Abstract: Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for accessing a plurality of resources with a single authentication pass are disclosed. A processor successfully allows login a user into an application embedded within a user computing device based on a positive facial recognition result for gaining access to a building; generates, in response to successful login, a quick response (QR) code and a near field communication (NFC) tag; causes a security system installed in an entry point to the building to read the QR code or the NFC tag in response to bringing the user computing device close to the security system; authenticates the user based on successful reading of the QR code or the NFC tag; and configures the QR code or the NFC tag as a single authentication pass allowing the user to enter the building and access the plurality of resources for a predetermined configurable period.

Abstract: A display tile includes a display board and a carrier board, the carrier board being for attachment to a frame or a bracket, the display board and the carrier board being fastened together by the intermediary of a spacer positioned between the display board and the carrier board. The spacer is glue or adhesive. The adhesive forms the spacer itself. The spacer can engage in an opening in the carrier board. The display board has image forming elements and the spacer is for setting a relative position of the tops of the image forming elements with respect to the carrier board.

Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing speckle while maintaining frame rate are disclosed. Multiple sub-images associated with different receive angles are acquired for a single transmit/receive event at an observation angle. The sub-images are compounded to generate a final image with reduced speckle. In some examples, multiple sub-images from multiple transmit/receive events are compounded to generate the final image. The observation angle and/or the receive angles may vary between transmit/receive events in some examples.

Abstract: A host device comprising an input/output (I/O) port, a first sensor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to determine a cassette is docked with the host device, receive a transaction request requiring a specific denomination for dispensing, cause a picker system of the cassette to retrieve a target bill from a storage position of a bill storage component of the cassette based on the specific denomination for the transaction request and a storage position for a bill matching the specific denomination where the cassette is configured to generate a bill list comprising bill information for each bill of the plurality of bills including a respective denomination and the storage position for each bill, and cause the I/O port to dispense the target bill.

Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method of presenting patient information, the method comprising identifying a first pathway associated with a patient of interest, the first pathway comprising one or more nodes; identifying at least one patient parameter type that is required by a node in the identified first pathway; querying a patient record for the patient of interest to determine if the patient record includes a patient parameter value for the identified at least one patient parameter type; if the patient record includes a patient parameter value for an identified patient parameter type, retrieving the patient parameter value from the patient record and rendering a display including the retrieved patient parameter value; and if the patient record does not include a patient parameter value for an identified patient parameter type, rendering a display including an indication of the identified patient parameter type.

Abstract: An integrated circuit improves scan testing efficiency by addressing slow Scan-OUT pins. The integrated circuit shifts data through high-frequency Scan-OUT pins every cycle and through low-frequency Scan-OUT pins every other cycle. Data that cannot be shifted through low-frequency pins is stored in an accumulator and later shifted out through high-frequency pins. Despite changing the scan-out data pattern, the tester used for testing the integrated circuit anticipates the resulting pattern, providing for the testing to not be negatively impacted.

Abstract: Systems and methods for space-based transactions are disclosed. A method for conducting a space-based transaction may include: (1) a first space-based device determining that it is incapable or will be incapable of providing the service; (2) the first space-based device identifying a second space-based device; (3) the first space-based device requesting capability information for the second space-based device; (4) the first space-based device that the second space-based device is capable of providing the service based on the capability information; and (5) the first space-based device executing a transaction with the second space-based device, wherein the first space-based device pays the second space-based device for the service by transferring payment from an electronic wallet for the first space-based device to an electronic wallet for the second space-based device on the distributed ledger network, and the second space-based device provides the service to the user.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a calculation device (10) for comparing dark-field X-ray images. The calculation device in (10) is configured for receiving a first dark-field X-ray image (11) describing first dark-field X-ray signals of a patient at an expiration state and for receiving a second dark-field X-ray image (12) describing second dark-field X-ray signals of the patient at an inspiration state. The calculation device is further (10) configured for normalizing the first dark-field X-ray signals of the first dark-field X-ray tin image (11) with a lung thickness value describing the lung thickness at the expiration state and for normalizing the second dark-field X-ray signals of the second dark-field X-ray image (12) with a lung thickness value describing the lung thickness at the inspiration state.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a method for testing and repairing local memory in a hardware accelerator from a one-time programmable memory (OTP) is provided. The method includes asserting a grant signal, a loading of a first repair data for a sub-set of the local memory associated with a main-controller from a first partition of the OTP memory, communicating a status signal after completion of the loading indicating a completion of the loading, and de-asserting the grant signal in response to receiving the status signal.

Abstract: A milking device is provided with milking device, a control unit, a milk line for transporting the milk from the milking device to a milk tank, a milk filter for filtering the milk passing through the milk line, and a cleaning device for the milk filter with cleaning liquid. The milk filter includes a housing surrounding a filter volume and has a milk inlet and a milk outlet, and a filter component in the filter volume. The filter component includes a circumferential plate part with filter holes, and divides the filter volume into a central inner filter volume and an outer filter volume surrounding the latter. The milk filter is configured to be flushed, in use, with the milk to be filtered from the milk inlet to the milk outlet.

