Abstract: Various disclosed embodiments include methods, systems, and computer-readable media for generating a 3-dimensional (3D) panorama. A method includes receiving images of a 3D scene. The method includes reconstructing geometry of a plurality of 3D bubble-views from the images. Reconstructing includes using a structure from motion framework for camera localization, generating a 3D surface mesh model of the scene using multi-view stereo via cylindrical surface sweeping for each bubble-view, and registering multiple 3D bubble-views in a common coordinate system. The method includes displaying the surface mesh model.

Abstract: A double-port energy storage system includes a bi-directional power conversion circuit, a DC-AC inverter circuit, an electric energy storage facility, a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a fourth switch, a first AC port and a second AC port. The double-port energy storage system controllably provides various classifications of power supply quality by controllably switching on or off some of the first switch, the second switch, the third switch the fourth switch via the first AC port and the second AC port.

Abstract: An encoding, a decoding method, a system for encoding and decoding, an encoder, and a decoder are provided. The encoding method includes the following. In a palette mode, if colors of pixels of a coding unit block are all represented by one or more major colors of the coding unit block, a flag is set as a first state value, and if the color of at least one pixel of the coding unit block is not represented by the one or more major colors of the coding unit block, the flag is set as a second state value. The encoding method further includes establishing a palette table corresponding to the coding unit block according to a state value of the flag and the one or more major colors.

Abstract: An encoding method and a decoding method, and a codec system, an encoder and a decoder using the methods are provided. The encoding method includes receiving a first coding unit of a frame, and selecting a first index pixel and a second index pixel from pixels of the frame and setting index values corresponding to the two index pixels, where a color of the first index pixel is different to a color of the second index pixel. The encoding method includes indexing each pixel in the first coding unit to generate an index map. The encoding method includes generating a coding value corresponding to the first coding unit according to the index map, and transmitting the coding value to a decoder, wherein only an index value corresponding to a 1st scanned pixel in the pixels of the first coding unit in the index map is recorded in the coding value.

Abstract: A feeding device includes a fixing base. A motor is fixed to the fixing base. The motor has an output axle. A transmission axle is fixedly connected to the output axle. The feeding device further includes a feeding block having a side fixedly connected to the transmission axle. The feeding block has a feeding notch. The feeding notch is formed around the transmission axle circumferentially. Hence, once a slender material enters the rotational space of the feeding block, the motor drives the feeding block to rotate, whereas the slender material is pressed by the feeding notch of the feeding block and sent out as a result of the continuous rotation of the feeding block. Hence, the feeding device not only enables continuous material conveyance but also allows the slender material to be conveyed smoothly even when the slender material is slightly bent or deformed.

Abstract: A method for rapid mincing of adipose tissues to isolate live cells in vitro is disclosed to overcome the drawbacks of a lead procedure of isolating live cells by holding a knife to mince adipose tissues, which can only isolate a small number of live cells and obtain low cell viability. The method includes: providing an adipose tissue; mincing the adipose tissue homogeneously by a mincing device; adding a reagent into the minced adipose tissue to perform hydrolysis; performing centrifuge and isolation; and removing a supernatant to obtain a cell pellet. Therefore, the time of mincing adipose tissues can be shortened, and contaminations caused by repeated use of the knife can be avoided. The method can be used for isolating live cells of adipose tissues to improve the number of live cells per unit weight of adipose tissues without reducing the cell viability.

Abstract: Embodiments of a plasma apparatus are provided. The plasma apparatus includes a processing chamber and a wafer chuck disposed in the processing chamber. The plasma apparatus also includes a target element located over the wafer chuck and an electromagnet array located over the target element and having a number of electromagnets. Some of the electromagnets in a magnetic-field zone of the electromagnet array are enabled to generate a magnetic field adjacent to the target element. The magnetic-field zone is moved during a semiconductor manufacturing process.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating a 3D personalized mesh of a person from a depth camera image for medical imaging scan planning is disclosed. A depth camera image of a subject is converted to a 3D point cloud. A plurality of anatomical landmarks are detected in the 3D point cloud. A 3D avatar mesh is initialized by aligning a template mesh to the 3D point cloud based on the detected anatomical landmarks. A personalized 3D avatar mesh of the subject is generated by optimizing the 3D avatar mesh using a trained parametric deformable model (PDM). The optimization is subject to constraints that take into account clothing worn by the subject and the presence of a table on which the subject in lying.

Abstract: A robust metallization profile is formed by pre-treat an anti-reflective coating layer by plasma before forming a hard mask layer. Pre-treatment is helpful especially in small feature size process, for example, 50 nm and below. By changing constitution of a surface layer of the anti-reflective coating, interface of the anti-reflective coating layer and the hard mask layer is smoothed which results in less overhang and better gap-filling performance.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for inter-picture cost computation are provided. The inter-picture cost computation apparatus includes an original difference calculation module, a before-compensation difference calculation module, an inter-picture cost computation module, and a compensation module. The original difference calculation module calculates original differences between first original pixels at the first frame time and second original pixels at the second frame time. The before-compensation difference calculation module calculates before-compensation differences between first compensated pixels at the first frame time and reconstructed pixels at the second frame time. The inter-picture cost calculation module calculates an inter-picture cost according to the sample adaptive offset (SAO) compensation value, the original differences, and the before-compensation differences.

