Abstract: Water storage systems are provided to facilitate storing water for use when a primary source of water becomes unavailable. These water storage systems can be configured to connect into a home's or a building's plumbing to enable the water tanks of the system to be easily filled and regenerated. The water storage systems may include a support system to maximize space utilization and to possibly provide seismic protection.

Abstract: A touch display apparatus is disclosed. The touch display apparatus includes an electrophoretic structure, a protective layer and at least one touch sensing layer. The protective layer is disposed on the electrophoretic structure. The touch sensing layer is disposed on the protective layer and takes the protective layer as a carrier.

Abstract: A method and system are provided that include features for preventing damage to smart components embedded within or attached to a handle of a cookware placed on a heating element of a cooktop appliance. In one aspect, if the sensed temperature of the handle exceeds a first temperature threshold, an alert can be presented to a user indicating that the handle is located in a hot environment and thus requires relocating. In another aspect, if the sensed temperature of the handle exceeds a second temperature threshold, the power output of one or more heating elements generating thermal energy can be reduced to prevent damage to the smart components embedded within or attached to the handle of the cookware.

Abstract: Attributes of a power system having one or more distributed energy resources are characterized by continuously receiving data comprising a power data stream having at least two components and derived from at least one distributed energy resource. A control data stream comprising at least two components is generated. An error data stream is determined based on a difference between respective components of the power data stream to components of a reference data stream comprising at least two components. The error data stream and the reference data stream are processed to generate the control data stream. The control data stream is continuously output to enable control and/or monitoring of the power flow of at least one distributed energy resource.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a display section; and control unit functioning as a display control section, gesture receiving section, and setting candidate receiving section. When the gesture receiving section receives a selection gesture performed on a shortcut button, the display control section causes the display section to: (i) display, in the setting screen, a pop-up image showing a setting item and the setting candidate associated with the selected shortcut button; (ii) scroll-display the setting item list displayed on scrolling display area until the setting item associated with the selected shortcut button is displayed in the setting screen; and (iii) move the pop-up image to where the setting item which is in the setting item list and associated with the selected shortcut button is displayed, and display, as the information representing the setting candidate currently set in the setting item list, the setting candidate associated with the shortcut button.

Abstract: Technologies pertaining to the calibration of ultra-wide-band active-electronically-scanned arrays to compensate for transmit and receive mutual coupling between array elements and/or non-ideal isolated channels are described herein. A plurality of near-field measurements are taken by way of probe or probes that may be moved among a plurality of positions aligned with respective elements in the array. For each position of the probe, each of the elements of the array is stimulated to transmit or receive a calibration signal to or from the probe, respectively. Frequency-domain transfer functions are computed from the received signals by the probe or the element for each of the array elements in each of the positions of the probe. The inverse of the matrix of transfer functions comprise frequency-domain transmit and receive correction factors that are used to modify desired array inputs/outputs such that the modified signals correct for mutual coupling between elements in the array.

Abstract: A computer program product includes a computer readable medium having computer readable program instructions configured to cause a processor to: track resource requirements for a workload deployed to a virtual environment; monitor one or more health characteristics of one or more systems of the virtual environment; determine whether one or more soft reservations corresponding to the workload should be created on one or more of the systems of the virtual environment; and in response to determining the one or more soft reservations corresponding to the workload should be created, creating the one or more soft reservations on the one or more of the systems of the virtual environment. The one or more of the systems of the virtual environment on which the one or more soft reservations are created are preferably different systems than the system to which the workload was originally deployed. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: An aiming system including a first member securable to a device having a point source, a second member selectably rotatable about a first axis relative to the first member, a third member selectably rotatable about a second axis oriented non-parallel to the first axis, and an aiming member having a third axis. The aiming system including the aiming member connected to the third member. A selectable rotation about each of the first axis and the second axis can be independently performed. During the selectable rotation about each of the first axis and the second axis with the aiming member in a first position, the point source, a point on the first axis, a point on the second axis, a point on the third axis are maintained mutually coincident with each other.

Abstract: A computer implemented method of identifying a behavior of objects detected in a video stream, comprising using one or more processors adapted for receiving a video stream comprising a plurality of frames captured by imaging sensor(s), applying a first set of trained classification functions for visually analyzing each of at least a subset of the frames to create a semantic attribute set for each object detected in each frame comprising an object probability score indicative of the object class probability, attribute probability score(s) indicative of probability of attribute(s) associated with the object and estimated location of the object, applying a second set of trained classification functions for semantically analyzing the attribute sets created for each object tracked in the subset to calculate a behavior probability score indicative of action(s) estimated to be conducted by each object and outputting an indication when the calculated behavior probability score complies with predefined rule(s).

Abstract: According an embodiment, a liquid storage system comprises a tank for storing liquid fuel, a vent pipe for providing communication between outside of the tank and a gas space above a level of liquid fuel in the tank, a nonflammable gas supplying apparatus for supplying the gas space with nonflammable gases, a pressure control apparatus installed in the vent pipe to operate responsively to the pressure difference between the gas space and atmospheric pressure so as to limit a pressure in the gas space to a predetermined range. The pressure control apparatus introduces ambient air outside the tank into the gas space through the vent pipe when a pressure in the gas space is lower than a predetermined lower limit, and discharge a gas from the gas space out of the tank through the vent pipe when a pressure in the gas space is higher than a predetermined upper limit.

