US11006549B2
A cooling assembly includes a body configured to be placed into thermal contact with a heat source and one or more non-planar, hermetic walls disposed within the body. The one or more non-planar hermetic walls extending around, enclosing, and defining a cooling channel configured to carry cooling fluid through the body such that the cooling fluid contacts internal surfaces of the cooling channel inside the body. The assembly including one or more enhancement structures disposed within the body and coupled with the one or more non-planar hermetic walls. The one or more enhancement structures shaped to change a flow path of the cooling fluid as the cooling fluid moves within the cooling channel and shaped to increase a surface area contacted by the cooling fluid within the cooling channel.
US11006548B2
An electrical equipment cabinet cooling device includes an electrical equipment cabinet having a cabinet outer frame defining an inner perimeter wall. A planar outer cabinet wall is positioned within the inner perimeter wall. A two-phase thermal device includes spaced and opposed first and second transfer walls. An outer perimeter wall connects the first and second transfer walls and defines an interior sealed cavity between the first and second transfer walls. The outer perimeter wall is sized for slidable receipt within the inner perimeter wall. A liquid/vapor retained in the interior sealed cavity acts as a heat transfer medium between the first and second transfer walls. A convective cooling block has a planar end face in direct contact with the second transfer wall. Heat transfers to atmosphere in a path including the outer cabinet wall, the first transfer wall, the liquid/vapor, the second transfer wall, and the cooling block.
US11006547B2
A data center immersion cooling system is described. The system comprises: an immersion tank; a heat exchanger to extract heat from heated coolant and transform heated coolant into cooled coolant; a coolant supply line to supply the cooled coolant from the heat exchanger to the immersion tank; and a coolant return line to return the heated coolant from the immersion tank to the heat exchanger, wherein the immersion tank further comprises: a plurality of equipment compartments that accommodate electronic devices; and a heated coolant reservoir disposed around the plurality of equipment compartments, wherein the cooled coolant enters the equipment compartments from the bottom, wherein the heated coolant in the equipment compartments exits the equipment compartments at the top, and is collected into the heated coolant reservoir, and wherein the heated coolant in the heated coolant reservoir is returned to the heat exchanger via the coolant return line. The heated coolant reservoir also provides a buffering function to the systems which is needed in several operating scenarios.
US11006546B2
An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system includes an enclosure and a plurality of power converter modules positioned in the enclosure, each power conversion module including a power converter circuit, a module controller circuit configured to control the power converter circuit and at least one module fan controlled by the module controller circuit. The system further includes a system controller positioned in the enclosure and configured to communicate with the module controller circuits over a communications bus and at least one exhaust fan configured to exhaust air from the enclosure and controlled by the system controller. The system controller is configured to control the at least one exhaust fan responsive to information, such as temperature and/or load information, received from the module controller circuits.
US11006542B2
The invention relates to a power-supply connector for shelves, comprising a bottom cover, a top cover disposed on the bottom cover, positive and negative power-supply contacts clamped between the bottom cover and the top cover, and a cable with one end extending into a holding cavity formed by the bottom cover and the top cover, wherein the cable is electrically connected with the positive and negative power-supply contacts. According to the invention the positive and negative power-supply contacts are respectively rotatably supported about a pivot center, so that when one of the two free ends of a respective power-supply contact moves in a direction away from the top cover in the corresponding through-hole the other of the two free ends of the respective power-supply contact moves in a direction closer to the top cover.
US11006530B2
A method for producing a wired circuit board includes a step (1) of forming a seed layer on one surface in a thickness direction of a peeling layer, a step (2) of forming a conductive pattern on one surface in the thickness direction of the seed layer, a step (3) of covering the seed layer and the conductive pattern with an insulating layer, a step (4) of peeling the peeling layer from the seed layer, and a step (5) of removing the seed layer. The insulating layer has the number of times of folding endurance measured in conformity with JIS P8115 (2001) of 10 times or more.
US11006529B2
A circuit forming method where a metal ink is ejected to a planned formation position of a first wiring at an upper face of a base material. Then, the metal ink is baked, and first wiring is formed. Further, a planned connection section of the first wiring and a second wiring is unbaked. The metal-ink is ejected over an upper face of the unbaked metal ink and a planned formation position of the second wiring at the upper face of the base material. Since the wettability of the upper face of the unbaked metal ink and the wettability of the upper face of the base material are equal to each other, the ejected metal ink ejected and the unbaked metal ink are not separated from each other, so that it is possible to properly connect the first wiring and the second wiring to each other.
US11006527B2
An aspect includes one or more board layers. A first chip cavity is formed within the one or more board layers, wherein a first Josephson amplifier or Josephson mixer is disposed within the first chip cavity. The first Josephson amplifier or Josephson mixer comprises at least one port, each port connected to at least one connector disposed on at least one of the one or more board layers, wherein at least one of the one or more board layers comprises a circuit trace formed on the at least one of the one or more board layers.
US11006521B2
Provided are a wiring base plate and the like including an insulating substrate including a first surface portion including an aluminum oxide-based sintered body and a mullite-based sintered body; and a metallization layer including a second surface portion, the second surface portion containing at least one of a manganese compound and a molybdenum compound and being in contact with the first surface portion of the insulating substrate; wherein the second surface portion of the metallization layer and the first surface portion of the insulating substrate contain at least one of a manganese silicate phase and a magnesium silicate phase.
US11006520B2
Provided is stretchable electronics. The stretchable electronics includes stretchable substrate, first support patterns disposed on a first surface of the stretchable substrate, and output devices disposed on the first patterns, respectively. The first support patterns are arranged in a first direction and a second direction, which are parallel to an extension direction of the substrate, and each of the output devices generates an output stimulation.
US11006503B2
A portable lighting device control module configured to intuitively adjust lighting operations of a portable lighting device by interpreting real-time user gestures and external conditions of the portable lighting device to modifying lighting operations in response thereto. The control module installed within a portable lighting device may be configured to permit automatic dimming of front-end LEDs, enable a low power standby mode in absence of motion being detected, automatic mode adjustments in response to low battery determination, adjustment to lantern mode when a bump gesture is detected, continuous alternation between modes within lantern mode by detecting subsequent bump gestures, exiting lantern mode by detecting orientation, locking the lighting operation to a specific mode by determining orienting as either upwards or downwards, switching between modes by performing twist and return gestures, switching between modes by performing whip gestures, instantaneously dimming the light intensity by twisting the portable lighting device.
US11006497B2
A power supply device includes: an input unit configured to receive an input voltage from outside; a power supply unit configured to generate a power-supply voltage from the input voltage inputted through the input unit; an output unit including an output terminal configured to output the power-supply voltage; and a lighting circuit connected to the input unit and configured to be turned on in response to application of the input voltage. The lighting circuit is configured to vary in lighting mode depending on the input voltage.
US11006495B1
The invention describes methods, systems, and devices used for lighting with controllable spectrum, thereby providing a desired true radiation, true spectrum, and a uniform light distribution across a target plane. Uniform distribution of light density is achieved by an uneven arrangement of light sources, positioned in a predetermined spatial relationship. Control of the radiation emitted from each one of the light sources is performed via a controller interface connected to the system. The light sources, preferably LEDs, are installed onto a circuit board, each circuit board of a system being the same, each system comprising one or more circuit boards with light sources. The entire system of light sources is programmable for daily and long-term cycles, per user or situational preference.
US11006490B2
There is proposed an interface circuit for connecting an electronic ballast to a lighting arrangement, in which control of a coupling configuration of the interface circuit is dependent upon a frequency of the electronic ballast. In particular, a coupling configuration of the interface circuit is controlled by a control arrangement based on the ballast frequency.
US11006489B2
An optical device includes a light-emitting device and a sensor device (a light receiving element). The light-emitting device includes a substrate, a plurality of light-emitting elements, and a plurality of light-transmitting units. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface. The second surface is opposite the first surface. The plurality of light-emitting elements are located on the first surface side of the substrate. Each of the plurality of light-transmitting units is located between light-emitting elements adjacent to each other. The light-emitting device has light-transmitting properties by the plurality of light-transmitting units. Light from the plurality of light-emitting elements is emitted mainly from the second surface of the substrate. The amount of light leakage from light emitted from each light-emitting element and leaked toward the outside of the first surface of the substrate is suppressed.
US11006482B2
Example implementations relate to upgrading access points (APs). In some examples, a primary AP may comprise a processing resource and a memory resource storing machine readable instructions to determine, in response to receiving a data transmission from a secondary AP, whether an image version of the secondary AP and a class of the secondary AP are a same image version and class as the primary AP, determine whether the class of the secondary AP is a same class as a seed AP, and instruct the secondary AP, in response to the seed AP being the same class as the secondary AP, to upgrade the image version of the secondary AP from the seed AP.
US11006477B2
There is provided a control device including a communication unit configured to perform communication with a radio communication device of a radio communication system in which communication is possible using a plurality of access schemes including at least one of the access schemes of a multiple access scheme that uses orthogonal resources and a multiple access scheme that uses non-orthogonal resources, and a control unit configured to perform allocation of resources relating to the access schemes to be used by the radio communication device.
US11006458B2
The present application provides a method and device for random access. The method includes: receiving, via a terminal device, N groups of random access-related information sent by a network device, wherein the N groups of random access-related information are determined by the network device according to a network deployment and optimization policy, and the ith group of random access-related information is used by the terminal device for determining a random access preamble set i and a time-frequency resource corresponding to the random access preamble set i, N being a positive integer greater than or equal to 1, i=1, . . . N; and sending, via the terminal device, a random access preamble to the network device according to the N groups of random access-related information.
US11006450B2
A method of method of allocating a protection duration of a radio subsystem for a transmitting station of a wireless communication system includes transmitting a frame to at least one receiving station of the wireless communication system, wherein the proprietary frame indicates the protection duration allocated for the radio subsystem.
US11006445B2
A wireless device receives a first downlink control information indicating activation of a semi-persistent channel state information reporting. A first medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) is transmitted confirming the first downlink control information. The first MAC CE is identified by a first MAC subheader with a first logical channel identifier for the semi-persistent channel state information reporting. A second downlink control information indicating activation of a configured uplink grant is received. A second MAC CE confirming the second downlink control information is transmitted. The second MAC CE is identified by a second MAC subheader with a second logical channel identifier for the configured uplink grant.
US11006444B2
In the present invention, a user equipment (UE) receives a paging message associated with downlink (DL) data. The UE transmits a paging feedback using a uplink (UL) grant associated with the paging message. The UE monitors a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) to receive the DL data.
US11006441B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a UE (User Equipment). In one embodiment, the method includes transmitting a Scheduling Request (SR) on a first uplink bandwidth part (BWP). The method further includes receiving a response for the SR on a first downlink BWP. The method also includes detecting a beam failure when using the first uplink BWP and the first downlink BWP. In addition, the method includes transmitting a beam failure recovery (BFR) request to a network node on the first uplink BWP. Furthermore, the method includes receiving a control signalling on a second downlink BWP from the network node after transmitting the BFR request, wherein the control signalling is a response for the BFR request and the second downlink BWP is associated with the first uplink BWP.
US11006437B2
A method for carrier aggregation-based demodulation is provided, which includes: when uplink data sent by UE based on a scheduled SCC is received, if a current moment is a periodic CQI reporting moment and a first PCC scheduling result of the UE is not received when a demodulation format used for demodulating the uplink data needs to be determined before the current moment, demodulating the uplink data respectively based on a first demodulation format and a second demodulation format, to obtain a first demodulation result, a second demodulation result, a first check result, and a second check result; and if the first PCC scheduling result is already received when the demodulation is completed, determining, based on the first PCC scheduling result, the first demodulation result, the second demodulation result, the first check result, and the second check result, a demodulation result of correctly demodulating the uplink data.
US11006435B2
A communication terminal is described comprising a first transceiver configured for communication according to a first radio access technology and a second transceiver configured for communication according to a second radio access technology. The second transceiver is configured to determine whether a frequency range is occupied by a transmission according to the second radio access technology and to notify the first transceiver whether the frequency range is occupied by a transmission according to the second radio access technology. The first transceiver is configured to receive signals transmitted in the frequency range based on the notification from the second transceiver.
US11006433B2
The present disclosure relates to bearer establishment methods, user equipment, and base stations. One example method includes configuring, by user equipment (UE), a bearer for the UE by using a pre-stored configuration parameter, where the pre-stored configuration parameter includes an access stratum (AS) configuration parameter, and sending, by the UE, service data to a base station by using the bearer.
US11006432B2
The technologies described herein are generally directed toward managing signal traffic in a wireless network. Example operations can include receiving, for a group of cells, a control channel utilization value for a control channel and a data channel utilization value for a data channel. The operations can further include generating, based on the control channel utilization value and a threshold, for a first cell of the group of cells, a channel allocation that can increase the balance of use of control channel resources and data channel resources for the first cell, and configuring the first cell of the group of cells to allocate control channel resources and data channel resources of the first cell based on the channel allocation.
US11006429B2
Devices and methods of joint antenna panel switching and beam selection are generally described. A user equipment (UE) can be configured to decode configuration information received via a higher layer for a plurality of receive (Rx) beams for the UE, the configuration information identifying a plurality of Rx beam indices for the plurality of Rx beams. The UE is configured to decode a physical layer (PHY) communication indicating an antenna panel index and an Rx beam index of the plurality of Rx beam indices, the antenna panel index identifying an antenna panel of a plurality of available antenna panels of the UE. The UE is configured to decode a downlink (DL) data transmission, wherein the DL data transmission is received using the antenna panel and a selected Rx beam of the plurality of Rx beams corresponding to the indicated Rx beam index.
US11006427B2
A base station device is configured to set, for each communication terminal device, a radio format for signals transmitted to and received from the communication terminal device. The radio format is set for each communication terminal device in accordance with, for example, a type of use including a moving speed of the communication terminal device. The base station device may be configured to change the radio format for the communication terminal device based on the information about a change in the environment of a radio communication between the communication terminal device and the base station device and a change including the communication terminal device's location. The signals transmitted and received between the base station device and the communication terminal device include radio formats in which at least one of a length of a symbol of the signal and a length of a cyclic prefix in an OFDM scheme differs.
US11006425B2
Techniques discussed herein can facilitate handling of DL (Downlink) control and data channels having different numerologies in NR (New Radio). One example embodiment comprises an apparatus employable by a UE (User Equipment) configured to generate a report comprising capability information associated with the UE, wherein the capability information indicates whether the UE supports multiplexing of multiple numerologies within a common symbol in a FDM (Frequency Division Multiplexing)-based manner; process first higher layer signaling that configures one or more control resource sets of a NR (New Radio) PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel), wherein the one or more control resource sets are associated with one or more numerologies in accordance with the UE capability information; and demodulate a NR PDSCH (Physical Downlink Shared Channel) from a resource distinct from resources of the NR PDCCH.
US11006423B2
There is disclosed a method of operating a radio node in a wireless communication network. The method includes communicating using a first set of one or more signaling beams, wherein communicating includes performing beamforming for one or more signaling beams of the first set based on a set of beam signaling characteristics. Each beam signaling characteristic pertains to a reference beam. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US11006401B2
Systems, apparatus, user equipment (UE), evolved node B(eNB), and methods are described for machine-type communications (MTC) with early termination of repeated transmissions. In MTC implementations with narrow bandwidth, significant numbers of retransmissions may be scheduled based on channel quality measurements. If data is successfully decoded at a receiving device while a significant number of retransmissions remain, system resources are wasted. Embodiments described herein thus use downlink control messaging or intermediate hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) messaging for early termination of repeated messages.
US11006400B2
A user equipment (UE) is described that includes a control channel receiver configured to monitor, in a license-assisted-access (LAA) cell, a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and to monitor a second PDCCH. The first PDCCH includes a DCI format having a field for indicating an occupied-OFDM-symbol configuration for a subframe in which the first PDCCH is detected. The second PDCCH is a PDCCH of which detection indicates a transmission of a PDSCH on the LAA cell. A reference signal receiver is configured to receive reference signals of which resource element position within the subframe is determined depending on the occupied-OFDM-symbol configuration. A shared channel receiver is configured to receive the PDSCH assuming the same antenna port is used as for the reference signals.
US11006396B2
Embodiments of this application provide a data processing method, a base station, and a terminal. A base station receive first data from a first terminal on a first resource, and receive second data from the first terminal and third data from a second terminal on a second resource, where a modulation order of the second data is lower than a modulation order of the first data, and/or a code rate of the second data is less than a code rate of the first data, and/or a transmit power of the second data is less than a transmit power of the first data. The base station demodulates and decodes the first data, the second data and the third data. Therefore, the embodiments of this application can effectively improve decoding success rates of data that is of different users and that is transmitted on a same resource.
US11006393B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting control and training symbols to improve transmission efficiency in a multi-user wireless communication system. The method for transmitting the control and training symbols in the multi-user wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: determining whether a required transmission rate of each data can be satisfied through channel estimation in each of terminals when different data are simultaneously transmitted to each of the terminals; and transmitting a data frame to each of the terminals, the data frame being composed to discriminate the control and training symbols in each of the terminals using a combination of time, frequency, and code area when the required transmission rate of each data is not satisfied according to the determined result.
US11006387B2
The present disclosure provides a method of transmitting a Physical Broadcasting Channel (PBCH) by a base station in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method may include generating a PBCH payload including bits indicating a frame in which the PBCH is transmitted; scrambling at least some of the bits included in the PBCH payload using second and third least significant bits among the bits; and transmitting the bits of the PBCH payload including the at least some scrambled bits to a user equipment.
US11006386B2
The present application provides paging methods and devices, which can reduce signaling overhead. A method comprises: determining a paging time of a first terminal device by using at least one first bit of a first identifier of the first terminal device; transmitting a paging message during the paging time; where the paging message carries identifier information of the first terminal device, and the identifier information is obtained based on at least one second bit, except the at least one first bit, of the first identifier of the first terminal device, or, the identifier information is obtained based on a second identifier of the first terminal device, where a length of the identifier information is shorter than the second identifier of the first terminal device.
US11006377B2
A signal transmission method and an apparatus are disclosed. In an embodiment a signal transmission method includes generating a reference signal and sending the reference signal, wherein the reference signal is sent in a specific time-frequency resource, and the specific time-frequency resource is located on symbols corresponding to a synchronization signal block.
US11006368B2
This invention provides a communication processing system that reduces the power consumption of a remote UE associated with measurement of a strength of a received signal. The communication processing system includes a communication terminal, a base station, relay stations that relay communication between the communication terminal and the base station, a measurer that measures, in the communication terminal, a strength of a signal received from one of the relay stations, and a controller that controls to reselect another of the relay stations if the measured strength of the received signal is smaller than a first threshold, and reduce a count of measuring the strength of the received signal by the measurer if the measured strength of the received signal is larger than the second threshold which is larger than the first threshold.
US11006367B2
A method and apparatus for optimizing power consumption in multi-subscriber identity module (SIM) devices in a wireless communication system is disclosed. For example, a UE may determine, in a Multi-Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Multi-Subscriber (MSMS) mode, whether one of a plurality of subscriptions is configured as a Default Data Subscription (DDS) or a non-DDS; and perform a carrier aggregation power saving mode procedure for the one of the plurality of subscriptions based on a determination that the one of the plurality of subscriptions is configured as the DDS or the non-DDS.
US11006362B2
A method for beam failure recovery in a wireless communication system is provided. The wireless communication system includes a UE and a base station. The method includes the following actions. A first BWP configuration, a second BWP configuration and a BWP inactivity timer are received by the UE from the base station. The UE is configured to be switched from a first BWP to a second BWP when the BWP inactivity timer expires, and the first BWP corresponds to the first BWP configuration and the second BWP corresponds to the second BWP configuration. Whether a beam failure recovery procedure is triggered is determined by the UE. The BWP inactivity timer is stopped by the UE when the beam failure recovery procedure is triggered.
US11006361B2
Systems and methods relating to a core network detection mechanism for detecting abnormal signaling patterns for signaling aimed at wireless devices (e.g., low-power consumption wireless devices such as low-power consumption Machine Type Communication (MTC) devices) are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a core network node in a cellular communications network comprises receiving signaling aimed at a wireless device, detecting, via a detection mechanism, an abnormal signaling pattern based on the signaling, and taking one or more actions upon detecting an abnormal signaling pattern. In this manner, an action(s) may be made to mitigate increased power consumption at the wireless device due to abnormal signaling.
US11006348B2
A transmission method of system information, a user equipment, a network side device, a system and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: receiving, by the UE, system information sent by a network side device, the system information is part of system information of the network side device; sending, by the UE, a request message to the network side device, wherein the request message is used to request the system information required by the UE; receiving by the UE, the system information required by the UE in on-demand system information sent by the network side device, wherein the on-demand system information is another part of system information of the network side device other than the part of system information of the network side device.
US11006343B2
The present disclosure is a novel utility of a software defined radio (SDR) based Distributed Antenna System (DAS) that is field reconfigurable and support multi-modulation schemes (modulation-independent), multi-carriers, multi-frequency bands and multi-channels. The present invention enables a high degree of flexibility to manage, control, enhance, facilitate the usage and performance of a distributed wireless network such as Flexible Simulcast, automatic traffic load-balancing, network and radio resource optimization, network calibration, autonomous/assisted commissioning, carrier pooling, automatic frequency selection, frequency carrier placement, traffic monitoring, traffic tagging, pilot beacon, etc. As a result, a DAS in accordance with the present invention can increase the efficiency and traffic capacity of the operators' wireless network.
US11006342B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide a handover may be performed based on one or more conditions at a UE and in conjunction with a handover procedure from a source base station to a target base station. The one or more conditions at the UE may be associated with successful establishment or maintenance of the second connection. In some cases, the one or more conditions at the UE may correspond to one or more measurements associated with the source base station, the target base station, one or more neighboring base stations, or any combinations thereof.
US11006340B2
An approach of handling interference caused by inter-modulation in a network node for wireless communication capable of communication with a set of stations for wireless communication is disclosed. The stations are wireless transceiver devices and communication from the network node to any of the stations is considered to be downlink communication performed on a downlink carrier in a downlink carrier frequency band and communication from any of the stations is considered to be uplink communication performed on an uplink carrier in an uplink carrier frequency band. The method comprises, when an interference level indicates probable inter-modulation interference, scheduling uplink transmission grants for a plurality of stations of a subset of the stations within a time interval, such that scheduling outside the time interval is reduced. The uplink transmission grants are valid for the time interval, wherein the scheduling uplink transmission grants is performed by adapting a schedule for at least one station of the plurality of stations of the subset of the stations to fall within the time interval. The method further comprises transmitting the uplink transmission grant to the plurality of stations of the subset of stations, assigning limited transmissions on the downlink carrier frequency band at the time interval such that inter-modulation interference is reduced on the uplink carrier frequency band during the time interval, and assigning transmissions on the downlink carrier frequency band outside the time interval with less limitations than during the time interval. The approach comprises methods, network nodes, computer programs and network node sites.
US11006339B2
A method for improved handling of at least one communication exchange between a telecommunications network and at least one user equipment includes: in a first step, the at least one communication exchange is enabled by performing an attachment procedure of the at least one user equipment to the telecommunications network involving a first gateway entity; and in a second step, subsequent to the first step, the at least one user equipment transmits at least one subsequent data packet, the at least one subsequent data packet being received by a second gateway entity instead of the first gateway entity.
US11006336B2
A method for cell selection and/or cell reselection handling includes: performing, by a user equipment, a cell selection and/or cell reselection procedure wherein both a first radio cell and a second radio cell fulfill a cell selection criterion with the first radio cell being prioritized relative to the second radio cell; attempting, by the user equipment, to connect to a public land mobile network using a random access channel of a first base station entity, and failing to connect to the public land mobile network using the random access channel of the first base station entity; and performing, by the user equipment, a modified cell selection and/or cell reselection procedure, under unchanged radio conditions, whereby the user equipment attempts to connect to the public land mobile network using a random access channel of the second base station entity.
US11006334B2
A user equipment (14) in a wireless communication network detects, for a serving link, signal quality under which the user equipment (14) is permitted to refrain from performing neighbor link measurements. Responsive to detecting that the signal quality of the serving link has dropped by at least a threshold amount since detecting the signal quality under which the user equipment (14) is permitted to refrain, the user equipment (14) performs neighbor link measurements. A base station (12) transmits signaling to configure the user equipment (14) accordingly.
US11006326B2
Provided is a method and device for implementing session continuity. The method includes: transmitting indication information to a user equipment (UE), where the indication information is used for informing the UE to release a current first protocol data unit (PDU) session and establish a second PDU session to the same data network; and receiving a request message, initiated by the UE after the indication information is received by the UE, for establishing the second PDU session, where the request message carries a session identifier of the first PDU session for uniquely identifying the first PDU session. The above-mentioned technical solution solves the problem in the related art that it is impossible to determine from which PDU session the newly established PDU session is switched over when the UE is redirected to a new TUPF. Thus the network side is able to determine from which PDU session the newly established PDU session is redirected.
US11006313B2
A pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system, such as Long-Term Evolution (LTE) is provided. An apparatus for providing a service network in a wireless communication system is provided. The apparatus includes a first transceiver configured to support a first radio access technology (RAT), a second transceiver configured to support a second RAT, and at least one processor configured to access a base station using the first RAT, provide a service network to at least one client device using the second RAT, and transmit at least one signal to restrict the at least one client device from entering a power saving mode, if a traffic of a client device is transferred via a low-latency service provided in the first RAT.
US11006303B2
A channel state reporting method based on a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, may comprise the steps of: receiving a CSI-RS configuration associated with a partial band occupying a frequency band configured with a single numerology; and when CSI-RS configurations for multiple partial bands are included in the CSI-RS configuration, configuring the respective multiple partial bands with numerologies that are different from each other, and according to the CSI-RS configuration associated with the partial band, transmitting CSI information derived from a CSI-RS transmitted from the partial band.
US11006302B2
A second device that is in communication with a first device receives transmissions of the first device and detects a SILENCE period status of the first device, which corresponds to a status wherein the first device has no speech samples to be transmitted towards the second apparatus. The second device determines the type of the received transmissions, counts the number of received transmissions of a first type, and times a time interval between the last received transmission of the first type and the last received transmission of a second determined type. At reception of a transmission of the first type, the second device detects whether the first device is in the SILENCE period status on an evaluation of the counted number of transmissions of the first type and the time interval of the last received transmission of the first type and the last received transmission of the second type.
US11006296B2
A method for determining quality of a communications link between an external instrument (EI) and an implantable medical device (IMD) is provided. The method includes receiving, with a receiver of an EI, data packets sent at intervals from an IMD and determining, with a processor of the EI, an expected time interval between a first data packet and a second data packet. The processor of the EI determines a difference between the expected time interval between the first data packet and the second data packet and an actual time interval between the first data packet and the second data packet. The processor of the EI also provides a time variant communication quality indicator based on the difference between the expected time interval between the first data packet and the second data packet and the actual time interval between the first data packet and the second data packet.
US11006295B2
A Core Service Platform (CSP) system is integrated with an operator network and IT system to provide services to subscribers and operators. Based on information collected from the operator network and IT system, the CSP system delivers alerts to a subscriber's device and provides offers to resolve the condition causing the alerts. The CSP system provides customized contextual offers to the subscriber's device based on contextual assessments of a subscriber's current context, such as time in contract, loyalty status, data and voice usage, value of customer, time, location and purchase history. The CSP system also provides an operator a suite of tools for the operator to manage its pricing, offers, campaigns and other subscriber-related issues.
US11006290B2
By utilizing a database module, retrieving configuration management data related to network parameters can generate additional network efficiencies. The database module can be strategically placed to be utilized by various activities such as system network optimization, load balancing, network coverage, etc. The database module can also be utilized to automatically print out a radio frequency data sheet and utilized to perform network planning, generate updated sector information and import manually data that is currently procured manually.
US11006289B2
The present invention aims to provide a communication system capable of optimizing network processing. The communication system according to the present invention includes an application server (10) configured to detect a behavior of a communication terminal (50) and a service common apparatus (20) configured to receive an identifier of the communication terminal (50) and behavior information on the communication terminal (50) transmitted from the application server (10) via a first interface defined between the service common apparatus (20) and the application server (10) and to transmit the identifier of the communication terminal (50) and the behavior information on the communication terminal (50) to a mobile network node (40) via a second interface defined between the service common apparatus (20) and the mobile network node (40) to optimize a parameter regarding the communication terminal (50).
US11006282B2
In a connected vehicle environment, network connection parameters such as a network congestion window and bit rate are automatically adjusted dependent on a location of a vehicle in order to optimize network performance. A geospatial database stores learned relationships between network performance of a connected vehicle at different physical locations when configured in accordance with different network parameters. The vehicle can then adjust its network parameters dynamically dependent on its location. A vehicle may maintain multiple connections to different networks concurrently for transmitting duplicate data of a data stream, with the vehicle independently adjusting parameters associated with different networks to optimize performance.
US11006279B2
A wireless device, for operation within a wireless network, the wireless device comprising: a RF transmitter, a RF receiver, and processing circuitry, where the RF transmitter sends a radar-detected message or a channel-switch announcement message to other wireless devices in the wireless networks. The other wireless devices receive the radar-detected message and abandon radar-detected channels designated in the radar-detected message. The other wireless devices also receive the channel-switch announcement message and switch to radar-free channels designated in the channel-switching message.
US11006276B2
A method and corresponding apparatus for providing a cellular subscriber with access to a WLAN are provided. They involve identifying a multimode mobile terminal, which corresponds to the subscriber and the WLAN from an access request. Based on the identification, the WLAN is authorized to provide the mobile terminal with access. The mobile terminal is then provided with access to the WLAN as a cellular subscriber and enables interoperability between the two networks. For example, the subscriber does not have to supply a credit card to pay for WLAN access directly. Instead, the subscriber pays a cellular network provider, and, in turn, the cellular network provider pays a WLAN provider for the access.
US11006275B1
A system for connected vehicle control may include a communicator configured to connect with a user terminal though wireless communication, and generate authentication information by combining user terminal information and vehicle information, a head unit having a password for operation and configured to generate a visible code by converting the authentication information, a body controller configured to control the vehicle according to a remote control signal sent according to a remote control function of a user application installed in the user terminal, and a controller configured to connect the communicator, the head unit, and the user application through the wireless communication, authenticate, and register.
US11006273B2
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for policy-based authentication, where the policy may designate locations and/or forms of proof of locations, for use in authentication. Some embodiments include or utilize a database storing authentication policies. In an example system, an authentication server in communication with the database is configured to receive a request from a device needing authentication. The request may include a credential. The authentication server is configured to retrieve, from the database storing authentication policies, an authentication policy corresponding to the device, the retrieved authentication policy specifying a location parameter. The authentication server is configured to receive location data from the device and resolve the authentication request using the credential and the received location data pursuant to the retrieved authentication policy.
US11006260B2
The disclosure is directed to a system, apparatus, and method for continuously monitoring data output from a wireless sensor on a mesh network at a frequency higher than mesh formation/propagation. For example, the system may include a wireless gateway, an amplifier coupled to the wireless gateway, a first antenna coupled to the amplifier, a second antenna coupled to the amplifier, and a wireless sensor. The wireless sensor may be a wireless temperature sensor configured to monitor the temperature of a cryopreserved material product. The wireless gateway forms the mesh network. The first antenna may be located on a first level of a building, and the second antenna may be located on a second level of the building, where the second level may be at an elevation higher than the first level.
US11006251B2
A technological solution to the problem of meeting people solely through electronic communication is described. The technological solution includes receiving location data from a first user system a second user system of a potential encounter within a venue, and delivering a nudge from the first user system to the second user system. The nudge is a canned request to engage in an in-person communication for users associated with the first user system and the second user system. Upon confirmation of the nudge, and receiving confirmation of a human-to-human interaction, potential encounter contact information is provided to facilitate electronic communication between the first user system and the second user system.
