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The present invention relates to a method for constituting a merge candidate list by using a view synthesis prediction (VSP) and the like in multi-view video coding. The method for constituting the merge candidate list according to the present invention comprises the steps of: determining a prediction mode for a current block; inducing, as a merge candidate, motion information from neighboring blocks of the current block when the prediction mode for the current block is a merge mode or a skip mode; and constituting the merge candidate list by using the motion information of the neighboring blocks and the deep parity information induced from the neighboring blocks of the current block.

A liquid-tight slide fastener, wherein a pair of right and left coil-like coupling element rows, through which a core thread is respectively passed, is attached by sewing along opposing side edges of a pair of right and left fastener tapes, the fastener tapes having a liquid-tight layer on one surface thereof, and the core thread is coated with a water repellent agent or oil repellent agent. Consequently, even if water or oil invades into a space portion in the coupling element rows through a joint portion in the liquid-tight slide fastener, the core thread repels the water or oil, thereby blocking a further invasion of water or oil, and exerting excellent water repellency or oil repellency without provision of a water stop flap.

A water-based ink that comprises a liquid medium containing water, a water-dispersible coloring material and a surfactant, wherein when the ink is attached onto a recording material, the water-dispersible coloring material forms a plurality of minute interspersed aggregations and is fixed on the recording material, and a recording method using the ink.

A computer-assisted method includes hardware, software and telecommunications components that cooperatively achieve the technical effect of an improved electronic purchasing transaction system. In various embodiments of the invention, at least one master account is established for a client. A pool of limited use account identifiers or secondary account identifiers, that are separate and distinct from the master account, is associated with the master account by a purchasing system or account management system. Each of the limited use account identifiers may be used by the client to purchase items from merchants.

An apparatus for performing real-time analysis of a subterranean formation fluid includes a light source configured to transmit at least a sample signal through a sample of the subterranean formation fluid and a reference signal, at least one photodetector configured to continuously detect the sample and reference signals, and an electronics assembly configured to compensate for drift in the detected sample signal in real-time based on the value of the detected reference signal.

The present document discloses a method, apparatus and system for processing feedback information. The method includes: the first transmission node receiving a signal of a data shared channel, and determining data transmission level indication information of a transport block according to the signal; and the first transmission node transmitting the data transmission level indication information corresponding to the transport block to a second transmission node.

A material comprising a novolac resin having a C₆-C₃₀ aromatic hydrocarbon group substituted with a sulfo group or an amine salt thereof is useful in forming a photoresist undercoat. The undercoat-forming material has an extinction coefficient sufficient to provide an antireflective effect at a thickness of at least 200 nm, and a high etching resistance as demonstrated by slow etching rates with CF₄/CHF₃ gas for substrate processing.

A communication terminal of the present invention includes: (i) judgment section for whether or not a hidden identifier hidden from the user and assigned fixedly and uniquely to each communication terminal or the like is included in response data transmitted from another communication apparatus in reply to transmission of connection request data including data requesting connection with the communication apparatus; and (ii) response data generating section for generating, in later calls in cases where the hidden identifier is judged to be included in the response data, reply data including (i) the hidden identifier assigned to the communication terminal and (ii) the hidden identifier received from the communication terminal.

An antenna module is provided. The antenna module includes a radiator, a feed pin, a ground element, a first parasitic arm, a second parasitic arm and an impedance matching unit. The radiator includes a first section and a second section, wherein an end of the first section is connected to the second section, and the first section is perpendicular to the second section. The feed pin is connected to another end of the first section. The first parasitic arm is parallel to the second section, wherein an end of first parasitic arm is connected to the ground element, and the first parasitic arm couples with the second section of the radiator. The impedance matching unit is connected to the second section and the ground element. The second parasitic arm is partially parallel to the first section, and the second parasitic arm couples with the first section of the radiator, and an end of the second parasitic arm is connected to the ground element.

