Abstract: Various systems and methods for providing a smart entry system are described herein. A smart entry system includes a detector to detect a person near a portal to a room; a transceiver to attempt to establish a wireless connection between the smart entry system and a user device associated with the person; and a user interface to present a notification to the person based on a state of the wireless connection.

Abstract: Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems for computer assisted or autonomous driving (CA/AD). An apparatus for CA/AD may include a sensor interface, a communication interface, and a driving strategy unit. The sensor interface may receive sensor data indicative of friction between a road surface of a current location of a CA/AD vehicle and one or more surfaces of one or more tires of the CA/AD vehicle. The communication interface may receive, from an external road surface condition data source, data indicative of friction for a surface of a road section ahead of the current location of the CA/AD vehicle. The driving strategy unit may determine, based at least in part on the sensor data and the data received from the external road surface condition data source, a driving strategy for the CA/AD vehicle beyond the current location of the CA/AD vehicle. Other embodiments may also be described and claimed.

Abstract: In one aspect, an apparatus comprises a housing forming an internal cavity and a supercritical fluid enclosed in the internal cavity. The housing is configured to thermally couple to a heat-generating component. The supercritical fluid comprises a fluid in a supercritical state. In addition, the supercritical fluid is configured to transfer heat away from the heat-generating component.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an arithmetic device is configured to receive M input signals each representing a two-state value and M coefficients to output an output signal representing a two-state value. The device includes a positive-side current source, a negative-side current source, M cross switches, a coefficient memory unit, and a comparator. The positive-side current source is configured to output a first voltage corresponding to a value of 1/L of the current output from a positive-side terminal. The negative-side current source is configured to output a second voltage corresponding to a value of 1/L of the current output from a negative-side terminal. The memory unit includes M cells corresponding to the respective M coefficients. The comparator is configured to output an output signal having a value corresponding to a comparison result of the first voltage with the second voltage. Each M cell includes a first resistor and a second resistor.

Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device, that includes a first housing and a wireless charging stand. The first housing can include a display. The wireless charging stand can include a power receiving unit and is configured to wireless charge the electronic device and support the first housing at different viewing angles of the display.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a plurality of memory nodes. Each of memory nodes includes a plurality of input ports, a plurality of output ports, a selector, a packet controller and a memory. The selector outputs a packet input to the input port to one of the output ports. The packet controller controls the selector. The memory stores data. The memory nodes are mutually connected at the input ports and the output ports. The memory node has an address that is determined by its physical position. The packet controller switches the output port that outputs the packet based on information including at least a destination address of the packet and an address of the memory node having the packet controller when receiving a packet that is not addressed to the memory node having the packet controller.

Abstract: Low-cost, easy-to-use alignment target generators for aligning a user's own face or eye to a camera or scanner are based on field-of-view visual feedback from a filtered or apertured planar light source. These approaches may be made agnostic to the scanner's operating system or other software. Alternatively, software on the scanner or its host device may create a solid light-colored section of an existing display screen to use as a planar light source. In some embodiments, the planar light source may be the virtual image of an object viewed in a plane mirror.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a memory system includes a memory and a computation unit. Into the memory, data are written. The memory stores therein multiple check matrices. Each of the check matrices is associated with the number of errors in the written data. The computation unit is configured to perform a first error correction on the written data by selectively using, from among the check matrices, a check matrix associated with the number of errors recognized in the written data.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a decoding device includes a variable node processor, a check node processor, a first forwarder, and a second forwarder. The variable node processor is configured to perform variable node processing on variable nodes defined by a code and output first messages. The check node processor is configured to perform check node processing on check nodes defined by the code based on the first messages and output second messages. The first forwarder is configured to forward one or more first messages remaining after excluding messages to be forwarded to one or more check nodes corresponding to one or more of the second messages having been stored in ae storage, to the check nodes. The second forwarder is configured to forward the second messages to the variable nodes and forward the one or more of the second messages to the storage.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a plurality of memory nodes. Each of memory nodes includes a plurality of input ports, a plurality of output ports, a selector, a packet controller and a memory. The selector outputs a packet input to the input port to one of the output ports. The packet controller controls the selector. The memory stores data. The memory nodes are mutually connected at the input ports and the output ports. The memory node has an address that is determined by its physical position. The packet controller switches the output port that outputs the packet based on information including at least a destination address of the packet and an address of the memory node having the packet controller when receiving a packet that is not addressed to the memory node having the packet controller.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to instruct movement based on sensor data. An example apparatus includes a sensor data receiver to receive sensor data from a sensor device, a preference receiver to receive a user preference, and a preference analyzer to: in response to determining that the sensor data indicates that the user preference is not met at a first location, determine if a second location has a condition that meets the user preference, and in response to determining that the second location has the condition that meets the user preference, transmitting a notification to instruct movement to the second location.

