Abstract: An optical sensor packaging system and method can include: providing a substrate, the substrate including a redistribution pad; mounting an optical sensor to the substrate, the optical sensor including a photo sensitive material formed on a photo sensitive area of an active optical side of the optical sensor; wire-bonding the optical sensor to the substrate with a first bond wire connected from the active optical side to the redistribution pad; and encapsulating the optical sensor, the first bond wire, and the photo sensitive material with an over-mold, the over-mold formed with a top surface co-planar to a surface of the photo sensitive material, the over-mold forming a vertically extended border around the photo sensitive material and around the photo sensitive area, and the over-mold formed above the first bond wire.

Abstract: The specification and drawings present a new apparatus such as a lighting apparatus, the apparatus comprising at least one LED (or OLED) module, configured to generate a visible light such as white light, and at least one component such as optical component comprising a compound consisting essentially of the elements neodymium (Nd) and fluorine (F), and optionally including one or more other elements. The lighting apparatus is configured to provide a desired light spectrum by filtering the generated visible light using the compound. The at least one component can comprise a NdFxOy compound with values of x and y determining a content ratio F/O, which may be adjusted during manufacturing of the NdFxOy compound to provide desired output light parameters of the apparatus including at least a desired output light spectrum realized by filtering the generated visible light using the NdFxOy compound.

Abstract: A device, method and system for calculating, estimating, or monitoring the blood pressure of a subject. A first signal representing heart activity of a subject may be received. A plurality of second signals representing time-varying information on at least one pulse wave of the subject may be received from a plurality of body locations of the subject. A first feature of the first signal may be identified. For each of the plurality of second signals, a second feature may be identified. A pulse transit time based on a difference of the first feature and at least one of the second features may be computed. A blood pressure of the subject may be calculated according to a model based on the computed pulse transit time. The model may include a compensation term relating to the plurality of second signals or the second features thereof.

Abstract: A LED lamp comprises a base, an envelope, a printed circuit board for mounting a plurality of LED chips and a supporting member for supporting the printed circuit board. The envelope has a bottom end coupled with the base. The envelope defines an interior between the base and the envelope, and the printed circuit board is disposed in the interior. The printed circuit board comprises a hollow structure. One end of the supporting member is assembled in the base, the other end of the supporting member is coupled with the printed circuit board. One end of the printed circuit board extends into the base.

Abstract: Materials and optical components formed thereof that are suitable for use in a lighting apparatus to impart a color filtering effect to visible light. At least a portion of such an optical component is formed of a composite material comprising a polymeric matrix material and an inorganic particulate material that contributes a color filtering effect to visible light passing through the composite material, and the particulate material comprises a neodymium compound containing Nd3+ ions.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vital sign extraction method and system. The system comprises a receiving module for receiving at least one type of physiological information; a feature extraction module configured to extract a first feature and a second feature of the physiological information by using a first technique and a second technique; a processing module for performing a matching calculation on the first feature and the second feature, marking matching results, and identifying a noise result of the physiological information based on the matching results; and a calculation module for calculating a physiological sign of a living body.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes an LED lamp assembly comprising a glass envelope, an LED platform supported by a stem arrangement disposed within the envelope, a base hermetically sealed to the envelope, a gas disposed within the envelope providing thermal conductivity between the LED platform and the envelope, and a getter disposed within the envelope for absorbing volatile organic compounds. The lamp may maintain a ratio of helium to oxygen that achieves both an acceptable thermal conductivity and an acceptable lumen output over the life of the LED lamp.

Abstract: Systems and methods for sputtering a layer of refractory metal layer onto a barrier layer disposed on a substrate are disclosed herein. In one or more embodiments, a method of sputter depositing a tungsten structure in an integrated circuit includes: moving a substrate into a plasma processing chamber and onto a substrate support in opposition to a sputter target assembly comprising a tungsten target having no more than ten parts per million of carbon and no more than ten parts per million of oxygen present as impurities; flowing krypton into the plasma processing chamber; and exciting the krypton into a plasma to deposit, by sputtering, a tungsten film layer on a material layer of a substrate supported by the substrate support. In some embodiments, the target assembly further includes a titanium backing plate and an aluminum bonding layer disposed between the titanium backing plate and the tungsten target.

