Abstract: This invention relates generally to speech processing and more particularly to end-to-end automatic speech recognition (ASR) that utilizes long contextual information. Some embodiments of the invention provide a system and a method for end-to-end ASR suitable for recognizing long audio recordings such as lecture and conversational speeches. This disclosure includes a Transformer-based ASR system that utilizes contextual information, wherein the Transformer accepts multiple utterances at the same time and predicts transcript for the last utterance. This is repeated in a sliding-window fashion with one-utterance shifts to recognize the entire recording. In addition, some embodiments of the present invention may use acoustic and/or text features obtained from only the previous utterances spoken by the same speaker as the last utterance when the long audio recording includes multiple speakers.

Abstract: A system to compare erythemal zones includes a multispectral camera to acquire a multispectral image of each compared zone and a computer processing device to retrieve the images acquired by the multispectral camera. The computer processing device includes a memory, a display, an input device and a microprocessor. The system further includes an image processing program configured to perform spectral de-mixing of the acquired images and isolating the erythemal component of the images, and a program to compare the images based on the intensity of the erythemal components of each image.

Abstract: An audio output method and a system including first and second electronic devices and an audio output device. The first and second devices are connected to a network using a system authentication account, the first device has installed thereon a music application, and the second device has installed thereon a voice call application. When the audio output device outputs an audio signal corresponding to audio data of the music application, in response to the second electronic receiving an incoming call from the voice call application, the first device displays a first prompt corresponding to the incoming call. The first device sends an indication of answering the incoming call to the second device, which answers the incoming call and sends audio data of the incoming call to the first device, and the first device causes the audio output device to output an audio signal corresponding to the audio data of the incoming call.

Abstract: An acousto-optic deflector includes an optical element having a surface with one or more steps formed thereon; a conductive layer formed on the surface with the steps; one or more crystals secured to each step; and electrodes positioned on each surface of each crystal.

Abstract: A system and method for detecting anomalous sound are disclosed. The method includes receiving a spectrogram of an audio signal with elements defined by values in a time-frequency domain of the spectrogram. Each of the values corresponds to an element of the spectrogram that is identified by a coordinate in the time-frequency domain. The time-frequency domain of the spectrogram is partitioned into a context region and a target region. The context region and the target region are processed by a neural network using an attentive neural process to recover values of the spectrogram for elements with coordinates in the target region. The recovered values of the elements of the target region are compared with values of elements of the partitioned target region. An anomaly score is determined based on the comparison. The anomaly score is used for performing a control action.

Abstract: An innovative passive cooling solution with sealed UAV enclosure system allows heat from a semiconductor chip to be dissipated to the ambient environment through evaporation/condensation phase-change cooling and air cooling a heat sink such as a fin without any additional power consumption to operate cooling solution. One example of such a solution may include a pipe with a fin and a fluid. The pipe may include a wick structure along an inner surface of the pipe configured to allow the fluid to travel within the wick structure and to allow a vapor form of the fluid to exit the wick structure towards a center of the pipe.

Abstract: A test fixture, for a heatsink, may include a probe assembly with a thermocouple probe configured to removably contact a bottom surface of a pedestal of the heatsink, and measure a surface temperature of the heatsink. The test fixture may include an insulator housing configured to house the probe assembly and a heater block, and to insulate the probe assembly from the heater block. The heater block may be provided within the insulator housing and may be configured to provide heat to the heatsink via the bottom surface of the pedestal of the heatsink. The test fixture may include a mounting block connected to the insulator housing and configured to connect to the heatsink.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicate with a base station in a wireless communications system. The UE may perform a random access procedure to communicate with the base station. The base station may configure the UE with different sets of preamble parameters for different types of UEs. The UE may generate a random access preamble based on the sets of preamble parameters according to the type of the UE. The base station may indicate a location of the base station to the UE. The UE may identify a location of the UE. The UE may determine a pre-compensation timing based on a distance from the two locations. The UE and the base station may transmit subsequent communication according to the random access preamble, the pre-compensation timing, or any combination thereof.

