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Smooth Brightness Transition For Computing Devices, Vicky Wen, Austin Chen, Yichi Chen

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A brightness transition module is described that enables a computing device (e.g., a mobile phone, a camera, a tablet computer, etc.) to smoothly adjust an amount of light output by a display of the computing device when the computing device transitions between a high brightness mode and a normal mode (e.g., transitioning based on ambient lighting conditions). By smoothly adjusting the amount of light emitted by the display when transitioning between modes, the brightness transition module may prevent a sudden or abrupt change in the brightness (e.g., prevent a sudden flash when transitioning from the normal mode to the high …

Adjustable Screw Tap Design On Battery Pack, Hp Inc

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The screw taps can be adjusted/moved to fit in different screw location in different chassis of electrical device.

Nowadays, to leverage the battery pack in different platform as much as we can is one of the cost-down options that we are requested. Somehow, it always be gated by the screw location are not the same in different platforms, thus we need to be increased the complexity of battery pack and create extra battery pack (with screw taps at different location) to fulfill each platform design requirement.

System And Method For Global Training, Thomas Stern, Evan Jones, Tyler Saunders, Supriya Iyer, Sherri Schachter, Kathryn Kearney

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A technique is proposed to translate slide-based documents, for example, into videos with or without captions or subtitles. The presentation intake component extracts a script or speaker notes from the content inputted by the user, and creates a text file corresponding to each slide or image. The translation component then translates the script into multiple target languages. The synthesizing component uses a text-to-speech conversion to create an audio file for each slide or image. The video creator component creates a silent video for each image for the duration of the audio file corresponding to each still image, with or without …

Cyber Tool With Vulnerability Scanner, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to the field of networking and describes how network troubleshooting can be done

faster by detecting the network issues in few minutes. Also, to make sure the systems that are connected

to the network e.g. servers, switches, etc don’t have any vulnerability assigned to them in order to reduce

the risk of cyber-attacks.

Physical 5g Mobile Hotspot Switch Key Of Mobile Computing Devices, Hp Inc

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This disclosure relates to the field of mobile computing devices, which equipped with a "Physical 5G Mobile Hotspot Switch Key" function for people easy to turn on hotspot feature and share the 5G signal by switch the physical mobile hotspot switch key without turn the system on.

Poly-V Belt Clamp, Hp Inc

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Belt clamping is a cheap way to obtain different belt length from a same mold, which can reduce

the cost when the mold is reused for different products. The idea is to cut the molded belts into

modules and, then joining modules together, thereby being able to modify the belt length by

cutting the modules or adding a new ones. The idea is already done in common belts with teeth,

but the challenge has been clamping a belt which has no teeth and has a continuous profile,

the poly-V belt.

Cooking System, Lukasz Wasinkiewicz, Stefan Stefan Brenner, Walter Frost, Constantin Krauße

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The invention refers to a cooking system, preferably cooking hob, more preferably induction hob.

Cooking System, Ab Electrolux - Group Patents

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This disclosure describes a cooking hob, particularly an induction cooking hob.

Cooking System, Christian A. Mohr, Enrico Valentini, Alan Mengozzi, Massimo Zangoli, Claudio Paolini, Antonio D'Agostino, Alex Viroli

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This disclosure describes a cooking hob, particularly an induction cooking hob.

Slicing Notes Based On Context Data And Meeting Activity, Sandro Feuz, Thomas Deselaers, Philippe N. Gervais, Julie Zhu, Robin Dua, Andrew Bunner, Prithi Pichai, Trond Thomas Wuellner, Jake Walker, Jin Kim, Ming Guang Yong

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Notes taken by users are often unstructured, e.g., users may mix notes from different meetings into one document or divide notes from one meeting-series across different documents. This increases the difficulty in the retrieval and clustering of notes relevant to a particular topic. Currently, in a tedious process, users that want to organize their jottings from several meetings manually select and collate relevant sections into a single document. This disclosure describes techniques to automatically cluster and assemble relevant meeting notes that are present across one or more documents to generate a single, theme-based view, based, e.g., on topic, co-attendees, location, …

Obtaining Query Examples For Virtual Assistant Actions Using Search Logs, Asaf Zomet, Tomer Shmiel, Dvir Keysar, Amitai Cohen

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A user’s interaction with a virtual assistant typically involves the issuance of commands to perform certain actions, e.g., “play Mozart,” “turn on the lights every night,” etc. To execute actions accurately, a virtual assistant is trained to understand or detect action intent. This disclosure describes techniques to obtain a wide variety of query examples, with user permission, to train a virtual assistant to understand action intents. Information-seeking queries submitted to a search engine are transformed into action intents, e.g., commands, based on the grammar of the language of the search-engine query. The techniques are especially useful when launching new features, …

Restricted Device Data Sanitization And Randomization, Mikhail Mooney

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Presented herein is a Trusted Access Platform (TAP) that assists customers with highly restricted data access to solve their business critical challenges. The TAP sanitizes, anonymizes, and randomizes data from network devices, provides deeper analytics visibility into customer networks, mitigates severe outages and improve operational efficiencies through differentiated dashboards.

