Biallo, Dario

A case (100) for storing objects is described, comprising a first half-shell (10) and a second half-shell (20); the first half-shell (10) and/or the second half-shell (20) define a compartment (30) for storing objects; said half-shells (10, 20) are connected to each other and configured to match and to be movable relative to each other to be at least partly moved away from each other; the case (100) is configured to switch between an open configuration wherein the half-shells (10, 20) are matched to prevent the access to the compartment (30) and a closed configuration wherein the half-shells (10, 20) are at least partly moved away from each other to access the compartment (30); the half-shells (10, 20) are shaped to be movable with a relative rototranslation motion.

Disclosed are a soft-starting circuit, a power converter, a method for controlling a soft-starting circuit, a control apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium. The soft-starting circuit includes a controller, a switching circuit, and at least two resistors. The at least two resistors are connected in series with each other in a circuit loop. The switching circuit includes at least two switches for bypassing a corresponding resistor of the at least two resistors respectively. The controller is configured to drive at least one of the at least two switches to be alternately turned on and off. In the present disclosure, a switch is drived to be alternately turned on and off through a pulsed control signal, such that a resistor corresponding to the switch is electrically connected in the circuit loop dynamically, thereby suppressing an inrush current in the circuit loop and protecting the resistor from being damaged.

The present application provides a cathode sheet and a lithium-ion battery utilizing the same. The cathode sheet comprises a current collector and a cathode active coating layer comprising a cathode active material. The cathode active material comprises at least three of a particle N1, a particle N2, a particle N3, a particle N4, and a particle N5, where the particle N1 is the cathode active material with a particle size of less than or equal to 100 nm, the particle N2 is the cathode active material with a particle size of 100-150 nm, the particle N3 is the cathode active material with a particle size of 150-250 nm, the particle N4 is the cathode active material with a particle size of 250-500 nm, and the particle N5 is the cathode active material with a particle size of more than 500 nm. In the cathode active material, according to the mass fraction, a proportion of the particle N1 is X1, a proportion of the particle N2 is X2, a proportion of the particle N3 is X3, a proportion of the particle N4 is X4, and a proportion of the particle N5 is X5; the X1, the X2, the X3, the X4, and the X5 are subjected to power-normalization treatment to obtain a normalization function, where the R<2> corresponding to the normalization function is R<2> ≥ 0.9. The cathode sheet has both high compaction density and excellent lithium ion transport performance.

Method (100) for calibrating a hearing aid (400) worn by a user, the method (100) being implemented by a processing and control unit (330) of a system (300) for calibrating the hearing aid (400), the method (100) comprising the steps: a) receiving (110) at least one acoustic stimulus; and for each one of the detected acoustic stimulus: b) determining (120) a first set of parameters of such a detected acoustic stimulus, c) receiving (130) at least one EEG response, d) determining (140) a second set of parameters of a respective EEG response, e) performing a first verifying step (150) wherein it is verified whether the first set of parameters and the second set of parameters satisfy or not at least one of predetermined first conditions, f) if the detected at least one EEG response is detected within a certain timeframe from a sound onset time and if the outcome of the first verifying step (150) is positive, storing (151) the detected acoustic stimulus in association with the detected at least one EEG response.

The present invention relates to a head mountable device (100) comprising an eye-tracking system (200), comprising a first detecting subsystem (210) configured to detect at least one first gaze parameter of a respective eye to be tracked when a user wears the head mountable device (100) so as to generate a first signal, wherein the first detecting subsystem (210) is of a low power monitoring type, and a second detecting subsystem (220) configured to detect at least one second gaze parameter of the respective eye so as to generate a second signal, the second detecting subsystem (220) comprises a plurality of detecting elements (221, 222), a processing and control unit (230) associated to the first detecting subsystem (210) and to the second detecting subsystem (220) configured to estimate a region of interest (400) among a predetermined plurality of regions of interest on the basis of said first signal, wherein the estimated region of interest (400) comprises the direction of the gaze of a respective eye to be tracked, the processing and control unit (230) is configured to selectively activate one or more of the detecting elements (221, 222) on the basis of the estimated region of interest (400) for subsequently estimating the direction of the gaze of the respective eye to be tracked inside the estimated region of interest (400) on the basis of said second signal with optimized hardware and computing energy consumption.

