Abstract: A method and system for capturing asset protection metadata pertinent to analytics. Specifically, the disclosed method and system entail aggregating and maintaining asset protection metadata—i.e., metadata descriptive of performed asset backup and recovery operations—in a central location. The asset protection metadata may include information relevant to backup and recovery analytics and reporting, while the maintaining said metadata in the central location facilitates access of the metadata by third-party analytics services.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclose describes systems and methods responsible for reducing errors in a battery model used in the operation of a battery control system. The battery control system may operate based on a modeled response of the battery derived from the battery model. If the battery model is not calibrated/validated, errors in the battery model may propagate through the modeled response of the battery to the operation of the battery control system. A calibration current pulse may result in a different measured response of the battery than the modeled response of the battery to the same calibration current pulse. A validation technique, which uses a difference between the modeled response and the measured response of the battery to the calibration current pulse as a method to calibrate the battery model, may protect the battery control system from the contribution of errors from an uncalibrated battery model.

Abstract: An imaging system and method for imaging a scene using a rolling shutter are described. In an embodiment, the method includes illuminating a scene with first and second illumination light; generating frame signals with a photodetector comprising a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of rows, wherein the frame signals are based on light received from the scene with sequentially integrated rows of pixels of the plurality of rows, and wherein a frame signal includes signals from pixels of each of the plurality of rows; and generating images of the scene based on an intensity of the frame signals and the proportion of the first illumination light and the second illumination light emitted onto the scene during the first and second frames, wherein a proportion of the first illumination light and the second illumination light in a first frame is different than in a second frame.

Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling machine operations are provided. A number of data entries are organized into a stack. Each data entry includes a type, a flag, a length, and a value or pointer entry. For each data entry in the stack, the type of data is determined from the type entry, the presence of an address or value is determined by the respective flag entry, and a length of the address or value is determined from the respective length entry. The data to be utilized or an address for the same at a particular electronic storage area is provided at the respective value or pointer entry, which may be specified by a space definition pushed onto the stack.

Abstract: Support bracket and support bracket assemblies for a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) card are shown and disclosed. In one embodiment, the support bracket includes a first planar member having opposed first and second end portions, and a second planar member attached to, or formed with, the second end portion. The second planar member is perpendicular to the first planar member and is attachable to an I/O PCI bracket. The support bracket additionally includes a ledge attached to, or formed with, the first planar member. The ledge extends between the first and second end portions and is perpendicular to the first and second planar members. The ledge is sized to support an end portion of the PCI card when the PCI card is attached to the I/O PCI bracket and when the second planar member is attached to the I/O PCI bracket.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel paper sheet mulch products having benefits over prior sheet mulches, which may include brown or recycled fibers, as well as additives, such as opacity, water-resistant, and strength additives, resulting in mulch products with an improved combination of basis weight, stretch, strength, opacity, and/or water-resistance characteristics.

Abstract: An exemplary magnetic field measurement system includes a wearable sensor unit that includes a magnetometer and a twisted pair cable interface assembly electrically connected to the magnetometer.

Abstract: A non-petroleum or renewable feedstock containing oxygen and contaminants of metals, gums, and resins is treated by introducing the feedstock into a reactor at a flow velocity of at least 20 ft/sec. The feedstock is heated within the reactor and cooled to form a reduced-temperature reactor product. At least a portion of the reduced-temperature reactor product is feed into a hydroprocessing reactor containing a hydroprocessing catalyst to form a hydroprocessed product. The hydroprocessed product is cooled and non-condensable gases, metals and water are separated and removed to form a final product. The final product has an oxygen content that is 60% or less of that of the feedstock, and wherein the final product comprises 25 wt % or less any triglycerides, monoglycerides, diglycerides, free fatty acids, phosphatides, sterols, tocopherols, tocotrienols, or fatty alcohols, from 5 wt % to 30 wt % naphtha, and 50 wt % or more diesel.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for preparing a data set for searching. In addition, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to solutions for configuring a storage infrastructure and indexing process for a data set.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method for capturing video of a real-world scene over a field of view that may exceed the field of view of a user, manipulating the captured video, and then stereoscopically displaying the manipulated image to the user in a head mounted display to create a virtual environment having length, width, and depth in the image. By capturing and manipulating video for a field of view that exceeds the field of view of the user, the system and method can quickly respond to movement by the user to update the display allowing the user to look and pan around, i.e., navigate, inside the three-dimensional virtual environment.

