Abstract: A contact hearing device includes a chassis, sulcus platform and umbo platform wherein the chassis is formed as a single continuous material, the sulcus platform is formed as a single continuous material, and the umbo platform is formed as a single continuous material. The chassis may include a receiver mount, a motor mount pocket and a central frame. The sulcus platform includes one or more registration features adapted to mate with at least a portion of the chassis, the umbo platform includes a drive post landing pad, the drive post landing pad including at least one alignment feature.

Abstract: A method and system for teaching an artificial intelligent agent includes giving the agent several examples where it can learn to identify what is important about these example states. Once the agent has the ability to recognize a goal configuration, it can use that information to then learn how to achieve the goal states on its own. An agent may be provided with positive and negative examples to demonstrate a goal configuration. Once the agent has learned certain goal configurations, the agent can learn an option to achieve the goal configuration and a distance function that predicts at least one of a distance and a duration to the goal configuration under the learned option. This distance function prediction may be incorporated as a state feature of the agent.

Abstract: A contact hearing device includes a chassis, sulcus platform and umbo platform wherein the chassis is formed as a single continuous material, the sulcus platform is formed as a single continuous material, and the umbo platform is formed as a single continuous material. The chassis may include a receiver mount, a motor mount pocket and a central frame. The sulcus platform includes one or more registration features adapted to mate with at least a portion of the chassis, the umbo platform includes a drive post landing pad, the drive post landing pad including at least one alignment feature.

Abstract: An absorbent component for a wound dressing, the component comprising a wound contacting layer comprising gel forming fibres bound to a foam layer.

Abstract: A method and system for teaching an artificial intelligent agent includes giving the agent several examples where it can learn to identify what is important about these example states. Once the agent has the ability to recognize a goal configuration, it can use that information to then learn how to achieve the goal states on its own. An agent may be provided with positive and negative examples to demonstrate a goal configuration. Once the agent has learned certain goal configurations, the agent can learn an option to achieve the goal configuration and a distance function that predicts at least one of a distance and a duration to the goal configuration under the learned option. This distance function prediction may be incorporated as a state feature of the agent.

Abstract: An absorbent component for a wound dressing, the component comprising a wound contacting layer comprising gel forming fibres bound to a foam layer.

Abstract: A method and system for teaching an artificial intelligent agent where the agent can be placed in a state that it would like it to learn how to achieve. By giving the agent several examples, it can learn to identify what is important about these example states. Once the agent has the ability to recognize a goal configuration, it can use that information to then learn how to achieve the goal states on its own. An agent may be provided with positive and negative examples to demonstrate a goal configuration. Once the agent has learned certain goal configurations, the agent can learn policies and skills that achieve the learned goal configuration. The agent may create a collection of these policies and skills from which to select based on a particular command or state.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include a method of aligning the elements of a tympanic lens, the method comprising the steps of: forming mold of a user's ear canal, including the user's tympanic membrane; digitally scanning the ear canal mold to create a digital model of the user's ear canal; using the digital data to size a chassis for the tympanic lens; manufacturing a chassis; manufacturing an ear canal mold, manufacturing an alignment tool, including a chassis alignment feature and a photodetector alignment feature; mating the ear canal mold and alignment tool; placing the chassis into the mold, using the alignment tool to fix the position of the chassis with respect to a model of the user's tympanic membrane and features thereof; mounting a microactuator and photodetector to the chassis; and using the photodetector alignment feature to position the photodetector prior to fixing the photodetector in place.

Abstract: A pair of phase shifted polygon primary windings, each of which are magnetically coupled to one of a pair of forked wye output windings providing a phase shifted pseudo multiple pulse output voltage waveform from the secondary output windings.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include a method of aligning the elements of a tympanic lens, the method comprising the steps of: forming mold of a user's ear canal, including the user's tympanic membrane; digitally scanning the ear canal mold to create a digital model of the user's ear canal; using the digital data to size a chassis for the tympanic lens; manufacturing a chassis; manufacturing an ear canal mold, manufacturing an alignment tool, including a chassis alignment feature and a photodetector alignment feature; mating the ear canal mold and alignment tool; placing the chassis into the mold, using the alignment tool to fix the position of the chassis with respect to a model of the user's tympanic membrane and features thereof; mounting a microactuator and photodetector to the chassis; and using the photodetector alignment feature to position the photodetector prior to fixing the photodetector in place.