US11006246B2
A base station is configured to control a wireless communication network cell of a wireless communication network and is configured to use a coarse position information related to a coarse position of a user equipment to determine a direction towards the user equipment. The base station is configured to transmit a positioning signal to the user equipment and to direct the transmission of the positioning signal towards the user equipment. The positioning signal is adapted to allow for a determining of a fine position information relating to the user equipment.
US11006239B2
An electronic apparatus includes communication circuitry and processing circuitry. The communication circuitry receives first and second wireless signals from a first terminal when the electronic apparatus reaches first and second measurement points. The communication circuitry receives third and fourth wireless signals from a second terminal when the electronic apparatus reaches third and fourth measurement points. The processing circuitry estimates one or more first candidates of a position of the first terminal and one or more second candidates of a position of the second terminal. The processing circuitry specifies the position of the first terminal and the position of the second terminal.
US11006231B1
A voice amplification apparatus is provided and configured to attach to a portion of a personal protective equipment (PPE) device such that the apparatus is hands-free and in close proximity to a user's mouth. The voice amplification apparatus comprises a speaker and microphone in various positions, wherein the microphone is configured to capture the user's voice which is amplified and projected out of the speaker. In this way, the user can be clearly heard by those in proximity to the user. Advantageously, the usefulness of the apparatus will prevent users from lowering their PPE to communicate which poses a safety hazard during a pandemic, such as COVID-19.
US11006214B2
Systems and methods discussed herein involve designating a default playback device in a local playback network. One method may involve determining that a networked microphone device is available for assignment to one or more playback zones within a local playback network, displaying a prompt to indicate at least one playback zone to which the network microphone device is to be assigned, receiving an input indicating a particular playback zone in the local playback system to which the network microphone device is to be assigned, and storing data indicating an assignment of the network microphone device to the particular playback zone.
US11006213B1
A shower entertainment system provides a waterproof exo-housing forming a cavity for receiving a smart phone. A waterproof speaker is supported within cavity and is in operational interconnection with the smart phone. A touchscreen access screen facilitates manual control of speaker through the smart phone. A hook extends from the housing for retention from a shower head. The hook further articulates between a flat nested position and an extended upward position. The hook alternately is positioned angular to the rear surface of the housing for the housing while placed flat on a horizontal surface. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
US11006208B1
An acoustic source positionable on a platform in an operating environment includes a pendulum arm and a transducer positioned on the pendulum arm. The combined arm and transducer have a natural frequency of oscillation dictated by gravity and a pendulum length. A signal generator is electrically joined to the transducer. The signal generator has a preferred frequency of operation at the natural frequency of the pendulum.
US11006200B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to a hearing device configured adjust the tap detection sensitivity on based on context. The disclosed technology can determine a context for a hearing device based on sound received at the hearing device (e.g., determine loud environment) or a wireless communication signal from an external device received at the hearing device (e.g., receive a message that phone call is incoming); adjust a tapping sensitivity threshold of the hearing device based on the context; detect a tap of the hearing device based on the adjusted sensitivity threshold; and modify a setting of the hearing device (e.g., reduce volume based on a tap) or transmitting instructions to the external device based on detecting the tap. The hearing device can be a hearing aid.
US11006195B2
Small-scale audio speakers of various shapes are installed in parent devices. Inner casings, and the surrounding vibration-damping zone often required between such casings and the surrounding parent-device walls, are omitted from the assembly. During integration with the parent device, each un-encased speaker and its signal lines are sealed into a single-walled enclosure that incorporates a parent-device wall as at least one side. The entire interior of the single-walled enclosure becomes a back volume for the speaker. The single-walled enclosure may incorporate seals at the speaker's audio-output aperture, at the pass-through for the signal lines, and at the interface between the parent-device wall(s) and the added side(s) constituting the single-walled enclosure. Optional adhesive-free sealing options include sliding tabs held by a snap-lock latch.
US11006191B2
The disclosure provides for use of watermarking as a basis control abandonment of dynamic content modification. Upon detecting of the occurrence of a trigger event for causing a content presentation device to abandon a dynamic content modification with respect to a media stream being delivered to the content presentation device, an entity encodes into the media stream an abandonment-watermark interpretable by the content presentation device to cause the content presentation device to abandon the dynamic content modification. The content presentation device then detects the abandonment-watermark in the media stream being received by the content presentation device and in response to the abandonment-watermark, abandons the dynamic content modification.
US11006181B2
A method and a system for virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, or 360-degree Video environment is disclosed. The system receives Video Streams associated to audio and video scenes to be reproduced and Audio Streams associated to audio and video scenes to be reproduced. There are provided a Video decoder which decodes signal from the Video Stream for the representation of the audio and video scene; an Audio decoder which decodes signal from the Audio Stream for the representation of the audio and video scene to the user; and a region of interest processor deciding, based e.g. on the user's viewport, head orientation, movement data, or metadata, whether an Audio information message is to be reproduced. At the decision, the reproduction of the Audio information message is caused.
US11006178B2
The present invention discloses a multi-account personalized artificial intelligent TV interface and system thereof for providing a user to perform software and/or hardware operations. The step (a) is to provide a single layer of work page; and step (b) is on the work page to form an account block and a content block associated with the account block; step (c) is for the user to switch the account block to display the content block corresponding to the account block; and step (d) is to execute the account block or the content block to generate a result content on the work page; and the step (e) is to create new content block or renew the account block and the content block by detecting the result content escaping from the work page. A recommendation content based on a data calculated by artificial intelligence is feedbacked to the user.
US11006176B2
Techniques are disclosed that generally relate to content delivery techniques in audio-visual systems. In an audio-visual system, a method of using sensors to incrementally present content elements on a display includes presenting a first content element on the display, receiving first data from a sensor, the first data associated with a first distance. An increment coefficient is identified, and a portion size is determined by reducing the first distance by the increment coefficient. Finally, an unseen portion of a second content element is incrementally added to the display, and a presented portion of the first content element is incrementally removed from the display, the size of the portions added and removed being equal to the determined portion size.
US11006173B2
A configuration is realized in which a packet delimiter can be discriminated from an MMTP packet string including MMT format data, and a packet can be selectively acquired and reproduced. The MMT format data is input through a broadcast wave or the like, a packet length of an MMT protocol (MMTP) packet including the MMT format data is acquired, and recording data in which an additional header storing the acquired packet length is set before the MMTP packet, is generated, and is recorded in an information recording medium. A reproducing device is capable of discriminating a delimiter of each MMTP packet, according to the packet length of the MMTP packet, read from the additional header, is capable of acquiring reproducing data, for example, image data, from the selected packet, and is capable of decoding and reproducing the acquired data.
US11006165B2
A controlling device is automatically configured to issue a communication directly to a first controllable appliance to control a functional operation of the first controllable appliance in the event that the first controllable appliance is determined to be unresponsive to a command communication transmitted to the first controllable appliance via a digital communications link or to issue a communication to a second controllable appliance to control the functional operation of the first controllable appliance via a digital communications link in the event that first controllable appliance is determined to be responsive to a command communication transmitted to the first controllable appliance via a digital communications link.
US11006154B2
Systems, devices and automated processes augment television broadcasts with digital content that automatically replaces static portions of the captured imagery. In a video broadcast of a live event, for example, signs or other advertisements that are physically present in the event venue can be automatically replaced in television broadcasts of the event by virtual imagery of other signs or objects, as desired.
US11006145B2
An intra prediction method and a device using the intra prediction method are provided. The intra prediction method using a DC mode includes setting a bottom-right pixel to a DC-predicted value, interpolating the bottom-right pixel and an n-th top reference pixel to derive predicted values of an n-th column and interpolating the bottom-right pixel and an n-th left reference pixel to derive predicted values of an n-row, and performing bidirectional linear interpolation to derive predicted values of pixels included in a prediction unit other than the n-th row and the n-th column.
US11006144B2
Provided are a video encoding and decoding method and apparatus for obtaining, in a video encoding and decoding process, motion vector resolution information from a bit stream by using a high-level syntax which is a group of information that is applied to a predefined data unit group; determining a motion vector resolution of a current block included in the predefined data unit group based on the motion vector resolution information; determining a prediction motion vector of the current block to be a motion vector of a candidate block from among at least one candidate block, based on the motion vector resolution of the current block; and determining a motion vector of the current block by using the prediction motion vector of the current block.
US11006137B2
A scheduler of computer processes. The scheduler obtains predictions of a computing load of at least one multimedia process comprising real time video encoding or transcoding of a video in real time, including predictions of a target index of video quality to deliver the video over a period of time. Predictions of available computing capacities of a cluster are also retrieved. A determination is made, based on the predictions of the computing load and the predictions of the available computing capacities, of a processing capability to allocate the at least one multimedia process during the period of time. At least one virtual environment is created for the at least one multimedia process. The computing capacity of the at least one virtual environment is adapted to the predictions of the computing load of the at least one multimedia process during the period of time.
US11006126B2
There is provided a picture coding device that performs intra prediction coding of a picture signal including a luma signal and a chroma signal in units of blocks and codes information relating to an intra prediction mode. When the intra prediction of a picture signal is made in units of coding blocks, in a case where a chroma format is 4:2:2, in a mode for setting a chroma intra prediction mode in accordance with the luma intra prediction mode, an intra prediction unit sets the chroma intra prediction mode based on the luma intra prediction mode and the chroma format and makes an intra prediction of the chroma signal.
US11006124B2
The disclosure provides a sample adaptive offset (SAO) encoder. The SAO encoder includes a statistics collection (SC) block and a rate distortion optimization (RDO) block coupled to the SC block. The SC block receives a set of deblocked pixels and a set of original pixels. The SC block categorizes each deblocked pixel of the set of deblocked pixels in at least one of a plurality of band and edge categories. The SC block estimates an error in each category as difference between a deblocked pixel of the set of deblocked pixels and corresponding original pixel of the set of original pixels. The RDO block determines a set of candidate offsets associated with each category and selects a candidate offset with a minimum RD cost. The minimum RD cost is used by a SAO type block and a decision block to generate final offsets for the SAO encoder.
US11006123B2
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for encoding or decoding a video signal. The method for processing a video signal according to the present invention uses a merging mode in which prediction information on a neighbor unit is used instead of transmitting prediction information on the present unit, so as to improve coding efficiency. In this case, the number of available candidate units for merging among the units in a predetermined position is determined, and information for the merging mode is acquired on the basis of the number of the available candidate units for merging. The unit to be merged is determined using the information for the merging mode, and prediction information on the unit to be merged is acquired. The prediction value for the present unit is acquired using the prediction information on the unit to be merged, and the present unit is restored using the acquired prediction value.
US11006122B2
A computer-implemented method, system, or computer-readable medium may include estimating local motion of an input video frame of an input video by computing a local motion vector corresponding to a respective candidate pixel patch from among one or more candidate pixel patches within the input video frame. Global motion may be estimated by computing a global motion vector. One or more subject motion vectors may be computed based on a corresponding local motion vector and the global motion vector. A number of static frames of the video may be identified. The input video may be determined to be a static video if a ratio of the number of static frames to a number of the video frames in the input video meets a static frame threshold and determining that the input video is a motion video if the ratio fails to meet the static frame threshold.
US11006117B2
A method and apparatus of entropy coding of coding symbols using Context-Based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coder (CABAC) are disclosed. According to the present invention, a math formula is used for calculating the LPS range for deriving rangeOne value and rangeZero value. For example, the LPS range is derived using one or more mathematical operations comprising calculating a multiplication of a first value and a second value, in which the first value is related to (2*the LPS probability index+1) or the LPS probability index, while the second value is related to (2*the range index+1) or the range index. Besides, the LPS range can be derived by using a look-up-table including table contents corresponding to values of LPS range associated with a set of LPS probability indexes and a set of range indexes for encoding or decoding a binary value of the current bin.
US11006113B2
[Object] To prevent an inappropriate processing parameter from being used in a case in which an image that may be expressed by various expression methods is handled. [Solution] Provided is an image processing device including: a control unit that decides a processing parameter for image processing performed on an image on the basis of at least one of a transfer function related to conversion between light and an image signal that is applied to the image or a color range that is applied to the image; and a processing unit that executes the image processing using the processing parameter that is decided by the control unit.
US11006111B2
A method for encoding an input signal comprising signal frames into quantized bits is disclosed, the method comprises generating, for each frame of the input signal, a signal matrix comprising matrix coefficients obtained from that frame, grouping the matrix coefficients of each signal matrix into a plurality of partition vectors, and for each partition vector, selecting one vector quantization scheme from among a plurality of vector quantization schemes and quantizing that partition vector according to the selected vector quantization scheme to obtain the quantized bits. In an adaptive mode, the method comprises grouping differently the matrix coefficients obtained from different frames, and/or selecting different vector quantization schemes for partition vectors obtained from different frames.
US11006109B2
The present invention provides an image processing method on the basis of an intra prediction mode and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for processing an image on the basis of an intra prediction mode may comprise the steps of: identifying whether weighted intra prediction is allowed for a current block and whether the weight intra prediction is applied to the current block; identifying whether reference sample filtering is applied to the current block when the weighted intra prediction is not allowed for the current block or when the weighted intra prediction is not applied to the current block; and performing reference sample filtering of reference samples neighboring the current block when the reference sample filtering is applied.
US11006095B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to systems and methods for drone-based systems and methods for capturing a multi-media representation of an entity. In some embodiments, the multi-media representation is digital, or multi-view, or interactive, and/or the combinations thereof. According to particular embodiments, a drone having a camera is controlled or operated to obtain a plurality of images having location information. The plurality of images, including at least a portion of overlapping subject matter, are fused to form multi-view interactive digital media representations.
US11006093B1
A digital loupe system is provided which can include a number of features. In one embodiment, the digital loupe system can include a stereo camera pair and a distance sensor. The system can further include a processor configured to perform a transformation to image signals from the stereo camera pair based on a distance measurement from the distance sensor and from camera calibration information. In some examples, the system can use the depth information and the calibration information to correct for parallax between the cameras to provide a multi-channel image. Ergonomic head mounting systems are also provided. In some implementations, the head mounting systems can be configurable to support the weight of a digital loupe system, including placing one or two oculars in a line of sight with an eye of a user, while improving overall ergonomics, including peripheral vision, comfort, stability, and adjustability. Methods of use are also provided.
US11006091B2
A processing system having at least one processor may detect a first object in a volumetric video that is a focus of a user viewing a presentation of the volumetric video, detect an obstruction of a view of the user of at least a portion of the first object in the volumetric video, and perform at least one manipulation of the presentation of the volumetric video to the user to mitigate the obstruction of the view.
US11006087B2
A synthesized image seen looking down from above the vehicle is compiled by connecting the multiple of overhead images, whereby an existence of a three-dimensional object in the vehicle periphery is determined, a correction value is calculated so as to reduce a difference in luminance and coloring in a luminance and coloring correction reference region in which neighboring overhead images overlap, luminance and coloring correction is carried out using the correction value when an amount of change in the luminance and coloring information formed of the correction is less than a predetermined value, and the images wherein luminance and coloring has been corrected are synthesized by connecting into one image, whereby a beautiful display image with a continuous, smooth joint can be obtained.
US11006082B2
The disclosure provides a method for identifying a transportation infrastructure condition may comprise disposing a smart camera system on a vehicle and installing the smart camera system to the vehicle. The method may further comprise recording data from transportation infrastructure with the smart camera system, transmitting the data to a remote server with the transmitter, analyzing the data on the server, and accessing the data on the server with device. A system for identifying a transportation infrastructure condition may comprise a smart camera system disposed on a vehicle, wherein the smart camera system comprises a camera and transmitter, as well as a server capable to analyze data. A device may be configured to record and collect transportation infrastructure conditions. The camera system may comprise a camera, an electronic control module, a global positioning system, a single board computer, and a dashboard.
US11006081B2
An imaging apparatus in an embodiment includes lens optical systems each including a lens whose surface closest to the target object is shaped to be convex toward the target object, imaging regions which respectively face the lens optical systems and output a photoelectrically converted signal corresponding to an amount of light transmitting the lens optical systems and received by the imaging regions, and a light-transmissive cover which covers an exposed portion of the lens of each of the lens optical systems and a portion between the lens of one of the lens optical systems and the lens of another one of the lens optical systems adjacent to the one of the lens optical systems, the cover having a curved portion which is convex toward the target object. The optical axes of the lens optical systems are parallel to each other.
US11006075B2
A novel universal bridge (UB) can handle and conduct multimedia multipoint conferences between a plurality of MREs and LEPs without using an MRM, an MCU and a gateway. Further, a UB can be configured to allocate and release resources dynamically according to the current needs of each conferee and the session.
US11006071B2
A telemedicine device is implemented in an integrated housing, which includes a display, input/output ports, a videoconferencing codec, and a codec-independent hardware user interface. A processor receives inputs through the user interface, translates them into instructions understandable by the codec, and sends the translated instruction to the codec for execution. The user interface can be standardized, such that it is identical regardless of the codec in use, and can group functions logically (e.g., call control, video functions, audio functions).
US11006065B2
Systems and methods are described herein for providing a media guidance application that resizes content based on a relative importance of the content. For example, a display may have first and second content generated for display. If the first content is more important to a user than the second content, a size of the first content will be increased with respect to a size of the second content on the display. If the second content is more important to the user than the first content, then a size of the second content will be increased with respect to a size of the first content on the display.
US11006060B2
The present disclosure relates to an imaging device and an electronic device capable of restricting an occurrence of a sunspot phenomenon in a simple configuration. The imaging device includes a sample/hold part that samples and holds a reset voltage as a reset level voltage of a pixel signal and an AD conversion part that analog digital (AD) converts the pixel signal, in which the AD conversion part selects and outputs one of a first output signal as the AD converted pixel signal and a second output signal at a predetermined level on the basis of a comparison result between the reset voltage held by the sample/hold part and a predetermined reference voltage. The technology according to the present disclosure can be applied to a CMOS image sensor, for example.
US11006039B1
A system and method for determining occlusion are presented. The system receives camera data generated by at least one camera, which includes a first camera having a first camera field of view. The camera data is generated when a stack having a plurality of objects is in the first camera field of view, and describes a stack structure formed from at least an object structure for a first object of the plurality of objects. The system identifies a target feature of or disposed on the object structure, and determines a 2D region that is co-planar with and surrounds the target feature. The system determines a 3D region defined by connecting a location of the first camera and the 2D region. The system determines, based on the camera data and the 3D region, a size of an occluding region, and determines a value of an object recognition confidence parameter.
US11006038B2
An image capture device obtains first image data from a front facing camera on a front face of the device including a display. The first image data represents a subject within a field of view of the image capture device. Facial recognition is performed in response to the first image data from the front facing camera. The front image data is used for determining whether any subject is a priority subject, of whom at least one priority subject image-indicative data is accessible by the image capture device. A region of interest is selected, corresponding to the subject determined to be a priority subject. Automatic focus, automatic exposure, or automatic white balance is performed using the selected region of interest. Second image data from the front facing camera are captured based on the automatic focus, automatic exposure, or automatic white balance using the selected region of interest.
US11006033B2
Systems and methods for recognizing, tracking, and focusing a moving target are disclosed. In accordance with the disclosed embodiments, the systems and methods may recognize the moving target travelling relative to an imaging device; track the moving target; and determine a distance to the moving target from the imaging device.
US11006026B2
Provided is an image capturing apparatus that not only prevents excitation light from leaking into RGB but also corrects a difference of focal points between visible light and IR and corrects levels of visible light and IR without having a complicated structure. An image capturing apparatus 10 includes a light irradiation unit 12 that irradiates an object including a fluorescent material with excitation light and illuminating light, a four-color separation unit 16 that separates light incident upon a lens 14 into R, G, B, and IR, an image sensor 18 that performs photoelectric conversion on each separated light, a picture signal output unit 20 that generates a picture signal from an electrical signal obtained by the photoelectric conversion, a picture display 22 that displays a picture based on the picture signal, a bandpass filter 24 that does not transmit light near a wavelength band of the excitation light, and a correction filter 26. The correction filter 26 includes a circular visible light cutting region 30 that cuts visible light out of the incident light, a circular IR cutting region 28 that cuts IR out of the incident light, and a dummy glass 32 having a predetermined thickness.
US11006009B2
An image forming apparatus is an image forming apparatus including an operation unit that includes a touch panel. The image forming apparatus further includes a display control unit configured to cause the touch panel to display an image and a detection unit configured to detect a touch operation performed by a user on the touch panel. In response to the detection unit detecting the touch operation on the touch panel that is displaying an object on the image, the display control unit performs control to hide the object from display.
US11006007B2
A control system includes at least one server, and a printing apparatus, wherein the at least one server includes an identification unit configured to, in a case where a voice control device is given a print instruction by voice, identify image data to be printed based on voice data output from the voice control device, and a call unit configured to, based on user information identified based on the voice data output from the voice control device, call a print setting associated with the identified user information, wherein print data is generated based on the image data identified by the identification unit and the print setting called by the call unit, and wherein the printing apparatus is configured to perform printing based on the print data generated.
US11006004B2
Disclosed is a 5G or pre-5G communication system to be provided to support a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G communication system such as LTE. The present disclosure relates to a session management method through selection of a roaming operator and utilization of data usage rights of a local operator by a user in a 5G system. The user selects the local operator by switching the operator to a manual mode during roaming, accesses a data usage rights purchase agency through a limited service provided by the operator and then purchases the data usage rights of the local operator, and connects to a data network through authentication of a session by using authentication information included in the data usage rights.
US11006003B2
A system, smart device and method for apportioning costs of smart device operations between purposes. Operation information concerning operations performed by the smart device is recorded. The operations are apportioned between purposes based on categorization information and the operation information. The cost of the apportioned operations performed by the device is determined for the purposes based on the operation information and tariff information.
US11006001B1
Various example implementations are directed to circuits, apparatuses, and methods for providing virtual computing services. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a data storage device and a set of computing servers communicatively coupled to the data storage device. The set of computer servers are configured to provide a respective virtual data center for each of a plurality of accounts. The respective virtual data center for each account is configured to provide virtual services specified in a respective settings file for the account stored in the data storage device. The virtual data center for at least one of the accounts includes a set of virtual desktops and a set virtual data-communications servers providing data communications services which may include Voice-over-IP (VoIP) services, and support services for each account as specified in the settings file for the account.
US11005999B2
A computer-implemented method for establishing a VOIP communication between a PBX system and a first terminal device is disclosed. The first terminal device has a VOIP application or video call application. The PBX system and the first terminal device are able to communicate via a first communication connection and a second communication connection. When the PBX system receives a call to be forwarded to the first terminal device the PBX system verifies whether the first terminal device is logged in. If the PBX system verifies that the first terminal device is not logged in, the call is rejected. If the PBX system verifies that the first terminal device is logged in, the PBX system determines whether the application on the first terminal device is running in a background mode or in a foreground mode. When the PBX system determines that the application is running in the foreground mode, the PBX system uses the first connection for forwarding the call. When the PBX system determines that the application is running in the background mode the PBX system uses the second connection to receive information about the communication connection being used.
US11005991B2
A captioning system includes an assisted user's communication system, including a display screen, a microphone, a speaker, an input device for specifying a calling number of a hearing user's communication device, and a processor linked to the display screen microphone, speaker and input device. The processor is programmed to perform the steps of: (i) upon entry of a calling number via the input device, scanning the calling number, (ii) identifying a type of the calling number; (iii) where the type is a first type, performing a first process to initiate a remote captioning service; and (iv) where the type is a second type, performing a second process to initiate a remote captioning service where the second process is different than the first process.
US11005986B2
A device receives a time-based restriction for usage by a first user with respect to an application, a website or a device-level function. The device receives encrypted data indicating a usage by the first user on a second device with respect to the application, website or device-level function. The device determines that at least one of the usage by the first user on the second device or a usage by the first user on the device with respect to the application, website or device-level function violates the time-based restriction. The device provides, in response to the determining, a notification that the time-based restriction has been violated by the first user.
US11005982B2
Provided is a mobile information terminal that allows a high-performance camera to be directed in any arbitrary direction relative to the terminal body and that allows photographing to be performed in a free position, while allowing for the viewing of a camera viewpoint image. An information processing terminal 1 comprises: a camera 21 serving as an image capture unit for capturing an image of a subject; a body part 11 having a front surface 11a which is a predetermined surface on which a display unit 13 for displaying a captured image including the subject captured by the image capture unit is disposed; and a coupling part 12 that directly or indirectly couples the image capture unit relatively rotatably to the body part 11 via a plurality of rotation axes including a pivot axis Z1 that is a first rotation axis for changing an angle formed by an optical axis direction of the image capture unit and the normal direction to the display unit 13, and a pivot axis Z3 that is a second rotation axis in a direction different from the first rotation axis.
US11005979B2
The invention provides a modular electronic device, in particular a portable device, more in particular a handheld device, said modular electronic device comprising a chassis comprising a frame holding a computational module comprising a circuit board holding a data processor, and a display module comprising a planar display device having a viewing side and a rear side, said display module comprising a back plate on the rear side of the display device, wherein said frame further comprises a frame attachment part and said back plate comprises a display attachment part for allowing said display module to be attached to said frame in a sliding manner in a sliding direction in-plane of said planar display device, and said frame comprising a frame lock part and said display module comprising a display lock part for in a mutually locked position locking said frame and said display module onto one another, blocking said sliding, and in a mutually released position allowing sliding of said display module and said frame with respect to one another for allowing removal of said display module from said frame.
US11005972B2
A non-transitory machine readable medium having stored thereon instructions for performing a method comprising machine executable code which when executed by at least one machine, causes the machine to: receive a schema with a tag and a parameter, the schema representing a change to be made to a converged infrastructure environment, wherein the schema is received from a cloud-based service to the on-site converged infrastructure environment; select an executable script template from a store of executable script templates using the tag; generate an executable script from the executable script template, including populating the executable script template with the parameter; and run the executable script against a component of the converged infrastructure environment.
US11005970B2
A method of multitasked operation of a data storage node includes executing provider threads of an application, the provider threads distributed among processing cores along with respective peek-poller threads, each provider thread having regular operations of (1) continually polling interfaces of the data storage node for application events requiring processing, and (2) performing processing tasks for the application events until there are no unprocessed additional events for the provider thread, and thereupon entering a sleep state. The method further includes regularly executing the peek-poller threads on the processing cores, each peek-poller thread having operations of (1) checking interfaces of the data storage node for new application events to be processed by respective provider threads currently in the sleep state, and (2) for each new application event, activating the respective provider thread on the respective processing core.
US11005967B2
A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The client device accesses an acceleration server to receive a list of available tunnel devices. The requested content is partitioned into slices, and the client device sends a request for the slices to the available tunnel devices. The tunnel devices in turn fetch the slices from the data server, and send the slices to the client device, where the content is reconstructed from the received slices. A client device may also serve as a tunnel device, serving as an intermediate device to other client devices. Similarly, a tunnel device may also serve as a client device for fetching content from a data server. The selection of tunnel devices to be used by a client device may be in the acceleration server, in the client device, or in both. The partition into slices may be overlapping or non-overlapping, and the same slice (or the whole content) may be fetched via multiple tunnel devices.
US11005966B2
A system, method, and computer program product for web communication based content servicing and delivery. In use, a first communication session is established with a user using a first embedded communication data channel. Next, during the first communication session, a second communication session is established using a second embedded communication data channel. Further, a plurality of profiles is exchanged using the second embedded communication data channel, wherein the plurality of profiles is associated with the user and with a content provider. Additionally, while simultaneously maintaining the first communication session and the second communication session, content is exchanged based on the plurality of profiles using the second embedded communication data channel.
US11005953B2
A remote location monitoring system, for example, a home monitoring or weather monitoring system may include one or more sensors and/or receivers at a first location such as a residence or business to be monitored. The sensors and receivers may communicate with a remote central server via a gateway device and the detection data received from the sensors and receivers may be displayed via display circuitry coupled to a processor of the gateway device. The sensors, receivers, and gateway device may be controlled by users locally or remotely via the server. Users may register to receive remote notifications of weather events and other home monitoring events. Users may also access remotely sensors and receivers to configure alerts, notifications, and automatic responses for the devices and integrated appliances at the first location.
US11005950B1
A method, implemented in a communication device, of indicating a service supported by the communication device. A hash value is generated, using a hash function, based on a service identifier associated with the service. Respective portions of the hash value are mapped to respective bit locations in a bit string that represents membership of the service in a set of services supported by the communication device. The bit string is generated at least by setting the bit locations in the bit string to values that indicate that the service is supported by the communication device.
US11005945B2
A profiled wireless docking system, includes a source device that includes a source device screen, a display device, and a sink device that is coupled to the display device. The sink device establishes a wireless docking session with the source device. The sink device then retrieves, from the source device, source device information about the source device. The sink device then retrieves, from the source device, content information that is provided for display on the source device screen by the source device. The sink device determines a source device wireless docking profile based on the source device information and the content information. The sink device then provides the content information for display on the display device according to the source device wireless docking profile.
US11005942B2
A method and system are provided that synchronize one or more appliances to one or more users' schedules. Sensor data may be obtained from a sensor. The sensor data may indicate a state of a first appliance. A user location may be determined. A first characteristic of the first appliance may be obtained. Based upon the user location and the sensor data, a schedule indicating when the user will desire a state change of the first appliance may be determined. A feature of the first appliance may be dynamically modified to cause the first appliance to operate according to the schedule. A notice may be sent to the user that contains information about the first appliance.
US11005941B2
The present invention relates to a communication technique, which is a convergence of IoT technology and 5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rate beyond 4G system, and a system for same. The present invention can be applied to smart services (e.g. smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, security- and safety-related services and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. A sensor management terminal, provided in an embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: generating a constituent image of a space in which a sensor is installed; obtaining a sensor identifier of the sensor on the basis of the constituent image; obtaining the sensor information of the sensor corresponding to the sensor identifier; determining a detection area of the sensor on the basis of the constituent image and sensor information; and displaying the determined detection area on the constituent image.
US11005939B2
An information manager may include processing circuitry configured to receive dynamic aircraft information associated with operation of an in-flight aircraft, receive a message from a communication device on the in-flight aircraft for transmission to a ground based content server via a wireless communication network capable of communicating with in-flight assets, and generate an aviation cookie for communication to the content server along with the message. The aviation cookie may be generated based on the dynamic aircraft information and may enable the content server to generate content based at least in part on the dynamic aircraft information.
US11005925B2
A computer-implemented method for balancing loads of a distributed system having a plurality of nodes via a load balancing scheme is presented. The method includes determining an average load of the plurality of nodes once a request is sent to the distributed system, determining a threshold load value based on the determined average load of the plurality of nodes, and randomly selecting a node of the plurality of nodes based on a hash value. The method further includes determining whether the randomly selected node is above or below the threshold load value, and, if the randomly selected node is above the threshold load value, randomly selecting another node, and if the randomly selected node is below the threshold load value, then selecting such node to process the request.
US11005917B2
A method, system and computer readable medium include objects with media content. This method includes receiving, at one or more servers, a request for the media content to be displayed at an endpoint. The method includes identifying information about an environment associated with the endpoint. The method includes identifying a set of objects to include in a container for the media content based on the information identified about the environment. At least one of the objects includes program code for completing a transaction during display of the media content. Additionally, the method includes sending, by one or more servers, the set of objects to the endpoint.
US11005916B2
A mobile device includes a file information acquiring unit, a file information display unit that displays the file information acquired on a display unit, a file presence identifying unit that determines whether or not a file specified by file information designated by a user from among the file information displayed on the display unit is stored in a storage unit, a first file transmitting unit that transmits the stored file to another mobile device when the file presence identifying unit determines that the file is stored in the internal storage unit, a file acquiring unit that downloads the file specified by the designated file information from the server when the file presence identifying unit determines that the file is not stored in the internal storage unit, and a second file transmitting unit that transmits the file acquired by the file acquiring unit to the other mobile device.
