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Modern Standby Sleep Retry Mechanism, Hp Inc

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With the increased demands of customers, and intelligence as well as “Smart” elements included in

personal computing, the need to have a longer sleep period but quick access to data and resources is of

paramount importance. To cater to this demand, the PC market is moving all systems from the legacy Suspend

(S3) behavior to a Modern Standby where all devices are self‐powered and provide a capability for near

instant‐on functionality.

Ideally, the devices associated with these states will become idle and are expected to enter their lowest idle

power state. This state is often referred to as Deepest Runtime …

Method And Apparatus For Obtaining Human Or Animal Samples For Analytics And Diagnostics, Werner Döbelin

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Method and apparatus for obtaining human or animal respiration samples for analytics and diagnostics

Fan With Various Blade Thickness, Hp Inc

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In recent years, laptop fan blade density is increased continually to provide higher

pressure capability which could be used to overcome high system impedance inside a

slim laptop system. This dense design pushes the acoustic energy emission toward to

high frequency range. Typically, a laptop fan is designed with uniform blade thickness

and uniform blade-to-blade interval distance, which generates period flow pattern

when fan is operating. This periodic flow filed characters and high frequency acoustic

energy emission leads to annoying high pitch noise and impact customers’ experience.

Rules Automatic Fine-Tuning To Enhance Proactivity In Customer Support Using Recurrent Neural Networks, Hp Inc

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Proactive Customer Support is a support strategy that anticipates customer issues. It can either remedy them in

advance or design service resources such that, when the failure does arise, the customer is presented with the

solution without needing to contact support. Proactive Support offers several benefits for the business such as

increase customer loyalty, decrease support calls, control communication, acquire new customers, retain existing

customers, create advocates and protect against escalation. It also presents the opportunity to meet and exceed

customer expectations, strengthen customer relationships, and boost the value of clients.

Prevent System Abnormal Wake Up On Sleep State, Hp Inc

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Nowadays, all notebooks have the function of sleep, and the wake-up system via wireless USB

mouse is one of the ways. However, we sometimes forget to turn off the mouse and put the

notebook with sleep state into the backpack. When we accidentally touch the mouse, the notebook

will wake up, which will consume the battery life, even run out of power, and the backpack will

overheat. Our invention uses pressure sensors detection to prevent system abnormal wake up on

sleep state.

Automatic Purge Detection And Pump Self-Prime Troubleshoot Through Air Detection By Impedance Reading, Hp Inc

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This describes a procedure to use a sensor that detects air inside the tubes with impedance

reading to detect if the purge has been completed successfully or there is remining air inside

the IDS.

This describes a procedure to detect if the purge has been completed successfully or not by

using an air in tubes sensor.

Probengefäss Und Analysesystem, Werner Döbelin

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Probengefäss und Analysesystem

Passive Selector Valve For Dual Supply Ids, Hp Inc

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One of the parameters of the IDS very valuable for our customers is having autonomy when

the supply gets empty. On this search of the optimal solution, an intermediate tank is usually

used, due to its cost. Another way of increasing the autonomy of the system when having an

out of ink event is having another IDS (having then two supplies) so you can consume ink from

the other one when having an out of ink event. However, this architecture is much more

expensive.

Selection Of A Suitable Access Technology To Communicate With An Iot Device In A Combined 5g And 802.11ax/Be/Ba Network, Mukesh Taneja, Vimal Srivastava, Jerome Henry, Indermeet Gandhi

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This proposal provides efficient techniques to communicate with user equipment (UEs), such as Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices running critical applications in harsh environments, for combined 5G and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11ax/be/ba networks, while also reducing power consumption and/or meeting other performance constraints for such devices.