Abstract: Robots and apparatus, systems and methods for powering robots are disclosed. A disclosed conductive floor to power a robot on the floor includes a plurality of stationary conductors positioned in a pattern and a power delivery circuit to cause adjacent ones of the conductors to have different electrical potentials, the adjacent ones of the conductors to form a circuit to deliver power to the robot via contacts formed in a bottom surface of the robot.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating for direct attach dock cooling leveraging Maximum Silicon Junction Temperature (Tj) control are described. In an embodiment, performance of a mobile computing device is increased based at least in part on an indication that the mobile computing device is coupled to a dock. The dock includes a cooling fan proximate to a hotspot on a back skin of the mobile computing device. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: Systems and methods may provide for capturing one or more inbound wireless transmissions and identifying a remote user movement based on at least one of the one or more inbound wireless transmissions. Additionally, a local haptic output may be generated, by an actuator, based on the remote user movement. In one example, the actuator is a piezoelectric actuator.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to adjusting a flight path of a drone based on weather data are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes navigating, via a processor of a drone, according to a flight path; intercepting, via the processor of the drone, weather data identified by a weather source within a threshold range of the flight path; and when the weather data corresponds to undesirable weather data, adjusting, via the processor of the drone, the flight path to avoid a region corresponding to the weather source.

Abstract: Various systems and methods for providing a smart entry system are described herein. A smart entry system includes a detector to detect a person near a portal to a room; a transceiver to attempt to establish a wireless connection between the smart entry system and a user device associated with the person; and a user interface to present a notification to the person based on a state of the wireless connection.

Abstract: A memcapacitor according to an embodiment includes a first electrode, a first dielectric layer provided on the first electrode, a plurality of variable resistance portions provided separately from each other on the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer provided on the first dielectric layer and between the variable resistance portions, and a second electrode provided on the variable resistance portions and the second dielectric layer. Each of the variable resistance portions is formed of a material that allows diffusion of metal atoms constituting the second electrode to inside of the variable resistance portion, and the second dielectric layer is formed of a material that prevents diffusion of the metal atoms constituting the second electrode to inside of the second dielectric layer.

Abstract: Systems and methods may provide for capturing one or more inbound wireless transmissions and identifying a remote user movement based on at least one of the one or more inbound wireless transmissions. Additionally, a local haptic output may be generated, by an actuator, based on the remote user movement. In one example, the actuator is a piezoelectric actuator.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to IoT (Internet of Things) and/or cloud enabled faster ambulances are described. In an embodiment, an IoT device overrides an operating state of an illumination device based at least in part on a wireless signal that indicates approachment of a moving object. The IoT device then cancels the override of the operating state of the illumination device based at least in part on an indication that the moving object has crossed a location of the illumination device. In one embodiment, cloud-based logic determines whether and/or when the IoT device causes the override of the operating state of the illumination device. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: Various systems and methods for providing immersive gaming are provided herein. A portable computing system for providing an immersive experience comprises a display; a graphics unit to present the immersive experience to a user on the display; a communication subsystem to determine a resource level of a resource coupled to the portable computing system; wherein the graphics unit is to present a representation of the resource level to the user in the immersive experience; wherein the communication subsystem is to: detect that the resource was replaced with a replacement resource, the replacement caused by a real-world interaction with the resource by the user; and determine a replacement resource level of the replacement resource; and wherein the graphics unit is to present a representation of the replacement resource level in the immersive experience on the display.