According to an example, a heating device comprises a plurality of light emitting arrays to emit a respective irradiance associated with a calibration profile and a power source electrically connected to the plurality of light emitting arrays, wherein the irradiances emitted by the plurality of light emitting arrays result in a substantially spatially uniform irradiance towards a target surface.
B28B 1/00 - Producing shaped articles from the material
B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
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ONE TIME LINK-BASED USER AUTHENTICATION IN IMAGE FORMING DEVICES
An example image forming device includes a display to provide a user interface to receive an email address from a user and a processor to control executing a first application for processing an email including an one-time link (OTL) transmitted to the email address and for performing authentication of the user in response to selection of the OTL through the first application if the email address belongs to a first email domain.
A printable medium that comprises a base substrate with an image-side and a back-side. An ink-receiving layer comprising water and, at least, two polymeric networks with the first polymeric network being a polyurethane-based polymer and the second polymeric network being a reactive polyaziridine polymer is applied to the image-side of the fabric base substrate. Also described herein are a method for forming the printable medium and a printing method that includes ejecting an ink composition onto the print medium described herein.
D06P 1/52 - General processes of dyeing or printing textiles or general processes of dyeing leather, furs or solid macromolecular substances in any form, classified according to the dyes, pigments or auxiliary substances employed using insoluble pigments or auxiliary substances, e.g. binders using compositions containing synthetic macromolecular substances
D06P 5/00 - Other features in dyeing or printing textiles or dyeing leather, furs or solid macromolecular substances in any form
Examples of electronic devices are described herein. In some examples, an electronic device includes a processor to provide a first set of images to an object tracker to output a bounding shape that represents an object in the first set of images. In some examples, the processor is to estimate a size and location of the bounding shape in a second set of images in response to the object tracker losing track of the object in the second set of images.
Examples of noise suppression controls are described herein. In some examples, an electronic device includes a processor to classify, using a first machine learning model, an environment based on video of the environment to produce a classification. In some examples, the processor is to detect, using a second machine learning model, a situation in the environment based on the video to produce a detection. In some examples, the processor is to control noise suppression on audio captured from the environment based on the classification and the detection.
G10L 21/0216 - Noise filtering characterised by the method used for estimating noise
G06T 7/73 - Determining position or orientation of objects or cameras using feature-based methods
G06V 10/764 - Arrangements for image or video recognition or understanding using pattern recognition or machine learning using classification, e.g. of video objects
G06V 20/40 - Scenes; Scene-specific elements in video content
G06V 20/52 - Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects
An example method comprising requesting authorization to reprocess a replaceable supply component using first data stored in memory of the replaceable supply component and an interface, the first data including original manufacturing data for the replaceable supply component. The method further comprises, in response to the request, receiving second data using the interface, and appending the original manufacturing data stored in the memory with the second data to designate the replaceable supply component as reprocessed.
H04L 9/32 - Arrangements for secret or secure communications; Network security protocols including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system
An example storage medium includes instructions that, when executed, cause a processor of a computing device to encrypt a source file that has been identified as potentially malicious, place the encrypted file in a location accessible to a virtual machine, provide, to the virtual machine, information for decrypting the encrypted file, and cause the virtual machine to use the information to process the encrypted file.
Example microfluidic devices include a pairing region and a droplet generator. The pairing region comprises a first microfluidic channel including a first sensor, the first microfluidic channel fluidically coupled to a first fluid actuator and to receive a first aqueous fluid, and a second microfluidic channel including a second sensor, the second microfluidic channel fluidically coupled to a second fluid actuator and to receive a second aqueous fluid. The droplet generator comprises a merging chamber fluidically coupled to the first microfluidic channel, the second microfluidic channel, and a third microfluidic channel, the third microfluidic channel fluidically coupled to the merging chamber and to receive a carrier fluid, and a fluid ejector fluidically coupled to the merging chamber.
A printing apparatus can include a fuser including a fusing member, a heater configured to heat the fusing member, and a pressure member configured to form, together with the fusing member, a fusing nip through which the print medium passes, a ventilation device to supply air to the fusing member in a width direction, a first temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of a non-paper passing area of the pressure member, a controller configured to control the ventilation device based on the temperature detected by the first temperature sensor.
Examples described herein relate to systems and devices consistent with the disclosure. For instance, the computing device comprises a plurality of peripheral devices, and a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions executable by a processing resource to receive input from the plurality of peripheral devices, analyze the received input from the plurality of peripheral devices for emotional cues, determine an emotional state of a user based on the analyzed input from the plurality of peripheral devices, and display the determined emotional state on a display device.
A method of measuring print medium advance in a printer (10) is provided. The method comprises obtaining a temperature value with a temperature sensor (120), obtaining a raw print medium advance value with a print medium advance sensor (110), and determining a compensated print medium advance value for the raw print medium advance value and the temperature value using a predefined compensation relation between raw print medium advance values and compensated print medium advance values for a temperature corresponding to the temperature value.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
B41J 2/155 - Arrangement thereof for line printing
An example system includes a simulation engine to determine a plurality of thermal states that will be experienced by powder at a voxel of a three-dimensional print volume as a result of printing a particular build. Each thermal state corresponds to a time during the printing or cooling from the printing. The system includes a stress engine to calculate a stress to the powder at the voxel based on the plurality of thermal states. The system includes a degradation engine to determine an amount of degradation of the powder at the voxel based on the stress.
Reprocessing of a replaceable supply component may include receiving from an encoding device and using an interface communicatively coupled to the encoding device, a request blob to reprocess a replaceable supply component. The method may include in response to cryptographically verifying the request blob, extracting from the request blob, a supply identifier and raw supply data. The method further includes using the supply identifier and raw supply data, generating a reprocess structure to append or amend original manufacturing data for the replaceable supply component, and providing a response blob to the encoding device, to designate the replaceable supply component as a reprocessed supply component.
