Abstract: A robot vision-based automatic rivet placement system and method. The automatic rivet placement system includes: an industrial robot installed on a frame, a multi-functional end effector, a rivet blowing mechanism, a detection disk, and a rivet holding tray. The multi-functional end effector consists of a flange disk, a support frame, an industrial CCD camera, a laser displacement sensor, a spring, a mixing rod, and a vacuum nozzle. The multi-functional end effector is connected to a terminal end of the industrial robot via the flange disk. The industrial CCD camera is installed directly in front of the support frame, and is used to acquire a rivet image and measure a rivet parameter. The laser displacement sensor is installed at a side surface of the support frame, and is used to measure a rivet depth.

Abstract: Methods for displaying a virtual gift, a server, and a target receiving terminal are provided. With the method, multimedia information to be published is obtained, if the attribute information of the multimedia information includes preset tag information, the target receiving terminal is determined. In addition, a validity period is set for the virtual gift. When sending the virtual gift to the target receiving terminal, the virtual gift of the current level can be obtained based on the current purchase quantity of the virtual gift and a predetermined correspondence between the purchase quantity and the level of the virtual gift.

Abstract: A method of operating an electric power system, which may include: determining a charge state of a first battery unit and a charge state of a second battery unit; determining a difference between the charge state of the first battery unit and the charge state of the second battery unit; and determining whether to enable discharging simultaneously of both the first battery unit and the second battery unit, or to enable discharging of one of the first and second battery units, based on the difference between the charge state of the first battery unit and the charge state of the second battery unit. At least one of the first and second battery units may be a swappable battery unit. The disclosure further relates to an electric power system and to a computer executable code including instructions for operating an electric power system.

Abstract: Techniques are described for providing fast reroute for traffic in EVPN-VXLAN. For example, a backup PE device of an Ethernet segment is configured with an additional tunnel endpoint address (“reroute tunnel endpoint address”) for a backup path associated with a second split-horizon group that is different than a tunnel endpoint address and first split-horizon group for another path used for normal traffic forwarding. The backup PE device sends the reroute tunnel endpoint address to a primary PE device of the Ethernet segment, which uses the reroute tunnel endpoint address to configure a backup path to the backup PE device over the core network. For example, the primary PE device may install the reroute tunnel endpoint address within its forwarding plane and one or more operations to cause the primary PE device to encapsulate a VXLAN header including the reroute tunnel endpoint address when rerouting the packet along the backup path.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture for detecting anomalous activity of an IoT device are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a communications aggregator to aggregate communications from a device communicating via a communications interface, a statistical property extractor to extract statistical properties of the aggregated communications, an image generator to generate an image based on the extracted statistical properties, a persona identifier to identify a persona associated with the device, and a machine learning model trainer to train a machine learning model using the generated image and the persona.

Abstract: A neural network training method, an image processing method, and apparatuses thereof are provided. The neural network training method includes obtaining a first domain image and a second domain image, where the first domain image and the second domain image are unpaired images in different domains; obtaining a scaled first domain image by scaling, at an iteration, the first domain image; obtaining a training patch by cropping the scaled first domain image, where each training patch has a same number of pixels with different contents; inputting the training patch into the neural network at the iteration, and outputting an output patch; calculating a contrastive loss based on a query sub-patch and negative sub-patches selected from the training patch and a corresponding positive sub-patch selected from the output patch; and updating model parameters of the neural network based on the contrastive loss and a generative adversarial network loss.

Abstract: Disclosed are compounds and compositions for slowing, preventing, or reversing platelet damage, particularly as may occur during blood banking or during refrigeration of platelets. Also disclosed herein are methods for storing platelets and methods for improving platelet survival upon transfusion with one or more compounds or compositions as described herein.

Abstract: An electric power system for an electric vehicle, including: first charging and discharging current paths connected to a first battery unit; second charging and discharging current paths connected to a second battery unit; third charging and discharging current paths for a connection with an electric control system of the vehicle; a first power switch between the first discharging current path and the third discharging current path; a second power switch between the second discharging current path and the third discharging current path; a controlling unit to set the first and second power switches based on states of the accumulators, at least one of the first and second battery units being swappable. A controller, a method, and a vehicle comprising the system are also disclosed.

Abstract: Processing historical browsing content with an electronic device which can generate a first user operation page of a target application; in response to a historical reference operation triggered via the first user operation page, generate a browsing record page including a historical content area, one historical content area corresponding to one content type, and each historical content area including first content description information; and in response to a presenting operation for first content description information selected from the historical content area, generate target historical browsing content corresponding to the selected first content description information, and therefore the first content description information of the historical browsing content under each content type may be provided in a centralized mode through a browsing record page, so that content desired to be browsed again may be found in a short time, improving the search efficiency for the historical browsing content.

Abstract: Disclosed are compounds and compositions for slowing, preventing, or reversing platelet damage, particularly as may occur during blood banking or during refrigeration of platelets. Also disclosed herein are methods for storing platelets and methods for improving platelet survival upon transfusion with one or more compounds or compositions as described herein.

