Abstract: Provided are an ink data generation apparatus, an ink data generation method, and an ink data generation program that are capable of improving ease of handling ink data when or after metadata is generated. An ink data generation apparatus performs a determination as to an inclusion relation between a first set and a second set by comparing stroke elements of first set data and stroke elements of second set data using the first set data and the second set data. The ink data generation apparatus generates first metadata for the first set described in a form that varies in accordance with a result of the determination.

Abstract: Described are compositions, in particular lyophilizates, containing proteolytic enzymes, and methods for producing the compositions. Typically these compositions contain one or more proteases with collagenase activity and a neutral protease, for example, thermolysin. The compositions are free of acetate salts. Surprisingly, such compositions can be dissolved in water more rapidly than lyophilized protease mixtures of the state of the art.

Abstract: A vehicle seat may have a seat part which can be moved from a usage position into a non-usage position, a seat back, a base, and a seat kinematics connecting the seat part pivotably to the base. The seat kinematics may have a rocker which by a first rotary joint is deflected pivotably on an adapter connected to the base and by a second rotary joint is deflected pivotably on the seat part. A spacing between the base and the seat part can be changed by selection of a first articulation point for articulation of the first pivot joint on the adapter fixedly connected to the base, and/or by selection of a second articulation point for articulation of the second pivot joint on the seat part. A method for assembling such a vehicle seat is also provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a display device. The disclosure is further directed towards a method, a computer program code, and an apparatus for providing a correction map for such a display device. The disclosure is further related to a method and a computer program code for operating a display device. The display device comprises a display panel comprising pixels, a cover element, and a decorative element arranged on the cover element. An individual brightness of the pixels of the display panel is adapted to a light transmissivity of the decorative element at the respective pixel positions.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the disclosure includes a network node synchronization system. The system may include a first node. The first node may include a first host card comprising a first (TOD) time of day counter, a first digital signal processor (DSP) comprising a first DSP counter, and a first optical communication device comprising a first DSP communication channel, wherein the first DSP communication channel transports DSP frames. In various embodiments, the DSP is a coherent DSP.

Abstract: A module for a microscope includes at least one sensor and/or at least one actuator, and a control and evaluation unit. The control and evaluation unit is configured to determine current parameter values of parameters of the sensor and/or of the actuator, analyze the parameter values using a statistical model stored in the control and evaluation unit to determine an operating state value that characterizes an operating state of the module, and identify the operating state as an abnormal operating state upon determining that the operating state value satisfies a predefined condition with respect to a threshold value.

Abstract: A discharge device for discharging electric currents from a rotor part of a machine, said rotor part having a shaft, the discharge device comprising an axially displaceable contact element, which is at least partly accommodated in a guide, for forming an electroconductive sliding contact between a sliding contact surface of the contact element and a shaft contact surface of the shaft, the sliding contact surface being provided for forming the sliding contact, the contact element being electroconductively connected to the guide and/or a retaining element of the machine, and the contact element being prestressed towards the shaft contact surface by means of a spring element, the contact element being at least partly wetted with an oily fluid, in particular at least in the area of its sliding contact surface.

Abstract: A contacting device for transmitting electric currents of a rotor part of a machine, said rotor part being formed by a shaft and/or slip ring, to a machine, and to the use of a discharge device, wherein the discharge device comprises a contact element for forming an electrically conductive sliding contact between a sliding contact surface of the contact element, said sliding contact surface being provided in order to form the sliding contact, and a rotor contact surface of the shaft or the slip ring, and a recess is formed in the sliding contact surface. The contact element is at least partly coated with an oily fluid, in particular at least in the region of the sliding contact surface.

Abstract: Provided are an ink data generation apparatus, an ink data generation method, and an ink data generation program that are capable of improving ease of handling ink data when or after metadata is generated. An ink data generation apparatus performs a determination as to an inclusion relation between a first set and a second set by comparing stroke elements of first set data and stroke elements of second set data using the first set data and the second set data. The ink data generation apparatus generates first metadata for the first set described in a form that varies in accordance with a result of the determination.

Abstract: DCT-based methods for fixed bit rate, intraframe compression of video are based on the visual quality of the resulting decompressed imagery. In general, this involves assigning an initial bit budget per macroblock of a given video frame, resulting in degrees of compression, i.e., quantization scale factors, that vary among the macroblocks according to their complexity. The scale factors are then adjusted while maintaining the overall frame bit budget to reduce the visibility of artifacts in the decompressed frame. The adjustments may include increasing scale factors for simple macroblocks and reducing scale factors for complex blocks. As compared to traditional DCT-based compression schemes, the described methods may reduce the visibility of compression-related artifacts both in complex and in simple portions of the frame.

