Abstract: A system and method for real-time transmission of a panoramic video, which propose a new grouping method and bitrate decision method specifically for a panoramic 360-degree video. The grouping method takes into account fields of view of different users, thus effectively reducing the bandwidth consumption of repeated video segments, while ensuring user fairness and making full use of network bandwidth resources when allocating resources. The system and method of the invention can maximize the long-term QoE of users under the condition of limited bandwidth, and avoid the problem that the existing schemes are complex and difficult to meet real-time requirements of users.

Abstract: A device and a method for nondestructively detecting a transient characteristic of a conductive screw of a turbo-generator rotor are provided. The device includes a personal computer (PC), an extremely-steep pulse generator, an ultra-high-frequency double-isolation transformer, and a pulse emitting and coupling module, which are connected in sequence. The pulse emitting and coupling module is connected to a load. A synchronous pulse receiving non-inductive divider circuit synchronously receives a characteristic waveform from the load, and the synchronous pulse receiving non-inductive divider circuit is connected to an ultra-high-speed analog/digital (A/D) module through a nonlinear saturation amplifying circuit that amplifies a signal. The PC receives a signal from the ultra-high-speed A/D module. The load includes a positive or negative excitation lead loop that is in a 180° symmetrical and instantaneous short-circuit state and a rotor shaft.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for vector-quantized image modeling using vision transformers and improved codebook handling. In particular, the present disclosure provides a Vector-quantized Image Modeling (VIM) approach that involves pretraining a machine learning model (e.g., Transformer model) to predict rasterized image tokens autoregressively. The discrete image tokens can be encoded from a learned Vision-Transformer-based VQGAN (example implementations of which can be referred to as ViT-VQGAN). The present disclosure proposes multiple improvements over vanilla VQGAN from architecture to codebook learning, yielding better efficiency and reconstruction fidelity. The improved ViT-VQGAN further improves vector-quantized image modeling tasks, including unconditional image generation, conditioned image generation (e.g., class-conditioned image generation), and unsupervised representation learning.

Abstract: A linker peptide for constructing a fusion protein. The linker peptide comprises a flexible peptide and a rigid peptide. The flexible peptide consists of one or more flexible units. The rigid peptide consists of one or more rigid units. The flexible unit comprises two or more amino acid residues selected from Gly, Ser, Ala, and Thr. The rigid unit comprises a human chorionic gonadotropin ?-subunit carboxy-terminal peptide (CTP) bearing a plurality of glycosylation sites. The linker peptide can more effectively eliminate mutual steric hindrance of two fusion molecules, decreasing a reduction/loss of polymerization or activity resulting from improper folding of an active protein or a conformational change. On the other hand, the negatively charged, highly sialylated CTP can resist renal clearance, further prolonging a half-life of a fused molecule and enhancing bioavailability of a fused protein.

Abstract: An electronic device may include a display and an enclosure. The enclosure may include a housing, a front cover coupled to the housing and comprising a front cover member positioned over the display, and a rear cover coupled to the housing and including a rear cover member. The rear cover member may be formed from a glass material including metal nanoparticles configured to impart color to the glass material and having a dielectric constant from 5.5 to 7.5 in a frequency band from 5 GHz to 45 GHz. The rear cover member may include a first portion defining a first thickness and characterized by a first color, and a second portion defining a second thickness, greater than the first thickness, and characterized by a second color, different from the first color.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing multi-modal inputs using contrastive captioning neural networks.

Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for pretraining image-processing models on weakly-supervised image-text pairs. The pretraining can include receiving a training sequence for the machine-learned image-processing model. The training sequence can include text tokens and image tokens. A prefix sequence can contain the image tokens. A remainder sequence can include a remainder set of the text tokens. The pretraining can include determining, using the prefix sequence as an input to the machine-learned image-processing model, an objective based on recovery of the remainder sequence. The pretraining can include updating one or more learnable parameters of the machine-learned image-processing model based on the objective.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating labeled training data using a pre-trained language model neural network. In particular, the language model neural network can generate the text input in a new labeled training example from an input sequence that includes (i) one or more context inputs and (ii) a text label that identifies the ground truth category for the new labeled training example.

Abstract: A device and a method for nondestructively detecting a transient characteristic of a conductive screw of a turbo-generator rotor are provided. The device includes a personal computer (PC), an extremely-steep pulse generator, an ultra-high-frequency double-isolation transformer, and a pulse emitting and coupling module, which are connected in sequence. The pulse emitting and coupling module is connected to a load. A synchronous pulse receiving non-inductive divider circuit synchronously receives a characteristic waveform from the load, and the synchronous pulse receiving non-inductive divider circuit is connected to an ultra-high-speed analog/digital (A/D) module through a nonlinear saturation amplifying circuit that amplifies a signal. The PC receives a signal from the ultra-high-speed A/D module. The load includes a positive or negative excitation lead loop that is in a 180° symmetrical and instantaneous short-circuit state and a rotor shaft.

Abstract: The present application provides an intelligent device, an intelligent speaker, and a method and system for controlling the same. The intelligent device includes a first sound detection module configured to detect a first sound signal directly reaching the first sound detection module; an angle determination module configured to determine a time difference between the receiving time of the first sound signal and the receiving time of the second sound signal, and determine a relative angle between the intelligent device and the intelligent speaker based on a distance between the first sound detection module and the second sound detection module and the time difference; and a transmitting module configured to transmit a notification message containing the relative angle to the intelligent speaker, so that the intelligent speaker directionally transmits a sound to the intelligent device based on the relative angle. Directional sounding based on relative angle calculation is realized.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a maltooligosyl trehalose synthase mutant with improved thermal stability, and belongs to the technical fields of enzyme engineering and protein engineering. The residual enzyme activities of the MTSase mutants S361R, S444E, S361R/S444E, S361K/S444E, G415P/S361R/S444E and G415P consistent with the present disclosure after treatment at 60° C. for 10 min are respectively 70.3%, 50.1%, 83.5%, 65.9%, 100% and 80.7%, which are respectively 1.6, 1.1, 1.9, 1.5, 2.3 and 1.9 times of that of the wild type. The half-lives of the S361R/S444E and G415P/S361R/S444E at 60° C. are respectively 14.9 min and 90.8 min which are respectively 3.2 and 19.7 times of that of the wild type, indicating that the thermal stability of the MTSase mutant consistent with the present disclosure is significantly improved than that of the wild type.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a maltooligosyl trehalose synthase mutant with improved thermal stability, and belongs to the technical fields of enzyme engineering and protein engineering. The residual enzyme activities of the MTSase mutants S361R, S444E, S361R/S444E, S361K/S444E, G415P/S361R/S444E and G415P consistent with the present disclosure after treatment at 60° C. for 10 min are respectively 70.3%, 50.1%, 83.5%, 65.9%, 100% and 80.7%, which are respectively 1.6, 1.1, 1.9, 1.5, 2.3 and 1.9 times of that of the wild type. The half-lives of the S361R/S444E and G415P/S361R/S444E at 60° C. are respectively 14.9 min and 90.8 min which are respectively 3.2 and 19.7 times of that of the wild type, indicating that the thermal stability of the MTSase mutant consistent with the present disclosure is significantly improved than that of the wild type.