Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech synthesis. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining an audio representation of speech of a target speaker, obtaining input text for which speech is to be synthesized in a voice of the target speaker, generating a speaker vector by providing the audio representation to a speaker encoder engine that is trained to distinguish speakers from one another, generating an audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker by providing the input text and the speaker vector to a spectrogram generation engine that is trained using voices of reference speakers to generate audio representations, and providing the audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker for output.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an imaging device including a first image sensor element and a second image sensor element respectively comprising a pixel unit disposed within a semiconductor substrate. The first image sensor element is adjacent to the second image sensor element. A first micro-lens overlies the first image sensor element and is laterally shifted from a center of the pixel unit of the first image sensor element by a first lens shift amount. A second micro-lens overlies the second image sensor element and is laterally shifted from a center of the pixel unit of the second image sensor element by a second lens shift amount different from the first lens shift amount.

Abstract: The invention relates to a combined dual-wavelength laser light processing device, having two laser light source and a Bessel beam lens, so as to form a Bessel beam with long focal length; Using the coaxial reflecting mirror to achieve deflecting and penetrating to form two coaxial finished light beams; a diffraction optical unit for adjusting the energy distribution of the finished light beam; a work platform; a laser galvanometric scanning module to achieve guiding the finished light beam; a controller electrically connected to the two laser light sources, and controls the projection timing and energy of the first and the second wavelength beams to form at least one rectangular pulse and at least one burst pulse, through the repeated conversion of the dual wavelengths in the composite light wave configuration make the processing of the composite material to be fast and precise.

Abstract: Provided is a method for treating cancer by administering to a subject in need thereof with a pharmaceutical composition including a benzenesulfonamide derivative in combination with a cancer immunotherapeutic agent such as the immune check point inhibitor (ICI).

Abstract: In some aspects of the present disclosure, a bandgap reference circuit includes a first current mirror and a first resistor coupled to the first current mirror to provide a proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) voltage. The circuit includes a second current mirror and a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) device coupled to the second current mirror to provide a complementary to the absolute temperature (CTAT) voltage. The circuit includes an output node to provide a bandgap voltage that is a weighted sum of the PTAT voltage and the CTAT voltage. The circuit includes a second resistor coupled between the output node and a first node, wherein the first node is coupled between the first resistor and the first current mirror. The circuit includes a third resistor coupled between the output node and a second node, wherein the second node is coupled between the BJT device and the second current mirror.

Abstract: An anti-twist structure of voice coil motor includes a base, a lens housing, an elastic sheet, a magnet, and a yoke member. The lens housing has a margin wall, and the margin wall has a first protrusion and a contact portion. The elastic sheet has a hollowed slot, and the first protrusion pass through the hollowed slot, so that the elastic sheet is disposed on a portion of the margin wall and on the contact portion. The yoke member has an upper wall and a side wall. The side wall is disposed at one side of the upper wall and the side wall extends outward in a direction not parallel to the upper wall. The yoke member surrounds the lens housing, the elastic sheet, and the magnet. The lens housing has a deflectable angle relative to a horizontal reference line.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided, and the electronic device includes a base, a cover plate, and a bezel. The base has a sidewall where an opening portion is formed. An airflow selectively passes through the opening portion. The cover plate is pivotally connected to the base. The bezel is movably connected to the cover plate, wherein the bezel is rotated facing the opening portion selectively. The arrangement of the bezel may reduce the gap between the bezel and the down edge of the opening portion of the base, reducing the airflow flowing downward back to the heat-dissipation mechanism in the base. Therefore, the heat-dissipation efficiency of the electronic device is enhanced.

Abstract: Mechanisms are provided to implement a visual analytics pipeline. The mechanisms generate, from an input database of records, a chronology-aware graph data structure of a plurality of records based features specified in an ontology data structure. The chronology-aware graph data structure has vertices representing one or more of events or records based features corresponding to events, and edges representing chronological relationships between events. The mechanisms execute a chronology-aware graph query on the chronology-aware graph data structure to generate a filtered set of vertices and corresponding features corresponding to criteria of the chronology-aware graph query.

Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a device having a semiconductor substrate including a frontside and a backside. On the frontside of the semiconductor substrate are a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region. A gate electrode is arranged on the frontside of the semiconductor substrate and includes a horizontal portion, a first vertical portion, and a second vertical portion. The horizontal portion is arranged over the frontside of the semiconductor substrate and between the first and second source/drain regions. The first vertical portion extends from the frontside towards the backside of the semiconductor substrate and contacts the horizontal portion of the gate electrode structure. The second vertical portion extends from the frontside towards the backside of the semiconductor substrate, contacts the horizontal portion of the gate electrode structure, and is separated from the first vertical portion by a channel region of the substrate.

Abstract: A cord is provided, including: a core material and an outer layer. The core material includes a plurality of first strands braided with one another, and the outer layer is disposed around the core material and includes a plurality of second strands knitted with one another.

