Abstract: A system includes an imaging system and a fiber detection and alignment system. The fiber detection and alignment system includes one or more neural networks trained to detect end faces of one or more fibers in an image and to predict rotation angle and direction of rotation for each fiber that will align an axis of the fiber to associated reference keys. In operation, the imaging system generates an image of an end face of one or more polarization-maintaining (PM) fibers to be aligned. The fiber detection and alignment system generates fiber detection information, such as bounding boxes around end faces of each fiber in the image, and fiber alignment information, such as an alignment instruction indicating a rotation angle and direction of rotation that will align fast or slow axes of each fiber to associated reference keys. The novel system provides a scalable technique to automatically align PM fiber.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for instructing users on the fabrication of a volumetric module. Aspects thereof comprise receiving project documents related to fabrication of a volumetric module, generating fabrication information for instructing users on fabrication of the volumetric module, storing the fabrication information, creating a mesh network of actionable links based on parametric relationships comprising an intuitive, navigable mapping for accessing the stored fabrication information, providing a user interface to interact with the intuitive, navigable mapping to perform any one or more of (i) accessing the fabrication information to perform one or more steps in the fabrication of the volumetric module, and (ii) providing feedback regarding the fabrication information to facilitate review and updating to the fabrication information, and continuously updating the stored fabrication information and mesh network.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to systems and methods for collecting, integrating, processing, distributing, and analyzing spatial and/or spatio-temporal information associated with a variety of data sources and/or locations. In some embodiments, systems and methods described herein allow for collection and integration of information included in one or more spatial and/or spatio-temporal data streams and/or other related information that may be utilized in connection with one or more analytical processes. In certain embodiments, the disclosed embodiments may allow a user to, among other things, interact with spatio-temporal information associated with a variety of diverse data sources, generate visualizations using such data, and/or perform desired analytical queries based on the data.

Abstract: Content management on web portals has become complex and sometime tedious. There are needs for efficient and cost-effective methods to manage large volumes of contents for web portals. Posting and withdrawing contents on a web portal, if carried out in parallel, can improve the efficiency of updating and managing the web portal.

Abstract: The web portal's contents management becomes complex and sometime tedious job. There are needs for an efficient and cost effective way to manage large volumes of the web contents for web portals. The posting and withdrawing operation of the present invention has provided a means for making the tasks of updating and managing web portal's contents become much easy and efficient due to the principle of the parallelism can be deployed.

Abstract: An acoustic and heat control device is disclosed and described. The device can include a central chamber oriented along a central axis within an outer shell, said central chamber having an inlet configured to receive a high energy material from a high energy outlet. Additionally, the device can include a damper disposed proximate to the central chamber and comprising an energy absorbent material. In one aspect, the device can be used with a firearm.