Abstract: A system for providing information related to a charge status of an electric vehicle when the electric vehicle is connected to a charging station includes a system controller in communication with an electrical system within the electric vehicle and adapted to monitor information related to a charge status of the electric vehicle, and provide notification, to a third-party, of the charge status of the electric vehicle.

Abstract: A method of providing information related to a charge status of an electric vehicle includes monitoring, with a system controller in communication with an electrical system within the vehicle, information related to a charge status of the vehicle, and, displaying, with the system controller, for a person in proximity of the vehicle, information related to a charge status of the vehicle.

Abstract: A system for generating an image display for passengers within a vehicle includes a controller, an image chamber including a first display adapted to project a first image, a first reflector adapted to receive the first image from the first display and reflect the first image to the first passenger, a second display adapted to project a second image, and a second reflector adapted to receive the second image from the second display and reflect the second image to the second passenger, a transparent touch screen display positioned between the first and second reflectors and the passengers and adapted to display information to the passengers within an image plane positioned in front of the first and second images, and a linear polarizer positioned between the transparent display and the first and second reflectors and adapted to filter light traveling from the transparent display toward the first and second reflectors.

Abstract: A floodwater risk assessment system for a vehicle includes one or more cameras oriented to collect image data of floodwater located along a roadway the vehicle is traveling along, a time-of-flight sensor system that directs a laser beam towards a plurality of target points disposed along the floodwater one or more controllers in electronic communication with the one or more cameras and the time-of-flight sensor system. The one or more controllers execute instructions to determine a risk associated with crossing the floodwater at each of the plurality of target points located along the floodwater based on a flow speed of the floodwater and a floodwater depth. The one or more controllers generate a notification indicating the risk associated with crossing the floodwater at the plurality of target points located along the floodwater.

Abstract: A multiview campfire display includes a light source configured to emit a light beam and a spatial light modulator (SLM) positioned to receive the light beam emitted by the light source. The holographic display also includes a user tracker configured to track the head and eyes of the vehicle occupants. The display also includes a controller in communication with the user tracker, the light source, and the SLM. The controller is programmed to receive a eye-tracking signal from the user tracker and control a polarization optics of the light beam emitted by the light source and modulated by the SLM to reroute the image encoded by the SLM for the plurality of vehicle occupants based on the eye-tracking signal, thereby allowing each of the plurality of vehicle occupants to view the image.

Abstract: A method of calibrating a head-up display system includes training a neural network to predict warp maps for an occupant perspective of a single graphical image projected onto a windshield of the vehicle, projecting, with a digital light projector, a graphical image onto the windshield, capturing, with a camera in proximity to the digital light projector, the graphical image projected onto the windshield, locating, with an occupant monitoring system, an occupant eye ellipse position, predicting, with the neural network, a warp map for an occupant perspective of the projected graphical image based on the location of the digital light projector, the occupant eye ellipse position and a shape of the windshield, applying, with the controller, the warp map to the graphical image projected by the digital light projector, and projecting, with the digital light projector, a corrected graphical image based on the predicted warp map.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus may include a memory configured to store a connection list including devices that can be connected with the electronic apparatus, a communication interface configured to broadcast an audio signal to a first audio apparatus and a second audio apparatus included in the connection list, and at least one processor which may be configured to, based on identifying a predetermined event wherein the audio signal is not output from the first audio apparatus, control the communication interface such that the electronic apparatus and the second audio apparatus included in the connection list are connected through low energy Bluetooth communication, based on the electronic apparatus and the second audio apparatus being connected, transmit a signal requesting output state information to the second audio apparatus, remove the second audio apparatus from the connection list based on the output state information corresponding to a non-output of the audio signal received from the second audio apparatus

Abstract: A method for securing cloud applications is described. The method may include establishing a connection between a cloud application isolation portal, a cloud access security broker, and a cloud application based on an indication of the cloud application and a set of credentials associated with an end user of the cloud application, and managing, via the cloud application isolation portal and the cloud access security broker, a session between the cloud application and a computing device associated with the end user based on the connection between the cloud application isolation portal with the cloud access security broker and the cloud application.

Abstract: A system for a wavefront imaging sensor with high resolution (WISH) comprises a spatial light modulator (SLM), a plurality of image sensors and a processor. The system further includes the SLM and a computational post-processing algorithm for recovering an incident wavefront with a high spatial resolution and a fine phase estimation. In addition, the image sensors work both in a visible electromagnetic (EM) spectrum and outside the visible EM spectrum.

Abstract: A method for imaging objects includes illuminating an object with a light source of an imaging device, and receiving an illumination field reflected by the object. An aperture field that intercepts a pupil of the imaging device is an optical propagation of the illumination field at an aperture plane. The method includes receiving a portion of the aperture field onto a camera sensor, and receiving a sensor field of optical intensity. The method also includes iteratively centering the camera focus along the Fourier plane at different locations to produce a series of sensor fields and stitching together the sensor fields in the Fourier domain to generate an image. The method also includes determining a plurality of phase information for each sensor field in the series of sensor fields, applying the plurality of phase information to the image, receiving a plurality of illumination fields reflected by the object, and denoising the intensity of plurality of illumination fields using Fourier ptychography.

