Abstract: Door locking apparatus, systems, assemblies, kits and methods are shown and described. In one example, a lock assembly may include a hosing, a locking blade, and a handle. The door locking apparatus may align with a door frame assembly including a door panel, to secure the door in a locked position. In some examples, the locking blade is adapted to slidably overlap at least a portion of a non-hinged edge of a door panel to resist opening of the door panel.

Abstract: A monosuit is provided which has a durable zippered drop seat which is easily opened or removed in various configurations. The zipper extends from the outer seam of one leg to the small of the lower back and to the outer seam of the opposite leg. The zipper incorporates the use of four cars which cooperate to allow the drop seat to be partially or fully removed. The zipper is connected to the body of the monosuit by a novel pair of semi elliptical elastic portions adjacent each side of the zipper. Each semi-elliptical portion is formed of an elastic material adjacent the generally semicircular path of the zipper, to resist stress resulting from various movements. An integrally formed flap is provided which protects the zipper and forms a protective pocket which may be easily accessed by the user.

Abstract: Electroacoustic drivers that can be utilized in loudspeaker systems that utilize drivers having a magnetic negative spring (MNS). The magnets of the MNS can be arranged for radial stability and/or to provide for linear magnetic forces. A variable reluctance device can be used to vary the resonant frequency of electroacoustic driver in response to a feedback signal.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for an image rectification system. An embodiment operates by receiving an image of a physical object comprising graphical data having an undefined perspective distortion. It is determined that an image transformation is to be performed on the received image. The image is provided to a neural network configured to generate a plurality of transformation parameters corresponding to the perspective distortion. The neural network is trained on a set of training data including a first set of images including objects having similar graphical data, to the received image, in a readable orientation, and a second set of images with a known perspective transformation. The image transformation is performed on the received image, based on the values for the plurality of transformation parameters, to generate a rectified image with the graphical data oriented within a readable threshold.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for photographing a vehicle are disclosed. A photographic tool is employed to produce real-time blending of a series of images of a static object where each of the individual images are illuminated under a different lighting condition with respect to the vehicle. The achieved effect is similar to what is experienced when looking at a painted surface from different perspectives. For example, paint problems, sheen differences, scratches, dents, and small dings may be visible when the vehicle is lit from a specific or correct angle.

Abstract: Implementations of a semiconductor device may include a photodiode included in a second epitaxial layer of a semiconductor substrate; light shield coupled over the photodiode; and a first epitaxial layer located in one or more openings in the light shield. The first epitaxial layer and the second epitaxial layer may form a single crystal.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for operating a computing device including: receiving, by one or more processors and from one or more sensors, sensor data corresponding to a user; receiving, by the one or more processors, demographic data corresponding to the user; determining a pattern of behavior of the user based on the sensor data and the demographic data; and determining, using a trained risk analyzer machine learning model, a risk score of the user based at least in part upon a test group associated with the pattern of behavior of the user. Other descriptions are enclosed.

Abstract: Systems, methods, articles of manufacture, and computer program products to generate decision trees are described. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method to generate a machine learning decision tree model may include, via at least one processor of a computing device, determining a set of numeric variables for each of the plurality of categorical variables, determining an event rate for each of the plurality of categorical variables, determining, using training data, a plurality of splits for assigning the plurality of categorical variables to nodes of the machine learning decision tree model, wherein the plurality of splits comprises a plurality of multi-categorical splits assigning multiple of the plurality of categorical variables to a single node based on the event rate, and accessing data to generate the machine learning decision tree model comprising a plurality of nodes, at least a portion of the nodes assigned one of the plurality of multi-categorical splits.

Abstract: An air delivery system for a vehicle comprises an HVAC system and an air duct fluidly coupled with the HVAC system. The air delivery system comprises a rail extending parallel to the air duct. The system comprises a module having a rail rider slidably coupled with the rail. The module defines an air inlet in selective fluid communication with the air duct. The module defines an air chamber in fluid communication with the air inlet. The module comprises an air register fluidly coupled with the air chamber. The air delivery system comprises a sensor that senses at least one of a distance between the module and the HVAC system; and an air flow therebetween. The air delivery system comprises a controller that controls the air flow based upon at least one of the measured distance between the module and the HVAC system and the air flow therebetween.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus connected with an operation apparatus including a first operation member whose input operation by a user is detected as information on a two-dimensional plane and a second operation member different from the first operation member. The information processing apparatus includes a determining section that determines a positional relation between the first operation member and the second operation member according to input operation on the operation apparatus in a predetermined mode, and a setting information registering section that causes the operation apparatus to store setting information including information regarding the positional relation between the first operation member and the second operation member.

Abstract: A restraint system includes a retractor housing, a webbing spool rotatably coupled to the retractor housing and defining an axis of rotation. a wire spool lockable to the webbing spool, an die fixed relative to the retractor housing, and a wire fixed to the wire spool and engaged with the die.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to cable sealing arrangements having features that facilitate cable insertion into the sealing arrangements. The present disclosure also relates to cable sealing arrangements adapted to accommodate cables of varying sizes and cable arrangements adapted to enhance effective sealing about cables.

