Abstract: In one embodiment, a system captures a first frame and a second frame for an environment of an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) from at least a first and a second cameras mounted on the ADV. The system determines at least two points in the first frame having corresponding points in the second frame. The system determines distance and angle measurement information from the first camera to the at least two points and from the second camera to the corresponding points. The system determines actual positioning angles of the first and second cameras with respect to an orientation of the ADV based on the distance and angle measurement information and pixel information in the first and second frames. The actual positioning angles are used to compensate misalignments in positioning angles for the first and second cameras.
Abstract: A reference to a digital item is stored as a digital card. The digital card can also be contained in, and/or refer to, other digital cards. The digital card can also include properties or attributes that may be added from the digital item that is being referred to. The digital card can be stored in a data pod within a de-centralized data storage system architecture.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 13, 2022
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2025
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventors:
Salil Das, Cezar Augusto Alevatto Guimaraes Neto, Peter Loren Engrav, Brian Scott Krabach, Deniz Cakirkaya, Brian Charles Blomquist, Craig Thomas Targosz, Sarojini Garapati
Abstract: Methods are disclosed for training an installer to cut a film without damaging an underlying substrate. The methods include the steps of applying a stretchable surface-protection film to an electrically-conductive substrate provided with at least one irregularity; and cutting the surface protection film with an electrically-conductive knife which, when in contact with the electrically-conductive substrate, causes one or more notifications to occur. Also disclosed are devices that may be used in carrying out the methods of the invention.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 12, 2020
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2025
Assignee:
Eastman Performance Films, LLC
Inventors:
James Yancy Farrow, Bobby Howard Cardwell, Amanda Smart Brown, Richard Anthony Dill, Michael Stephen Powell, Jacob Neal Motley, Nikolaie Arnold Brown, Keister Logan Richardson, III, Igor Leonidovich Zheldakov
Abstract: A method for automatic hotword threshold tuning includes receiving, from a user device executing a first stage hotword detector configured to detect a hotword in streaming audio, audio data characterizing the detected hotword. The method includes processing, using a second stage hotword detector, the audio data to determine whether the hotword is detected by the second stage hotword detector. When the hotword is not detected, the method includes identifying a false acceptance instance at the first stage hotword detector indicating that the first stage hotword detector incorrectly detected the hotword. The method includes determining whether a false acceptance rate satisfies a false acceptance rate threshold based on a number of false acceptance instances within a false acceptance time period. When the false acceptance rate satisfies the false acceptance rate threshold, the method includes adjusting the hotword detection threshold of the first stage hotword detector.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 10, 2023
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2025
Assignee:
Google LLC
Inventors:
Aishanee Shah, Alexander H. Gruenstein, Ian C. McGraw
Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for assisting speech recognition processing. If speech recognition processing of speech input by an individual does not yield a recognized result, for example, if speech is from an individual with compromised speech, an indication may be sent to a device associated with another person that can assist. The other person may provide, via that device, additional input that indicates the meaning of the speech input. Based on this additional input, an assisted speech recognition result may be determined.
Abstract: A substrate having a burnable coating mask includes: a substrate having a first section and a second section; a mask coating layer over the first section of the substrate; and a functional coating layer over at least a portion of the mask coating layer and over the second section of the substrate. A method of segmenting a substrate having a layer thereover, a method of preparing a segmented substrate having a layer thereover, a segmented substrate, and a transparency are also disclosed.
Abstract: Systems and methods of disconnecting a network service provided over a network service path include using a computing device that obtains a service identifier assigned to network service and identifies a port of a network device included in a network service path associated with the service. The computing device transmits a request to the network device for port configuration data of the network device and based on the received port configuration data, determines whether the port is assigned to the network service. If so, the computing devices executes a remediation operation which includes transmitting a reconfiguration command to the network device that is adapted to cause the network device to update the port configuration data to free the port.
Abstract: Implementations of a gas leak indication system may include a ring including a flange extending from an interior surface of the ring, the flange including two seal channels on either side of the flange, and the ring including a flow opening extending into a projection extending from an exterior surface of the ring; an extender threadedly coupled into a side opening in the projection, the extender including a flow opening therethrough; an indicator threadedly coupled onto the extender, the indicator including a flow channel extending therethrough; and a cap coupled over an end of the indicator by a friction fit.