Computer implemented method for obtaining an output response to a natural language input prompt, the output response being generated by a language model selected from a group of language models, comprising the steps: - receiving the input prompt; - determining a complexity score of the input prompt; - determining a time-criticality score of the input prompt; - for each language model, computing a quality of service score related to the combination of the language model and the input prompt, on the basis of the complexity score of the input prompt, the time-criticality score of the input prompt, a stored response quality function of the language model and a stored latency function of the language model; - selecting a selected language model on the basis of the computed quality service; - forwarding the input prompt to the selected language model; - receiving the output response generated by the selected language model on the basis of the input prompt.

Processing system (100) for executing an artificial intelligence or AI application comprising: a wearable device (110) comprising a first electronic unit (111) and a first battery (112); an electronic mobile terminal (120) connected to the wearable device (110) through a wireless connection (140), said electronic mobile terminal (120) comprising a second electronic unit 121 and a second battery (122); a cloud or edge server (130) connected to the electronic mobile terminal (120) through a telecommunications network (150), said server (130) comprising a third electronic unit 121; wherein the processing system is configured so that, at the first request of execution of the AI application, the AI application is executed by the first electronic unit (111), the second electronic unit (121) and the third electronic unit (131) according to a first predefined computational load distribution, and wherein the second electronic unit (121) is programmed for executing, after the first execution of the AI application, a Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent configured for determining at least one second distribution of the computational load on the basis of wearable device state data, electronic mobile terminal state data, server state data, wireless connection state and telecommunication network state data so as to minimize the energy consumption of the first battery maintaining an end-to-end latency smaller than the application time.

Method (1000) to operate a wearable sensory device for real-time image processing,wherein said sensory device comprises an image detector (100) and a Neural Processing Unit (NPU),wherein said image detector (100) takes at least two consecutive images (201, 202), a first image (201) and a second image (202),wherein the method (1000) is performed by NPU and comprises an algorithm design phase (1200) comprisingan acquiring operation (1201), wherein said acquiring operation (1201) acquires said at least two consecutive images (201, 202),a subtracting operation (1202) which subtracts the first image (201) from the second image (202) and obtains a differential image,a POSITIVE PATH operation (1210) which reconstructs a positive event-like image (32) from said differential image,a NEGATIVE PATH operation (1220) which reconstructs a negative event-like image (31) from said differential image,an addition operation (1230) which adds said negative event-like image (31) to positive event-like image (32) obtaining an event-like image.

Machine for processing a slab-shaped workpiece delimited by a rim, comprising:- support means adapted to support the workpiece;- processing means actuatable to process the workpiece;- movement means actuatable to move the processing means relative to the workpiece allowing the processing of the workpiece by means of the processing means;- detection means adapted to locate at least part of the rim;- a control unit configured to actuate the processing means and the movement means on the basis of the rim as located by the detection means;wherein the detection means comprise an image capture device that can be controlled by the control unit in order to move with respect to the workpiece and to sequentially capture and transmit to the control unit a first image and a plurality of further images of the rim, wherein each image has a centre and an outline, and depicts a portion of the rim that intersects the outline in a first intersection point and a second intersection point, wherein the control unit is configured to control the image capture device in such a way that each further image depicts the first intersection point of the image captured immediately before.

Side-by-side placing device (1) configured to place a plurality of boxes side by side, wherein each box comprises a housing portion and a cover portion connected to the housing portion and comprising a first side flap and a second side flap which protrude from opposite sides along an advancement direction (D) with respect to the housing portion, the device (1) comprising:- support means defining a first alignment position (20) and at least a first further alignment position (21) downstream of the first alignment position (20), wherein the boxes can be positioned substantially aligned with each other along the advancement direction (D) ;- sorting means (3) comprising at least a first fin (31) arranged so that it can be interposed between the first side flap of the box positioned in the first alignment position (20) and the second side flap of the box positioned in the first further alignment position (21), the first fin (31) being rotatable on itself around a first axis of rotation substantially perpendicular to the advancement direction (D); and- movement means (27) that can be operated to advance the box positioned in the first alignment position (20) along the advancement direction (D) towards the box positioned in the first further alignment position (21).