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Different Filter Options Within The Suction Line, Axel Unger

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Chemical Property Modification System For Hot Formed Parts For Strength Modification, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Automatic Towing Of Defective Vehicles In A Driverless Transport System, Axel Unger

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No abstract provided.

Preemptive Edge Application Instantiation, Mehmet Ozkan

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Cloud-edge computing is a paradigm that brings servers physically closer to end-users, e.g., by co-locating servers and cellular towers. Cloud-edge computing can reduce latency and improve performance for mobile applications. For cloud-edge computing to deliver a superior user experience, the location of application instantiation is optimally selected to be close to the user. However, as a user moves, an initially optimal location becomes unsuitable. This disclosure describes techniques to predict the next possible edge zones for a cloud-edge application to maintain performance and service continuity as the mobile device moves. The techniques leverage factors such as mobility history, network characteristics, …

A Homotopy Type Method For The Purposes Of Cloud Resource Management, Lei Liu

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This disclosure describes techniques to manage cloud resources by categorical generalization and by homotopy type deductions and constructions. Per the techniques, a foundation, a framework, and an internal-homotopy are developed for cloud resource management. Cloud resource management is developed by giving direct access to the induction principal without application of small object argument. An inner anodyne with a division algorithm transforms in nite resources to nite usage measures. An additive and a multiplicative structure implements the inner anodyne. The techniques leverage topoi, similar to an alternative universe, such that homotopy can be applied to cloud resource management. Inner bration is …

Intent Prediction Based On Contextual Factors For Better Automatic Speech Recognition, Diamantino Caseiro, Zelin Wu, Petar Aleksic, Era Jain

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Automatic speech recognition (ASR) machine learning models are used to recognize spoken commands or queries from users. End-to-end ASR models, which directly map a sequence of input acoustic features into a sequence of words, greatly simplify ASR system building and maintenance. This disclosure describes techniques to improve the performance of end-to-end ASR models by providing predicted user intents as additional inputs. Intent prediction vectors or intent embedding is generated based on user-permitted contextual features using a trained intent prediction network (IPN). The IPN can be trained independently from the ASR model or jointly with the ASR model. Training of the …

Digital Collage Platform With Comment Stickers, Anonymous

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Users can share media such as images, videos, animations, etc. with each other via social media, content sharing and messaging services. This disclosure describes a digital collage sharing platform that includes a user-to-user interaction ‘comment sticker’ within a digital collage that enables other users to provide their reactions. A comment sticker can be placed anywhere on a digital collage by the collage creator. Viewers can leave comments on a digital collage where the creator has a comment sticker in their collage. Comments can be deleted or reported by the creator of the digital collage. Further, the entire comment box can …

High Voltage Operational Transconductive Amplifier (Ota) Design For A Control Loop, Jan Sundermeyer, Daniel Micusik, Juergen Hauenschild, Sachidanandam Sundarraju

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An operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) is typically used in the optical transmitter for an analog control. Additionally, for an OTA, the input range may be shifted to the output range and the output range is to be limited to safely operate a cascode/drive transistor. OTA operation is linear and is not digitally switched. Presented herein is an OTA design that can operate with a power supply voltage greater than the drain-source voltage (VDS) breakdown voltage. The output range can be limited to the gate-source voltage (VGS) breakdown range and can be adapted to a desired range using a cascode transistor. …

Configuration-Adaptive Edge-Assisted Industrial Wireless Cameras With Deep Reinforcement Learning, Hp Inc

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Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and system for designing and implementing

an industrial smart camera that uses low-power wireless communications and edge computing to

achieve cordless and energy-efficient visual sensing. The smart camera applies deep reinforcement

learning to adapt the camera configuration to maintain the desired visual sensing performance with the

minimum energy consumption under dynamic variations of application requirement and wireless

channel conditions.

