Abstract: Offline task-based feature processing for aerial vehicles is provided. A system can extract features from a world model generated using sensor information captured by sensors mounted on an aerial vehicle. The system generates a label for each of the features and identifies identify processing levels based on the features. The system selects a processing level for each feature of a subset of features based on a task performed by the aerial vehicle and the label associated with the feature. The system generates one or more processed features by applying the processing level to a respective feature of the subset of the plurality of features. The system presents the one or more processed features on a display device of the aerial vehicle.

Abstract: Variable temperature analytical instruments are provided that can include: a mobile component comprising a cold source; a substantially fixed analysis component; and an interface configured to couple the mobile component with the analysis component. Variable temperature analytical instruments are also provided that can include: a mobile analysis component; a substantially fixed component comprising a cold source; and an interface configured to couple the mobile component with the analysis component. Variable temperature analytical instruments are also provided that can include: a cold source in thermal communication with an analysis component; and at least one pressure barrier defining a plurality of discrete masses maintained at different temperatures between the cold source and the analysis component.

Abstract: A flow sensor sub-assembly for sensing flow of a fluidic medicament includes a flow tube having an inlet and an outlet, a first coupler secured to the inlet of the flow tube, a second coupler secured to the outlet of the flow tube, a first piezo element secured to the first coupler, a second piezo element secured to the second coupler to define a predetermined distance between the first piezo element and the second piezo element, and at least one absorber sleeve engaged with the first coupler, the flow tube, and the second coupler.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for dynamically switching frame rates without changing a display refresh rate. An example method can include receiving, from a display device associated with a computing device, a set of control signals indicating a display refresh rate implemented by the display device; adjusting a frame rate associated with application data from one or more applications executed on the computing device; synchronizing, based on the set of control signals, the adjusted frame rate with two or more display refresh cycles, each display refresh cycle being based on the display refresh rate; providing, to the display device, a first frame at the adjusted frame rate, the first frame being generated based on the application data; and displaying the first frame at the display device implementing the display refresh rate.

Abstract: A physical quantity measurement device is configured to seal a cavity portion on a back surface side of a diaphragm of a thermal air flow rate sensor while improving measurement accuracy. The device may include a lead frame having a mounting surface on which a flow rate sensor which is the thermal air flow rate sensor is mounted, and a flow passage forming member disposed on a back surface opposite to the mounting surface of the lead frame. A ventilation flow path is formed by a first through hole in communication with a cavity portion of the flow rate sensor, a second through hole provided in the lead frame and opened in the mounting surface, and a connection flow path that is defined between the lead frame and the flow passage forming member and connecting the first through hole and the second through hole.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing stateless management of a virtualization platform are disclosed. In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: listening, at an agent executing on a host machine of a plurality of host machines that include a cluster for hosting virtual machines, for an event triggered on a virtual machine manager associated with the agent; determining, by the agent and based on the event, parameters needed for an API call at a central management service that manages a plurality of virtual machines and virtual machine managers; sending a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request to the central management service, wherein the parameters are included in the HTTP request; receiving, by the agent and from the central management service, a response to the HTTP request including return data based on the determined parameters and the API call.

Abstract: An apparatus for fingerprint sensing includes a touch-display layer covered by a transparent layer. The touch-display layer can emit light to illuminate a finger surface touching the transparent layer. The touch-display layer is transparent to reflected light from the surface to underlying layers. The underlying layers include a collimator layer and a pixelated image sensor. The collimator layer can collimate the reflected light, and the pixelated image sensor can sense the collimated reflected light. The collimator can collimate the reflected light to enable a one-to-one imaging ratio between an area of the finger surface touching the transparent layer and an area of a corresponding image formed on the pixelated image sensor.

Abstract: A fluid detection sensor includes: an optical sensor including a light emitting element array and a light receiving element array which are arranged on a substrate along a longitudinal direction thereof; a flow path member which includes a tubular body which is transparent and is arranged along the longitudinal direction facing the optical sensor, an inside of the tubular body constituting a flow path through which a plurality of substantially immiscible fluids flow as a slug flow; and a reflecting member placed on a side opposite to the optical sensor with respect to the flow path. The fluid detection sensor detects changes in light which occur in accordance with a movement of the plurality of fluids by the light receiving element array receiving light which is emitted by the light emitting element array toward the slug flow in the flow path and is reflected by the reflecting member.

Abstract: To provide a heat radiation member having high durability that can favorably retain the thermal conductivity under application of heat cycles, suitable for mounting a semiconductor element of a power module. The heat radiation member includes a laminated structure including metal materials 21 and 22 and a carbon material 10 having the following property (A) bonded to each other; (A) in pressurizing one principal surface of a plate specimen having a thickness of 11 mm of the carbon material with nitrogen gas of 200 kPa, the carbon material having a gas permeability of the nitrogen gas permeating to the other principal surface with a flow rate of 5 L/min or more and 30 L/min or less per 0.01 m2 in terms of area of the pressurized principal surface, the pressurized principal surface having an area of 0.005 m2 or more.

Abstract: A method for classifying input data includes receiving the input data that describe an object, wherein the input data corresponds to plural classes; associating the input data with voxels that describe the object; calculating a real-number sequence X(n), which is associated with a measured parameter P that describes the object; quantizing the real-number sequence X(n) to generate a finite set sequence Q(n), where n describes a number of levels; generating a voxel-based weight matrix for each class of the input data; and calculating a score S for each class of the plural classes, based on a corresponding voxel-based weight matrix. The score S is a number that indicates a likelihood that the input data associated with a given sample belongs to a class of the plural classes.

