Abstract: A method of localization using bearing from environmental features includes receiving an estimated location of a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver associated with a user and a corresponding bearing for the GNSS receiver. The method also includes identifying one or more environmental features about the estimated location of the GNSS receiver. The method further includes determining whether an orientation of a respective environmental feature of the one or more environmental features correlates to the corresponding bearing for the GNSS receiver. When the orientation of the respective environmental feature correlates to the corresponding bearing for the GNSS receiver, the method includes generating an updated bearing for the GNSS receiver or locational system that matches the orientation of the respective environmental feature.

Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for video coding. Video data having one or more coding coefficients is received. A flipping or rotation operation is performed on the received video data based on selecting a scan region based coefficient coding definition to concentrate the coding coefficients in a scan region. The video data is decoded based on the selected scan region based coefficient coding definition.

Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetron system comprising a baseplate assembly that defines a housing portion and a power feedthrough. A magnet assembly and a segmented target assembly are disposed within the housing portion. The segmented target assembly has an inner target segment having a plurality of target tiles. A plurality of electrical contacts are in electrical communication with the power feedthrough, wherein each electrical contact of the plurality of electrical contacts electrically contacts a respective target tile of the plurality of target tiles such that power is delivered from each electrical contact of the plurality of electrical contacts to each respective target tile of the plurality of target tiles.

Abstract: A connector assembly is provided. The connector assembly includes a receptacle module and a pluggable module. The receptacle module includes a cage, a receptacle connector, a biasing spring, and a locking member. The pluggable module is moved from a front end to a back end, so as to be aligned and mated with the receptacle module. The biasing spring is configured to apply a spring load toward the front end of the cage. Accordingly, the mating between the receptacle module and the pluggable module may be accomplished through alignment in the following manner: the pluggable module pushes the receptacle connector toward the back end to compress the biasing spring, so that the receptacle connector is moved toward the back end to the locking member to be mated with the pluggable module.

Abstract: A breakaway assembly including a first connector and a second connector releasably coupleable to the first connector. The assembly is movable between a first configuration in which the first and second connectors are releasably coupled and together define a fluid path through which fluid is flowable, wherein the fluid path includes an at least partially radially extending portion, and a second configuration in which the first and second connectors are not coupled together. The assembly is configured to move from the first configuration to the second configuration when a predetermined separation force is applied to the assembly.

Abstract: A method and system for treating wastewater is disclosed. In one example the method comprises activating a mixing system that imparts a motive force on wastewater in a vessel, measuring at least one property of a first portion of the wastewater at a first time, measuring the at least one property of a second portion of the wastewater at a second time subsequent to the first time, calculating a difference between the at least one property measured at the first time and the at least one property measured at the second time, performing a determination of whether the difference is within a predetermined allowable range of differences, and responsive to a result of the determination, controlling a component of the mixing system.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes aspects of an antenna-in-package (AiP) transceiver module and associated methods and systems. In aspects, an AiP transceiver module includes a substrate of dielectric material and first and second layers of conductive material disposed on respective surfaces of the substrate. The first layer of conductive material disposed on a first surface of the substrate includes an antenna element and antenna feed pad to which a contact of a transceiver integrated circuit die is coupled. The second surface of the substrate includes a dielectric interface area that is opposite to an area on the first surface of the substrate in which the antenna element is disposed and excludes the second layer of conductive material. The dielectric interface area of the substrate may effectively increase an amount of dielectric material below the antenna element, such that a volume of the dielectric material includes an air gap below the module.

Abstract: A method of processing signal paths includes receiving an estimated location for a GNSS receiver in an environment. The method also includes generating a plurality of candidate positions about the estimated location where each candidate position corresponds to a possible actual location of the GNSS receiver. The method further includes, for each available satellite at each candidate position, modeling a plurality of candidate signal paths by ray-launching a raster map of geographical data. Here, the plurality of candidate signal paths includes one or more reflected signal paths. At each candidate position, the method also includes comparing, the plurality of candidate signal paths modeled for each available satellite at the respective candidate position to measured GNSS signal data from the GNSS receiver and generating a likelihood that the respective candidate position includes the actual location of the GNSS receiver based on the comparison.

Abstract: Various embodiments of smart devices are determined herein. A smart device can include a housing and an electronic display. The smart device can further include a cover, housed by the housing, through which the electronic display is visible. The cover can include a glass layer, wherein the glass layer is the outermost layer of the cover that is adjacent an ambient environment of the smart home device. The cover can further include an optical coating layer, deposited directly onto a surface of the glass layer, that comprises a plurality of sublayers. The optical coating layer can include alternating non-metallic oxide layers having different refractive indexes. The sublayers can vary in thickness such that the optical coating layer reflects light from the ambient environment through the glass layer.

Abstract: A method for beamform management in vehicular communications includes, within a computerized processor, determining a planned route for a vehicle, identifying a plurality of candidate cellular towers with which the vehicle may communicate along the planned route, and determining signal strengths of each of the towers at locations along the route. The method further includes determining a communication plan including identifying locations of each of the towers and segmenting the planned route into portions based upon the determined signal strengths. One of the towers is assigned to communicate with the vehicle for each of the portions based upon the signal strengths. The method further includes utilizing the communication plan to change communication between the vehicle and the towers as the vehicle traverses the route by directing a primary lobe of an antenna beam toward each of the candidate cellular towers in turn according to the communication plan.