The example computing device includes a universal serial bus (USB) port to provide a data connection and power to a connected device. The example computing device also includes a controller to control a power state of the USB port during a reboot process of the computing device. The example computing device further includes a basic input/output system (BIOS) to send a port reboot setting to the controller. The port reboot setting defines a power-off time period that the USB port is to be powered off during the reboot process.
G06F 11/14 - Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in operation, e.g. by using different operation sequences leading to the same result
G06F 11/22 - Detection or location of defective computer hardware by testing during standby operation or during idle time, e.g. start-up testing
A microfluidic system may comprise a dispense head with multiple dispensers, each dispensing a different cell type, such as single pairs of individual target cells and individual sensor cells. Interaction between the cells may be observed based on, for example, fluorescence. Individual target cells may then be selected, based on observations, for use or for further investigation. As an example, target cells may be B-cells, and enhanced selection of B-cells aids more direct antibody discovery.
The present disclosure describes a device that includes a processor resource, and a non-transitory memory resource storing machine-readable instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause the processor resource to: designate a first portion of a user interface to share content with a remote device through a conferencing application and designate a second portion of the user interface to display the content from the conferencing application to represent the content as it is received by the remote device.
Examples of methods are described. In some examples, a method includes planning, by a processor, a coverage path based on a three-dimensional (3D) model. In some examples, the method includes calculating, by the processor, based on the coverage path, a coverage trajectory of a robotic device to remove powder from a 3D-printed object corresponding to the 3D model.
B33Y 40/20 - Post-treatment, e.g. curing, coating or polishing
G05B 19/4099 - Surface or curve machining, making 3D objects, e.g. desktop manufacturing
B29C 64/153 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only solid materials using layers of powder being selectively joined, e.g. by selective laser sintering or melting
A method is described in which image data is to be printed in a plurality of passes. In an example the method comprises identifying pixels of a halftone matrix having a halftone value, and allocating the identified pixels to one pass mask of a plurality of pass masks depending on a density metric dependent on allocated pixels within said one pass mask.
According to an example, a card connector comprises a damp member including a connector, and a holder member including a base portion defining an aperture and a protruding portion extending from the base portion. The clamp member and the protruding portion of the holder member are to receive an expansion module in a gap therebetween, and upon insertion of the expansion module into the gap, the connector of the clamp member is to engage with a complementary connector of the expansion module.
Examples of transmit power controls are described herein. In some examples, an electronic device includes an imaging capturing device to capture a video stream. In some examples, the electronic device includes video processing circuitry. In some examples, the video processing circuitry may measure background motion in the video stream. In some examples, the video processing circuitry may detect human proximity based on the measured background motion. In some examples, the video processing circuitry may control transmit power in response to the human proximity detection.
H04W 52/38 - TPC being performed in particular situations
H04N 21/442 - Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. detecting the failure of a recording device, monitoring the downstream bandwidth, the number of times a movie has been viewed or the storage space available from the internal hard disk
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TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROLS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES
An example device is to monitor communications throughput rates and select modulation and coding protocols in order to minimize specific absorption rates experienced by users of the devices by minimizing or reducing transmission power settings.
An integrated circuit includes a plurality of memory cells, an address decoder to select memory cells based on a data signal, activation logic to activate selected memory cells based on the data signal and a fire signal, and configuration logic to enable or disable access to the plurality of memory cells.
B41J 2/045 - Ink jet characterised by the jet generation process generating single droplets or particles on demand by pressure, e.g. electromechanical transducers
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AUTHENTICATIONS OF CONSUMABLES BASED ON AUTHENTICATION INDICIA
A device receives information regarding whether a cover of an authentication indicia of a consumable has been subject to tampering. In response to the information indicating that the cover of the authentication indicia has not been subject to tampering, the device obtains an image of the authentication indicia after the cover has been removed from the authentication indicia. The device performs an authentication process to authenticate the consumable based on the authentication indicia.
G06K 7/14 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation using light without selection of wavelength, e.g. sensing reflected white light
25.
Speaker Identification-Based Echo Detection and Solution
A video conference call control system is provided with an audio mixer to receive an audio speech signal at one or more network devices connected to the video conference call; to generate first and second talker identification values from the audio speech signal; to compare the first and second talker identification values during a timing comparison window to determine if the first and second talker identification values are identical and received simultaneously or substantially contemporaneously; and to selectively mute one or more audio devices at the network device(s) if the first and second talker identification values are identical and received simultaneously or substantially contemporaneously so that microphone input signals to the audio mixer are muted to prevent “playback” echo effects and so that microphone input and audio loudspeaker output signals to the audio mixer are muted to prevent “double join” echo effects.
H04L 65/4038 - Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences with floor control
G10L 17/02 - Preprocessing operations, e.g. segment selection; Pattern representation or modelling, e.g. based on linear discriminant analysis [LDA] or principal components; Feature selection or extraction
H04M 9/08 - Two-way loud-speaking telephone systems with means for conditioning the signal, e.g. for suppressing echoes for one or both directions of traffic
In some examples, an electronic device includes a machine learning circuit to detect a user break from an online meeting based on a video stream. In some examples, the machine learning circuit is to send an indicator in response to detecting the user break. In some examples, the electronic device includes a processor coupled to the machine learning circuit. In some examples, the processor is to replace a portion of the video stream with substitute video in response to the indicator.
An example method comprising requesting authorization to reprocess a replaceable supply component using an interface and original manufacturing data stored in memory of the replaceable supply component. The method further comprises, in response to the request, receiving configuration data using the interface, and appending the original manufacturing data with the configuration data to designate the replaceable supply component as reprocessed, wherein the configuration data is to cause reconfiguration of an end-user device in response to attachment of the replaceable supply component to the end-user device and execution by the end-user device.
