Abstract: Reinforced floor components of prefabricated bathroom pods. The floor components are reinforced and integrated into bathroom pods or other building units in such a manner as to add significant strength to the bathroom pods to resist bending, twisting and sagging, and/or to aid in lifting and supporting the weight of the bathroom pods, and thereby add to the structural integrity of the prefabricated bathroom pods to which they are attached.

Abstract: Systems and methods for retrofitting a light detection and ranging (LIDAR)-based vehicle computing system to operate with vision-based sensor data are provided. For example, a method implemented by a vehicle may include receiving, from one or more sensors of a first sensing modality at the vehicle, first sensor data associated with a surrounding environment of the vehicle; and retrofitting a vehicle controller of the vehicle that is based on a second sensing modality different from the first sensing modality to operate on the first sensor data, where the retrofitting includes generating second sensor data from the first sensor data based on the second sensing modality; and determining, by the vehicle controller, an action for the vehicle based at least in part on the generated second sensor data.

Abstract: A foldable computing device comprises a first portion, a second portion, a hinge assembly rotatably coupling the first portion to the second portion, and a flexible display. The hinge assembly includes a hinge core, a timing element, a first linkage component rotatably coupling the hinge core to the first portion, a first hinge guide rotatably coupling the hinge core to the first portion, a second linkage component rotatably coupling the hinge core to the second portion, and a second hinge guide rotatably coupling the hinge core to the second portion. The first linkage component defines one or more helical surfaces that interface with the timing element, and the second linkage component defines one or more helical surfaces that interface with the timing element. The timing element coordinates rotation of the first linkage component with rotation of the second linkage component.

Abstract: A method and system of forming an identifiable unit of a meltable material includes: melting a unit of the material to a liquid state; injecting a second material into the unit of material while the unit of material is in liquid state to change a density of the unit of material; cooling the unit of material to solid form while retaining the change in density; and recording the density of the unit of material so that the unit of material can be positively identified among other similar units of the material having a different density.

Abstract: The present application describes systems and methods for automatically provisioning a domain name system (DNS) firewall service for an Internet circuit. In examples, customer premises equipment and a DNS firewall system are automatically configured to work with the Internet circuit without requiring technical knowledge or intervention by a customer.

Abstract: A system and method for inaudible tones transmission. One or more transmitters are activated at a location to broadcast one or more inaudible tones that are inaudible to humans. Data is encoded in the one or more inaudible tones. The one or more inaudible tones are broadcast through the one or more transmitters at the location.

Abstract: In order to achieve tight and uniform erased threshold voltage distributions in a non-volatile memory system that includes non-volatile memory cells arranged in blocks that have multiple sub-blocks and has an erase process using gate induced drain leakage (GIDL) to generate charge carriers that change threshold voltage of the memory cells, the magnitude of the GIDL is adjusted separately for the sub-blocks.

Abstract: A headrest assembly includes a frame and a plurality of support pads. The plurality of support pads may include a forehead pad, a chin pad, and two zygomatic arch pads. One or more of the plurality of support pads may be adjustable vertically and horizontally relative to the frame through adjustment arms.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method comprising detecting an event in connection with an autonomous vehicle, wherein the detected event comprises at least one of a current state of the autonomous vehicle, an impending state of the autonomous vehicle, and an intent of the autonomous vehicle; generating an image in connection with the detected event, wherein the image comprises at least one of text information and graphics information; and displaying the generated image on at least one window of the autonomous vehicle for conveying information about the detected event to at least one user located outside the autonomous vehicle.

Abstract: A system and method for executing SQL statements includes receiving an SQL statement for comparing two trendsets over a relation using a scoring function, each of the trendsets including one or more trends, each of the trends being designated by a constraint and a grouping-measure combination, wherein comparing the trendsets includes identifying trend pairs for comparison, each of the trend pairs including a trend from the each of the trendsets having a common grouping-measure combination. The SQL statement is transformed into a basic plan of existing logical operators for performing the SQL statement. A set of sub-plans is determined based on the basic plan. Pairs of sub-plans are merged to generate a set of merged sub-plans. A cost for each of the merged sub-plans is determined. The merged sub-plan having the lowest cost is used to execute the SQL statement.

Abstract: This document relates to a process for supporting the management of a variety of types of deployed devices. Administrators utilizing enterprise services can provide generic configuration data using configuration templates, which can be provided to a management server. The management server can then precompute device-specific configuration settings and resolve any conflicts that may arise based on the configuration templates. The configuration templates can also include placeholders for secret values, and once a managed device checks in to the management server, the secret values can be retrieved from an applicable enterprise service and provided to the managed device at the time of applying the configuration template.

