Abstract: Generally, a computing device displays, on a display device of the computing device, a barcode to be read by a scanning device. When a barcode is displayed on the display device a determination is made as to whether the barcode is not fully displayed on the display device due to hardware of the computing device such as a punch hole in the display device for a camera, speaker, or microphone. If the barcode is not fully displayed due to the hardware of the computing device, the display of the barcode is modified so that the barcode is fully displayed on the display device despite the hardware of the computing device. Additionally or alternatively, if the scanning device has not completed the scan within a threshold amount of time, the display of the barcode on the display device is modified, such as by increasing or decreasing the resolution of the barcode.

Abstract: Techniques are described for determining failover to a redundant braking system. An example method can include a system determining a fault occurring in a braking system of an autonomous vehicle (AV) operating in an autonomous mode, the braking system comprising a first braking system and a second braking system, the fault occurring in at least one of the first braking system and the second braking system, and the AV using the first braking system. The system can further determine whether to switch from using the first braking system based at least in part on determining the fault. The system can further transmit to an alert system of the AV, a request to generate an alert for manual control of the AV based at least in part on determining the fault. The system can further deactivate the autonomous mode of the AV based at least in part on determining the fault.

Abstract: Described are systems and method directed to generation of a dimensionally accurate three-dimensional (“3D”) model of a body, such as a human body, based on two-dimensional (“2D”) images of that body. A user may use a 2D camera, such as a digital camera typically included in many of today's portable devices (e.g., cell phones, tablets, laptops, etc.) and obtain a series of 2D body images of their body from different views with respect to the camera. The 2D body images may then be used to generate a plurality of predicted body parameters corresponding to the body represented in the 2D body images. Those predicted body parameters may then be further processed to generate a dimensionally accurate 3D model or avatar of the body of the user.

Abstract: A method provides camera adjustments based on eye gaze tracking and non-video contextual input. The method includes capturing, via a front facing camera, a face of a user and determining an eye gaze direction of the user based on a first image in a first image stream. The method includes receiving non-video input, determining, from the non-video input, one or more contexts related to a focus of the first user, and selecting a camera, at least partially based on the eye gaze direction and the one or more contexts. The method includes: generating at least one camera setting of a selected camera at least partially based on the first location and the context(s) determined from the non-video input; and activating the selected camera as an active camera, with the at least one camera setting, to capture a field of view that includes the focus of the first user.

Abstract: An electronic device, computer program product, and method provide private messaging between people at a frequented location by using one or more AR display devices. The electronic device communicatively connects to a particular AR display device and attempts to identify access credentials to the electronic device of a particular person wearing the particular AR display device. The electronic device identifies that the particular person is a second person has limited access credentials, at the electronic device, to an AR user interface for leaving a private AR message intended for a first person who has full access credentials to the electronic device. The electronic device presents, at the particular AR display device, the AR user interface. The electronic device receives an AR private message from the particular AR display device and stores the AR private message for retrieval at the electronic device by first person.

Abstract: If the two traces of a differential signal trace pair are not of identical length, intra-pair skew occurs as a result of the different flight time for the signal on each trace. Introducing serpentine routing into the shorter trace compensates for the intra-pair skew by increasing the effective length of the trace. However, the serpentine routing may also introduce impedance discontinuities. An impedance discontinuity leads to reflections and resonances, which hamper the transmitted signal in reaching the receiver. Adding extrusions to the serpentine routing may improve the impedance profile of the differential trace and thus lower reflections.

Abstract: In a pipeline, data events generated by a producer application are temporally grouped by using a group identification tag. For each data event, data points are generated and uploaded to a storage and cache at each point of production and consumption. The storage allows a matching of data events between the production point and the consumption point, thereby ensuring that streaming parity is maintained. In cases of mismatch, the cache allows for detecting missing data events, i.e., identifying data events that were generated by an upstream producer application, but not consumed by a downstream consumer. While being agnostic to the transformations applied by the various applications in the pipeline, the embodiments disclosed herein keep track of the output data events and input data events and precisely identify the missing data events.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a system for deployment of two-way relay network (TWRN) comprising at least two transceivers engaged in communication and at least one relay node for establishing communication between said two transceivers. The transceivers involve simultaneous pilot transmission by transmitting pilot signals towards the relay node which are received by relay node after corrupted by respective channels between the relay node transceivers and the relay node estimates the channels by involving iterative variational Bayesian inference (IVBI) based channel estimator and forward back estimated channel state information (CSI) to transceivers for data transmission therebetween.

Abstract: Face profiles for multiple people associated with a user are obtained at a computing device. The face profile for a person identifies the face of the person (e.g., an image of the face of the person) and a confidence level indicating how important that person is to the owner. An image is captured at the computing device and a determination is made, based on a confidence level associated with at least one face in the image, whether the image is relevant to the user. One or more actions to keep the image are taken in response to determining that the image is relevant to the user, such as saving the image at the computing device or transmitting the image to a computing device of the user.

Abstract: Systems and methods for uniquely identifying and regularly authenticating users at login are disclosed. A method may include an authentication computer program receiving a user identifier for a user as part of a login attempt from a workstation computer program; communicating a multifactor authentication request to an authenticator application executed on a user mobile electronic device; receiving a response to the multifactor authentication request from the authenticator application; verifying that the response to the multifactor authentication request matches an expected value; and saving user activity data associated with the login attempt, and a user trust computer program calculating a user trust score based on the user activity data; determining that the user trust score is above a threshold; and authorizing the login attempt to the workstation and a user session on the workstation.

