Abstract: A system and method for delivering promotional rewards to a customer mobile device comprising a promotional reward wheel, a media server, and messaging application operating on the customer's mobile device. A customer interacts with the promotional reward wheel and the system captures that interaction and responsive to the promotional reward that was won by the interaction, generates a message on the customer's mobile device with a means to claim the reward by sending the generated message to the appropriate message endpoint.

Abstract: A system for vehicle trajectory planning. The system may include a polarized camera system configured to generate polarized images of a roadway to be driven over with a vehicle, a prior controller configured to generate a prior for the roadway based at least in part on the polarized images, and a driving assistance system configured to provide a driving assistance according to the prior.

Abstract: A wireless device may be configured to perform a method. The method may include receiving, by the wireless device, configuration parameters indicating duration values for skipping physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring on a bandwidth part (BWP). The duration values can be from first values in response to the BWP having a first subcarrier spacing (SCS) and second values in response to the BWP having a second SCS, wherein each value of the second values is equal to multiplication of a respective value, of the first values, and a same granularity value. The method may further include receiving a downlink control information (DCI) indicating skipping PDCCH monitoring on the BWP for a time duration based on a duration value of the duration values. The method may additionally include skipping monitoring the PDCCH on the BWP for the time duration based on the DCI.

Abstract: The present invention provides oral solutions containing sotalol hydrochloride which advantageously avoid swallowing while providing with improved stability. The present invention also relates to methods of using the oral solutions for treatment of diseases and disorders, such as delay in reoccurrence of atrial fibrillation/atrial flutter and/or ventricular arrhythmias.

Abstract: A video wall and system is disclosed having a computer with a memory or access to a public or private cloud containing a video file and a processor for executing the video file and a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) tiles interconnected to one another and to the computer via wired or wireless transmission, each of the plurality of LED tiles configured to work together to display a video content generated from the video file that extends across all of the plurality of LED tiles. Upon user interaction or detection of a user, one or more of the plurality of LED tiles seamlessly transitions away from the video content to display a separate video content for interaction with the user.

Abstract: An agent that may assist a service provider of gaming services with registering/signing up users, with accepting funds/money from a user and depositing these funds in a gaming account of the user for the user to play games with, and/or with receiving requests from a user to withdrawal funds from the user's account and paying the user the withdrawn funds. The agent may also assist a user in obtaining a report of an account of the user, the account being associated with a service provider that provides gaming services.

Abstract: A mesh model of a 3D space is provided with improved accuracy by refining the locations of edges of objects in the space. The mesh model includes vertices which define surfaces of triangles. Triangles are identified which have two vertices in one plane and another, outlier vertex in another, adjacent plane. A line is fitted to the outlier vertices to define an edge of an object, and the outlier vertices are moved to the line, referred to as a mesh-based line. Texture data from images of the space can be used to further refine the edge. In one approach, gradients in grayscale pixels which correspond the vertices of the mesh-based line are used to define a grayscale-based line. The two line definitions can be combined or otherwise used to provide a final definition of the edge. The object can be measured based on the length and position of the edge.

Abstract: A computing system obtains text that includes words and provides the text as input to an emotional classifier model that has been trained based upon emotional classification. The computing system obtains a textual embedding of the computer-readable text as output of the emotional classifier model. The computing system generates a phoneme sequence based upon the words of the text. The computing system, generates, by way of an encoder of a text to speech (TTS) model, a phoneme encoding based upon the phoneme sequence. The computing system provides the textual embedding and the phoneme encoding as input to a decoder of the TTS model. The computing system causes speech that includes the words to be played over a speaker based upon output of the decoder of the TTS model, where the speech reflects an emotion underlying the text due to the textual embedding provided to the encoder.

Abstract: Examples relate to adjusting load power consumption based on a power option agreement. A computing system may receive power option data that is based on a power option agreement and specify minimum power thresholds associated with time intervals. The computing system may determine a performance strategy for a load (e.g., set of computing systems) based on a combination of the power option data and one or more monitored conditions. The performance strategy may specify a power consumption target for the load for each time interval such that each power consumption target is equal to or greater than the minimum power threshold associated with each time interval. The computing system may provide instructions the set of computing systems to perform one or more computational operations based on the performance strategy.