Abstract: A shoelace is provided, including: a core material and a woven layer. The core material defines an axial direction, and the woven layer is sleeved on the core material. The woven layer includes a plurality of strands, a plurality of ridge portions and a plurality of connecting portions. The plurality of ridge portions and the plurality of connecting portions are woven by the plurality of strands and arranged alternatively in a circumferential direction of the core material.

Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems and methods for operating a database management system (DBMS) in a cloud environment. An assembly worker executing at a first computing device may provide a first database protocol message generated by a process code executing at the first computing device. A translation engine executed at the cloud environment may translate the first database protocol message from a first format to a second format associated with a DBMS instance executing at the cloud environment to generate a translated first database protocol message. The translation engine may cause the translated first database protocol message to be provided to the DBMS instance and may receive, from the DBMS instance, a first reply corresponding to the translated first database protocol message. The first reply may be sent to the process code.

Abstract: Techniques for managing network-accessible infrastructure metadata are provided. A method includes receiving a resource request comprising resource metadata corresponding to a network-accessible infrastructure resource, determining whether to commit the resource request based at least in part on a constraint associated with the network-accessible infrastructure resource, and, in accordance with a determination to commit the resource request: generating, by the computer system, a resource identifier describing resource metadata in accordance with the resource request, storing, by the computer system, the resource metadata in a data store in communication with the computer system, receiving, by the computer system, a data request to provide the resource metadata described by the resource identifier, and providing, by the computer system, the resource metadata described by the resource identifier in accordance with the data request.

Abstract: A shoelace is provided, including: a core material and a cover layer. The core material defines an axial direction, and the cover layer is sleeved on the core material. The cover layer covers 30% to 90% of an area of an outer peripheral surface of the core material. Therefore, the shoelace has a concave-convex outer surface and is not easy to loosen when tied, and provides good structural strength and appearance.

Abstract: A three-dimensional printing apparatus includes a liquid tank capable of accommodating a photosensitive liquid. The liquid tank includes a film, a plurality of side walls, a plate and a motor. The film has a workpiece curing area. The plurality of side walls surrounds the film. The plate is capable of supporting the film and having at least one fluid tunnel extending from a first surface of the plate contacting the film to a second surface of the plate. The motor is connected to the liquid tank to incline the liquid tank. A gap is formed between the plat and one of the plurality of side walls of the liquid tank, and the film is communicated with an outside space via the gap.

Abstract: A flexible tube includes a first connecting portion and a second connecting section. The second connecting section and the first connecting section are integrally connected to each other. The first connecting section has a first end surface, and the second connecting section has a second end surface, wherein there is an acute angle between the first end surface and the second end surface.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A network entity may transmit a set of spatially multiplexed synchronization signals in a same symbol period. The set of spatially multiplexed synchronization signals may indicate a parameter, such as a cell identifier, for the network entity. The network entity may select a sequence for each synchronization signal of the set. A user equipment (UE) may monitor for the set of spatially multiplexed synchronization signals during the same symbol period. The UE may differentiate each synchronization signal based on a respective sequence used to transmit each synchronization signal. The UE may determine that the set of spatially multiplexed synchronization signals were transmitted by the network entity using multiple antenna ports. The UE may determine the parameter for the network entity based on receiving the set of spatially multiplexed synchronization signals.

Abstract: Provided are improved end-to-end self-supervised pre-training frameworks that leverage a combination of contrastive and masked modeling loss terms. In particular, the present disclosure provides framework that combines contrastive learning and masked modeling, where the former trains the model to discretize input data (e.g., continuous signals such as continuous speech signals) into a finite set of discriminative tokens, and the latter trains the model to learn contextualized representations via solving a masked prediction task consuming the discretized tokens. In contrast to certain existing masked modeling-based pre-training frameworks which rely on an iterative re-clustering and re-training process or other existing frameworks which concatenate two separately trained modules, the proposed framework can enable a model to be optimized in an end-to-end fashion by solving the two self-supervised tasks (the contrastive task and masked modeling) simultaneously.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a vessel tracking and monitoring system and operating method thereof. Specifically, the vessel tracking and monitoring system comprises at least one camera, a processing module and a storage module. On the other hand, the processing module may keep the water object which is detected and recognized by the at least one camera in the center area of a monitoring screen. Therefore, the present invention may track and recognize the type of the at least one water object, assisting areas such as ports in managing and tracking water object arrivals and departures under various environmental conditions.

Abstract: An anti-twist structure of voice coil motor includes a base, a lens housing, an elastic sheet, a magnet, and a yoke member. The lens housing has a margin wall, and the margin wall has a first protrusion and a contact portion. The elastic sheet has a hollowed slot, and the first protrusion pass through the hollowed slot, so that the elastic sheet is disposed on a portion of the margin wall and on the contact portion. The yoke member has an upper wall and a side wall. The side wall is disposed at one side of the upper wall and the side wall extends outward in a direction not parallel to the upper wall. The yoke member surrounds the lens housing, the elastic sheet, and the magnet. The lens housing has a deflectable angle relative to a horizontal reference line.