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A method and on-chip controller for enhancing semiconductor chip process variability and lifetime reliability through a three-dimensional (3D) integration applied to electronic packaging. Also provided is an on-chip reliability / variability controller arrangement for implementing the inventive method.

An image-processing device configured to process image data including at least one face image includes an image-input unit configured to input the image data, a face-detection unit configured to detect the at least one face image from an image frame of the input image data, an importance-determination unit configured to determine importance of each of the at least one detected face image, and a priority-determination unit configured to determine priority of each of the at least one detected face image based on the determined importance. The importance-determination unit determines the importance considering data on the size and position of the detected face image shown in the image frame, and a priority determined by the last time by the priority-determination unit.

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, devices, and media for carrying out medical diagnosis of ophthalmic diseases and conditions. Deep learning algorithms enable the automated analysis of ophthalmic images to generate predictions of comparable accuracy to clinical experts.

The computer-implemented electronic communication systems, methods, media and platforms improve electronic communication based workflow management by providing a software generating module to generate an electronic communication comprising a tag, a software receiving module configured to receive the electronic communication, a software responding module configured to respond to the electronic communication, whereby using the computer-implemented electronic communication systems, methods, media and platforms to generate the electronic communication, receive the electronic communication, and respond to the electronic communication improves electronic communication based workflow management.

Updated information presenting software creates a list of information source URLs provided with the index of importance determined by the frequency of access to the referring URLs in the past, and selects an information source URL with a high index of importance by an information source URL sorting section, and obtains data from a server computer by a network file access section. A file comparing section detects whether the contents of the data have been updated, and, when a tag information change detecting section detects a new link and a changed anchor character string, an output formatting section creates output HTML which displays the new link and the changed anchor character string together with the information source URLs in order of the index of importance and supplies the output HTML to a browser.

The invention provides a method for constructing a vertebral three-dimensional geometry and finite element mixture model, which belongs to the technical field of processing of medical images. The method comprises the following construction processes of: inputting a vertebral computer tomography (CT) image; performing three-dimensional reconstruction and three-dimensional cutting on the CT image to acquire a vertebral three-dimensional image set; establishing a three-dimensional geometric statistical model, namely defining and manually calibrating vertebral characteristic points, aligning and registering vertebral images, and training a sample set to acquire the statistical model; and generating a finite element model, importing the statistical model, generating a surface mesh model, and generating a volume mesh model, wherein the model can be directly imported into finite element analysis software for biomechanics analysis. By the method, a vertebral geometrical shape can be precisely described, the accuracy of finite element analysis results can be ensured, and the precision of vertebral models can be improved. The method is convenient to use, facilitates the scientific measurement of the shapes and the stress of vertebras and can be used for researches related to vertebral columns and the vertebras in the field of surgical medicine.

The present invention relates to a method for enhancing uniformity of metal oxide coatings formed by Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) or ALD-type processes. Layers are formed using alternating pulses of metal halide and oxygen-containing precursors, preferably water, and purging when necessary. An introduction of modificator pulses following the pulses of the oxygen-containing precursor affects positively on layer uniformity, which commonly exhibits gradients, particularly in applications with closely arranged substrates. In particular, improvement in layer thickness uniformity is obtained. According to the invention, alcohols having one to three carbon atoms can be used as the modificator.

A method of copying data includes receiving a command instructing copying of data from a source location in the memory die to a destination location in the memory die. The method includes determining if a criterion is met, including comparing a predefined parameter to a dynamic threshold. In response to determining that the criterion is met, the method includes executing the copying by moving the data from the source location in the memory die to the controller die and, after moving the data to the controller die, moving an error-corrected version of the data from the controller die to the destination location in the memory die. In response to determining that the criterion is not met, the method includes executing the copying by moving the data inside the memory die source location to the destination location without moving the data to the controller die.

An apparatus may include circuitry configured to control reproduction, at a head-mounted display device, of content, based on a determination of importance of an event occurring around the head-mounted display device.

A tubular luminaire efficiently utilizes the light of a line of high-brightness unlensed LEDs to reproduce the homogeneous appearance of a neon tube. The transparent tube has an annular cross-section suitable for cost-effective manufacturing by extrusion. The LEDs are mounted in a line on a circuit board that can be positioned either inside or outside the tube. Their light shines into a cylindrical groove, thereby entering within the material of the tube. Above the groove, the wall of the tube has a spiral shape that reflects the light laterally so that it stays within the annular tube for a considerable path length. Volume scattering by a low density of scattering inclusions causes the light to escape as a homogenous glow. Alternatively, mild surface scattering from the inside surface can be used.

