US11153994B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed. An example coolant system can be configured in an autonomous vehicle. The system can include a first coolant loop configured with a first series of coolant hoses to communicate a first volume of coolant fluid between a first reservoir, a first coolant pump, a three-way heat exchanger, and a computer system heat exchanger and a second coolant loop configured with a second series of coolant hoses to communicate a second volume of coolant fluid between a second reservoir, a second coolant pump, the three way heat exchanger, and the computer system heat exchanger. The system can further include a third coolant loop configured with a third series of coolant hoses to communicate third volume of coolant fluid between the three-way heat exchanger and an engine heat exchanger of the vehicle.
US11153990B2
In one aspect, an apparatus comprises a housing, a heat-generating component, a heat spreader, and a heat-transfer pipe. The housing forms a cavity in which the heat-generating component is located. The heat spreader is operable to distribute heat over a portion of the housing. The heat-transfer pipe is pivotally coupled to the heat-generating component and the heat spreader. The heat-transfer pipe operable to transfer heat from the heat-generating component to the heat spreader. The heat-transfer pipe and the heat spreader are movable between a first configuration and a second configuration. In the first configuration, a gap separates the heat spreader and the portion of the housing based on the heat-transfer pipe being at a first orientation. In the second configuration, the heat spreader closes the gap and is thermally coupled to the portion of the housing based on the heat-transfer pipe being at a second orientation.
US11153972B2
In an exemplary embodiment, a passive component, which is a surface mounting component, includes: a substrate body having insulating property; an internal conductor built into the substrate body; and an external electrode provided on a mounting face of the substrate body and electrically connected to the internal conductor; wherein the external electrode has a face parallel with the mounting face of the substrate body, and a concaved part which is concaved with reference to the parallel face toward the mounting face side of the substrate body and whose shape at the parallel face is circular or oval. The passive component can prevent its joining strength with a circuit board from decreasing, while preventing the component size from increasing.
US11153971B2
An electronic device includes a printed circuit board (PCB). The PCB includes first and second grids disposed at a top surface and a bottom surface of the PCB, respectively. Each grid includes a plurality of footprint pins, and a plurality of vias extending through the PCB to the top and bottom surfaces. Each footprint pin includes a connecting end and a free end that opposes the connecting end. Each via includes a contact end located at one of grids and is in electrical contact with the connecting end of one of the footprint pins, and each via further includes a non-contact end that is located at the other of the grids and is not in electrical contact with any of the footprint pins. First and second connectors are mounted to the PCB top and bottom surfaces and connect with the footprint pins of the first and second grids.
US11153967B2
A high-frequency module (1) includes a component (3a) mounted on an upper surface (2a) of a substrate (2), a second sealing resin layer (4) stacked on the upper surface (2a) of the substrate (2), a component (3b) mounted on a lower surface (2b) of the substrate (2), a first sealing resin layer (5) stacked on the lower surface (2b) of the substrate (2), and a first terminal assembly (6) and a second terminal assembly (7) that are mounted on the lower surface (2b) of the substrate (2). The first terminal assembly (6) is mounted on a four-corner portion of the substrate (2) and includes a connection conductor (6a) thicker than a connection conductor (7a) of the second terminal assembly (7).
US11153963B2
A circuit carrier structure includes an inner circuit structure, at least one first circuit layer, and at least one heat dissipating structure. The inner circuit structure has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first circuit layer is disposed on the first surface of the inner circuit structure. The heat dissipating structure is disposed in the first circuit layer. The heat dissipating structure includes a first heat dissipating pattern, a second heat dissipating pattern and an interlayer metal layer. The first heat dissipating pattern is embedded in the corresponding first circuit layer. The second heat dissipating pattern is disposed on the first heat dissipating pattern. The interlayer metal layer is disposed between the first heat dissipating pattern and the second heat dissipating pattern. A manufacturing method of the circuit carrier structure is also provided.
US11153960B1
This disclosure relates to systems and methods detecting a change in pressure, wall shear flow, or both. The method includes generating DC plasma having an electrical field based on an input DC voltage and a DC current, detecting changes to the electrical field, and identifying a change in wall shear flow, pressure, or both based on the change in the electrical field when the DC plasma is disposed in a flow field.
US11153952B2
A system including a controllable device configured to provide a premises related service in an area of a premises. The system includes an electroencephalography (EEG) device configured to be positioned with respect to a head of a user and process signals detected in real-time. The system also includes a processor in communication with the EEG device, a memory accessible by the processor and instructions stored in the memory for execution by the processor. A data is stored in the memory that associates each of a plurality of predetermined sets of signals from the brain detected via the EEG device with at least one control instruction. The execution of the instructions configures the processor to using the stored data, analyze the real-time detected signals to determine that the real-time detected signals correspond to one of the plurality of predetermined set of signals associated with the one control instruction and generate a control data signal based on the one control instruction.
US11153945B1
Systems, methods and apparatus for providing an availability status associated with a facility. One system includes an illumination indicator, a thermal grid array sensor, and an electronic controller. The thermal grid array sensor is configured to sense an outside region, an entryway region, and an inside region associated with a facility subsystem. The electronic controller is configured to determine the current availability status as unavailable responsive to the thermal grid array sensor detecting a heat signature in the outside region, subsequently in the entryway region, and subsequently in the inside region. The electronic controller is also configured to determine the current availability status as available responsive to the thermal grid array sensor detecting the heat signature in the inside region, subsequently in the entryway region, and subsequently in the outside region. The electronic controller is further configured to control the illumination indicator to indicate the current availability status.
US11153941B2
An induction hob uses induction heating to provide safe, energy efficient and flexible heating of vessels by using multiple coils and a controllable magnetic fluid. In addition, the hob provides increased control over electromagnetic (EM) field spatial distribution in the vicinity of the hob by guiding the EM field through the controllable magnetic fluid, and allows for more precise tuning of each load (which varies with vessel geometry, material properties, and placement) by controlling the volume and spatial distribution of magnetic fluid at each load coil, effectively acting as a tunable inductance in each load.
US11153935B2
Redundant heating systems include a plurality of heating circuits to heat a region. Heating circuits include a temperature sensor to sense a temperature of the region, a heating element, a temperature controller to provide power to the heating element based on the sensed temperature of the region, and a latching thermostat in series with the heating element. The latching thermostat consumes power supplied by the temperature controller to the heating element in response to a temperature of the latching thermostat reaching an open latch threshold temperature.
US11153934B2
This application provides a method including: determining, by a terminal device from at least one radio interface technology, a first radio interface technology used to send first information, where each of the at least one radio interface technology corresponds to an uplink resource, and the first information includes a size of to-be-sent data of at least one logical channel of the terminal device; and determining, by the terminal device based on the first information and attribute information of the first radio interface technology, whether to cancel the first information that is in a triggered state, where the attribute information of the first radio interface technology includes a priority of the first radio interface technology or an uplink resource corresponding to the first radio interface technology. The method provided in this application improves accuracy of canceling the first information that is in the triggered state, and shortens a data sending delay.
US11153930B2
Method for transmitting or receiving signal in wireless communication system and device for the same
A method for transmitting or receiving a signal of a Session Management Function (SMF) in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a reject message for a message related to an activation command of a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session, by the SMF, from a User Equipment (UE); requesting, to an AMF, an Access Management Function (AMF) information on a non-3GPP connection state modification of the UE by the SMF; receiving a message indicating that a non-3GPP connection state of the UE has been changed, by the SMF, from the AMF; and transmitting the message related to the activation command of the PDU session, which includes a new P-CSCF(Proxy-Call Session Control Function) list, by the SMF, to the UE, wherein the message indicating that the non-3GPP connection state of the UE has been changed indicates that a non-3GPP access of the UE has been changed from CM-IDLE to CM-connected.
US11153927B2
Disclosed in embodiments of the present disclosure are a transition method, a network device, and a terminal device. The method includes: receiving, by a network device, supporting information associated with a terminal device which is sent from the terminal device; determining, by the network device, a target state of the terminal device to be transitioned to according to the supporting information, wherein the target state is a Radio Resource Control (RRC) idle state or an RRC inactive state; and enabling, by the network device, the terminal device to transition to the target state.
US11153919B2
An AP and UE, which perform access control using CSMA/CA, perform a step judging an exposed level in transmission of the AP based on a congesting level in transmission, which is caused by a wireless station in defer transmission that is in a neighborhood of the AP; a step judging an exposed level in reception of the UE based on a congesting level in reception, which is caused by a wireless station in defer transmission that is in a neighborhood of the UE; and a step performing control which changes a channel of the AP, when the exposed level in transmission cannot satisfy expected quality of the AP, and performing control which changes a connected AP of the UE, or control which changes to other network, when the exposed level in transmission or in reception cannot satisfy required quality of the UE or the expected quality of the AP.
US11153917B2
A method of performing a random access procedure includes randomly selecting a backoff time from within a backoff window ranging from 0 to a specified multiple of a random access preamble unit, waiting until a time initialized with the backoff time expires, and retransmitting a random access preamble.
US11153913B2
Some of the present implementations provide a method for a user equipment (UE) for performing a random access (RA) procedure. The method transmits, to a base station, an RA preamble. The method then receives, from the base station, an RA response (RAR) associated with the RA preamble, the RAR containing a media access control (MAC) payload. The MAC payload identifies a set of one or more uplink (UL) grants for the UE. The method selects a UL grant from the set of one or more UL grants identified by the MAC payload for transmitting an Msg3 to the base station.
US11153912B2
A method of a UE is provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, configuration information for a system information (SI) request by higher layer signaling, the configuration information including information on a SI request period comprising of a number of association period; identifying information on a SI request resource corresponding to a SI message based on the configuration information, the information on the SI request resource including an index of an association period in the SI request period, information on a random access preamble, and information on a RACH occasion; and transmitting, to the base station, the SI request for the SI message based on the information on the SI request resource.
US11153910B2
A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising: storage configured to store ancillary information not essential to every connection between the terminal device and the wireless telecommunications network; a controller configured to produce data indicative of the stored ancillary information; a transmitter configured to transmit the produced data to the wireless telecommunication network; and a receiver configured to receive an indication from the wireless telecommunication network to transmit the ancillary information to the wireless telecommunication network, wherein in response to the indication, the transmitter is configured to transmit the ancillary information.
US11153903B2
Implementations of the present disclosure relate to a method for transmitting data and a terminal device. The method includes: if there is an untransmitted first MAC PDU in a target HARQ process, sending a third MAC PDU to a physical layer at an MAC layer, wherein, a first resource corresponding to the first MAC PDU overlaps with a second resource corresponding to a second MAC PDU, the third MAC PDU includes data in the first MAC PDU, and the physical layer is used for transmitting the third MAC PDU through a third resource.
US11153898B2
Methods and apparatuses for managing uplink scheduling for one or more user equipment served by a network entity in a wireless communications system are presented. For instance, an example method is presented that includes generating, by the network entity, an uplink bandwidth allocation map, the uplink bandwidth allocation map defining an uplink bandwidth allocation for at least one of the one or more user equipment for at least one of a plurality of uplink transmission window lengths. In addition, the example method includes transmitting the uplink bandwidth allocation map to at least one of the one or more user equipment.
US11153895B2
There is provided a communication device including a transmission unit that transmits predetermined information to a base station in accordance with a transmission order of its own and a transmission cycle preset in the communication device of its own, a receiving unit that receives, from other communication device, a reception signal and a transmission order preset in the other communication device, and a control unit that extends the transmission cycle of the communication device of its own when the receiving unit receives a specific signal, compares the transmission order of its own with the transmission order of the other communication device to calculate a transmission timing for transmitting the predetermined information to the base station, and controls the transmission unit to transmit the predetermined information to the base station.
US11153894B2
A communication apparatus for inter-vehicular communication according to the present invention includes: a network state estimating unit configured to estimate network state information indicating a current network state based on driving information and channel state information of neighboring vehicles; a network access controller configured to control whether to transmit a message based on the network state information; a transmission scheduler configured to control a transmission time point of the message based on the network state information; and a transmission buffer unit configured to delay transmission of the message according to the control of the transmission time point of the transmission scheduler.
US11153889B2
A user equipment receives a first uplink grant and a second uplink grant from a base station. The first uplink grant assigns first uplink resources, and the second uplink grant assigns second uplink resources. The first uplink resources and the second uplink resources overlap within a time interval. The user equipment determines whether the transmission of second data has priority over that of first data. When determining that the transmission of the second data has priority over that of the first data, the user equipment determines one of the first uplink resources and the second uplink resources as the designated resources of the second data, and transmits the second data to the base station according to the designated resources within the time interval.
US11153885B2
An example method may include obtaining default transmitting parameters and potential variations of the default transmitting parameters for a packet to be transmitted over a wireless network. The method may also include obtaining medium state information for a medium of the wireless network. The method may additionally include generating a first candidate of transmitting parameters and a second candidate of transmitting parameters based on the medium state information, where each of the first and second candidates of transmitting parameters are consistent with at least one of the default transmitting parameters and the potential variations of the default transmitting parameters. The method may also include selecting from among the first and the second candidates of transmitting parameters to use when transmitting the packet over the wireless network.
US11153882B2
A user equipment may receive a configuration that configures the user equipment with a resource that is to repeat in time according to an interval. The user equipment may further receive control signalling indicating a parameter N. This parameter N indicates a number of repetitions of the resource that are to occur before the configuration is to be deactivated. The user equipment may also transmit or receive data on one or more repetitions of the resource according to the configuration. The user equipment may then deactivate the configuration upon occurrence of the number of repetitions of the resource indicated by the parameter N.
US11153881B2
A user equipment (UE) in communication with a base station is configured by the base station for operation with an adapted time division duplex (TDD) uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration. A process enables UL power control for transmissions of various channels or signals from the UE in two different sets of UL transmission time intervals (TTIs) and a process enabling receptions of data transport blocks by the base station in two different sets of UL TTIs.
US11153879B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications and, more particularly, to transmission scheme management for common channels in new radio (NR). A method for wireless communications that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method generally includes receiving an indication from a base station (BS) of a type of beam management scheme used by the BS for at least one of: a current transmission or one or more subsequent transmissions; and decoding the at least one of: the current transmission or the one or more subsequent transmissions from the BS in accordance with the indication.
US11153875B2
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.
US11153867B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving signal in communication system. A method of a base station includes: configuring frequency spreading sequences each of which corresponds to a transmission starting time point; configuring time spreading sequences each of which corresponds to a terminal; and transmitting information on the frequency spreading sequences and the time spreading sequences to a plurality of terminals, wherein one of the frequency spreading sequences and one of the time spreading sequences are assigned to each of the plurality of terminals.
US11153860B2
Uplink control channel resource allocation for an enhanced downlink control channel is disclosed. A first example method disclosed herein includes receiving, at a user equipment (UE), a downlink control channel carrying a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource indicator, mapping the PUCCH resource indicator to a first offset, mapping a position of the downlink control channel to a second offset, and mapping a linear combination of the first and second offsets to an index identifying a first PUCCH resource. A second example method disclosed herein includes, in response to receiving, at a UE, an indication of a dynamic resource offset in an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH) transmitted in a first ePDCCH set, determining a position of the ePDCCH and a subframe offset, and processing the indication of the dynamic resource offset, the position and the subframe offset to determine an allocated uplink control channel resource for the UE.
US11153858B2
An uplink communication method is disclosed, so that a network device can control an uplink communication latency, reliability, and uplink transmit power in an uplink grant free communication scenario. The method includes: obtaining, by a terminal device, a first control channel, where the first control channel carries a control information group, the control information group includes a plurality of pieces of control information, and the plurality of pieces of control information correspond to a plurality of uplink channels; obtaining, by the terminal device, first control information from the first control channel, where the first control information is control information corresponding to a first uplink channel in the plurality of uplink channels; and performing, by the terminal device, uplink communication with a network device based on the first control information.
US11153856B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and an apparatus for transmitting an uplink signal, which can efficiently utilize uplink frequency-selectiveness, thereby improving uplink spectral efficiency. The method includes: determining, by a first terminal device, an uplink multiple access scheme for an uplink control signal according to whether a time domain resource unit used for transmitting the uplink control signal is also used for transmitting uplink data; and transmitting, by the first terminal device, the uplink control signal by using the determined uplink multiple access scheme.
US11153851B2
A communication method, comprising: transmitting from a base station to a mobile station a first message which includes resource information corresponding to one or more resource pools, wherein the resource information identifies at least one sub-frame and at least one resource block within the at least one sub-frame, transmitting to the mobile station an indicator of one or more designated resource pools and designated resources from within the one or more designated resource pools such that the mobile station is permitted to communicate with a wireless device in communication with the mobile station via a wireless link using the one or more designated resources within the one or more designated resource pools.
US11153842B2
A method is disclosed comprising: generating a radio map for a radio node (140), wherein the radio node is configured with a set of one or more transmission parameters from a plurality of sets of one or more transmission parameters; and associating the radio map with identifier information, wherein at least a part of the identifier information depends on the set of one or more transmission parameters from the plurality of sets of one or more transmission parameters. It is further disclosed an according apparatus, computer program and system.
US11153841B2
The disclosure recites a system and method of identifying location data for a server device managing communications for a wireless network. The method comprises: obtaining location data for the server device; identifying a location for the server device by analyzing at least the location data; updating data in the server device with the location; identifying a communication transmission range for the location for the server device; and configuring communications generated by the server device to conform to the communication transmission range.
US11153840B2
A user equipment terminal (UE) operates in a wireless network. The UE receives, from a base station, timing advance parameter values which indicate a time difference measured by the base station between uplink and downlink for a band occupied by one or more serving cells. The UE calculates a length of a post-measurement gap (post-MG) time period for the one or more serving cells based on the timing advance parameter values. The post-MG time period is after a measurement gap before uplink transmission. The UE then sends an indication of the length of the post-MG time period to the base station.
US11153839B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments of the disclosure, a method for operating a base station in a wireless communication system includes receiving, from a terminal, information on a residence time of the terminal and a transmission time of an uplink frame, determining a radio access network residence time based on the transmission time of the uplink frame, and transmitting the radio access network residence time and the residence time of the terminal to a user plane function (UPF).
US11153837B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus determines that a first external timing source timing signal is available at a first UE. The apparatus also synchronizes the first UE using the first external timing source based timing signal when the first external timing source timing signal is available. Additionally, the apparatus transmits a synchronization signal indicating that the first UE is synchronized using an external timing source timing signal.
US11153836B2
Disclosed are a method and device for signal detection. The method comprises: a terminal receives system configuration information of a second transmission point sent by a first transmission point; the terminal performs downlink signal detection on the second transmission point according to the system configuration information of the second transmission point. The terminal in embodiments of the present invention can obtain the system configuration information of the second transmission point from the first transmission point, thereby reducing the complexity of signal detection on the second transmission point by the terminal.
US11153833B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for adjusting Radio Link Monitoring (RLM), Radio Link Failure (RLF) detection, RLF recovery, and/or connection establishment failure detection for wireless devices (16) in a cellular communications network (10) depending on mode of operation. In one embodiment, a node (14, 16) in the cellular communications network (10) determines whether a wireless device (16) (e.g., a Machine Type Communication (MTC) device) is to operate in a long range extension mode of operation or a normal mode of operation. The node (14, 16) then applies different values for at least one parameter depending on whether the wireless device (16) is to operate in the long range extension mode or the normal mode. The at least one parameter includes one or more RLM parameters, one or more RLF detection parameters, and/or one or more RLF recovery parameters. In doing so, signaling overhead and energy consumption within the wireless device (16) when operating in the long range extension mode is substantially reduced.
US11153831B1
A method and system for controlling uplink transmit power of a UE, for instance on an FDD connection. An example method includes, iteratively for each successive given time interval of a continuum of equal-duration time intervals (i) determining an actual average transmit power of the UE in the given time interval, (ii) using the determined actual average transmit power of the UE in the given time interval as a basis to set a maximum average transmit power of the UE in a respective subsequent time interval of the continuum of time intervals, and (iii) applying the set maximum average transmit power as a limitation on uplink transmit power of the UE in the respective subsequent time interval.
US11153823B2
A wireless access point, a terminal device, and a method for waking up a terminal device by a wireless access point. The terminal device includes a primary radio frequency circuit and a wake-up radio (WUR) radio frequency circuit. The WUR radio frequency circuit only receives a radio signal and operates on a specified channel. If the WUR radio frequency circuit receives a wake-up frame on the specified channel and the terminal device is a to-be-woken-up terminal device, the WUR radio frequency circuit wakes up the primary radio frequency circuit. The wake-up frame includes an identifier of the to-be-woken-up terminal device. The primary radio frequency circuit operates on an operating channel of the primary radio frequency circuit after being woken up.
US11153817B2
Disclosed is a method that decodes a broadcast channel to obtain first system information periodically broadcasted from a base station; applies at least one cell selection parameter indicated in the first system information to camp on a cell served by the base station and storing the first system information; accesses the camped cell based on at least one random access parameter indicated in the first system information; and determines whether at least one of a system information block of second system information available in the camped cell is provided based on at least one of the periodic broadcast and an on-demand basis. The on-demand basis to deliver the corresponding system information block of the second system information available in the camped cell is decided based on at least one of an indication and a flag included in the first system information for the system information block.
US11153810B2
Provided is a method of operating a controller, a method of operating a controlee, a controller, and a controlee. The method of operating a controller that performs a ranging with a controlee using ultra wideband (UWB) communication in a wireless communication system, the method including: transmitting, to the controlee, a first ranging control message (RCM) comprising information of a first ranging interval for a second RCM; changing a ranging interval for the second RCM from the first ranging interval to a second ranging interval; transmitting, to the controlee, an interval update message for the second RCM comprising information for the changed ranging interval based on the first ranging interval; and transmitting, to the controlee, the second RCM based on the changed ranging interval.
US11153808B2
A transmitting wireless device dynamically and periodically transmits beacon frames including either full set of information or a partial information about the BSS. The wireless device schedules the target beacon transmission time and target dynamic beacon transmission time to have different starting time and different interval for each BSS. A Nack based mechanism for detecting and report missing dynamic beacon frames is used to provide the wireless access point with a feedback information of dynamic beacon transmission for improving the transmission efficiency and reliability. A wireless station receives the transmitted beacon frames and uses the information in the beacon frames to associate with a wireless network.