Abstract: A health and safety monitoring and alert system includes a main system and a detection system. The main system includes a processor, a storage medium, and a visualization system. The detection system is configured to detect health and safety information relating to occupants in a space and communicate the detected health and safety information with the main system by a network connection. The visualization system includes a display interface, and the display interface is configured to represent the health and safety information by at least one of using symbols, numbers, or colors.

Abstract: A system and method for automatically identifying a golf swing without any active participation on the part of the golfer is disclosed. The application program stored on and operating from an electronic device system uses data from a gyroscope and accelerometer to identify the golf swing. The system also automatically keeps statistics about the golfer's round of golf based on the GPS location of the identified swings.

Abstract: A roofing shingle has an upper surface, a lower surface, and a sealant material applied along the lower surface. A pressure relief channel is formed along the lower surface of the roofing shingle, with a release strip applied over the pressure relief channel. When the roofing shingle is paired with another roofing shingle in a stack, the sealant material of the roofing shingle is arranged in registration with the release strip and pressure relief channel of the other roofing shingle.

Abstract: According to some illustrative embodiments, a modular mounting system for mounting accessories on vehicles includes: a) a plurality of support members, each of said plurality of support members having i) a lower upright planar member configured to extend downward along a peripheral wall around a vehicle bed, ii) a cross planar member extending laterally from the lower upright planar member and configured to extend across the peripheral wall around the vehicle bed, and iii) an upper upright planar member extending upwardly from the cross planar member and configured to extend upwardly above a height of the peripheral wall around the vehicle bed; and b) at least one of: i) a removable cross-bar removably supported by a plurality of said upper upright planar members; and ii) a removable side panel removably supported by a plurality of said upright planar members.

Abstract: A lock tab washer includes a washer body, the washer body defining a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the washer body defining a hole therethrough; an edge tab extending from the first side of the washer body, the edge tab define a first section and a second section, the second section bent relative to the first section; a nut tab extending from the second side of the washer body, the nut tab bent relative to the washer body; and a wing extending from the nut tab, the wing bent relative to the nut tab.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. An apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry checks an inferable condition for a flag of a specific prediction mode for a current block before parsing the flag of the specific prediction mode for the current block from a coded video bitstream. The specific prediction mode is one of a plurality of inter picture prediction modes. When the inferable condition indicates that the flag is inferable, the processing circuitry infers the flag without parsing the flag from the coded video bitstream. When the inferable condition indicates uncertainty for inferring the flag, the processing circuitry parses the flag from the coded video bitstream. Then, the processing circuitry reconstructs the current block according to the specific prediction mode when the flag is indicative of an application of the specific prediction mode on the current block.

Abstract: The method includes first defining at least one channel within a first housing of a heater assembly, the at least one channel extending from a first end to a second end of the first housing, second defining a cavity in the first end of the first housing, third defining a first reservoir in the second end of the first housing, the at least one channel being in fluid communication with the first reservoir, and fourth defining an opening within a first wall within the first housing, the opening causing the first reservoir and the cavity to be in communication with each other.

Abstract: A semiconductive composite material comprising a non-polar organic polymer, a polar organic copolymer, and an electrical conducting effective amount of an ultra-low-wettability carbon black. Also a method of making the composite material; a crosslinked polyethylene product made by curing the composite material; manufactured articles comprising a shaped form of the inventive composite material or product; and methods of using the inventive composite material, product, or articles.

Abstract: A tying system or mechanism with at least one lace and a fastener element can be used with a boxing glove or a shoe to allow a user to secure the at least one lace around the boxing glove or shoe without a second person and/or without tying a knot. The tying mechanism can include a back-to-back hook and loop of a fastener element and can include or more locking mechanisms to anchor free ends of the one or more laces at the eyelets of the boxing glove or shoe. The tying mechanism can generate a force that is radial or lateral to a gap defined by flaps of the boxing glove or shoes.