Abstract: A facility for adding a media asset to a media library on behalf of a user is described. The facility identifies an original media asset in local storage, and extracts metadata from it. From a copy of the first original media asset, the facility removes the extracted metadata; reorders the remaining contents to conform their order to a standardized order; and updates at least one internal reference to reflect the removing and the reordering, to produce a normalized first media asset. The facility determines a hash value for the normalized media asset, and transmits it to a server. The facility receives from the server a challenge specifying a subrange of positions in the normalized media asset. The facility transmits to the server (a) the contents of the normalized first media asset in the specified subrange of positions, and (b) the metadata extracted from the first original media asset.

Abstract: A video game system provides dialog responses based on a natural language model (NLM). The NLM is a language model that receives a language input, such as a dialog selection, audio recording, or natural language text input provided by a user of the video game system. In response to the language input, and based on a corpus of natural language candidate lines, the NLM identifies one or more potential responses. The video game system selects a final response from the identified potential responses and provides the selected response to the user via, for example, one or more display frames or via an audio output.

Abstract: A battery system includes a lithium ion battery that couples to an electrical system. The battery system also includes a battery management system that electrically couples to the lithium ion battery and controls one or more recharge parameters of the lithium ion battery. Additionally, the battery management system monitors one or more parameters of the lithium ion battery. Further, the battery management system controls the recharge parameters of the lithium ion battery based on at least one lithium plating model and the monitored parameters. Furthermore, the at least one lithium plating model indicates a relationship between the one or more parameters of the lithium ion battery and a likelihood of lithium plating occurring in the lithium ion battery.

Abstract: A circulatory support system includes an implantable blood pump including a housing, a rotor operable to pump blood from an inlet to an outlet, a stator, and at least two of the following: a current sensor, a rotor position sensor, an accelerometer, and a pressure sensor. The controller is connected to the sensors and includes a signal-processing module configured to receive, from each of the sensors, a data stream. The signal-processing module is also configured to filter the data streams received from the plurality of sensors, determine at least one of a pump operating parameter, a cardiac characteristic, and a pump control parameter based on at least two of the filtered data streams, and output the at least one of the pump operating parameter, the cardiac characteristic, and the pump control parameter to at least one of the operator interface module and the pump control module.

Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the disclosure, an apparatus is provided that includes a database configured to store one or more vehicle status parameters of a vehicle and one or more secured space status parameters of a secured space. The apparatus further includes a server-based processor operatively coupled or connected to the database and configured to receive one or more of the one or more vehicle status parameters and one or more of the one or more secured space status parameters. The server-based processor is further configured to determine, based on at least one of the one or more vehicle status parameters and at least one of the one or more secured space status parameters whether to change a state of the vehicle.

Abstract: A dock area control system includes a vehicle proximity detection system (PDSC). The PDSC includes a vehicle low frequency magnetic field generator (MFG) that generates a vehicle pulsed magnetic field that is sensed by a dock area controller electronics module (DEM).

Abstract: An apparatus configured to purify air and sanitizing including a main base including one or more buttons configured to operate the apparatus, a lid attachable to the main base and that includes one or more ventilation perforations to intake air and an orifice to output purified air, a filter adjacent to the one or more ventilation perforations and enclosed in the lid, wherein the filter is configured to remove at least bacteria from atmospheric air and extract purified air, a fan configured to intake atmospheric air into the filter and blow purified air extracted from the filter outside of an orifice of the lid, a tank configured to store liquid, wherein the liquid includes at least liquid sanitizer, a pump configured to output liquid stored in a tank, and a cavity section that includes an outlet configured to output the liquid sanitizer in response to actuation of the pump.

Abstract: A roof vent package provides dual functionality to transport and store roof vents, such as ridge vents, and to offer a disposal receptacle for jobsite debris. The package can include a ridge vent bag constructed from a flexible material to include multiple sidewalls, a closure flap that selectively covers an opening of a compartment in which ridge vents are stored, and a closure flap with a closure element to maintain the closure flap in a closed configuration over the opening. A related method includes storing and transporting ridge vents in the compartment of the bag, operating the closure flap to open the compartment and gain access to the ridge vents, removing the ridge vents from the compartment, and placing jobsite debris in the compartment of the ridge vent bag, where the ridge vents were previously located, to store the jobsite debris in the ridge vent bag for later disposal.

Abstract: An automated window mechanism having an electric motor attached to a sliding panel of a window configured to open and close the window by moving the sliding panel. The electric motor has a locked state in which the electric motor and sliding panel are stationary. The automated window mechanism also includes a monitor configured to detect an external force applied to the sliding panel while the electric motor is in the locked state. In response to the monitor detecting the external force while the electric motor is in the locked state, the positive lead and the negative lead are grounded, rendering the electric motor an electric brake. A method and system for preventing unwanted movement of an automated window are also disclosed.

Abstract: A multi-channel power supply system including a power supply circuit configured to generate a drive signal for powering a plurality of color channels based on an input power signal, a first current control circuit coupled to a first color channel of the plurality of color channels and configured to adjust a first channel current of the first color channel based on the drive signal and a first reference signal, and a channel controller configured generate the first reference signal based on a color temperature according to a black body curve.