Image Deblurring According To Facially Recognized Locations Within The Image, Wei Hong, Li Wei, Xuhui Jia, Marius Renn, Yukun Zhu

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This publication describes techniques for image deblurring according to a facially recognized locations within the image. An algorithm may use facial detection and recognition to selectively sharpen aspects of faces within an image and the surrounding area associated with the facial detection. In one or more aspects, the selectivity of sharpening improves the computational load and other aspects of image provision to improve overall computer function, power consumption, and user experience. Individual faces within the image may be cropped or thumbnailed, providing portions of the image that include the faces. Counterpart images associated with the individual faces may be found …

Scratch-Resistant Antireflection Coating, Brad Chen, Alvin Peng

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A scratch resistant, antireflection coating can include a plurality of layers of alternating high and low refractive index materials. In some cases, a ratio of the total thickness of the high refractive index materials to the total thickness of the low refractive index materials can be greater than 3.0, and the nano hardness of the antireflection coating is greater than 15 GPa. In some cases, hard materials can be used for both the high and low refractive index material layers, and the nano hardness of the antireflection coating is greater than 15 GPa.

Hinge Assembly For A Domestic Appliance, Domestic Appliance Having A Hinge Assembly And Method Of Assembly_Id-05015, Christian Mohr

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There is described a hinge assembly (5) for a domestic appliance (1) having at least a main body (2) and a door (4) moveably connected to the main body (2) at least between an open position and a closed position. The hinge assembly (5) comprises at least a kinematic arrangement (6) for controlling the movement of the door (4) between the open position and the closed position, a connecting arm (7) and a main hinge body (8) pivoted to the connecting arm (7) and being angularly moveable around a first pivot axis (A) and carrying the kinematic arrangement (6). The …

Personalized Permissions For Content Recording And Streaming, Eric Cosky

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People in shared online environments, e.g., video conferences, shared multiplayer environments, live streaming, etc. may have concerns that others can record their transmitted content without their knowledge or stream an online event to unknown destinations without permission. Not only is this a privacy risk for the individuals being recorded, the streaming of background music and effects with licensing restrictions can violate property rights of the holders of the content rights.

This disclosure describes techniques that enable participants that transmit content online in a shared environment to mitigate the risks of surreptitious recording and/or streaming of their content. With user permission …

External Power For Internal Fan To Dry The Motherboard, Hp Inc

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External power is applied to the fan of a computer to hasten drying of liquid

that has entered the computer enclosure.

Semi-Automatic Simplified Region-Based Labeling Of Packed Parts, Hp Inc

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Human-readable labels for 3D-fabricated parts which indicate where in a build

bucket the parts were built are automatically generated and automatically updated for

future parts if the placement of those parts in the build bucket changes.

Data Integrity For Version Control System Of Machine Learning Entities, Hp Inc

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A distributed versioning control system to manage machine learning entities

and their relationships, and to provide strong end-to-end guarantees on integrity of data

and metadata of these entities, stores metadata using merkle trees and employs a hash

scheme based within a flat namespace in the data store.

Non-Uniform Fusing Lamps Irradiance Delivery To Improve Uniformity Of Mechanical Part Properties, Hp Inc

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By varying the distance of a reflector from a fusing lamp, the energy delivered

from the front and rear portions of a fusing lamp arrangement can be equalized over the

entire area of a build platform.

Managing Risk When Deploying A Solution Using Machine Learning, Hp Inc

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A risk management framework is described that analyzes machine learning

solutions to analyze weaknesses and vulnerabilities and enable them to be better managed

or controlled.

Rapid Recording Of Non-Tampered Failure Conditions, Hp Inc

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A mechanism for an electrical device measures device stress and keeps track

of failure conditions in a non-tamperable manner. The measurements can be retrieved

even if the device is dead and used to determine if the failure was caused by

environmental factors.

Annealing Based On Part Geometry, Hp Inc

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The annealing process for parts fabricated by powder-based additive

manufacturing is determined based on part geometry to eliminate warpage and improve

part quality.

Encoder Strip Requiring Only One Person To Mount, Hp Inc

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A hinge arrangement at an end bracket of a printer allows a single person to

mount an encoder strip in the printer.

