Abstract: An electronic apparatus, a control device, an operating method of the electronic apparatus, and/or an operating method of the control device. An electronic apparatus may include a communication interface, a memory, and a processor, in which the processor may be configured to, based at least on identifying a control device that is communication-connected, control to transmit a wireless signal of a first intensity for power charging of the control device, based at least on detection of a predetermined event, change the wireless signal of the first intensity to/into a wireless signal of a second intensity that is greater than the first intensity, and control transmit the wireless signal of the second intensity to the control device, in response to the wireless signal of the second intensity being transmitted, receive a communication reconnection request from the control device, and in response to the communication reconnection request, control to establish a communication connection with the control device.

Abstract: In general a hydrogel-lipid-microparticle drug delivery matrix that is tunable and has the ability to deliver sustained release pharmaceutical and / or active agents. The hydrogel-lipid-microparticle drug delivery matrix being echogenic.

Abstract: A coil unit for a contactless power supply system includes a plurality of coils for electric power transfer, and a magnetic flux reduction structure. The plurality of coils include a first coil and a second coil adjacent to the first coil in a predetermined direction. The magnetic flux reduction structure reduces, during electric power transfer using the first coil, magnetic flux by which the first coil causes an induced voltage or induced current to be generated in the second coil.

Abstract: An array substrate is disclosed. By providing a plurality of transfer line units each including at least two parallel transfer lines, a fall time of the scan signals can be significantly reduced and a charging rate of each subpixel electrode can be increased, so that display image quality can be improved. A display panel and a display device each having the array substrate are further disclosed.

Abstract: Techniques for allocating investment deposits are described. A user can request that investment deposits to an existing account be allocated between investment accounts associated with the user's investment portfolio. The investment accounts can be of different asset classes (e.g., cryptocurrency, securities, commercial paper, fiat currency, non-fiat currency, etc.). The particular allocation amounts and/or percentages can be based on a machine-trained model.

Abstract: A display device including: a unit pixel area including a light blocking area on a substrate comprising a first light blocking area and a second light blocking area, the first pixel area comprises: a first color conversion layer on a light emitting element; and a first color filter on the first color conversion layer, the second pixel area comprises: a second color conversion layer on the light emitting element; and a second color filer on the second color conversion layer, the third pixel area comprises: a transmissive layer on the light emitting element; and a third color filter on the transmissive layer, the first light blocking area overlaps the first color filter, the second color filter, and the third color filter, and the second light blocking area overlaps two color filters selected from the first color filter, the second color filter, and the third color filter.

Abstract: Disclosed are a thin-film transistor and a preparation method therefor, and a display substrate and a display panel. The thin-film transistor includes: a base substrate; an active layer located on the base substrate; and a source-drain electrode which is located on the side of the active layer facing away from the base substrate, and includes an electrode layer and a protective layer, where the material of the electrode layer includes a first metal element; the protective layer covers the surface of the side of the electrode layer facing away from the base substrate, and a side face of the electrode layer; and the material of the protective layer is an oxide of the first metal element.

Abstract: A method may include providing a humidification-dehumidification unit proximate one or more abandoned wells, circulating a water feed through the one or more abandoned wells, using geothermal heat in the one or more abandoned wells to heat the water feed, directing the heated water feed to the humidification-dehumidification unit, and treating the heated water feed in the humidification-dehumidification unit to provide purified water.

Abstract: Technologies for secure I/O data transfer include a computing device having a processor and an accelerator. Each of the processor and the accelerator includes a memory encryption engine. The computing device configures both memory encryption engines with a shared encryption key and transfers encrypted data from a source component to a destination component via an I/O link. The source may be processor and the destination may be the accelerator or vice versa. The computing device may perform a cryptographic operation with one of the memory encryption engines and bypass the other memory encryption engine. The computing device may read encrypted data from a memory of the source, bypass the source memory encryption engine, and transfer the encrypted data to the destination. The destination may receive encrypted data, bypass the destination memory encryption engine, and store the encrypted data in a memory of the destination. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: An energy storage system and a control method thereof, so that a voltage level of an energy storage module in the energy storage system can be flexibly matched and the energy storage module can be effectively controlled based on a voltage of a direct current bus, to implement a high response speed. The energy storage system includes a plurality of energy storage modules, and each of the plurality of energy storage modules is connected to the direct current bus. The energy storage module includes a plurality of battery clusters and a plurality of first direct current-direct current converters. The battery cluster is configured to provide a direct current to the first direct current-direct current converter, or store a direct current transmitted by the first direct current-direct current converter.

