Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for generating an animation of a talking head from an input audio signal of speech and a representation (such as a static image) of a head to animate. Generally, a neural network can learn to predict a set of 3D facial landmarks that can be used to drive the animation. In some embodiments, the neural network can learn to detect different speaking styles in the input speech and account for the different speaking styles when predicting the 3D facial landmarks. Generally, template 3D facial landmarks can be identified or extracted from the input image or other representation of the head, and the template 3D facial landmarks can be used with successive windows of audio from the input speech to predict 3D facial landmarks and generate a corresponding animation with plausible 3D effects.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating process and a process system for a cable, and a cable manufactured thereby. The process includes: (1) providing the cable; (2) transporting the cable into immersion device, the cable immerged in first solution to form first coating layer thereon; (3) transporting the cable out of the immersion; (4) transporting the cable into coating device through third wire die, the cable immerged in second solution to form second coating layer thereon, the second layer is attached to the cable through the first layer; (5) transporting the cable out of the coating device through fourth wire die, fourth aperture diameter of the fourth wire die is larger than third aperture diameter of the third wire die; and (6) heating the cable to cure the second coating layer. The system includes: a cable providing device; an immersion device; a coating device; and a heating device.

Abstract: A display apparatus and a method for manufacturing the display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes: a flexible panel which includes a display region and a non-display region, where the non-display region includes a bending sub-region and a back sub-region connected to the bending sub-region and arranged opposite to the display region, a multiplexer is arranged in the back sub-region; and a shielding electrode layer located on a side of the multiplexer away from the back sub-region, an orthographic projection of the multiplexer onto a plane where the shielding electrode layer is located being within the shielding electrode layer.

Abstract: An accessory device for a portable electronic device is described. The accessory device includes a front cover connected to a back cover. The front cover includes multiple segments rotatable with respect to each other. The segments include magnets that allow the segments, through magnetic coupling, to couple with another segment or with the portable electronic device. When the front cover engages the back cover, a user may remove, or pull away, a segment from the back cover, causing the remaining segments to sequentially fall away from the back cover. In some instances, when the front cover at least partially engages the back cover, one of the segments includes magnets designed to couple with magnets in the back cover, but not with magnets in another segment. The accessory device may further include an opening that receives a camera assembly of the portable electronic device and forms a mechanical interlock.

Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) device includes at least one delay circuit having an input and an output, and an output connector electrically coupled to the output. The delay circuit further includes a plurality of transistors electrically coupled with each other between the input and the output. The plurality of transistors is configured to delay an input signal received at the input to generate a delayed signal at the output. The output is in a first metal layer. The output connector includes a first conductive pattern in the first metal layer, and a second conductive pattern in a second metal layer different from the first metal layer. The second conductive pattern electrically couples the output to the first conductive pattern.

Abstract: A reciprocating saw blade mounting device includes a reciprocating rod, a clamping mechanism and an ejection mechanism. The reciprocating rod is provided with a clamping cavity. The clamping mechanism includes a clamping member and a positioning member which are disposed opposite to each other. The clamping member can move such that the reciprocating saw blade mounting device switches between a clamping state and a released state. The ejection mechanism includes a pressing block and a first elastic member. When the reciprocating saw blade mounting device is in the released state, the pressing block is elastically pressed between the clamping member and the positioning member by the first elastic member. When the reciprocating saw blade mounting device is in the clamping state, the pressing block is pressed out from between the clamping member and the positioning member by the clamping end and compresses the first elastic member.

Abstract: An array substrate is provided. The array substrate includes a gate line extending along a first direction. The gate line includes a plurality of wide portions and a plurality of narrow portions respectively arranged along the first direction, the plurality of wide portions having a first dimension greater than a second dimension of the plurality of narrow portions along a second direction, the second direction at an angle in a range of 80 degrees to 100 degrees with respect to the first direction. An orthographic projection of a respective one of the plurality of wide portions in the respective subpixel on the base substrate overlaps with an orthographic projection of a portion of the semiconductor material layer in the respective subpixel on the base substrate, forming an active layer of the data-write transistor in the respective subpixel.

Abstract: Methods and systems for detecting whether an executable file comprises malware are disclosed. The methods and systems rely on various feature extraction and feature representation processes to allow patterns associated with Portable Executable (PE) files to be analyzed in an improved representation space. In one example, six different feature sets are extracted from a PE file and represented in six different feature spaces, before being input into a multivariate ensemble deep neural network-based model.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display substrate and a display panel. The display substrate has a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area; the display area includes first and second display sub-areas; the display substrate includes a base substrate, and a driving circuit layer and multiple light-emitting devices on the base substrate; the driving circuit layer includes multiple pixel driving circuits, a gate driving circuit, and a light emission control circuit; a first electrode of each light-emitting device is electrically coupled to one pixel driving circuit; the multiple pixel driving circuits include first pixel driving circuits for providing driving signals for light-emitting devices in the first display sub-area, and second pixel driving circuits for providing driving signals for light-emitting devices in the second display sub-area; and the light emission control circuit includes first and second light emission control sub-circuits disconnected from each other.

Abstract: A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming active regions, forming S/D regions, forming MD contact structures and forming gate lines resulting in corresponding transistors that define a first time delay circuit having a first input configured to receive a first clock signal and having a first output configured to generate a second clock signal from the first clock signal; and corresponding transistors that define a second time delay circuit having a second input configured to receive the second clock signal and having a second output configured to generate a third clock signal from the first clock signal; forming a first gate via-connector in direct contact with the first gate line atop the first-type active region in the first area; and forming a second gate via-connector in direct contact with the second gate line atop the second-type active region in the second area.

