Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, generating a management manifest for a network function (NF) software application, wherein the NF software application is to be deployed in a cloud computing environment, based on the generating the management manifest, deriving a software package that includes the NF software application and the management manifest, and causing the software package to be outputted for deployment in the cloud computing environment, wherein inclusion of the management manifest with the NF software application in the software package facilitates utilization of the management manifest for monitoring and management of a system that results from deployment of the NF software application in the cloud computing environment. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Methods for fabricating flexible/stretchable circuits can include identifying one or more regions of a printed circuit board (PCB) for selectively removing insulation material. The PCB can include one or more electrically conductive structures arranged on an insulation layer. The method can include applying, within each region of the one or more regions, thermal energy via a heat source to a surface of the PCB within the region such that insulation material of the insulation layer is removed from the region while a portion of the insulation layer beneath the one or more electrically conductive structures is maintained. The flexible/stretchable circuit can be laminated on a soft actuator to form a soft robotic device.

Abstract: A method for providing calibration data for calibrating a camera. The method includes reading in image data provided by the camera from the camera. The image data represent a camera image of at least one predefined point-symmetric region. The method also includes determining at least one center of symmetry of the at least one point-symmetric region using the image data and a determination rule, performing a comparison of a position of the center of symmetry in the camera image with a predefined position of a reference center of symmetry in a reference image in order to determine a positional deviation between the center of symmetry and the reference center of symmetry, and ascertaining displacement information for at least a subset of pixels of the camera image relative to corresponding pixels of the reference image, using the positional deviation. The calibration data are provided using the displacement information.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a neural network to (i) generate accurate network outputs for a machine learning task and (ii) generate intermediate outputs that can be used to reliably classify out-of-distribution inputs.

Abstract: According to a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a wind turbine blade having a split blade configuration, comprising a first blade module defining an aerofoil profile and a second blade module defining an aerofoil profile; a damping module intermediate the first blade module and the second blade module; wherein the damping module comprises a first blade interface for joining to the first blade module and a second blade interface for joining to the second blade module. The damping module comprises a vibration damping unit. Beneficially, the invention provides a useful way in which to integrate motion damping functionality into a modular wind turbine blade.

Abstract: A welding station includes a welding gun that includes first and second caps. The welding gun is movable between a working position and a maintenance position. The working position corresponds to a welding operation on at least one workpiece. A maintenance tool assembly is configured to cooperate with the first and second caps in the maintenance position. The maintenance tool assembly includes a cap extractor, a cap dispenser and a cap dresser. The cap extractor is configured to remove the first and second caps from the welding gun. The cap dispenser is configured to provide a new cap to the welding gun for installation. The cap dresser is configured to shape the cap face. The maintenance tool assembly includes a lift actuator. A translate actuator is respectively configured to move the maintenance tool assembly in the lift and translate directions with respect to the welding gun.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a CNNM4 inhibitor for use in the treatment of an acute or a chronic liver, kidney and/or lung disease in a subject, and to pharmaceutical compositions comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a CNNM4 inhibitor and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient or carrier. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for diagnosing a liver disease, a kidney disease or a lung disease in a subject, and to in vitro methods for identifying a compound potentially useful for reducing an induced CNNM4-mediated disease or condition in a cell.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, or computer-readable medium with instructions for beam management for radio frequency (RF) sensing at a wireless device. The wireless device performs a first beamsweep of an RF signal and measures a reflection of the RF signal based on the first beamsweep. The wireless device performs a second beamsweep of the RF signal, wherein the first beamsweep is based on a different parameter than the second beamsweep and measures the reflection of the RF signal based on the second beamsweep. The wireless device selects a beam for RF sensing based on the first beamsweep and the second beamsweep.

Abstract: Powertrain, including an inverter unit, inverter housing, electric motor, electric motor housing, and a reducing gear. The inverter unit having an inverter configured for converting direct current to alternating current. The inverter housing defining an inverter housing interior volume accommodating the inverter. The reducing gear unit has a reducing gear and a reducing gear cover surrounding the reducing gear. The reducing gear defines an output reducing gear axis that is parallel to the motor axis. The reducing gear cover and the inverter housing are arranged at opposite ends of the electric motor with respect to the motor axis. The inverter housing includes a cut-out that defines a cut-out region fully contained within a convex hull of the inverter housing, wherein the cut-out region is disjoint from the inverter housing interior volume. The output reducing gear axis passes through the cut-out region without passing through the inverter housing interior volume.