Abstract: A controller (220) for determining a shape of an interventional medical device in an interventional medical procedure based on a location of the interventional medical device includes a memory (221) that stores instructions and a processor (222) that executes the instructions. The instructions cause a system (200) that includes the controller (220) to implement a process that includes obtaining (S320) the location of the interventional medical device (201) and obtaining (S330) imagery of a volume that includes the interventional medical device. The process also includes applying (S340), based on the location of the interventional medical device (201), image processing to the imagery to identify the interventional medical device (201) including the shape of the interventional medical device (201). The process further includes (S350) segmenting the interventional medical device (201) to obtain a segmented representation of the interventional medical device (201).

Abstract: A milking system includes a device to sample and analyse a milk sample, including a control unit, a sample supply line connected to the milk line, a pump to control the sample flow, an optical radiation source, and an optical sensor device to detect and analyse optical radiation coming from the reagent pad with said sample, to provide an indication of a substance in the sample, a tape mover to move and unwind the tape from the tape reel, and a pump drive, external to the cassette, and releasably operably connected to the pump device for driving the pump device. The sampling and analysis device also includes a cassette with a sample receiving line, releasably connected to the sample supply line by a liquid connector, and arranged to receive the sample from the sample supply line, a tape reel with a tape that includes a base tape layer and a series of separate reagent pads, and a dosing device to provide a droplet of the sample onto a reagent pad.

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for using machine learning models to more reliably predict likelihoods of application failure. A model is trained to identify and display events that may cause high severity application failures. Logistic regression may be used to fit the model such that application features are mapped to a high severity event flag. Significant features of applications that relate to the high severity flag may be selected using stepwise regression. The identified applications may be displayed on a graphical user interface for review and reprioritization. Information may be ranked and displayed according to multiple different ranking criteria, such as one ranking generated by a first model, and another determined by one or more users. The multiple ranking criteria may be used to inform steps taken, and/or to retrain or tune the parameters of the model for subsequent predictions or classifications.

Abstract: An electromagnetic propulsion unit for a land-based wheeled or tracked vehicle is provided. The propulsion unit includes a rotor stack, a rotor shaft, and a balancing plate assembly. The balancing plate assembly include a base plate fixating the rotor stack to the rotor shaft, where the base plate includes an air channel that axially extends through the base plate and a planar channel formed between the rotor stack and the base plate and in fluidic communication with the air channel.

Abstract: Circuits and methods for testing voltage monitor circuits are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes setting voltage monitor circuits to test mode; setting, a monitor reference in each voltage monitor circuit, to a respective targeted threshold voltage using a corresponding trim code; ramping, a voltage provided to a subset of voltage monitor circuits, from a first voltage to a second voltage using a test voltage supply, voltages between the first voltage and the second voltage corresponding with targeted threshold voltages of the subset of voltage monitor circuits; determining, for each voltage monitor circuit in the subset of voltage monitor circuits, a voltage value of the test voltage supply resulting in a change in a logic state at an output of a corresponding voltage monitor circuit.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for obtaining data. The data may be obtained from a variety of data sources. In order to determine the preferred data source for obtaining the data, data quality scores may be computed and assigned to each data source of interest for a given implementation. Each data quality score may take into account several criteria including the computing resources required to obtain the data, the financial cost of obtaining the data, the security risk of obtaining the data, etc. Data may be obtained from the preferred data source, presented to a user associated with the data for verification, and processed in order to provide a computer-implemented services to the user.

Abstract: A precision magnetometer for detecting magnetic fields parallel to a static field B0 in which the magnetometer itself is immersed; this magnetometer is operative in the frequency range of the field b1 ranging from 10 MHz to 1 GHz. Another object is a technique for using the presented magnetometer.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to normalizing pixel intensity values of images. Qualitative images which have to be compared need to have actual pixel intensity values in a suitable range. Generally, the qualitative images to be compared are made to appear visually similar by adjusting display settings. First and second images having different actual pixel intensity values but appearing visually same are received. One or more normalized parameters are determined and using one or more contrast and illumination parameters associated with the first and second image. Thereafter, normalized pixel intensity values are determined using the one or more normalized parameters and a normalized image is generated. The pixel intensity values of the normalized image can be compared with actual pixel intensity values of the first image or second image.

Abstract: A computer system includes a token repository configured to store payment tokens, and a server system. The server system includes a processor and instructions stored in non-transitory machine-readable media, the instructions configured to cause the server system to receive a request to provision a payment token based on a financial product, wherein the request includes information related to the financial product, provision a payment token based on the token request, including authenticating the financial product based on the financial product information and generating the payment token upon authenticating the financial product, wherein the payment token is useable to make a payment via the financial product, and store the payment token in the token repository.

Abstract: In an example, techniques of this disclosure include establishing, by a computing device, authentication data for authenticating a user of a service provided by a service provider, where the authentication data comprises one or more first data entries and one or more second data entries that correspond to the one or more first data entries. The techniques also include retrieving, from at least one third-party service provider, one or more second data entries maintained by the at least one third-party service provider that correspond to the one or more first data entries, and authenticating the user based on the authentication data, where authenticating the user comprises comparing the one or more first data entries to the one or more second data entries retrieved from the at least one third-party service provider.