Field Tuning Of Linear Resonant Actuators Using Motion Sensor Feedback, Ozan Anac, Debanjan Mukherjee, Jianxun Wang

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Linear resonant actuators (LRAs) create tactile feedback in consumer devices by generating vibrations. LRA characteristics can change with time due to environmental conditions, thereby degrading the performance of the LRA. Variations in LRA performance can be compensated during operation by using techniques of parameter detection, measurement, and correction, which themselves rely on accurate back EMF measurement. A back EMF test is accurate so long as the LRA is stationary, the device is lying on a flat, vibration-free surface, and is free of external movement. This disclosure describes techniques that ensure accurate measurement of LRA parameters by performing back EMF measurements …

Secure And Fully Transparent Roaming For Long Range, Marcelo Yannuzzi, Carlos M. Pignataro, Bart Brinckman

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Roaming with Long Range wide-area network (LoRaWAN) requires connections to home Network Servers (hNS), serving Network Servers (sNS) and forwarding Network Servers (fNS) across LoRa domains. Today, this entails a tedious manual process for generating the keys, certificates and configuration files to connect these servers on a peer-to-peer basis. This means that manual configurations grow quadratically with the number of LoRa networks involved. In addition, today there is no way to enable roaming across LoRa networks dynamically (i.e., not if these pre-configurations among the visited and the home/serving LoRa networks aren't in place). Accordingly, presented herein are techniques to scale …

Detecting Missing Capacitors By Load Sensing, Puneet Gupta, Chintan Trehan

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Factory testing on a production line can uncover several types of device failures. However, certain subtle failures can be masked from test procedures only to be discovered too late, e.g., by the customer. An example of such a failure is a missing bulk capacitor in circuits such as amplifiers, regulators, etc. Such a failure can go undetected at a factory due to the presence of smaller capacitors that have a marginally compensating effect. This disclosure describes techniques to detect missing bulk capacitors on circuit boards by inserting a simulated load resistance and measuring the decay time of an injected test …

Bound Object Hierarchy Service, Ben Ryder, Herve Muyal, Pablo Garcia Del Valle, Frank Van Lingen, Marcelo Yannuzzi, Frank Michaud, Anuj Jain

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Presented herein is a hierarchical representation of uniquely identified objects within the physical world, referred to as a “Bound Object Hierarchy Service.” The Bound Object Hierarchy Service enables the synchronous shared view and creation of digital twins among coordinating entities. The system enables the representation and policy based access to objects, mapped from the physical world, that would typically be considered to follow a “bound within” hierarchy. The digital custody and ownership of the physical objects can autonomously change over time within the system (e.g., as an object passes along a supply chain, determined via sensors within the environment and …

Signature Creation Using Alphabets, Numbers And Colours, Hp Inc

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Algorithm to create signature based on name which could be including alphabets, numbers and colours.

Lot of colours to choose from each individual alphabet– A game for generating signatures, that could be a

random or a unique signature.

Creating signature for self to be used in Documents, in the header or footer or embossed in the middle of the

paper while printing.

The signature could be unique or random based on the colour(s) selected against each alphabet.

Switchable Air Inlet Opening, Hp Inc

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This switchable air inlet opening mechanism which the air inlet opening and ratio on D cover could

be switchable. The inlet opening could be closed while power off or low power mode, and switch to

max opening ratio while using at high performance mode.

3d Printer Auto-Cleaning Of Powder In Print Zone Between Jobs, Hp Inc

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During the printing of a job in a MJF 3D printer, a thin layer of dust is deposited inside the print zone.

This dust must be removed before starting a new job to get 3D parts of good quality and to avoid

breakdowns. As the print zone is a hot area, when the job is finished the operator must disconnect the

printer, wait until the temperature lowers to a safe level, manually clean the print zone, power up the

printer and wait the warming up to the working temperature.

In order to reduce the waiting time and to save energy, …

Air Heating Device With Low Temperature Delta For Fine Tuning Of Print Chamber Conditions In Environments With Explosion Risk, Hp Inc

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The device object of this article allows having a fine control of the thermal conditions inside the print

chamber of a 3D Plastics/Metals machine. It provides high density of thermal exchange to the

entering airstream (that has a big impact on the cooling rate of the print bed or the solvent removal

rate) but at the same averts the explosion risk through increasing the thermal exchange surface

using a heatsink element in order to reduce the necessary difference of temperature between the

airstream and the heating element. It also provides a complete differentiation of the inner and outer

volumes of …

Providing Responses To Local-Intent Queries From Web Results, N/A

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Local search engines use stored structured data to answer user queries relating to businesses and other places of interest in specific locations. When such structured data is unavailable, a local search engine cannot provide useful responses to user queries. This disclosure describes techniques to provide responses to local-intent queries based on snippets from web results. Responses are provided that include attributes such as phone number, address, etc. of local businesses, and businesses within specified categories (e.g., restaurants, repair shops, etc.).

