Abstract: An electronic device that includes a touch-sensing device having a plurality of touch sensors arranged in a pattern configured to detect user input at a plurality of angular orientations is disclosed. The user input may be a horizontal swipe across the touch-sensing device or a vertical swipe down a vertical centerline of the touch-sensing device. The plurality of touch sensors includes a first sensor, a second sensor, a third sensor, a fourth sensor, and a fifth sensor. The touch sensors are configured to detect, via at least three sensors, the user input for one or more angular orientations of a wireless earbud between 85 degrees Forward of an initial vertical position of the vertical centerline and 85 degrees rearward of the initial vertical position of the vertical centerline.

Abstract: A method includes receiving a training example that includes audio data representing a spoken utterance and a ground truth transcription. For each word in the spoken utterance, the method also includes inserting a placeholder symbol before the respective word identifying a respective ground truth alignment for a beginning and an end of the respective word, determining a beginning word piece and an ending word piece, and generating a first constrained alignment for the beginning word piece and a second constrained alignment for the ending word piece. The first constrained alignment is aligned with the ground truth alignment for the beginning of the respective word and the second constrained alignment is aligned with the ground truth alignment for the ending of the respective word. The method also includes constraining an attention head of a second pass decoder by applying the first and second constrained alignments.

Abstract: The technology provides for a power line communication system capable of providing data from a first device to a second device over a power line. The first device may include a set of contacts and a second device may include a second set of contacts. The second set of contacts may be adapted to electronically engage with the first set of contacts of the first device to form at least a power and ground lines connection. Circuitry within the first device and the second device may include circuitry for providing data over the power line connection between the first device and the second device. The circuitry may comprise a power line, a ground line, a transmitter line carrying data signals, a capacitor coupling the transmitter line to the power line at a connection point, and a receiver comprising two field effect transistors.

Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses directed at reducing intermodulation distortion effects in hearable devices. In aspects, an apparatus includes a first speaker and a second speaker disposed within a housing having an acoustic cavity adjacent to an aperture. The first speaker includes a first diaphragm facing the acoustic cavity and coupled to the housing by a forward roll surround. The second speaker includes a second diaphragm facing the acoustic cavity and coupled to the housing by a reverse roll surround. Intermodulation distortion effects that arise at the first diaphragm having the forward roll surround and the second diaphragm having the reverse roll surround are substantially offset by each other at the aperture.

Abstract: This document describes systems and techniques for a low-latency bridge to support out-of-order execution. The described systems and techniques can facilitate out-of-order execution by a memory controller of in-order transaction requests. When it receives transaction responses associated with in-order transaction requests, the bridge can send a first transaction response without storing it in a reorder buffer. Similarly, the bridge can determine whether a next transaction response is available to send to the respective client. The bridge introduces latency to a larger system (e.g., an SoC) only when a secondary response (e.g., not first) of in-order transaction responses is received first. In this way, the memory controller can process transaction requests from one or more clients with minimal latency introduced by the bridge and a smaller reorder buffer.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for navigating a user interface with a toolbar are provided.

Abstract: A display panel includes an array of pixels extending in a plane and arranged in rows, wherein a first plurality of the rows extend to an edge of the pixel array and one or more rows at a corner of the pixel array are recessed from the edge. The display panel includes driver circuits each connected to a corresponding row of the pixel array and occupying an area in the plane, the area having a long dimension and an orthogonal short dimension. A first set of driver circuits are connected to corresponding rows of the first plurality of rows and a second set of driver circuits are connected to corresponding rows at the corner of the pixel array. The long dimension of each of the drivers of the first set of drivers is greater than the long dimension of each of the drivers of the second set of drivers.

Abstract: A system and method of detecting display fit measurements and/or ophthalmic measurements for a head mounted wearable computing device including a display device is provided. The system and method may include capturing image data including a face of a user to be fitted for the head mounted wearable computing device. A three-dimensional head pose and gaze measurements may be extracted and a three-dimensional model may be developed from the captured image data. The system may detect display fit measurements and/or ophthalmic fit measurements from the three-dimensional model, and may provide one or more head mounted wearable computing devices that meet the display fit and/or ophthalmic fit requirements.

Abstract: Embodiments are provided for managing the operation of sensors in an electronic device. According to certain aspects, the electronic device may detect a change in motion from a set of lower-sensitivity sensor data generated by a sensor(s) operating in a lower-sensitivity mode. When the change in motion is detected and during a timeout window, the sensor(s) may generate an additional set of lower-sensitivity sensor data and a set of higher-sensitivity sensor data. The electronic device may initially confirm the change in motion based on analyzing the set of higher-sensitivity sensor data. Further, the electronic device may determine that the additional set of lower-sensitivity does not indicate an additional change in motion, and may deem the confirmation of the change in motion as a false positive.

Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses for handling radio resource control (RRC) cell group configuration. In implementations, a base station (120) receives a first radio resource control message that requests a connection procedure between a user equipment (110) and the base station (e.g., 325, 425, 1325), such as a radio resource control resume request or a radio resource setup request. In response to receiving the first radio resource control message, the base station (120) generates a second radio resource control message that includes a cell-group-configuration information element that excludes a reconfiguration-with-sync information element (e.g., 330, 430, 1330). The base station (120) then transmits the second radio resource control message to the user equipment (110) (e.g., 335, 435, 1345). Afterward, the base station (120) receives, from the user equipment (110), a third radio resource control message that indicates the connection procedure is complete (e.g., 340, 440, 1350).

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for speech recognition. One method includes obtaining an input acoustic sequence, the input acoustic sequence representing an utterance, and the input acoustic sequence comprising a respective acoustic feature representation at each of a first number of time steps; processing the input acoustic sequence using a first neural network to convert the input acoustic sequence into an alternative representation for the input acoustic sequence; processing the alternative representation for the input acoustic sequence using an attention-based Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) to generate, for each position in an output sequence order, a set of substring scores that includes a respective substring score for each substring in a set of substrings; and generating a sequence of substrings that represent a transcription of the utterance.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to voice activity detection (VAD) on wearable and other resource-constrained devices, to classify speech recorded by a microphone of the device as belonging to a wearer of the device versus another speech source. A computing device can include a microphone and an inertial measurement unit (IMU). The wearable device can use signals measured by the IMU for providing motion-tracking features, such as head tracking for augmented reality or virtual reality applications. Aspects of the disclosure provide for a device for leveraging existing data collected for these motion-tracking features for use in VAD. A device can pre-process data streamed from an IMU to use only signals predetermined to be indicative of whether or not a wearer of the device is speaking.

Abstract: A method includes receiving user input indicating a selection of a subset of two or more of a plurality of audio layers for media content to be provided to a user, each of the subset of audio layers corresponding to one or more audio sources, receiving second user input indicating volume levels for the two or more audio layers of the plurality of audio layers, capturing, based on the first user input, the two or more audio layers of the plurality of audio layers for a media content item to be provided to the user, and enabling audio playback based on the two or more audio layers of the plurality of audio layers and without including other audio layers of the plurality of audio layers, the audio playback reflecting the volume levels indicated by the second user input. The method further includes causing the media content item to be provided to the user using the audio playback reflecting the indicated volume levels.

Abstract: A method of testing a digital key is described that provides, from a digital key test manager device, standard digital key instructions for a computing device to send messages to a device under test; communicates, from the digital key test manager device, with the device under test to determine operations of the device under test as a result of the messages; and evaluates, at the digital key test manager device, the operations of the device under test to assess functionality of the digital key.

Abstract: A method for communicating location information to a device includes receiving, at a computer system that implements a social networking service, location information that represents a geographic location of a device associated with a first user; associating, by the computer system, the received location information with a profile associated with the first user; and sending, from the computer system to a device associated with a second user, a message that is generated based at least in part on the location information.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, synthesizing audio data from text data using duration prediction. One of the methods includes processing an input text sequence that includes a respective text element at each of multiple input time steps using a first neural network to generate a modified input sequence comprising, for each input time step, a representation of the corresponding text element in the input text sequence; processing the modified input sequence using a second neural network to generate, for each input time step, a predicted duration of the corresponding text element in the output audio sequence; upsampling the modified input sequence according to the predicted durations to generate an intermediate sequence comprising a respective intermediate element at each of a plurality of intermediate time steps; and generating an output audio sequence using the intermediate sequence.

Abstract: A mobile computing device includes an emissive display panel, where the panel is used as a grating, and spectrometer optics positioned behind/below the emissive display panel. A mobile computing device includes an emissive display panel and a spectrometer positioned below the emissive display panel. The emissive display panel includes a first periodic pattern of pixels that include one or more LEDs and a second periodic pattern of circuit elements that control the pixels, where the first and second periodic patterns are configured to diffract light received from outside the device, which passes through the emissive display, and where the diffraction is wavelength-dependent. The spectrometer is configured to detect intensities of different wavelength ranges of the diffracted light.

Abstract: This document describes techniques and apparatuses for handling radio resource control (RRC) cell group configuration. In implementations, a base station receives a first radio resource control message that requests a connection procedure between a user equipment and the base station, such as a radio resource control resume request or a radio resource setup request. In response to receiving the first radio resource control message, the base station generates a second radio resource control message that includes a cell-group-configuration information element that excludes a reconfiguration-with-sync information element. The base station then transmits the second radio resource control message to the user equipment. Afterward, the base station receives, from the user equipment, a third radio resource control message that indicates the connection procedure is complete.

Abstract: At least one aspect is directed to improving the performance of real-time verification of online identity. The issuer computing system can receive a request to generate a composite token, the composite token configured to authorize certain verifying parties to authenticate a first-party token comprising information about a client. The issuer can generate a composite token using cryptographic keys and distribute it to the client, who can distribute it to other content item networks. The verifying parties can receive the composite token from the content item networks, use a cryptographic key verify the authenticity of the token corresponding to the client device, and use the token to further process content item operations. The system can distribute the cryptographic keys prior to the generation and verification of the composite token, and as such allow the parties to verify the composite token in real-time without contacting outside verification parties.