US11013130B2
A display device includes a display panel including a display area on which a plurality of display elements is disposed and a non-display area on which one or more wires for driving the plurality of display elements are disposed. A back cover is attached to one surface of the display panel and has a plurality of openings. A roller unit winds or unwinds the back cover and the display panel, and a lifting unit moves the back cover and the display panel in a vertical direction. The plurality of openings overlaps the display panel, and each of the plurality of openings is disposed to be staggered with one or more of the openings in an adjacent row. A size of the back cover is larger than a size of the display panel.
US11013125B2
A method for producing a plated part, includes: forming, on a surface of a base member, a catalyst activity inhibiting layer containing a polymer which has at least one of an amide group and an amino group; irradiating with light or heating a part of the surface of the base member on which the catalyst activity inhibiting layer is formed; applying an electroless plating catalyst to the surface of the base member heated or irradiated with the light; and bringing an electroless plating solution into contact with the surface of the base member to which the electroless plating catalyst is applied, to form an electroless plating film at a light-irradiated portion or a heated portion of the surface.
US11013123B2
Molded circuit substrates include a conductive layer surrounded by an insulating sidewall. The insulating sidewall further provides a structural component for an electronic module into which the molded circuit substrate is incorporated. Accordingly, the molded circuit substrates can permit better performance, reduce electronic module thickness, and reduce fabrication costs. Methods for fabricating molded circuit substrates can facilitate precise positioning of insulating sidewalls, insulating partitions, electrical contacts and other components.
US11013117B2
An electronic device that includes an intermediate connection layer interposed between a wiring substrate with a pair of land electrodes and an electronic component. The intermediate connection layer has first and second connection electrodes formed on the surface of a base. A fuse part is formed inside the second connection electrode between a main conductor part thereof opposed to a first external electrode of the electronic component and a main conductor part of the first connection electrode opposed to a second external electrode of the electronic component.
US11013116B2
A flexible assembly for a display device and the display device are provided. The flexible assembly includes a flexible substrate, and a first output pad, a second output pad, a third output pad and a fourth output pad that are arranged on the substrate. The first output pad, the second output pad, the third output pad and the fourth output pad are sequentially arranged along a first direction and are spaced apart from each other. A pitch is between each output pad and an adjacent output pad, and the pitch is a sum of a spacing distance between each output pad and the adjacent output pad and a width of the adjacent output pad in the first direction. The pitch between the first output pad and the adjacent second output pad is smaller than the pitch between the third output pad and the adjacent fourth output pad.
US11013109B2
A display unit includes a display panel, a circuit board bent from a front surface of the display panel toward a rear surface of the display panel, a window disposed on the front surface of the display panel to cover an active area, and a cover panel film disposed on the rear surface of the display panel and disposed between the display panel and the circuit board. The cover panel film includes a first portion overlapping with the display panel, and a second portion extending from the first portion to protrude from the display panel when viewed in a plan view. The second portion is disposed between the circuit board and the window when viewed in a cross-sectional view.
US11013108B2
A display device including a display module configured to display an image, a printed circuit board provided below the display module, and a flexible substrate including a first bonding region, a bending region, and a second bonding region. The flexible substrate may be bent at the bending region and may be used to connect the display module to the printed circuit board. The flexible substrate may include a circuit layer electrically connecting the display module to the printed circuit board, a cover layer on the circuit layer, and a bubble-prevention layer, which is provided between the cover layer and the circuit layer and is overlapped with each of the first and second bonding regions of the flexible substrate.
US11013107B2
An insulated circuit board having a ceramic substrate, a circuit layer on which a circuit pattern is formed and that is bonded to one surface of the ceramic substrate, and a metal layer bonded to the other surface of the ceramic substrate. The circuit layer has a first circuit layer that is bonded to the ceramic substrate and is made of aluminum and a second circuit layer that is bonded to the upper surface of the first circuit layer and is made of copper, the metal layer has a first metal layer that is bonded to the ceramic substrate and is made of aluminum and a second metal layer that is bonded to the upper surface of the first metal layer and is made of copper, and the thicknesses of the first circuit layer and the first metal layer are each 0.2 mm or more and 0.9 mm or less.
US11013106B1
An electronic control unit comprises at least one controller and at least one memory device, wherein the controller comprises at least one electronic component mounted on a main circuit board. An embedded circuit board is formed in one piece with the main circuit board, and a predetermined separation line is provided for separating the embedded circuit board from the main circuit board.
US11013104B2
Provided is a power conversion apparatus including: a plurality of power converters including a first power converter and a second power converter simultaneously operated by power supplied via a first connector; and a heat dissipation board having a first pattern formed thereon for distributing the power supplied via the first connector to the first power converter and the second power converter.
US11013103B2
A method for forming a circuit board includes forming a first dielectric layer, a first circuit layer in the first dielectric layer, a second circuit layer on the first dielectric layer, and a plurality of conductive vias in the first dielectric layer and connecting the first circuit layer to the second circuit layer; forming a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer and the second circuit layer; forming a plurality of openings in the second dielectric layer to expose a plurality of parts of the second circuit layer; forming a seed layer on the exposed parts of the second circuit layer and sidewalls of the openings; and forming a plurality of bonding layers on the seed layer, wherein the bonding layers and the seed layer are made of copper, and the bonding layers are porous.
US11013090B2
A method (700) of generating a dynamic light effect on a light source array (110) is disclosed. The light source array (110) comprises a plurality of individually controllable light sources (112). The method (700) comprises: obtaining (702) or generating (702) a vector, wherein the vector has a plurality of behavior parameters comprising at least a speed and a direction, and the vector has one or more appearance parameters comprising at least a color and/or a brightness, mapping (704) the vector onto the light source array (110) over time according to the behavior parameters of the vector, and controlling (706) the light output of the plurality of light sources (112) over time according to the mapping of the vector onto the light source array (110) and according to the appearance parameters of the vector.
US11013079B2
An LED module is provided that includes an LED circuit board having a substrate and an array of LEDs and an electrical connector mounted on the substrate. The LED module can be removed from an optical system of a luminaire by electrically uncoupling the LED circuit board from the luminaire and mechanically uncoupling the LED module from the luminaire without removing other elements of the optical system from the luminaire. A luminaire is provided that includes a controller and an optical system having an LED module. The LED module has an LED circuit board electrically coupled to the controller. The LED circuit board has a substrate and an array of LEDs mounted thereon. The LED module can be removed from the luminaire without removing other elements of the optical system by electrically uncoupling the LED circuit board from the controller and mechanically uncoupling the LED module from the luminaire.
US11013063B2
Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Evolved Node-B (eNB) and methods for communication are generally described herein. The UE may receive downlink control information (DCI) that schedules a transport block (TB) that includes multiple code blocks. The UE may determine a transport block size (TBS) based on the DCI. The UE may attempt to decode the code blocks. The UE may, if the TBS is greater than a predetermined threshold: bundle the code blocks into code block groups for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement; and transmit a HARQ bit per code block group. The UE may, if the TBS is less than or equal to the threshold, transmit a HARQ bit that indicates whether a decode failure has occurred for at least one of the code blocks of the TB.
US11013049B2
This disclosure relates to aggregation of radio resources provided according to multiple radio interfaces. According to some embodiments, a base station may establish a radio bearer with a wireless user equipment (UE) device. The radio bearer may initially utilize a first radio interface between the base station and the UE. The base station may receive an indication to aggregate radio resources of an access point that utilizes a second radio interface for the UE. Based on the indication to aggregate radio resources for the UE, the base station may redirect at least a portion of data of the radio bearer by way of the access point to be exchanged with the UE using the second radio interface.
US11013041B2
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for a Fifth Generation New Radio (5G NR) enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH). These techniques include a user device transmitting a request to a base station for a UE-specific PDCCH format. In aspects, the user device transmits an uplink Radio Resource Control (RRC) message or a Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE). The base station can then grant the user device a particular PDCCH format, based on the request, by using downlink RRC messages or a MAC CE. This allows the user device to identify the UE-specific PDCCH format and an appropriate aggregation level with which to decode messages on the PDCCH. These techniques reduce the amount of power consumed when decoding the messages on PDCCH in comparison to conventional techniques that rely on blind decoding.
US11013025B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting uplink signals, a user equipment (UE), and a base station. The UE determines an LBT type and a starting position of signal transmission according to scheduling information and LBT type of a previous subframe, a current subframe, and a subsequent subframe and whether there is a gap between these subframes.
US11013021B2
A system information obtaining method, a UE and a network side device are provided. The method includes: receive first scheduling information of on-demand SI sent by a network side device; obtain the on-demand SI sent by the network side device based on the first scheduling information.
US11013018B2
A data multiplexing apparatus and method and a communication system. The data multiplexing method includes: for a logical channel needing to be performed data multiplexing, determining one or more physical layer resources for multiplexing data from a plurality of physical layer resources supported by the logical channel according to priorities of the plurality of physical layer resources; and multiplexing the data of the logical channel into the determined physical layer resources. Hence, when the user equipment has data of a plurality of service types needing to be transmitted, the use of the resources by the user equipment may be kept in consistence with the scheduling intention of the network equipment.
US11013015B2
The present disclosure relates to a method to be performed at a user equipment and to a user equipment operable in a wireless communications system supporting direct communication between user equipments. Accordingly, a sidelink configuration is stored in the user equipment, 5 specifying a plurality of destination groups, each destination group including possible destinations for sidelink data as well a logical channel priority is stored for each logical channel out of logical channels configured for the sidelink destination groups. The terminal then selects a sidelink destination group with a sidelink logical channel having sidelink data available for transmission with the 10 highest logical channel priority among the sidelink logical channels having data available for transmission, and allocates radio resources to the sidelink logical channels belonging to the selected sidelink destination group in decreasing priority order.
US11013014B2
According to one configuration, a wireless network includes first wireless stations and second wireless stations. The first wireless stations and second wireless stations support different wireless communication protocols and compete to use a wireless channel. Via monitoring of a control channel generated by a management resource associated with at least the first wireless stations, a given wireless station of the second wireless stations determines availability (unused time slots, frames, etc.) of the wireless channel via monitoring of the wireless channel itself and/or a control channel. In the latter instance, the control channel indicates scheduled usage of the shared wireless channel by at least the first wireless stations. In accordance with the scheduled usage as indicated by the control channel, the given wireless station transmits over the wireless channel during free slots, times, gaps, etc., to communicate with a remote wireless station of the second wireless stations.
US11013008B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a User Equipment (UE). In one embodiment, the method includes the UE performing a first device-to-device (D2D) transmission based on a periodic resource. The method further includes the UE performs a second D2D transmission based on the periodic resource in response to no data available for the second D2D transmission, wherein the second D2D transmission indicates release of the periodic resource. The method also includes the UE stops using the periodic resource to perform a third D2D transmission.
US11013000B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide for the pairing of an inter-band carrier with a time division duplex (TDD) carrier. If the paired band is a frequency division duplex (FDD) band, then base stations and mobile devices may transmit and receive additional thin control channels on FDD carriers to enable full duplex operations. If the paired band is a TDD band, then a conjugate or inverse carrier may be used such that full duplex, or a close approximation thereto, is achieved. With the introduction of a paired channel and fast control channels, rapid uplink/downlink switching may be achieved for TDD carriers efficiently and effectively. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US11012991B2
Provided are wireless communication methods, an eNB and a UE. The wireless communication method performed by an eNB includes transmitting downlink control information (DCI) to a user equipment (UE), wherein the DCI is designed based on a coverage enhancement level for the UE.
US11012990B2
A method for performing coordinated transmission in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor are disclosed. Specifically, a method for receiving downlink control information (DCI) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system may comprise the steps of: receiving the DCI from one of a plurality of base stations performing coordinated transmission to the UE; and receiving downlink data scheduled on the basis of the DCI from the plurality of base stations performing the coordinated transmission, wherein a separate transmission layer for the downlink data is transmitted from each base station included in the plurality of base stations, and single piece of information in the DCI indicates a total number of layers scheduled to the UE and demodulation reference signal (DMRS) grouping information associated with the separate transmission layer transmitted from each base station.
US11012989B2
The present invention relates to underwater communication and, more particularly to a signal transmission method and device which configure and transmit physical channel information such that low-power control is performed in underwater communication. The present invention configures the physical channel information such that a reception node side can check through a combination of preambles whether a signal is provided to itself, when forward direction communication is performed in a centralized underwater communication network. Therefore, the present invention performs the control such that only a relevant reception node requiring data reception performs a demodulation operation, without requiring all reception nodes to always perform demodulation in a forward direction communication process. Through this process, many reception nodes do not perform unnecessary demodulation operations in the forward direction communication process, thereby providing an effect of preventing unnecessary power consumption.
US11012987B2
A mobile station device that receives downlink control information which is used to selectively provide downlink scheduling or a random access order, on a physical downlink control channel from a base station device. The mobile station device also transmits a random access preamble using a random access channel to the base station device based on receiving the downlink control information which provides a random access order, where the downlink control information provides a downlink resource allocation in a case that the downlink control information is used to provide the downlink scheduling and where a preset value is set for a field of the downlink resource allocation in a case that the downlink control information is used to provide the random access order.
US11012983B2
Disclosed are a method for transmitting uplink control information by a terminal in a wireless communication system and a device for supporting the same. More particularly, disclosed are a method for transmitting, by a terminal, uplink control information corresponding to downlink signals received from two base stations communicating with the terminal by different schemes when the two base stations are connected with the terminal by a dual connectivity method, and a device for supporting the same.
US11012982B2
The present invention is designed so that the transmission of PUSCH can be controlled properly when the reference value for the timing for transmitting signals is controlled in radio base stations and/or user terminals. A user terminal, according to the present invention, has a receiving section that receives downlink control information (DCI), and a control section that controls transmission of an uplink (UL) shared channel that is scheduled by the DCI, and the control section controls the transmission of the UL shared channel based on a reference value that is configured for the timing for transmitting the UL shared channel.
US11012980B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed to determine access control and channel and signaling priority. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may comprise a processor configured, at least in part, to determine device-to-device (D2D) data to be transmitted. The WTRU may determine if the D2D data may be transmitted. The WTRU may determine available scheduling assignment (SA) resources used for priority based D2D data signals. The WTRU may select one or more available SA resources used for priority based D2D data signals. The WTRU may transmit the D2D data, wherein the D2D data may be transmitted on the selected SA resources.
US11012978B2
An uplink scheduling-free transmission method and an uplink scheduling-free transmission device are provided. The uplink scheduling-free transmission method includes: dividing, by a base station, MA resources into groups of MA resources, and configuring, by the base station, the groups of MA resources to obtain at least two groups of MA resource pools, wherein at least parts of respective MA resources in the at least two groups of MA resource pools are different from each other; and notifying, by the base station, a UE of the at least two groups of MA resource pools, to enable the UE to select an MA resource pool from the at least two groups of MA resource pools, wherein the selected MA resource pool is to be used by the UE.
US11012966B2
Techniques described herein allow for mobile positioning (i.e., the determination of the position of the UE) to be performed when the UE is in Idle mode. In some implementations, assistance data, that is used by the UE as part of the mobile positioning procedure, may be broadcast to the UE or transmitted to the UE within paging messages. The assistance data can potentially be sent to the UE in a number of time slots. In some implementations, the UE may perform measurements needed for mobile positioning only within discontinuous reception (DRX) occasions. Alternatively, in some implementations, the UE may perform measurements needed for mobile positioning outside of DRX occasions.
US11012964B2
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprising: receiving an indication of a timing difference over a wireless backhaul link, the indication received at a first node in a wireless communication system and received from a second node in the wireless communication system, the timing difference between a first time at which the second node received uplink signal on the wireless backhaul link from the first node and a second time at which the second node transmitted downlink signal on the wireless backhaul link to the first node; determining by the first node a new timing advance based on a current timing advance and on the received timing difference; and using the determined new timing advance for one or more transmissions by the first node over one or more wireless links.
US11012963B2
A wireless communication method and apparatus are disclosed. In an embodiment a wireless communication method includes receiving, by a first device, at least two pieces of timing advance (TA) information, wherein the at least two pieces of TA information are corresponding to at least two beams of the first device on the same carrier and performing, by the first device, timing adjustments on transmissions on the at least two beams based on the at least two pieces of TA information.
US11012962B2
The present invention provides a method of determining a transmission time interval length to be used for communications between a user equipment device and a base station in response to a new service request, wherein the transmission time interval length is selected dependent on a timing advance value to be used by the user equipment device for communication with the base station.
US11012960B2
A system and method for receiving a radio frequency signal, comprising a device for digitizing, without prior alteration of frequency, an analog radio frequency representation of each of a plurality of radio frequency signals to produce a respective plurality of digital radio frequency signals having a respective associated radio frequency digital clock, the plurality of digital radio frequency signals having a sufficiently high respective associated clock rate to preserve an information content of an information communication present in the analog radio frequency representation; a switch matrix adapted to concurrently switch the plurality of digital radio frequency signals and associated digital radio frequency clock to ones of a plurality of digital signal processors; and a control adapted to selectively automatically control the concurrent switching of a plurality of digital signals and associated digital clock to the respective plurality of digital signal processors; wherein the digital signal processors produce processed representations of information contained in respective analog radio frequency representations.
US11012959B2
A signal transmission method and an apparatus are disclosed. In an embodiment a signal transmission method includes generating a demodulation reference signal and sending the demodulation reference signal, wherein the demodulation 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.
US11012946B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to modifying a buffer status report (BSR) are provided. In one embodiment, a first wireless communication device determines a BSR based on at least a first data size and a predicted data size. The first wireless communication device transmits to a second wireless communication device, the BSR. The first wireless communication device receives from the second wireless communication device, a scheduling grant in response to the BSR. The first wireless communication device transmits to the second wireless communication device, a communication signal based on the scheduling grant.
US11012945B2
Methods and devices for allocating power among a plurality of circuits in a communication device, including determining a power budget for allocating to the plurality of circuits from a power supply information; receiving an activity status from a first circuit of the plurality of circuits; determining a first power value based on the activity status; deriving a second power value based on the first power value and the power budget; and allocating power to one or more remaining circuits of the plurality of circuits based on the second power value.
US11012944B2
A method by which a terminal transmits an uplink signal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: determining whether transmission power of a plurality of uplink channels, which are simultaneously transmitted in a plurality of serving cells and has transmission time intervals (TTIs) of different lengths, exceeds maximum power of a terminal; and transmitting an uplink channel excluding an uplink channel, which is determined according to a preset priority rule, among the plurality of uplink channels when the transmission power of the plurality of uplink channels exceeds the maximum power of the terminal.
US11012943B2
The present invention provides a method for a base station to transmit a downlink signal, in order to reduce interference between uplink transmission and downlink transmission in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method is characterized by: a step of setting a power decrease region in which downlink transmission power is transmitted by being lower than that of another region; a step of separating and generating a first transmission block corresponding to the power decrease region, and a second transmission block not corresponding to the power decrease region; and a step of mapping downlink data to the first transmission block and the second transmission block, respectively, wherein the first transmission block is transmitted with the power allocated to the power decrease region, and the second transmission block is transmitted with the power allocated to the region other than the power decrease region.
US11012935B2
A purpose is to provide a control apparatus capable of advancing performing a paging process when packet arrival occurs while the control apparatus arranged in a core network holds two Temporary IDs regarding a communication terminal. A control apparatus (10) according to the present disclosure includes a communication means (12) for preforming a paging process using extended idle-mode Discontinuous Reception (DRX) (eDRX) and a calculation means (11) for determining a timing for paging using a first temporary identifier allocated to a communication terminal (30) and a second temporary identifier allocated to the communication terminal (30) and different from the first temporary identifier, in which the communication means (12) performs a paging process using the first temporary identifier corresponding to a first timing for initial paging.
US11012933B2
A system and method are provided for automatically shutting off or reducing power to certain radios in a client device based on collected wireless network quality parameters. The wireless network quality parameters are collected from wireless networks by various client devices in communication with the wireless networks. The client devices report the wireless network quality parameters to a server. The server collects wireless network quality parameters from a plurality of client devices and analyses the wireless network quality parameters from the plurality of client devices to determine a network quality for the particular wireless networks. The network quality is stored in a network quality database maintained by the server. When it is determined that a device is in an area of weak signal coverage, power to its radio is automatically reduced or shut off until the device leaves the area.
US11012932B2
A data communication method and apparatus are provided. The data communication method includes: receiving, by a station (STA), a wake-up packet sent by an access point (AP), where the wake-up packet includes basic service set (BSS) parameter indication information, the BSS parameter indication information includes BSS parameter change indication information or a target parameter of a primary BSS to which a primary transceiver of the STA currently belongs, and the BSS parameter change indication information is used to indicate whether a critical parameter of the primary BSS changes when the primary transceiver of the STA is in a sleep state; and communicating, by the primary transceiver of the STA, with the AP based on the BSS parameter indication information. The embodiments of the present application can be used to effectively ensure that the primary transceiver of the STA successfully communicates with the AP.
US11012921B2
A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system include intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method performed by a base station for transmitting a paging message is provided. The method includes determining a number of paging frames (PFs) in a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle based on information on paging search space, transmitting, to a terminal, information on the number of PFs in system information block 1 (SIB1), identifying at least one PF based on the number of PFs, and transmitting, to the terminal, at least one paging message in the at least one PF.
US11012915B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some wireless systems, a base station centralized unit (CU) may communicate with a user equipment (UE) through a multi-hop backhaul architecture. This multi-hop backhaul connection may include a donor base station and any number of relay base stations connected via backhaul links. In some cases, the relay base stations or the UE may experience data congestion in a logical channel-specific buffer. The relay base stations or UE may implement backpressure signaling (e.g., in the medium access control (MAC) layer) to mitigate the congestion. A wireless device operating as a mobile termination (MT) endpoint may transmit a backpressure report message to a wireless device operating as a base station distributed unit (DU) endpoint for the logical channel. The base station DU may adjust a scheduling rate for data unit transmissions over the indicated logical channel based on the backpressure report.
US11012910B2
A method is performed in a first infrastructure equipment for a handover of a wireless device from the first infrastructure equipment as a source to a second infrastructure equipment as a target. The method comprises maintaining a mapping between a plurality of packet bearers and a data radio bearer for the wireless device, each of the plurality of packet bearers being configured to provide a specified quality of service, determining that the wireless device should handover from the first infrastructure equipment to the second infrastructure equipment, determining that the second infrastructure equipment does not support the mapping of the plurality of packet bearers to the data radio bearer, and providing an indication of a mapping of the plurality of packet bearers for the second infrastructure equipment after handover to one of a core network equipment and the second infrastructure equipment.
US11012909B2
A wireless communication method including: when a wireless station has dual connectivity to a first base station that is a primary base station and a second base station that is a secondary base station and when a handover of the primary base station is to be performed from the first base station to a third base station, transmitting from the first base station to the third base station a first signal requesting the handover, when the third base station makes a determination not to change the secondary base station based on the first signal, transmitting from the third base station to the second base station a second signal indicating the determination and to the first base station a third signal indicating the determination, and performing the handover based on the third signal without transferring a connection between the wireless station and the second base station to the first base station.
US11012899B2
A method, system and computer program product for controlling the delivery of voice communications. A profile is created for the user of a mobile device that specifies the thresholds for switching between a cellular network and a wireless network to conduct voice communications as well as stores a list of contacts and associated security levels. If the signal strength of the cellular radio signal is below a threshold, then the mobile device detects one or more wireless networks that are in the area of the user of the mobile device. The profile of the user of the mobile device is then checked to determine if the mobile device is authorized to switch to one of the detected wireless networks to deliver voice communications based on a security level associated with the party communicating with the user. In this manner, the user is able to control the delivery of voice communications.
US11012897B2
According to an aspect, there is provided a method of operating a first radio access node in a communication network, the method comprising determining whether a first base key that is used to determine a first encryption key for encrypting communications between a communication device and the first radio access node can be used by a second radio access node for determining a second encryption key for encrypting communications between the communication device and the second radio access node; and if the first base key can be used by the second radio access node, sending the first base key to the second radio access node during handover of the communication device from the first radio access node to the second radio access node.
US11012887B2
A method for reporting a buffer state includes: determining a logic channel or logic channel group satisfying a BSR triggering criterion; and if the determined logic channel or logic channel group corresponds to a DRB mapped by an SDAP entity, then reporting to a base station a BSR comprising a buffer of the SDAP entity mapped to the determined logic channel or logic channel group. By determining the logic channel or logic channel group satisfying the BSR triggering criterion and, when the determined logic channel or logic channel group corresponds to the DRB mapped by the SDAP entity, and reporting to the base station the BSR comprising the buffer of the SDAP entity mapped to the determined logic channel or logic channel group, the problem with reporting the buffer state of the logic channel or logic channel group when a new protocol layer is introduced can be solved.
US11012884B2
An access method and system, a user equipment, and a network side device are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a user equipment, a first message that carries an identifier of a second network access point, where the second network access point can perform air interface offloading on a first network in which a user equipment is currently located; and when the first message carries identifiers of a plurality of second network access points, selecting, by the user equipment, one second network access point from the plurality of second network access points according to first auxiliary information, and accessing the selected second network access point. By adopting the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, an access delay can be effectively shortened, and access efficiency can improved, thereby effectively implementing offloading.
US11012883B2
An element manager (EM) of a virtualized network for a wireless communication system processes a suspend measurement job request received from a network manager (NM). The request is to suspend a measurement job to provide network function (NF) performance measurements related to a virtualized resource (VR). In response to the suspend measurement job request, the EM stops reports reporting measurement result data for the measurement job and determines whether to instruct a virtualized network function manager (VNFM) to delete one or more performance management (PM) jobs used to support the measurement job. The EM then generates a suspend measurement job response to indicate to the NM a result of the request to suspend the measurement job.
US11012882B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a method for interference measurement in a wireless communication system, and the method is performed by a base station and comprises the steps of: transmitting a resource setting for interference measurement, which is acquired from a neighboring interference base station, to a plurality of terminals, wherein the resource setting includes information on a predetermined beam used in each interference measurement resource; and receiving, from the plurality of terminals, a measurement result obtained by measurement in each interference measurement resource within the resource setting, wherein the measurement result includes indices of N beams in which a highest interference power is measured or indices of N interference measurement resources in which a highest interference power is measured, and N may be an integer of one or greater.
US11012880B2
A wireless communication device comprising circuitry that is configured to measure, in an idle mode, only macro cells, and to start the measurement of one or more indirect network connection nodes in accordance with the wireless communication device turning into a connected mode.
US11012874B1
A high-altitude platform (HAP) node provides communication service during an emergency. The HAP node uses a first network to provide communication services for handling calls initiated by at least one user equipment (UE). The HAP node detects that an emergency disruption has occurred that prevents the use of the first network. In response to detecting the occurrence of the emergency disruption, a mobile terminal (MT) in the HAP node searches for a second network able to accept emergency calls. The HAP node determines whether the second network will handle all calls initiated by the at least one UE or only emergency calls generated by the at least one UE. The HAP node handles the calls based on the determining and through the use of the second network.
US11012868B1
An architecture for providing indoor planning data that can be used to increase the density of mobility networks. A method can comprise receiving, via network equipment, resource exhaustion data indicative of radio spectrum usage within a determined bin representing a defined geographic area; receiving, via the network equipment, traffic data associated with the determined bin, wherein the traffic data indicates a volume of data flowing into the determined bin; receiving, via the network equipment, coverage data representing a quality of service metric data indicative of a determined reference signal receive power metric; and based on applying a ranking process to the resource exhaustion data, the traffic data, and the coverage data, generating a ranked list of structures, wherein a structure of the ranked list of structures includes the determined bin.
US11012861B1
Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may retrieve, from a computing device at a vehicle, driving data, and determine, based on the driving data, a range of time when a driver of the vehicle has a low likelihood of accessing a web resource over a network. An online activity may be detected for an account associated with the driver. In some aspects, a time of the online activity may be compared to the range of time. Based upon a determination that the time of the online activity is within the range of time, a potentially unauthorized activity may be identified. In some aspects, in response to the potentially unauthorized activity, one or more steps may be triggered to protect the driver from the potentially unauthorized activity.
US11012856B2
A setting system including a portable medium having recorded therein setting information generated by a management apparatus that manages a wireless network and necessary for a wireless device that joins the wireless network, and a setting apparatus that acquires the setting information from the portable medium and sets the acquired setting information in the wireless device.
US11012849B2
A wireless telecommunication system comprises a base station and a terminal device (UE). The UE is configured to determine its mobility status and an associated reliability, e.g. an indication of the extent to which the UE is moving and the confidence in this determination. In some cases the reliability may be based on how the UE determined its mobility status. For example, if the UE determined itself to be of relatively low mobility because it has an internal configuration setting indicating it is deployed in a fixed position, the reliability of this mobility status may be considered to be greater than if the UE determined itself to be of relatively low mobility because it has not recently undergone many base station handovers. The UE is configured to convey an indication of the mobility status and the reliability to the base station. The base station may then configure the UE for operation within the wireless telecommunications system in a manner that takes account of both the mobility status and the reliability for the mobility status. This can help optimise configuration settings for the UE which depend on device mobility.
US11012842B2
A method applied into a controller of a Bluetooth device includes: providing a first flag and a second flag which are configured as a default value respectively; changing the first flag from the default value when the controller successfully receives the particular packet transmitted from the audio gateway; changing the second flag from the default value when the controller successfully receives an acknowledgement from a secondary device wherein a reception of the acknowledgement indicates that the secondary device successfully receives the particular packet; and transmitting an acknowledgement of a particular packet to an audio gateway when detecting that either the first flag or the second flag changes and becomes different from the default value.
US11012839B2
A subscriber issues a message to a resource host to request subscription to multiple resources. This message may indicate identifiers of these resources, event notification criteria for each individual resource, and define cross-resource notification criteria, such as time window type and time window size. The resource host issues cross-resource notifications to the subscriber or its designated notification targets when expected changes on the target resources occur within a time window.
US11012819B2
Techniques for controlling updating of information stored on a device, the information including information of a first type and information of a second type. The techniques include determining, using at least one processor, when a first item of information of the first type and a second item of information of the second type are to be updated, wherein the second item of information is to be updated more frequently than the first item of information; and causing the device to update the first and second items of information in accordance with the determination at least in part by wirelessly communicating with at least one other device.
US11012809B2
A proximity alert system tracks geographic locations of riders and drivers using global navigation satellite system receivers in their mobile devices or in a device such as a beacon or dashcam. The proximity alert system compares the location data received from the riders' and drivers' devices and determines whether a service-requesting user is within a threshold distance of one of the driver devices that does not belong to the driver assigned to provide transport service for the rider. If so, the proximity alert system can communicate a notification message to the rider to confirm whether the rider is in the correct car. The proximity alert system can also communicate a message to the driver asking the driver to double-check the identity of the rider.
US11012803B2
The current invention related to methods and systems for panning audio objects on multichannel loudspeaker setups. The invention relates to a method of processing an audio object along an axis, said audio object comprising an audio object abscissa and an audio object spread, for spatialized restitution thereof over a plurality of sound transducers, N in number, aligned along said axis; each of said sound transducers comprising a transducer abscissa; N being at least equal to two; said method comprising a plurality of steps.
US11012799B2
A method of determining whether a sound has been generated by a loudspeaker comprises receiving an audio signal representing at least a part of the sound. The audio signal is separated into different frequency bands. The signal content of different frequency bands are compared. Based on said comparison, frequency-based variations in signal content indicative of use of a loudspeaker are identified.
US11012796B2
An external portion of an auditory prosthesis includes an external magnet that interacts with an implanted magnet to hold the external portion against the skin of a recipient. A magnetic component can be disposed proximate either or both of the external magnet or implanted magnet to channel the magnetic field associated therewith. The magnetic component can be moved relative to its associated magnet so as to adjust the magnetic field, and thus, the retention force between the magnets.
