Abstract: The present invention discloses a high-temperature stable ceramic coating structure including a microalloy comprising the elements Al, V and N producible by a gas phase deposition process.

Abstract: An optically pumped, atomic magnetometer incorporates a feedback system for stabilizing the magnetic bias field and suppressing unwanted background fields. The magnetic bias field is applied to a vapor cell containing host atoms of two different species, each of which resonates at a different Larmor frequency when both are subjected to the same magnetic bias field. One species provides the feedback for stabilizing the bias field, thereby creating a stabilizing magnetometer portion that nulls out the unwanted background fields. The other species provides magnetic field detection or signal reception on a radio communication frequency of interest, thereby creating a signal magnetometer portion that permits detection of the signal at the radio communication frequency.

Abstract: Manufacture of an imaging element in which light entering a pixel without being transmitted through a color filter arranged in the pixel is attenuated is simplified. An imaging element includes a pixel and an incident light attenuating section. The pixel includes a color filter through which light having a predetermined wavelength of light from a subject is transmitted, and a photoelectric conversion section generating charges responding to the light transmitted through the color filter. The incident light attenuating section is arranged between the subject and the color filter, and attenuates the light entering the photoelectric conversion section without being transmitted through the color filter arranged in the pixel.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: an imager (11) configured to acquire image data; a processing unit (14) configured to execute, on the image data or data based on the image data, processing of extracting a specific region based on a neural network calculation model; and an output unit (16) configured to output image data fabricated based on the specific region or the image data read from the imager based on the specific region.

Abstract: An aftertreatment system includes a first mounting plate and a first hanger rod. The first mounting plate includes a first aperture and non-circular recessed portion aligned with the first aperture. The first hanger rod comprises a mounting plate connection portion and a shaft. The mounting plate includes a non-circular mounting head having a portion that is engaged with a portion the non-circular recessed portion so as to prevent rotation of the mounting plate connection relative to the first mounting plate. The shaft extends from the non-circular mounting head through the first aperture.

Abstract: A communication system and method are provided to assist a user in conveying and/or exchanging a communication. The present communication system and method provide a low tech platform that enables a user to utilize an icon exchange communication system and method while allowing the integration of core vocabulary instructional concepts and techniques. The present communication system and method allows for seamless presentation of core vocabulary while also providing access to fringe vocabulary words.

Abstract: A dehumidifier appliance may include a cabinet, a refrigeration assembly, an air handler, and a condensate collection tray. A controller is configured to initiate a dehumidification cycle, determine that the dehumidification cycle has failed, prompt a user to confirm that all external sources of humidity are blocked, receive user confirmation that all external sources of humidity are blocked, determine that the dehumidification cycle is still failing after receiving the user confirmation, and identify a fault with the dehumidifier appliance.

Abstract: A toner cartridge comprises a toner container which contains toner, a driving member which rotationally drives a conveying member, an agitating member which agitates a toner in the toner container while being rotated, a driven member which rotates in association with the driving member which is for rotationally driving the agitating member, and a rotational body which rotates according to rotation of the driven member, has a plurality of slits in rotational circumference for identifying a type of the toner cartridge, and has 1/K or more of the slits when a ratio of a rotational speed R1 (rad/s) of the driving member and a rotational speed R2 (rad/s) of the driven member is K=R2/R1.

Abstract: A method for dynamic software management includes receiving, at a source processor, an idle time and at least one task execution characteristic of corresponding to respective processors of one or more other processors. The method also includes identifying a target processor of the one or more other processors capable of executing a task associated with the source processor based on the idle time and the at least one task execution characteristic of the target processor. The method also includes communicating, to the target processor, a task request requesting the target processor execute the task associated with the source processor. The method also includes, in response to receiving a communication from the target processor indicating acceptance of the task, communicating, to the target processor, instructions for executing the task.

Abstract: A laundry appliance includes a basket rotatably mounted within a cabinet and defining a chamber configured for receiving a load of clothes, a door pivotally mounted to the cabinet for providing selective access to the chamber, and a camera assembly mounted within the cabinet in view of the chamber. A controller is configured to initiate an automatic self-clean cycle, the method comprising determining that the door is closed, obtaining one or more images of the chamber using the camera assembly, determining that there is no load in the chamber based at least in part on the one or more images, determining that a self-clean condition is satisfied, and commencing the self-clean cycle.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for recognizing and synchronizing to in-band data at a multimedia device is provided. A content stream includes in-band data. The in-band data is processed and in-band data pattern data associated with the content stream are created. Metadata are attached to the event identification data. The event identification data are provided to multimedia devices which receive broadcasted multimedia content streams containing video programs with in-band data. The in-band data are processed and compared to the event identification data. If a match occurs, the multimedia device uses the metadata to perform specified actions.

