Abstract: A computer system comprises at least one processor; a communications module coupled to the at least one processor; and a memory coupled to the at least one processor and storing processor-executable instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, configure the at least one processor to provide a bidirectional application programming interface that interfaces between at least one provider system and at least one subscriber system, the bidirectional application programming interface configured to allow the at least one provider system to make requests of the at least one subscriber system and to allow the at least one subscriber system to make requests of the at least one provider system; receive, from a subscriber system, an application programming interface request that includes a request to confirm data processing particulars; identify, based on the data processing particulars, a provider system associated with the data processing particulars; send, to the provider system, the request to con

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of simulating the propagation of an audio signal between an audio source and receiver in a virtual environment, the virtual environment comprising one or more sound-reflective objects, the method comprising: simulating a plurality of audio paths for propagating the audio signal between the audio source and receiver within the virtual environment, one or more of the simulated audio paths comprising a reflection from a sound reflective object; and for one or more of the audio paths simulated, applying a deviation of the effective simulated position of one or more of the audio source, receiver and sound reflective object within the virtual environment, where the effective simulated position is used to determine a path delay associated with the simulated audio path.

Abstract: A computer implemented method of simulating audio signals in a virtual environment, wherein the virtual environment comprises a first room comprising an audio source, a second room comprising an audio receiver, and a third room in-between the first and second rooms, the method comprising: simulating the propagation of an audio signal in the first room and outputting the simulated audio signal to the third room; modifying the simulated audio signal by a predetermined function; generating a modified audio signal and outputting the modified audio signal to the second room.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of simulating the propagation of an audio signal between a source and receiver in a virtual environment is disclosed. The method comprising: simulating reflections of an audio signal within the virtual environment to determine a plurality of audio paths between the source and receiver; determining an input audio signal to be propagated between the source and receiver by the plurality of audio paths; determining one or more audio paths having a delay that causes interference in the input audio signal; applying an adjustment to the determined audio paths to reduce the interference in the audio signal caused by the one or more audio paths. In this way, an audio simulation may be adapted according to the specific audio signal to reduce phase artefacts.

Abstract: The application provides a computer-implemented method for simulating a reflected audio path in a virtual environment, the virtual environment comprising a source, a receiver, an obstacle, and a sound-reflective boundary, the reflected audio path associated with reflection at the sound-reflective boundary, and the method comprising: simulating, by an image-source method, the reflected audio path between the source and the receiver, the image-source method comprising: generating, by mirroring the source in the sound-reflective boundary, a mirror image source, and determining a simulated reflected audio path along a line segment between the receiver and the mirror image source; generating, by mirroring the obstacle in the sound-reflective boundary, a mirror image obstacle; performing a line-of-sight check between the receiver and the mirror image source; and, when at least one of the obstacle and the mirror image obstacle lies along the line segment between the mirror image source and the receiver, performing a

Abstract: A magnetic orbital angular momentum beam accelerator will accelerate charged particles, electrons or ions, from rest in zero or low magnetic field into a high magnetic field regions with high kinetic energies in the form of magnetic orbital angular momentum. For example, a beam injector that accelerates electrons or ions into 1T magnetic fields with tens of keV kinetic energies transverse to the magnetic fields can be used to heat magnetically confined plasmas, to inject an initial energetic plasma component with high magnetic orbital angular momentum and to produce highly transverse particle momenta to the magnetic field for electron or ion beam lithography.

Abstract: A supply charging device includes a supply power connector having a supply housing having a mating end mated with a receive power connector of the mobile device along a mating axis. The supply housing includes a front housing and a rear housing separate and discrete from the front housing coupled to the front housing at a separable interface. The rear housing includes a cable chamber and the front housing includes a contact chamber. The supply charging device includes a latch latchably coupled to the receive power connector. The supply charging device includes a contact assembly held by the rear housing with pins of contacts received in the contact chamber. The supply charging device includes a cable assembly coupled to the contact assembly and extending from the cable end.

Abstract: Systems and methods configured to generate talker coordinates for directing a camera towards an active talker in the presence of acoustic reflections are disclosed. One method comprises receiving sound location information for a detected audio source from a microphone; determining, based on the sound location information, a first set of coordinates representing an estimated talker location; determining, based on the sound location information and a height of the environment, a second set of coordinates representing a corrected talker location; calculating a weighted height coordinate based on a first height coordinate of the first set of coordinates, a second height coordinate of the second set of coordinates, and stored height coordinates from previously detected audio sources; and transmitting, to a camera, a third set of coordinates comprising the weighted height coordinate and representing a final talker location, to cause the camera to point its image capturing component towards the received location.

Abstract: A method of orchestrating measurements in a measurement system includes configuring a first service with a first configuration for acquiring measurement data by an orchestrator. The method also includes receiving a moniker generated by the first service in response to being configured that represents the first configuration. The moniker includes a location of the first service and an identifier of the first configuration. The method also includes transferring the moniker to a second service configured to establish communication with the first service based on the location, consume the measurement data acquired by the first service using the first configuration and transmitted in response to receiving the identifier from the second service, and generate a result in response to receiving the measurement data from the first service. The method further includes receiving the result from the second service.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods of operating storage devices. The storage device comprises a controller and a media unit. The capacity of the media unit is divided into a plurality of zones. The controller is configured to make informed use of errors by update zone metadata to indicate one or more first logical block addresses were skipped and to indicate the next valid logical block address is available to store data. The controller is further configured to update zone metadata to recommend to the host device to reset one or more full zones, to recommend to the host device to transition one or more open zones to a full state, to alert the host device that one or more open zones have been transitioned to the full state, and to notify the host device of the writeable zone capacity of each of the plurality of zones.