Thermally Enhanced Stacked Inductor Design For Voltage Regulator Modules, Li Wang, Sampurn Pannu, Benedict Sim, Yi Sun, Xin Zhao

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ASIC power requirements have gone up exponentially due to the demand from IoT computing, AI and big data. The VRM (Voltage regulator module) needs to have high power capabilities and efficiency in order to satisfy the TDP (Thermal Design Power) requirement. High peak power operation mode, has also become an industry practice to improve the ASIC instantaneous throughput. This requires more phase count to support the peak current needed during transient. ASIC chips have also increased in size due to the higher pin count for HSIO (High Speed I/O) and interconnects. In order to fit within the limited VRM placement …

A Solution To Proactive Protect Cooling Efficiency Of Cpu Thermal Fan, Hp Inc

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Computer thermal fan is easy to attach dust, while the dust is accumulated, it will have

following impact. The CPU performance will downgrade, moreover system hit thermal

shutdown due to cooling efficiency is decreasing. The thermal fan will damage if we do not

open the case and clean it manually. However, we do not know when should open case to

clean it since there is no good warning as well as auto cleaning method for it. Here we provide

a solution to solve that and enhance the user experience.

Product Inspection Apparatus, Illinios Tool Works Inc

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We discuss a product inspection apparatus, comprising a drive motor configured to drive a conveyor and a metal detector for detecting a contaminated product at a first location on the conveyor an inverter configured to receive an AC power supply of less than 150V and control a rotation speed of the drive motor, and a reject mechanism control system configured to receive, from the metal detector, an indication that the contaminated product has been detected at the first location, receive, from the inverter, a pulse train output indicative of the rotation speed of the drive motor, and identify the contaminated …

Fixed-Policy Value-Function Prediction For Stable Control Applications Using Machine Learning, Pablo Barrera González, Ivo Creusen

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Dynamic systems and processes can be controlled to drive them to a desired state (e.g., optimal). Control can be done with anything ranging from a simple model to a complex algorithm, depending on the dynamic system. In real world problems we can collect real data and use machine learning (ML) approaches to develop these control systems. A common ML approach used for these problems is reinforcement learning. In this paper we present a simplified method for problems that have three characteristics: a relatively low number of actions; we can predict the output state given an action; and for each state …

Accounting For Screen Protectors On Smartphones That Utilize An Under-Display Fingerprint Sensor, Firas Sammoura, Omar Sze Leung

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This publication describes techniques and apparatuses to increase biometric security and enhance user experience by accounting for an installation or removal of a screen protector on a smartphone that utilizes an under-display fingerprint sensor (UDFPS) embedded under a display screen. The installation or the removal of the screen protector is detected by the smartphone utilizing the UDFPS, the display screen, or other sensors embedded under the display screen (e.g., an optical proximity sensor).

After detecting the installation or the removal of the screen protector, the smartphone then determines whether a user attempting to gain access to the smartphone is a …

Wi-Fi Client Steering Between 2.4ghz, 5ghz, And 6ghz Bands, Young Il Choi, Andy Chen, Vishal Desai, Pooya Monajemi, Santosh Kulkarni

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and other regulatory bodies around the world have opened up a new range of spectrum in the 6 Gigahertz (GHz) band for unlicensed use. The 6GHz band provides more channels, more bandwidth, and has less network congestion as compared to existing 2.4/5GHz bands. However, even though 6GHz capable radios are present and reachable in networks, 6GHz capable clients may still associate to a 2.4GHz or 5GHz radio because these bands typically have wider coverage and stronger signal strength than the 6GHz band. As a result, clients may not obtain the best performance available. Presented herein …

Hybrid Azure Devops Infrastructure For Validation, Rachana Palacharla

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In a cloud empowered software development ecosystem, continuous testing is crucial to speed up the idea to production pipeline. In a distributed software development, early testing avoids failures caused by dependencies. At the same time testing can be enhanced using the automation. The foundation for manual or automated testing is the underlying infrastructure. The boom in containerization has given us a lot of light weight options to be able to run automated tests. But containers are not always the solution to providing a test environment that mimics the production environment. This document provides a solution to manage virtual machines by …

Applying Virtual Makeup Using Makeup Detection And Recommendations, Shengyi Lin, Nisha Masharani, Marius Renn, Leslie Shaw