A smaller-sized, more lightweight, and power-saving successive magnetic pulse device is provided. A discharging circuit section K is configured by connecting, in series in a loop, a magnetic therapy pulse coil 6 configured to generate an eddy current in a target part 3, a charging/discharging capacitor 4, and a switching semiconductor element 7 configured to supply a discharge current from the charging/discharging capacitor 4 to the pulse coil 6. A step-up transformer 1 includes a primary-side coil 1a connected to an AC power supply 2 and a secondary-side coil 1b connected to input terminals 5a of a full-wave rectifying circuit 5. A control unit 8 is connected to a switching semiconductor element 7 and controls conduction timing of the switching semiconductor element 7. The full-wave rectifying circuit 5 has output terminals 5b connected to both terminals P1 and P2 of the charging/discharging capacitor 4, respectively. An inductor 9 is connected between the output terminal 5b of the full-wave rectifying circuit 5 and the terminal P1 of the charging/discharging capacitor 4.

A heat dissipation device and a radio frequency module with the same are provided. The heat dissipation device includes a substrate (1). The substrate (1) having a surface where a heat absorbing surface (5) is formed. There are multiple hollow conduits inside the substrate (1) to act as evaporating conduits (6). The heat dissipation device further comprises condensing conduits (7) intercommunicated with the evaporating conduits (6). The evaporating conduits (6) and the condensing conduits (7) form sealed conduits. The sealed conduits are filled with liquid which vaporizes upon heating. At least the evaporating conduits (6) are set in the substrate (1).

A cooling unit for a power tool comprises a fan wheel (10) to be supported on an armature shaft (3) of a motor (1) of the power tool. The cooling unit comprises a torque transfer means as well as an actuating means (20, 22) for actuating this torque transfer means so as to selectively transfer the rotation of the armature shaft (3) to the fan wheel (10) during operation of the power tool.

The invention relates to a degassing centrifugal apparatus such as a pump and to a process for pumping and degassing a fluid. The apparatus has a rotatable hollow rotor connected to a stationary fluid inlet at one end and a stationary liquid outlet at the opposite end and a gas exhaust in the center thereof. The rotor has at its inlet end a bladed wheel with arcuate blades. The bladed wheel accelerates a fluid flow in said rotor inlet end and causes the fluid to rotate at a peripherical velocity higher than the peripherical velocity of said rotor inlet end. The apparatus is especially useful for pumping and degassing backwater in the production of paper or board in a paper machine.

A re-learning method includes: a step of learning an SVM by using a set of training samples for initial learning which have known labels; a step of perturbation-processing the training samples for initial learning; a step of using the perturbation-processed sample as a training sample for addition; and a step of re-learning the learned SVM by using the training sample for initial learning and the training sample for addition. For the training samples for initial learning to be perturbation-processed, a training sample obtained by removing a training sample for initial learning corresponding to a non-support vector, a training sample corresponding to a support vector existing on a soft margin hyperplane, etc., may be used.

A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device 10 includes forming a plurality of second conductive second semiconductor regions at specific intervals on one main surface of a first conductive first semiconductor region, the plurality of second conductive second semiconductor regions being opposite to the first conductive first semiconductor region, forming a plurality of the first conductive third semiconductor regions on a main surface of the second semiconductor region, the plurality of the first conductive third regions being separated from each other, forming a plurality of holes at specific intervals on an another main surface which faces the one main surface of the first semiconductor region, the plurality of holes being separated from each other, forming a pair of adjacent second conductive fourth semiconductor regions which are alternately connected at a bottom part of the hole within the first semiconductor region, and burying an electrode within the hole.

A power generation unit driver, a power generation unit and energy output equipment in a power grid are described. The power generation unit driver includes a drive controller for generating a drive signal according to a first control signal and a second control signal obtained thereby, a converter for transforming the input energy from a first voltage into a second voltage according to the drive signal and outputting the same to an electric motor connected to the power generation unit driver. The first control signal runs condition information of the electric motor, and the second control signal includes the power grid frequency and/or the voltage amplitude of the power grid. The concept produces improved effects on the stability of power supply by a power grid.

