Abstract: An electronic device includes an indoor positioner and a positioning engine server. The indoor positioner has an antenna array including a plurality of antenna units. The indoor positioner divides the antenna units into multiple antenna unit groups, receives a wireless signal from user equipment at each time point via the antenna unit groups, and calculates a plurality of angles of arrival (AOA) corresponding to the antenna unit groups at each time point. The positioning engine server receives and stores the angles of arrival corresponding to the antenna unit groups at each time point, and filters the angles of arrival according to the angle sizes of the angles of arrival corresponding to the antenna unit groups at each time point stored in an observation period.

Abstract: The invention contemplates certain polyethers, polyether derivatives, and methods of making and using those same polymers. For example, the starting materials can, e.g., citronellol, prenol, isocitronellol and isoprenol.

Abstract: A signal transmission method is provided. The method includes: determining a target device, and transmitting a 5G signal to the target device, where the 5G signal includes a synchronization block, and the synchronization block is used to carry a PBCH, a PSS, an SSS and a DMRS, and the DMRS and the SSS are used as references for a demodulation result of the PBCH. By further setting the DMRS in the synchronization block, both the SSS and the DMRS are used as the references for the demodulation result of the PBCH, thereby ensuring that an adjusted phase of the demodulation result is as same as possible to a phase of the synchronization block before modulation of a transmission device, which greatly eliminates influence of factors such as the Doppler effect on the phase of the synchronization block during a signal transmission process.

Abstract: Embodiments may include systems, techniques, methods, apparatus and/or device to receive an input selecting one or more areas of a display of the computing device, leaving one or more other areas of the display unselected, and to apply a masking layer to mask either pixels of the one or more selected areas or pixels of the one or more unselected areas to cause the masked pixels to be dimmed, to reduce power consumption by the display. Embodiments may further include where the one or more of the selected areas include a focus area of interest, and to apply the masking layer to mask pixels of the one or more unselected areas to cause the masked pixels to be dimmed. Embodiments may be implemented via software without directly interacting with hardware. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.

Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) module of an LED luminaire assembly for a harsh and hazardous environment is provided. The LED module includes an LED assembly, a single-piece lens assembly, and an adhesive sealant. The LED assembly includes a plurality of LEDs. The single-piece lens assembly includes a plurality of lenses, wherein the lens assembly includes a groove defining a complete loop and surrounding the plurality of lenses, the lens assembly coupled to the LED assembly, and the plurality of lenses covering at least one of the plurality of LEDs. The adhesive sealant is disposed in the groove and bonded to the lens assembly, the adhesive sealant sealing off the plurality of LEDs from an ambient environment around the LED module.

Abstract: A semiconductor device including a device isolation region is provided. The semiconductor device includes first active regions disposed on a substrate, and an isolation region between the active regions. The isolation region includes a first portion formed of a first insulating material, and a second portion formed of a second insulating material, having different characteristics from those of the first insulating material. The first portion is closer to the first active regions than the second portion. The second portion has a bottom surface having a height different from that of a bottom surface of the first portion.

Abstract: An external counter pulsation system (ECP) and method for using the system to improve circulation as well as cardiovascular related diseases. The ECP system of the present invention comprises a helical air bladder for modulating blood flow of major veins and arteries of the thigh. High efficiency is realized with the helical shape of the air bladder to lower the cost, weight and size of the ECP of the present invention.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to the technical field of soil humidity measurement, in particular to a soil humidity microwave remote sensing device with multi-mode compatibility via GNSS-R and a method of using the same. The device includes a direct RHCP antenna, reflective RHCP antenna, a reflective LHCP antenna, a combiner, switches, preamplifiers, down-conversion modules, sampling and quantizing modules, a capturing and closed-loop tracking module, an open-loop tracking module, a position calculating and controlling module and a soil humidity inverting module. The soil humidity microwave remote sensing device with multi-mode compatibility via GNSS-R realizes flexibly switching among different GNSS-R soil humidity microwave remote sensing working modes, so that the soil remote sensing device can fully utilize advantages of the different working modes to realize compatible multi-mode observation.

Abstract: A voltage balance circuit includes a battery module connected to an external power source, a voltage dividing module, a detection module and a control module. The battery module includes a plurality of batteries connected in series. The voltage dividing module includes a plurality of bleeder resistors. Each bleeder resistor is connected with one battery in parallel. The detection module includes a plurality of thermistors, fixation resistances and micro-controllers. Each thermistor is arranged beside one bleeder resistor. Each thermistor is connected with one fixation resistance in series. Each micro-controller is connected with one thermistor and the one fixation resistance. The control module includes a plurality of switches and an analog front end component. Each switch is connected with the one bleeder resistor in series. Each switch is connected to the analog front end component, and the analog front end component is connected to the one micro-controller.

