Abstract: An electronic monitoring system and a method of activating devices in the electronic monitoring system are provided. The electronic monitoring system includes a base station operative to control the electronic monitoring system, at least one monitoring device in communication with the base station, and a controller. The monitoring device includes a camera to obtain images of a monitored area. The controller receives a request for a desired interaction with the electronic monitoring system from a first device for the electronic monitoring system, generates an image code corresponding to the desired interaction with the electronic monitoring system, and transmits the image code to a mobile device. The image code is displayed on the mobile device in a field of view for the camera. The controller receives the image code from the camera and activates the desired interaction with the electronic monitoring system responsive to receiving the image code from the camera.

Abstract: An electronic monitoring system and method for monitoring an environment are provided. The electronic monitoring system includes at least one monitoring device configured to monitor a zone within the environment and selectively capture video streams in response to corresponding triggering events. A controller, including an AI algorithm, is configured to receive data from the at least one monitoring device relating to the monitored zone. Patterns are automatically identified and evaluated in the data received and a characteristic of a video stream to be captured is modified, at least partially, in response to the identified patterns in previously received data.

Abstract: An electronic monitoring system for secure image code generation and a method of activating devices in the electronic monitoring system via the secure image codes are provided. The electronic monitoring system includes a base station in communication with a monitoring device. The monitoring device includes a camera to obtain images of a monitored area. A controller for the electronic monitoring system receives a request for a desired interaction with the electronic monitoring system from a first device and generates multiple image codes corresponding to the desired interaction. The controller transmits the image codes to a mobile device and then receives each of the image codes from the camera when the image codes are displayed on the mobile device while the mobile device is positioned in front of the camera. The controller activates the desired interaction with the electronic monitoring system responsive to receiving the image codes from the camera.

Abstract: Database data of a database service may be privately shared across provider network regions. A database producer can authorize an account of to access a database in another region of the provider network. The consumer of the database can associate the database in order to accept the permission to access the database. The database can then be created as an external table at a consumer database engine and metadata for the database privately shared between producer and consumer database engines that can be used to query the external table.

Abstract: Extracting and synchronizing an Enterprise Portal application resource types and properties of business objects located in repository is disclosed. The repository is queried without human intervention to determine business object type information and for each business object type its associated properties. A representation of the business object types and associated properties in a format that facilitates synchronization with the enterprise portal application is generated.

Abstract: A gas lift mandrel with centralizing rings. The centralizing rings are integral the exterior of a tubular gas lift mandrel. The centralizing rings minimize the gas lit mandrel from being offset from the central axis of the wellbore. The centralizing rings also aid in torsional rotation and alignment to tools or the string below.

Abstract: Intrinsic parameter testing apparatus and methodology, which may variously shorten process time by using a plurality of collimators capable of azimuthal rotation, and address chromatic aberration by providing independently actuable illumination means associated with the or each collimator, for selectively supplying light of various wavelength ranges.

Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamic escrow management are disclosed. A method executed by an escrow management computer program may include: receiving an escrow agreement between a first party and a second party to a deal; extracting, using natural language processing, identifications of and authorized signors for the first party and the second party and terms of the escrow agreement; receiving an escrow deposit from the first party or the second party; confirming that an amount of the escrow deposit meets a term of the escrow agreement; depositing the escrow deposit into an escrow account; receiving an escrow instruction from the first party as a completed instruction template at a web interface; retrieving an identification of authorized signor for the first party; routing the escrow instruction to the authorized signor from the first party; receiving approval for the escrow instruction; and causing execution of the escrow instruction.

Abstract: An electronic monitoring system has one or more imaging devices that can detect at least one triggering event comprising sound and motion and a controller that executes a program to categorize the triggering event as being located in a user-defined activity zone within the field of view and/or as being a taxonomic-based triggering event. Upon categorizing the triggering event, the system generates an output comprising a video component and an audio component. At least a portion of the audio component is modified if the triggering event is a categorized triggering event. Modification of the audio may include muting all or a portion of the audio component of the output.

Abstract: A measurement system for measuring intrinsic parameters of a camera includes an arrangement of inclined mirrored surfaces to extend the field of view of the camera.

Abstract: A method for detecting the presence of slowing patterns in an EEG sample comprising a plurality of channels of EEG signals, each channel comprising one or more segments, the method comprising: obtaining a first classifier that is trained to classify EEG samples as containing abnormal slow waves or not; performing a sequence of artifact removal processes on the EEG sample to generate a preprocessed EEG sample; extracting a first feature set from the preprocessed EEG sample; and passing the first feature set to the first classifier to predict whether the EEG sample contains abnormal slow waves or not; wherein the sequence of artifact removal processes comprises removal of one or more ocular artifacts and removal of one or more electrode artifacts.