US11012795B2
Various embodiments are directed to an ear-worn electronic device configured to be worn by a wearer. The device comprises an enclosure configured to be supported by or in an ear of the wearer. Electronic circuitry is disposed in the enclosure and comprises a wireless transceiver. An antenna is situated in or on the enclosure and coupled to the wireless transceiver. The antenna comprises a first antenna element, a second antenna element, and a strap comprising a reactive component connected to the first and second antenna elements.
US11012793B2
A computing system comprising one or more electronic computing devices receives data from a hearing-assistance device. The computing system determines, based on the data received from the hearing-assistance device, a cognitive benefit measure for a wearer of the hearing-assistance device. The cognitive benefit measure being an indication of a change of a cognitive benefit of the wearer of the hearing-assistance device attributable to use of the hearing-assistance device by the wearer of the hearing-assistance device. The computing device outputs an indication of the cognitive benefit measure.
US11012789B2
A MEMS microphone includes a substrate, a lower membrane supported on the substrate, an upper membrane suspended above the lower membrane, a first electrode supported on the lower membrane, and a second electrode supported on the upper membrane. The lower membrane and the upper membrane enclose a cavity in which the first electrode and the second electrode are located. The lower membrane and the upper membrane are each formed of silicon carbonitride (SiCN). The first electrode and the second electrode are each formed of polysilicon.
US11012777B2
An audio adjustment method for an electronic device having an audio playback function includes: acquiring an interference parameter, the interference parameter characterizing an impact of an interference surface on the audio playback function of the electronic device; determining a first audio parameter that corresponds to the interference parameter; and adjusting audio playback of the electronic device according to the first audio parameter.
US11012774B2
A method for producing a target directivity function that includes a set of spatially biased HRTFs. A set of left ear and right ear head related transfer functions (HRTFs) are selected. The left ear and right ear head HRTFs are multiplied with an on-camera emphasis function (OCE), to produce the spatially biased HRTFs. The OCE may be designed to shape the sound profile of the HRTFs to provide emphasis in a desired location or direction that is a function of the specific orientation of the device as it is being used to make a video recording. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
US11012770B2
Embodiments describe an eartip including an eartip body having an attachment end and an interfacing end opposite from the attachment end, and including an inner eartip body and an outer eartip body. The inner eartip body has a sidewall that extends between the interfacing end and the attachment end, and includes a groove formed in an outer surface of the sidewall. The outer eartip body is sized and shaped to be inserted into an ear canal and extends from the interfacing end toward the attachment end of the eartip.
US11012765B2
A system is configured to manage connectors configured to engage with corresponding connector ports. The system maintains the relative position of the connectors. For example, the connectors can be plugged into, or unplugged from, a network component, while retaining a desired arrangement. In some embodiments, the system includes one or more connector blocks, one or more cable blocks, one or more crossbars, one or more latching mechanisms, or a combination thereof. The connector blocks engage the connector tab of each connector, allowing the connector to be inserted/removed without a user having to engage/disengage each connector tab by hand. The cable blocks maintain a relative position among connectors and cables. The crossbar rigidly couples the connector blocks together and provides a rigid connection to a mounting reference such as, for example, a standard networking rack. The latching mechanisms secure and release the crossbar from the mounting reference.
US11012757B1
A method and system for adding overtly human-perceptible supplemental audio content into a media stream to help mask audio effects of an audio watermark in the media stream. A method involves receiving a media stream that defines a sequence of audio content presentable by a content presentation device, modifying the media stream to produce a modified media stream that defines the sequence of audio content, and outputting the modified media stream for presentation by the content presentation device. The modified media stream includes an audio watermark that is machine-detectable to trigger an interactive event. Further, the act of modifying the media stream involves adding into the media stream supplemental audio content coincident with the audio watermark, to help mask the audio watermark in the modified media stream during presentation of the modified media stream by the content presentation device.
US11012750B2
A method for configuring a multiviewer of at least one service having at least one sensor providing a sensor signal, comprising: specifying at least one characteristic feature, extracting for each of the at least one sensor signals at least one characteristic feature vector representing at least the at least one characteristic feature of the sensor signal, and arranging the sensors signals in a two-dimensional matrix in such a manner that a distance is minimized, the distance being the distance between at least one characteristic feature vector of one of the sensor signals and the corresponding characteristic feature vector of at least one neighboring sensor signal, the at least one neighboring sensor signal being an adjacent neighbor to the one sensor signal in the matrix. Further, a multiviewer is shown.
US11012746B2
An example metrics manager determines a first audience reach for a television audience, the television audience representative of audience members exposed to a media campaign via television media delivery, determine a second audience reach for a digital audience, the digital audience representative of audience members exposed to the media campaign via digital media delivery. An example deduplicator obtains an overlap multiplier based on the media campaign, the overlap multiplier is a ratio of (1) a product of a panel duplication reach and a did-not-view reach and (2) a product of a television panel reach and a digital panel reach, and determine a duplication factor for the media campaign based on the first audience reach, the second audience reach and the overlap multiplier. An example audience manager determines a total audience for the media campaign based on the first audience reach, the second audience reach and the duplication factor.
US11012743B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems to help disambiguate channel identification in a scenario where fingerprint data of media content matches multiple reference fingerprints corresponding respectively with multiple different channels. Upon detecting such a multi-match, a server or other entity will perform disambiguation based on a determination that a segment of the fingerprint data matches a reference fingerprint corresponding with just a single channel, such as a reference fingerprint representing commercial or news programming content specific to just the single channel. The server or other entity will thereby determine the channel on which the media content being rendered by the media presentation device is arriving, so as to facilitate taking channel-specific action.
US11012740B2
A video processing method, a video processing device, and a storage medium are provided. The video processing method includes: determining target image frames corresponding to a dynamic special effect in a video and determining an attribute of a special effect element corresponding to the dynamic special effect in each of the target image frames and coordinates of the special effect element. The video processing method also includes: rendering the special effect element on a drawing interface based on the attribute and the coordinates of the special effect element; filling the target image frames into the drawing interface as a background and forming drawing interface frames with the dynamic special effect; and outputting the drawing interface frames corresponding to each of the target image frames.
US11012737B1
Methods, systems, and non-transitory, machine-readable media are disclosed for audio adaption of content items to device operations of an endpoint media device. First observation data corresponding to media device operations associated with a first media device and mapped to first content items may be processed. A first content composite including an adaptable content item may be received. The first content composite may be adapted with a first audio segment. Based on the first observation data, the first audio segment may be selected. The first content composite may be configured with the first audio segment so that the adapted first content composite plays the first audio segment when the adapted first content composite is presented. The adapted first content composite may be output for presentation, where the first endpoint media device or the second endpoint media device performs at least one operation relating to the adapted first content composite.
US11012736B2
To enable multichannel audio data to be transmitted favorably. Multichannel audio data of a predetermined number of channels is acquired. The multichannel audio data has a sampling frequency corresponding to the predetermined number of channels. Audio data of the respective channels configuring the multichannel audio data are sequentially transmitted to a reception side via a predetermined transmission channel for each unit audio data. Information indicating the sampling frequency is added to the transmission audio data.
US11012734B2
An interactive video distribution system and video player are described. A client server arrangement may be used for providing a video player and video content to a client device. The video player may display navigation images enabling navigation to specific portions of the video content by activating a corresponding navigation image. The video player may also enable the sharing of a segment of the video with other video players, enabling the video players to play the streamed segment of the video without having to play the entire video, thereby reducing network bandwidth usage. The video player may be embeddable. The server may associate searchable tags with respective video segments.
US11012730B2
A method and a system for automatically updating video content are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method may include identifying a frame within a video content based on a plurality of timestamps assigned within the video content, wherein the frame is required to be updated. The method may further include extracting content information associated with the frame, and retrieving at least one source hyperlink used within the frame, based on the content information. The method may further include comparing a first textual content derived from the content information and a second textual content derived from at least one webpage associated with the at least one source hyperlink. The method may further include updating the frame with a summarized text associated with the second textual content and an audio content generated for the summarized text, based on the comparing, and merging the updated frame with the video content.
US11012725B2
A replay method of live videos, includes: receiving a replay request sent by a platform control server, the replay request being directed to a specified video file in a storage server, wherein the specified video file is obtained after a live streaming server records a live video, and the specified video file is uploaded to the storage server by the live streaming server; retrieving, from the storage server, the specified video file to which the replay request is directed; and converting the specified video file to a live video stream, and transmitting the live video stream to the live streaming server to allow the live streaming server to transmit the live video stream to a user client.
US11012719B2
Apparatus, systems and methods for control of sporting event presentation based on viewer engagement
Systems and methods are operable to present a sporting event on a display based on a determined level of viewer engagement and a determined team preference of the viewer. An exemplary embodiment presents a neutral viewpoint video content segment on the display during the first period of game play when the viewer has a neutral team preference, alternatively presents a first team alternative video content segment on the display during the first period of game play when the viewer has a preference for the first team, or alternatively presents a second team alternative video content segment on the display during the first period of game play when the viewer has a preference for the second team.
US11012717B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are provided to implement video coding system (VCS). The VCS may be configured to receive a video signal, which may include one or more layers (e.g., a base layer (BL) and/or one or more enhancement layers (ELs)). The VCS may be configured to process a BL picture into an inter-layer reference (ILR) picture, e.g., using picture level inter-layer prediction process. The VCS may be configured to select one or both of the processed ILR picture or an enhancement layer (EL) reference picture. The selected reference picture(s) may comprise one of the EL reference picture, or the ILR picture. The VCS may be configured to predict a current EL picture using one or more of the selected ILR picture or the EL reference picture. The VCS may be configured to store the processed ILR picture in an EL decoded picture buffer (DPB).
US11012712B2
A method and apparatus of using logical mode numbers during both prediction and coding in the bit stream, such as for high efficiency video coders (HEVC). These logical intra mode numbers are sorted based on angle which as a result leads to improved coding designs with fewer and smaller look-up tables, and a small gain in coding efficiency. Furthermore, by using this type of naming, the number of most probable modes (MPMs) can be readily extended since no additional tables are required. The use of three MPMs achieves a larger gain of 0.25% and 0.31% for the AI_HE and AI_LC cases, respectively.
US11012706B2
An encoder includes circuitry and memory connected to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: selects a first table to be used for a current partition to be encoded in an image of a video, from among tables that are used to correct a base motion vector in a predetermined direction using a correction value specified by an index, the tables including correction values having varying differences between indexes; writes a parameter indicating a first index to be selected from among indexes included in the first table; and encodes the current partition using the base motion vector corrected using a correction value specified by the first index.
US11012703B2
An encoder includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry: in an inter prediction mode in which an affine motion vector is calculated for each of sub-blocks constituting a current block of a picture in the video, based on motion vectors of neighboring blocks of the current block, changes a shape or size of the sub-block according to a variation in direction or variation in magnitude among the motion vectors of the neighboring blocks; calculates the affine motion vector for the sub-block having the shape or size changed; and performs the motion compensation for the sub-block having the shape or size changed.
US11012701B2
A method of video decoding performed in a video decoder is provided. A bit stream including syntax elements is received. The syntax elements correspond to coefficients of a region of a transform skipped block in a coded picture. The syntax elements include a first flag indicating whether an absolute coefficient level of one of the coefficients is greater than 0, and a second flag indicating a parity of the absolute coefficient level of the one of the coefficients. The second flag is decoded based on an equal probability model.
US11012700B2
A signaling of at least one characteristic for layers of a multi-layered video signal such as, for example, for each layer the indication of dependent layers to which the respective layer directly relates via inter-layer prediction, or the signaling of the afore-mentioned second inter-dependency syntax structure, is described. A maximum syntax element is signaled within the multi-layered video signal to indicate a maximally used value of an extension layer-ID field of the packets of the multi-layered video signal, the scope of the maximum syntax element being, for example, a predetermined portion of the multi-layered video signal extending, for example, across several portions of the multi-layered video signal. Accordingly, it is feasible for devices such as decoders or network elements receiving the multi-layered video signal to gain, for a relatively large predetermined portion of the multi-layered video signal, knowledge about the actually consumed portion of the possible domain of possible values.
US11012693B2
An encoding method which allows reduction in the amount of codes is provided. The encoding method includes: setting step S11 for setting a quantization matrix set; quantization step S12 for performing quantization on a target block using the selected quantization matrix; and encoding step S13 for encoding, in a mutually associated manner, the target block which has been subjected to the quantization and identification information for identifying the quantization matrix set which has been set. In setting step S11, a quantization matrix set selected from a plurality of quantization matrix sets is set as the quantization matrix set to be used to perform the quantization on the target block, the plurality of quantization matrix sets including a custom quantization matrix set which is arbitrarily specified and a plurality of defined quantization matrix sets which have been respectively defined in advance.
US11012690B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives first data of picture segments of a first picture in a video sequence. The picture segments of the first picture include a first segment of the first picture that is intra coded, and at least a second segment of the first picture. The second segment can be intra coded or inter coded. Further, the processing circuitry receives second data of the first segment of the first picture that is intra coded. The second data corresponds to a re-transmission of a subset of the picture segments. The processing circuitry reconstructs samples of the first segment of the first picture based on the second data when a decoding of the first segment of the first picture based on the first data fails.
US11012687B2
A method of video decoding at a decoder is disclosed. The method can include receiving a current block in a picture, and determining whether a size of the current block is smaller than or equal to a size threshold. When the size of the current block is smaller than or equal to the size threshold, one or more types of sub-block based merge candidates for decoding the current block can be disabled.
US11012668B2
A vehicular security system includes an alert device disposed in a vehicle equipped with the vehicular security system. Responsive to detection of a vehicle security threat, the alert device transmits a signal to a receiver remote from the vehicle. A jammer detector is disposed at the vehicle and operable to determine jamming of the signal transmitted by the alert device. Responsive to determination by the jammer detector of jamming of transmission of the signal transmitted by the alert device, the vehicular security system at least temporarily disables at least one vehicle access function to reduce likelihood of a break in of the vehicle while the signal transmitted by the alert device is being jammed.
US11012661B2
A display device includes: a display unit daisy-chain connected to a source device that outputs an image signal encoded with a prescribed version of a standard specified as a prescribed standard, displaying an image generated by decoding the image signal encoded with the prescribed version; a determination unit that determines the number of connected sink devices that are daisy-chain connected to the source device; and a setting unit that sets, from among the prescribed versions, a version in which the image that was generated by decoding the image signal encoded by the source device is displayable on the display units of all of the daisy-chain connected sink devices, depending on the number of connected sink devices.
US11012653B2
A method of image sensor apparatus includes: providing pixel array having pixel units arranged in M rows and N columns; providing N parallel column readout circuits each being arranged for reading out pixel data of one corresponding column; disposing a horizontal shift register in row direction coupled to the N parallel column readout circuits, to receive a pulse signal and a clock signal, sequentially shift a phase of the pulse signal according to the clock signal, and scan a corresponding column according to the shifted phase of the pulse signal; and using a column select circuit having N latches to receive a power down digital control signal transmitted from a microcontroller wherein the power down digital control signal is used to disable at least one column readout circuit to enable and select a portion of the set of N parallel column readout circuits.
US11012652B2
[Subject] To generate a value unique to a solid-state imaging apparatus utilizing a physical feature of the solid-state imaging apparatus. [Solving Means] An information processing apparatus including a specification section specifying, from among a plurality of blocks that are set by dividing pixels included in at least a partial region of a pixel region having a plurality of pixels arrayed therein and each of which includes at least one or more of the pixels, at least one or more of the blocks, and a generation section generating a unique value based on pixel values of the pixels included in the specified blocks and a dispersion of the pixel values of the pixels among the plurality of blocks.
US11012651B2
The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device and an electronic apparatus that realize a high frame rate image capture without deteriorating an image quality. A floating diffusion holds a charge accumulated on one or more photoelectric conversion units. A plurality of amplification transistors read out a signal corresponding to the charge held by the floating diffusion. The signal read out by the amplification transistor is output to a vertical signal line. The plurality of amplification transistors are connected in parallel. The present technology is applicable to a CMOS image sensor, for example.
US11012650B2
An image processing apparatus comprises a first calculation unit configured to calculate, for an input image, a first range that is within a depth of field from a focus position, a second calculation unit configured to calculate, for the input image, a second range that is within a depth of field from the focus position corresponding to an aperture value virtually changed by a predetermined amount from an aperture value employed to capture the input image; and a display control unit configured to display an area in the first range or the second range on display apparatus depending on an image capturing mode employed to capture the input image, such that the area in the first range or the second range is distinguishable from an area other than the area in the first range or the second range.
US11012644B2
An image sensor includes: a first readout circuit that reads out a first signal, being generated by an electric charge resulting from a photoelectric conversion, to a first signal line; a first holding circuit that holds a voltage based on an electric current from a power supply circuit; and a first electric current source that supplies the first signal line with an electric current generated by the voltage held in the first holding circuit, wherein: the first holding circuit holds the voltage based on the electric current from the power supply circuit when the first signal is not read out to the first signal line by the first readout circuit.
US11012641B2
A multimedia file and methods of generating, distributing and using the multimedia file are described. Multimedia files in accordance with embodiments of the present invention can contain multiple video tracks, multiple audio tracks, multiple subtitle tracks, data that can be used to generate a menu interface to access the contents of the file and ‘meta data’ concerning the contents of the file. Multimedia files in accordance with several embodiments of the present invention also include references to video tracks, audio tracks, subtitle tracks and ‘meta data’ external to the file. One embodiment of a multimedia file in accordance with the present invention includes a series of encoded video frames and encoded menu information.
US11012631B2
The present invention has an object to enable an improvement in accuracy of face detection and obtain an optimum image in which focus and exposure are adjusted in conformity with a detected face. An image capture processing device (50) of one mode of the present invention includes: a face detection section (40) configured to perform face detection so as to detect a face from an image of a subject, the image being captured by an auxiliary image capture section 20 which captures the image of the subject; and a control section (30) configured to control, on the basis of a result of the face detection, a main image capture section (10) to capture an image of the subject.
US11012630B1
An image processor includes: an image sensor which outputs a short exposure image and a long exposure image; a sensor controller which controls first and second exposure sensitivities; a motion blending ratio calculator which calculates a motion blending ratio based on a motion amount of a subject; a motion-adapted image synthesizer which generates a motion-adapted image based on the motion blending ratio; and an HDR image synthesizer which synthesizes the motion-adapted image and the short exposure image, to generate an HDR image. The sensor controller controls the first exposure sensitivity: so that the first exposure time changes from increasing to constant and the first sensor gain changes from constant to increasing, when the brightness of the subject decreases from a first subject brightness; and so that the first exposure time changes to increasing and the first sensor gain changes to constant, when the brightness decreases from a second subject brightness.
US11012625B2
Electronic equipment includes a first operating member having a touch detecting face, a first display unit provided on a first face where the touch operating face is disposed, a second display unit configured with a larger display area than the first display unit and disposed in a direction orthogonal to a horizontal direction with regard to the touch operating face, and a grip portion configured for a user to grip. The first operating member detects a touch operation and slide operation on a touch operating face. The first operating member is disposed between the first display unit and the grip portion in the horizontal direction.
US11012622B2
The digital 3D/360° camera system is an omnidirectional stereoscopic device for capturing image data that may be used to create a 3-dimensional model for presenting a 3D image, a 3D movie, or 3D animation. The device uses multiple digital cameras, arranged with overlapping fields of view, to capture image data covering an entire 360° scene. The data collected by one, or several, digital 3D/360° camera systems can be used to create a 3D model of a 360° scene by using triangulation of the image data within the overlapping fields of view.
US11012620B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a method and apparatus for generating a panoramic image. The method includes: determining, according to a pre-established mapping relationship, a pixel point in the two-dimensional planar image to which each of grid points in a preset stereoscopic model is mapped, wherein multiple grid points form one grid plane and accordingly, multiple pixel points to which the multiple grid points are mapped form one pixel region; and rendering each of the grid planes by the pixel region corresponding to this grid plane, to obtain a panoramic image. In the solution of the present application, it is not necessary to generate a distortion-corrected image and an overhead image, thereby saving storage resources.
US11012618B2
The invention relates to a multi-sensor camera (1) including at least one housing (2) extending along a camera longitudinal axis (KLA) and having a flat housing base (3) running at least in portions perpendicularly to the camera longitudinal axis (KLA), and including a plurality of image sensor units (6, 6′, 6.1-6.6), wherein one image sensor unit (6, 6′, 6.1-6.6) includes a lens (6a, 6a′) and an image sensor (6b, 6b′) adjoining said lens along a sensor longitudinal axis (SLA). The image sensor units (6, 6′, 6.1-6.6) are distributed concentrically around the camera longitudinal axis (KLA) and are arranged within the housing (2) and above the housing base (3) in such a way that the lenses (6a, 6a′) of the image sensor units (6, 6′, 6a-6.6) are oriented towards the camera longitudinal axis (KLA).
US11012612B2
Accuracy of image inspection is improved by causing an imaging device conformable to a standardization standard to combine a plurality of captured images. A setting device transmits a setting content for realizing a combination setting set by a user on a user interface and register information indicating a location where the setting content is stored, to the imaging device. The imaging device stores the setting content in the location indicated by the corresponding register information, and executes the combination processing for combining the plurality of captured images.
US11012609B2
An image pickup apparatus executes a focus detecting task configured to detect a defocus amount by a signal acquired from an image sensor, a predicting task configured to calculate information corresponding to a predicted image plane position by a prediction calculation using the defocus amount detected a plurality of times and position data of a focusing element and time data when the defocus amount is detected, and a controlling task configured to calculate a driving amount of the focusing element using the information corresponding to the predicted image plane position, to calculate a driving velocity for the focusing element according to the driving amount, and to provide a control such that the focusing element is driven at the driving velocity, wherein the controlling task calculates the driving velocity in order that an image plane position of the imaging optical system approaches the predicted image plane position.
US11012608B2
A processing method, which includes receiving a photographing instruction in order to trigger a camera to photograph a target document, identifying four sides of a document image corresponding to the target document, determining a first included angle corresponding to the document image, where the first included angle represents an inclination degree of the document image relative to the target document, triggering the camera to reset a focus location in a direction of far-end content in the document image, and taking n pictures when the first included angle is greater than a preset threshold, applying geometric correction to the pictures obtained through photographing, outputting one of the pictures to which geometric correction has been applied. Hence, the method significantly increase definition of the far-end content in the document image, and improve correction quality of the document image.
US11012606B1
Provided is a controller for automatically providing centered and zoomed-in focus to different features in an image based on a single user input provided on or near those features. The controller may receive an image that is centered on a first point and that is presented at a first zoom depth, and may detect a feature at a different second point in the image. The controller may define a selectable region that extends beyond a border of the feature, and may detect a single user input issued outside the border of the feature, but within the selectable region. In response to the single user input, the controller may center the image on the second point of the feature, and may increase from the first zoom depth to a second zoom depth in order to enlarge view of the feature.
US11012600B2
A display device and a method for manufacturing the display device are provided. The display device includes: a display panel, including a first substrate and a second substrate arranged opposite to the first substrate, wherein the first substrate includes a single-substrate area beyond the second substrate; a display driving circuit electrically connected to the display panel; a lens assembly arranged at the single-substrate area of the first substrate and configured to collect light information; and an image sensor arranged at the single-substrate area of the first substrate, connected to the display driving circuit, and configured to receive the light information collected by the lens assembly.
US11012592B2
An image analyzing method of detecting a dimension of a region of interest inside an image is applied to an image analyzing device. The image analyzing method includes positioning an initial triggering pixel unit within a detective identifying area inside the image, and assigning a first detection region via a center of the initial triggering pixel unit, positioning a first based pixel unit conforming to a first target value inside the first detection region, applying a mask via a center of the first based pixel unit to determine whether a first triggering pixel unit exists inside the mask, and utilizing a determination result of the initial triggering pixel unit and the first triggering pixel unit to decide a maximal dimension of the region of interest.
US11012590B2
An information processing apparatus saves log information related to an executed job, and includes a determination unit that determines one of at least a first mode and a second mode as a saving mode for the log information, based on setting by a user, and a saving control unit that saves log information including information about a plurality of items related to an executed job, in a case where the first mode is determined as the saving mode, and saves log information not including information about a predetermined first item and including information about a second item different from the first item, among the plurality of items related to the executed job, in a case where the second mode is determined as the saving mode.
US11012581B1
A system and method for automated service call initiation for a multifunction peripheral includes applying optical character recognition to a digital image of an affixed asset tag captured by a smartphone or tablet camera to determine a service agency name and initial contact information. A dealer database is queried with the service agency name and initial contact information, and corresponding information about the service agency, customer or device is received. Information about a current state of the multifunction peripheral is received. A service request or order is selectively sent by a user via the smartphone or tablet to the service agency in accordance with information from the dealer database and the current state of the multifunction peripheral.
US11012578B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for mobile network handling of simultaneous data usage session records. A system can include a network session server that has a processor and a memory storing instructions that configure a processor to perform operations. The operations can include obtaining, from a session probe within a core network device, a raw mobile data set associated with a user equipment. The operations can include determining that the user equipment engages in a simultaneous usage session based on the raw mobile data set. The operations can include identifying targeted domains that are present within the raw mobile data set, and creating a raw session record for each of the targeted domains associated with the simultaneous usage session.
US11012570B2
A computer-implemented process includes receiving an incoming contact at a contact center from a user; identifying a plurality of different portions of the incoming contact, each of a plurality of portions associated with a respective topic; and for each of the different portions, routing that different portion to a respective agent of the contact center based on its associated respective topic. Furthermore, the process includes receiving a respective response from one or more of the respective agents, the respective response pertaining to the different portion routed to that agent; combining the respective response from the one or more of the respective agents to form a first composite response; and forwarding the first composite response to the user.
US11012563B1
A mobile application for a wireless handheld computing device, such as a smartphone, is disclosed in combination with a communication link establishment and management system. Systems and methods are disclosed for calling desired contacts using a smartphone that can take advantage of the power and efficiency of agent-assisted dialing provided by the communication link establishment and management system. The systems and methods automatically integrate with a customer relationship management (CRM) system connected to the communication link establishment and management system.
US11012559B2
A system and method for enhancing communication between multiple parties includes a first user accessing a communication device; initiating a communication connection to a receiving communication device of a second user; and wherein at least one of the communication devices includes a list of enabled universal communication attributes of the user, utilizing one or more of the enabled communication attributes to complete the communication connection between the initiating and receiving communication devices. A user can select a desired communication attribute or multiple attributes which can be stored in the user's profile. The enabled attributes can be utilized by a network accessing the user's profile to complete the communication connection.
US11012557B2
Systems, methods, computer systems, and computer-readable code for implementing methods for client relation management in which fewer call-in numbers need to be maintained. A method for client relation management preserves a more-complete record of online and offline interactions of a customer with systems provided by a plurality of service providers. A session identifier (SID) is associated with a customer upon interaction of the customer with a website provided by a first service provider. Website interaction information is received from the first service provider and is associated with the SID. Information associated with an incoming call from the customer at a call-in number at a call center maintained by a second service provider is used to associate the incoming call with the SID, creating a record of an offline interaction between the customer and an agent of the call center. The record of the offline interaction is associated with the SID.
US11012551B2
Disclosed are a walkie-talkie and a walkie-talkie information transmission method. The walkie-talkie includes: an interconnection communication module, configured to establish short-range communication with an interconnection terminal; a radio frequency module, configured to establish radio frequency communication with another walkie-talkie; an internal communication interface; and a processor connected to the interconnection communication module and the radio frequency module through the internal communication interface; the processor is configured to: receive, through the interconnection communication module, a first signal sent by the interconnection terminal towards the other walkie-talkie, process the first signal to obtain a second signal, and send the second signal to the other walkie-talkie through the radio frequency module; or receive, through the radio frequency module, a third signal sent by the other walkie-talkie towards the interconnection terminal, process the third signal to obtain a fourth signal, and send the fourth signal to the interconnection terminal through the interconnection communication module.
US11012544B2
Communication apparatus includes a transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals over a wireless channel in accordance with both a first communication protocol and a second communication protocol. The second communication protocol is backward-compatible with the first communication protocol, and has a first variant having an extended communication throughput, which is greater than the nominal communication throughput of the first protocol, and a second variant having an extended range, which is greater than the nominal range of the first protocol. A communication controller generates data frames for transmission by the transceiver, including frame headers in a header format that is compatible both with the first communication protocol and with both the first and second variants of the second communication protocol. The header format defines first fields having respective first values provided to support the first variant and second fields having respective second values provided to support the second variant.
US11012539B2
The present disclosure relates to network nodes and methods performed at the network nodes for accessing data acquired in a communication system. In an aspect of the present disclosure, a method performed at a network node is provided to access data acquired in a communication system. The method includes acquiring data from which at least one information set is to be derived, determining that said at least one information set cannot be derived from the acquired data, and submitting a request for assistance to derive said at least one information set from the acquired data. The method further includes receiving, in response to the submitted request, information enabling deriving of said at least one information set.
US11012526B1
Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may receive, at a field vehicle, field data from one or more unmanned autonomous vehicles, where the field data may be indicative of an item for assessment. Edge-computing, based on machine learning techniques, may be performed at the field vehicle to identify one or more characteristics of the assessment, and a projected cost may be determined. An estimate may be sent to a consumer. In some aspects, the projected costs may be based on local data related to a geographical location of the item. In another aspect, underwriting tasks may be performed at the field vehicle, and a quote may be sent to a consumer.
US11012513B2
Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting a network of mobile nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide autonomous vehicle network architectures, systems, and methods for supporting a dynamically configurable network of autonomous vehicles comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes. In particular, systems and methods for data-driven managed services built on top of a network of autonomous vehicles.
US11012503B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for an application deployment engine. A processor that executes an application deployment engine can receive an application request. The processor can obtain network topology data that indicates availability of resources of a data center, an application template associated with the application, and a running time during which an application placement plan is to be identified out of a large number of placement scenarios within the running time. The application template can describe an application flow path associated with the application. The processor can identify the application placement plan, where the application placement plan can include an optimal placement of the application at the data center, before a given running time expires by pruning the large search space. The processor can generate a command to effect deployment of the application in accordance with the application placement plan.
US11012495B1
A method includes receiving an authentication request for a remote session between a managed device and a client device, the authentication request comprising an identifier of a user of the client device and a one-time remote service credential (RSC) passcode. The method also includes providing the user identifier and the one-time RSC passcode to an identity provider and receiving, from the identity provider, a user token for the user of the client device. The method further includes authenticating the user token using a service provider, receiving a set of attributes of the user of the client device responsive to successful authentication of the user token and providing an authentication response to the managed device, the authentication response comprising the set of attributes of the user of the client device which are used to establish the remote session between the managed device and the client device.
US11012493B2
Technologies for identifying and inspecting web page tags include a tag inspection system. The tag inspection system receives configuration information, which includes a seed uniform resource locator. The tag inspection system accesses a web page corresponding to the seed uniform resource locator. A tag of the web page is invoked by the tag inspection system. Tag execution data is received in response to invocation of the tag of the web page. The received tag execution data is analyzed by the tag inspection system. A report is generated based on the analysis of the received tag execution data. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11012490B2
One embodiment includes a method and apparatus for allocating resources for the streaming of multimedia content in a network. The method includes analyzing multimedia content to determine media characteristics of the multimedia content, receiving a request to access the multimedia content from a user, and sending a request for resources for the multimedia content to a traffic management node. The request for resources includes the determined media characteristics of the multimedia content.
US11012487B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining live video content from equipment of a media content provider, determining priority content within the live video content; segmenting the live video content into a plurality of tiles according to the priority content, and transcoding the live video content according to a type of client device. Further embodiments include determining an encoding schedule for the plurality of tiles according to the priority content, encoding the plurality of tiles according to the encoding schedule, and providing the plurality of tiles to the client device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11012480B2
This disclosure is directed to an apparatus for modifying a temporal data association in a complex computing network such that a future computing operation is executed based on the modified data association.