Abstract: The invention concerns a control or regulating device with a control or regulating unit, which both controls or regulates a volumetric blood flow flowing through a blood pump as well as a volumetric flow of a gas able to flow through a gas exchange unit.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the disclosure includes a network node synchronization system. The system may include a first node. The first node may include a first host card comprising a first (TOD) time of day counter, a first digital signal processor (DSP) comprising a first DSP counter; and a first optical communication device comprising a first DSP communication channel, wherein the first DSP communication channel transports DSP frames. In various embodiments, the DSP is a coherent DSP.

Abstract: DCT-based methods for fixed bit rate, intraframe compression of video are based on the visual quality of the resulting decompressed imagery. In general, this involves assigning an initial bit budget per macroblock of a given video frame, resulting in degrees of compression, i.e., quantization scale factors, that vary among the macroblocks according to their complexity. The scale factors are then adjusted while maintaining the overall frame bit budget to reduce the visibility of artifacts in the decompressed frame. The adjustments may include increasing scale factors for simple macroblocks and reducing scale factors for complex blocks. As compared to traditional DCT-based compression schemes, the described methods may reduce the visibility of compression-related artifacts both in complex and in simple portions of the frame.

Abstract: A method is disclosed of waking up a steering control unit including a controller and a motor in which a rotor position of a rotor of the motor is monitored and, in the event that a change in the rotor position is detected, the steering control unit is woken up.

Abstract: A method for providing selectable quick actions on handwritten data in a handwritten document is disclosed. The method includes fetching the handwritten data corresponding to strokes made by a user in the handwritten document and recognizing text associated with the received handwritten data by employing a handwriting recognition technique. The method also includes identifying keywords in the recognized text and classifying each identified keyword into an entity type by employing a named entity recognition, a named entity linking, and/or a knowledge graph. In some embodiments, the method includes determining actionable items associated with the classified entity type corresponding to each keyword and creating quick actions, selectable by the user, for each keyword based on the determined actionable items via the knowledge graph. The method includes rendering the created quick actions associated with each keyword on the handwritten document based on a profile associated with the user.

Abstract: Low bitrate encoding of HDR-coded content with codecs that achieve compression by lowering the precision of encoding can result in significant loss of color fidelity. The problem stems from the logarithmic nature of the HDR encoding and consequent excessive quantization of color components of HDR-coded material. The loss is ameliorated by applying a saturation emphasis function that boosts color values of the HDR-coded material prior to compression. In various implementations the saturation emphasis function is a monotonically increasing function that preferentially boosts lower color values. Following compression and subsequent decompression, the color boost is reversed. In video post-production workflows proxies may be compressed to very low bitrates. For such workflows, the described methods significantly reduce codec-induced color artifacts in the decompressed proxy, thus restoring the ability of editors to make valid technical decisions based on the proxy during post-production.

Abstract: A method for building a knowledge graph from handwritten documents is disclosed. The method includes receiving a handwritten document along with dynamic handwritten data from an electronic device and recognizing potential terms for objects in the handwritten document by employing a handwriting recognition technique. The potential terms for each object include a closest recognized term and at least one alternative recognized term. The method also includes determining conceptual terms from the potential recognized terms. Furthermore, the method includes determining a multi-level relation between one or more potential recognized terms and the handwritten document. Thereafter, the method includes building a knowledge graph based on the plurality of potential terms, the one or more conceptual terms, the determined multi-level relation between the one or more potential recognized terms and the handwritten document, or a combination thereof.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for detecting damage to a steering system, wherein values of moisture in the steering system are determined with a sensor within the steering system, wherein the damage is detected as a function of the values.

Abstract: A method for providing recommendations based on handwritten data in a handwritten document is disclosed. The method includes fetching the handwritten data corresponding to strokes made by a user in the handwritten document on a screen of an electronic device. The method also includes recognizing text associated with the fetched handwritten data by employing a handwriting recognition technique. The method further includes identifying keywords in the recognized text and determining recommendations based on the identified keywords using a named entity linking and/or a knowledge graph. The recommendations include handwritten documents stored in a database and/or weblinks. The method also includes ranking the determined recommendations based on a similarity score of each of the determined one or more recommendations with respect to the identified one or more keywords and rendering the ranked recommendations to the user.

Abstract: A method for providing selectable quick actions on handwritten data in a handwritten document is disclosed. The method includes fetching the handwritten data corresponding to strokes made by a user in the handwritten document and recognizing text associated with the received handwritten data by employing a handwriting recognition technique. The method also includes identifying keywords in the recognized text and classifying each identified keyword into an entity type by employing a named entity recognition, a named entity linking, and/or a knowledge graph. In some embodiments, the method includes determining actionable items associated with the classified entity type corresponding to each keyword and creating quick actions, selectable by the user, for each keyword based on the determined actionable items via the knowledge graph. The method includes rendering the created quick actions associated with each keyword on the handwritten document based on a profile associated with the user.