Abstract:
A method for sensing, in an electronic device, the presence and inferring therefrom an intent of an object includes sensing a baseline ambient spatial average temperature for a sensed field of view, monitoring the sensed field of view for a variation in the ambient spatial average temperature of the field of view relative to the baseline, characterizing any detected variation, determining whether the detected variation is a recognized variation, and causing the electronic device to take at least one predetermined action responsive to a recognized variation.
Abstract:
Alignment of a laser apparatus is achieved by actively aligning components of the laser apparatus and then passively deriving an optical axis from that alignment. This passive derivation can be achieved by identifying features of an actively aligned optical element, deriving positional data for those features, and developing an optical axis from that positional data. The derivation of positional data may be performed over a particular coordinate system of an image taken of the feature, e.g., obtained by a vision system. The positional data and optical axis may be extrapolated out to a reference coordinate system for use in passively aligning other optical elements.
Abstract:
Apparatus and methods for implementing an adaptive Dynamic Temperature Range (DTR) control mechanism to extend dynamic temperature range. A DTR control manager is provided to initiate retrain/recalibrate high-speed IO (input-output) links without link reset and extend the dynamic temperature range to the entire operating range based on thermal and other conditions. The DTR control manager ensures optimized retraining/recalibration of the link, which is based on system level parameters (like ambient temperature, fan speed, thermal zone of the devices etc.) and other environmental conditions. In some embodiments the mechanism or algorithm of the DTR control manager can be implemented in a BMC (Baseboard Management controller) or the like and hence enables the adaptive DTR solution in an operating system (OS) agnostic and seamless manner.