Abstract: The recovery of an intact volume of tissue proceeds with a delivery cannula distal end positioned in confronting adjacency with the volume of tissue to be recovered. A tissue cutting and capture assembly formed of a plurality of metal leafs is deployed from the distal end of the delivery cannula. The tips of these leafs carry a pursing cable assembly, which is electrically excited to electrosurgically cut around and circumscribe the tissue volume. These pursing cables are tensioned to complete the envelopment of the tissue volumes by drawing the leaf tips together. An essential attribute of the disclosed apparatus is the confinement of the path of electrical conduction of constant current required to achieve tissue cutting to only those portions of the deploying and retracting resistively heated portion of the electrically conductive cutting and pursing cable that are in direct contact with tissue.

Abstract: A golf swing training apparatus has a shaft, a housing with a top cap and a bottom cap, and a plurality of weighted discs receivable within the housing. A golfer may adjust the weight of the head of the club by adding or removing weighted discs in the housing. The golf swing training apparatus may comprise an accelerometer within the housing so as to measure the speed, acceleration, and swing path that the club takes for feedback and analysis to improve the golfer's swing.

Abstract: A method of cleaning a regenerative filter having a filter housing having inlet and outlet zones, a fluid path provided between the inlet and outlet zones, and a plurality of filter elements each having an outer surface filter media applied thereto and functioning to filter particulate or contaminants from the fluid path, the method comprising draining all fluids from the filter housing, refilling the filter housing with fluid to an optimum level, and initiating a cleaning sequence of the filter housing with the fluid at the optimum level. The cleaning sequence can comprise agitating the tube sheet, initiating a pump to effectively air scour for a first predetermined amount of time, dwelling for a second predetermined amount of time, and repeating the agitating, initiating, and dwelling until a third predetermined amount of time is complete.

Abstract: A lighting assembly is disclosed. The lighting assembly including a number of separate and distinct features to improve useable, installation ease, etc. In one embodiment, the lighting assembly includes a heat sink, a light source, and an adjustment module portion coupled to the heat sink. The adjustment module portion includes a pivot core having a primary optic for directing light from the light source through the adjustment module. The adjustment module portion also includes a collar spring mount having first and second brackets for slidably engaging the pivot core along a plurality of guide slots such that the pivot core moves horizontally with respect to the collar spring mount as the pivot core is tilted with respect to the collar spring mount. The plurality of guide slots may include first, second and third guide slots, each of which has a different shape.

Abstract: A system and method for determining fluid quality or change in quality by training machine learning algorithms using ultrasound Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) signatures. The system includes one or more ultrasonic transducers embedded inside or outside of a pipe, piping, or vessel that allows a fluid to flow past or between the ultrasound transducers. The transducer's acoustic energy creates ultrasound pressure waves and localized heat due to acoustic cavitation. The cavitation creates bubbles that collapse creating ultrasound sonic energy in the time domain. Unique sonic time-domain signatures, distinctively associated with the characteristics of the fluids, are converted to FFTs to produce unique, well-defined frequency response signatures. Machine learning algorithms are used to identify, measure, and classify the unique frequency response signatures associated with a wide range of fluids.

Abstract: In aspects of managing touch inputs based on device movement, a wireless device has a display screen to display a user interface that includes selectable elements, which are selectable to initiate respective device application actions. The wireless device implements an input control module that can determine the wireless device is in a stationary position based on sensor inputs. The input control module can receive a touch input on a selectable element of the user interface, and detect whether the wireless device has been moved from the stationary position substantially incident to the touch input being received. The input control module can then disregard the touch input if the wireless device has been moved from the stationary position substantially incident to the touch input being received, or initiate processing the touch input if the wireless device has not moved from the stationary position substantially incident to the touch input being received.

Abstract: Various embodiments wirelessly detect micro gestures using multiple antenna of a gesture sensor device. At times, the gesture sensor device transmits multiple outgoing radio frequency (RF) signals, each outgoing RF signal transmitted via a respective antenna of the gesture sensor device. The outgoing RF signals are configured to help capture information that can be used to identify micro-gestures performed by a hand. The gesture sensor device captures incoming RF signals generated by the outgoing RF signals reflecting off of the hand, and then analyzes the incoming RF signals to identify the micro-gesture.

Abstract: Systems and methods of improving alignment in dense prediction neural networks are disclosed. A method includes identifying, at a computing system, an input data set and a label data set with one or more first parts of the input data set corresponding to a label. The computing system processes the input data set using a neural network to generate a predicted label data set that identifies one or more second parts of the input data set predicted to correspond to the label. The computing system determines an alignment result using the predicted label data set and the label data set and a transformation of the one or more first parts, including a shift, rotation, scaling, and/or deformation, based on the alignment result. The computing system computes a loss score using the transformation, label data and the predicted label data set and updates the neural network based on the loss score.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums for configuring a lithography tool to manufacture a semiconductor device. The method includes selecting a first variable, selecting a second variable, selecting at least one response variable that is a function of the first variable and second variable, determining a measurement uncertainty for each response variable, determining, based on a measurement of the response variable, and the measurement uncertainty for the response variable, a plurality of probabilities representing a plurality of indications of whether a plurality of points associated with a lithography process meet a specification requirement for each response variable, wherein the plurality of probabilities represent a process window, and configuring, based on the process window, a lithography tool to manufacture a semiconductor device.

Abstract: A variable length soundbar broadly comprising a number of leveling brackets, an elongated alignment bar, a number of speakers mounting brackets, a number of speakers, and a grille. The leveling brackets include a vertical screw leveler for leveling the elongated alignment bar and hence the speakers. The speaker mounting brackets are configured to be laterally spaced from each other on the elongated alignment bar. The speakers each include a number of drivers configured to output sounds of different frequencies. The grille is configured to at least partially cover the speakers. The grille and the elongated alignment bar are configured to be resized to a desired length.