US11005900B2
A device state service supported on an application server is disclosed herein. The device state service is configured to dynamically monitor a device state across devices, and particularly monitor whether or not a device is currently active (e.g., incoming or outgoing ringing, incoming or outgoing busy signal, audio and/or video call in progress, etc.) The active device transmits device state data along with context data and sensor data (collectively “real-time data”). The inactive (or subject) devices may likewise transmit real-time data to the device state service. The device state service determines an action for the subject and/or active devices to perform based on the received real-time data. For example, when a user's smartphone is currently active (e.g., a call in-progress), the user's tablet may enter a power save mode to save resources.
US11005898B2
A system is provided for establishing a shared media session for one or more client devices. One or more processors in the system are configured to establish a shared media session that includes a disparate live media output stream scheduled by a first client device to start at a defined timestamp, and played back on one of the first client device or a plurality of client devices that join the shared media session through a distributed communication network. A persistent record of event data and media, synchronized based on one or more criteria and received from a recording client device, is generated corresponding to the shared media session and previous shared media sessions until the shared media session is terminated by at least one of the first client device or by abandonment of the distributed communication network by the plurality of client devices.
US11005896B2
A system and method for facilitating communication between one or more of a plurality of user virtual machines and external devices is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of uplink bridges configured to facilitate communication between the plurality of user virtual machines and the external devices, a plurality of local bridges, with each of the plurality of user virtual machines being connected to one or more of the plurality of local bridges, and a first multiplexing bridge connected to the plurality of local bridges. The first multiplexing bridge is configured to direct data between the plurality of user virtual machines and the plurality of uplink bridges. The system also includes a second multiplexing bridge connected to the first multiplexing bridge and the plurality of uplink bridges. The second multiplexing bridge is configured to direct the data between the first multiplexing bridge and the plurality of uplink bridges.
US11005877B2
Various techniques for detecting a persistent cross-site scripting vulnerability are described herein. In one example, a method includes detecting, via the processor, a read operation executed on a resource using an instrumentation mechanism and returning, via the processor, a malicious script in response to the read operation. The method also includes detecting, via the processor, a write operation executed on the resource using the instrumentation mechanism and detecting, via the processor, a script operation executed by the malicious script that results in resource data being sent to an external computing device from a client device. Furthermore, the method includes receiving, via the processor, metadata indicating the execution of the read operation, the write operation, and the script operation.
US11005874B2
A monitoring apparatus includes: an acquisition unit sequentially receiving messages on a network; a first calculation unit calculating a difference between data values of two continuous messages; a second calculation unit calculating a difference between reception time points of two continuous messages; a first determination unit determining whether a received message is an abnormal message based on the difference calculated by the first calculation unit or the second calculation unit; a second determination unit determining whether a received message is a suspicious message based on the difference calculated by the first calculation unit or the second calculation unit; and a recording unit recording, when the second determination unit determines that the received message is the suspicious message, as a history, data values and reception time points of the suspicious message and a predetermined number of messages received before and after reception of the suspicious message.
US11005870B2
Systems and methods may be associated with a cyber-physical system, and a blueprint repository data store may contain electronic files that represent behavior-based asset monitoring parameters for different cyber-physical system asset types. A behavior-based asset monitoring creation computer platform may receive an indication of an asset type of the cyber-physical system. The behavior-based asset monitoring creation computer platform may then search the blueprint repository data store and retrieve an electronic file representing behavior-based asset monitoring parameters for the asset type of the cyber-physical system to be monitored. The behavior-based asset monitoring creation computer platform may also receive, from the remote operator device, adjustments to the retrieved behavior-based asset monitoring parameters and automatically configure, based on the adjusted behavior-based asset monitoring parameters, at least a portion of settings for an abnormal detection model. The abnormal detection model may then be created about output to be executed by an abnormal detection platform.
US11005861B2
A method includes generating a static model for classifying transactions of a designated type, the static model being trained using predefined input data corresponding to a first set of features generic to transactions of the designated type, and generating a dynamic model for classifying transactions of the designated type, the dynamic model being trained using dynamic input data corresponding to a second set of features specific to subsets of transactions of the designated type. The method also includes combining the static and dynamic models to generate a combined model, detecting transactions of the designated type between client devices and an enterprise system, and utilizing the combined model to classify a given detected transaction between a given client device and the enterprise system as potentially malicious or benign. The method further includes modifying processing of the given detected transaction responsive to classifying the given detected transaction as potentially malicious.
US11005860B1
A comprehensive cybersecurity platform includes a cybersecurity intelligence hub, a cybersecurity sensor and one or more endpoints communicatively coupled to the cybersecurity sensor, where the platform allows for efficient scaling, analysis, and detection of malware and/or malicious activity. An endpoint includes a local data store and an agent that monitors for one or more types of events being performed on the endpoint, and performs deduplication within the local data store to identify “distinct” events. The agent provides the collected metadata of distinct events to the cybersecurity sensor which also performs deduplication within a local data store. The cybersecurity sensor sends all distinct events and/or file objects to a cybersecurity intelligence hub for analysis. The cybersecurity intelligence hub is coupled to a data management and analytics engine (DMAE) that analyzes the event and/or object using multiple services to render a verdict (e.g., benign or malicious) and issues an alert.
US11005855B2
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, receive secret information and non-secret information from a secure download application function, provide a request for a first verification to a secure element where the first verification is associated with access to content and/or an application that is accessible via the secure download application function, receive the first verification which is generated by the secure element based on the secret information without providing the secret information to the secure device processor, receive the non-secret information from the secure element, and generate a second verification for the access based on the non-secret information, where the content and/or application is accessible from the secure download application function responsive to the first and second verifications. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11005845B2
A second device seeking to access a network can be detected using a first device communicatively coupled to the network. Responsive to detecting the second device seeking to access the network, the first device can be caused to communicatively uncouple from the network and whether the second device poses a risk of corrupting the network's intended functioning if the second device accesses the network can be determined by the first device.
US11005844B2
This specification describes techniques for blockchain-based smart contract call. One example method includes receiving a target transaction initiated by a client device of a blockchain, wherein the target transaction is preconfigured for a call rule used to initiate a call for a smart contract; obtaining the call rule preconfigured for the target transaction; executing the call rule to initiate a call for a target smart contract; and providing a call result to the client device when the call for the target smart contract is completed.
US11005843B1
A means and system is designed to distinguish human users from bots (automated programs to generate posts or interactions) in social media (including microblogging services and social networking services) by assigning a likelihood score to each user for being a human or a bot. The bot score assigned to each user is computed from statistical, temporal and text features that are detected in user's social media interactions (relative indicators specific to a given social media data set) and user's historical profile information.
US11005842B2
A method includes receiving a request from a host device to authenticate a device. The method further includes transmitting authenticating data to the host device. Responsive to successful authentication of the device, configuration interface and communication interface of the device is exposed to the host device. The method further includes processing commands from the host device after the device is successfully authenticated. Responsive to the processed commands, payload data is sent or received to or from the host device according to the communication interface.
US11005831B2
A secure control system includes a network of multiplexers that control end/field devices of an infrastructure system, such as an electric power grid. The multiplexers have a default secure lockdown state that prevents remote access to data on the multiplexers and prevents modification of software or firmware of the multiplexer. One or more of the multiplexers include a physical authentication device that confirms the physical proximity of a trusted individual when remote access is requested. A user accesses the network and one of the multiplexers remotely by way of login credentials. The trusted individual confirms the identity of the remote user and operates the physical authentication device connected with and in proximity to that multiplexer, thereby confirming that the remote user can be trusted to access data and reconfigure the multiplexers. The multiplexer connected with the physical authentication device generates a token that is passed to each of the multiplexers that the remote user needs access to. The token may specify a time period, after which, the multiplexers will reenter secure lockdown mode.
US11005828B1
Techniques are disclosed for securing data stored on a minimally trusted third-party data store. The techniques include directing all messages for storing data and retrieving stored data through a security server. The security server can be configured to receive encrypted data for storage at a remote data store, decrypt the encrypted data, generate index information for the decrypted data, encrypt the index information, encrypt the decrypted data to produce re-encrypted data, digitally sign the re-encrypted data, and cause transmission of the re-encrypted data and the encrypted index information to the remote data store. To access stored data, the security server can be configured to receive a query for stored data, encrypt the query, cause transmission of the encrypted query to the remote data store, receive a copy of the stored data, process the copy of the stored data, and cause transmission of the stored data to the requesting computer.
US11005824B2
A system for detecting and mitigating forged authentication object attacks is provided, comprising an authentication object inspector configured to observe a new authentication object generated by an identity provider, and retrieve the new authentication object; and a hashing engine configured to retrieve the new authentication object from the authentication object inspector, calculate a cryptographic hash for the new authentication object, and store the cryptographic hash for the new authentication object in a data store; wherein subsequent access requests accompanied by authentication objects are validated by comparing hashes for each authentication object to previous generated hashes.
US11005817B1
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that provides a virtual private network (VPN). The system includes a routing apparatus on a public network. The routing apparatus accepts a first connection with a client on the VPN and a second connection with a gateway in a private network extended by the VPN. Next, the routing apparatus receives a first set of packets from the client over the first connection, wherein the first set of packets is encrypted. The routing apparatus then routes the first set of packets to the gateway. The system also includes the gateway, which establishes the second connection with the routing apparatus. Next, the gateway decrypts the first set of packets and routes the decrypted first set of packets to a host in the private network.
US11005814B2
An example of a computing system is described herein. The computing system includes a plurality of network security devices. The computing system also includes a network switch configured to direct network traffic. The computing system further includes a controller coupled to the network switch. The controller is to instruct the network switch in directing network traffic to the plurality of network security devices.
US11005810B2
A method includes: receiving communications from first and second tenants of a multi-tenant computing environment over first and second dedicated networks, respectively, the communications being transmitted to a first globally unique IP address in first and second dedicated environments, respectively; NATing the first globally unique IP address, to which the communication from the first tenant was transmitted, to a first non-globally unique IP address that is locally unique in the service provider environment; NATing the first globally unique IP address, to which the communication from the second tenant was transmitted, to a second non-globally unique IP address that is locally unique in the service provider environment; providing the communication from the first tenant and the communication from the second tenant access to a shared resource in the service provider environment using the first and second non-globally unique IP addresses, respectively.
US11005802B1
An electronic device and method for determination of importance for undelivered messages is provided. The electronic device retrieves a set of messages of a time interval from a stored plurality of messages. The set of messages are associated with a first recipient device of the plurality of recipient devices. The electronic device extracts at least one of body information or sender information from a first message from the retrieved set of messages. The electronic device determines a relationship between a sender of the first message and a user associated with the first recipient device, based on one or more words included in the extracted body information or based on the extracted sender information. The electronic device determines a first importance score for the first message based on the determined relationship. The electronic device transmits the first message to the first recipient device based on the determined first importance score.
US11005796B2
An electronic message is transformed into moving images uttering the content of the electronic message. Methods of the present invention may be implemented on devices such as smart phones to enable users to compose text and select an animation character which may include cartoons, persons, animals, or avatars. The recipient is presented with an animation or video of the animation character with a voice that speaks the words of the text. The user may further select and include a catch-phrase associated with the character. The user may further select a background music identifier and a background music associated with the background music identifier is played back while the animated text is being presented. The user may further select a type of animation and the animation character will be animated according to the type of animation.
US11005789B1
An embodiment of the present invention, a computer receives, on a first computer, a request to locate a topic. The computer determines a second computer to query for the topic. The computer queries the second computer for the topic. The computer receives identification information of participants of an instant messaging conversation corresponding to the topic. The computer stores, on the first computer, the identification information of the participants and indexing the stored identification information by the topic.
US11005788B2
Systems and methods are provided for receiving a selection to add an event invite media overlay to a media content item, receiving content to be added to the event invite media overlay, the content corresponding to an event, and adding to the event invite media overlay, the content corresponding to the event to generate a custom event invite media overlay. The systems and methods further comprise causing display of the custom event invite media overlay on the media content item, receiving at least one user to which to send an invite to the event, and sending, to a second computing device associated with the at least one user, an invite to the event, the invite comprising the custom event invite media overlay and the media content item.
US11005785B2
Reassembly of member cells into a packet comprises receiving an incoming member cell of a packet from a switching fabric wherein each member cell comprises a segment of the packet and a header, generating a reassembly key using selected information from the incoming member cell header wherein the selected information is the same for all member cells of the packet, checking a reassembly table in a content addressable memory to find an entry that includes a logic key matching the reassembly key, and using a content index in the found entry and a sequence number of the incoming member cell within the packet, to determine a location offset in a reassembly buffer area for storing the incoming member cell at said location offset in the reassembly buffer area for the packet for reassembly.
US11005784B2
The present application discloses a long-distance transmission method for an Ethernet switch including a network switching module, an MCU module and a dial code module. The MCU module is connected to the network switching module and the dial code module. The dial code module is configured for providing two configuration inputs for a normal mode and a long-distance mode for user equipment. The MCU module is configured for monitoring a configuration input state of the dial code module in real time. When detecting that the dial code module is in the configuration input for the normal mode, the MCU module configures a network port of the network switching module to be in a self-negotiation mode. When detecting that the dial code module is in the configuration input state for the long-distance mode, the MCU module configures the network port of the network switching module to be in a 10 Mbps full-duplex mode and controls an amplitude of an output voltage of a network signal of the network switching module to increase. The network switching module is configured for negotiating a network link bandwidth of 10 Mbps and a full duplex mode between the network switching module and the user equipment for long-distance data transmission according to a configuration made by the MCU module when the dial code module is in the long-distance mode. The embodiments of the present application are applied to long-distance data transmission.
US11005769B2
A packet processor of a network device determines an amount of free buffer space in a buffer memory currently available for buffering packets, and dynamically determines a value of a threshold for triggering a particular traffic management operation with respect to a packet, to dynamically adjust the value of the threshold based at least in part on a changing amount of free buffer space available for buffering packets in the buffer memory. The packet processor determines, based on a comparison between i) a current fill level of a particular transmit queue in which the packet is to be enqueued and ii) the dynamically adjusted value of the threshold, whether the particular traffic management operation is to be triggered with respect to the packet. When the particular traffic management operation is to be triggered, the packet processor performs the particular traffic management operation with respect to the packet.
US11005764B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for performing Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) communications. A TCP packet may be received. An artificial error may be added to the TCP packet to prevent the occurrence of a TCP meltdown.
US11005756B2
In one embodiment, in-band operations data included in packets being processed is used to signal among entities of a virtualized packet processing apparatus. Using in-band operations data provides insight on actual entities used in processing of the packet within the virtualized packet processing apparatus. The operations data in the packet is modified to signal a detected overload condition of an entity that participates in communicating the packet within the virtualized packet processing apparatus and/or applying a network service to the packet. An In-Situ Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (IOAM) header is used in one embodiment, with the IOAM header typically including a new Overload Flag to signal the detection of the overload condition. In response to the signaled overload condition, a load balancer is adjusted such that future packets are not distributed to the virtualized entity associated with the detected overload condition.
US11005752B2
A method of transmitting a packet, a controller and a cloud management platform are provided. According to an example of the method, the controller may receive a packet from a virtual switch; obtain a forwarding priority corresponding to the packet; and generate a flow entry corresponding to the packet, wherein the flow entry is used to perform encapsulation of a specified type on a packet matching the flow entry and add the forwarding priority into the encapsulated packet; and distribute the flow entry to the virtual switch so that the virtual switch is capable of sending the packet using the flow entry.
US11005740B2
A method includes: obtaining, by a control plane device, quality of service (QoS) required by a data transmission service and information about data transmission capabilities of at least two user plane devices controlled by the control plane device; after determining that a data transmission service needs to be established between a terminal and a user plane device, selecting, from the at least two user plane devices, a user plane device whose data transmission capability satisfies the QoS required by the data transmission service; and establishing a bearer of the data transmission service on the selected user plane device.
US11005739B2
A method for managing network parameter data includes selecting an input source of a plurality of input source types. At least a portion of the selected input source comprising predetermined network parameter data in a first format is accessed. The portion of the selected input source containing the predetermined network parameter data in the first format is harvested and the predetermined network parameter data in the harvested portion of the selected input source is extracted. The extracted predetermined network parameter data in the first format is converted into a second format and stored within a data array. An output format of a predetermined plurality of output formats for the predetermined network parameter data is selected and the predetermined network parameter data is generated in the selected output format from the stored predetermined network data within the data array. The generated predetermined network data is then output in the selected output format.
US11005738B1
In one embodiment, a method includes selecting a group of transactions having a common end-to-end transaction path comprising a plurality of transaction-path nodes. Each transaction of the group is associated with either an acceptable category or an unacceptable category based, at least in part, on an end-to-end response time for the transaction. The method further includes separately determining, for each transaction-path node, an execution-time pair. The execution-time pair includes first aggregate information indicative of execution time by the transaction-path node for transactions associated with the acceptable category. The execution-time pair also includes second aggregate information indicative of execution time by the transaction-path node for transactions associated with the unacceptable category. Additionally, the method includes generating a visualization of the end-to-end transaction path. The visualization depicts each determined execution-time pair in relation to a corresponding transaction-path node.
US11005736B2
A system and method for determining the traceability of network request traffic over a communications network for reducing strain in traffic processing resources, which includes: provisioning a direct interconnect on the communications network between the server and a predefined source, the direct interconnect providing a private service interface, a defined pairings data of the predefined source with the direct interconnect stored as a network traffic almanac; provisioning a public service interface on the communications network; receiving a request traffic having an address of the predefined source via the public service interface; consulting the defined pairing data with the address to determine the request traffic matches the predefined source; and de-prioritizing the processing of the request traffic based on the request traffic being received on the public service interface rather than on the direct interconnect by dynamically applying a prioritize criterion to the second request traffic before generating a response traffic.
US11005728B2
In one embodiment, possible voting nodes in a network are identified. The possible voting nodes each execute a classifier that is configured to select a label from among a plurality of labels based on a set of input features. A set of one or more eligible voting nodes is selected from among the possible voting nodes based on a network policy. Voting requests are then provided to the one or more eligible voting nodes that cause the one or more eligible voting nodes to select labels from among the plurality of labels. Votes are received from the eligible voting nodes that include the selected labels and are used to determine a voting result.
US11005725B2
Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to proactively self-heal workload domains in hyperconverged infrastructures are disclosed herein. A disclosed example apparatus includes a fault predictor to determine a probability that a node of a workload domain in a hyperconverged infrastructure will likely become faulty, and a decommissioner to decommission the node from the workload domain after the probability indicates the node will likely become faulty.
US11005721B1
An example control plane that is executed on one or more processors in a distributed computing system is configured to receive an indication of a node to be onboarded into the distributed computing system, wherein the node comprises one of a compute node or a network device node, to discover one or more compute resources or network device resources that are associated with the node, and to assign, based on the discovery, the node to a collector that is executed in the distributed computing system, wherein the collector is configured to collect real-time telemetry data for the node during operation of the node. The control plane is further configured to receive, from the collector, the real-time telemetry data for the node that is collected by the collector, and to output, for display, a visual representation of the real-time telemetry data for the node.
US11005715B2
A telecommunication system can include routing devices, a bearer-management device, and a policy-management device. The bearer-management device can receive a request from a terminal to create a specialized bearer (SB) for a non-audio, non-video media type. The bearer-management device can determine that the request is associated with an authorized user, and then send a setup message comprising a Quality of Service (QoS) indicator to the policy-management device. The policy-management device can create the SB permitting data exchange between the terminal and a routing device. The SB can have QoS characteristics associated with the QoS indicator. In some examples, the terminal can receive a network address, determine an associated network port, and send a SIP INVITE message indicating the non-audio, non-video media type. The terminal can then exchange data on the network port with a peer network terminal.
US11005710B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, computer media, and apparatuses for providing resource tracking, such as in a data center environment. A control and monitoring node receives updates indicating instantiation of resources in the computing system network. The control and monitoring node determines that there are duplicate resources in the network, and then determines which of the duplicate resources to provide connectivity to. The control and monitoring node provides network configuration updates to various networking resources in the network to provide network connectivity to the one of the duplicate resources in the network.
US11005705B1
A Quality of Service (QoS) improvement system and method for transport network fault detection and QoS improvement so that a telecommunication network service provider can analyze the root cause on chronic performance issues and recommend potential solutions is disclosed. The system runs performance analysis on each AAV (mobile backhaul) or other transport networks and collects performance related metrics data. The system then selects a subset of the data related to certain key performance indicators (KPIs), such as latency, jitter, packet loss ratio, and availability. On this subset of KPI-related data, the system applies clustering techniques to identify clusters with similar performance issues. For each cluster, the system binds the AAV performance KPI data with one or more of the following site features—health, location, vendor, market, service type, etc.—to create a cluster map. The system can then generate inferences on root causes of the performance issues.
US11005699B2
A TSN-based distributed antenna system including a headend unit, one or more TSN switches, and one or more remote units and a fronthaul transport network constituted by the headend unit, the TSN switch, and the remote unit is provided. The packet-based fronthaul network constituted by the headend unit, the TSN switch, and the remote unit transmits traffic in a time-deterministic manner while minimizing packet loss through Ethernet to which TSN standards are applied.
US11005694B2
Disclosed herein are an apparatus for analyzing a transmitter identification (TxID) signal and a method using the apparatus. The apparatus for analyzing the TxID signal includes a demodulator for decoding the bootstrap of a received signal; a cancellation unit for performing a host signal cancellation process for the received signal, thereby generating a host-signal-cancelled received signal; a correlator for calculating a correlation value between a signal corresponding to the host-signal-cancelled received signal and a signal corresponding to a TxID sequence; and a TxID profile analyzer for generating information about a channel between a transmitter corresponding to the TxID signal and a receiver using the correlation value.
US11005692B2
A port of a computing device is to connect to another device over a link and use equalization logic to perform equalization of the link at a plurality of different data rates. The equalization logic may identify that the other device supports bypassing a sequential equalization mode, determine a maximum data rate supported by the devices on the link, and participate in equalization of the link at the maximum supported data rate before equalizing the link at one or more other data rates lower than the maximum supported data rate in the plurality of data rates.
US11005680B2
A reprogramming apparatus for vehicle, a reprogramming method and a vehicle including the same are provided. The reprogramming apparatus for the vehicle may include: a diagnostic unit configured to diagnose a plurality of controllers of the vehicle; a reprogramming unit configured to reprogram the plurality of controllers; and a gateway configured to control communication connection among the diagnostic unit, the reprogramming unit, and the plurality of controllers, wherein the gateway is configured to change a Controller Area Network (CAN) communication mode to a Controller Area Network with Flexible Data-rate (CAN-FD) communication mode when a communication mode change request is received from the reprogramming unit, check whether CAN-FD communication mode cancellation conditions are satisfied when the CAN communication mode has been changed to the CAN-FD communication mode, and change the CAN-FD communication mode to the CAN communication mode when the CAN-FD communication mode cancellation conditions are satisfied.
US11005678B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for machine learning for home understanding and notification. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining reference videos from a camera within a premises of a home, determining, from the reference videos, timing of actions in a routine that a particular person performs before leaving the home, determining from a sample video from the camera within the home that the particular person appears to be out of sync in performing a particular action based on the timing of actions in the routine determined from the reference videos, and in response, providing a notification to the particular person.
US11005670B2
A power source equipment (PSE) controller exhibiting low standby levels for power over Ethernet (PoE) includes a micro-controller, a detection and classification circuitry coupled to the micro-controller to detect if a powered device (PD) is connected and determine power needed to operate the connected PD, a power control and monitor circuitry coupled to the micro-controller to power the connected PD and to monitor the power consumption of the PD. The detection and classification circuitry, the power control and monitor circuitry can be individually turned off by the micro-controller to minimize standby power, the micro-controller can be put into deep sleep if no PD is detected or can be come out of deep sleep if a PD is detected.
US11005653B2
The present invention relates to a method for sharing secure data between players (5) on a net said method comprising a cryptography step for data using an asymmetrical cryptographic method with double keys, each player (5) having at least one said double key. The method includes a step for initializing (STP1) a blockchain that includes an operation for storing, at least one initialization block (26) in the blockchain by a predetermined authority using at least one computer, said at least one initialization block (26) comprising at least one said transaction (36) that includes an identity record (84) of a major player, said authority no longer intervening at the end of the initialization step (STP1) at least outside a reinitialization step of a player.
US11005641B2
According to an aspect of the inventive concept, there is provided a master unit included in a distributed antenna system of a frequency division duplex scheme, includes: a frequency converting unit converting a frequency of a first signal received from a base station into a predetermined frequency to generate a first frequency conversion signal; a signal combining unit combining the first frequency conversion signal and a second signal received from the base station to generate a transmit signal; and a signal transmitting/receiving unit transmitting the transmit signal to a remote unit connected through a single transmission line.
US11005621B2
Various aspects described herein relate to communicating hybrid automatic repeat/request (HARQ) feedback. A HARQ communication can be received over a set of one or more links based on a first scheduling grant. HARQ feedback for the HARQ communication including at least one of HARQ feedback for one or more of the set of one or more links can be transmitted.
US11005617B2
Embodiments described herein provide a method for cross-channel scheduling of high efficiency (HE) multi-user (MU) frame transmission. In some embodiments, channel information and client station information may be obtained for data transmission. An MU frame containing a data field of a first type and two data fields of a second type may be configured to carry scheduling information relating to one or more channels for the data transmission. It may be determined that a current scheduling setting of the two data fields of the second type leads to unbalanced payload between the one or more channels. The two data fields of the second type may then be adjusted for a balanced channel mapping, and the data field of the first type may be adjusted to reflect the balanced channel mapping. Data based on the adjusted data field of the first type and the adjusted two data fields of the second type may be transmitted via the one or more channels.
US11005608B2
Provided are wireless communication methods, a UE and an eNB. The wireless communication method performed by a UE includes transmitting transport block repetitions to an eNB, wherein one HARQ process includes multiple repetition sets of a transport block if one repetition set of the transport block is not enough for the eNB to successfully decode the transport block, each of the multiple repetition sets includes multiple repetitions of the transport block, each of the multiple repetition sets is followed by a feedback channel to indicate whether the transport block is successfully decoded by the eNB.
US11005589B2
A system for detecting GNSS signal jammers to be positioned on a roadside, the system comprises: a first device for receiving a GNSS signal; a second device that is configured to measure at least one characteristic of a received GNSS signal and to detect, on the basis of at least one characteristic, interference in the GNSS signal caused by a jamming signal; a third device for triggering the capture of an image of the road if the GNSS signal is subject to interference caused by a jamming signal, the first device configured to receive, via a radio link, a sequence of a satellite radionavigation signal received by a vehicle and retransmitted by the vehicle to the system via the radio link.
US11005577B2
Circuits and systems may be operable to provide improved wireless networking performance in the presence of a high speed wired interface. Filter circuits may be applied to wired interface leads to suppress frequency content that may interfere with wireless home networking. High speed digital wired interface systems on a chip may similarly be altered to suppress interfering frequency content before it leaves the chip. Systems with reduced radiated energy from wired interface circuits in frequencies of interest to wireless networking have improved wireless range and throughput characteristics.
US11005568B1
An optical transceiver system includes an optical transceiver chassis including a cable connector, a laser subsystem, and a sensor subsystem. A controller included in the optical transceiver chassis is coupled to the laser subsystem and the sensor subsystem. The controller receives a cable connection signal from the sensor subsystem that indicates that a cable has been connected to the cable connector included on the optical transceiver chassis and, in response, activates the laser subsystem. Subsequent to activating the laser subsystem, the controller receives a cable disconnection signal from the sensor subsystem that indicates that the cable has been disconnected from the cable connector included on the optical transceiver chassis and, in response, deactivates the laser subsystem.
US11005562B2
Broadband satellite communications systems using optical feeder links are disclosed. Various optical modulation schemes are disclosed that can provide improved capacity for fixed spot beam, on board beamforming, and ground-based beamforming broadband satellite systems.
US11005549B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A method may include measuring channel quality of a reference signal communicated via a control channel, determining a code rate for a control channel based on the measured reference signal, generating feedback data for the control channel based on the code rate, and transmitting the feedback data. Another method may include transmitting a reference signal in a control channel, receiving channel quality feedback data for the control channel in response to the reference signal, and transmitting a control channel transmission in the control channel using a modulation and coding scheme selected based on the feedback data.
US11005548B2
A multi-antenna system includes: a server; a first antenna group, provided on a base station and including multiple first antennas including a first representative antenna and a first non-representative antenna, the base station performing intra-group channel estimation to obtain and transmit to the server multiple first inner channel estimation coefficients between the first representative antenna and the first non-representative antenna, and serving a user device; and a reference device, communicating with the server and the first antennas, performing channel estimation between the reference device and the first representative antenna to obtain and transmit to the server multiple first outer channel estimation coefficients between the reference device and the first representative antenna. The server calculates a precoding matrix according to the first inner and first outer channel estimation coefficients, and the base station performs data transmission with the user device according to the precoding matrix.
US11005540B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for processing signals from multiple users at an antenna array, and to provide beamforming for transmitting to those multiple users, and more particularly for channel estimation and wireless signal recovery in wireless networks carrying transmissions in the millimeter wave frequency bands to enable such beamforming. Such methods and systems enable MIMO communications at millimeter wave frequencies for multiple users communicating with a MIMO antenna system, such as a massive MIMO multi-antenna system (multi-antenna arrays that consist of hundreds of antenna elements). Such methods and systems may characterize the communications link (i.e., channel) at that frequency band, and directly provide a precoding matrix for beam steering towards a particular user that is in communication with the antenna system.
US11005529B2
A fuseless switch for a cross phase of a power line communication (PLC) network includes a movable contactor, a switch, an electromagnetic tripper, a base and a microcontroller. The microcontroller further includes a low-voltage coupler electrically connected to a first ground line of the first circuit connection terminal and a second ground line of the second circuit connection terminal, so that a network connection signal can cross phases to complete the transmission of information. When a PLC network signal passes through the fuseless switch, the signal proceeds from the low-voltage coupler without being affected or attenuated by the original fuseless switch circuit, so as to overcome the issue of transmitting signals through the power line to other circuits.
US11005527B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting data from a transmitter device to one or more receiver devices connected to the transmitter device via a respective wire connection, the transmitter device being operable to transmit signals onto the wire connections and a further wire connection at different tones, the method comprising: for each tone, measuring electromagnetic coupling between the further wire connection and each of the wire connections and using the measurements, identifying a wire connection that most strongly receives crosstalk interference from the further wire connection; based on the identifications, for each tones, allocating signals transmitted on the further wire connection as supporting signals for a particular wire connection; transmitting a first signal onto the particular wire connection that has been allocated a supporting signal; and transmitting a second signal onto the further wire connection, thereby to cause crosstalk interference in the particular wire connection transmitting the first signal.
US11005523B2
A wireless network with network-level channel hopping. A wireless network includes a wireless device. The wireless device includes a receiver, a data channel selector, and a transmitter. The receiver is configured to receive a beacon signal comprising a beacon sequence value. The data channel selector is configured to select, as a pseudorandom function of the beacon sequence value, a data channel on which to transmit in an interval following reception of the beacon signal. The transmitter is configured to transmit on the data channel selected by the channel selector.
US11005520B2
A code acquisition module for a direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) receiver includes: a Sparse Discrete Fourier transform (SDFT) module configured to perform an SDFT on a finite number of non-uniformly distributed frequencies comprising a preamble of a received DSSS frame to calculate Fourier coefficients for the finite number of non-uniformly distributed frequencies; a multiplier configured to multiply the Fourier coefficients for the finite number of non-uniformly distributed frequencies of the received DSSS frame by complex conjugate Fourier coefficients for the finite number of non-uniformly distributed frequencies to generate a cross-correlation of the received DSSS frame and the complex conjugate Fourier coefficients; and a filter module configured to input the cross-correlation and output a delay estimation for the received DSSS frame.
US11005507B2
According to some embodiments, in a multi-user detection (MUD) receiver, a method for identifying a beam which produces a specific signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) can include: determining a maximum output SINR; determining beam weights to achieve a target SINR using the determined maximum output SINR; applying the beam weights to one or more received signals to generate a beamformed signal having the target SINR, one or more of the received signals having a signal of interest (SOI), one or more interfering signals, and noise; and providing the beamformed signal to a multi-user detection unit to recover the SOI.