An album creating apparatus for creating an album with an appropriate layout based on an image classification information and an image capturing time. The album creating apparatus according to an aspect of the invention includes: an image storage section that stores a plurality of images; an image classification information storage section that stores the image classification information in association with each of the images stored in the image storage section; a classification information importance calculating section for calculating the importance of the image classification information of the image stored in the image storage section; an image classification section that classifies the images stored in the image storage section based on the image classification information when the importance of the image classification information calculated by the classification information importance calculating section is higher than a predetermined reference value; a layout determining section that lays out the image classified by the image classification section into each region in an album; and a positional information inserting section for inserting into the layout region in which the image is laid out by the layout determining section, positional information indicative of the image classification information of the laid out image.

An encoded rhythmic pattern has several groups of velocity values, wherein the velocity values are sorted, such that the groups are included in sequence in an encoded rhythmic pattern. Now, the velocity values concentrated at the beginning of the encoded rhythmic pattern have a higher importance for characterizing the rhythmic gist of a piece of music than velocity values included in additional groups of velocity values. By using such an encoded rhythmic pattern, an efficient database access can be performed.

An apparatus for sound enhancement has at least two microphones (9) that provide a directional microphone array which is arranged to be pointed in the direction of a sound source. The directional microphone array thereby receives sound emitted by the sound source and generates sound signals. A processor (20) processors the sound signals generated by the microphone array to enhance the sound received by the directional microphone array from the sound source relative to other sound received by the directional microphone array. The processor (20) generates a corresponding enhanced signal (ES). Loud speakers (22) reproduce the enhanced signal as audible sound. Furthermore, sound suppression devices (7, 7a) are provided to suppress ambient should from reaching the eardrums of the user. This sound suppression acts in conjunction with the directional microphone array and the processor (20) which enhance the SOI to provide a listening environment in which the SOI is enhanced.

The invention relates to a video description method and system based on an information loss function, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining a training video, and obtaining the semantic information of each frame of a set training video; Inputting the semantic information of the training video into an LSTM-combined hierarchical attention mechanism model to obtain character description of thetraining video; According to the importance of each word in the character description to the expression video content, performing loss weighting on the words to obtain an information loss function, and taking the information loss function as an objective function to perform back-propagation gradient optimization on the hierarchical attention mechanism model to obtain a video description model; Obtaining a to-be-described video, respectively inputting the to-be-described video into the target detection network, the convolutional neural network and the action recognition network to obtain a setof target features, overall features and motion features of each frame of the to-be-described video as semantic information of the to-be-described video, and inputting the semantic information into the video description model to obtain character description of the to-be-described video.

A receiver operating with satellite navigation signals estimates its position by means of a multiplicity of signals each transmitted by another satellite. A subset of satellites is used to calculate the position estimation and checking the pseudoranges of all received satellite signals that did not contribute to this particular estimate with respect to their consensus with this estimate. The subset with the best consensus is determined by combining the subsets with respect to the consensus with all ranging sources in view. Consensus in this context refers to pseudoranges that coincide in a position solution in a consistent way. The satellites with a bias in pseudorange higher than a threshold are identified as faulty satellites, after knowing all consistent satellites. This identifying information is then used to exclude the faulty satellites for the determination of position, velocity, and time in the receiver.

A data structure, termed a pyramid, representing levels of data is disclosed. A method to produce the data structure is also disclosed. The pyramid data structure includes a series of levels, termed floors. In turn, the each floor is comprised of numerous cells. The data structure may be cached or can be stored in a file or database for run-time access by distributed applications.

A personal wearable communication and speaker entertainment system which provides improved quality audio response and which does not interfere with the wearer's activities or block environmental sounds is disclosed. The speaker system is connected to or in communication with a conventional source of audio signals, such as radio, tape player, CD player, cellular telephone or the like.

To provide a packet transmitter apparatus which can transmit contents protected by a content protection technique such as DTCP or the like, using packets such as IP packets which have become widespread.The packet transmitter apparatus includes a transmitting condition setting management unit (404) which extracts at least one of charge information, playback control information and copy control information of AV data from the inputted non-AV data or AV data and generates, based on the extracted information, encryption mode information indicating an encryption mode which becomes a condition at the time of transmitting the AV data; an encrypted data generation unit (406) which generates encrypted data by encrypting, based on the transmitting condition, the inputted AV data and adding encryption information headers based on the encryption mode information to the encrypted AV data; and a packet generation unit (403) which generates packets by adding packet headers to the generated encrypted data. The transmitting condition is to be determined as a combination of input terminal information, data format information and attribute information.