US11153802B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that determines each of a default downlink forwarding address of a first interface of a user plane and a currently used downlink forwarding address of the first interface of the user plane. One of an uplink user data packet comprising an origination address of a second interface of the user plane, a downlink user data packet comprising a destination address of the second interface of the user plane or both are received, by way of the user plane. One of the default downlink forwarding address, the currently used downlink forwarding address or both can be modified based on the uplink origination address, the destination address or both. Modification of the default downlink forwarding address, the currently used downlink forwarding address or both results in a redirection of an associated packet flow within the user plane. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11153801B2
Facilitating dynamic satellite and mobility convergence for mobility backhaul in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, 6G and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a system can comprise dividing resources of a wireless network between a first network device and a second network device based on defined service level agreements. The operations also can comprise receiving a data packet from a mobile device. The data packet can comprise an indication that the first network device provides services for the mobile device. Further, the operations can comprise transferring the data packet to the first network device based on the resources assigned to the first network device and based on the data packet bypassing an access core of the wireless network.
US11153796B2
A central unit handover method includes: receiving, by a first distributed unit DU, a first bearer setup request that is about a first service and that is sent by a target central unit CU, where the first bearer setup request includes a first service identifier; determining, by the first DU based on the first service identifier, whether a service resource needs to be allocated to the first service; and sending, by the first DU, a first bearer setup response to the target CU, where the first bearer setup response includes information used to indicate whether the service resource needs to be allocated to the first service.
US11153795B2
User equipment (UE) handover (HO) techniques for reducing or eliminating interruption time during an HO process are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include at least one memory and logic for an evolved node B (eNB), at least a portion of the logic comprised in hardware coupled to the at least one memory. The logic may be operative to forward downlink (DL) data received from a serving gateway (SGW) to user equipment (UE), transmit a handover command to the UE to trigger execution of a handover (HO) process to handover the UE to a target eNB, continue forwarding at least a portion of the DL data to the UE following transmission of the handover command, and terminate transmission of the DL data to the UE responsive to detecting a stop DL data event. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11153794B2
A cell selection method and user equipment (UE) are provided. The cell selection method is applied to the UE. The cell selection method includes the steps of obtaining a candidate cell group; selecting a first candidate cell sub-group from the candidate cell group according to the communication ability supported by each candidate cell of the candidate cell group; and selecting a camping cell of the UE from the first candidate cell sub-group.
US11153774B2
This application relates to the field of communications technologies and discloses a signal transmission method and device, and a system. The method includes: determining, by a first device after receiving first information transmitted by a second device, to perform at least one of interference measurement and channel measurement on a resource, or to transmit a reference signal on a resource. The second device can configure the resource of the reference signal for the first device by transmitting the first information to the first device that is in a transmitting state or a receiving state, thereby improving flexibility of resource configuration of the reference signal. When this technical solution is applied to cross interference measurement, accuracy of inter-UE interference measurement is improved.
US11153760B2
In one illustrative example, a device configured for use in a wireless local area network (WLAN) may cause a spatial reuse (SR) adjustment to be performed based on data received from a multi-user receiver procedure for the blind detection and demodulation of colliding packets from multiple stations. This procedure may be performed by one or more access points (APs) and/or distributed sensor nodes, each having such a multi-user receiver. The procedure may involve receiving and decoding, over a channel, a first spatial stream from a first device of a first base service set (BSS) color; simultaneously receiving and decoding, over the channel, a second spatial stream from a second device of a second BSS color (i.e. an overlapping BSS or “OBSS”); and calculating a signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) based on signal levels associated with the streams. The SR adjustment may involve adjusting an OBSS Packet Detect (PD) (OBSS-PD) threshold.
US11153752B2
A method of a local bundle assistant (LBA) negotiating a certificate with a secondary platform bundle manager (SPBM) in a wireless communication system including: transmitting a request message requesting information of certificates supported by a secondary secure platform (SSP) to a secondary platform bundle loader (SPBL) of the SSP; receiving the information of certificates supported by the SSP including information of certificate issuers corresponding to a family identifier from the SPBL; transmitting the information of certificates supported by the SSP to the SPBM; and receiving a certificate of the SPBM for key agreement, information of public key identifiers of certificate issuers to be used by the SSP, and information of the family identifier from the SPBM.
US11153749B2
A method and an apparatus for controlling user equipment (UE) context between a plurality of nodes are provided. The method includes transmitting, to a second node, a first message to request a user equipment (UE) context update, receiving, from the second node, a second message indicative of a completion of the UE context update or a third message indicative of a failure of the UE context update in response to the transmission of the first message, and determining whether to retransmit the first message to the second node based on the reception of the second message or the third message. The procedure of the UE context update may be initiated by the transmission of a message to request an operation of the UE context update to be performed between a UE and a third node from the second node to the third node.
US11153747B2
A system for automatically initiating a travel mode of a media-playback device is disclosed. The system operates to evaluate vehicle presence factors and determine whether the vehicle presence factors indicate that the media-playback device is in a vehicle. Upon determining presence of the media-playback device in a vehicle, the travel mode is performed using the media-playback device.
US11153745B2
Methods, network node (200) and wireless device (202) for supporting positioning of the wireless device in a wireless network. The network node requests (2:4) the wireless device to provide a positioning related report when a mobility criterion is fulfilled, which criterion may be selected (2:3) based on sensor capabilities of the device. The wireless device monitors (2:5) sensor measurements and evaluates the mobility criterion. When the mobility criterion is fulfilled the wireless device provides (2:6) the positioning related report to the network node which then obtains (2:7) the position or mobility status of the wireless device based on the positioning related report which may contain information related to said mobility status and/or sensor measurements made in the device.
US11153743B2
Provided is a communication measure for registering information about a terminal apparatus in various apparatuses, such as a control apparatus and a terminal apparatus, included in a communication system in which a protocol used for registration management or registration information management for a mobile communication service is shared, based on the states of the various apparatuses. Also provided is a communication control measure for updating the information about the terminal apparatus registered in the various apparatuses. Thus, there are provided, in a communication system in which a protocol used for registration management or registration information management for a mobile communication service is shared, a measure for registration management based on the states of various apparatuses included in the communication system, such as a control apparatus and a terminal apparatus, and a realization measure for determining post-registration behavior.
US11153742B1
A system for providing locations of emergency callers receives call data related to emergency calls received at a public safety answering point (PSAP) and a supplemental data signal that includes a location of an emergency. A signal correlation engine determines whether the supplemental data signal corresponds to one of the emergency calls received at the PSAP. A web server provides a user interface that includes a map and a supplemental signal indicator corresponding to the supplemental data signal. The supplemental signal indicator is positioned on the map at the location of the emergency, and the supplemental signal indicator has a visual characteristic indicating whether or not the supplemental data signal corresponds to an emergency call received at the PSAP.
US11153727B2
A push management system of a wearable device is provided, including a mobile communication device and a wearable communication device. The mobile communication device is connected to a plurality of third-party servers to receive a life message signal from the plurality of third-party servers; the mobile communication device includes a push management module and a processing module. The push management module includes a plurality of push management interfaces, each of the push management interfaces respectively corresponds to each of the third-party servers, and each of the push management interfaces has a push condition. The processing module receives the life message signal; the processing module determines whether the life message signal matches the push condition and generates a push signal when the life message signal matches the push condition.
US11153722B2
Disclosed are a method by which a terminal receives an MBMS service and an apparatus for supporting the same. The method comprises the steps of: determining a coverage enhancement (CE) level of the terminal in a frequency at which an MBMS service of interest is provided; receiving a CE level of the MBMS service supported by a network; determining whether the MBMS service can be received by comparing the CE level of the terminal with the CE level of the MBMS service; and reporting, to the network, the CE level of the terminal or the number of iterations, which is indicated by the CE level of the terminal, required for the terminal when it is determined that the MBMS service cannot be received.
US11153721B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for wireless sensor networks (WSNs), including vehicle-based WSNs. A road side unit (RSU) includes one or more fixed sensors covering different sectors of a designated coverage area. The RSU uses the sensors to capture sensor data that is representative of objects in the coverage area, tracks objects (e.g., vehicles) in the coverage area, and determines regions in the coverage area that are not adequately covered by the sensors (e.g., “perception gaps”). When the RSU identifies an object that is in or at a perception gap, then the RSU sends a request to that object for sensor data captured by the object's on-board sensors. The RSU obtains the sensor data from the object, and uses the obtained sensor data to complement the knowledge that the RSU (i.e., “filling the perception gaps”). Other embodiments are disclosed and/or claimed.
US11153715B2
A lost tracking device associated with a tracking system can be located by leveraging one or more community members by inviting these members to join a search party. Search party criteria can be identified and candidate search party members can be selected and invited based on the search party criteria. When invited candidate search party members accept the invitations, they are added to the search party. A last known location of the tracking device can be provided to the search party members, and the search party can remain in effect until the lost tracking device is located. The location of the lost tracking device is provided to the tracking system, which forwards it to the owner of the lost tracking device. A reward can be provided by the owner of the lost tracking device to the tracking system, which releases the reward to the search party member that located the lost tracking device.
US11153713B2
A method, system, and computer program product for initiating actions among devices are described. A relative position of at least one device to at least one other device is determined, and one or more rules specifying at least one action to initiate based at least in part on the relative position of the at least one device to the at least one other device are obtained. The one or more rules can differ based on the relative position of the devices. The at least one action is initiated using a processor of the at least one device.
US11153712B2
Various implementations monitor a parent geofence that geographically encompasses a plurality of child geofences, each respective child geofence of the child geofences associated with a respective physical location within the parent geofence. One or more implementations receive location data that indicates a current location of a mobile device. In turn, the current location can be used to determine that the mobile device has entered a particular child geofence of the plurality of child geofences. In response to determining that the mobile device has entered the particular child geofence, one or more implementations select an application configuration for a mobile application on the mobile device, where the application configuration corresponds to the particular child geofence. One or more implementations transmit the application configuration to the mobile device effective to alter a functionality of the mobile application at the mobile device based on the current location.
US11153702B2
The invention relates to a method for reproducing audio in a multi-channel sound system including two input signals (L and R), wherein output signals are generated for different sound perception levels. In order to develop said method in such a way that audio can be reproduced within a larger range of applications in a multi-channel sound system, according to the invention, only a lower sound perception level (7) and a higher sound perception level (6) are generated, and a maximum of six output signals are generated, a maximum of two output signals being allocated to the lower sound perception level (7) and a maximum of four output signals being allocated to the higher sound perception level (6).
US11153699B2
A method (200) of fitting a hearing aid system, and a hearing aid fitting system (100) as well as a hearing aid system adapted to carry out the method.
US11153690B2
A micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) electrostatic speaker that comprises an array of cells, wherein each cell comprises an upper stator, a membrane, a lower stator and supporting elements configured to support the upper stator, the membrane and the lower stator; wherein a distance between the upper stator and the lower stator of each cell is of microscopic scale.
US11153687B1
The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for electronic audio devices. In some examples, the operating mode of the device changes to various states of sound transparency.
US11153682B1
An audio output system for providing an output signal to a micro-speaker provides energy reduction and thermal protection by removing components of an input signal from which the output signal is generated, so that the audio power output system does not expend power reproducing portions of the audio information that would not be perceived by a listener. The micro-speaker has a resonant frequency such that substantial content of the audio information lies below the resonant frequency. A processing subsystem receives the audio information and generates the output signal by filtering the audio information with a response simulating the micro-speaker and an acoustic path to the listener, and comparing the filtered audio information with a frequency-dependent threshold of hearing. The processing subsystem then removes portions of the audio information that have an amplitude below the frequency-dependent threshold of hearing.
US11153680B2
A loudspeaker includes a housing that has a plurality of walls, which together define an acoustic cavity. An electro-acoustic transducer is mounted to a front wall of the housing, and a motion axis of the electro-acoustic transducer is offset from a centroid of the front wall. The loudspeaker is configured to be stacked with an other loudspeaker of identical construction in a first configuration such that the stacked loudspeakers radiate acoustic energy to produce an omnidirectional radiation pattern; and in a second configuration such that the stacked loudspeakers radiate acoustic energy to produce a cardioid radiation pattern. The loudspeaker includes keyed features which do not interlock and thereby inhibit stacking when the loudspeaker is in a first orientation relative to the other loudspeaker, and which interlock to allow stacking when the loudspeaker is in a second orientation relative to the other loudspeaker.
US11153672B2
A method for transmitting information, a communication device, a portable device and a communication system are provided. The method is applied to a portable device; and the method includes: receiving and/or transmitting information in an electric field coupling manner through a first coupling electrode disposed at the portable device and a second coupling electrode at an opposite end. In an embodiment of the present application, the information is received and/or transmitted through an electric field coupling manner, which could not only improve communication quality and connection reliability on the basis of reducing communication power consumption of a portable device (such as an earphone or a charging case), but also reduce a volume of the portable device, simplify a structure and further improve user experience.
US11153669B1
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for a configurable optical peering fabric to dynamically create a connection between participant sites without any physical site limitations or necessity of specialized client and network provider equipment being located within such a facility. Client sites to a network may connect to a configurable switching element to be interconnected to other client sites in response to a request to connect the first client site with a second site, also connected to network, via the switching element. A request may trigger verification of the requested and, upon validation, transmission of an instruction to the switching element to enable the cross connect within the switching element. The first site and the second site may thus be interconnected via the switching element in response to the request, without the need to co-locate equipment or to manually install a jumper between client equipment.
US11153666B2
The embodiments of the present application provide a method and an apparatus for releasing a video file, which are applied to a server. The method comprises obtaining a video file to be released; selecting a first preset number of video frames in the video file to be released; generating a target video file using the selected video frames; determining a target display position for the target video file in a video preview interface; and storing the correspondence between the target display position and the target video file so that a first terminal logging in the server plays the target video file at the target display position in the video preview interface based on the correspondence. As can be seen, since the first terminal plays the target video file at the target display position in the video preview interface, the user can get more information about the content of the video file to be released from the target video file, so that the user experience is improved.
US11153659B2
An information processing apparatus including an execution unit, a generation unit, a first request unit, and a second request unit. The execution unit is capable of executing first information processing. The generation unit is configured to generate a display image including first information associated with first access information for accessing the execution unit and second information associated with second access information for accessing a server on a global network, the server being capable of executing second information processing. The first request unit is configured to request the execution unit to execute the first information processing based on the first access information associated with the first information. The second request unit is configured to request the server to execute the second information processing based on the second access information associated with the second information.
US11153645B2
Power aware adaptation for a power aware video streaming system may be based on the complexity information conveyed in different ways. A complexity level of a data stream, such as a video data stream, may be selected as a function of a remaining battery power of a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and on a state set of a plurality of state sets that may be stored and/or managed by the WTRU. These state sets may correspond to, for example, different content sources and/or different complexity estimation algorithms and may be used to select the complexity level of the data stream. The data stream may then be received at the selected complexity level. The complexity level and/or a bitrate of the data stream may be adapted to accommodate, for example, the remaining battery power and/or other circumstances. The adaptation may be customized according to the objectives of use cases.
US11153644B1
Methods, systems, and media for generating a media quality score associated with the presentation of a content item are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving a plurality of measurement streams associated with a presentation of a video content item comprising a plurality of frames; extracting, using the hardware processor, a plurality of measurements from the plurality of measurement streams; associating each measurement of the plurality of extracted measurements with a particular time position of the presentation of the video content item, wherein groups of measurements are associated with each time position of the presentation of the video content item; determining an interaction score between each measurement in a group of measurements at each particular time position of the plurality of measurement streams to obtain a plurality of interaction scores for the plurality of measurement streams at each time position; combining the plurality of interaction to generate a media quality score for the presentation of the video content item; determining whether the video content item was presented as intended by a content provider; and transmitting a notification that includes the media quality score and that includes an indication of the determination of whether the video content item was presented as intended by the content provider.
US11153640B2
Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. XLINKS are staged in successively faster memories of the receiver as ad insertion time approaches such that the entire segment can be viewed holistically and dynamically referenced, where all segment ads are available instantly when stored in SDRAM mode as compared to FLASH or coming from the Cloud. Each parsed item has its own timing to be synchronized with other DASH segment items for a single view experience.
US11153634B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for providing a scaled user interface. A content player can provide a user interface that enables a user to manage playback (e.g., seek) of the time-based content item. The user can access a first playback direction (e.g., a first playback axis, etc.) associated with the time-based content item and cause a user interface element to be displayed. The user can click/press the user interface element in a continuous action to cause a second playback direction (e.g., a second playback axis, etc.) to be displayed. The second playback direction can be associated with a scale that is different (e.g., less/greater) than a scale associated with the first playback direction.
US11153633B2
Techniques for generating and presenting comments relative to video frames among a selected group of users in a network community are described herein. The disclosed techniques include receiving message data comprising at least one comment on a video item from a user; determining that the at least one comment is restricted to be viewable by a selected group of users based on an input by the user via an interface; determining whether user information associated with the first user satisfies at least one predetermined condition; and generating a directional bullet screen based on determining that the user information associated with the first user satisfies the at least one predetermined condition. The directional bullet screen is restricted to be accessible by the selected group of users and presents a plurality of comments relative to a plurality of video frames. The at least one comment relative to at least one frame of the video item is presented to and viewable by the selected group of users via the directional bullet screen.
US11153631B2
A terminal device includes an application layer, an operating system layer, a hardware driver layer, and a hardware layer. The operating system layer includes a hardware abstraction layer, and the hardware layer includes a master chip and a television receiver chip. The hardware abstraction layer is disposed between the hardware driver layer and the player application at the application layer, so that the hardware abstraction layer shields the player application from an interface difference of television receiver chips, and provides a unified interface protocol between the player application and the television receiver chip, to be compatible with and support television receiver chips with different interfaces.
US11153628B2
A portable video delivery device includes data storage, a secure processor, and a wireless network interface that acts as an access point for a secure personal wireless network. Transcoded media files are stored in the data storage so that the portable device maintains a library of stored media programs that can be carried along with the user during commuting, travel and/or other activities. To playback the stored programming, other media player devices use the personal wireless network to securely connect to the portable device and to obtain previously-transcoded content from the data storage of the device.
US11153622B2
Methods and apparatus for distributing content using a spectrum generation device. In one embodiment, digital content is received via a time-multiplexed network transport (such as Gigabit Ethernet), and converted to frequency channels suitable for transmission over a content distribution (e.g., Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC)) network. In one variant, the conversion is performed using digital domain processing performed by a full spectrum generation device. Additionally, methods and apparatus for selectively adding, removing, and/or changing digital content from the full spectrum device are also disclosed. Various aspects of the present invention enable physical (infrastructure) consolidation, and software-implemented remote management of content distribution.
US11153614B2
An ad in a movie can be a static ad having a position in the movie that cannot be moved, or a dynamic ad having a position in the movie that can be changed. When a viewer wishes to skip a portion of the movie containing the ad, the playback system determines whether the ad is static or dynamic. If the ad is static, only the portion of the movie preceding the static ad can be skipped; the ad is unskippable. This technique is referred to as “bounceback” since the end of the skip bounces back to the start of the static ad. If the ad is dynamic, it is moved to after the end of the skip. This technique is referred to as “slip-ad” since the ad slips to later in the movie. When a movie has multiple ads, some can be static and some can be dynamic.
US11153611B2
A system includes a hybrid mobile network/television antenna and a routing device connected to the antenna. The hybrid mobile network/television antenna receives content via a broadcast television network and receives content via a mobile network. The routing device includes a first communication interface that connects to the hybrid mobile network/television antenna, and a second communication interface that connects to a user device and receives a request for content from the user device. The routing device selects a network from the broadcast television network or the mobile network. The first communication interface receives the requested content via the selected network, and the routing device forwards the requested content to the user device via the second communication interface.
US11153610B2
Systems, devices, methods, and computer readable media are provided for distributing data with multi-tiered encoding. For example, a system for communication of data streams to endpoints is provided that includes: encoders, each encoder configured to encode a data stream according to at least one encoding parameter; transmitting devices organized into groups based on at least one communication characteristic; each group of transmitting devices configured to receive encoded data from an associated one of the encoders; each transmitting device of the plurality of transmitting devices configured to transmit the encoded data to an associated one of the plurality of endpoints; and at least one controller configured to monitor communication characteristics of the plurality of transmitting devices and to adjust membership of the transmitting devices in the plurality of groups based on the monitored communication characteristics. The system may be further configured for synchronization, uni/bi-directional communication, etc.
US11153606B2
A method of perceptual video coding based on face detection is provided. The method includes calculating a bit allocation scheme for coding a light field video based on a saliency map of the face, calculating an LCU level Lagrange multiplier for coding a light field video based on a saliency map of the face and calculating an LCU level quantization parameter for coding a light field video based on a saliency map of the face.
US11153603B2
An apparatus to facilitate encoding visibility data for view-dependent video is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to receive point cloud data including a plurality of images and camera parameters associated with each of a plurality of cameras, and encode one or more visibility descriptors for each point in the point cloud data to provide visibility information for each point for a plurality of camera views indicated in the camera parameters.
US11153594B2
Video compression and decompression techniques are disclosed that provide improved bandwidth control for video compression and decompression systems. In particular, video coding and decoding techniques quantize input video in multiple dimensions. According to these techniques, pixel residuals may be generated from a comparison of an array of input data to an array of prediction data. The pixel residuals may be quantized in a first dimension. After the quantization, the quantized pixel residuals may be transformed to an array of transform coefficients. The transform coefficients may be quantized in a second dimension and entropy coded. Decoding techniques invert these processes. In still other embodiments, multiple quantizers may be provided upstream of the transform stage, either in parallel or in cascade, which provide greater flexibility to video coders to quantize data in different dimensions in an effort to balance the competing interest in compression efficiency and quality of reconstructed video.
US11153590B2
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 decodes prediction information of a current block in a current picture from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information is indicative of an inter prediction mode. Then, the processing circuitry determines a usage of a first DMVD process on the current block at least partially based on a second DMVD process not being used on the current block. Further, the processing circuitry reconstructs the current block according to the inter prediction mode with the first DMVD process.
US11153587B2
An encoder determines a compression ratio for compressive sensing and a quantization level used to quantize a media signal based on a target indicator. The encoder accesses compressive sensing measurements performed using the compression ratio and quantizes the compressive sensing measurements based on the quantization level. A decoder receives a compressed signal generated from the signal acquired by the signal acquisition device using the compression ratio and the quantization level. The decoder also receives information indicating the compression ratio or the quantization level. The decoder decompresses the compressed signal based on the compression ratio and the quantization level.