G06F 21/57 - Certifying or maintaining trusted computer platforms, e.g. secure boots or power-downs, version controls, system software checks, secure updates or assessing vulnerabilities
An example of a three-dimensional (3D) printing kit includes a build material composition, an epoxy agent to be applied to at least a portion of the build material composition during 3D printing, and a fusing agent to be applied to the at least the portion of the build material composition during 3D printing. The build material composition includes a polyamide having an amino functional group. The epoxy agent includes an epoxy having an epoxide functional group to react with the amino functional group of the polyamide in the at least the portion. The fusing agent includes an energy absorber.
B29C 64/165 - Processes of additive manufacturing using a combination of solid and fluid materials, e.g. a powder selectively bound by a liquid binder, catalyst, inhibitor or energy absorber
B29C 64/268 - Arrangements for irradiation using electron beams [EB]
B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
B33Y 70/00 - Materials specially adapted for additive manufacturing
An example digital microfluidic device can include a hydrophobic electrowetting surface including an array of electrodes. The individual electrodes can have a shape with three or more sides. The array of electrodes can include a parking electrode and an adjacent electrode that is adjacent to the parking electrode. A cover can be positioned over the electrowetting surface at a gap distance sufficient to accommodate a liquid droplet between the cover and the electrowetting surface. A plurality of droplet barriers can be positioned on three or more sides of the parking electrode. The droplet barriers can constrain movement of a liquid droplet from the parking electrode to the adjacent electrode.
The disclosure describes a device that includes: a print substance reservoir (202), a first port (212) of the print substance reservoir coupled to an input of a pump (218) to provide a print substance to the pump, a manifold (224) coupled to an output of the pump to receive the print substance from the pump, a second port (219) of the print substance reservoir to receive a first portion of the print substance from the manifold, and a print head (228) to receive a second portion of the print substance from the manifold.
An example of a white inkjet ink includes: a non-self-dispersed white pigment; from about 0.01 wt% active to about 5 wt% active, based on a total weight of the white inkjet ink, of a first anionic dispersant that is a copolymer having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) ranging from about 125,000 g/mol to about 30,000,000 g/mol; from about 0.01 wt% active to about 5 wt% active, based on the total weight of the white inkjet ink, of a second anionic dispersant that is a copolymer having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) ranging from about 700 g/mol to about 30,000 g/mol; a rheology modifier; a polymeric binder; and an aqueous vehicle.
C09D 11/326 - Pigment inks characterised by the pigment dispersant
C09D 11/102 - Printing inks based on artificial resins containing macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions other than those only involving unsaturated carbon-to-carbon bonds
C09D 11/107 - Printing inks based on artificial resins containing macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions only involving carbon-to-carbon unsaturated bonds from unsaturated acids or derivatives thereof
C09D 11/54 - Inks based on two liquids, one liquid being the ink, the other liquid being a reaction solution, a fixer or a treatment solution for the ink
C09D 11/40 - Ink-sets specially adapted for multi-colour inkjet printing
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, an additive manufacturing system is described. The additive manufacturing system includes a build material deposition device to form a plastically deformable three-dimensional (3D) object by depositing layers of a thermoplastic build material to form a body of the plastically deformable 3D object. The additive manufacturing system also includes a heat channel forming device to form heat channels within the plastically deformable 3D object which heat channels, responsive to an applied stimulus, are to soften adjacent regions of the body. The additive manufacturing system also includes a fusing system to selectively harden layers of thermoplastic build material to form the plastically deformable 3D object.
B29C 64/153 - Processes of additive manufacturing using only solid materials using layers of powder being selectively joined, e.g. by selective laser sintering or melting
B29C 64/188 - Processes of additive manufacturing involving additional operations performed on the added layers, e.g. smoothing, grinding or thickness control
B29C 64/20 - Additive manufacturing, i.e. manufacturing of three-dimensional [3D] objects by additive deposition, additive agglomeration or additive layering, e.g. by 3D printing, stereolithography or selective laser sintering - Details thereof or accessories therefor
B29C 64/393 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
B33Y 50/02 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
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EDGE IDENTIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS WITHIN CAPTURED IMAGE
A backbone machine learning model is applied to a captured image of a number of documents to identify image features of the captured image. A head machine learning model is applied to the image features to identify a number of candidate quadrilaterals within the captured image. An edge detection technique is applied to each candidate quadrilateral to identify edges of a corresponding document of the captured image within the candidate quadrilateral.
An example apparatus is described for concurrent execution and copy of updated basic input/output system (“BIOS”) instructions. The apparatus may comprise a private serial peripheral interface and a processor to execute updated BIOS instructions. The apparatus may also comprise a controller to copy the updated BIOS instructions to the private serial peripheral interface. In various examples, execution and copy of the updated BIOS instructions may be performed concurrently.
According to an example, a device comprises a sidewall and a base movable relative to the sidewall. The sidewall and base define an internal volume for receipt of build material in an additive manufacturing process. The example device further comprises a membrane. A first end of the membrane is attached to the base such that the membrane is movable with the base. The membrane at least partially extends along the sidewall to form a flexible barrier between the internal volume and the sidewall.
B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
A printhead includes one or multiple printhead dies and an overmolded panel around the printhead dies. The printhead dies are each to eject a corresponding type of fluid. The overmolded panel has one or multiple wide slots respectively corresponding to the printhead dies. Each wide slot is to supply fluid of the corresponding type to the printhead die to which the wide slot corresponds.
Examples of retention structures (242) are described herein. In some examples, an apparatus (240) includes a three-dimensional (3D) printed substrate (232). In some examples, the apparatus includes a 3D printed contact (230) included in the 3D printed substrate (232) to interface with an external circuit package (234). In some examples, the apparatus (240) includes a retention structure (242) to hold the external circuit package (234) on a top side of the external circuit package.
