Abstract: The disclosure relates to an audio processing device. This device comprises an audio processing component, e.g. DSP, a microprocessor, memory and a communication interface. Said microprocessor receives via said communication interface two or more listening profiles from personal devices of two or more persons. Said microprocessor comprises means for calculating a combined listening profile out of the two or more received listening profiles and means for calculating a compensation gain profile out of the combined listening profile. Said audio processing component makes use of the compensation gain profile to adapt the audio processing to the listening deficits of the two or more persons who are jointly consuming the audio presentation from the audio processing device.

Abstract: Discloses is a system for the wireless transmission of energy and/or signals between spatially-separated regions with no electrically-conductive connection, the conversion of energy and/or signals into other forms of energy and/or forms of signal, and the application and/or detection of same in at least one peripheral region of said system. The system allows a wireless transmission of energy between at least two spatially-separated regions without an electrically-conductive connection, energy being supplied to at least one of these regions, transmitted to at least one additional region in a wireless manner, converted on demand into other forms of energy, and applied in a peripheral region of said system. Signals can be transmitted at the same time as energy is being transmitted.

Abstract: A smartphone having two microphones is used for determining the direction of a loudspeaker in a surround system setup. This is performed using smartphone rotation in azimuth and polar angle direction while capturing in its microphones a test signal from a current one of the loudspeakers. From the microphone signals a corresponding TDOA value is calculated, and the smartphone is rotated until that TDOA value is nearly zero, resulting in a loudspeaker direction information.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Oenothera drummondii identified as TX-12-5 characterized by 1) a propensity for free flowering (numerous flowers over an extended time and range of photoperiods), 2) a low spreading growth habit (typically less than 30 cm tall) with a dense canopy of foliage, 3) a grey-green shade of foliage compared to the green of most of the species, and 4) consistently bright yellow flowers.

Abstract: A feedthrough for an implantable medical electronic device that has a housing and a header. The feedthrough having an insulator that has a housing-side surface and a header-side surface opposite it, a feedthrough flange surrounding the insulator, and at least one primary connection element penetrating the insulator and for connection of an electrical or electronic component of the device. This electrical or electronic component is arranged in the housing. The connection element is fastened by a hard solder connection, so that it is fluid-tight in a passage of the insulator. The primary connection element has a housing-side end that is essentially even with the housing-side surface of the insulator or is recessed into the insulator with respect to this surface.

Abstract: A challenge of audio watermarking systems in which an acoustic path is involved is the robustness against microphone pickup in case of surrounding noise. The strength of phase-based watermarking is increased by determining a masking threshold for a current frequency bin in a frequency/phase representation changing the phase based on that masking threshold and an allowed phase change value, calculating an allowed magnitude change value for the current frequency bin and calculating from an audio quality level value a magnitude change scaling factor for the magnitude change value, and increasing its magnitude accordingly.

Abstract: As a potential format for next-generation audio, techniques for embedding digital watermarks in the Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA) representation of a sound field have been proposed. The inventive embedding method is adapted for watermarking a two-dimensional or three-dimensional Ambisonics representation of a sound field, wherein the Ambisonics representation is decomposed into directional signals and ambient components and includes estimated dominant directions, and wherein the order of the ambient components can be reduced, and wherein watermark information data are embedded in the directional signals, and at receiver side are regained from the watermarked directional signals.

Abstract: A method for producing a pin for a feedthrough for an electromedical implant. A pin is produced using the following method steps: creating a foil-, sheet- or strip-shaped semi-finished product by joining at least one first layer element including an electrically conducting, preferably biocompatible, material in foil, sheet or strip form and at least one second layer element including a solder and/or an easily soft-solderable material, preferably in wire, sheet or strip form, or by applying the at least one second layer element onto the at least one first layer element; and at least partially detaching a pin, or a set of multiple pins connected to a connecting web 46, from the semi-finished product. A method is also provided for producing a feedthrough and an electromedical implant and to a pin, a feedthrough or an implant produced in the corresponding manner.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to the field of electrical connectors, in particular phone connectors. The proposal concerns a socket for an electrical plug which comprises two or more electrical contacts being positioned along a longitudinal axis. The socket includes two or more corresponding contact elements. The socket is constructed in such a way that the corresponding contact elements are mounted at the socket along a curved line such that the electrical plug when inserted into the socket will be bent in the form of the curved line. The proposal further concerns a flexible electrical plug having two or more electrical contact elements positioned along a longitudinal axis wherein the contact elements are constructed in a flexible material.

Abstract: A composition suitable for use in nicotine replacement therapy products includes a nicotine product that includes a synthetic nicotine that is substantially free of one or more contaminants and/or impurities normally associated with tobacco-derived nicotine. For example, the synthetic nicotine is substantially free of one or more of nicotine-1?-N-oxide, nicotyrine, nornicotyrine, 2?,3-bipyridyl, cotinine, anabasine, and/or anatabine. The composition further comprises one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients, additives and/or carriers. The nicotine replacement therapy products may include any number of such products, including transdermal nicotine delivery patches, nicotine gums, synthetic chewing tobacco, synthetic snuff, and synthetic strips (e.g., dissolvable synthetic tobacco). Additionally, a method of treating nicotine addiction includes administering a nicotine replacement composition, e.g., via a nicotine replacement therapy product, to a user.