US11153580B2
Encoded video data representing partial video images is decoded from a first video stream such as a HEVC bitstream. The first video stream comprises video images divided into a spatial array of independently decodable slices. The first video stream comprises network abstraction layer units that each contain video content data for a respective one of the slices preceded by a header that comprises parameters relating to the respective one of the slices in relation to the first video stream. Previously prepared information such as meta data about positions of parameters in the network abstraction layer units or a plurality of different versions of the network abstraction layer units for different partial image sizes (different picture sizes) is used. The meta data may be used for partially rewriting the network abstraction layer units for a subarray of slices, the network abstraction layer units being rewritten at a location selected on the basis of meta data, to make the network abstraction layer units consistent with a second video stream of encoded video data only for the sub-array of slices. Versions of the network abstraction layer units may be selected for the sub-array of slices, from the plurality of different versions. Subsequently, the partial video images are generated by decoding the encoded video data from the rewritten network abstraction layer units.
US11153570B2
Two or more video signals from two or more sensors are received and discrete wavelet transformations are performed on the two or more video signals. Temporally stationary and non-stationary background data is determined from the discrete wavelet transformations. Redundancies are determined using the temporally stationary background data, the redundancies indicating an overlap between the two or more video signals Data of the two or more video signals is stored without the redundancies to reduce a storage size.
US11153566B1
A variable bit rate generative compression method based on adversarial learning is provided. According to the method, a variance of a feature map of an encoding-decoding fill convolutional network is quantized to train a single generative model to perform variable bit rate compression. The method includes the following implementation steps of: constructing training and testing data sets through an image acquisition device; constructing a generative compression network based on an auto-encoder structure; according to a rate-distortion error calculation unit, alternately training a generative network; according to a target compression rate, calculating a mask threshold; based on a feature map channel redundancy index, calculating a mask; and performing lossless compression and decoding on the mask and the feature map. According to the invention, only a single model is trained, but compression results with different bit rates can be generated, and on a limit compression rate below 0.1 bpp.
US11153564B2
There is provided an apparatus, methods, to generate a set of transform coefficients for coding a block in a frame or portion thereof, comprising: a media encoder coupled to a data interface adapted to receive a frame or portion thereof, the media encoder is adapted to: select a rotational symmetry mask for the block from a plurality of rotational symmetry masks which define a plurality of different rotational symmetries in a multi-dimensional space having a size and a shape as the block; split the block to two complementary portions based on the rotational symmetry mask; generate a pair of rotational symmetry blocks each having one of the two complementary portions; and compute at least one transform coefficient for at least one member of the pair of rotational symmetry blocks.
US11153561B2
A video encoding method for encoding a series of images of original video data into an encoded video, comprises setting a periodic intra refresh pattern for the encoding of the series of images; setting a number of delta frames to be added between consecutive intra refresh frames of the periodic intra refresh pattern, thereby adjusting the intra refresh periodicity of the encoded video stream; and encoding the series of images of original video data into the encoded video stream using the set periodic intra refresh pattern and the set number of delta frames to be added between consecutive intra refresh frames. During the encoding, a current intra refresh frame is set to directly refer to a previous intra refresh frame and each delta frame added in between two consecutive intra refresh frames is set to only refer to a previous one of the two consecutive intra refresh frames.
US11153555B1
A head-mounted extended reality (XR) display device includes a rigid mounting element coupled to a frame. The XR display device further includes right-side and left-side visible light cameras coupled to the rigid mounting element, right-side and left-side near-infrared (NIR) cameras coupled to the rigid mounting element, and an NIR light-emitting diode (LED) configured to illuminate a region within a field of view of the NIR cameras. The visible light cameras are configured to capture stereoscopic visible light images within a field of view of the user when the user is wearing the frame, and the NIR cameras are configured to capture stereoscopic NIR images within the field of view of the user when the user is wearing the frame.
US11153542B2
The present disclosure relates to a video projection control apparatus, a video projection control method, a program, and a video projection apparatus that enable a more effective countermeasure against a speckle noise. A calculating part calculates projection signal data to project video using a laser beam as a light source, from video signal data, a correcting part applies, to the projection signal data, a correction process of shifting a wavelength of the laser beam for, for example, each frame of the video for projection, and a converting part converts the projection signal data into a driving current supplied to the laser light source. In addition, the laser light source has a property that the wavelength shifts in accordance with an emission intensity employed when the laser light is emitted. The present technique is applicable to, for example, a video projection apparatus that uses a laser beam as its light source.
US11153538B1
Methods communicate among a client device, a network device, and an audio/video recording and communication device (A/V device). The network device includes a processor, memory, and instructions that when executed by the processor implement the method. An indication that an application associated with the A/V device is running and open on a display of the client device is received from the client device. Update information, when received by the A/V device, causes the A/V device to adjust a keep-alive interval from a first amount of time to a second amount of time shorter than the first amount of time. A signal from the A/V device is received, and the update information is transmitted to the A/V device in response.
US11153537B2
A system having: a processor and addressable memory, where the processor is configured to: receive a geographic data defining a selected geographical area; receive an operating mode associated with the selected geographical area, where the received operating mode restricts at least one of: a viewing of a UAV data and a recording of the UAV data by at least one user device; and broadcast the UAV data to the at least one user device based on the selected geographical area and the received operating mode.
US11153511B2
A control apparatus of a radiation imaging apparatus configured to generate a plurality of radiation images to transmit to an external apparatus is provided. The control apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a generation cycle of the plurality of radiation images, a partial readout time required for the radiation imaging apparatus to read out a region of interest in one radiation image of the plurality of radiation images, and a transmission time estimated to be required to transmit the one radiation image. The control apparatus also includes a determination unit configured to determine, based on the generation cycle, the partial readout time, and the transmission time, a time at which the radiation imaging apparatus starts transmission of the plurality of radiation images.
US11153510B2
A display control device includes: an image data acquisition unit configured to acquire image data as a result of imaging by an imaging unit that images a situation around a vehicle; and a display processing unit configured to display, on a display unit, a peripheral image indicating the situation around the vehicle generated based on the image data and also display, on the peripheral image, a first vehicle image indicating a current state of the vehicle and a second vehicle image indicating a future state of the vehicle when the vehicle moves toward a target position and to change a display mode of at least one of the first vehicle image and the second vehicle image according to a remaining distance to the target position of the vehicle.
US11153505B2
A system includes a storage device storing a set of instructions and at least one processor in communication with the storage device. When executing the instructions, the at least one processor is configured to cause the system to obtain a first operation mode of the optical filter and determine a brightness value of visible light of ambient light. The at least one processor may also cause the system to obtain a brightness threshold related to the first operation mode, compare the brightness value of the visible light of the ambient light with the brightness threshold, and determine whether a switching condition is satisfied based on the comparison result. Upon the determination that the switching condition is satisfied, the at least one processor may further cause the system to switch the first operation mode of the optical filter to a second operation mode.
US11153500B2
The subject disclosure relates to techniques for adjusting an exposure setting. A process of the disclosed technology can include steps for determining a localization parameter of an autonomous vehicle, the localization parameter including a geographic position of the autonomous vehicle, determining a region of interest based on the localization parameter of the autonomous vehicle, receiving a first image including the region of interest based on the localization parameter of the autonomous vehicle, determining an exposure setting for the region of interest in the first image, and adjusting an exposure setting of the first image to the exposure setting for the region of interest in the first image. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US11153492B2
A method for selecting spectator viewpoints in volumetric video presentations of live events includes receiving a plurality of video streams depicting an event occurring in a venue, wherein the plurality of video streams are provided to a processor by a plurality of cameras which are geographically distributed within the venue, identifying an initial position of a target that is present in the venue, based on an analysis of the plurality of video streams, compositing the plurality of video streams to produce a first volumetric video traversal of the live event that follows the target through the venue, predicting a future position of the target in the venue at a future point in time, based in part on a current position of the target, and sending an alert to a display device that is streaming a volumetric video presentation of the event, wherein the alert indicates the future position of the target.
US11153490B2
An image capturing device includes: an imaging lens; an image capturing device main body including an imaging element that captures an optical image transmitting through the imaging lens; a first correction unit that performs correction of an image shake by a correction lens; and a second correction unit that performs correction of the image shake by the image capturing device main body. The image capturing device performs a control of causing the first correction unit and the second correction unit to share and correct the image shake and calculates a correction amount of each of the first correction unit and the second correction unit according to at least one of a temperature of the imaging lens or a temperature of the image capturing device main body in a case where correction of the image shake is performed by the first correction unit and the second correction unit.
US11153488B2
An imaging system comprises an image sensor configured to detect images, an inertial measurement unit configured to measure movement of the image sensor, a display unit configured to display the images detected by the image sensor, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control display of the images by the display unit based on the movement measured by the inertial measurement unit. An exemplary variable latency and frame rate camera embodiment is disclosed.
US11153487B2
An image capture device may include a microphone, a vibration sensor, and a processor. The microphone may obtain a microphone signal that includes an acoustic signal portion and a mechanical noise portion. The vibration sensor may obtain a vibration signal. The processor may upsample the vibration signal. The processor may determine a correlation value. The correlation value may be based on the microphone signal, the upsampled vibration signal, or both. The processor may determine filter coefficients. The filter coefficients may be determined on a condition that the correlation value is above a threshold. The filter coefficient may be based on the upsampled vibration signal. The processor may filter the vibration signal based on the filter coefficients to remove the mechanical noise portion and obtain a processed microphone signal. The processor may output the processed microphone signal.
US11153485B2
Automated camera mode selection using local motion vectors is described. An image capture device includes an image metric estimation unit to detect a presence or level of an image metric in a scene of an image to capture based on image metric inputs, a motion estimation unit to determine a level of movement within the scene using ratios of histograms based on local motion vectors, a mode selection unit to select a camera mode for capturing the image based on outputs of the image metric estimation unit and the motion estimation unit, and an image sensor to capture the image according to the selected camera mode. The motion estimation unit computes a norm for each local motion vector, generates a histogram from the computed norms, determines movement metrics based on the ratios of histograms associated with different norm thresholds, and identifies the level of movement based on the movement metrics.
US11153471B2
An image sensor module includes an interposer substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the interposer substrate being light-transmissive and having a plurality of through-holes; an image sensor located to face the first surface of the interposer substrate, the image sensor having a light receiving surface on a side of the interposer substrate, a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements being located at the light receiving surface, the image sensor being connected with an external circuit via electrodes provided in the plurality of through-holes; and a lens unit located to face the second surface of the interposer substrate.
US11153469B2
The invention relates to a modular optical recording system. According to the invention, a compact, flexibly configurable and expandable system structure for image recording, image stabilization and image correction is provided with an optical observation device that is to be arranged in the region of a preferably cylindrical housing concept. The recording system is designed in such a manner that a precise, play-free and frictionless mechanical correction of at least complete rotations about the optical axis and/or a precise and play-free adjustment of the flange focal distance is made possible.
US11153465B2
In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, processes, and/or methods may receive first video streams, of a user, from respective first cameras, at respective first locations and construct, from the first video streams, a single video stream that includes forward-facing images of the user. The single video stream constructed from the first video streams may be provided to a network. One or more movements of the user may be tracked, and based on the tracking, a hand-off to second cameras may occur. The one or more systems, processes, and/or methods may receive second video streams, of the user, from respective second cameras, at respective second locations and construct, from the second video streams, the single video stream that includes forward-facing images of the user. The single video stream constructed from the second video streams may be provided to the network.
US11153460B2
There is provided a control method of an information processing apparatus that can execute authentication processing with a communication apparatus by authentication schemes. The method includes: performing display control to cause a display unit to display a guide for performing the authentication processing with the communication apparatus in accordance with one of the authentication schemes when the information processing apparatus has obtained information from the communication apparatus; and executing the authentication processing in accordance with an operation performed by a user after the guide is displayed. In the performing the display control, a different guide is displayed in accordance with contents of the obtained information, and in the executing, the authentication processing is executed in accordance with an authentication scheme, which differs in accordance with the contents of the obtained information and corresponds to the displayed guide.
US11153459B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image reading device, an image forming device, and a control device. The image reading device reads a source document image. The image forming device forms the source document image read by the image reading device, on a recording sheet. The control device includes a processor, and acts as a controller, when the processor executes a control program. The controller arranges a plurality of source document images sequentially read by the image reading device, in a consolidated form in an area corresponding to one recording sheet, and causes the image forming device to record the source document images on one recording sheet.
US11153456B2
A printer has: a recording unit having a recorder that makes a record on a medium; and a scanner unit having a reader that reads an original placed on an original table, the scanner unit being disposed on the top of the recording unit. The scanner unit is horizontally shift between a first position at which the recording unit is used and a second position, which is a maintenance position of the recording unit.
US11153450B2
An image forming apparatus and method for providing a user interface (UI) screen are provided. The image forming apparatus may include a processor to execute instructions stored in a memory to display applications running on different UI platforms supported by different operating systems, together on a home screen based on a main UI platform selected among the different UI platforms, on a UI device.
US11153448B2
An information processing apparatus includes a display that displays a first operator corresponding to a standard application and a second operator corresponding to a one-touch application of a same type that is obtained by changing a setting value of a function of the standard application and that starts if the second operator is touched and a controller that displays, in association with the second operator, information indicating a difference in the setting value.
US11153446B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: select an object which is a transmission candidate using (i) attributes of objects managed in a project including plural processes and (ii) an attribute of a user who instructs an operation relating to transmission of an object, generate, for the object which is the transmission candidate, image information obtained by imaging transmission information used for the transmission of the object, and output the generated image information.
US11153434B2
An example method of operation may include one or more of identifying an inbound call intended for a mobile device subscribed to a protected carrier network, determining the inbound call is assigned an origination telephone number that is subscribed to the protected carrier network, determining whether an inbound call origination source location indicates the protected carrier network or an out-of-network carrier network based on one or more call parameters received with the inbound call, and determining whether to transmit an indication to the mobile device that the inbound call has an elevated likelihood of being a scam call based on the inbound call origination source location.
US11153433B2
A method, system, and computer program product for call flagging using shared call logs are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A determination is made that a phone call should be flagged as undesirable. In a call log in the device, a call entry corresponding to the phone call is selected. The call entry is modified to form a modified call entry, the modified call entry comprising an annotation, the annotation describing a reason for flagging the call as undesirable. A sharing rule is configured relative to the modified call entry. The modified call entry is sharing selectively according to the sharing rule with a subset of a set of social contacts of a user of the device on a social network.
US11153432B1
A method of operating a captioned telephone comprising the steps of dialing a telephone number to a relay gateway, connecting to the gateway over a communication network, performing a test to assess communication network quality, based on the test results, setting up the captioned telephone to operate in at least one of a first mode and a second mode wherein each of the first and second modes is one of (i) a PSTN mode in which data is communicated between the captioned telephone and the relay gateway via analog transmission and (ii) an IP mode in which data is communicated between the captioned telephone and the relay gateway via the Internet.
US11153430B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an information presentation method and device. The method includes: receiving, by a mobile terminal, first information provided by a communications network; determining, by the mobile terminal, a presentation priority of the first information in a current situation of a user; and sending the first information to a wearable device when the presentation priority of the first information in the current situation is greater than or equal to a second preset value, so that the wearable device presents the first information to the user. According to the information presentation method and device provided by the embodiments of the present invention, information can be presented according to a scene of a user, so that a presentation effect is improved, and interference of information unrelated to a current situation with the user is reduced.
US11153429B2
An apparatus and method are provided. The method includes reproducing, by a portable phone, multimedia content via an external output device while the portable phone is coupled with the external output device, determining whether the portable phone is decoupled from the external output device, and terminating the reproducing of the multimedia content based at least in part on a determination that the portable phone is decoupled from the external output device.
US11153426B2
A device and method for responding to a user voice including an inquiry by outputting a response to the user's voice through a speaker and providing a guide screen including a response to the user's voice.
US11153411B2
A method for processing a user request by an electronic device is provided. The method includes receiving the user request including natural language, analyzing the user request to detect a user intent and time information, determining one or more applications matching the user intent associated with the user request, determining a post event time period which is a time period before a time point extracted from the time information, and launching at least one among the one or more applications at the post event time period.
US11153410B2
Various systems, mediums, and methods herein describe aspects of data exchange schemas accessible with client devices over communication networks in data infrastructures. A data exchange system may build one or more data exchange schemas for a user. The system may also determine a location of a client device of the user associated with one or more entities. Based on the location of the client device, the system may identify a data exchange schema of the user for transferring data to the one or more entities. The system may determine an access for the one or more entities to a portion of data from the data exchange schema of the user. The system may also transmit a notification to the client device that indicates the access of the one or more entities to the portion of data from the data exchange schema.
US11153409B2
A method for providing redundancy in a network centric process control system, where at least one node includes at least one control service as well as at least one middleware service for communicating in the process control system, where the control service and middleware service is each a separate executable running in a separate operating system process provided by a real time operating system thereof, wherein a first control service in a first node communicating via a first middleware service and implementing a first control function acts as an active control service for the first control function and a second control service communicating via a second middleware service and implementing the first control function acts as a standby control service for the first control function, the method including performing, by the first control service, the first control function through subscribing, via the first middleware service, to input process data of the first control function and publishing via the first middleware service, output process data of the first control function, synchronizing the first control service with the second control service, and taking over, by the second control service based on a determination that a fault has occurred in the first node, the role of active control service, the taking over including publishing, by the second control service via a second middleware service provided for the second control service, the output process data of the first control function based on a subscription of the second control service to the input process data.
US11153404B2
An average computing resource usage for each computing resource associated with a client device is determined. A determination is made whether a workload associated with a database query request received by a database management system should be shared with the client device. In response to determining that the workload associated with the database query request should be shared, one or more plug-ins are transmitted from the database management system to the client device. The one or more plug-ins are software components that add specific features to at least one computer program on the client device. At least one portion of the workload associated with the database query request is transmitted to the client device. The client device processes the workload using the plug-ins, the computer program on the client device, any other programs required to process the workload, and the one or more computing resources associated with the client device.
US11153401B2
An information processing system includes one or more intermediary apparatuses communicable with one or more output apparatuses, and an information processing apparatus communicable with the one or more intermediary apparatuses. The information processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to receive, from a terminal, specific information and a process execution request input to the terminal, identify a specific intermediary apparatus associated with a specific output apparatus based on the specific information in accordance with the process execution request, and transmit the process execution request to the identified specific intermediary apparatus. The identified specific intermediary apparatus is configured to perform processing in accordance with the process execution request transmitted from the circuitry of the information processing apparatus to control the specific output apparatus.
US11153399B2
A method, system and computer program product for facilitating inter-proxy communication via an existing protocol. A proxy receives a message (e.g., request message) using a protocol, such as HTTP. If the proxy determines to add proxy relevant information to the message, then the proxy defines a new message header for the inter-proxy communication, which is added to the existing header section of the message. The proxy relevant information is then added in the newly added message header of the message. The message with the proxy relevant information is then transmitted to a subsequent proxy using the protocol of the underlying request-response transaction. In this manner, inter-proxy communications are enabled via an existing protocol (e.g., HTTP) that is used in the request-response transaction so that proxies can communicate with one another pertaining to matters (e.g., maintenance schedule) unrelated to the original intent of the transaction using the existing protocol (e.g., HTTP).
US11153398B2
Mechanisms for subscription and notification may include dynamically changing notification behavior based on notification target status or support access to notification history information.
US11153394B1
Implementations include receiving, by a migration delta analyzer of a software system, an object list including objects accessed by the on-premise application, determining, by the migration delta analyzer, at least one migration option for each object in the object list using a mapping table, receiving, through a user interface, input from a user representing a selection of migration option for each object in the object list, and providing a cloud application based on the selected migration option for each object in the object list.
US11153386B2
A data collection device includes a data collector configured to collect data from a device that outputs data, a time stamp adder configured to add a time stamp to the data collected by the data collector, a data storage configured to store the data to which the time stamp is added by the time stamp adder, a timing generator configured to generate a timing at which the data stored in the data storage is transmitted to a data server communicably connected via a first network, a request information acquirer configured to acquire request information for requesting transmission of the data, the request information being transmitted from the data server, and a data transmitter configured to transmit the data stored in the data storage to the data server based on the timing generated by the timing generator and in accordance with the request information acquired by the request information acquirer.
US11153380B2
A distributed data store may provide continuous backup for data stored in the distributed data store. Updates to data may be replicated amongst storage nodes according to a peer-to-peer replication scheme. A backup node may participate in the peer-to-peer replication scheme to identify additional updates to be applied to a backup version of the data in a separate data store. The backup node may obtain the updates according to the peer-to-peer replication scheme and update the backup version of the data. In some embodiments, configuration changes to the data in the distributed data store may be detected via the peer-to-peer replication scheme such that a backup node can adapt performance of backup operations in conformity with the configuration change.
US11153379B2
A metadata synchronization system is provided. The metadata synchronization system may include a plurality of metadata elements included in a plurality of applications. The plurality of applications may be coupled to a plurality of application hubs. The plurality of application hubs may be coupled to a federated metadata repository. The plurality of application hubs may be coupled to a governed metadata repository. The system may include crawling the plurality of applications, the plurality of application hubs, the federated metadata repository and the governed metadata repository to ensure that the metadata elements are synchronized across all of the components. In the event that a metadata element is not synchronized across any one of the components, the system may notify interested parties and/or resolve the discrepancy.
US11153375B2
Techniques for adjusting a compute capacity of a cloud computing system. In an example, a compute scaling application accesses, from a cloud computing system, a compute capacity indicating a number of allocated compute instances of a cloud computing system and usage metrics indicating pending task requests in a queue of the cloud computing system. The compute scaling application determines, for the cloud computing system, a compute scaling adjustment by applying a machine learning model to the compute capability of the cloud computing system and the usage metrics. The compute scaling adjustment indicates an adjustment to a number of compute instances of the cloud computing system. The compute scaling application provides the compute scaling adjustment to the cloud computing system. The cloud computing system adjusts a number of allocated compute instances.