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This publication describes systems and techniques for makeup detection on an electronic device that uses an image of a user’s desired look as an input to detect makeup. The detected makeup is mapped to a virtual makeup library and saved as virtual makeup in a corresponding user profile. The user can retrieve and apply the virtual makeup to their face in another image to achieve a desired look. The mapped virtual makeup can be displayed as a filter over an image to digitally create an appearance of the user wearing makeup. The user is able to adjust the strength, color, …

Live Viewfinder On Inner And Outer Displays Of A Foldable Mobile Device, Karen Vertierra, George Hwang

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This publication describes techniques directed at utilizing a live viewfinder on inner and outer displays of a foldable mobile device. As foldable displays are becoming a more common feature of mobile devices, creative uses of the foldable inner display and the outer display are desirable. If a user uses the inner display as a viewfinder to take a photograph of one or more human subjects, the outer display, facing the subjects, may likewise be utilized as a viewfinder and include providing the subjects with prompts (contextual tips), e.g., to position themselves within the frame. Having viewfinders on the inner and …

Techniques For Deblurring Faces In Images By Utilizing Multi-Camera Fusion, Yichang Shih, Jason Lai, Lun-Cheng Chu, Chia-Kai Liang

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This publication describes techniques for deblurring faces in images by utilizing multi-camera (e.g., dual-camera) fusion processes. In the techniques, multiple cameras of a computing device (e.g., wide-angle camera, an ultrawide-angle camera) concurrently capture a scene. A multi-camera fusion technique is utilized to fuse the captured images together to generate an image with increased sharpness while preserving the brightness of the scene and other details under a motion scene. The images are processed by a Deblur Module, which includes an optical flow machine-learned model for generating a warped ultrawide-angle image, a subject mask trained to identify and mask faces detected in …

Representing Multiple States On A Single Control In A Graphical User Interface, Rachit Gupta

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This publication describes systems and techniques for representing multiple (i.e., two or more) states on a single graphical user interface (GUI) control in the GUI of an application that executes at a computing device such as a smart phone, a tablet computer, and the like. That is, a single GUI control may be usable to adjust the values of two or more different settings, parameters, and the like by toggling the GUI control between two or more states. For example, a camera application that executes at a computing device operably coupled to a camera may provide a camera viewfinder feature …

Virtual Center-Of-Display Camera, Viktor Martensson

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When a participant in a video conference looks to address another participant, eye-to-eye contact is not made. This is because neither participant is looking at their respective camera; rather, each participant looks at their display screen, towards the video feed of the other participant, which is often displayed at a position that is some distance away from the device camera. This is a major cognitive difference of video conferencing from real-life meeting of people. This disclosure describes techniques that, with user permission, adjust eye gaze direction in video conferencing by (a) capturing a video feed using two or more cameras, …

Braille Experience On Unmodified Smartphones, D Shin, Anupam Pathak

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Braille is a set of 3-by-2 tactile patterns that have a one-to-one mapping with the English alphabet utilized by the visually impaired to read and write. Techniques of this disclosure enable a computing device, such as a smartphone, tablet, wearable device (e.g., smart watch), laptop, etc., to activate particular patterns of haptic motors of the computing device that correspond to each character. The computing device may digitally encode the text shown on the display into braille dots using an on-device character recognition system. When the user raster-scans their finger over different pixels of the screen, the computing device determines the …

Position Localization For Non Ultra-Wideband Devices, Alexander James Faaborg, Alex Komoroske

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The high-frequency, broad-spectrum properties of the UWB (ultra-wide bandwidth) communications protocol enable very accurate, e.g., millimeter-level, spatial and directional localization of devices. The high-precision localization ability of UWB enables fine-grained interactions with devices, e.g., the ability to send commands to specific devices when multiple devices are present in a space. This disclosure describes techniques to bootstrap precise positioning on non-UWB devices, such that UWB-style, fine-grained interactions are enabled even on non-UWB devices. The techniques leverage the presence of two or more UWB-enabled devices, e.g., one on a stationary device and another on a wearable device (or other non-stationary device), to …