Abstract: A multi-layer textile includes fabric tiles bonded to a base textile layer. The fabric tiles might be cut from one or more larger fabric pieces, which are textile remnants or scraps from prior manufacturing processes. The fabric tiles are bonded to the base textile layer in a manner that reduces the susceptibility of the fabric tiles to peel away from the base textile layer.

Abstract: A battery pack connection system includes a first battery pack, a second battery pack, and a battery receptacle. Each of the first and second battery packs includes a first guide slot, a second guide slot, and an electrical connector slot. The second battery pack has a power capacity and a width greater than the first battery pack. The battery receptacle defines an elongate passage sized and shaped to separately receive each of the first and second battery packs therein. The battery receptacle includes an electrical connector rail, a first guide rail sized and shaped to cooperatively engage the first guide slot of each of the first and second battery packs, and a second guide rail sized and shaped to cooperatively engage the second guide slot of each of the first and second battery packs.

Abstract: Provided are new bifunctional chelators for use in the manufacture of radiolabeled targeting agents for therapeutic or diagnostic use. Also provided are conjugates of the new bifunctional chelators with various cancer antigen targeting agents.

Abstract: A thin-film transistor includes a gate electrode, a gate dielectric on the gate electrode, a first layer including a source region, a drain region, and a semiconductor region above and in direct contact with the gate dielectric and physically connecting the source and drain regions, and a second layer including an insulator material on the semiconductor region. The semiconductor region has less vertical thickness than the source and drain regions. In an embodiment, the thickness of the semiconductor region is no more than half that of the source and drain regions. In another embodiment, the second layer physically connects and electrically separates the source and drain regions. In yet another embodiment, a memory cell includes this transistor and a capacitor electrically connected to the drain region, the gate electrode being electrically connected to a wordline and the source region being electrically connected to a bitline.

Abstract: A system for detecting bioelectrical signals of a user comprising: a set of sensors configured to detect bioelectrical signals from the user, each sensor in the set of sensors configured to provide non-polarizable contact at the body of the user; an electronics subsystem comprising a power module configured to distribute power to the system and a signal processing module configured to receive signals from the set of sensors; a set of sensor interfaces coupling the set of sensors to the electronics subsystem and configured to facilitate noise isolation within the system; and a housing coupled to the electronics subsystem, wherein the housing facilitates coupling of the system to a head region of the user.

Abstract: A finger holder for a plucker, being intended to be set in rotation about an axis of rotation and having a mounting plate having fastening means intended for fastening the mounting plate to a shaft of the plucker, a cover which caps a frontal face of the mounting plate and has a plurality of bores, wherein each bore is intended to receive a finger of the plucker, and a locking system which is separate from the fastening means and takes up either a locking position, in which it locks the cover on the mounting plate, or an unlocking position, in which it does not lock the cover on the mounting plate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for rearing animals and in particular poultry or pigs that comprises supplying the animals with drinking water in order to water the animals, injecting oxygen and CO2 into the drinking water, before the drinking water reaches the animals, according to one of the following modes: two injections, one of CO2 and one of oxygen, are carried out simultaneously into the drinking water, or one injection, a mixture of oxygen and CO2, is carried out into the drinking water.

Abstract: Utilization data of reserved virtual machine (VM) instances can be obtained from a cloud service provider. A refund recommendation comprising a first quantity of VM instances and a refund credit associated with the first quantity of VM instances can be generated based on the utilization data. A purchase recommendation comprising a second quantity of VM instances and a purchase cost associated with the second quantity of VM instances can be generated. An exchange transaction to return the first quantity of VM instances and purchase the second quantity of VM instances can be generated, where a net total of the exchange transaction is determined based on the refund credit and the purchase cost.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the continuous synthesis of a compound of formula (II) Br—(CH2)n+2—COOR, comprising a stage consisting of: (a) the hydrobromination of a compound of formula (I) CH2?CH—(CH2)n—COOR: where, in the formulae (I) and (II), n is an integer of between 7 and 9, and R is chosen from H or a linear or branched alkyl radical comprising from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, in particular methyl, ethyl, isopropyl or propyl, with HBr in the presence of a radical initiator and of at least one solvent; said process being characterized in that the reaction is carried out in the absence of benzene and of toluene and in that, in stage (a), the HBr is injected into the reaction mixture in the gaseous form and in stoichiometric excess.