US11153372B2
Disclosed herein are enhancements for operating a content delivery network to load balance origin requests to origin servers. In one implementation, a method of operating a content delivery network comprising a plurality of cache nodes that cache content between end user devices and origin servers includes, in a first cache node of the plurality of cache nodes, obtaining distribution information indicative of how each cache node in the plurality of cache nodes has distributed content requests to the origin servers. The method further provides, in the first cache node maintaining a load balancing profile for the plurality of origin servers based on the distribution information, and distributing a content request to an origin server in the plurality of origin servers based at least in part on the load balancing profile for the plurality of origin servers.
US11153368B2
Improved approaches for media listening amongst different users are disclosed. For example, methods, systems or computer program code can enable users to have a remote listening experience in real time. Advantageously, a remote user at a remote client device can in effect listen to a particular digital media asset that is being played at a local client device of a local user. Media information and/or user profiles can also be provided about themselves and shared with other users.
US11153367B2
Systems and methods may create and manage hybrid clouds including both standard compute nodes and edge devices. Edge devices can be enrolled in a hybrid cloud by deploying a lightweight container to the edge device.
US11153366B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for generating a customized lightweight web font corresponding to web content and providing the lightweight font to a requesting client device to enable the client device to render the web content using the customized lightweight font. The customized lightweight font only includes glyphs corresponding to those characters that appear in the web content. The file size of the lightweight web font is substantially less than the file size of the complete web font, and thus, there is substantially less latency and overhead associated with downloading the lightweight web font as compared to downloading the entire web font. A glyph demanding assessment can be performed to identify a set of characters contained in the web content such that corresponding glyphs can be extracted from the web font and used to generate the customized lightweight web font.
US11153365B2
A method of transferring files in a data-processing network using a current node within the network includes reading an outbound content and outbound characteristics of an outbound file. An outbound message is created having outbound strings including a first set of the outbound strings representing the outbound characteristics and a second set of the outbound strings representing the outbound content. The outbound message is sent to a receiver node within the network. An inbound message is received from a sender node within the network. The inbound message has inbound strings including a first set of the inbound strings representing inbound characteristics and a second set of the inbound strings representing inbound content. An inbound file having the inbound content is stored, and the inbound characteristics are applied to the inbound file.
US11153359B2
A user equipment includes a wireless interface for communication with a cellular communication network. The user equipment is operative to receive, via the wireless interface, network assistance information for a media streaming session, and to transmit media streaming session related information to the cellular communication network.
US11153358B2
Methods and systems for caching and delivering data contents among peer nodes in a decentralized data delivery edge network are disclosed. The network comprises peer-to-peer (P2P) connections implemented on top of a content delivery network (CDN) having CDN servers that provide data resources to network nodes. Such a hybrid network comprises viewer peer nodes, edge cacher peer nodes, tracker servers, and a payment service module. An edge cacher peer node sends its client statistics to a tracker server, wherein the client statistics comprises a cacher location and a performance specification. In return, the tracker server provides caching instructions according to which the edge cacher peer node downloads fragments of a data file from a CDN server, for later transmission to other viewer peer nodes within the decentralized data delivery edge network.
US11153357B2
System and method for allowing simultaneous TCP connections to a point-to-point TCP connected device
A central server communicates requests from the at least one third-party device, in a plurality of third-party devices having a TCP connection with the central server, to a target device using the TCP connection established between the central server and a point-to-point receiver. The central server receives data from the target device using the TCP connection established between the central server and the point-to-point receiver. The central server delivers data to all of the plurality of third-party devices using the TCP connections established between the central server and each of the plurality of third-party devices.
US11153354B1
Systems and methods for providing a remote interactive experience are provided. The systems and methods may include computer executable code stored in a non-transitory memory and run on a processor. The remote interactive experience may be provided via a digital platform. The platform may provide management of a shared browser. The shared browser may be shared by a plurality of participant devices. The platform may store the shared browser in a cloud-based location. The shared browser may thus be cloud-based. The platform may enable the plurality of participant devices to access the cloud-based shared browser. The platform may receive, as input, actions performed to each of the plurality of participant devices. The actions may include at least one of an action list that includes: a cursor movement, a window-sizing, a window-positioning, and a file navigation performed to the shared browser. The platform may propagate the actions to the shared browser.
US11153353B1
Privacy is often a concern when conducting a voice-based communication over a network. Users who utilize a speakerphone may provide an opportunity for unwelcome third parties to overhear the far-end portion of the call. By establishing a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) media session utilizing signaling comprising a transducer header, a called device may utilize the desired transducer to better facilitate privacy (e.g., headset, handset). If privacy is not requested, the transducer header may indicate any transducer may be used or that use of a speakerphone is permitted. Mid-call changes in the requested privacy may also be accommodated to request transition to or from a more private transducer utilized by the far-end device.
US11153352B2
A method for processing an incoming call to a called terminal in a telecommunications network, implemented by a TAS server in an IMS network. The method includes: interrogating an SDM entity to determine whether the service profile of the user associated with the called terminal contains IN terminating service information; interrogating an SDM entity to determine whether the routing domain to be used to route the call to the called terminal is a circuit or packet type; if the routing domain is a packet type, determining whether the called terminal is effectively reachable in packet mode, and if applicable, via which type of access network; if the service profile contains IN terminating information, allowing the IN terminating service provided for the user of the called terminal to be distinguished according to the type of access network of the called terminal; and routing the call to the called terminal.
US11153345B1
A data diode provides a flexible device for collecting data from a data source and transmitting the data to a data destination using one-way data transmission across a main channel. On-board processing elements allow the data diode to identify automatically the type of connectivity provided to the data diode and configure the data diode to handle the identified type of connectivity. Either or both of the inbound and outbound side of the data diode may comprise one or both of wired and wireless communication interfaces. A secure reverse channel, separate from the main channel, allows carefully predetermined communications from the data destination to the data source.
US11153343B2
A device may generate network profile data indicating a set of network parameters detected by the device. The device may encrypt the network profile data and may transmit the encrypted network profile data to a network device, such as a router, or a server. The router or server may analyze the encrypted network profile data to determine if the device is secure. The router of server may perform one or more security measures if the device is not secure.
US11153339B1
Activities within a network environment are monitored (e.g., using agents). At least a portion of the monitored activities are used to generate a logical graph model. The generated logical graph model is used to determine an anomaly. The detected anomaly is recorded and can be used to generate an alert.
US11153337B2
A method for improving a detection of beaconing activity includes receiving input data into a computer-implemented processing procedure at least one listing of at least one of time series data and candidate periods of potential beaconing activity. The input data is processed, to detect candidates of potential beaconing activity. By further evaluating the time series data using techniques used for evaluating an analog signal, the performance of detecting of potential beaconing activity is improved to eliminate false positive indications of beaconing activity and/or to provide indication of multiple interleaved periodicities of beaconing.
US11153335B1
Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for protection of data servers configured for data replication of a database. As an example, one apparatus includes at least one processing circuit configured to receive records indicating respective modifications performed on a first version of the database stored in a first data server of the plurality of data servers. The at least one processing circuit is configured to delay replication of the modification in one or more additional servers in the plurality of data servers for a respective length of time specified for the servers in a security profile. While delaying replication of the modification, the processing circuit determines a probability that the modification is malicious based on a first set of factors indicated in a security profile. If the probability is greater than a threshold specified in the security profile, the processing circuit prevents the modification from being performed.
US11153329B2
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods of providing real-time scanning of IP addresses. In aspects, input may be received by a real-time IP scanning system. The system may generate one or more work orders based on the input. A scanner associated with the system may access a work order and attempt to communicate with one or more devices identified by the work order. If the attempted communication with a device is successful, a protocol analyzer may be used to provide a predefined payload to the device. If the response from the device matches an expected string, the device may be determined to be a safe and/or legitimate device. If the response from the device does not match an expected string, the device may be determined to be a malicious device.
US11153328B2
Systems for managing multiple shared content objects using access tokens that cover the multiple shared content objects are disclosed. A method commences upon assigning the shared content objects to have individual permissions grantable to two or more users. A user configures a shareable unit to include attributes that describe a plurality of constituent shared content objects stored on one or more storage devices in the cloud-based storage system. An administrator or other user configures allow/deny access privileges to the shareable unit. Upon receiving a request from a user to access the shareable unit, a single access token is generated to provide access to the shared content objects that comprise the shareable unit. Ongoing access to the shareable unit is accomplished using the single access token, without the need to provision an access token or tokens pertaining to individual ones of the constituent shared content objects of the shareable unit.
US11153321B2
A secure investigation platform in a sovereign cloud includes a request processing system that is a user-facing system and receives requests to prepare for an incident investigation. A control message processing system creates a workspace, within the sovereign cloud, so that an investigation can be conducted within that workspace. The request processing system does not access the workspace and the control message processing system is not available for external access by a user. Data and functionality are ingested into the workspace. The control message processing system performs investigation preparation tasks within the workspace. The results of the investigation tasks are surfaced for user access.
US11153320B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for identifying a first user access event that failed authentication at the first computing device; creating a transaction block of a distributed ledger based on the first user access event; determining that data indicating the first user access event is not included by the distributed ledger, and in response, adding the transaction block to a temporal vector space of the distributed ledger; sharing, to each other computing device of the local network, the transaction block, wherein each of the others computing devices of the local network updates a local copy of the distributed ledger to include the transaction block in the temporal vector space.
US11153319B2
Users of organizations use many different third-party applications. The organizations use the services of a server to manage and interact with the third-party applications. In particular, the server provides a user lifecycle API that defines a set of user lifecycle events corresponding to changes of the users with respect to their organizations and/or the third-party applications that they use within the organizations. The server further has access to lifecycle code modules corresponding to the different third-party applications and defining how those third-party applications will respond to the user lifecycle events. When a user lifecycle event occurs for a particular user of a particular organization, the server determines the third-party applications to which the organization has given the user access uses the appropriate functionality of the lifecycle code modules of the corresponding third-party applications to implement the appropriate user changes for those applications.
US11153317B2
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for wireless communication of analyte data. In embodiments, a method of using a diabetes management partner interface to configure an analyte sensor system for wireless communication with a plurality of partner devices is provided. The method includes the analyte sensor system receiving authorization to provide one of the partner devices with access to a set of configuration parameters via the diabetes management partner interface. The set of configuration parameters is stored in a memory of the analyte sensor system. The method also includes, responsive to input received from the one partner device via the diabetes management partner interface, the analyte sensor system setting or causing a modification to the set of configuration parameters, according to a system requirement of the one partner device.
US11153315B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling access to secure information resources using rotational datasets and dynamically configurable data containers. A computing platform may receive, from a requesting system, a data access request. After authenticating the requesting system, the computing platform may load, using a first data container, first source data from a data track. The computing platform may send the first source data to a second data container. Then, the computing platform may load, using the second data container, second source data from the data track and may produce a first combined dataset. The computing platform may send the first combined dataset to a third data container. Subsequently, the computing platform may load, using the third data container, third source data from the data track and may produce a second combined dataset. Thereafter, the computing platform may send, to the requesting system, the second combined dataset.
US11153314B2
A system and method for scoring an interaction using an analytical model and authorization decisions is disclosed. The method includes receiving from an access device an authorization request message for an interaction between a user and a resource provider. An analytical model comprising a neural network with at least one long short-term memory determines a score based on data in the authorization request message. The analytical model was formed using interaction data from prior authorization request messages, and authorization response messages from an authorizing computer. The authorization request message and the score is transmitted to the authorizing computer and an authorization response message, including an indication of whether the interaction was approved or declined, is received. Then the analytical model is updated based upon data in the authorization request message and the indication in the authorization response message to form an updated analytical model.
US11153311B2
Systems, methods, and storage media for identity verification are disclosed. An example of an identity verification method comprises: receiving from a computing device an identity verification request for identity verification of a user of the computing device for accessing a service system, wherein the identity verification request comprises device environment information of the computing device; determining a credibility of the computing device according to (i) the device environment information of the computing device and (ii) historical feature information comprising device environment information of a historical device used by the user, wherein the historical device previously logged into the service system or underwent a previous identity verification for accessing the service system; determining, according to the credibility of the computing device, an identity verification policy for performing identity verification on the user; and performing identity verification on the user according to the identity verification policy.
US11153303B2
Methods and systems for secure authentication of a first device through attestation by one or more other devices are described herein. A server used to authenticate the first device may transmit, to the first device, a request for attestation of the first device by one or more other devices. A user of the first device may attempt to find a user of a second device to attest to the identity of the first device and/or the user of the first device. Once the user of the second device attests to the identity of the first device and/or the user of the first device, the server device may receive, from the second device, an indication of the attestation. Based on the attestation, the server device may grant, to the first device, access to one or more services associated with the server device. One or more additional devices may be used to attest to the identity of the first device and/or the user of the first device.
US11153295B2
Plugins are authenticated for purposes of accessing and using application program interfaces (APIs) of a management service of a virtualized computing environment. In an authentication process, each plugin is associated with a session ticket that is unique to the plugin. The session ticket may be in the form of a single-use token that has a finite duration, and which may be used by the plugin to establish a session with the APIs of the management service. Because of the single-use and finite duration constraints of the token, the plugin is unable to use the token for other sessions and other plugins are also unable to use the same token to conduct their own sessions with the management service.
US11153290B2
Advanced security protocol for broadcasting and synchronizing shared folders over local area network
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media for securely broadcasting shared folders from one client device to other client devices and synchronizing the shared folders over a local area network. A first client device, associated with a content management system, generates a secure identifier for a shared folder, using a shared secret key that is associated with the shared folder. The first client device announces the secure identifier over a local area network to other client devices on the local area network including a second client device. The first client device receives a synchronization request for the shared folder from the second client device. After authenticating, using the shared secret key, that the second client device has authorization to access the shared folder, the first client device synchronizes the shared folder with the second client device over the local area network.
US11153289B2
A System-on-Chip (SoC) performs secure communication operations. The SoC may include a peripheral interface configured to communicate with a host system. The SoC may also include a network interface configured to receive network packets in a secure communication session. The SoC may further include a processor configured to execute an Operating System (OS) software and a secure communication software stack to process at least one received network packet in the secure communication session. In addition, the SoC may include a secure communication engine configured to perform cryptographic operations and generate at least one decrypted packet in the secure communication session. The at least one decrypted packet may be provided to the host system via the peripheral interface.
US11153285B2
Embodiments described include systems and methods for management and pre-establishment of network application and secure communication sessions. Session logs may be analyzed to identify an application or secure communication sessions likely to be accessed, and prior to receiving a request to establish the session, an intermediary (e.g. another device such as an intermediary appliance or other device, or an intermediary agent on a client such as a client application) may pre-establish the session, performing any necessary handshaking or credential or key exchange processes. When the session is subsequently requested (e.g. in response to a user request), the system may immediately begin using the pre-established session. This pre-establishment may be coordinated within the enterprise providing load balancing and scheduling of session establishment to prevent large processing loads at any one point in time.
US11153282B2
A device can receive a first communication from a user device. The first communication can includes a request for content. The device can generate a record of content. The record of content includes a reference associated with the content and one or more encryption credentials associated with the content. The device can encrypt the record of content, to form an encrypted record of content, based on receiving the first communication. The device can provide the encrypted record of content to the user device based on receiving the first communication. The device can receive a second communication from the user device based on providing the encrypted record of content. The device can provide the content to the user device based on receiving the second communication.
US11153279B2
Example implementations relate to exposing on-premise API endpoints in a cloud-based application platform. The application platform receives information regarding a forwarding proxy associated with a private network and information regarding a remote application programming interface (API) endpoint within the private network. A mapping between a resource model of the application platform to a tunnel established between a forwarding client of the application platform and the forwarding proxy is created by a controller of the application platform causing the forwarding client to instantiate a port corresponding to a forwarding route for the remote API endpoint based on the information regarding the forwarding proxy and the remote API endpoint. The remote API endpoint is locally represented within the application platform in a form of an instance of a service abstraction provided by the application platform.
US11153273B2
A method includes provisioning, by a cloud provisioning server, a first instance based on a template. The template belongs to a tenant, and the first instance includes one of an instantiated software and an instantiated computing service. The method also includes determining a prefix. The determined prefix is shared by a second instance that is also provisioned based on the template of the tenant. The method also includes generating a name for the first provisioned instance. The generated name includes the determined prefix.
US11153261B2
A VM receives a first ARP request from a first instance of a virtualized network function (VNF) associated with a first MAC address. The VM may determine the first MAC address and, based at least in part on the first MAC address, may a second MAC address with which to respond to the first ARP request. The VM may then send, to the first instance of the VNF, a response to the first ARP request specifying the second MAC address. The VM may also receive a second ARP request from a second instance of the VNF associated with a third MAC address. The VM may determine a fourth MAC address with which to respond to the second ARP request, and may thereafter send a response to the second ARP request to the second instance of the VNF, with the response specifying the fourth MAC address.
US11153258B2
A system and method for multi-channel communications that includes receiving an initiating communication triggering establishment of a conversation associated with a set of participant endpoints, wherein the set of participant endpoints comprises of participant endpoints from at least two distinct communication channels; configuring a set of intermediary endpoints for communications between at least a subset of the set of participant endpoints on different communication channels; and for each communication of the conversation, transmitting communications to a receiving set of participant endpoints through the configured intermediary endpoint.
US11153256B2
Systems and methods are disclosed in which merchants on an e-commerce platform may use a same computer application to start and/or join discussion groups with other merchants on the e-commerce platform. An existing discussion group may be recommended to a merchant based on data specific to that merchant. A notification of the recommendation may be transmitted to the user interface of the merchant's device, and if the merchant accepts the recommendation, then the discussion group may be added to the set of discussion groups the merchant follows. Alternatively, a recommended discussion group may be automatically added to the set of discussion groups the merchant follows.
US11153255B2
One or more non-transitory storage media storing instructions which, when executed by one or more computing devices, cause performance of a method of enhancing online contents based on digital alliance data are disclosed. The method comprising receiving from a web server a webpage at a first user device associated with a first user and a first user account managed by a communication data management server; extracting a type of data of a plurality types of data from a body or metadata of the webpage; and determining whether the type of data matches certain data regarding a contact of an alliance network of the first user account. The method further comprises, updating, in response to determining that the type of data matches certain data regarding a contact, the webpage with specific data related to the contact; and causing displaying the updated webpage by the first user device.
US11153251B1
An ingestion server is provided for processing emails and providing intelligent workflows. The ingestion server includes a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to receive an electronic mail message containing a set of email content and to determine a content type. The content type is one of structured content and unstructured content. The processor is configured to identify a parsing module from a plurality of parsing modules to process the set of email content. The processor is configured to apply the identified parsing module to the set of email content to obtain a set of parsed email content. The processor is configured to apply a mapper module to the set of parsed email content to obtain a routing path. The processor is also configured to define an intelligent workflow based on the routing path. The processor is also configured to submit the work item using the intelligent workflow.
US11153248B2
Location-based notification includes establishment of a rally point and subsequent notification of a user when another user enters the rally point. Senders may set up rally points at various physical locations and specify one or more target recipients that are to be notified when the sender enters the rally point. Target recipients may specify communication settings that dictate whether and/or how they wish to receive notifications under a variety of circumstances. When a sender having a computing device enters a rally point location, a notification is sent from the computing device to a location-based notification service, which notifies each of the target recipients in a manner that complies with the target recipient's individual communication settings.
US11153245B2
When a user is responding to a message in a thread and a new response message is detected for the thread, the user's response is automatically re-parented so the user's response is sent as a response to the newly detected response message in the thread.
US11153241B2
This specification is generally directed to techniques for automatically transitioning applications—especially those that enable exchange of messages between users—into and/or out of a private state based on a variety of signals associated with the messages and/or the participants themselves. In various implementations, an ongoing message exchange thread between two or more participants operating two or more respective message exchange clients may be examined. Based at least in part on the examining, a likelihood may be determined that message(s) directed by one of the participants to another of the participants as part of the ongoing message exchange thread would be deemed private by at least a given participant of the two or more participants. A determination may be made of whether the determined likelihood satisfies one or more thresholds, and in response, one or more of the message exchange clients may be transitioned into a private state.
US11153240B2
Method, system and computer program product for selectively adapting and transmitting messaging data
The present invention refers to a System for transmitting of messaging data representing information defined by end users and sent from a first end user device (1) to a further end user device (2). The system according to the invention at least comprises: the first end user device (1) and one further end user device (2), wherein the end user devices (1), (2) are having internet and GSM/CDMA-based connectivity capabilities, wherein at least the first end-user device (1) is equipped with an application providing a user-interface (14) for enabling a user to define the information represented by the messaging data, wherein the application reads out connectivity properties of the first end user device (1) from a control means or communication means of the first end user device (1), wherein message data is directed in dependency of the read out data via an internet connection path or via a GSM/CDMA-based connection path, wherein the messaging data is automatically modified in a predefined manner in case the GSM/CDMA-based connection path is selected and in case the messaging data fulfills a predefined criterion.
US11153227B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems. One example comprises monitoring traffic between a plurality of microservices to determine a property of the traffic. Embodiments of the present invention can then, based on the determined property of the monitored traffic, relocate each of the plurality of microservices from its respective origin resource to a shared resource.
US11153218B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In aspects, a wireless device such as a user equipment (UE) may identify an amount of acknowledgement (ACK) reduction associated with an applications processor. The amount of ACK reduction may be determined based on a communication from the applications processor, or an ACK frequency in a group of packets received from the applications processor. The UE may determine whether to modify an ACK management scheme (e.g., a transmission control protocol (TCP) ACK coalescing scheme) based at least in part on the amount of ACK reduction associated with the applications processor. The UE may modify the ACK management scheme. The UE may transmit ACKs in accordance with the modified ACK management scheme. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11153204B2
A method, operable by a service registry in a service orientated architecture system, for providing a service within the system. A service request is received from a service requester in the system. The status of the service is checked as registered in the service registry. In response to the service not having a registered service endpoint or a property of the service falling below a defined threshold, a request is sent to service providers or subsequent service registries to provide a new service and according to the defined threshold. In response to a service provider providing the new service according to the defined standard, the service registry is updated with the new service and responding to the service requester that the service is available. The embodiments allow both direct interaction between the requester and provider or indirect interaction via a service management layer.
US11153202B2
A routing system for implementing a service and topology exchange protocol (STEP) includes a primary STEP server configured to maintain a STEP repository and a plurality of routers, with each router including a STEP client in communication with the primary STEP server. The STEP client of each router is configured to transmit, using STEP, STEP documents containing service and topology state information for at least one route or service available through the router to the primary STEP server for storage in the STEP repository. The primary STEP server is configured to transmit to the STEP client of each router, using STEP, service and topology state information from the STEP repository for at least one other router based on configured relationships between routers. Each router is configured to make routing decisions based at least in part on the service and topology state information from the at least one other router.
