Abstract: A method of selectively commissioning a node device by a coordinator device in a network created by the coordinator device is disclosed. The coordinator device and the node device interact with each other to check and confirm that a coordinator temporal indication related to a commissioning start time recorded by the coordinator device and a node temporal indication related to a commissioning start time recorded by the node device are the same or temporally very similar or close to each other. Then the coordinator device will commission the node device by joining the node device into the network created by the coordinator device. The ensures that only wanted or expected node devices will be joined into the network created and managed by the coordinator device.

Abstract: In an image optimization method, an image generation network, a to-be-optimized image, and a plurality of preset image features are obtained. A target feature is selected from the plurality of preset image features based on (i) the target feature and the to-be-optimized image and (ii) a preset similarity condition. The target feature and an initial offset parameter are input to the image generation network. The initial offset parameter is adjusted according to a difference between an output of the image generation network and the to-be-optimized image, to obtain a target offset parameter. The target feature and the target offset parameter are input to the image generation network, to generate an optimized image. Apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium counterpart embodiments are also contemplated.

Abstract: A portable refrigerator includes a main housing, a refrigerator cover, a cooling mechanism, a rechargeable battery pack and a control unit. The cooling mechanism includes heat exchanging tubes, a compressor, an evaporator and a condenser connected to the evaporator and the compressor. The rechargeable battery pack is detachably attached on a power compartment of the main housing. The control unit is supported in the main housing and electrically connected to the rechargeable battery pack and the cooling mechanism for centrally controlling an operation of the cooling mechanism. A predetermined amount of refrigerant is arranged to controllably pass through the heat exchanging tubes, the condenser, the evaporator and the compressor for extracting heat from the accommodating cavity.

Abstract: A headset for audio play, comprising one or more sensor circuit and a control module. The control module comprises a secondary processor circuit and a primary processor circuit. The sensor circuit generates sensor data according to structural deformations of the headset. The secondary processor circuit receives the sensor data and calculates measured values related to the structural deformations of the headset. The primary processor circuit coupled to the secondary processor circuit controls an audio play operation in the headset, and enters a sleep mode when the audio play operation is not required. The secondary processor circuit determines a usage status of the headset according to the measured value and one or more threshold value. The secondary processor circuit wakes the primary processor circuit according to the usage status, and adaptively adjusts at least one threshold value according to the usage status.

Abstract: A portable refrigerator includes a main housing, a refrigerator cover, a cooling mechanism, a rechargeable battery pack and a control unit. The cooling mechanism includes heat exchanging tubes, a compressor, an evaporator and a condenser connected to the evaporator and the compressor. The rechargeable battery pack is detachably attached on a power compartment of the main housing. The control unit is supported in the main housing and electrically connected to the rechargeable battery pack and the cooling mechanism for centrally controlling an operation of the cooling mechanism. A predetermined amount of refrigerant is arranged to controllably pass through the heat exchanging tubes, the condenser, the evaporator and the compressor for extracting heat from the accommodating cavity.

Abstract: A sonic ranging method for a mobile phone and a wireless earphone. Firstly, the mobile phone performs an acoustic response test on the wireless earphone. The mobile phone generates a first audio sequence at a first time slot. The wireless earphone recognizes the first audio sequence to generate a second audio sequence. When the mobile phone recognizes the second audio sequence, the mobile phone estimates a length of elapsed time according to the time difference between a current time slot and the first time slot. When the mobile phone obtains the length of elapsed time, a distance between the wireless earphone and the mobile phone may be determined according to a delay compensation parameter and the length of elapsed time. Various potential applications can be implemented based on the invention without the needs for additional hardware circuits in the mobile phone.

Abstract: A light-emitting module and a display device, for use in mitigating the problems in the prior art that light-emitting modules have light shadow, non-uniform light emitting, and great thicknesses. The light-emitting module is configured to provide a light source for a display panel. The light-emitting module comprises: a light-emitting substrate, the light-emitting substrate being provided with a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in an array; and an optical film group, the optical film group being located on a light-emitting side of the light-emitting substrate, the optical film group at least comprising a diffusion plate, and the orthographic projection of all the light-emitting elements on the light-emitting substrate on the diffusion plate falling within the diffusion plate. At least a partial area of the light-emitting substrate is in direct physical contact with the diffusion plate.