Abstract: A thrust bearing assembly comprises a cage including an annular portion. A first flange extends axially from an inner peripheral edge of the annular portion, and a second flange extends axially from an outer peripheral edge of the annular portion. A first plurality of roller pockets are defined by the annular portion, the first roller pockets of the first plurality of roller pockets being spaced evenly about the annular portion. A second plurality of roller pockets are defined by the annular portion, the second roller pockets of the second plurality of roller pockets being evenly spaced about the annular portion so that each second roller pocket is disposed between adjacent first roller pockets.

Abstract: Described herein are automated cooking apparatuses for storing and cooking food items as well as methods of operating such apparatuses. In some examples, an automated cooking apparatus comprises a storage unit, a delivery unit, and a cooking unit. The storage unit may be equipped with a refrigeration unit and a container delivery opening. The delivery unit is aligned with this opening and configured to load a set amount of the food items into each food compartment of the cooking unit. The cooking unit moves its food compartments through a cooking tank (e.g., filled with a cooking liquid and heated using a set of heating elements) and into a cooked food receiver. The storage unit or, more specifically, its uncooked food container unit is positioned proximate (e.g., within 200 millimeters) to the cooking tank thereby reducing the time for transporting the food items relative to the cooking time.

Abstract: A prosthetic disc can take the form of a sensing artificial disc that includes a resilient core and at least one sensor configured to sense one or more conditions within and/or experienced by the disc. The sensing artificial disc can serve as a replacement to a failed or injured disc between two vertebrae of a spine. The sensing artificial disc can include at least one element configured to change a condition or property of the resilient core in response to a condition sensed by the at least one sensor. A prosthetic disc can include therapeutic system configured to deliver medication to the body, which can include a reservoir of medication.

Abstract: A method comprising identifying a content item having stated facts and/or opinions which a user is unsure whether to trust; during a first time period, obtaining first content evaluations of the content item from first users, each first content evaluation evaluating a belief state of the stated facts and/or opinions; displaying the first content evaluations; during a second time period initiating later than the first time period, obtaining second evaluations from second users regardless of second user expertise, the second users defined as having hindsight and thus knowledge as to the belief state of the stated facts and/or opinions greater than the first users; generating and issuing expert scores for the first users based on the second evaluations; and elevating an influential characteristic of each first user having an expert score higher than a certain threshold when providing another evaluation during another time period.

Abstract: An underlayer composition, comprising a polymer comprising a repeating unit of formula (1): wherein Ar is a monocyclic or polycyclic C5-60 aromatic group, wherein the aromatic group comprises one or more aromatic ring heteroatoms, a substituent group comprising a heteroatom, or a combination thereof; X is C or O; R1, R2; Ra and Rb are as provided herein; optionally, R1 and R2 can be taken together form a 5- to 7-membered ring; optionally, one of R11 to R13 can be taken together with R1 to form a 5- to 7-membered ring; wherein Ra and Rb optionally may be taken together to form a 5- to 7-membered ring; wherein one of Ra or Rb optionally may be taken together with R2 to form a 5- to 7-membered ring; and when X is O, Ra and Rb are absent.

Abstract: An ammunition cartridge casing is provided having a primer body and a casing body. The primer body has an inner primer portion and an outer primer portion configured to nest in conformance with an outer surface of the inner primer portion. The outer surface of the inner primer portion provides a circumferential trench having a radially outwardly extending circumferential wall portion contiguous with an axially extending circumferential wall portion. The casing body has a distal end portion and a proximal end portion. The proximal end portion of the casing body is interposed between the inner primer portion and the outer primer portion within the trench having an interlocked axially extending circumferential portion and an interlocked radially outwardly extending disc portion of the casing body entrapped between the inner primer portion and the outer primer portion. A method is also provided.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions comprising (a) a pyridine carboxylate herbicide or an agriculturally acceptable N-oxide, salt, or ester thereof and (b) an acetolactate synthase (ALS) inhibitor or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof. Also disclosed herein are methods of controlling undesirable vegetation, comprising applying to vegetation or an area adjacent the vegetation or applying in soil or water to control the emergence or growth of vegetation (a) a pyridine carboxylate herbicide or an agriculturally acceptable N-oxide, salt, or ester thereof and (b) an ALS inhibitor or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof.

Abstract: A soybean cultivar designated 19390713 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 19390713, to the plants of soybean cultivar 19390713, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 19390713, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 19390713. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 19390713. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 19390713, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 19390713 with another soybean cultivar.

Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure are directed to a method that can include obtaining a 3D mesh comprising polygons and texture/shading data. The method can include rasterizing the 3D mesh to obtain a 2D raster comprising pixels and coordinates respectively associated with a subset of pixels. The method can include determining an initial color value for the subset of pixels based on the coordinates of the pixel and the associated shading/texture data. The method can include constructing a splat at the coordinates of a respective pixel. The method can include determining an updated color value for a respective pixel based on a weighting of the subset of splats to generate a 2D rendering of the 3D mesh based on the coordinates of a pixel and a splat.

Abstract: A golf training device that includes a planar element that is formable into one or more forms having 3 or more sides using one or more respective sets of crease or fold lines associated with the planar element and defining the sides; and one or more support means for supporting one or more alignment sticks or markers, the support means arranged to orient the alignment sticks or markers in position useful for golf training.