Abstract: Ultrasonic audio processing circuitry and a method useful in ultrasonic presence detection. An ultrasonic burst generator produces an ultrasonic burst signal at one or more ultrasonic frequencies, and an equalizer equalizes that ultrasonic burst signal according to frequency response characteristics of the speaker and microphone at those ultrasonic frequencies. Driver circuitry drives a speaker with the ultrasonic burst signal, which may be combined with an audible audio signal. An ultrasonic separation filter separates an ultrasonic portion from a signal received at a microphone, and processing circuitry is provided to determine a delay time of an echo corresponding to the ultrasonic burst signal in that separated ultrasonic portion of the received signal. In another aspect, the equalizer equalizes an ultrasonic portion of the signal received at a microphone, according to frequency response characteristics of the speaker and microphone at the ultrasonic frequencies of the burst.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a chassis, aa body assembly coupled to the chassis, the body assembly defining a compartment, and a thermal event monitoring system comprising a sampling element configured to detect a thermal event associated with the vehicle indicating at least one of a fire or an overheating component. The thermal event monitoring system is configured to reroute the vehicle, in response to detecting the thermal event, to a safe location comprising one of (a) a service location, (b) a fire station, or (c) an area having a lower population density than a current location of the vehicle.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a device comprises a memory, which, in operation, stores data samples associated with a plurality of data sensors, and circuitry, coupled to the memory, wherein the circuitry, in operation, generates synchronized output data sets associated with the plurality of data sensors. Generating a synchronized output data set includes: determining a reference sample associated with a sensor of the plurality of sensors; verifying a timing validity of a data sample associated with another sensor of the plurality of sensors; identifying a closest-in-time data sample associated with the another sensor of the plurality of sensors with respect to the reference sample; and generating the synchronized output data set based on interpolation.

Abstract: A method at a vehicle computing device for identifying a driver, the method including receiving a first indicator at the vehicle computing device; obtaining, based on the first indicator, a presumed driver identity; receiving at least one second indicator at the vehicle computing device; and verifying the presumed driver identity using the at least one second indicator.

Abstract: A congestion rate calculation unit calculates a congestion rate in the cabin based on the number of recognized passengers. When the congestion rate is more than a predetermined congestion threshold, an in-vehicle display and an in-vehicle speaker are capable of giving an alighting notification that notifies the presence of a passenger who is alighting at the next stop and seat information of the passenger, and does not make an alighting notification when the congestion rate is less than or equal to the congestion threshold in the process of the passenger vehicle heading to the next stop.

Abstract: An ECU of a vehicle monitors a charging state when charging is started. When a charging power supplied from a multi-outlet charger has changed without detecting and receiving an abnormality, the ECU causes a notification device to notify the changed charging power and a charging time based on the changed charging power. The ECU notifies a communication terminal which is owned by a user of the changed charging power and the charging time based on the changed charging power.

Abstract: A commodity cart includes at least one storage tank and a transfer arm having a product chute, a tube portion coupled to the product chute. The tube portion ends in a product outlet. A hydraulic system is coupled to the transfer arm and configured to move the transfer arm to a product loading position wherein the product chute is positioned at a location on the ground. A controller is configured to determine a desired fill vehicle position and generate an indication of the desired fill vehicle position.

Abstract: An analog input device including at least one mounting panel and a matrix of analog push button assemblies mounted thereon. Each analog push button assembly including an analog pressure sensor including a pressure reception arrangement having an optical sensing sub-arrangement configured to measure an amount of light varied according to a pressure sensed at the pressure reception arrangement and an output terminal for outputting an analog signal corresponding to the amount of light measured, and a plunger element configured to exert the pressure on the pressure reception arrangement. The analog input device may include a multiplexer including an input side coupled to the push button assemblies and an output side; an analog-to-digital converter coupled to the output side of the multiplexer; a processor coupled to the analog-to-digital converter and configured to output a data packet; and a communication interface configured to transmit the data packet to a host computing device.

Abstract: An electric vehicle fastening and charging combined system for a charging and storage station, such as those used for bicycle or scooter sharing programs, where a multi-purpose cable extends between the charging and storage station and the electric vehicle, and serves to fasten the electric vehicle to the charging and storage station to prevent removal or theft of the electric vehicle, and to conduct electricity to charge the electric vehicle, and wherein the fastening and/or detaching of the cable is controlled by a wireless signal.

Abstract: A vessel docking system has a vessel such as a scow and/or a tugboat, a platform such as a barge and/or a dredger, an optical distance measuring means, a vessel display unit, and a control means. The vessel display unit is configured to display a position and a location of the vessel and/or the platform. The optical distance measuring means is in communication with the vessel display unit. The optical distance measuring means includes a sensor, a laser, and lens. The optical distance measuring means is configured to determine a distance and a pathway between the platform and the vessel.

