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Intel Corporation

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Tahoe Research, Ltd.

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Bran Ferren

W Daniel Hillis

Edward K Y Jung

Lowell L Wood, Jr

Clarence T Tegreene

Nathan P Myhrvold

Muriel Y Ishikawa

Roderick A Hyde

Victoria Y H Wood

Jordin T Kare

David Bazeley Tuckerman

Clinton Blake Hope

Eric Leuthardt

Charles Whitmer

Thomas A Weaver

William Henry Gates, Iii

Michael Keesling

Geoffrey Frank Deane

William David Duncan

Russel Howe

John Latham

Cory J Booth

Ira M Lichtman

Eleanor V Goodall

Randall Adam Yates

Adrian Kaehler

David Beal

Pablo Maurin

William Henry Mangione-Smith

Genevieve Bell

Eric Powers

Dan Ruderman

Elizabeth A Sweeney

Dennis James Rivet, Ii

Robert C Petroski

Philip Andrew Eckhoff

David B Andersen

Donald G Lariviere

Schawn A Jasmann

Alistair K Chan

Lakshman Krishnamurthy

Kenneth G Caldeira

Stephen Hugh Salter

Robert Liebersbach

H Keith Nishihara

William Daniel Hillis

Thomas McKnight

Jeffrey John Hagen

Dimitri Serge Negroponte

James Hirahara

Clint Blake Hope

Edward Stuart Boyden

Jesse R Cheatham, Iii

Paul G Allen

Thomas J Nugent, Jr

Stephen L Malaska

Max Nathan Mankin

Kjerstin Irja Williams

Luke Walter Khanlian

David Foor

Rudy Yukich

Braddock Gaskill

Giuseppe Beppe Raffa

Jonathan J Huang

Karl Wudtke

Jennifer Anne Healey

Vernon Bernard

Cary S Hubner

Prashant Gandhi

Lama Nachman

Rahul C Shah

Ajaya V Durg

Wendy March

Benjamin E Isaac

Kenneth D Salter

Mark Sox Setrakian

Mark E Duttweiler

Houstin Lichtenwalner

Junaith Ahemed Shahabdeen

Alexander Essaian

Timothy E Hansen

John Cross Neumann

Gerard Roccanova

Paul M Lesley

Tony S Pan

Timothy C Loose

Jeffrey A Bowers

Thomas Baker

Shi-Ping Hsu

Robert Glenn

Elizabeth L Schubert

Conor L Myhrvold

Gerald Eric Rains

Peter Jon Abrahamson

Richa Wilson

Brian Goldstein

Cameron A Myhrvold

Fu Ching Lee

Robert R Cook

Disclosed are systems, methods and devices for centralized control of autonomous vehicles. In some embodiments, a system and method allow an autonomous control system on-board an autonomous vehicle to pass control of the autonomous vehicle to an offboard panel of experts upon encountering an anomaly. In some embodiments, a system and method allow a regulatory entity to proactively distribute rules and requirements to autonomous vehicles while operating within a regulated space.

Systems and methods for centralized control of autonomous vehicles

The invention provides an instrument control panel that is easily customized and reconfigured, and yet provides the familiar tactile sensation of physical knobs, sliders, and buttons. The instrument control panel comprises one or more interface components that are removably coupled to an interface display wherein the interface components communicate with one or more control components disposed behind the interface display. The present invention lends itself particularly well to an instrument panel.

Customizable and reconfigurable virtual instrument panel

Data in a portable electronic device is protected by using external and internal status detection means to determine if the device is misplaced, lost, or stolen. The device then takes, singly or in combination, one of several actions to protect the data on the device, including declaring its location to an owner or service provider, locking the device or specific functions of the device to disable all data retrieval functionality, erasing or overwriting all the stored data in the device or, where the data has been stored in the device in an encrypted format, destroying an internally-stored encryption key, thereby preventing unauthorized access to the encrypted data in the device.

Method and apparatus for protecting data in a portable electronic device

One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for furrow analysis and visualization. A system for furrow visualization includes a radar sensor configured to be coupled to a planting vehicle and acquire data relating to a furrow being created, and a visualization apparatus communicatively coupled to the radar sensor and configured to generate a point cloud of the furrow. The system further includes a furrow analyzing processor configured to analyze the point cloud and generate a visualization of the furrow.

Furrow visualization

A nozzle monitoring system is provided for a sprayer system of a work vehicle. The system includes a first sensor configured to generate signals associated with vibrations of a first nozzle apparatus on the work vehicle that disperses a primary fluid from the sprayer system during operation; and a controller having a processor receiving the signals generated by the first sensor and having a memory coupled to the processor and storing instructions. The processor executes the stored instructions to: convert the vibrations into a frequency domain representation; generate an image from the frequency domain representation; classify the image to generate a clog condition probability; and generate, based on the clog condition probability, a command to initiate a cleaning event of the first nozzle apparatus.

