Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing glass includes a furnace. A doghouse of the furnace receives and melts solid-glass forming material using one or more submerged combustion burners. An elongated tank positioned downstream of the doghouse includes a melting chamber, a refining chamber, and a thermal conditioning. The melting chamber has in inlet through which molten glass is received from the doghouse. The refining chamber is positioned downstream of the melting chamber and receives molten glass from the melting chamber. The thermal conditioning chamber is positioned downstream of the refining chamber and receives molten glass from the refining chamber. Additionally, the thermal conditioning chamber delivers molten glass to a glass forming machine.

Abstract: A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) assembly comprising a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) array and a U-turn chip. The SOA array includes an input SOA and a plurality of SOAs. The input SOA and the plurality of SOAs are arranged parallel to one another. The U-turn chip includes an optical splitter and a waveguide assembly. The optical splitter is configured to receive amplified input light propagating in a first direction from the input SOA, and divide the amplified light into beams. The waveguide assembly guides the beams to a corresponding SOA of the plurality of SOAs, and adjusts a direction of prorogation of each of the guided beams to be substantially parallel to a second direction that is substantially opposite the first direction.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a first user request at a client system to suspend a first task being executed by an assistant system operating on the client system, suspending the execution of the first task responsive to the first user request, receiving a second user request at the client system, determining that the second user request is a request to resume the suspended first task based on user interactions with the assistant system with respect to one or more entities associated with the first task, and presenting a prompt to resume the first task at the client system.

Abstract: There is provided a mobile robot that performs the obstacle avoidance and visual simultaneous localization and mapping (VSLAM) according to image frames captured by the same optical sensor. The mobile robot includes a pixel array and a processor. An upper part of the pixel array is not coated with any filter and a lower part of the pixel array is coated with an IR filter. The processor performs range estimation using pixel data corresponding to the lower part of the pixel array, and perform the VSLAM using pixel data corresponding to the upper part of the pixel array.

Abstract: Embodiments for passive spychip detection through polarizability and advanced pattern recognition are described. For example a method includes inducing a magnetic field in a passive component of a target system while the target system is emitting EMI with changes in amplitude repeating at a time interval; generating a time series of measurements of a combined magnetic field strength of the induced magnetic field and the EMI; executing a frequency-domain to time-domain transformation on the time series of measurements to create time series signals of combined magnetic field strength over time at a specific frequency range; monitoring the time series signals with an ML model trained to predict correct signal values to determine whether predicted and measured values of the time series agree; and indicating that the target device may contain a passive spychip where anomalies are detected, and is free of passive spychips where no anomalies are detected.

Abstract: A method and system for automatically inferring a subject's body position in a two-dimensional image produced by a medical-imaging system are disclosed. The image is labeled with a body position selected from a semantically meaningful set of candidate positions sequenced in order of their relative locations in a subject's body. A processor performs procedures that each identify a class of image features related to pixel intensity, such as a histogram of gradients, local binary patterns, or Haar-like features. A second set of procedures employs applications of a pretrained convolutional neural network that has learned to recognize features of a specific class of medical images. The results of both types of procedures are then mapped by a pretrained support-vector machine onto candidate image labels, which are mathematically combined into a single, semantically meaningful, label most likely to identify a body position of the subject shown by the image.

Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for virtualizing policy enforcement amongst participants of an overlay network. In some embodiments, each of the participants may maintain a separate blockchain network. The overlay network may receive smart contracts or other policy documents that include information on interactions with a particular participant or between participants. A controller, which may be implemented on any node of the overlay network, may then extract an interaction algorithm from that smart contract that may be stored in policy data to be used in completing transactions between two participants of the overlay network. In some embodiments, the policy data may include cost data which may be used to determine how two entities may interact.

Abstract: The present application provides a support member and a foldable display module. The support member includes at least one bending region and a plurality of non-bending regions. Each bending region is connected between two opposite non-bending regions. The support member further includes a support frame. The support frame includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other in a thickness direction of the support member. A portion of the first surface and a portion of the second surface of the support frame corresponding to the non-bending regions are defined with a plurality of first grooves and a plurality of second grooves.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for facilitating wireless communication of a wearable device. In one aspect, a wireless device receives a paging message from a cellular network, via a wireless link between the wireless device and a companion device. The paging message can be received while a cellular modem of the wireless device is operating in reduced power mode and not registered with the cellular network, and the companion device is registered with the cellular network. The wireless device can transition the cellular modem from the reduced power mode to an active mode in response to receiving the paging message via the wireless link with the companion device. The wireless device can register with the cellular network after the modem has transitioned to active mode, to establish a cellular link directly with the cellular network.

Abstract: Provided is a disc-type ironless permanent magnet synchronous generator powered by an auxiliary power supply, which comprises a stator coil disc and a pair of permanent magnet rotor discs (1) positioned on two sides of the stator coil disc and arranged with a gap therebetween, a circle of main coils (3) are fixedly arranged on the stator coil disc around a center of the disc, the main coil is a main winding of an electric motor to output electric energy, an auxiliary winding independent from the main winding is arranged on a circumference formed by the main coils (3) in a surrounding manner, and output power of the auxiliary winding is less than output power of the main winding.