H05K 3/32 - Assembling printed circuits with electric components, e.g. with resistor electrically connecting electric components or wires to printed circuits
In some examples, a device can include a chassis, a motor module connected to the chassis via a fastener and a damper, the damper to receive the fastener through an aperture of the damper, where the damper is to provide an isolation gap between a surface of the chassis and the motor module, and a door connected to the chassis, where the motor module is to cause the door to translate from a first position to a second position, and the damper is to reduce vibration experienced by the chassis during translation of the door.
A method for user account-specific management of a printer driver can include verifying a user account associated with a printer driver installed in a host device, and determining, for a printing feature supported by the printer driver, a configuration thereof useable by the user account. The method can include indicating, on a user interface device of the host device, the configuration of the printing feature. The printer driver can include a plurality of user accounts associable therewith including the first user account, and for each of the plurality of user accounts, configurations of the printing feature supported by the printer driver can be customized.
Generating a request for reprocessing of a replaceable supply component may include sending to a non-volatile memory of a replaceable supply component, a request for information about the replaceable supply component. The method may include receiving from the replaceable supply component, the supply component information, wherein the supply component information includes data to be decrypted by an exchange service. The method may further include generating a request blob including the supply component information, and cryptographically signing the request blob for sending to the exchange service for reprocessing of the replaceable supply component.
A method for controlling a printer includes receiving a set of first variables for the printer, determining, using a machine-learning program, one or more second variables based on the set of first variables, and controlling a printer to perform a print job based on the set of first variables and the one or more second variables. The first and second variables may correspond to different types of printer settings. The machine-learning program may determine the second variables using a classifier model that may prevent partial curing or drying, print media deformation and/or other defects.
An imaging device (522) includes a media load area (504) having a media load surface, an outer surface adjacent to the media load area, and a sensor (510) included in the device, where the sensor includes a detection area oriented away from the outer surface to detect media located in the media load area that is also at least partially located in the detection area.
B41J 29/00 - TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS - Details of, or accessories for, typewriters or selective printing mechanisms not otherwise provided for
B65H 43/06 - Use of control, checking, or safety devices, e.g. automatic devices comprising an element for sensing a variable detecting, or responding to, completion of pile
B41J 13/00 - Devices or arrangements specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in short lengths, e.g. sheets
An example of a multi-functional agent for three-dimensional (3D) printing includes carboxylated carbon nanotubes present in an amount ranging from about 0.5 wt% active to about 5.0 wt% active based on a total weight of the multi-functional agent; poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) present in an amount ranging from about 0.1 wt% active to about 0.8 wt% active based on the total weight of the multi-functional agent; a co-solvent; and a balance of water.
B29C 64/165 - Processes of additive manufacturing using a combination of solid and fluid materials, e.g. a powder selectively bound by a liquid binder, catalyst, inhibitor or energy absorber
B33Y 70/10 - Composites of different types of material, e.g. mixtures of ceramics and polymers or mixtures of metals and biomaterials
C08K 9/04 - Ingredients treated with organic substances
A blade supporting device according to an aspect includes a housing; a blade holder supported by the housing, the blade holder including a first member supporting a blade and a second member movable between a closed position and an open position, wherein the blade is sandwiched between the first member and the second member at the closed position, and the second member is separated from the first member at the open position; and a locking device to lock the second member to keep the position of the blade with respect to the first member.
G03G 15/16 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for transferring a pattern to a second base of a toner pattern, e.g. a powder pattern
G03G 21/00 - Arrangements not provided for by groups , e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge
G03G 21/16 - Mechanical means for facilitating the maintenance of the apparatus, e.g. modular arrangements
G03G 15/08 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for developing using a solid developer, e.g. powder developer
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DEVELOPER DEVICE WITH CHAMBER FOR DISCHARGED DEVELOPER AGENT
A developer device includes a developer roller to convey a developer agent from a supply region to a release region, a first chamber to supply the developer agent to the developer roller, wherein the release region is located between the first chamber and the developer roller, a second chamber to accommodate a discharged developer agent, and a guide located between the developer roller and the second chamber, wherein the guide is to selectively direct the developer agent released from the release region toward the first chamber or toward the second chamber.
G03G 15/09 - Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for developing using a solid developer, e.g. powder developer using magnetic brush
Examples herein relate to wireless polling frequency alteration. For instance, in some examples a wireless power transmitter circuit can emit wireless signals to detect a presence of a wireless power receiver circuit included in a mobile device and a controller can alter a wireless polling frequency at which the wireless power transmitter circuit emits the wireless signals to a respective wireless polling frequency of a plurality of wireless polling frequencies.
H02J 50/90 - Circuit arrangements or systems for wireless supply or distribution of electric power involving detection or optimisation of position, e.g. alignment
H02J 50/12 - Circuit arrangements or systems for wireless supply or distribution of electric power using inductive coupling of the resonant type
Examples of methods for object packings are described herein. In some examples, a method includes loading a first object in a first subset of a volume. In some examples, the method includes determining, using a genetic procedure, an arrangement of second objects in a second subset of the volume to produce a packing that includes the first object and the second objects.
B33Y 30/00 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING, i.e. MANUFACTURING OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL [3D] OBJECTS BY ADDITIVE DEPOSITION, ADDITIVE AGGLOMERATION OR ADDITIVE LAYERING, e.g. BY 3D PRINTING, STEREOLITHOGRAPHY OR SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING - Details thereof or accessories therefor
B33Y 50/02 - Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
Examples include a CPU coupled to a controller, the CPU to receive a user credential usable by the login executable code to perform device login authentication, determine a first hash value based on the login executable code, determine a second hash value based on the user credential, obtain a third hash value and a fourth hash value from the controller, wherein the third hash value is a reference hash value for the login executable code, and wherein the fourth hash value is a reference hash value for the user credential, compare the first hash value to the third hash value, compare the second hash value to the fourth hash value, execute an OS login service using the login executable code responsive to the first hash value matching the third hash value and the second hash value matching the fourth hash value.