Abstract: A method for imaging objects includes illuminating an object with a light source of an imaging device, and receiving an illumination field reflected by the object. An aperture field that intercepts a pupil of the imaging device is an optical propagation of the illumination field at an aperture plane. The method includes receiving a portion of the aperture field onto a camera sensor, and receiving a sensor field of optical intensity. The method also includes iteratively centering the camera focus along the Fourier plane at different locations to produce a series of sensor fields and stitching together the sensor fields in the Fourier domain to generate an image. The method also includes determining a plurality of phase information for each sensor field in the series of sensor fields, applying the plurality of phase information to the image, receiving a plurality of illumination fields reflected by the object, and denoising the intensity of plurality of illumination fields using Fourier ptychography.

Abstract: A computer system maintains its computer system components. In an exemplary embodiment, of the computer system, a topology engine generates topology data to individually correlate hardware components, virtual machines, databases, middleware services, and applications based on hardware execution data. A hardware controller determines when a virtual machine stop condition for a virtual machine is met based on the topology data. When the virtual machine stop condition is met, the hardware controller instructs a hardware component to stop the virtual machine. The hardware controller determines when a virtual machine start condition for a virtual machine is met based on the topology data. When the virtual machine start condition is met, the hardware controller instructs a hardware component to start the virtual machine.

Abstract: A computer system maintains its computer system components. In an exemplary embodiment, of the computer system, a topology engine generates topology data to individually correlate hardware components, virtual machines, databases, middleware services, and applications based on hardware execution data. A hardware controller determines when a virtual machine stop condition for a virtual machine is met based on the topology data. When the virtual machine stop condition is met, the hardware controller instructs a hardware component to stop the virtual machine. The hardware controller determines when a virtual machine start condition for a virtual machine is met based on the topology data. When the virtual machine start condition is met, the hardware controller instructs a hardware component to start the virtual machine.

Abstract: Techniques described herein are generally related to non-interferometric phase measurements of an optical signal. The various described techniques may be applied to methods, systems, devices or combinations thereof. Some methods for determining phase data of the optical signal may include transmitting the optical signal through a first optical element and obtaining first intensity data at a first focal plane of the first optical element by an optical sensor. Example methods may also include transmitting the optical signal through a second optical element. The second optical element may include a phase transformation mask. Example methods may further include obtaining a second intensity data at a second focal plane of the second optical element by the optical sensor and determining the phase data for the optical signal based on the first intensity data and the second intensity data.

Abstract: Techniques described herein are generally related to non-interferometric phase measurements of an optical signal. The various described techniques may be applied to methods, systems, devices or combinations thereof. Some methods for determining phase data of the optical signal may include transmitting the optical signal through a first optical element and obtaining first intensity data at a first focal plane of the first optical element by an optical sensor. Example methods may also include transmitting the optical signal through a second optical element. The second optical element may include a phase transformation mask. Example methods may further include obtaining a second intensity data at a second focal plane of the second optical element by the optical sensor and determining the phase data for the optical signal based on the first intensity data and the second intensity data.

Abstract: A CMOS input buffer supporting multiple I/O standards and having a pair of NMOS and PMOS differential receivers, each having a first input connected to an input pad and a second input connected to a reference voltage, a first multiplexer connected to the control terminal of the current sink of the NMOS differential receiver and having one input connected to the positive supply terminal, and a second multiplexer connected to the control terminal of the current source of the PMOS differential receiver and having one input connected to the negative supply terminal or ground. The buffer further includes an inverter connected to a combined output of the PMOS and NMOS differential receivers and having an output connected to the second input of the first and second multiplexer, and a configuration storage bit for selecting the desired inputs of the first and second multiplexer, thereby supporting high speed standards as well as general purpose standards while reducing static power dissipation.

Abstract: An Input Output Block (IOB) provides programmable hysteresis to support multiple IO standards including a differential amplifier having one input coupled to an input signal and its second input coupled to a complementary input signal in the case of differential signalling, or to a reference voltage for the case of single-ended signalling, a pair of series coupled digital inverters coupled to one output of said differential amplifier, one or more transistors coupled in parallel with each input transistor of the differential amplifier, each transistor of each parallel coupled set being of a different size relative to the corresponding input transistor, the control terminal of each parallel coupled transistor in each set being coupled to the output of one of said series coupled inverters such that positive feedback is provided directly or indirectly through a selection switch, and hysteresis control bits that symmetrically enable or disable each said selection switch to provide a programmable level of hysteresis

Abstract: The differential input receiver provides constant symmetrical hysteresis over a wide input signal range. The differential input receiver includes a pair of complementary differential comparators having common input terminals, a pair of series connected complementary current mirrors each having source terminals driven by the output terminals of the corresponding differential comparator, a pair of transistors connected in series across each differential pair transistor in each differential comparator to form a potential divider across it, and a pair of series connected inverting buffers connected to a common output of the differential comparators to provide the final output. The individual buffer outputs are fed back to the control terminals of the series connected transistors in a manner that provides positive feedback thereby providing equal rise-time, fall-delay and transition times in the output signal.