Abstract: A smartphone having two microphones is used for determining the direction of a loudspeaker in a surround system setup. This is performed using smartphone rotation in azimuth and polar angle direction while capturing in its microphones a test signal from a current one of the loudspeakers. From the microphone signals a corresponding TDOA value is calculated, and the smartphone is rotated until that TDOA value is nearly zero, resulting in a loudspeaker direction information.

Abstract: A composition suitable for use in a vaping device includes a nicotine product that includes a synthetic nicotine that is substantially free of one or more contaminants and/or impurities normally associated with tobacco-derived nicotine. For example, the synthetic nicotine is substantially free of one or more of nicotine-1?-N-oxide, nicotyrine, nornicotyrine, 2?,3-bipyridyl, cotinine, anabasine, and/or anatabine. The composition further comprises one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients, additives and/or solvents.

Abstract: Following transmission of a watermarked audio signal over an acoustic path causing echoes, reverberation and/or noise, watermark detection correlation result peak values are concentrated within a limited temporal range around main correlation result peaks, which limited temporal range is much smaller than the total correlation length. The watermark detection is based on the following: given np correlation result peak values v=(v1, v2, . . . , vnp) in an average or expected probability distribution for correlation result values for unmarked content, the probability is calculated that within windows covering the limited temporal range there are np or more values from a correlation result value set greater than or equal to these peaks v.

Abstract: For determining in a 2nd screen whether or not watermarked audio content received from a 1st screen has been stopped, a watermark symbol detection in the received audio content and a related detection strength value determination is carried out. In case no watermark symbol has been detected, a received expected detection strength value is compared with a detection strength threshold value. If the expected detection strength value is greater than the detection strength threshold value, it is decided that content has been stopped in the 1st screen device. If not, it is decided that content has not been stopped in the 1st screen device. In case a watermark symbol has been detected, the detection strength value is compared with the expected detection strength value, a correspondingly updated detection strength threshold value is calculated, and it is decided that the content has not been stopped in the 1st screen device.

Abstract: A method of preparing (R,S)-nicotine, comprising reacting a nicotinate ester with N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidinone in the presence of a base and a solvent to form a first mixture, combining the first mixture with an acid to form a second mixture comprising an aqueous layer, separating the aqueous layer from second mixture, combining the separated aqueous layer with an acid to form a third mixture, combining the third mixture with a base to form a fourth mixture comprising myosamine, reducing myosamine to nornicotine using a reducing agent, and methylating the nornicotine to yield R,S-nicotine.

Abstract: Audio watermarking is the process of embedding watermark information items into an audio signal in an in-audible manner. In a first embodiment, in case the original audio signal has parts of low signal energy, an alternative signal having a level or strength given by the psycho-acoustic model is combined with the original audio signal. The combined signal is watermarked with watermark data to be embedded. In a second embodiment, in case the original audio signal has parts of low signal energy, an alternative signal having a level or strength given by the psycho-acoustic model is watermarked with watermark data to be embedded, and the audio signal is watermarked with the watermark data to be embedded. The watermarked alternative signal is combined with the watermarked audio signal.

Abstract: A challenge of audio watermarking systems in which an acoustic path is involved is the robustness against microphone pickup in case of surrounding noise. The strength of phase-based watermarking is increased by determining a masking threshold for a current frequency bin in a frequency/phase representation changing the phase based on that masking threshold and an allowed phase change value, calculating an allowed magnitude change value for the current frequency bin and calculating from an audio quality level value a magnitude change scaling factor for the magnitude change value, and increasing its magnitude accordingly.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a multi-tone glass vessel includes depositing a molten-glass first gob of a first glass color into a mold having a lower end and an upper end. An initial quantity of gas is injected into the mold in order to form a gob cavity within the first gob and cause the first gob to partially inflate and expand toward the upper end of the mold. A molten-glass second gob of a second glass color is deposited into the mold over the partially-inflated first gob. The introduction of a second quantity of gas into the gob cavity within the mold forms the first and second gobs into a single, multi-tone vessel of predetermined shape.

Abstract: Improvement of water-mark detection in watermarked microphone audio signals picked up in the presence of surrounding noise is achieved by using at encoder side not only the originally received signal for the calculation of the masking threshold and the watermarking strength, but by also taking into account the level of the surrounding noise. This enables an adaptation of the watermarking strength to the current sound pressure level SPL of the surrounding noise. If the SPL of the surrounding noise is increased, the watermarking strength will be increased accordingly. The resulting advantage is a significantly improved audio watermark detection in the presence of surrounding noise.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Oenothera drummondii identified as TX-12-5 characterized by 1) a propensity for free flowering (numerous flowers over an extended time and range of photoperiods), 2) a low spreading growth habit (typically less than 30 cm tall) with a dense canopy of foliage, 3) a grey-green shade of foliage compared to the green of most of the species, and 4) consistently bright yellow flowers.