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Paul G Allen

Edward K Y Jung

Mark A Malamud

Royce A Levien

John D Rinaldo, Jr

Lowell L Wood, Jr

Roderick A Hyde

Muriel Y Ishikawa

Victoria Y H Wood

Clarence T Tegreene

Jordin T Kare

Nathan P Myhrvold

Eric Leuthardt

James Alan Billmaier

Elizabeth A Sweeney

Edward Stuart Boyden

Dennis James Rivet, Ii

Charles Whitmer

W Daniel Hillis

Thomas A Weaver

Tony S Pan

David Bazeley Tuckerman

Robert C Petroski

Jesse R Cheatham, Iii

Kenneth G Caldeira

Keith David Rosema

Stephen Hugh Salter

Nicholas W Touran

John Latham

Alan Caplan

Richard Glen Ellenbogen

Philip V Bayly

Jeffrey Alex Kramer

David Lozoff Brody

Raul Radovitzky

Anthony Vinson Smith

William David Duncan

Anthony F Istvan

Richard Earl Simpkinson

Alistair K Chan

Michael A Smith

Mahalaxmi Gita Bangera

Stephen L Malaska

Leif T Stordal

Bran Ferren

William Henry Gates, Iii

Robert E Novak

Richard Ignacio Zaragoza

Matthew Regan

Jeffrey A Bowers

Thomas J Nugent, Jr

John Max Kellum

Philip Rogan

Dewey M Reid

Michael Ming Lee

Christopher W Jones

Mark Thomas Greaves

Stephen G Hall

Arun T Jacob

Hon Wah Chin

Gregory R Furnish

Lisa M Wilkins

Kevin Francis Eustice

Michael Perkowitz

Hubert E Kolde

John Lee Horning

Edward J Kramer

Alan Linchuan Liu

Stuart Graham

Andrew Francis Hickl

James K Okamoto

James H Boyden

Arthur T Whitten

John Chu

Robert Arnold

Mark Malleck

Michael Owen Stacie

Stephen P Bard

Robert W Gallup

Keith Rosema

Jeff Bowden

Kevin S Brockway

Thomas Robert Grubbs

Information sharing is initiated between devices based on identification, by one or more of the devices, of a context in which the information is to be shared. Services to provide the shared information are identified based on a mutually agreed level of sensitivity for the information sharing. Information is shared between the devices via the services. Use of the services to share information is stopped in response to a change in context identified by one or more of the devices.

Session-based information exchange

A first augmented reality device shares, with a second augmented reality device, a visualization of an object viewed by the respective devices in an augmented reality scene. The first augmented reality device receives property information, according to which the second augmented reality device is displaying the visualization. The first augmented reality device displays the visualization according to the property information, adjusted to account for differences in perspective between the first and second augmented reality devices.

Shared visualizations in augmented reality

An augmented reality system obtains sensor data depicting a first object in a scene. The identity of the first object is determined. The system estimates a size of the first object based on the determined identity. Based on the estimated size, the system estimates a scale of other objects depicted in the obtained sensor data. An augmented reality display is generated based at least in part on the size of a second object determined using the estimated scale.

Scale determination service

An augmented reality system associates a plurality of services with an augmented reality application that is executing on an augmented reality device. The system receives sensor data obtained by the augmented reality device, and causes the plurality of services to process the data. The system generates an event based on the processing of the received data by the services, and sends the event to the augmented reality device. The augmented reality device generates an augmented reality display based at least in part on the event.

Framework for augmented reality applications

An augmented reality device engages in a mutual exchange of negotiated services with another device. The negotiation comprises a first exchange of respective zero-knowledge proofs, and second exchange of credentials followed by verification of the credentials by a trusted third party, and further exchanges of information comprising services provided by the augmented reality device to the other device, and vice versa. The services are used, in embodiments, to customize an augmented reality experience.

Augmented reality service negotiation

An augmented reality device enables selection and interaction with multiple objects viewed in an augmented reality scene. A cursor is positioned proximate to a first object in response to a first gesture. A selected state of the first object is determined in response to a second gesture. A visual indication of the selected state of the first object is displayed by the augmented reality device. A second position for the cursor, proximate to a second object, is determined. A visual indication of the first object's selected state remains displayed after the cursor is moved to be proximate to the second object.

Augmented reality cursors

An augmented reality device engages in a mutual exchange of negotiated services with another device with a signal determined to have exhibited an area transition effect. The augmented reality device identifies, from a plurality of signals in the ambient environment, a subset of signals that have exhibited the area transition effect. From among the subset, the device identifies a signal that is indicative of support for the negotiation protocol. The negotiation is conducted with a second device associated with the corresponding signal.

Medical overlay mirror methods and related systems.

Medical overlay mirror

A system for predicting and warning of impacts includes a sensor located remote from a user and configured to acquire user data regarding motion of the user and object data regarding motion of the object; and a processing circuit configured to predict a potential impact between the user and the object based on the user data and the object data; and control operation of a user-wearable warning device to provide a warning output to the user in advance of a predicted time of the potential impact.

System and method for impact prediction and proximity warning

A penalty allocation system includes a processing circuit configured to receive first data from a first player-worn sensor regarding a first player involved in an impact, receive second data from a second player-worn sensor regarding a second player involved in the impact, identify one of the first player and the second player as an at-fault player in connection with the impact based on the first data and the second data, and determine a penalty for the at-fault player based on the first data and the second data.

Systems and methods for determining penalties

Methods and articles are provided for generating electricity from carbon-based photosynthate produced by a plant. The methods include providing the plant with a composition including COand/or a composition that generates CO, harvesting a carbon-based photosynthate from the plant, processing the carbon-based photosynthate to produce energy, and converting at least some of the energy into electricity. An apparatus for converting the carbon-based photosynthate into COand heat, and an apparatus for converting the heat of combustion into electricity is also provided. An apparatus is also disclosed for providing the plant with a composition including COand/or a composition that generates CO.

Production of electricity from plants

Methods and articles are provided for reducing the amount of water consumed by a plant over a period of time, sequestering CO, and producing electricity, where each method includes providing the plant with a composition including at least about 0.1 (wt./wt. or vol./vol.) % COand/or at least about 0.1 wt./wt. % of a composition that generates CO. An apparatus is also disclosed for providing the plant with a composition including COand/or a composition that generates CO.

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Described embodiments include a system and a method. A system includes an energy storage device configured to store and release energy. The system includes a waveform sensor configured to detect a second harmonic or higher frequency component deviation in a waveform of electric power supplied to the system by an electrical power grid. The system includes a bi-directional switched-mode converter coupled between the energy storage device and the electrical power grid. The switched-mode converter is configured to receive and convert electric power from the electrical power grid into energy stored in the energy storage device and to convert energy released from the energy storage device into electric power and discharge the converted electric power into the electrical power grid. The system includes a waveform correction manager configured to control the bi-directional switched-mode converter in a manner implementing a waveform deviation reduction strategy responsive to the detected deviation in the waveform.

Balancing power grid parameters using distributed energy control

An airbag inflation system includes a processing circuit configured to receive object data including positional data regarding an object and at least one of a relative velocity and a relative acceleration of the object relative to a first helmet and control operation of an inflation device to inflate an airbag based on the object data.

Helmet airbag system

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