US11012476B2
Techniques are provided to automatically generate and apply policy rules for IoT devices. Historical data associated with IoT behaviors is obtained, where the historical data describes the file systems and behavior trends for multiple different IoT devices. Groups of the IoT devices are generated by grouping together devices identified as being common with one another based on similarities between their identified behaviors. Policies are then automatically generated for each group, corresponding to the detected behavior trends. Each policy determines how to subsequently monitor any device categorized as belonging to that policy's group and also how to respond when a device is operating abnormally. After a device is characterized as belonging to a group, that device is monitored to determine whether it conforms with the group's policy. Optionally, mitigation operations may be performed when the device is non-conforming.
US11012472B2
Security rules management mechanisms are provided. A cognitive computing system of the security rules management system ingests natural language content, from one or more corpora, describing features of security attacks, and ingests security event log data from a monitored computing environment. The cognitive computing system processes the natural language content from the one or more corpora and the security event log data to identify attack characteristics applicable to the security event log data. A security rule query engine evaluates existing security rules present in a security rules database to determine if any existing security rule addresses the attack characteristics. In response to the evaluation indicating that no existing security rule addresses the attack characteristics, a security rule generator automatically generates a new security rule based on the attack characteristics, which is then deployed to the monitored computing environment.
US11012466B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in a search system supported by or configured with search servers, applications or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data across platforms, which data can be used to improve the quality of results data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide an incident management and response software (IMRS) system that accelerates security incident detection and response. The IMRS provides an adaptive, event-driven workflow automation platform that can be customized to suit a large range of infrastructure environments and asset classes. The IMRS encompasses the management, automation and orchestration technologies applied in the detection and remediation of a computer network security incident (e.g., malware, advanced persistent threat, insider crime, denial of service attack, and the like).
US11012465B2
A computer-implemented method generates a trigger registration for a selected triggering type. The generated trigger registration is stored in a triggering persistency. A received event from an event persistency is analyzed and data associated with the analyzed event is compared with the triggering persistency. Based on the comparison and using a pattern execution framework, an enterprise threat detection (ETD) pattern is processed to perform actions responsive to the received event.
US11012457B1
The present disclosure relates to a network-based centralized security monitoring (CSM) system. An example CSM includes one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a plurality of parameter data elements comprising one or more characters for a plurality of parameter types from a monitored site, determine for each of the plurality of parameter types a number of occurrences of a plurality of different character groups in the plurality of parameter data elements, generate a count structure indicating the number of occurrences of the plurality of different character groups in the plurality of parameter data elements for each of the plurality of parameter types, and generate a security signature for the monitored site, the security signature comprising the count structure for each of the plurality of parameter types.
US11012454B1
Detecting abnormal user behavior via temporally regularized tensor factorization. A method may include obtaining behavioral data of a plurality of users of cloud services to establish a first behavioral baseline; obtaining behavioral data for a particular user of the plurality of users to establish a second behavioral baseline; determining a first variation of behavior between the second and first behavioral baseline to determine an expected behavior; creating a tensor model for a succession of pre-determined time periods comprising multiple three-dimensional tensors; determining a temporal dependence between the multiple three-dimensional tensors; determining a temporal smoothness between the multiple three-dimensional tensors; predicting a future variation in behavior of the particular user based on a combination of the temporal dependence and the temporal smoothness, where the future variation in behavior indicates a potential security threat; and performing a remedial security action on a client device based on the predicted future variation in behavior.
US11012453B2
A method is provided for protecting a vehicle network of a vehicle against manipulated data transmission, in which the vehicle network includes multiple network nodes, and at least one first network node in the vehicle network in a normal mode checking a first received message as to whether the first received message is a message assigned to the first network node in the normal mode, but which the first network node did not transmit. The first network node in a diagnostic mode further checks a second received message as to whether the second received message is a message assigned to the first network node in the normal mode or in the diagnostic mode, but which the first network node did not transmit.
US11012444B2
Embodiments provide login functionality to a user using a third party identity provider for a multi-tenant identity cloud service. Embodiments receive declarative metadata that includes an identity of a token endpoint corresponding to the third party identity provider and corresponding parameter values. Embodiments store the declarative metadata in a database and receive a request for a login using the third party identity provider. Embodiments retrieve the metadata and build an authorization request and send the authorization request to the third party identity provider, and in response receive an authorization code. Embodiments retrieve the metadata and build a token request using the authorization code and send the token request to the third party identity provider, and in response receive an access token.
US11012438B2
A first electronic device is associated with a biometric sensor. Biometric data received by the biometric sensor is used to permit the first electronic device to pair with, unlock, and/or access a second electronic device.
US11012436B2
A system for providing an application includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive an indication to provide an application to a device. The processor is configured to provide the application to the device. The application is configured to receive a request for credentialed information associated with a user from a requesting server; determine whether a stored credential satisfies the request for the credentialed information; and in response to a determination that the stored credential satisfies the request for the credentialed information: determine a response credential for responding to the request; determine that the user approves sharing the credentialed information indicated by the response credential; and provide the response credential to the requesting server.
US11012425B2
Devices and techniques for replay protection nonce generation are described herein. A hash, of a first length, can be produced from a first input. A first subset of the hash can be extracted as a selector. A second subset of the hash can be selected using the selector. Here, the second subset has a second length that is less than the first length. The second subset can be transmitted as a nonce for a freshness value in a replay protected communication.
US11012424B2
An authentication system and method are provided. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, it is possible to provide a secure authentication service capable of maintaining personal privacy by enabling authentication while preventing personal information used for personal authentication, such as biometric information, from being exposed in the authentication process.
US11012422B2
A telecommunications assembly and a method for traversing an application layer gateway firewall during the establishment of an RTC communication connection between an RTC client and an RTC server using a proprietary RTC signalling protocol, wherein the firewall has no specific knowledge of the proprietary RTC signalling protocol. The RTC client and the RTC server can negotiate during the establishment of the RTC communication connection which of the ports of the firewall are required for the data packets to be exchanged via the RTC communication connection, wherein they use at least one standardised message element as a component of the proprietary RTC signalling protocol, with which information relating to the ports to be used can be found by the firewall.
US11012418B2
A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for providing a multi-access interface for network traffic, comprising: receiving information regarding topology of a virtual private network and storing the topology in the form of a routing table. A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for providing an interface for network traffic, comprising: in a virtual private network comprising a plurality of tunnels delivering only information associated with Open Systems Interconnect stack Level 3, receiving a network communication and performing multicast forwarding among the plurality of tunnels using multicast forwarding from Open Systems Interconnect stack Level 2. A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for providing an interface for network traffic, comprising, in a virtual private network: establishing a connection between a first node of the virtual private network and a second node serving as a virtual private network broker and fetching, by the first node from the virtual private network broker, information regarding one or more other nodes of the virtual private network.
US11012415B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to filtering network data transfers. In some variations, multiple packets may be received. A determination may be made that a portion of the packets have packet header field values corresponding to a packet filtering rule. Responsive to such a determination, an operator specified by the packet filtering rule may be applied to the portion of packets having the packet header field values corresponding to the packet filtering rule. A further determination may be made that one or more of the portion of the packets have one or more application header field values corresponding to one or more application header field criteria specified by the operator. Responsive to such a determination, at least one packet transformation function specified by the operator may be applied to the one or more of the portion of the packets.
US11012409B2
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform; a network interface to communicatively couple to a bus lacking native support for authentication; and an anomaly detection engine to operate on the hardware platform and configured to: receive a first data stream across a first time; symbolize and approximate the first data stream, including computing a first window sum; receive a second data stream across a second time substantially equal in length to the first time, the second data stream including data across the plurality of dimensions from the first data stream; symbolize and approximate the second data stream, including computing a second window sum; compute a difference between the first window sum and the second window sum; determine that difference exceeds a threshold and that the correlation across the plurality of dimensions is broken; and flag a potential anomaly.
US11012394B2
Disclosed are a method and system for providing social media using a partition function. A method of providing social media may include receiving sharing information input in one or more user terminals included in a chat room, assigning partitioned pieces generated by partitioning the received sharing information based on the number of users included in the chat room to user terminals included in the chat room, receiving a request for the reading of specific-processed sharing information from a specific user terminal included in the chat room, restoring the specific-processed sharing information based on the partitioned pieces received from the user terminals included in the chat room, and transmitting the restored sharing information to the user terminal that has requested the reading of the sharing information.
US11012392B2
A group feed is displayed for a selected group by a private social network service. The group feed displays only threads with unviewed content along with a user actuatable display element that allows the user to switch to a feed that displays all content for the group.
US11012387B2
A computer implemented method includes supplying to a client device prompts for a first individual to provide a vote for a preference of the first individual. The preference relates to an activity during an ephemeral time period. The vote is collected. Matches between the first individual and a pool of individuals are generated based upon common votes and matching criteria. The matches are supplied to the client device. A match acceptance for a second individual is collected from the client device. Network communication is enabled between the first individual and the second individual.
US11012383B2
The present disclosure generally relates to implementing an operational safety mode that manages the output of notifications at an electronic device when a user of the device is operating a vehicle.
US11012382B2
A state display information transmission system uses a chatbot. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, in a user terminal and a counterpart terminal, in which a SNS service, an instant message service, etc. operates, even when the user terminal does not respond within a preconfigured response time, a chatbot transmits proper emoticon information, etc. to the counterpart terminal, so that a user can continuously make smooth and proper communication with a counterpart.
US11012369B2
An aggregated switch path optimization system includes first and second switch devices. An aggregated third switch device is coupled to the first switch device, the second switch device, and an aggregated fourth switch device. The aggregated third switch device forwards those packets from the first switch device via one of: an ICL to the aggregated fourth switch device, and a link to the second switch device. The aggregated third switch device then monitors a usage of the ICL and the availability of the link to the second switch device. In response to the usage of the ICL exceeding a threshold usage level, or an unavailability of the link to the second switch device, the aggregated third switch device transmits a packet redirection message to the first switch device that causes it to redirect packets away from the aggregated third switch device and towards the aggregated fourth switch device.
US11012354B2
A routing circuit coupled to one or more ingress ports and one or more egress ports is configured to receive data packets from the one or more ingress ports and route the data packets to the one or more egress ports based on a header portion of the data packets.
US11012348B2
A method is disclosed, comprising: receiving a first and a second Internet Protocol (IP) packet at a mesh network node; tagging the first and the second IP packet at the mesh network node based on a type of traffic by adding an IP options header to each of the first and the second IP packet; forwarding the first and the second IP packet toward a mesh gateway node; filtering the first and the second IP packet at the mesh gateway node based on the added IP options header by assigning each of the first and the second IP packet to one of a plurality of message queues, each of the plurality of message queues having a limited forwarding throughput; and forwarding the first and the second IP packet from the mesh gateway node toward a mobile operator core network, thereby providing packet flow filtering based on IP header and traffic type.
US11012345B2
The present application provides a data transmission method, device and system. The method comprises: a sending device sends a data packet to a receiving device by means of a first relay device, and receives feedback information of the receiving device on the receiving condition of the data packet by means of another communication link according to a predetermined condition. Therefore, the sending device can timely obtain the feedback information of the receiving device on the receiving condition of the data packet by means of another communication link under a predetermined condition.
US11012343B2
A device may receive information identifying existing virtual network functions (VNFs) associated with an existing virtual radio access network (VRAN), and may receive information identifying proposed VNFs to deploy with the existing VRAN, wherein the information identifying the proposed VNFs includes VNF descriptors indicating interface dependencies associated with the proposed VNFs. The device may generate testing configurations, for testing the proposed VNFs, based on the interface dependencies, and may determine that a set of the proposed VNFs are validated based on testing the proposed VNFs with the testing configurations. The device may derive dependency constraints for the set of the proposed VNFs based on the information identifying the existing VNFs, and may select a new VNF that satisfies the dependency constraints, based on the set of the proposed VNFs. The device may cause the new VNF to be deployed with the existing VRAN.
US11012329B2
Embodiments are directed to monitoring network traffic using a monitoring engine that monitors network traffic in networks to provide metrics. An inference engine may provide activity profiles based on portions of the network traffic where each activity profile includes features associated with the portions of network traffic. The inference engine may determine other activity profiles correlated with the activity profiles based on correlation models such that the determination of the other activity profiles occurs prior to monitoring an occurrence of other portions of the network traffic. The inference engine may modify monitoring actions of the monitoring engine based on the other activity profiles. The inference engine may provide reports based on the portions of the network traffic, the activity profiles, the other portions of the network traffic, or the other activity profiles.
US11012328B2
A computer device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to maintain a repository of network function devices in a network; obtain a transport network key performance indicator (KPI) for a particular network function device in the network; and generate an administration weight based on the obtained transport network KPI, wherein the administration weight corresponds to a measure of performance associated with the particular network function device. The processor may be further configured to receive, from a requesting network function device, a network function discovery request for a network function type associated with the particular network function device; and provide a network function discovery answer to the requesting network function device, wherein the network function discovery answer includes the generated administration weight for the particular network function device.
US11012326B1
Techniques for enabling secure access to data using data blocks is described. Computing device(s) can provide instruction(s) to a component associated with an entity, wherein the instruction(s) are associated with an identifier corresponding to a data block of a plurality of data blocks. The computing device(s) can receive, from the component, data associated with the component, wherein the data is associated with the identifier and is indicative of a state of the component. The computing device(s) can store the data in the data block and monitor, using rule(s), changes to the state of the component based at least partly on the data in the data block. As a result, techniques described herein enable near real-time—and in some examples, automatic—reporting and/or remediation for correcting changes to the state of the component using data that is securely accessed by use of data blocks.
US11012325B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device and a computer program product for configuring service instances. The method comprises, at a computing device being used to implement a first service instance in a cloud environment, receiving, from a service manager of the cloud environment, a hypervisor related to a configuration of the first service instance. The method further comprises determining, based on the hypervisor, first configuration information for configuring the first service instance. The method further comprises configuring the first service instance with the first configuration information. With this method, service auto-deployment, auto-configuration and auto-association are realized, thereby improving user efficiency of configuring services and user experience.
US11012324B2
A computer system is provided that includes one or more processors configured to store a plurality of software interfaces that define explicit interaction contracts between network connected devices and software services. The one or more processors are configured to execute a plurality of software services. Each software service defines one or more software interfaces operated on by that software service. The one or more processors are configured to receive, from a network connected device, a list of one or more software interfaces implemented by the network connected device, select one or more software services based on a match between the one or more software interfaces implemented by the network connected device and the one or more software interfaces operated on by the plurality of software services, and process data received from the network connected device using the selected software services.
US11012322B2
A device implementing a system for notifying a first device of availability of a service on a second device includes a processor configured to receive, from the first device of a first user, a first request with respect to whether a service is available on the second device of a second user, and to determine that the service is not available on the second device. The processor is further configured to send, to the first device and in response to the determination, an indication that the service is not available on the second device and an indication of a minimum amount of time before the first device can submit a second request with respect to whether the service is available on the second device. The minimum amount of time is based at least partially on an amount of time that has elapsed since the service was made available to the devices.
US11012320B2
A system and method are disclosed for gathering information relating to a system being monitored, modeling various aspects of the system to present it on a useful console, and further for controlling the system using a monitoring and control interface. In an aspect the system and method employ combinations of graphics architectures, including advanced video gaming technology and methods in previously-unknown configurations, to achieve an effective monitoring and control architecture.
US11012316B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a requirement translator to map a requirement to a hardware resource to execute an application in a workload domain, a cost calculator to calculate a cost for the hardware resource based on a demand for the hardware resource, an option generator to determine whether the cost exceeds a cost budget, and a resource allocator to add the hardware resource to the workload domain when the cost does not exceed the cost budget.
US11012312B2
The described technology is generally directed towards network slice management. A mobile communications network can comprise multiple sub-networks, namely, as an access network, a transport network, and a core network. Access network resources can be managed according to the techniques provided herein to meet service level agreement (SLA) commitments associated with network slices. Furthermore, resources of any sub-network can be managed in a manner that accounts for constraints imposed by the other sub-networks.
US11012308B2
There is provided a method for configuring a plurality of network devices of a wireless fire detection system comprising a configuration device, a gateway device wirelessly communicating with the configuration device, and the plurality of network devices wirelessly communicating with the gateway device and among them, the method comprising: determining, by the configuration device, configuration data of each one of the plurality of network devices for configuring each one of the plurality of network devices; transmitting, by the configuration device, the configuration data to the gateway device; and upon receiving the configuration data from the configuration device, distributing, by the gateway device, the configuration data to each one of the plurality of network devices according to predetermined time slots for transmitting the configuration data.
US11012307B2
The invention relates to a network entity installed in a network comprising an operator objective interface for receiving operator objectives; a SON-Function model interface for receiving at least a first SON Function Model, wherein the network entity is adapted to link the operator objectives with the first SON-Function model in order to adapt a SON Function for influencing a network behavior. Moreover the invention relates to a method for automatic controlling of at least one SON Function.
US11012295B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure are generally directed to systems and methods for provisioning computing resources using computer vision. An image comprising a plurality of visual elements can be received. The visual elements within the image can be recognized as objects that represent network elements, where the recognized objects represent network elements of a network element type and the network element types comprise one or more of a database, a load balancer, a sub-network, or a virtual machine instance, and an arrangement of the recognized objects that represents a network architecture is recognized. Computing resources can be caused to be provisioned corresponding to the recognized objects by provisioning network elements that comprise one or more of the network element types, wherein the provisioning comprises generating a network architecture for the provisioned network elements based on the recognized arrangement.
US11012291B2
A remote access controller support system includes a first server device that includes a first remote access controller that is coupled to a support system and a client device through an out-of-band network connection. The first remote access controller detects a server device event at the first server device. The first remote access controller correlates the event with a stored server device event and determines a recommended action associated with the stored server device event. The first remote access controller causes, via the out-of-band network connection, the recommended action to be displayed on a display device of the client device.
US11012290B2
A method includes receiving beacons originating from endpoints. The beacons are received during a single beacon interval and are sent using a power strength to reach nodes within physical proximity of the endpoints. The method also includes establishing a list including multiple endpoints from which a node receives the beacons at more than a threshold percentage of the beacon intervals. The method includes detecting that a threshold number of the beacon intervals have passed since receiving a most recent beacon from an endpoint. The method includes outputting a ping at full power strength to the endpoint requesting a response. When the response is not received from the endpoint, the method includes transmitting an outage alarm to a next topologically higher layer of a mesh network. The outage alarm includes an identification of the endpoint and a timestamp indicating when the first node received the most recent beacon from the endpoint.
US11012288B2
A system can reduce congestion in slice-based networks, such as a virtual service network (“VSN”). The system can include a monitoring module that communicates with agents on switches, such as routers or servers. The switches report telematics data to the monitoring module, which determines slice-specific performance attributes such as slice latency and slice throughput. These slice-specific performance attributes are compared against software license agreement (“SLA”) requirements. When the SLA is not met, the monitoring module can implement a new slice path for the slice to reduce the congestion.
US11012271B2
An RFID circuit and to a demodulator for an RFID circuit, the demodulator including an input and at least one output, a clock extractor connected to the input, a comparator connected to at least one output, a finite impulse response FIR filter arrangement connected to the input and connected to the comparator.
US11012266B2
Provided are a sub-carrier estimation method in a multi-carrier communication system and an apparatus. The method includes: receiving a data frame transmitted by a transmitting end, and extracting a training sequence from the data frame; performing fast Fourier transform operation on the training sequence and a preset reference sequence, respectively, to obtain frequency domain data of the training sequence and frequency domain data of the reference sequence, and conjugately multiplying the two kinds of frequency domain data; extracting real part of conjugate multiplication result; averaging values in each column of an M×N array, respectively, to obtain an output array of 1 row and N columns; and estimating, according to the value in each column of the output array of 1 row and N columns, whether valid data is transmitted over N sub-carriers corresponding to the output array of 1 row and N columns.
US11012263B2
Embodiments herein provide a method implemented in a cloud radio access network (C-RAN). The method includes transmitting channel state information (CSI) reference signals to plurality of user equipments (UEs). The method includes receiving a measured downlink (DL) CSI from each UE among the plurality of UEs. The DL CSI corresponds to a plurality of antenna ports associated with a set of remote radio heads (RRHs) in cluster. Further, the method includes estimating an uplink (UL) CSI for each UE antenna port. The UL CSI is estimated using a pre-defined pilot structure received from each UE. The DL CSI or UL CSI is defined with respect to BS and UE antenna port pair. Furthermore, the method includes deriving a calibration coefficient for each antenna port based on measured DL CSI and estimated UL CSI. The calibrated DL CSI is used to precoder the data using a linear or non-linear precoder.
US11012243B2
A method and system configured to produce a cryptographic signature on a message, under a key, at a user computer wherein the key is shared between the user computer, which stores a first key-share, and an authentication computer, which stores a second key-share and a first authentication value. The user computer encodes the message to produce a blinded message, produces the first authentication value from a user password and a secret value, and produces a second authentication value by encoding the first authentication value and a nonce. The authentication computer uses the nonce to determine if the first authentication value is correct and, if so, encodes the blinded message using the second key-share to produce a partial signature. The user computer produces a signature on the message under the key by encoding the partial signature and the message using the first key-share and an unblinding function.
US11012226B2
A short-reach data link receiver includes an edge detector configured to generate a pulse on an edge of a data input, a first clock-data recovery path coupled to an output of the edge detector for recovering a clock and data from the output of the edge detector, a second clock-data recovery path coupled to the output of the edge detector for recovering the clock and data from the output of the edge detector, and a controller configured to alternate between the first and second clock-data recovery paths to recover the clock and data using one of the paths while calibrating the other path. The controller may swap the paths whenever calibration of one path is completed. That may include beginning calibration of the next path immediately after swapping of the paths. Alternatively, power consumption may be reduced by delaying calibration of the next path after swapping of the paths.
US11012225B1
A synchronization detection method for new radio (NR) sidelink. In some embodiments, the method includes calculating a first delay compensated input signal, calculating a first correlation value, calculating a first correlation power, calculating a first weighted correlation power, and detecting a synchronization signal. The first delay compensated input signal may be based on an input signal, and an index of a first tap value. The first correlation value may be based on a first candidate sequence and the first delay compensated input signal. The first correlation power may be based on the first correlation value. The first weighted correlation power may be based on a first weighting factor, and the first correlation power. The detecting of the synchronization signal may include using the first weighted correlation power.
US11012223B2
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving radio signals in a wireless communication system
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for receiving information on a number N of a code block group defined for one transport block from a base station through an upper layer signal, receiving a first transport block including a plurality of code blocks from the base station through a physical layer channel, and transmitting HARQ-ACK payload including HARQ-ACK information on the first transport block to the base station. Preferably, a code block-based CRC is attached to each of the code blocks, a transport block-based CRC is attached to the first transport block, and the HARQ-ACK payload includes a plurality of HARQ-ACK bits corresponding to M code block groups for the first transport block.
US11012218B2
Disclosed is a method by which an operating station (STA) transmits a signal in a multiple user (MU) scheme in a wireless LAN (WLAN) system. In the present method, the STA configures a wireless frame, which includes a data field for data transmission and a signaling (SIG) field including control information, wherein the SIG field includes a SIG A field, which includes bandwidth information indicating the whole bandwidth having a bandwidth of 2n times that of 20 MHz, and a SIG B field, which includes user specific information. Here, the bandwidth information of the SIG A field additionally indicates whether the whole bandwidth includes one or more 20 MHz bands (null channel), which are not used in the data transmission.
US11012210B2
An embodiment method defines a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) pattern for transmitting DMRSs for rank 3 or rank 4 transmissions. The DMRS pattern specifies 12 REs in total per physical resource block (PRB) for carrying DMRSs on three or four antenna ports in antenna ports 7-14 for rank 3 or rank 4 transmissions. DMRS settings for transmitting DMRS according to the DMRS pattern may be specified using a downlink control information table.
US11012207B2
A method for transmitting a tracking reference signal (TRS) in an unlicensed band and a device using the method are provided. The device performs listen before talk (LBT) in the unlicensed band and transmits the TRS in a TRS resource set according to a result of the LBT.
US11012206B2
The present disclosure provides for the trigger of a beam refinement reference signal (BRRS) message. Triggering a BRRS message can include determining that a measured quality of a transmit and receive (Tx-Rx) beam pair is below the first value of the first quality threshold, the Tx-Rx beam pair corresponding to a current transmit (Tx) beam from an evolved node B (eNodeB) and the current receive (Rx) beam at the user equipment (UE), encoding a message for the eNodeB based on the determination that the quality of the Tx-Rx beam pair is below the quality threshold, wherein the message comprises a request for one or more BRRS, and processing the one or more BRRS to select a different Rx beam at the UE than the current Rx beam.
US11012203B2
The present disclosure provides a method and device for wireless communication in a user equipment and a base station. The user equipment receives a first information, and transmits a first wireless signal in a first time domain resource of a first sub-band. The first information is used to indicate a first parameter; the first parameter is associated with one of L spatial parameter sets; the L spatial parameter sets are respectively in one-to-one corresponding to L time domain resources; the first time domain resource is one of the L time domain resources. The L time domain resources belong to a first time window; the first information is used to determine the first time domain resource from the L time domain resources; the first parameter is used to determine a transmitting antenna port group of the first wireless signal.
US11012201B2
A transmission module is provided that includes a transmitter, a loopback receiver, and a QEC controller. The QEC controller identifies quadrature imbalance in the transmitter based at least one a comparison of the data signals at the output of the loopback receiver with data signals at the input of the transmitter. Based on the comparison, the QEC controller can adjust one or more characteristics of the transmitter to correct quadrature errors in the transmitter.
US11012197B2
An apparatus is configured to be employed within a user equipment (UE) device. The apparatus comprises baseband circuitry which includes a radio frequency (RF) interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to identify a plurality of monitoring occasions for a set of flexible control resource sets (CORESET); determine bit ordering for the plurality of monitoring occasions; generate hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback based on the received downlink transmission; and incorporate the ordered plurality of monitoring occasions into the HARQ feedback.
US11012195B2
A method for transmitting a data packet from a sensor to a controller via a peripheral sensor interface includes transmitting the data packet from the sensor via the sensor interface in a time window of a transmission period of a sensor interface operating mode which is synchronized by the controller. The data packet is re-transmitted by the sensor within the transmission period in at least one additional time window of the transmission period.
US11012190B2
Systems and methods to transmit data over multiple communication channels in parallel with forward error correction. An optimized number is determined to partition a data segment of a given size into the optimized number of original packets of the same size, by reducing the cost of transmitting dummy data added to the original packets due to the partition, the data fields added to communication packets to support decoding, and redundant packets that are expected to be transmitted via a plurality of parallel channels before the termination of the transmission, as well as the computation cost that increases as a function of the number of original packets. Copies of packets are generated by distributing the original packets to the copies as initial packets and generating each subsequent channel-encoded packet by rejecting useless channel-encoded packets in view of packets assumed to have been received prior to the transmission of the subsequent channel-encoded packet.
US11012186B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for error check-based synchronization. Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) data may be determined. A scrambling (e.g., a first scrambling) of the PBCH data may be scrambled via a sequence (e.g., a first sequence). The first sequence may be based on a cell ID and/or timing information. Error check bits may be attached to the scrambled PBCH data and to the timing information. The error check bits may include one or more cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits. The scrambled PBCH data, the timing information (e.g., the unscrambled timing information), and/or the attached error check bits may be polar encoded. The polar encoding may result in polar encoded bits. A scrambling (e.g., a second scrambling) of the polar encoded bits may be scrambled via a sequence (e.g., a second sequence). The first sequence and the second sequence may be different. The polar encoded bits may be transmitted.
US11012183B2
The present invention is designed to adequately control the transmission of uplink control information (UCI) using UL control channels. According to the present invention, a user terminal has a transmission section that transmits uplink control information (UCI), and a control section that determines a format of an uplink (UL) control channel that is used to transmit the UCI, from a plurality of formats, including a first format, in which the UCI and a reference signal are frequency-division-multiplexed, and a second format, in which the UCI and the reference signal are time-division-multiplexed.
US11012178B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a downlink information transmission method, a base station, and user equipment. The method includes: sending, by a first base station, downlink information by using a first period according to a first pattern; sending, by the first base station, the downlink information by using a second period according to the first pattern, or by using the first period according to a second pattern, or by using a second period according to a second pattern when the first base station determines to change a transmission period and/or a transmission pattern of the downlink information, where the second period is less than the first period, and OFDM symbols occupied by the second pattern are more than OFDM symbols occupied by the first pattern. The present invention is applicable to the field of communications technologies.
US11012176B2
A passive optical network includes a central office providing subscriber signals; a drop terminal; and a wave division multiplexer. A fiber distribution hub may split or separate out dedicated optical signals from subscriber optical signals between the central office and the drop terminal. The wave division multiplexer separates dedicated optical signals pertaining to a specific dedicated subscriber from other optical signals on the line received at the wave division multiplexer. The wave division multiplexer may be part of a cable or part of an intermediate service terminal.
US11012173B2
A method and a first network node (800) serving a first cell (800A) in a wireless network, for enabling reduction of interference in a second cell (800B) caused by transmission of reference signals in the first cell (800A). The first network node (800) transmits (8:1) scheduling blocks with said reference signals, using a time offset relative transmission of scheduling blocks in the second cell. A timing advance value is determined (8:3) for a wireless device (802) and the wireless device (802) instructed (8:4) to apply said timing advance value for uplink transmissions. The timing advance value was determined such that uplink symbols transmitted from the wireless device (802) are aligned with uplink symbols received at a second network node (804) of the second cell (804A).
US11012169B2
A transceiver and associated method an impulse noise monitoring (INM) tool configured to identify a data stream that includes i) data transmission units (DTUs) communicating data symbols, ii) non-data symbols, and iii) non-transmission time. The INM tool is configured to ascertain an impulse noise (IN) event of the incoming data stream by evaluating a count, a frequency, a pattern, a group, or a sequence of corrupted DTUs and selected non-data symbols or non-transmission time that are proximate in time to the corrupted DTUs.
US11012160B2
Optical signal receivers and methods are provided that include multiple optical resonators, each of which receives a portion of an arriving optical signal. Various of the optical resonators are tuned or detuned from a carrier wavelength, and produce an intensity modulated output signal in response to modulation transitions in the arriving optical signal. A detector determines phase transitions in the arriving optical signal, by analyzing the intensity modulation output signals from the optical resonators, and distinguishes between differing phase transitions that result in a common final state of the arriving optical signal.
US11012152B2
Methods and systems for a connectionless integrated optical receiver and transmitter test are disclosed and may include an optoelectronic transceiver comprising a transmit (Tx) path and a receive (Rx) path, with each path comprising optical switches. The transceiver may be operable to: generate a first modulated optical signal utilizing a modulator in the Tx path, couple the first modulated optical signal to a first optical switch in the Rx path via a second optical switch in the Tx path when the optoelectronic transceiver is configured in a self-test mode, receive a second modulated optical signal via a grating coupler in the Rx path when the optoelectronics transceiver is configured in an operational mode, and communicate the second modulated optical signal to a photodetector in the Rx path via the first optical switch. The first modulated optical signal may be communicated to a grating coupler in the Tx path via the second optical switch.
US11012150B2
An autonomous failure recovery method and a system for a fiber-optic communication system. The method comprises acquiring a real-time operation timing sequence of a digital high-speed serial transceiver of a fiber-optic communication system, and comparing the operation timing sequence against a pre-stored reference timing sequence of normal operation of the serial transceiver; when the operation timing sequence is inconsistent with the reference timing sequence, determining that failure of an optical path of the fiber-optic communication system has occurred; sending a pre-determined autonomous recovery timing sequence to the serial transceiver when the optical path is in a failure state, and performing an autonomous failure recovery operation of the fiber-optic communication system in response to the autonomous recovery timing sequence. The method and the system for a fiber-optic communication system achieve automatic troubleshooting and autonomous failure recovery for an optical path failure, thereby improving efficiency of troubleshooting and system recovery.