US11153194B2
Techniques for avoiding single points of failure in routing components of an SDN are disclosed. In some aspects, control nodes that provide routing management services are assigned zone identifiers. The control nodes having one zone identifier can be on separate processes and/or physical hardware from control nodes having a different zone identifier. Workloads, such as virtual machines or containers, can establish routing sessions such as Border Gateway Protocol as a Service (BGPaaS) routing sessions using different zone identifiers to ensure that separate control nodes provide routing management services for the primary and secondary compute nodes associated with a high availability service. These techniques in this way facilitate high availability by ensuring that a control node is not a single point of failure for the high availability service provided by the primary and secondary compute nodes.
US11153193B2
Method of training and using a computerized system for testing a network that includes computer nodes, to determine functionality of the network, including: determining respective limit values for each of a plurality of data types; obtaining at least one sample of test data of a given data type, converting the sample value into a corresponding normalized sampled value, so that each normalized sampled value is within limit values of the given data type determined based on at least the characteristics of the given data type and the given node; combining normalized values of different types of the given node into a set of combined node features; tagging each set of combined node features with a performance tag; generating a training set that includes a plurality of tagged sets of combined features that pertain to at least one node; and inputting the training set to train the system.
US11153188B2
A service identification method and a network device, where the method includes receiving, by the network device, service packets and identifying service packets that belong to a same terminal, determining, by the network device, a service traffic feature based on session information of the terminal and packet information of the service packet, where the service traffic feature includes at least one of session duration, a quantity of concurrent sessions, a traffic rate, traffic rate stability, a packet transmit/receive frequency, a quantity of packets, a packet length, or a round-trip time related to a request packet and a response packet, and determining, by the network device, a service type of a to-be-identified service based on the service traffic feature.
US11153187B2
A measuring system comprises a first measuring device and a second measuring device. The first measuring device comprises a measuring unit, which is configured to successively transmit at least one first data packet to the second measuring device. The second measuring device is configured to attempt to receive the at least one first data packet and to, for each received first data packet, and to respond by transmitting a second data packet to the first measuring device. The measuring unit is moreover configured to attempt to receive the at least one second data packet and to determine a latency between transmitting the at least one first data packet and receiving the at least one second data packet. The first measuring device moreover comprises an interactivity calculator, which is configured to calculate an interactivity score based on the determined latency.
US11153183B2
An application performance management system is disclosed. Operational elements are dynamically discovered and extended when changes occur. Programmatic knowledge is captured. Particular instances of operational elements are recognized after changes have been made using a fingerprint/signature process. Metrics and metadata associated with a monitored operational element are sent in a compressed form to a backend for analysis. Metrics and metadata from multiple similar systems may be used to adjust/create expert rules to be used in the analysis of the state of an operational element. A 3-D user interface with both physical and logical representations may be used to display the results of the performance management system.
US11153180B1
Systems and methods described herein provide a network tool that discovers device configurations for selected enterprise sites and automatically organizes the data to assist users, so they can build intents for network function policies in enterprise networks. An intent builder performs device discovery of network function (NF) instances in a customer network; retrieves configuration elements from the NF instances; normalizes the configuration elements; and generates a graphical user interface with rule paths based on the configuration elements. The network device receives, via the graphical user interface, user input to map source Internet protocol (IP) addresses in the rule paths to a user label and to map destination IP address in the rule paths to an application label. Based on the user input, the network device presents, via the graphical user interface, consolidated intents and generates vendor-agnostic policy rules from the consolidated intents.
US11153174B2
The described technology is directed towards presenting a server overload condition that can result from a spike in client requests. Upon receiving an incoming client request for data at a server, a request buffer condition of a client request buffer (e.g., a counter) is evaluated to determine whether the client request corresponds to an anticipated overload state with respect to a request-handling capability of the server, e.g., whether the client request buffer is full. If so, an overload response (e.g., a retry response) is returned to the client indicating so that the client retries a corresponding client request after a time delay. If not in the anticipated overload state, the request is further processed, e.g., to provide a regular response containing the requested data, such as by adding a request information entry associated with the incoming client request to the client request buffer and updating the request buffer condition.
US11153169B2
Technology for establishing network communications over an overlay network among nodes of configurable network computer systems, such as the storage system nodes of a hyper-converged infrastructure system is disclosed. The nodes are configured for communication over an overlay network and overlay endpoints corresponding to the nodes are enabled for encapsulating network communications between overlay endpoints. The nodes may then communicate over a common overlay subnetwork even though they operate in different local subnetworks with different subnetwork configurations. An installer may be similarly configured for network communications with the nodes over the overlay subnetwork.
US11153166B2
A method for connecting graph processing cut endpoints is disclosed. The method comprises determining a first capability matrix comprising capability values, applying weights to the capability values of the first capability matrix resulting in a first weighted capability matrix, and determining a second capability matrix comprising, for each pairing of another side of the cut endpoint, capability values. For both, the first capability matrix and second capability matrix, the capability values relate at least to a platform, a runtime framework, a connection technology, a protocol for a connection of a node of the stream processing system. The method comprises further determining a joint weighted capability matrix for two corresponding cut endpoints of a cut by multiplying corresponding capability matrix values of the first weighted capability matrix and the second capability matrix, and selecting a preferred connection for the cut endpoints.
US11153158B2
A method for configuring a frequency priority, a terminal device, a base station and a core network device are provided. When the base station or the core network device configures information of a frequency priority, information of a frequency corresponding to a network slice registered by the terminal device is considered. The method includes: transmitting a first request message to a core network device, wherein the first request message is used for requesting information of a network slice registered by a terminal device; receiving a response message transmitted by the core network device for the first request message, wherein the response message includes the information of the network slice registered by the terminal device; configuring information of a frequency priority for the terminal device according to the response message; and transmitting the configured information of the frequency priority to the terminal device.
US11153157B2
A system for configuration management using OVSDB protocol. The system includes a configuration manager on a server computer and a plurality of devices on a plurality of computing devices. The configuration manager comprises an OVSDB server maintaining an OVSDB database. Each of the plurality of devices includes an OVSDB client. The OVSDB database on the configuration manager comprises a database schema containing configuration data for the plurality of devices. The OVSDB server on the configuration manager communicates with the OVSDB client on each of the plurality of devices via OVSDB protocol in managing configurations of the plurality of devices.
US11153155B1
A method for zero-touch provisioning is disclosed. The method includes receiving a customer specification of network requirements exclusively specified for a CPE assigned to a specific customer at a specific customer premises. The CSNR includes information describing the premises and information describing an intended operation of the CPE. The method also includes storing a job assignment including a unique CPE identity and service information for the provisioning of the CPE. The identity is linked to the customer through the job assignment. The method also includes provisioning a class of service template exclusively for providing the intended operation of the CPE at the customer premises and paired with the CPE identity through the job assignment. The method also includes receiving a provisioning request sent by the CPE to a FQDN pointed at the ZTP server and including the CPE identity. Finally, the method includes pushing the COS template to the CPE.
US11153153B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor that receives a first log from a first transmission apparatus. The processor determines target log information among plural pieces of log information included in the first log. The target log information is one of first pieces of log information having an occurrence frequency higher than an occurrence frequency of other pieces of log information. The processor assigns an identifier to the target log information. The processor stores log management information indicating a correspondence among the target log information, the identifier, and a first path received together with the first log and indicating a storage location in which the first log is stored. The processor transmits the log management information to a second log transmission apparatus corresponding to the first path. The processor receives, from the second log transmission apparatus, a log in which the target log information is converted into the identifier.
US11153152B2
Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media are provided for detecting and simulating issues in a network.
US11153147B2
An electronic device includes a communication device communicating with one or more Internet-of-things devices, one or more processors, and a memory. The communication device receives, from at least one Internet-of-things device, an event notification. The one or more processors identify a notification recipient to whom the event notification should be sent from a plurality of predefined system users, select a receiving electronic device from at least two electronic devices belonging to the notification recipient, convert the event notification from a first event notification type to a second event notification type that is receivable by the receiving electronic device, and transmit the event notification to the receiving electronic device.
US11153143B2
A low voltage drive circuit (LVDC) includes a digital to digital converter that converts transmit digital data into a digital input signal, wherein the transmit digital data is synchronized to a clock rate of a host device and the digital input signal is synchronized to a clock rate of a bus to which the LVDC is coupled. An output limited digital to analog is converter converts the digital input signal into analog outbound data by generating a DC component and converting the digital input signal into an oscillating component at a first frequency, wherein magnitude of the oscillating component is limited to a range that is less than a difference between magnitudes of power supply rails of the LVDS, and wherein the oscillating component and the DC component are combined to produce the analog outbound data. A drive sense circuit conveys the analog outbound data as variances in loading of the bus at the first frequency and wherein analog inbound data is represented within an analog receive signal as variances in loading of the bus at a second frequency.
US11153133B2
An integrated circuit equalizes a data signal expressed as a series of symbols. The symbols form data patterns with different frequency components. By considering these patterns, the integrated circuit can experiment with equalization settings specific to a subset of the frequency components, thereby finding an equalization control setting that optimizes equalization. Optimization can be accomplished by setting the equalizer to maximize symbol amplitude.
US11153130B2
An equalizer can connect with N receiving antennas that receive single carrier transmission signals transmitted from M transmitting antenna(s) in the same frequency band at the same time, and receives as input L signals sampled in a sampling period T from each of the N receiving antennas, the equalizer comprising, a first selection part that selects K signal(s) from the L signals for each of the N receiving antennas as signals to be multiplied by a first tap coefficient(s), and a second selection part selects L-K signal(s) to be multiplied by a second tap coefficient(s), from the L signals obtained by multiplying signals in the same sampling period for each of the N receiving antennas by the tap coefficient(s) and performing addition thereof.
US11153129B1
A transmitter (TX)-side feedforward equalizer (FFE) includes one or more “roaming” filter taps which can be used to compensate reflections that occur at unpredictable and substantial time offsets from a main pulse. The roaming filter taps are realized in a hardware- and power-efficient manner by implementing a programmable delay serializer in which the phases of multi-rate clocks are switched to introduce binary weighted delays on the roaming tap. In this way a variable difference in latencies is introduced between the main and the roaming tap data paths. The TX-side FFE implementations provide a fully programmable roaming tap generator having a 1-Unit Interval (UI) resolution of delay setting integrated into the data serializer of the TX macro.
US11153126B2
An apparatus can receive or transmit parameters for a sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission configuration as an uplink (UL)/downlink (DL) configuration of a serving cell. A time division duplex (TDD) operation with a plurality of component carriers (CCs) can be enabled/generated based on the parameters and at least one component carriers being reserved for the UL transmission or having a higher priority than a physical channel transmission such as a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission or a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission.
US11153123B2
A method for minimizing a time domain mean square error (MSE) of channel estimation (CE) includes estimating, by a processor, a power delay profile (PDP) from a time domain observation of reference signal (RS) channels; estimating, by the processor, a noise variance of the RS channels; and determining, by the processor, a first arrival path (FAP) value and a delay spread estimation (DSE) value based on the estimated PDP and the estimated noise variance for minimizing the MSE of CE.
US11153109B2
Embodiments for intelligent teleconference operations in an Internet of Things (IoT) computing environment by a processor. A communication connection for a conference call session may be cognitively initiated or terminated with one or more users according to one or more parameters associated with a user profile, a schedule of the one or more users, activities of daily living (“ADL”), one or more contextual factors, or a combination thereof.
US11153108B2
Various systems and methods for performing bit indexed explicit replication (BIER) using multiprotocol label switching (MPLS). For example, one method involves receiving a packet that includes a MPLS label. The packet also includes a multicast forwarding entry. The method also involves determining, based on the value of the MPLS label, whether to use the multicast forwarding entry to forward the packet. The method further includes forwarding the packet.
US11153102B2
A method includes generating a secure management mode public-private key pair; generating a certificate signing request, the certificate signing request including the secure management mode public key of the secure management mode public-private key pair, the certificate signing request including a common name associated with a trusted root certificate authority; sending the secure management mode certificate signing request to a signing server; receiving a signed certificate signed by a factory certificate authority, a public key certificate for the factory certificate authority, and a trust chain signed by the trusted root certificate authority; validating the signed certificate; and enabling a secure management mode.
US11153096B2
Current systems for data authentication, such as in the course of financial transactions to comply with anti-money laundering and know-your-customer legislation, are burdensome and inefficient for banks and their clients. A platform of some embodiments provides a system for utilizing distributed ledger technologies, such as a blockchain data structure residing on a distributed ledger. A client may use this blockchain data structure to register the client's personal information in a data object that then may be routed to specific identified trusted individuals who verify that the information in the data object is correct. Once verification is complete, the client or other trusted individuals may use the data object as necessary to register the client for various programs or services, such as additional bank services.
US11153093B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with protecting online content are described. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a hashed code, and generating an encrypted and signed hash. The method may also include transmitting the encrypted and signed hash and the domain to a blockchain, causing: the blockchain to request validation the encrypted and signed hash by a terminal associated with a registrar of the domain; and the terminal associated with the registrar to: (a) decrypt the encrypted and signed hash using the private key to obtain the hashed code, (b) attempt to validate an authenticity of the hashed code, and (c) control inclusion of the hashed code in a blockchain record based on a result of the attempt to validate the authenticity of the hashed code.
US11153087B1
Systems and processes are described for establishing and using a secure channel. A shared secret may be used for authentication of session initiation messages as well as for generation of a private/public key pair for the session. A number of ways of agreeing on the shared secret are described and include pre-sharing the keys, reliance on a key management system, or via a token mechanism that uses a third entity such as a hub to manage authentication, for example. In some instances, the third party may also perform endpoint selection (e.g., load balancing) by providing a particular endpoint along with the token.
US11153086B2
In some aspects, methods and systems for a digital trust architecture are provided. In some aspects, the architecture includes a user account provisioning process. The provisioning process may make use of in person verifications of some personal information to ensure authenticity of the user information. Once the authenticity of user information is established, an account may be created. The user account may include a user email account, with integrated access to digital certificates linked to the user account. Account creation may also automatically publish the new user's public key in a publicly accessible directory, enabling encrypted email information to be easily sent to the new user.
US11153081B2
A method and apparatus includes a determining unit configured to determine whether a device entering a network should be allowed access and an executing unit configured to execute a configuration protocol between the registrar and the device and to a shared unique configuration key between the registrar and the device. If the device provides a privileged service, the configuration protocol enables the device to advertise the privileged service or if the device is a control point, the configuration protocol enables the device to advertise that it is able to control certain privileged services. The registrar also includes a controlling unit configured to obtain a controller key, if the registrar is to become controller of the new device and a service unit configured to execute a credential service that allows devices providing privileged services to delegate issuing of access control credentials to the registrar, wherein other devices may use the credential service to obtain credentials for privileged services.
US11153077B2
A system and method for a secure key exchange between two trains operating within a track network may include generating a first or second public key based on a secret random number, generating a shared secret key based on the first or second public key, authenticating one or more key exchange communications by a remote server based on a digital signature established with an on-board key associated with the first train, authenticating a communication by a remote server based on the digital signature of the second train signed with an on-board key associated with the second train, and establishing secure train-to-train communication between the two trains by generating a shared secret key based on a public key received from the other train, the secure key exchange protecting the two trains from a man-in-the-middle attack.
US11153076B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for providing secure communication. The device includes a secure element for generating application key pairs. The device includes a trusted environment that is physically or logically isolated from an untrusted environment. The trusted environment includes one or more processors configured to perform operations of an application. The operations include generating an application key pair. The application key pair includes a secure element private key and a secure element public key. The operations include sending an application authentication request including one or more device identifiers and the secure element public key to a server. The operations include obtaining a digital certificate that includes the secure element public key and the one or more device identifiers. The operations include providing the digital certificate to a second device and establishing a secure communication channel between the device and the second device using the digital certificate.
US11153071B2
A computer-implemented method comprising: accessing, at a client device, a first artifact and artifact metadata corresponding to the artifact; creating, at the client device, an artifact cryptographic digest corresponding to the artifact to certify existence of the artifact; transmitting, at the client device, the artifact cryptographic digest and artifact metadata to a server; adding, at the server device, the artifact cryptographic digest to a block chain; and adding, at the server device, the artifact cryptographic digest, the artifact metadata and the first artifact to a data storage device separate and distinct from the block chain to reference the artifact cryptographic digest on the block chain.
US11153066B2
A signal receiving device may include a high-speed receiving circuit, a low-speed receiving circuit, a low-speed synchronization circuit and a low-speed synchronization circuit. The high-speed receiving circuit receives an input signal and generate a high-speed received signal in a first operation mode. The high-speed synchronization circuit generates a high-speed synchronized signal to synchronize the high-speed received signal with a clock signal. The low-speed receiving circuit receives the input signal and generate a low-speed received signal in a second operation mode. The low-speed synchronization circuit generates a low-speed synchronized signal to synchronize the low-speed received signal with the clock signal. According to an operation mode, one of the high-speed synchronized signal and the low-speed synchronized signal is selected as an internal signal.
US11153064B2
A clock and data recovery (CDR) device includes a data sampler configured to output a data signal by sampling an input signal according to a first clock signal; an edge sampler configured to output an edge signal by sampling the input signal according to a second clock signal, the second clock signal having substantially the same frequency as the first clock signal and having substantially an opposite phase to the first clock signal; an error detection circuit configured to identify a plurality of patterns based on the data signal and the edged signal and generate an error signal according to occurrence frequencies of the identified plurality of patterns; and an oscillation control circuit configured to generate a first oscillation control signal to control an oscillator generating the first and second clock signal according to the error signal.
US11153062B2
One or more embodiments of devices, systems and method are provided for receiving and transmitting signals over a time division duplex (TDD) communication path. Signals are received over the TDD communication path via a first portion of a first frequency band. A method may include sending a time division duplex (TDD) signal via an uplink portion of a TDD communication path and receiving a TDD signal via a downlink portion of the TDD communication path. The uplink portion arises over an uplink period and the downlink portion arises over a downlink period. The TDD communication path is disposed between and mutually exclusive of a broadcast communication path and an FDD communication path. The uplink portion of the TDD communication path is separated from the broadcast communication path by an uplink guard band. The downlink portion of the TDD communication path may be contiguous with the broadcast communication path.
US11153061B2
Various aspects are described for schemes that address the potential puncturing of important reference signals (RSs) for enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) applications, such as demodulation reference signal (DMRS), channel state information reference signal (CSIRS), tracking reference signal, and general reference signal. The schemes can be used for recovery of eMBB's RS puncturing from dynamic multiplexing of ultra-reliable-low-latency communications (URLLC) and eMBB. The schemes include a block-based scheme and an over-provisioning scheme. The schemes modify an existing RS pattern before puncturing occurs in response to a presence of the URLLC traffic. In addition, there can be an option not to use (e.g., disable) time-domain orthogonal cover code (TD-OCC) for the RSs.
US11153059B2
[Object] To provide a base station device, a terminal device, a communication system, a communication method, and an integrated circuit which are capable of significantly improving the transmission efficiency of the entire system in a communication system in which a base station device and a terminal device communicate with each other. [Solution] A base station device, including: a control unit configured to variably set a sub carrier interval and a symbol length used for communication and notify of information for switching a parameter set indicating the sub carrier interval and the symbol length in accordance with setting content.
US11153054B2
Embodiments of an apparatus of a user equipment (UE) configured for operation in a fifth-generation system (5GS) are described herein. The UE comprises first and second array antennas for transmission of mmWave signals including a sounding-reference signal (SRS). In response to decoding radio-resource configuration (RRC) signalling that indicates antenna switching for SRS, the UE initiates a countdown timer and transitions the second array antenna from a low-power state to an active state. If a downlink control information (DCI) indicating SRS antenna switching is not received while the countdown timer is active, the UE generates a command to transition the second array antenna to a low-power state upon expiration of the countdown timer.
US11153052B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In some wireless communications systems, a base station may transmit control information to a user equipment (UE) in a control resource set (coreset) of a transmission time interval (TTI). As described herein, the base station may transmit common control information in a common search space (CSS) of the coreset and a UE-specific control information in a UE-specific search space (USS) of the same coreset. In addition, the base station may transmit reference signals in the coreset to allow the UE to perform channel estimation to correctly decode or demodulate the control information in the CSS and USS of the coreset. In some examples, the reference signals transmitted in the CSS and USS of the coreset may include a common sequence for the coreset.
US11153050B2
Disclosed in the present application is a method by which a terminal reports a rank indicator to a base station in a wireless access system. The rank indicator reporting method comprises the steps of: setting a plurality of channel status information—reference signal (CSI-RS) resources for one CSI process through an upper layer; selecting one from among the plurality of CSI-RS resources; and reporting, to the base station, an indicator indicating the selected one CSI-RS resource and the rank indicator, wherein a bit size of the rank indicator is determined on the basis of a maximum number of antenna ports for the plurality of CSI-RS resources.
US11153048B2
A method for implementing data mapping and transmission includes that: data to be transmitted is segmented into N code blocks, the N code blocks are divided into M code block groups (CBGs), and a difference between numbers of code blocks in any two CBGs being less than or equal to a preset value, and the M CBGs are mapped and transmitted on at least one transmission unit. The M CBGs include a first CBG and a second CBG, and a value of a parameter of information amount of the first CBG and a value of a parameter of information amount of the second CBG satisfy a preset condition; and the at least one transmission unit includes a first physical resource corresponding to the first CBG and a second physical resource corresponding to the second CBG, and the first physical resource is ahead of the second physical resource in time domain.
US11153038B2
Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for an error correction technique that identifies transmission errors and corrective actions to maintain a link are disclosed herein. An example method of wireless communications includes receiving a first PDU comprising at least one of a SEQN bit or a packet counter value. The example method includes determining whether a value of the SEQN bit of the received first PDU is an expected SEQN or an unexpected SEQN. The example method includes calculating a MIC of the received first PDU. The example method includes determining whether the received first PDU is a re-transmission of a previous PDU or the received first PDU comprising errors. The example method includes transmitting an ACK or a NACK in response to the determination of whether the first PDU is the re-transmission of the previous PDU or the first PDU comprising errors.