Work vehicle sprayer system and method with nozzle monitoring

An acoustic or vibration sensor is disposed relative to a portion of an agricultural machine. A sensor signal generated by the acoustic or vibration sensor is provided to a signal processor that identifies acoustic signatures or vibration patterns to determine a machine operation characteristic responsive to the agricultural machine performing an operation. The machine operation characteristic can be a characteristic of the agricultural machine, the soil, and/or furrow opened by the agricultural machine.

Agricultural equipment with acoustic/vibration sensor and signal processing system

A nozzle apparatus is configured to distribute a primary fluid. The nozzle apparatus includes a support plate; a fluid manifold; a fluid nozzle element; an actuator gear assembly; and a pincher gear assembly having a first pincher gear and a second pincher gear mounted on the support plate. The actuator gear assembly is configured to drive the pincher gear assembly between a first position in which the first and second pinchers are positioned relative to each other and relative to the fluid nozzle element such that the fluid nozzle element has a first cross-sectional shape and a second position in which the first and second pinchers are positioned relative to each other and relative to the fluid nozzle element such that the fluid nozzle element has a second cross-sectional shape. The first cross-sectional shape is different than the second cross-sectional shape.

Work vehicle sprayer system and method with pinching nozzle apparatus

Disclosed are meeting spaces that are accessible through an adjoining facility or area, and associated systems and methods that provide automated levels of security for classified discussions. The meeting spaces are configured to automatically adapt to different levels of classification, e.g., from any of unclassified to top secret classifications. The meeting spaces are prevented from becoming active for their intended function until all required security features are activated. In some embodiments, the meeting spaces include one or more electronically opaquing privacy glass windows between the meeting space and the adjoining facility. The privacy glass can either appear as opaque, such as when a classified meeting or call is taking place or as a failsafe mode, or can be optically transmissive, such as when the space is unused, is used for unclassified purposes, and/or when the adjoining area is used at the same or higher level of classification.

Secure meeting space with automatically adaptive classification levels, and associated systems and methods

Disclosed are improved methods, systems and devices for color night vision that reduce the number of intensifiers and/or decrease noise. In some embodiments, color night vision is provided in system in which multiple spectral bands are maintained, filtered separately, and then recombined in a unique three-lens-filtering setup. An illustrative four-camera night vision system is unique in that its first three cameras separately filter different bands using a subtractive Cyan, Magenta and Yellow (CMY) color filtering-process, while its fourth camera is used to sense either additional IR illuminators or a luminance channel to increase brightness. In some embodiments, the color night vision is implemented to distinguish details of an image in low light. The unique application of the three-lens subtractive CMY filtering allows for better photon scavenging and preservation of important color information.

Color night vision cameras, systems, and methods thereof

A nozzle apparatus includes a manifold defining a nozzle cavity within an interior, a fluid inlet passage, a fluid outlet passage, an air outlet passage, and an air inlet passage. A nozzle holder and a nozzle element are selectively pivotable within the nozzle cavity. In the nominal position, the nozzle element inlet is oriented toward the fluid passage inlet and the nozzle element outlet is oriented toward the fluid passage outlet such that the primary fluid flows through the fluid inlet passage and out of the nozzle outlet through the fluid outlet passage. In the cleaning position, the nozzle element inlet is oriented toward the air outlet passage and the nozzle element outlet is oriented toward the air inlet passage such that the flow of air is directed through the air inlet passage, and out of the air outlet passage to direct debris out through the air outlet passage.

Work vehicle sprayer system and method with switching nozzle apparatus

A laserless combat simulation device includes at least one processing device and a memory device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the at least one processing device cause the at least one processing device to receive a trigger event from a weapon device. The instructions further cause the at least one processing device to receive image data from an optical sensor array of the weapon device of a field of view of the weapon device, receive position information and orientation information of the weapon device at the time of the trigger event, analyze the image data to determine an identity and location of a target, and calculate a ballistic outcome based at least in part on the position information and orientation information of the weapon device, the identity and location of the target, and ballistic characteristics of a simulated round fired from the weapon device.

Universal laserless training architecture

Methods, devices and systems are disclosed for improved depth perception in stereoscopic night vision devices. Among these are embodiments for aligning information overlays in the stereo view with associated objects, and for generating stereo information from single lenses or intensifiers. In some illustrative embodiments, a camera and position sensor are provided for at least two viewers, e.g., a pilot and a copilot, such that when a scene overlaps between viewers, the system produces a stereoptic scene, in which the users can more accurately determine a difference in depth between two or more distant objects. An illustrative binocular night vision system uses a high-resolution depth map to present binocular images to a user. In some embodiments, supplementary content can be overlaid, with an appropriate binocular disparity that is based on the depth map.

Methods and associated devices and systems for enhanced 2D and 3D vision

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