Abstract: A system and method of selectively outputting content on a head mounted wearable computing device is provided. The system may determine a context associated with the operation of the head mounted wearable computing device, and selectively output content on the head mounted wearable computing device, or delay the output of content, based on the context. The content may be displayed in one or more designated portions of the display of the head mounted wearable computing device so as to reduce distraction to the user, and enhance situational awareness and situational safety during use of the head mounted wearable computing device.

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide method and apparatus for video coding. In the method, which of a combination of vertical padding and horizontal padding is performed is determined to determine padded values of a reference block in a neighboring left coding tree unit (CTU) included in a fixed search range of blocks in a current CTU. The padded values are determined based on a block vector that points to the reference block and a position of a current block in the CTU. At least a sample of the current block is reconstructed based on one of (i) the padded values of the reference block and (ii) reconstructed samples of the reference block based on availability of the reference block in the fixed search range. The left CTU is padded using a combination of the vertical and the horizontal padding.

Abstract: A method including obtaining historical revenue per click (RPC) data. The method also can include generating hourly RPC prediction data for a predetermined time period based on the historical RPC data. The method additionally can include determining (i) time intervals from within the predetermined time period and (ii) a respective modifier for each of the time intervals, based on the hourly RPC prediction data. The acts method can include uploading the time intervals and the respective modifiers for the time intervals to a dayparting system of a search engine. Other embodiments are described.

Abstract: A vertically alternating sequence of unit layer stacks is formed over a substrate. Each unit layer stacks includes an insulating layer and a spacer material layer that is formed as, or is subsequently replaced with, a first electrically conductive layer. A 2×N array of stepped surfaces is formed. Each column of two stepped surfaces other than one column is vertically extended by performing a set of processing sequences at least once. The set of processing sequences includes forming a patterned etch mask layer and etching an unmasked subset of the 2×N array. One or more patterned etch mask layer has a respective continuous opening including an entire area of a respective 2×M array of stepped surfaces that is a subset of the 2×N array of stepped surfaces. Vertical stacks of memory elements are formed through the vertically alternating sequence.

Abstract: Source data rendered as a string of hexadecimal data representing a set of Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC) data, and a data layout description defining a record in the source data that includes a plurality of fields, are obtained. Respective hexadecimal lengths of the fields based on a source data length of each field and a source datatype of each field are determined. Hexadecimal sub-strings are extracted from the hexadecimal string based on the hexadecimal lengths and source datatypes of the fields. At least some of the hexadecimal sub-strings are converted to a target format. The sub-strings are output in the target format.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for a text-to-speech system. An embodiment operates by receiving text to be converted into audible output and identifying a webpage address within the text. A webpage corresponding to the webpage address is retrieved, wherein the retrieved webpage is not displayed on a user interface. Metadata of the retrieved webpage corresponding to the webpage address is identified. A portion of the metadata is selected to replace the webpage address in an audible version of the text. The webpage address is replaced with the selected portion of metadata of the retrieved webpage corresponding to the webpage address in the audible version of the text. The audible version of the text including the selected portion of metadata is provided for audible output.

Abstract: An engine exhaust system includes a catalytic converter, an exhaust conduit connected upstream of the catalytic converter, and an oxygen sensor extending into the exhaust conduit at a first axial position of the exhaust conduit. A valve is located within the exhaust conduit at the first axial position. The valve includes a movable throttle plate having a bypass notch formed on a periphery of the plate. The valve has an open position, and a closed position in which the bypass notch is placed adjacent to the oxygen sensor to guide exhaust over the oxygen sensor.

Abstract: A power conversion system for converting thermal energy from a heat source to electricity is provided. The system includes a chamber including an inner shroud having an inlet and an outlet and defining an internal passageway between the inlet and the outlet through which a working fluid passes. The chamber also includes an outer shroud substantially surrounding the inner shroud. The chamber includes a source heat exchanger disposed in the internal passageway, the source heat exchanger being configured to receive a heat transmitting element associated with the heat source external to the chamber, and to transfer heat energy from the heat transmitting element to the working fluid. The system also includes a compressor disposed adjacent the inlet of the inner shroud and configured to transfer energy from the compressor to the working fluid, and an expander disposed adjacent the outlet of the inner shroud.

Abstract: In various embodiments, motion is used to control games played on a mobile gaming device.

Abstract: A method of navigating a cutting instrument, via a computer system, the method comprising: (a) mounting a patient-specific anatomical mapper (PAM) to a human in a single known location and orientation, where the PAM includes a surface precisely and correctly mating with a human surface correctly in only a single location and orientation; (b) mounting a reference inertial measurement unit (IMU) to the human; (c) operatively coupling a guide to the PAM, where the guide includes an instrument inertial measurement unit (IMU) and at least one of a cutting slot and a pin orifice; (d) outputting data from the reference IMU and the instrument IMU indicative of changes in position and orientation of the guide with respect to the human; (e) repositioning the guide with respect to the human to a position and an orientation consistent with a plan for carrying out at least one of a cut and pin placement; and, (f) visually displaying feedback concerning the position and orientation of the guide with respect to the human us

Abstract: The present disclosure describes transaction-enabling systems and methods. A system can include a facility having a core task and a controller. The controller may include a facility description circuit to interpret historical facility parameter values and corresponding outcome values. A facility prediction circuit operates an adaptive learning system to train a facility resource allocation circuit in response to the historical facility parameter values and corresponding outcome values. The facility description circuit further interprets a plurality of present state facility parameter values and the trained facility resource allocation circuit adjusts facility resource values in response.