Abstract: An inventive through transmission connecting device for connecting a first component made of a light absorbing material to a second component made of a light transmissive material by means of a light transmission bonding technology. The connecting device includes a first tool mounted to a first support retaining the first component and a second tool mounted to a second support retaining the second component. The first tool and the second tool are movable with respect to each other and the first tool is at least partly made of or includes a layer of a thermal isolator having a high thermal resistance.

Abstract: An anode active material for a lithium secondary battery includes a carbon-based particle including pores therein, a silicon-containing coating layer formed at an inside the pores of the carbon-based particle or on a surface of the carbon-based particle, and a carbon coating layer formed on the silicon-containing coating layer. A full width at half maximum (FWHM) of an O1s peak of a surface measured by an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is 2.0 or more. A lithium secondary battery including the anode active material having improved initial discharge capacity and capacity efficiency is provided.

Abstract: A board to board positioning device includes a base including a shaft hole inside, two through hole arranged at two opposite sides perpendicular to the shaft hole and respectively mounted with a limiting ball, a connecting portion and a limiting portion respectively provided at two sides and two limiting grooves for aligning with the two through holes, and an adjustment knob including an operation space for the base to pass through, a sliding wall surface positioned against the through holes, a driving portion positioned against the limiting portion and a marking portion provided on the outside. The sliding wall surface has a pressing side and a retreating side used to push the limiting balls into and out of the through holes. The driving portion is protruded with locking protrusions that are used to rotate and slide along the limiting portion to enter and exit the limiting grooves.

Abstract: A supported metallocene catalyst can include a silica-based carrier and an aluminum alkyl halide, a cocatalyst compound, and a metallocene compound supported in the silica-based carrier. The aluminum alkyl halide is supported at higher rate on the surface of the silica-based carrier than inside the pores, and the cocatalyst compound is supported at higher rate inside the pores of the silica-based carrier than on the surface of the silica-based carrier. Such a supported metallocene catalyst can be prepared by: (i) supporting an aluminum alkyl halide in a silica-based carrier; (ii) supporting a cocatalyst compound in the silica-based carrier in which the aluminum alkyl halide is supported; and (iii) supporting a metallocene compound in the carrier in which the aluminum alkyl halide and the cocatalyst compound are supported. Such a supported metallocene catalyst can be used to polymerize polyolefins with excellent activity and polyolefin with a uniform powder morphology.

Abstract: A display panel may include a first area in which a plurality of pixels are disposed, and a second area having at least two pixel groups. Each of the at least two pixel groups may include at least one pixel, a light transmittance portion disposed between the at least two pixel groups to transmit light, and a hole formed to correspond to a boundary of the light transmittance portion. A cathode related to the at least one pixel may be disposed in at least a part of the hole.

Abstract: The invention relates to particles comprising a particular (aziridinyl hydroxy)-functional organic component. The invention further relates to mixtures comprising said particles. The invention further relates to aqueous dispersions comprising said particles. The invention further relates to aqueous compositions comprising said particles. The invention further relates to coating compositions comprising said particles. The invention further relates to aqueous coating compositions comprising said particles. The invention further relates to particles obtained by a process comprising—amongst others—the steps of providing an aqueous dispersion comprising a particular (aziridinyl hydroxy)-functional organic component. The invention further relates to a kit-of-parts comprising in one of its parts an aqueous dispersion comprising a particular (aziridinyl hydroxy)-functional organic component.