A plurality of stepped parts which have step surfaces facing an upstream side in a rotating axial direction of a structural member are provided in a tip portion of a blade, and seal fins which extend toward a circumference surface of each of the stepped parts and form small clearances between the seal fin and the circumference surface corresponding to the each of the stepped parts is provided in the structural member. Also, lengths from the small clearance to the step surface on the upstream side along the rotating axial direction of the structural member are set such that one of the stepped parts on the downstream side is smaller than the other one of the stepped parts on the upstream side.

A water-cooling head and a method for making the same. A first cover and a second cover form a water-cooling head. An intake pipe and a drainpipe extend from both ends of the first cover. A plurality of heat-conducting particles is fixedly provided inside of the second cover and irregularly stacks to form a flowing path microstructure. The outside of the second cover has a contacting surface for absorbing the heat generated by the heat source and conducting the heat to the heat-conducting particles. When the cooling liquid enters the water-cooling head via the intake pipe, the flowing path microstructure disturbs the flow of the cooling liquid to prolong the staying time of the cooling liquid within the water-cooling head. In this way, the cooling liquid can be sufficiently heat-exchanged with the heat-conducting particles and then drains out from the drainpipe.

A liquid-cooling heat sink includes a base, a cover and a heat exchanger. The cover has an intake pipe and an exhaust pipe. The heat exchanger includes heat-dissipating plates overlapping with each other. Each heat-dissipating plate has dividing strips. Any two adjacent dividing strips define a through-hole. Both ends of each heat-dissipating plate are provided with a notch respectively. Each heat-dissipating plate overlaps with adjacent one heat-dissipating plate in a head-to-tail manner, so that the two notches of each heat-dissipating plate form an intake notch channel and an exhaust notch channel respectively. The dividing strips form an intersecting structure on upper and lower sides of each through-hole respectively to thereby define a multi-direction sub-channel. The cooling liquid flows from the intake notch channel into the multi-direction sub-channels and exits via the exhaust notch channel. In this way, the heat-exchanging efficiency and heat-dissipating effect are improved.

An optical lens for image pickup, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side along the optical axis comprising: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens element with negative refractive power; a third lens element with refractive power; a plastic fourth lens element with positive refractive power having biconvex surfaces with at least one aspheric surface; and a plastic fifth lens element with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface, with at least one aspheric surface and at least one inflection point. By such arrangements, the optical lens for image pickup satisfies conditions related to shorten the total length and to reduce the sensitivity for use in compact cameras and mobile phones with camera functionalities.

A character display technique relating to computer information processing to improve the display of characters. Whether a thickening process on a glyph outline corresponding to a character to be displayed is needed is determined by calculating a mean grayscale value of pixels of a grayscale bitmap of the glyph outline. if thickening is to be performed, the thickening amount is determined on the basis of the mean grayscale value of pixels, and the thickened glyph outline is output for display, thereby minimizing problems of fading of the displayed color, fuzzy strokes and the like due to strokes that are too narrow, and thus improving the character display effect.

A boundary microphone, comprising: a base made of a metal; a cover made of a metal having a plurality of holes for introducing sound waves; and internal components including a microphone unit that is disposed in an internal space enclosed by the base and the cover; a first metallic part disposed on one side of the upper and lower sides of the internal components; and a second metallic part, which is disposed on other side of the upper and lower sides of the internal components and which encloses the internal components along with the first metallic part from all directions, are provided, wherein the base, the cover, the first metallic part, and the second metallic part are alternately overlapped at their peripheral portions, and wherein at least one of the first metallic part and the second metallic part is made of a metallic mesh.

A flash charging protection circuit and a control method thereof adapted to a charging circuit coupled to a power supply are provided. An analog-to-digital converter receives a feedback voltage output from the charging circuit and an input voltage output from the power supply. A power voltage detection module detects whether the input voltage is abnormal or not. A charging state detection module detects whether a rising curve of the feedback voltage is abnormal or not. If a controller receives a power abnormal signal or a charging state abnormal signal, the controller disables a pulse width modulation signal generator to produce a pulse width modulation signal.