Abstract: Denoising video content includes identifying a three-dimensional flat frame block of multiple frames of the video content, wherein the three-dimensional flat frame block comprises flat frame blocks, each flat frame block is located within a respective frame of the multiple frames, and the flat frame blocks have a spatial and temporal intensity variance that is less than a threshold. Denoising video content also includes determining an average intensity value of the three-dimensional flat frame block, determining a noise model that represents noise characteristics of the three-dimensional flat frame block, generating a denoising function using the average intensity value and the noise model, and denoising the multiple frames using the denoising function.

Abstract: A virtual object system can orchestrate virtual objects defined as a collection of components and with inheritance in an object hierarchy. Virtual object components can include a container, data, a template, and a controller. A container can define the volume the virtual object is authorized to write into. A virtual object's data can specify features such as visual elements, parameters, links to external data, meta-data, etc. The template can define view states of the virtual object and contextual breakpoints for transitioning between them. Each view state can control when and how the virtual object presents data elements. The controller can define logic for the virtual object to respond to input, context, etc. The definition of each object can specify which other object in an object hierarchy that object extends, where extending an object includes inheriting that object's components, which can be modified or overwritten as part of the extension.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a bracket apparatus for tool-less assembly of furniture products. The furniture products are equipped with a bracket apparatus that enables the furniture products to be assembled and disassembled without the use of tools or additional hardware. The bracket apparatus integrated into the furniture products permits the furniture products to easily switch between an assembled configuration and a disassembled configuration.

Abstract: An ophthalmic device comprises an ultrasonic transducer, an accommodation actuator, and a controller. When the ophthalmic device is mounted in or on an eye of a user, the ultrasonic transducer is positioned to direct ultrasonic signals towards ciliary processes in the eye and the accommodation actuator is positioned to focus light entering the eye. The controller is coupled to the ultrasonic transducer and the accommodation actuator. The controller includes logic that when executed by the controller causes the ophthalmic device to perform operations including emitting the ultrasonic signals from the ultrasonic transducer towards the ciliary processes, receiving reflected ultrasonic signals from the ciliary processes with the ultrasonic transducer, calculating a time of flight between emitting the ultrasonic signals and receiving the reflected ultrasonic signals, and adjusting an optical power of the accommodation actuator based on the time of flight.

Abstract: A sight glass assembly can comprise a housing defining an inner housing surface, an outer housing surface, a first housing end, and an opposed second housing end, the inner housing surface defining a housing bore; an adapter defining an inner adapter surface, an outer adapter surface, a first adapter end coupled to the housing, and an opposed second adapter end, the inner adapter surface defining an adapter bore, the outer adapter surface defining a central portion disposed between the first adapter end and the second adapter end, the central portion defining a shoulder contacting the second housing end of the housing; and a transparent viewport positioned in the housing bore such that the interior of a pipe fitting is viewable through the housing bore, the transparent viewport, and the adapter bore.

Abstract: An interconnection for flex circuit boards used, for instance, in a quantum computing system are provided. In one example, the interconnection can include a first flex circuit board having a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The interconnection can include a second flex circuit board having a third side and a fourth side opposite the third side. The first flex circuit board and the second flex circuit board are physically coupled together in an overlap joint in which a portion of the second side for the first flex circuit board overlaps a portion of the third side of the flex circuit board. The interconnection can include a signal pad structure positioned in the overlap joint that electrically couples a first via in the first flex circuit board and a second via in the second flex circuit board.

Abstract: An artificial intelligent agent can act as a player in a video game, such as a racing video game. The game can be completely external to the agent and can run in real time. In this way, the training system is much more like a real world system. The consoles on which the game runs for training the agent are provided in a cloud computing environment. The agents and the trainers can run on other computing devices in the cloud, where the system can choose the trainers and agent compute based on proximity to console, for example. Users can choose the game they want to run and submit code which can be built and deployed to the cloud system. A resource management service can monitor game console resources between human users and research usage and identify experiments for suspension to ensure enough game consoles for human users.

Abstract: An assembly for directing propellant gas to an action of a firearm includes a barrel and a gas block. The barrel has a plurality of gas ports that communicate with the bore of the barrel. The barrel and the gas block define a passage that receives pressurized propellant gas from the bore by way of the barrel gas ports, and directs the propellant gas to a gas port of the gas block. The plurality of barrel gas ports and the passage act as a manifold in which the propellant gas is taken from multiple locations within the barrel, combined into a single flow, and directed into the gas block via the gas block gas port. The pressurized gas is then routed to an action of the firearm by way of a gas tube and a gas key.