Abstract: A system for communicating with a network of devices is disclosed. The system can include a control device configured to send a first digital communication using a network protocol. The system can also include a number of network devices communicably coupled to the control device, where each of the plurality of network devices is configured to receive the first digital communication using the network protocol. The system can further include a first communication channel communicably coupled to the control device and the plurality of network devices. The first digital communication sent by the control device can be sent to all of the network devices using the first communication channel. The first digital communication can be addressed to a number of recipient devices of the network devices.

Abstract: A method and system comprise providing means and method for producing, modifying, and/or exploiting the structure of a policy manifold. Each of the policies at least comprises information for mapping state and/or sensory information as input to action preferences as output. One or more processing units assign each of the policies a policy coordinate on a policy manifold. The policy coordinate may in part be determined by a dissimilarity matrix or other means for organizing the coordinates of the policies on the policy manifold according to the properties of the policies and the topology of the policy manifold. The policy manifold comprises a dimensionality that is lower than a combined dimensionality of the input and the output, wherein the policy manifold at least in part determines a behavior of the intelligent artificial agent.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a workspace are disclosed. In some aspects, a server provides, to a client computing device, access to a workspace, the workspace including one or more members and one or more content items, in response to verifying that the client computing device is associated with one of the one or more members of the workspace. The server provides, to the client computing device, within a display associated with the workspace, a first user interface element to initiate an online meeting with a first portion of the one or more members of the workspace or a second user interface element to join an ongoing online meeting with a second portion of the one or more members.

Abstract: A mass notification system is disclosed. The system can include a communication network. The system can also include a number of network devices communicably coupled to the communication network, where at least two of the network devices are configured to generate a communication substantially simultaneously. The system can further include a server communicably coupled to the communication network and configured to control the plurality of network devices, where the server instructs the at least two of the plurality of network devices to generate the communication. The system can also include a first client communicably coupled to the communication network and comprising a user interface, where the first client is configured to communicate, via the user interface, with the server and the plurality of network devices.

Abstract: A mass notification system is disclosed. The system can include a communication network. The system can also include a number of network devices communicably coupled to the communication network, where at least two of the network devices are configured to generate a communication substantially simultaneously. The system can further include a server communicably coupled to the communication network and configured to control the plurality of network devices, where the server instructs the at least two of the plurality of network devices to generate the communication. The system can also include a first client communicably coupled to the communication network and comprising a user interface, where the first client is configured to communicate, via the user interface, with the server and the plurality of network devices.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for calibrating a multi-beam satellite system comprising a beam forming network providing a plurality of signal paths, the apparatus comprising a calibration processor for determining the phase and amplitude shift of a test path relative to a reference path, the calibration processor being configured to determine the phase and amplitude shifts of the test path relative to the reference path for at least two calibration tones of at least two different frequencies to allow a phase and amplitude offset of the test path for a signal of any frequency within an operational frequency range of the multi-beam satellite system to be calculated.

Abstract: An absorbent component for a wound dressing, the component comprising a wound contacting layer comprising gel forming fibres bound to a foam layer.

Abstract: A beamforming system that can be used for both receive and transmit beamforming is provided. The system receives samples of a number of signals, each sample containing a band of frequencies and routes all sampled signals associated with the same beamformed frequency band to a predetermined processing block. A predetermined number of the routed sampled signals are selected sequentially according to predetermined criteria, weighted and accumulated to form a composite signal. Individual signals are then selected from the composite signal and routed to an appropriate output. The system uses a much smaller number of weighting functions than conventionally required, with processing for a single frequency being performed in the same processing block. This reduces the complexity of beamforming processing substantially and simplifies frequency reuse. In addition a single DSP design that works for both transmit and receive beamforming can be implemented.

Abstract: A digital signal processor that is required to process a large number of narrowband analog input or output signals. Analog processing is performed to combine multiple analog signals together (with non-overlapping frequency bands) into a composite signal which is fed to a single analog to digital converter. These signals come from different sources and would in a conventional implementation use individual converters. Analog signal processing is used outside of the digital signal processor and digital processing is used inside to enable the original analog signals to be reconstructed in the digital domain in the same format as if individual converters have been used.

Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for calibrating a multi-beam satellite system comprising a beam forming network providing a plurality of signal paths, the apparatus comprising a calibration processor for determining the phase and amplitude shift of a test path of the plurality of signal paths by correlating a calibration tone extracted from the test path with a reference calibration signal, the calibration processor being configured to determine the phase and amplitude shifts of the test path for at least two calibration tones of at least two different frequencies. The apparatus also comprises means for applying a correction based on the determined phase and amplitude shift to the test path in the beam forming network. The two calibration tones of at least two different frequencies may be calibration tones injected at two different frequencies but also calibration tones translated into two different frequencies by the beam forming network.