Abstract: A system for calculating token rates for video encoding includes a plurality of different probability lookup tables implemented in hardware, wherein each of the probability lookup tables specifically corresponds to a different prediction mode of a video codec. The system includes an application-specific integrated circuit compute unit. For each candidate prediction mode among the different prediction modes, the application-specific integrated circuit is configured to determine a rate distortion cost (RD Cost) for a video. The application-specific integrated circuit is configured to select one of the plurality of different probability lookup tables that corresponds to the candidate prediction mode and use the selected one of the plurality of different probability lookup tables to calculate a corresponding token rate for the candidate prediction mode.

Abstract: A method in a wireless receiver for estimating a channel. The method includes receiving a signal comprising a plurality of transmission layers, each layer having at least one reference signal according to a predefined reference signal sequence; determining a window size for performing a sampling operation, wherein the operation is performed in a transformed domain of the received signal; selecting a channel tap length, from a range of channel tap lengths, wherein the selection is based on the window size, a noise mean and a noise variance. The channel estimation is performed from a reference signal sequence for the at least one reference signal and based on samples corresponding to the selected channel tap length.

Abstract: An optical imaging lens may include a first, a second, a third, a fourth and a fifth lens elements positioned in an order from an object side to an image side. Through designing concave and/or convex surfaces of some of the five lens elements, the optical imaging lens may provide improved imaging quality and optical characteristics, increased focal length of the optical imaging lens, improved assembly yield and reduced size of the imaging lens.

Abstract: An optical imaging lens may include a first, an aperture stop, a second, a third, a fourth, and a fifth lens elements positioned in an order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. Through designing concave and/or convex surface of the lens elements, the optical imaging lens may have improved imaging quality, enlarged half field of view and reduced surface area in front of the optical imaging lens while the optical imaging lens may satisfy AAG/T5?1.400 and HFOV?50.000°, wherein a sum of the four air gaps from the first lens element to the fifth lens element along the optical axis is represented by AAG, a thickness of the fifth lens element along the optical axis is represented by T5, and a half field of view of the optical imaging lens is represented by HFOV.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a contact structure and an electronic device having the same. The contact structure includes: a substrate; a copper layer disposed on the substrate; an adhesion promotion layer disposed on the copper layer, wherein the adhesion promotion layer forms a monomolecular adsorption layer on the surface of the copper layer; and a silver nanowire layer disposed on the adhesion promotion layer, and the adhesive force between the copper layer and the silver nanowire layer is 3B or more. In the present disclosure, by disposing the adhesion promotion layer on the copper layer, in the stacked structure of the copper layer and the silver nanowire layer, the adhesive force between the copper layer and the silver nanowire layer is increased, so as to prevent a peeling phenomenon of the copper layer occurring in the subsequent yellow-light process.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for making an aspheric vision correction lens with controlled peripheral defocus. The present invention also discloses a vision correction lens worn outside the eye, an orthokeratology lens and an intraocular lens made according to the method. The present invention further discloses a diagnosis and treatment method that utilizes myopic peripheral defocus to control and retard myopia growth.

Abstract: Embodiments include methods for operating a network node in a wireless network. Such embodiments include applying non-linear precoding to a first data stream to remove a representation of expected inter-stream interference due to a second data stream, thereby generating a corrected first data stream. Such embodiments also include applying linear precoding to the corrected first data stream and to a first reference signal (RS) stream to generate a first signal layer, wherein the first RS stream is not corrected for the expected inter-stream interference prior to applying the linear precoding. Such embodiments also include transmitting the first signal layer to a user equipment (UE). Other embodiments include complementary methods performed by a UE, as well as network nodes and UEs configured to perform operations corresponding to such methods.

Abstract: There is disclosed a transmitting node for a Radio Access Network, the transmitting node being adapted for transmitting, based on one or more transmission parameters, of reference signaling, and/or signaling including reference signaling, wherein the reference signaling comprises phase tracking reference signaling, and the one or more transmission parameters comprise a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS).

Abstract: Provided in embodiments of the present invention are a magnetic resonance image processing method and device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: determining a central angle; converting, on the basis of the central angle, a radio-frequency field pattern of a radio-frequency transmitting coil into an angular pattern; acquiring, on the basis of a trigonometric function value of the angular pattern, a radio-frequency transmitting field pattern of the radio-frequency transmitting coil; and correcting, on the basis of the radio-frequency transmitting field pattern, a magnetic resonance image to be corrected.

Abstract: A quantized transform coefficient matrix is partitioned into a sequence of partition portions. The coefficients of the matrix are grouped into the sequence of partition portions based on a hardware implemented scan order. Each partition portion is processed in an order of the sequence in a first pass. For each partition portion, a group of coefficients in the partition portion is determined. For each partition portion, a first data rate estimation for the quantized transform coefficient matrix is updated based on at least some coefficients of the group of coefficients in the partition portion and a maximum end-of-block. For each partition portion, an end-of-block estimation of the quantized transform coefficient matrix is updated based on at least some coefficients of the group of coefficients in the partition portion. A first resulting data rate estimation and a true end-of-block of the quantized transform coefficient matrix are determined after the first pass.