Abstract: The invention relates to a surgical tool and method for forming a pilot bore by inserting a guide wire into bone. The surgical tool is also constructed to insert a bone screw that is preloaded onto the surgical tool with a guide wire extending along the longitudinal axis of the bone screw. This construction allows the guide wire and the bone screw to be located and placed without removing the tool from the surgical site. More particularly, the device includes a cannulated hand grip and driving tool used for the rotation of a pedicle screw into bone. The rear portion of the hand grip includes a slide assembly that is suited to grip a guide wire. The slide assembly includes a T-handle to control the sliding movement of the guide wire. The rear surface of the slide is constructed to be impacted with a hammer or similar device.

Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms for generating an output voltage with a switched capacitor voltage converter (SCVR). In an embodiment, the SCVR comprises converter cores which are coupled in parallel via multiple buses including a first bus, which is to receive an input voltage, and a second bus with which the SCVR is to provide the output voltage based on the input voltage. A first converter core comprises a capacitor and a first hierarchical switch network (HSN) which is coupled between the capacitor and the multiple buses. The first HSN switchedly provides any of multiple conductive paths each between the capacitor and a different respective one of the multiple buses. Two or more of the conductive paths are each provided with at least one same switch circuit of the first HSN. In another embodiment, the first converter core comprises two HSNs which each have a respective branching tree topology.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured with a set of beamforming weights, each beamforming weight corresponding to a transmit beam of a set of transmit beams that may each include a same primary lobe and one or more different side lobes. The UE may then perform a beam training procedure to determine which transmit beams cause more or less interference at one or more nearby UEs. The UE may transmit signals using one or more of the transmit beams, and the nearby UEs may determine which transmit beams and corresponding beamforming weights cause more or less interference. The nearby UEs may then indicate those transmit beams or beamforming weights that cause more or less interference via different options.

Abstract: A device includes a semiconductor channel region and a gate structure. The semiconductor channel region is on a substrate. The gate structure is over the semiconductor channel region and comprises a gate dielectric layer, a first gate conductor layer, and a second gate conductor layer. The first gate conductor layer is over the gate dielectric layer. The first gate conductor layer includes oxygen. The second gate conductor layer is over the first gate conductor layer.

Abstract: A backpack-type assembly may include: a body; and a base member including a cooling port. The base member may include: a back plate attached to the body; and a harness attached to the back plate and configured to be worn on a user. The harness may include: at least one shoulder belt configured to be worn on a shoulder of the user; and a cooling fan. The cooling fan may be configured to circulate cooling air into or out of the base member through the cooling port of the base member.

Abstract: Disclosed is a manual tool outputting torque bidirectionally.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may measure a beam, according to a measurement configuration, to determine a channel condition value of the beam, modify the channel condition value based at least in part on at least one of one or more beam characterizations, a derivation of a beamforming gain value, or an estimation of the beamforming gain value, and transmit, to a base station, a measurement report indicating the modified channel condition value. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: A valve arrangement for a pressurized fluid source includes a valve housing comprising an inlet, an outlet, and a main fluid channel extending along a longitudinal axis of the valve housing. The valve arrangement further includes a spool and a regulating poppet valve coaxially located in the main fluid channel. The spool and a regulating poppet valve are both configured to translate along the longitudinal axis of the valve housing independent of each other. In response to the spool moving to an open position, the poppet valve regulates the flow of a pressurized fluid flowing from the inlet to the outlet of the valve housing.

Abstract: A fluidic chip includes at least one nanochannel array, the nanochannel array including a surface having a nanofluidic area formed in the material of the surface; a microfluidic area on said surface; a gradient interface area having a gradual elevation of height linking the microfluidic area and the nanofluidic area; and a sample reservoir capable of receiving a fluid in fluid communication with the microfluidic area. In another embodiment, a fluidic chip includes at least one nanochannel array, the nanochannel array includes a surface having a nanofluidic area formed in the material of the surface; a microfluidic area on said surface; and a gradient interface area linking the microfluidic area and the nanofluidic area, where the gradient interface area comprises a plurality of gradient structures, and the lateral spacing distance between said gradient structures decreases towards said nanofluidic area; and a sample reservoir capable of receiving a fluid in fluid communication with the microfluidic area.

