Abstract: Cutting apparatuses and methods of use thereof are discussed. For example, the cutting apparatus may include a chassis with one or more substrate interfaces and a scribe guide. The cutting apparatuses also may include a plurality of support pistons, a deformable support, a locking mechanism, and/or an anchor extension. The support pistons may be adjustable to generally conform to a substrate, such as a non-planar substrate.

Abstract: A curved connector to connect at least two precast decks includes a curved shaft having opposing first and second ends, and at least one bar anchor for coupling to at least one of the first and second ends and for providing a rigid moment connection between the at least two precast decks of a precast foundation. The curved connector further includes at least one connector bolt for compressing the at least one bar anchor towards a center of the curved shaft.

Abstract: A method and system for evaluation of object motion repetitiveness as a basis to distinguish between human motion and non-human motion, in order to facilitate control of device operation. An example method includes (i) a computing system receiving sensor data representing object motion detected by at least one sensor, the object motion defining motion of an object, (ii) the computing system making a determination, based at least on an evaluation of the received sensor data, of whether the detected object motion is repetitive, and (iii) based at least on the determination being that the detected object motion is not repetitive, the computing system responding to the detected object motion by causing a device to take an action corresponding with a prediction that the object is a human being.

Abstract: A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including: running one or more test cases using a version of an artifact in an environment; detecting a modification to the version of the artifact based on a release of a newer version of the artifact; in response to detecting the modification, generating a modified version of the artifact to incorporate the modification; selecting a first artifact from a list of one or more artifacts comprising the modified version of the artifact; deploying the first artifact, by using an internet protocol (IP) address, into a networking sandbox corresponding to a particular objective; and building a second artifact based on changes implemented to the first artifact. Other embodiments are described.

Abstract: Techniques discussed herein relate to implementing a distributed computing cluster (the “cluster”) including a plurality of edge devices (e.g., devices individually configured to selectively execute within an isolated computing environment). Each of the edge devices of the cluster may be configured with a respective control plane computing component. A subset of the edge devices may be selected to operate in a distributed control plane of the computing cluster. Any suitable combination of the subset selected to operate in the distributed control plane can instruct remaining edge devices of the distributed computing cluster to disable at least a portion of their respective control planes. Using these techniques, the cluster's distributed control plane can be configured and modified to scale as the cluster grows. The edge devices of the control plane may selectively connect to a centralized cloud, alleviating the remaining edge devices from needless and costly connections.

Abstract: Described embodiments include an audio amplifier circuit that includes a first amplifier having a differential first amplifier input adapted to be coupled to an audio input source, a multiplexer having first and second mux inputs, a control input and a mux output. The first mux input is coupled to the differential amplifier output. There is a signal generator having a generator input coupled to the mux output. There is also a driver circuit having a driver circuit input and a driver circuit output, the driver circuit input coupled to the generator output, and a second amplifier having a first error input coupled to a current sense terminal that is configured to provide a voltage proportional to a current supplied from a power supply terminal, and a second error input coupled to a current limit terminal configured to provide a reference voltage proportional to a current limit value.

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products provide dynamic segment resolution and transfer dynamic-segment metadata across media playback devices by detecting a transfer signal indicating a playback session is to be transferred from a first media playback device to a second media playback device, where the playback session contains first dynamic-segment metadata corresponding to a first dynamic-segment having a first data format. Second dynamic-segment metadata corresponding to a second dynamic-segment having a second data format is retrieved and the second media playback device is controlled to play the second dynamic-segment using the second dynamic-segment metadata, where the first data format and the second data format are different.

Abstract: A device detects, using input from one or more sensors installed at a parking facility of a plurality of parking facilities, an infraction caused by a vehicle. Responsive to detecting the infraction, the device generates a vehicle fingerprint by inputting a depiction of the vehicle into a supervised machine learning model, the depiction derived from one or more images of the vehicle captured at the parking facility, and receiving a feature vector of the vehicle as output from the supervised machine learning model, the feature vector comprising a plurality of embeddings each describing a dimension of the vehicle. The device monitors for entry of the vehicle at each of the plurality of parking facilities using the vehicle fingerprint, and, responsive to detecting entry of the vehicle at a given one of the plurality of parking facilities, triggers a remediation action.

Abstract: A method for providing an extensible architecture to facilitate automated event management is disclosed. The method includes receiving an indication that relates to an occurrence of a first event, the indication including event data; parsing the event data to generate event messages that correspond to the first event, each of the event messages relating to a structured data set that is accessible within a network environment; applying, by using the at least one event message, a rule and a corresponding trigger to accounts that are associated with the first event; initiating resolution actions for each of the accounts based on the rule and the corresponding trigger; and modifying a resolution indicator that is associated with each of the accounts based on results of the resolution actions.

