Abstract: Apparatus and method for a hierarchical beam tracer.

Abstract: A device may generate, based on receiving feeder content, a structured format of the feeder content. The device may generate, based on the structured format of the feeder content, one or more semantic mappings for the feeder content. The device may generate, based on the one or more semantic mappings for the feeder content, an electronic storyboard of the feeder content. The device may generate an extended reality rendered content feed based on the electronic storyboard of the feeder content. The device may provide the extended reality rendered content feed to an extended reality device.

Abstract: Systems, methods and instructions for creating building models of physical structures is disclosed. The building model may be a collection of floors defined by outlines containing regions that may be offset relative to a main region, and a collection of connectors. Connectors may have connection points for tracking, routing and sizing. Connectors may indicate elevation changes through georeferenced structural features. Signal elements may also be features that provide corrections when tracking. Feature descriptors are data that describes the structural configuration and signal elements enabling them to be matched to previously collected data in a database. User interface elements assist a user of a tracking device in collecting floor information, structural features and signal features and validating certain collected information based on previously known information. The height of floors may also be inferred based on sensor data from the tracking device.

Abstract: A method performed by an electronic device is described. The method includes receiving a set of frames. The set of frames describes a moving three-dimensional (3D) object. The method also includes registering the set of frames based on a canonical model. The canonical model includes geometric information and optical information. The method additionally includes fusing frame information of each frame to the canonical model based on the registration. The method further includes reconstructing the 3D object based on the canonical model.

Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing and using temporary movement buffers for residents of controlled-environment facilities are disclosed. In some embodiments, for example, a method may include determining that a resident of a controlled-environment facility is unable to access a communication device to be used during a communication event involving the resident. The method may also include performing at least one of: (a) allowing the communication event in response to a buffer value associated with the resident being smaller than a time to the communication event; or (b) declining the communication event in response to the buffer value associated with the resident being greater than the time to the communication event.

Abstract: Telematics systems and methods are described for generating interactive animated guided user interfaces (GUIs). A telematics cloud platform is configured to receive vehicular telematics data from a telematics device onboard a vehicle. A GUI value compression component determines, based on the vehicular telematics data, a plurality of GUI position values and a plurality of corresponding GUI time values. A geospatial animation app receives the plurality of GUI position values and the plurality of corresponding GUI time values. The geospatial animation app implements an interactive animated GUI that renders a plurality of geospatial graphics or graphical routes on a geographic area map via a display device. The geospatial graphics or graphical routes are rendered to have different visual forms based on differences between respective GUI position values and corresponding GUI time values.

Abstract: Cluster of acceleration engines to accelerate intersections.

Abstract: A method in constructing a model of a scenery comprises: receiving (200) a plurality of images depicting the scenery, wherein each image is acquired by a camera (104) from a position at a rotational angle; creating (202) a plurality of sub-models, wherein each sub-model is created by: selecting (400) a basis image; determining (402) images related to the basis image; and determining (404) the sub-model based on the basis image and the related images, wherein the sub-model defines relative positions and rotational angles of the camera (104) for the basis image and the related images and the sub-model further defines three-dimensional structures of objects depicted in the plurality of images; and separately merging (204) the defined relative positions and rotational angles of cameras (104) for the plurality of sub-models.

Abstract: A method includes determining a specific or basic vehicle, retrieving a base image or modified base image corresponding to the specific or basic vehicle, and selecting an accessory. The method also includes retrieving an accessory image corresponding to the accessory and animating the accessory image onto the base image or modified base image.

Abstract: The disclosure pertains to techniques for operation of graphics systems and task execution on a graphics processor.

Abstract: An electronic system for displaying visual information to a user includes a head-mounted display (HMD) including a near-eye display (NED), a microprocessor in data communication with the NED, and a storage device in data communication with the microprocessor. The storage device has instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the microprocessor, cause the microprocessor to perform a method. The method includes identifying an origin point and target point and calculating an object distance between the origin point and the target point in three-dimensional space. The target point is part of a virtual object that is procedurally generated. The object distance is used to adjust a threshold value of a distance test. The method further includes determining a shader value for the target point and applying a shader to the target point to create a shaded virtual object. The shaded virtual object is then displayed to the user with the NED.