Abstract: Systems and methods for measuring short wave infrared fluorescence and autofluorescent signals are disclosed. In some embodiments, for example, a method may include exposing a portion of tissue that does not include a fluorescent probe to an excitation source of the tissue, wherein at least a portion of the tissue has an autofluorescence spectrum which includes wavelengths greater than 900 nm, and imaging the tissue with a detector that is sensitive to electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths greater than or equal to 900 nm. In certain other embodiments, a system comprises a fluorescent probe including a fluorescent component attached to a carrier, an excitation source, and a detector that detects a tail portion of the fluorescence of the fluorescent component. Methods associated with such a system are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of operating an electric power system, which may include: determining a charge state of a first battery unit and a charge state of a second battery unit; determining a difference between the charge state of the first battery unit and the charge state of the second battery unit; and determining whether to enable discharging simultaneously of both the first battery unit and the second battery unit, or to enable discharging of one of the first and second battery units, based on the difference between the charge state of the first battery unit and the charge state of the second battery unit. At least one of the first and second battery units may be a swappable battery unit. The disclosure further relates to an electric power system and to a computer executable code including instructions for operating an electric power system.

Abstract: Embodiments of processing a substrate are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method of processing a substrate includes: depositing, via a first epitaxial growth process, an n-doped silicon material onto a substrate to form an n-doped layer while adjusting a ratio of dopant precursor to silicon precursor so that a dopant concentration of the n-doped layer increases from a bottom of the n-doped layer to a top of the n-doped layer; etching the n-doped layer to form a plurality of trenches having sidewalls that are tapered and a plurality of n-doped pillars therebetween; and filling the plurality of trenches with a p-doped material via a second epitaxial growth process to form a plurality of p-doped pillars.

Abstract: Techniques are described for providing fast reroute for traffic in EVPN-VXLAN. For example, a backup PE device of an Ethernet segment is configured with an additional tunnel endpoint address (“reroute tunnel endpoint address”) for a backup path associated with a second split-horizon group that is different than a tunnel endpoint address and first split-horizon group for another path used for normal traffic forwarding. The backup PE device sends the reroute tunnel endpoint address to a primary PE device of the Ethernet segment, which uses the reroute tunnel endpoint address to configure a backup path to the backup PE device over the core network. For example, the primary PE device may install the reroute tunnel endpoint address within its forwarding plane and one or more operations to cause the primary PE device to encapsulate a VXLAN header including the reroute tunnel endpoint address when rerouting the packet along the backup path.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for forming MOSFETs. In some embodiments, a method may include providing a device structure including a plurality of trenches, forming a gate spacer layer over the device structure, and removing the gate spacer layer from a top surface of the device structure and from a first section of each of the plurality of trenches, wherein a portion of the gate spacer layer remains along a second section of each of the plurality of trenches. The method may further include forming a gate oxide layer along the first section of each of the plurality of trenches and along the portion of the gate spacer layer.

Abstract: The invention discloses a method for rendering on the basis of hemispherical orthogonal function, the method comprising the following steps: selecting rendering fragments and establishing a local coordinate system; acquiring a bidirectional reflectance distribution function of a material; if global illumination is an orthogonal function, determining a rotation matrix of an orthogonal function coefficient according to the rotation angles of the global coordinate system and the local coordinate system, and calculating a local orthogonal function illumination coefficient; converting the local orthogonal function illumination coefficient into a hemispherical orthogonal function illumination coefficient; sampling to obtain the spatial distribution of a bidirectional reflection distribution function of a rendered material; obtaining a hemispherical orthogonal function of the bidirectional reflection distribution function of the rendered material; and using the dot product of a hemispherical orthogonal function coef

Abstract: The invention discloses a method for correcting the pointing errors of a biaxial rotation system based on the spherical cap function, comprising: error collection: selecting stars or radio sources distributed evenly in a star catalogue for tracking and observation to obtain the theoretical position and measurement position of the stars, and subtracting the measurement positions and the theoretical positions to obtain the error distribution; error model fitting: selecting a suitable orthogonal spherical cap function for the obtained error distribution and performing fitting to calculate an error fitting coefficient, the orthogonal spherical cap function model comprising a hemispheric harmonic function HSH, a Zernike spherical cap function ZSF, and a longitudinal spherical cap function LSF; and error control and compensation: putting the error model and the related fitting coefficient into a pointing control system for compensation.

Abstract: Provided in embodiments of the present disclosure are a signal processing method and a device, the method comprising: sending first information to a terminal, the first information including: relation information of a TRS or a CSI-RS with an SRS, and the first information being used to indicate that the terminal adjust a sending frequency of the SRS according to a TRS or CSI-RS estimated frequency.

Abstract: A transmit power indication method, a transmit power receiving method, a network device and an access device are provided. The transmit power indication method is applied to a network device, and includes transmitting indication information on a first link of the network device, wherein the indication information is used to indicate current transmit power of the first link of the network device, or to indicate a transmit power offset of the first link, wherein the transmit power offset is a difference between the current transmit power of the first link and transmit power of the network device before the network device transmits the indication information.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for speech detection. The method may include receiving a multichannel audio input that includes a set of audio signals from a set of audio channels in an audio detection array. The method may further include processing the multichannel audio input using a neural network classifier to generate a series of classification results in a series of time windows for the multichannel audio input. The neural network classifier includes a causal temporal convolutional network (TCN) configured to determine a classification result for each time window based on portions of the multichannel audio input in the corresponding time window and one or more time windows before the corresponding time window. The method may additionally include determining whether the multichannel audio input includes one or more speech segments in the series of time windows based on the series of classification results.