US11012144B2
A method and system is disclosed for operating an in-band relay to receive and amplify an incoming radio frequency signal and forward the amplified radio frequency signal. Methods to improve isolation between receive and transmit front-ends are disclosed, enabling an increase in the amplification gain without causing oscillation. Methods for learning the impulse response of the self-interference channel, and methods to perform adaptive echo cancellation in the analog domain. In addition, methods for transmit and receive beamforming are presented that achieve two objectives: (1) Improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the relayed signal, thereby compensating for noise amplification. (2) Improve the isolation, thereby enabling to increase the relay gain without causing oscillation.
US11012141B1
Exemplary embodiments described herein include systems, methods, and nodes for selecting a donor for a relay wireless device. Candidate signal arcs of a predetermined angle for a relay wireless device that do not meet an interference criteria are determined. Signals levels are scanned for the relay wireless device for signals received from a plurality of donor access nodes, the scanning iterating over the determined candidate signal arcs that do not meet the interference criteria. Candidate donor access nodes with a received signal level at the relay wireless device that meets a signal level criteria for each candidate signal arc based on the scanning are determined. And a donor access node is selected for the relay wireless device based on the determined candidate donor access nodes.
US11012136B2
This invention presents methods for MU-MIMO wireless communication systems comprising a BS with plural of antennas, either closely located or distributed; A plural of AFRs deployed over a coverage area, each AFR has NBF≥1 BF antennas with a beam pattern facing the MU-BFer and NUF≥1 UF antennas with a beam pattern facing UEs or downstream AFR(s); A channel estimation module for estimating the Total Channels between a plural of UEs and the BS with the AFRs in place; and, A MU-BFer that uses the estimates of the Total Channels to perform beamforming computations for transmitting and/or receiving multiple spatially multiplexed streams of signals to or from a plural of UEs using the same frequency resource.
US11012132B2
A method and apparatus for three-dimensional beamforming, which include an estimation of a channel spatial coherence for a beam space of a device based on a plurality of non-precoded reference signals such that the beam space includes a plurality of beam subspaces based on the estimated channel spatial coherence and each of the plurality of beam subspaces include a beam direction representative of a respective beam subspace of the plurality of beam subspaces. Furthermore, a selection a beam subspace of the plurality of beam subspaces based on a channel quality metric of the beam direction that is representative of the beam subspace is included.
US11012113B2
A variable loss attenuator is provided. Two or more controllable stages each include a differential or single-ended π network. Each π network includes one or more series elements connected in series between the signal input and the signal output. Each series element includes a series transistor, which may potentially be provided without an inductor in parallel. Each π network includes a plurality of shunt elements each including at least one respective shunt transistor. An input stage connects to the first controllable stage and an output stage connects from the last controllable stage. Intermediate stages connect the controllable stages to one another. Each of the input stage, output stage, and intermediate stages include a right-handed transmission line component and coupled between the signal input and a first one of the controllable stages. Shunt inductors are located at inputs and outputs of each of the controllable stages.
US11012098B2
The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method, which are capable of securing excellent communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleave, an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16200 bits and an encoding rate r is 10/15 or 12/15 is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleave, a sequence of the LDPC code that has undergone the group-wise interleave is restored to an original sequence. For example, the present technology can be applied to a technique of performing data transmission using an LDPC code.
US11012079B1
A phase locked loop (PLL) control system includes a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) circuit including an inductor and a plurality of capacitors arranged in parallel with the inductor. Digitally enabling or disabling the capacitors in a thermometer coded manner via switches creates tuning states that provide additional frequency range, and each has a limited range of VCO frequency tuning. Slowly ramping the switched capacitance, by implementing the capacitor as a varactor, from one thermal code to the next, provides a wider continuous VCO frequency tuning range for use in the PLL. The slow transition between tuning states allows the PLL to remain in lock, useful under changing operating conditions. Specifically, under changing operating conditions, digital logic detects the PLL tuning control voltage approaching the edge of a VCO band and will add/reduce VCO capacitance effectively transitioning into the adjacent VCO band while the PLL maintains lock via its normal feedback loop.
US11012075B2
An electronic system and an operation method thereof are disclosed. A method of an electronic system including a field programmable gate array (FPGA) includes: synthesizing, by processing circuitry, code of a high level language into code of a hardware description language; designing, by the processing circuitry, a circuit of an intellectual property (IP) block included in the field programmable gate array according to the code of the hardware description language; and generating, by the processing circuitry, a database containing reference assembly code corresponding to the code of the high level language and information about a circuit configuration of the intellectual property block.
US11012071B2
Described are integrated-circuit die with differential receivers, the inputs of which are coupled to external signal pads. Termination legs coupled to the signal pads support multiple termination topologies. These termination legs can support adjustable impedances, capacitances, or both, which may be controlled using an integrated memory.
US11012064B2
A semiconductor device includes a main power semiconductor switching element, a current sense semiconductor switching element and a current sense semiconductor switching element protection circuit. The main power semiconductor switching element drives a load by switching. The current sense semiconductor switching element detects current flowing in the main power semiconductor switching element. The current sense semiconductor switching element protection circuit is provided between a gate of the main power semiconductor switching element and a gate of the current sense semiconductor switching element so as to protect the gate of the current sense semiconductor switching element at a reference potential different from that of the gate of the main power semiconductor switching element.
US11012040B2
Disclosed is an apparatus including a radio frequency amplifying circuit, a power supply circuit, and a bias generating circuit. The power supply circuit includes: a first power supply terminal coupled to a first ground terminal via a first capacitor and coupled to/decoupled from the radio frequency amplifying circuit through a first switch; and a second power supply terminal coupled to a second ground terminal via a second capacitor and coupled to/decoupled from the radio frequency amplifying circuit through a second switch, wherein the first capacitor and second capacitor are coupled to/decoupled from the radio frequency amplifying circuit through the first switch and second switch respectively, the supply voltages outputted from the two power supply terminals are different, and the two switches are not concurrently turned on. The radio frequency amplifying circuit operates according to a bias voltage provided by the bias generating circuit and one of the two supply voltages.
US11012035B2
The embodiments described herein include amplifiers that are typically used in radio frequency (RF) applications. Specifically, the amplifiers described herein include one or more transient termination circuits coupled to transistor inputs. For example, the transient termination circuits can be configured to reduce the transient response for some signal energy at frequencies below a baseband frequency (fB) of signals being amplified while not similarly reducing the transient response for signal energy near a fundamental frequency (f0) of the signals being amplified.
US11012030B2
A shut-down apparatus for a string of photovoltaic panels electrically connected in series wherein it comprises a plurality of control modules comprising: an initial control module operatively associated to a corresponding photovoltaic panel; one or more intermediate control modules, each operatively associated to a corresponding photovoltaic panel; a final control module operatively associated to a corresponding photovoltaic panel. Each control module is adapted to cause the shut-down of a corresponding photovoltaic panel in response to a received input shut-down signal, said control modules sequentially receiving said input shut-down signals at subsequent shut-down instants, each pair of subsequent shut-down instants being separated by a corresponding time delay.
US11012027B2
A system for converting solar energy to electric power and a glass for a layer of solar cells in the system. A solar panel installation comprises a solar panel with at least one solar cell formed with a stack of plural layers of photovoltaic wafer material. Each layer of wafer material has an edge direction from a recipient edge to a back edge, and the solar cell is retained within the solar panel installation with the photovoltaic wafer material disposed with the edge direction aligned with incident solar direction. Reflective material applied to facing surfaces of the photovoltaic wafer material facilitates internal reflection of photons. A glass layer has plural sheets of Graphene layered to form a Graphene Cube constructed to exhibit Multiple Excitation Generation (MEG). A method for assembling the glass fixes a top glass above a bottom glass with photovoltaic wafer material establishing a fixed distance therebetween.
US11012021B2
An inverter device includes gate driving circuits for upper and lower arms of a bridge circuit, a first power supply supplying a power supply voltage to each driving circuit, and a second power supply having a reference potential different from that of the first power supply. The inverter device also includes a first fail-safe circuit having a reference potential common to the first power supply and generating driving commands with respect to the upper and lower arms, and a second fail-safe circuit having a reference potential common to the second power supply and generating driving commands with respect to the upper or lower arm. The lower arm gate driving circuit has two driving command input functions having different reference potentials, one function inputs the driving commands from the first fail-safe circuit, and the other function inputs the driving commands from the second fail-safe circuit.
US11012019B2
An electric linear motor, an elevator and a method for controlling rotation of a mover with respect to a stator beam are presented. The electric linear motor includes a number of stator beams, wherein at least one of them includes stators extending in a longitudinal direction of the beam. The motor also includes a number of movers, wherein at least one them includes armatures, wherein each armature is adapted for establishing an electromagnetic coupling with a corresponding stator for moving the mover. The motor also includes an air gap regulator for regulating movement of the mover with respect to the stator beam, wherein the air gap regulator includes guide element(s) arranged for limiting the rotation of the mover with respect to the stator beam.
US11012018B2
A system includes a motor-driven component, a motor configured to operate the motor-driven component, and a motor drive circuit configured to power the motor. The motor drive circuit includes at least one complementary stage, where each stage includes a first transistor and a second transistor. During operation of the motor drive circuit, the first transistor is switched on when the second transistor is switched off. The system includes a controller communicatively coupled to the motor drive circuit. A load condition associated with the component is monitored. Based on the load condition, the controller determines whether the component is operating at a light load condition. If the component is operating at the light load condition, a switching frequency of each of stages is changed from a first switching frequency to a second switching frequency, which is less than the first switching frequency.
US11012001B2
A DC AC inverter system includes a full bridge DC AC inverter, a first module with a first capacitance connected to a positive DC input and an intermediate output, and a second module with a second capacitance connected to a negative DC input and to the intermediate output, wherein the first and second capacitance is greater than PΔA/(VΔ*Vnom*2πf); (a) PΔ is a predetermined power imbalance between a first output and the intermediate output and a second output and the intermediate output; (b) Vnom is a predetermined nominal output voltage between the first output and the intermediate output (V1) and the second output and the intermediate output (V2); (c) VΔ is a predetermined fraction of voltage difference, relative to Vnom, between V1 and V2 when there is a power imbalance PΔ; and (d) f is a frequency of V1 or V2.
US11012000B2
A switching type control method based on a double loop predictive control is provided. A deadbeat control is adopted by the outer loop control. The switching type control method is adopted by the inner loop control. When the system is in the steady state, the deadbeat control by an inner loop is adopted to ensure the steady state accuracy of the system and to achieve the fixed switching frequency. When the system is in the transient state, it is switched to the finite control set model predictive control by the inner loop to ensure the rapid transition of the system to the steady state.
US11011997B2
A method for controlling multiple switching devices (15a-d, 75a-b) of a multilevel converter (1, 70) includes providing a plurality of carrier signals (C1-C6) and a reference signal (34, 80), the reference signal (34, 80) having a waveform range divided in a plurality of contiguous bands (B1-B6), dynamically allocating the plurality of carrier signals (C1-C6) to the multiple switching devices (15a-d, 75a-b), and generating pulse width modulation signals (18, 77) to generate switching events of the multiple switching devices (15a-d, 75a-b) based on a comparison of dynamically allocated carrier signals (C1-C6) with the reference signal (34, 80), wherein the plurality of carrier signals (C1-C6) have a phase shift between the carrier signals (C1-C6), and wherein the plurality of carrier signals (C1-C6) are dynamically allocated to the multiple switching devices (15a-d, 75a-b) such that for each switching device (15a-d, 75a-b) the plurality of carrier signals (C1-C6) are rotated and selected based on a position of the reference signal (34, 80) with respect to the plurality of bands (B1-B6).
US11011992B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and system for reducing a circulating current between a plurality of non-isolated modules operating in parallel. The input terminals and the output terminals of the plurality of non-isolated modules are respectively connected in parallel, and each of the non-isolated modules comprises a first stage converter, a bus capacitor and a second stage converter, which are electrically connected in sequence. For each of the non-isolated modules, the method comprises: comparing a first signal reflecting the input power of the non-isolated module with a reference value to obtain a comparison result; and adjusting the voltage of the bus capacitor according to the comparison result, wherein the voltage of the bus capacitor is decreased when the first signal is greater than the reference value, and the voltage of the bus capacitor is increased when the first signal is less than the reference value.
US11011990B2
A DC/DC power converter has an input terminal, an output terminal, and a ground terminal. The DC/DC power converter includes two capacitors connected in series between the output terminal and the ground terminal, a boost converter having a first boost converter terminal connected to the input terminal, a second boost converter terminal connected to the output terminal, and a third boost converter terminal connected to a connection point between the capacitors, and a step-up converter having a first step-up converter terminal connected to the ground terminal, a second step-up converter terminal connected to the output terminal, and a third step-up converter terminal connected to the connection point.
US11011981B1
Circuits and methods for improved clock signal level shifting in charge pumps that avoids shoot-through current and loss due to simultaneous switching, which may be powered by VIN or any available level of VDD, and which provides a high level of clock signal voltage swing. Embodiments include a non-overlapping clock generator that generates a set of separate non-overlapping clock signals that are applied to a differential clock level translator coupled to a charge pump. The differential clock level translator level shifts the set of non-overlapping clock signals to a set of level-shifted non-overlapping clock signals. The charge pump is configured to receive the sets of non-overlapping clock signals and apply them to corresponding NMOS and PMOS switches. The set of level-shifted non-overlapping clock signals have shifted voltages sufficient to switch corresponding switches having elevated source voltages VS. The charge pump may be a differential charge pump in some embodiments.
US11011979B2
Provided is a booster circuit capable of adjusting a power conversion capacity in accordance with input power and also of stably performing a boost operation. The booster circuit includes a first voltage detection circuit configured to output as a first control signal a result of comparing an input voltage and a first voltage obtained by dividing an output voltage, a first oscillation circuit configured to be controlled to operate based on the first control signal, and a first switched-capacitor booster circuit configured to operate in accordance with a first clock signal provided from the first oscillation circuit.
US11011975B2
In an example, a system comprises a boost power factor correction (PFC) converter including a thermistor, an inductor, and a transistor coupled to a common node. The system also comprises a PFC controller coupled to the common node. The PFC controller includes a comparator coupled to a threshold voltage source and to a non-control terminal of the transistor; a first flip-flop coupled to the comparator and to a control terminal of the transistor; a zero current detector coupled to the inductor; a timer coupled to the comparator and to the zero current detector; a second flip-flop coupled to the timer and to the control terminal of the transistor; an AND gate coupled to the first and second flip-flops; a third flip-flop coupled to the second flip-flop and to the control terminal of the transistor; and a fourth flip-flop coupled to the AND gate and to the control terminal of the transistor.
US11011955B2
Disclosed herein is a motor including a shaft, a rotor, a motor housing forming an inner space to receive the shaft and the rotor therein, a stator received in the motor housing and disposed outside the rotor based on a radial direction of the shaft, a first flow path disposed outside the stator based on the radial direction of the shaft such that a first fluid flows in the first flow path, the first fluid being discharged to the inner space and cooling the stator and the rotor, and a second flow path disposed between the first flow path and the stator based on the radial direction of the shaft such that a second fluid flows in the second flow path, the second fluid absorbing heat of the stator transferred through a flow path wall.
US11011954B2
Provided is a motor driving unit (1) capable of achieving space saving of a motor room and cost reduction of a vehicle. The motor driving unit (1) includes a motor (10), an inverter (50) that controls driving of the motor (10), and a transaxle (30). The inverter (50) is disposed at a position facing the second gear (32) in the transaxle (30) in a Z-axis direction of the motor (10), and a flow channel of refrigerant arranged inside the inverter (50) is partitioned off from an internal space of the motor (10) by a single barrier.
US11011934B2
Provided is a wireless power transmitting unit capable of auto-tuning according to impedance change. The wireless power transmitting unit according to an embodiment can stabilize the operation of the amplifier by changing the resonance frequency of the resonator without measuring the phase information about the resonator.
US11011931B2
Cross-charging among a set of wireless charging IoT devices using prioritizing management rules is disclosed. Device battery status data is received from each wireless charging device in the set of wireless charging devices. A device usage pattern is generated based on user profile data for each wireless charging device in the set of wireless charging devices. At least one priority management rule (PMR) is assigned to at least one wireless charging device in the set of wireless charging devices based on the device battery status data and user profile data from each wireless charging device in the set of wireless charging devices. At least one cross-charging instruction is transmitted to at least one wireless charging device in the set of wireless charging devices based on the at least one PMR.
US11011924B2
In accordance with a preferred embodiment, a charging station for charging of a UAV within a vicinity of powerlines includes an interface for electric coupling with the UAV for charging of a rechargeable battery of the UAV; a power supply having first and second electrodes separated and electrically insulated from each other for enabling a differential in voltage at the first and second electrodes resulting from a differential in electric field strength experienced at the first and second electrodes when within the vicinity of the powerlines; and electrical components electrically connected with the first and second electrodes and configured to establish a circuit with the rechargeable battery of the UAV when electronically coupled with the interface. The differential in voltage between the first and second electrodes causes electric current to flow through the electric circuit for charging the battery of the UAV.
US11011910B2
The present invention relates to a local control system (6) configured to define a charge or discharge command made to a power storage device (5) on the basis of a charge or discharge instruction, sent by an overall control system (7), and the instantaneous power used by the power-using devices (4), such that the instantaneous power used by the power using devices (4) is always greater than the discharge power of the power storage device (5), so as to guarantee that the power stored by the power storage device (5) is not re-injected into the power distribution network (3).
US11011885B2
A laser device that is easily assembled and can be manufactured at low cost and a light-source device using the same are provided. The laser device includes a base plate portion, a semiconductor laser element placed on the base plate portion, a lid portion provided on the base plate portion, on which the semiconductor laser element is placed, and including a top plate, and a side wall portion covering a part or all of lateral sides of a space between the base plate portion and the top plate. The top plate is integrally formed with a part or all of the side wall portion.
US11011879B2
Disclosed is a high-density patch panel for use in a network incorporating high-density connections for increased efficiency, network operation and management. The high-density connections are incorporated into the patch panel, network switch, and cables that connects them, as well as into cable analyzers and printed circuit boards (PCBs) which allow for a complete network within a single computer running virtualization software.
US11011878B1
An electrical receptacle including a body having a plurality of electrical connections, a device face connected to the body and movable with respect to the body, a plurality of electrical plug contacts positioned behind the device face, and wherein the electrical plug contacts retain an electrical plug prong at a first tension when the device face is in a first position and the electrical plug contacts retain the electrical plug prong at a second tension when the device face is in a second position.
US11011874B2
A mating guide part formed with a mating recess part that has a substantially rectangular shaped in a plan view with a first high frequency connection unit mounted therein is included, the first high frequency connection unit includes a first high frequency terminal and a square tube shaped first high frequency shield with a substantially rectangular cross section extending in the mating direction enclosing around the first high frequency terminal, the second connector includes a counterpart mating guide part that has a substantially rectangular shape in a plan view with a second high frequency connection unit mounted therein, and the second high frequency connection unit includes a second high frequency terminal and a square tube shaped second high frequency shield with a substantially rectangular cross section that extends in the mating direction enclosing around the second high frequency terminal.
US11011868B2
An opening sealing member 10 is for closing an opening 91 for work open in a vertical direction and includes a cover plate 20 configured to cover the opening 91 from above and a plug body 40 held on the cover plate 20 and including a sealing member 45 to be held in close contact with an inner peripheral surface of the opening 91 by the plug body being fit into the opening 91. An upper surface 21A of the cover plate 20 is provided with a gradient to cause water adhering to the cover plate 20 to flow down to outside of the cover plate 20. An upper surface 51A of the plug body 40 is provided with a gradient to cause water adhering to the upper surface 51A of the plug body 40 to flow down to outside of the opening 91.
US11011866B2
In an electrical connector, a connecting portion has a first resin holding a lower contact with respect to an intermediate ground plate and a second resin holding an upper contact with respect to the intermediate ground plate and separate from the first resin. Also provided is a third resin covering the first resin and the second resin and separate from the first resin and the second resin. When the electrical connector is manufactured, deflection can be suppressed based on division into a step of forming the first resin and a step of forming the second resin and by means of a mold suppressing deflection of the upper contact and the lower contact.
US11011865B2
It is aimed to provide a connector capable of reducing the number of components. A connector (100) includes a plurality of terminal fittings (50) having wires (90) connected to rear end parts, and a dielectric (20) for accommodating the plurality of terminal fittings (50) with the wires (90) drawn out rearward. The dielectric (20) includes a holding member (30) having a plurality of terminal accommodation chambers (34) separated in two upper and lower stages and laterally arranged in parallel, upper and lower surfaces of the holding member (30) being formed with openings (35) enabling the terminal fittings (50) to be mounted into the terminal accommodation chambers (34), and a front member (40) integrally formed with a pair of upper and lower closing portions (41, 41) for individually closing the openings (35) on an upper surface side and the openings (35) on a lower surface side, the front member (40) being assembled with the holding member (30) from front.
US11011850B2
An antenna apparatus and an electronic device are provided. The antenna apparatus includes an antenna radiator, a support member, and a first extension portion. The antenna radiator includes a radiator body and a power feeding portion. The radiator body includes a first end and a second end. The power feeding portion is disposed at the first end and configured to receive an excitation signal. The support member includes a first surface, a second surface opposite to the second surface, and a side surface disposed between the first surface and the second surface and adjacent to the radiator body. The first extension portion is located adjacent to the second end and electrically connected to the support member through the side surface. The first extension portion, the side surface, and the antenna radiator cooperatively define a gap region constituting at least part of a clearance area of the antenna radiator.
US11011849B2
An antenna structure includes a radiation metal element, a first feeding metal element, a second feeding metal element, a metal loop, a ground metal element, a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, and a via metal element. The radiation metal element has a first slot, a second slot, a third slot, and a fourth slot, which surround a first opening, a second opening, a third opening, and a fourth opening. The first feeding metal element extends into the first opening. The second feeding metal element extends into the second opening. The first dielectric layer is disposed between the radiation metal element and the metal loop. The second dielectric layer is disposed between the metal loop and the ground metal element. The via metal element couples a first connection point on the radiation metal element to a second connection point on the ground metal element.
US11011847B2
A multi-antenna structure includes a monopole-like or loop-like antenna structure with an antenna feed configured to connect to electrical circuitry; and a slot-like antenna structure adjacent to the monopole-like or loop-like antenna structure and capacitively fed by the monopole-like or loop-like antenna structure, wherein the monopole-like or loop-like antenna structure and the slot-like antenna structure operate as a combined antenna with extended bandwidth relative to operation individually. The monopole-like or loop-like antenna structure can include a horizontal member and a plurality of vertical members connected to the horizontal member. The slot-like antenna structure can include two parallel horizontal members separated by a slot and a vertical member at one end of the slot connected to each of the two parallel horizontal members separated and another end of the slot is open.
US11011843B2
A patch antenna includes a power feeding conductor pattern formed in a dielectric layer, a ground conductor pattern formed on the dielectric layer, a first parasitic conductor pattern and a second parasitic conductor pattern formed in/on the dielectric layer and is not set to have a ground potential. The first parasitic conductor pattern, the power feeding conductor pattern, the second parasitic conductor pattern, and the ground conductor pattern are arranged in this order in a cross section and overlap each other in a plan view. A resonant frequency f1 defined by an opposite-phase mode current flowing through the first parasitic conductor pattern is higher than a resonant frequency f2 defined by an in-phase mode current flowing through the power feeding conductor pattern, and a resonant frequency f3 defined by an opposite-phase mode current flowing through the second parasitic conductor pattern is lower than the resonant frequency f2.
US11011835B2
Radio devices for wireless transmission including an integrated adjustable mount allowing mounting to a pole or stand and adjustment of the angle of the device (e.g., the altitude). The device may include a compact array antenna having a high gain configured to operate in, for example, the 5.15 to 5.85 GHz band and/or the 2.40-2.48 GHz band. The antenna emitters may be arranged in a separate plane from a plane containing the antenna feed connecting the emitting elements and also from a ground plane. The antenna array may be contained within a protective weatherproof housing along with the radio control circuitry.
US11011833B2
An antenna structure includes a signal source, four transmission lines, and four radiation elements. The radiation elements are coupled through the transmission lines to the signal source, respectively. Each of the radiation elements includes a loop structure, a first connection element, and a second connection element. The loop structure has a first inner edge and a second inner edge which are opposite to each other. A looped region is formed between the first inner edge and the second inner edge. The looped region has first and second sides. The first connection element extends across the first side of the looped region. The first connection element is coupled between the first inner edge and the second inner edge. The second connection element extends across the second side of the looped region. The second connection element is coupled between the first inner edge and the second inner edge.
US11011828B2
Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device comprises a housing forming an exterior of the electronic device, and including a front surface, a back surface facing away from the front surface, and a side surface substantially perpendicular to the front surface and the back surface; a first conductive plate positioned towards the back surface having a first antenna array disposed on the first conductive plate, the first antenna array configured to radiate a signal in a first frequency band toward the back surface; a second antenna array connected to the conductive plate, the second antenna array configured to radiate a signal in a second frequency band at least partially different from the first frequency band toward the side surface, and having an antenna element at least partially different from the first antenna array, a second conductive plate positioned towards the side surface having a third antenna array disposed on the second conductive plate, the third antenna array configured to radiate the signal in the second frequency band toward the side surface, and a fourth antenna array connected to the second conductive plate and configured to radiate the signal in the first frequency band toward the back surface.
US11011824B2
An antenna unit includes a plate-shaped dielectric substrate, as well as an antenna element and a stub element. The dielectric substrate has a first edge extending along a longitudinal direction of the dielectric substrate and a second edge extending along the longitudinal direction of the dielectric substrate, and the second edge is opposite to the first edge. The antenna element is disposed along the longitudinal direction of the dielectric substrate. The Antenna element has a first end containing a feedpoint and a second end containing an open end. The stub element is disposed between a section of the antenna element having a predetermined length containing the first end of the antenna element and the first edge of the dielectric substrate along the longitudinal direction of the dielectric substrate. The stub element has a first end connected to a reference potential and a second end containing an open end.
US11011823B2
A field device of automation technology, including: an at least partially metal housing having at least one housing opening; a field device electronics arranged within the housing; a cable gland, which is located in the housing opening, wherein at least one cable extends through the cable gland into the housing and is connected with the field device electronics such that wired communication can occur via the cable with the field device electronics; and an antenna for transmitting and/or receiving electromagnetic waves having at least one determined wavelength, wherein the antenna is situated in the cable gland such that the antenna at least partially surrounds the cable, and wherein the antenna is connected with the field device electronics via a coaxial cable such that wireless communication can occur via the antenna with the field device electronics.
US11011816B2
A radar assembly includes a monolithic-microwave-integrated-circuit (MMIC), an antenna-element, and a single printed-circuit-board (PCB). The MMIC includes an arrangement of solder-balls configured to couple radar-signals into or out of the MMIC. The antenna-element includes a ridge-air-waveguide configured to propagate radar-signals to or from one or more radiation-slots of the antenna-element. The PCB is directly attached to the MMIC. The PCB includes a transition-feature configured to couple radar-signals between the arrangement of solder-balls and the ridge-air-waveguide. The transition-feature is characterized as a slot that extends between the arrangement of solder-balls and the ridge-air-waveguide. The transition-feature may be an L-shaped-slot or a U-shaped-slot. The assembly is designed/configured to be compatible with known printed circuit board fabrication processes.
US11011810B2
Disclosed is a stacked battery that can flow a larger rounding current in a short-circuit current shunt part than in an electric element when a short circuit occurs in the short-circuit current shunt part and the electric element in nailing, the stacked battery in which an electrical resistance of a current collector tab of the short-circuit current shunt part is smaller than an electrical resistance of a current collector tab of the electric element.
US11011805B2
Some examples include an electrode for an electrochemical cell including a plate portion and a tab portion. The plate portion includes a plate body, a perimeter body edge, and an inset area recessed into the plate body from the perimeter body edge. The inset area is defined by an inset edge. The tab portion extends from the plate portion. The tab portion includes a tab body and tab body edge. The inset edge extends between the perimeter body edge and the tab body edge.
US11011804B2
Provided is a battery module in which weldability between electrode leads and/or between an electrode lead and a bus bar is improved. The battery module includes: a cell assembly that includes a plurality of secondary batteries stacked in at least one direction, respectively including electrode leads, and electrically connected to each other via a connection between the electrode leads; and at least one bus bar that includes an electrically conductive material and is electrically connected by contacting the electrode leads of the plurality of secondary batteries, wherein at least one of the electrode leads is combined and fixed to at least one of another electrode lead and the at least one bus bar, which are contacted by the at least one of the electrode leads, via a welding spot formed in a tornado shape.
US11011802B2
A battery module including a first bus bar electrically connected to a first electrode lead of a first battery cell; a second bus bar electrically connected to a second electrode lead of a second battery cell; a short-circuit unit moving toward the first bus bar and the second bus bar by receiving an expansive force due to a volume increase of at least one of the first battery cell and the second battery cell to electrically connect the first bus bar to the second bus bar to generate a short circuit; and a cartridge accommodating or supporting at least a portion of the first electrode lead, the second electrode lead, the first bus bar, the second bus bar and the short-circuit unit.
US11011796B2
Set forth herein are compositions comprising A.(LiBH4).B.(LiX).C.(LiNH2), wherein X is fluorine, bromine, chloride, iodine, or a combination thereof, and wherein 0.1≤A≤3, 0.1≤B≤4, and 0≤C≤9 that are suitable for use as solid electrolyte separators in lithium electrochemical devices. Also set forth herein are methods of making A.(LiBH4).B.(LiX).C.(LiNH2) compositions. Also disclosed herein are electrochemical devices which incorporate A.(LiBH4).B.(LiX).C.(LiNH2) compositions and other materials.
US11011795B2
A thin film solid state battery configured with barrier regions formed on a flexible substrate member and method. The method includes forming a bottom thin film barrier material overlying and directly contacting a surface region of a substrate. A first current collector region can be formed overlying the bottom barrier material and forming a first cathode material overlying the first current collector region. A first electrolyte can be formed overlying the first cathode material, and a second current collector region can be formed overlying the first anode material. The method also includes forming an intermediary thin film barrier material overlying the second current collector region and forming a top thin film barrier material overlying the second electrochemical cell. The solid state battery can comprise the elements described in the method of fabrication.
US11011794B2
Provided is a composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery functional layer capable of forming a functional layer that can provide a battery member such as an electrode or a separator with both excellent blocking resistance and excellent process adhesiveness. The composition for a functional layer contains a particulate polymer A. The particulate polymer A has a core-shell structure including a core portion and a shell portion that at least partially covers an outer surface of the core portion. The core portion is formed from a polymer having a glass-transition temperature of higher than 25° C. and lower than 80° C. The shell portion is formed from a polymer having a glass-transition temperature of −80° C. to 25° C. The proportion constituted by the core portion among the total of the core portion and the shell portion is 30 mass % to 80 mass %.
US11011779B2
A solid electrolyte contains a composite metal halide. The composite metal halide contains magnesium, an alkaline-earth metal having a larger ionic radius than magnesium, gallium, and a halogen. In the composite metal halide, the molar ratio of the alkaline-earth metal to the total of magnesium and the alkaline-earth metal is less than 0.2.
US11011778B2
A solid-state electrolyte having a garnet-type crystal structure represented by the formula (Li7−ax+yAx)La3(Zr2−yBy)O12, where A is at least one element selected from Mg, Zn, Al, Ga, and Sc, a is a valence of A, B is at least one element selected from Al, Ga, Sc, Yb, Dy, and Y, x is more than 0 and less than 1.0, y is more than 0 and less than 1.0, and 7−ax+y is more than 5.5 and less than 7.0).
US11011773B2
Solid-state battery structures and methods of manufacturing solid-state batteries are disclosed. More particularly, embodiments relate to solid-state batteries having one or more subdivided electrode layers. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US11011761B2
A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell stack of fuel cells that generate electricity by electrochemical reaction between hydrogen that is a fuel gas and oxygen that is an oxidant gas; an expander that is provided on a supply path of the fuel gas to the fuel cell stack, and at which, due to the fuel gas that is in a high-pressure state being supplied thereto, the fuel gas is expanded and the pressure thereof is reduced, and, due to the fuel gas being expanded and the pressure thereof being reduced, internal energy of the fuel gas is converted into mechanical energy; and a heating device that is provided further toward an upstream side of the supply path than the expander, and that heats the fuel gas.