Abstract: Described is an apparatus which comprises: a first die including: a processing core; a crossbar switch coupled to the processing core; and a first edge interface coupled to the crossbar switch; and a second die including: a first edge interface positioned at a periphery of the second die and coupled to the first edge interface of the first die, wherein the first edge interface of the first die and the first edge interface of the second die are positioned across each other; a clock synchronization circuit coupled to the second edge interface; and a memory interface coupled to the clock synchronization circuit.

Abstract: New and innovative systems and methods for calibrating and correcting sensors associated with a collaborative robot are disclosed. An example system comprises: at least one robotic arm; a sensor affixed to a location on the robotic arm, wherein the sensor measures force and torque across six degrees of freedom (6DOF); a processor; and memory. The system may receive, from the sensor, sensor input in real-time that indicate a measured force or torque. The system may generate, in real-time, sensor corrections that correspond to offset, linear, and non-linear deviations of the measured force in each sensor axis. The sensor corrections may correspond to offset, linear, and non-linear cross-coupling of the measured force between two or more sensor axes. The sensor corrections may be determined by applying offset, linear, and non nonlinear corrections to each degree of freedom (DOF) from every other DOF.

Abstract: The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions and a method of inhibiting metastasis using anti-ROR1 antibodies or antigen binding fragments, ROR1 binding peptides and ROR1 vaccines.

Abstract: A recording head comprises a write pole extending to an air-bearing surface. A near-field transducer is positioned proximate a first side of the write pole in a down-track direction. A heatsink structure is proximate the near-field transducer and positioned between the near-field transducer and the write pole. The heatsink structure extends beyond the near-field transducer in a cross-track direction and extends in a direction normal to the air-bearing surface.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a battery contains a phosphazene compound (A) that contains at least one of a phosphazene compound represented by Formula (1) or a phosphazene compound represented by Formula (2). In Formulae (1) and (2), each of Y? and Z? independently represents an anion in which a proton is removed from an inorganic acid or an active hydrogen compound; each of twenty-four Rs independently represents a hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms; and, among the twenty-four Rs, two Rs bonded to the same nitrogen atom are optionally bonded to each other.

Abstract: A honeycomb plugging apparatus that reduces slumping of the plugging patty. Honeycomb plugging apparatus includes a plugging head having an open-ended cavity formed from an end wall and a peripheral wall, and a support substructure provided in the open-ended cavity. Methods of plugging and manufacturing honeycomb bodies using the honeycomb plugging apparatus are provided, as are other aspects.

Abstract: Various embodiments illustrated herein disclose a container unloader device. The container unloader device comprises a platform to receive a container, wherein the container comprises a package. The container unloader device also comprises a front panel configured to move between a raised orientation and a lowered orientation, wherein when the front panel being is in the raised orientation, the front panel is orthogonal with respect to the platform, and when the front panel is in the lowered orientation, the front panel and the platform form a continuous surface. The platform can be pivoted from a first angle to a second angle, that is greater than the first angle. The package leans against the front panel the front panel is in the raised orientation. The package is released on a surface of a conveyor when the front panel is in the lowered orientation.

Abstract: A lift gate apparatus includes a movable conveyor device and a bracket. The movable conveyor device is configured to transition between a conveying position and a non-conveying position. The bracket configured to bridge a gap between the movable conveyor device and a fixed conveyor device, wherein the bracket pivots and slides over the fixed conveyor device when the movable conveyor device is transitioned from the conveying position to the non-conveying position.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media relate to a method for audio super resolution. The system receives an audio signal. When the sampling rate of the audio signal is below a sampling rate threshold or the frequency range of the audio signal is below a frequency range threshold, the audio signal is input to an audio super resolution model comprising a machine learning model. The audio signal is processed by the audio super resolution model to generate a synthetic audio signal with a wider frequency range than the frequency range of the audio signal.