Two Step Packing Strategy For High Quality Part Production, Hp Inc

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A two-step nesting method allows parts requiring higher dimensional accuracy

to be fabricated in areas of a build bucket capable of achieving that accuracy and lesscritical

parts to be fabricated in the other areas.

Staged Unidirectional Multi-Function Media Pick Drive System, Hp Inc

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A drive system for a printer media pick system includes a cam gear

arrangement that enables the pick system to be controlled with a single motor.

A New Type Of Led Display, Hp Inc

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A display comprising red/green/blue OLED devices and white micro-LED

devices provides the advantages of OLED displays and Micro-LED displays while

minimizing their disadvantages.

Remote Conditioning And Power Delivery, Hp Inc

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The performance of a printing device can be enhanced through a remote

conditioning unit that attaches to a printing device and provides heating, cooling, and

additional electrical power to the printing device.

Calculating Privacy Preserving Reach Using Hyperloglog Sketches, Jason Frye, Benjamin Kreuter, Trancrede Lepoint, Craig Wright

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Methods for measuring cross media content exposure across multiple publishers in a privacy preserving way are disclosed. The solutions described can accommodate publishing platforms that vary in size and computational resources without hindering performance or accuracy. Proposed is a solution to implement a privacy-safe HyperLogLog sketch implementation that can be applied to the cross media content exposure problem, as well as other problems that require privacy safe multi-set cardinality estimation. The processes described herein include publishers constructing encrypted HyperLogLog sketches and transmitting the encrypted sketches to worker computing devices, the worker computing devices joining the encrypted sketches, the worker computing …

Using Crash Detection And Alert Beacons On An Electronic Device To Increase Survival Of Snow Immersion Victims, Wei Wu, Xiangjun Zhao

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This publication describes systems and techniques for crash detection on an electronic device to trigger transmitting alert beacons with the electronic device. The alert beacons may be received by nearby electronic devices to alert the users of those electronic devices of a snow immersion victim. A crash is detected by monitoring one or more sensors on an electronic device for a tumbling or inversion of the electronic device that indicates a snow immersion accident. Additionally, location and weather may also be monitored to detect a snow immersion accident and support a crash detection. After a crash is detected, a user …

Automatic Insertion Of Hot Keywords To Drive Traffic On Advertisements, Yunruo Liang, Xi Li, Weiwei Ji, Meng Meng, Zhouxiang Huang, Yiting Cheng, Chien-Ju Chang, Xue Yang, Rongxi Cai

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Product titles and descriptions that include appropriate keywords, when used in an online advertisement, can improve the shopping feed quality and resultant traffic to the advertiser. However, online merchants lack knowledge of currently trending or popular keywords, and lacking keyword ideation, may choose suboptimal product titles. This disclosure describes techniques that enable online merchants to automatically optimize product titles or descriptions, e.g., as used in online ads. Trending or popular keywords relevant to the product are automatically added to the product title or description. Unique, product-specific insights gleaned from searched terms are utilized to improve title effectiveness automatically and at …

The System To Exchange Information Confidentially Over Networks, Punarjeewa Abeysekera

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This disclosure describes a method to exchange information confidentially over the networks between two computers. Two geographically stationary computers communicate with each other. Both of the computers have static IP addresses. Also, both of them have each other’s IP address before the communication session. Therefore, any one of them can start communication. Once the communication has started, they interact one after the other – in turns. In each interaction, one of the computers will send a data unit in an encrypted form to the other computer. This interaction between these two computers will continue until one of the computers terminates …

Using Eye Gaze For Interactive Computing, Alexander James Faaborg, Michael Schoenberg

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User input to desktop and laptop computers is largely via the keyboard, pointing devices such as a mouse/trackpad, and to some extent, the touchscreen. Thus far, using eye gaze as an input, based on data from on-device cameras (e.g., laptop or desktop cameras) requires calibration steps; even so, since such cameras are relatively far from the user, the resulting input lacks precision. This disclosure describes techniques for human-computer interaction based on eye gaze derived from the user’s smart glasses. With user permission, the user’s eye movements, as captured by the camera on the user’s smart glasses, provides an additional interactive …