Using Eeg To Predict Search Intent And To Control Iot Devices, N/A

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It has been demonstrated that electroencephalogram (EEG) readings can be mapped to images, audio, or language perceived by a user, such that a machine-learning model trained on EEG readings can infer the user’s thoughts. This disclosure describes techniques that use a head-mounted device, e.g., smart glasses, to measure, with user permission, a user’s EEG, and based on the measurement, infer the user’s intent or reconstruct the user’s thoughts, e.g., images or audio therein. In situations where a user can only partially recall a search phrase, the techniques enable determination of the user’s search intent from the user’s EEG. In other …

Error Correction In Automatic Speech Recognition, Ágoston Weisz, Ragnar Groot Koerkamp

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This disclosure describes techniques to correct errors in automatic speech recognition, e.g., as performed to recognize spoken queries from a user to a virtual assistant or other application. A machine learning model detects potentially misrecognized n-grams within transcribed text which are then underlined in a user interface. A user can tap on the underlined n-gram, or another portion of the transcribed text to activate a dropdown menu that presents alternatives to the transcribed text. The alternatives can be based on speech hypothesis scores. To correct the error in transcribed text, the user picks an alternative from the dropdown menu, or, …

Mixed Language Speech Recognition, Ágoston Weisz, Herbert Jordan, Konrad Jan Miller

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Mixed language speech, e.g., speech in two or more languages, is common in many geographies and application domains. A mixed language voice command to a virtual assistant is likely to be misinterpreted by conventional speech recognition techniques that are based on a single language model. This disclosure describes techniques to combine multiple language models to perform multilingual speech recognition of mixed language speech and commands.

Single-Click Ad-Catching On Tv And At The Movies, Venu Annamraju

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It is today possible for a user with an appropriate mobile device application to catch a television ad, e.g., to make a purchase taking advantage of an offer in an ad that just aired. However, such ad-catching is still generally a multistep procedure with some friction. It is often the case that by the time a user catches a short-formatted ad (of a duration between 15-30s) with their ad-catching application, the time window for the offer has expired. This disclosure describes techniques that enable a user to catch an ad aired on television or in a movie theater with a …

Graph Visualization By Organizing Connections In Collapsible Hierarchical Graphs, David Souther, Alan Samanta, Mateusz Jedruch, Matthew Tschiegg, Szymon Barglowski

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Network graphs in certain applications, e.g., cloud-network graphs, have connections in multiple dimensions. At present, it is difficult or inconvenient for a user to visualize such graphs at varying levels of granularity or hierarchy. Per the techniques of this disclosure, a hull is defined as a node with descendants, and a segment is defined as a bundle of edges between descendants below a pair of nodes. By enabling a user to expand or collapse a hull, and by routing edges via segments connecting parent nodes, the described techniques enable a high-level visualization of large graph networks that can be quickly …

Three-Terminal Electrochemical Cell For Improved Battery Safety, N/A

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Overcharging an electrochemical cell can cause explosions and is a known safety hazard. Overcharge-limiting circuits function optimally when an accurate measure of battery voltage is available. In practice, voltage measurement is inaccurate due to the significant currents that pass through the electrodes during charging. Due to the inaccuracy in voltage measurement, overcharge-limiting circuits are conservatively designed which leads to inefficiencies and inaccurate estimates of battery life and energy level. A three-electrode electrochemical cell has a third electrode in addition to an anode and a cathode. The third electrode absorbs little current and acts as a reference electrode to accurately measure …

Leveraging Computing Resources Of Edge Devices For Distributed Computing, Dhandapani Shanmugam

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Cloud platforms are built on resources and infrastructure owned and maintained solely by the cloud platform provider. While the cloud infrastructure is distributed across various locations, it does not leverage end-user distributed resources, such as mobile phones, IoT devices, etc. The techniques described in this disclosure enable leveraging end-user devices as cloud computing resources with appropriate permission from the users. The functionality is achieved via a secure capsule installed on the devices with user permission.

Sharing Photos And Associated Text Messages Within Messaging Apps In The Intended Order, Victor Cărbune, Thomas Deselaers

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The order in which a photo and messages are delivered and displayed in a chat conversation is affected by processing and/or network delays as well as specific implementations of messaging applications. Receiving a photo out-of-sequence from text messages related to the photo can create confusion and/or misunderstanding and can ruin the intended effect of the sender’s communication. This disclosure describes the use of machine learning techniques to identify text messages that are associated with a shared photo and bundling those together as a joint set. Descriptive text for the photo is shown as a placeholder until the photo is fully …

Camera Mount For Headset, Anonymous

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Virtual Reality (VR) headsets have multiple cameras mounted on the headset. For proper operation, the relative positions of the cameras need to be maintained during use. In particular, cameras that are the reference cameras for the headset need to maintain extremely tight positional tolerance during strap tensioning of the headset. This disclosure describes a camera mount design for high positional tolerance. The main structural piece of the headset is manufactured using a stamping process. A stereo bracket is attached to pedestal mounts associated with the reference cameras. This enables the reference cameras to be decoupled from the rest of the …