G06F 21/57 - Certifying or maintaining trusted computer platforms, e.g. secure boots or power-downs, version controls, system software checks, secure updates or assessing vulnerabilities
An example display system includes a load engine and a calibration engine. The load engine causes an inquiry for current calibration measurement data and retrieves factory calibration measurement data when the current calibration measurement data is unavailable. The calibration engine receives a target set of display characteristics, generates a color profile from a native panel performance representation to operate a display according to the target set of display characteristics, and causes adjustment of a display according to a difference between the target set of display characteristics and the native panel performance representation using the generated color profile.
In one example, an electronic device may include a main body, and a back cover having an opening. The back cover may include an inner surface, and a hook protruding from the inner surface. The hook may be engageable with a receiving portion of the main body to slidably couple the back cover to the main body. Further, electronic device may include a component housing connected to the main body through the opening in the back cover to fixedly couple the back cover to the main body.
A fluid-ejection die cartridge includes a cartridge body. The fluid-ejection die cartridge includes a fluid-ejection die fluidically attached to the cartridge body. The fluid-ejection die is to eject fluid. The fluid-ejection die cartridge includes a stamped nanoceramic layer on an exposed fluid-ejection nozzle plate of the fluid-ejection die attached to the cartridge body.
In examples, an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a processor to receive an input image from an image sensor. The processor is also to scale a size of the input image to a programmed size. The processor is also to encode the scaled input image to provide a feature map having a fractional size of the scaled input image. The processor is also to process the feature map according to lite reduced atrous spatial pyramid pooling (LR-ASPP) to provide a LR-ASPP result. The processor is also to decode the LR-ASPP result to provide an image segmentation result.
The present disclosure provides intelligent radio frequency interference mitigation in a computing platform. The computing platform includes a processor, a memory, a system clock and a wireless network interface. The system clock can be controlled so that the processor and/or the memory may operate at a slow frequency or a fast frequency. The wireless network may operate on a radio channel that experiences radio frequency interference at the fast frequency. The system clock may be intelligently controlled to select the slow frequency to reduce radio frequency interference to prioritize execution of a network application, or to select the fast frequency to increase processor speed and prioritize execution of a local application.
An example printer device includes a chassis. The example printer device further includes a paper path component along which paper is output from the chassis. The example printer device further includes a display screen movable between a stored position and a deployed position, the paper path component moving as the display screen moves.
A powder bed material can include from 80 wt % to 100 wt % metal particles having a D50 particle size distribution value from 4 μm to 150 μm. From 10 wt % to 100 wt % of the metal particles can be surface-activated metal particles having in intact inner volume and an outer volume with structural defects. The structural defects can exhibit an average surface grain density of 50,000 to 5,000,000 per mm2.
B22F 10/14 - Formation of a green body by jetting of binder onto a bed of metal powder
B22F 1/05 - Metallic powder characterised by the size or surface area of the particles
B22F 1/142 - Thermal or thermo-mechanical treatment
B22F 9/04 - Making metallic powder or suspensions thereof; Apparatus or devices specially adapted therefor using physical processes starting from solid material, e.g. by crushing, grinding or milling
Examples relate to methods to heat a print agent deposited on a print agent, print an image on a print media and heating systems for a heating a print agent deposited on a print media. A heating system comprises a radiation emitter to irradiate a print agent deposited on a print media, a reflector to reflect a radiation emitted by the radiation emitter back to the radiation emitter, and a displacing member to shift the heating system between a pre-heating position wherein the radiation reflected back to the radiation emitter has a higher magnitude and a heating position wherein the radiation reflected back to the radiation emitter has a lower magnitude.
B41J 11/00 - Devices or arrangements for supporting or handling copy material in sheet or web form
B41F 23/04 - Devices for treating the surfaces of sheets, webs or other articles in connection with printing by heat drying, by cooling, by applying powders
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KEYBOARD HOUSINGS WITH FLEXIBLE TOUCH SENSING COMPONENTS
In one example, a keyboard housing may include a chassis, a plurality of keys exposed through a top surface of the chassis, and an input device assembly connected to the chassis. The input device assembly may include a flexible touch sensing component to receive a touch input and a support structure. The support structure may include a first portion and a second portion foldable onto the first portion. The first portion and the second portion may support the flexible touch sensing component.
G06F 3/02 - Input arrangements using manually operated switches, e.g. using keyboards or dials
G06F 1/16 - Constructional details or arrangements
G06F 3/0354 - Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user; Accessories therefor with detection of 2D relative movements between the device, or an operating part thereof, and a plane or surface, e.g. 2D mice, trackballs, pens or pucks
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a device is described, which includes a first retainer to connect to a first section of a cable and a second retainer to connect to a second section of the cable. The first retainer and second retainer are connected together with a breakaway mechanism. The breakaway mechanism separates when tension is applied between the first section of the cable and the second section of the cable.
In an example, a computing device includes a processor which in a reimaging operation of the computing device, may determine if a backup image to be used in the reimaging operation is available from a memory device connected to a local area network of the computing device. When the backup image is available from the memory device, the processor may acquire the backup image over the local area network. When the backup image is not available from the memory device, the processor may determine if a backup image is available from a wide area network of the computing device.
G06F 11/14 - Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in operation, e.g. by using different operation sequences leading to the same result
According to an example, a mixing device comprises a first chamber including a solute addition member and a first mixer, a second chamber including a second mixer, a printing fluid pump, and a controller operatively connected to the solute addition member, the pump, the first mixer, and the second mixer. The controller is to control the pump to move printing fluid towards the printing fluid tank based on a printing fluid density level in the printing fluid tank, to control the solute addition member to add solids based on the printing fluid density level, and to control the first mixer and the second mixer to mix the added solids with the printing fluid moved by the pump.
