Abstract: Techniques for obtaining application network metadata from a service registry so that a network routing policy may be derived for traffic associated with the application are described herein. The techniques may include receiving, at a service registry, network metadata associated with traffic of an application hosted by a scalable application service platform. The techniques may also include obtaining, by a controller of a network and from the service registry, the network metadata associated with the traffic of the application. Based at least in part on the network metadata, the controller may determine a routing policy that is optimized for sending the traffic through the network. Additionally, the controller may send an indication of the routing policy to a node of the network or otherwise provision the network such that the traffic of the application is sent through the network according to the routing policy.

Abstract: A shelf system that may be used with a vehicle is described. The shelf system may have a shelf member that selectively pivots between a raised position and a lowered position. The shelf system may have a frame system as well as a sub-frame system to support it within the vehicle.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that are directed to generating video sequences including physio-realistic avatars. In examples, an albedo for an avatar is received, a sub-surface skin color associated with the albedo is modified based on physiological data associated with physiologic characteristic, and an avatar based on the albedo and the modified sub-surface skin color is rendered. The rendered avatar may then be synthesized in a frame of video. In some examples, a video including the synthesized avatar may be used to train a machine learning model to detect a physiological characteristic. The machine learning model may receive a plurality of video segments, where one or more of the video segments includes a synthetic physio-realistic avatar generated with the physiological characteristic. The machine learning model may be trained using the plurality of video segments. The trained model may be provided to a requesting entity.

Abstract: There is an apparatus for detecting pose of an object. The apparatus comprises a processor configured to receive captured sensor data depicting the object. It also has a memory storing a parameterized model of a class of 3D shape of which the object is a member, where an instance of the model is given as a mapping from a point in a 2D rectangular grid to a 3D position. The processor is configured to compute values of the parameters of the model by calculating an optimization to fit the model to the captured sensor data, using the parametrized mapping. The processor is configured to output the computed values of the parameters comprising at least global position and global orientation of the object.

Abstract: There is described apparatus for orienting at least one electromagnetic field sensor, a related receiver unit and method of use. The apparatus has an orientation detector having an output which is dependent upon an orientation of the electromagnetic field sensor, an actuator and a controller which is arranged in communication with the orientation detector and the actuator, the controller being configured to be operable to generate at least one instruction for operating the actuator for moving the electromagnetic field sensor into a predefined orientation, in dependence upon the output from the orientation detector.

Abstract: A choke valve and a method of operation of the choke valve in which the choke valve includes an orifice plate and/or a guide vane to control a flow of fluid though the choke valve, the orifice plate defining a center point and being rotatable about a center axis extending longitudinally through the center point; the orifice plate defining at least one aperture including a first aperture, the first aperture defining at least a first equi-incremental phase region, the first aperture being spaced away from the center point of the orifice plate; and rotation of the orifice plate with respect to the center point effecting an incremental and staged transitioning of the orifice plates among a plurality of open states.

Abstract: In various examples there is an apparatus for detecting position and orientation of an object. The apparatus comprises a memory storing at least one frame of captured sensor data depicting the object. The apparatus also comprises a trained machine learning system configured to receive the frame of the sensor data and to compute a plurality of two dimensional positions in the frame. Each predicted two dimensional position is a position of sensor data in the frame depicting a keypoint, where a keypoint is a pre-specified 3D position relative to the object. At least one of the keypoints is a floating keypoint depicting a pre-specified position relative to the object, lying inside or outside the object's surface. The apparatus comprises a pose detector which computes the three dimensional position and orientation of the object using the predicted two dimensional positions and outputs the computed three dimensional position and orientation.

Abstract: A system and related methods are disclosed for search enhancement of a text document. The index enhancing method includes identifying primary concepts and related concepts. The primary concepts include exact match concepts identified from the single primary document and the conceptual match concepts to the identified exact match concepts. The related concepts include exact match concepts identified from the related documents and conceptual match concepts to the identified exact match concepts. In some instances, the query can also be expanded using the same concepts identified for index enhancing.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an edge device located at an edge of a local network provides connectivity between the local network and a cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) provider via one or more interfaces. The edge device obtains telemetry data associated with the edge device for a plurality of metrics. The edge device makes a determination that one or more of the plurality of metrics is anomalous. The edge device sends, based on the determination, an indication of the determination to the SaaS provider. The SaaS provider uses the indication to determine a root cause of an application served by the SaaS provider experiencing degraded application performance.

Abstract: In some embodiments, an ear-mounted sound reproduction system is provided. The system includes an ear-mountable housing that sits within the pinna of the ear and occludes the ear canal. In some embodiments, the ear-mountable housing includes a plurality of external-facing microphones. Because the external-facing microphones may be situated within the pinna of the ear but outside of the ear canal, the microphones will experience some, but not all, of the three-dimensional acoustic effects of the pinna. In some embodiments, sound is reproduced by an internal-facing driver element of the housing using a plurality of filters applied to the signals received by the plurality of external-facing microphones to preserve three-dimensional localization cues that would be present at the eardrum in the absence of the housing, such that the housing is essentially transparent to the user. In some embodiments, techniques are provided for deriving the plurality of filters.