Abstract: High bandwidth envelope trackers are provided herein. In certain embodiments, an envelope tracking system for a power amplifier includes a switching regulator that operates in combination with a high bandwidth amplifier to generate a power amplifier supply voltage for the power amplifier based on an envelope of a radio frequency (RF) signal amplified by the power amplifier. The high bandwidth amplifier includes an output that generates an output current for adjusting the power amplifier supply voltage, a first input that receives a reference signal, and a second input that receives an envelope signal indicating the envelope of the RF signal. The second input has lower input impedance than the first input to provide a rapid transient response and high envelope tracking bandwidth.

Abstract: A biosensor system for the detection of target analytes that includes a living biological cell of a predetermined type; a signal-generating reporter associated with the living biological cell; a signal transduction pathway or other activator mechanism or means associated with the signal-generating reporter; a universal detector element associated with the activator mechanism; and an analyte binding element associated with the universal detector element, wherein the analyte binding element is specific to both the universal detector element and a target analyte.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, when authoring an IMP, a designer may utilize an authoring tool to edit the visual and audio content associated with particular nodes. Further, in an embodiment, a designer may utilize an authoring tool to manipulate blocks corresponding to nodes of the IMP. For example, the authoring tool may include a library of stencils that the designer can utilize to create blocks corresponding to nodes of the IMP. In an embodiment, a designer may link the blocks to create a flow or tree establishing an ordered relationship between the blocks. A set of rules and/or facts may be generated based on the blocks and the designed flow. During IMP presentation, a rules engine may operate to activate nodes of the IMP based on the generated rules and/or facts.

Abstract: A mobile computing device of a user transmits a digital certificate to a server computing device over a non-networking connection established with the server computing device. The digital certificate identifies the user, a particular server computing device, a validity period in which the digital certificate is valid, and a list of actions that the user is permitted to perform on the particular server computing device during the validity period. The server computing device authenticates the digital certificate, such as by determining whether a current time is within the validity period and whether the particular server computing device is the server computing device. When authentication is successful, the user can perform any action of the list of actions, including an action to power off the service computing device. The non-networking connection is such that the user is not provided a user account and a password to access the server computing device.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a display section displaying a setting screen receiving change in a setting candidate of a plurality of respective setting items; and a control unit including a processor and functioning as a display control section, gesture receiving section, and setting candidate receiving section when the processor executes a control program. The setting screen includes a setting item list in which images respectively indicating each of the plurality of setting items are listed, and a shortcut button associated with a predetermined setting candidate of a predetermined setting item. In the setting item list, information representing the setting candidate set at present is shown in the images respectively indicating each of the plurality of setting items. When the gesture receiving section receives a selection gesture performed on the shortcut button, the setting candidate receiving section receives change to the setting candidate associated with the selected shortcut button.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including an image formation unit, a character size decision unit, a generation unit, and a replacement unit. The image formation unit forms an image on paper. The character size decision unit decides a size of a character included in a second text image, based on an image including a photographic image and a first text image. The generation unit generates a descriptive sentence of the photographic image. The replacement unit replaces the photographic image with the second text image. The second text image indicates a text image corresponding to the descriptive sentence.

Abstract: Disclosed is a technology for a maintenance system. The maintenance system includes a customer-premises equipment (CPE), a smart device configured to connect to the CPE through short-range wireless communication, and a maintenance service server configured to communicate with the smart device.

Abstract: The invention comprises a steam cleaning system that can rapidly handle multiple objects in an efficient and useful way. For example, objects used for shipping or moving food products in the food manufacturing or food services industries must either be new, clean and used once and then discarded, or re-used and thus cleaned to ensure no contamination is present. Layer pad objects or other separating surfaces are often used in these industries and often when these objects are used in stacking and pelletizing large shipments of food products, where the payer pad or other separating or container objects or surfaces help contain or maintain the integrity of the food products during shipment. In an important aspect of the invention, a plastic layer pad cleaning system is described. In other aspects, other surfaces, containers, or other separating objects used in shipping or distribution or food products are efficiently cleaned using a steam cleaning and conveying system.

Abstract: A reconfigurable triplexer that can support more frequency bands than a traditional triplexer is disclosed. For example, the reconfigurable triplexer can handle frequencies of several hundred megahertz up to 10 gigahertz. Further, certain implementations of the reconfigurable multiplexer can reduce or eliminate frequency dead zones that exist with traditional multiplexers. The reconfigurable triplexer includes a multi-stage filter bank capable of supporting a number of frequency bands and a bypass circuit that enables the triplexer to support a variety of sets of frequencies. For instance, unlike traditional triplexers, the reconfigurable triplexer can support both frequency bands with relatively narrow spacing and frequency bands with relatively wide spacing. Further, the inclusion of the bypass circuit enables the reduction or elimination of dead zones between supported frequencies.

Abstract: A machine provides a system and interface to allow domain experts and other users to develop, deploy, and iterate on analytical models. The machine facilitates building, deploying, and/or training analytical models by, e.g., exposing analytical model configuration parameters to a user while abstracting model building and model deployment activities. The machine can also determine resource loads or execution times for various analytical models and can schedule model execution accordingly. The machine also provides a dynamically reconfigurable user interface for controlling the system.