Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify digital images via multi-layered scene completion techniques facilitated by artificial intelligence. For instance, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems receive a digital image portraying a first object and a second object against a background, where the first object occludes a portion of the second object. Additionally, the disclosed systems pre-process the digital image to generate a first content fill for the portion of the second object occluded by the first object and a second content fill for a portion of the background occluded by the second object. After pre-processing, the disclosed systems detect one or more user interactions to move or delete the first object from the digital image. The disclosed systems further modify the digital image by moving or deleting the first object and exposing the first content fill for the portion of the second object.

Abstract: A current detection circuit and method for protecting a speaker, and a chip are provided. The current detection circuit includes a current detection module and an analog-to-digital converter. The current detection module samples a current flowing through the speaker based on current mirror technology, and converts the current into a voltage to output a first voltage signal and a second voltage signal. The analog-to-digital converter converts the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal into a PDM code, to calculate a current parameter of the speaker.

Abstract: A method of wireless communication may include transmitting an uplink slot with a first control region, a second control region, and (e.g., optionally) a data region. Each region may include time resources and frequency resources. Transmitting the uplink slot may include transmitting the first control region in an earlier part of the uplink slot and transmitting the second control region (e.g., and the data region) in a later part of the uplink slot. The first control region may include time-critical control information and the second control region may include non-time-critical control information. A receiver receiving the uplink slot may receive the first control region before receiving the data region and the second control region.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine an increased bandwidth configuration for an enhanced physical uplink control channel (ePUCCH) based at least in part on an ePUCCH format of the ePUCCH, wherein the increased bandwidth configuration uses a plurality of contiguous resource blocks (RBs) for the ePUCCH; and transmit the ePUCCH using the increased bandwidth configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) receives an initial transmission of a common codeword and a private codeword. The common codeword is common to the UE and at least one other UE. The private codeword is directed to the UE. An acknowledgement is transmitted indicative of decoding results of the common codeword and the private codeword based on results of whether the common codeword was successfully decoded and whether the private codeword was successfully decoded. At a Network Entity (NE), an initial transmission of the common codeword and the private codeword is sent and an acknowledgement is received indicative of decoding results. At least one of the common codeword or the private codeword can be retransmitted depending on the acknowledgement.

Abstract: Aspects provide communication methods, apparatuses and computer-readable mediums. According to an aspect, there is provided a method for wireless communication at a network entity. The method comprises: splitting a first individual message associated with a first device into at least a first common part and a first private part; splitting a second individual message associated with a second device into at least a second common part and a second private part; combining the first common part and the second common part to provide a common message; assigning a common group identifier to a group of devices comprising the first device and the second device; processing the common message, wherein the processing comprises scrambling the common message using the common group identifier; and transmitting the processed common message to the group of devices.

Abstract: A bendable sheath and a delivery system using the bendable sheath. The bendable sheath comprises a tube body (3). The tube body (3) comprises a distal end and a proximal end. A tube wall of the tube body (3) is connected to a pull wire (8). One end of the pull wire (8) extends towards the proximal end of the tube body (3), and the other end is connected to the tube body (3) near the distal end of the tube body (3). The pull wire (8) comprises at least a section thereof disposed freely outside the tube body (3) and near the distal end of the tube body (3). The pull wire (8) in the bendable sheath comprises the section disposed freely outside the sheath tube body (3) and, when pulled, the section is disposed so as to facilitate the application of force. The section moves relative to the tube body (3), such that a force application point is adaptively changed.

Abstract: Aspects present herein relate to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or a base station. The apparatus may encode a plurality of bits associated with QAM, the plurality of bits corresponding to a circular buffer associated with at least one RV, the plurality of bits including a plurality of systematic bits. The apparatus may also transfer the plurality of bits from the circular buffer associated with the at least one RV to a first buffer and a second buffer. Additionally, the apparatus may map the plurality of bits from the first buffer and the second buffer to a plurality of modulation symbols.

Abstract: An apparatus may be configured to transmit (or receive) an indication of a first DMRS, where the first DMRS is identified based on at least two of a non-linearity of a power amplifier of the first device, a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) used for a data transmission associated with the first DMRS, or a channel type of a channel associated with the first DMRS; transmit (or receive), for a second device (or from a first device), the first DMRS for channel estimation at the second device; and transmit (or receive) the data transmission associated with the first DMRS.