Abstract: A very low frequency (VLF) magnetic field sensor, using spins sourced from insulating ferrimagnetic materials or ferrites, which can achieve high sensitivities competitive with modern sensors while simultaneously maintaining a small size, low power consumption, simplicity of design, and low cost. The magnetic field sensor utilizes nonlinear resonant precession modulation (RPM) dynamics of subatomic spins to attain parametric amplification of a magnetic field.

Abstract: A few-shot defect detection method based on metric learning, including: (S1) performing data enhancement on a to-be-detected few-shot defect data set through a G2-Generative adversarial network (G2-GAN); (S2) extracting features of a defect data set similar to the to-be-detected few-shot defect data set based on an adaptive convolution kernel-based convolutional neural network (SKM-CNN) to generate a pre-training model; and (S3) transferring the pre-training model to a few-shot defect detection network (S2D2N) based on metric learning; and performing target feature extraction and metric learning in sequence to realize rapid identification and location of defects.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improved visual laryngeal mask comprising a tube, an end of the tube is provided with a fixing seat. The fixing seat is provided with an airbag, and the fixing seat has a recess which is provided with an airway opening. An imaging cavity extends longitudinally inside an inner wall of the tube. The imaging cavity has a built-in imaging device, and the imaging cavity protrudes forward relative to the airway opening to form a stopper which prevents an epiglottis from blocking the imaging device. A front end of the stopper is concaved to form a recess, and an opening of the imaging cavity is located at a low point of the recess.

Abstract: In an approach for database self-diagnosis and self-healing, a processor receives a problem description related to a database. A processor classifies the problem description into a natural language description portion and a database-know-who content portion. A processor processes the natural language description portion using natural language processing techniques. A processor evaluates the database-know-who content portion. A processor combines a result of processing the natural language description portion and evaluating the database-know-who content portion. A processor identifies a solution based on the problem description and the combined result. A processor solves a problem using the identified solution.

Abstract: The embodiments disclose a system and method including a random number generator coupled to the randomized machine learning-based malware detector configured for determining changes of settings and selections of parameters, candidate classifiers integrated with the randomized machine learning-based malware detector and configured to be initiated by a random number to avoid transferable learning, a set of feature combinations for random feature selection including monitoring granularity and detection prediction latency and a random number for identifying a set of feature combinations that minimize the overhead and maintain enough variance in data for baffling the malware adversarial attacks.

Abstract: A data collection system that performs data collection of human-driven robot actions for robot learning. The data collection system includes: i) a wearable computation subsystem that is worn by a human data collector and that controls the data collection process and ii) a human-machine operation interface subsystem that allows the human data collector to use the human-machine operation interface to operate an attached robotic gripper to perform one or more actions. A user interface subsystem receives instructions from the wearable computation subsystem that direct the human data collector to perform the one or more actions using the human-machine operation interface subsystem. A visual sensing subsystem includes one or more cameras that collect raw visual data related to the pose and movement of the robotic gripper while performing the one or more actions. A data collection subsystem receives collected data related to the one or more actions.

Abstract: A neck assembly for an anthropomorphic test device includes a plurality of vertebra discs, a joint element disposed between each pair of vertebra discs, and a torsion assembly coupled to one vertebra disc to allow rotation about an axis of the vertebra discs to simulate torsion response of a human neck during an impact condition. The torsion assembly includes a neck interface plate mounted to an uppermost one vertebra disc with the plate having a plurality of spaced torsion stops. The torsion assembly also includes an upper member coupled to the plate and a resilient member having a plurality of projections positioned between the upper member and plate, with the resilient member engaging the upper member for at least partial concurrent movement during the rotation of the upper member relative to the plate wherein the projections bend in a direction responsive to a direction of rotation of the upper member.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a speaker diaphragm and a speaker. The speaker diaphragm comprises a thermoplastic polyester elastomer film layer (11), wherein a thermoplastic polyester elastomer is a copolymer composed of a polyester hard segment A and a polyether or aliphatic polyester soft segment B, and the thermoplastic polyester elastomer film layer has a glass transition temperature being less than or equal to 20° C., and a thermoplastic temperature being 50° C.-200° C. The use of the thermoplastic polyester elastomer film layer enables the speaker diaphragm to have a good flexibility, a high reliability, and a good durability, and improves the anti-destructive ability of the speaker.

Abstract: A display substrate and a display device are disclosed. The display substrate includes a base substrate; a plurality of pixel driving circuits; a first conductive layer; a first planarization layer; and a second conductive layer; the second conductive layer includes a first conductive portion, the first conductive portion includes a closed annular portion, which is separated from at least one conductive portion adjacent thereto, each light emitting element groups includes a first light emitting element, the first light emitting element includes a first anode, and an orthographic projection of the first anode overlaps with an orthographic projection of the closed annular portion; the plurality of conductive portions further include a second conductive portion adjacent to the first conductive portion, and an orthographic projection of the second conductive portion on the base substrate overlaps with the orthographic projection of the first anode on the base substrate.