US11005504B2
The embodiments of the application provides a polar code rate matching method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining, by a communications device, to-be-encoded information; determining, by the communications device, a to-be-used rate matching manner based on the code rate, a code rate threshold, a target code length, and a target code length threshold, where the rate matching manner is a puncturing manner or a shortening manner; and rate matching, by the communications device based on the determined rate matching manner, a polar code of the to-be-encoded information.
US11005491B1
The disclosed systems, structures, and methods are directed to a wireless receiver. The configurations presented herein employ a signal encoder configured to encode a plurality of received analog signals into a single encoded analog composite signal, in accordance with a variable leading bit orthogonal coding scheme, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to convert the single encoded analog composite signal into a single encoded digital composite signal containing constituent digital signals, a synchronization module configured to provide the variable leading bit orthogonal coding scheme to the signal encoder, and a signal decoder configured to decode the single encoded digital composite signal in accordance with the variable leading bit orthogonal coding scheme, to output a plurality of digital signals containing the desired information content of the received plurality of analog signals.
US11005490B2
A sampling circuit includes a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor that includes a third metallization receiving a reference voltage between a first metallization coupled to a source region of the transistor and a second metallization coupled to a drain region of the transistor.
US11005483B2
A circuit includes a current controlled oscillator (CCO), and a charge pump circuit boosting a supply voltage to produce a charge pump output voltage at a charge pump output node in response to output from the CCO. A current sensing circuit includes a first resistor coupled between the charge pump output node and an output node, a first transistor having a first conduction terminal coupled to the charge pump output node through a second resistor, and a second conduction terminal coupled to an input of the CCO. A second transistor has a first conduction terminal coupled to the output node, a second conduction terminal coupled to a reference current source, and a control terminal coupled to the control terminal of the first transistor and to the second conduction terminal of the second transistor.
US11005480B1
A phase locked device includes a digital controlled oscillator circuit, a clock signal generator circuitry, a time to digital converter circuit, and a logic control circuit. The digital controlled oscillator circuit is configured to generate a first clock signal in response to a plurality of digital codes. The clock signal generator circuitry is configured to generate a plurality of second clock signals according to the first clock signal, and to select a third clock signal and a fourth clock signal from the plurality of second clock signals according to a selection signal, in order to generate an output signal. The time to digital converter circuit is configured to detect a delay difference between the output signal and a reference signal, in order to generate the plurality of digital codes. The logic control circuit is configured to generate the selection signal according to the plurality of digital codes.
US11005477B2
The present technology relates to a driver circuit, a control method therefor, and a transmission/reception system that enable implementation of a large amplitude signal output required for long distance transmission with low power consumption. The driver circuit includes: a current drive circuit that outputs a predetermined current; and a termination resistance circuit connected in parallel with the current drive circuit, in which the termination resistance circuit connects a termination resistance to a transmission line when the current drive circuit outputs a current, and disconnects the termination resistance from the transmission line when the current drive circuit does not output the current. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a driver circuit that outputs a signal to a long distance transmission line, and the like.
US11005472B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes operating a transistor device by a drive circuit in one of a first operating mode and a second operating mode based on an operating mode signal received by the drive circuit. Operating the transistor device in each of the first operating mode and the second operating mode includes switching on the transistor device based on a drive signal received by the drive circuit; monitoring at least one operating parameter of the transistor device; and switching off the transistor device independent of the drive signal when the at least one operating parameter reaches a respective predefined off-threshold. Switching on the transistor device in the second operating mode includes switching on the transistor with a second slew rate that is smaller than a first slew rate in the first operating mode.
US11005471B2
A cycle setting unit of a signal generating circuit varies a set cycle value. A first determining unit determines a first ON time on the basis of: a first duty ratio obtained by correcting, with a correction value, a ratio between a target ON time and a reference cycle; and a set cycle value. A second determining unit determines, as a second ON time, a setting candidate value that is close to the first ON time. A generating unit generates a PWM signal reflecting the set cycle value and the second ON time. A third determining unit determines the correction value that is to be used next time by the first determining unit, on the basis of the target ON time, the reference cycle, the correction value of the previous time, the set cycle value, and the second ON time.
US11005463B2
A signal processor is provided, comprising a data variable delay circuit that delays data signals, a clock variable delay circuit that delays a clock signal indicating timing to acquire the data signals, a jitter signal supplying unit that supplies, to the data variable delay circuit and the clock variable delay circuit, a jitter signal to change an amount of delay in a same direction, and a re-timing circuit that outputs a jitter-applied data signal obtained by re-timing the data signals delayed by the data variable delay circuit with the clock signal delayed by the clock variable delay circuit.
US11005459B1
A system and method for efficiently retaining data in sequential elements during power down modes. In various embodiments, a master latch of a flip-flop circuit receives an always-on first power supply voltage, whereas, a slave latch and other surrounding circuitry receives a second power supply voltage capable of being powered down. During a power down mode, circuitry consumes less power while the master latch retains stored data. In some designs, the flip-flop circuit is a level shifting circuit, and the always-on first power supply voltage is less than the second power supply voltage. The master latch uses complex gates with a p-type transistor at the top of a stack of p-type transistors receiving the always-on power supply voltage level on its source terminal and the retained data value on its gate terminal. This top p-type transistor is capable of remaining disabled even when used in a level shifting manner.
US11005457B2
A circuit that produces an output signal having a frequency that is proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) is disclosed. In one embodiment, the circuit includes a ring oscillator and a bias current circuit coupled thereto. The ring oscillator and the bias current circuit are implemented in close proximity to one another. During operation, the bias current circuit generates a bias current that is provided to the ring oscillator. The amount of bias current generated is dependent upon the temperature of the circuit. In turn, the frequency of an output signal provided by the ring oscillator is dependent on the amount of bias current received from the bias current circuit. Accordingly, the frequency of the ring oscillator output signal is dependent on the temperature of the circuit.
US11005453B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards a level shifter with temperature compensation. In some embodiments, the level shifter comprises a transistor, a first resistor, and a second resistor. The first resistor is electrically coupled from a first source/drain of the transistor to a supply node, and the second resistor is electrically coupled from a second source/drain of the transistor to a reference node. Further, the first and second resistors have substantially the same temperature coefficients and comprise group III-V semiconductor material. By having both the first and second resistors, the output voltage of the level shifter is defined by the resistance ratio of the resistors. Further, since the first and second resistors have the same temperature coefficients, temperature induced changes in resistance is largely cancelled out in the ratio and the output voltage is less susceptible to temperature induced change than the first and second resistors individually.
US11005452B2
A control circuit (16) is configured to detect the impedance P1 of a load (3) and control each of the reactance value L1 of a first variable reactance element (12), the reactance value L2 of a second variable reactance element (14), and the phase shift amount φ of a phase shifter (15) on the basis of the detected impedance P1. Consequently, impedance matching can be achieved even with the phase shifter (15) that performs discrete phase shift control.
US11005451B2
A bandpass filter includes a capacitor coupled between an input node and an output node, and a dual-resonator structure coupled between the input node, the output node, and ground.
US11005448B2
A film bulk acoustic wave resonator includes a first substrate; a first insulating material layer, formed on the first substrate; a first cavity, formed in the first insulating material layer with an opening facing away from the first substrate; and an acoustic-wave resonant plate, including a first electrode, a piezoelectric oscillation plate, and a second electrode stacked on the first insulating material layer. The piezoelectric oscillation plate is disposed between the first electrode and the first electrode. The first electrode includes a first electrode cavity above the first cavity. The second electrode includes a second cavity above the first cavity. At least a portion of a boundary of the piezoelectric oscillation plate is formed by a boundary of the first electrode cavity and a boundary of the second electrode cavity. The boundary of the piezoelectric oscillation plate has an irregular polygonal shape without having two parallel edges.
US11005447B2
Embodiments of the invention include microelectronic devices, resonators, and methods of fabricating the microelectronic devices. In one embodiment, a microelectronic device includes a substrate and a plurality of cavities integrated with the substrate. A plurality of vertically oriented resonators are formed with each resonator being positioned in a cavity. Each resonator includes a crystalline or single crystal piezoelectric film.
US11005435B2
An ultrasound circuit comprising a trans-impedance amplifier (TIA) with built-in time gain compensation functionality is described. The TIA is coupled to an ultrasonic transducer to amplify an electrical signal generated by the ultrasonic transducer in response to receiving an ultrasound signal. The TIA is, in some cases, followed by further analog and digital processing circuitry.
US11005430B2
A distortion compensation device includes: a first predistorter configured to compensate for a distortion in an amplifier; and a second predistorter configured to compensate for the distortion in the amplifier, and update distortion compensation characteristics at a higher frequency than that of the first predistorter.
US11005427B2
Aspects disclosed herein eliminate audible disturbances that may occur when an audio amplifier is activated and deactivated. A feedback circuit is used to maintain a closed loop when transistors of a power output stage are activate or deactivated, thereby enabling the charge to build or dissipate without causing an audible disturbance. Further, in certain implementations, the power output stage may remain in an enable state for a period of time after deactivation of the audio amplifier regardless of whether an audio input signal is received enabling dissipation of charge without causing an audible disturbance.
US11005412B2
A battery pack and charger system includes a first battery pack having a first set of battery cells and configured to provide only a first operating voltage and a second battery pack having a second set of battery cells and configured to provide the first operating voltage and a second operating voltage that is different from the first operating voltage and a battery pack charger configured to be able to charge the first battery pack and the second battery pack.
US11005406B2
Disclosed embodiments are directed to a technique to remove DC offset from current measurement signals through shunt resistors in digital signal processing for current reconstruction when using discontinuous pulse width modulation (DPWM). Such measurements regarding current are pertinent to a feedback loop used for a system including a DC-link capacitor, inverter, and motor. A method of removing DC offset comprises: determining a three-phase output current signal of an inverter, wherein the inverter is coupled to a motor and a power supply; producing a voltage signal based on the three-phase output current signal and the resistances of one or more shunt resistors disposed in the inverter; applying an analog gain circuit to the voltage signal; processing the voltage signal with an analog-to-digital converter (ADC); applying a DC offset corrector to the voltage signal; and performing current reconstruction on the voltage signal to produce a continuous current signal.
US11005404B2
In a motor driving apparatus having an inverter for driving a motor capable of switching between a star connection and a delta connection, when currents detected by winding current detecting elements detecting currents flowing through windings become excessive, the inverter is made to stop. Moreover, inverter output currents are calculated after removing a circulating current component at the time of the delta connection, from the winding currents detected by the winding current detecting elements, and the inverter is controlled using the calculated inverter output currents. Because over-current protection is performed based on the detected values of the winding currents, it is possible to prevent demagnetization taking account oSf the circulating current. Also, the inverter control is prevented from being affected by the circulating current in the delta connection. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce the number of the current detecting elements, and perform the over-current protection and control properly.
US11005398B2
Provided is a motor drive controller capable of a locking energization operation while preventing increase in temperature of a coil. The motor drive controller includes a motor drive section selectively energizing coils with a plurality of phases of a motor and a locking energization control section. The locking energization control section performs a locking energization operation when the motor is started or restarted and holds a rotor of the motor in a position corresponding to the coil in which the lock current flows. In case of performing the locking energization operation, the locking energization control section switches a locking energization pattern for applying the lock current in the coil from a locking energization pattern when the preceding locking energization operation was performed. The locking energization control section controls the motor drive section so that the lock current flows in the coil in accordance with the switched locking energization pattern.
US11005396B2
Implementations of the present application relate to a starting method and apparatus for a permanent magnet synchronous motor, a power system, and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The method includes: obtaining a current motor rotational speed and motor position information of the permanent magnet synchronous motor; determining whether the current motor rotational speed is less than a preset minimum rotational speed, and if the current motor rotational speed is less than the preset minimum rotational speed, using the preset minimum rotational speed as a feedback rotational speed; otherwise, using the current motor rotational speed as a feedback rotational speed; and performing closed-loop control on the permanent magnet synchronous motor according to the feedback rotational speed and the motor position information. In this way, the starting method is simplified and simpler. Potential failure risks in various states in the prior art are avoided, thereby effectively improving reliability of a starting process.
US11005394B2
The present invention provides a control system (100, 200, 300) for controlling a single phase induction motor (150, 250) with a main winding (151, 251) and with an auxiliary winding (152, 252), the control system (100, 200, 300) comprising a first bidirectional switching element (101) and a second bidirectional switching element (102), wherein the first bidirectional switching element (101) is arranged between a phase supply input (103, 203) of the single phase induction motor (150, 250) and the main winding (151, 251) and wherein the second bidirectional switching element (102) is arranged electrically parallel to the main winding (151, 251), and a control unit (105, 205) coupled to the first bidirectional switching element (101) and the second bidirectional switching element (102).
US11005393B2
The present disclosure in some embodiments provides a method for controlling a magnetic levitation object, including steps of: receiving, by a magnetic levitation seat, angular offset information from the magnetic levitation object; determining, by the magnetic levitation seat, an offset angle of a center of gravity of the magnetic levitation object relative to a central magnetic point of the magnetic levitation seat in accordance with the angular offset information; and adjusting, by the magnetic levitation seat, a magnetic force from a corresponding region of the magnetic levitation seat in accordance with the offset angle.
US11005389B2
A turbogenerator power electronics system for use with a turbogenerator is described, wherein the turbogenerator power electronics system comprises a plurality of power electronics subsystems connected in parallel, each power electronics subsystem comprising an inverter. In such a way, a modular, reconfigurable power electronics system with increased ability to operate during a fault is provided.
US11005381B2
A synchronous rectifier control circuit includes a drain voltage input, a first gate voltage output, a second gate voltage output, a gate voltage generation circuit, and a trigger control circuit. The gate voltage generation circuit includes a first input coupled to the drain voltage input, and an output coupled to the first gate voltage output. The trigger control circuit includes a first input coupled to the first gate voltage output, a second input coupled to the second gate voltage output, and an output coupled to a second input of the gate voltage generation circuit.
US11005375B2
A DC-DC converter including a first power supply including a first converter outputting a first power voltage, a first sensor detecting a panel current from an output of the first converter; and a first output group including a plurality of inverting converters outputting a second power voltage based on the panel current; a second power supply including a second converter outputting the first power voltage, and a second output group including a plurality of inverting converters outputting the second power voltage based on the panel current; and a first phase controller controlling operations of the inverting converters included in each of the first and second output groups based on the detected panel current. The second power supply operates when the panel current exceeds a predetermined enable value.
US11005370B2
The disclosure provides a multi-phase converter. The multi-phase converter includes a controller and one or more switches. The one or more switches are coupled to the controller, and configured to receive an input voltage. A switch of the one or more switches is activated by the controller in a predefined phase of N phases in the multi-phase converter, where N is a positive integer. A processing unit is coupled to the controller and estimates a number of phases to be activated based on a load current. The processing unit also stores a threshold current limit corresponding to each phase of the N phases based on the input voltage and a switching frequency.
US11005369B2
Provided is an integrated circuit package which complementarily switches on/off a MOS transistor Q1 (first switch) and MOS transistor Q2 (second switch) in accordance with an output voltage Vout, and which externally outputs a pulse signal having a fixed on-duty D during a step-up/step-down mode. The integrated circuit package has a determination unit 61 for determining the impedance of an external component connected to an external pin P5 that outputs the pulse signal to the exterior during the step-up/step-down mode, and determining whether the external component is a third switch on the basis of the impedance determination result.
US11005368B2
A method for unbalancing a tri-level switching regulator uses hysteretic control when switching across multiple states of the tri-level switching regulator. The method includes determining a battery voltage and an output voltage of the tri-level switching regulator. The method also includes dynamically adjusting at least one of a first hysteretic window of a first hysteretic comparator associated with a second switching state of the tri-level switching regulator and a second hysteretic window of a second hysteretic comparator associated with a first switching state of the tri-level switching regulator based on the battery voltage and the output voltage.
US11005366B2
A power converter includes a switched-capacitor conversion circuit and an inductor buck circuit. The switched-capacitor conversion circuit receives an input voltage, and is operated, according to the first switching frequency, to convert the input voltage into an intermediate voltage. The inductor buck circuit and the switched-capacitor conversion circuit are connected in series. The inductor buck circuit receives the intermediate voltage, and generates an output voltage on a conversion output terminal thereof according to the intermediate voltage. The minimum value of the first switching frequency is determined by the intermediate voltage.
US11005363B1
A resonant power converter and a current synthesizing method therefor are provided. The resonant power converter includes a switch circuit, a resonant tank, a transformer, a rectifier circuit, and a current synthesizing module. The switch circuit receives an input voltage from an input source, and the rectifier circuit outputs an output voltage to a load. The current synthesizing module includes a sensing circuit, a peak hold circuit, and a calculation unit. The sensing circuit is configured to sense a resonant capacitor voltage on a resonant capacitor of the resonant tank. The peak hold circuit is configured to receive the resonant capacitor voltage and acquires a peak value thereof. The calculation unit is configured to receive the peak value, a switching frequency, the input voltage, the output voltage, and a resonant capacitance of the resonant power converter and generate a synthesized output current accordingly.
US11005362B2
A power supply apparatus of the present invention has a power factor correction circuit that corrects a power factor; a voltage converter connected to a secondary side of the power factor correction circuit; a power control unit that outputs a first signal for turning the power factor correction circuit on, and outputs a second signal for turning the voltage converter on; and a signal output unit that, in accordance with having being inputted with the first signal and the second signal, outputs a signal for turning the voltage converter on.
US11005359B2
An electric power converter has a first converter terminal, a second converter terminal, a converter switch and a snubber circuit. The snubber circuit comprises a snubber switch and a passive network connected to the snubber switch. The snubber circuit is connected to the converter switch, the first converter terminal and the second converter terminal.
US11005352B2
An energy harvesting device for generating electrical power from low-frequency oscillations includes a high-frequency cantilever, a plurality of low-frequency cantilevers each configured to contact the high-frequency cantilever in response to environmental vibrations having a frequency within a near-resonance frequency range associated with said low-frequency cantilever, an a generator that produces electrical power in response to contact between at least one of the plurality of low-frequency cantilevers and the high-frequency cantilever. The energy harvesting device may also include an impact mass coupled to a free end of each of the plurality of low-frequency cantilevers. Some aspects may include a common base to which the high-frequency cantilever and the plurality of low-frequency cantilevers are coupled. Other aspects may include the generator comprising one or more of an induction coil and magnet, a variable distance capacitor, or a piezo-electric material.
US11005342B2
The Spiral Helix Electromagnetic Linear Pulse Motor is based on the three dimensional operational design Helix Rotation Concept, where the basic helix rotation concept, is a linear axis parallel electromagnetic pulse, or wave, created by the sequential activation, deactivation, and polarity reversal, of electromagnetic constructs arranged in a linear row, forming a linear array, parallel to the driveshaft axis, with a 360 degree spiral helix magnetic construct array around/along the length of the driveshaft, magnetically interacting with the electromagnetic pulse/wave created by the linear electromagnetic array. As a result of the electromagnetic wave/pulse traversing parallel to the axis across the linear electromagnetic array and synchronizing with the spiral helix magnetic array in a sequential linear manner, the device converts electromagnetic energy into continuous useful rotational mechanical energy.
US11005336B1
A rotating machine includes a housing, a rotor shaft to rotate about a longitudinal axis, a position sensor to detect a position of the rotor shaft within the housing, and a magnetic bearing assembly coupled to the housing to support the rotor shaft within the housing. The magnetic bearing assembly includes an active magnetic bearing for active support of the rotor shaft, such as a thrust bearing actuator to produce an axial force component that is parallel to the central longitudinal axis and a radial force component that is orthogonal to the central longitudinal axis and axially offset from the thrust bearing actuator. The magnetic bearing assembly also includes a passive magnetic radial bearing to radially support the rotor shaft within the housing. A controller electrically coupled to the active magnetic bearing controls a control current to the active magnetic bearing.
US11005335B2
An energy apparatus that stores and disperses energy, the energy apparatus including: (1) an energy object that experiences movement so as to store kinetic energy in the energy object, the energy object including a magnet assembly through which electrons are driven resulting in electric output from the magnet assembly, and the electric output dependent on experienced EMF (electro-motive force) that is experienced by the magnet assembly; (2) a supporting structure that supports the energy object while providing for the movement of the energy object; (3) a first tuning magnet that is supported adjacent the energy object, the first tuning magnet positionable throughout a range of positions, the positions including a first position and a second position; (4) a second tuning magnet that is supported adjacent to the energy object.
US11005327B2
This rotating electric machine includes: a rotor having a shaft; a stator formed around the rotor; a seal ring formed around the shaft and having a plurality of through holes; a gland seal formed so as to surround the seal ring and having an oil feed port; and a partition plate formed between the seal ring and the gland seal, wherein the partition plate is formed at a position opposed to the oil feed port and is fixed to an upper wall and a lower wall in an axial direction of the gland seal, and the partition plate has a reinforcing plate at such a position as not to obstruct the oil feed port, the reinforcing plate being fixed to a side wall of the partition plate on a gland seal side and being in close contact with a circumferential wall of the gland seal.
US11005323B2
A shaft of a rotor includes a cylindrical core member and a resin member. An uneven portion made up of first hole portions is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the core member. The resin member covers the outer peripheral surface of the core member, while being adhesively fixed to the first hole portions. A rotor core is attached to a periphery of the resin member.
US11005310B2
A method for determining the position of a charging station for wirelessly transferring electric energy to a vehicle, wherein the charging station comprises a ground unit with a primary coil configured to generate an electromagnetic charging field for transferring electric energy to the vehicle, and wherein the vehicle comprises a receiving unit of a satellite positioning system and a secondary coil in the vehicle underbody, comprises performing, by the receiving unit of the vehicle, a plurality of position determination operations for at least part of the duration of a charging process during which the vehicle is arranged with respect to the ground unit such that the secondary coil of the vehicle has a predefined positional relationship with respect to the primary coil of the ground unit. The method also includes determining spatial coordinates of the receiving unit of the vehicle from the plurality of position determination operations, and inferring spatial coordinates of the primary coil of the ground unit from the known position of the receiving unit relative to the secondary coil in the vehicle.
US11005305B2
A wireless charger for automatically tuning an optimum frequency to inductively charge a rechargeable battery of an implantable pulse generator (IPG) that generates spinal cord stimulation signals for a human body is provided. The charging coil in the charger is wirelessly coupled to a receiving coil of the IPG to charge the rechargeable battery. An optimization circuit detects a reflected impedance of the charging coil through a reflected impedance sensor, and select an optimum frequency of a charging signal supplied to the charging coil based on the detected reflected impedances of a plurality of charging frequencies in a selected frequency range. Advantageously, the optimum charging frequency provides a more efficient way to charge the IPG's rechargeable battery.
US11005303B2
The present invention relates to a method for detecting foreign material, and an apparatus and a system therefor, and a method for detecting foreign material in a wireless power transmitter, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: measuring a quality factor value, which corresponds to a reference operation frequency, when an object is sensed; searching for a current peak frequency having a maximum quality factor value within an operation frequency band; receiving, form a wireless power receiver, a foreign material detection state packet including information on a reference peak frequency; correcting the measured quality factor value by using a difference value between the current peak frequency and the reference peak frequency; and determining whether the foreign material exists by comparing the corrected quality factor value with a predetermined quality factor threshold value. Therefore, the present invention has an advantage of enabling foreign material to be more effectively and accurately detected.
US11005299B2
A wireless power transmitter that transfers power to a wireless power receiver includes a coil assembly comprising first and second bottom coils placed adjacent to each other in a line and each consisting of a single layer of 11 turns and a top coil stacked on the first and second bottom coils and consisting of a single layer of 12 turns; a series capacitance; a shielding extending to at least 2 mm beyond an outer boundary of the coil assembly, has a thickness of at least 1.5 mm and being composed of Mn—Zn; and a full-bridge inverter driving each of coils included in the coil assembly individually.
US11005298B2
In a wireless power transfer operation, the operating parameters are adjusted to improve efficiency by reducing the transmit and receive coil currents as follows. First, the transmitter causes the receiver to reduce the receive coil current to the lowest value based on the transmitter/receiver communication while still delivering the same amount of power to the load as before the AC current was adjusted to the minimum value. Then the transmitter may change the operating parameters to increase or preserve the power provided to the receiver without decreasing efficiency or with only small decrease in efficiency, or with increasing the efficiency. For example, the transmitter may increase the VBRG voltage (the DC voltage powering the transmit coil) or the operating frequency to maintain or increase output power levels at lower or the same AC and DC current levels. Other features are also provided.
US11005294B2
Provided is a wireless power receiver for wirelessly receiving power from a wireless power transmitter, including a resonator that wirelessly receives power from the wireless power transmitter, a communication module that performs communication with the wireless power transmitter, and a controller that transmits manufacturer information on the wireless power receiver to the wireless power transmitter through the communication module, receives an authority over whether to allow each of at least one function of the wireless power receiver through the communication module, and performs a function allowed for the wireless power receiver based on the authority.
US11005292B2
A wireless power supply device comprises a transmitting coil assembly and a receiving coil assembly. The transmitting coil assembly includes a first ferrite core having a receiving chamber with an opening and a transmitting coil disposed in the receiving chamber of the first ferrite core. The receiving coil assembly is adapted to be moved into the receiving chamber through the opening of the receiving chamber and located at a predetermined position in the receiving chamber. The receiving coil assembly is electromagnetically coupled with the transmitting coil assembly.
US11005291B2
A surgical instrument includes a handle, an adaptor, and a non-contact electrical interface. A proximal end of the adaptor is releasably coupled to a distal end of the handle. The non-contact electrical interface is configured to wirelessly transmit energy from the handle to the adaptor and is configured to wirelessly transmit data from the adaptor to the handle. The electrical interface may include a proximal coil disposed within the handle and a distal coil disposed within the adaptor. When the adaptor is coupled to the handle, the proximal coil may be disposed adjacent the distal coil to form a transformer to inductively transfer energy from the handle to the adaptor and inductively transmit data from the adaptor to the handle.
US11005274B2
A sensing apparatus includes a sensor configured to sense a physical quantity of a battery, a memory configured to store one or both of physical quantity data corresponding to the sensed physical quantity and status information of the battery, a first interface configured to transmit one or both of the physical quantity data and the status information to a master processor and a second interface configured to provide an interface between a slave processor and the memory.
US11005266B2
There is provided an electrical assembly for use in a power transmission network. The electrical assembly includes a converter including terminals for connection to an electrical network, where the first terminal is a DC terminal. The assembly also includes a DC power transmission medium connected to the DC terminal, and a circuit interruption device including switching element(s) and an energy absorption element, each switching element being switchable to divert a flow of current in the DC power transmission medium through the energy absorption element in order to reduce the flow of current in the DC power transmission medium; The assembly also includes a converter control unit programmed to operate the converter to control a DC voltage at the DC terminal in a leakage current reduction mode to control a voltage across the energy absorption element.
US11005263B2
In some implementations, an apparatus can include a semiconductor region including an electrical device and a back-end region disposed on the semiconductor region. The back-end region can include a first terminal and a second terminal. The apparatus can include an insulator-metal transition (IMT) material electrically coupled between the first terminal and the second terminal.
US11005259B2
A monitoring and load controlling system for a switchboard, according to one embodiment of the present specification, comprises: a gateway which acquires respective temperature information of circuit breakers included in a switchboard, and respective current amount information of lines corresponding to the circuit breakers, acquires respective capacity information of the circuit breakers on the basis of the acquired temperature information, and, on the basis of the acquired capacity information and current amount information, detects a circuit breaker corresponding to a line in need of load regulation; and a load controlling device which regulates the load of said line by stopping the operation of at least one device among devices connected to the detected circuit breaker.
US11005253B2
A method of over-current protection includes: determining a current flowing through a first element to be protected, comparing the determined current with a plurality of thresholds, controlling a counter based on the comparing the determined current with a plurality of thresholds, and stopping the current flowing through the first element by activating a switch in series with the first element when an output of the counter reaches a predetermined counter threshold.
US11005239B2
Method and apparatus for sealing an air vent in a switchgear cabinet provide a vent seal assembly having a vent seal cover and a set of linear guides on which the vent seal cover may be mounted. The vent seal cover and linear guides are housed within a casing attachable to an interior surface of the switchgear cabinet and directly over an air vent. Within the casing, the vent seal cover may slide freely along the linear guides toward the air vent, with no spring or other mechanical biasing mechanism to oppose the sliding of the cover. A catch on the casing releasably holds the vent seal cover to keep the air vent open during normal operating conditions. When an arc event occurs, pressure from the arc event knocks the vent seal cover free of the catch and propels it toward the air vent, quickly slamming the air vent shut.
US11005238B1
A spark plug has a housing, an insulator, a central electrode and a ground electrode. A projection part is formed projecting radially from the housing. The spark plug has a structure which satisfies a relationship of t2/t1≤0.85, s1≤0.5, and s1≥1.05−t2/t1. A leg part of the insulator has a first end and a second end in an axial direction thereof. The second end is located opposite to the first end in the axial direction. In the relationship, t1 represents a first radial thickness of the first end in a radial direction of the leg part, t2 represents a center radial thickness in the radial direction at a middle position of the leg part, and s1 represents a first gap width in the radial direction of the housing between the projection part of the housing and the first end of the leg part.
US11005233B2
A low noise, single mode laser includes a semiconductor gain element generating light and having a highly reflective first end forming a first end of a laser cavity. The gain element may be monolithically or discretely integrated with, or distinct from, and coupled to a waveguide comprised of a low loss material with a refractive index ‘n’ greater than 3. The waveguide includes a Bragg grating forming the second end of the laser cavity. A cavity phase control section may be provided between the gain element and the Bragg grating. Two photodetector monitors provide a feedback signal for locking the light from the gain element to a specific wavelength on the Bragg grating reflection spectrum by varying at least one of the cavity phase control section and the gain element bias current. The Bragg grating may have a physical length larger than 10 mm and that occupies at least 50% of the optical length of the external cavity.
US11005225B2
The present disclosure relates to a docking cradle assembly for holding a computing device as disclosed herein. The docking cradle assembly comprises a cradle housing; a cover including an opening; and a connector assembly supported by the cover and having a connector positioned within the opening, the connector being rotatable between a first position, a second position substantially perpendicular to the first position, and a subset of positions each between the first and second positions and angularly displaced from the first position, wherein the cover is mountable to a first mounting surface and a second mounting surface angularly displaced from the first mounting surface by rotating the connector to a position suitable for the selected mounting surface in which the connector is inaccessible after the cover is mounted.
US11005224B1
An adapter for connecting an LED light fixture to the threaded, screw-in socket of an Edison lamp holder. The adapter includes lever arms that toggle between a horizontal position and an inclined position. The inclined position of the lever arms poses a small outside diameter so the adapter can be inserted into the Edison socket without catching any of the socket threads. When fully seated inside the Edison socket, the lever arms are pushed into the horizontal position. A central core translating within the shell when pushed to the top position inside the shell locks the lever arms in the horizontal position. The lever arms when locked in the horizontal position define an outsider diameter larger than the internal diameter of the Edison socket to wedge the adapter therein.
US11005222B1
A powered wall plate with at least two wall plate electrical current features behind the rear surface of the wall plate, each with a receiving prong, at least two electrical current transfer plugs with an electrical wire extending therefrom and configured to removably mate with the receiving prong. A plurality of LED lights is located along a bottom edge of the front surface, a photocell is exposed on the front surface of the wall plate, and a control switch has an on position, an off position, and an auto position. A transformer housing may extend forward of the front surface and includes a circuit therein operatively coupled to a USB port on a perpendicular surface of the transformer housing. The USB port is configured to provide power when power is supplied to the at least two electrical wires.
