Abstract: Computing system enhancements make container instantiation faster, reduce layer content storage demands, and make more container image formats available. A container instantiation location sends a container image pull request to a container registry, receives an image manifest, sends a layer mount request to the registry instead of a layer content download request, receives a layer mount, optionally repeats for additional layers, creates a union file system spanning the layers, and launches a container process based on the union file system without first downloading all the layer content.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure and a method of fabricating therefor are disclosed. A second contact pad (500) is arranged lateral to a first contact pad (420) in an interconnect structure (400). As a result, during fabrication of the interconnect structure (400), the first contact pad (420) will not be present alone in a large bland area, due to the presence of the second contact pad (500). Thus, a pattern feature for the first contact pad (420) will not be over-resolved, increasing formation accuracy of the first contact pad (420) and thus guaranteeing good electrical transmission performance of the resulting interconnect structure (400).

Abstract: A non-contact switch and a non-contact switch control system are provided. The non-contact switch control system includes multiple non-contact switches, each including an infrared light module, a brightness sensing unit, a second switch module and a processing unit. The infrared light module includes a first switch module, transmitting unit and receiving unit. The first switch module has a first switch state. The transmitting unit connected to the first switch module emits infrared light according to the first switch state. The receiving unit receives a reflected light of the infrared light. The brightness sensing unit generates brightness information according to an ambient light. The second switch module has a second switch state. The processing unit is connected with the infrared light module, the brightness sensing unit and the second switch module, and controls the second switch state according to the reflected light and the brightness information.

Abstract: A package structure including a semiconductor die, a redistribution circuit structure and an electronic device is provided. The semiconductor die is laterally encapsulated by an insulating encapsulation. The redistribution circuit structure is disposed on the semiconductor die and the insulating encapsulation. The redistribution circuit structure includes a colored dielectric layer, inter-dielectric layers and redistribution conductive layers embedded in the inter-dielectric layers. The electronic device is disposed over the colored dielectric layer and electrically connected to the redistribution circuit structure.

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a battery frame, a battery group, a battery pack, and a method for assembling a battery group. The battery frame according to the embodiments of this application includes at least two frames. The at least two frames are sequentially connected along a first direction. Among the at least two frames, any two adjacent frames are rotatably connected to each other, so that the battery frame is foldable. The foldability of the battery frame according to the embodiments of this application diversifies the battery frame effectively.

Abstract: A battery pack for optimizing the structure of the battery pack includes a case, a battery module and a blocking member. The case includes an accommodating cavity and a drain hole in communication with the accommodating cavity. The battery module is contained inside the accommodating cavity. The blocking member is mounted to the case, and located between the drain hole and the battery module to block a binder for fixing the battery module from entering the drain hole. In the above-described technical solution, the blocking member can produce the effect of reducing or even avoiding binder for fixing the battery module from clogging in the drain hole.

Abstract: A battery assembly includes a protection member and a battery module including at least two batteries arranged side by side along a first direction and having a first outer surface and a second outer surface opposite to each other along a second direction. The protection member is in the form of a letter U with two vertical portions having different lengths, wherein a first protection section covers the end covers of batteries in the battery module, a part of a second protection section covers the first outer surface, and a third protection section abuts against an end cover of a battery corresponding to the second outer surface. The protection member can prevent the airflow, the flame and the like sprayed during thermal runaway, and control a thermal diffusion range during thermal runaway.

Abstract: A device includes: a complementary transistor including: a first transistor having a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region; and a second transistor stacked on the first transistor, and having a third source/drain region and a fourth source/drain region, the third source/drain region overlapping the first source/drain region, the fourth source/drain region overlapping the second source/drain region. The device further includes: a first source/drain contact electrically coupled to the third source/drain region; a second source/drain contact electrically coupled to the second source/drain region; a gate isolation structure adjacent the first and second transistors; and an interconnect structure electrically coupled to the first source/drain contact and the second source/drain contact.

Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for transmitting reduced depth information and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining a first depth map of an image frame, wherein the first depth map includes a plurality of first depth pixels corresponding to multiple image pixels in the image frame; downscaling the first depth map as a second depth map, wherein the second depth map includes multiple second depth pixels, and each second depth pixel has a depth value; adjusting the second depth map as a third depth map by scaling up the depth value of each second depth pixel based on a specific ratio; dividing the third depth map into multiple fourth depth maps; appending the fourth depth maps to the image frame; encoding the image frame appended with the fourth depth maps; and transmitting the encoded image frame to a client device.

Abstract: The embodiments relate to a method and technical equipment for implementing the method.

