Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for containers having mechanical secured door indicators. In one embodiment, an example container may include a first container wall, a second container wall, a third container wall, and a fourth container wall configured to move from an open position to a closed positon. The fourth container wall may include a first portion coupled to the second container wall, and a second portion coupled to the third container wall, where the first portion and the second portion are coplanar when the fourth container wall is in the closed position. The foldable container may include a bottom container platform having a machine-readable code, and a pivotable arm configured to cover the machine-readable code when the fourth container wall is in the closed position, and to uncover the machine-readable code when the fourth container wall is not in the closed position.

Abstract: A fault tolerant quantum computer is implemented using hybrid acoustic-electric qubits or electromagnetic qubits, as a few examples. A control circuit includes symmetrically arranged asymmetrically threaded superconducting quantum interference devices (ATSs) that excite phonons in a resonator by driving a storage mode of the resonator and dissipate phonons from the resonator via an open transmission line coupled to the control circuit, wherein the open transmission line is configured to absorb photons from a dump mode of the control circuit. The symmetric ATSs are arranged such that undesirable terms in respective Hamiltonians for the ATSs individually, cancel each other out when combined in the symmetric configuration.

Abstract: Generated instruction sequences captured from software interactions may be executed as part of formal verification of a design under test. Software-instructed commands to be performed to configure a design under test formatted according to an interface implemented by the design under test can be obtained. A sequence to perform the software-instructed commands may be generated to configure the design under test in a hardware design and verification language. The sequence may then be executed to perform the software-instructed commands to configure the design under test and then perform formal verification on the configured design under test.

Abstract: A device includes a housing, a camera at least partially disposed within the housing, one or more microphones at least partially disposed within the housing, and a printed circuit board (PCB) including a switch. The switch has a lever that is transitionable between a displaced position and a non-displaced position. A privacy cover couple to the housing and includes a rib disposed on an interior surface of the privacy cover. The privacy cover is transitionable between a first position in which the camera is obstructed and the rib is engaged with the lever to transition the lever to the displaced position, and a second position in which the camera is unobstructed and the rib is disengaged with the lever such that the lever is permitted to transition to the non-displaced position.

Abstract: Devices and techniques are generally described for key-value store having improved support for indexing and querying. The proposed system can expand query functionality by adding compound indexing. In some implementations, compound index may allow multiple simple key-value store queries (e.g., for multiple event types) to be replaced with a single query. In some implementations, compound index may allow for query filtering otherwise unavailable for the key-value store. The system may return results from the compound query in timestamp order and with appropriate pagination. Indexing may be updated dynamically; for example, manually via a self-service portal and/or automatically in response to frequent query combinations. The expanded query functionality can improve the efficiency and usability of, for example, an event timeline system.

Abstract: Techniques for cooperative timing alignment using synchronization pulses are described. The techniques can include generating, at an integrated circuit device, a timing signal, controlling a local count value based on the timing signal, monitoring a synchronization signal of a system comprising the integrated circuit device, detecting a synchronization pulse in the synchronization signal, and aligning the local count value with an implied count value associated with the synchronization pulse in order to align the local count value with those of other integrated circuit devices of the system.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for improving object detection frameworks. Proposed regions can be used to identify similar images from a novel image set. Once identified, a weighted average of the feature representations of the similar images and/or a probability distribution of the classification labels for those images can be generated. The weighted average of the feature representations and/or the probability distribution can be used to steer the predicted classification confidence and/or predicted bounding box coordinates of the object detection framework. The disclosed techniques can be easily integrated with the object detect framework to improve the accuracy of its predictions without adding additional trainable parameters so as to refrain from adding complexity to the learning process.

Abstract: A wearable device may compress the skin of a user when worn, which may affect values determined using sensors of the device. To determine the effect of skin compression on the values, a time-of-flight signal, images, or frames of video data that depict a portion of the body having indentations from wearing the device may be acquired. Characteristics of the images, such as shadows associated with the indentations, may be processed using a machine learning algorithm or mathematical function to determine a depth of various portions of the indentations. Depth data from the time of flight signal may be used to refine or modify these determined depths. The amount of skin compression associated with the indentations may be used to modify signals acquired using sensors, or output a recommendation for a band or other method for securing the device.