US11005212B2
A torque sleeve includes sleeve body configured to extend along an axis. The sleeve body is further configured to at least partially receive a coupling member of a coaxial cable connector. The sleeve body has an outer surface configured to permit a user to tighten the coupling member to an interface port up to a first torque, and the sleeve body includes a pair of opposed cutouts configured to receive a tightening tool so as to permit the tightening tool to grip the coupling member and tighten the coupling member to an interface port up to a second torque, the second torque being greater than the first torque.
US11005211B2
A method for manufacturing a cable with a connector is provided. In the method, a contact is attached to a reinforcing wire. The reinforcing wire to which the contact is attached is inserted into an insertion portion of a housing. The housing is connected to one end of a cable. The reinforcing wire is secured to the cable by a securing member.
US11005204B2
A high speed electrical connector assembly includes a mating female connector with sockets and male connector with pins. The female connector includes a connector body formed to define a mount face surface and contact face surface and one or more apertures extending therebetween. One or more sockets are positioned in the connector body apertures. The socket includes a mount portion and a pin receiving portion and the mount portion is configured for engaging an internal surface of the aperture proximate the mount face surface for securing the socket in the aperture. The pin receiving portion is maintained in a free-floating position away from the internal surface of the aperture with a tip end of the pin receiving portion being positioned below the contact face surface. An air gap is formed in the aperture around the free-floating portion and tip end.
US11005203B2
A terminal module (10) has a metal case (20) with a ceiling wall (21), a bottom wall (51) facing the ceiling wall (21), opposed side walls (23) extending from the ceiling wall (21) toward the bottom wall (51) and retaining pieces (24). A coil spring (40) is sandwiched between the ceiling wall (21) and the bottom wall (51). The retaining pieces (24) face each other in a direction perpendicular to a facing direction of the side walls (23) and project toward the bottom wall (51) from the periphery of the ceiling wall (21). The side walls (23) and the retaining pieces (24) are disposed alternately on the periphery of the ceiling wall (21). A spring receiving portion (26) formed by the ceiling wall (21), the side walls (23) and the retaining pieces (24) receives an end part of the coil spring (40) on the side of the ceiling wall (21).
US11005201B2
The present invention discloses a connector for flat conducting wires that is directed into the insertion opening, the front end comes in contact with the first locking protrusion and the second locking protrusion of the connector, respectively causing the first elastic arm and the second elastic arm to deform, thereby causing the first operating part and the second operating part to move towards the third surface until the indented notches correspond to the first locking protrusion and the second locking protrusion, which subsequently causes the first elastic arm and the second elastic arm to return to their former position by means of elastic force, latch-locking the front end of the flat conducting wire in the accommodating space, and through exerting an external force on the upper portion of the first operating part and the upper portion of the second operating part to unlatch and separate from the accommodating space.
US11005184B2
An antenna apparatus includes first dipole antenna patterns, feed lines, a first ground plane, and a first blocking pattern. The feed lines are connected to corresponding ones of the first dipole antenna patterns. The first ground plane is disposed on a side of the first dipole antenna patterns and spaced apart from each of the first dipole antenna patterns. The first blocking pattern, connected to and extending from the first ground plane, is disposed between adjacent ones of the first dipole antenna patterns.
US11005178B2
The subject matter described herein relates to various antenna element configurations, antenna array configurations, their operations including various systems and methods to generate modulated data for transmission by an RF antenna array via an optical processing engine. The subject matter includes optical processing engine structure and methods (e.g., modulating in the optical domain, MIMO and spatial modulation via RF beam formation, coherent transmission of RF signal components, coherent operation of spatially separate RF antenna arrays) that may be implemented with the various RF antenna array structures. In some examples, the system combines the virtues of digital, analog and optical processing to arrive at a solution for scalable, non-blocking, simultaneous transmission to multiple UE-s. Much of the system architecture is independent of the RF carrier frequency, and different frequency bands can be accessed easily and rapidly by tuning the optical source (TOPS). In some examples, multiple communication channels may be transmitted simultaneously to different locations. The transmitter may be formed by an array of optically fed antennas.
US11005164B2
Disclosed are: a ring-shaped antenna, which is formed in a ring shape and mounted between an earphone module housing and the outer circumference of a coin-type battery so as to communicate, through an NFMI, with an antenna mounted in another earphone module; and a wireless earphone module having the same. The disclosed ring-shaped antenna comprises: a flexible base sheet; a terminal sheet formed to extend from one side of the base sheet; a first terminal formed on one surface of the terminal sheet; a second terminal, formed on one surface of the terminal sheet, to be spaced apart from the first terminal; and a radiation pattern formed on one surface of the base sheet, and having one end connected to the first terminal and having the other end connected to the second terminal.
US11005163B2
A base station antenna includes a reflector having a plurality of pairs of opposed faces, a connector port, a plurality of radiating elements mounted to extend outwardly from the respective faces of the reflector, where each of the radiating elements is coupled to the connector port, and a plurality of RF lenses, each RF lens mounted outwardly of a respective one of the radiating elements and associated with the respective radiating element. The number of radiating elements coupled to the connector port is equal to the number of faces on the reflector.
US11005157B2
A liquid crystal cell including antenna units includes a TFT substrate, a slot substrate, an acidic group-containing orientation film, a liquid crystal layer, and a sealant. The TFT substrate includes a first dielectric substrate, TFTs supported by the first dielectric substrate, and patch electrodes electrically connected to the TFTs. The slot substrate includes a second dielectric substrate and a slot electrode supported by the second dielectric substrate and including slots. The acidic group-containing orientation film on a surface of one of the TFT substrate and the slot substrate contains a polymer having an acidic group. The liquid crystal layer is interposed between the TFT substrate and the slot substrate in which the patch electrodes and the slot electrode are opposed to each other to constitute the antenna units. The sealant surrounds the liquid crystal layer and is interposed between the TFT substrate and the slot substrate.
US11005151B2
The radome for vehicles includes a frontal layer (1) and a rear layer (2), both made from thermoplastic material, and it also includes a heating element (3) placed on the frontal layer (1), on its face opposed to the rear layer (2). The method for manufacturing the radome includes forming the frontal layer (1) with the heating element (3) placed on a face of the frontal layer (1); placing the conductive element(s) (5) in the heating element (3) ; forming the rear layer (2); assembling the frontal and rear layers (1, 2), so that the heating element (3) is on the face of the frontal layer (1) opposite to the rear layer (2). Some embodiments provide a radome with a heating function and an outstanding appearance.
US11005146B2
A battery includes a case, an internal terminal, an external terminal, and an insulator. The internal terminal includes an internal terminal base and a shaft. The internal terminal base is disposed inside the case, with the insulator interposed between the case and the internal terminal base. The external terminal includes an external terminal base and a boss. The external terminal base is disposed outside the case, with the insulator interposed between the external terminal base and the case. The boss extends from the external terminal base. The boss receives the shaft of the internal terminal therethrough. The boss is pressure-welded to the shaft of the internal terminal.
US11005143B2
Provided is a wiring module to be attached to a power storage element group having a plurality of power storage elements, the wiring module including: bus bars; a plurality of coupling units for holding the bus bars; and a coupling portion for coupling the plurality of coupling units. The coupling portion includes: a locking portion arranged on an end portion of one coupling unit of the plurality of coupling units; and a locked portion that is arranged on another coupling unit adjacent to the one coupling unit and onto which the locking portion of the one coupling unit is to be locked. The locking portion extends in a direction intersecting a coupling direction in which the plurality of coupling units are coupled.
US11005140B2
A separator for a lithium secondary cell is provided. The separator has a separator substrate, selected from porous separators for liquid-electrolyte cells and solid-electrolyte separators having lithium ion conductivity, and has a layer of glassy carbon (GC), which is applied at least on one side of the separator substrate. A lithium secondary cell is also provided, which contains a negative electrode, a positive electrode, and a separator placed between the negative electrode and the positive electrode. The glassy carbon layer of the separator faces the negative electrode.
US11005137B2
This disclosure details electrified vehicles that are equipped with one or more attachment and sealing assemblies for securing a battery pack to the vehicle. An exemplary attachment and sealing assembly may establish a mid-span attachment point of the battery pack and may include a pass-through component, a fastener, and a seal. The fastener may be positioned relative to the pass-through component using either a bottom-up or top-down approach. The seal may radially seal between a portion of a battery pack enclosure assembly and the pass-through component.
US11005136B2
The present disclosure provides a battery module, which comprises a plurality of battery arrays, a first end plate, a second end plate and a separating plate. Each battery array comprises a plurality of batteries sequentially arranged in a longitudinal direction, the plurality of battery arrays are sequentially arranged in a transversal direction. The first end plate and the second end plate are respectively positioned at two ends of the plurality of battery arrays in the longitudinal direction. The first end plate has a passage. The separating plate is provided between two adjacent battery arrays, one end of the separating plate in the longitudinal direction is fixed with the second end plate, the other end of the separating plate in the longitudinal direction extends into the passage and is fixed with the first end plate. In the passage, the separating plate has a bending portion not parallel to the longitudinal direction.
US11005122B2
Battery housing structures and battery apparatuses including the same are provided. A battery housing structure may include a case including an accommodation region in which a battery unit is accommodated, and an elastic member assembly provided in the case and configured to apply a pressure to the battery unit accommodated in the accommodation region. The elastic member assembly may include at least one first elastic member having an elastic coefficient that increases when a displacement increases and at least one second elastic member having an elastic coefficient that decreases when a displacement increases. The at least one first elastic member and the at least one second elastic member may have different structures or may be arranged in different directions.
US11005120B2
The electrochemical cell includes an anode, a cathode active layer, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the anode and the cathode active layer. The cathode active layer includes a first region which is disposed facing the solid electrolyte layer, and a second region which is disposed on the first region. An average particle diameter of first constituent particles which constitute the first region is smaller than an average particle diameter of second constituent particles which constitute the second region.
US11005117B2
Described herein are systems and methods for the management and control of electrolyte within confined electrochemical cells or groups (e.g. stacks) of connected electrochemical cells, for example, in an electrolyzer. Various embodiments of systems and methods provide for the elimination of parasitic conductive paths between cells, and/or precise passive control of fluid pressures within cells. In some embodiments, a fixed volume of electrolyte is substantially retained within each cell while efficiently collecting and removing produced gases or other products from the cell.
US11005113B2
Solids can sometimes form in one or more electrolyte solutions during operation of flow batteries and related electrochemical systems. Over time, the solids can accumulate and compromise the integrity of flow pathways and other various flow battery components. Flow batteries configured for mitigating solids therein can include an autonomous solids separator, such as a lamella clarifier. Such flow batteries can include a first half-cell containing a first electrolyte solution, a second half-cell containing a second electrolyte solution, a first flow loop configured to circulate the first electrolyte solution through the first half-cell, a second flow loop configured to circulate the second electrolyte solution through the second half-cell, and at least one lamella clarifier in fluid communication with at least one of the first half-cell and the second half-cell. A hydrocyclone can be used as an alternative to a lamella clarifier in some instances.
US11005109B2
The electrochemical cell has an anode, a cathode, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the anode and the cathode. The cathode contains a main phase which is configured by a perovskite oxide expressed by the general formula ABO3 and including at least one of La or Sr at the A site, and a second phase which is configured by Co3O4 and (Co, Fe)3O4. An occupied surface area ratio of the second phase in a cross section of the cathode is less than or equal to 10.5%.
US11005104B2
A battery includes a unit cell including an electrode layer and a counter electrode layer; a first current collector disposed on a side of the electrode layer opposite to the counter electrode layer and electrically connected to the electrode layer; a first solid electrolyte layer disposed in contact with a lateral side of the unit cell; and a first copper sulfide layer containing copper sulfide. The first current collector contains copper. The first copper sulfide layer is disposed between the first current collector and the first solid electrolyte layer and in contact with the first current collector and the first solid electrolyte layer.
US11005098B2
In a method of preparing a lithium metal oxide, a preliminary lithium metal oxide is prepared. The preliminary lithium metal oxide is washed using a washing solution to remove lithium salt impurities. The washing solution includes water and an organic ligand multimer compound. The lithium metal oxide having improved structural uniformity and stability is obtained using the washing solution.
US11005097B2
Disclosed are functionalized Group IVA particles, methods of preparing the Group IVA particles, and methods of using the Group IVA particles. The Group IVA particles may be passivated with at least one layer of material covering at least a portion of the particle. The layer of material may be a covalently bonded non-dielectric layer of material. The Group IVA particles may be used in various technologies, including lithium ion batteries and photovoltaic cells.
US11005086B2
A feedthrough that forms a terminal for a metal-ion electrochemical accumulator, provided through an aperture opening out on either side of a wall including two opposite faces. The includes feedthrough an electrically conductive male part, and a female part made of an aluminum-based alloy. A portion of the male part is tight-fitted into a blind hole of the female part.
US11005085B2
A method for producing an electrode tab according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise: a step of preparing a thin plate of a strip shape having a first thickness; a step of forming an adhesion part by compressing the thin plate from one end thereof to a second thickness; and a step of forming, from the other end of the thin plate to the adhesion part, a lead tab part formed to have the first thickness, by releasing the compression applied to the adhesion part.
US11005084B2
A method for manufacturing display apparatus comprises: forming a display panel by forming a plurality of display elements on a substrate having flexibility; providing a holding member at a part of or the entire of an outer edge of the display panel along the outer edge, the holding member engaging with an outer periphery of the display panel; preparing a supporting member having a surface on which the substrate of the display panel is to be placed; placing the substrate on the surface of the supporting member; bonding the holding member to the surface of the supporting member; and bringing the substrate into close contact with the surface of the supporting member at a strength lower than a bonding strength between the holding member and the surface of the supporting member.
US11005079B2
An anti-reflection bottom-emitting type OLED display device and a manufacturing method are provided. The anti-reflection bottom-emitting type OLED display device includes a substrate, multiple drive transistors, and a light emitting layer. The substrate is provided with a plurality of black matrixes spaced apart from each other. The drive transistors are arranged in an array on the substrate and arranged corresponding to the black matrixes respectively. The light emitting layer is disposed on the drive transistors. An opening region is arranged between each two adjacent black matrixes. The light emitting layer includes multiple light-emitting material layers arranged in an array. Each light-emitting material layer defines a display region and a non-display region. Each opening region is arranged corresponding to each display region, and each non-display region is arranged corresponding to each black matrix. Each display region coincides with each opening region between the black matrixes on the substrate.
US11005076B2
A flexible display device includes a substrate including a light-emitting diode having an emissive layer arranged in a light-emitting area of each of sub-pixels; a thin-film encapsulation layer covering the light-emitting diode; a black matrix arranged in a peripheral area of the sub-pixels and including a plurality of first openings respectively corresponding to light-emitting areas; a color filter layer including a plurality of color filters in each of the plurality of first openings; a low refractive layer arranged on the color filter layer; and a high refractive layer arranged on the low refractive layer and having a refractive index higher than a refractive index of the low refractive layer.
US11005074B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a light-emitting unit. The light-emitting unit includes a light-emitting part, wherein a light extraction structure is disposed on a first surface of the light-emitting part. The light-emitting unit also includes a connective part disposed on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the light-emitting part. The light-emitting unit further includes a protective part surrounding the light-emitting part and the connective part. In addition, the display device includes a substrate having a plurality of active elements and at least one bonding pad, wherein the bonding pad is electrically connected to the corresponding connective part of the light-emitting unit. The roughness of the light extraction structure is greater than or equal to 0.2 μm and less than or equal to 5 μm.
US11005063B2
A display substrate and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The display substrate includes: a base substrate; a first-color sub-pixel region and a second-color sub-pixel region on the base substrate. The first-color sub-pixel region includes: a first reflective layer, a first isolation layer and a first anode layer, the first reflective layer and the first anode layer being electrically connected with each other through a first connection element which penetrates through the first isolation layer. The second-color sub-pixel region includes: a second reflective layer, a second isolation layer and a second anode layer, the second reflective layer and the second anode layer being electrically connected with each other through a second connection element which penetrates through the second isolation layer. Thicknesses of the first isolation layer and the second isolation layer are different.
US11005051B2
A compound comprising a ligand LA of Formula I: as well as, devices and formulations containing the compound of Formula 1 are disclosed. In the compounds, having a ligand La of Formula I: wherein R1 represents mono, or di-substitution, or no substitution; wherein R2 represents di, tri, or tetra-substitution; wherein R is selected from hydrogen, deuterium, alkyl, cycloalkyl, and combinations thereof; wherein R1 and R2 are each independently selected from hydrogen, deuterium, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, and combinations thereof; wherein at least one pair of adjacent R2 substitutions are joined to form a fused ring; wherein the ligand LA is coordinated to a metal M; and wherein the ligand LA is optionally linked with other ligands to comprise a tridentate, tetradentate, pentadentate or hexadentate ligand.
US11005039B2
A correlated electron material device is described to comprise a conductive substrate and a layer of a correlated electron material disposed over the conductive substrate. The layer of correlated electron material may comprise a metal rich transition or other metal compound, and at least a portion of anion vacancies within the metal rich transition or other metal compound are occupied by an electron back-donating extrinsic ligand for the metal rich transition or other metal compound. Under certain conditions, the electron back-donating extrinsic ligand occupying anion vacancies may be activated so as to impart particular switching characteristics in the correlated electron material device.
US11005033B2
A component semiconductor structure having a semiconductor layer, which has a front side and a back side, at least one integrated circuit being formed on the front side and a first oxide layer being formed on the back side, a monolithically formed semiconductor body having a top surface and a back surface being provided, and a second oxide layer being formed on the back surface, and the two oxide layers being integrally connected to each other, and a sensor region formed between the top surface and the back surface and having a three-dimensional isotropic Hall sensor structure being disposed in the semiconductor body, the Hall sensor structure extending from a buried lower surface up to the top surface, and at least three first highly doped semiconductor contact regions being formed on the top surface and at least three second highly doped semiconductor contact regions being formed on the lower surface.
US11005019B2
A structure with micro devices includes a substrate, at least one micro device, and at least one holding structure. The micro device is disposed on the substrate. The micro device has a top surface and a bottom surface opposite to each other, a peripheral surface connected with the top surface and the bottom surface, a first-type electrode, and a second-type electrode. The holding structure is disposed on the substrate and is away from the first-type electrode and the second-type electrode. The holding structure includes at least one connecting portion and at least one holding portion. The connecting portion is disposed on an edge of the top surface of the micro device. The holding portion is connected to the connecting portion and extends onto the substrate.
US11005018B2
A semiconductor continuous array layer comprising: an array of multiple semiconductor units; a sidewall of each semiconductor unit is surrounded by a semi-cured material or a cured material connecting the semiconductor units together to form a semiconductor continuous array; wherein multiple voids or air gaps are enclosed by the semi-cured material or the cured material within the semiconductor continuous array or around the edge of the semiconductor continuous array.
US11005017B2
There is proposed a light source comprising: a semiconductor diode structure adapted to generate light; and an optical enhancement section above the semiconductor diode structure and adapted to output light from the semiconductor diode structure. A partially-reflective layer covers at least a portion of the top of the optical enhancement section and is adapted to reflect a portion of the output light towards the optical enhancement section. The partially-reflective layer has a light transmittance characteristic that varies laterally.
US11005013B2
A semiconductor light source that includes a substrate B and a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting rods extending respectively from the substrate, and a plurality of separating walls also extending from the substrate. The separating walls are arranged between the rods in such a way as to define groups of rods, and such that at least two separating walls have a different height.
US11005012B2
Embodiments of the invention include a flip chip semiconductor light emitting device and a wavelength converting structure disposed in a path of light extracted from the flip chip semiconductor light emitting device. A substrate with a textured top surface is positioned with the bottom surface facing the wavelength converting structure. The wavelength converting structure is disposed between the substrate and the flip chip semiconductor light emitting device.
US11005008B2
A light emitting device includes an LED chip, a light-transmissible member and a light-reflecting member. The LED chip has a plurality of interconnecting side surfaces having a roughened structure and a plurality of corners. The light-transmissible member covers the side surfaces and the corners and includes a light-transmissible material layer having a breadth value W(A) of a viscosity coefficient (A) range of the light-transmissible material, which satisfies a relation of W(A)∝B*D/C: where B represents a thickness of the light-transmissible material layer, represents a thickness of the LED chip measured from the first surface to the second surface, and D represents a roughness of the roughened structure. A method for manufacturing the light emitting device is also provided.
US11005004B2
Provided is a micro light emitting diode (LED) structure including an n-type semiconductor substrate layer, a light emitting structure layer formed on the n-type semiconductor substrate layer, and a p-type semiconductor layer formed on the light emitting structure layer, wherein the light emitting structure layer includes an arrangement of light emitting structures in which active layers including In and Ga are formed on tops thereof, wherein the light emitting structure layer forms at least three distinctive regions each including a single light emitting structure or a plurality of light emitting structures, the distinctive regions configured to emit light of at least two different wavelengths, the distinctive regions are controllable to emit light individually, and the distinctive regions are different in at least one of sizes of base faces, heights, and center-to-center distances of the lighting emitting structures of the regions.
US11005000B2
A connector that provides alignment of an optical fiber to a photonic device. The connector has a threaded sleeve, a ferrule cavity, an aperture in optical communication with the ferrule cavity and having a center that is substantially aligned with a center of the ferrule cavity and a device cavity that is configured to receive the photonic device and further in optical communication with the ferrule cavity via the aperture.
US11004999B2
A photodetector element according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a semiconductor layer with an uneven structure on one surface side that is constituted of projection portions and recess portions, and converts light into surface plasmons, and a metal film that is provided on the one surface side of the semiconductor layer in a manner corresponding to the uneven structure and a Schottky junction is formed between the metal film and the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer is constituted of n-type conductive silicon, and the other surface side of the semiconductor layer serves as an incident surface for light. The metal film is constituted of a material including nickel which form the Schottky junction when combined with the semiconductor layer.
US11004988B2
A solar cell includes a substrate of a first conductive type, a first doped region positioned at a first surface of the substrate and contains impurities of a second conductive type different from the first conductive type, and a first electrode part electrically connected to the first doped region. The first electrode part includes a thermosetting resin, and first and second conductive particles distributed in the thermosetting resin. The second conductive particles have a work function greater than the first conductive particles and form silicide at an interface contacting the first doped region.
US11004987B2
Methods of fabricating a solar cell, and system for electrically coupling solar cells, are described. In an example, the methods for fabricating a solar cell can include placing conductive wires in a wire guide, where conductive wires are placed over a first semiconductor substrate having first doped regions and second doped regions. The method can include aligning the conductive wires over the first and second doped regions, where the wire guide aligns the conductive wires substantially parallel to the first and second doped regions. The method can include bonding the conductive wires to the first and second doped regions. The bonding can include applying a mechanical force to the semiconductor substrate via a roller or bonding head of the wire guide, where the wire guide inhibits lateral movement of the conductive wires during the bonding.
US11004986B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a technique of preventing electric-field concentration in a first P-type semiconductor layer during recovery operation. A semiconductor device includes a drift layer, an N-type semiconductor layer, a first P-type semiconductor layer, a second P-type semiconductor layer, an electrode, and an insulating layer. The N-type semiconductor layer and the first P-type semiconductor layer are disposed below the drift layer while being adjacent to each other in a lateral direction. The insulating layer is disposed above the first P-type semiconductor layer while being in contact with the second P-type semiconductor layer and the electrode.
US11004974B1
A semiconductor structure includes a source region, a drain region, a channel region located between the source region and the drain region, a gate stack structure including a gate dielectric and a gate electrode that overlies the gate dielectric, such that a first gap region is present between an area of the source region and an area of the gate electrode in a plan view and a second gap region is present between an area of the drain region and the area of the gate electrode in the plan view, a contact-level dielectric layer overlying the source region and the drain region and laterally surrounding the gate stack structure, and at least one assist-field metallic plate located vertically above a top surface of the gate electrode and having an areal overlap with at least one of the first gap region and the second gap region in the plan view.
US11004967B1
A 3D semiconductor device including: a first level including a first single-crystal layer, a plurality of first transistors, and at least one metal layer, the metal layer overlaying the first single crystal layer with interconnects between the first transistors forming control circuits; a second level overlaying the metal layer, a plurality of second transistors, and a plurality of first memory cells including at least one of the second transistors; a third level overlaying the second level and including a plurality of third transistors, including second memory cells each including at least one third transistor, where at least one of the second memory cells is at least partially atop of the control circuits, where the control circuits are connected so to control second transistors and third transistors, where the second level is bonded to the third level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonds; and a fourth level above the third level, including a second single-crystal layer.
US11004963B2
An embodiment relates to a method of manufacturing an insulated gate bipolar transistor in a semiconductor body. A first field stop zone portion of a first conductivity type is formed on a semiconductor substrate. A second field stop zone portion of the first conductivity type is formed on the first field stop zone portion. A drift zone of the first conductivity type is formed on the second field stop zone portion. A doping concentration in the drift zone is smaller than 1013 cm−3 along a vertical extension of more than 30% of a thickness of the semiconductor body upon completion of the insulated gate bipolar transistor.
US11004962B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to integrated circuit devices having at least one transistor, and methods of fabricating the same. In one aspect, an integrated circuit device can be produced from a silicon substrate and can include at least one nano-ridge transistor formed from III-V semiconducting crystal portions. The III-V portions can be grown epitaxially from the silicon substrate using an intermediate portion which can be adapted to produce aspect ratio trapping. The nano-ridge transistor can have a reduced footprint on the silicon substrate, may be adapted for power RF applications, and can be combined with MOS or CMOS transistors within one and a same integrated circuit.
US11004952B1
A high-electron mobility transistor includes a substrate; a buffer layer on the substrate; a AlGaN layer on the buffer layer; a passivation layer on the AlGaN layer; a source region and a drain region on the AlGaN layer; a source layer and a drain layer on the AlGaN layer within the source region and the drain region, respectively; a gate on the AlGaN layer between the source region and a drain region; and a field plate on the gate and the passivation layer. The field plate includes an extension portion that laterally extends to an area between the gate and the drain region. The extension portion has a wave-shaped bottom surface.
US11004944B2
Methods of forming semiconductor devices include forming a lower dielectric layer, to a height below a height of a dummy gate hardmask disposed across multiple device regions, by forming a dielectric fill to the height of a dummy gate and etching the dielectric fill back. A dummy gate structure includes the dummy gate and the dummy gate hardmask. A protective layer is formed on the dielectric layer to the height of the dummy gate hardmask. The dummy gate hardmask is etched back to expose the dummy gate.
US11004941B2
A silicon carbide epitaxial substrate has a silicon carbide single-crystal substrate and a silicon carbide layer. An average value of carrier concentration in the silicon carbide layer is not less than 1×1015 cm−3 and not more than 5×1016 cm−3. In-plane uniformity of the carrier concentration is not more than 2%. The second main surface has: a groove 80 extending in one direction along the second main surface, a width of the groove in the one direction being twice or more as large as a width thereof in a direction perpendicular to the one direction, and a maximum depth of the groove from the second main surface being not more than 10 nm; and a carrot defect. A value obtained by dividing a number of the carrot defects by a number of the grooves is not more than 1/500.
US11004940B1
An embodiment relates to a n-type planar gate DMOSFET comprising a Silicon Carbide (SiC) substrate. The SiC substrate includes a N+ substrate, a N− drift layer, a P-well region and a first N+ source region within each P-well region. A second N+ source region is formed between the P-well region and a source metal via a silicide layer. During third quadrant operation of the DMOSFET, the second N+ source region starts depleting when a source terminal is positively biased with respect to a drain terminal. The second N+ source region impacts turn-on voltage of body diode regions of the DMOSFET by establishing short-circuitry between the P-well region and the source metal when the second N+ source region is completely depleted.
US11004936B2
Insulated gate semiconductor device includes drift layer of first conductivity type; first base region of second conductivity type on the drift layer; carrier-supply region of the first conductivity type on the first base region and having higher impurity concentration than the drift layer; a first contact region of the second conductivity type on the first base region and having higher impurity concentration than the first base regions; cell-pillars each having polygonal-shape, arranged in a lattice-pattern, sidewalls of the cell-pillars are defined by trenches penetrating the carrier-supply region, the first contact region, and the first base region; and insulated-gate electrode-structures in the trenches. A first pillar selected from the cell-pillars includes the carrier-supply region, the first contact region and the first base region, and the first contact regions are in contact with a limited portion of an outer periphery of a first pillar at a top surface of the first pillar.
US11004925B2
A first organic resin layer is formed over a first substrate; a first insulating film is formed over the first organic resin layer; a first element layer is formed over the first insulating film; a second organic resin layer is formed over a second substrate; a second insulating film is formed over the second organic resin layer; a second element layer is formed over the second insulating film; the first substrate and the second substrate are bonded; a first separation step in which adhesion between the first organic resin layer and the first substrate is reduced; the first organic resin layer and a first flexible substrate are bonded with a first bonding layer; a second separation step in which adhesion between the second organic resin layer and the second substrate is reduced; and the second organic resin layer and a second flexible substrate are bonded with a second bonding layer.
US11004921B2
A method of manufacturing an OLED device includes: preparing a substrate on which a first conductive layer and a pixel defining film defining a plurality of pixels and exposing the first conductive layer for each of the plurality of pixels; disposing a photoresist pattern on the pixel defining film, the photoresist pattern comprising an opening exposing a first pixel of the plurality of pixels; disposing a first material layer onto an entire surface of the substrate to simultaneously dispose an organic light-emitting layer and a first deposition layer; disposing a second material layer onto the entire surface of the substrate to simultaneously dispose a second conductive layer and a second deposition layer; disposing a third material layer onto the entire surface of the substrate to simultaneously dispose a protection layer and a third deposition layer; and removing the photoresist pattern and the first, second, and third deposition layers.
US11004920B2
A display device includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels on the substrate, a first electrode arranged for each pixel on the substrate, a pixel defining layer on the substrate along a boundary of each pixel and including an opening exposing the first electrode of the pixel, an organic layer on the first electrode in the opening of the pixel defining layer, and a second electrode on the organic layer, the pixel defining layer including a first pixel defining layer and a second pixel defining layer stacked on a surface of the first pixel defining layer, the surface of the first pixel defining layer including an upper surface and a side surface, and a surface roughness of the upper surface of the first pixel defining layer being greater than a surface roughness of the first electrode.
US11004918B2
Provided is an electronic apparatus including: a substrate; a pixel defined layer defining a plurality of pixel areas and a plurality of non-pixel areas on the substrate; a plurality of light-emitting diodes arranged on the plurality of the pixel areas; and a thin film encapsulation portion including an organic film and sealing the pixel defined layer, or the plurality of the light-emitting diodes and the pixel defined layer, wherein the organic film includes a curable material of a composition for forming an organic film, the composition including at least one UV absorber.
US11004912B2
A flexible display apparatus includes a flexible display panel including a flexible substrate, a display area of the flexible substrate including a thin film transistor, an organic light emitting layer and a sensor electrode, and a peripheral area of the flexible substrate including a first alignment mark in which respective portions of two metal layers are stacked; a window on a first surface of the flexible display panel; and a protective film on a second surface of the flexible display panel. The first alignment mark is aligned with a reference point of the window and with a reference point of the protective film.
US11004903B2
The present disclosure discloses an electronic device having a hexagonal structure and an addressing method therefor. The electronic device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first conductor arranged in a first direction, a second conductor disposed on the first conductor and arranged in a second direction, a third conductor disposed on the second conductor and arranged in a third direction, a selection element disposed at a portion between the first and second conductors where the first, second, and third conductors intersect, and a memory element disposed at a portion between the second and third conductors where the first, second, and third conductors intersect.
US11004901B2
A semiconductor device includes a magnetic random access memory (MRAM) cell. The MRAM cell includes a first magnetic layer disposed over a substrate, a first non-magnetic material layer made of a non-magnetic material and disposed over the first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer disposed over the first non-magnetic material layer, and a second non-magnetic material layer disposed over the second magnetic layer. The second magnetic layer includes a plurality of magnetic material pieces separated from each other.
