spectrum, good antibacterial activity, suitable in vivo pharmacokinetics, and significant in vivo therapeutic effects. Preferred compound BAB159 has good antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus, Clostridium perfringens, Enterococcus, Bacillus, Streptococcus, Haemophilus, Candida krusei, Aspergillus niger, and Trichophyton, which is comparable or better than the listed drugs. The combination of preferred compound BAB159 and polymyxin E exhibits significantly enhanced synergistic antibacterial activity, especially against multidrug-resistant strains.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an information processing program for causing a computer to execute processing includes acquiring a first face image, specifying a first state of elements of an imaging condition from the first face image, generating a second state of the elements of the imaging condition changed such that the first state is improved, inputting the second state to a machine learning model for each of action units (AUs) that represent movements of facial expression muscles, with states of the elements of the imaging condition as features and errors in estimated values with respect to ground truth values of intensities of the AUs as ground truth data, to estimate prediction errors for each of the Aus, determining whether or not predetermined criteria are satisfied by all of the prediction errors, and specifying the elements of the imaging condition suitable to be improved on the first face image.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus performs a method of encoding video data. The method comprises: generating the video data corresponding to a coding unit, wherein the coding unit is coded by intra-prediction mode or inter-prediction mode; generating a first syntax element, wherein the first syntax element indicates whether the coding unit has been coded using adaptive color-space transform (ACT); transmitting the first syntax element to a decoding side, such that the decoding side, when determining from the first syntax element that the coding unit has been coded using the ACT, performs operations comprising: performing a clipping operation that confines a dynamic range of the residuals of the coding unit within a predefined range; and applying an inverse ACT to the residuals of the coding unit after the clipping operation.

Abstract: An integrated device and a method for continuously capturing, storing and separating a flue gas in an underground rock stratum are provided. An injection well, a monitoring well and an emission well are arranged in sequence at locations from near to far from a flue gas emission source. The injection well, the monitoring well and the emission well are respectively drilled to different depths in a storage rock stratum. A horizontal injection channel is arranged at bottom end of the injection well. During migrating the flue gas in the storage rock stratum, CO2 and sulfur nitride are absorbed by a rock porous medium and gradually enriched, and meanwhile, the CO2 and sulfur nitride, after chemically reacting with water, minerals and biomass in a rock, are gradually mineralized to achieve storage; and separated N2 is gradually migrated upwards to the emission well to achieve separation.

Abstract: A method for video coding is provided. The method includes obtaining a first reference picture and a second reference picture associated with a current prediction block, obtaining a first prediction L0 based on a first motion vector MV0 from the current prediction block to a reference block in the first reference picture, obtaining a second prediction L1 based on a second motion vector MV1 from the current prediction block to a reference block in the second reference picture, determining whether a bidirectional optical flow (BDOF) operation is applied, and calculating a bi-prediction of the current prediction block based on the first prediction L0 and the second prediction L1, and first gradient values and second gradient values.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for evaluating a geological storage amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in a fractured-vuggy carbonate reservoir, including: performing image identification on a three-dimensional scanned image of a rock sample to obtain identified rock information; inputting the identified rock information to a computational fluid dynamics-based numerical simulator for constructing a fractured-vuggy rock structure model, and obtaining geometric topological information of the rock sample based on the fractured-vuggy rock structure model; inputting relevant parameters of the rock sample and the geometric topological information to a multi-scale multi-phase flow numerical model for numerical simulation of multi-phase flow migration of CO2 in models of different scales and obtaining a multi-scale numerical simulation result; and calculating a multi-scale CO2 storage efficiency based on the multi-scale numerical simulation result.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a phosphorescent material and the use thereof, and more particularly to a cyclic tetradentate metal platinum (II) complex phosphorescent material and the use thereof. The present invention provides a cyclic tetradentate metal platinum (II) complex phosphorescent material based on 8-phenylquinoline, benzoxazole, and phenoxy groups. It is a novel tetradentate platinum (II) complex with a 6/6/6 metal fused ring structure. The phosphorescent material of the tetradentate fused ring structure system of the present invention has the characteristics of easy modulation of HOMO and LUMO orbital energy levels and strong luminescence. It has good chemical stability and thermal stability and is easy to fabricate evaporation-type OLED devices. The organic electroluminescent device fabricated using the compound of the present invention as a light-emitting layer can reduce the start-up voltage and remarkably improve the external quantum efficiency.