Abstract: The present disclosure is related to an imaging camera including a filter wheel. The filter wheel includes a main body including a plurality of receptacles and a plurality of wedges. Each of the wedges is attached to one of the plurality of receptacles. Each of the wedges includes a receiving orifice to a filter. The main body of the filter wheel includes an adapter configured to receive an actuator to actuate the filter wheel. Each wedge is removably attached to one of the plurality of receptacles. The filter wheel is configured to rotate around a central axis of the main body.

Abstract: Mobile management method, system and client. The method includes receiving a DNS query for a host name from an application on a client; retrieving reputation data associated with the host name from a local cache on the client; determining a policy for the host name, which is associated with the host name and the reputation data associated with the host name; based on the determined policy for the host name, blocking attempted network flows to a host corresponding to the host name; sending at least attempted network flow metadata related to the blocked attempted network flows to a collector on the client; and transmitting the attempted network flow metadata in the collector to a VPN server pool via a VPN tunnel.

Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a video of a user-defined virtual reality scene are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain a scene definition; obtain camera information for multiple virtual cameras to be used in generating a two-dimensional presentation of the virtual reality scene; execute a simulation of the virtual reality scene from the scene definition for at least a portion of the scene duration; obtain camera timing instructions specifying which of the virtual cameras should be used to generate the two-dimensional presentation of the virtual reality scene as a function of progress through the scene duration; generate the two-dimensional presentation of the virtual reality scene in accordance with the camera timing instructions and the camera information.

Abstract: A catheter drive system including a motor pack having a plurality of motors, each motor connected to a driver, a catheter quick connect, having a catheter mounted therein, and rotary interfaces configured to mate with the drivers, a plurality of spindles, each spindle coupled to one of the rotary interfaces such that rotation of the rotary interface is transferred to the spindle, a plurality of pull-wires, each pull-wire connected to one of the spindles and extending into a distal portion of the catheter, a Z-drive quick connect configured to receive the catheter and move the catheter along its longitudinal axis, and a Z-drive including at least one motor and a plurality of drivers mechanically coupled to the motor, each driver coupleable to a rotary interface on the Z-drive quick connect, wherein rotation of the drivers by the motor is transferred to the rotary interfaces of the Z-drive quick connect.

Abstract: Endoscopic systems and methods use a multi-view camera tool inside the body, including airways of a lung, to capture images, and use a combination of positional informational from EM and/or IMU sensors of the multi-view camera tool to estimate image depth and generate a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud volume of the patient anatomy. The 3D point cloud volume is generated from a known vantage point using stereoscopic images captured by the camera tool. This 3D structure generation may use a stereo image rectification algorithm. A machine learning algorithm may also be applied in place of, or in combination with, an image rectification algorithm to improve computational efficiency.

Abstract: A method is disclosed, involving converting each structured text document stored in a database into one or more vectors, using the vectors of the structured text documents stored in a database to create a similarity search index, then for each structured text document from the database, searching the search index using the one or more vectors of the structured text document in order to generate a list of N other structured text document from the database similar to the structured text document based on said search; an storing each list of N other structured text document from the database similar to the structured text document in a table.

Abstract: A medical device system including a first container and a second container, the first container including a first container outer body defining a first interior space connected to a first opening of the first container; and a first container-side valve configured to be activated, upon connection of the second container to the first container, from a normally closed position into the first interior space to an activated position, and the second container including a second container outer body defining a second container interior space and a stem fluidly connected to the second container interior space, wherein, upon connection of the second container to the first container, the first container-side valve is configured to be brought into contact with the stem and the stem is configured to activate the first container-side valve from the normally closed position to the activated position.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for operating a non-volatile memory module. In an example, a method can include filling a first plurality of pages of a first non-volatile memory with first data from a first data lane that includes a first volatile memory device, and filling a second plurality of pages of the first non-volatile memory device with second data from a second data lane that includes a second volatile memory device. In certain examples, the first plurality of pages does not include data from the second data lane.

Abstract: A cloud enabled data exchange platform configured to accept sensed information from publishers and allows downloading of sensed information by subscribers. The platform may utilize a blockchain to verify sensed information without sharing private information, act as a transaction ledger, or provide an interface for digital services/interaction with data. Microservices may be offered on the platform to both publishers and subscribers, such as preconfigured smart city solutions or pre-developed artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions. Publishers may control the format in which sensed information is uploaded. Subscribers may control the format in which sensed information is downloaded.

