Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a metal gate structure having a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode. A topmost surface of the gate dielectric layer is above a topmost surface of the gate electrode. The semiconductor structure further includes a conductive layer disposed on the gate electrode of the metal gate structure, the conductive layer having a bottom portion disposed laterally between sidewalls of the gate dielectric layer and a top portion disposed above the topmost surface of the gate dielectric layer. The semiconductor structure further includes a contact feature in direct contact with the top portion of the conductive layer.

Abstract: An apparatus and system of providing resource allocation for PDSCH and/or PUSCH transmissions with multi-cell scheduling are described. For multi-cell scheduling, one or more of a carrier indicator, bandwidth part (BWP) indication, UL/SUL indicator, frequency domain resource allocation (FDRA) and/or time domain resource allocation (TDRA) may be provided by a NG-RAN node to a UE. In some cases, a carrier indication bitmap may be provided in downlink channel information to indicate single or multi-cell scheduling, as well as the scheduled cells.

Abstract: This application is directed to coding video data that includes a plurality of image samples of a video frame. Each image sample corresponds to one of a luma sample and a chroma sample. Each image sample is filtered using an adaptive in-loop filter having a filter length and a set of filter coefficients. A set of related image samples are identified in the filter length of each image sample. For each related image sample, a respective clip value index and a corresponding filter coefficient are identified. A difference of each related image sample and the respective image sample is clipped based on the respective clip value index that corresponds to a respective clipping boundary value equal to 2 to a power of a respective clipping number. The respective image sample is modified with the clipped difference of each of the related image samples based on the respective filter coefficient.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a power semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof. A plurality of second resistive field plate structures extending through an epitaxial layer in a first direction into a substrate are arranged in a termination region of the epitaxial layer and the plurality of second resistive field plate structures are arranged radially in a first plane. A plurality of tightly coupled second resistive field plates extending from a side close to a cell region to a side far away from the cell region form a more uniform three-dimensional electric field distribution diverging around the cell region, which optimizes a guiding and binding effect on a charge in a space depletion region of the cell region and improves a withstand voltage performance of the whole power semiconductor device.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a high-efficient swift stepless layering water intaking gate device, is including setting up the water intaking gate slot of the relative setting of the inlet port both sides on the dam body, its characterized in that: a plurality of sections of door leaves are arranged in the water taking gate groove from bottom to top; all the door leaves in the water intaking gate groove are divided into a group, and the adjacent door leaves are connected by adopting an internode connecting plate to form an integral water intaking gate; or all the gate leaves in the water intake gate groove are divided into a plurality of groups to form a plurality of sets of stop log type water intake gates, each set of stop log type water intake gate is provided with a plurality of sections of gate leaves.

Abstract: A balun structure and an electronic device. The balun structure includes: a dielectric substrate; a first grounding conductive layer, a first transmission line, a second transmission line, and a third transmission line, wherein at least one coupling structure is connected in series between a first end and a second end of the third transmission line. The coupling structure includes a first coupling part and a second coupling part, wherein in the same coupling structure, one end of the first coupling part facing the second coupling part has at least one first branch line, and one end of the second coupling part facing the first coupling part has at least one second branch line; and in the same coupling structure, the first branch line of the first coupling part is in coupling connection with the second branch line of the second coupling part.

Abstract: A liquid crystal phase shifter and a liquid crystal antenna are provided. The liquid crystal phase shifter includes a first substrate and a second substrate oppositely disposed; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a radio frequency connector; and a driving chip. A side of the second substrate adjacent to the first substrate includes a first conductive layer connected to a constant potential; a side of the first substrate adjacent to the second substrate includes a second conductive layer including a transmission electrode; the first substrate includes a first area bonded with a circuit board; and the radio frequency connector and the driving chip are both disposed in the first area and transmit signals through the circuit board.

Abstract: A method for detecting a human behavior includes: obtaining an image to be detected; obtaining a plurality of key points and a plurality of pieces of position information respectively corresponding to the plurality of key points by key-point recognition on the image to be detected; grouping the plurality of key points based on the plurality of pieces of position information to obtain a plurality of key-point groups, the plurality of key-point groups at least including a part of the plurality of key points; and determining a target human behavior based on key points in the plurality of key-point groups.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for controlling, by an on-chip memory controller, a plurality of hardware components that are configured to perform computations to access a shared memory. One of the on-chip memory controller includes at least one backside arbitration controller communicatively coupled with a memory bank group and a first hardware component, wherein the at least one backside arbitration controller is configured to perform bus arbitrations to determine whether the first hardware component can access the memory bank group using a first memory access protocol; and a frontside arbitration controller communicatively coupled with the memory bank group and a second hardware component, wherein the frontside arbitration controller is configured to perform bus arbitrations to determine whether the second hardware component can access the memory bank group using a second memory access protocol different from the first memory access protocol.

Abstract: A device and a method for simulating layered stratum containing natural gas hydrates are provided. The device includes a reactor; wherein the reactor includes an upper cover, a lower cover, and a reactor body, wherein the upper cover and the lower cover are sealably attached to two ends of the reactor body to form a closed chamber; an overlying pressure layer, a superstratum layer, a hydrate layer and a substratum layer are sequentially formed throughout inside of the closed chamber from the upper cover to the lower cover, wherein each layer is respectively filled with different kinds of porous media and fluids and the each layer is provided with a stratal-fluid annular container; each stratal-fluid annular container has an outer periphery contacting an inner surface of the reactor body. The method is conducted using the device.