A printing method is described in which a first and a second digital representation data for a first and a second digital representation to be printed on a same side of a same media is received. First print data (121) corresponding to a printing fluid for the first digital representation is determined on the basis of the first digital representation data. Second print data (132) corresponding to the printing fluid for the second digital representation is determined on the basis of the second digital representation data. The method further comprises communicating the first print data corresponding to a specific swath (145) to a first set of nozzles, and communicating the second print data corresponding to the specific swath to a second set of nozzles, whereby the first and the second set of nozzles are disjoint sets of nozzles from a same die and are fluidically connected to the printing fluid.
A device includes first and second substrates. The first substrate has one or multiple first channels and one or multiple first conductors that are exposed at a first surface of the first substrate. The second substrate has one or multiple second channels and one or multiple second conductors that are exposed at a second surface of the first substrate. The first and second substrates are plasma bonded together at the first and second surfaces, forming direct electrical interconnects between the first and second conductors and direct fluidic interconnects between the first and second channels.
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a computing device is described. The computing device includes a configurable logic element. The configurable logic element 1) connects to a number of peripheral electronic devices, with at least one peripheral electronic device having a different native protocol relative to another peripheral electronic device and 2) prepares and packages a number of signals to be transmitted across a uniform transmission protocol. The computing device also includes a communication pathway to transmit packaged signals to a driver using the uniform transmission protocol. The computing device also includes the driver to 1) unpack the number of signals from the aggregated data transmission and 2) represents the number of peripheral electronic devices to an operating system of the computing device.
In an example, a computing device may include a first radio device including a first antenna, a second radio device including a second antenna, and a basic input/output system (BIOS). The BIOS may establish a communication with the first and second radio devices. Further, the BIOS may receive first transmission status information associated with the first antenna from the first radio device and second transmission status information associated with the second antenna from the second radio device. Furthermore, the BIOS may detect a condition indicative of a combined transmit power of the first and second antennas exceeding a radio frequency exposure threshold based on the first and second transmission status information. The BIOS may instruct the first radio device, the second radio device, or both to perform a mitigation action to maintain the combined transmit power at or below the radio frequency exposure threshold.
A print material refill container includes a housing and a chamber, within the housing, to contain a print material. The print material refill container includes a physical indicator subject to modification based on an engagement of the physical indicator with an engagement member of a printing device when the print material refill container engages the printing device to deliver the print material to a reservoir of the printing device. The physical indicator indicates an unused condition of the print material refill container when the physical indicator has a first state prior to the modification, and the physical indicator indicates a used condition of the print material refill container when the physical indicator has a second state subsequent to the modification.
In an example, a computing device is described. The computing device comprises a communication interface and a processor. The processor is to determine whether a signature, produced by a signer, is derived from a free state under a stateful signature scheme. The free state is a state that has not been used as an input to generate a signing key. The signature is encrypted by the signer. The processor is further to, in response to determining that the signature is derived from a free state, decrypt the encrypted signature. The processor is further to transmit the decrypted signature to a recipient via the communication interface.
H04L 9/32 - Arrangements for secret or secure communications; Network security protocols including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system
70.
IMAGE FORMATION WITH ELECTROOSMOTIC LIQUID REMOVAL
An image formation device includes a support, a fluid ejection device, and a first porous element. The support is to support movement of a substrate along a travel path, while the fluid ejection device is located along the travel path to deposit droplets of ink particles within a liquid carrier onto the substrate to at least partially form an image on the substrate. The first porous element is located downstream along the travel path from the fluid ejection device to be in contact against the substrate to remove, via electroosmotic flow through the first porous element, at least a portion of the liquid carrier from the substrate.
In an example, a method includes receiving, at a printing apparatus, a print target. The method may also include printing a drop linearization chart on a sample of the print target and measuring the drop linearization chart to determine a measured drop linearization curve for the print target. The method may include comparing the measured drop linearization curve to a plurality of predefined drop linearization curves to determine a most similar drop linearization curve from the plurality of predefined drop linearization curves, and applying a linearization defined by the most similar drop linearization curve to print data to be printed on the print target.
Techniques for providing feedback to an actuating object are described. In an example, a device may provide a user interface having a virtual menu button that can be actuated based on a position of an object. If the virtual menu button is determined to be actuated, the device provides a haptic feedback to the object.
In some examples, a controller of a wearable device causes display by the wearable device of a test image, and adjusts a color property of the displayed test image. In response to an input provided by a user responsive to the displayed test image as the color property is adjusted, the controller determines a distribution of color wavelengths for an eye of the user, and detects a color vision deficiency of the user based on the determined distribution of color wavelengths. The controller provides control information to control a display device of the wearable device to compensate for the color vision deficiency.
G09G 5/02 - Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators characterised by the way in which colour is displayed
A61B 3/032 - Devices for presenting test symbols or characters, e.g. test chart projectors
An example electronic device may include a first housing 102), a second housing (104), a hinge (106) to pivotally connect the first housing and the second housing between a first orientation and a second orientation, a hinge lock mechanism (108) to lock the hinge in the first orientation, a sensor (110), and a processor (112). Locking the hinge may restrain movement of the first housing relative to the second housing. During operation, the processor may receive, via the sensor, authentication information associated with a user. In response to authenticating the user based on the authentication information, the processor may generate an unlock signal to the hinge lock mechanism to unlock the hinge. Unlocking the hinge may enable movement of the first housing relative to the second housing from the first orientation to the second orientation.