US11011760B2
A fuel cell separator conveying device that ensures reducing dirt adhesion on a sealing surface of a stacked fuel cell separator using a protection sheet and reducing the protection sheet being left adhered when the fuel cell separator is conveyed is provided. The fuel cell separator conveying device that lifts up and conveys the fuel cell separator placed on the protection sheet includes a grasping portion that grasps the fuel cell separator by a suction force, a moving unit that moves the grasping portion in a lift-up direction of the fuel cell separator, and an air blowing portion that applies a downward force in an opposite direction of the lift-up direction of the fuel cell separator to the protection sheet through an opening of the fuel cell separator when the moving unit moves the grasping portion.
US11011749B2
The present invention relates to a lithium-titanium complex oxide used in an electrode active material. A preparation method of a lithium-titanium complex oxide according to the present invention comprises the steps of: preparing a slurry mixture in which a titanium oxide, lithium and zirconium are mixed; wet-milling the mixture using beads having a size of 0.30 mm or less to obtain a wet-milled mixture; spray drying the wet-milled mixture to obtain a spray dried mixture; and calcining the spray dried mixture.
US11011743B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a lithium ion secondary battery enabling improvement of output characteristics at the time of charge and discharge at low temperature and at room temperature. A lithium ion secondary battery according to the present invention for achieving the above object includes a positive electrode plate (11) including a positive electrode mix layer, and a negative electrode plate (12) including a negative electrode mix layer (45). The negative electrode mix layer (45) contains a graphite-type material (42), metal oxide (44), and a conductive assistant (43). The conductive assistant (43) is a carbon material that does not dope or dedope lithium ions, and a mixing ratio of the conductive assistant (43) is 0.4 weight % or more and less than 1.2 weight % of weight of the negative electrode mix layer (45).
US11011735B2
In a flexible OLED device production method, after an intermediate region and flexible substrate region of a plastic film of a multilayer stack are divided, the interface between the flexible substrate region and glass base is irradiated with laser light. The multilayer stack is separated into first and second portions while the multilayer stack is kept in contact with the stage. The first portion includes a plurality of OLED devices in contact with the stage. The OLED devices include a plurality of functional layer regions and the flexible substrate region. The second portion includes the glass base and intermediate region. The laser light is formed from a plurality of arranged laser light sources and irradiation intensity for at least part of the interface between the intermediate region and the glass base is lower than the irradiation intensity for the interface between the flexible substrate region and the glass base.
US11011730B2
Provided is a display device including: a structure including a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area; and an inorganic encapsulation thin film disposed on the display and peripheral areas. The peripheral area includes at least one inorganic surface portion having a closed shape continuously.
US11011729B2
A display module and a manufacturing thereof are provided. The display module includes a display panel, a first back plate, a second back plate and support layer and a fixing layer. The fixing layer includes a body and at least one protrusion. The display panel includes a first region, a second region and a bending region. At least one via hole is defined in the second back plate and the second region. The second region is bent to a predetermined position on the second back plate with the at least one protrusion fittingly engaged in the at least one via hole.
US11011727B2
A display device and a method of manufacturing a display device are provided. A display device includes: a window; a first pattern on a portion of the window; a second pattern on at least a portion of the first pattern and having a higher surface free energy than the first pattern; an adhesive layer on the window, at least a portion of the adhesive layer being on the second pattern to be in contact with a surface of the second pattern; and a display panel on the adhesive layer.
US11011726B2
A bendable backplate structure is configured to support a display panel and includes a supporting plate including at least a shaft channel extending to opposite sides of the supporting plate. A surface of the supporting plate is attached with the display panel. A bendable module disposed in the shaft channel includes a flexible covering portion and at least a magnet accommodated in and along the covering portion. The backplate structure and the display panel are foldable through the bendable module in a direction toward the display panel.
US11011722B1
An electroluminescent paint indicator for a fault or failure may include at least one layer of electrically conductive paint disposed on a surface within a system including the electroluminescent paint indicator, at least one dielectric layer disposed on the at least one layer of electrically conductive paint, at least one layer including an electroluminescent phosphor compound disposed on the at least one dielectric layer, and at least one layer of conductive coating disposed on the at least one layer including the electroluminescent phosphor compound. The electroluminescent paint indicator may be configured to activate following a determination of a fault or failure with the at least one layer of electrically conductive paint receiving power, the at least one layer including the electroluminescent phosphor compound being excited by the at least one layer of electrically conductive paint, and the least one layer including the electroluminescent phosphor compound generating an illuminated light.
US11011718B2
A solar cell includes elements, a connecting portion, and a transparent portion. The elements include first and second elements arrayed in a first direction. The transparent portion is located between the connecting portion and the second element. Each of the elements includes first and second electrode layers and a semiconductor layer interposed between the first and second electrode layers. Between the first element and the second element, their first electrode layers sandwich a first gap and their second electrode layers sandwich a second gap shifted in the first direction from the first gap. The connecting portion electrically connects the second electrode layer of the first element to the first electrode layer of the second element. The transparent portion is located between the second electrode layer of the first element and the first electrode layer of the second element at a position shifted in the first direction from the connecting portion.
US11011708B2
The present invention relates to an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) including an ETL stack of at least two electron transport layers, wherein the first electron transport layer comprises a charge transporting compound and the second electron transport layer comprises an acridine compound and an alkali metal salt and/or alkali metal organic complex, a method of manufacturing the same and a device comprising the OLED.
US11011706B2
Provided are an organic thin film transistor element comprising an organic semiconductor layer containing a specific polymer which has a repeating unit including a structure represented by a specific formula, an organic semiconductor film suitable as the organic semiconductor layer and a method of manufacturing the same, and a polymer and a composition suitable as a constituent material of the organic semiconductor film.
US11011702B2
A memory device includes a first electrode, a resistive switching layer, a cap layer, a protective layer, and a second electrode. The resistive switching layer is disposed over the first electrode. The cap layer is disposed over the resistive switching layer, wherein the bottom surface of the cap layer is smaller than the top surface of the resistive switching layer. The protective layer is disposed over the resistive switching layer and surrounds the cap layer. At least a portion of the second electrode is disposed over the cap layer and covers the protective layer.
US11011701B2
Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to fabrication of a correlated electron material (CEM) switch. In embodiments, processes are described in which conductive traces may be formed on or over an insulating material. Responsive to forming voids in the insulating material, localized portions of the conductive traces in contact with the voids may be exposed to gaseous oxidizing agents, which may convert the localized portions of the conductive traces to a CEM. In embodiments, an electrode material may be deposited within the voids to contact the localized portion of conductive trace converted to the CEM.
US11011698B2
A magnetic memory device includes a magnetic memory stack including a bottom electrode and having a hard mask formed thereon. An encapsulation layer is formed over sides of the magnetic memory stack and has a thickness adjacent to the sides formed on the bottom electrode. A dielectric material is formed over the encapsulation layer and is removed from over the hard mask and gapped apart from the encapsulation layer on the sides of the magnetic memory stack to form trenches between the dielectric material and the encapsulation layer at the sides of the magnetic memory stack. A top electrode is formed over the hard mask and in the trenches such that the top electrode is spaced apart from the bottom electrode by at least the thickness.
US11011695B2
A piezoelectric vibration device includes an element mounting member provided with a recessed part, a vibration element held in the recessed part, and a lid closing the recessed part. The element mounting member includes an insulating base body including an inner bottom surface of the recessed part and an inner circumferential surface of the recessed part surrounding the inner bottom surface, a pair of signal terminals which are located on an outer surface of the base body and are electrically connected to the vibration element, a GND terminal which is located on the outer surface of the base body, and a shield film which is superposed on the inner circumferential surface of the recessed part and is electrically connected to the GND terminal.
US11011691B2
The present invention relates to a compound containing at least germanium, tellurium, bismuth and copper as constituent elements, wherein the longest axis of ubiquitous bismuth crystals and copper crystals is less than 2.0 μm.
US11011678B2
A layer of a crystal of a group 13 nitride selected from gallium nitride, aluminum nitride, indium nitride and the mixed crystals thereof has an upper surface and a bottom surface. The upper surface of the crystal layer of the group 13 nitride includes a linear high-luminance light-emitting part and a low-luminance light-emitting region adjacent to the high-luminance light-emitting part, observed by cathode luminescence. The high-luminance light-emitting part includes a portion extending along an m-plane of the crystal of the group 13 nitride.
US11011666B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor structure includes a first n-type semiconductor layer, a first quantum well layer, a first p-type semiconductor layer, and a second n-type semiconductor layer. The first quantum well layer is disposed on the first n-type semiconductor layer. The first p-type semiconductor layer is disposed on the first quantum well layer. The second n-type semiconductor layer is disposed on the first p-type semiconductor layer. The second n-type semiconductor layer includes both an n-type dopant and a p-type dopant. The concentration of the n-type dopant in the second n-type semiconductor layer is greater than the concentration of the p-type dopant in the second n-type semiconductor layer. The first n-type semiconductor layer, the first quantum well layer, the first p-type semiconductor layer, and the second n-type semiconductor layer form a bipolar phototransistor structure. A manufacturing method of the optoelectronic semiconductor structure is also provided.
US11011664B2
Provided is a semiconductor photodiode which has an electrode structure having not only high adhesion to a Mg2Si material but also improved overall performance including photosensitivity. A photodiode comprising: a pn junction of a magnesium silicide crystal; an electrode comprising a material that is in contact with p-type magnesium silicide; and an electrode comprising a material that is in contact with n-type magnesium silicide, wherein the material that is in contact with p-type magnesium silicide is a material which has a work function of 4.81 eV or more and reacts with silicon to form a silicide or form an alloy with magnesium.
US11011661B2
Improved high work function back contacts for solar cells are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a solar cell includes: forming a completed solar cell having a substrate coated with an electrically conductive material, an absorber disposed on the electrically conductive material, a buffer layer disposed on the absorber, a transparent front contact disposed on the buffer layer, and a metal grid disposed on the transparent front contact; removing the substrate and the electrically conductive material using exfoliation, exposing a backside surface of the solar cell; depositing a high work function material onto the back side surface of the solar cell; and depositing a back contact onto the high work function material. A solar cell formed by the present techniques is also provided. Yield of the exfoliated device can be improved by removing bubbles from adhesive used for exfoliation and/or forming contact pads to access the metal grid.
US11011649B2
An oxide semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same are provided in the present invention. The oxide semiconductor device includes a back gate, an oxide semiconductor film, a pair of source and drain electrodes, a gate insulating film, a gate electrode on the oxide semiconductor film with the gate insulating film therebetween, an insulating layer covering only over the gate electrode and the pair of source and drain electrodes, and a top blocking film over the insulating layer.
US11011637B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure and a method for preparing the semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate; a drain disposed in the substrate; a drain contact disposed in the drain; a source disposed in the substrate; a source contact disposed in the source; a gate structure with a bottom disposed in the substrate between the drain and the source; a channel disposed at the bottom of the gate structure connecting the drain and the source; a drain stressor disposed in the drain between the gate structure and the drain contact; a drain strained silicon layer disposed in the substrate surrounding the drain stressor connected to the channel; a source stressor disposed in the source between the source contact and the gate structure; and a source strained silicon layer disposed in the substrate surrounding the source stressor connected to the channel.
US11011626B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes patterning a plurality of semiconductor fins on a semiconductor substrate, and replacing at least two of the plurality of semiconductor fins with a plurality of dummy fins including a dielectric material. A gate structure is formed on and around the plurality of semiconductor fins and the plurality of dummy fins, and a source/drain contact is formed adjacent the gate structure.
US11011624B2
A VFET device with a dual top spacer to prevent source/drain-to-gate short, and techniques for formation thereof are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a VFET device includes: etching vertical fin channels in a substrate; forming a bottom source and drain in the substrate beneath the vertical fin channels; forming a bottom spacer on the bottom source and drain; depositing a gate dielectric and gate conductor onto the vertical fin channels; recessing the gate dielectric and gate conductor to expose tops of the vertical fin channels; selectively forming dielectric spacers on end portions of the gate dielectric and gate conductor adjacent to the tops of the vertical fin channels; depositing an encapsulation layer onto the vertical fin channels; recessing the encapsulation layer with the dielectric spacers serving as an etch stop; and forming top source and drains. A VFET device formed using the present techniques is also provided.
US11011623B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a substrate; a first semiconductor layer extending from the substrate, the first semiconductor layer including silicon; a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer, the second semiconductor layer including silicon germanium, edge portions of the second semiconductor layer having a first germanium concentration, a center portion of the second semiconductor layer having a second germanium concentration, the second germanium concentration being less than the first germanium concentration, the edge portions of the second semiconductor layer including sides and a top surface of the second semiconductor layer; a gate stack on the second semiconductor layer; lightly doped source/drain regions in the second semiconductor layer, the lightly doped source/drain regions being adjacent the gate stack; and source and drain regions extending into the lightly doped source/drain regions.
US11011622B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device and resulting structures having closely packed vertical transistors with reduced contact resistance by forming a semiconductor structure on a doped region of a substrate, the semiconductor structure including a gate formed over a channel region of a semiconductor fin. A liner is formed on the gate and the semiconductor fin, and a dielectric layer is formed on the liner. Portions of the liner are removed to expose a top surface and sidewalls of the semiconductor fin and a sidewall of the dielectric layer. A recessed opening is formed by recessing portions of the liner from the exposed sidewall of the dielectric layer. A top epitaxy region is formed on the exposed portions of the semiconductor fin and dielectric layer such that an extension of the top epitaxy region fills the recessed opening. The top epitaxy region is confined between portions of the liner.
US11011620B2
Techniques are disclosed for forming increasing channel region tensile strain in n-MOS devices. In some cases, increased channel region tensile strain can be achieved via S/D material engineering that deliberately introduces dislocations in one or both of the S/D regions to produce tensile strain in the adjacent channel region. In some such cases, the S/D material engineering to create desired dislocations may include using a lattice mismatched epitaxial S/D film adjacent to the channel region. Numerous material schemes for achieving multiple dislocations in one or both S/D regions will be apparent in light of this disclosure. In some cases, a cap layer can be formed on an S/D region to reduce contact resistance, such that the cap layer is an intervening layer between the S/D region and S/D contact. The cap layer includes different material than the underlying S/D region and/or a higher dopant concentration to reduce contact resistance.
US11011617B2
A method is presented for reducing parasitic capacitance. The method includes forming multi-layer spacers between source/drain regions, forming a dielectric liner over the multi-layer spacers and the source/drain regions, forming gate structures adjacent the multi-layer spacers, forming a self-aligned contact cap over the gate structures, and removing a sacrificial layer of each of the multi-layer spacers to form air-gaps between the gate structures and the source/drain regions.
US11011615B2
Various methods and devices that involve body contacted transistors are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises forming a gate on a planar surface of a semiconductor wafer. The gate covers a channel of a first conductivity type that is opposite to a second conductivity type. The method also comprises implanting a body dose of dopants on a source side of the gate using the gate to mask the body dose of dopants. The body dose of dopants spreads underneath the channel to form a deep well. The body dose of dopants has the first conductivity type. The method also comprises implanting, subsequent to implanting the body dose of dopants, a source dose of dopants on the source side of the gate to form a source. The method also comprises forming a source contact that is in contact with the deep well at the planar surface of the semiconductor wafer.
US11011606B2
A silicon carbide substrate has a trench extending from a main surface of the silicon carbide substrate into the silicon carbide substrate. The trench has a trench width at a trench bottom. A shielding region is formed in the silicon carbide substrate. The shielding region extends along the trench bottom. In at least one doping plane extending approximately parallel to the trench bottom, a dopant concentration in the shielding region over a lateral first width deviates by not more than 10% from a maximum value of the dopant concentration. The first width is less than the trench width and is at least 30% of the trench width.
US11011599B2
Disclosed herein are a stretchable display panel and a stretchable device. The stretchable display panel comprises: a lower substrate having an active area and a non-active area surrounding the active area; a plurality of individual substrates disposed on the lower substrate, spaced apart from each other and located in the active area; a connection line electrically connecting a pad disposed on the individual substrate; a plurality of pixels disposed on the plurality of individual substrates; and an upper substrate disposed above the plurality of pixels, wherein the modulus of elasticity of the individual substrates is higher than that of at least one part of the lower substrate. Accordingly, the stretchable display device according to the present disclosure may have a structure that enables the stretchable display device to be more easily deformed when a user stretches or bends the stretchable display device and that can minimize damage to the components of the stretchable display device when the stretchable display device is deformed.
US11011590B2
A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area adjacent to the display area. The non-display area includes a blocking region. An organic layer is disposed on the substrate. An emission layer is disposed in the display area of the substrate. An auxiliary pattern is disposed in the blocking region of the non-display area of the substrate. A thin film encapsulation layer is disposed on the substrate and overlaps the emission layer and the blocking region. The organic layer has a groove penetrating an entire thickness of the organic layer in the blocking region. The auxiliary pattern overlaps the groove. The auxiliary pattern includes a same material as a gate electrode disposed in the display area of the substrate.
US11011577B2
An One-Time Programmable (OTP) memory is built in at least one of nano-wire structures. The OTP memory has a plurality of OTP cells. At least one of the OTP cells can have at least one resistive element and at least one nano-wires. The at least one resistive element can be built by an extended source/drain or a MOS gate. The at least one nano-wires can be built on an isolated structure that has at least one MOS gate dividing nano-wires into at least one first active region and a second active region. The first active region can be doped with a first type of dopant and the second active region can be doped with a first or second type of dopant. The OTP element can be coupled to the first active region with the other end coupled to a first supply voltage line. The second active region can be coupled to a second voltage supply line and the MOS gate is coupled to a third voltage supply line. A plurality of address lines can be decoded into a plurality of wordlines coupled to the second or third voltage supply lines. Another plurality of address lines can be decoded into a plurality of bitlines coupled to the first supply voltage lines. By selecting the proper address lines, a target OTP cell can be selected for programming into another logic state or for reading of its logic state.
US11011562B2
An image sensor includes a substrate having a photoelectric conversion element therein, a first via extending into a first surface of the substrate such that a first upper surface of the first via is exposed adjacent the first surface of the substrate, a second upper surface of the first via extending away from the first surface of the substrate, first to third insulating films sequentially stacked on the first surface of the substrate, and a contact extending through the first to third insulating films and into the second upper surface of the first via. The contact includes a first portion within the first via, a second portion in the first insulating film, a third portion in the second insulating film, and a fourth portion in the third insulating film.
US11011559B2
Image sensors are provided. The image sensors may include a substrate including first, second, third and fourth regions, a first photoelectric conversion element in the first region, a second photoelectric conversion element in the second region, a third photoelectric conversion element in the third region, a fourth photoelectric conversion element in the fourth region, a first microlens at least partially overlapping both the first and second photoelectric conversion elements, and a second microlens at least partially overlapping both the third and fourth photoelectric conversion elements. The image sensors may also include a floating diffusion region and first, second and third pixel transistors configured to perform different functions from each other. Each of the first, second and third pixel transistors may be disposed in at least one of first, second, third and fourth pixel regions. The first pixel transistor may include multiple first pixel transistors.
US11011555B2
Methods of fabricating integrated active-matrix light emitting pixel array based displays are provided. The methods include: forming an array of light emitting elements on a first side of a substrate, forming an array of active-matrix light emitting pixels using the array of light emitting elements, each pixel including at least one light emitting element and at least one non-volatile memory coupled to the at least one light-emitting element, forming conductive interconnects penetrating through the substrate from a second side of the substrate to the first side, and forming one or more integrated circuits on the second side, the one or more integrated circuits being conductively coupled to the array of active-matrix light-emitting pixels through the conductive interconnects. The methods can further include forming an array of active-matrix multi-color display pixels by using the array of active-matrix light emitting pixels.
US11011549B2
In a thin film transistor, an increase in off current or negative shift of the threshold voltage is prevented. In the thin film transistor, a buffer layer is provided between an oxide semiconductor layer and each of a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer. The buffer layer includes a metal oxide layer which is an insulator or a semiconductor over a middle portion of the oxide semiconductor layer. The metal oxide layer functions as a protective layer for suppressing incorporation of impurities into the oxide semiconductor layer. Therefore, in the thin film transistor, an increase in off current or negative shift of the threshold voltage can be prevented.
US11011546B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit device including standard cells including fin transistors includes, at a cell row end, a cell-row-terminating cell that does not contribute to a logical function of a circuit block. The cell-row-terminating cell includes a plurality of fins extending in an X direction. Ends of the plurality of fins on the inner side of the circuit block are near a gate structure placed at a cell end and do not overlap with the gate structure in a plan view, and ends of the plurality of fins on an outer side of the circuit block overlap with any one of a gate structure in a plan view.
US11011544B2
A staggered memory cell architecture staggers memory cells on opposite sides of a shared bit line preserves memory cell density, while increasing the distance between such memory cells, thereby reducing the possibility of a disturb. In one implementation, the memory cells along a first side of a shared bit line are connected to a set of global word lines provided underneath the memory structure, while the memory cells on the other side of the shared bit line—which are staggered relative to the memory cells on the first side—are connected to global word lines above the memory structure.
US11011538B2
A transistor comprises channel material having first and second opposing sides. A gate is on the first side of the channel material and a gate insulator is between the gate and the channel material. A first insulating material has first and second opposing sides, with the first side being adjacent the second side of the channel material. A second insulating material of different composition from that of the first insulating material is adjacent the second side of the first insulating material. The second insulating material has at least one of (a), (b), and (c), where, (a): lower oxygen diffusivity than the first material, (b): net positive charge, and (c): at least two times greater shear strength than the first material. In some embodiments, an array of elevationally-extending strings of memory cells comprises such transistors. Other embodiments, including method, are disclosed.
US11011537B2
An apparatus including an array of at least two vertically stacked layers of integrated circuit device components separated by a dielectric layer on a substrate, wherein each of the at least two vertically stacked layers includes a laterally disposed contact point; and an electrically conductive interconnection coupled to a lateral edge of the contact point of each of the at least two vertically stacked layers and bridging the dielectric layer. A method including forming an array of at least two vertically stacked layers of integrated circuit device components separated by a dielectric layer on a substrate, forming a trench that exposes a lateral contact point of each of the at least two vertically stacked layers; depositing a polymer in the trench, wherein the polymer preferentially aligns to a material of the lateral contact point and bridges the dielectric layer; and modifying or replacing the polymer with an electrically conductive material.
US11011536B2
A vertical memory device includes gate electrodes spaced apart from each other in a first direction. Each of the gate electrodes extends in a second direction. Insulation patterns extend in the second direction between adjacent gate electrodes. A channel structure extends in the first direction. The channel structure extends through at least a portion of the gate electrode structure and at least a portion of the insulation pattern structure. The gate electrode structure includes at least one first gate electrode and a plurality of second gate electrodes sequentially stacked in the first direction on the substrate. Lower and upper surfaces of a first insulation pattern are bent away from the upper surface of the substrate along the first direction. A sidewall connecting the lower and upper surfaces of the first insulation pattern is slanted with respect to the upper surface of the substrate.
US11011534B2
A multi-level cell thin-film transistor memory and a method of fabricating the same, a structure of which memory comprises sequentially from down to top: a gate electrode, a charge blocking layer, a charge trapping layer, a charge tunneling layer, an active region, and source and drain electrodes; wherein the charge tunneling layer fully encloses the charge trapping layer so as to completely isolate the charge trapping layer from the ambience, which prevents change of physical properties and chemical compositions of the charge trapping layer during the annealing treatment, reduces loss of charges stored in the charge trapping layer, and enhances data retention property and device performance stability; a metal oxide semiconductor thin film is utilized as the charge trapping layer of the memory, which implements multi-level cell storage and improves storage density.
US11011528B2
An integrated circuit having logic and static random-access memory (SRAM) devices includes at least three active regions with gate terminals. Dielectric pillars are disposed between the active regions of the integrated circuit. A pillar is disposed symmetrically between two active regions of the logic device. A pillar is disposed asymmetrically between a p-channel field effect transistor (pFET), and an n-channel field effect transistor (nFET) of the SRAM device.
US11011524B2
A semiconductor arrangement includes a logic region and a memory region. The memory region has an active region that includes a semiconductor device. The memory region also has a capacitor within one or more dielectric layers over the active region, where the capacitor is over the semiconductor device. The semiconductor arrangement also includes a protective ring within at least one of the logic region or the memory region and that separates the logic region from the memory region. The capacitor has a first electrode, a second electrode and an insulating layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, where the first electrode is substantially larger than other portions of the capacitor.
US11011519B2
A semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same, the device including an active pattern extending in a first direction on a substrate; a field insulating film surrounding a part of the active pattern; a first gate structure extending in a second direction on the active pattern and the field insulating film, a second gate structure spaced apart from the first gate structure and extending in the second direction on the active pattern and the field insulating film; and a first device isolation film between the first and second gate structure, wherein a side wall of the first gate structure facing the first device isolation film includes an inclined surface having an acute angle with respect to an upper surface of the active pattern, and a lowermost surface of the first device isolation film is lower than or substantially coplanar with an uppermost surface of the field insulating film.
US11011518B2
A semiconductor device including, in cross section, a semiconductor substrate; a gate insulating film on the semiconductor substrate; a gate electrode on the gate insulating film, the gate electrode including a metal, a side wall insulating film at opposite sides of the gate electrode, the side wall insulating film contacting the substrate; a stress applying film at the opposite sides of the gate electrode and over at least a portion of the semiconductor substrate, at least portion of the side wall insulating film being between the gate insulating film and the stress applying film and in contact with both of them; source/drain regions in the semiconductor substrate at the opposite sides of the gate electrode, and silicide regions at surfaces of the source/drain regions at the opposite sides of the gate electrode, the silicide regions being between the source/drain regions and the stress applying layer and in contact with the stress applying layer.
US11011514B2
Certain embodiments include a cubic boron nitride (c-BN) device. The c-BN device includes a n/n+ Schottky diode and a n/p/n+ bipolar structure. The n/n+ Schottky diode and the /p/n+ bipolar structure are on a single-crystal diamond platform.
US11011512B2
A semiconductor device, comprising a nitride semiconductor layer, a switching element, and a driving transistor; the switching element comprises: a first portion of a first electrode formed on the nitride semiconductor layer; a second electrode formed on the nitride semiconductor layer; and a first control electrode formed on the nitride semiconductor layer and located between the first portion of the first electrode and the second electrode; the driving transistor comprises: a second portion of the first electrode formed on the nitride semiconductor layer and connecting the first portions of the adjacent first electrodes to each other; a third electrode formed on the nitride semiconductor layer and transmitting a signal to the first control electrode; and a second control electrode formed on the nitride semiconductor layer and located between the second portion of the first electrode and the third electrode. Therefore, when the switching element is turned off, it can be kept in an off state even if a drain voltage applied to the switching element is subjected to a variation or the like.
US11011501B2
A package structure including a first redistribution layer, a semiconductor die, through insulator vias, an insulating encapsulant and a second redistribution layer. The first redistribution layer includes a dielectric layer, a conductive layer, and connecting portions electrically connected to the conductive layer. The dielectric layer has first and second surfaces, the connecting portions has a first side, a second side, and sidewalls joining the first side to the second side. The first side of the connecting portions is exposed from and coplanar with the first surface of the dielectric layer. The semiconductor die is disposed on the second surface of the dielectric layer. The through insulator vias are connected to the conductive layer. The insulating encapsulant is disposed on the dielectric layer and encapsulating the semiconductor die and the through insulator vias. The second redistribution layer is disposed on the semiconductor die and over the insulating encapsulant.
US11011489B2
A semiconductor device includes an insulating layer, a barrier electrode layer formed on the insulating layer, a Cu electrode layer that includes a metal composed mainly of copper and that is formed on a principal surface of the barrier electrode layer, and an outer-surface insulating film that includes copper oxide, that coats an outer surface of the Cu electrode layer, and that is in contact with the principal surface of the barrier electrode layer.
US11011478B2
A semiconductor device includes an integrated circuit, an outer seal ring, and an inner seal ring. The outer seal ring forms a first closed loop surrounding the integrated circuit. The inner seal ring is between the outer seal ring and the integrated circuit. The inner seal ring has a first seal portion surrounding the integrated circuit and a second seal portion spaced apart from the first seal portion, a first connector interconnecting the first seal portion and the second seal portion, and a second connector spaced apart from the first connector and interconnecting the first seal portion and the second seal portion. The first seal portion, the second seal portion, the first connector, and the second connector form a second closed loop.
US11011462B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device. A fuse layer is arranged within a first dielectric layer. A bond pad is arranged on the first dielectric layer. A second dielectric layer is arranged along sidewall and upper surfaces of the bond pad. A passivation layer is arranged over the first and second dielectric layers, and the passivation layer having a bond pad opening overlying the bond pad and a fuse opening overlying the fuse layer. The bond pad has a bottom surface that is co-planar with a bottom surface of the passivation layer.
US11011460B2
A package structure including an interposer, a semiconductor die, through insulator vias, an insulating encapsulant and a redistribution layer is provided. The interposer includes a core structure having a first and second surface, first metal layers disposed on the first and second surface, second metal layers disposed on the second surface over the first metal layers, and third metal layers disposed on the second surface over the second metal layers. The semiconductor die is disposed on the interposer. The through insulator vias are disposed on the interposer and electrically connected to the plurality of first metal layers. The insulating encapsulant is disposed on the interposer over the first surface and encapsulating the semiconductor die and the plurality of through insulator vias. The redistribution layer is disposed on the insulating encapsulant and electrically connected to the semiconductor die and the plurality of through insulator vias.
US11011458B2
A method of manufacturing circuit board structure includes forming a sacrificial layer having first openings on a substrate; forming a metal layer on the sacrificial layer; forming a patterned photoresist layer having second openings over the sacrificial layer, in which the second openings are connected to the first openings and expose a portion of the metal layer; forming a first circuit layer filling the second openings and the first openings; forming a first dielectric layer over the sacrificial layer and covering the metal layer, in which the first dielectric layer has third openings exposing the first circuit layer; forming a second circuit layer filling the third openings and covering a portion of the first dielectric layer; removing the substrate to expose the sacrificial layer, a portion of the metal layer and a portion of the first circuit layer; and removing the sacrificial layer and the metal layer.
US11011449B1
A semiconductor memory system having a plurality of semiconductor memory modules that are spaced apart from each other by a gap. The system includes a heat dissipation assembly having a thermally conductive base portion configured to transfer heat away from the memory devices. The heat dissipation assembly including at least one cooling unit extending from the base portion. The at least one cooling unit having a wall with an exterior surface and a cavity. The cooling unit is configured to fit in the gap between adjacent memory modules such that a portion of the exterior surface on a first side of the cooling unit is coupled to one of the first memory devices and another portion of the exterior surface on a second side of the cooling unit is coupled to one of the second memory devices across the gap.
US11011448B2
A multi-chip unit suitable for chip-level packaging may include multiple IC chips that are interconnected through a metal redistribution structure, and that are directly bonded to an integrated heat spreader. Bonding of the integrated heat spreader to the multiple IC chips may be direct so that no thermal interface material (TIM) is needed, resulting in a reduced bond line thickness (BLT) and lower thermal resistance. The integrated heat spreader may further serve as a structural member of the multi-chip unit, allowing a second side of the redistribution structure to be further interconnected to a host by solder interconnects. The redistribution structure may be fabricated on a sacrificial interposer that may facilitate planarizing IC chips of differing thickness prior to bonding the heat spreader. The sacrificial interposer may be removed to expose the RDL for further interconnection to a substrate without the use of through-substrate vias.
US11011446B2
A semiconductor device and a method of making the same. The device includes a semiconductor substrate having a major surface, a backside and side surfaces extending between the major surface and the backside. The semiconductor device also includes at least one metal layer extending across the backside of the substrate. A peripheral part of the at least one metal layer located at the edge of the substrate between the backside and at least one of the side surfaces extends towards a plane containing the major surface. This can prevent burrs located at the peripheral part of the at least one metal layer interfering with the mounting of the backside of the substrate on the surface of a carrier.