Abstract: In aspects of personal content managed during extended display screen recording, a screen recording system includes a wireless device that provides digital image content for display on an extended display device, and a screen recording session on the wireless device captures the digital image content and audio data. The wireless device implements a content control module that can determine the screen recording session would capture personal content associated with a user of the wireless device. The content control module can initiate a private screen review mode in which the personal content is displayable on a display screen of the wireless device and is prevented from visual display on the extended display device. The content control module can also generate a shareable screen recording that includes the audio data and the digital image content displayed on the extended display device, without including the personal content.

Abstract: A dynamic braking system for a bipole power transmission network including a first dynamic braking unit and a second dynamic braking unit connectable, respectively, between a first transmission pole and a neutral arrangement, and a second transmission pole and a neutral arrangement, of a bipole power transmission network. The dynamic braking system includes a controller configured to determine, based on an operating state of the bipole power transmission network, whether a third current equal to the difference between first and second currents flowing through the first and second dynamic braking units, can flow through the neutral arrangement. The controller is configured to operate the dynamic braking units independently if the third current is permitted to flow, and in coordination with each-other, to balance the first and second currents such that the third current is substantially zero, if the third current is not permitted to flow through the neutral arrangement.

Abstract: Techniques for a sophisticated closed-loop control system designed for the automatic regulation of SOx emissions in a Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustion (CFBC) boiler by leveraging the power of Adaptive Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) based control system, this innovative system ensures both real-time model training and implementation for dynamic and efficient SOx emission control. The present disclosure describes processing a current SOx emission, a current lime consumption value and a predefined SOx setpoint value to determine an optimal setpoint of lime consumption required to keep the SOx emission within a desired limit in real-time. Said processing includes determination of lime-SOx peak-trough curve, a response time of the boiler and the change in SOx to the change in lime. The lime consumption setpoint so determined is directly transmitted to a distributed control system to control the injection of lime in the CFBC boiler for automatic regulation of SOx emission control.

Abstract: A method provides techniques for reducing object interference in a multi-camera system. The method includes selecting, by at least one processor of an electronic device, a first image capturing device having a first field of view (FOV) and that produces first image content. In response to detecting a partial occlusion of the first image capturing device by an object while the first image capturing device is receiving first image content, the at least one processor determines a zoom factor sufficient to remove the object from the received first image content. The processor then performs a zoom operation, based on the zoom factor, such that the object causing the partial occlusion of the first image capturing device is removed from subsequently received image content.

Abstract: Various systems, methods and devices are presented for performing media encryption. A media stream comprising audio packets and video packets can be received. A chunk of the media stream can be sorted to create a first group of a plurality of audio packets with an I-frame header and a second group of a plurality of P-frames and an I-frame payload. The first group can be encrypted while the second group is not encrypted. A fully-protected output media stream that includes the encrypted first group and the second group can then be streamed to a remote device via a network for output.

Abstract: Methods and systems for resolving one or more faults in a security camera include installing an Auto-Executable Function (AEF) on the security camera. The AEF causes the controller to backup the set of user defined configuration settings to a memory of the security camera, reset the security camera back to the set of default configuration settings, reboot the security camera, and restore the set of user defined configuration settings. In many cases, this will resolve many unresolved faults within video camera and place the video camera back online. When this does not resolve a fault, the AEF creates a diagnostic report, wirelessly transmits the diagnostic report to a mobile device of a user, the mobile device identifies a software patch for resolving the fault, and the software patch is uploaded and installed on the security camera.

Abstract: One or more guest electronic devices establish electronic communication with a host electronic device. The guest electronic devices transmit requests requesting presentation of media content from an application operating locally on each guest electronic device. The host electronic device arranges the requests in a queue. One or more processors of the host electronic device select a principal request from the queue and initiate the application operating locally on a guest electronic device identified by the principal request, thereby causing delivery of the media content from the guest electronic device identified by the principal request to the host electronic device.

Abstract: An electronic device, a method and a computer program product enable capturing of an image by a first camera in response to detecting a gesture by a second camera. The method includes, in response to activating a first camera having a first field of view (FOV) to an image capturing mode, activating the second camera to capture an image stream within a second FOV that is wider than the first FOV. The method further includes monitoring the image stream to detect movements and identifying a gesture among movements detected within the image stream. The method further includes determining that the gesture is associated with triggering the first camera to capture images within the first FOV and in response to determining that the gesture is associated with triggering the first camera to capture images within the first FOV, capturing, via the first camera, a first image within the first FOV.

Abstract: A compressive strength improving, water uptake reducing additive composition comprising: an alkyl silane or its hydrolysate or mixture thereof comprising a silicon resin comprising units of the formula (Ia) thereof along with an additive composition and an antifoam composition; wherein the composition is used before, or during the grinding process in the cement plant not only reduces the energy consumption during grinding but also eliminates any further addition of the hydrophobic additive material to render hydrophobicity along with the improved compressive strength of the constructed structure. Such hydrophobicity along with the improved compressive strength of the constructed structure is achieved even when the composition is used after the grinding process.

Abstract: One or more guest electronic devices establish electronic communication with a host electronic device. The guest electronic devices transmit requests requesting presentation of media content from an application operating locally on each guest electronic device. The host electronic device arranges the requests in a queue. One or more processors of the host electronic device select a principal request from the queue and initiate the application operating locally on a guest electronic device identified by the principal request, thereby causing delivery of the media content from the guest electronic device identified by the principal request to the host electronic device.