Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display panel includes a substrate and a thin film transistor formed on the substrate, wherein a source and a drain of the thin film transistor have complementary V-shaped structures, so as to form a V-shaped space region between the source and the drain, such that when the thin film transistor is in operation, a V-shaped conductive channel is formed in a semiconductor layer of the thin film transistor. An activation current of the thin film transistor can be increased.

Abstract: A guiding sheath has a braided layer for improved deflection characteristics and ring electrodes for electrical sensing, mapping and visualization, wherein lead wires for the ring electrodes are passed through lumened tubing position under the braided layer in a proximal portion of the guiding sheath shaft and above the braided layer in a distal portion of the guiding sheath shaft. Moreover, the hemostatic valve includes an improved friction ring with air vents to reduce the risk of air being introduced into the valve.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a remote electrical tilt unit, a base station, and a method for managing a remote electrical tilt antenna. The method includes: receiving, by the remote electrical tilt unit, permission configuration information sent by a first base station through a group of AISG ports of the remote control unit; configuring management permission of the first base station on the remote electrical tilt unit according to the permission configuration information, where the management permission includes at least control permission and query permission, and control permission on the remote electrical tilt unit can be allocated to only one base station. In this way, multiple base stations jointly manage a remote electrical tilt unit in a remote electrical tilt antenna, and a problem that it is difficult to locate and troubleshoot a fault when configuration of the remote electrical tilt unit is incorrect is resolved.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device including a backlight with an LED assembly. The LED assembly includes a dichroic combiner and two or more different color LEDs. A substrate of the dichroic combiner receives color light from multiple color LEDs at different input regions and propagating in different directions. Dielectric layers within the substrate selectively reflect or transmit the color light to spatially superimpose the color light, and output the color light in a particular direction at a light output region of the substrate. The light output regions of LED assemblies are arranged behind an LCD panel, along one or more edges, to illuminate the LCD panel. The LED assembly provides edge-lighting without requiring LED placement along the one or more edges.

Abstract: Restoring a degraded tile of a degraded frame resulting from reconstruction is disclosed. A method includes, for a scaling factor of at least some scaling factors, recursively filtering the degraded tile using the scaling factor to generate a respective restored tile, and determining a respective error for the respective restored tile with respect to the source tile. The method also includes selecting an optimal scaling factor from the at least some scaling factors and encoding, in an encoded bitstream, a scaling parameter based on the optimal scaling factor. The optimal scaling factor corresponding to a smallest respective error. An apparatus includes a processor and non-transitory memory storing instructions. The instructions cause the processor to determine, from an encoded bitstream, a scaling factor, which determines how strongly edges in the degraded tile affect filtering operations, and recursively filter, resulting in a restored tile, the degraded tile using the scaling factor.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display (LCD) device including a backlight with an LED assembly. The LED assembly includes a flexible light combiner and two or more different color LEDs optically coupled with a first end of the flexible light combiner. The flexible light combiner includes light channels that transmit color light, and output the color light at a second end of the flexible light combiner. The second end defines a light output region of the flexible light combiner. The light output regions of multiple LED assemblies are arranged behind an LCD panel, along one or more edges, to illuminate the LCD panel. The LED assembly provides edge-lit backlighting with enhanced brightness and color gamut, and flexible LED placement within the LCD device.

Abstract: An aryl-substituted alkanal compound having a molecular weight of less than 300 g/mol and which bears a substituent on the aryl ring ortho to a substituent bearing the aldehyde functionality. Said compounds are useful as perfume ingredients in personal care and household care products.

Abstract: Techniques are described for characterizing a receiver front end of a pluggable optical module. The pluggable optical module receives an optical signal that includes a first portion having a first polarization and a second portion having a second polarization. The first portion and second portion are not coherent with one another and the power of the first portion and second portion is equal.

Abstract: A multiport free-space wavelength division multiplexing (“WDM”) device is capable of handling multiple optical signals carried in multiple wavelengths (“?n”) using a prism. The WDM device includes an input collimator, prism, and optical filter. The input collimator receives an optical beam containing multiple wavelengths ?n traveling through free-space. The prism uses at least two (2) surfaces to generate a first optical beam which travels in opposite direction of the optical beam. The optical filter is situated at a predefined angle with respect to the interface surface of the prism for facilitating frequency separation as well as extracts a first wavelength (“?1”) from ?n to form a first light signal with ?1 and form a second optical beam with the remaining wavelengths of ?n. A collimator is used to guide the first light signal to a port.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source. The EUV light source includes a droplet array with a plurality of nozzles arranged along a straight scanning direction, the plurality of nozzle sequentially and intermittently ejecting droplets downward to a radiating position; a laser source configured to generate at least two laser beams and scan the at least two laser beams along the straight scanning direction, the at least two laser beams alternately bombarding droplets arriving at the radiating position to form EUV light; and a condenser with a condenser mirror having a reflective ellipsoidal surface, configured to collect the EUV light and converge collected EUV light at a center of focus.

