Abstract: An apparatus is provided for integrating a removable fader component with an audio component while also enabling the fader component to be connected with one or more external audio components and/or to function as a standalone fader when removed from the apparatus. Embodiments include an audio component configured to produce a first audio signal; a removable fader component configured with a first connection point for connectivity to the audio component and a second connection point for connectivity to an external audio component that produces a second audio signal, wherein a hardware component, a software component, or a combination thereof for performing a mixing of the first audio signal and the second audio signal is contained within the removable fader component; and a receptacle integrated into the apparatus, wherein the receptacle is configured to hold the removable fader component to the apparatus.

Abstract: Container having a container body comprising a bottom, a rim and a lid securing portion located adjacent the rim. A lid includes a lid base sized and configured to secure the lid to the lid securing portion of the container body and a lid door assembly movably mounted to the lid base. The lid door assembly includes a main door that can assume at least a closed position with respect to the lid base and an open position with respect to the lid base, a first side door that can assume at least a closed position with respect to the main door and an open position with respect to the main door, and a second side door that can assume at least a closed position with respect to the main door and an open position with respect to the main door.

Abstract: An integrated image sensor for capturing a mixed structured-light image and regular image using an integrated image sensor are disclosed. The integrated image sensor comprises a pixel array, one or more output circuits, one or more analog-to-digital converters, and one or more timing and control circuits. The timing and control circuits are arranged to perform a set of actions including capturing a regular image and a structured-light image. According to the present invention, the structured-light image captured before or after the regular image is used to derive depth or shape information for the regular image. An endoscope based on the above integrated image sensor is also disclosed. The endoscope may comprises a capsule housing adapted to be swallowed, where the components of integrated image sensor, a structured light source and a non-structured light source are enclosed and sealed in the capsule housing.

Abstract: A multi-laminar repair matrix for repairing a tissue defect may comprise a top patch and a bottom compliant patch. The bottom compliant patch may be compressed and sized to fit through a tissue defect, and expand to a substantially planar state after being implanted to the tissue defect. The top and/or bottom patch may include adhesives. A tool for implanting a patch to a tissue defect may include a shaft, a plurality of arms pivotally connected to the shaft, and a control. The control may be configured to radially expand the plurality of arms upon actuation of the control.

Abstract: Methods and devices for monitoring camera resource activities may include receiving a camera resource request from an application that identifies at least one camera resource being requested for use by the application. The methods and devices may include determining whether the camera resource is available for use by checking a state of the camera resource using a camera resource log that provides the state of the camera resource. The methods and devices may include granting access to the camera resource when the state of the camera resource is available for use and updating the state of the camera resource when access is granted to the camera resource. The methods and devices may include updating the camera resource log when access is granted to the camera resource with an application identification (ID) for the application using the camera resource and the state of the camera resource.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. One method may include receiving, by a user equipment (UE) in a downlink shared data channel, a beam switch command instructing the UE to switch from a first uplink control beam to a second uplink control beam. The UE may select an uplink control beam to transmit acknowledgment feedback based on whether decoding the beam switch command is successful, and transmit, in an uplink control channel via the selected uplink control beam, the acknowledgment feedback indicating whether decoding the beam switch command was successful.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for transmissions of multiple instances of control information, such as remaining minimum system information (RMSI) that may be used for system access by a user equipment (UE). The multiple instances of the control information may be transmitted in a number of monitoring occasions that may be monitored by a UE, and within the monitoring occasions, the control information may be transmitted using different time locations, frequency locations, or combinations thereof. The locations may be identified based at least in part on one or more parameters associated with at least a first monitoring occasion. The one or more parameters may include an identification parameter associated with the base station or monitoring occasion, an index value associated with the monitoring occasion, a frequency parameter associated with the monitoring occasion, a control information multiplexing pattern, or any combination thereof.

Abstract: A conjugate of formula (I):L-(DL)p, wherein L is a Ligand unit, D is a Drug Linker unit of formula IIa, IIb or IIc, wherein p is an integer of from 1 to 20.

Abstract: Embodiments perform write operations in a multi-tenant cloud system that includes a first data center adapted to authenticate a first plurality of registered clients and located in a first geographic area, and a second data center adapted to authenticate a second plurality of registered clients and located in a second geographic area that is different from the first geographic area. Embodiments receive a request from a first client to perform a first write for a resource at the second data center. Embodiments generate a call to the first data center including a second write for the resource at the first data center. Embodiments retrieve data corresponding to the first write and send the retrieved data to the first data center. Embodiments write on the data based on the first write, the writing on the data including changing the data to generate changed data.

Abstract: Illumination devices with adjustable optical elements configured to provide a variable illumination pattern of an area are described. The adjustable optical elements of the illumination devices can be traversed relative to a surface (e.g., a ceiling of a room) to vary the light distribution and/or intensity to the surface.