US11153035B2
In a scheduling method, a first device configures a blind detection parameter of a control channel based on a carrier type or a carrier group; or separately configures a blind detection period for different carriers; or configures a blind detection period for a USS and a CSS of a control channel; or configures a blind detection period for different downlink control information DCI; and then, sends configuration signaling that carries the blind detection parameter (which may include the blind detection period), where the blind detection parameter is used by a second device to perform blind detection on the control channel.
US11153031B2
A base station device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute a first generation processing that includes generating a first control channel to be placed in a sub-frame at a predetermined cycle, the first control channel including designation information indicating at least one sub-frame in the predetermined cycle, execute a second generation processing that includes generating a second control channel to be placed in a sub-frame indicated by the designation information in the first control channel, the second control channel including control information for controlling communication, and execute a transmission processing that includes transmitting a sub-frame in which the first control channel is placed and a sub-frame in which the second control channel is placed.
US11153030B2
A base station broadcasts information to machine type communication (MTC) devices in the coverage area of the base station using multiple transmissions with layered modulation. Each transmission includes a different sequence of bits representing the information. A MTC device receiving the signals for the transmissions at a sufficiently high quality can recover the information by using a high modulation order on one of the transmissions. A MTC device receiving the signals of the transmissions at less than the sufficient quality can receive the information by applying a lower modulation order to multiple transmissions.
US11153028B2
A grant-free transmission method, a terminal, and a network device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a grant-free transmission method includes sending, by a network device, information about P dedicated transmission resources used for grant-free transmission to a terminal, wherein P is a positive integer and P≥2, detecting, by the network device, a dedicated transmission resource, and detecting, by the network device, data based on a transmission parameter set corresponding to the dedicated transmission resource when grant-free transmission is detected.
US11153019B2
Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) is measured accurately even in a case where a discovery signal is transmitted. A receiver receives a plurality of subframes, at least one of which includes a discovery signal, and a measurer measures Reference Signal Reception Power (RSRP) using a first resource in which the discovery signal is mapped, measures RSSI using a second resource different from the first resource for which the discovery signal is mapped, and calculates Reference Signal Reception Quality (RSRQ) using RSRP and RSSI.
US11153017B2
A test system comprises a device under test and a testing device. The device under test comprises a first microphone, wherein the first microphone is configured to receive sound waves. The testing device comprises a first speaker, wherein the first speaker is configured to generate sound waves. The testing device is configured to generate a first acoustic command signal via the first speaker, wherein the first acoustic command comprises a first test command. The device under test is configured to receive the first acoustic command signal via the first microphone. The device under test is configured to generate a first electromagnetic test signal based on the first test command.
US11153013B2
The present invention is directed to communication systems and methods. In a specific embodiment, the present invention provides an optical receiver that receives a data stream from an optical transmitter. The optical receiver determines a histogram contour parameter using the data stream and inserts the histogram contour parameter into a back-channel data segment, which is then transmitted to the optical transmitter. The optical transmitter changes its data transmission setting based on the histogram contour parameter. There are other embodiments as well.
US11153010B2
Systems and methods for performing operations based on LIDAR communications are described. An example device may include one or more processors and a memory coupled to the one or more processors. The memory includes instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the device to receive data associated with a modulated optical signal emitted by a transmitter of a first LIDAR device and received by a receiver of a second LIDAR device coupled to a vehicle and the device, generate a rendering of an environment of the vehicle based on information from one or more LIDAR devices coupled to the vehicle, and update the rendering based on the received data. Updating the rendering includes updating an object rendering of an object in the environment of the vehicle. The instructions further cause the device to provide the updated rendering for display on a display coupled to the vehicle.
US11152998B2
Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for a beam recovery when there has been a partial control channel failure. Transient obstructions, and other interference effects can cause the failure of a beam pair link which can comprise a transmit beam and a receive beam associated with respective antennas on a transmitter and receiver. A group of control channels (downlink control channels) (configured as a control resource set “CORESET”) on a group of beam pair links can be associated with a group of uplink control resources (Physical Uplink Control Channel resources). When a subset of the CORESET group fails, the user equipment (UE) device can find another PUCCH that is associated with a working CORESET to send an indication to the network about the failure. When the network receives the indication, the network can switch the failed CORESET to a new beam pair link.
US11152994B1
The systems, methods, and apparatuses can receive one or more communication signals traversing through a communication channel. The systems, methods, and apparatuses can estimate one or more known parameters, characteristics, and/or attributes of the communication channel, for example, scattering, fading, and/or power decay over distance, through a process referred to as channel estimation. The systems, methods, and apparatuses can develop various channel coefficients, for example, amplitudes and/or phases, describing the channel response of the communication channel at discrete intervals of time, also referred to as taps. The systems, methods, and apparatuses can assign taps to various priorities and, thereafter, utilize these priorities to selectively include their corresponding channel coefficients in a CSI report or exclude their corresponding channel coefficients from the CSI report.
US11152993B2
A method by which a terminal reports channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: measuring interference through an interference measurement resource (IMR) set in a control area; and reporting, to a base station, CSI for the control area on the basis of the result of the interference measurement, wherein the CSI for the control area includes information on quality of a downlink control channel set through at least one control channel element (CCE) aggregation, and the information on the quality of the downlink control channel can include information on at least one CCE aggregation level preferred by the terminal in order to receive the downlink control channel. A UE is capable of communicating with at least one of another UE, a UE related to an autonomous driving vehicle, a base station or a network.
US11152985B1
A communication system supports communication between an end node of a vehicle and a remote correspondent node via a fixed network which comprises a plurality of wireless access points with a directional antenna arrangement for mm wave radio communication using directional beams. A vehicle comprises wireless modems employing electronically steerable beamforming directional antennas for establishing mm wave radio communication links to the access points. At least one first access point is arranged to transmit atmospheric water content data for an area to the wireless modems. A link management controller of the vehicle is arranged to perform the link management in response to the atmospheric water content data. For example, mm wave radio communication links may be initialized or terminated based on the atmospheric water content data.
US11152982B2
A 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) are provided. 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 method for transmitting and receiving a phase compensation reference signal (PCRS) to compensate for phase noise. The method may determine whether a first precoding is applied to a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) and the PCRS to be transmitted to a terminal. The base station may also generate the DMRS and the PCRS, based on whether the first precoding is applied to the DMRS and the PCRS, and transmit data, the DMRS, and the PCRS to the terminal.
US11152974B2
A wireless communication apparatus may include: an oscillator including a coil assembly exposed to an outside of the wireless communication apparatus, a variable capacitor, and a negative resistor; and a phase locking circuit connected to the coil assembly and the negative resistor. The phase locking circuit may be configured to generate a control signal to lock an oscillation frequency of the oscillator based on an oscillation signal generated by the oscillator, and provide the generated control signal to the variable capacitor.
US11152971B2
The present invention provides an FM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) modulation process that enable high-speed data communications over any transmission media and networks. The process is implemented with a modem device modulator and demodulator that provides communication with several other modem devices along any communication media that uses an FM OFDM modulation technique, a physical transmission medium such as power lines, or wireless (air), or cable, or twisted pairs communication media.
US11152952B2
A data compressor includes a zero-value remover, a zero bit mask generator, a plurality of multiplexers, and a row-pointer generator. The zero-value remover receives 2N bit streams of values and outputs 2N non-zero-value bit streams having zero values removed. The zero bit mask generator generates a zero bit mask for a predetermined number of values of each bit stream that indicates a location of a zero value in the predetermined number of values corresponding to the zero bit mask. Each input of a multiplexer in a first column of the multiplexers receives a respective bit stream of the 2N bit streams of non-zero values. The multiplexers in a last column outputting 2N bit streams of values as packed non-zero values in which each output bit stream has a same bit-stream length. The row-pointer generator generates a row-pointer for each respective non-zero-value bit stream in a group of packed non-zero values.
US11152942B2
A CMOS transistor circuit including: a first block generating a first output signal of a NOR state, in response to first and second input signals; a second block including a first AND-OR gate, the second block generating a second output signal of an OR or an AND state, the second block receiving the first and second input signals and the first output signal; a third block generating a third output signal of the NOR state, in response to a third input signal and the second output signal; a fourth block including a second AND-OR gate, the fourth block generating a fourth output signal of the OR or the AND state in response to the third input signal, the second output signal and the third output signal; and a fifth block including an inverter gate, the fifth block generating a fifth output signal in response to the fourth output signal.
US11152933B2
A gate driver includes: a drive circuit configured to drive, in accordance with an input signal that commands to turn on/off a switching element connected between high and low power supply potential parts, a gate of the switching element; a time storage circuit configured to store a time length from when the input signal is switched to an on command to when a recovery surge voltage generated by a diode that is opposite to the switching element is detected; a switching determination circuit configured to determine, in accordance with a detected value of a power supply voltage, whether to switch a gate driving condition; and a driving condition change circuit configured to change, in accordance with a determination result of the switching determination circuit, the gate driving condition at a time of current turn-on by the time length stored at a time of previous turn-on.
US11152932B2
The disclosed technology relates to a gate protection circuit for an Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), the IGBT being used as a switch device in a solid state pulse modulator based on the MARX generator principle, the gate protection circuit including: a voltage regulator configured to supply a stable voltage to an emitter of the IGBT with respect to the ground for a gate of the IGBT.
US11152927B1
A low distortion triangular wave generator circuit generates a triangular wave signal by performing integration on an integration capacitor via a charging current and a discharging current during a charging period and a discharging period within a switching period of an external clock signal. A time length of the charging period is identical to a time length of the discharging period. A common mode related signal related to a common mode characteristic of the triangular wave signal is generated. An adjusting signal is generated according to a difference between the common mode related signal and a predetermined DC (direct current) level. The adjusting signal adjusts at least one of the charging current and the discharging current via feedback mechanism such that the triangular wave signal is a symmetrical triangular wave, and an average voltage of the triangular wave signal is equal to a target DC level.
US11152917B1
Multi-level buffers for biasing of radio frequency (RF) switches are provided. An RF switching circuit that includes a field-effect transistor (FET) switch, an impedance, and a multi-level buffer that provides a switch control voltage to a gate of the FET through the impedance is disclosed. The multi-level buffer receives a control signal to turn on or off the FET switch. Additionally, the multi-level buffer is implemented with stacked inverters that operate using different clock signal phases to pulse the switch control voltage in response to a transition of the control signal to thereby shorten a delay in switching the FET switch.
US11152911B2
A crystal resonator (101) includes: a piezoelectric resonator plate (2) on which a first excitation electrode and a second excitation electrode are formed; a first sealing member (3) that covers the first excitation electrode of the piezoelectric resonator plate (2); and a second sealing member (4) that covers the second excitation electrode of the piezoelectric resonator plate (2). The first sealing member (3) is bonded to the piezoelectric resonator plate (2) while the second sealing member (4) is bonded to the piezoelectric resonator plate (2) so that an internal space (13), which hermetically seals a vibrating part including the first excitation electrode and the second excitation electrode of the piezoelectric resonator plate (2), is formed. Plating films (51, 52) are formed respectively on both the first sealing member (3) and the second sealing member (4), on respective surfaces opposite to surfaces to be bonded to the piezoelectric resonator plate (2).
US11152906B2
A system may include a charge pump configured to boost an input voltage of the charge pump to an output voltage greater than the input voltage, a current mode control loop for current mode control of a power amplifier powered by the output voltage of the charge pump, and a controller configured to, in a current-limiting mode of the controller, control an output power of the charge pump to ensure that an input current of the charge pump is maintained below a current limit, control the power amplifier by placing the power amplifier into a high-impedance mode during the current-limiting mode, and control state variables of a loop filter of the current mode control loop during the current-limiting mode.
US11152901B2
An instrumentation amplifier including a pair of input amplifiers, each including an input transistor and a feedback current amplifier configured to amplify and feedback an error current from the input transistor. The arrangement can enable a current efficient solution where the amplifier can operate with very low input signals that are close to, or potentially below ground, without requiring a negative power supply voltage.
US11152898B2
A radio-frequency circuit includes a first switch which includes a common terminal, a first selection terminal, and a second selection terminal, and switches between connecting the common terminal and the first selection terminal and connecting the common terminal and the second selection terminal; a first low-noise amplifier including an input terminal connected to the first selection terminal, and a second low-noise amplifier including an input terminal connected to the second selection terminal. The frequency band in which the first low-noise amplifier amplifies a radio-frequency signal by at least a predetermined gain includes the frequency band in which the second low-noise amplifier amplifies a radio-frequency signal by at least a predetermined gain.
US11152887B2
A temperature abnormality of the power module is accurately detected. A power conversion device including a power semiconductor module with a switching element, includes: a gate driver circuit configured to drive a switching element and transmitting a response signal upon a switching operation of the switching element; a control unit device configured to output to a gate driver circuit an instruction signal for switching; a temperature detection unit configured to calculate a bonding temperature of the switching element based on a response signal to the instruction signal; and a calculation unit configured to determine a state of a power semiconductor module according to a bonding temperature calculated by the temperature detection unit and the response signal.
US11152886B2
A battery pack and charger system includes a first battery pack having a first set of battery cells and configured to provide only a first operating voltage and a second battery pack having a second set of battery cells and configured to provide the first operating voltage and a second operating voltage that is different from the first operating voltage and a battery pack charger configured to be able to charge the first battery pack and the second battery pack.
US11152882B2
The current document is directed to various types of oscillating resonant modules (“ORMs”), including linear-resonant vibration modules, that can be incorporated in a wide variety of appliances, devices, and systems to provide vibrational forces. The vibrational forces are produced by back-and-forth oscillation of a weight or member along a path, generally a segment of a space curve. A controller controls each of one or more ORMs to produce driving oscillations according to a control curve or control pattern for the ORM that specifies the frequency of the driving oscillations with respect to time. The driving oscillations, in turn, elicit a desired vibration response in the device, appliance, or system in which the one or more ORMs are included. The desired vibration response is achieved by selecting and scaling control patterns in view of known resonance frequencies of the device, appliance, or system.
US11152879B2
In a motor control device, when estimating an initial position of a magnetic pole of a rotor of a motor, a drive circuit continuously or intermittently applies a voltage to a stator winding at each of a plurality of energization angles while sequentially changing the energization angles, and at a voltage value and for an energization time period, the voltage value and the energization time period being set such that the rotor does not rotate. An initial position estimation unit calculates an estimated initial position of the magnetic pole of the rotor based on a phase angle of a trigonometric function curve that approximates a change of a γ-axis current Iγ with respect to each of the energization angles. The trigonometric function curve has a cycle equal to one electrical cycle of the motor.
US11152872B2
A direct current (DC) to alternating current (AC) converter in accordance with an embodiment includes a battery array module, a battery control module and a polarity converter, wherein the battery array module and the magnetic converter are respectively coupled to the battery control module. The battery array module is used to receive DC signals. The battery array module is controlled by the battery control module to reconfigure and generate a multi-phase step signal. The multi-phase step signal is sent to the polarity converter. The multi-phase step signal is converted into an AC signal output by the polarity converter.
US11152863B2
Embodiments herein provide a system and method for controlling extraction of power from multiple Photo Voltaic (PV) arrays. At least two converters and at least two Photo Voltaic (PV) arrays are configured. The power extraction is controlled through one of an injection of Direct Current (Idc) into output current of each of the at least two converters, or by performing a phase shifting of each of the output current of each of the at least two converters.
US11152859B2
In some examples, a system includes a battery, a first voltage regulator with an input, and a second voltage regulator with an input. The input of the second voltage regulator is shifted in phase relative to the input of the first voltage regulator.
US11152853B2
A power device includes a first conversion module and a second conversion module. The first conversion module includes a first conversion unit and receives a first divided voltage of a bus voltage. The second conversion module includes a cascade conversion circuit with a second conversion unit and a third conversion unit. The input terminal of the second conversion module and the input terminal of the first conversion module are connected with each other in series. The input terminal of the second conversion module receives a second divided voltage of the bus voltage. The output terminal of the second conversion module and the output terminal of the first conversion module are electrically connected with each other in parallel so as to provide an output voltage to a load. The third conversion unit detects the output voltage to control the output voltage stable.
US11152851B2
A snubber circuit is provided, including N charge paths having a positive-side capacitor, a first diode, and a negative-side capacitor connected in series between positive-side wiring and negative-side wiring, and conducts current from a positive side to a negative side; N+1 discharge paths including a second diode connected between a negative-side capacitor in kth charge path and a positive-side capacitor in k+1th charge path and conducts current from a negative side to a positive side via a negative-side capacitor or a positive-side capacitor; other charge paths including an inductor between a positive-side capacitor in ith charge path and a negative-side capacitor in i+1th charge path and conducts current from the positive side to the negative side, and the positive-side capacitor and negative-side capacitor included in the other charge path have a larger capacity than each of the positive-side capacitor and negative-side capacitor not included in the other charge path.
US11152850B2
A power source apparatus includes a switching control circuit configured to output a switching signal to switch a power source supplying power to each of a plurality of loads, and a reset control circuit having a plurality of output terminals outputting reset signals that reset the plurality of loads in response to the switching signal.
US11152834B2
A motor connector comprises: a wiring unit including an electric wire having a conductive wire exposed from an insulating sheath, and a terminal coupled to the conductive wire and having a terminal part formed on the end portion thereof; a base including a first molding part having the terminal part disposed therein, and a second molding part extending outwards from the first molding part and having a receiving space for receiving the conductive wire and a part of the insulating sheath adjacent to the conductive wire; a fixing member coupled to the second molding part and covering the sheath so as to fix the same; and a molding member filling the receiving space so as to seal the gap between the first molding part and the second molding part.
US11152830B2
A connector assembly (12) for electrically and mechanically connecting via bolting, the top and bottom stator coil sections (14, 16) of an electrical generator comprising at least one pair of stator coil sections (14, 16) having spaced apart upper coil headers (18, 20) and lower coil headers (22, 24), each comprising a conductive material to provide at least two parallel paths for passing respective flows of electric current; first and second connectors (26, 28) including respective couplers (36, 38, 40, 42) for connecting the headers (18, 20, 22, 24), wherein the first and second connectors (26, 28) are electrically and mechanically isolated from one another via an air gap (34) therebetween so that none of the couplers (36, 38, 40, 42) bridge the air gap (34) and thereby allow relative movement between the first and second connectors (26, 28).
US11152829B2
The invention relates to a nested winding for a slotless motor. The nested winding is formed by inner and outer windings which are nested together and have different inner and outer diameters, wherein the number of the inner and outer windings is n, same-phase coils are connected in parallel or in series, and the number n of the nested inner and outer windings is equal to or greater than two. Compared with the prior art, the nested winding has the following advantages: a potential difference between the coils connected in parallel can be effectively reduced, and accordingly, the loss of the winding is reduced, and the high-speed operating performance of the motor is improved.
US11152828B2
A rotating electric machine includes a rotor, a stator, and a case, wherein each of the sub stator cores has a first insulated bobbin, a stator iron core, a second insulated bobbin, and a coil, and the coil is disposed in teeth parts of the first insulated bobbin, the stator iron core, and the second insulated bobbin, all of which are stacked in layers, and the first insulated bobbin has three ring holding parts which are formed in a core back part and extend to a circumferential direction, and the bus rings are separately inserted into the ring holding parts formed in the first insulated bobbin, and the first insulated bobbin, the stator iron core, and the second insulated bobbin each has a convex part formed at one side face of the core back part and a concave part formed at the other side face of the core back part.
US11152825B2
A rotor for an electric machine includes pairs of magnets with a bridge region therebetween. Lamination that comprise the rotor may define openings in the bridge region between the magnets of each of the pairs. A clip may be installed in the openings and a bonding material may fill the remainder of the bridge region.
US11152824B2
An embodiment relates to a power terminal and a motor including the same, the power terminal comprising: a body; a pin portion extending upward from the body; a coupling portion formed at one end of the body and coupled to an end of a coil; a first protrusion protruding downward from the body; and a second protrusion protruding downward from the body, wherein the second protrusion is arranged to be spaced inward or outward form the body. As a result, the power terminal can improve the productivity through process simplification while satisfying a true position geometric tolerance.
US11152823B2
In an embodiment, a wireless power transmitter module includes a sensing grid configured to detect a receiver, a movable wireless power transmitter unit including a wireless power transmitter coil, and a two-dimensional linear motor including a plurality of linear motor coils configured to move the movable wireless power transmitter unit in a two-dimensional plane towards a location of the receiver.
US11152822B1
A wireless-power-circuit is operable in transceiver-mode and Q-factor-measurement-mode, and includes a bridge coupled to a coil, and having an output coupled to a rectified-voltage node. An excitation circuit, when in Q-factor-measurement-mode, drives the coil with a pulsed signal. A protection circuit couples the coil to a first node when in Q-factor-measurement-mode and decouples the coil from the first node when in transceiver-mode. A Q-factor sensing circuit includes an amplifier having inputs coupled to the first node and a common mode voltage (Vcm), and generating an output signal having an output voltage. A comparator generates a comparison output indicating Vcm crossing of a voltage at the first terminal of the coil, a processing circuit generating an enable signal based upon the comparison output, and an analog-to-digital-converter, when enabled, digitizing the output voltage for use in calculating a Q-factor of the coil.
US11152821B2
An object of the present invention is to suppress deterioration in detection accuracy during power feeding in the detection of the metallic foreign object using the antenna coil. A metallic foreign object detector includes: an antenna coil; a capacitor that constitutes a resonance circuit RC together with the antenna coil; a power supply that applies voltage to the resonance circuit to generate a vibration signal in the resonance circuit; a determination circuit that determines the presence/absence of a metallic foreign object based on the waveform of the vibration signal; a resonance capacitor switch inserted into the resonance circuit; and a control circuit that controls the open/close state of the resonance capacitor switch. The control circuit brings the resonance capacitor switch into a closed state responding to the power supply starting application of voltage to the resonance circuit.
US11152818B2
A device operative to transfer power wirelessly includes a drive-sense circuit (DSC), memory that stores operational instructions, and processing module(s). The DSC generates a drive signal based on a reference signal and provides the drive signal to a first coil via a single line and via a resonating capacitor, and simultaneously senses the drive signal via the single line, to facilitate electromagnetic coupling to a second coil to transfer power wirelessly to another device. The DSC also detects electrical characteristic(s) of the drive signal. The processing module(s) generates the reference signal and processes the digital signal to determine the electrical characteristic(s) of the drive signal. In some examples, the processing module(s) adapts the reference signal based on detection of the other device (e.g., based on interpreting the electrical characteristic(s) of the drive signal).