Abstract: The model generation system may generate a 3D object model based on computer aided design (CAD) data describing an object. The CAD data received by the CAD conversion module 160 may contain a set of surfaces for the object. Each surface may be described by a surface equation that describes the shape of the surface in a 3D space. The model generation system may extract those surface equations from the CAD data and generate field lines and equipotential lines. The field lines may be lines that are tangent to the gradient vector field of the surface, and the equipotential lines may be lines along the surface that designate points that have the same potential within the gradient field vector. The model generation system may use the field lines and the equipotential lines to generate quadrangular tessellations for a 3D object model for the object described by the CAD data.

Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry configured to receive a video, determine a plurality of long-term reference frames, determine a long-term reference retention time, and encode the video into a bitstream including the determined plurality of long-term reference fames and the determined retention time. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.

Abstract: A method for providing steering mode control includes identifying a set of steering characteristic values corresponding to respective steering characteristics for a current steering mode. The method also includes setting the respective steering characteristics to corresponding steering characteristic values of the set of steering characteristic values and receiving at least one steering characteristics input indicating a selected steering characteristic value for a corresponding steering characteristic. The method also includes selectively setting the steering characteristic value of the corresponding steering characteristic to the selected steering characteristic value indicated by the at least one steering characteristics input.

Abstract: Configuration devices in a module. In some embodiments a radio-frequency module includes a serial bus including a first serial data line and a second serial data line. The radio-frequency module also includes a control component coupled to the serial bus and the first switch, the control component configured to determine whether first data is detected on the first serial data line, determine whether second data is detected on the second serial data line, and decode a command based on the first data and second data when the first data is detected on the first serial data line and when the second data is detected on the second serial data line.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a printing portion, a first conveying portion, and a second conveying portion. The printing portion ejects liquid to print a medium having elasticity. The first conveying portion is disposed upstream of the printing portion in a conveying direction along which the medium is conveyed to the printing portion, and conveys the medium while stretching the medium in the conveying direction and in a width direction orthogonal to the conveying direction. The second conveying portion conveys the medium conveyed by the first conveying portion while keeping the medium facing the printing portion.

Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure include receiving a goal, providing a problem-specific knowledge graph that is responsive to at least a portion of the goal, determining a set of events from the problem-specific knowledge graph, processing data representative of events in the set of events through a first machine learning (ML) model to provide a set of event scores, each event score in the set of event scores being associated with a respective event in the set of events, determining a sub-set of events based on the set of event scores, for each event in the sub-set of events, determining at least one action by processing a sequence of actions through a second ML model, and outputting the sub-set of events and a set of actions for execution of at least one action in the set of actions.

Abstract: Methods for quantitatively determining the time (TNI) between (1) the application of this method and (2) the time at which the next out-of-service API 653 internal inspection of a steel, field-erected, aboveground storage tank (AST) containing petroleum/water products should be performed. These methods combine four in-service measurements of the thickness, integrity, and corrosion rate of the tank bottom with an empirical corrosion rate cumulative frequency distribution (CFD) for the tank of interest to develop a Bayesian tank bottom survival probability distribution to determine TNI. During this entire TNI time period, the risk of tank bottom failure is less than at the time these methods were applied. If available, the results of a previous out-of-service API 653 internal inspection are also used. These methods can be applied at any time while the tank is in-service to update the internal inspection interval previously determined in an out-of-service internal inspection of the tank.

Abstract: The disclosed system and method focus on automatically generating questions from input of written text and/or audio transcripts (e.g., learning materials) to aid in teaching people through testing their knowledge about information they have previously been presented with. These questions may be presented to an end user via a conversational system (e.g., virtual agent or chatbot). The user can iterate through each question, provide feedback for the question, attempt to answer the question, and/or get an answer score for each answer. The disclosed system and method can generate questions tailored to a particular subject by using teaching materials as input. The disclosed system and method can further curate the questions based on various conditions to ensure that the questions are automatically selected and arranged in an order that best suits the subject taught and the learner answering the questions.