Abstract: An air guide element for a ventilation nozzle in a motor vehicle includes a main body at least partially enclosing the cross-section of the ventilation nozzle and on which air guiding fins are arranged. The air guide element also includes a lighting device. The main body and the air guiding fins are produced as a single piece by multi-component 3D printing. The main body has a transparent core. Portions of the surface of the main body and the air guiding fins are printed onto the core at least partially from a semi-transparent material and at least partially from an opaque material.

Abstract: A route planning system configured to create the route plan for an autonomous agricultural work machine and/or for a network of autonomous agricultural work machines. A given agricultural work machine may be operated in a semi-autonomous operating mode, in which a user is on board or resident in the agricultural work machine, or a fully autonomous operating mode, in which no user is assigned to the agricultural work machine. The generated route plan may be dynamically adapted depending on one or more events, with the dynamically adapted route plan being transmitted to the autonomous agricultural work machine. The user or an operator assigned to the given autonomous agricultural work machine may accept the adapted route plan for the given agricultural work machine.

Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine, including a rotor shaft (1) on which an axial stop is provided, which is formed by a securing ring (3) received in a slot (4) in the shaft, and a rotor body (6) pushed onto the rotor shaft (1) and supported axially on the stop. The securing ring (3) is received in a recess (10) in the rotor body (6) and is radially surrounded by the latter.

Abstract: A method for detecting a hands-off state at a steering wheel. A steering variable is captured at the steering wheel and the captured steering variable is supplied as input data to at least two trained machine learning models. The machine learning models are trained to detect a hands-off state on the basis of at least the captured steering variable and to output it as output data. The output data are combined in weighted form to form a hands-off state and are provided. The values of the weightings are determined on the basis of a current context. There is also described an apparatus for detecting a hands-off state at a steering wheel, a steering system for a vehicle, and a vehicle with the apparatus for detecting the hands-off state.

Abstract: A goods storage system includes, among other things, a goods repository with several lifting apparatuses without a drive arranged in storage shafts, wherein each lifting apparatus or a corresponding group of lifting apparatuses include a drive coupling which is designed to apply a drive torque to the lifting apparatus. The drive couplings are accessible from a driving level. The system further includes at least one driverless vehicle with a lifting drive and a drive mating coupling corresponding to the drive couplings of the lifting apparatuses. The drive mating coupling is designed for automatic coupling to one of the drive couplings of the lifting apparatuses when the driverless vehicle is located in couplable proximity to the corresponding drive coupling of the lifting apparatus.

Abstract: Generating fault indications for an additive manufacturing machine based on a comparison of the outputs of multiple process models to measured sensor data. The method includes receiving sensor data from the additive manufacturing machine during manufacture of at least one part. Models are selected from a model database, each model generating expected sensor values for a defined condition. Difference values are computed between the received sensor data and an output of each of the models. A probability density function is computed, which defines, for each of the models, a likelihood that a given difference value corresponds to each respective model. A probabilistic rule is applied to determine, for each of the models, a probability that the corresponding model output matches the received sensor data. An indicator is output of a defined condition corresponding to a model having the highest match probability.

Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to causing certain reasoning with respect to why an automated assistant performed (or did not perform) certain fulfillment and/or alternate fulfillment of an assistant command. For example, implementations can receive user input that includes the assistant command, process the user input to determine data to be utilized in performance of the certain fulfillment or the alternate fulfillment of the assistant command, and cause the automated assistant to utilize the data to perform the certain fulfillment or the alternate fulfillment of the assistant command. In some implementations, output that includes the certain reasoning can be provided for presentation to a user in response to additional user input that requests the certain reasoning. In some implementations, a selectable element can be visually rendered and, when selected by the user, the output that includes the certain reasoning can be provided for presentation to the user.

Abstract: A method for longitudinal guidance of a vehicle relative to a leading vehicle driving in front by using an electronic distance-keeping system, includes providing an environmental parameter relating to an environment of the vehicle, providing a target distance at which the vehicle is intended to follow the leading vehicle, providing acceleration and/or braking information relating to the leading vehicle, assigning the leading vehicle to one of at least two different, predefined driving behavior classes based on the environmental parameter and the acceleration and/or braking information, and determining an at least temporarily permitted deviation from the target distance based on the assigned driving behavior class. The distance-keeping system is used to at least temporarily longitudinally guide the vehicle as following the leading vehicle based on the target distance and the permitted deviation. A distance-keeping system for a vehicle is also provided.

Abstract: A method of coding at least one image comprising the steps of splitting the image into a plurality of blocks, of grouping said blocks into a predetermined number of subsets of blocks, of coding each of said subsets of blocks in parallel, the blocks of a subset considered being coded according to a predetermined sequential order of traversal. The coding step comprises, for a current block of a subset considered, the sub-step of predictive coding of said current block with respect to at least one previously coded and decoded block, and the sub-step of entropy coding of said current block on the basis of at least one probability of appearance of a symbol.