Abstract: An electronic monitoring system has one or more imaging devices that can detect at least one triggering event comprising sound and motion and a controller that executes a program to categorize the triggering event as being located in a user-defined activity zone within the field of view and/or as being a taxonomic-based triggering event. Upon categorizing the triggering event, the system generates an output comprising a video component and an audio component. At least a portion of the audio component is modified if the triggering event is a categorized triggering event. Modification of the audio may include muting all or a portion of the audio component of the output.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for communicating video/images from a first electronic device to a second electronic device via a network. The first electronic device can include a digital video camera and the second electronic device can include a mobile electronic device, such as a smart phone. The method can include, with the first electronic device, acquiring a first image (as part of a video) having a first resolution, transmitting the first image with a second resolution to the second electronic device, receiving a cropping parameter from the second electronic device, acquiring a second image (as part of a video), cropping the second image based on the crop parameter resulting in a third image having a third resolution, and transmitting the third image with the third resolution.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for communicating video/images from a first electronic device to a second electronic device via a network. The first electronic device can include a digital video camera and the second electronic device can include a mobile electronic device, such as a smart phone. The method can include, with the first electronic device, acquiring a first image (as part of a video) having a first resolution, transmitting the first image with a second resolution to the second electronic device, receiving a cropping parameter from the second electronic device, acquiring a second image (as part of a video), cropping the second image based on the crop parameter resulting in a third image having a third resolution, and transmitting the third image with the third resolution.

Abstract: In a general purpose computer, a method of extracting snippets includes receiving textual content and a plurality of available topics, dividing the textual content into a plurality of snippets, converting each of the snippets to a vector, determining a distance between coadjacent snippets of the plurality of snippets in the textual content, determining an update to the plurality of snippets by merging each of the pairs of coadjacent snippets having a respective distance less than a second threshold, wherein an updated plurality of snippets includes merged snippets, generating a plurality of clusters from the updated plurality of snippets, each cluster associated with one topic selected from the plurality of available topics, and generating, for each of the snippets of the updated plurality of snippets, an affinity score for each of the clusters, each affinity score measuring an assignment strength of a given snippet to a given cluster, and a dominant topic among the at least one identified topic.

Abstract: In an electronic video monitoring system for security and surveillance, a recording device can adaptively change a bit rate at which a video stream is transmitted so that image quality is prioritized, including above maintaining a continuous real-time transmission. In this way, image quality suitable for security and surveillance can be guaranteed close to real-time, despite changes in video transmission requirements and/or network demands. In one aspect, a frame rate can be lowered to no less than a minimum frame rate, a resolution can be lowered to no less than a minimum resolution, and the frame rate and resolution can be lowered to the minimum frame rate and the minimum resolution, respectively, before allowing an increase of compression of the video stream in view of the change in video transmission requirements and/or network demands. This allows sustaining image quality suitable for security and surveillance.

Abstract: An indoor system and process for cultivating, harvesting, and outputting a culture of aquatic plants, namely duckweed, are provided. The system includes a water treatment system and cultivation and harvesting system. The water treatment system provides for mixing of nutrients and treated water to form a treatment mixture which is supplied to the cultivation and harvesting system for facilitating growth of the duckweed.

Abstract: Extracting and synchronizing an Enterprise Portal application resource types and properties of business objects located in repository is disclosed. The repository is queried without human intervention to determine business object type information and for each business object type its associated properties. A representation of the business object types and associated properties in a format that facilitates synchronization with the enterprise portal application is generated.

Abstract: In a general purpose computer, a method of extracting snippets includes receiving textual content and a plurality of available topics, dividing the textual content into a plurality of snippets, converting each of the snippets to a vector, determining a distance between coadjacent snippets of the plurality of snippets in the textual content, determining an update to the plurality of snippets by merging each of the pairs of coadjacent snippets having a respective distance less than a second threshold, wherein an updated plurality of snippets includes merged snippets, generating a plurality of clusters from the updated plurality of snippets, each cluster associated with one topic selected from the plurality of available topics, and generating, for each of the snippets of the updated plurality of snippets, an affinity score for each of the clusters, each affinity score measuring an assignment strength of a given snippet to a given cluster, and a dominant topic among the at least one identified topic.

Abstract: A process for thermally strengthening a glass article comprising first conveying a glass article, having a temperature above a transition point of the glass of the article, into position between two fluid bearing surfaces then moving the fluid bearing surfaces toward the glass article and cooling the glass article, with at least 20% of said cooling taking place by conduction from the glass article to the fluid bearing surfaces. Apparatuses for performing the process and products resulting are also disclosed.