Abstract: Methods and systems for performing semantic scene completion of sparse 3D data are described. A frame of sparse 3D data is preprocessed into a sparse 3D tensor and a sparse 2D tensor. A partially completed 3D tensor is generated from the sparse 3D tensor using a 3D prediction network, and a semantically completed 2D tensor is generated from the sparse 2D tensor using a 2D prediction network. The partially completed 3D tensor is completed to obtain a semantically completed 3D tensor by assigning a given class label, which has been assigned to a given pixel in the semantically completed 2D tensor, to a voxel at a corresponding x-y coordinate in the partially completed 3D tensor.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods of operating storage devices. The storage device comprises a controller and a media unit. The capacity of the media unit is divided into a plurality of zones. The controller is configured to make informed use of errors by update zone metadata to indicate one or more first logical block addresses were skipped and to indicate the next valid logical block address is available to store data. The controller is further configured to update zone metadata to recommend to the host device to reset one or more full zones, to recommend to the host device to transition one or more open zones to a full state, to alert the host device that one or more open zones have been transitioned to the full state, and to notify the host device of the writeable zone capacity of each of the plurality of zones.

Abstract: A system for modifying the presentation of pre-generated content to a user, the system comprising a user focus determination unit configured to determine a level of user focus in respect of at least a portion of content being displayed to the user, a user profile obtaining unit configured to obtain a user profile indicating one or more characteristics of the user, a content modification unit configured to modify, in response to a determination of the level of user focus falling below a threshold value, the presentation of one or more portions of the pre-generated content to increase the level of user focus, wherein the modification is determined in dependence upon the obtained user profile.

Abstract: A twist lock receptacle assembly includes a connector housing having power contact channels at a top and power wire openings at a bottom receiving poke-in power wires. The twist lock receptacle assembly includes twist-lock power contacts having rotate-to-mate interfaces connected to the sensor power contacts of a sensor module. The power contacts have wire termination pads electrically connected to the poke-in power wires when poked into the power wire openings and power contact wire pushers in the connector housing having spring beams configured to engage the poke-in power wires to mechanically and electrically connect the poke-in power wires to the wire termination pads.

Abstract: A method of fabricating thermal and/or acoustical insulation products including glass fibers and formaldehyde-free, substantially water-insoluble, thermoset resin binders, which binders afford thermal and/or acoustical insulation products requiring less cutting force during fabrication and promote greater wearability, durability, and/or longevity for cutting blades used in fabrication.

Abstract: Unique insulation articles including corrosion inhibitors and methods of producing the same are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is an article of manufacture comprising an insulation mat comprising a cured combination of a plurality of randomly oriented fibers and a binder, the insulation mat extending between a first surface and a second surface, a veil attached to the first surface, the veil structured to inhibit physical movement of the cured combination through the veil, a metal sheet attached to the second surface by a water-containing adhesive contacting the metal sheet and the second surface, and a corrosion inhibitor composition deposited on the cured combination of the insulation mat, the corrosion inhibitor composition being effective to modify toward neutral a pH of the cured combination in contact with water from the water-containing adhesive.

Abstract: When security-related behavior is detected on an endpoint, e.g., through a local security agent executing on the endpoint, a threat management facility associated with the endpoint can interact with a user via a second local security agent on a second endpoint in order to solicit verification, authorization, authentication or the like related to the behavior. In one aspect, an administrator for an enterprise managed by the threat management facility may verify, authorize, or otherwise approve the detected behavior using this technique. In another aspect, a user of the device may use this infrastructure to approve of a potentially risky behavior on one device by using a verification procedure on a second device associated with the user.

Abstract: A vibratory flowmeter (5) for meter verification is provided, including meter electronics (20) coupled to the first and second pickoff sensors (170L, 170R) and coupled to a driver (180), with the meter electronics (20) configured to: vibrate the flowmeter assembly (10) in a single mode using the driver (180), determine a single mode current (230) of the driver (180) and determine first and second response voltages (231) generated by the first and second pickoff sensors (170L, 170R), respectively, compute frequency response functions for the determined first and second response voltages (231) from the determined single mode current (230), fit the generated frequency response functions to a pole-residue model, and verify proper operation of the vibratory flowmeter (5) using the meter stiffness value (216), residual flexibility (218), and the meter mass (240) in embodiments.

Abstract: A data service implements a configurable data compressor/decompressor using a recipe generated for a particular data set type and using compression operators of a common registry (e.g., pantry) that are referenced by the recipe, wherein the recipe indicates at which nodes of a compression graph respective ones of the compression operators of the registry are to be implemented. The configurable data compressor/decompressor provides a customizable framework for compressing data sets of different types (e.g., belonging to different data domains) using a common compressor/decompressor implemented using a common set of compression operators.