Abstract: An optically based combustion off-gas stream velocity sensor assembly is provided for detecting in real-time off-gas flow velocity and/or volume as it moves through a flue duct. The sensor assembly includes two paired coherent light emitters and optic sensors, positioned in a spaced orientation in the flow path direction. The light emitter/optic sensor pairs operate to emit and detect across the off-gas stream coherent light beam energy having a wavelength component corresponding to an absorption profile of an off-gas species component. The detection of non-absorbed portions of the emitted beam is used to identify and detect the movement of a flow species signature at different locations along the flue duct.

Abstract: A method for controlling a magnetic resonance imaging system, including: selecting a plurality of spatially non-selective initial RF-pulses each having a predefined pulse shape and a predefined frequency; determining a combined RF-pulse from the initial RF-pulses by choosing a time-offset comprising a relative application time-shift between the initial RF-pulses, wherein this time-offset is chosen such that the initial RF-pulses overlap; and including the combined RF pulse in a pulse sequence applied in a magnetic resonance imaging system.

Abstract: Provided is a stereoscopic surface display device including a stereoscopic display unit having a cell area, wherein the stereoscopic display unit includes a first flexible layer, a first optical waveguide and a first optical output unit in the first flexible layer, wherein the first optical output unit are disposed in the cell area, a first light source disposed on a side of the stereoscopic display unit, wherein the first optical waveguide connects the first light source and the first optical output unit, a first photothermal response layer on the first flexible layer, wherein the first photothermal response layer is configured to receive output light emitted from the first optical output unit and emit thermal energy, and a shape deformation layer on the first photothermal response layer, wherein the shape deformation layer is configured to generate bending deformation by receiving the thermal energy from the first photothermal response layer.

Abstract: There is provided a method for handling a service request. The method is performed by a first service communication proxy (SCP) node. In response to receiving a first request from a first Network Function (NF) node for a further NF node to provide a first service, the first SCP node selects (102) a second NF node to provide the first service and stores (104) an identifier of the second NF node. The first SCP node also initiates transmission (106) towards the second NF node of the first request. In response to receiving, from the second NF node, a first response, the first SCP node stores (108) location information of the second NF node. The location information of the second NF node is stored in association with the identifier of the second NF node. The first SCP node also initiates transmission (110) of the first response towards the first NF node.

Abstract: A magnetic-inductive flow meter for measuring flow velocity or volume flow rate of a medium includes: a measuring tube having a first cross-section and a middle segment, which has a second cross-section, between inlet side and outlet side end planes, wherein the first cross-sectional area is greater than the second cross-sectional area; a pole shoe or a saddle coil, which subtends the measuring tube with a maximum central angle; and an electrode system having two electrode pairs, wherein a central angle in the second cross-section defines a minimum circular sector in which the electrodes located on a side of the measuring tube are distributed, wherein the electrode pairs are arranged in the middle segment such that the central angle and the maximum central angle are adapted relative to one another such that the flow meter is insensitive to departures from a rotationally symmetric flow.

Abstract: One embodiment is a navigation system for an aircraft including a positioning system to generate information related to a position of the aircraft, a group of cameras mounted to a body of the aircraft, each camera of the group of cameras to simultaneously capture images of a portion of an environment that surrounds the aircraft, and a processing component coupled to the positioning system and the group of cameras, the processing component to determine a current position of the aircraft based on the information related to the position of the aircraft and the images.

Abstract: A method for evaluating physical properties of a melt-blown plastic resin, and, more specifically, to a novel method for evaluating physical properties are provided. When a particular plastic resin is processed by a melt-blown process, a stretching diameter value after the process of the plastic resin can be accurately derived from a physical property value measured using a specimen of the resin.

Abstract: In a control device (10), a determination unit (11) determines “a plurality of collision-occurrence-estimated devices” for which “transmission collision” is estimated to occur due to overlapping of transmission schedule timings among the plurality of communication devices. A transmission control unit (12) executes transmission control of transmitting, to each of some of the plurality of collision-occurrence-estimated devices, each of a plurality of “timing distribution control signals” for distributing transmission timings of the plurality of collision-occurrence-estimated devices determined by the determination unit (11).

Abstract: A protective cover for an affected area of a patient, particularly associated with an insertion site of a catheter or other puncture or opening in a patient's skin, comprising a body portion including an aperture, and a window portion, wherein the body portion and window portion each optionally comprises an antimicrobial composition. Aspects of the present invention provide articles, systems and kits for covering an incision, wound or catheter insertion site with a protective cover, and methods of using and making the protective cover.

Abstract: A current reference operative drive-sense circuit (DSC) includes a current source operably coupled to a load and a voltage-mode analog to digital converter (ADC). When enabled, the current source configured to drive a sinusoidal current reference signal to the load thereby generating a load voltage that is based on the sinusoidal current reference signal and an impedance of the load. The voltage-mode ADC is operably coupled the load and to the current source. When enabled, the voltage-mode ADC configured to perform digital sampling of the load voltage and to generate a digital signal that is representative of the load voltage. In some implementations, one or more processing modules configured to execute operational instructions to process the digital signal that is representative of the load voltage in accordance with determining impedance of the load and/or change of impedance of the load.