Abstract: As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for a media service platform. A media content is parsed to a directed graph, where vertices of the directed graph correspond to entities in the media content and edges of the directed graph define relationships between the entities. One or more creative media capability services are provided, using the directed graph.

Abstract: Systems and methods herein describe a motion retargeting system. The motion retargeting system accesses a plurality of two-dimensional images comprising a person performing a plurality of body poses, extracts a plurality of implicit volumetric representations from the plurality of body poses, generates a three-dimensional warping field, the three-dimensional warping field configured to warp the plurality of implicit volumetric representations from a canonical pose to a target pose, and based on the three-dimensional warping field, generates a two-dimensional image of an artificial person performing the target pose.

Abstract: Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for processing excess event messages using a mobile application, comprising rendering, via the mobile application, a first view displaying first state information of a control panel configured to receive event information from one or more sensors in a physical location. The implementations further include controlling, data flow of a plurality of event messages generated by the control panel. Additionally, the implementations further include selecting one or more event messages of the plurality of event messages from the processing queue based on a dispatch timer and a dispatch threshold. Additionally, the implementations further include generating a second view based on processing of the one or more event messages and blocking processing of the processing queue. Additionally, the implementations further include rendering the second view displaying second state information of the control panel.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing near net shapes of complex configuration components. The method includes mixing a plurality of powdered metals to form a blended powder; gravity sintering a sand mold filled with the blended powder to form a gravity sintered preform; and vacuum hot-pressing the gravity sintered preform to form a near net shape component.

Abstract: An image sensor may include an array of imaging pixels arranged in rows and columns. A method of operating an imaging pixel is provided that includes accumulating charge in a photosensitive element, allowing the accumulated charge in the photodiode to overflow into a capacitor that is coupled to a reset transistor having a gate terminal configured to receive a reset control signal during an integration phase, and extending the dynamic range of the imaging pixel by dynamically adjusting the reset control signal from a first voltage level to a second voltage level during the integration phase. The reset control signal can be lowered from the first voltage level to the second voltage level in a discrete or continuous fashion such that a portion of the overflow charge in the capacitor represents a linear signal and a portion of the overflow charge in the capacitor represents a non-linear signal.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and system for selecting one or more heart interbeat interval, IBI, signals. The method comprises capturing a sequence of individual heart IBI signals using one or more sensors; comparing the value of a first parameter of one of the individual heart IBI signals with a predetermined first threshold; determining the value of a second parameter from one or more or all of the individual heart IBI signals of the sequence; comparing the value of the second parameter of the one individual heart IBI signal with the value of the second parameter determined from one or more or all of the individual heart IBI signals of the sequence; and selecting the one individual heart IBI signal based on the comparisons. The system and method may be used in non-ideal, non-medial environment such as the cabin of a car.

Abstract: A method of forming a metal workpiece is disclosed herein. The method includes applying an electrical current through a feedstock material, applying a vertical axis force to the feedstock material; applying a rotational force to the feedstock material, and producing a metallic component from the feedstock material based on the electric current, the vertical axis force, and the rotational force.

Abstract: A method includes performing automated feature discovery with respect to a first entity and a view. The view is associated with a table derived from source data. The table includes columns representing data fields having assigned semantic types. The automated feature discovery includes selecting transformation operations to be applied to the table based on a data type of the view, an entity type of the first entity, entity types of second entities related to the first entity, entity relationships between the first entity and the second entities, descriptive statistics characterizing values in columns of the table, and/or a semantic type assigned to a column of the table. The method further includes generating one or more features based on the view, wherein generating the features includes applying the selected transformation operations to the table, and storing the generated features in a feature catalog.

Abstract: A downhole system performs a method of operating a downhole device. The downhole system includes a downhole device configured to obtain measurements of a formation parameter at a measure point along a trajectory of the downhole device, and a processor. The processor defines an initial volume surrounding the downhole device, calculates a first radial parameter value using a predetermined formation parameter value distribution in the initial volume, the first radial parameter value representing a distance from the measure point and defining a volume of investigation, and performs the operation of the downhole device using the volume of investigation.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for identifying different structure types with distinct composition in vivo and adjusting surgical laser output accordingly in a medical procedure are disclosed. An exemplary laser treatment system comprises a laser system configured to generate a laser beam for delivery to a target in a body, and a controller circuit configured to receive a signal reflected from the target in response to electromagnetic radiation produced by a light source, and generate one or more spectroscopic properties from the reflected signal. The controller circuit can identify the target as one of a plurality of structure types, such as tissue types or calculi types with respective compositions, using the one or more spectroscopic properties. The laser system can be controlled to operate in an operating mode based on the target identification.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor package includes: providing a leadframe having component positions each of which includes a die pad; providing semiconductor dies each having a first power electrode on a first main surface and a second power electrode on a second main surface; mounting a respective semiconductor die onto the die pad of a respective component position of the leadframe such that the first power electrode is attached to the die pad; mounting a clip onto the dies such that the clip is attached to a respective second power electrode; embedding at least the side faces of the dies and inner surfaces of the leadframe and clip in a mold compound to form a subassembly; and cutting through the clip and leadframe at positions between neighbouring component positions.

