Abstract: Vehicle sensing and control systems are provided. The vehicle sensing and control systems may use various sensors to capture sensor data from and interior of the vehicle and/or the exterior of the vehicle. The sensor data from the interior of the vehicle may be used to detect interactions by the user. The sensor data from the exterior of the vehicle may be used to detect items of interest for the occupants of the vehicle based further on the sensor data from the interior of the vehicle.

Abstract: A craft capable of a vertical take-off and landing configuration and a horizontal thrust configuration may include, for example, at least a proprotor, an edgewise blade, and a body. The proprotor may be configured to tilt to achieve a horizontal thrust component. A portion of a lift surface may be configured to tilt with the proprotor. In some embodiments, the vertical take-off and/or landing craft may further comprise a tail connected to a first boom and a second boom. In some embodiments, the vertical take-off and/or landing craft may further comprise a tail attached to the body. In some embodiments, the craft includes four rotors positioned on the lift surface and two rotors positioned on a tail connected to the lift surface.

Abstract: Vehicle sensing and control systems are provided. The vehicle sensing and control systems may use various sensors to capture sensor data from and interior of the vehicle and/or the exterior of the vehicle. The sensor data from the interior of the vehicle may be used to detect interactions by the user. The sensor data from the exterior of the vehicle may be used to detect items of interest for the occupants of the vehicle based further on the sensor data from the interior of the vehicle.

Abstract: A craft capable of a vertical take-off and landing configuration and a horizontal thrust configuration may include, for example, at least a proprotor, an edgewise blade, and a body. The proprotor may be configured to tilt to achieve a horizontal thrust component. A portion of a lift surface may be configured to tilt with the proprotor. In some embodiments, the vertical take-off and/or landing craft may further comprise a tail connected to a first boom and a second boom. In some embodiments, the vertical take-off and/or landing craft may further comprise a tail attached to the body.

Abstract: There is provided a method that is performed while a host and a guest are using a conversational messaging interface. For a message thread, in response to receiving a guest message, the method computes a probability for guest issues by inputting feature vectors from the guest message to a guest issue detection model. In response to receiving a host message, the message computes a probability for host issues by inputting feature vectors from the host message to a host issue detection model. If the message thread includes particular keywords, and if the probability for the guest issues is above a guest issue predetermined threshold, the method includes providing alerts that is visible only to the guest. If the probability for the host issues is above a host issue predetermined threshold, the method also includes providing alerts that is visible only to the host.

Abstract: Systems and methods for an energy source balancer are provided. The energy source balancer can predict an amount of electricity to charge a battery in a time interval. The energy source balancer can identify a charger connected to an electricity grid. The energy source balancer can determine, a portion of the electricity provided to the charger in the time interval via renewable energy sources. The charger can generate an action configured to offset any non-renewable energy provided.

Abstract: A craft capable of a vertical take-off and landing configuration and a horizontal thrust configuration may include, for example, at least a proprotor, an edgewise blade, and a body. The proprotor may be configured to tilt to achieve a horizontal thrust component. A portion of a lift surface may be configured to tilt with the proprotor. In some embodiments, the vertical take-off and/or landing craft may further comprise a tail connected to a first boom and a second boom. In some embodiments, the vertical take-off and/or landing craft may further comprise a tail attached to the body. In some embodiments, the craft includes four rotors positioned on the lift surface and two rotors positioned on a tail connected to the lift surface.

Abstract: Systems and methods for an energy source balancer are provided. The energy source balancer can predict an amount of electricity to charge a battery in a time interval. The energy source balancer can identify a charger connected to an electricity grid. The energy source balancer can determine, a portion of the electricity provided to the charger in the time interval via renewable energy sources. The charger can generate an action configured to offset any non-renewable energy provided.

Abstract: Vehicle sensing and control systems are provided. The vehicle sensing and control systems may use various sensors to capture sensor data from and interior of the vehicle and/or the exterior of the vehicle. The sensor data from the interior of the vehicle may be used to detect interactions by the user. The sensor data from the exterior of the vehicle may be used to detect items of interest for the occupants of the vehicle based further on the sensor data from the interior of the vehicle.

Abstract: A system and computation method is disclosed that identifies radiation-induced lung injury after radiation therapy using 4D computed tomography (CT) scans. After deformable image registration, the method segments lung fields, extracts functional and textural features, and classifies lung tissues. The deformable registration locally aligns consecutive phases of the respiratory cycle using gradient descent minimization of the conventional dissimilarity metric. Then an adaptive shape prior, a first-order intensity model, and a second-order lung tissues homogeneity descriptor are integrated to segment the lung fields. In addition to common lung functionality features, such as ventilation and elasticity, specific regional textural features are estimated by modeling the segmented images as samples of a novel 7th-order contrast-offset-invariant Markov-Gibbs random field (MGRF). Finally, a tissue classifier is applied to distinguish between the injured and normal lung tissues.

Abstract: An injector for forming films respectively on a stack of wafers is provided. The injector includes a plurality of hole structures. Every adjacent two of the wafers have therebetween a wafer spacing, and each of the wafers has a working surface. The hole structures respectively correspond to the respective wafer spacings. The working surface and a respective hole structure have therebetween a parallel distance. The parallel distance is larger than a half of the wafer spacing. A wafer processing apparatus and a method for forming films respectively on a stack of wafers are also provided.

