Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating a vehicle acoustic alert signal for a vehicle comprising an acoustic vehicle alerting system (AVAS) is described. The method includes detecting and classifying an object. If the object is classified as a vulnerable road user (VRU), one or more VRU characteristics such as distance and velocity of the VRU are determined. An acoustic alert signal is generated and transmitted via the AVAS dependent on the at least one VRU characteristic. The at least one VRU characteristic is transmitted to a further vehicle for use in determining how the further vehicle generates an acoustic alert signal.

Abstract: A process for oligomerizing and oligomerizing olefins to distillate fuels which regenerates a first stage oligomerization catalyst bed and/or a second oligomerization catalyst bed in situ by contact with an oxygen gas at elevated temperature. The oligomerization catalyst can be restored to full activity. A regeneration process can enable continuous operation.

Abstract: An integrated development environment (IDE) for designing, programming, and configuring aspects of an industrial automation system uses a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model and associated neural networks to generate portions of an industrial automation project in accordance with functional requirements provided to the industrial IDE system in intuitive formats, such as spoken or written plain language text. The system uses generative AI to translate plain language requests or functional specifications into industrial control code, human-machine interface (HMI) applications, device configuration settings, or other aspects of an industrial control project.

Abstract: An integrated development environment (IDE) for designing, programming, and configuring aspects of an industrial automation system uses a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model and associated neural networks to generate portions of an industrial automation project in accordance with functional requirements provided to the industrial IDE system in intuitive formats, such as spoken or written plain language text. The system uses generative AI to translate plain language requests or functional specifications into industrial control code, human-machine interface (HMI) applications, device configuration settings, or other aspects of an industrial control project.

Abstract: Lubricity additives for fuels compositions are provided which are hydrocarbyl-containing oxygenated polyamines according to Formula I: wherein one or more of —R1, —R2, —R3, and —R4 is a carbon- and oxygen-containing group including a hydrophobic hydrocarbyl portion.

Abstract: Temperature-controllable reagent cartridges and systems for controlling the temperature in such reagent cartridges are provided. An example such system may include a reagent cartridge having reagent reservoirs located at least in part within an interior plenum volume of a cartridge housing. In such an example system, each reagent reservoir may be defined, in part, by a sidewall, and a first reagent reservoir may be spaced apart from a second reagent reservoir to form a fluid flow passage between corresponding sidewalls thereof. A fluid inlet through the cartridge housing may be provided that fluidically connects the interior plenum volume with a fluid supply port of a temperature control system of an analysis instrument when the reagent cartridge is received by the analysis instrument; a fluid outlet through the cartridge housing that fluidically connects the interior plenum volume with a fluid return port of the temperature control system may also be provided.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for computer-implemented authentication platforms are described herein. In an example approach, a user is enrolled in a computer-implemented authentication platform. The enrollment process includes digitally encrypting an image of a user, storing the digitally encrypted image of the user in a blockchain as part of a user profile of the user, generating (using the digitally encrypted image of the user) an identifier of the user, and storing the identifier of the user in the blockchain as part of the user profile of the user. Subsequently, the user is authenticated. The authentication process includes retrieving the digitally encrypted image of the user from the blockchain (using the identifier of the user to retrieve the digitally encrypted image of the user) and decrypting the digitally encrypted image of the user using a decryption token.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing access rights may include a first computing system that receives a request to link an enterprise account of the first computing system to a second computing system. The first computing system may authenticate a user, receive a selection of one or more access rights, and one or more accounts of the enterprise account, via an application interface of the second computing system, and generate an access token for transmission to a computing device of the user, where the access token identifies the one or more access rights and the one or more accounts. The first computing system may transmit the access token to the computing device, to provide the computing device access to the one or more accounts according to the one or more access rights, of the first computing system, via the second computing system.

Abstract: A method for producing a media file with a blur effect in an electronic device is provided. The method includes segmenting an image frame into a plurality of segments. Further, the method includes determining at least one segment from the plurality of segments comprising one of a foreground Region of Interest (ROI) and a background region of the ROI and detecting whether one of the foreground region of the ROI and the background region of the ROI comprises motion information and static information. Further, the method includes automatically applying a motion type blur effect and/or a static type blur effect on one of the foreground region of the ROI, and the background region of the ROI. The method includes generating the media file based on the applied the motion type blur effect and the static type blur effect and storing the media file.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are ethylene-based polymers generally characterized by a melt index of less than 15 g/10 min, a density from 0.91 to 0.945 g/cm3, a CY-a parameter at 190° C. from 0.2 to 0.6, an average number of long chain branches per 1,000,000 total carbon atoms of the polymer in a molecular weight range of 500,000 to 2,000,000 g/mol of less than 5, and a maximum ratio of ??/3? at an extensional rate of 0.03 sec?1 in a range from 3 to 15. The ethylene polymers have substantially no long chain branching in the high molecular weight fraction of the polymer, but instead have significant long chain branching in the lower molecular weight fraction, such that polymer melt strength and bubble stability are maintained for the fabrication of blown films and other articles of manufacture.