Abstract: A method of selectively commissioning a node device by a coordinator device in a network created by the coordinator device is disclosed. The coordinator device and the node device interact with each other to check and confirm that a coordinator temporal indication related to a commissioning start time recorded by the coordinator device and a node temporal indication related to a commissioning start time recorded by the node device are the same or temporally very similar or close to each other. Then the coordinator device will commission the node device by joining the node device into the network created by the coordinator device. The ensures that only wanted or expected node devices will be joined into the network created and managed by the coordinator device.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for authenticating a wireless module. A method comprises the steps of: (i) generating (1332), by the wireless module (112A), a first encryption value, and retrieving a unique identifier of the wireless module from memory; (ii) verifying (1334), by the wireless module, the generated first encryption value and retrieved unique identifier; (iii) sending (1336), by the wireless module, the retrieved unique identifier and a second encryption value to the gateway (110A); (iv) verifying (1338), by the gateway, the received unique identifier and second encryption value, wherein verifying the second encryption value authenticates the wireless module; (v) sending (1340), by the gateway, a third encryption value to the wireless module; and (vi) verifying (1342), by the wireless module, the received third encryption value, wherein verifying the third encryption value authenticates the gateway.

Abstract: A node device (4) in a network (1) of communicatively interconnected node devices (4) having limited data processing and storage resources, such as a mesh network (1) of node devices (4), receives an inquiry message of the type ‘find the best match’ for information to be located at a node device (4). The inquiry message comprises benchmark data relating to the information to be located. The receiving node device updates the message based on a comparison of the content in the latest received message and the node's locally stored information. The locally stored information is derived from previous received messages from other node devices (4) in the network (1) and information available at the receiving node device. When no update is required, no message is broadcasted by a node device (4) and the local copy at the node devices involved converges in a few broadcasts to a static content from which the information sought can be located in the network (1).

Abstract: In a network (1) of communicatively interconnected (9) node devices (2-8), such as a Zigbee™ enabled mesh network, application data, such as data from or to sensors (12-17) operatively connected (17; 18) to the node devices (2-8), are periodically exchanged by attaching the application data to periodically exchanged operational messages that are to be transmitted by a node device (2-8) in the network (1), such as the link status command messages according to the Zigbee protocol.

Abstract: The invention provides a live time-shifted video play-continuing method during disconnection and an IPTV player. The method comprises: connecting to a network to obtain a data stream of a video; playing the data stream through a player to obtain a play starting time of the video; acquiring a played duration of the video when the network is disconnected; acquiring a time point of playing interruption of the video according to the play starting time and the played duration when the network is connected again; and returning to the time point through the player, and continuing to play the video at the time point. The beneficial effects of the invention are as follows: directly performing the breakpoint continuous playing of the live time-shifted video from the network disconnection time point after the network is reconnected.

Abstract: A portable refrigerator includes a main housing, a refrigerator cover, a cooling mechanism, a rechargeable battery pack and a control unit. The cooling mechanism includes heat exchanging tubes, a compressor, an evaporator and a condenser connected to the evaporator and the compressor. The rechargeable battery pack is detachably attached on a power compartment of the main housing. The control unit is supported in the main housing and electrically connected to the rechargeable battery pack and the cooling mechanism for centrally controlling an operation of the cooling mechanism. A to predetermined amount of refrigerant is arranged to controllably pass through the heat exchanging tubes, the condenser, the evaporator and the compressor for extracting heat from the accommodating cavity.