US11152816B2
A power supply method includes the following steps: detecting whether a battery is installed in a system; delivering a control signal to a power conversion circuit by a controller when it is determined that the battery is not installed in the system; turning on part of a plurality of transistors and turning off the other part of the plurality of transistors by the power conversion circuit according to the control signal and a reference signal, so that an input voltage is delivered to a receiving terminal of the system from a sending terminal of the system through a current path.
US11152813B2
A battery control system includes a battery including: first, second, and third terminals; a plurality of individual groups of two or more battery cells; and a plurality of switches configured to connect ones of the individual groups to and from ones of the first, second, and third terminals. A mode module is configured to set a mode to a first mode when a fault is present in a charging source of the battery. A switch control module is configured to control the plurality of switches based on a first predetermined capacity allotment when the mode is in the first mode.
US11152812B2
Devices, systems, and methods may use a low current power source to charge an intermediate storage unit, providing sufficient electric power to perform various device functions. A voltage of the intermediate storage unit may be monitored using a voltage monitoring circuit, and a primary storage unit may be charged using current from the intermediate storage unit when the voltage of the intermediate storage unit meets a threshold.
US11152809B2
In some examples, an electronic device can include a battery, a power adapter, a processing resource, and a memory resource storing machine-readable instructions to cause the processing resource to determine monitored user behavior data exceeds a predetermined threshold, and responsive to the predetermined threshold being exceeded, provide a notification including a recommended threshold charge level, where the recommended threshold charge level is a percentage of an overall possible charge percentage of the battery.
US11152806B2
Disclosed is a method for identifying a battery type and/or a battery user. Measuring circuitry may be used to collect battery parameters that may be analyzed by control circuitry to create an adaptive charge profile that is applied to a battery by charging circuitry. Battery parameters may be recorded in a battery use signature. Logic may be used to process a battery use signature and identify a single user across multiple battery operated devices and/or discriminate between multiple users of a device. In some cases, battery use signature may be used to identify battery information including the make, model, and lot from which the battery was manufactured.
US11152797B2
A method for DC-charging an intelligent battery pack, which is connected to a charging column and has at least two battery modules. Each battery module includes at least two power semiconductor switches and at least one energy storage element. The battery pack is connected for charging by way of a connection circuit. A state of each individual energy storage element is monitored, wherein, in accordance with a continued evaluation of the states of the respective energy storage elements, a respective series and/or parallel interconnection of the respective battery modules among one another within the battery pack is configured dynamically by way of actuation of the power semiconductor switches.
US11152795B2
Systems and methods for providing federated power management in an electronic circuit. The methods comprise: performing first operations by a processing device to obtain information indicating a current level of charge for each of a plurality of capacitors which have been supplied energy from a power source; transforming, by the processing device, each capacitor's current level of charge into a number of service units for a respective electronic load device of a plurality of electronic load devices; determining, by the processing device, at least one of recharging priorities for the plurality of capacitors and discharging priorities for the plurality of capacitors at least based on the results of said transforming; and performing second operations by the processing device to cause the plurality of capacitors to be recharged in accordance with the recharging priorities or discharged in accordance with the discharging priorities.
US11152794B2
A multipurpose electrical assembly is provided that includes a module receiving an alternating current from a power source in a ceiling and converting the alternating current source to a direct current source. The multipurpose electrical assembly also includes a plurality of devices each having a first connector on a first surface for connecting to the assembly and receiving electrical power from a preceding device and a second connector on a second opposing surface for receiving a following device to be connected to the assembly and for transferring electrical power to the following device. A first device of the plurality of devices attaches to the module, and the plurality of devices can be arranged in any order.
US11152781B2
A system including a vehicle having a motive electrical power path; a power distribution unit including a current protection circuit disposed in the motive electrical power path, the current protection circuit including a breaker/relay, the breaker/relay including: a fixed contact, a moveable contact, and a physical opening response portion responsive to a current value; a current source circuit electrically coupled to the breaker/relay and structured to inject a current across the fixed contact; and a voltage determination circuit electrically coupled to the breaker/relay and structured to determine at least one of an injected voltage amount and a contactor impedance value, wherein the voltage determination circuit comprises an analog hardware filter having a cutoff frequency selected in response to a frequency of the injected current.
US11152775B2
The invention includes an output circuit that outputs an operation signal to a direct current breaker that interrupts a direct current main circuit, and a processor that samples, at predetermined time intervals, digital data wherein a value detected by a direct current transformer that detects a current of the direct current main circuit is measured as an input current, calculates a computed measurement value to be output to a display circuit, and outputs control information for executing a protection process using measurement value sampling data obtained by the sampling to the output circuit, and executes a protection process of the direct current main circuit at every sampling.
US11152769B2
The invention relates to an overvoltage protection arrangement consisting of a horn spark gap accommodated in an insulating housing (1) having a deion chamber. A trigger electrode is located in the ignition area of the horn spark gap. A varistor is also present, electrically connected in series to the horn spark gap. According to the invention, a first and a second disconnection apparatus are formed in the housing, wherein the first disconnection apparatus (2) is in heat-conducting connection with the varistor and, when a limit temperature is reached or exceeded, releases a spring-loaded slide (3) which interrupts the series connection between varistor and horn spark gap. Furthermore, the second disconnection apparatus (13) comprises a fusible conductor which is located inside the deion chamber, for example, and can be exposed there to an arc, wherein the fusible conductor holds a spring-loaded disconnector element (14) in a first position and releases this disconnector element (14) when fused as a result of the effects of the arc in such a manner that the disconnector element (14) adopts a second position, wherein an electrical connection to the trigger electrode is interrupted when the second position is reached. A three-pointed, rotatably mounted star or a circular disc with lugs or prongs is formed in the housing such that a first star point (7) is carried along by the slide (3) as it moves to interrupt the series connection. In the same way, a second star point (16) is carried, as the disconnector element (14) moves, from the first to the second position, wherein each movement of the star results in a rotation of the star around its axis of rotation (17) with the consequence that a third point of the star (10) releases a spring-loaded pivoting lever (8) which operates a remote signalling contact (11) and/or a visual fault status display (12).
US11152765B1
An optical device has a gallium and nitrogen containing substrate including a surface region and a strain control region, the strain control region being configured to maintain a quantum well region within a predetermined strain state. The device also has a plurality of quantum well regions overlying the strain control region.
US11152762B2
A semiconductor laser device of an edge emission type, where a waveguide mode is multi-mode, is provided. The semiconductor laser device includes a first facet of the waveguide on an emission direction front side, the first facet having a first width in a horizontal direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the waveguide; and a second facet of the waveguide on an emission direction rear side, the second facet having the first width, wherein a width of the waveguide, in the horizontal direction, is at least partially narrower than the first width, between the first facet and the second facet.
US11152747B2
A connector includes a movable housing, a fixed housing, plural signal terminals, and a pair of power source terminals. Each of the power source terminals is formed in an elongated shape with a length in a span direction as viewed along an insertion/removal direction, spans between a pair of sidewalls, includes a span direction intermediate portion retained by a terminal array direction end portion of the movable housing, and includes second elastic portions each capable of undergoing elastic deformation at a location positioned between the movable housing and the pair of sidewalls.
US11152743B2
The present invention provides a transmission high-voltage connector for circuit connection of a transmission of a new-energy vehicle, the transmission comprising a box body and a high-voltage connector covering an opening of the box body, the high-voltage connector comprises a housing, at least one reinforcing sheet and a copper bar, and the copper bar is inserted into and connected to the housing; wherein, the housing is an N-sided polygon, and at most N-1 fixing holes are formed in the housing at positions where two side lines are connected; and at positions where two side lines are connected while no fixing hole is formed, the housing embraces and is connected to the reinforcing sheet. The transmission high-voltage connector provided by the present invention is simple in structure, and has enhanced strength and high-temperature deformation resistance.
US11152740B2
A waterproof connector includes a plug-in assembly, an insulating body and a waterproof adhesive block; a rear end of the plug-in assembly is provided with a cavity, the plug-in assembly includes a plurality of conductive terminals, and the conductive terminal is partially exposed in the cavity; a front end of the insulating body is provided with a plug-in groove, a front end of the plug-in assembly is located in the plug-in groove, a rear end of the insulating body is coated on an outer side of the plug-in assembly, and waterproof ports are provided on two sides of the insulating body; the cavity is filled with the waterproof adhesive block, and the waterproof port is at least partially filled with the waterproof adhesive block.
US11152736B1
A high voltage shielded connector includes an inner housing accommodating a connection portion between an end of a cable and a connection terminal, a metal shielding member covering the inner housing, a binding ring binding an end of a braided net covering the cable to an outer surface of the metal shielding member, an outer housing covering the outer surface of the metal shielding member, a binding portion of the metal shielding member bound to the binding ring being exposed from the outer housing, a braided net cover covering a portion of the braided net which covers the cable and the binding ring and having an end coupled to the outer housing in a sealed state, and an outer binding member covering a portion where the braided net cover and the outer housing are coupled and maintaining the binding of the braided net cover and the outer housing.
US11152724B2
An electrical connector includes an insulation body, a seat, and a positioning plug. The seat is disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the insulation body. The seat includes a tunnel defined through the seat to form an inlet and an outlet. The outlet and a front surface of the insulation body face the same side. The seat further includes a slit and one or more first bumps disposed on an inner wall of the slit. The positioning plug includes a sliding block and rib. The sliding block movably disposed in the tunnel via the inlet with the rib movably disposed in the slit. The positioning plug further includes a second bump disposed on a lateral side of the rib facing the first bump. When the sliding block moves to an installation position, the first bump stops the second bump to fix the sliding block at the installation position.
US11152722B2
A terminal pin includes a pin body and an elastic latch. The pin body has a first end and a second end. The elastic latch is connected to the pin body and normally protrudes from the pin body with a stopping tip extending toward the second end. An electrical connector is also provided, which includes a base and the terminal pin. The base includes an accommodating aperture defined through the base. A notch is formed in the accommodating aperture and recessed from an inner wall of the accommodating aperture. The notch includes a stopping surface. The terminal pin is inserted into the accommodating aperture with the stopping tip of the elastic latch abutted against the stopping surface.
US11152720B2
A terminal-equipped wire in which a terminal fitting and a wire obtained by covering an outer periphery of a conductor with an insulating covering are electrically connected to each other at an electric connection, the terminal-equipped wire including a resin covering that is made of a resin material, and covers the electric connection, wherein: the resin covering includes, in a region that covers at least part of the terminal fitting, a first covering layer that is in contact with a surface of the terminal fitting and a second covering layer that covers at least part of the first covering layer, and the first covering layer has a recess, and the recess is covered by the second covering layer.
US11152715B2
Methods and apparatus for providing a wideband dual differential current loop radiator. In embodiments, a radiator includes first and second dipole pairs with first and second differential conductor pairs providing differential signals to the first and second dipole arms. The radiator may include a cavity, which can be filed with air, in at least a portion of a feed layer. The dipoles may have a coincident phase center.
US11152709B2
An antenna assembly, a wireless-communication-enabled device and an intelligent home or office appliance including such antenna assembly. The antenna assembly includes an antenna including an antenna body and a feeder, and at least one functional module arranged to operate with a function different from that provided by the antenna; wherein the at least one functional module includes at least one electrical connection module arranged to connects with an external electrical connector.
US11152704B2
A quasi-isotropic antenna includes: a feeder; a loop antenna configured to radiate a first radio wave based on a feeding from the feeder; and a dipole antenna adjacent to the loop antenna, and configured to radiate a second radio wave by resonating based on a resonant-coupling with the loop antenna, wherein a radiation pattern of the first radio wave is orthogonal to a radiation pattern of the second radio wave.
US11152703B2
A dual band antenna element suitable for use in a compact multiband antenna array is described. The dual band antenna element may have a main radiating direction with a first radiating element for use in a first frequency band, a first electrically closed ring for use in the first frequency band galvanically isolated from and arranged at a predetermined distance from the first radiating element in the main radiating direction. The first ring) may at least partially overlap the first radiating element in the main radiating direction. The dual band antenna element may also have a second radiating element for use in a second frequency band, where the second radiating element is arranged within a circumference of the first radiating element and is arranged substantially at the predetermined distance (D) from the first radiating element in the radiation direction.
US11152702B2
A system includes a housing with one or more edge processors to handle processing on behalf of a mobile target or to provide local data to the mobile target or to provide artificial intelligence for the mobile target; one or more antennas coupled to the housing; and a processor to control a directionality of the antennas in communication with the mobile target using 5G or 6G protocols.
US11152700B2
In the disclosed optically-fed transmitting phased-array architecture, transmitting signals are converted between the electrical domain and the optical domain by using electro-optic (EO) modulators and photodiodes. RF signal(s) generated from a relatively low frequency source modulate an optical carrier signal. This modulated optical signal can be remotely imparted to photodiodes via optical fibers. Desired RF signals may be recovered by photo-mixing at the photodiodes whose wired RF outputs are then transmitted to radiating elements of the antennas. The antenna array may generate a physical RF beam that transmits an RF signal that is focused on one or more selectable locations. Multiple RF beams may be simultaneously generated, each RF beam being capable of being directed to focus on a unique location or set of locations.
US11152695B2
An antenna module includes: a dielectric substrate including a multilayer structure, the dielectric substrate having a first surface and a second surface, the second surface being opposite the first surface; an antenna pattern formed on the first surface side of the dielectric substrate; a RFIC provided on the second surface of the dielectric substrate, the RFIC supplying a radio frequency signal to the antenna pattern; and a power supply line that supplies power to the RFIC, wherein the thickness of the power supply line in the stacking direction (Z axis direction) of the dielectric substrate is thicker than the thickness of the antenna pattern in the stacking direction.
US11152691B2
A dual broadband and multiband antenna system of reduced dimension is preferably an external antenna adapted for vehicles. The antenna system comprises first and second radiating elements and a common ground plane for the first and second radiating elements. The ground plane comprises at least three planes, wherein a first and a second planes are parallel to each other, and wherein a third plane is connected with the first and second planes and it is orthogonally arranged with respect to the first and second planes. The first and second planes extend from the third plane in opposite directions so as to define generally a Z shape in a cross-sectional view. The antenna system is preferably adapted to operate on the LTE communication network.
US11152687B2
A radio frequency and electromagnetic emission shield employed on wireless personal and portable electronic devices, containing one or more layers of radio frequency (RF) or electromagnetic (EM) screening material, shielding the user from harmful RF or EM radiation, or a redirection antenna that receives all RF signals, and redirects those signals away from the user. The RF emission shield may be contained within a plurality of outer layers, providing a secure fit to a wireless electronic device and an outer layer providing an easy grip for the user.
US11152685B2
A half-wave radiating antenna for an electronic member of a tire, the length of which is suitable for operating in the frequency range between 860 MHz and 960 MHz, includes a core coated with a brass coating, such that the thickness of the brass coating is between 1.0 and 2.0 μm.
US11152678B2
The invention provides a connector-attached dielectric waveguide that allows the dielectric waveguide to be easily connectable with an opposite component and is capable of forming a connection structure exhibiting low transmission and return losses of a high frequency signal. The connector-attached dielectric waveguide includes a dielectric waveguide and a connector. The dielectric waveguide includes a dielectric waveguide body and a dielectric waveguide end. The dielectric waveguide end has a smaller cross-sectional area than the dielectric waveguide body.
US11152668B2
Provided is a layered-double-hydroxide-(LDH) containing composite material including a porous substrate and a high density LDH-containing functional layer on and/or in the porous substrate. The LDH-containing composite material of the present invention includes the porous substrate and the functional layer formed on and/or in the porous substrate. The functional layer contains a layered double hydroxide represented by the general formula M2+1−xM3+x(OH)2An−x/n.mH2O (where M2+ represents a divalent cation, M3+ represents a trivalent cation, An− represents an n-valent anion, n represents an integer not less than 1, x represents a value of 0.1 to 0.4, and m represents a value not less than 0) and has water impermeability.
US11152665B2
A vehicle includes a battery pack, seats, and seat rails. The battery pack has a battery case and a battery unit accommodated in the battery case. The seat rails are frame members disposed over the battery pack and fixed to the vehicular body. The battery case has an upper portion with four openings located under the seat rails and formed through both an upper surface of the battery case and a side surface of the battery case.
US11152657B2
A metal-air battery and a component air cathode including a solid ionically conductive polymer material.
US11152655B2
An inductive heater assembly that includes an adapter portion and a coil portion. The adapter portion includes a first adapter support portion and a second adapter support portion. The first adapter support portion is configured to mechanically and electrically connect the inductive heater assembly to a power source device. The first adapter support portion includes a first adapter terminal block configured to engage a complementary terminal block of the power source device. The second adapter support portion is configured to mechanically and electrically connect the inductive heater assembly to the power tool battery pack. The second adapter support portion includes a second adapter terminal block configured to engage a complementary terminal block of the power tool battery pack. The coil portion is supported by the adapter portion. The coil portion includes a coil housing and one or more inductive coil windings.
US11152651B2
A method for generating battery characteristics for a battery having a target composition includes identifying open-circuit potential (OCP) characteristics for two similar battery compositions having different proportions of elements. The OCP characteristics are converted to dQ/dV characteristics and linearly combined to derived a target dQ/dV characteristic. The target dQ/dV characteristic is integrated to derived a target OCP characteristic. A battery constructed of the target composition is operated according to the target OCP characteristic.
US11152647B2
New or improved battery separators for lead-acid batteries that include a carbon or mineral additive applied to the separator. In possibly preferred embodiments, the battery separator may include engineered carbon materials applied to the battery separator to modify sulfate crystal formation while decreasing the detrimental consequences of excessive gas evolution into the negative electrode itself. In one embodiment, a method of enhancing the lead-acid energy storage performance of a lead-acid battery may include delivering carbon to the negative active material surface of the battery separator where the carbon may effectively enhance charge acceptance and improve life cycle performance of a lead-acid battery.
US11152643B2
The present application provides a lithium-ion battery and an apparatus, the lithium-ion battery includes an electrode assembly and an electrolyte, the electrode assembly includes a positive electrode sheet, a negative electrode sheet and a separator. A positive active material of the positive electrode sheet includes both Lix1Coy1M11-y1O2-aQ1a and LilNim1Con1M2pM3qO2-bQ2b, a mass ratio of Lix1Coy1M11-y1O2-aQ1a and LilNim1Con1M2pM3qO2-bQ2b is 1:1-9:1. The electrolyte contains an additive A, the additive A is a six-membered nitrogen heterocyclic compound with multiple nitrile groups and with low oxidation potential. The lithium-ion battery according to the present application has excellent cycle performance and storage performance, especially under high temperature and high voltage conditions.
US11152632B2
A fuel cell system is equipped with a plurality of subsystems. Each of the plurality of the subsystems is equipped with a fuel cell stack, a temperature sensor, a scavenging device, and a control unit. The control unit of that one of the subsystems having the fuel cell stack whose temperature is specified as being the lowest among the plurality of the subsystems when the fuel cell system is stopped from operating performs scavenging control including a determination on the carrying out of scavenging in the subsystem and the issuance of a command to carry out scavenging to all the subsystems in accordance with the determination.
US11152628B2
A fuel cell system capable of preventing the decrease in the amount of coolant is provided. The fuel cell system is provided with: a power generation portion; a coolant flow passage through which a coolant flows that cools the power generation portion; a tank disposed on the coolant flow passage in a position below the power generation portion in the vertical direction and storing the coolant; an air flow passage connecting the uppermost part of the coolant flow passage in the vertical direction and the tank; and an on-off valve provided on the air flow passage. By the on-off valve being opened, the air in the tank is introduced into the coolant flow passage through the air flow passage, and the coolant in the coolant flow passage is introduced into the tank. Since the coolant flow passage never communicates with the atmosphere, the vaporized coolant is prevented from being released to the atmosphere, so that the decrease in the amount of coolant can be prevented.
US11152627B2
The invention relates to a bipolar plate for a fuel cell, comprising an anode plate with anode gas channels and a cathode plate with cathode gas channels, said plates having an active region and supply regions and being arranged one over the other such that the gas channels form coolant channels. The aim of the invention is to improve such a bipolar plate such that the flow conditions of reactants and coolant in the bipolar plate are optimized. This is achieved in that the height and/or the width of the cathode gas channels increase(s) from a first side of the active region to a second side of the active region, and the height and/or the width of the anode gas channels decrease(s) from the first side of the active region to the second side of the active region, wherein the cross-sectional area and/or the hydraulic diameter of the cathode gas channels increases, and the cross-sectional area and/or the hydraulic diameter of the anode gas channels decreases. The invention additionally relates to a fuel cell stack and to a vehicle.
US11152626B2
An illustrative fuel cell component includes a body that has a plurality of first pores. The first pores have a first pore size. A fluorinated carbon coating is on at least some of the body. The coating establishes a plurality of second pores in a coated portion of the body. The second pores have a second pore size that is smaller than the first pore size.
US11152615B2
A secondary alkaline battery includes an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte. The cathode includes a current collector, a cathode mixture in electrical contact with the current collector. The cathode mixture comprises: manganese oxide, a copper compound comprising copper, a salt of copper, an alloy thereof, or any combination thereof, a bismuth compound comprising bismuth, a salt of bismuth, or any combination thereof, and a conductive carbon. The secondary alkaline battery can also include a first composition in contact with the current collector and disposed between the current collector and the cathode mixture that includes copper, a salt of copper, an alloy thereof, or a combination thereof.
US11152611B2
A anode for use in a lithium ion battery is composed of an electrode substrate, a paste distributed on the electrode substrate and comprising a plurality of Si, Ge, or SiGe nanocrystals intercalated with lithium ions, and a binder mixed with the paste to adhere the paste to the electrode substrate. The lithiated anode paste may be formed by an electrodeposition process or an electrolytic process.
US11152609B2
Compositions and methods of preparing energy storage device electrode active materials and electrodes are described. A two-step synthesis process may be utilized to prepare single crystal electrode active materials and electrodes, such as a single crystal nickel-cobalt-aluminum material. In some embodiments, the two step synthesis process includes a first and a second lithiation step.