Toner particles can contain a binder resin, a colorant, and a release agent. The toner particles can exhibit a peak area ratio of 5/95 to 21/79 in a molecular weight distribution measured by gel permeation chromatography (GPC). The peak area ratio can represent a peak area at a molecular weight of 20,000 or more, relative to a peak area at a molecular weight of less than 20,000. The toner particles can exhibit no peak between 100 °C and 140 °C during a second temperature increase by modulated differential scanning calorimetry (MDSC).
Examples relate to a method to generate a user print mode. The method comprises selecting a predetermined print mode, setting a user level of treatment fluid different to a predetermined level of treatment fluid of the predetermined print mode, obtaining a plurality of color profiles for a plurality of levels of treatment fluid, generating a user color profile based on the obtained plurality of color profiles and replacing the color profile of the selected predetermined print mode by the generated user color profile to generate the user print mode for the set user level of treatment fluid.
In some examples, an apparatus can include a housing, a tilt structure connected to the housing, a swivel structure connected to the tilt structure, and a rail structure connected to the swivel structure, where the rail structure comprises a sliding mechanism to interface with a track such that the housing is translatable along the track.
In an example, a computing device is described. The computing device comprises an interface to receive a request from a signer for a state. The state is to be used as an input to generate a key under a stateful signature scheme. The computing device further comprises a processor. The processor is to identify an available state that the signer is authorized to use in response to the request received via the interface. The available state is identified from a set of states that can be used by the signer to maintain statefulness of the stateful signature scheme. The processor is further to instruct a reply to be sent to the signer via the interface. The reply comprises an indication of the state that the signer is authorized to use.
H04L 9/32 - Arrangements for secret or secure communications; Network security protocols including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system
In an example, a computing device is described. The computing device comprises a memory to store a set of states and a corresponding set of non-overlapping time intervals. The computing device further comprises a timing unit to indicate a time at which a signature is to be produced. The computing device further comprises a processor to: identify which time interval of the set of non-overlapping time intervals includes the indicated time; generate a signing key based on a state associated with the identified time interval; and produce a signature, under a stateful signature scheme, with the signing key.
H04L 9/32 - Arrangements for secret or secure communications; Network security protocols including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system
In an example, a computing device is described. The computing device comprises a processor. The processor is to generate a key using a value as an input to generate the key. The processor is further to, in response to generating the key, exclude the value from future use as the input. The processor is further to store an indication of a subsequent value to use as the input to generate a subsequent key. The indication is cryptographically associated with an entity to control third-party access to the indication.
H04L 9/32 - Arrangements for secret or secure communications; Network security protocols including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system
81.
IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE INCLUDING A LIQUID REMOVAL BELT
An image formation device includes a support to support movement of a substrate along a travel path, a fluid ejection device, and a belt. The fluid ejection device is located along the travel path to deposit droplets of ink particles within a liquid carrier onto the substrate to at least partially form an image on the substrate. The belt is a flexible belt located downstream along the travel path from the fluid ejection device and includes a contact portion to arcuately conform relative to, and be in movable contact against, a first arcuate portion of the substrate to at least partially remove the liquid carrier from the substrate.
Provided are a system, method and computer program product for generating three dimensional models for use by an additive manufacturing or 3D printing system, in which object model data defining one or more objects to be built by a three-dimensional printing apparatus is input and used to generate a three dimensional model for a protective structure to surround the one or more objects. A user is provided with selectable configuration options for the protective structure. The method includes presenting, via a user interface, selectable configuration options for a protective structure to be built around the one or more objects by the three-dimensional printing apparatus. In response to user selection of one or more configuration options via the user interface, a three dimensional model for the protective structure is automatically generated.
An example system may include a processor and a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions executable by the processor to determine a type of data to be added to a log file; determine a selected anonymization protocol for the type of the data; and anonymize the data according to the anonymization protocol as the data is added to the log file.
In some examples, a system applies a first adjustment factor to a first representation of a first lattice structure of a first three-dimensional (3D) part to generate a first adjusted representation of the first lattice structure, the first representation comprising a representation of beams of the first lattice structure without a thickness. The system applies a second adjustment factor to a second representation of a second lattice structure of a second 3D part to generate a second adjusted representation of the second lattice structure, the second representation comprising a representation of beams of the second lattice structure without a thickness. The system adds beam thicknesses to the first and second adjusted representation to provide respective digital models of the first and second 3D parts that are useable by an additive manufacturing machine in building the first and second 3D parts in respective build regions of a build bed.
In some examples, a device can include an antenna to emit waves in a radiation pattern having a first beamwidth, a directional radiation control device located in a path of the waves, where the directional radiation control device is to receive the waves from the antenna and is shaped to cause the waves to be directed in a different radiation pattern having a second beamwidth that is larger than the first beamwidth.
H01Q 3/14 - Arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern of the waves radiated from an antenna or antenna system using mechanical relative movement between primary active elements and secondary devices of antennas or antenna systems for varying the relative position of primary active element and a refracting or diffracting device
86.
SHAPE-MEMORY ALLOYS TO SELECTIVELY SECURE COMPONENTS
An example computing device includes a first housing portion, a second housing portion moveably connected to the first housing portion, a link to selectively secure the second housing portion to the first housing portion to inhibit movement of the second housing portion relative to the first housing portion, and a shape-memory alloy element to release the link to allow the second housing portion to move relative to the first housing portion.
In some examples, an electronic device includes a light guide. In some examples, the light guide includes a facial side and a rear side. In some examples, the facial side includes a lens to focus incoming light. In some examples, the rear side includes exit features to guide outgoing light. In some examples, the electronic device includes an image sensor disposed behind the lens to capture the incoming light.
The present disclosure describes a device that includes instructions to align a first scanned image of a printout of a first test image with a second scanned image of a printout of a second test image such that colors from the first test image are aligned with corresponding colors from the second test image, determine a difference between the colors from the first scanned image and the corresponding colors from the second scanned image, identify color values for the colors from the first test image based on an identifier of a first printing device that generated the printout of the first test image, and alter the corresponding colors of a color table of a second printing device that generated the printout of the second test image based on the difference and the color values for the colors from the first test image.