US11004898B2
Method for manufacturing a magnetic tunnel junction device and device manufactured using such method
A magnetic tunnel junction memory device is disclosed. In one aspect, the memory device comprises a substrate, a first memory element, and a second memory element, wherein the first memory element and the second memory element are formed of a stack comprising at least a first layer and a second layer, the first layer being arranged between the substrate and the second layer. The memory device further comprises a first selector device arranged to contact the first memory element, and a second selector device arranged to contact the second memory element, wherein the first selector device and the second selector device are arranged in or above the second layer. The first memory element and the second memory element are interconnected via the first layer, and are separated from each other by a trench formed in the second layer.
US11004896B1
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system for non-invasively characterizing a qubit device includes a characterization probe chip. The characterization probe chip includes a substrate and a characterization resonator formed on a first surface of the substrate. The characterization resonator includes a superconducting stripline, and a superconducting antenna coupled to an end of the superconducting stripline, the superconducting antenna positioned to align with a qubit on the qubit device being characterized. The characterization probe chip also includes and a superconducting ground plane formed on a second surface of the substrate, the second surface opposing the first surface. In operation, the superconducting antenna is configured to capacitively couple the characterization resonator to the qubit aligned with the superconducting antenna for characterization of the qubit.
US11004894B2
A micro-light emitting diode (LED) display panel and a method of forming the display panel, the micro-LED display panel having a monolithically grown micro-structure including a first color micro-LED that is a first color nanowire LED, and a second color micro-LED that is a second color nanowire LED.
US11004893B2
A photonic integrated device is provided, includes a substrate, a two-dimensional material unit and semiconductor light-emitting units located at both sides thereof are disposed on the substrate; the two-dimensional material unit is provided with a luminescent two-dimensional material of which a luminous band is longer than that of the semiconductor light-emitting unit, and the semiconductor light-emitting unit provides a pump light source for the two-dimensional material unit to pump the luminescent two-dimensional material to emit light. The photonic integrated device in the present disclosure can obtain different luminous bands by changing the number of layers or kinds of the luminescent two-dimensional material. Meanwhile, the photonic integrated device according to the present disclosure adopts an optical pumping luminescence method without forming a p-n junction, which simplifies process difficulty compared with an electrical pumping luminescence method of manufacturing the p-n junction based on the luminescent two-dimensional material in the prior art.
US11004889B2
A method of fabricating an image sensor is provided. The method includes comprises forming a deep trench in a semiconductor substrate, performing a first plasma doping process to form a first impurity region a portion of in the semiconductor substrate adjacent to inner sidewalls and a bottom surface of the deep trench, the first impurity region being doped with first impurities of a first conductivity type, and performing an annealing process to diffuse the first impurities from the first impurity region into the semiconductor substrate to form a photoelectric conversion part.
US11004887B2
A BSI image sensor includes a substrate including a front side and a back side opposite to the front side, a pixel sensor disposed in the substrate, and a color filter disposed over the pixel sensor. The pixel sensor includes a plurality of first micro structures disposed over the back side of the substrate. The color filter includes a plurality of second micro structures disposed over the back side of the substrate. Each of the first micro structures has a first height, and each of the second micro structures has a second height. The second height is less than the first height.
US11004885B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid-state image capture element and an electronic device which are enabled to eliminate asymmetry of a light reception amount in accordance with an incident angle of light incident on a pixel. A solid-state image capture element includes: a pixel including a light-receiving portion that receives light incident from a rear-surface side of a semiconductor substrate; and a wiring layer laminated on a front-surface of the semiconductor substrate. The pixel includes a symmetrical wiring that is formed symmetrically with respect to a center of the pixel in a plane view of the pixel. The symmetrical wiring is arranged in a layer closest to the light-receiving portion, of a plurality of layers of wiring formed in the wiring layer. For example, the present technology can be applied to a rear-surface irradiation type solid-state image capture element.
US11004871B2
Disclosed are a display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a multiplex circuit, a plurality of signal connection lines and a plurality of data signal lines, wherein each of the switch devices in the multiplex circuit comprises at least one thin film transistor; the colors of all pixel units in a first pixel unit column are the same; the colors of at least two pixel units in a second pixel unit column are different; first switch devices correspond to first pixel unit columns; second switch devices correspond to second pixel unit columns; and the equivalent channel width-to-length ratio of thin film transistors in each first switch device is less than the equivalent channel width-to-length ratio of thin film transistors in each second switch device.
US11004867B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit has a first doped region and a second doped region within a substrate. A FeRAM (ferroelectric random access memory) device is arranged over the substrate between the first doped region and the second doped region. The FeRAM device has a ferroelectric material and a conductive electrode. The ferroelectric material is arranged over the substrate and the conductive electrode is arranged over the ferroelectric material and between sidewalls of the ferroelectric material.
US11004866B2
A vertical-type memory device includes a substrate having a cell array region and a connection region disposed adjacent to the cell array region, a plurality of gate electrode layers stacked on the cell array region and the connection region, a plurality of channel structures disposed in the cell array region, a plurality of dummy channel structures disposed in the connection region, and a plurality of slits disposed in the plurality of gate electrode layers in the cell array region. The plurality of gate electrode layers forms a stepped structure in the connection region, the plurality of channel structures penetrates the plurality of gate electrode layers, and the plurality of dummy channel structures penetrates at least one of the plurality of gate electrode layers.
US11004864B2
A semiconductor device includes a stack structure including alternately stacked interlayer insulating layers and electrode patterns. The semiconductor device also includes a plurality of contact plugs connected to the electrode patterns. The semiconductor device further includes a supporting structure penetrating the stack structure between two adjacent contact plugs of the plurality of contact plugs, wherein the supporting structure has a cross section extending in a zigzag shape.
US11004849B2
Electrical overstress protection for high speed applications, such as integrated multiple subsystem communications, is provided. In certain embodiments, a semiconductor die with distributed and configurable electrical overstress protection is provided. The semiconductor die includes signal pads, a core circuit electrically connected to the signal pads, and a configurable overstress protection array operable to protect the core circuit from electrical overstress at the signal pads. The configurable overstress protection array includes a plurality of segmented overstress protection devices of two or more different device types, and both a number of selected overstress protection devices and a device type of the selected overstress protection devices is programmable. The subsystems configurations are enabled in FinFET technology. Such configurable overstress protection arrays can be distributed across the die to protect not only core circuit sub-systems at the die pads, but also between internal sub-system communication interfaces operating in different power domains.
US11004844B2
A method includes forming an isolation region extending into a semiconductor substrate, etching a top portion of the isolation region to form a recess in the isolation region, and forming a gate stack extending into the recess and overlapping a lower portion of the isolation region. A source region and a drain region are formed on opposite sides of the gate stack. The gate stack, the source region, and the drain region are parts of a Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) device.
US11004843B2
An integrated circuit includes a power switch coupled between a first voltage supply node and an internal voltage supply node and a switch control circuit coupled to a control electrode of the power switch. The switch control circuit includes a driver circuit coupled between a second voltage supply node and a third voltage supply node, a pass-gate having a first node coupled to an output of the driver circuit and a second node coupled to the control electrode of the power switch, a pull-up transistor having a first current electrode coupled to the first voltage supply node, a second current electrode coupled to the control electrode of the power switch, and a bias circuit having a bias output configured to provide a higher voltage between the first and second power supply nodes as a bias voltage to a body electrode of the pull-up transistor.
US11004841B2
Disclosed are semiconductor devices that include additional gate pads, and methods of fabricating and testing such devices. A device may include a first gate pad, a second gate pad, and a third gate pad. The first gate pad is connected to a gate including a gate oxide layer. The second and third gate pads are part of an electro-static discharge (ESD) protection network for the device. The ESD protection network is initially isolated from the first gate pad and hence from the gate and gate oxide layer. Accordingly, gate oxide integrity (GOI) testing can be effectively performed and the reliability and quality of the gate oxide layer can be checked. The second gate pad can be subsequently connected to the first gate pad to enable the ESD protection network, and the third gate pad can be subsequently connected to an external terminal when the device is packaged.
US11004837B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor device module, and a heat conductor. The semiconductor device module is on the substrate. The semiconductor device module includes an interposer substrate, one or more semiconductor device chips, a covering resin, and a metal film. The one or more semiconductor device chips are on a first surface of the interposer substrate. The covering resin is in contact with the first surface of the interposer substrate and the one or more semiconductor device chips and encloses the one or more semiconductor device chips. The metal film is in contact with the covering resin and covers the covering resin. The heat conductor is in thermal contact with the substrate and the metal film, and has a higher thermal conductivity than the covering resin.
US11004823B2
A chip assembly includes a carrier and a metal grid array having an opening. The metal grid array is attached to the carrier by an attachment material. The metal grid array and the carrier define a cavity which is formed by the opening and the carrier. The chip assembly further includes an electronic chip mounted in the cavity.
US11004822B2
This wire clamp apparatus calibration method comprises: a step for driving a driving piezoelectric element by applying a predetermined frequency that causes a pair of arm portions to vibrate in an opening/closing direction; a step for detecting whether or not end portions of the pair of arm portions collide with each other on the basis of an output current outputted from the driving piezoelectric element when the pair of arm portions are vibrating in the opening/closing direction; a step for calculating, on the basis of the detection result, reference voltages in a state where the pair of arm portions are closed; and a step for performing calibration of a drive voltage to be applied to the driving piezoelectric element on the basis of the reference voltages. Accordingly, accuracy improvement and stabilization in an opening/closing operation of the wire clamp apparatus can be achieved.
US11004820B2
An apparatus and method for filling a ball grid array template and a method for transferring a plurality of balls are disclosed. The apparatus includes a flat base, a plate and a stationary ball supply bin. The plate is mounted on the base and configured to be rotatable about a first axis perpendicular to the base. An upper surface of the plate includes a plurality of holes forming the ball grid array template. The stationary ball supply bin is mounted to the base. The base is configured to be inclined at an angle relative to a horizontal plane. The ball supply bin is configured in use to dispense a plurality of balls onto the corresponding plurality of holes forming the ball grid array template as the plate is rotated about the first axis.
US11004818B2
An embodiment is a device comprising a substrate, a metal pad over the substrate, and a passivation layer comprising a portion over the metal pad. The device further comprises a metal pillar over and electrically coupled to the metal pad, and a passive device comprising a first portion at a same level as the metal pillar, wherein the first portion of the passive device is formed of a same material as the metal pillar.
US11004812B2
A package structure is provided. The package structure includes a dielectric layer on a die, a RDL structure and a conductive terminal. The RDL structure comprises a redistribution layer in and on the dielectric layer. The redistribution layer comprises a via and a conductive plate. The via is located in and penetrating through the dielectric layer to be connected to the die. The conductive plate is on the via and the dielectric layer, and is connected to the die through the via. The conductive terminal is electrically connected to the die through the RDL structure. The via is ring-shaped.
US11004811B2
A semiconductor structure includes a transceiver, a molding surrounding the transceiver, and a RDL disposed over the transceiver. The RDL includes an antenna and a dielectric layer. The antenna is disposed over and electrically connected to the transceiver. The dielectric layer surrounds the antenna. The antenna includes an elongated portion and a via portion. The elongated portion extends over the molding, and the via portion is electrically connected to the transceiver.
US11004805B2
Provided is a method of fabricating a semiconductor device, including the following steps. A first seal ring and a second seal ring that are separated from each other are formed on a substrate. A protective layer covering the first seal ring and the second seal ring is formed on the substrate. The protective layer between the first seal ring and the second seal ring includes a concave surface. The protective layer at the concave surface and a portion of the protective layer on the first seal ring are removed to form a spacer on a sidewall of the first seal ring, and form an opening in the protective layer. The width of the opening is greater than the width of the first seal ring, and the opening exposes a top surface of the first seal ring and the spacer.
US11004797B2
A package structure including a first semiconductor die, a second semiconductor die, a molding compound, an interconnect structure, first conductive features, through insulator vias, an insulating encapsulant and a redistribution layer is provided. The molding compound is encapsulating the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die. The interconnect structure is disposed on the molding compound and electrically connecting the first semiconductor die to the second semiconductor die. The first conductive features are electrically connected to the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die, wherein each of the first conductive features has a recessed portion. The through insulator vias are disposed on the recessed portion of the first conductive features and electrically connected to the first and second semiconductor die. The insulating encapsulant is encapsulating the interconnect structure and the through insulator vias. The redistribution layer is disposed on the insulating encapsulant and over the interconnect structure.
US11004795B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a first gate structure, a first spacer, a source drain structure, a first dielectric layer, a conductor, and a protection layer. The first gate structure is present on the substrate. The first spacer is present on a sidewall of the first gate structure. The source drain structure is present adjacent to the first spacer. The first dielectric layer is present on the first gate structure and has an opening therein, in which the source drain structure is exposed through the opening. The conductor is electrically connected to the source drain structure, in which the conductor has an upper portion in the opening of the first dielectric layer and a lower portion between the upper portion and the source drain structure. The protection layer is present between the lower portion and the first spacer and between the upper portion and the source drain structure.
US11004788B2
A semiconductor device may include a plurality of active patterns and a plurality of gate structure on a substrate, a first insulating interlayer covering the active patterns and the gate structures, a plurality of first contact plugs extending through the first insulating interlayer, a plurality of second contact plugs extending through the first insulating interlayer, and a first connecting pattern directly contacting a sidewall of at least one contact plug selected from the first and second contact plugs. Each of gate structures may include a gate insulation layer, a gate electrode and a capping pattern. Each of first contact plugs may contact the active patterns adjacent to the gate structure. Each of the second contact plugs may contact the gate electrode in the gate structures. An upper surface of the first connecting pattern may be substantially coplanar with upper surfaces of the first and second contact plugs.
US11004783B2
An integrated circuit (IC) chip design for symmetric power delivery includes an integrated circuit (IC) chip package with I/O connections exposed on a first surface and power connections exposed on a second opposite surface. At least one voltage regulation module (VRM) is positioned on the second opposite surface and electrically coupled to the power connections on the second opposite surface.
US11004776B2
A semiconductor device may include a circuit board having an opening, and a frame. The frame may have an IC die pad in the opening, and arms extending outwardly from the IC die pad and coupled to the circuit board. The semiconductor device may include an IC mounted on the IC die pad, bond wires coupling the circuit board with the IC, and encapsulation material surrounding the IC, the bond wires, and the arms.
US11004765B2
A semiconductor device may include a semiconductor substrate, an insulator film covering a part of an upper surface of the substrate, and a gate electrode opposing the upper surface via the insulator film. In the semiconductor substrate, a drift layer extending through a body layer to the upper surface opposes the gate electrode via the insulator film. The insulator film extends from the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate to an upper surface of the gate electrode by passing between the gate electrode and an upper electrode, and defines an opening at the upper surface of the gate electrode. A side surface of the opening of the insulator film is entirely located outside a volume space consisting of all straight lines that passes through the opposing surface of the drift layer at angle of 45 degrees to the opposing surface.
US11004759B2
An electronic component includes a resin structure including first and second surfaces facing each other, an electronic component element contained in the resin structure, including first and second main surfaces facing each other, and side surfaces connecting the first and second main surfaces, and being exposed to the first surface of the resin structure, and a through-electrode penetrating the resin structure to connect the first and second surfaces of the resin structure, in which the through-electrode are in contact with at least one of the side surfaces of the electronic component element.
US11004758B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a package component including: integrated circuit dies; an encapsulant around the integrated circuit dies; a redistribution structure over the encapsulant and the integrated circuit dies, the redistribution structure being electrically coupled to the integrated circuit dies; sockets over the redistribution structure, the sockets being electrically coupled to the redistribution structure; and a support ring over the redistribution structure and surrounding the sockets, the support ring being disposed along outermost edges of the redistribution structure, the support ring at least partially laterally overlapping the redistribution structure.
US11004756B2
A semiconductor device includes: a base plate; a semiconductor chip mounted on the base plate; a case surrounding the semiconductor chip on the base plate; an electrode terminal connected to the semiconductor chip; a sealing material covering an upper face of the base plate, the semiconductor chip and a part of the electrode terminal in the case; and a lid fastened to the case above the sealing material, wherein the electrode terminal is not exposed on an upper face of the sealing material, and there is a gap between the upper face of the sealing material and a lower face of the lid.
US11004735B2
According to embodiments of the present invention, a semiconductor wafer includes a substrate and an interlayer dielectric located on the substrate. The interlayer dielectric includes an interconnect. A barrier layer is located in between the interconnect and the interlayer dielectric. A semi-liner layer is located in between the interconnect and the barrier layer. The interlayer dielectric, the interconnect, and barrier layer form a substantially planar surface opposite the substrate. The interconnect has an interconnect height from a base to the substantially planar surface and a semi-liner height of the semi-liner layer is less than the interconnect height such that liner layer does not extend to the planar surface.
US11004734B2
A semiconductor structure includes a conductive feature, a first metal-based etch-stop layer over the underlying structure, a metal-free etch-stop layer over the first metal-based etch-stop layer, a second metal-based etch-stop layer over the metal-free etch-stop layer, an interlayer dielectric layer over the second metal-based etch-stop layer, and an interconnect structure extending through the first metal-based etch-stop layer, metal-free etch-stop layer, and the second metal-based etch-stop layer, wherein a bottom portion of the conductive interconnect structure directly contacts the conductive feature. The first metal-based etch-stop layer may include a first metallic component having one of aluminum, tantalum, titanium, or hafnium, and the second metal-based etch-stop layer may include a second metallic component the same as or different from the first metallic component. The first metal-based etch-stop layer and the second metal-based etch-stop layer may both be free of silicon.
US11004727B2
A minute transistor is provided. A transistor having low parasitic capacitance is provided. A transistor having high frequency characteristics is provided. An electrode including the transistor is provided. A novel electrode is provided. The electrode includes a first conductive layer containing a metal, an insulating layer, and a second conductive layer. The insulating layer is formed over the first conductive layer. A mask layer is formed over the insulating layer. The insulating layer is etched using plasma with the mask layer used as a mask, whereby an opening is formed in the insulating layer so as to reach the first conductive layer. Plasma treatment is performed on at least the opening in an oxygen atmosphere. By the plasma treatment, a metal-containing oxide is formed on the first conductive layer in the opening. The oxide is removed, and then the second conductive layer is formed in the opening.
US11004724B2
An embodiment is a structure including a first fin over a substrate, a second fin over the substrate, the second fin being adjacent the first fin, an isolation region surrounding the first fin and the second fin, a gate structure along sidewalls and over upper surfaces of the first fin and the second fin, the gate structure defining channel regions in the first fin and the second fin, a source/drain region on the first fin and the second fin adjacent the gate structure, and an air gap separating the source/drain region from a top surface of the substrate.
US11004717B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes a base, an electrostatic chuck provided on the base, and a dielectric layer. A bias power, whose magnitude is changed during plasma processing on a target substrate, is applied to the base. The electrostatic chuck has a central portion on which the target substrate is mounted and an outer peripheral portion on which a focus ring is mounted to surround the target substrate. The dielectric layer is provided between the outer peripheral portion of the electrostatic and the base or the focus ring and has an electrostatic capacitance that reduces a difference between an electrostatic capacitance of the central portion of the electrostatic chuck and an electrostatic capacitance of the outer peripheral portion of the electrostatic chuck.
US11004711B2
In an embodiment, a system includes: a chuck; multiple groove conduits arranged around a circumference of a wafer position on the chuck; a gas source in fluid communication with the multiple groove conduits; and a flow monitor configured to determine an amount of gas flow from the gas source to an individual one of the multiple groove conduits.
US11004707B1
A substrate processing apparatus including an inner chamber formed by an upper portion and a lower portion, a substrate support to support a substrate within the upper portion of the inner chamber, a plasma system to provide the inner chamber with plasma species from the top side of the inner chamber, and an outer chamber surrounding the upper portion of the inner chamber. The lower portion of the inner chamber extends to the outside of the outer chamber and remains uncovered by the outer chamber.
US11004705B2
A chip transfer device is provided. The chip transfer device according to an embodiment includes a support, a plurality of pick-up modules disposed on the support in a horizontal direction, and movably connected to the support, and a controller configured to control the plurality of pick-up modules, wherein each of the plurality of pick-up modules is movable while collectively picking up a plurality of chips on a corresponding wafer among a plurality of wafers, and wherein the controller moves and adjusts the plurality of pick-up modules in a horizontal direction.
US11004700B2
A method includes: providing a semiconductor die having a first main surface, a second main surface opposite the first main surface, and an edge between the first main surface and the second main surface; applying a temporary spacer to a first part of the first main surface of the semiconductor die, the first part being positioned inward from a peripheral part of the first main surface; after applying the temporary spacer, embedding the semiconductor die at least partly in an embedding material, the embedding material covering the edge and the peripheral part of the first main surface of the semiconductor die and contacting a sidewall of the temporary spacer; and after the embedding, removing the temporary spacer from the first main surface of the semiconductor die to expose the first part of the first main surface of the semiconductor die. A semiconductor device produced by the method is also provided.
US11004696B1
A method for manufacturing a power diode including the following steps is provided. (a) A semi-finished product of the power diode is provided. The semi-finished product of the power diode includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a semiconductor chip, and an adhesive material. The semiconductor chip is located between the first electrode and the second electrode. The adhesive material is located on the first electrode and surrounds the semiconductor chip. (b) The semi-finished product of the power diode is placed into a processing chamber. (c) Pressure in the processing chamber is adjusted to a first predetermined pressure and the first predetermined pressure is maintained for a predetermined time. (d) Pressure in the processing chamber is adjusted to a second predetermined pressure. Step (c) to Step (d) are performed at least twice to form the power diode. (e) The power diode is removed from the processing chamber.
US11004691B2
A method includes: forming source/drain epitaxy structures over a semiconductor fin; forming a first ILD layer covering the source/drain epitaxy structures; forming a gate structure over the semiconductor fin and between the source/drain epitaxy structures; forming a capping layer over the gate structure; thinning the capping layer; forming a hard mask layer over the capping layer; forming a second ILD layer spanning the hard mask layer and the first ILD layer; forming, by using an etching operation, a contact hole passing through the first and second ILD layers to one of the source/drain epitaxy structures, the etching operation being performed such that the hard mask layer has a notched corner in the contact hole; filling the contact hole with a conductive material; and performing a CMP process on the conductive material until that the notched corner of the hard mask layer is removed.
US11004677B2
A method and a device for forming a highly dielectric metal oxide layer. The method includes repeatedly causing a plasma-off period and a plasma-on period while an organic metal compound and an oxidizing agent are continuously injected into a chamber. One cycle includes one plasma-off period and one plasma-on period. During the plasma-off period, a physical and chemical adsorption layer including an organic metal compound and a plurality of atomic layers is formed on a substrate. During the plasma-on period, a metal oxide layer that is thicker than two atomic layers is formed by a chemical reaction of metal atoms in the physical and chemical adsorption layer and oxygen atoms in the oxidizing agent.
US11004671B2
Slide analysis a gripper with three sensors for controlling a slide grip sequence and at least one rotatable carousel with a slide receiving channel. The systems also include a robot with a robot arm that holds a slide gripper residing inside the housing in communication with the rotatable carousel. The systems also include a load lock chamber and a door sealably coupled to the second end portion and an acquisition vacuum chamber with an X-Y stage and a slide holder with a vacuum seal.
US11004668B2
A mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising a first device, a second device and a switch arranged and adapted: (i) to direct ions at a first time T1 to the first device and to substantially prevent ions from entering the second device; and (ii) to direct ions at a second later time T2 to the second device and to substantially prevent ions from entering the first device. At the first time T1 the second device may not be in an operational state to potentially optimally fragment, react, mass filter or otherwise process ions since the second device may be in a process of equilibration, changing state, re-filling, recharging, transition, replenishing, switching voltage or altering an operational parameter. Likewise, at the second time T2 the first device may not be in an operational state to potentially optimally fragment, react, mass filter or otherwise process ions since the first device may be in a process of equilibration, changing state, re-filling, recharging, transition, replenishing, switching voltage or altering an operational parameter.
US11004659B2
A method of manufacturing an amorphous carbon thin film is provided. The method includes the following steps: providing a substrate in a reaction chamber; flowing a precursor and a carrier gas into the reaction chamber; and performing a PECVD method to deposit the amorphous carbon thin film on the substrate. Wherein, the precursor includes a compound having a C≡N functional group.
US11004656B2
Disclosed are embodiments of an ion beam sample preparation and coating apparatus and methods. A sample may be prepared in one or more ion beams and then a coating may be sputtered onto the prepared sample within the same apparatus. A vacuum transfer device may be used with the apparatus in order to transfer a sample into and out of the apparatus while in a controlled environment. Various methods to improve preparation and coating uniformity are disclosed including: rotating the sample retention stage; modulating the sample retention stage; variable tilt ion beam irradiating means, more than one ion beam irradiating means, coating thickness monitoring, selective shielding of the sample, and modulating the coating donor holder.
US11004655B2
Techniques of using a Transmission Charged Particle Microscope for diffraction pattern detection are disclosed. An example method including irradiating at least a portion of a specimen with a charged particle beam, using an imaging system to collect charged particles that traverse the specimen during said irradiation, and to direct them onto a detector configured to operate in a particle counting mode, using said detector to record a diffraction pattern of said irradiated portion of the specimen, recording said diffraction pattern iteratively in a series of successive detection frames, and during recording of each frame, using a scanning assembly for causing relative motion of said diffraction pattern and said detector, so as to cause each local intensity maximum in said pattern to trace out a locus on said detector.
US11004638B2
The present invention relates to a system for monitoring an electromechanical relay, wherein the electromechanical relay includes a relay coil for actuating at least one switch, the system comprising: at least one sensor adapted to measure an operating condition of the electromechanical relay, wherein the sensor is arranged adjacent or attached to the electromechanical relay; at least one controller communicatively connected to the at least one sensor and at least one memory, wherein the at least one controller is adapted to store the measured operating condition in the at least one memory; at least one transmitter, operatively connected to the controller, wherein the transmitter is adapted to transmit the stored measured operating condition to a remote device.
US11004633B1
A three-pole polymeric switch with command and protection electronics integrated into a standalone device, wherein the medium voltage interruption element, the command, control and power supply circuits are self-powered by the primary network and installed in the potential. Protection, sectioning, fault indication and communication functions are integrated into the standalone device for use both as an automation device integrated into control centers, and as a protection device against transient currents from short-circuits. The device makes it possible to either reduce the interruption time of electric circuits, thus reducing interruptions during transient events, or isolate stretches when permanent events occur. The device contains a long-range communication radio, allowing long-distance communication by sending its status to control centers, reducing the time required for identifying problematic overhead distribution sections. The device's low cost, low weight and easy installation enables the expansion of automatic control and supervision solutions of overhead electric power distribution lines.
US11004632B1
The invention relates to a vacuum arc extinguishing chamber contact, a vacuum arc extinguishing chamber and a vacuum circuit breaker. The contact includes a contact blade, a first contact cup and a second contact cup. The first contact cup is arranged in the second contact cup. One end of the first contact cup is connected with the second contact cup, and the other end of the first contact cup is connected with the contact blade. The contact blade is connected with the second contact cup. According to the invention, a single longitudinal magnetic field is split into a plurality of independent longitudinal magnetic field areas, a plurality of coils are used for shunting current, and the current density is reduced, thereby solving the contradiction between interrupting of the large short-circuit current and the temperature rise of the large rated current.
US11004624B2
A circuit breaker lockout apparatus includes a base body having a first section, a second section, and a recess formed between the first and second sections to receive a switch lever of a circuit breaker; a fixing element installed at the first section of the base body and having an actuation section to fix the base body to a switch lever of a circuit breaker received in the recess; and a cover adjustably fastened between a release position and a lockout position at the base body, the actuation section of the fixing element is accessible in the release position and is covered in an inaccessible manner by the cover in the lockout position, and the cover is configured to be fixed to the base body in the lockout position to block an adjustment of the cover from the lockout position into the release position.
US11004623B2
Cradle-assist assemblies attached to the breaker cradle housing and/or base or residing at least partially in the breaker cradle housing and/or base include at least one actuator configured to laterally translate the at least one right and the at least one left lock members from the extended lock position to the retracted unlocked position in response to input from a user. The at least one actuator and/or transverse member(s) can be held in a defined position so that the lock members of the cradle can be locked in the respective retracted or extended positions until the cradle assist (internal) lock is manually or automatically released.
US11004622B2
An on-load tap changer of a resistor type includes a selector base plate; a selector mounted on the selector base plate; a diverter switch base plate; a diverter switch mounted on the diverter switch base plate and having a transition resistor; and a common drive shaft which is configured to actuate the selector and the diverter switch.
US11004611B2
A multilayer electronic component includes a body having a stacked structure in which a plurality of internal electrodes and dielectric layers are alternately stacked; and external electrodes disposed on an outer surface of the body and connected to the internal electrodes. The dielectric layer includes a plurality of grains and a plurality of graphene particles, and the plurality of graphene particles are disposed at boundaries of the plurality of grains.
US11004601B2
The present disclosure relates to a forming method for producing a composite part for an operating member, the method comprising the steps: disposing at least one permanent magnet in an injection-molding tool, which defines a mold cavity, and a heat-conducting reinforcement, which extends along the permanent magnet and is in touching contact with the injection-molding tool, in each case at a predefined position of the mold cavity; overmolding the permanent magnet with molding material by introducing molding material into the mold cavity; forming the composite part having the at least one permanent magnet, the heat-conducting reinforcement and the molding material.
US11004598B2
A wireless charging coil is provided herein. The wireless charging coil comprising a first stamped coil having a first spiral trace, the first spiral trace defining a first space between windings, and a second stamped coil having a second spiral trace, the second spiral trace defining a second space between windings, wherein the first stamped coil and second stamped coil are planar to and interconnected with one another, such that the first stamped coil is positioned within the second space of the second stamped coil, and the second stamped coil is positioned within the first space of the first stamped coil.
US11004596B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure can include a hybrid transformer system comprising an electrical voltage transformer comprising: a high-voltage winding, the high-voltage winding comprising a first end and a second end, the first end having a lower voltage than the second end; a plurality of taps disposed proximate the first end of the high-voltage winding; a multi-level converter coupleable to the plurality of taps of the electrical voltage transformer, the multi-level converter configured to simultaneously control voltage injection and VAR injection to the high-voltage winding of the electrical voltage transformer; and a controller electrically coupleable to the multi-level converter, such that when the multi-level converter is coupled to the plurality of taps of the electrical voltage transformer, the controller is configured to selectively inject at least one of VARs or voltage to the high-voltage winding of the electrical voltage transformer.
US11004582B2
A magnetic powder is obtained by removing a dispersion medium from a magnetic fluid that includes magnetic particles, a dispersant and the dispersion medium. A magnetic powder composition includes the magnetic powder and a resin material, and a magnetic powder composition molded body is obtained therefrom. A method of producing a magnetic powder includes removing a dispersion medium from a magnetic fluid containing magnetic particles, a dispersant and the dispersion medium, and powdering a solid component obtained by removing the dispersion medium. A method of producing a magnetic powder composition and a method of producing a magnetic powder composition molded product are also provided.
US11004570B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing a fully ceramic capsulated nuclear fuel material containing three-layer-structured isotropic nuclear fuel particles coated with a ceramic having a composition which has a higher shrinkage than a matrix in order to prevent cracking of ceramic nuclear fuel, wherein the three-layer-structured nuclear fuel particles before coating is included in the range of between 5 and 40 fractions by volume based on after sintering. More specifically, the present invention provides a composition for preparing a fully ceramic capsulated nuclear fuel containing three-layer-structured isotropic particles coated with the substance which includes, as a main ingredient, a silicon carbine derived from a precursor of the silicon carbide wherein a condition of ΔLc>ΔLm at normal pressure sintering is created, where the sintering shrinkage of the coating layer of the three-layer-structured isotropic nuclear fuel particles is ΔLc and the sintering shrinkage of the silicon carbide matrix is ΔLm; material produced therefrom; and a method for manufacturing the material. The residual porosity of the fully ceramic capsulated nuclear fuel material is 4% or less.