Abstract: In example embodiments, techniques are provided that use two different ML models (a symbol association ML model and a link association ML model), one to extract associations between text labels and one to extract associations between symbols and links, in a schematic diagram (e.g., P&ID) in an image-only format. The two models may use different ML architectures. For example, the symbol association ML model may use a deep learning neural network architecture that receives for each possible text label and symbol pair both a context and a request, and produces a score indicating confidence the pair is associated. The link association ML model may use a gradient boosting tree architecture that receives for each possible text label and link pair a set of multiple features describing at least the geometric relationship between the possible text label and link pair and produces a score indicating confidence the pair is associated.

Abstract: An automatic swimming pool cleaner (APC) may include a sensor for detecting adjacency of a pool wall or other object. Following such detection, the APC may reorient itself so as to re-approach the wall (or other object) in a manner better suited for cleaning the area. The reorientation may occur through, for example, changing speeds of motors on-board the APC, directions of travel of the cleaner, or both.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to apparatus comprising execution circuitry comprising at least one execution unit to execute program instructions, and control circuitry. The control circuitry receives a stream of processing instructions, and issues each received instruction to one of said at least one execution unit. Responsive to determining that a first type of context switch is to be performed from an initial context to a new context, issuing continues until a pre-emption point in the stream of processing instructions is reached. Responsive to reaching the pre-emption point, state information is stored, and the new context is switched to. Responsive to determining that a context switch is to be performed to return from the new context to the initial context, the processing status is restored from the state information, and the stream of processing instructions is continued.

Abstract: The invention relates to an indane compound according to Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, L, n and p are as defined herein. The compounds are useful for treating antibacterial infection either as stand-alone antibiotics, or in combination with further antibiotics.

Abstract: Devices and methods for promoting the growth of plants, which transport the plants using a conveyor belt where roots of the plants protrude into a region located below a lower surface of the conveyor belt and at least parts of leaves and/or fruits of the plants protrude into a region located above an upper surface of the conveyor belt which opposes the lower surface. The conveyor path moves along a closed circular or oval path such that a deflection occurs in the region of an upper deflection point and in the region of a lower deflection point, which interconnect vertical sections.

Abstract: A platform implementing a two-tier tokenization process to build a digital asset pool at a server. An application builds the digital asset pool, initializes general asset tokens to represent pro-rata ownership interests in a general pool of assets, and uses general asset tokens to create specific asset tokens to represent ownership interests in specific assets from that pool that a user of the platform selects, from a remote device in communication with the server, from the general pool. General asset tokens offered to eligible retail and/or institutional investors generate funding to build the asset pool. Owners of general asset tokens are periodically offered, by the server, the option to select portions of specific assets from the general asset pool, and create through the two-tier tokenization process, shares of specific asset tokens, subject to the technical protocols, ownership concentration limits, and bidding and allocation schema established by the present platform.

Abstract: A laser scanner and a system with a laser scanner for measuring an environment. The laser scanner includes an optical distance measuring device, a support, a beam steering unit rotatably fixed to the support which rotates around a beam axis of rotation. The beam steering unit includes a mirrored surface which deflects radiation used in the optical distance measurement and an angle encoder for recording angle data. The optical distance measurement is performed by a progressive rotation of the beam steering unit about the beam axis of rotation and the continuous emission of a distance measurement radiation, the emission being made through an outlet area arranged in the direction of the mirrored surface on the support, the receiving optics for receiving radiation are arranged on the support, and wherein the outlet area has a lateral offset with respect to the optical axis of the receiving optics.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a graphical watermark, a method and an apparatus for generating a graphical watermark, and a method and an apparatus for authenticating a graphical watermark. The graphical watermark includes: a plurality of graphical markers carrying position and pose information, and identity information of the graphical watermark; and a watermark pattern provided between a pair of graphical markers.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and storage media are described for motion estimation in video frame interpolation. Disclosed embodiments use feature pyramids as image representations for motion estimation and seamlessly integrates them into a deep neural network for frame interpolation. A feature pyramid is extracted for each of two input frames. These feature pyramids are wrapped together with the input frames to the target temporal position according to the inter-frame motion estimated via optical flow. A frame synthesis network is used to predict interpolation results from the pre-warped feature pyramids and input frames. The feature pyramid extractor and the frame synthesis network are jointly trained for the task of frame interpolation. An extensive quantitative and qualitative evaluation demonstrates that the described embodiments utilizing feature pyramids enables robust, high-quality video frame interpolation. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.