Abstract: An optical sensor packaging system and method can include: providing an embedded substrate, the embedded substrate including an embedded chip coupled to a redistribution pad with a redistribution line connecting therebetween; mounting an optical sensor to the embedded substrate, the optical sensor including a photo sensitive material formed on a photo sensitive area of an active optical side of the optical sensor; wire-bonding the optical sensor to the embedded substrate with a first bond wire connected from the active optical side to the redistribution pad; and encapsulating the optical sensor, the first bond wire, and the photo sensitive material with an over-mold, the over-mold formed with a top surface co-planar to a surface of the photo sensitive material, the over-mold forming a vertically extended boarder around the photo sensitive material and around the optical sensing area, and the over-mold formed above the first bond wire.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a display device and belongs to the field of display technology. The array substrate of the present disclosure includes a driving chip and a signal connection line, wherein a first end of the signal connection line is disposed over a first pad corresponding to a peripheral circuit board and has a first through hole at a position corresponding to the first pad; a second end of the signal connection line is disposed over a second pad corresponding to the driving chip and has a second through hole at a position corresponding to the second pad; the array substrate further includes a static electricity discharge structure connected to the second end of the signal connection line.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for implementing a circuit design are provided. A physical description is generated corresponding to a predefined physical layout of a programmable integrated circuit. The circuit design includes a memory block. A timing analysis is executed to determine a first timing profile of the physical description. The physical description is optimized (or at least altered), and a physical implementation is generated based on the optimized physical description. Optimizing the physical description includes: selectively moving from or into the memory block of the physical description a register in response to an attribute of the memory block; executing a timing analysis to determine a second timing profile of the physical description with the register moved from or into the memory block of the physical description; comparing the first and second timing profiles; and selectively accepting or reversing the moving based on the comparison of the first and second timing profiles.

Abstract: Voice activated lighting apparatus, methods and systems are described. In an embodiment, a voice activated lighting apparatus includes a housing that encloses a WiFi module operably connected to a multipoint control unit (MCU), at least one microphone, at least one speaker component, and at least one wireless communication module. Also included is a lighting component operably connected to the MCU which includes at least a first group of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and a second group of LEDs that are separately controllable by the MCU. In some implementations, the first group of LEDs are controllable via voice commands of a user to provide illumination, and the second group of LEDs are controllable via voice commands of the user to provide at least one indication.

Abstract: Materials and optical components formed thereof that are suitable for use in a lighting apparatus to impart a color filtering effect to visible light. At least a portion of such an optical component is formed of a composite material comprising a polymeric matrix material and an inorganic particulate material that contributes a color filtering effect to visible light passing through the composite material, and the particulate material comprises a neodymium compound containing Nd3+ ions.

Abstract: An apparatus including at least one light emitting diode (LED) module, configured to generate visible light; and at least one component comprising a compound comprising elements of neodymium fluoride and a dopant to lower a refractive index of the compound as compared to neodymium fluoride, the compound configured with the LED module to provide a desired light spectrum by filtering the visible light generated by the LED module.

Abstract: The specification and drawings present a new apparatus such as a lighting apparatus, the apparatus comprising at least one LED (or OLED) module, configured to generate a visible light such as white light, and at least one component such as optical component comprising a compound consisting essentially of the elements neodymium (Nd) and fluorine (F), and optionally including one or more other elements. The lighting apparatus is configured to provide a desired light spectrum by filtering the generated visible light using the compound. The at least one component can comprise a NdFxOy compound with values of x and y determining a content ratio F/O, which may be adjusted during manufacturing of the NdFxOy compound to provide desired output light parameters of the apparatus including at least a desired output light spectrum realized by filtering the generated visible light using the NdFxOy compound.

Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes at least one light source generating a visible light and an optical component, the optical component includes a transparent, translucent or reflective substrate and a coating on a surface of the substrate to cause a color filtering effect to the visible light passing through the optical component, the coating includes a compound containing Nd3+ ions and F? ions.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing physical synthesis with an overall placement process. One of the methods includes receiving an initial netlist of a circuit design for an IC. A global placement process is performed that assigns to some components in the initial netlist a respective initial location on the IC. One or more physical synthesis processes are performed to generate a modified netlist before assigning a final location to all components in the circuit design by an overall placement process. A subsequent placement process is performed to assign a final location on the IC to all components in the modified netlist.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for quickly identifying disconnection of a Current Transformer (CT) in protection of a 3/2 connection mode based bus. The present disclosure can quickly and accurately identify the disconnection of the CT, thereby avoiding the problem of a maloperation in protection of a bus caused by the disconnection of the CT.

Abstract: Physical synthesis for a circuit design can include determining, using a processor, a candidate net from a circuit design, wherein the candidate net spans a plurality of dies of a multi-die integrated circuit, and modifying, using the processor, the candidate net by performing physical synthesis resulting in a modified candidate net. The physical synthesis includes relocating a driver or a load of the candidate net or replicating the driver of the candidate net. An incremental routing can be performed on the modified candidate net using the processor. Further, the modified candidate net can be selectively committed using the processor based upon a timing analysis.