Abstract: A method and a device for controlling an engine to shut down, and an electronic device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining current state information and operating parameter information of an engine, the current state information comprising a starting state, and the operating parameter information comprising rotating speed information, starting duration information, cooling liquid temperature information and torque information of the engine; and if the current state information is the starting state, and the rotating speed information, the starting duration information, the cooling liquid temperature information, and the torque information satisfy a first preset shutdown condition corresponding to the starting state, controlling the engine to be in a shutdown state.

Abstract: A method of enhancing dialog intelligibility in an audio signal, comprising determining a speech confidence score that the audio content includes speech content, determining a music confidence score that the audio content includes music correlated content, in response to the speech confidence score, and applying a user selected gain of selected frequency bands of the audio signal to obtain a dialogue enhanced audio signal. The user selected gain is smoothed by an adaptive smoothing algorithm, an impact of past frames in said smoothing algorithm being determined by a smoothing factor, the smoothing factor being calculated in response to the music confidence score, and having a relatively higher value for content having a relatively higher music confidence score and a relatively lower value for speech content having a relatively lower music confidence score, so as to increase the impact of past frames on the dialogue enhancement of music correlated content.

Abstract: This invention provides compounds that modulate glucose uptake activity and cellular transport/uptake of glucose, and particularly GLUT3, but also including but not limited to GLUT1-14 (SLC2A1-SLC2A14). Compounds of the invention are useful for treating diseases, including cancer, autoimmune diseases and inflammation, infectious diseases, and metabolic diseases.

Abstract: The method and system disclosed herein presents a food preparation system that provides a user-friendly data collection and data annotation process that leverages crowd-sourced data to reduce the prohibitive costs associated with developing an extensive training set using dedicated cooking experiments and specialized manual annotation efforts. The food preparation system and corresponding method collect one or more data types (e.g., structured data such as temperature and weight data, and unstructured data such as images and thermal maps) and allow the collected data to be annotated by human users in order to provide information regarding the process of cooking, as well as food item identity, location, and/or outline information. A combination of image processing and user input is utilized in order to create models with food recognition and determining cooking progress.

Abstract: A method of audio processing includes generating harmonics in a hybrid complex quadrature mirror filter domain. Generating the harmonics may include multiplication, using a feedback delay loop, and dynamic compression. The harmonics may be generated based on one or more hybrid sub-bands of the complex transform domain signal.

Abstract: This invention provides compounds that modulate glucose uptake activity and cellular transport/uptake of glucose, and particularly GLUTS3, but also including but not limited to GLUT1-14 (SLC2A1-SLC2A14). Compounds of the invention are useful for treating diseases, including cancer, autoimmune diseases and inflammation, infectious diseases, and metabolic diseases.

Abstract: Disclosed are a parallel start control method and system for a hybrid electric vehicle, and a hybrid electric vehicle. The parallel start control method includes: acquiring current working conditions of a clutch and a gearbox of the hybrid electric vehicle, an engine request torque of the hybrid electric vehicle and a start mode of the hybrid electric vehicle; judging whether the hybrid electric vehicle meets an over-heat protection condition according to the current working conditions of the clutch and the gearbox and determining a start basic torque according to a judging result and the engine request torque; determining a start clutch request torque based on the start basic torque according to the start mode of the hybrid electric vehicle and conducting start control on the clutch according to the start clutch request torque. The start security, responsiveness and power performance of the hybrid electric vehicle are improved.

Abstract: A DCDC output voltage control method and control system for a hybrid electric vehicle are provided. The method includes: when a DCDC converter is in a buck operation mode, determining whether the vehicle is in a high power output demand state or an abnormal engine flame-out state; if so, setting the output voltage of the DCDC converter to a normal target voltage; otherwise, determining whether a low-voltage load has a charging voltage boost demand, and when the low-voltage load has the charging voltage boost demand and the power of a high-voltage battery is greater than a power threshold, setting the output voltage of the DCDC converter according to the voltage level corresponding to the charging voltage boost demand, to meet the charging demand of the low-voltage load. The fuel economy of a hybrid power assembly system can be optimized.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a binaural virtualization by upmixing the left and right input signals to produce left, right, and center channels, mixing the left and right input signals with the upmixed left and right channels respectively at a proportion given by a center-only reverb amount value, then reverberating the output of the mixing prior to virtualization. This can be further simplified by mode switching between two different filtering modes: a standard mode and a simplified mode.