An antenna array and switch is provided for a computer having two wireless subsystems. The array may have limited physical space. In a first mode, the switch connects a first subset of the antennas to a first wireless subsystem while isolating one of the antennas from the others in order to improve communications in the first subsystem that are transmitted via the antenna. In a second mode, the switch connects a second subset of the antennas to a second wireless subsystem while isolating another of the antennas from the others in order to improve communications in the second subsystem that are transmitted via the antennas. In a third mode, the switch connects a first subset of the antennas to the first wireless subsystem and a second set of the antennas to the second wireless subsystem.
A driving instrument for digital microfluidics can include an instrument substrate, a plurality of driving electrodes at a driving surface of the instrument substrate, and switching electronics to independently send voltage to individual or subsets of driving electrodes of the plurality of electrode. The driving instrument can also include an anisotropic conductive layer positioned on the array of driving electrodes. The anisotropic conductive layer can be more electrically conductive in a direction normal to the driving surface than in planar directions parallel to the driving surface. Furthermore, the driving instrument is shaped to receive a droplet control cartridge that is not part of the driving instrument.
An example device includes a substrate, a microfluidic network supported by the substrate, a magnet integrated with the substrate within a region of the microfluidic channel downstream from the sample fluid channel and the reporter fluid channel, and a droplet ejector coupled to a distal end of the microfluidic channel. The microfluidic network includes a microfluidic channel, a sample fluid channel for delivering a sample fluid to the microfluidic channel, and a reporter fluid channel for delivering a fluid comprising an immunoassay reporter to the microfluidic channel. The sample fluid includes an immunoreactive magnetic particle. The magnet is positioned adjacent to a wall of the microfluidic channel. The droplet ejector is for dispensing a fluid droplet comprising the immunoreactive magnetic particle and the immunoassay reporter.
A print apparatus includes a toner image forming portion to form a toner image on a print medium, a fuser to fuse the toner image onto the print medium, and an air blower. A duct guides cooling air from the blower to the fuser. The duct includes an outer wall, an inlet formed in the outer wall facing the blower, and an outlet facing the fuser. A slider may be slidable in a width direction of the print medium so as to adjust an opening amount of the outlet. A flexible guide member is provided to guide the cooling air from the inlet of the duct to the outlet. An outlet side end portion of the flexible guide member is connected to an end portion of the slider and an inlet side end portion thereof is slidably supported on the outer wall of the duct.
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, an electronic device is described. The electronic device includes a wireless controller. The wireless controller is to establish a first wireless connection between the electronic device and a peripheral device to receive a unique identifier for a second electronic device. The wireless controller is also to establish, based on the unique identifier for the second electronic device, a second wireless connection between the electronic device and the second electronic device. The electronic device includes a wireless transceiver to wirelessly transfer data to the second electronic device through the second wireless connection.
A three-dimensional printing kit can include a particulate build material with from about 80 wt % to 100 wt % copper-containing build particles having a D50 particle size distribution value from about 1 μm to about 150 μm, a binding agent including a build binder to apply to particulate build material layers to form a green body object, and a shaping composition to apply to a surface of the green body object and to control green body object deformation. The shaping composition can include from about 10 wt % to about 80 wt % liquid vehicle and from about 20 wt % to about 90 wt % metal shaping particles having a D50 particle size distribution value from about 100 nm to about 100 μm. The metal shaping particles can be smaller than the copper-containing build particles.
A microfluidic device includes a chamber having sidewalls, a floor, a ceiling, and an inlet. The microfluidic device includes pillars extending from the floor to the ceiling of the chamber. Each pillar has an orientation relative to the inlet defined by a leading surface and a trailing corner opposite the leading corner. The trailing corner has an angle less than a threshold angle that is based on a fluidic contact angle. The orientations of the pillars relative to the inlet promote fluid flow from the inlet throughout the chamber without trapping gas at the sidewalls of the chamber.
In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a system includes an electronic device comprising a display, and a projector. As an example, the projector includes a back side secured to a wall, and a first side for operatively coupling to the electronic device, and a second side comprising one or more projector lenses that project content played from the electronic device to a surface perpendicular to the wall.
According to an example, a method comprises receiving a first audio stream from an input device, detecting presence within the first audio stream of at least an acoustic pattern, executing at least one corrective action over a portion of data of the first audio stream including the acoustic pattern such that a second audio stream is obtained, and transmitting the second audio stream to an output device.
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, an electronic device is described. An example electronic device includes a processor to place the electronic device in a transit mode. When in the transit mode, the processor is placed in an inactive state. The example electronic device also includes a wireless module. An example wireless module includes a wireless controller to, when in the transit mode, periodically activate a wireless transceiver of the electronic device. The example wireless module also includes the wireless transceiver to, when in the transit mode 1) connect to a wireless network and 2) transmit configuration information for the electronic device.
Examples of electronic devices are described herein. In some examples, an electronic device includes a camera. In some examples, the electronic device also includes a processor to start a lock timer to lock the electronic device in response to detecting that a first person leaves a field of view of the camera. The processor is also to adjust the lock timer in response to detecting a second person within the field of view of the camera.
G06V 10/764 - Arrangements for image or video recognition or understanding using pattern recognition or machine learning using classification, e.g. of video objects
G06V 40/16 - Human faces, e.g. facial parts, sketches or expressions
A toner cartridge includes a toner container having an opening at one end thereof and to rotate about a rotation axis to transfer a toner toward the opening; an outlet to discharge the toner supplied from the toner container to the outside; a stirrer coupled to the one end of the toner container and spaced apart from the outlet; and a torque limiter provided between the toner container and the stirrer to transmit a torque of less than a set value between the toner container and the stirrer.