Abstract: Systems and methods to control a radar system to perform cross-traffic management in a vehicle with a trailer involve determining a location of the trailer behind the vehicle, and adjusting an initial field of view of the radar system to a modified field of view that excludes the location of the trailer. One or more other vehicles are detected with the radar system having the modified field of view. A cross-traffic alert is implemented based on the detecting the one or more other vehicles.

Abstract: An example method of filling epoxy in a fiber optic connector includes: applying the epoxy to a ferrule of a first connector at a first pressure for a first period of time; applying the epoxy to the first connector at a second pressure for a second period of time until the epoxy is sensed to exit a hole defined by the ferrule of the first connector; comparing the second period of time to a threshold; when the second period of time is greater than the threshold, increasing the first pressure, the first period of time, or the second pressure; and when the second period of time is less than the threshold, decreasing the first pressure, the first period of time, or the second pressure.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for predicting the accuracy of user submissions. One of the methods includes receiving, from a user, an update to an attribute of an entity related to a topic. If the user is determined to be reliable relative to the topic based on user profile data of the user, the knowledge base is updated with the update to the attribute of the entity.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes determining correspondence data between a sequence of images based on identified features in the sequence of images and predicted pose based on motion data, and determining current state information based on the correspondence data and the motion data. The current state information comprises at least a current pose of the wearable device relative to the environment capture by the one or more cameras. Furthermore, the method comprises receiving map points in a three-dimensional map and their associated descriptors based on the identified features in the sequence of images and identifying one or more of the map points in the sequence of images based on the associated descriptors associated with the map points. The current state information is further determined based on the identified one or more of the map points.

Abstract: A urine collection device includes a collection member extending from a proximal end to a distal end. The proximal end includes an opening that provides access to an internal cavity of the collection member. The internal cavity includes a first chamber in fluid communication with a second chamber. The urine collection device includes a spacer in the second chamber, a first attachment member extending from a bottom wall of the collection member at the proximal end, a second attachment member extending from a top wall of the collection member at the proximal end, and an outlet for egressing urine from the internal cavity of the collection member. The first attachment member defines an aperture. The collection member is suitable to (i) direct urine from the first chamber to the second chamber and (ii) direct the urine in the second chamber distally toward the outlet.

Abstract: A bolted joint for coupling two components that undergo thermal expansion and contraction includes a bolt having a head and a stem, the bolt configured to provide a clamping force between the two components. A first washer having a thermal resistant, low friction coating is configured to be disposed between one of the two components and the bolt head to enable the one component to slide relative to the bolt during the thermal expansion and contraction, while maintaining the clamping force, to facilitate preventing bending or shearing of the bolt.

Abstract: A sensor module includes a first contact, a second contact, and a sensing element made from an iono-conductive material having a conductivity that varies at least in response to variations in an environmental factor. The sensing element is electrically coupled to the first contact and to the second contact, and a first resistance of the sensing element, measured between the first contact and the second contact, varies in response to the variations in the environmental factor.

Abstract: A system and method for brainwave entrainment using virtual objects and gamification, in which brainwave entrainment is applied using some combination of gaming elements, and brainwave activity is enhanced by virtue of the user's active participation. Long-term use is encouraged by virtue of the entertaining nature of the gamification. Depending on configuration, the system and method may comprise a display comprising virtual objects, a light-producing device (other than the display), an audio-producing device such as speakers or headphones, a haptic feedback device such as a vibratory motor, and various devices for monitoring the user's attention. A software application induces brainwave entrainment via one or more of the devices of the system.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a frame, a series of tractive assemblies coupled to the frame, a cabin, and a mount. The mount includes a boss coupled to the cabin, a first bracket pivotably coupled to the boss, a second bracket coupled to the frame, and a first isolator and a second isolator extending between the first bracket and the second bracket and coupling the first bracket to the second bracket.

Abstract: A method comprises providing an interface permitting a first user to control activation of a mobile information channel through which the first user can share access to content with a plurality of additional users, activating the mobile information channel responsive to input received from the first user via the interface, inserting content provided by the first user into the mobile information channel, receiving additional content relating to the mobile information channel from one or more of said additional users via one or more respective mobile devices associated with at least one wireless network, inserting at least a portion of the additional content into the mobile information channel, and integrating into the mobile information channel information associated with at least one wireless networking functionality of said at least one wireless network.