Abstract: In embodiments, an apparatus for providing adaptive wireless communication management may include a wireless interference scanner to gather interference data of wireless communications of at least two wireless protocols in free space surrounding the apparatus. The apparatus may further include a communications module, coupled to the wireless interference scanner, to interact with a wireless configuration service provider to send the interference data to, and from which to receive optimal channel settings for, a wireless device to wirelessly communicate at least in part through the free space surrounding the apparatus. The apparatus may further include a channel and frequency configuration module, coupled to the communications module, to configure the wireless device, based, at least in part, on the optimal channel settings.

Abstract: In embodiments, an apparatus for providing adaptive wireless communication management may include a wireless interference scanner to gather interference data of wireless communications of at least two wireless protocols in free space surrounding the apparatus. The apparatus may further include a communications module, coupled to the wireless interference scanner, to interact with a wireless configuration service provider to send the interference data to, and from which to receive optimal channel settings for, a wireless device to wirelessly communicate at least in part through the free space surrounding the apparatus. The apparatus may further include a channel and frequency configuration module, coupled to the communications module, to configure the wireless device, based, at least in part, on the optimal channel settings.

Abstract: According to various aspects of the present disclosure, a system and associated method and functions to determine an emotional state of a user are disclosed. In some embodiments, the disclosed system includes a data acquisition unit, an emotion determination unit, and an emotion reporting unit. The data acquisition unit is configured to detect user information including physiological and non-physiological data associated with the user. The emotion determination unit is operatively connected to the data acquisition unit, and is configured to process the user information to determine an emotional state of the user. The emotion reporting unit is configured to communicate the emotional state based on a predetermined reporting preference to an application of a communication device, e.g., a social-networking application to share the emotional state of the user such that other members of the social network associated with the user are notified of the user's emotional state.

Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed a method and apparatus having a touch screen module to receive first input data from a touch screen sensor based on one or more detected touch inputs at a first location of a virtual object displayed on a display. In addition, an ultrasonic module may receive second input data from an ultrasonic sensor based on detected non-touch motion associated with the virtual object. The detected non-touch motion may be tracked from the first location to a second location in a direction away from the first location based on the second input data and used to determine the second location for the virtual object based on the tracking.

Abstract: Devices, systems, and techniques are provided for assessment and management of an emotional state of a vehicle operator. Assessment of the emotional state of the vehicle can include accessing operational information indicative of performance of a vehicle, behavioral information indicative of behavior of an operator of the vehicle, and or wellness information indicative of a physical condition of the operator of the vehicle. In one aspect, these three types of information can be combined to generate a rich group set of data, metadata, and/or signaling that can be utilized or otherwise leveraged to generate a condition metric representative of the emotional state of the vehicle operator. Management of the emotional state can be customized to the specific context of the vehicle and/or the emotional state, and can be implemented proactively or reactively.

Abstract: In embodiments, apparatuses, methods and storage media for personalized speech recognition are described. In various embodiments, a personalized speech recognition system (“PSRS”) may receive personal speech recognition training data (“PTD”) that is associated with a user to facilitate recognition of speech from the user. The PSRS may train a speech recognition module using the received PTD. The user may provide the PTD using a mobile device under control of the user. The PTD may be generated and stored on the mobile device through actions of the user, such as by using the mobile device to record a corpus of speech examples by the user. The user may subsequently facilitate provisioning of the PTD to the PSRS using the mobile device, such as through a wired or wireless network. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Abstract: An approach is provided for correcting a reference clock of a GPS receiver. The approach involves determining one or more frequency offset values. The approach also involves determining one or more codes associated with one or more satellites. The approach further involves determining a second code associated with the one or more satellites. The approach additionally involves determining one or more delay values between the second code and the one or more first codes. The approach also involves determining one or more proportional values based on the one or more delay values and a determined correlation. The approach further involves determining one or more correlation peak values and determining one or more estimated frequency offset error values based on the one or more correlation peak values. The approach additionally involves causing a calibrated reference clock frequency value to change to a recalibrated reference clock frequency value based on the estimated frequency offset error values.

Abstract: According to various aspects of the present disclosure, a system and associated method and functions to anticipate a need of a user are disclosed. In some embodiments, the disclosed system includes a data acquisition unit, a prediction unit, and an operation unit. The data acquisition unit is configured to detect user information, the user information including physiological and non-physiological data associated with the user. The prediction unit is operatively connected to the data acquisition unit to receive the user information, and is configured to anticipate a user need (e.g., need for medical assistance, need for language translation support, etc.) based on pre-defined user preferences, as well as on the physiological data or the non-physiological data or both. And, the operation unit is configured to automatically perform an operation, without user input, to address the user need (e.g., contact a medical facility, provide a language translation application to the user, etc.).