Abstract: A method of obtaining a chrominance quantization parameter (QP) for chrominance components based on a luminance QP for a luminance component, wherein the method is performed by a decoder, and comprises parsing a received bitstream to obtain the luminance QP and information of a mapping function (ƒ) which associates a QP index (QPi) to a chrominance QP (QPc); obtaining the QPi based at least in part on the luminance QP; obtaining the mapping function based on the obtained information of the mapping function; and obtaining a QPc based on the obtained mapping function and the obtained QPi.

Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for sidelink procedures and structures for transmission and reception of non-standalone and standalone PSSCH in a wireless communication system.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for data shuffling for distributed machine learning training, including each training node in the network receiving a shard of training data, wherein the training data set is divided into shards having data items. Each data item is assigned to a working set such that each of the working set includes data items from multiple shards. The training nodes perform training using the data items of a first working set that are in each node's shard. Upon completion of the training using the data items of the first working set, the training nodes performing training using the data items of a second working set that are in their shards; and while the training nodes are performing training on their respective subsets of shards of the second working set, the nodes randomly shuffling data items in the first working set to create a shuffled first working set.

Abstract: Computer-implemented methods for generating a 3D dental prosthesis model are disclosed herein. The methods comprise training a deep neural network to generate a first 3D dental prosthesis model using a training data set; receiving a patient scan data representing at least a portion of a patient's dentition; and generating, using the trained deep neural network, the first 3D dental prosthesis model based on the received patient scan data.

Abstract: In an embodiment a projection device includes an LED array on which a plurality of micro LEDs is arranged at regular intervals, projection optics spaced from the LED array and configured to receive light emitted from the LED array and to project the light onto a projection surface and a light collecting structure comprising individual protrusions, wherein the protrusions are optically coupled to individual LEDs of the LED array such that they restrict an angular space of light emitted by the individual LED and/or make an emission uniform.

Abstract: A process of forming a titania-silica glass body, the process including exposing a titania-doped silica soot body to a first thermal treatment by heating the body to a first temperature T1 between about 800° C. and about 1100° C. for a first time duration t1 calculated using the equation: t ? 1 > L c 2 4 ? ? , wherein Lc is the characteristic length (cm) of the body and ? is the thermal diffusivity (cm2/sec) of the body. The process further including exposing the body to a second thermal treatment by heating the body to a second temperature T2 between about 1050° C. and about 1250° C. wherein, after the second thermal treatment, a peak-to-valley difference of hydroxyl concentration amongst a plurality of segments of the body is about 70 ppm or less.

Abstract: A method for dynamic modeling and manipulation of multi-object scenes is described. The method includes using object-centric neural implicit scattering functions (OSFs) as object representations in a model-predictive control (MPC) framework for the multi-object scenes. The method also includes modeling a per-object light transport to enable compositional scene re-rendering under object rearrangement and varying lighting conditions. The method further includes applying inverse parameter estimation and graph neural network (GNN) dynamics models to estimate initial object poses and a light position in the multi-object scene. The method also includes manipulating an object perceived in the multi-object scene according to the applying of the inverse parameter estimation and the GNN dynamics models.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing images or features of images using an image classification system that includes a batch normalization layer. One of the systems includes a convolutional neural network configured to receive an input comprising an image or image features of the image and to generate a network output that includes respective scores for each object category in a set of object categories, the score for each object category representing a likelihood that that the image contains an image of an object belonging to the category, and the convolutional neural network comprising: a plurality of neural network layers, the plurality of neural network layers comprising a first convolutional neural network layer and a second neural network layer; and a batch normalization layer between the first convolutional neural network layer and the second neural network layer.

Abstract: Method for detecting motion of an object using GNSS signals, including (i) measuring distances between a GNSS antenna and GNSS satellites with carrier phases at a first time; (ii) computing distances between known positions of antenna and satellites at first time; (iii) for each satellite, calculating first set of residuals=distances in (i)— distances in (ii); (iv) measuring distances between antenna and satellites with carrier phases at a second time; (v) computing distances between known positions of antenna and satellites at second time; (vi) for each satellite, calculating second set of residuals=distances in (iv)— distances in (v); (vii) differencing first and second sets of residuals; (viii) computing a metric based on set of differences in (vii); (ix) comparing metric to a threshold; (x) based on comparison in (ix), determining if object moved or possibly moved between first time and second time.