Abstract: A method of two-stage sidelink control information (SCI) for sidelink transmission is described. In one novel aspect, the SCI is transmitted from a transmission UE (Tx UE) to a reception UE (Rx UE) in two stages. In one embodiment, the 1st-stage SCI carries information related to channel sensing, and is transmitted over a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH). The 2nd-stage SCI is transmitted over a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) associated with the PSCCH. In one embodiment, the first-stage SCI includes priority information or information of time-frequency resources for the SL transmission. In another embodiment, the first-stage SCI indicates time-frequency location of the second-stage SCI.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to analyte determining methods and devices (e.g., electrochemical analyte monitoring systems) that have a sensing surface that includes an array two or more discontiguous sensing elements deposited on a substrate surface, where the sensing elements comprise one or more droplets of a sensing element formulation.

Abstract: Systems and methods of conducting a bar code scan using an imaging-based bar code scan device are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by an imaging-based bar code device that includes processing circuitry, an optical lens assembly having an image sensor and an optical lens with a focused region at a certain distance in front of the optical lens along an optical axis of the optical lens, a plurality of light emitting elements configured proximate the optical lens and laterally offset from the optical axis. The method includes sending, by the processing circuitry, to each light emitting element, an indication to enable that light emitting element to project a light beam towards the optical axis in the focused region so that the light beams overlap when a target bar code is in the focused region and nonoverlap when a target bar code is outside the focused region.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus performs a method of decoding video data. The method comprises: receiving, from a bitstream, a first control flag that indicates merge mode with motion vector difference (MMVD) is enabled for one or more coding units in a video sequence; receiving a first syntax from the video data that identifies a set of motion vector difference (MVD) offsets from a plurality sets of MVD offsets; receiving, a second control flag corresponding to a respective coding unit of the one or more coding units, which indicates the MMVD is applied to the coding unit; receiving a second syntax that selects an MVD offset from the identified set of MVD offsets, and a third syntax that selects an MVD direction; forming MVD based on the selected MVD offset and MVD direction; and reconstructing the coding unit by applying the formed MVD to generate motion vectors to the coding unit.

Abstract: Provided is an array substrate including: a first base, wherein the first base is provided with a plurality of pixel regions, and the pixel region includes a white sub-pixel region and at least two color sub-pixel regions; and a plurality of photosensitive devices disposed on the first base, wherein an orthographic projection of the photosensitive device onto the first base at least partially overlaps with the white sub-pixel region. A liquid crystal display panel and a display apparatus are also provided.

Abstract: Systems and methods for applying an adaptive loop filter (ALP) in video coding are provided. The method may include determining a first rate-distortion cost of applying the adaptive loop filter on a reconstructed block. The reconstructed block includes a reconstructed version of an image block of an image frame from a video. The method may further include determining a second rate-distortion cost of not applying the adaptive loop filter on the reconstructed block. The method may additionally include determining whether to apply the adaptive loop filter for processing the reconstructed block based on the first rate-distortion cost and the second rate-distortion cost.

Abstract: A wet etching chemistry to selectively remove a polymer residue on an opening embedded in a low-k dielectric layer and an underlying stop layer in a process of forming an interconnect structure is provided. The wet etching chemistry includes: two type of organic solvents, wherein a concentration of the two type of organic solvents is greater than or equal to 70%; an Alkali source amine, at least comprising a tertiary amine; an inhibitor; and water. In some embodiment, the wet etching chemistry is free of a peroxide to avoid damage to the WdC hard mask.

Abstract: This application relates to an audio synthesis method, a storage medium, and a computer device. The method includes: obtaining a target text; determining a target song according to a selection instruction; synthesizing a self-made song using the target text and tune information of the target song according to a tune control model, the target text being used as the lyrics of the self-made song. The solutions provided in this application improve an audio playback effect.

Abstract: A method includes forming a first fin and a second fin over a substrate. The method includes forming a first dummy gate structure that straddles the first fin and the second fin. The first dummy gate structure includes a first dummy gate dielectric and a first dummy gate disposed over the first dummy gate dielectric. The method includes replacing a portion of the first dummy gate with a gate isolation structure. The portion of the first dummy gate is disposed over the second fin. The method includes removing the first dummy gate. The method includes removing a first portion of the first dummy gate dielectric around the first fin, while leaving a second portion of the first dummy gate dielectric around the second fin intact. The method includes forming a gate feature straddling the first fin and the second fin, wherein the gate isolation structure intersects the gate feature.

Abstract: A method of two-stage sidelink control information (SCI) can include receiving a transport block, and transmitting from a transmission user equipment (Tx UE) to a reception user equipment (Rx UE) the transport block with two-stage SCI including a 1st-stage SCI and a 2nd-stage SCI. The 1st-stage SCI can be transmitted over a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH). The 2nd-stage SCI and the transport block can share resources of a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH). The 2nd-stage SCI and the transport block can share a demodulation reference signal (DMRS).