Abstract: Techniques for generative design include a computer-implemented method for solving a design problem comprising initializing values for one or more categorical design variable probabilities and one or more continuous design variables, and performing a design iteration by performing one or more iterations to update the categorial design variable probabilities by generating sample vectors for each of one or more categorical design variables based on the categorical design variable probabilities, computing first gradients of an objective function and one or more constraint functions with respect to the categorical design variable probabilities, and updating values for the categorical design variable probabilities based on the first gradients, then updating the sample vectors based on the updated categorical design variable probability values, computing second gradients of the objective and constraint functions with respect to each of the continuous design variables, and updating values for the continuous design v

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described for generating parallel synthetic training data for a machine learning model. A server computing device generates a model training dataset from a baseline dataset comprising a plurality of sentences labeled as noncompliant with a ruleset. The server trains a conditional autoregressive language model using the model training dataset as input to generate a corpus of synthetic predicted to be noncompliant with the rulesets. For each synthetic sentence, the server executes a compliance classification model to generate a compliance label for the synthetic sentence. The server identifies a plurality of the synthetic sentences labeled as noncompliant that are semantically similar to sentences from the baseline dataset to generate a first parallel corpus of synthetic training data. The server executes a language suggestion model using the identified synthetic sentences to generate a second parallel corpus of synthetic training data.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a scanning device comprising a support base, a pressure panel disposed on an upper surface of the support base, and a plurality of cameras distributed around an outer perimeter of the support base.

Abstract: A method and system for generating binary image of a document image is disclosed. The method includes determining a negative map image, an inverse negative map image, an HSV image and a grayscale image of the document image. One or more cells corresponding to at least one table are detected based on detection of lines in the negative map image. For each of the cells, a foreground mean value, a background mean value, and a background mean HSV value is determined. Each of the cells are categorized as a dark cell or a light cell based on the foreground mean value and the background mean value. Contrast value of each cell is determined based on the foreground mean value and the background mean value. The binary image is determined based on the contrast value, a pre-defined threshold value, the background mean HSV value and the categorization of the corresponding cell.

Abstract: A device access management server may facilitate secure remote access of a target device by an accessing device. The secure remote access of the target device by the accessing device may be authenticated using a session token. The device access management server may maintain the session token and other session information.

Abstract: A method of upgrading a software service from a first version to a second version, wherein the software service is supported by a file system on which a first archive is mounted, includes the steps of: causing execution of the software service to be stopped, and mounting a second archive onto the file system, wherein the second mounted archive includes a plurality of files for executing the second version of the software service; creating a set of pointers, each of the set of pointers pointing to a respective one of the plurality of files of the second mounted archive; and after creating the set of pointers, causing the second version of the software service to be executed, wherein executing the second version of the software service involves accessing code from the plurality of files of the second mounted archive using the set of pointers and executing the code.

Abstract: A method of operating a network is provided that includes identifying a plurality of client devices connected to the network, categorizing the client devices into respective client groups based on device characteristics of each of the client devices, analyzing traffic patterns among the client groups and assigning the client groups to respective network segments based on the observed traffic patterns, and generating one or more network access policy for at least one of the network segments based on the traffic patterns or baseline behavior associated with a portion of the client devices belonging to the at least one of the network segments.

Abstract: A system receives an input from a user, where the input indicates a request to perform one or more tasks. The system generates a plurality of utterances from the input. Each utterance indicates a different operation. The system determines a sequence of the operations to be performed in order to perform the one or more tasks. The system identifies a conversational software algorithm that is configured to process a respective utterance based on the topic of the utterance. The system communicates each utterance to the respective conversational software algorithm. The system receives responses from the conversational software algorithms. The system determines whether each response is valid. The system generates a final response based on the valid responses. The system outputs the final response.

Abstract: Systems and techniques are described herein for processing image data. For instance, a method for processing image data is provided. The method may include receiving first image data related to a first image at an image-signal processor (ISP); receiving second image data related to a second image at the ISP; while receiving the first image data and the second image data, processing the first image data and the second image data at the ISP; and in response to receiving a last portion of the first image data, delaying flushing of the first image data from an internal buffer of the ISP while processing the second image data.

Abstract: A substrate cleaning system to remove particulates from multiple substrates includes a cleaning tank for applying a cleaning liquid to substrates, a rinse tank for applying a rinsing liquid to substrates, and a robot system. The cleaning tank includes a stationary lid, an input lid, and an output lid. The input and output lids allow a substrate carrier designed to carry an individual substrate to access an inner volume of the cleaning tank for processing. A transport system moves the substrate in the substrate carrier through the inner volume of the cleaning tank by creating a series of gaps between substrates to allow proper processing. The robot system transports substrates through the input and output lids of the cleaning tank, and transports substrates into the rinse tank.

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) decodes a first system information block (SIB) transmitted by a first cell to determine whether the first cell transmits a second SIB, decodes the second SIB based on a determination that the first cell transmits the second SIB, and reports, to a crowdsourcing server, a first set of parameters related to the second SIB transmitted by the first cell.