Abstract: Flexible diffuse-reflective smart camber (FDRSC) devices are disclosed herein. The devices include UV-C lights sources and an irradiance chamber. The irradiance chamber is open on at least one end through which the plants to be treated are exposed to the UV-C irradiance. Further, the inner surfaces of the irradiance chamber are covered by or consist of a diffuse reflective material that passively intensifies and uniformly distributes the UV-C irradiance to penetrate plant canopies. Also described herein are autonomous vehicles for moving the FDRSC devices across fields of crops and other plants. which is controlled in real time by a dosing control system. Also described herein are methods of in-situ UV-C treatment of plants using the FDRSC devices.

Abstract: A restraint system includes a retractor housing; a spool rotatably coupled to the retractor housing and defining an axis of rotation; an inner torsion bar elongated along the axis of rotation and positioned coaxially in the spool; an outer torsion bar elongated along the axis of rotation, extending coaxially around the inner torsion bar, and positioned coaxially in the spool; an engagement member selectively engageable with the outer torsion bar; and a solenoid operable to move the engagement member into engagement with the outer torsion bar and out of engagement with the outer torsion bar.

Abstract: A dyslexia conversion system generates, via dyslexia conversion, dyslexia converted text for display via a display device, wherein the dyslexia conversion operates by: partitioning the set of characters into subsets of non-dyslexia-conflicting characters, wherein a union of the subsets of non-dyslexia-conflicting characters is the set of characters and wherein an intersection between each pair of the subsets of non-dyslexia-conflicting characters is a null set; assigning to each of the subsets of non-dyslexia-conflicting characters, at least one of a plurality of colors; mapping each character of the input text to a corresponding one of the subsets of non-dyslexia-conflicting characters; and generating the dyslexia converted text by rendering each character of the input text in accordance with the at least one of the plurality of colors assigned to the corresponding one of the subsets of non-dyslexia-conflicting characters.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a figurine perch that when placed on top of a non-flat oddly shaped display structure provides a secure and level surface so that at least one figurine can be placed for display. The figurine perch includes a platform with a plurality of platform holes and a raised contoured retaining ridge. Standoffs are affixed to the bottom of the platform and stabilizing mounts that include a leg segment and a rod segment are fitted into the standoffs in an adjustable manner. In exemplary embodiments, at least one of the leg segments can be a different length than the other leg segments, a gripping plug can be fitted into a recess in the surface-contacting end of the leg segment to abate slipping of the figurine perch, and light sources can be interconnected with and passes through at least some of the platform holes.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a display and storage stand for cross-country snow skis or cross-country roller skis. The display and storage stand includes a mounting bracket for attachment to a wall, an attachment bracket that extends from the mounting bracket, a ski bracket, that releasably connects to the mounting bracket and a support rod extending laterally across the ski bracket. The ski bracket includes frame members that define zones in which to receive at least a portion of the ski binding device of a pair of cross-country skis. The movable latch of the ski binding device releasably attaches to the support rod to position the base surface of the pair of cross-country skis between the attachment bracket and the support rod.

Abstract: Systems and methods for managing power consumption of device subsystems include a device which maintains one or more constraint metric tables for applications executable on the device. Each of the one or more constraint metric tables may specify respective power levels for subsystems of the device according to a respective application or an application type of the respective application. The device may determine to operate the device at a reduced power level for a first application, based on a condition for the device satisfying at least one of a thermal threshold criterion or a power threshold criteria when the device operates at full power level. The device may apply a constraint metric responsive to determining to operate at the reduced power level, to cause a subset of the plurality of subsystems to adjust a power consumption level according to a first constraint metric table corresponding to the first application.

Abstract: A wireless device receives, from a network element, a measurement assistance information for a performance measurement function of a multi-access packet data unit (MA-PDU) session. The measurement assistance information comprises a first field indicating that a first address, associated with a first access of the MA-PDU session, is for a first radio access technology; and a second field indicating that a second address, associated with a second access of the MA-PDU session, is for a second radio access technology. The wireless device sends, to a user plane function, at least one echo request to measure performance of at least one of the first access and the second access of the MA-PDU session. The wireless device receives at least one echo response from the user plane function.

Abstract: An end-of-line task system includes a plurality of bays each including a plurality of task stations and a task execution system for executing software-based tasks, a conveyor system for transporting the vehicle to and from the plurality of bays, and a task and vehicle management system. The task and vehicle management system includes a station module for collecting data from the task stations and for determining whether each of the task stations is available to receive the vehicle, an assignment module, and a transport module. The assignment module obtains a task request for the vehicle to perform a task. The assignment module assigns the vehicle to a selected bay based on the task request and to a selected task station based on availabilities of the task stations. The transport module operates the conveyor system to transport the vehicle to the selected bay and to the selected task station.