Abstract: A social network may be established between mobile nodes using a wireless connection. Establishing the social network may be based on an estimated time duration of the wireless connection. In one or more embodiments, establishing the social network may also be based on a similarity of interests among of users of the nodes.

Abstract: Certain embodiments herein are directed to vehicle-based small cell base stations. A vehicle-based base station may include at least one antenna; at least one transceiver coupled to the at least one antenna; at least one memory that stores computer-executable instructions; and at least one processor in communication with the transceiver and configured to access the at least one memory. The processor may be configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to receive data associated with a user device from a base station; receive data from the base station; establish connection with the user device based at least in part on the data received from the macrocell base station; and transmit the data received from the base station to the user device.

Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating dynamic game surface adjustment at smart play surfaces of smart play sets according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes receiving one or more inputs to perform an action at a portion of a play surface of a play set; evaluating the one or more inputs for generating an action plan to perform the action at the portion of the play surface, where the action plan is to affect one or more objects acting on the surface. The method may further include executing the action at the portion of the surface, wherein the action to adjust one or more properties of the play surface.

Abstract: Examples include a determination how to manage storage of a video clip generated from recorded video based upon a sensor event. Managing storage of the video clip may include determining whether to save or delete the video clip based on an imprint associated with an object that indicates whether the object is included in the video clip.

Abstract: Various systems and methods for frame removal and replacement for stop-action animation are described herein. A system for creating a stop-motion video includes an access module to access a series of frames of an input video, and a processing module to determine whether each frame of the series of frames includes a portion of a hand and composite frames from the series of frames that do not include the portion of the hand to render an output video. A system for creating a video includes an access module to access an input video, and a video processing module to identify a physical object in the input video, track movement of the physical object in the input video to identify a path, identify a three-dimensional model of the physical object, and create an output video with the three-dimensional model in place of the physical object, the three-dimensional model following the path.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods and storage media for providing augmented reality (AR) effects in stop-motion content are described. In one instance, an apparatus may include a processor, a content module to be operated by the processor to obtain a plurality of frames having stop-motion content, some of which may include an indication of an augmented reality effect, and an augmentation module to be operated by the processor to detect the indication of the augmented reality effect and add the augmented reality effect corresponding to the indication to some of the plurality of frames. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Abstract: Generally discussed herein are systems and apparatuses for gesture-based augmented reality. Also discussed herein are methods of using the systems and apparatuses. According to an example a method may include detecting, in image data, an object and a gesture, in response to detecting the object in the image data, providing data indicative of the detected object, in response to detecting the gesture in the image data, providing data indicative of the detected gesture, and modifying the image data using the data indicative of the detected object and the data indicative of the detected gesture.

Abstract: System, apparatus, method, and computer readable media for on-the-fly captured video summarization. A video stream is incrementally summarized in concurrence with generation of the stream by a camera module. Saliency of the video stream summary is maintained as the stream evolves by updating the summary to include only the most significant frames. In one exemplary embodiment, saliency is determined by optimizing an objective function including terms that are indicative of both the diversity of a selection, and how representative the selection is to the processed portion of the video data corpus. A device platform including a CM and comporting with the exemplary architecture may provide video camera functionality at ultra-low power, and/or with ultra-low storage resources, and/or with ultra-low communication channel bandwidth.

Abstract: In embodiments, apparatuses, methods and storage media for personalized speech recognition are described. In various embodiments, a personalized speech recognition system (“PSRS”) may receive personal speech recognition training data (“PTD”) that is associated with a user to facilitate recognition of speech from the user. The PSRS may train a speech recognition module using the received PTD. The user may provide the PTD using a mobile device under control of the user. The PTD may be generated and stored on the mobile device through actions of the user, such as by using the mobile device to record a corpus of speech examples by the user. The user may subsequently facilitate provisioning of the PTD to the PSRS using the mobile device, such as through a wired or wireless network. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.

Abstract: Systems and methods to provide distributed wireless communications from a plurality of wireless network devices are disclosed. The plurality of wireless network devices may be configured to provide direction communications with one or more user devices. This may be performed by adjusting one or more radio parameters associated with the plurality of wireless network devices. The plurality of wireless network devices may cooperate with each other to provide network connectivity for the one or more user devices with relatively high fidelity, relatively high bandwidth, and relatively low power consumption. The plurality of wireless network devices may further provide distributed processing capability to perform tasks for user devices that may provide task requests.