A memory cell with one transistor on a floating body region isolated by its lower surface by a junction. According to the present invention, the junction is non-planar and, for example, includes a protrusion directed towards the transistor surface.

A process for recovering hydrocarbons from an in situ formation. The process includes the steps of injecting solvent though an injection well into an underground extraction chamber having a hydrocarbon extraction interface, warming the hydrocarbons at the extraction interface to cause the hydrocarbons to flow downwardly by gravity drainage. Barrier gases naturally emerge in the chamber as a result of the extraction process and are removed from the extraction interface to improve heat transfer from said solvent to said interface. The last step is to recover liquids such as hydrocarbons and water through a production well. The invention provides a separate flow path to remove hydrocarbon gases from the chamber at a preferred location. The preferred location is near the top of the chamber where the accumulated barrier gases help to limit the heat loss and can also provide a barrier to help maintain chamber integrity and confinement.

The present invention relates to a vision inspection apparatus and method using total reflection mirrors. The present invention provides a vision inspection apparatus using the total reflection mirrors comprising; a board position control module for fixing a printed circuit board; an independent lighting unit for primarily illuminating the printed circuit board; a photographing position control module for changing a reflection angle to required location coordinates of the printed circuit board; a camera for obtaining an image of the printed circuit board; a control unit including a motion controller, a lighting controller, and an to image processor to control the components; and a vision processing unit for reading the image obtained through the camera and judging whether the image is good or bad. The present invention has effects capable of obtaining a clear image of inspection objects by increasing a quantity of light entered into the camera through a stationary direct illuminating type of independent lighting unit, and accomplishing a precise inspection by preventing shadows from generating on the vision inspection of the object such as a printed circuit board on which different sizes of components are mounted.

A regional dimming driving method for a display device is provided. The display device includes multiple backlight sources respectively corresponding to multiple display regions of the display device. The regional dimming driving method includes acquiring a brightness value of each display region according to input image data, processing and adjusting the brightness value of each display region to acquire an adjusted brightness value of regional dimming of each display region, and respectively driving the backlight sources according to the adjusted brightness values of regional dimming of the corresponding display regions. By processing and adjusting the brightness values of the display regions, display effects can be effectively provided.

A handheld scanning subsurface detector (1) has a handheld housing (4) which is designed to be guided at a predetermined distance over a wall surface (3) to be examined within a distance (A) from the wall, a sensor device (5) which is sensitive in the electromagnetic high-frequency range, and electromagnetically active shielding elements which shield the intervening distance (A) from the wall from the electromagnetic stray radiation in the high-frequency range, at least within a large circumferential area of a shielding contour (9) that surrounds the sensor device (5) externally.

The connecting structure of the check valve has a mounted water-blocking disk placed on the valve base of the check valve and using a pin connection, an inner wall of the valve having two chips, and through holes on the chips outside the valve base having a protruding part and through hole. The chips and the through holes and the through hole of the protruding part are made in one-piece to avoid extra process to avoid extra process and to avoid the poor effect or error, or waste the processing equipment and tools and time spent on processing. When the water-blocking disk is assembled with the pin, the related positions may be more precise, the movement of the water-blocking disk may be completed correctly and smoothly, and it would not have the problems such as being crooked, not closed and leaking.

A process of creating a retarder using thin-stretched polymer film to perfectly conform to a curved mold and achieving nearly-crystallized lamination thanks to minimized thickness of said retarder using PVA film; thus, achieving greatly-enhanced optical clarity, contrast, and 3-D effect during stereoscopic image viewing and greatly-reduced user discomfort. A 3-D stereoscopic viewing lens having a retarder film using a PVA film filled with a gap filling agent to create a refringent effect, a polarized film and a base material.