Abstract: Described herein are methods and electronic devices for performing playback of streamed media, including complementing a media content item with an associated media content item. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, during playback of a first media content item, a message is sent to a computer server system, to return information that a related second media content item is selectable. The information that the second media content item is selectable is displayed at a user interface as a visual array of tiles, wherein each one of the tiles corresponds to a respective second media content item. Playback of the second media content item can be combined with the first media content item. By displaying information about selectable associated media content items to a user, the user will be enabled to individually select associated media content items to complement a currently playbacked media content item.

Abstract: In some embodiments, an ear-mounted sound reproduction system is provided. The system includes an ear-mountable housing that sits within the pinna of the ear and occludes the ear canal. In some embodiments, the ear-mountable housing includes a plurality of external-facing microphones. Because the external-facing microphones may be situated within the pinna of the ear but outside of the ear canal, the microphones will experience some, but not all, of the three-dimensional acoustic effects of the pinna. In some embodiments, sound is reproduced by an internal-facing driver element of the housing using a plurality of filters applied to the signals received by the plurality of external-facing microphones to preserve three-dimensional localization cues that would be present at the eardrum in the absence of the housing, such that the housing is essentially transparent to the user. In some embodiments, techniques are provided for deriving the plurality of filters.

Abstract: In some embodiments, an ear-mounted sound reproduction system is provided. The system includes an ear-mountable housing that sits within the pinna of the ear and occludes the ear canal. In some embodiments, the ear-mountable housing includes a plurality of external-facing microphones. Because the external-facing microphones may be situated within the pinna of the ear but outside of the ear canal, the microphones will experience some, but not all, of the three-dimensional acoustic effects of the pinna. In some embodiments, sound is reproduced by an internal-facing driver element of the housing using a plurality of filters applied to the signals received by the plurality of external-facing microphones to preserve three-dimensional localization cues that would be present at the eardrum in the absence of the housing, such that the housing is essentially transparent to the user. In some embodiments, techniques are provided for deriving the plurality of filters.

Abstract: A shelf system that may be used with a vehicle is described. The shelf system may have a shelf member that selectively pivots between a raised position and a lowered position. The shelf system may have a frame system as well as a sub-frame system to support it within the vehicle.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting pose of an object is described. The apparatus has a processor configured to receive captured sensor data depicting the object. The apparatus has a memory storing a model of a class of object of which the depicted object is a member, the model comprising a plurality of parameters specifying the pose, comprising global position and global orientation, of the model. The processor is configured to compute values of the parameters of the model by calculating an optimization to fit the model to the captured sensor data, wherein the optimization comprises iterated computation of updates to the values of the parameters and updates to values of variables representing correspondences between the captured sensor data and the model, the updates being interdependent in computation. The processor is configured to discard updates to values of the variables representing correspondences without applying the updates.

Abstract: A method to identify one or more depth-image segments that correspond to a predetermined object type is enacted in a depth-imaging controller operatively coupled to an optical time-of-flight (ToF) camera; it comprises: receiving depth-image data from the optical ToF camera, the depth-image data exhibiting an aliasing uncertainty, such that a coordinate (X, Y) of the depth-image data maps to a periodic series of depth values {Zk}; and labeling, as corresponding to the object type, one or more coordinates of the depth-image data exhibiting the aliasing uncertainty.

Abstract: There is an apparatus for detecting pose of an object. The apparatus comprises a processor configured to receive captured sensor data depicting the object. It also has a memory storing a parameterized model of a class of 3D shape of which the object is a member, where an instance of the model is given as a mapping from a point in a 2D rectangular grid to a 3D position. The processor is configured to compute values of the parameters of the model by calculating an optimization to fit the model to the captured sensor data, using the parametrized mapping. The processor is configured to output the computed values of the parameters comprising at least global position and global orientation of the object.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting pose of an object is described. The apparatus has a processor configured to receive captured sensor data depicting the object. The apparatus has a memory storing a model of a class of object of which the depicted object is a member, the model comprising a plurality of parameters specifying the pose, comprising global position and global orientation, of the model. The processor is configured to compute values of the parameters of the model by calculating an optimization to fit the model to the captured sensor data, wherein the optimization comprises iterated computation of updates to the values of the parameters and updates to values of variables representing correspondences between the captured sensor data and the model, the updates being interdependent in computation. The processor is configured to discard updates to values of the variables representing correspondences without applying the updates.

Abstract: A dual-chamber onboard electrolysis system is configured to produce HHO gas for heavy duty trucking applications.

Abstract: In various examples there is an apparatus for detecting position and orientation of an object. The apparatus comprises a memory storing at least one frame of captured sensor data depicting the object. The apparatus also comprises a trained machine learning system configured to receive the frame of the sensor data and to compute a plurality of two dimensional positions in the frame. Each predicted two dimensional position is a position of sensor data in the frame depicting a keypoint, where a keypoint is a pre-specified 3D position relative to the object. At least one of the keypoints is a floating keypoint depicting a pre-specified position relative to the object, lying inside or outside the object's surface. The apparatus comprises a pose detector which computes the three dimensional position and orientation of the object using the predicted two dimensional positions and outputs the computed three dimensional position and orientation.