Abstract: A system and computation method is disclosed that identifies radiation-induced lung injury after radiation therapy using 4D computed tomography (CT) scans. After deformable image registration, the method segments lung fields, extracts functional and textural features, and classifies lung tissues. The deformable registration locally aligns consecutive phases of the respiratory cycle using gradient descent minimization of the conventional dissimilarity metric. Then an adaptive shape prior, a first-order intensity model, and a second-order lung tissues homogeneity descriptor are integrated to segment the lung fields. In addition to common lung functionality features, such as ventilation and elasticity, specific regional textural features are estimated by modeling the segmented images as samples of a novel 7th-order contrast-offset-invariant Markov-Gibbs random field (MGRF). Finally, a tissue classifier is applied to distinguish between the injured and normal lung tissues.

Abstract: An injector for forming films respectively on a stack of wafers is provided. The injector includes a plurality of hole structures. Every adjacent two of the wafers have therebetween a wafer spacing, and each of the wafers has a working surface. The hole structures respectively correspond to the respective wafer spacings. The working surface and a respective hole structure have therebetween a parallel distance. The parallel distance is larger than a half of the wafer spacing. A wafer processing apparatus and a method for forming films respectively on a stack of wafers are also provided.

Abstract: An injector for forming films respectively on a stack of wafers is provided. The injector includes a plurality of hole structures. Every adjacent two of the wafers have therebetween a wafer spacing, and each of the wafers has a working surface. The hole structures respectively correspond to the respective wafer spacings. The working surface and a respective hole structure have therebetween a parallel distance. The parallel distance is larger than a half of the wafer spacing. A wafer processing apparatus and a method for forming films respectively on a stack of wafers are also provided.

Abstract: Systems and methods which implement an image reconstruction framework to incorporate complex motion of structure, such as complex deformation of an object or objects being imaged, in image reconstruction techniques are shown. For example, techniques are provided for tracking organ motion which uses raw time-stamped data provided by any of a number of imaging modalities and simultaneously reconstructs images and estimates deformations in anatomy. Operation according to embodiments reduces artifacts, increase the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and facilitates reduced image modality energy dosing to patients. The technology also facilitates the incorporation of physical properties of organ motion, such as the conservation of local tissue volume. This approach is accurate and robust against noise and irregular breathing for tracking organ motion.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a system and method for automatic discovery of the physical location of at least one device in a data center, the device having an associated ultrasonic emitter. The system generally includes a plurality of ultrasonic detectors having known locations in the data center. A controller initiates the generation of an ultrasonic signal from an ultrasonic emitter associated with a device under test. Time of arrival circuitry generates time of arrival information associated with each ultrasonic detector based on the time of receipt of the ultrasonic signal. The controller determines the location of the device under test based on the known location of the ultrasonic detectors within the data center and the time of arrival information associated with each ultrasonic detector.

Abstract: Systems and methods which implement an image reconstruction framework to incorporate complex motion of structure, such as complex deformation of an object or objects being imaged, in image reconstruction techniques are shown. For example, techniques are provided for tracking organ motion which uses raw time-stamped data provided by any of a number of imaging modalities and simultaneously reconstructs images and estimates deformations in anatomy. Operation according to embodiments reduces artifacts, increase the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and facilitates reduced image modality energy dosing to patients. The technology also facilitates the incorporation of physical properties of organ motion, such as the conservation of local tissue volume. This approach is accurate and robust against noise and irregular breathing for tracking organ motion.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a system and method for automatic discovery of the physical location of at least one device in a data center, the device having an associated ultrasonic emitter. The system generally includes a plurality of ultrasonic detectors having known locations in the data center. A controller initiates the generation of an ultrasonic signal from an ultrasonic emitter associated with a device under test. Time of arrival circuitry generates time of arrival information associated with each ultrasonic detector based on the time of receipt of the ultrasonic signal. The controller determines the location of the device under test based on the known location of the ultrasonic detectors within the data center and the time of arrival information associated with each ultrasonic detector.

Abstract: User interfaces called by a target application can be quickly and efficiently identified and stored for future resource coverage analysis. User interfaces of the target application that are accessed by users executing the target application on their computing device can be automatically tracked during execution of the target application. Information gathered on user interfaces of a target application and accessed user interfaces of the target application can be employed to generate one or more reports. Generated reports on user interface usage can be used to, e.g., identify the application resources to localize, prioritize the application resources to localize, discern application resource trends for, e.g., maintenance and upgrade activities, detect unused application resources, and select appropriate application resources for test scenarios.

Abstract: An accurate method for inversely verifying a therapeutic radiation dose delivered to a patient via an x-ray delivery system without involving any computational iteration was developed. The usage of it includes detecting the transmitted radiation dose image after passage through the patient, imaging the patient during treatment to anatomically record information of the patient, followed by inversely verifying through use of both the detected radiation image and the imaging data, the actual radiation dose delivered to the patient, and comparing the level of the dose delivered to a previously planned dose to determine whether the planned dose was delivered, or whether an overdose or underdose occurred.