Abstract: Described are a hand posture estimation method, an electronic device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining an initial feature map corresponding to a hand region in a candidate image; obtaining a fused feature map by performing feature fusion processing on the initial feature map; wherein the feature fusion processing is configured to fuse features around a plurality of key points; the plurality of key points represent skeleton key nodes of the hand region; obtaining a target feature map by performing deconvolution processing on the fused feature map; wherein the deconvolution processing is configured to adjust a resolution of the fused feature map; and obtaining coordinate information of the plurality of key points based on the target feature map to determine a posture estimation result of the hand region in the candidate image.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-stage filter system suitable for the production of drinking water from a wide variety of contaminated water sources. The modular nature of the multi-stage filter system allows for the customization of filter combinations according to the remediation requirements. The multi-stage filter system comprises a coarse filter (S1); an ultrafiltration filter (S2); a graphene-based filter (S3); and a residual nanoparticle filter (S4). The graphene-based filter cartridge comprises few-layer graphene powder; a combination of few-layer graphene powder and pellets comprising a mixture of polyethersulfone, graphene oxide (GO), and dimethylformamide; a composite comprising chitosan, GO, sodium sulfate and ferric chloride; or a combination of few-layer graphene powder, granular activated carbon and a composite comprising chitosan, GO, sodium sulfate and ferric chloride.

Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods that allocate, arrange, and distribute certain types of functions and intelligence, for connected automated vehicle highway (CAVH) systems, to facilitate vehicle operations and controls, to improve the general safety of the whole transportation system, and to ensure the efficiency, intelligence, reliability, and resilience of CAVH systems. The present invention also provides methods to define CAVH system intelligence and its levels, which are based on two dimensions: the vehicle intelligence and infrastructure intelligence.

Abstract: A server accesses a plurality of users' sessions with the web server. Each user session indicating a page flow of a corresponding user session for a plurality of web pages provided by the web server. The server generates a learning model using a neural network based on the plurality of users' sessions. The learning model is configured to predict a next user activity based on a current page flow of a current user session. The next user activity indicating one of continuing the current user session by visiting another web page provided by the web server and ending the current user session. The server dynamically adjusts a content of a web page based on the predicted next user activity.

Abstract: An array substrate is provided. The array substrate includes a node connecting line in a same layer as a respective one of the plurality of voltage supply lines, connected to a first capacitor electrode through a first via, and connected to a semiconductor material layer through a second via; and an interference preventing block in a same layer as the second capacitor electrode. The respective one of the plurality of voltage supply lines is connected to the interference preventing block through a third via. The interference preventing block includes a first arm and a second arm. Along the first direction, a portion of the node connecting line at a position connecting to the semiconductor material layer through the second via is spaced apart from a first adjacent data line by the first arm, and is spaced apart from a second adjacent data line by the second arm.

Abstract: A gesture analysis method and a device and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: performing a feature extraction process on an image, and obtaining a first amount of features of finger key points and a second amount of features of palm key points; performing a UV-coordinate regression process and a depth regression process on each of the features of the finger key points and the palm key points, and obtaining a first UV coordinate and a first depth coordinate of each of the finger key points, and a second UV coordinate and a second depth coordinate of each of the palm key points; and performing a gesture analysis on the image according to the first UV coordinate, and the first depth coordinate, the second UV coordinate, and the second depth coordinate, and obtaining a gesture analysis result.

Abstract: Disclosed are a pose determination method and device, and a non-transitory computer storage medium. In the method, plane features of keypoints and depth features of the keypoints are extracted from a first image. Plane coordinates of the keypoints are determined based on the plane features of the keypoints. Depth coordinates of the keypoints are determined based on the depth features of the keypoints. A pose of a region of interest corresponding to the keypoints is determined based on the plane coordinates of the keypoints and the depth coordinates of the keypoints.

Abstract: A face detection device based on a convolutional neural network is provided. The device includes a feature extractor assembly and a detector assembly. The feature extractor assembly includes a first feature extractor, a second feature extractor and a third feature extractor. The first feature extractor is used to apply a first set of convolution kernels on an input grayscale image thereby generate a set of basic feature maps. The second feature extractor is used to apply a second set of convolution kernels on the set of basic feature maps and thereby generate more than one set of intermediate feature maps, which are concatenated. The third feature extractor is used to perform at least one convolution operation on a concatenated layer. The detector assembly includes at least one detector whose input is derived from one of the second feature extractor and the third feature extractor.

Abstract: A display substrate and a display apparatus. In the display substrate, the first signal line sequentially passes through the first display region, the opening peripheral region and the second display region along a first direction, and includes a first lead portion and a first winding portion that are in the opening peripheral region and connected to each other; the first winding portion partially surrounds the opening; the second signal line provides a second display signal to the pixel array, passes through the peripheral region of the opening along a second direction intersecting with the first direction, includes a second winding portion in the peripheral region of the opening and partially surrounds the opening. The first lead portion and the second signal line have a first overlapping region, and the first winding portion and the second winding portion have a second overlapping region.

Abstract: Provided are a gesture recognition method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a first feature map corresponding to a target region in a depth image, and determining a target key point from the first feature map; establishing a three-dimensional coordinate system in the first feature map by using the target key point, and predicting other three-dimensional coordinates of other key points in the three-dimensional coordinate system, the other key points being key points other than the target key point in the first feature map; and determining, based on the target key point and the other three-dimensional coordinates, a plurality of absolute coordinates of a plurality of key points, to determine a gesture of a target recognition object in the target region based on the plurality of absolute coordinates, the plurality of key points including the target key point and the other key points.