Abstract: A planning portal for a farmer to planning and to initiate an agricultural operation of an autonomous agricultural work machine on an agricultural field. The planning portal is configured in such a way that, during planning, only the use is permitted of attachments which may have dimensions such that the attachments are arranged or positioned completely within the detectable surrounding area during the state in which the attachments are coupled to the autonomous agricultural work machine.

Abstract: An apparatus may include a bracket having a post-tensioned cable tunnel and a pair of tabs configured to receive a post-tensioned cable and to prevent rotation of the bracket relative to the post-tensioned cable. An apparatus may include a plasma torch attachment member configured to releasably engage with the head of a plasma cutting torch of the type having a plasma cutting tip attached thereto, and to rotatably attach to the bracket such that the plasma cutting tip may be moved in an arc relative to the post-tensioned cable.

Abstract: A fullcover package solution in combination with copper pillars or solder bumps and acoustic cavities is proposed to provide maximum usable design area compared to current thin film acoustic wafer level packages. Manufacturing can be done in a self-aligned interconnection process.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an in-use calibration method for a spectrometer device. The method includes: providing the at least one spectrometer device including at least one optical measurement element and at least one optical calibration element having different optical properties; providing at least one sample; performing at least two measurements using the spectrometer device; generating by the at least one detector at least one first detector signal S_d1 according to the measurement without the sample and at least one second detector signal S_d2 according to the measurement with the sample; and deriving at least one calibrated optical property of the at least one sample from the first detector signal S_d1 and the second detector signal S_d2. Further disclosed herein are a spectrometer device configured for performing an in-use calibration method and various uses thereof.

Abstract: A flat nanophotonic computational camera, which employs an array of skewed lenslets (meta-optics) and a learned reconstruction approach is disclosed herein. The optical array is embedded on a metasurface that with a height of approximately one micron, is flat and sits on the sensor cover glass at approximately 2.5 mm focal distance from the sensor. A differentiable optimization method continuously samples over the visible spectrum and factorizes the optical modulation for different incident fields into individual lenses. A megapizel image is reconstructed from a flat imager with a learned probabilistic reconstruction method that employs a generative diffusion model to sample an implicit prior. A method for acquiring paired captured training data in varying illumination conditions is proposed. The proposed flat camera design is assessed in simulation and with an experimental prototype, validating that the method is capable of recovering images from diverse scenes in broadband with a single nanophotonic layer.

Abstract: Boron, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony and other impurities are at least partially removed from a mixture containing at least one chlorosilane and/or organochlorosilane by a) contacting the liquid mixture with a carrier material functionalized with an amidoxime of the general structural formula (I), where CAR=carrier material and R1, R2 are independently of one another H, alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, alkylaryl; and b) optionally removing the functionalized carrier material.

Abstract: Methods for providing a customized audio experience to a user of an audio output device are provided. A user interface is provided on a user device communicatively coupled to the audio output device, the user interface capable of accepting user input for managing the audio experience for the user. A set of activities is provided via the user interface, wherein each activity in the set invokes a set of behaviors configured for the activity for providing the customized audio experience to the user, wherein each behavior in the set customizes the audio experience for the user. A capability is provided via the user interface for the user to launch an activity from the set for invoking the set of behaviors configured for the activity to receive the customized audio experience.

Abstract: The method of labeling an image of cells of a patient, in particular an immunocytochemistry image comprises the following steps. First, a digital image of a stained immunocytochemistry biological sample of the patient is received. Following by the step that a computerized classification of cells in the digital image based on color, shape or texture in the digital image, the digital image is labeled by application of a trained neural network on at least one portion of the digital image which comprises a digital image of one cell classified under a first category during the computerized classification.

Abstract: A respiratory device can include an oxygen generator and a ventilator. The oxygen generator can include a first inlet to ambient air, a vacuum or pressure swing oxygen generating system in fluid communication with the first inlet, a first fluid pathway, and a first outlet. The ventilator can include a second inlet to ambient air and a blower in fluid communication with the second inlet to draw ambient air. The ventilator can include a third inlet in fluid communication with the first fluid pathway upstream of the first outlet. The blower can also be in fluid communication with the second inlet to draw at least some of the extracted oxygen. The ventilator can also include a second outlet in fluid communication with the blower to dispense a mixture of the ambient air and the extracted oxygen to the user.

Abstract: A method for identifying a type of choroidal neovascularization in a retina of a human eye is disclosed, the method comprising receiving, in a processor, optical coherence tomography data of the eye; generating, in the processor, volume segments of the eye using the optical coherence tomography data and a neural network; and identifying, in the processor, the type of choroidal neovascularization in the eye, using the volume segments, the type of choroidal neovascularization comprising one or more of the following: classic choroidal neovascularization and occult choroidal neovascularization.