US11011445B2
A semiconductor package device includes a lead frame including a lead frame pad and lead frame leads, a semiconductor chip located on the lead frame pad, and a substrate located on the semiconductor chip, wherein the lead frame leads include first lead frame leads coupled to the lead frame pad and second lead frame leads separated from the lead frame pad and attached to a bottom surface of the substrate.
US11011422B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same include forming a gate stack over a semiconductor fin. An interlayer dielectric is formed to a height of the gate stack. The interlayer dielectric is etched away in regions outside of junction regions for the semiconductor fin to form first gaps. A dielectric cap is formed over the gate stack and in the first gaps. The remaining interlayer dielectric is etched away to expose a source and drain region of the semiconductor fin. A conductive junction is formed on the semiconductor fin.
US11011420B2
Semiconductor devices having interconnects incorporating negative expansion (NTE) materials are disclosed herein. In one embodiment a semiconductor device includes a substrate having an opening that extends at least partially through the substrate. A conductive material having a positive coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) partially fills the opening. A negative thermal expansion (NTE) having a negative CTE also partially fills the opening. In one embodiment, the conductive material includes copper and the NTE material includes zirconium tungstate.
US11011417B2
A method includes applying a first dielectric material onto a semiconductor substrate to form a first dielectric layer on the semiconductor substrate, creating a plurality of openings in the dielectric layer, depositing a sacrificial material within the openings of the dielectric layer, removing the sacrificial material from at least a first segment of a first trench of the openings, depositing a second dielectric fill material into the first segment of the first trench opening where the sacrificial material was removed, removing the sacrificial material from at least some of the remaining openings and depositing a metallic material within the first trench opening to define at least first and second lines in the first trench and form a metallic interconnect structure.
US11011414B2
A method includes forming a first conductive line and a second conductive line in a dielectric layer, etching a portion of the dielectric layer to form a trench between the first conductive line and the second conductive line, and forming a first etch stop layer. The first etch stop layer extends into the trench. A second etch stop layer is formed over the first etch stop layer. The second etch stop layer extends into the trench, and the second etch stop layer is more conformal than the first etch stop layer. A dielectric material is filled into the trench and over the second etch stop layer. An air gap is formed in the dielectric material.
US11011412B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming same are provided. In one form, a forming method includes: providing a base, where a core layer is formed on the base, a hard mask layer is formed on the core layer, and a first mask opening is formed in the hard mask layer; forming a first mask trench in the core layer exposed from the first mask opening, the first mask trench including a plurality of mask sub-trenches along an extending direction, where the mask sub-trenches are isolated from each other using the core layer exposed from the first mask opening; forming a first spacer on a side wall of the mask sub-trench; removing a core layer of a region in which the first mask opening is located, and forming, at a position corresponding to the core layer, a second mask trench enclosed by the first spacer and the base, the second mask trench and the first mask trench being isolated from each other using the first spacer; and forming a second spacer on a side wall of the second mask trench, where both the first spacer and the base, and the second spacer and the base, enclose a first target trench. The first spacer and the second spacer whose side walls contact with each other are used as a cutting member, alleviating rounding of a head of the first target trench.
US11011410B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a first insulator layer on a first substrate of a first semiconductor material, implanting hydrogen ions into the first substrate to form a hydrogen-implanted layer, forming a recessed region in the first substrate, forming a second semiconductor material in the recessed region, and forming a second insulator layer over the second semiconductor material and the first substrate. The method also includes providing a second substrate with a third insulator layer disposed thereon, bonding the first substrate with the second substrate, and removing a lower portion of the first substrate at the hydrogen-implanted layer. A portion of the first substrate is removed to expose a surface of the second semiconductor material in the recessed region, thereby providing a layer of the first semiconductor material adjacent to a layer of the second semiconductor material on the second insulator layer.
US11011404B2
The ceramic structure 10 includes a discoid ceramic base 12 and an electrode 14 buried in the ceramic base 12. The ceramic base 12 is a sintered body composed principally of alumina or a rare-earth metal oxide and has a thermal expansion coefficient of 7.5 to 9.5 ppm/K over the range of 40° C. to 1200° C. The electrode 14 is composed principally of metal ruthenium. The electrode 14 may be formed in the shape of a sheet. Alternatively, the electrode 14 may be patterned in the manner of a one-stroke sketch so as to extend over the entire cross section of the ceramic base 12.
US11011400B2
An insulating wafer-storing container for storing substrates inside the container is provided in which at least one exterior surface of the container is formed with a contact portion that is to be in contact with an object other than the container and a non-contact portion that is not to be in contact with the object when the object is brought into contact with the at least one exterior surface, and the area of the contact portion is 40% or less of the total of the area of the contact portion and the area of the non-contact portion.
US11011396B2
The present invention provides various aspects for processing multiple types of substrates within cleanspace fabricators or for processing multiple or single types of substrates in multiple types of cleanspace environments. In some embodiments, a collocated composite cleanspace fabricator may be capable of processing semiconductor devices into integrated circuits and then performing assembly operations to result in product in packaged form. Customized smart devices, smart phones and touchscreen devices may be fabricated in examples of a cleanspace fabricator. In some examples, the smart devices, smart phones and touchscreen devices may have two touchscreens on opposite sides of the device along with hardware based encryption.
US11011392B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a method of cleaning a substrate. More specifically, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method of cleaning a substrate in a manner that reduces or eliminates the negative effects of line stiction between semiconductor device features. In an embodiment, a method of cleaning a substrate includes exposing a substrate having high aspect ratio features formed thereon to a first solvent to remove an amount of a residual cleaning solution disposed on a surface of the substrate, exposing the surface of the substrate to a second solvent to remove the first solvent disposed on the surface of the substrate, exposing the surface of the substrate to a supercritical fluid to remove the second solvent disposed on the surface of the substrate, and exposing the surface of the substrate to electromagnetic energy.
US11011388B2
Methods and apparatus for laterally etching unwanted material from the sidewalls of a recessed feature are described herein. In various embodiments, the method involves etching a portion of the sidewalls, depositing a protective film over a portion of the sidewalls, and cycling the etching and deposition operations until the unwanted material is removed from the entire depth of the recessed feature. Each etching and deposition operation may target a particular depth along the sidewalls of the feature. In some cases, the unwanted material is removed from the bottom of the feature up, and in other cases the unwanted material is removed from the top of the feature down. Some combination of these may also be used.
US11011378B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to atom implantation for reduction of compressive stress are described. An example method may include patterning a working surface of a semiconductor, the working surface having a hard mask material formed over a dielectric material and forming a material having a lower refractive index (RI), relative to a RI of the hard mask material, over the hard mask material. The method may further include implanting atoms through the lower RI material and into the hard mask material to reduce the compressive stress in the hard mask material.
US11011374B2
A method for manufacturing a group III nitride semiconductor substrate includes a sapphire substrate preparation step S10 for preparing a sapphire substrate having, as a main surface, a {10-10} plane or a plane obtained by inclining the {10-10} plane at a predetermined angle in a predetermined direction; a heat treatment step S20 for performing a heat treatment over the sapphire substrate while performing a nitriding treatment or without performing the nitriding treatment; a buffer layer forming step S30 for forming a buffer layer over the main surface of the sapphire substrate after the heat treatment; and a growth step S40 for forming a group III nitride semiconductor layer, in which a growth surface has a predetermined plane orientation, over the buffer layer, in which at least one of a plane orientation of the main surface of the sapphire substrate, presence or absence of the nitriding treatment during the heat treatment, and a growth temperature in the buffer layer forming step is adjusted such that the growth surface of the group III nitride semiconductor layer has the predetermined plane orientation.
US11011354B2
Systems and methods that facilitate non-pertubative measurements of low and null magnetic field in high temperature plasmas.
US11011345B2
The present disclosure relates to a charged particle beam device intended to appropriately measure the amount of foreign substances in a vacuum chamber. As one aspect for achieving the above object, proposed is a charged particle beam device including a charged particle beam column (9) configured to irradiate a sample with a charged particle beam, vacuum chambers (1, 2) configured to create a vacuum around the sample, a plurality of electrodes (12) arranged in the vacuum chambers, and a capacitance measuring device (13) for measuring the capacitance between the plurality of electrodes.
US11011340B2
The present invention relates to an ion generation composite target for an ion irradiation technology including: a substrate having a through hole formed thereon; and a graphene thin film configured on the substrate, across the through hole, having a thickness in a range between 1 nm to 3 nm, and ionized to release a proton or a carbon ion.
US11011328B2
A key module, a keyboard and an electronic device using same are provided. The key module includes a substrate, a light receiver, a light emitter and a lifting mechanism. The light receiver is disposed on and electrically connected with the substrate. The light emitter is disposed on and electrically connected with the substrate and disposed opposite to the light receiver. The lifting mechanism is disposed on the substrate and includes an interrupting portion, wherein the interrupting portion is movable to a region between the light receiver and the light emitter.
US11011321B2
An electrochemical energy storage device includes an anode having a first mixture which includes a first plurality of electrically conductive carbon-comprising particles having a first average porosity, and lithium metal materials. The weight ratio of the first plurality of carbon-comprising and lithium metal materials is from 30:1 to 3:1. A cathode includes a second mixture having a second plurality of electrically conductive carbon-comprising particles having a second average porosity greater than the first average porosity, and lithium-intercalating metal oxide particles. The weight ratio of the second plurality of carbon-comprising and lithium-intercalating metal oxide particles is from 1:20 to 5:1. The weight ratio between the lithium metal materials loaded in the anode and the second plurality of carbon-comprising particles in the cathode is from 0.1-10%. An electrolyte physically and ionically contacts the anode and the cathode, and fills the pore volume in the anode, cathode and a porous separator.
US11011316B2
An object of the present invention is to improve the sealability of a capacitor, to maintain the sealability thereof, or to suppress any degradation of the sealability thereof. In a capacitor (2), a base (6) including an insertion through hole (18-1, 18-2) is disposed on a side of an opening sealing member (14) of a capacitor main body (4), the opening sealing member is attached to an open portion of an outer package case (10) of the capacitor main body, and a terminal lead (16-1, 16-2) of the capacitor main body penetrates through the opening sealing member and passes through the insertion through hole to be disposed on an outer side of the base. The capacitor includes a resin layer (8) between the base and the opening sealing member. The base or the opening sealing member includes a protruding portion (20, 317-1) that is adjacent to the resin layer.
US11011310B2
An element body of a rectangular parallelepiped shape includes a first principal surface arranged to constitute a mounting surface, a second principal surface opposing the first principal surface in a first direction, a pair of side surfaces opposing each other in a second direction, and a pair of end surfaces opposing each other in a third direction. An external electrode is disposed on the element body. The external electrode includes a conductive resin layer. The conductive resin layer continuously covers one part of the first principal surface, one part of the end surface, and one part of each of the pair of side surfaces. A length of the conductive resin layer in the first direction is smaller than a length of the conductive resin layer in the third direction.
US11011291B2
A laminated electronic component having a coil formed in a laminated body of pluralities of laminated magnetic material layers and conductor patterns by electrically connecting the conductor patterns adjacent to each other via the magnetic material layers. The magnetic material layers contain a metal magnetic material. The coil has a first end portion close to a bottom surface of the laminated body and a second end portion distant from the bottom surface of the laminated body. The first end portion is electrically connected to a first external terminal disposed on the bottom surface of the laminated body. The second end portion is electrically connected to a second external terminal disposed on the bottom surface of the laminated body via a conductor extending in a lamination direction of the laminated body. An insulator part is disposed between the conductor and the coil.
US11011284B1
A data line convenient for storage includes a data line body (1); a plurality of magnetic rings (2) sleeve on the data line body (1); and a plurality of limit tube (3). Each limit tube (3) is arranged between each two adjacent magnetic rings (2). Two opposite ends of each limit tube (3) respectively abuts against the two adjacent magnetic rings (2). When the data line is coiled and stacked into a multiple-layer structure, the magnetic rings (2) located at two adjacent layers attract each other. The magnetic rings (2) at two adjacent layers can attract each other to fix the adjacent layers tightly for storage. The data line is simple in structure, each to use and properly designed to improve user experience.
US11011282B1
Systems, methods, and apparatus for meta-materials which are stretchable and tunable using an array of liquid conductor meta-atoms encased in one or more layers of elastomer. Fabrication techniques allow effective manufacture of the metamaterial in a number of form factors for a number of applications, including but not limited to fabrics or wraps around three-dimensional shapes.
US11011273B2
The present inventive subject matter provides apparatus, systems, and methods in which a diagnostic test is identified, where the diagnostic test is for determining whether a particular treatment is effective for a particular patient based on one or more characteristics of a patient's cells. When a treatment is developed with the potential to treat one or more diseases, the drug can have different effects on different cell lines related to the diseases. A machine learning system is programmed to infer a measurable cell characteristic, out of many different measurable cell characteristics, that has a desirable correlation with the sensitivity data of different cell lines to a treatment. The machine learning system is programmed to then determine, based on the correlation, a threshold level of the cell characteristic the patient should exhibit in order to recommend administering the treatment.
US11011270B2
A method of delivering safe, suitable, and repeatable dosages to a subject for topical, oral, nasal, or pulmonary use and a device for droplet ejection includes a fluid delivery system capable of delivering a defined volume of the fluid in the form of droplets having properties that afford adequate and repeatable high percentage deposition upon application. The method and device include a housing, a reservoir disposed within the housing for receiving a volume of fluid, an ejector mechanism configured to eject a stream of droplets having an average ejected droplet diameter greater than 15 microns, the stream of droplets having low entrained airflow such that the stream of droplets deposit on the eye of the subject during use.
US11011253B1
A method of viral escape profiling is used in association with antiviral or vaccine development. The method begins by training a language-based model against training data comprising a corpus of viral protein sequences of a given viral protein to model a viral escape profile. The viral escape profile represents, for one or more regions of the given viral protein, a relative viral escape potential of a mutation, the relative viral escape potential being derived as a function that combines both “semantic change,” representing a degree to which the mutation is recognized by the human immune system (i.e., antigenic change), and “grammaticality,” representing a degree to which the mutation affects viral infectivity (i.e. viral fitness). Using the model, a region of the given viral protein having an escape potential of interest is identified. Information regarding the region is then output to a vaccine or anti-viral therapeutic design and development workflow.
US11011249B2
Testing packaged integrated circuit (IC) devices is difficult and time consuming. When multiple devices (dies) are packaged to produce a SiP (system in package) the devices should be tested for defects that may be introduced during the packaging process. With limited access to the inputs and outputs of the devices, test times increase compared with testing the devices before they are packaged. A CoWoS (chip on wafer on substrate) SiP includes a logic device and a memory device and has interfaces between the logic device and memory device that cannot be directly accessed at a package ball. Test programs are concurrently executed by the logic device and the memory device to reduce testing time. Each memory device includes a BIST (built-in self-test) module that is initialized and executes the memory test program while the one or more modules within the logic device are tested.
US11011247B2
A source driving sub-circuit includes a shift register circuit and a latch circuit. The latch circuit includes a resetter and a latch. The resetter is coupled to an enabling signal terminal, a reset signal terminal and the latch. The latch is coupled to the shift register circuit and a data signal terminal. The latch is configured to receive signals output from the shift register circuit and at least in response to the signals output from the shift register circuit. And the resetter is configured to receive a signal provided from the enabling signal terminal and a signal provided from the reset terminal, and reset the at least one data signal latched by the latch in response to the signal provided from the enabling signal terminal.
US11011246B2
A shift register, a gate driving circuit, a display device, and a driving method of a node sustaining circuit are disclosed. The shift register includes an input sub-circuit, a reset sub-circuit, an output sub-circuit, a pull-down sub-circuit, a first control sub-circuit, a second control sub-circuit, a first storage sub-circuit, and a node sustaining circuit. The node sustaining circuit is configured to sustain the potential of a node, which is one of a pull-up node or a pull-down node in the shift register.
US11011245B2
A semiconductor device or the like with a novel structure that can change the orientation of the display is provided. A semiconductor device or the like with a novel structure, in which a degradation in transistor characteristics can be suppressed, is provided. A semiconductor device or the like with a novel structure, in which operation speed can be increased, is provided. A semiconductor device or the like with a novel structure, in which a dielectric breakdown of a transistor can be suppressed, is provided. The semiconductor device or the like has a circuit configuration capable of switching between a first operation and a second operation by changing the potentials of wirings. By switching between these two operations, the scan direction is easily changed. The semiconductor device is configured to change the scan direction.
US11011228B2
A memory device includes a memory cell array including memory cells disposed at points at which word lines and bit lines intersect, a first decoder circuit determining a selected bit line and non-selected bit lines among the bit lines, a second decoder circuit determining a selected word line and non-selected word lines among the word lines, a current compensation circuit providing a current path drawing a compensation current from the selected word line to compensate for off currents flowing in the non-selected bit lines, a first sense amplifier comparing a voltage of the selected word line with a reference voltage and outputting an enable signal, and a second sense amplifier outputting a voltage difference between the voltage of the selected word line and the reference voltage during an operating time determined by the enable signal in a readout operation mode of the memory device.
US11011223B2
An apparatus includes a component coupleable to a memory device. The component can be configured to analyze a plurality of sets of memory cells of the memory device to determine quality attributes associated with the plurality of sets of memory cells and assign grades to one or more sets of the memory cells based, at least in part, on the determined quality attributes. The component can be configured to allocate at least one of the plurality of sets of memory cells for use by the memory device based, at least in part, on the assigned grade associated with the one or more sets of the memory cells.
US11011218B2
A system for refresh operations including multiple refresh activations, and a method and an apparatus therefore, are described. The system includes, for example, a memory array; a command address input circuit configured to provide a command for a per bank refresh operation or an all-bank refresh operation, a command control circuit configured to receive the command, and provide first and second internal control signals; a refresh control circuit configured to provide a first refresh control signal; and a row control circuit configured to provide a second refresh control signal. The provided first internal control signal is based on the provided command. For the per bank refresh operation, the provided second internal control signal is based on the second refresh control signal, and, for the all-bank refresh operation, the provided second internal control signal is based on the first internal control signal delayed by the command control circuit.
US11011206B2
A method receives a video sequence including a visually perceptible item and selectively causes a display device to present the video sequence at any given time in one of a plurality of modes, including a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, the display device presents the video sequence with a tag, which comprises information pertaining to the visually perceptible item in the video sequence. In the second mode, the display device presents the video sequence without the tag. The method receives from an input device a signal that indicates whether to present the video sequence in the first mode or the second mode, wherein causing the display device to present the video sequence in the first mode is performed in response to receiving from the input device the signal that indicates that the video sequence should be presented in the first mode.
US11011202B2
There is provided a recording apparatus. A control unit repeatedly executes a recording operation of recording data into a recording medium having a recording area that includes a plurality of partial areas. The control unit performs control so that one partial area included among the plurality of partial areas is used as a recording destination, and when the one partial area is filled with recorded data, another partial area is used as a recording destination. The control unit performs control so that a size of data recorded in a single recording operation does not exceed a remaining size of a partial area that is used as a recording destination in the single recording operation.
US11011193B1
A spin transfer torque reversal assisted magnetic recording (STRAMR) structure is disclosed wherein two flux change layers (FCL1 and FCL2) are formed within a write gap (WG) and between a main pole (MP) trailing side and trailing shield (TS). Each FCL has a magnetization that flips to a direction substantially opposing a WG field when a direct current of sufficient current density is applied across the STRAMR device thereby increasing reluctance in the WG and producing a larger write field output at the air bearing surface. A reference layer (RL1) is used to reflect spin polarized electrons that exert spin torque on FCL1 and cause FCL1 magnetization to flip. A second reference layer (or the MP or TS) is employed to reflect spin polarize electrons that generate spin torque on FCL2 and flip FCL2 magnetization. Non-spin polarization preserving layers and spin polarization preserving layers are also in the STRAMR structure.
US11011192B1
An optically shielded (thermally assisted magnetic recording (TAMR) head comprises a perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) write head and a near-field transducer (NFT) having an emerging peg at the air-bearing surface (ABS). Self-aligned optical side shields (SA-OSS) are formed using a self-aligning process that positions the shields symmetrically relative to the emergent peg of the NFT. As a result of the symmetric positioning the down-track and cross-track near-field and near-field gradients are significantly sharpened.
US11011189B2
A read channel is configured to obtain an analog readback waveform from a magnetic recording medium of a disk drive at a sampling rate of one sample per one written bit. A buffer is coupled the read channel. Circuitry is configured to inject a plurality of different phase offsets into the read channel for each of a plurality of revolutions of the medium. The circuitry is also configured to store, in a buffer, an amplitude of the readback waveform for each of the different phase offsets. The circuitry is further configured to generate an oversampled readback waveform using the amplitudes stored in the buffer.
US11011187B2
An apparatus for generating relations between feature amounts of audio and scene type includes at least one processor and a memory. The memory is operatively coupled to the at least one processor. The processor is configured to set one of the scene types to each of clusters classifying the feature amounts of audio in one or more pieces of content. The processor is also configured to generate a plurality of pieces of learning data, each representative of a feature amount, from among the feature amounts of the audio, that belongs to each cluster and the scene type set for each cluster. The processor is also configured to generate an identification model representative of relations between the feature amounts of audio and the scene types by performing machine learning using the plurality of pieces of learning data.
US11011180B2
Provided are systems, methods and techniques for compressing the dynamic range of an audio signal. In one implementation: an input audio signal is obtained, and a time-varying gain signal is provided based on it and a desired output range. The time-varying preliminary gain signal is then applied to the input audio signal to provide an output audio signal. Provision of the time-varying gain signal involves lowpass filtering a signal that is based on the input audio signal, using an attack gain-response time and a release gain-response time as filtering parameters, with the attack gain-response time decreased and the release gain-response time increased in response to a determination that a transient is occurring in the input audio signal.
US11011167B2
A communication system includes a pair of speech recognition devices that are capable of communicating with each other, each of the speech recognition devices including a speech input section into which speech is input, a speech recognition section that recognizes speech input to the speech input section, and a speech output section that outputs speech. The communication system also includes an information generation section that generates notification information corresponding to speech recognized by the speech recognition section in one speech recognition device from out of the pair of speech recognition devices, and a speech output control section that performs control to output notification speech corresponding to the notification information at a specific timing from the speech output section of the other speech recognition device from out of the pair of speech recognition devices.
US11011160B1
A computerized system for transforming recorded speech into a derived expression of intent from the recorded speech includes: (1) a text classification module comparing a transcription of at least a portion of recorded speech against a text classifier to generate a first set of one or more of the representations of potential intents based upon such comparison; (2) a phonetics classification module comparing a phonetic transcription of at least a portion of the recorded speech against a phonetics classifier to generate a second set of one or more of the representations of potential intents based upon such comparison; (3) an audio classification module comparing an audio version of at least a portion of the recorded speech with an audio classifier to generate a third set of one or more of the representations of potential intents based upon such comparison; and a (4) discriminator module for receiving the first, second and third sets of the one or more representations of potential intents and generating at least one derived expression of intent by processing the first, second and third sets of the one or more representations of potential intents together; where at least two of the text classification module, the phonetics classification module and the audio classification module are asynchronous processes from one another.
US11011156B2
A computer-implemented method for training a model is disclosed. The model is capable of retaining a history of one or more preceding elements and has a direction of prediction. The method includes obtaining a training sequence of elements. The method also includes splitting the training sequence into a plurality of parts. The method further includes selecting one part of the plurality of the parts depending on the direction of the model to generate a modified training data. The method includes further training the model using the modified training data.
US11011149B2
A hearing protection headset that can be worn by a user includes left and right earcups. The headset includes a radio communication system enabling at least one radio signal to be received and played through one or both of the earcups. Noise control circuitry in the headset is configurable by a user between at least three active modes of operation—the circuitry having a first active mode in which the headset provides automatic noise reduction, a second active mode in which the headset provides automatic noise cancellation, and a third active mode in which the headset provides both automatic noise reduction and automatic noise cancellation. A switch is manually operable by the user to configure the circuitry between the first active mode and the second active mode and the third active mode.
US11011148B1
A portable acoustical blocking system is disclosed for use with a support comprising a sheet of acoustical blocking material bound by material edge. A reinforcing tape is affixed to the sheet of acoustical blocking material adjacent to the material edge. A plurality of hangers are secured to the sheet of acoustical blocking material and extending through the reinforcing tape and the sheet of acoustical blocking material for hanging the sheet of acoustical blocking material from the support for inhibiting the flow of acoustic energy between the first and second sides of the acoustical blocking material.
US11011146B2
This invention continues and adds to the embodiments under Non-provisional patent application Ser. No. 16/840,644, adding circuits using small dual-coil humbucking pickups made to mount in the same holes as and replace single-coil pickups. It also develops circuits to match the value of tone capacitors to the lumped inductances of pickup circuits. A mechanical switching system for 3 single-sized humbuckers can produce 21 distinct tonal circuits from 48 different switch combinations, using a 6-way circuit switch and three 2-way mode switches. A digitally-controlled solid-state switching system can avoid the duplicate circuits, and control even more pickups for more tones. With such a switching system, the user can set the order of 2, 21, 120 and 705 distinct tonal circuits for 2, 3, 4 and 5 single-sized humbucking pickups, with expected extensions to larger numbers of pickups, and the caveat from previous work by this inventor that tones tend to bunch together at the warm end, decreasing the number of audibly distinct tones.
US11011143B2
A stringed musical instrument comprises a bridge that receives a plurality of strings. The bridge comprises at least one internal pocket. In some embodiments, the bridge comprises a plurality of internal pockets.
US11011138B2
A terminal and a control method for simultaneously executing a plurality of applications are provided. The mobile terminal includes a display unit to output a first screen and a second screen overlapping at least a portion the first screen as a higher screen than the first screen and a control unit to control transparency based on occurrence of a preset event of at least a first region of the first screen on which an object corresponding to the preset event is output or a second region of the second screen overlapping the first region according to a preset scheme.
US11011136B2
An image data processing device of the inventive concept includes an image data converter and a light emission amount calculator. The image data converter converts image data into modulation image data. The image data includes first to third data corresponding to the first to third colors, respectively. The modulation image data includes first to fourth modulation data corresponding to the first to fourth colors, respectively. The light emission amount calculator calculates the fourth modulation data based on the ratio between the first data and the second data. The fourth color includes a color based on mixing the first color and the second color.
US11011127B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate having a display area for displaying an image and a non-display area surrounding the display area; a first clock line portion in the non-display area, the first clock line portion having a plurality of gate shift clock lines; a second clock line portion in the non-display area between the first clock line portion and the display area, the second clock line portion having a gate start signal line; and a gate driving built-in circuit in the non-display area between the first clock line portion and the second clock line portion, and connected with the plurality of gate shift clock lines and the gate start signal line.
US11011118B2
The present application discloses a pixel-driving circuit in a display panel. The pixel-driving circuit includes a first transistor being provided with a fixed voltage, a driving transistor having a gate configured to receive the fixed voltage controlled by the first transistor and a drain coupled to a first power supply, a capacitor coupled between the gate and a source of the driving transistor, a light-emitting device coupled to the source and a second power supply, a second transistor having a drain coupled to the source of the driving transistor and a source coupled to a data line, a sensing sub-circuit coupled to the data line in a first period, and a driving sub-circuit coupled to the data line in a second period. The sensing sub-circuit and the driving sub-circuit are configured to connect to the data line in a time-divisional manner respectively for sensing and compensating the pixel-driving circuit.
US11011106B1
A method for compensating for characteristics of a transistor. In some embodiments, the method includes: measuring an error value, the error value being a difference between: a target current and a current driven by the transistor when the transistor is controlled by a compensated control signal based on an input control signal; adding to a first compensation parameter a first adjustment; adding to a second compensation parameter a second adjustment; and applying to a gate of the transistor a voltage equal to the sum of: the second compensation parameter, and the product of: the first compensation parameter, and an uncompensated drive voltage.
US11011102B2
A display apparatus according to the present invention includes: a display unit configured to display an image based on input image data on a screen; and a control unit configured to execute control to reduce an upper limit value of a display brightness range of a second area, which is different from a first area, of the screen of the display unit below an upper limit value of a display brightness range of the first area of the screen of the display unit, so that a power consumption of the display unit does not exceed a predetermined power consumption.
US11011097B2
A method for driving a display panel is disclosed. The display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array, a plurality of data input ports, a plurality of groups of data lines, and a plurality of groups of selection switches, wherein each group of data lines includes a plurality of data lines coupled to the same data input port through a plurality of selection switches in a corresponding group of selection switches. The method includes: sequentially turning on a plurality of selection switches according to a first sequence when an Mth row of sub-pixels of the display panel is scanned; and sequentially turning on the plurality of selection switches according to a second sequence when an (M+1)th row of sub-pixels of the display panel is scanned, wherein M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1, and the first sequence is different from the second sequence.
US11011094B1
A display devices with better visual effects and low power consumption in inversion manners is provided. The display device includes a display panel and a driving circuit. The display panel includes scan lines, pixels, first common electrodes and second common electrodes. The second common electrodes and the first common electrodes are alternately arranged. The driving circuit provides a first common voltage to the first common electrodes and provides a second common voltage to the second common electrodes in a first time interval of a first frame time interval and a second time interval of a second frame time interval. In addition, the driving circuit provides the second common voltage to the first common electrodes, and provides the first common voltage to the second common electrodes in the first time interval of the second frame time interval and the second time interval of the first frame time interval.
US11011086B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a power management circuit configured to generate an analog driving voltage, a correction data memory configured to store a plurality of unevenness correction data sets respectively corresponding to a plurality of analog driving voltage ranges, a controller configured to determine, among the plurality of analog driving voltage ranges, a current analog driving voltage range to which the analog driving voltage output from the power management circuit belongs, to select an unevenness correction data set corresponding to the current analog driving voltage range from the plurality of unevenness correction data sets stored in the correction data memory, and to correct image data based on the selected unevenness correction data set, and a source driver configured to receive the corrected image data from the controller, and to provide the plurality of pixels with data voltages corresponding to the image data.
US11011080B2
In an arrangement for indicating an intended end of a period of use of a textile product (1), the textile product (1) or a label (2) of the textile product (1) has an indicator field (3) which, in a first area (3a), has a first color that changes during the period of use of the textile product (1) and in the course of the associated washes. The indicator field (3) additionally has a second color in a second area (3b), wherein the wash-fastness of the first color is less than the wash-fastness of the second color, and the first color differs, in the delivery state, from the second color and, over a number of washes of the textile product (1), increasingly approximates to the second color.
US11011061B2
A method and apparatus are provided for determining whether a driving environment has changed relative to previously stored information about the driving environment. The apparatus may include an autonomous driving computer system configured to detect one or more vehicles in the driving environment, and determine corresponding trajectories for those detected vehicles. The autonomous driving computer system may then compare the determined trajectories to an expected trajectory of a hypothetical vehicle in the driving environment. Based on the comparison, the autonomous driving computer system may determine whether the driving environment has changed and/or a probability that the driving environment has changed, relative to the previously stored information about the driving environment.
US11011054B2
A display system is disclosed. The present system comprises a display device and an image processing device, wherein the display device transmits a control signal for controlling an external image source device to the image processing device in response to a signal received from a remote controller, and the image processing device processes an image received from an image source device, transmits the processed image to the display device, and transmits the control signal received from the display device to the image source device. The image processing device identifies a state change of the display device in response to control signal transmission, and transmits a signal for changing an operation mode of the remote controller to the display device if no change is identified, and when the signal for changing the operation mode of the remote controller is received, the display device transmits the received signal to the remote controller.
