Abstract: A method of authorizing a device action includes accessing a first baseline model that represents image characteristics of an authorized first user or object. The first baseline model is used as a basis for selecting a first number of sensing structures of a camera image sensor, wherein the first number of sensing structures of the camera image sensor is less than a total number of sensing structures of the camera image sensor. The selected first number of sensing structures of the camera image sensor is activated and a first image sensed by the activated first number of sensing structures is obtaining. The first image is compared with the first baseline model. A next round of authorization processing is activated when an amount of correlation between the first image and the first baseline model satisfies a threshold correlation amount.

Abstract: A node in a wireless communication system coordinates multistatic radar measurements, wherein the node controls a plurality of wireless communication devices. Coordination involves obtaining an indication that a first sensing area located within a geographic area that is served by the node is to be sensed by a first radar signal. A first multistatic radar group of wireless communication devices selected from a participating group of the plurality of wireless communication devices and the node is formed, wherein the first multistatic radar group comprises at least one device for transmitting the first radar signal and at least two devices for receiving one or more reflections of the transmitted first radar signal. The first multistatic radar group is controlled to introduce the first radar signal into the first sensing area and to receive the one or more reflections of the introduced first radar signal.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, a computer program product, and a device for obtaining user input to an application in a portable device including a touch detection area and one or more movement determining sensors. The method includes detecting first user input on the touch detection area within a time period, wherein the first user input is related to the application. The method further includes registering movement of the portable device within a predetermined space during said time period and causing the application to respond to second user input during said time period, wherein the second user input is obtained from the registered movement.

Abstract: There is provided a user equipment. The user equipment has a body. The user equipment includes at least one gesture sensor configured to, when activated, detect movement, outside the body and in at least one direction from the body, of a user interacting with the user equipment. The user equipment includes a visual user interface configured to provide visual feedback of activation of the gesture sensor. The visual feedback indicates in which at least one direction from the body the detection of movement using the gesture sensor has been activated.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, a computer program product, and a device for user control of device applications. The method includes detecting user input at a perimeter of the touch detection area and activating one or more determining sensors. The method includes causing seamless transition between the touch detection area and an activity domain excluding the touch detection area. The seamless transition includes causing the device to respond to user input detected by the one or more determining sensors when the detected user input transits out from the perimeter of the touch detection area. Additionally, the seamless transition includes causing the device to respond to user input from the touch detection area when the detected user input transits into the touch detection area.

Abstract: One or more network nodes are configured for operation in a wireless communication network and, specifically, are configured to provide for co-existence between radar-scanning operations of a radar-enabled UE and network communications, where the radar transmissions are in a same or overlapping frequency range as regards the network communications. In an example implementation, a radio network node, referred to as an CONFIGURE ONE OR MORE access point or base station supports coexistence between radar sensing and network communications that are subject to interference from the radar sensing.

Abstract: A radar-enabled wireless communication device (12) is configured to communicate with a wireless communication network (10) and performs radar transmissions using a same or overlapping millimeter wave (mmW) frequency range, determine whether there are any neighboring wireless communication devices (32) that are vulnerable to interference from the radar transmissions and, if so, adapt radar transmissions in the affected radar beam directions or transmit assistance information enabling the vulnerable devices (32) to mitigate or avoid the interference. In a particular example, the wireless communication device (12) performs radar transmissions during a Downlink (DL) phase of the wireless communication network (10), such that the vulnerability determinations are with respect to DL interference at the neighboring wireless communication devices (32).

Abstract: A wireless communications device that operates in a wireless communications system performs a radar function. This involves obtaining required radio frequency (RF) properties of a radar signal to be used for the radar function, wherein the radar function is one of a plurality of radar functions supported by the wireless communications device, each having a respective one of a plurality of different required RF properties. A transceiver of the wireless communications device is configured to transmit a predefined signal of the wireless communications system using time and frequency resources associated with the predefined signal of the wireless communications system and that satisfy the required RF properties of the radar signal. The configured transceiver is used to transmit the predefined signal of the wireless communications system.

Abstract: A method (200) of activating a display screen of a device, includes establishing (201) a connection with each of one or more candidate display screens (119). A direction of gaze (121) of an eye of a user (117) is tracked (203), and a display screen (119) is selected (207) from the one or more candidate display screens when (205) the display screen (119) is in the direction of gaze (121) of the eye of the user (117). A confirmation code (305) is caused (209) to be displayed on the selected display screen and an image of the selected display screen is obtained. The selected display screen is activated (215) in response to detecting (213) the confirmation code (305) in the updated image of the selected display screen.