Abstract: Provided are an off-grid start method and system for a new energy power generation system. The method includes: gradually boosting the voltage of a master according to a plurality of preset voltage given values, and slaves determining, by means of measuring a voltage of the load of a system, a target voltage given value used by the master; and the master determining, by means of monitoring an output current of the master itself, that a slave is successfully connected in parallel, and then continuing to boost the output voltage until all the slaves run in parallel. Therefore, according to the solution, no upper-layer synchronous control is required during a black-start process, and no communication between a master and slaves is required.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of wireless communication. The method is performed at a user equipment (UE). The method comprises receiving, from a network entity, downlink control information (DCI) for a downlink transmission, wherein the downlink transmission is based on a rate-splitting multiple access scheme, and wherein the downlink transmission comprises a common stream, a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) for the common stream, a private stream and a DM-RS for the private stream, determining, based on the DCI, a DM-RS configuration for the DM-RS for the common stream and for the DM-RS for the private stream, and receiving, based on the DM-RS configuration, the downlink transmission.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) and a base station may communicate in an unlicensed spectrum (e.g., a shared radio frequency spectrum band). As such, the UE may determine a codebook size for transmitting hybrid access request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK) feedback with respect to the unlicensed spectrum. Accordingly, the UE may base the HARQ ACK codebook size on a number of HARQ processes with which the UE has been configured. Additionally or alternatively, the UE may base the HARQ ACK codebook size on a number and/or duration of downlink channel monitoring occasions indicated by the base station. In some cases, the UE may base the HARQ ACK codebook size on a combination of the techniques described herein.

Abstract: A sheath facilitating retraction of prosthetic implant is provided. The sheath includes a tubular body, and the distal end of the body is connected with an expandable section. The expandable section has relative converged configuration and flared configuration and includes a primary expandable area and a secondary expandable area. The primary expandable area includes a plurality of first expandable pieces arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction of the body. The secondary expandable area includes a plurality of second expandable pieces arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction of the body, and all the second expandable pieces include two alternating groups consisting of a first group formed by further extending the first expandable pieces to the distal end and a second group formed by connecting strips wound between two adjacent first expandable pieces.

Abstract: Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) interlacing is disclosed. In a particular implementation, a method of performing wireless communications adjusting, by a user equipment (UE) based on a cyclic prefix (CP) length of a received Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) configuration, CP length of one or more uplink channels to match the CP length of the PRACH configuration. The method additionally includes transmitting, by the UE, the one or more uplink channels interlaced with a PRACH channel that corresponds to the PRACH configuration. The PRACH channel and the one or more uplink channels are aligned.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a control channel that uses an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveform. The UE may transmit or receiving a data channel, associated with the control channel, that uses a single-carrier (SC) waveform. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A sound signal processing method, an electronic device, and computer-readable medium are provided. The method includes: importing first frequency spectrum data corresponding to first audio data into a pre-trained sound processing model to obtain a processing result; and generating, based on the processing result, pure audio data corresponding to the first audio data. The sound processing model includes at least one preset convolution layer, and operations performed by using the preset convolution layer includes: performing, based on a first convolution kernel group, a convolution operation on a first sound spectrum feature map inputted into the preset convolution layer, to obtain a second sound spectrum feature map; and combining, based on a second convolution kernel group, the obtained second sound spectrum feature map, to obtain a third sound spectrum feature map corresponding to the second convolution kernel group.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for accurately and flexibly generating scalable fonts utilizing multi-implicit neural font representations. For instance, the disclosed systems combine deep learning with differentiable rasterization to generate a multi-implicit neural font representation of a glyph. For example, the disclosed systems utilize an implicit differentiable font neural network to determine a font style code for an input glyph as well as distance values for locations of the glyph to be rendered based on a glyph label and the font style code. Further, the disclosed systems rasterize the distance values utilizing a differentiable rasterization model and combines the rasterized distance values to generate a permutation-invariant version of the glyph corresponding glyph set.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a core assembly, a sheath assembly, a sheath, a sheath processing method and an interventional instrument delivery system and method. A core assembly for delivering an interventional instrument according to the present invention comprises a core tube, a locking member fixed at a distal end of the core tube for connecting the interventional instrument, and a bendable adjustable tube mounted around an outer periphery of the core tube, wherein the distal ends of the bendable adjustable tube and the core tube are fixedly connected to each other, and the proximal ends can slide relative to each other.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for transferring global style features between digital images utilizing one or more machine learning models or neural networks. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems receive a request to transfer a global style from a source digital image to a target digital image, identify at least one target object within the target digital image, and transfer the global style from the source digital image to the target digital image while maintaining an object style of the at least one target object.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that implements related image search and image modification processes using various search engines and a consolidated graphical user interface. For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems receive an input digital image and search input and further modify the input digital image using the image search results retrieved in response to the search input. In some cases, the search input includes a multi-modal search input having multiple queries (e.g., an image query and a text query), and the disclosed systems retrieve the image search results utilizing a weighted combination of the queries. In some implementations, the disclosed systems generate an input embedding for the search input (e.g., the multi-modal search input) and retrieve the image search results using the input embedding.