Abstract: Among other things, information generated by sensors of a mobile phone and indicative of motion of the mobile phone and state information indicative of a state of operation of the mobile phone are monitored. Based on the monitoring, distraction by a user of the mobile phone who is a driver of a vehicle is determined.

Abstract: A tag indicating an attribute of the tag by an electromagnetic wave reflection characteristic, the tag including a substrate (11), and a conductor pattern layer (12) formed on the substrate (11) and having first and second slots (13a) and (13b) disposed adjacent to each other, in which the first slot (13a) constitutes a first resonance element (13Qa) having a resonance frequency at a first frequency, the second slot (13b) constitutes a second resonance element (13Qb) having a resonance frequency at a second frequency higher than the first frequency, and when irradiation with the electromagnetic waves is performed, a Q value of a resonance peak appearing at the first frequency is higher than a Q value of a resonance peak appearing at the first frequency when the first slot (13a) alone constitutes a resonance structure of the tag.

Abstract: An RFID label includes: a substrate; a dipole antenna formed of a metal foil so as to have a predetermined antenna length and a predetermined antenna width, the dipole antenna being arranged on a surface of the substrate; an IC chip connected to the dipole antenna; and a separator temporarily adhered to an adhesive agent overlaid on the surface of the substrate on which the dipole antenna is arranged, wherein a tear off line cuts through the substrate and the dipole antenna, in at least a part of the dipole antenna, so as to extend along an antenna length direction and so as to be superimposed with the part of the dipole antenna.

Abstract: Systems and methods for enhanced directionality for portal detector stations are provided. The systems include a portal detector station, an overhead detector station, a controller operatively coupled thereto. In embodiments, the controller analyzes read events detected by the portal detector station to determine a set of RFID tags included in a pallet of objects. The controller also analyzes read events detected by the overhead detector station to determine a direction of travel for the RFID tags included in the set of RFID tags and/or to detect stray read events that resulted in RFID tags being erroneously included in the set of RFID tags.

Abstract: An avionic system for a rotorcraft includes a data source and an enhanced ground proximity warning system. The data source has terrain data and obstacle data stored therein. The enhanced ground proximity warning system can be selectively switched, by a pilot, to operate in either a normal mode or a desensitized mode. The enhanced ground proximity warning system receives flight data, retrieves terrain data and obstacle data from the data source, evaluates the retrieved terrain data and the obstacle data to determine variations in elevations of terrain and obstacles in predetermined area that is a predetermined distance ahead of the current position and along the flight path, and based at least in part on the determined variations, selectively generate a prompt that suggests that the pilot switch the ground proximity warning system to the desensitized mode.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture provide for systemic resource utilization analysis and management, such as employing a single-point sensor to detect or identify resource leakage at one or more other locations in a structure.

Abstract: A system may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receive a first indication indicative of presence of a person arriving at a location associated with a scheduled service. The process may also be configured to determine whether the first indication corresponds to an expected arrival time of the scheduled service. Additionally, the processor may receive activity data in response to determining that the indication corresponds to the expected arrival time. Further, the processor may receive a second indication indicative that the person has completed the scheduled service. Further still, the processor may determine whether the scheduled service is completed based at least in part on the activity data. Even further, the processor may transmit a service confirmation to a computing device associated with a property owner of the location in response to determining that the scheduled service is completed.

Abstract: A system and method for detecting, recording and communicating events involved in the care and treatment of cognitively impaired persons through detection, video recording, storage and communication. The system includes video cameras that typically begin recording upon detecting motion, a local computing unit at the care location that detects alerts, and a cloud or other remote computing and transmission unit. The local computing unit aggregates, stores, processes, and transmits data including performing event detection through an artificial intelligence technique and generating appropriate alerts. The cloud computing aggregates data from many managed care communities, trains new convolutional neural networks from this data, distributes these networks to the local computing units to perform event detection, and provides a platform for various stakeholders to view the collected video data and generated alerts.

Abstract: Battery pack for use with a portable device, including colored LEDs for presenting a high granularity battery charge state, are disclosed. One embodiment includes a red and a green LED, wherein solid and blinking patterns are presented by the LEDs to correspond to a relative battery charge state. Other battery state indications, such as failure states, may also be presented on the colored LEDs.

Abstract: An advanced pedestrian warning or alert system is a system for automotive vehicles is described herein in various embodiments. This system detects if a vulnerable road user, for example a pedestrian, is at an unsafe distance from the moving vehicle. If a pedestrian is too close to the vehicle when the vehicle is in motion, then the system will issue auditory and/or visual warnings to notify the pedestrian back to safety.