Abstract: An example process includes: while displaying a portion of an extended reality (XR) environment representing a current field of view of a user: detecting a user gaze at a first object displayed in the XR environment, where the first object is persistent in the current field of view of the XR environment; in response to detecting the user gaze at the first object, expanding the first object into a list of objects including a second object representing a digital assistant; detecting a user gaze at the second object; in accordance with detecting the user gaze at the second object, displaying a first animation of the second object indicating that a digital assistant session is initiated; receiving a first audio input from the user; and displaying a second animation of the second object indicating that the digital assistant is actively listening to the user.

Abstract: A method performed by a device that has a current first network connection to a first network. The device determining one or more current conditions associated with the device, determining whether a disconnect of the first network connection is imminent based on the one or more current conditions and responsive to determining that the disconnect is imminent, performing a pre-fetch operation to request data over the first network connection for at least one application resident on the device.

Abstract: An inflatable pod system on an aircraft includes an inflatable pod including a nozzle to receive air for inflation of the inflatable pod, and a hose assembly including a first end having an adaptor fitting that is configured to press fit with an air duct nozzle of an air duct of the aircraft and a second end having an adaptor configured to couple to the nozzle. In an example, the hose assembly delivers bleed air from the air duct, as provided by an environmental control system (ECS) of the aircraft, to the inflatable pod to inflate the inflatable pod. In another example, an air duct assembly line couples the ECS with the inflatable pod, and a control system triggers inflation via the air duct assembly line based on receipt of an electronic inflation signal.

Abstract: A method of detecting product facings from captured depth and image data includes: obtaining, at an imaging controller, (i) depth measurements representing a support structure supporting a plurality of product facings, (ii) image data representing the support structure, and (iii) a set of region of interest (ROI) indicators each indicating a position of a plurality of the product facings; generating a first set of candidate facing edges from the depth measurements; generating a second set of candidate facing edges from the image data; generating a third set of candidate facing edges by combining the first and second sets; generating, for each adjacent pair of the third set of candidate facing edges, a candidate facing boundary; selecting a subset of output facing boundaries from the candidate facing boundaries, based on the ROI indicators; and storing the output facing boundaries in a memory coupled to the imaging controller.

Abstract: An inflatable pod system on an aircraft includes an inflatable pod including a nozzle to receive air for inflation of the inflatable pod, and a hose assembly including a first end having an adaptor fitting that is configured to press fit with an air duct nozzle of an air duct of the aircraft and a second end having an adaptor configured to couple to the nozzle. In an example, the hose assembly delivers bleed air from the air duct, as provided by an environmental control system (ECS) of the aircraft, to the inflatable pod to inflate the inflatable pod. In another example, an air duct assembly line couples the ECS with the inflatable pod, and a control system triggers inflation via the air duct assembly line based on receipt of an electronic inflation signal.

Abstract: A method performed by a device that has a current first network connection to a first network. The device determining one or more current conditions associated with the device, determining whether a disconnect of the first network connection is imminent based on the one or more current conditions and responsive to determining that the disconnect is imminent, performing a pre-fetch operation to request data over the first network connection for at least one application resident on the device.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for data conversion in an unequal ? angle CT system. The method for imaging in a CT system having a flat module detector array includes obtaining fan beam projection data of an object from a CT scan, obtaining a geometric structure parameter of the flat module detector array; rebinning data from the fan beam projection data to parallel beam projection data based on the geometric structure parameter to convert the fan beam projection data into the parallel beam projection data, and generating a CT image from the parallel beam projection data.

Abstract: Use is made of the Notice-of-Absence (NoA), as is a Wi-Fi/Bluetooth time sharing mechanism. This mechanism dictates ‘n’ cycles of absent and present duration of P2P-GO starting at a defined time ‘t’. The information bits of NoA are communicated from GO to the Client in the Beacons (for the period of NoA in use). Time-sharing between Bluetooth and WLAN at P2P-GO, is communicated using NoA to the P2P-Client. For the duration of both Bluetooth and WLAN radios transmitting/receiving traffic, NoA is used such that the absent duration covers the Bluetooth Interval and present-duration covers the WLAN interval. This NoA remains effective for as long as the time-sharing mode between BT and WLAN radios. As soon as, P2P-GO enters the time-sharing mode, NoA parameters are determined based on the timesharing mode (Dynamic Long and Dynamic Short). The start time of NoA schedule is determined after synchronizing to the time-sharing scheduler.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for data conversion in an unequal ? angle CT system. The method for imaging in a CT system having a flat module detector array includes obtaining fan beam projection data of an object from a CT scan, obtaining a geometric structure parameter of the flat module detector array; rebinning data from the fan beam projectiondata to parallel beam projection data based on the geometric structure parameter to convert the fan beam projection data into the parallel beam projection data, and generating a CT image from the parallel beam projection data.