Abstract: Compounds, compositions and methods are provided for reducing, inhibiting, or preventing corrosion of a surface, using a polyester polyamine compound. The polyester polyamine compound having a structure corresponding to Formula 1 or 2, or a salt thereof: wherein R1 is independently alkylene; R2 is independently hydrogen or —COR4; R3 is independently alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, or alkaryl; R4 is independently alkyl or alkenyl; R10 and R11 are each independently hydrogen, alkyl, or alkaryl; m is an integer from 1 to 10; n is an integer from 3 to 10; and wherein at least one R2 is —COR4.

Abstract: A system and method for enhanced outbound campaign management, comprising a campaign management console, a data services engine, a traffic shaper, an agent desktop, Control agent desktop, an autodialer, and a simple dialer which allows enterprises to conduct unified communications campaigns without differentiating between prior expressed written consent consumers, and those who have not provided prior expressed written consent, to being autodialed or receiving artificial or pre-recorded voice messages, allowing for compliance with regulations regarding such consent without splitting or bifurcating or otherwise hampering communications campaigns for the enterprise customers.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media to protect non-fungible tokens (NFTs) using a protection architecture. One method includes receiving an NFT, authenticating the NFT including authenticating or verifying the NFT using a key and authenticating the link of the NFT, and protecting the NPT including generating a public-private key pair, encapsulating the NFT within a control structure, updating an NFT account in an overlay ledger, generating and storing a cold storage object in a cold storage ledger, and broadcasting the NFT to a blockchain storage.

Abstract: An illustrative point cloud segmentation system generates an instance-wise semantic mask for a particular source image of a set of source images that has been used to construct a 3D point cloud representing a scene that includes one or more objects. The point cloud segmentation system maps a set of 3D points from the 3D point cloud to corresponding 2D points of the particular source image, then labels, based on contours defined by the instance-wise semantic mask to demarcate the one or more objects, the mapped set of 3D points in accordance with where the corresponding 2D point for each mapped 3D point is positioned with respect to the contours. Based on the labeling of the mapped 3D points, the point cloud segmentation system produces a segmented 3D point cloud including an instance-wise segmentation of the one or more objects at the scene. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing notifications regarding a shared account may include a computing system which receives a request to form a shared account. The computing system may generate the shared account and a corresponding first model, transmit one or more messages, generate links between accounts and the shared account and second model(s) corresponding to second member(s). The computing system may receive a first input indicating a selection to initiate an inbound transfer, transmit a notification according to the first and second model(s), and receive a second input indicating a selection to initiate a matching inbound transfer.

Abstract: The embodiments herein disclose methods and systems for switching between a macro and a non-macro sensing mode for capturing macro and non-macro media in real-time. A method for controlling an electronic device may include acquiring at least one frame; identifying an operation mode of the electronic device among a macro sensing mode and non-macro sensing mode based on at least one of focus data and blur data of the at least one frame; and acquiring at least one image by using an image sensor, from among a plurality of image sensors of the electronic device, corresponding to the operation mode.

Abstract: Techniques for using machine learning to produce vehicle location sensor data from vision sensor data are disclosed. By using a limited amount of vehicle location sensor data together with vision sensor data, a deep learning network can be trained to produce estimated vehicle location sensor point cloud distributions from, e.g., vision sensor data alone. Using a deep learning network trained in this way, vehicles with limited or no sensor functionality can be equipped with a camera to produce estimated vehicle location sensor point cloud distributions. These estimated vehicle location sensor point cloud distributions can then be compared with general sensor point cloud distributions to improve detection of vehicles, environmental objects, and ghost objects, and subsequently used to improve vehicle safety through vehicle controls or driver notifications and/or to produce enhanced sensor data.

Abstract: A method for automatically generating and distributing firewall rules to filter service-based interface (SBI) messages relating to new or updated services includes maintaining a repository of firewall rules for updating a ruleset used by a core network firewall to filter SBI messages transmitted in a core network. The method further includes automatically retrieving, from an online archive of Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards documents, definitions of service operations performed on SBI interfaces in the core network. The method further includes automatically generating firewall rules based on the definitions of the service operations. The method further includes storing the firewall rules in the repository of firewall rules. The method further includes automatically distributing the firewall rules in the repository of firewall rules to the core network firewall.

Abstract: Techniques for using machine learning to produce sensor data from vision sensor data are disclosed. By using a limited amount of sensor data together with vision sensor data, a deep learning network can be trained to produce estimated sensor point cloud distributions from, e.g., vision sensor data alone. Using a deep learning network trained in this way, vehicles with limited or no other sensor functionality can be equipped with a camera to produce estimated sensor point cloud distributions. The estimated sensor point cloud distributions can then be used to improve vehicle safety through vehicle controls or driver notifications and/or to produce enhanced sensor data.

Abstract: Video decoding systems and techniques are described. The decoder applies a deblocking (DB) filter to the plurality of sub-blocks of a block of video data to generate a DB-filtered plurality of sub-blocks. The decoder applies the DB filter to one or more lines (e.g., columns) of pixels in an additional sub-block of the block to generate a DB-filtered portion of the additional sub-block. The one or more lines of pixels in the additional sub-block are filtered without filtering an entirety of the additional sub-block using the DB filter. The additional sub-block is adjacent to at least one of the plurality of sub-blocks. The decoder applies a constrained directional enhancement filter (CDEF) to the DB-filtered plurality of sub-blocks and the DB-filtered portion of the additional sub-block to generate a CDEF-filtered plurality of sub-blocks.