Abstract: Devices, systems, and techniques are provided for assessment and management of an emotional state of a vehicle operator. Assessment of the emotional state of the vehicle can include accessing operational information indicative of performance of a vehicle, behavioral information indicative of behavior of an operator of the vehicle, and or wellness information indicative of a physical condition of the operator of the vehicle. In one aspect, these three types of information can be combined to generate a rich group set of data, metadata, and/or signaling that can be utilized or otherwise leveraged to generate a condition metric representative of the emotional state of the vehicle operator. Management of the emotional state can be customized to the specific context of the vehicle and/or the emotional state, and can be implemented proactively or reactively.

Abstract: An approach is provided for correcting a reference clock of a GPS receiver. The approach involves determining one or more frequency offset values. The approach also involves determining one or more codes associated with one or more satellites. The approach further involves determining a second code associated with the one or more satellites. The approach additionally involves determining one or more delay values between the second code and the one or more first codes. The approach also involves determining one or more proportional values based on the one or more delay values and a determined correlation. The approach further involves determining one or more correlation peak values and determining one or more estimated frequency offset error values based on the one or more correlation peak values. The approach additionally involves causing a calibrated reference clock frequency value to change to a recalibrated reference clock frequency value based on the estimated frequency offset error values.

Abstract: According to various aspects of the present disclosure, a system and associated method and functions to anticipate a need of a user are disclosed. In some embodiments, the disclosed system includes a data acquisition unit, a prediction unit, and an operation unit. The data acquisition unit is configured to detect user information, the user information including physiological and non-physiological data associated with the user. The prediction unit is operatively connected to the data acquisition unit to receive the user information, and is configured to anticipate a user need (e.g., need for medical assistance, need for language translation support, etc.) based on pre-defined user preferences, as well as on the physiological data or the non-physiological data or both. And, the operation unit is configured to automatically perform an operation, without user input, to address the user need (e.g., contact a medical facility, provide a language translation application to the user, etc.).

Abstract: According to various aspects of the present disclosure, a system and associated method and functions to determine an emotional state of a user are disclosed. In some embodiments, the disclosed system includes a data acquisition unit, an emotion determination unit, and an emotion reporting unit. The data acquisition unit is configured to detect user information including physiological and non-physiological data associated with the user. The emotion determination unit is operatively connected to the data acquisition unit, and is configured to process the user information to determine an emotional state of the user. The emotion reporting unit is configured to communicate the emotional state based on a predetermined reporting preference to an application of a communication device, e.g., a social-networking application to share the emotional state of the user such that other members of the social network associated with the user are notified of the user's emotional state.

Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed a method and apparatus having a touch screen module to receive first input data from a touch screen sensor based on one or more detected touch inputs at a first location of a virtual object displayed on a display. In addition, an ultrasonic module may receive second input data from an ultrasonic sensor based on detected non-touch motion associated with the virtual object. The detected non-touch motion may be tracked from the first location to a second location in a direction away from the first location based on the second input data and used to determine the second location for the virtual object based on the tracking.

Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of turbo decoding. For example, a device may include a turbo decoder to decode a turbo-encoded input according to a turbo code, the turbo-encoded input including a plurality of soft-decision information-bit values and a plurality of soft-decision parity-bit values corresponding to the soft-decision information bit values, wherein the turbo decoder is to output a plurality of extrinsic soft-decision parity-bit values corresponding to the plurality soft-decision parity-bit values. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of turbo decoding. For example, a device may include a turbo decoder to decode a turbo-encoded input according to a turbo code, the turbo-encoded input including a plurality of soft-decision information-bit values and a plurality of soft-decision parity-bit values corresponding to the soft-decision information bit values, wherein the turbo decoder is to output a plurality of extrinsic soft-decision parity-bit values corresponding to the plurality soft-decision parity-bit values. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for a filter micro-code accelerator are described.

Abstract: A system, apparatus, method, and article including a decoder having multiple connections defined between multiple check nodes and multiple symbol nodes. The connections between the multiple check nodes and the multiple symbol nodes are reconfigurable to enable the decoder to decode multiple codes. Other embodiments are described and claimed. The system further includes an antenna.

Abstract: A variable-width memory may comprise multiple memory banks from which data may be selectively read in such a way that overall memory access requirements may be reduced, which may result in associated reduction in power consumption.

Abstract: An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to include repeating first data to provide first repeated data and deleting second repeated data to provide second data according to a programmed standard included in a first apparatus and selected from a plurality of reprogrammable standards.

Abstract: A reconfigurable decoder is capable of performing both Viterbi decoding and turbo decoding. The reconfigurable decoder may be repeatedly reconfigured to work with any of a number of different convolutional or turbo coding schemes. In at least one embodiment, the reconfigurable decoder is capable of automatically reconfiguring itself based on a present signal environment about a communication device carrying the decoder.