Abstract: Wireless devices may employ techniques for indicating alternative modulation coding schemes (MCSs) (e.g., MCS values or MCS indices not associated with a default list or default MCS table). That is, communications (e.g., such as physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmissions carrying downlink control information (DCI), physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions carrying uplink grants, etc.) may include information (e.g., in MCS fields and reserved fields) that indicate alternative MCSs for subsequent communications. For example, random access radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI) scrambled DCI, random access response (RAR) messages, etc., may indicate an alternative MCS for subsequent messages in a random access procedure (e.g., for a RAR, an RRC connection request, etc.). The alternative MCS may be conveyed by indicating information such as MCS scaling factors, alternative MCS table IDs, MCS indices associated with the alternative MCS table, or some combination thereof.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a signal identifying a first beam configuration and a second beam configuration to be used for performing a beamformed transmission of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) signal. The UE may determine, for a first PUCCH transmission occasion associated with the first beam configuration, that a communication metric associated with performing the beamformed transmission of the PUCCH signal using the first beam configuration fails to satisfy a threshold. The UE may perform, at a second PUCCH transmission occasion and based at least in part on the determining, the beamformed transmission of the PUCCH signal according to the second beam configuration.

Abstract: An expandable corpectomy implant and methods of making and using same. The expandable spinal implant includes an inner member and an outer member. The inner member and outer member each have a first end, a second end and a sidewall. The inner member is positioned in the outer member and the inner member and the outer member have a selected cross sectional shape. The inner member is configured such that it slidably protrudes from the outer member. The inner member has at least one tab incorporated into the sidewall of the inner member and the outer member has at least one aperture formed in the sidewall of the outer member such that the at least one tab of the inner member engages the corresponding at least one aperture of the outer member so that the inner member is locked with the outer member.

Abstract: According to one or more embodiments of the present invention, a computer-implemented method for adjusting a process variable using a closed loop system includes initializing a radial basis function neural network (RBF network) using a maximum error (emax), a maximum first order change in error (?emax), a maximum second order change in error (?2emax), and a maximum output increment (?omax), associated with the closed loop system being controlled. The method further includes inputting, to the RBF network, input values including an error, a first order change in error, and a second order change in error. The method further includes computing, by the RBF network, control parameters based on the input values, and computing, by the RBF network, an incremental change in the process variable based on the control parameters. The method further includes adjusting, by a controller, an output device to change the process variable by the incremental change.

Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station (BS) may transmit, to a user equipment (UE) for a beam sweeping procedure, at least one downlink control channel associated with at least one beam. The BS may receive, based at least in part on transmitting the at least one downlink control channel, feedback information relating to the at least one downlink control channel. The UE may receive at least one downlink control channel associated with at least one beam. The UE may transmit feedback information relating to the at least one downlink control channel. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for transmissions of multiple instances of control information, such as remaining minimum system information (RMSI), that may be used for system access by a user equipment (UE). The multiple instances of the control information may be combined at the UE to enhance the likelihood of successful decoding of the control information. A base station may transmit an indication that combining of multiple instances of control information is supported by the base station, and may transmit the multiple instances of control information via configured downlink transmission resources. A UE may receive the indication that combining of multiple control information instances is supported, may identify two or more instances within downlink transmission resources configured for control information transmissions, and may combine signals received in each of the two or more instances to generate a combined control information signal.

Abstract: A messaging and ornamental coffee table system and method of operation provides a coffee table comprising a resilient base, sidewalls extending up from the resilient base and forming a cavity, and an at least partially transparent table top having a depressed message portion and hingedly connected to one of the sidewalls. The system further comprises at least one light source operational in the cavity to illuminate towards the at least partially transparent table top. The system further comprises a plurality of tiles defined by multiple faces displaying alphanumeric characters, or symbols, or both. The tiles are arrangable on the message portion to display a message. The system further comprises an at least partially transparent ornamental member disposed on the table top. The illumination from light source illuminates the alphanumeric characters and symbols of tiles, and the at least partially transparent ornamental member to enhance visibility and decorative effect thereof.

Abstract: A method comprises forming material to be etched over a substrate. An etch mask comprising a silicon nitride-comprising region is formed elevationally over the material. The etch mask comprises an elevationally-extending mask opening in the silicon nitride-comprising region that has a minimum horizontal open dimension that is greater in an elevationally-innermost portion of the region than in an elevationally-outermost portion of the region. The elevationally-outermost portion has a greater etch rate in at least one of HF and H3PO4 than does the elevationally-innermost portion. The etch mask is used as a mask while etching an elevationally-extending mask opening into the material. The silicon nitride-comprising region is exposed to at least one of HF and H3PO4 to increase the minimum horizontal open dimension in the elevationally-outermost portion to a greater degree than increase, if any, in the minimum horizontal open dimension in the elevationally-innermost portion.