US11004568B2
A multiple fluid model tool for multi-dimensional fluid modeling of a biological structure is presented. For example, a system includes a modeling component, a machine learning component, and a three-dimensional health assessment component. The modeling component generates a three-dimensional model of a biological structure based on multi-dimensional medical imaging data. The machine learning component predicts one or more characteristics of the biological structure based on input data and a machine learning process associated with the three-dimensional model. The three-dimensional health assessment component that provides a three-dimensional design environment associated with the three-dimensional model. The three-dimensional design environment renders physics modeling data of the biological structure based on the input data and the one or more characteristics of the biological structure on the three-dimensional model.
US11004561B2
Systems, apparatus, and method of monitoring a position of a joint. An inertial monitoring unit is configured to be coupled to a portion of a patient, such as a thigh. Another inertial monitoring unit is configured to be attached to another portion of the patient, such as a shank, that is connected to the other portion by a joint, such as a knee. The inertial monitoring units detect motion of their respective portions of the patient and transmit data indicative of this motion. These transmissions may be received by a computer and used to determine an orientation of the joint. The inertial monitoring units may also be coupled to vibration detection units and/or ultrasound modules that provide additional data regarding a condition of the joint.
US11004559B2
Methods and systems for automatically triaging an image study of a patient generated as part of a medical imaging procedure. One system comprises a computing device including an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to receive, from a cognitive system applying a model developed using computer vision and machine learning techniques based on deep learning methodology to classify image studies, a classification assigned to the image study using the model, automatically generate a differential diagnosis for the patient based on the classification assigned by the model, and automatically adjust triaging of the image study based on the differential diagnosis.
US11004557B2
A method for authenticating an electrosurgical system accessory comprising initiating a surgical procedure through a user interface on an electrosurgical generator, automatically determining whether an electrosurgical accessory is plugged into a generator receptacle, activating an RFID reader connected to the generator in response to a determination that an accessory is plugged into a receptacle, transmitting through the RFID reader to an RFID tag in the accessory a privacy password, transmitting a unit identification code from the RFID tag to the generator, displaying a device type associated with the transmitted unit identification code, checking a status of the accessory, unlocking a tag memory management if the read status code indicates the accessory has not previously been used, reading encoded data from the tag memory, computing a device authentication code from tag memory encoded data, transmitting the computed authentication code to the tag, and enabling the accessory in response to a match.
US11004555B2
A system and method for considering the effects of aerobic exercise on blood glucose levels for individuals is described. In at least one embodiment of the system of the present disclosure, the system comprises a computing device for generating a prediction of future blood glucose levels for the individual at least partly based on an exercise model, wherein the exercise model is based on parameters that are independent of intensity of the aerobic exercise, and a means for taking an action at least based on the prediction from the exercise model.
US11004554B2
A method and system for de-identifying a video sequence are provided. The method may include the steps of capturing a video sequence, comprising a number of individual frames, including one or more users performing one or more actions, and using activity recognition to recognize one of the one or more actions. One or more of the plurality of frames may be defined as comprising the recognized one or more actions, and a portion of the one or more of the plurality of frames may be identified to remain visible. The non-identified portions of the one or more of the plurality of frames and the non-defined frames may be de-identified. This method may be applied to the determination of whether a user has ingested a medication pill.
US11004546B2
A system for constructing a patient assessment user interface. The system comprises at least one processor, a data store, wherein the data store stores an assessment template in a format comprising a plurality of human readable attribute-value pairs, wherein the assessment template identifies the format of an assessment, a memory, and an assessment component stored in the memory. When executed by the at least one processor, the assessment component receives a request for an assessment form from a patient care giver tool user interface (UI), creates an assessment form based on the assessment template, transmits the assessment form to the patient care giver tool UI, receives assessment input from the patient care giver tool UI, and stores the assessment input along with associated portions of the assessment template in the format comprising a plurality of human readable attribute-value pairs in a column of a table in the data store.
US11004544B2
Disclosed is a method of providing biological data. The method includes the following steps performed by a data processing device: selecting a biological data set from a biological data pool; encrypting biological data included in the biological data set to produce encrypted biological data; transferring the encrypted biological data to a user; receiving a result of analysis on the encrypted biological data from the user; and transferring information on the encrypted biological data included in the result of the analysis to the user. The data processing device encrypts the biological data with a key determined according to a combination of biological data constituting the biological data set.
US11004543B2
Provided herein are in silico methods of modeling hepatic inflammation, fibrosis/cirrhosis, and cancer. The models are computer-implemented agent-based models and are useful in determining patient prognoses in hepatic conditions, including viral infections, damage, inflammation, and cancer. The modeling system also is useful in modeling the effects of active agents on normal hepatic tissue or hepatic tissue perturbed by inflammation, infection, damage, fibrosis/cirrhosis, and cancer.
US11004537B2
Provided in part herein are methods and processes that can be used for non-invasive assessment of a genetic variation which can lead to diagnosis of a particular medical condition or conditions. Such methods and processes can, for example, identify dissimilarities or similarities for one or more features between a subject data set and a reference data set, generate a multidimensional matrix, reduce the matrix into a representation and classify the representation into one or more groups. Methods and processes described herein are applicable to data in biotechnology and other fields.
US11004533B2
A memory device including a self-test circuit, a memory cell array, a power voltage generator, and a redundant row address replacement circuit is provided. The self-test circuit is configured to generate a self-test data signal and a power voltage control signal. The memory cell array receives the self-test data signal and outputs a self-test failure signal. The power voltage generator generates a word line power voltage according to a power voltage control signal. The redundant row address replacement circuit receives the word line power voltage and the self-test failure signal to provide a redundant word line address to the memory cell array. The power voltage generator is configured to provide the word line power voltage in a built-in self-test (BIST) mode to be lower than the word line power voltage in a normal mode.
US11004525B1
Systems and methods for increasing cycling endurance and minimizing over programming of non-volatile memory cells by modulating the programming voltage applied to the non-volatile memory cells over time as the number of program/erase cycles increases are described. A bit count ratio based on bit counts within two threshold voltage zones may be used to determine the amount of voltage reduction in the programming voltage applied during subsequent programming operations. For example, if the bit count ratio is between 0.02 and 0.05, then the reduction in the programming voltage may be 100 mV; if the bit count ratio is between 0.05 and 0.10, then the reduction in the programming voltage may be 200 mV. The modulation (e.g., the reduction) of the programming voltage may be performed at varying cycle intervals depending on the total number of program/erase cycles for a memory block and/or the bit count ratio.
US11004521B2
A semiconductor device includes pads for inputting and outputting data, a plurality of control circuit groups connected to the pads, a first supply line for supplying a first electric potential to the control circuit groups, and a second supply line for supplying a second electric potential lower than the first electric potential to the control circuit groups. At least one of the first electric potential supply line or the second supply line is provided with a blocking region such that the blocking region prevents supply of the first electric potential, and the first electric potential is supplied to the plurality of control circuit groups from the first supply line divided by the blocking region, or the blocking region prevents supply of the second electric potential, and the second electric potential is supplied to the plurality of control circuit groups from the second supply line divided by the blocking region.
US11004510B2
The apparatuses and methods described herein may operate to measure a voltage difference between a selected access line and a selected sense line associated with a selected cell of a plurality of memory cells of a memory array. The voltage difference may be compared with a reference voltage specified for a memory operation. A selection voltage(s) applied to the selected cell for the memory operation may be adjusted responsive to the comparison, such as to dynamically compensate for parasitic voltage drop.
US11004508B2
A memory system is provided that includes a first memory array including a first memory cell, a second memory array including a second memory cell, and a memory controller configured to determine a threshold voltage of the second memory cell to compensate a drift of a threshold voltage of the first memory cell and/or determine an offset voltage of the second memory cell to compensate an offset voltage of the first memory cell.
US11004504B2
A controller comprises an error correction circuit configured to check an error bit number of error bits in the read data and correct the error bits; a read retry range setting circuit configured to reset a preset read retry range with respect to the read data, and set a new read retry range based on the error bit number and an error correction capability of the error correction circuit; a read voltage setting circuit configured to reset the set read voltage and set, as a new read voltage, a voltage among a plurality of voltages of the reset read retry range, corresponding to the new read retry range; and a flash control circuit configured to control the memory device to perform a read retry operation on the stored data, using the new read voltage.
US11004503B1
Various implementations described herein are directed to a device having memory circuitry with a core array of bitcells. The device may include write assist circuitry having passgates coupled to the bitcells via bitlines. The passgates may include a first passgate coupled to the bitcells via a first bitline and a second passgate coupled to the bitcells via a second bitline, and a gate of the second passgate may be coupled to the first bitline.
US11004502B2
A storage unit and a static random access memory (SRAM), where storage unit includes a latch, and the latch provides a first storage bit. The storage unit further includes a first metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor. A gate of the first MOS transistor is coupled to the first storage bit, a source of the first MOS transistor is coupled to a first read line, and a drain of the first MOS transistor is coupled to a second read line. In a first state, the first read line is a read word line, and the second read line is a read bit line, or in a second state, the second read line is a read word line, and the first read line is a read bit line. The storage unit according to embodiments of the present invention can implement an exchange between a read word line and a read bit line.
US11004501B2
A memory device comprises a memory cell array with memory cells arranged in a cell string coupled to a metal bit line, a sense amplifier for providing a sensing current to the memory cell array, and a memory controller for controlling the sense amplifier to provide the sensing current to access data during a memory access cycle. The memory controller performs operations comprising: during a pre-charging stage of the memory access cycle, providing a pre-charging voltage to the sense amplifier to drive the sense amplifier such that a particular voltage is provided to the memory cell array; during a first sensing stage, providing the pre-charging voltage to the sense amplifier; and during a second sensing stage, providing a sensing voltage to drive the sense amplifier such that the particular voltage provided to the memory cell array is maintained.
US11004500B2
Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods related to an artificial intelligence accelerator in memory. An apparatus can include a number of registers configured to enable the apparatus to operate in an artificial intelligence mode to perform artificial intelligence operations and an artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator configured to perform the artificial intelligence operations using the data stored in the number of memory arrays. The AI accelerator can include hardware, software, and or firmware that is configured to perform operations associated with AI operations. The hardware can include circuitry configured as an adder and/or multiplier to perform operations, such as logic operations, associated with AI operations.
US11004495B2
A storage device comprising: a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory blocks; and a device controller configured to control the nonvolatile memory device to determine a memory block to perform a refresh operation and to control the memory block to perform the refresh operation to recover data of the memory block.
US11004483B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a reference voltage generating circuit and a buffer. The reference voltage generating circuit may generate, based on a voltage setting signal, a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage, which has the same level as the first reference voltage or has a lower level than the first reference voltage by an amount of a unit level. The buffer may generate an output signal based on the first reference voltage, the second reference voltage and an input signal.
US11004482B1
Memory circuits used in computer systems may have different operating modes. In a retention mode, a voltage level of an array power supply node coupled to memory cells included in the memory circuit is reduced to a level sufficient to retain data, but not to perform read and write operations to the memory cells. A power converter circuit may be configured to generate the retention voltage level, and adjust the retention voltage level using a leakage current of dummy memory cells included in the memory circuit.
US11004481B2
An internal voltage generation device includes: a voltage detection circuit generating a first detection signal by comparing a first voltage with a target voltage; a voltage difference detection circuit enabled in response to an operation enable signal, generating a second detection signal by comparing a voltage difference between the first voltage and a second voltage with a target gap voltage; a control circuit generating a first up/down code and the operation enable signal according to the first detection signal, and generating a second up/down code according to the second detection signal; a first voltage generation circuit generating the first voltage by down-converting a supply voltage, and adjusting a level of the first voltage according to the first up/down code; and a second voltage generation circuit generating the second voltage by boosting up the supply voltage, and adjusting a level of the second voltage according to the second up/down code.
US11004476B2
In one embodiment, a printed circuit board (PCB) has a first central processing unit (CPU) socket and a second CPU socket substantially in line with the first CPU socket, and also has a first plurality of dual in-line memory module (DIMM) sockets interconnected with the first CPU socket and a second plurality of DIMM sockets interconnected with the second CPU socket (in a direction parallel to the first plurality of DIMM sockets). The first plurality of DIMM sockets are arranged on the PCB in at least a first column and a second column of DIMM sockets, and the second plurality of DIMM sockets are arranged on the PCB in at least the second column and a third column of DIMM sockets, such that the second column of DIMM sockets contains interleaved DIMM sockets from each of the first plurality of DIMM sockets and the second plurality of DIMM sockets.
US11004473B2
Methods and systems for improving the interactivity of media content. The methods and systems are particularly applicable to the e-learning space, which features unique problems in engaging with users, maintaining that engagement, and allowing users to alter media assets to their specific needs. To address these issues, as well as improving interactivity of media assets generally, the methods and systems described herein provide for annotation and truncation of media assets. More particularly, the methods and systems described herein provide features such as annotation guidance and video condensation.
US11004472B2
The present disclosure describes techniques for playing videos. The disclosed techniques include obtaining a total duration and a playing duration of a first video segment; identifying a first video node corresponding to the first video segment and a first directing message associated with the first video node in a video playing plot graph, wherein the video playing plot graph is pre-generated and comprises a plurality of video nodes, and each video node corresponds to a video segment and is associated with a directing message comprising information related to a second video node; determining the second video node based on the first directing message in response to a determination that a difference between the total duration and the playing duration is equal to a predetermined amount; obtaining the second video segment based on the second video node; and playing the second video segment continuously once the first video segment is finished.
US11004471B1
A method for editing video clips includes obtaining a latest video clip to be appended to a series of video clips, each video clip of the series of video clips recorded separately from each other. The method also includes, prior to recording a next video clip, displaying the latest video clip in response to receiving a request to navigate back to the latest video clip. The method also includes editing the latest video clip through a timeline, the timeline comprising thumbnails of the latest video clip, wherein editing the latest video clip comprises adjustments to the latest video clip. The method also includes generating an edited video clip based on edits to the latest video clip. The method also includes appending the edited video clip to the series of video clips. The method also includes recording the next video clip for appending to the edited video clip.
US11004469B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a cassette shutter in which the durability of a curved shutter for opening and closing a medium entrance of a cassette is improved, and assembly of parts is simple. In the present invention for achieving said objective, a cassette shutter, which is slidably disposed on front and bottom surfaces of a cassette storing a paper medium therein and opens and closes an entrance formed in the front surface of the cassette, is configured to include: a plurality of pieces arranged longitudinally and a fastening pin that passes through and thereby fastens a lower portion of an upper-side piece and an upper portion of a lower-side piece so as to enable relative rotation of the plurality of pieces.
US11004467B2
A data storage device can transition a functional data storage medium into a read only data surface. Data can be written to a data storage medium with a data writer of a transducing head prior to a security threat being identified. A write head of the transducing head is deactivated in response to the security threat by selecting a permanent deactivation mechanism.
US11004463B2
A speech processing method for estimating a pitch frequency includes: specifying, for each determination result of a speech-like-frame, a fundamental sound by using a plurality of local maximum values included in a spectrum of a respective frame determined as the speech-like-frame; obtaining a learned value by performing learning processing on a magnitude of the fundamental sound specified from each determination result of the speech-like-frame, the learned value including an average value and a variance of the magnitude of the fundamental sound specified from each determination result of the speech-like-frame; and executing a detection process by using the learned value, the detection process including detecting a pitch frequency of the respective frame determined as the speech-like-frame by using a threshold, the threshold being obtained by subtracting the variance included in the learned value from the average value included in the learned value.
US11004460B2
A data processing device includes: a digital signal processor; at least one processor; and at least one memory device configured to store a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to operate to: output a first determination result relating to a scene of content through use of sound data; select processing for the sound data by a first selection method based on the first determination result; determine an attribute of the content from among a plurality of attribute candidates; and select the processing by a second selection method, which is different from the first selection method, based on a determination result of the attribute, wherein the digital signal processor is configured to execute the processing selected by the at least one processor on the sound data.
US11004457B2
A sound reproducing method used in sound reproducing apparatus that includes the steps outlined below is provided. An input sound signal related to listener data and sound source data is received. An encoding process is performed by multiplying the input sound signal by an encoding function matrix having entries related to a basis function to generate an encoding result. A decoding function matrix is retrieved from the storage and at least one direction parameter is applied to the decoding function matrix, wherein the decoding function matrix compensates a difference between an ideal approximation result and a modeled approximation result of the input sound signal. A decoding process is performed by multiplying the encoding result by the decoding function matrix having the direction parameter applied to generate an output sound signal. The output sound signal is reproduced.
US11004456B2
Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to provide media content are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein include means for identifying primary media content presented on a first media presentation device. Disclosed example apparatus also include means for accessing a secondary content schedule associated with the primary media content. The secondary content schedule includes a plurality of secondary content items and time values associated with the secondary content items. The secondary content items are also associated with a loyalty value for a user of the first media presentation device. Disclosed example apparatus further include means for selecting one of the secondary content items to be accessed in response to a timestamp associated with the primary media content being between time values associated with the selected one of the secondary content items in the secondary content schedule.
US11004455B2
An apparatus for processing an encoded audio signal having a plurality of downmix signals associated with a plurality of input audio objects and object parameters. The apparatus includes a grouper configured to group the downmix signals into groups of downmix signals associated with a set of input audio objects. The apparatus includes a processor configured to perform at least one processing step individually on the object parameters of each set of input audio objects in order to provide group results. Further, there is a combiner configured to combine the group results or processed group results in order to provide a decoded audio signal. The invention also refers to a corresponding method.
US11004445B2
In one embodiment, a smartwatch includes a processor and a memory storing instructions to be executed in the processor. The instructions are configured to cause the processor to obtain input comprising voice information; determine whether the voice information comprises interrogative keyword; and determine that the voice information is interrogative information in response to determining that the voice information comprises interrogative keyword. The instructions are configured to cause the processor to determine whether reply information corresponding to the interrogative information can be obtained from a memory of the smartwatch; and send the interrogative information to a server through a wireless network in response to determining that the reply information corresponding to the interrogative information cannot be obtained from the memory of the smartwatch. The instructions are further configured to cause the processor to receive reply voice information sent by the server, and play the reply voice information.
US11004443B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for performing acoustic to word (A2W) speech recognition training performed by at least one processor. The method includes initializing, by the at least one processor, one or more first layers of a neural network with phone based Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC), initializing, by the at least one processor, one or more second layers of the neural network with grapheme based CTC, acquiring, by the at least one processor, training data and performing, by the at least one processor, A2W speech recognition training based the initialized one or more first layers and one or more second layers of the neural network using the training data.
US11004436B2
A method for active noise reduction in an electric or hybrid vehicle includes (i) detecting noise in an area surrounding the vehicle by at least one sound recording apparatus which is attached to the vehicle, and (ii) generating anti-phase sound by at least one sound output apparatus, which is attached to the vehicle, depending on a signal recorded by the sound recording apparatus. The generated anti-phase sound is generated with respect to a portion of the noise in the area surrounding the vehicle and is output into the area surrounding the vehicle. Also described is a corresponding electric or hybrid vehicle which is designed to perform active noise reduction with respect to its ambient noise.
US11004429B2
An acoustic bass guitar includes a lower body, a neck extending upwardly from the lower body, and a headstock disposed on an upper end of the neck. The lower body includes a bridge and saddle to support the strings, which are affixed at opposing ends to tuners on the headstock. An upper body that is continuous with the lower body includes a curved extension that extends outwardly from an upper side of the lower body. The upper body curves inwardly toward the upper end of the neck, connecting to the headstock and defining an open area between the neck and the inner sidewall of the upper body. One or more sound holes are disposed on the front face and outer sidewall of the upper body. A retractable stand allows the device to be played in horizontal or vertical orientations. The curved upper body adds neck stability, sound and sustain.
US11004423B2
A timing controller and an operation method thereof are provided. The timing controller includes a transmitter circuit and a control circuit. The control circuit ends a normal mode and enter a swing boost mode when quality of data signal is detected to be deteriorated in the normal mode. In the swing boost mode, the control circuit boosts the swing of the data signal to be higher than a normal level of the data signal in the normal mode.
US11004411B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal layer which is divided into a plurality of pixels having a plurality of electrodes applying a voltage to the liquid crystal layer. Each pixel includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. When each pixel displays a grayscale gk, the voltages applied to the liquid crystal layer of the first sub-pixel and second sub-pixel of each pixel are V1(gk) and V2(gk), and ΔV12(gk)=V1(gk)−V2(gk) is set, where 0≤gk≤n, and gk and n are integers greater than 0, and n represents the highest-brightness grayscale. When the grayscale gk is smaller than a predetermined grayscale gs, ΔV12(gk)>0V is set, and the relation ΔV12(gk)>ΔV12(gk+1) is satisfied. When the grayscale gk is equal to or greater than the predetermined grayscale gs, ΔV12(gk)=0V is set, and the relation ΔV12(gk)=ΔV12(gk+1) is satisfied.
US11004409B2
The present invention is directed to driving methods for a color display device which can display high quality color states. The display device utilizes an electrophoretic fluid which comprises three types of pigment particles having different optical characteristics.
US11004408B2
The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device that provides improved local dimming. The liquid crystal display device includes: a liquid crystal display panel; a backlight unit divided and driven into a plurality of blocks and supplying light to the liquid crystal display panel; a local dimming value calculator calculating a dimming value of each of the blocks in accordance with input image data; and a backlight dimming controller having a pixel corrector correcting image data on the basis of the dimming values, in which the backlight dimming controller can correct at least some of the dimming values of the blocks calculated by the local dimming value calculator.
US11004405B2
A light source apparatus includes a plurality of light source gate lines extending in a first direction, a plurality of light source data lines extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, a plurality of light source emission lines, a plurality of feedback lines and a plurality of light source blocks. At least one of the light source blocks is connected to the light source gate line, the light source data line, the light source emission line and the feedback line.
US11004402B2
An embodiment provides a technology relating to data transmission or reception in a display panel. In the embodiment, a plurality of integrated circuits sharing a data line may transmit an indication signal through signal lines connected 1:1 to the circuits, and transmit data through the data line in response to the indication signal.
US11004399B2
A display apparatus can include a display panel configured to display images; a scan driver configured to supply scan signals to the display panel; a data driver configured to supply data voltages to the display panel; a timing controller configured to control the scan driver and the data driver; and a device controller configured to in response to receiving a frequency change signal, change a driving frequency of a device from a first frequency to a second frequency higher than the first frequency or change the driving frequency of the device from the second frequency to the first frequency, while maintaining widths of driving signals of the scan driver before and after the driving frequency is changed, in which the device includes at least one of the scan driver or the data driver.
US11004386B2
Method and system for calibrating a plurality of voltages of a light-emitting element and a plurality of grayscale values of a respective pixel of the light-emitting element on a display panel are provided. The method may include determining a mapping correlation between the plurality of voltages of the light-emitting element and a plurality of luminance values of the light-emitting element, determining N grayscale values of the pixel, and determining N first luminance values each corresponding to the respective one of the N grayscale values. The method may also include determining N first voltages mapped to the N first luminance values using the mapping correlation and determining, of each one of the N first luminance values, (M−1) second luminance values. Each one of the (M−1) second luminance values may correspond to a different dimmed luminance value of the respective first luminance value.
US11004364B2
A supporting structure includes: a first supporting module located below the flexible screen and used for supporting the flexible screen, which has a first opening; and a second supporting module, which is located at a position corresponding to the first opening, when an external force acts through the flexible screen, the second supporting module forms a deformation protrusion towards a direction away from the flexible screen; and when the external force is removed, the deformation of the second supporting module is removed. Supporting the flexible screen corresponding to the first opening by the second supporting module can reduce a probability that the flexible screen collapses at the position of the first opening, thereby making appearance of the flexible screen flat.
US11004362B2
A hangtag includes a foldable flap and a rubber ring girdling around at least one pore of the foldable flap, the rubber ring having a connecting element shaped into column, a hanging portion and a mounting portion being individually deployed on the opposite ends of the connecting element, the hanging portion and the connecting element passing through the pore and the mounting portion which leads the mounting portion to tie a knot; in such a way that the user may easily turn around the hangtag and spread out the foldable flap for reading.
US11004361B2
A greeting card having mechanically actuated moving portions is provided. The greeting card may include a panel having one or more folds, one or more flexible drive shafts coupled to the panel and having a flipping or moving portion, and a decorative portion coupled to at least one of the panel and the flipping or moving portion. Each flexible drive shaft may be coupled to the panel such that a portion is positioned on a first side of the fold and a portion is positioned on a second side of the fold. When the greeting card is opened, a moment arm is created in the flexible drive shaft which causes the flipping or moving portion to move from a first position to a second position. The decorative portion may move in response to the flipping or moving portion moving from the first position to the second position.
US11004356B2
Athletic activity may be tracked while providing encouragement to perform athletic activity. For example, a user's route may be captured during a workout and used to assemble a media presentation corresponding to the workout. Prior captured images may be assembled forming a hyperlapse video and included in a media presentation corresponding to a user's workout. Images representing locations along a workout route may be assembled and provided in the media presentation and may be shared with other users.
US11004341B2
A vehicle collision avoidance supporting apparatus may include a situation determination unit configured to determine whether it is a situation that there exists no moving object proceeding in a direction crossing a traveling direction of the vehicle; a first sensor and configured to detect an object ahead of the vehicle; and an avoidance operation controller configured to cause the vehicle to perform a predetermined avoidance operation for avoiding a collision in accordance with a detection result of the first sensor in a determination region ahead of the vehicle. The avoidance operation controller uses a region which is narrower in a direction perpendicular to the travelling direction and parallel to a horizontal direction as the determination region when it is the situation that there exists no moving object than when it is not the situation that there exists no moving object.
US11004335B2
A method for speed prediction may include obtaining current vehicle speeds associated with first vehicles that pass through a target road section in a current time interval. The method may also include determining a current road speed associated with the target road section in the current time interval based on the current vehicle speeds. The method may also include determining a predicted speed difference between the current road speed and a future road speed associated with the target road section in a future time interval based on the current road speed and a trained prediction model, which is based on prior speed differences, wherein the current time interval and the future time interval are separated by a first time period. The method may also include estimating the future road speed based on the predicted speed difference and the current road speed.
US11004332B2
Techniques are disclosed to facilitate cooperative mapping for safe and efficient trajectory planning and collision avoidance by allowing nearby agents to share contextual information. The described techniques also function to extend the mapping range of a single agent by leveraging observations made by multiple agents. Furthermore, the techniques as described herein function to reduce uncertainty in trajectory planning by allowing agents to “see” behind occlusions, thus taking advantage of observations made by neighboring agents from different points of view. An efficient hardware implementation of the system is also presented that leverages the methodologies as discussed herein.
US11004326B2
A system for monitoring a location may include a local agent device at the location, and at least one sub-system at the location. The sub-system(s) is in communication with the local agent device. The local agent device is configured to detect and automatically respond to a first event occurring at or within the sub-system(s) according to a first procedure. The local agent device is configured to contact a monitoring center that is remotely located from the location when the local agent device detects a second event occurring at or within the sub-system(s) according to a second procedure.
US11004321B2
A container with a wireless IC tag includes a container having a container body and a sealing member for sealing an opening portion of the container body; and a wireless IC tag and a cap seal attached to the container. The container body includes a neck (extending from the opening portion. The wireless IC tag includes an antenna for contactless communication, a wiring for wire break detection, and an IC chip connected to the antenna and the wiring. The cap seal includes a cylindrical member that surrounds the neck, the cylindrical member having a metal section disposed on a side face of the neck. The wireless IC tag is disposed to extend between opposite lateral sides of the neck via the sealing member and is partially sandwiched between the neck and the cylindrical member with the IC chip exposed from the cap seal.
US11004320B1
The present embodiments relate to identifying property intrusion events based upon sensor data received from smart devices populated about a home. A smart home controller may compare the sensor data to baseline sensor data to dynamically identify an intrusion event that may be occurring. The controller may generate a notification and determine an action to perform to facilitate damage or risk mitigation. Accordingly, an individual associated with the home may be notified of the event, and then select to perform the action, such as via their mobile device. In some implementations, the controller may automatically perform the action. As a result, in response to computer identification of an intrusion event, corrective action may be taken or prompted, or otherwise any damage caused by the intrusion event may be mitigated, reducing insurance claims or claim amounts associated with intrusion events. Insurance discounts may be provided based upon the risk mitigation functionality.
US11004316B2
Systems and methods for responding to an abnormal event in a region monitored by a security system are provided. Such systems and methods can include a cloud server periodically receiving a heartbeat signal from the security system, the cloud server receiving a notification signal of an occurrence of the abnormal event in the region, and responsive to failing to receive the heartbeat signal after receiving the notification signal of the occurrence of the abnormal event, the cloud server transmitting an alarm to a central monitoring station.
US11004315B1
Methods and apparatus for smart distribution of restaurant items and notification of order readiness
A Smartserv platform system and methods are provided. When a restaurant item order is placed via a smart device app interface, the order is transmitted to computer server which notifies a preparer. The order is also transmitted to a Smartserv platform, which generates a user identifiable area, such as a color-coded area of a Smartserv platform surface within which an ordered restaurant item will be distributed, thereby enabling simpler and more organized restaurant item ordering and distribution. The computer server may also notify the customer that the customer's order is ready for pickup at the area designated by the appropriately colored lights. This improves known customer-notification methods.
US11004309B2
The information processor executes the processes of: (a) setting a winning probability of second random determination based on a winning probability corresponding to a condition set by a setting unit which sets one of conditions associated with different winning probabilities; (b) determining whether to execute the first random determination by the second random determination based on the winning probability set in the process (a); (c) when a win is achieved in the second random determination in the process (b), executing the first random determination; and (d) when a result of the first random determination in the process (c) is different from a predetermined result, executing the first random determination again.
US11004306B2
A system and the like are provided, which increase user enjoyment in a plurality of types of games through management of a plurality of types of money. A virtual money management system includes: a gaming server which can be accessed by a plurality of user terminals and controls a multiplayer game played by the plurality of user terminal accessing; and a management server which manages virtual money bet in the multiplayer game, wherein the gaming server operates a plurality of types of multiplayer games, and the management server (A) manages different types of virtual money used in the plurality of types of multiplayer games, respectively, (B) performs exchange processing for exchanging the different types of virtual money with each other, and (C) in at least one type of multiplayer game among the plurality of types of multiplayer games, grants rewards to players based on reward values defined according to rankings in the game.
US11004304B2
Embodiments disclosed herein concern mobile gaming environments. Portable electronic devices can be supported by the mobile gaming environments. The locations of the portable electronic device can influence how the portable electronic devices operate or what services or features are available to the portable electronic device or their users. According to one embodiment, a mobile gaming system can concern gaming/betting opportunities that can be secured using a portable electronic device even when an individual is located in a location where betting or games of chance are not permitted. According to another embodiment, a mobile gaming system can concern an application program operating on a portable electronic device that supports multiple modes of operation depending upon whether the portable electronic device is in a location where betting or games of chance are permitted.
US11004302B2
A data storage system for an electronic gaming device has been developed. The system includes a portable electronic memory device and player data that is stored on the memory device. The player data is generated by an electronic gaming device upon engagement of the game by the player.
US11004301B2
A gaming machine includes a cabinet, a display coupled to the cabinet, and a display transition system comprising a guide rail coupled to the cabinet and a slider coupled to the display, the slider slideable within the guide rail to move the display.
US11004300B2
An information processor includes: a display configured to display a screen of a game; a storage device configured to store an amount of a gaming medium usable in the game; and a controller programmed to execute the process of: comparing an amount of the gaming medium stored in the storage device with an amount of the gaming medium at login to the game, and displaying a predetermined message on the display when a relation between these amounts becomes equal to a predetermined ratio.
US11004299B2
Disclosed is a method and system involving augmenting content. The system augments content for an active event subject to a focus of a user, in an environment including a presentation of two or more active events. The system includes: a user focus determination unit including a camera that captures video data associated with the focus of the user; a memory and a buffer that store digital fingerprints from the events; an active content determination component that compares one or more digital fingerprints from an active event with the captured video for determination of the event being focused on by the user; and a display that displays content and augments the determined active event being focused upon by the user that was identified by the active content determination component.