US11011053B2
Systems and methods for remote power tool control are provided. In one example, a battery pack is coupled to a power tool device. The battery pack includes a pack transceiver and a pack electronic processor. The pack electronic processor is coupled to the pack transceiver and is configured to determine that the power tool device is remotely controllable. The pack electronic processor is further configured to receive, wirelessly via a pack transceiver of the battery pack, a remote control command from a mobile device, and to provide the remote control command to the power tool device. The system further includes a tool electronic processor of the power tool device in communication with the pack electronic processor. The tool electronic processor is configured to control the power tool device to perform an action specified by the remote control command in response to receiving the remote control command.
US11011049B2
In one exemplary embodiment, a method of providing safety assistance on a test ride of a vehicle includes opening a locking device to provide access to a vehicle access component. A safety protocol is initiated with a computerized device. The vehicle is operated with the vehicle access component. A gesture is performed with the computerized device to summon assistance.
US11011045B1
A system for providing an alert to an owner of an object that the object is on a surface. The alert reminds the owner that the object is on the surface and to retrieve the object, thus inhibiting abandonment of the object by the owner. The system includes a material layer including a conductive thread thereon. The material layer can define the surface and be arranged in a vehicle. An electrical current flowing through the conductive thread produces an electrical phenomenon. The object produces a change in the electrical phenomenon detected by the sensor. If the object is detected on the surface and the owner of the object is leaving the object on the surface, the system provides the alert to the owner that the object is on the surface so the object can be retrieved by the owner.
US11011043B2
A set of alarm criteria for a drilling tool may be obtained. Individual alarm criterion of the set of alarm criteria may be satisfied based on the drilling tool operating with a set of operating characteristics corresponding to the individual alarm criterion. The set of alarm criteria may include two or more of a tight-hole alarm criterion, a washout alarm criterion, a packoff alarm criterion, a weight-stacking alarm criterion, a delta-torque alarm criterion, a torque alarm criterion, a rate-of-penetration alarm criterion, a reamer-tension-compression alarm criterion, a running-speed alarm criterion, a drag alarm criterion, and/or a pipe-movement alarm criterion. An alarm event corresponding to an alarm criterion may be detected based on the operating characteristic(s) of the drilling tool matching the set of operating characteristics corresponding to the alarm criterion. Responsive to detection of the alarm event, an alarm for the alarm event may be generated.
US11011035B2
The various implementations described herein include methods, devices, and systems for detecting motion and persons. In one aspect, a method is performed at a smart home system that includes a video camera, a server system, and a client device. The video camera captures video and audio, and wirelessly communicates, via the server system, the captured data to the client device. The server system: (1) receives and stores the captured data from the video camera; (2) determines whether an event has occurred, including detected motion; (3) in accordance with a determination that the event has occurred, identifies video and audio corresponding to the event; and (4) classifies the event. The client device receives information indicative of the identified events, displays a user interface for reviewing the video and audio stored by the remote server system, and displays the at least one classification for the event.
US11011030B2
Systems and methods for mounting light emitting diodes for a visual alarm device in multiple planes are provided. The visual alarm device can include a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) mounted on a printed circuit board and configured to flash during an emergency situation, wherein each of the plurality of LEDs can be mounted in a respective one of a plurality of planes.
US11011021B2
Provided is a game system which performs control so as to allow a previously set donation amount to be donated when a user performs a cashing-out operation. A donation management server 40 stores settings related to donations made by a user in a donation setting information table 421 and when the user performs the cashing-out operation on a slot machine 1010, performs control so as to donate a donation amount selected by the user from among donation amount candidates set by the above-mentioned settings made by the user.
US11011018B2
Systems and methods for purchasing credits are described. The system includes a plurality of electronic transaction terminals, an activity table, a computing device, a financial account server, and a credit system. The electronic transaction terminals include a handheld device that receives patron input and are located at an activity table. The electronic transaction terminals are in electronic communication with the computing device and provide an electronic transaction request instruction. The system generates from the electronic transaction request instruction, an electronic transaction request that is communicated from the computing device to the financial account server. The computing device then receives an electronic transaction approval from the financial account server and generates an authorization to dispense credits to a patron. The computing device then communicates the authorization to dispense credits to the credit system associated with the activity table so that the patron receives the credits at the activity table.
US11011016B2
Systems and methods for providing gaming content that is synchronized with streaming video content are disclosed. A time at which a predetermined portion of streaming video content will be displayed to a user on a display device is determined by a processing device. Based on the determined time, game content that is associated with the predetermined portion of the streaming video content is selected by the processing device. The game content is then displayed to the user on a display device, which may be a different display device that the display device that is displaying the streaming video content, or which may be the same display device. The displayed game content is synchronized with displaying the predetermined portion of the streaming video content.
US11011013B2
A physical system supports a method on a surface of a gaming table for reception of markers identifying placement of wagers on a series of sequential random outcomes. There are a series of distinct adjacent areas for receiving markers indicating wagers on the series of sequential random outcomes. Each distinct area has a surface area sufficient to accommodate a marker indicating wagers from a single player. Associated with each area is an indicator of a degree of progression through a sequence of random outcomes. The indicator of a degree of progression changing after each sequential outcome. Any markers present on a distinct area moving relative to a last indicator on which any marker was present to indicate a change in a degree of progression in the series of sequential random outcomes.
US11011007B2
Included are a medium insertion port that accepts insertion of a medium from a customer; a determination section that determines whether or not the inserted medium is a counterfeit note; and a notification section that notifies a specific notification target selected from plural notification targets when the determination section has determined the inserted medium to be a counterfeit note.
US11011004B2
A server collects measurement data of a camera to efficiently generate statistical data relating to the number of entering and exiting persons, and present the data to a user. The camera includes image capture unit capturing an image of a doorway of a facility, processor detecting persons entering and exiting from the doorway based on captured images sequentially output from the image capture unit and generating measurement data relating to the number of entering and exiting persons for each predetermined period, and communication unit transmitting the measurement data output from the processor for each predetermined period to store server, and store server includes communication unit receiving measurement data for each predetermined period transmitted from camera, storage unit accumulating measurement data for each predetermined period received by the communication unit, and processor statistically processing measurement data for each predetermined period to generate statistical data for targeting one or more facilities.
US11011000B2
A control unit issues temporary authentication information for disabling a locking/unlocking process to a user terminal satisfying a first condition. The control unit determines whether first authentication information has been issued to another user terminal, issues second authentication information to the user terminal to which the temporary authentication information has been issued when the first authentication information has not been issued to another user terminal, and issues the second authentication information to the user terminal to which the temporary authentication information has been issued with detection of ending of use of the first authentication information in another user terminal as a trigger when the first authentication information has been issued to the other user terminal.
US11010991B2
A system for automatically detecting an operational event for a bulk material hauler vehicle. The system includes a sensor mounted on the bulk material hauler vehicle, which is adapted for hauling a bulk material such as an aggregate. The system further includes a telematics system provided on the bulk material hauler vehicle. The telematics system includes a processor running software (or executing instructions or code) for detecting the operational event (e.g., providing functions of a load and unload detection module or discriminator as described herein). During vehicle operations, the sensor transmits sensor data to the telematics system, and the detecting of the operational event includes retrieving a signature definition for the operational event and then verifying the sensor data meets requirements of the signature definition. In some embodiments of the system, the operational event is loading the bulk material on or unloading the bulk material from the vehicle.
US11010985B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes: an image sensor, a display device, and a processor. The image sensor captures a plurality of object images of a target object on which a first positioning tag, a second positioning tag, and a third positioning tag are disposed. The processor executes an augmented-reality program to perform the following steps: recognizing the first positioning tag, the second positioning tag, and the third positioning tag from each object image; calculating a scale ratio for each dimension of a three-dimensional model according to the positions of the first, second, and third positioning tags; performing an image-scaling process on the three-dimensional model and rendering the scaled three-dimensional model; and overlaying the scaled three-dimensional model on each object image to generate an output image and displaying the output image on the display device.
US11010983B2
Disclosed herein is a method of graphically presenting an indicating marker over a 3-D model of a tissue surface during a catheterization procedure, comprising determining a region over the 3-D model, deforming the indicating marker to congruently match a shape defined by the 3-D model across the region at a plurality of positions; and rendering the 3-D model into an image including the deformed indicating marker by generating an image of the 3-D model covered by said deformed indicating marker.
US11010980B2
An audiovisual input from a wearable device is received. It is determined that a discrete task is currently being performed. The determination is based on the receiving the audiovisual input. An unrelated audiovisual input, unrelated to the discrete task is detected. The detection is based on the determining the discrete task. The unrelated audiovisual input is intercepted in response of the detection of the unrelated audiovisual input. The audiovisual input is prevented based on the intercepting the unrelated audiovisual input.
US11010968B2
In various example embodiments, a system and methods are presented for generation and manipulation of three dimensional (3D) models. The system and methods cause presentation of an interface frame encompassing a field of view of an image capture device. The systems and methods detect an object of interest within the interface frame, generate a movement instruction with respect to the object of interest, and detect a first change in position and a second change in position of the object of interest. The systems and methods generate a 3D model of the object of interest based on the first change in position and the second change in position.
US11010965B2
An augmented reality device includes a logic machine and a storage machine holding instructions executable by the logic machine to, for one or more real-world surfaces represented in a three-dimensional representation of a real-world environment of the augmented reality device, fit a virtual two-dimensional plane to the real-world surface. A request to place a virtual three-dimensional object on the real-world surface is received. For each of a plurality of candidate placement locations on the virtual two-dimensional plane, the candidate placement location is evaluated as a valid placement location or an invalid placement location for the virtual three-dimensional object. An invalidation mask is generated that defines the valid and invalid placement locations on the virtual two-dimensional plane.
US11010962B1
Disclosed herein is a method of facilitating the generation of 3D digital objects from 2D images. Accordingly, the method may include a step of receiving a plurality of 2D images associated with a 3D object from at least one user device. Further, the method may include a step of processing at least one 2D image of the plurality of 2D images to identify the 3D object. Further, the method may include a step of retrieving at least one additional 2D image associated with the 3D object from a database based on the processing. Further, the method may include a step of analyzing the plurality of 2D images and the at least one additional 2D image. Further, the method may include a step of generating a 3D digital object based on the analyzing. Further, the method may include a step of storing the 3D digital object.
US11010956B2
Foveated rendering for rendering an image uses a ray tracing technique to process graphics data for a region of interest of the image, and a rasterisation technique is used to process graphics data for other regions of the image. A rendered image can be formed using the processed graphics data for the region of interest of the image and the processed graphics data for the other regions of the image. The region of interest may correspond to a foveal region of the image. Ray tracing naturally provides high detail and photo-realistic rendering, which human vision is particularly sensitive to in the foveal region; whereas rasterisation techniques are suited for providing temporal smoothing and anti-aliasing in a simple manner, and is therefore suited for use in the regions of the image that a user will see in the periphery of their vision.
US11010951B1
In one embodiment, a system may capture one or more images of a user using one or more cameras, the one or more images depicting at least an eye and a face of the user. The system may determine a direction of a gaze of the user based on the eye depicted in the one or more images. The system may generate a facial mesh based on depth measurements of one or more features of the face depicted in the one or more images. The system may generate an eyeball texture for an eyeball mesh by processing the direction of the gaze and the facial mesh using a machine-learning model. The system may render an avatar of the user based on the eyeball mesh, the eyeball texture, the facial mesh, and a facial texture.
US11010946B2
Systems and methods are described to detect a location to place an advertisement in a media asset, the method comprising, identifying a plurality of points in a video frame of a media asset, detecting a color associated with each point of the plurality of points, calculating a change in color between each point of the plurality of points, comparing the change in color between each point of the plurality of points with a threshold, identifying, based on the comparing, an area within the frame that constitutes a surface; and selecting an advertisement to be placed on the surface.
US11010945B2
The present invention provides an image display method applied to an augmented reality (AR) system which positions a virtual object by a marker image. The image display method includes that: a reality image is acquired, wherein the reality image includes a first image where the marker image is positioned and a second image, and the marker image includes a known pattern; the first image in the reality image is replaced with an extending image of the second image on the basis of a relationship between the known pattern and the first image to generate a display image; and the display image is displayed. Therefore, the condition that an AR image includes the marker image and thus the whole image looks unnatural may be avoided. In addition, the AR system using the foregoing method is also provided.
US11010944B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media can obtain a first image depicting a face of a user. A plurality of images depicting the face of the user can be identified. A second image of the plurality of images can be identified based on one or more factors. The face or a portion of the face of the user in the first image can be replaced with the face or a portion of the face of the user in the second image.
US11010940B2
A system and method for displaying in a two-dimensional array the structured interaction of two variables moving in tandem to achieve a target outcome: e.g., a chemical reaction balancing heat and pressure to produce a desired compound, or an aircraft changing speed over angles of attack. Underlying system operating variables are represented in the display as proxy values of X and Y, scaled so the range and interval of X- and Y-axes are the same. The resulting display is a “matched array” of all possible X, Y intersections, including a unique and clearly-delineated “alignment vector” of those cells in which proxy values of X equal proxy values of Y, the jointly-optimal values of the underlying system operating variables. Wherever X and Y intersect, indicators depict the operating variable values, their proximity to optimal on the alignment vector, and the direction and extent of adjustments needed to achieve optimal system performance.
US11010932B2
An apparatus and a method for coloring line drawing is disclosed for: acquiring line drawing data; performing reduction processing on the line drawing data to be a predetermined reduced size to obtain reduced line drawing data; coloring the reduced line drawing data based on a first learned model which is learned in advance using sample data; and coloring original line drawing data with the colored reduced data and the original line drawing data as inputs based on a second learned model which is learned in advance.
US11010912B2
Method that merges two or more point clouds captured from a scene, eliminates redundant points, and retains points that best represent the scene. The method may generally include a detection step, which locates points from different clouds that are close and thus potentially redundant, followed by a selection step that identifies preferred points. Clouds may be represented as range images, which may simplify both steps. Closeness testing may be optimized by dividing range images into tiles and testing tile bounding volumes for intersections between clouds. Selection of preferred points may incorporate user input, or it may be fully or partially automated. User selection may be performed using 2D drawing tools on range images to identify images with preferred views of a scene. Automated selection may assign a quality measure to points based for example on the surface resolution of each point cloud scan at overlapping points.
US11010910B2
A self-contained, low-cost, low-weight guidance system for vehicles is provided. The guidance system can include an optical camera, a case, a processor, a connection between the processor and an on-board control system, and computer algorithms running on the processor. The guidance system can be integrated with a vehicle control system through “plug and play” functionality or a more open Software Development Kit. The computer algorithms re-create 3D structures as the vehicle travels and continuously updates a 3D model of the environment. The guidance system continuously identifies and tracks terrain, static objects, and dynamic objects through real-time camera images. The guidance system can receive inputs from the camera and the onboard control system. The guidance system can be used to assist vehicle navigation and to avoid possible collisions. The guidance system can communicate with the control system and provide navigational direction to the control system.
US11010903B1
Techniques are described for processing digital video data using one or more machine learning models to determine an outcome of an item placement operation within a fulfillment center environment. Video data is processed using one or more machine learning models to determine an estimated likelihood that an occurrence of a particular fulfillment center operation is depicted within the two or more instances of digital video data. Upon determining that the estimated likelihood exceeds a predefined threshold confidence level, the video data is processed using second one or more machine learning models to determine a bin placement prediction and a confidence value. A data repository for a control system for the fulfillment center environment is updated, based on the bin placement prediction and the confidence value.
US11010897B2
A method is for producing an identification unit for identifying image artifacts automatically. In an embodiment, the method includes providing a learning processing apparatus; providing an initial identification unit; providing a first image data library including artifact reference acquisitions containing image artifacts; and training the identification unit using the image artifacts. An identification method is for identifying image artifacts automatically in an image acquisition. In an embodiment, the identification method includes: providing a trained identification unit; providing an image acquisition produced via a medical imaging system; inspecting the image acquisition for image artifacts by the identification unit; and labeling the ascertained image artifacts.
US11010895B2
A processor for an electronic endoscope includes an enhancement processing unit that includes: a depth data generation unit configured to generate depth data D of the entire captured image by generating, a data value representing information on a depth of a concave portion of the living tissue in each pixel; an undulation-enhanced data generation unit configured to generate a value of undulation-enhanced data S, which has information with a steeply inclined change of a signal level value at a boundary between a concave portion and a convex portion of surface irregularities of the living tissue, from the depth data D; and an enhancement processing execution unit that generates an enhanced image by adding or subtracting at least a value to or from a signal level value of the processing target pixel on which the enhancement processing of the captured image is performed.
US11010889B2
A device for measuring wear is disclosed. The device may receive images associated with a component, and may receive a three-dimensional (3D) model of the component. The device may generate an image point cloud based on the images, and may generate a model point cloud based on the 3D model of the component. The device may perform a first alignment of the image point cloud and the model point cloud to generate first-aligned point clouds, and may perform a second alignment of the first-aligned point clouds to generate second-aligned point clouds. The device may generate 3D mask regions based on the second-aligned point clouds, and may project the 3D mask regions on the images. The device may process the 3D mask regions, projected on the images, to determine reference points in the images, and may determine an amount of wear associated with the component based on the reference points.
US11010875B2
A system and method of processing an image may include capturing an image of a scene. Image data having M-bits per pixel of the image may be generated. Multiple sets of simulated image data of the scene may be generated by applying different simulated exposure times to the generated image data. A processed image may be derived from the sets of simulated image data. The image data having M-bits per pixel may be an HDR image, and the processed image may be an LDR image.
US11010869B2
The present invention provides an image processing circuit, wherein the image processing circuit comprises a receiving circuit, an image dividing circuit, a first image enlargement circuit, a second image enlargement circuit and an output circuit. In the operations of the image processing circuit, the receiving circuit receives image data, the image dividing circuit divides a pixel value of each pixel of the image data into two parts to generate first image data and second image data, the first image enlargement circuit enlarges the first image data in a linear manner to generate enlarged first image data, the second image enlargement circuit enlarges the second image data in a non-linear manner to generate enlarged second image data, and the output circuit generates an output image according to the enlarged first image data and the enlarged second image data.
US11010859B2
The present disclosure relates to a display resource scheduling method and device for an embedded system, a computer readable storage medium and an electronic device. The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a display resource scheduling method for an embedded system, at least a host operating system and a first guest operating system running on the embedded system, and the embedded system including a graphics processing unit and a display-specific hardware accelerator. The method includes: receiving a graphic to be displayed of the first guest operating system; preferentially scheduling the display-specific hardware accelerator to perform a display operation on the graphic to be displayed; if resources of the display-specific hardware accelerator are exhausted, scheduling the graphics processing unit to perform a display operation on the graphic to be displayed.
US11010847B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure can include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to identify a set of features associated with at least one of a collection of residences or an energy billing period. Measured energy consumption information and a plurality of feature values can be acquired for each residence in the collection of residences. Each feature value in the plurality of feature values can correspond to a respective feature in the set of features. A regression model can be trained based on the measured energy consumption information and the plurality of features values for each residence in the collection of residences. At least one expected consumption value and at least one efficient consumption value can be determined based on the regression model.
US11010844B2
A system or method may implement an overdraft prediction analysis to predict whether an account overdraft is about to occur. The overdraft prediction analysis may be based on: 1. customer account data, such as current account balance, historical balances, historical withdrawals, historical deposits balance trends, and the like; 2. account transaction data, such as routine or recurring account transactions, timing of transactions, amount, deposit or withdrawal transactions, and the like; 3. location data, such as locations of past purchases or payments; and 4. time and date data, such as dates and times of past transactions. Other factors, such as credit score, loan activities, social data, or the like also may be used for the overdraft prediction analysis. Once an overdraft situation is predicted, the system or method may provide options for the users to avoid or mitigate the potential account overdraft.
US11010843B2
The invention relates to systems and methods for behavioral modification of users in an online community where users store or share data to help one another reach informed decisions. One aspect of the invention provides a method for encouraging active participation in an online community. The method includes: receiving information from a first user regarding a topic, receiving a request from a second user for additional information desired from the first user, and sending a personalized message to the first user requesting the additional information. Another aspect of the invention provides a computer-readable medium whose contents cause a computer to perform a method for encouraging active participation in an online community. The method includes: receiving information from a first user regarding a topic; identifying additional information desired from the first user; and sending a personalized message to the first user requesting the additional information.
US11010841B2
A recycling kiosk for recycling and financial remuneration for submission of an electronic device such as a mobile phone is disclosed herein. The recycling kiosk includes electrical connectors and an inspection area with an upper chamber, a lower chamber, a transparent plate and at least one camera in order to perform a visual analysis and an electrical analysis of the electronic device for determination of a value of the electronic device. The recycling kiosk also includes a processor and a display for user interaction.
US11010832B2
The invention relates to a computer-implemented system and method for grading of a loan using chained confidence scoring. The method may comprise the steps of: scanning documents within a credit file for the loan, extracting attributes from the scanned documents and from electronic documents in the credit file, calculating a plurality of calculated attributes based on the extracted attributes, calculating a loan risk rating based on the calculated attributes and the extracted attributes, calculating an aggregated confidence value associated with the calculated loan risk rating, and enabling a user to modify the loan risk rating, the aggregated confidence value, and a number of chained confidence values. The confidence values input by the user are used as training data to train a chained confidence model and the chained confidence model is used to calculate the aggregated confidence value in connection with the automated grading of a loan.
US11010830B2
A vehicle transfer system provides a transaction interface that is displayed as part of a web page for a vehicle on a vehicle dealer's website. The transaction interface allows a customer to perform a vehicle transfer transaction on the dealer's website. The system can facilitate multiple financing methods for the transaction. If the transaction is financed with a loan, the system can request loan offers for a plurality of different loan terms and down payment amounts, and then provide a loan selection interface, which allows the customer to select a loan term and down payment amount and then displays the loan offers matching the customer's selections. If the transaction is financed with a lease, the system can perform a leasing calculation that solves for a balancing point between the total upfront capital that is available to the customer and the total expenses due at lease signing.
US11010827B1
An integrated transaction platform facilitates a transaction, such as a purchase of a vehicle or other item. The platform provides a pre-negotiated purchase price for the item to facilitate a transaction to purchase the item from a seller, the transaction being substantially frictionless from the buyer's perspective. The pre-negotiation can involve a reverse auction process in which sellers bid to sell the item to a buyer. After the buyer has identified a particular item for purchase, sellers that have the item available are notified to provide a bid indicating a price at which the seller is willing to sell the item. The lowest bid is selected, and a purchase agreement is finalized based on the lowest bid. After the agreement is finalized, the buyer can accept delivery of the item without further negotiation with the seller, and thus with substantially reduced friction compared to traditional purchase scenarios.
US11010821B2
The disclosure discloses a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a consumables management program. In the case that the program is read by a CPU of a management server, the steps are executed. The steps includes a first information acquisition step, a stock detection step, and a display control step. In the first information acquisition step, consumption information related to consumables in each of label producing apparatuses is acquired. In the stock detection step, stock position and stock quantity of the consumables corresponding to the consumption information are detected on the basis of the latest information. In the display control step, a display control signal causing a display device to display the stock position that corresponds to the consumables is outputted.
US11010818B2
A system for leveraging email to complete an online checkout from a customer accessing a third party vendor website is disclosed. The system may store customer information including a name, email address, shipping address, and billing information. The system may receive a request for a purchase from the third party vendor including a customer email address and an item to be purchased. The system may authenticate the customer email address. The system may send a first email to the customer email address requesting authorization to complete a purchase. The system may receive a second email, from the customer email address, encoded with the token and confirming or canceling the purchase. The system may authenticate the second email using the customer email address and the token. And the system may transmit a confirmation of purchase of the at least one item to the third party vendor website.
US11010812B2
A sensor-enabled smart device may be recommended to a user. The sensor-enabled smart device may be identified from a registry on a network. The smart device may have the ability to send and receive real-time data over the network. A value of the device, to the user, may be determined based on user analytics. A vendor through which to sell the device may be determined based on market analytics. A sale of the device via the vendor may be recommended to the user.
US11010805B2
A method for processing at least one piece of payment method data, implemented within a payment terminal having a secured processor and a secured processing memory. Such a method includes: obtaining at least one piece of data representing a payment method used to carry out a transaction, called a piece of payment method data; anonymizing the piece of payment method data, delivering a piece of current anonymous identification data; and transmitting the piece of current anonymous identification data to an application for processing loyalty data.
US11010800B2
Methods and systems for designing and producing a three-dimensional object selection of a base three-dimensional object from a customer device. A base three-dimensional model corresponding to the object is displayed on the customer device, and one or more custom modifications are received. A modified three-dimensional model corresponding to the modified object is prepared and displayed. Once confirmation to produce the modified object is received, data corresponding to the modified three-dimensional model is transmitted to a manufacturing device for production of the object, using the data to do so, such that the object corresponds directly to the modified three-dimensional model.
US11010795B2
A method and system is provided for facilitating affiliate link generation. A user enables the system by identifying a webpage on an affiliate web site. The system performs an initial assessment of the page to extract webpage information, which is compared to information stored in a database. If the extracted information matches stored information, a record of the webpage is displayed and an affiliate link is dynamically generated for immediate use. If the extracted information does not match stored information, a new record of the webpage is created. If the webpage contains product-specific data, a product-specific record is stored. If the webpage does not contain product-specific data, a non-product record is stored. An affiliate link is then dynamically created. The new record of the product and dynamically created affiliate link is added to the database for immediate use.
US11010774B2
A customer segmentation method, system, and computer program product, include inputting a set of characteristic features for each of a plurality of customers, defining a customer-event map that maps the characteristic features of each of the customers to a plurality of event categories, and estimating a likelihood of an event driven purchase for each product type and an event category combination.
US11010770B2
A method, system and computer program for providing a loyalty engine for automated cause marketing. The method includes a loyalty program system administrator linking merchants and charities to the loyalty system. Members register with the loyalty engine through loyalty system which is accessible via the Internet. Once the merchants and the charities are linked and the members are registered, by operation of the loyalty engine, the merchants can create a customized loyalty program defined by a plurality of merchant defined rules for administering their loyalty program. The merchant defined rules instruct the loyalty engine as to which charities should receive in-kind donations in connection with one or more transactions by a member that is associated to the loyalty program. Once a loyalty system defined time period or donation threshold has been achieved, the loyalty system releases the donation in-kind to the specific charity. A system is also provided that consists of a server computer including the loyalty engine and the charity utility. The charity utility provides the functions of the method and is linked to a server computer that is connected to the Internet. The computer program of the invention is a web application that enables the members, charities, and merchants to access the functions of the invention via a web browser.
US11010761B2
An automated teller machine (ATM) may include an input component and one or more processors. The input component may be configured to detect multi-factor input associated with an account. The multi-factor input may include at least two of: a sequence of characters input via the input component, a force with which at least one character, of the sequence of characters, is input via the input component, a length of time over which at least one character, of the sequence of characters, is input via the input component, or a combination of at least two characters, of the sequence of characters, that are input concurrently via the input component. The ATM may receive the multi-factor input, validate the multi-factor input in association with the account, and selectively permit or deny access to one or more actions associated with the account based on validating the multi-factor input.
US11010760B2
An embedded electronic payment (EEP) system allows various devices and appliances to act as a merchant to accept electronic payments. The EEP system can be formed on an integrated circuit or as a software applet to run on a virtual machine. The integrated chip can be a standard IC, an application specific integrated chip, programmable logic device, or a multiprocessor based microcontroller. The EEP system operates with a standard interface that can be adapted to many applications. As a result, the cost of payment integration is reduced. The reduced cost of inclusion allows electronic payment systems to be applied in systems and devices where cost margins previously prohibited custom electronic payment systems. When the EEP system is included as an integrated chip, the system has improved security and power consumption compared to software solutions.
US11010757B2
An intelligent wallet (IW) computer device is provided for recommending a payment card from a plurality of payment cards to a cardholder for use in a payment transaction with a merchant. The IW computer device includes a memory device for storing data and a processor in communication with the memory device. The processor is programmed to receive event data and transaction data associated with the payment transaction. The transaction data includes product identifier data and purchase amount data. The processor is further programmed to receive payment card rules and cardholder preferences for each of the plurality of payment cards associated with the cardholder and to recommend a candidate payment card from the plurality of payment cards. The candidate payment card is recommended by processing the event data and the transaction data with the payment card rules and the cardholder preferences.
US11010754B2
Disclosed are techniques that use devices with corresponding identity wallet applications that execute on an electronic processor device of the devices, and which identity wallets store identity information and encrypt the stored identity information. A distributed ledger system, and a broker system that interfaces to the wallet and the distributed ledger are used for various information exchange cases pertaining to access to facilities. In particular, disclosed is a registration process to register an identity wallet with a facility.
US11010738B2
A method and an invoice analytics system (IAS) for analyzing an entity's business service transactional invoice data (BSTID) and performing invoice analytics (IA) in real time are provided. The IAS extracts contract line item (CLI) data from contracts and stores the CLI data in a CLI database. The IAS transforms the CLI data into a quick view format and generates a contract quick view interface that displays the CLI data on an entity device. The IAS extracts and segments invoice line item (ILI) data from aggregated BSTID, stores the ILI data in an ILI database, and reconciles the invoices in accordance with the contracts by identifying and rectifying errors and off-contract business service items. The IAS performs IA on the ILI data for computing cost savings and generates an interactive, dynamic, and searchable IA report including graphical data representations of purchase patterns, outliers, variations, and predictive analytics for the entity.
US11010737B1
Systems and methods for provisioning a mobile device are described. Provisioning of a mobile device may include binding the device to financial account(s) associated with a financial institution computing system or binding an application installed on the device to the financial account(s). Such systems and methods may use ATMs to facilitate communication with the device and retrieve a unique identifier. The unique identifier, whether received from the ATM or through another communication channel, may be used to further verify the identity of a user of the device as well as verify that the device belongs to or is being used by the same user that has the financial. Once the user is verified and the mobile device is determined to belong to or used by the user, the mobile device can be provisioned by binding either the entire device or an application on the device to the financial account(s).
US11010734B2
A payment system that uses replacement account identifiers is disclosed. An encrypted primary account number (PAN) may be received by a secure computer from a data entry device. The encrypted PAN may be decrypted by the secure computer and the secure computer may transmit a zero, nominal or no dollar authorization request to an issuer. Using the zero, nominal or no dollar authorization request, the issuer may verify the account. If the account is verified, then a replacement account identifier can be issued at a later time. The replacement account identifier may be used instead of the actual PAN to conduct payment transactions.
US11010732B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods directed to processing payments using an event-triggered distributed rules-based system (“DRBS”). In one embodiment, a system comprises a DRBS comprising a DRBS virtual holding account associated with the DRBS, a merchant virtual account associated with a merchant, the merchant being a member of the DRBS, and/or a consumer virtual account associated with a consumer. The system also comprises a database configured to manage virtual balance information for the plurality of virtual accounts. The DRBS is configured to receive payment information associated with a payment transaction of the consumer at the merchant, receive funds from a consumer financial account associated with the consumer into a DRBS financial account associated with the DRBS, credit virtual funds to the DRBS virtual holding account or the consumer virtual account, transfer the virtual funds to the merchant virtual account, and transfer the funds from the DRBS financial account to a merchant financial account associated with the merchant.
US11010730B2
Techniques for providing access to scope-delimited sensitive data are disclosed. A user provides sensitive data to a first party associated with a payment service provider. The first party stores the sensitive data with the payment service provider, and the payment service provider provides the first party merchant with an encoding of the payment data. The first party provides a purchasing opportunity to the user for goods offered by a third party also associated with the payment service provider. The first party transmits a sensitive data grant request to the payment service provider. In response, the payment service provides a scope-delimited encoding of the sensitive data. The first party provides the scope-delimited encoding of the payment data to the third party. The third party merchant creates a transaction using the scope-delimited encoding of the sensitive data. At some time later, access to the scope-delimited encoding of the sensitive data is revoked.
US11010729B2
A computer-implemented process, system, and computer readable medium are provided for administration and governance of fiat and cryptocurrency funds in a distributed computer system. In one example, a process includes, at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory, accessing a list of a plurality of participant nodes, which may include a fund administrator receiving a list of participants or nodes. The method further includes transferring crypto-currency (e.g., that is pegged to U.S. dollars, local currency, or the like) to one or more of the participant nodes. Each of the participant nodes may include an interface portal (e.g., a web-portal) for viewing transferred crypto-currency and for transacting (e.g., bidding, soliciting, etc.) with other participant nodes of the list of participant nodes with the crypto-currency.