Abstract: A drive control unit in which a drive control system for a motor is made redundant so that a motor having two coil sets is individually driven and controlled for each coil set includes an inverter substrate on which a first inverter circuit that drives each coil of a first coil set, and a second inverter circuit that drives each coil of a second coil set are formed; a control substrate on which a first control circuit that includes a microcomputer which controls the first inverter circuit, and a second control circuit that includes a microcomputer which controls the second inverter circuit are formed; and a housing in which the inverter substrate and the control substrate are arranged in parallel to each other. The first control circuit is positioned on the front surface side, and the second control circuit is positioned on the rear surface side of the control substrate.

Abstract: Described are a read-write control method for memory, and a corresponding memory and server. The method comprises: dividing a storage resource of the memory by taking a block as a unit; to write data, combining the data to be written into a data block, writing the data block in a free segment of the memory, and recording an identifier and a corresponding index of the data, the index of the written data is an offset indicating a memory location of the data in the memory; to read data, reading the data from the offset of the memory according to an identifier and a index of the data to be read. When read-write control is performed on the memory, the number of the times that the I/O operation is performed on the memory is reduced during data writing, thereby improving the efficiency of the write operation on the memory.

Abstract: Enhanced security is provided for cloud based matching systems by using the principle of Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives (IIA). The client uses IIA to transform alternative data before sending it to the cloud, and then does the reverse transformation on the matching results generated by the cloud service provider to rebuild the matching results for the alternative data. Using this protocol, the client does not disclose its own data in a form that is usable by the cloud service provider, and the cloud service provider does not disclose to the client the provider's proprietary coefficient beta information.

Abstract: An electrical connector (100) includes: an insulative housing having a base (11) and a pair of side walls (12), each side wall having a resilient inner arm (121) and a stationary outer arm (122); and plural contacts (2) retained to the insulative housing, wherein the resilient inner arm extends along a horizontal, front-to-back direction and has a front end operable in both a vertical, top-to-bottom direction and the horizontal, front-to-back direction to move toward the stationary outer arm.

Abstract: Disclosed are an o-phenyl chalcone compounds and preparation methods and uses thereof. The o-phenyl chalcone compounds are capable of inhibiting the aggregation of microtubules in tumor cells and influencing the mitosis of the cells, and has a high antitumor activity. The compounds also have inhibitory activity against proliferation on various tumor cells, such as a human ovary cancer cell A2780, a human colon cancer cell HCT8, a human breast cancer cell MCF7, a human lung cancer cell A549, a human colon cancer cell SW480, a human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell CNE2, a human liver cancer cell HepG2 and the like at nanomole concentrations.

Abstract: A PMR writer is disclosed with an all wrap around (AWA) shield design in which one or more of the leading shield, side shields, and trailing shield (TS) structure (except the hot seed layer) at the air bearing surface (ABS) are comprised of an alloy having a damping parameter ? of ?0.04 to minimize wide area track erasure (WATE). The TS structure comprises two outer magnetic layers with an 8-16 kiloGauss (kG) saturation magnetic moment on each side of a center stack with a lower write gap, a middle hot seed layer having a 19-24 kG saturation magnetic moment, and an upper magnetic layer with a 16-24 kG saturation magnetic moment, and each having a first cross-track width. The hot seed layer, upper TS magnetic layer and an overlying PP3 trailing shield promote improved area density capability (ADC).

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for implementing a coordinator within a coordinated environment, which environment includes set of coordinated devices managed by the coordinator. The coordinator can be provisioned with a set of tasks, each task corresponding to a segment of code that can be executed by the coordinator, such as to manage the coordinated devices. To assist in execution of the tasks, the coordinator can include a communications manager that enables communications between tasks. The communications manager can provide a language-independent interface to call for execution of tasks, pass information to a task, and obtain outputs of a task. In some embodiments, the communication manager may utilize a language-independent protocol, such as the hypertext transport protocol, and be configured to respond to requests addressed to uniform resource identifiers associated with the communications manager.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for implementing a coordinator within a coordinated environment, which environment includes set of coordinated devices managed by the coordinator. The coordinator can be provisioned with a set of tasks, each task corresponding to a segment of code that can be executed by the coordinator, such as to manage the coordinated devices. To assist in execution of the tasks, the coordinator can include a remote interface that enables retrieval of task calls from an external system, such as an external on-demand code execution environment. The remote interface may periodically retrieve calls from the external system, and generate corresponding call messages on the coordinator to cause executions of called tasks. The remote interface can further obtain outputs of such executions, and report those outputs to the external system.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for management of data transmitted between computing devices in a communication network. An administrative component can configure one or more devices in the communication path of messages to be exchanged by devices to interpret codes embedded in the communication messages. A receiving device can review incoming messages for security information. The receiving devices can then process the message based on the security information to determine how the communication message will be routed or otherwise processed.