Abstract: A pallet includes a deck and one or more leg-plank bridges that extend from the deck. The leg-plank bridges include one or more legs and a plank that extends between the legs. The legs and plank are integrally formed together and attached to the deck. The legs have one or more internal walls that define one or more cavities. Concrete fills the cavities of the legs located on a lead end of the pallet. The remaining cavities in the legs are filled with foam. The cavities in one version are wedge shaped. Other legs of the deck are filled entirely with foam.

Abstract: A cover deployment system includes a flexible cover configured to span an open top of a trailer, the trailer having a front end, a rear end, and longitudinally extending side walls extending therebetween, bow assemblies connected to the cover, and a cable system including a pair of cables, an electric actuator, a manual actuator, and a differential. The cables extend longitudinally along the longitudinal side of the trailer. Each cable defines a loop supported by a pulley at the front end of the trailer and a pulley at the rear end of the trailer. The remaining bow assemblies are movably attached to the cables. The electric actuator and the manual actuator are operatively connected to a differential positioned between the electric actuator, the manual actuator, and the pulley. The differential is connected and rotates a pulley to move the cables, thereby moving the cover between closed and open positions.

Abstract: An electronic device comprises a touch sensor, a movement sensor, and recalibration logic. The touch sensor provides input to the electronic device. The movement sensor has an output that varies in dependence on movement of the electronic device, and the recalibration logic is configured to vary a rate of successful recalibration of the touch sensor based at least partly on the output of the movement sensor. The successful recalibration comprises replacement of a stored calibration mapping of each of a plurality of (X, Y) coordinates of the touch sensor to a corresponding touch-free capacitance.

Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for logic-driven data routing. The present invention is configured to receive, from a user input device, a request to process a transaction; retrieve information associated with the request; identify one or more third party devices based on at least the information associated with the request; broadcast the request simultaneously to the one or more third party devices; receive, from the one or more third party devices, one or more responses to the request; implement, using a decisioning subsystem, one or more conditional parameters on the one or more responses; determine an optimal response based on at least implementing the one or more conditional parameters on the one or more responses; and transmit control signals configured to cause the user input device to display the optimal response.

Abstract: An insulating container may include an opening, which can be sealed by a closure. The closure may have an upper portion with a handle that has a circular curvature equal to the cylindrical portion of the closure. The closure may also have a lower portion that is joined to the upper portion by an injection molded polymer element. The closure may also be in the form of “flip” type of closure such that the lid can be selectably opened or closed by the user by rotating a flip closure into either the opened or closed position. The closure may also be a two-part lid having a lower cap that may be configured to be removably-coupled to the container and an upper cap that may be configured to be removably-coupled to the lower cap.

Abstract: Examples described herein relate to systems and methods for containing a faulty stimulus. A computer-implemented method may include listing in a suspect list every received stimulus including the faulty stimulus, and implicitly testing the stimuli by respectively acting upon those stimuli by a software application. Responsive to successfully acting upon each of the stimuli besides the faulty stimulus, each non-faulty stimulus is deleted from the suspect list and, responsive to such deletion, made available to a downstream node. Responsive to acting upon the faulty stimulus, the software application crashes which leaves the faulty stimulus listed in the suspect list. The software application then restarts and deems the faulty stimulus as being faulty based upon the faulty stimulus still being listed in the suspect list after the restart.

Abstract: Wearable devices using “legacy” sensors such as proximity sensors or infrared sensors suffer from false positives when, such as when they are placed in a hand, but not inserted on the user's body or on or into the user's ear. Embedding a PPG module or PPG sensor into the wearable device allows for the PPG module to act as a secondary check for the presence of a user wearing the wearable device. In some examples, the PPG module can be used as a sole sensor for the presence or absence of a human user. In other examples, a PPG module can be used to perform a secondary action after the “legacy” sensor performs a first action. For example, the first action can be connecting to a user device while the second action can be opening an application or playing music.

Abstract: A method for turn detection in a speech-to-speech model includes receiving, as input to the speech-to-speech (S2S) model, a sequence of acoustic frames corresponding to an utterance. The method further includes, at each of a plurality of output steps, generating, by an audio encoder of the S2S model, a higher order feature representation for a corresponding acoustic frame in the sequence of acoustic frames, and determining, by a turn detector of the S2S model, based on the higher order feature representation generated by the audio encoder at the corresponding output step, whether the utterance is at a breakpoint at the corresponding output step. When the turn detector determines that the utterance is at the breakpoint, the method includes synthesizing a sequence of output audio frames output by a speech decoder of the S2S model into a time-domain audio waveform of synthesized speech representing the utterance spoken by the user.

Abstract: A motorized lifting system for use on a semi-trailer. The lifting system may comprise a lifting unit capable of mounting to a jack on the semi-trailer, allowing the lifting unit to raise and lower the dolly legs of the jack. The lifting unit may comprise a motor and a series of sprockets and chains connecting the motor to a drive shaft that mounts to a rod of the jack, such that turning the rod raises or lowers the dolly legs.