Faas/Serverless-Based Lightweight Software Development Kit Framework For 6lowpan Architectures, Lele Zhang, Chuanwei Li, Li Zhao, Harbor Dong

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Effecting application development and/or updates in a wireless mesh networking environment raises a number of challenges. To address such challenges techniques are presented herein that support an extensible serverless framework that provides a function as a service (FaaS) paradigm for the rapid development and the easy operation and maintenance for Internet of things (IoT) customers. Among other things, a customer's application code may be uncoupled from a vendor’s kernel and software development kit (SDK) library (thus freeing a customer from having to consider platform dependencies and allowing them to focus just on their business logic) and then generated as a …

Accurate Power Measurement Using Power Line Communication, Zoro Chang, Chih-Chung Chang

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It is of interest to know the power consumed when a particular hardware module or software application of a device-under-test (DUT) such as a smartphone is triggered and run.

While the DUT can be controlled externally for timed triggering of modules or applications of interest, such triggering can contaminate power measurement. This disclosure describes techniques to synchronize power measurement with events within a device-under-test. A program within the DUT can temporarily increase or decrease slightly the power consumption of the DUT. A slight increase (decrease) in power consumption is interpreted by the power meter as a one (zero) bit. Prior …

Verified Viewer Badge When Displaying User Feedback For Online Content, Irina Blok, Robert Benea

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Online platforms that host content such as video, audios (e.g., podcasts), news articles, research papers, etc. typically include features that enable users to provide comments and/or ratings for individual content items. Users often leave comments or ratings for content without viewing it. This disclosure describes techniques to verify that a user that provides feedback, e.g., comments or ratings, for an online content item has actually viewed it. Feedback from the user is displayed on the platform alongside a status indicator that indicates whether the user is a verified viewer of the content item. Verification of viewership can be performed in …

Hyper-Personalized Wearable Sensor Fusion For Contextual Interaction, Diane Wang, Elly Nattinger

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Contextual user interactions with devices and applications today are largely confined to context from location or on-screen context, and to the device at hand. This disclosure describes a context framework that, with user permission, integrates wearable and stationary sensor inputs and traditional digital context into a larger computing ecosystem to deliver content across a range of proactive ambient computing use cases. Devices and apps register their sensors with a context engine and send periodic data updates to the engine. Using machine learning models, the context engine updates the user context based on sensor and external data, and provides the user …

Battery Cell Health Self-Test, Jonathan D. Hurwitz

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This disclosure describes techniques for self-testing of battery health of electronic devices. Per techniques of this disclosure, a battery cell health state is determined by performing a self-test that emulates high power-draw and/or critical usage scenarios. The self-test is conducted at a likely inactive time for the device use based on user-permitted contextual factors. During the test, device charging is disabled so that the battery cell is isolated from its power source. The battery voltage is lowered to a predetermined voltage that is representative of a low state of charge by utilizing a power virus. Battery health parameters such as …

Pickup And Dropoff Authentication For Deliveries By Autonomous Driverless Vehicles, Firas Sammoura

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Autonomous driverless vehicles are gaining adoption for a variety of purposes, such as picking up and dropping off passengers, delivering packages or food, etc. Since autonomous vehicles lack the human supervision of a driver, it is important to ensure that the person collecting orders from the vehicle is the person who placed the order or a designated authorized person. When the vehicle carries multiple orders, it needs to be further ensured that people can access only their own items. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically assign and verify codes associated with each order that enable identification of users that are …

Interaction With Expandable Widgets, Jeff Pierce

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A computing device (e.g., a smartphone, a laptop computer, a tablet computer, a smartwatch, etc.) may enable a widget (e.g., application, program, etc.) to transition between a minimized (e.g., collapsed, smaller, etc.) state and a maximized (e.g., expanded, larger, etc.) state in response to user input (e.g., a tap, a long press, etc.). A minimized widget and a maximized widget may differ in various respects. For instance, the minimized widget may occupy less space on a display of the computing device than the maximized widget. Additionally or alternatively, the maximized widget may perform a greater variety of actions than the …