Abstract: There is a housing; a first collet assembly coupled to the housing, including: a clamping member having a slotted interior with sloped sides that create a narrowing interior towards a front face of the clamping member; a collet trapped within the slotted interior of the clamping member and oriented towards the front face, wherein a diameter of the collet is smaller than a length of the slotted interior such that the collet travels along the slotted interior; and a mechanism functionally coupled to the clamping member that moves the clamping member relative to the collet between a first mode and a second mode, wherein in the first mode the sloped sides pinch the collet more than the sloped sides pinch the collet in the second mode.

Abstract: Systems and methods of memory operation involving dynamic adjustment of write policy based on performance needs are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary method may comprise monitoring memory performance parameters related to a programming operation being scheduled, selecting a write policy based on the memory performance parameters monitored, executing a memory control process that is configured to switch between the first addressing scheme and the second addressing scheme, and programming a first superpage of the programming operation using the first addressing scheme and programing a second superpage of the programming operation using the second addressing scheme.

Abstract: Industrial devices and edge compute platforms are configured to synchronize their internal clocks to provide a common sense of time across application and data acquisition tasks, thereby allowing for an inherent common understanding of time across the devices and data sets. The industrial devices can synchronize their internal clocks using Precision Time Protocol (PTP) or IEEE 802.1AS synchronization. The accurate time stamping achieved by this synchronization can yield more accurate analysis of data sets acquired from multiple devices, and greater fidelity and synchronization between a digital twin of an automation system and the physical system represented by the digital twin.

Abstract: “A tilting apparatus for an aircraft, comprising: a tiltable aircraft component which tilts between a first and second position, at least one actuator for adjusting a tilt angle of the tiltable aircraft component, and at least one passive damper connected to the tiltable aircraft component and configured to limit a rate of change of the tilt angle of the tiltable aircraft component. The at least one passive damper is on a load path separate from a load path of the at least one actuator.

Abstract: An aircraft windscreen comprises a plurality of liquid crystal display (LCD) films positioned on or within various portions of the windscreen to define a corresponding plurality of zones. The opacity of the LCD films are individually and separately controllable by control circuitry in communication with user controls to allow a user to darken or lighten portions of the various LCD films to achieve a desired level of gradient tint in the defined zones to block external light, such as sunlight, from the aircraft.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus and method for relighting captured images in a virtual reality environment is provided. Righting processing performed by the apparatus includes acquiring an input image, acquiring a target image, determining at least one shared reference region for the acquired input image and at least one shared reference region for the acquired target image, determining a transform matrix based on the color space of the shared region, applying the transform matrix to at least a portion of the acquired input image, outputting the transformed portion of the acquired input image, and displaying the outputted transformed portion of the acquired input image.

Abstract: A system for immersive virtual reality communication that includes a first capture device configured to capture a stream of images of a first user, a first network configured to transmit the captured stream of images of the first user, a second network configured to receive data based at least in part on the captured stream of images of the first user and a first virtual reality device used by a second user, wherein the first virtual reality device is configured to render a virtual environment and to produce a rendition of the first user based at least in part on the data based at least in part on the stream of images of the first user produced by the first capture device.

Abstract: An automated system of airborne drones may be equipped with components for navigating within a warehouse environment, locating specific bins of product as assigned, retrieving a single item from the bin, and delivering the retrieved item to a central shipping area or disposing in a designated location including conveyor belts or mobile robotic platforms.

Abstract: A barbless fishhook has an eye portion, a shank portion comprising wire of a first diameter proceeding from the eye portion, at least one belly portion proceeding from the shank portion, wherein the wire changes direction by at least 150 degrees, a point portion proceeding from the at least one belly portion to a sharp point, the point portion shaped as a cone with an included angle, providing a taper, and a treated region beginning at a first distance along the wire from the sharp point, proceeding for a length along the wire to a second distance along the wire to at least a beginning of the belly portion. The treated region is treated to provide increased friction between a surface of the wire in the treated region and any matter in contact with the treated region.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes receiving, by a server from a client application, a read request for a data block. The method further includes, reading, by the server, data of the data block and checksums associated with the data block, from a data storage drive, and storing, by the server, the data of the data block and the associated checksums in a buffer. A client node is caused, by the server, to use the associated checksums to perform a validity check for the data of the data block and a transmission from the server to the client node. A computer program product, according to another embodiment, includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are readable and/or executable by a server to cause the server to perform the foregoing method.