Abstract: An elliptical exercise machine with adjustable stride length includes a frame, a driving unit, an adjustment unit, and a coupling unit. The driving unit includes two pedals, a pair of handlebars and a pair of wheels. The handlebars and the wheels are correspondingly and respectively mounted to the frame. A crank is interposed between the wheels. Two pedal shafts are pivotally and respectively mounted between each wheel and each handlebar. The adjustment unit includes a stationery member mounted to the frame, a driving member mounted to the stationery member, and a linearly movable coupling member. The coupling unit includes two first shafts pivotally connected to the coupling member, two second shafts respectively and pivotally mounted between each handlebar and each first shaft. Two bars are pivotally and respectively engaged to each second shaft and the crank. Thereby, a stride length of the two pedals can be simultaneously adjusted.

Abstract: A submicron connection layer and a method for using the same to connect wafers is disclosed. The connection layer comprises a bottom metal layer formed on a connection surface of a wafer, an intermediary diffusion-buffer metal layer formed on the bottom metal layer, and a top metal layer formed on the intermediary diffusion-buffer metal layer. The melting point of the intermediary diffusion-buffer metal layer is higher bottom metal layers may form a eutectic phase. During bonding wafers, two top metal layers are joined in a liquid state; next the intermediary diffusion-buffer metal layers are distributed uniformly in the molten top metal layers; then the top and bottom metal layers diffuse to each other to form a low-resistivity eutectic intermetallic compound until the top metal layers are completely exhausted by the bottom metal layers.

Abstract: An interconnection structure of a semiconductor device is provided, where the interconnection structure is constructed in a semiconductor substrate. The interconnection structure includes a first through silicon via and a second through silicon via both penetrating the semiconductor substrate, and the first through silicon via is spaced from the second through silicon via by a distance ranged from 2 ?m to 40 ?m.

Abstract: A multi-port energy storage system includes a bi-directional power conversion circuit, a DC-AC inverter circuit, an electric energy storage facility, a first AC port, a second AC port and an AC switch. The multi-port energy storage system controllably provides various classifications of power supply quality via the first AC port and the second AC port.

Abstract: Various disclosed embodiments include methods, systems, and computer-readable media for generating a 3-dimensional (3D) panorama. A method includes receiving images of a 3D scene. The method includes reconstructing geometry of a plurality of 3D bubble-views from the images. Reconstructing includes using a structure from motion framework for camera localization, generating a 3D surface mesh model of the scene using multi-view stereo via cylindrical surface sweeping for each bubble-view, and registering multiple 3D bubble-views in a common coordinate system. The method includes displaying the surface mesh model.

Abstract: An inrush current measuring device is disclosed in the present invention. The device includes a current sensing unit, an analog-to-digital converter, a filter, a microcontroller, and a display unit. The inrush current measuring device of the present invention can determine an inrush current by use of at least five sampling current values and does not need to depend on an observation starting point for detecting current value of the inrush current or a continuous detecting time period to obtain accurate measurement of inrush current.

Abstract: A submicron connection layer and a method for using the same to connect wafers is disclosed. The connection layer comprises a bottom metal layer formed on a connection surface of a wafer, an intermediary diffusion-buffer metal layer formed on the bottom metal layer, and a top metal layer formed on the intermediary diffusion-buffer metal layer. The melting point of the intermediary diffusion-buffer metal layer is higher than the melting points of the top and bottom metal layers. The top and bottom metal layers may form a eutectic phase. During bonding wafers, two top metal layers are joined in a liquid state; next the intermediary diffusion-buffer metal layers are distributed uniformly in the molten top metal layers; then the top and bottom metal layers diffuse to each other to form a low-resistivity eutectic intermetallic compound until the top metal layers are completely exhausted by the bottom metal layers.

Abstract: A feeding device includes a fixing base. A motor is fixed to the fixing base. The motor has an output axle. A transmission axle is fixedly connected to the output axle. The feeding device further includes a feeding block having a side fixedly connected to the transmission axle. The feeding block has a feeding notch. The feeding notch is formed around the transmission axle circumferentially. Hence, once a slender material enters the rotational space of the feeding block, the motor drives the feeding block to rotate, whereas the slender material is pressed by the feeding notch of the feeding block and sent out as a result of the continuous rotation of the feeding block. Hence, the feeding device not only enables continuous material conveyance but also allows the slender material to be conveyed smoothly even when the slender material is slightly bent or deformed.

Abstract: A Spin-On Dielectric (SOD) method with multi stage ramping temperature for coating a dielectric material onto a substrate, comprising the steps of: (a) placing the substrate on a chill plate to decrease the temperature; (b) fixing the chilled substrate on a spinning device; (c) rotating the spinning device to drive the substrate rotating; (d) injecting the dielectric material onto the center of the substrate; (e) spreading the dielectric material on the upper surface of the substrate by spinning; (f) baking the substrate and the dielectric material by a heat plate to achieve multi stages ramping temperature, where the temperature of each stage has a steady state temperature for a predetermined time and the posterior stage has higher temperature than the anterior stage; (g) placing the substrate on the chill plate for cooling down; (h) spreading a film of dielectric material and finishing the coating.

Abstract: This invention relates to a function switch on handle of motorcycle, in which a light transmissive zone is formed on the housing thereof. A light emitting source is provided at the interior of the function switch which is coupled to the switches for small light and large light. In this manner, when driver turns on small light or large light, the light emitting source can also be energized to radiate light and the light beam emitted from the light emitting source can be projected out through the light transmissive zone of the housing so as to highlight the pattern of the light transmissive zone.