Abstract: Systems and techniques for optimizing deployment of a camera scanning system in an environment for item identification are described. An example technique involves obtaining a first set of parameters of the camera scanning system and obtaining a second set of parameters of the environment. A third set of parameters of a predicted scan volume of the camera scanning system are determined based on the first set of parameters and the second set of parameters. At least one of the first or second sets of parameters is modified upon determining that the predicted scan volume satisfies a first predetermined condition. An indication of at least one of the first, second, or third sets of parameters is transmitted upon determining that the predicted scan volume satisfies a second predetermined condition.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a first network device in a primary region that can failover network traffic into a second network device in a failover region. The first network device can receive routing criteria identifying how traffic originating in the primary region should be routed. The first network device can transmit this routing criteria to the second network device in the failover region. Based on determining the occurrence of a failover event, the first network device may transmit network traffic originating in the primary region to the second network device in the failover region. The second network device can determine how to route the network traffic based on the routing criteria of the primary region. In some embodiments, the second network device can determine how to route the network traffic based on the routing criteria of the failover region.

Abstract: A system configured to improve audio processing by performing dereverberation and noise reduction during a communication session. In some examples, the system may include a deep neural network (DNN) configured to perform speech enhancement, which is located after an Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) component. For example, the DNN may process isolated audio data output by the AEC component to jointly mitigate additive noise and reverberation. In other examples, the system may include a DNN configured to perform acoustic interference cancellation, which may jointly mitigate additive noise, reverberation, and residual echo, removing the need to perform residual echo suppression processing. The DNN is configured to process complex-valued spectrograms corresponding to the isolated audio data and/or estimated echo data generated by the AEC component.

Abstract: A schema and cell value aware Named Entity Recognition (NER) model is used to perform natural language queries. Natural language queries may be received via an interface of a natural language query processing system. A fuzzy search may be performed that allows non-exact matches for column names or cell values of data sets potentially used to answer the natural language query. An NER model that adds a type embedding for an exact match of a column name or cell found in the fuzzy search that corresponds to a span of one or more words may be applied as part of generating the entity prediction for the natural language query. One or more queries to at least one of the data sets may be performed to return a result to the natural language query using the entity prediction generated by the NER machine learning model.

Abstract: Techniques for guiding camera focusing using barcode images are described herein. In an example, a computer system receives an image of a calibration target having a center that is aligned with an optical axis of a camera that generated the image. The calibration target includes steps that are located at different depths with respect to a lens of the camera. The calibration target includes barcode sets. Individual barcodes of a barcode set have a barcode attribute. The computer system decodes the barcode sets in the image and determines a set of decoded barcodes of the barcode sets. The computer system determines, for individual steps, a sharpness metric based on the barcode attribute of individual barcodes of the set of decoded barcodes and determines an adjustment of a focal plane of the lens based on the sharpness metric for the individual steps.

Abstract: A storage object and an associated permissions record is stored at a storage server. The permissions record indicates that some storage consumers are not permitted to perform a type of I/O operation on the storage object. In response to detecting that an event of a deletion triggering type with respect to the records, a modified version of the permissions record is stored at the server, indicating that the storage consumers remain prohibited from performing the I/O operations. In response to receiving a command to perform a particular I/O at the server after the modified version has been stored, the modified version is used to process the command.

Abstract: Enhanced graphical user interfaces for transcription of audio and video messages is disclosed. Audio data may be transcribed, and the transcription may include emphasized words and/or punctuation corresponding to emphasis of user speech. Additionally, the transcription may be translated into a second language. A message spoken by a user depicted in one or more images of video data may also be transcribed and provided to one or more devices.

Abstract: A technique to program a compute channel having multiple computational circuit blocks coupled in series in a pipeline can include receiving a machine instruction for the compute channel. The machine instruction is decoded to obtain an opcode, and the opcode can be used as an index to access an opcode entry in an opcode table. The opcode entry contains a pointer to a microoperation, and the pointer can be used to access a microoperation represented by a control entry in a control table and a datapath configuration entry in a datapath table. The microoperation can then be issued to the compute channel by configuring the compute channel with the control entry and the datapath configuration entry.

Abstract: Systems and methods for processing a DNS query to identify and implement pre-processing information by a DNS server component in anticipation of a corresponding content request from a client computing device are provided. The pre-processing information can correspond to identification of content to be preloaded or other actions to be implemented by one or more computing devices in association with an anticipated client content request. Based on identification of the content or future actions, a DNS server component can provide the pre-processing information to one or more computing devices, such as computing devices of a CDN service provider and/or an original content provider, in advance of a corresponding request for content from the client computing device in order to improve performance associated with responding to the client request.

Abstract: Technologies directed to a hybrid-feed network of a parallel feed network and series-fed sub-arrays are described. The hybrid-feed network includes a parallel feed network and multiple groups of series-fed tiles, each tile including a beamforming integrated circuit (IC) and a set of antenna elements.