Abstract: A contact structure is provided, which includes a substrate, a copper layer, an organic composite protective layer, and a nanosilver layer. The copper layer is disposed over the substrate. The organic composite protective layer is disposed over the copper layer to avoid oxidation of the copper layer, in which the organic composite protective layer forms a monomolecular adsorption layer over a surface of the copper layer. The nanosilver layer is disposed over the organic composite protective layer. A method of manufacturing a contact structure is also provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and systems for signaling chroma quantization parameter (QP) table. According to some disclosed embodiments, the methods include: receiving a bitstream of video data; determining whether a luma-to-chroma QP mapping table is signaled, based on a first flag in the bitstream; and in response to the first flag being a first value, determining the signaled luma-to-chroma (P mapping table based on the bitstream.

Abstract: A configuration helper system (CHS) is described that simplifies the task of generating configuration information for a customer premises equipment (CPE) in a customer's on-premise network to enable the CPE to communicate with the customer's cloud network over a particular communication channel. The CHS is configured to generate configuration information that is customized for the particular CPE and communication channel. Given information about the CPE and the communication channel, the CHS automatically identifies a particular set of configuration parameters to be included in the customized configuration information and determines values for the set of parameters, where some of the values may be provided by the customer. A particular CPE-specific format is determined for the configuration information.

Abstract: A method for preparing a selective emitter solar cell includes: forming a textured surface with a plurality of protrusions in the first regions and the second regions of the surface of the semiconductor substrate, wherein each protrusion has a cross-sectional shape that is trapezoidal or trapezoid-like in a thickness direction of the semiconductor substrate; performing a diffusion treatment on at least part of protrusions to form a first doped layer, and forming a first oxide layer above the first regions; re-etching the surface of the semiconductor substrate by using the first oxide layer as a mask, to etch each protrusion in the second regions to form a pyramid structure, such that the first doped layer in the second regions is etched to form a second doped layer with a doping concentration lower than a doping concentration of the first doped layer.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical imaging lens. The optical imaging lens comprises seven lens elements positioned in an order from an object side to an image side. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces of the lens elements, the optical imaging lens may be provided with shortened system length, decreased Fno, increased field of view and image height.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of operating a radio node in a radio access network. The method includes transmitting and/or receiving reference signaling in a mini-slot, the timing of the reference signaling being determined based on a structure configuration of a transmission timing structure relative to which the mini-slot is positioned. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an STM32-based automatic control system for a broadcast transmitter, including an STM32 microcontroller, a host computer, a drive unit, a touch screen unit, a local network server unit, an image acquisition unit and a sampling unit, wherein the STM32 microcontroller is connected to the host computer. An output interface of the STM32 microcontroller is connected to the drive unit, wherein the touch screen unit is configured to display acquired information that is processed, and receive a control instruction of a touch operation. The local network server unit is configured to achieve remote network display of transmitter information and remote network control, the image acquisition unit is configured to timely acquire an image in a cabinet of the transmitter such that a maintainer can conduct remote observation, and the sampling unit is configured to control the drive unit to achieve automatic control of the transmitter.

Abstract: Provided is a solar cell and a method for manufacturing the same, the method includes: forming a doped layer on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, the doped layer having a first doping concentration of a doping element in the doped layer; depositing, on a surface of the doped layer, a doped amorphous silicon layer including the doping element; selectively removing at least one region of the doped amorphous silicon layer; performing annealing treatment, for the semiconductor substrate to form a lightly doped region having the first doping concentration and a heavily doped region having a second doping concentration in the doped layer, the second doping concentration is greater than the first doping concentration; and forming a solar cell by post-processing the annealed semiconductor substrate. The solar cell and the method for manufacturing the same simplify the manufacturing process and improve conversion efficiency of the solar cell.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides method and systems for signaling information regarding chroma quantization parameter (QP) offsets. According to some disclosed embodiments, the methods include: determining whether a joint CbCr residual coding is enabled; and in response to the joint CbCr residual coding being determined to be enabled, signaling a syntax element for adjusting chroma quantization parameter (QP) for joint CbCr component at coding unit (CU) level.

Abstract: Provided is a wireless charging loop antenna. The wireless charging loop antenna includes an extracorporal planar loop antenna and an intracorporal planar loop antenna. The intracorporal planar loop antenna is disposed inside a body, and the extracorporal planar loop antenna is disposed on a skin outside the body. The extracorporal planar loop antenna includes an extracorporal antenna substrate, an extracorporal loop radiation patch, paired connection radiation patches and a patch capacitor. The extracorporal loop radiation patch is provided with at least one extracorporal radiation patch gap. The patch capacitor is disposed at one of the at least one extracorporal radiation patch gap. The extracorporal loop radiation patch and the paired connection radiation patches form a circuit. The extracorporal loop radiation patch, the paired connection radiation patches and the patch capacitor are all on a same surface of the extracorporal antenna substrate.