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a composable thin computing device. An example device may comprise at least a device interface module, a communication module, a processing module, a memory module, a composable computing module and a power module. The device interface module may couple the device to an operational environment via at least one of a physical connector or a wireless connection. The communication module may at least one of transmit or receive data via the device interface module. The processing module may process the data. The memory module may store at least a portion of the data. The composable computing module may cause at least one of the above modules to perform certain functionality related to the operational environment. The power module may power at least one of the above modules.

Abstract: Generally, this disclosure provides systems, devices, methods and computer readable media for context based spectrum management. A device may include a user preference determination module to determine a level-of-service preference of a user of the device, the preference associated with an application. The device may also include a user state determination module, to determine a state of the user, and a device capability determination module, to determine capabilities of the device. The device may further include an application programming interface (API) to provide the context to a cloud-based server configured to manage spectrum. The context includes the preference, the state and the capabilities. The API is further configured to receive content delivery options from the cloud-based server.

Abstract: Certain embodiments herein are directed to vehicle-based small cell base stations. A vehicle-based base station may include at least one antenna; at least one transceiver coupled to the at least one antenna; at least one memory that stores computer-executable instructions; and at least one processor in communication with the transceiver and configured to access the at least one memory. The processor may be configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to receive data associated with a user device from a base station; receive data from the base station; establish connection with the user device based at least in part on the data received from the macrocell base station; and transmit the data received from the base station to the user device.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to geographic content addressing are described. In an embodiment, a server (such as a content server or a content delivery server) transmits content to one or more devices at a first location based on location information corresponding to the first location of the one or more devices. The location information corresponding to the first location of the one or more devices is registered prior to transmission of the content to the one or more devices at the first location (e.g., at a registry server). Other embodiments are also claimed and described.

Abstract: A social network may be established between mobile nodes using a wireless connection. Establishing the social network may be based on an estimated time duration of the wireless connection. In one or more embodiments, establishing the social network may also be based on a similarity of interests among of users of the nodes.

Abstract: A route for establishing a wireless connection between a wireless device and a node may be selected based on an estimated duration of the route. The route duration may be estimated based on information related to the expected movement of nodes included in the route.

Abstract: An ad hoc network may be established between vehicles using a wireless connection. The wireless network may be used for sending and receiving information about road conditions, such as average speed, a location and configuration of a road obstruction, images of an accident scene, and a traffic flow plan. The wireless network may also be used for communicating with emergency response vehicles in order to enable faster and more effective responses to accidents.

Abstract: Embodiments of apparatuses and methods for processor accelerator interface virtualization are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes instruction hardware and execution hardware. The instruction hardware is to receive instructions. One of the instruction types is an accelerator job request instruction type, which the execution hardware executes to cause the processor to submit a job request to an accelerator.

Abstract: A particular device includes a transmitter. The transmitter is adapted to estimate a packet erasure rate for packets of a data window to be transmitted to a receiver. The transmitter is adapted to determine a number of proactive forward error correction (FEC) packets for the data window based on the estimated packet erasure rate. The transmitter is adapted to determine a packet size for the packets in the data window based on a window size of the data window and the determined number of proactive FEC packets. The transmitter is also adapted to transmit the data window to the receiver. The packets in the transmitted data window have a size corresponding to the determined packet size and include the determined number of proactive FEC packets.

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods to monitor core performance and integrated circuit chip temperatures in order to alternatively partition cores and core resources are disclosed. Embodiments generally comprise integrated circuit processors in chips that contain multiple cores or processing elements. In many system and apparatus embodiments, a module monitors either the throughput or performance of one or more of the cores. In such embodiments, another module, a core allocation module, partitions or allocates cores in different arrangements of partitions to improve performance. Additionally, in some embodiments, a temperature monitoring module monitors one or more temperatures of the chip containing the cores, wherein the temperature measurements may affect the core allocations. In some embodiments, once an allocation for the cores is selected, the specifics of the cores to be placed in different partitions may be stored and later retrieved when triggered by events allowing for the reallocation of the cores.