Abstract: A nanonetwork with controlled chirality prepared via self-assembly of triblock terpolymers, wherein each of the triblock terpolymers includes a first block, a second block and a third block. The first block is connected to the second block, and the third block is connected to the second block. The first block, the second block and the third block are incompatible. The third block has a homochiral characteristic, and a chirality of the nanonetwork with controlled chirality is determined by the homochiral characteristic.

Abstract: A coil electronic component includes a body having a first surface and a second surface opposing each other and a third and a fourth surface opposing each other, an insulating substrate disposed inside the body, first and second coil portions respectively disposed on opposing surfaces of the insulating substrate, a first lead-out portion connected the first coil portion and exposed from the first and third surfaces, a second lead-out portion connected to the second coil portion and exposed from the second and third surfaces, and first and second external electrodes respectively covering the first and second lead-out portions. The insulating substrate includes a support portion supporting the first and second coil portions, a first tip exposed from the first and third surfaces and supporting the first lead-out portion, and a second tip exposed from the second and third surfaces and supporting the second lead-out portion.

Abstract: A modular multiplication circuit includes a main operation circuit, a look-up table, and an addition unit. The main operation circuit updates a sum value and a carry value according to 2iA corresponding to a first operation value A and m bits of a second operation value B currently under operation, m is a positive integer, i is from 0 to m?1. The look-up table records values related to a modulus, and selects one of the values as a look-up table output value according to the sum value. The addition unit updates the sum value and the carry value according to the look-up table output value and outputs the updated sum value and the updated carry value to the main operation circuit. The modular multiplication circuit updates the sum value and the carry value in a recursive manner by using m different bits of the second operation value B.

Abstract: A method for intra prediction includes: obtaining multiple previously reconstructed neighbouring blocks corresponding to a current processing block; determining prediction modes, that are signalled in a bitstream, corresponding to neighbouring blocks of the multiple previously reconstructed neighbouring blocks, to obtain multiple first prediction modes; if the multiple first prediction modes comprise at least two directional modes, taking directional modes comprised in the multiple first prediction modes as first prediction directions; performing, according to a preset operation rule, operation on multiple first prediction directions of the first prediction directions to obtain second prediction directions; obtaining a prediction mode set according to the second prediction directions and the multiple first prediction modes; and performing intra prediction on the current processing block based on the prediction mode set.

Abstract: Interleukin-2 (IL-2) conjugates comprising at least one or more amino acid substitutions that bias binding to the IL-2 receptor ??c dimer over binding the IL-2 receptor ???c trimer and a non-natural amino acid at or near the N-terminus conjugated to a water-soluble polymer are described. The IL-2 conjugates are useful for treatment and prevention of cell proliferation and cancer in a patient.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine, based at least in part on one or more decoding outcomes associated with one or more downlink communications, a resource, of a set of candidate resources, to use for transmitting a channel state information (CSI) report. The UE may transmit the CSI report via the resource. Numerous other aspects are described.

Abstract: A compound represented by the following general formula is an excellent light-emitting material. R1 to R5 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and one of R1 to R5 is a cyano group, one to three of R1 to R5 each are an aryl group Ar optionally substituted with an alkyl group or an aryl group, and one to three of R1 to R5 each are a donor group D (but excepting one that corresponds to Ar).

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a motor including: a stator including a plurality of split cores configured to cooperatively define a ring shape; and support rings configured to surround outer circumferential surfaces of the split cores and to support upper and lower surfaces of the split cores, thereby improving stability and reliability.

Abstract: A backlight module includes a light guide plate, a light source, a first optical film, and a second optical film. The light source is disposed on one side of a light incident surface of the light guide plate. The first optical film is disposed between the light guide plate and the second optical film. An illumination beam from the light source has a first polarization component and a second polarization component perpendicular to the first polarization component. A ratio of the first polarization component to the second polarization component is greater than or equal to 1.2 and less than or equal to 10. The second optical film includes a substrate and a plurality of prism structures disposed between the substrate and the light guide plate. An included angle between an extending direction of the prism structures and the light incident surface is less than 5 degrees.

Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to compounds of formula I, including their salts, as well as compositions and methods of using the compounds. The compounds are ligands, agonists and partial agonists for the mGluR5 receptor and may be useful for the treatment of various disorders of the central nervous system.