Abstract: A node device (4) in a network (1) of communicatively interconnected node devices (4) having limited data processing and storage resources, such as a mesh network (1) of node devices (4), receives an inquiry message of the type ‘find the best match’ for information to be located at a node device (4). The inquiry message comprises benchmark data relating to the information to be located. The receiving node device updates the message based on a comparison of the content in the latest received message and the node's locally stored information. The locally stored information is derived from previous received messages from other node devices (4) in the network (1) and information available at the receiving node device. When no update is required, no message is broadcasted by a node device (4) and the local copy at the node devices involved converges in a few broadcasts to a static content from which the information sought can be located in the network (1).

Abstract: A portable refrigerator includes a main housing, a refrigerator cover, a cooling mechanism, a rechargeable battery pack and a control unit. The cooling mechanism includes heat exchanging tubes, a compressor, an evaporator and a condenser connected to the evaporator and the compressor. The rechargeable battery pack is detachably attached on a power compartment of the main housing. The control unit is supported in the main housing and electrically connected to the rechargeable battery pack and the cooling mechanism for centrally controlling an operation of the cooling mechanism. A to predetermined amount of refrigerant is arranged to controllably pass through the heat exchanging tubes, the condenser, the evaporator and the compressor for extracting heat from the accommodating cavity.

Abstract: The invention provides a live time-shifted video play-continuing method during disconnection and an IPTV player. The method comprises: connecting to a network to obtain a data stream of a video; playing the data stream through a player to obtain a play starting time of the video; acquiring a played duration of the video when the network is disconnected; acquiring a time point of playing interruption of the video according to the play starting time and the played duration when the network is connected again; and returning to the time point through the player, and continuing to play the video at the time point. The beneficial effects of the invention are as follows: directly performing the breakpoint continuous playing of the live time-shifted video from the network disconnection time point after the network is reconnected.

Abstract: A portable refrigerator includes a main housing, a refrigerator cover, a cooling mechanism, a rechargeable battery pack and a control unit. The cooling mechanism includes heat exchanging tubes, a compressor, an evaporator and a condenser connected to the evaporator and the compressor. The rechargeable battery pack is detachably attached on a power compartment of the main housing. The control unit is supported in the main housing and electrically connected to the rechargeable battery pack and the cooling mechanism for centrally controlling an operation of the cooling mechanism. A predetermined amount of refrigerant is arranged to controllably pass through the heat exchanging tubes, the condenser, the evaporator and the compressor for extracting heat from the accommodating cavity.

Abstract: A portable refrigerator includes a main housing, a refrigerator cover, a cooling mechanism, a rechargeable battery pack and a control unit. The cooling mechanism includes heat exchanging tubes, a compressor, an evaporator and a condenser connected to the evaporator and the compressor. The rechargeable battery pack is detachably attached on a power compartment of the main housing. The control unit is supported in the main housing and electrically connected to the rechargeable battery pack and the cooling mechanism for centrally controlling an operation of the cooling mechanism. A predetermined amount of refrigerant is arranged to controllably pass through the heat exchanging tubes, the condenser, the evaporator and the compressor for extracting heat from the accommodating cavity.

Abstract: The invention provides a mesh network bridging device adapted to allow a resource restricted device to pass and/or receive signals from a mesh network. The mesh network bridging device is operable over both a first communication channel, so as to communicate with the resource restricted device, and a second communication channel, so as to communicate with the mesh network. The mesh network bridging device is adapted to switch between a first and second mode of operation, associated with the first and second communication channel respectively, so as to alternately communicate with the resource restricted device and the mesh network bridging device. The mesh network bridging device may thereby act as a bridge between the resource restricted device and the mesh network bridging device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for operating a communication apparatus in a network comprising a plurality of communication nodes, upon reception of a message at the communication apparatus, the communication apparatus starting a retransmission delay being selected at random from a retransmission delay interval, said retransmission delay interval being dependent on at least one of a status of the communication apparatus and a property of the received message, the communication apparatus monitors retransmissions of said message by other communication nodes during said retransmission delay and the communication apparatus transmitting a retransmission of said message at the expiry of said retransmission delay if a statistic based on the retransmissions of said message by other communication nodes is below a threshold.