Abstract: For rendering in medical imaging, a transfer function is determined. A simple approach to setting the transfer function uses a combination of a rendered image and the voxel data, providing a hybrid of both image and data-driven approaches. A region of interest on a rendered image is used to select some of the voxel data. A characteristic of the selected voxel data is used to determine the transfer function for rendering another image. Both the visual aspect of the rendered image and the voxel data from the scan are used to set the transfer function.

Abstract: A holster is provided to receive a radio (mobile communications device). The radio is operatively equipped with a front-facing touchscreen. The holster is equipped with an optical reflector. The optical reflector is adapted to change the direction of light rays passing through it in order to reflect only a portion of the front-facing touchscreen to a top window located within the holster. The top window and the touchscreen are substantially perpendicular to each other. The holster is equipped with at least one capacitive touch extension element that couples the top window to a point on the touchscreen to control an interface element on the touchscreen.

Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, an example method may include receiving information indicative of an eye gaze region. The method may include improving a graphics processing pipeline by based on the information indicative of the eye gaze region.

Abstract: A graphics processing system performs hidden surface removal and texturing/shading on fragments of primitives. The system includes a primary depth buffer (PDB) for storing depth values of resolved fragments, and a secondary depth buffer (SDB) for storing depth values of unresolved fragments. Incoming fragments are depth tested against depth values from either the PDB or the SDB. When a fragment passes a depth test, its depth value is stored in the PDB if it is a resolved fragment (e.g. if it is opaque or translucent), and its depth value is stored in the SDB if it is an unresolved fragment (e.g. if it is a punch through fragment). This provides more opportunities for subsequent opaque objects to overwrite punch through fragments which passed a depth test, thereby reducing unnecessary processing and time which may be spent on fragments which ultimately will not contribute to the final rendered image.

Abstract: Systems and method for performing a cell site audit or survey remotely via a User Interface (UI) include, subsequent to capturing a plurality of photos of a cell site and linking the plurality of photos to one another based on their adjacency at the cell site, displaying the UI to a user remote from the cell site, wherein the plurality of photos cover a cell tower with associated cell site components and an interior of a building at the cell site; receiving navigation commands from the user performing the cell site audit or survey; and updating the displaying based on the navigation commands, wherein the navigation commands include one or more of movement at the cell site and zoom of a current view.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for efficiently controlling access for system load adjustment in mobile communication systems. In a wireless communication system according to one embodiment, the method for transmitting and receiving data by a terminal including a user equipment (UE) non access stratum (NAS) and a UE access stratum (AS) includes the steps of: receiving by the UE AE, information including emergency call-related information which includes barring information by type for the emergency call, from a base station; transmitting, by the UE NAS, a service request for the emergency call to the UE AS; and determining, by the UE AS, whether to bar the service request on the basis of emergency call-related information.

Abstract: A method for interactively visualizing a graph includes maintaining objects, operations, reactions, and interactions in volatile memory, receiving user input of interactions each specifying one or more reactions to visually transform one object when selected by one or more operations, and writing the objects, the operations, the reactions, and the interactions in a computer-readable file. The method further includes exporting a number of the objects to a render function in an application framework to render them, receiving an event from an event listener in the application framework, determining an operation selecting an object based on the event, determining an interaction corresponding to the object and the operation, determining at least one reaction corresponding to the interaction, and instructing the render function to visually transform the object with the at least one reaction.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to generating and modifying virtual avatars. An electronic device having a camera and a display apparatus displays a virtual avatar that changes appearance in response to changes in a face in a field of view of the camera. In response to detecting changes in one or more physical features of the face in the field of view of the camera, the electronic device modifies one or more features of the virtual avatar.

Abstract: A computer implemented method for determining a silhouette volume of a 3D object, e.g. for mesh simplification, comprises: receiving a computer representation of a 3D object; determining a silhouette volume of the object, wherein the silhouette volume is the maximal volume of space having a silhouette from every viewing direction which is identical to the silhouette of the object from the same viewing direction, and wherein points of the object which lie on the boundary of the silhouette volume also lie on the boundary of the object's projected silhouette from at least one viewing direction; determining, based on the silhouette volume, the extent to which features of the object are silhouette features; determining, for a plurality of planes and for a plurality of different axes, at least one intersection loop, wherein each intersection loop corresponds to a planar cross-section of the boundary of the object in its respective plane; and determining the convex hull of each intersection loop.