Abstract: A virtual display arrangement (100) comprising an optical device (112) and a controller (101) configured to: a) detect (510) an optical pattern (210) through the optical device (210), the optical pattern (210) being associated with a virtual display (211) and the optical pattern (210) being arranged on an arbitrary surface (205); b) extract (520) information regarding the associated virtual display (211); c) set up (540) the virtual display (211) to correspond to an area (212) of a display (110) according to the extracted information associated with the optical pattern (210); d) retrieve (550) virtual content; and to e) present the virtual content in the area (212) of the display (110) corresponding to the virtual display (211).

Abstract: A system comprising a first image processing arrangement and a second image processing arrangement, wherein the first image processing arrangement comprises a controller configured to: a) receive an image; b) select a task and a task identifier associated with task data; c) compress the image based on the task data; and d) transmit the compressed image to the second image processing arrangement for processing, and wherein the second image processing arrangement comprises a controller configured to: e) receive the compressed image and task identifier; f) retrieve task parameters associated with the task identifier; g) process the compressed image based on the task parameters; h) determine results and i) transmit the at least indications of the determined results to the first image processing arrangement, and the controller of the first image processing arrangement is further configured to: j) receive at least indications of a result of the processing from the second image processing arrangement; and k) indicat

Abstract: A microprocessor improves Memory Level Parallelism (MLP) with minimal added complexity and without requiring segregated storage or management of instructions, by marking memory instructions and related instructions as urgent, and dispatching marked and unmarked instructions into common queuing circuitry for scheduled execution within scheduling circuitry that is configured to prioritize the execution of marked instructions. Instruction marking may be limited to the span of the renaming stage or may be extended to the span of the reorder buffer for additional gains in MLP.

Abstract: A method performed in a near sensor device (200) connected to a remote device (210) via a communication channel (220), for object detection in a video, the method comprising: detecting at least one object in the video scaled with a first set of scaling parameters (S312), using a first detection model (S314), encoding the video scaled with a second set of scaling parameters (S316), using an encoding quality parameter (S318), streaming the encoded video to the remote device (S320), streaming a side information associated to the encoded video to the remote device, wherein the side information comprises the information of the detected at least one object (S320), receiving a feedback from the remote device (S325), updating the configuration of the near sensor device (200) comprising adapting any of the first set of scaling parameters, the second set of scaling parameters, the first detection model and the encoding quality parameter (S340) based on the received feedback.

Abstract: The display disclosed herein receives input via one section of the display and controls another different section of the display responsive to this received input. Exemplary embodiments include a smartwatch, where the display encompasses at least part of the wristband and where multiple display sections are defined for the wristband display. A control circuit for the display receives input from a second display section of the wristband display, e.g., that is not fully visible to the user, and controls the first display section that is visible to the user responsive to the input received by the second display section.

Abstract: A display with both sensing diodes and emitting diodes constructed on a common backplane, where each sensing diode includes a lens having a focal length configured for a particular imaging distance from the display is presented herein. The sensing diodes may be used to detect environmental characteristics, e.g., light levels, presence of a user, etc., where the sensing and/or emitting diodes are then configured responsive to the detected environmental characteristics.

Abstract: An electrical device is connected to at least one memory accessing unit and to a memory including at least one physical memory module. The device includes at least one access channel circuit connected to the least one memory accessing unit via at least one system bus and to the at least one physical memory module. The access channel circuit provides memory access for the at least one memory accessing unit to at least a part of the memory.

Abstract: A method of generating executable program code for a data processing system comprising an encoding stage for generating a compressed intermediate representation (E-IR) of an input code (IC) and a decoding stage for generating the executable code from the intermediate representation. The encoding stage comprises transforming (301) the input code including performing code optimization steps resulting in transformed code (302) and compiler information (303) about the transformed code; extracting (304,306) state information (305) of a statistical model and statistical information (PDF) from the transformed code and the compiler information; and encoding (307) the transformed code and the compiler information using the extracted state information and statistical information and resulting in the compressed intermediate representation.

Abstract: An electrical device is connected to at least one memory accessing unit and to a memory including at least one physical memory module. The device includes at least one access channel circuit connected to the least one memory accessing unit via at least one system bus and to the at least one physical memory module. The access channel circuit provides memory access for the at least one memory accessing unit to at least a part of the memory.

Abstract: A multiprocessor system is described including a plurality of processors. At least one level of cache memory is operatively connected to each of the processors. At least one memory unit is shared by at least two of the processors. A status memory, in correspondence to each processor, is configured to store a current status in correspondence to memory regions capable of being stored in the cache memories. The current status indicates whether a memory region is non-shared. The system includes logic, in correspondence to and operatively connected to each processor, for generating minimum cache-coherence activities in response to a memory access request by a respective processor.