US11010728B2
An example operation may include one or more of calculating a timestamp for each transaction within a blockchain. The calculating of the time stamp includes setting an incremental number to each key and value modified in the transaction, and incrementing the incremental number when the transaction within the blockchain is processed. The example operation may also include determining a relative order of change made to a smart-contract state.
US11010725B2
Embodiments include techniques for determining the validity of service recommendations, where the techniques include receiving a service provider recommendation for a device from a service provider, and receiving device inputs and service provider inputs associated with the device. The techniques also include performing an input analysis on the device inputs to determine a predicted recommendation, and determining a trust level score for the service provider based at least in part on the service provider inputs, and comparing the service provider recommendation and the predicted recommendation. Techniques include performing, based at least in part on the trust level score, a value analysis and a severity analysis, and generating a recommended action based at least in part on the value analysis and the severity analysis.
US11010722B2
A personalized scheduling and networking method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium include creating a user persona profile based on user information, extracting scheduling and networking information based on event information, matching a user with events during a conference based on the extracted scheduling and networking information and the user persona profile, and creating a schedule and a route for maximizing a number of the events and networking opportunities based on matches of the matching.
US11010719B1
A system for managing a client request is described herein, which may have at least one processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium containing a set of instructions executable by the at least one processor. Execution of these instructions may cause the processor to perform steps of: validating a client request received from a remote client device, the client request including request data; transmitting, based on the validating, a response to the remote client device; based on the request data, determining a queue for the client request; asynchronously enqueuing the client request in the queue, the queue being configured to analyze the client request according to a model; analyzing the client request; and based on analyzing the client request, performing a responsive action.
US11010718B2
A system, method and communication device are disclosed for organizing and presenting a plurality of digital flyers. Using flyer stack information, which organizes the plurality of digital flyers into at least one flyer stack, the plurality of digital flyers are presented to allow for inter-flyer and intra-flyer navigation. Moreover, the flyer stack information may be used to allow the inter-flyer and intra-flyer content to be searched. This is achieved by providing a method and communication device that receives the flyer stack information from a server, and presents the flyer stack information in a flyer navigation interface. The flyer navigation interface displays the at least one flyer stack, selects the flyer stack from the at least one flyer stack, and displays a digital flyer from the selected flyer stack in the flyer navigation interface as a current digital flyer, including displaying an indication of a next digital flyer in the selected flyer stack, the next digital flyer being accessible by navigating to the indication.
US11010715B2
A method and system for providing real-time display of data collected and submitted via mobile devices. An example method includes collecting data in a data record by the mobile device. The collected data record is submitted to a remote server. At least some of the data in the collected data record is displayed in real-time relative to the submission of the collected data record via an interface.
US11010709B2
The invention concerns a method for updating association data between articles in a retail area and locations of said retail area, said method comprising the steps according to which, —a reading device acquires a sequence of tag identifiers comprising at least two tag identifiers of which the electronic shelf tags are adjacent, one of said adjacent electronic shelf tags being said electronic shelf tag to be located, and another of said adjacent electronic shelf tags being an electronic shelf tag of which the location is known, the reading device transmits the sequence of identifiers to a computer system that updates the association data from the sequence of tag identifiers, by determining: the articles associated with the tags of the sequence of tags, the respective locations of said articles from the order of the tags in the sequence of tags.
US11010704B2
A system and method for automated multi-channel customer journey testing, that links communication channels and follows a customer interaction across multiple channels as a single journey, incorporating data and interaction content from each channel utilized to maintain a “big picture” view of a customer's journey across these channels during an interaction. The invention also provides flexible success indicators to accommodate virtual assistant and chat bot programs, by accommodating variances in expected test results such as to handle natural language variance, time of day, context, and other factors that may cause variances in interaction content.
US11010703B2
A productivity measuring, modeling and illustrating system receives input data pertaining to the productivity of an organization to generate various productivity views using a productivity maturity model. The productivity maturity model is based on suggested actions for increasing the productivity which are received in the input data. The productivity maturity model computes various productivity gains and provides productivity levels for the productivity levers associated with the organization. Various productivity views generated to display the productivity information include a summary view that displays the productivity gains and productivity levels using different filters.
US11010700B2
The present invention provides a method, a system, and a computer program product of determining tasks of a project and determining personality traits of the tasks. In an embodiment, the method, the system, and the computer program product include in response to receiving a set of data for a current project, generating, by one or more processors, a set of one or more current tasks for the current project based on at least a first machine learning associated with one or more preexisting projects, generating a set of one or more personality traits for a current task in the set of one or more current tasks based on at least a second machine learning associated with one or more preexisting tasks, and compiling the set of one or more current tasks and the set of one or more personality traits into one or more current task profiles.
US11010683B2
Achieving orthogonal control of non-orthogonal qubit parameters of a logical qubit allows for increasing the length of a qubit chain thereby increasing the effective connectivity of the qubit chain. A hybrid qubit is formed by communicatively coupling a dedicated second qubit to a first qubit. By tuning a programmable parameter of the second qubit of a hybrid qubit, an effective programmable parameter of the hybrid qubit is adjusted without affecting another effective programmable parameter of the hybrid qubit thereby achieving orthogonal control of otherwise non-orthogonal qubit parameters. The length of the logical qubit may thus be increased by communicatively coupling a plurality of such hybrid qubits together.
US11010678B2
Group-based information displays correspond to the collection of display objects representative of either contacts associated with a user or applications or executable components executable, or otherwise accessible, via the mobile communication device. The group-based information displays can be logically organized according to subject matter organizational criteria. The subject matter organizational criteria can include, for example, organization or other affiliates criteria, event-based, or activity based criteria, topic-based criteria and the like. Through the group-based information displays, mobile communication device users can initiate one or more actions corresponding to the selection of display objects corresponding to applications or executable components. Additionally, as applicable, the user can limit, or otherwise apply, the initiated actions to contacts identified, or otherwise associated, with the specific group-based information display.
US11010673B2
System and method for automatic entity relationship (ER) model generation for services as software is disclosed. ER model generation by automated knowledge acquisition is disclosed, and automation of knowledge generation process is disclosed. Information extraction process is automated and multilevel validation of information extraction process is provided. System comprises training module to train information extraction model, and knowledge generation module for population of ER model. Standard Operators are generated based on the ER model so generated (populated). Context aware entity extraction is implemented for the ER model generation. System and method leverages existing ER model to make the system self-learning and intelligent, and provides common platform for knowledge generation from different data sources comprising documents, database, website, web corpus, and blog.
US11010659B2
In an example, an apparatus comprises a compute engine comprising a high precision component and a low precision component; and logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to receive instructions in the compute engine; select at least one of the high precision component or the low precision component to execute the instructions; and apply a gate to at least one of the high precision component or the low precision component to execute the instructions. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US11010656B2
Systems and methods for implementing an artificially intelligent virtual assistant includes collecting a user query; using a competency classification machine learning model to generate a competency label for the user query; using a slot identification machine learning model to segment the text of the query and label each of the slots of the query; generating a slot value for each of the slots of the query; generating a handler for each of the slot values; and using the slot values to: identify an external data source relevant to the user query, fetch user data from the external data source, and apply one or more operations to the query to generate response data; and using the response data, to generate a response to the user query.
US11010655B1
This disclosure describes computer-based techniques for controlling access to shipping information for packages by providing limited shipping information to a courier to advance the package to a next node along a transit route. An administrator computer generates a set of components for a transit state of and information about the package. The set of components represents constituent “tokenized” portions of a delivery address, such as a sender or recipient name, street number, street name, city, or zip code. The transit states of the package represent various transit functions of the courier, such as pick-up, correct handling, sorting, delivery, return, and exception. The administrator computer generates sets of components that enable the courier to advance the package to a next node, but that exclude shipping information that may not be useful for advancing the package. The administrator computer sends the set of components to the courier based on the current transit state of the package.
US11010652B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques to provide an orientationless transaction card. Embodiments include a transaction card having a substrate comprising one or more laminated layers and a chip comprising processing circuitry, and memory, the chip embedded within the substrate. The transaction card may also include a first contact pad coupled with the chip, the first contact pad embedded on a first side of the substrate at a first location and a second contact pad embedded on the first side of the substrate at a second location. Further, the transaction card includes an antenna embedded within the substrate, the antenna to couple the chip with the second contact pad.
US11010647B2
An inkjet recording device including: a recorder; a mover; and a hardware processor, wherein a pair of recording heads having recording elements in overlapping arrangement ranges in a width direction are at positions different in one movement direction orthogonal to the width direction, ink changes the phase to a solid in a time shorter than a difference between times when the ink adheres to a same position in the one movement direction, the hardware processor performs recording control of causing a selected recording element to perform an output operation to each position in the one movement direction and determines an execution order of output operations such that the output operation by each of downstream-side recording elements is performed twice or more continuously and at least a part of the output operations by upstream-side recording elements is not continuous.
US11010637B2
A computer-implemented method is presented for constructing a trained model for a plurality of edge classifiers in a network having a federated classifier, a generator, and a discriminator. The method includes obtaining edge trained models from the plurality of edge devices, each edge trained model being trained independently with data from private data of each edge, training the generator model and discriminator model by employing the edge trained models and an unlabeled set of data by employing a generative adversarial training procedure, generating data samples by the trained generator model, training the federated classifier with the data samples from the generator model, and deploying the trained model back to the plurality of edge devices.
US11010634B2
An apparatus includes a processor that matches of local-feature-amounts in a state where an image of a measurement target captured by an image-sensor and a projective-transformed image of three-dimensional design data of the measurement target substantially overlap each other on a display to search the captured image and a virtual image generated from the projective-transformed image for a plurality of feature-point pairs with similar local-feature-amounts of an image, estimates a temporary-external-parameter related to a position and orientation of the image-sensor, compares an initial-external-parameter and the temporary-external-parameter to diagnose reliability of the temporary-external-parameter, and selects, among the feature-point pairs, a specified number of feature-point pairs with a score value indicating similarity between two feature-points forming each feature-point pair equal to or higher than a threshold value, estimate a final-external-parameter using the selected feature-point pairs, and display the captured image and the projective-transformed image in a superimposing manner using the external-parameter.
US11010632B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method performed by a processing system of determining a present orientation of a display region presented at a first time on a display of a video viewer, predicting a future orientation of the display region occurring at a second time based on data collected, to obtain a predicted orientation of the display region to be presented at the second time on the display of the video viewer, identifying, based on the predicted orientation of the display region, a first group of tiles from a video frame of a panoramic video being displayed by the video viewer, wherein the first group of tiles covers the display region in the video frame at the predicted orientation, and a plurality of objects moving in the video frame from the first time to the second time, wherein each object of the plurality of objects is located in a separate spatial region of the video frame at the second time, wherein a second group of tiles collectively covers the separate spatial regions, wherein tiles in the first group of tiles and tiles in the second group of tiles are different, and facilitating wireless transmission of the first group of tiles and a second tile from the second group of tiles, for presentation at the video viewer at the second time. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11010627B2
A computing system automatically detects, within a digital video frame, a video frame region that depicts a textual expression of a scoreboard. The computing system (a) engages in an edge-detection process to detect edges of at least scoreboard image elements depicted by the digital video frame, with at least some of these edges being of the textual expression and defining alphanumeric shapes; (b) applies pattern-recognition to identify the alphanumeric shapes; (c) establishes a plurality of minimum bounding rectangles each bounding a respective one of the identified alphanumeric shapes; (d) establishes, based on at least two of the minimum bounding rectangles, a composite shape that encompasses the identified alphanumeric shapes that were bounded by the at least two minimum bounding rectangles; and (e) based on the composite shape occupying a particular region, deems the particular region to be the video frame region that depicts the textual expression.
US11010625B2
A vehicle exterior environment recognition apparatus includes a position deriving unit, a grouping unit, and a pairing unit. The position deriving unit derives three-dimensional positions of respective blocks from an image received from an imaging unit. The grouping unit groups the respective blocks and identifies potential three-dimensional objects from the grouped blocks. The pairing unit projects the potential three-dimensional objects on a horizontal plane, classifies the potential three-dimensional objects into a rear face and a side face on a basis of angles of the potential three-dimensional objects on the horizontal plane with respect to a depth direction, determines whether a relation between the side face and the rear face satisfies a predetermined condition, and pairs the side face with the rear face into a single three-dimensional object when the determination is made that the relation between the side face and the rear face satisfies the predetermined condition.
US11010624B2
The traffic signal recognition device includes a traffic signal recognition unit configured to perform processing for recognizing the traffic signal based on the result of imaging performed by a camera, an external situation recognition unit configured to recognize a size and position of a surrounding vehicle, and a occluded situation determination unit configured to determine whether or not the area in front of a host vehicle is in the traffic signal occluded situation, in which the line of sight from the camera to the traffic signal is blocked by the surrounding vehicle. The traffic signal recognition unit is configured not to perform the processing for recognizing the traffic signal within a difficulty zone and not to perform the processing for recognizing the traffic signal if it is determined that the area in front of the host vehicle is in the traffic signal occluded situation.
US11010622B2
A method of non-line-of-sight (NLoS) obstacle detection for an ego vehicle is described. The method includes capturing a sequence of images over a period with an image capture device. The method also includes storing the sequence of images in a cyclic buffer. The method further includes registering each image in the cyclic buffer to a projected image. The method includes performing the registering by estimating a homography H for each frame of the sequence of images to project to a view point of a first frame in the sequence of images and remove motion of the ego vehicle in the projected image. The method also includes enhancing the projected image. The method further includes classifying the projected image based on a scene determination. The method also includes issuing a control signal to the vehicle upon classifying the projected image.
US11010617B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product are provided for determining roadwork extension data for identification of at least one roadwork extension. The method, for example, includes clustering a first plurality of lane marking observations captured by a plurality of vehicles, based on a lane marking location and a lane marking heading of each of the first plurality of lane marking observations to generate at least one lane marking cluster and map-matching the lane marking cluster to one or more links to obtain one or more map-matched links. The method further includes searching for one or more missing links associated with each of the map-matched links based on link attributes of the map-matched links and a distance threshold and generating the roadwork extension data based on the map matched links and the missing links.
US11010606B1
Described herein are methods and systems for detecting clouds in satellite imagery captured using first and second sensor arrays that are carried by a satellite and physically offset from one another on the satellite. Movement mask data is produced based first image data and the second image data, obtained, respectively, using the first and second sensor arrays carried by the satellite. Cloud mask data is produced based on spectral information included one of the first and second image data. Cloud detection data is produced based on the movement mask data and the cloud mask data, the cloud detection data indicating where it is likely, based on both the movement mask data and the cloud mask data, that one or more clouds are represented within one of the first and second image data. The cloud detection data can be used in various ways to account for the clouds included within the satellite imagery.
US11010602B2
A method of verifying a triggered alert in a man overboard detection system comprises: receiving (600) a plurality of sequential frames of image data associated with the triggered alert followed by motion compensating (616) difference frames formed by generating differences (608) between successive frames. A summation of the motion compensated difference frames is then generated (618). The summation image is then analysed (630, 632) and the detection associated therewith is classified (634, 636) in response to identification of a cluster of pixels corresponding to a predetermined size range.
US11010592B2
In one embodiment, example systems and methods relate to a manner of generating 3D representations from monocular 2D images. A monocular 2D image is captured by a camera. The 2D image is processed to create one or more feature maps. The features may include depth features, or object labels, for example. Based on the image and the feature map, regions-of-interest corresponding to vehicles in the image are determined. For each region-of-interest a lifting function is applied to the region-of-interest to determine values such as height and width, camera distance, and rotation. The determined values are used to create an eight-point box that is a 3D representation of the vehicle depicted by the region-of-interest. The 3D representation can be used for a variety of purposes such as route planning, object avoidance, or as training data, for example.
US11010588B2
Optical sensing is provided with a large sensing area in a thin package. For example, embodiments can operate in context of an under-display optical fingerprint sensor integrated into an electronic device, such as a smartphone. Responsive to reflected probe light passing through a display module, a reflective structure is configured to redirect the reflected probe light onto a refractive structure, and the refractive structure is configured to converge the reflected probe light into an input aperture of an optical sensor for detection. Some embodiments operate in context of an enhancement panel having micro-prism structures that tend to blur the reflected probe light. In such context, embodiments are configured for off-axis detection to prefer light passing through only certain micro-prism faces, thereby mitigating blurring.
US11010586B2
A method for fingerprint collection and related products are provided. The method includes the following. Light-emitting units of a touch display screen are controlled to emit monochromatic light. The monochromatic light is configured to illuminate a fingerprint of a user. Collect the fingerprint of the user illuminated by the monochromatic light.
US11010580B2
A package includes a sensor die, and an encapsulating material encapsulating the sensor die therein. A top surface of the encapsulating material is substantially coplanar with or higher than a top surface of the sensor die. A plurality of sensing electrodes is higher than the sensor die and the encapsulating material. The plurality of sensing electrodes is arranged as a plurality of rows and columns, and the plurality of sensing electrodes is electrically coupled to the sensor die. A dielectric layer covers the plurality of sensing electrodes.
US11010569B2
A system includes a processor, a barcode reader, and an RFID R/W component. The barcode reader scans a barcode of an item to generate barcode information, and communicates the barcode information to the processor. The RFID R/W component receives, from the processor, a serialization number corresponding to the barcode information. The RFID R/W component then writes the serialization number to an RFID tag of the item.
US11010567B2
Techniques for augmenting technical instruction sets with additional solutions from solution providers are described. A user query for technical instruction comprising a technical problem to solve is received and a current user state from data representing user knowledge and available physical resources is determined from the user. Additionally, a technical instruction set is identified and an augmented technical instruction set comprising additional technical instructions from a winner of a knowledge augmentation auction is generated and returned.
US11010566B2
Improved data ingestion techniques are provided. A data set comprising records is received, where each record contains one or more fields. A group of fields is identified, where each of the fields has a common metadata attribute. Metrics are determined for the group based on metadata associated with each field, and weight values are assigned to each of the metrics. A natural language processing (NLP) measure and a discreteness measure are generated for the group of fields based on the metrics and the weight values. A processing workflow is selected to use when ingesting data from the group of fields into a corpus, based on comparing the NLP measure and the discreteness measure to one or more predefined thresholds, and each of the fields in the group of fields are processed using the processing workflow.
US11010559B2
A computer-implemented method is presented for implementing multi-aspect sentiment analysis by collaborative attention allocation. The method includes extracting a sequence of word vectors from a sentence received from a data stream, feeding the sequence of word vectors to long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks to generate a sequence of hidden states corresponding to the sequence of word vectors, generating a plurality of aspect embedding vectors for each aspect, employing an attention mechanism to determine attention weight vectors concurrently for all aspects, and outputting predicted sentiments for each aspect of the sentence to a user interface of a computing device.
US11010555B2
Systems and methods for natural language processing and classification are provided. In some embodiments, the systems and methods include a communication editor dashboard which receives the message, performs natural language processing to divide the message into component parts. The system displays the message in a first pane with each of the component parts overlaid with a different color, and displaying in a second pane the insights, the confidence scores associated with each insight, the sentiment and the actions. In another embodiment, the systems and methods include combining outputs from multiple machine learned AI models into a unified output. In another embodiment, the systems and methods include responding to simple question using natural language processing.
US11010542B2
An interactive whiteboard appliance includes the capability to instantiate and manage multiple windows on the interactive whiteboard appliance in a manner that allows information in multiple windows to be viewed concurrently by dynamically selecting and changing the opacity of one or more portions of a topmost window in response to one or more conditions. The one or more conditions may include one or more user actions made with respect to the topmost window or the one or more conditions may be related to a window other than the topmost window, such as detection of an audio signal in a non-topmost window. Opacity may be selectively changed on a region-by-region basis and graphical user interface controls may be provided to allow users to specify different opacity levels.
US11010539B2
Implementations of enhanced content collaboration technology are disclosed herein. In an implementation, a collaboration service determines which collaboration commands to surface in association with each user in a list of users collaborating on a document. The collaboration commands are selected based on each user's collaboration state. The service updates local applications with information indicative of the user state, so that the local applications may surface a user-specific, collaboration state-driven selection of commands.
US11010538B2
In one embodiment, a computing device configured to execute a hosted application includes a processor and storage, where an operating system is installed on the computing device, an application platform application including a rendering engine process including a virtual machine and an integration process, at least one hosted application comprising a background page file, wherein the virtual machine is configured to parse instructions in the background page file to download at least one remotely hosted file for rendering a web page, build a document object model (DOM), and modify the DOM in accordance with a predetermined DOM modification rule to create a modified DOM based on the computing environment, and wherein the rendering engine process is configured to render a user interface page integrated into the computing environment of the operating system of the computing device based on the DOM generated by the execution of the background page.
US11010534B2
Aspects create a multimedia presentation wherein processors are configured to calculate a time it would take to narrate a plurality of words in a document at a specified speech speed in response to determining that the time it would take to narrate the plurality of words in the document at the specified speech speed exceeds a specified maximum time, generate a long summary of the document as a subset of the plurality of words, generate audio content for a first portion of the plurality of words of the long summary by applying a text-to-speech processing mechanism to the portion of the long summary at the desired speech speed, and create a multimedia slide of a multimedia presentation by adding the generated audio content to a presentation of text from a remainder portion of the plurality of words of the long summary.
US11010532B2
A simulation method includes storing a plurality of structure parameters of transistors for a semiconductor chip, imaging generating a first local layout which includes a first structure parameter extracted from a semiconductor device included in the first local layout, the first structure parameter being an actual parameter determined using the imaging equipment, generating second to n-th local layouts by modifying the first structure parameter included in the first local layout, wherein the second to n-th local layouts respectively have second to n-th structure parameters modified from the first structure parameter, calculating first to n-th effective density factors (EDF) respectively for the first to n-th structure parameters, determining a first effective open silicon density for a first chip using the first to n-th effective density factors and a layout of the first chip, and calculating first to m-th epitaxy times for first to m-th effective open silicon densities.
US11010531B2
The present invention can determine in advance whether the design RULE is violated by checking the design conditions and design requirements required by the client and the project in the plant engineering stage on the 3D CAD model. The present invention can improve the design quality of plant engineering and minimizing the modification of the drawings occurring during construction by checking whether the various data of the vendor drawings received by the EPC company are accurately reflected to the 3D CAD modeling design.
US11010529B2
Systems, methods, and devices are described herein for integrated circuit (IC) layout validation. A plurality of IC patterns are collected which include a first set of patterns capable of being manufactured and a second set of patterns incapable of being manufactured. A machine learning model is trained using the plurality of IC patterns. The machine learning model generates a prediction model for validating IC layouts. The prediction model receives data including a set of test patterns comprising scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of IC patterns. Design violations associated with an IC layout are determined based on the SEM images and the plurality of IC patterns. A summary of the design violations is provided for further characterization of the IC layout.
US11010525B2
A search engine receives data describing reference geometry and generates a hash based on the reference geometry. A reference bloom filter is generated for the reference geometry based on the hash. The search engine performs a search to determine whether instances of the reference geometry are present in an integrated circuit (IC) layout. The search includes comparing the reference bloom filter with each one of a plurality of bloom filters corresponding to a plurality of subdomains of the IC layout. Based on results of the comparison, one or more subdomains of interest are identified and searched to determine whether the particular reference geometry is present in the subdomain.
US11010524B2
Disclosed is a method for simulating characteristics of a semiconductor device. An overlap matrix and a Hamiltonian representing atomic interaction energy information of a target semiconductor device are extracted by using a density functional theory (DFT), and Bloch states for corresponding energies are calculated based on the Hamiltonian, the overlap matrix, and energy-k relation within an effective energy region. A first reduced Hamiltonian and a first reduced overlap matrix having a reduced matrix size are obtained by applying the Hamiltonian and the overlap matrix to a transformation matrix that is obtained by orthonormalizing a matrix representing the Bloch states. A final transformation matrix and a final energy band structure where all unphysical branches, which are energy bands not corresponding to a first energy band structure in a second energy band structure, are removed within the effective energy region are calculated.
US11010516B2
Techniques to improve the accuracy and speed for detection and remediation of difficult to test nodes in a circuit design netlist. The techniques utilize improved netlist representations, test point insertion, and trained neural networks.
US11010512B2
The technology disclosed relates to simplifying updating of a predictive model using clustering observed points. In particular, it relates to observing a set of points in 3D sensory space, determining surface normal directions from the points, clustering the points by their surface normal directions and adjacency, accessing a predictive model of a hand, refining positions of segments of the predictive model, matching the clusters of the points to the segments, and using the matched clusters to refine the positions of the matched segments. It also relates to distinguishing between alternative motions between two observed locations of a control object in a 3D sensory space by accessing first and second positions of a segment of a predictive model of a control object such that motion between the first position and the second position was at least partially occluded from observation in a 3D sensory space.
US11010505B2
One or more processors receive a breakpoint. The breakpoint is paired with a resume point. One or more processors execute a set of machine instructions on a virtual processor model. One or more processors halt execution of the set of machine instructions on the virtual processor model at the breakpoint. One or more processors execute a fragment of a program instruction on a physical processor. The fragment is logically equivalent to the set of machine instructions between the breakpoint and the resume point. One or more processors load a processed result into the virtual processor model. The processed result results from executing the fragment on the physical processor. One or more processors resume the execution of the set of machine instructions on the virtual processor model at the resume point.
US11010501B2
Methods and apparatus include those used to monitor a position of a user in or proximate to a structure and the conditions in the structure while the user is present. Methods and apparatus may further orient the user in the structure to guide the user to locations or items of interest and using a virtual model, the user's smart device may provide information about the structure to the user. Precise locations of the user, conditions measured, and items therein may be quantified via simplified X, Y and Z coordinate determination and/or a determined direction of interest.
US11010500B2
The present invention concerns a computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product for direct room modeling in a CAD model. The CAD model comprises a rectangular coordinate system comprising mutually orthogonal height, first horizontal and second horizontal directions. A first position and subsequently a second position within the model are obtained via a user input device. The first and second positions define a rectangle perpendicular to the height direction and aligned with the horizontal directions. The rectangle comprises edges and corners. The rectangle comprises the first and second positions at diagonally opposite corners. A room drawing operation is automatically performed based on the rectangle. One or more walls and/or wall portions, each extending in the height direction and along an edge of the rectangle over in essence the full length of the edge, are thereby inserted or removed.
US11010495B1
Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and products comprise a processor, which provides runtime enforcement of data flow integrity. The processor accesses the application binary file from the disk to execute an application and translates the application binary into intermediate representation. The processor applies the logic of data flow integrity controls to the intermediate representation. Specifically, the processor identifies the vulnerable code in the intermediate representation. The processor applies data flow integrity controls to the vulnerable code. The processor adds simple instrumentation that only changes the application's behavior when unauthorized data tampering occurs while preserving the application's normal behavior. When certain operations may cause unauthorized data tampering, the processor takes proper measures to stop the operations. The processor translates the intermediate representation back to a machine code and replaces the original binary with the machine code.
US11010494B2
A container corresponding to executable code may be received. The container may be executed in a secure computation environment by performing one or more operations specified by the executable code of the container. An instruction to terminate the executing of the container may be received from a high level operating system (HLOS) that is external to the secure computation environment. A determination may be made as to whether the container is associated with a preemption privilege and the executing of the container may be terminated after receiving the instruction from the HLOS based on the determination of whether the container is associated with the preemption privilege.
US11010484B2
A system and method for document management are provided in which documents are managed in a file/document sharing system.
US11010483B1
Data security access and management may require a server dedicated to monitoring document access requests and enforcing rules and policies to limit access to those who are not specifically identified as having access to the data. One example of operation may include selecting data to access via a user device, applying at least one policy to the data that limits access to the data to user profiles assigned privileges to the policy, encrypting the data, generating metadata indicating the policy and pairing the metadata with the data, and storing the data and the metadata in a policy server.
US11010482B2
A method includes generating, by a portable communication device, a first random code and transmitting the first random code to an access device. The access device receives the first random code, generates a second random code, receives a personal token from a user of the portable communication device, and hashes the first random code, the second random code, and the personal token to form a first hash output. The first hash output and the second random code are received from the access device. The first random code, a stored personal token, and the second random code are hashed to form a second hash output. A determination is made if the first hash output and the second hash output are equal. A secure communication channel is formed between the portable communication device and the access device when the first hash output and the second hash output are equal.
US11010481B2
Techniques and structures to provide secure data transfer between entities in a multi-user on-demand computing environment. An electronic device may comprise at least one physical memory device, one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, the one or more processors configurable to create a scratch organization within the computing environment, receive, via a user interface, a metadata selection comprising a plurality of metadata resources which define a set of components for a service implemented in an origin organization of the multi-user, on demand computing environment, extract the plurality of metadata resources from the origin organization within the computing environment into a metadata bundle, and deploy the metadata bundle in the scratch organization. Additional subject matter may be described and claimed.
US11010478B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for providing, by a client computing node, an interface identifying a secure boot certificate namespace hierarchy including a plurality of namespaces; in response to providing the interface, receiving, by the client computing node, a request to create a new namespace within the secure boot namespace hierarchy; configuring the new namespace, including adding a certificate that is to be included by the new namespace, the certificate associated with a server computing system; and assigning the new namespace to the server computing system.
US11010477B2
Described herein are hardware monitors arranged to detect illegal firmware instructions in a firmware binary image using a hardware design and one or more formal assertions. The hardware monitors include monitor and detection logic configured to detect when an instantiation of the hardware design has started and/or stopped execution of the firmware and to detect when the instantiation of the hardware design has decoded an illegal firmware instruction. The hardware monitors also include assertion evaluation logic configured to determine whether the firmware binary image comprises an illegal firmware instruction by evaluating one or more assertions that assert that if a stop of firmware execution has been detected, that a decode of an illegal firmware instruction has (or has not) been detected. The hardware monitor may be used by a formal verification tool to exhaustively verify that the firmware boot image does not comprise an illegal firmware instruction, or during simulation to detect illegal firmware instructions in a firmware boot image.
US11010476B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for security-aware caching of resources. An offline version of a resource may be prepared for a computing device. The offline version of the resource may include a security parameter. The security parameter may define a security rule to be enforced with respect to offline usage of the resource. The offline version of the resource may be provided for caching by the computing device. The cache of the offline version of the resource may enable the offline usage of the resource by the computing device. The security rule for the offline usage of the resource may be enforced by the computing device based on the security parameter.
US11010474B2
A virtualized storage for use in performing dynamic analysis of a sample is configured, at least in part by copying the sample to the virtualized storage. A virtual machine emulator is launched using a snapshot of a virtualized platform. A location of the copied sample in an image corresponding to the virtualized storage is determined, at least in part by identifying an offset. The copied sample is installed and dynamic analysis is performed on the sample.
US11010473B2
There are provided measures for enabling detecting malware. A method includes generating a copy of a first node, configuring a sandbox environment by using the generated copy, executing an electronic file or a URL in the sandbox environment configured with the copy, providing a result of the malware analysis of the electronic file or the URL, identifying the electronic file or the URL as malicious or suspicious on the basis of the provided result, and taking further action for protecting the first node from the electronic file or the URL identified as malicious or suspicious.
US11010472B1
Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and products providing real-time anti-malware detection and protection. The computer uses artificial intelligence techniques to learn and detect new exploits in real time and protect the full system from harm. The computer trains a first machine learning model for executable files. The computer trains a second machine learning model for non-executable files. The computer trains a third machine learning model for network traffic. The computer identifies malware using the various machine learning models. The computer restores to a clean, uncorrupted state using virtual machine technology. The computer reports the detected malware to a security server, such as security information and even management (SIEM) systems, by transmitting detection alert message regarding the malware. The computer interacts with an administrative system over an isolated control network to allow the system administrator to correct the corruption caused by the malware.