Abstract: A shelf post coupler may include an upper insert end and a lower insert end, each dimensioned to be received within an insert slot defined by shelving post ends to be joined. Insert holes extend through the upper insert end and the lower insert end for receiving fasteners to secure the coupler to shelving post ends. The upper and lower insert ends may each have a first side and a second side that extends from a midline along different planes. A spacer including a protruding lip may be located between the upper insert end and the lower insert end. At least one of the upper insert end and the lower insert end may include a riser and a wing. The wing may extend a greater distance from the midline than the riser.
Abstract: A remote programming system for engine control units of vehicles operates by coupling an onboard diagnostic interface device with an engine control unit of a vehicle, communicatively linking the interface device with a hand held device, communicatively linking the hand held device with a back end programming machine that is remotely located from the vehicle, communicating identifying information about the vehicle to the programming machine via the interface device, the hand held device, and the communication network(s), determining an action and programming information needed to program the engine control unit of the vehicle to accept a replacement key, sending the action and programming information from the programming machine to the hand held device via the communication network(s), and programing the engine control unit of the vehicle to accept the replacement key to activate the vehicle using or responsive to use of the action and programming information.
Abstract: The present disclosure relates a telecommunication enclosure having a compact configuration. In one example, the telecommunication enclosure supports both optical splicing and connectorized patching.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 6, 2021
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2025
Assignee:
CommScope Technologies LLC
Inventors:
Johan Geens, Philippe Coenegracht, Samory De Zitter, Roel Modest Willy Bryon
Abstract: A centrifuge for separating minerals by specific gravity is disclosed. The centrifuge rotates to circulate slurry across a collection region and to subject slurry in the collection region to centripetal forces that facilitate stratification within the collection region by the specific gravity of the constituent minerals of the slurry. Energy, such as acoustic energy, is coupled with the collection region and enhances the stratification by specific gravity within the collection region.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 4, 2022
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2025
Assignee:
Good Earth IP Holdings, LLC
Inventors:
Jody G. Robbins, Joseph Richard Wantulok
Abstract: The invention consists a packer system for use in well. In particular, the invention deals with a packer itself, a settling device, to settle said packer, and a retriever device, to recover said packer, it also comprises the process of operation corresponding to said system. Also comprises a process to settle with a settle device and a process to retrieve, with a retriever device, that can be used in settle and recovery processes, for delayed production of wells and the reduction of costs associated with the replacement of progressive cavity pumps (PCP).
Abstract: A facility including a loading dock having a plurality of dock doors to accommodate vehicles or trailers for loading pallets, a staging area located proximate to the loading dock, and a plurality of loading zones. The staging area includes a plurality of staging lanes of finished products. Each staging lane is stocked with the finished products from the facility. Each of the plurality of loading zones includes a subset of the plurality of dock doors and a corresponding subset of staging lanes located proximate to the subset of the plurality of dock doors for supplying pallets for loading into vehicles docked at the subset of the plurality of dock doors.
Abstract: Using indentation to trim output of a language synthesis model. A computer system determines a first indentation level associated with a cursor within an editor buffer. The computer system identifies a block of line(s) from an output from a language synthesis model. Each line in the block meets at least one criterion from a set of criteria, including a first criterion that the line is an initial line in the output from the language synthesis model, a second criterion that the line has a second indentation level that is greater than the first indentation level, and a third criterion that the line contains a continuation token. The computer system identifies a particular line, immediately following the block, that does not meet any criterion from the set of criteria. The computer system trims the output from the language synthesis model from the particular line onward.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 29, 2022
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2025
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventors:
Johan Sebastian Heesemann Rosenkilde, Albert Ziegler, Oegerikus De Moor, Maksym Taran, Edward Emil Aftandilian, Arjuna Ganesh Sittampalam, Krzysztof Stanisław Cieślak
Abstract: There is provided a method that includes obtaining (a) a dense representation of external features, (b) a dense representation of text, and (c) a mask that associates the external features to tokens of the text, and employing a cross-attention process that utilizes the mask to perform an information fusion of the dense representation of the external features and the tokens of the text, thus yielding a joint representation of the external features and the tokens of the text. There is also provided a system that executes the method, and a storage device that includes instructions for controlling a processor to perform the method.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 10, 2022
Date of Patent:
April 15, 2025
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Inventors:
Jean-Michel Attendu, Alexandre Jules Dos Santos, François Duplessis Beaulieu