Abstract: An electrokinetic device is configured as a dynamic lens cover and/or filter for an imaging assembly, e.g., of a mobile device, to selectively allow electromagnetic radiation to pass through a lens of the imaging assembly when the dynamic lens cover is in a first operating state or to prevent electromagnetic radiation from reaching the lens of the imaging assembly when the dynamic lens cover is in a second operating state. The electrokinetic device includes transparent first and second substrates, and a compaction trench surrounding the lens of the imaging assembly. The compaction trench stores pigment when the dynamic lens cover is in the first operating state. In the second operating state pigment is dispersed within a carrier fluid between the first and second substrates.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating a spatialized audio output based on a listener position, the apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain two or more audio signal sets; obtain a listener position within an audio environment, wherein the audio environment includes one or more area having one or more inside and outside regions in relation to the respective audio signal set positions; obtain metadata based on a processing of the at least two audio signals; determine, for the listener position within an audio environment outside the inside region, a second listener position; determine modified metadata for the second listener position based on the metadata; determine at least two modified audio signals for the second listener position based on the at least two audio signals; determine spatial metadata for the listener position; and output the at least two modified audio signals and the spatial metadata.

Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable media are described for using a vehicle as a payment device. Various aspects may include receiving a selection of a stored financial card or financial account at a vehicle head unit. The selected financial card or financial account may be transmitted to a point-of-sale (POS) terminal for making a payment by transmitting a tokenized card number to the POS terminal. The tokenized card number may be transmitted over a very short-range communication link to ensure that the transmission is secure. For example, electronic circuitry may be attached to the exterior of the vehicle, where the electronic circuitry may be within a threshold distance (e.g. one inch, three inches, six inches, one foot, three feet, etc.) of the POS terminal. The tokenized card number may be transmitted from the vehicle head unit to the electronic circuitry and then to the POS terminal.

Abstract: A first electronic component, such as a sensor having opposed first and second surfaces and a first thickness, is arranged on a support member with the second surface facing towards the support member. A second electronic component, such as an integrated circuit mounted on a substrate and having a second thickness less than the first thickness, is arranged on the support member with a substrate surface opposed the second electronic component facing towards the support member. A package molding material is molded onto the support member to encapsulate the second electronic component while leaving exposed the first surface of the first electronic component. The support member is then removed to expose the second surface of the first electronic component and the substrate surface of the substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed is a pottery greenware material by which a pottery having both productivity and quality can be produced with a high degree of freedom depending on an intended use thereof. The pottery greenware material includes a first greenware material and a second greenware material; both the first greenware material and the second greenware material including, as chemical species, SiO2, Al2O3, and either one or both of K2O and Na2O; and an average particle diameter (D2) of the second greenware material being smaller than an average particle diameter (D1) of the first greenware material.

Abstract: An aerosol-generation article includes: an aerosol-generation substrate; and a temperature sensor including a dielectric material whose dielectric constant changes with a temperature. A Curie temperature of the dielectric material falls with a temperature range required by the aerosol-generation substrate for forming aerosols. In an embodiment, the Curie temperature of the dielectric material ranges from 200° C. to 450° C.

Abstract: A structural analysis computing device for determining structural characteristics of an object pictured in a three-dimensional (3D) image may be provided. The structural analysis computing device may include a memory, a user interface, an object sensor configured to capture the 3D image of the object, and at least one processor in communication with the memory and the object sensor. The processor may be configured to access the 3D image including the object, automatically determine a first plurality of measurements of the object from the 3D image, and display the 3D image on the user interface. The processor may be further configured to generate a data file including the 3D image and the first plurality of measurements, and store the data file within the memory. The processor may also be configured to transmit the data file to an insurance server computing device for generation of an associated insurance claim form.