A transmission apparatus of the present invention includes an encoder unit configured to encode data including plural layers for each of the layers, a packetizing unit configured to generate a packet based on the data encoded by the encoder unit, a determination unit configured to determine transmission intervals at which the generated packet is transmitted for each of the layers, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the generated packet at the determined transmission intervals, wherein the transmission intervals are changed for each specified packet, where the change varies with each of the plurality of layers.

Determining search term weightings is disclosed, including: storing, in a search information log, a search query and corresponding information; generating a category distribution word list based at least in part on one or more stored search information logs; processing the category distribution word list based at least in part on a retrieved attribute word list; and determining a weighting corresponding to a search term associated with the processed category distribution word list. Using search term weighting is disclosed, including: receiving a subsequent search query; retrieving search term weightings corresponding to one or more search terms associated with the subsequent search query; searching indexed information using the one or more search terms associated with the subsequent search query; and ranking and presenting the indexed information corresponding to the one or more search terms based at least in part on the retrieved search term weightings.

A display apparatus for displaying a virtual image superposed upon a real world image, which can automatically set the focus of a lens to the virtual image, a virtual world image object having a high importance degree or a real world image object having a high importance degree. The display apparatus has a lens for capturing light from a real world, a lens state control unit for controlling a state of the lens including a focus, a storage unit for storing computer image data, a computer image generation unit for generating a computer image by using the computer image data stored in the storage unit in accordance with lens state information of the lens state and the like; and a synthesis display unit for synthesizing an image captured via the lens and the generated computer image and displaying a synthetic image.

A receiver operating with satellite navigation signals estimates its position by means of a multiplicity of signals each transmitted by another satellite. A subset of satellites is used to calculate the position estimation and checking the pseudoranges of all received satellite signals that did not contribute to this particular estimate with respect to their consensus with this estimate. The subset with the best consensus is determined by combining the subsets with respect to the consensus with all ranging sources in view. Consensus in this context refers to pseudoranges that coincide in a position solution in a consistent way. The satellites with a bias in pseudorange higher than a threshold are identified as faulty satellites, after knowing all consistent satellites. This identifying information is then used to exclude the faulty satellites for the determination of position, velocity, and time in the receiver.

Load shedding schemes for mining data streams. A scoring function is used to rank the importance of stream elements, and those elements with high importance are investigated. In the context of not knowing the exact feature values of a data stream, the use of a Markov model is proposed herein for predicting the feature distribution of a data stream. Based on the predicted feature distribution, one can make classification decisions to maximize the expected benefits. In addition, there is proposed herein the employment of a quality of decision (QoD) metric to measure the level of uncertainty in decisions and to guide load shedding. A load shedding scheme such as presented herein assigns available resources to multiple data streams to maximize the quality of classification decisions. Furthermore, such a load shedding scheme is able to learn and adapt to changing data characteristics in the data streams.

The present invention provides a method for performing a device-to-device (D2D) operation by a terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: determining priorities of a plurality of D2D operations when the plurality of D2D operations simultaneously occur on a plurality of carriers; and performing one D2D operation among the plurality of D2D operations, on the basis of the priorities, wherein the simultaneous occurrence of the plurality of D2D operations on the plurality of carriers comprises the simultaneous occurrence of the plurality of D2D operation on the plurality of carriers in the same time domain.

A document matching process section calculates feature points (e.g., the centroid) on the basis of an inputted document image, then selects a plurality of feature points from among the calculated feature points, and then calculates a hash value on the basis of the selected feature points. Then, on the basis of the calculated features, the document matching process section determines whether the document image is similar to a preliminary reference format (reference image). When it is determined as being similar, the document matching process section determines whether write-in is present in the document image, and then outputs a determination signal (a determination result indicating the presence or absence of write-in). In the determination of similarity of the document image, permission or non-permission for processing such as copying is determined more accurately than in the prior art.

The invention relates to the use of composition comprising free amino acids as a sole source of protein, a fatty acid source comprising long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, a carbohydrate source comprising digestible and indigestible carbohydrates, and milk protein free Bifidobacteria for treating a person suffering from (a) colic, congestion, runny nose, wheezing, vomiting, diarrhoea, bloody stools, mucus in stools, rash, eczema, gastroesophageal reflux, eosinophilic esophagitis or asthma; (b) cow's milk allergy and / or food protein intolerance; and / or (c) infections, wherein the indigestible carbohydrate is selected from a milk protein free source and the total composition is essentially free of intact proteins.