Abstract: A method and a device for controlling an engine to shut down, and an electronic device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining current state information and operating parameter information of an engine, the current state information comprising a starting state, and the operating parameter information comprising rotating speed information, starting duration information, cooling liquid temperature information and torque information of the engine; and if the current state information is the starting state, and the rotating speed information, the starting duration information, the cooling liquid temperature information, and the torque information satisfy a first preset shutdown condition corresponding to the starting state, controlling the engine to be in a shutdown state.

Abstract: A method for steering binauralization of audio is provided. The method comprises steps of: receiving (410) an audio input signal, calculating (430) a confidence value indicating a likelihood that a current audio frame of the audio input signal comprises binauralized audio; determining (450) a state signal based on the confidence value; determining (460) a steering signal, based on the first confidence value, the state signal and an energy value of the audio frame; and generating (470) an audio output signal with steered binauralization by processing the audio input signal according to the steering signal.

Abstract: A method of audio processing includes generating harmonics in a hybrid complex quadrature mirror filter domain. Generating the harmonics may include multiplication, using a feedback delay loop, and dynamic compression. The harmonics may be generated based on one or more hybrid sub-bands of the complex transform domain signal.

Abstract: Novel methods and systems for creating and using user profiles for dialog boost and sound equalizer adjustment to compensate for various ambient sound situations. For creating profiles when not at the ambient sound, a synthesized/pre-recorded ambient noise can be mixed with the media to simulate the noise conditions.

Abstract: This invention provides compounds that modulate glucose uptake activity and cellular transport/uptake of glucose, and particularly GLUTS3, but also including but not limited to GLUT1-14 (SLC2A1-SLC2A14). Compounds of the invention are useful for treating diseases, including cancer, autoimmune diseases and inflammation, infectious diseases, and metabolic diseases.

Abstract: A method for steering binauralization of audio is provided. The method comprises steps of: receiving (410) an audio input signal, calculating (430) a confidence value indicating a likelihood that a current audio frame of the audio input signal comprises binauralized audio; determining (450) a state signal based on the confidence value; determining (460) a steering signal, based on the first confidence value, the state signal and an energy value of the audio frame; and generating (470) an audio output signal with steered binauralization by processing the audio input signal according to the steering signal.

Abstract: A method of enhancing dialog intelligibility in an audio signal, comprising determining a speech confidence score that the audio content includes speech content, determining a music confidence score that the audio content includes music correlated content, in response to the speech confidence score, and applying a user selected gain of selected frequency bands of the audio signal to obtain a dialogue enhanced audio signal. The user selected gain is smoothed by an adaptive smoothing algorithm, an impact of past frames in said smoothing algorithm being determined by a smoothing factor, the smoothing factor being calculated in response to the music confidence score, and having a relatively higher value for content having a relatively higher music confidence score and a relatively lower value for speech content having a relatively lower music confidence score, so as to increase the impact of past frames on the dialogue enhancement of music correlated content.

Abstract: The method and system disclosed herein presents a food preparation system that provides a user-friendly data collection and data annotation process that leverages crowd-sourced data to reduce the prohibitive costs associated with developing an extensive training set using dedicated cooking experiments and specialized manual annotation efforts. The food preparation system and corresponding method collect one or more data types (e.g., structured data such as temperature and weight data, and unstructured data such as images and thermal maps) and allow the collected data to be annotated by human users in order to provide information regarding the process of cooking, as well as food item identity, location, and/or outline information. A combination of image processing and user input is utilized in order to create models with food recognition and determining cooking progress.

Abstract: This invention provides methods of treating inflammatory conditions and autoimmune diseases in a mammal, comprising administering to the mammalian subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a compound, or pro-drug thereof, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester of said compound or pro-drug, wherein the compound is an inhibitor of glucose uptake. In particular aspects, the present invention provides a method of treating inflammatory conditions and autoimmune diseases in a mammal, and preferably a human, in which the glucose uptake inhibitor modulates the glucose transport of GLUT1 and GLUT3.

Abstract: This invention provides methods of treating inflammatory conditions and autoimmune diseases in a mammal, comprising administering to the mammalian subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a compound, or pro-drug thereof, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester of said compound or pro-drug, wherein the compound is an inhibitor of glucose uptake. In particular aspects, the present invention provides a method of treating inflammatory conditions and autoimmune diseases in a mammal, and preferably a human, in which the glucose uptake inhibitor modulates the glucose transport of GLUT1 and GLUT3.

Abstract: The present invention features a cell-based assay that recapitulates all aspects of a viral lifecycle for use in identifying antiviral agents. The assay employs synchronized, non-dividing host cells and a fluorescence resonance energy transfer peptide substrate for monitoring endogenous viral protease activity, which is indicative of viral infection kinetics.