Abstract: A computer-implemented system is provided that includes at least one processor that is adapted to analyze a plurality of frames from a real-time video to identify frames during which an operator is interacting with an image device to examine areas of a patient. The at least one processor is further configured to generate, from the identified frames, data representations of a first area examined by the operator interacting with the image device and further generate data representations of one or more further areas examined by the operator interacting with the image device.

Abstract: A source and drain electrode are spaced apart by an optically exposed gate region above a surface photovoltage effect (SPV) bulk. A two-dimensional material is deposited upon the gate region. The gate region is activated by exposure to an ultrafast light pulse, which may be infrared or near-infrared, and may be a focused collimated laser pulse with a sub-picosecond width. The pulse causes electron-hole pair generation resulting in band bending in the SPV material, which generates an electric field within the 2D material, thereby modifying the electronic properties between source and drain via a field-effect. After passage of the pulse, conduction continues in the device until the conductive electron-hole pairs recombine during the SPV decay time. The two-dimensional material may comprise a crystalline atomic monolayer. The activation is repeatable with subsequent pulses, resulting in the device cycling on and off within timescales less than 200 picoseconds.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and related technologies for generating a network traffic map based on network traffic information and additional data are described. Network traffic information may be obtained from endpoints using an operating system (OS) interface, without an agent beinginstalled on the endpoints. A network traffic map may be generated forthe network based on the network traffic information.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to cantilevered imaging modality wearable optical systems that provide for optimal ergonomics coupled with vision enhancement and vision magnification. Methods of use, devices, and kits are also contemplated.

Abstract: A method for securing a wheelchair in a vehicle is provided, the method comprising: receiving, at a controller of a wheelchair securement system, wheelchair settings of a wheelchair to be secured in the vehicle; and based on the wheelchair settings, selecting from among one of three selections: a first mode of securing the wheelchair with a first wheelchair restraint alone; a second mode of securing the wheelchair with a second wheelchair restraint alone; and a third mode of securing the wheelchair with both the first wheelchair restraint and the second wheelchair restraint.

Abstract: A high permeability metal (mu-metal) shield is placed in close proximity of a main logic board (MLB) of a wearable device, such as an earbud, to reduce eNoise. Radio frequency current flow induced by an antenna radiator will flow over the MLB and its associated ground plane, including the mu-metal shield. To reduce an impact of the mu-metal shield on antenna performance, a coating process is done on the mu-metal shield, by developing a thin layer of high conductivity, low permeability copper or silver on top of the mu-metal.

Abstract: A processing system including at least one processor may gather first imaging data associated with an infrastructure item via at least a first imaging device, where the first imaging data represents a first condition of the infrastructure item, and gather second imaging data associated with the infrastructure item via at least a second imaging device, where at least one of the at least the first imaging device or the at least the second imaging device is mounted on a vehicle, and where the infrastructure item is visible from a road on which the vehicle operates. The processing system may then determine a second condition of the infrastructure item in accordance with the second imaging data, where the second condition comprises a potentially unsafe condition of the infrastructure item, and generate a report of the potentially unsafe condition of the infrastructure item in response to the determining.

Abstract: Systems and methods provide a generic factory class to determine one or more classes implementing an interface and/or derived from a base class in response to a call from an application factory class by retrieving a list of the one or more classes implementing the interface or derived from the based class, determining properties of each of the one or more classes, and return, based on the properties, a name of each of one or more of the one or more classes.

Abstract: A cashless mobile gaming system and method is described. A server includes a financial gaming passport module that operates an exchange that qualifies a financial transaction. A mobile application receives an exchange request input that is communicated to the financial gaming passport. Funding sources are then queried by the financial gaming passport to determine the available funds at each of the funding sources. A hold-fund request is generated by the funding source when the exchange request is approved by the funding source. The financial gaming passport associated with the server communicates that if a casino management system (CMS) issues a value to the mobile application disposed on the patron wireless device, then the financial gaming passport associated with the server certifies a casino reimbursement.