Abstract: An apparatus includes circuitry configured to: process media, the processing having an input and an output; determine a value of a mode to process the data, the value of the mode set to either push or pull; wherein the mode is added to an input descriptor or an output descriptor, and the mode functions with a protocol together in the input descriptor and the output descriptor; determine, for the input, when the value of the mode is set to push, that the data is pushed to the input, otherwise when the value of the mode is set to pull, that the data is pulled with the input; and determine, for the output, when the value of the mode is set to push, that the data is pushed from the output, otherwise when the value of the mode is set to pull, that the data is pulled from the output.

Abstract: A gait activity learning assistance system, and an application method thereof, includes a main body, at least one movement detecting module, a control module, at least one driving module and at least one dynamic measurement module. The system is able to guide and induce a user to learn gait autonomously by disposing at least one force-transmission unit on at least one limb position of the user, besides, the system is able to measure a dynamic change of the at least one force-transmission unit by the at least one dynamic measurement module while user receiving a gait assistance, and send them back to the control module immediately for a real-time analysis.

Abstract: Feature information is received from a client device and describes extended reality scene(s) in an extended reality (ER) environment at the client device. An ER description is formed in an ER description format corresponding to the feature information and is stored. Some of the stored ER description format is provided in a representational format upon request of the client device or other client devices viewing the one or more ER scenes and assisting the positioning of corresponding client devices in the ER environment. A client device captures environmental visual data and generates feature information, describing ER scene(s) in an extended reality environment at the client device, from the environmental visual data, and sends the generated feature information toward a server. A client device can localize itself in a 3D environment of an ER description, and generate ER anchors and objects, link them, and send them to a server.

Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus and a method for spatial computing service session description for volumetric XR conversation. In accordance an embodiment the method comprises receiving volumetric video from a plurality of sources, the volumetric video data comprising color images and depth images representing at least a part of a scene; determining which of the plurality of sources belong to a same group; selecting a group identifier for the group; associating the volumetric video with the group identifier indicative of from which group the volumetric video data is received; associating the volumetric video with a source identifier indicative of from which source of the group the volumetric video data is received; associating the color image of the volumetric video with a color data identifier; and associating the depth image of the volumetric video with a depth data identifier.

Abstract: A user equipment, media control unit, media resource function, or another device or function capable of receiving, manipulating, and transmitting data may be configured to: receive an omnidirectional video; determine a viewport of a user equipment; determining a delivery mode; determine a region of the omnidirectional video based, at least partially, on the determined viewport and the determined delivery mode; encode the determined region; packetizing the encoded region; and transmit the packetized region to the user equipment based, at least partially, on the determined delivery mode.

Abstract: An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: transmit a pose and interactivity stream to a server, the pose and interactivity stream comprising data based on information obtained from at least one sensor; determine a validity of the pose and interactivity stream, the validity comprising at least one criterion for which the data within the pose and interactivity stream is considered valid; signal at least one parameter that defines the validity of the pose and interactivity stream; and signal a current state of the validity of the pose and interactivity stream.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product provide a stream binding mechanism that supports stream data pulling and pushing in a distributed or cloud based streaming environment. The method, apparatus and computer program product receive a stream register message associated with a stream from a streaming entity. The stream register message includes a binding descriptor. The method, apparatus and computer program product transmit a create connection message to a stream broker. The method, apparatus and computer program product transmit an endpoint message including a set of connection parameters of an endpoint to the streaming entity. The method, apparatus and computer program product receive a query for the stream from a stream processing node. And the method, apparatus and computer program product transmit a response to the query to the stream processing node. The response includes a set of connection parameters of the stream broker.

Abstract: The embodiments relate to a method comprising establishing a three-dimensional conversational interaction with one or more receivers; generating a pointcloud relating to a user and capturing audio from one or more audio source; generating conversational scene description comprising at least a first dynamic object describing a virtual space for the three-dimensional conversational interaction, wherein the first dynamic object refers to one or more objects specific to the three-dimensional conversational interaction, wherein said one or more objects comprises at least data relating to transformable pointcloud; audio obtained from said one or more audio source and input obtained from one or more connected devices controlling at least the pointcloud, wherein said objects are linked to each other for seamless manipulation; applying the conversational scene description into a metadata, and transmitting the metadata with the respective audio in realtime to said one or more receivers.

Abstract: A method comprising obtaining a 360-degree video content from a video source; projecting the 360-degree video content onto a 2D image plane; dividing the projected 360-degree video content into a plurality of regions, wherein the regions are partly overlapping and each region covers a region of the 360-degree video content suitable for a viewport presentation; receiving a request for a viewport orientation of the 360-degree video content from a client; and providing the client with an viewport presentation of the region corresponding to the requested viewport orientation.

Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide an image slice transforming method and an electronic device. The method includes: receiving an i-th image slice outputted by an image encoder, wherein the i-th image slice belongs to N image slices divided from an image frame, i is an index, and N is an integer; obtaining a slice header of the i-th image slice; transforming the i-th image slice into an i-th sub-frame by modifying the slice header of the i-th image slice.