US11004298B2
A networked system for providing and maintaining a set of liquid dispenser stations is described. The fluid dispensers communicate with a managing/supervisory cloud server via an interposed base station. The fluid dispensers communicate locally with the base station via wireless communication network links. The base station operates as an accumulator of status/usage information provided by the dispenser stations and bridge for passing information and control commands between the cloud server and the individual dispenser stations. The dispenser stations are configured with control processors (controllers) to facilitate performing a variety of local control operations associated with dispensing liquids that have been cooled (or heated) prior to dispensing by the dispenser stations. Additionally, the dispenser stations cooperatively operate with the cloud server (via the base station) to support a variety of real time control and maintenance operations relating to the dispenser stations operating at potentially thousands of distinct geographic locations.
US11004286B2
An access card issuance system comprising an access card issuance device located at a facility of an organization and a web server is disclosed. The access card issuance system provides a web interface in response to a request from a mobile device, and receives user information identifying a user of the mobile device. The system is also configured to validate the identity of an authorized individual associated with the facility identified by a user of the mobile device, and issue an access card to the user of the mobile device. The access card has indicia printed thereon identifying at least a portion of the user information, and programmable information encoded onto the access card providing access rights to the facility. The system further transmits, to the authorized individual, a message associated with issuance of the access card.
US11004284B2
A smart home system is provided. In operation, a user input of a guest at a location is detected, and calendar information is received from a calendar application. In response to detecting the user input, an identity of a guest is determined. Utilizing the identify of the guest, it is determined that the guest is expected for a calendared event at the location by reviewing the calendar information from the calendar application. Utilizing the determined identity of the guest and the determination that the guest is expected for the calendared event at the location, a visual notification is outputted, and an audible notification is outputted.
US11004279B2
A machine output detection and control system includes machine metric logic that detects a plurality of quantity metrics, each quantity metric corresponding to sensor information associated with at least one mobile machine in a plurality of different mobile machines. The system also includes normalization logic that aggregates the plurality of different quantity metrics to generate, for each mobile machine, a normalized production unit that is normalized across the plurality of different mobile machines. Dependency logic correlates the normalized production unit, for each mobile machine, to a machine dependency that identifies an order in which the plurality of different mobile machines operate at a jobsite. Further, action signal logic generates an action signal, based on the correlation.
US11004276B2
The invention relates to a method for marking a consignment unit in a logistics process. The invention furthermore relates to a system for marking a consignment unit in a logistics process. The method according to the invention for marking a consignment unit in a logistics process contains the steps of initially creating a first image of the surface of a consignment unit in order to then link this image to an identification number and store the image and the identification number on a data processing unit.
US11004264B2
Systems and methods relate to receiving a plurality of video streams captured of a subject by a plurality of video cameras, each video stream including video frames time-synchronized according to a shared frame rate, each video camera having a known vantage point in a predetermined coordinate system; obtaining at least one three-dimensional (3D) mesh of the subject at the shared frame rate, the 3D mesh time-synchronized with the video frames of the video streams, the at least one mesh including a plurality of vertices with known locations in the predetermined coordinate system; calculating one or more lists of visible-vertices at the shared frame rate, each list including a subset of the plurality of vertices of the at least one 3D mesh of the subject, the subset being a function of the location of the known vantage point associated with at least one of the plurality of video cameras; generating one or more time-synchronized data streams at the shared frame rate, the one or more time-synchronized data streams including: one or more video streams encoding at least one of the plurality of video streams; and one or more geometric-data streams including the calculated one or more visible-vertices lists; and transmitting the one or more time-synchronized data streams to a receiver for rendering of a viewpoint-adaptive 3D persona of the subject.
US11004259B2
A system and method is provided for measurements of building façade elements by combining ground-level (201) and orthogonal imagery (906). The measurements of the dimension of building façade elements are based on ground-level imagery that is scaled and geo-referenced using orthogonal imagery (209). The method continues by creating a tabular dataset (1002) of measurements for one or more architectural elements such as siding (e.g., aluminum, vinyl, wood, brick and/or paint), windows or doors. The tabular dataset can be part of an estimate report (1002).
US11004257B1
A method and apparatus for image conversion according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes receiving original image data, separating the original image data into a front view image and a back view image for performing 3D conversion processing of the original image data, and generating a converted 3D image by restoring a background space between the front view image and the back view image using a 3D conversion processing neural network. The 3D conversion processing neural network according to the present disclosure may be a deep neural network generated by machine learning, and input and output of images may be performed in an Internet of things environment using a 5G network.
US11004255B2
Examples are disclosed that relate to culling of polygons for efficient rendering of a high-density polygon mesh using one or more compute shaders. Examples include monoscopic and stereoscopic rendering, foveated and non-foveated rendering, and selectively utilizing one or more computer shaders to rasterize very small triangles instead of using a regular rendering pipeline for increased performance.
US11004247B2
In implementations of path-constrained drawing with visual properties based on a drawing tool, a digital artwork editing system includes a user interface in which a constraint path can be designated in a digital artwork. A stroke input can be sampled as it is drawn with a drawing tool and for each processing interval of the stroke input, a start point of the stroke input and a tangent line to the constraint path is determined. An end point of the stroke input is projected onto a parallel line that is through the start point and parallel to the tangent line, and a stroke is rendered along this line. Hence, the stroke is rendered based on the stroke input in a piecewise linear fashion, simultaneously constrained by the constraint path and rendered based on how the drawing tool is used.
US11004244B2
Various systems and methods are provided that display various graphs in an interactive user interface in substantially real-time in response to input from a user in order to determine information related to measured data points and provide the determined information to the user in the interactive user interface. For example, a computing device may be configured to retrieve data from one or more databases and generate one or more interactive user interfaces. The one or more interactive user interfaces may display the retrieved data in one or more graphs, such as time-series or scatterplots. The user interface may be interactive in that a user may manipulate one graph, which causes an identical or nearly identical manipulation of another displayed graph in real-time. The manipulations may occur even if the displayed graphs include data across different time ranges.
US11004242B2
A discrete wavelet transform (DWT) based generative system for generating images of fashion products is provided. The system includes a memory having computer-readable instructions stored therein. The system includes a processor configured to access a plurality of fashion images of a plurality of fashion products. Each fashion image is generated at a first resolution. The processor is configured to train one or more DWT based generative models using the plurality of fashion images of the fashion products. Each of the generative models is selectively trained using a directional fashion image. The directional fashion image includes details of the fashion products corresponding to a pre-determined orientation and scale. The processor is further configured to generate an upsampled fashion image corresponding to each of the fashion images. Each upsampled fashion image is generated at a second resolution. In addition, the processor is configured to add the details to each of the upsampled fashion images using the directional images to generate target images of the plurality of fashion products.
US11004236B2
A system is provided for object localization in image data. The system includes an object localization framework comprising a plurality of object localization processes. The system is configured to receive an image comprising unannotated image data having at least one object in the image, access a first object localization process of the plurality of object localization processes, determine first bounding box information for the image using the first object localization process, wherein the first bounding box information comprises at least one first bounding box annotating at least a first portion of the at least one object in the image, and receive first feedback regarding the first bounding box information determined by the first object localization process. The system is further configured to persist the image with the first bounding box information or access a second object localization process based on the first feedback.
US11004214B2
Anonymization processing for protecting privacy and personal information can be appropriately performed based on a detection state of a moving object within an imaging range. Processing corresponding to one of a first mode for anonymizing an area of a human body based on a fixed background image and a second mode for anonymizing the area of the human body based on a basic background image is performed on an area of a detected moving object based on a detection result of a moving object detection unit.
US11004211B2
An imaging object tracking system includes an entrance/exit detection camera to take an image of an entrance/exit detection area where an imaging object enters and exits, an entrance/exit detection upper sensor to detect the imaging object being imaged by the entrance/exit detection camera, at least one upper sensor disposed so as to overlap a part of the detection area for detecting the imaging object with an area where the entrance/exit detection upper sensor detects the imaging object, an initial position estimation unit to estimate an initial position of the imaging object on the basis of positional coordinates of the imaging object in a two-dimensional image taken by the entrance/exit detection camera and three-dimensional coordinate information of the entrance/exit detection area, an upper position detection unit to detect a position of the imaging object seen from an upper side thereof, an initial motion path generation unit to generate an initial motion path, and a tracking unit to generate a following motion path by adding a position of the imaging object to the initial motion path.
US11004210B2
Disclosed are methods, circuits, devices, systems and associated executable code for multi factor image feature registration and tracking, wherein utilized factors include both static and dynamic parameters within a video feed. Assessed factors may originate from a heterogeneous set of sensors including both video and audio sensors. Acoustically acquired scene information may supplement optically acquired information.
US11004208B2
Techniques are disclosed for deep neural network (DNN) based interactive image matting. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes generating, by the DNN, an alpha matte associated with an image, based on user-specified foreground region locations in the image. The method further includes applying a first DNN subnetwork to the image, the first subnetwork trained to generate a binary mask based on the user input, the binary mask designating pixels of the image as background or foreground. The method further includes applying a second DNN subnetwork to the generated binary mask, the second subnetwork trained to generate a trimap based on the user input, the trimap designating pixels of the image as background, foreground, or uncertain status. The method further includes applying a third DNN subnetwork to the generated trimap, the third subnetwork trained to generate the alpha matte based on the user input.
US11004199B2
Systems and methods for automated stereology are provided. A method can include providing an imager for capturing a Z-stack of images of a three-dimensional (3D) object; constructing extended depth of field (EDF) images from the Z-stack of images; performing a segmentation method on the EDF images including estimating a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM), performing morphological operations, performing watershed segmentation, constructing Voronoi diagrams and performing boundary smoothing; and determining one or more stereology parameters such as number of cells in a region.
US11004197B2
A coefficient calculator calculates a correlation coefficient representing a correlation between a normal frame, which is imaged in a state in which normal light is applied to a subject, and a special frame, which is imaged in a state in which special light is applied to the subject; and a processing unit that applies image processing to the special frame so that a part in which the correlation coefficient is high and a part in which the correlation coefficient is low are displayed differently in the special frame. Further provided are: a first determination unit that calculates, for each pixel or each area of the normal frame, a first determination value representing a probability that a predetermined site is imaged; and a second determination unit that calculates, for each pixel or each area of the special frame, a second determination value representing a probability that a predetermined site is imaged.
US11004193B2
There is provided an inspection method including acquiring an inspection image by irradiating a sample with a plurality of electron beams and by simultaneously scanning the sample by the electron beams, performing first correction of a reference image corresponding to the inspection image or second correction of the inspection image based on a plurality of distortions of each of the electron beams and on a position scanned by each of the electron beams in the inspection image, and performing first comparison of the reference image subjected to the first correction with the inspection image or second comparison of the reference image with the inspection image subjected to the second correction.
US11004192B2
A computer-implemented method for selecting aerial images for image processing to identify Energy Infrastructure (EI) features is provided. The method includes performing image processing on aerial images of a portion of global terrain captured at different times to determine differences in terrain content the captured images. Aerial images are selected for further image processing according to identified differences in terrain content. The selected images are imaged processed via an EI feature recognition type to identify EI features within the images.
US11004179B2
Image blurring methods and apparatuses, storage media, and electronic devices. The method can be carried out by the apparatuses, media and devices, and includes: generating a second image having second pixel points corresponding to first pixel points of a first image; determining, according to blurring desired data of the first pixel points, respective initial blurring weight values of the corresponding second pixel points; performing at least one update on at least one of the second pixel points, the update including: updating, based on a first pixel value of the first pixel point and a current blurring weight value of the second pixel point corresponding to the based first pixel point, a current pixel value and a current blurring weight value of at least one neighboring second pixel point of the based corresponding second pixel point; and obtaining a blurring result of the first image according to the updated second image.
US11004178B2
Users often desire to capture certain images from an application. For example, gamers can capture displayed images from a game to show they obtained a skill level within the game or simply to capture a particular scene within the game. Existing methods of capturing images can result in low-resolution images due to limitations of the display device providing the images. This disclosure provides a method of capturing higher resolution images from source images. Techniques are also disclosed to reduce the storage size associated with the higher resolution images. Through capturing low-resolution versions of the same source images, image effects can be captured and applied to the higher resolution images where those image effects may be altered or missing. Frequency spectrum combination can be used to combine the low-resolution image data and the higher resolution image data. The higher resolution images can be processed using a segmentation scheme, such as tiling, without reducing or limiting the image effects.
US11004175B1
Systems and methods that yield highly-accurate classification of acoustic and other non-image events, involving pre-processing data from one or more transducers and generating a visual representation of the source as well as associated features and processing, are disclosed. According to certain exemplary implementations herein, such pre-processing steps may be utilized in situations where 1) all impulsive acoustic events have many features in common due to their point source origin and impulsive nature, and/or 2) the error rates that are considered acceptable in general purpose image classification are much higher than the acceptable levels in automatic impulsive incident classification. Further, according to some aspects, the data may be pre-processed in various ways, such as to remove extraneous or irrelevant details and/or perform any required rotation, alignment, scaling, etc. tasks, such that these tasks do not need to be “learned” in a less direct and more expensive manner in the neural network.
US11004172B2
A memory management system for generating 3-dimensional computer images is provided. The memory management system includes a device for subdividing an image into a plurality of rectangular areas, a memory for storing object data pertaining to objects in the image which fall in each rectangular area, a device for storing the object data in the memory, a device for deriving image data and shading data for each rectangular area from the object data, a device for supplying object data for each rectangular area from the respective portion of the memory and, if the rectangular area contains objects also falling in at least one other rectangular area, also from the global list, to the deriving device, and a device for storing the image data and shading data derived by the deriving device for display. The memory includes at least one portion allocated to each rectangular area and at least one portion allocated as a global list.
US11004169B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for watermarking neural networks. In some embodiments, there may be provided a method. The method may include determining, for a neural network, an activation layer output by a hidden layer of the neural network. The method may include selecting a watermarking process. The method may include applying the selected watermarking process to the activation layer output to generate a key. The method may include storing, for the neural network to enable detection of copying of the neural network, the selected watermarking process and the key. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.
US11004161B2
A reservation system for lodging has a first computer and a second computer, in which the first computer has data of available facilities and accepts user's input of lodging date and facility, and the second computer that accesses the first computer through a network and manages vacancy data of facilities. The second computer accesses a plurality of the first computers and their databases to search available facilities, and is capable of accessing other first computers for searching and reserving available facilities. Situation where reservation is not made even when a vacant room is available is prevented by accessing a plurality of the first computers.
US11004154B2
An online content management service can collect and store receipts for a user from a variety of sources, including images captured by the user, messages received for the user at a messaging service or message management service, and/or receipts directly uploaded to the online content management service by a merchant. In the case of receipts provided as messages, a user can interact with a message management service to identify messages as receipts, and the message management service can upload such messages to the online content management service.
US11004147B1
The systems and methods described herein allow consumers to lock or unlock their credit files at multiple credit bureaus in real-time or near real-time. The service may allow a consumer to provide identifying information, such as a personal identifier to lock or unlock credit files at a plurality of credit bureaus over a network. Upon receiving the personal identifier, the system may use the personal identifier to translate the identifier into a plurality of access codes for respective credit bureaus, for example by accessing a data structure, such as a database or table, that stores a personal identifier and access codes that are associated with a consumer. The system may then use the access codes to automatically initiate locking or unlocking of credit files for the consumer at the respective credit bureaus.
US11004138B2
A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform steps of a method. The system may provide a virtual wardrobe management system. The system may store wardrobe data associated with a plurality of garments. The system may then receive input data indicative of a garment selection. The system may identify the garment based on the input data received. The system may then generate a garment recommendation based on the selected garment and the stored wardrobe data and provide an indication of the recommendation to a computing device.
US11004131B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying a relevant candidate product in an electronic marketplace. Embodiments perform a visual similarity comparison between candidate product image visual content and input query image visual content, process formal and informal natural language user inputs, and coordinate aggregated past user interactions with the marketplace stored in a knowledge graph. Visually similar items and their corresponding product categories, aspects, and aspect values can determine suggested candidate products without discernible delay during a multi-turn user dialog. The user can then refine the search for the most relevant items available for purchase by providing responses to machine-generated prompts that are based on the initial search results from visual, voice, and/or text inputs. An intelligent online personal assistant can thus guide a user to the most relevant candidate product more efficiently than existing search tools.
US11004118B1
A computer-implemented method for enhancing an offer included within an online advertisement is implemented by a computing device. The computing device is coupled to a memory device. The method includes storing, within the memory device, a plurality of online advertisements. At least some of the plurality of online advertisements include offers. The method also includes identifying a candidate offer included within an online candidate advertisement from the plurality of online advertisements stored within the memory device, validating the candidate offer including determining that a web site associated with the online candidate advertisement includes data matching the candidate offer, and enhancing the display information associated with the validated candidate offer prior to providing the online candidate advertisement associated with the validated candidate offer.
US11004116B1
Techniques are disclosed utilizing cognitive computing to improve banking experiences. A user's financial account(s) and location may be monitored to determine that a user is near an asset that is listed for sale. The techniques disclosed include receiving multiple locations for a user's mobile device over a period of time and determining when the mobile device is within a predetermined threshold distance of the asset listed for sale. The techniques include building a financial profile for the user based upon financial information for the user. The financial profile may be used to determine a loan to offer to the user for purchasing the asset listed for sale based upon the financial profile.
US11004113B1
An electronic device for a store is provided comprising a front-facing camera, a rear-facing camera, a display, and processing circuitry configured to receive an identity of at least one target product that meets one or more predetermined product criteria. The processing circuitry is further configured to capture a first image via the rear-facing camera and determine that the target product proximate the electronic device is depicted in the first image, and to capture a second image via the front-facing camera and detect a shopper in a vicinity of the electronic device is depicted in the second image. The processing circuitry is further configured to in response to determining that the target product proximate the electronic device is depicted in the first image and detecting that the shopper in a vicinity of the electronic device is depicted in the second image, displaying a message related to the target product.
US11004112B1
Automatic performance triggered campaign adjustment. A hierarchical feature tree is generated. Each child node's feature is more specific than its respective parent node's feature. The discovery system creates a behavioral model comprising features of the feature tree which is used in the operation of an advertising campaign. A degraded model feature is detected at the discovery system by comparing a performance metric of a model feature from two different time windows. The discovery system matches a node of the feature tree with the degraded feature and selects a prospective model feature from an ancestor node of the matching feature's node. An estimated performance metric for the prospective model feature is determined and the results are used to decide if the prospective model feature should be incorporated into an updated model or not. The model can be updated with a new model feature selected from one or more prospective model features.
US11004110B2
Systems and methods for a cloud management system which utilizes both technical and business metrics to achieve operational efficiencies. The systems and methods can be used to provide an elastic infrastructure model for an emergency notifications system which delivers near infinite scale with guaranteed near 100% uptime. In an embodiment, a mass recipient emulator can be utilized for testing of the notifications system with actual phone call or message exchange.
US11004092B2
Provided is a method for presenting images with embedded links for multi-channel redemption in a user interface. The method includes displaying an image including a first selectable portion and a second selectable portion, wherein a first link is embedded in the first selectable portion and points to a portal under control of a transaction handler, the first link identifying an offer for a merchant including at least one condition, and wherein a second link is embedded in the second selectable portion and points to the merchant. The method further includes, in response to a user selecting the first selectable portion of the image and following the first link, identifying, by the transaction handler and/or the portal, the user and an account of the user, and associating, by the transaction handler and/or the portal under control of the transaction handler, the offer with the account of the user.
US11004086B2
In one embodiment, a system and method for reporting lost items includes presenting a lost item reporting link associated with an entity having a plurality of different physical establishment locations; receiving a user selection of the lost item reporting link; presenting at a website, in response to the user selection of the lost item reporting link, a graphical user interface configured to solicit lost item recovery information, the website being associated with the entity having the plurality of different physical establishments; receiving the lost item recovery information via the graphical user interface; and transmitting the lost item recovery information to a third party online lost and found system.
US11004083B2
A system and method for authorizing a direct debit transaction is provided. A remotely accessible server receives a request from a clearing entity to conduct a direct debit transaction against a financial account of a consumer on behalf of a merchant, and checks whether the consumer has previously approved a debit against the account on behalf of the merchant. If the consumer has previously approved a debit on behalf of the merchant, an authorization message is generated and transmitted to the clearing entity. If the consumer has not previously approved a debit on behalf of the merchant, an electronic prompt is generated to an electronic device of the consumer requesting the consumer to approve or deny the debit. In response to the consumer indicating approval, a debit authorization message is generated and transmitted to the clearing entity, and a database is updated to indicate approval by the consumer.
US11004081B2
There are provided systems and methods for dynamic authentication through user information and intent. A user may wish to purchase an item that they view on a merchant marketplace using a computer of mobile phone. The merchant for the merchant marketplace may register the user's intent to purchase the item by receiving the user's actions while browsing the marketplace. The user may further provide user information with the merchant, such as a biometric reading, identifier, or other information. When the user then arrives at a merchant location to purchase the item and complete a transaction using a payment instrument, the merchant may process the user's intent and information to determine how confident the merchant is that the user is entitled to utilize the payment method. Such confidence rating may correspond to whether the merchant believes the transaction is fraudulent or if the user is misrepresenting their identity.
US11004068B2
Systems and methods for authorizing a blockchain transaction. A verification network receives a transaction request for the blockchain transaction from a payer device including a first signature generated by a first private key associated with a payer. The verification network broadcasts a verification request to verification system(s) which assess pre-agreed threshold parameters. If the parameter(s) are satisfied, at least one verification system perfects the transaction by generating a second signature using a second private key, and broadcasts the transaction to the blockchain network. If the parameter(s) are not satisfied, verification offer(s) from among the verification system(s) including the second signature(s) are used to prompt the payer device to confirm the blockchain transaction by selecting at least one of the offer(s). The verification network receives selected offer(s) from the payer device and broadcasts the transaction to the blockchain network, in accordance with the selected offer(s) and the transaction request.
US11004040B2
In one embodiment, a scheduling system includes an interactive graphical user interface. Each cell has a position in a displayed first array of cells and has respective scheduling data associated with it. Each cell is visually translocatable out of the first array under a user navigation to another position within the interface. A second array of cells is displayed within the interface and some cells in the second array correspond to open time slots in a schedule. A scheduling module in the system is configured to receive a user selection of a first cell in the first array of cells, identify, based on at least some of the scheduling data associated with the selected first cell, a matching open time slot in the second array of cells, control a visual translocation of the first cell from its position in the first array of cells to the matching open time slot position in the second array of cells, and associate or transfer at least some of the scheduling data associated with the first cell to the open time slot position in the second array of cells.
US11004031B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for determining delivery or pick-up windows. In one embodiment a method is provided comprising determining whether sufficient historical information/data to determine an estimated pick-up/delivery time is received for each weekday when deliveries are made and in response to determining that the sufficient historical information/data is available for a first weekday, determining an estimated pick-up/delivery time for the first serviceable point and for the first weekday based on the sufficient historical information/data for the first serviceable point and for the first weekday. Similarly, in response to determining that the sufficient historical information/data is not available for a second weekday, determining an estimated pick-up/delivery time for the first serviceable point and for the second weekday based on the first historical information/data.
US11004029B2
A method and system for storing and retrieving a packaging hierarchy of traceable physical items includes at an item marking location, marking physical items to be packaged in the packaging hierarchy, with a unique code with a first and second identifier, transferring packaging relationships between the codes to a track and trace system, identifying for each code in the packaging relationships, hierarchical code relations expressed as parent and/or child codes, and for each code, storing the hierarchical code relations in a section of a data storage location of the first computer system, wherein a start position of the section is determined by a combination of the first and second identifiers of the code.
US11004023B2
A video training system is described for making short training videos available to employees at their work locations which are simple to operate. It employs several inexpensive video cards each which are loaded with several training videos that redistributed to users at their work locations. A training status device keeps track of which training videos are on which video cards. A tracking base tracks the locations of each video card. Each card has biometrics for identifying the user using each video card. Training status device receives the identity of the current user, checks to see which training videos that current user must view, but did not already view and provides this information to a logic device. Logic device receives the current location of the video cards having the training videos and notifies the current user where to find the video cards.
US11004022B1
Methods and systems are described for matching contributor skills to required skills in source code programming projects in order to provide more agility for the project team. For example, to provide more agility, the methods and system track contributor skills and assign contributors to contributions based on one or more of a plurality of skills of a contributor not corresponding to a skill required for the project. The methods and system may nonetheless maintain workflow velocity in the source code programming projects.
US11004018B2
A logistics prediction system includes an arithmetic device that executes a predetermined process, a storage device connected to the arithmetic device, a shipment information input section to which past shipment information is input, a constraint input section to which a calculation resource and a calculation time period are input as constraints for prediction, an integration prediction database holding shipment trends of products, a prediction method selector that selects a prediction method to be used to predict a shipment volume for each of the products from among multiple prediction methods so that the constraints input to the constraint input section are satisfied, multiple prediction method sections that predict shipment volumes using the prediction methods, an integrator that integrates the results of the prediction by the prediction method sections for each of the products, and a shipment prediction output section that outputs the result of the integration by the integrator.
US11004017B2
A library book reservation method based on ultra high frequency RFID technology, including the following steps: step 1, using an RFID tag adhered on each book by using an RFID reading device, wherein the information read by the RFID reading device corresponding to each group of books includes ID information id of the tags, collecting the phase difference θ of the current tag, collecting the current time t of the current tag, and using Tag=
US11004014B2
Provide herein is a method and system capable of authenticating transactions involving at least one service provider and one or more users who are each in electronic communication. This electronic communication can be, for example, SMS, MMS, e-mail, or online account messaging. It is an aspect of certain embodiments where the transaction is an authentication and/or verification of an entity. Examples of such entities are products, actions and users.
US11004012B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for mitigating machine learning performance digression due to insufficient test data availability. A set of data is received, wherein the received set of data is parsed into a set of training data and a set of test data. A trained model is generated and the trained model is applying to the set of test data. A first set of performance values of the tested trained model are recorded and, if above a threshold, associated with a performance baseline value. A set of modified test data is generated and the trained model is applied to the set of modified test data. A second set of performance values are recorded and a performance difference value is calculated based on the performance baseline value and second set of recorded performance values. A table of results is generated, for display.
US11004004B1
In an example embodiment, a system is described for customizing user accounts based on user actions, which may include receiving, via a user device, a first user input requesting to create an account for a user. The system may further receive, via the user device, a second user input selecting an account type for the account from a plurality of account types. In response to these user inputs, the system may retrieve, from a server, one or more account requirements for the account type, determine that the user meets the one or more account requirements and create an account in response to determining that the user meets the one or more account requirements.
US11003999B1
A method for using machine learning techniques to analyze past decisions made by administrators concerning account opening requests and to recommend whether an account opening request should be allowed or denied. Further, the machine learning techniques determine various other products that the customer may be interested in and prioritizes the choices of options that the machine learning algorithm determines appropriate for the customer.
US11003996B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media can obtain user navigation data associated with transitions by users between one or more pages associated with a system. Reduced dimensionality user navigation data can be generated based on the user navigation data. A plurality of clusters can be generated based on the reduced dimensionality user navigation data, wherein each cluster of the plurality of clusters corresponds to a user navigation pattern associated with the system.
US11003992B2
In one embodiment, a method includes establishing access to first and second different computing systems. A machine learning model is assigned for training to the first computing system, and the first computing system creates a check-point during training in response to a first predefined triggering event. The check-point may be a record of an execution state in the training of the machine learning model by the first computing system. In response to a second predefined triggering event, the training of the machine learning model on the first computing system is halted, and in response to a third predefined triggering event, the training of the machine learning model is transferred to the second computing system, which continues training the machine learning model starting from the execution state recorded by the check-point.
US11003986B2
To provide a semiconductor device which can execute the product-sum operation. The semiconductor device includes a first memory cell, a second memory cell, and an offset circuit. First analog data is stored in the first memory cell, and reference analog data is stored in the second memory cell. The first memory cell and the second memory cell supply a first current and a second current, respectively, when a reference potential is applied as a selection signal. The offset circuit has a function of supplying a third current corresponding to a differential current between the first current and the second current. In the semiconductor device, the first memory and the second memory supply a fourth current and a fifth current, respectively, when a potential corresponding to second analog data is applied as a selection signal. By subtracting the third current from a differential current between the fourth current and the fifth current, a current that depends on the sum of products of the first analog data and the second analog data is obtained.
US11003978B2
The disclosure features a method of creating a communications network. In this method, a first tape node includes a first type of wireless communication interface and a second type of wireless communication interface having a longer range than the first type of wireless communication interface. A second tape node includes the first type of wireless communication interface that is operable to communicate with the first tape node over a wireless communication connection established between the first type of wireless communication interfaces of the first and second tape nodes. Over a wireless communication connection, the first tape node sends programmatic code executable by the first tape node to function as a master tape node with respect to the second tape node.
US11003977B2
Techniques, systems, and devices are disclosed for the design and manufacturing of a radio-frequency identification (RFID)-enabled license plate. In one aspect, a proposed RFID-enabled license plate includes a metal plate and a RFID assembly integrated with the metal plate. The RFID assembly further includes a front cover attached to a first side of the metal plate and a back cover attached to a back side of the metal plate opposite to the front cover, and the front cover and the back cover substantially overlap with each other. The RFID assembly additionally includes a RFID tag sandwiched between the front cover and the back cover and is affixed to at least one of the front cover and the back cover. As such, the RFID tag is substantially tamper-proof.
US11003976B2
Methods and apparatus for RFID communications in a process control system are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a non-volatile memory to be operatively coupled to a field device of a process control system; and a radio-frequency identification tag to be operatively coupled to the non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory is to store data received from at least one of the field device or a radio-frequency identification writer via the radio-frequency identification tag. The radio-frequency identification tag is to wirelessly transmit the data to a radio-frequency identification reader. The data includes at least one of maintenance information, diagnostic information, or configuration information associated with the field device. The non-volatile memory and the radio-frequency identification tag to be physically coupled to the field device.
US11003973B2
A Near Field Communication (NFC) device, includes: a device support body comprising at least one antenna coil, an integrated circuit coupled to the at least one antenna coil; and a photoresistive circuit coupled to the at least one antenna coil and comprising a photo-resistance, the photoresistive circuit being configured to increase a resistance of the at least one antenna coil when the at least one photo-resistance is in its high resistance state in a dark condition.
US11003972B2
Automated methods and apparatuses for charging or fueling a vehicle include provision of a plurality of tags and a controller to a vehicle. The plurality of tags are respectively installed at a plurality of positions on a top face of a roof of the vehicle. The controller is configured to cause information about a charging or fueling port of the vehicle to be transmitted to a charging or fueling system of a charging or fueling station. The charging or fueling system, provided with a charging connector or fueling nozzle, and an imaging device, uses at least the information about the charging or fueling port and the plurality of positions of the plurality tags to determine a location of the charging or fueling port of the vehicle, to charge or fuel the vehicle.
US11003964B2
A predetermined area of a print surface is captured by a camera as a plurality of subdivided images to include an end edge portion of a previously printed image on a coating-target object, the end edge portion serving as a connection portion with an image to be drawn to be printed contiguous to the printed image, a composite print surface, which is a plane projection of the print-target surface which is non-plane, is created on the basis of the captured subdivided images, an edited image to be drawn is created by superimposing the image to be drawn on the composite print surface, and the image to be drawn is adjacently printed contiguous to the printed image on the basis of the edited image to be drawn.
US11003958B2
Embodiments of a system for food quality image classification are disclosed for classifying food items as either damaged or not damaged, and if damaged, the type of damage. Damage classification may be performed in multiple stages, for example, RGB data may be used in a first classification, and HSV data may be used in a second classification, such as whether damage is from bruising or decay. Blurring may improve determination accuracy, and an ongoing feedback and training loop may improve accuracy results over time.