US11152599B2
The present application relates to an optical filter and an organic light-emitting display device. The optical filter of the present application has excellent omnidirectional antireflection performance and color characteristics on the side as well as the front, and the optical filter can be applied to an organic light-emitting device to improve visibility.
US11152591B2
A sealing member (200) is a sheet-like member to seal a light-emitting unit of a light-emitting device. The sealing member (200) is cut into a shape including a corner (220) having a central angle θ that is larger than 180 degrees when the light-emitting unit of the light-emitting device is sealed. When the sealing member (200) is cut, irregularities occur in the thickness direction in a region (222: first region) having a predetermined width w from an edge of the corner (220). When the irregularities occur, sealability of the sealing member (200) is deteriorated. Here, when a curvature radius of the corner ((220)) is equal to or greater than the above-mentioned width w, occurrence of the above-mentioned irregularities is inhibited.
US11152588B2
An OLED light emitting device includes a substrate, a thin film transistor, an anode, an organic light emitting layer, a cathode, and a smoothing layer. The smoothing layer is disposed between the organic light emitting layer and the cathode. This improves transmittance of the cathode, and further improves light-emitting performance of the OLEO light emitting device.
US11152584B2
A quantum dot includes a salt ligand at an outer surface thereof, the salt ligand including an anion and a cation, the cation having charge transporting properties. A light-emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and an emissive layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, the emissive layer including multiple instances of the quantum dot. In some embodiments, the emissive layer is a crosslinked layer formed by depositing a mixture including the quantum dots on a layer, and subjecting at least a portion of the mixture to external activation stimuli to form the emissive layer including quantum dots dispersed in a crosslinked matrix.
US11152578B2
The present invention provides a process for manufacturing an electronic device comprising a semiconducting layer, which process comprises i) a step of applying a composition comprising at least a compound of formulae (1A)-(1B)-(1C) on a precursor of the electronic device in order to form a layer, and ii) a step of treating the layer of step i) with light in order to form a semiconducting layer, we well as a compound of formula 1A, 1B or 1C, compositions comprising at least one compound of formula 1A, 1B or 1C, and the use of at least one compound of formula 1A, 1B or 1C as photocleavable precursor for organic semiconducting materials.
US11152571B2
A method of forming a resistive random access memory (ReRAM) device is provided. The method includes depositing a lower cap layer on a substrate, depositing a dielectric memory layer on the lower cap layer, and depositing an upper cap layer on the dielectric memory layer. The method further includes removing portions of the lower cap layer to form a lower cap slab, dielectric memory layer to form a dielectric memory slab on the lower cap slab, and upper cap layer to form an upper cap slab on the dielectric memory slab, wherein the lower cap slab, dielectric memory slab, and upper cap slab form a resistive memory element.
US11152570B2
The disclosure concerns an electronic component manufacturing method including a first step of etching at least one first layer followed, with no exposure to oxygen, by a second step of passivating the first layer.
US11152560B2
A contact sensor for the repeatable detection of small, high frequency mechanical vibrations in external systems is presented herein. The sensor includes a metal housing with an attachment device at one end and an output at the other end. Inside the metal housing is a core assembly that includes a piezo transducer assembly suspended or isolated between an actuator and a biasing device. The actuator may be in the form of a ceramic sphere that sits at least partially within a recess on the inside of the housing and is in physical contact with the piezo transducer assembly. The biasing device may be in the form of a spring that causes the piezo transducer assembly to be pressed against the actuator at a contestant and known amount of tension.
US11152544B2
Disclosed is a method for fabricating CSP LEDs. The method includes: preparing a plurality of flip-type LED chips, each of which includes a substrate and a semiconductor stack structure formed under the substrate and has a first conductive connection area and a second conductive connection area formed under the semiconductor stack structure; arraying the first conductive connection areas and the second conductive connection areas of the plurality of flip-type LED chips on a temporary support sheet; forming a wavelength converting member, which includes a side surface portion surrounding the side surfaces of the substrate and the semiconductor stack structure, an intermediate portion overlying the side surface portion to cover the upper surface of the substrate, and an upper surface portion overlying the intermediate portion, on the temporary support sheet; and removing the temporary support sheet and forming first electrode pads and second electrode pads in the first conductive connection areas and the second conductive connection areas of the flip-type LED chips, respectively. The first electrode pads and the second electrode pads protrude more downward than the lower surface of the wavelength converting member.
US11152538B1
A light emitting structure comprises a substrate, a sub-pixel stack over a surface of the substrate, and a bank surrounding the sub-pixel stack on the substrate. The light emitting structure also comprises a first filler material in the interior space, and a second filler material over the first filler material. The sub-pixel stack emits a first emission peak along an on-axis direction substantially normal to a top surface of the stack and emits a second emission peak along an off-axis direction at an angle to the on-axis direction. The first emission peak is emitted through an interface between the first filler material and the second filler material substantially without total internal reflection. The second emission peak is totally internally reflected by the interface before reaching a sloped sidewall of the bank and is emitted along the on-axis direction.
US11152537B2
A light emitting diode having multiple tunnel junctions is provided. This comprises the common contact layer, the first and second tunnel junction layers respectively disposed on the bottom surface and the upper surface of the common contact layer, the first light emitting structure disposed on the bottom surface of the first tunnel junction layer and the second light emitting structure disposed on the upper surface of the second tunnel junction layer. Light emitting structures emitting blue and green light may be disposed above and below the common contact layer. By injecting holes into the first light emitting structure and the second light emitting structure through the common contact layer formed of the n-type semiconductor, current spreading effect is improved, leading to improved light emitting efficiency. Since the n-type semiconductor layer can be disposed on the upper surface exposed to the outside, risk of damage occurring in subsequent fabrication steps can be reduced.
US11152527B2
A tandem solar cell includes a top solar cell and a bottom solar cell. The top solar cell and the bottom solar cell each have a respective front surface and a rear surface, with the respective front surfaces being adapted for facing a radiation source during use. The top solar cell is arranged with its rear surface overlying the front surface of the bottom solar cell. The top solar cell includes a photovoltaic absorber layer with a bandgap greater than that of crystalline silicon. The bottom solar cell includes a crystalline silicon substrate. On at least a portion of the front surface of the bottom solar cell a passivating layer stack is disposed which includes a thin dielectric film and a secondary layer of either selective carrier extracting material or polysilicon. The thin dielectric film is arranged between the silicon substrate and the secondary layer.
US11152501B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer made of SiC. A transistor element having an impurity region is formed in a front surface portion of the semiconductor layer. A first contact wiring is formed on a back surface portion of the semiconductor layer, and defines one electrode electrically connected to the transistor element. The first contact wiring has a first wiring layer forming an ohmic contact with the semiconductor layer without a silicide contact and a second wiring layer formed on the first wiring layer and having a resistivity lower than that of the first wiring layer.
US11152494B2
To reduce defects in an oxide semiconductor film in a semiconductor device. To improve the electrical characteristics and the reliability of a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor film. In a semiconductor device including a transistor including a gate electrode formed over a substrate, a gate insulating film covering the gate electrode, a multilayer film overlapping with the gate electrode with the gate insulating film provided therebetween, and a pair of electrodes in contact with the multilayer film, a first oxide insulating film covering the transistor, and a second oxide insulating film formed over the first oxide insulating film, the multilayer film includes an oxide semiconductor film and an oxide film containing In or Ga, the first oxide insulating film is an oxide insulating film through which oxygen is permeated, and the second oxide insulating film is an oxide insulating film containing more oxygen than that in the stoichiometric composition.
US11152490B2
The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a method for manufacturing the same. The method includes providing a substrate, and forming a polysilicon layer, a gate insulating layer, a second buffer layer, a patterned second metal layer, and a third buffer layer on the substrate in turn; forming a through-hole by a mask process, wherein the through-hole passes through the passivation layer, the third buffer layer, the second buffer layer, and the gate insulating layer to contact the polysilicon layer.
US11152489B2
An additive core subtractive liner method is described for forming electrically conductive contacts. The method can include forming a first trench in a first dielectric layer to expose a first portion of a metal liner, and filling said first trench with a second dielectric layer. A metal cut trench is formed in the second dielectric layer. A portion of the metal liner exposed by the metal cut trench is removed with a subtractive method. The method continues with filling the metal cut trench with a dielectric fill, and replacing the remaining portions of the second dielectric layer with an additive core conductor to provide contacts to remaining portions of the metal liner.
US11152488B2
Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed herein. An exemplary semiconductor device comprises a nanostructure disposed over a substrate, wherein the nanostructure includes a plurality of semiconductor layers separated vertically from each other and a dummy pattern layer including dielectric material disposed over and separated vertically from a top semiconductor layer of the plurality of semiconductor layers. The exemplary semiconductor device also comprises a gate structure disposed over a channel region, wherein the gate structure wraps around each of the plurality of semiconductor layers and the dummy pattern layer of the nanostructure.
US11152484B2
A semiconductor structure including a substrate, a CMOS device and a BJT is provided. The substrate has a first side and a second side opposite to each other. The CMOS device includes an NMOS transistor and a PMOS transistor. The NMOS transistor includes a first N-type doped region and a second N-type doped region disposed in the substrate. The PMOS transistor includes a first P-type doped region and a second P-type doped region disposed in the substrate. The BJT includes a collector, a base and an emitter. The base is disposed on the first side of the substrate. The emitter is disposed on the base. A first metal silicide layer, a second metal silicide layer, and a third metal silicide layer are respectively located on the second side of the substrate and respectively disposed on the collector, the first N-type doped region, and the first P-type doped region.
US11152481B2
A method includes providing a substrate; forming a first structure over the substrate, the first structure including a first gate trench and a first channel exposed in the first gate trench; forming a second structure over the substrate, the second structure including a second gate trench and a second channel exposed in the second gate trench; depositing a gate dielectric layer covering surfaces of the first and second channels exposed in the respective first and second gate trenches; recessing the gate dielectric layer in the second gate trench to be lower than the gate dielectric layer in the first gate trench; and forming a gate electrode layer over the gate dielectric layer in the first and second gate trenches.
US11152476B2
Described herein is a technique capable of improving electrical characteristics of a polysilicon film while suppressing damage to an underlying silicon oxide film. According to the technique described herein, there is provided a there is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, including: (a) preparing a substrate including a silicon oxide film and a polysilicon film formed on the silicon oxide film, wherein the polysilicon film includes a contact surface contacting the silicon oxide film and an exposed surface facing the contact surface; and (b) supplying a reactive species generated by plasma excitation of a gas containing hydrogen and oxygen to the exposed surface of the polysilicon film.
US11152471B1
Semiconductor devices including a first region having a first three Nitride (III-N) layer and a second III-N layer, the second III-N layer is over the first III-N. The second III-N layer has spontaneous polarization less than the first III-N layer, such that a two-dimensional hole gas (2-DHG) will be formed at a junction of the first III-N layer to the second III-N layer. An Anode forms an ohmic contact to the 2-DHG. A second region includes a third III-N layer and a forth III-N layer, such that the fourth III-N layer is over the third III-N. The forth III-N layer has spontaneous polarization greater than the third III-N layer, such that two-dimensional electron gas (2-DEG) will be formed at a junction of the third III-N layer to the forth III-N layer. A Cathode forms an ohmic contact to the 2-DEG. The first and second regions are connected at an interface.
US11152470B2
According to one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method can include a first process of causing a stacking fault of a first semiconductor layer to expand. The first semiconductor layer includes silicon carbide and a first element and is provided on a base body including silicon carbide. The first element includes at least one selected from the group consisting of N, P, and As. The method can include a second process of forming a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer after the first process. The second semiconductor layer includes silicon carbide and the first element. The method can include a third process of forming a third semiconductor layer on the second semiconductor layer. The third semiconductor layer includes silicon carbide and a second element. The second element includes at least one selected from the group consisting of B, Al, and Ga.
US11152468B2
Provided is a semiconductor device. A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a buffer layer provided on the substrate, a semiconductor layer provided on the buffer layer, a body region provided at a part of a surface layer of the semiconductor layer, a source region provided at a part of a surface layer of the body region, a drain region provided at a part of the surface layer of the semiconductor layer outside the body region, a gate insulating layer provided to extend from the surface layer of the body region to a predetermined depth, a gate electrode provided on the gate insulating layer, a source electrode provided on the source region, a drain electrode provided on the drain region, and an isolation region provided to extend from the surface layer of the semiconductor layer to above the predetermined depth.
US11152462B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductive substrate, a first semiconductive fin and a second semiconductive fin extending upwards from the semiconductive substrate, an isolation structure at least partially between the first semiconductive fin and the second semiconductive fin, a first semiconductive raised portion and a second semiconductive raised portion. The first semiconductive raised portion extends upwards from the semiconductive substrate, is buried under the isolation structure, and is between the first semiconductive fin and the second semiconductive fin. A top surface of the first semiconductive fin is higher than a top surface of the first semiconductive raised portion. The second semiconductive raised portion extends upwards from the semiconductive substrate, is buried under the isolation structure, and is between the first semiconductive raised portion and the second semiconductive fin.
US11152460B2
A method of forming a punch through stop region in a fin structure is disclosed. The method may include forming a doped glass layer on a fin structure and forming a masking layer on the doped glass layer. The method may further include removing a portion of the masking layer from an active portion of the fin structure, and removing an exposed portion the doped glass layer that is present on the active portion of the fin structure. A remaining portion of the doped glass layer is present on the isolation portion of the fin structure. Dopant from the doped glass layer may then be diffused into the isolation portion of the fin structure to form the punch through stop region between the active portion of the fin structure and a supporting substrate.
US11152455B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards a method for forming a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor comprising an enhanced interfacial layer to reduce breakdown failure. In some embodiments, a bottom electrode layer is deposited over a substrate. A native oxide layer is formed on a top surface of the bottom electrode layer and has a first adhesion strength with the top surface. A plasma treatment process is performed to replace the native oxide layer with an interfacial layer. The interfacial layer is conductive and has a second adhesion strength with the top surface of the bottom electrode layer, and the second adhesion strength is greater than the first adhesion strength. An insulator layer is deposited on the interfacial layer. A top electrode layer is deposited on the insulator layer. The top and bottom electrode layers, the insulator layer, and the interfacial layer are patterned to form a MIM capacitor.
US11152436B2
A display panel, fabrication method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate and a plurality of pixels disposed on the substrate; each pixel includes a pixel circuit disposed on the substrate; the display panel further includes a pixel defining layer covering the pixel circuit; a surface of the pixel defining layer facing away from the pixel circuit is provided with a plurality of grooves; the plurality of grooves are in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of pixels; each of the grooves is provided with a light emitting diode electrically connected to the pixel circuit.
US11152435B2
A display device includes a light sensing array layer (LSAL), a substrate, a selective light transmission layer (SLTL), a pixel circuit layer (PCL), a display element layer (DEL), and pixels. The LSAL includes an optical sensor to sense incident light. The substrate is on the LSAL and includes a display area (DA) including pixel areas (PAs), and a non-DA adjacent to the DA. The SLTL is disposed on the substrate and includes through-holes to form a path of light onto the optical sensor, and a light-blocking conductive pattern (LBCP) between the through-holes. The PCL is disposed on the SLTL and includes a conductive layer and an insulation layer. The DEL is disposed on the PCL and emits light. Each pixel includes a pixel circuit disposed on the PCL, and a light emitting element on the DEL in a corresponding pixel area. The LBCP is electrically connected to the conductive layer.
US11152429B2
An integrated circuit structure includes: a field-effect transistor including a semiconductor region including a semiconductor material having a bandgap less than or equal to that of silicon, a semiconductor source and a semiconductor drain, the semiconductor region being between the semiconductor source and the semiconductor drain, a gate electrode, a gate dielectric between the semiconductor region and the gate electrode, a source contact adjacent to the semiconductor source, and a drain contact adjacent to the semiconductor drain; and a resistive switch or a capacitor electrically connected to the drain contact. One of the source contact and the drain contact includes a threshold switching region, to be a selector for the resistive switch or the capacitor. In some embodiments, the threshold switching region includes a threshold switching oxide or a threshold switching chalcogenide, and the resistive switch or the capacitor is part of a resistive memory cell or capacitive memory cell.
US11152426B2
Each memory cell in an array includes a vertical stack that comprises a bottom electrode, a memory element, and a top electrode. An etch stop dielectric layer is formed over the array of memory cells. A first dielectric matrix layer is formed over the etch stop dielectric layer. The top surface of the first dielectric matrix layer is raised in a memory array region relative to a logic region due to topography. The first dielectric matrix layer is planarized by performing a chemical mechanical planarization process using top portions of the etch stop dielectric layer. A second dielectric matrix layer is formed over the first dielectric matrix layer. Metallic cell contact structures are formed through the second dielectric matrix layer on a respective subset of the top electrodes over vertically protruding portions of the etch stop dielectric layer that laterally surround the array of vertical stacks.
US11152425B2
A memory device includes a cross-point array of spin-torque transfer MRAM cells. First rail structures laterally extend along a first horizontal direction. Each of the first rail structures includes a vertical stack including, from bottom to top, a first electrically conductive line, a reference layer having a fixed magnetization direction, and a tunnel barrier layer. Second rail structures laterally extend along a second horizontal direction. Each of the second rail structures includes a second electrically conductive line that overlies the first rail structures. A two-dimensional array of pillar structures is located between a respective one of the first rail structures and a respective one of the second rail structures. Each of the pillar structures includes a free layer having energetically stable magnetization orientations that are parallel or antiparallel to the fixed magnetization direction.
US11152418B2
There is provided a solid-state imaging device including first, second, and third substrates stacked in this order. The first substrate includes a first semiconductor substrate and a first wiring layer. A pixel unit is formed on the first semiconductor substrate. The second substrate includes a second semiconductor substrate and a second wiring layer. The third substrate includes a third semiconductor substrate and a third wiring layer. A first coupling structure couples two of the first, second, and third substrates to each other includes a via. The via has a structure in which electrically-conductive materials are embedded in one through hole and another through hole, or a structure in which films including electrically-conductive materials are formed on inner walls of the through holes. The one through hole exposes a first wiring line in one of the wiring layers. The other through hole exposes a second wiring line in another wiring layer.
US11152414B2
An image sensor includes a substrate having a pixel region and a periphery region. The image sensor further includes a first isolation structure formed in the pixel region; the first isolation structure including a first trench having a first depth. The image sensor further includes a second isolation structure formed in the periphery region; the second isolation structure including a second trench having a second depth greater than the first depth. The pixel region includes only NMOS devices and the periphery region includes both NMOS and PMOS devices.
US11152407B2
An image sensor includes a first column line and a second column line configured to extend in a first direction, a plurality of pixel groups configured to connect to the first column line or the second column line and to comprise a plurality of pixels in each of the plurality of pixel groups, a bias circuit configured to comprise a first current circuit and a second current circuit configured to output different bias currents in a first operational mode, and a switching circuit configured to connect the first column line to the first current circuit and connect the second column line to the second current circuit during a first time period, and to connect the first column line to the second current circuit and connect the second column line to the first current circuit during a second time period subsequent to the first time period in the first operational mode.
US11152404B2
A pixel cell includes an electrically conductive tunnel contact formed across a surface of a source follower gate, the tunnel contact having a first end, a second end, and an intermediate portion between the first and second ends. The first end is coupled to a floating diffusion FD, the second end is coupled to the first doped region of a reset transistor RST. The tunnel contact is formed in physical and in electrical contact with the surface of the source follower gate for a length of the intermediate portion substantially equal to a width of the source follower gate. Methods of forming the pixel cell are also described.
US11152403B2
This application provides a method for manufacturing an array substrate, an array substrate, and a display panel. A gate metal layer, a gate insulating layer, and a semiconductor active layer are formed by using one photomask process, a first passivation layer is formed in one photomask process, and a source metal layer, a drain metal layer, and a pixel electrode layer are formed on the first passivation layer.
US11152385B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, semiconductor pillars, first electrode films, a second electrode film, a first insulating film, a second insulating film, and a contact. The semiconductor pillars are provided on the substrate, extend in a first direction crossing an upper surface of the substrate, and are arranged along second and third directions being parallel to the upper surface and crossing each other. The first electrode films extend in the third direction. The second electrode film is provided between the semiconductor pillars and the first electrode films. The first insulating film is provided between the semiconductor pillars and the second electrode film. The second insulating film is provided between the second electrode film and the first electrode films. The contact is provided at a position on the third direction of the semiconductor pillars and is connected to the first electrode films.
US11152379B2
A Static Random-Access Memory (SRAM) device and its manufacturing method are presented, relating to semiconductor techniques. The SRAM device includes: a substrate; a first semiconductor column for Pull-Up (PU) transistors and a second semiconductor column for Pull-Down (PD) transistors, with both the first and the second semiconductor columns on the substrate; a first separation region, and a gate stack structure. The first separation region is between the first and the second semiconductor columns and comprises a first region and a second region, the gate stack structure comprises a gate dielectric layer comprising a first part and a second part; a P-type work function regulation layer comprising a first area and a second area adjacent to each other; a N-type work function regulation layer comprising a third area and a fourth area adjacent to each other; and a gate on both the P-type and N-type work function regulation layers.
US11152368B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a storage node electrode disposed on the substrate, a dielectric layer at least partially covering the storage node electrode, and a plate electrode dispose on the dielectric layer. The storage node electrode has a pillar shape, and includes a seam disposed therein. The storage node electrode includes a concave side surface disposed at a higher level than the seam.
US11152360B2
Implementation of a device with stacked transistors comprising: a first transistor of a first type, in particular N or P, the first transistor having a channel formed in one or more first semi-conducting rods of a semi-conducting structure including semi-conducting rods disposed above each other and aligned with each other, a second transistor of a second type, in particular P or N, with a gate-surrounding gate and a channel region formed in one or more second semi-conducting rods of said semi-conducting structure and disposed above the first semi-conducting rods, the source block of the second transistor being distinct from the source and drain block of the second transistor, the drain block of the second transistor being distinct from the drain and source blocks of the second transistor.
US11152352B2
A dual mode snap back circuit device is disclosed. The dual mode snap back device may be used for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection, and may provide both positive ESD protection and negative ESD protection. The dual mode snap back device may implement both an n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS) transistor (e.g., a gate-grounded NMOS transistor, such as a gate-grounded extended drain NMOS (GGEDNMOS) transistor) to provide protection against positive ESD events and a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) (e.g., a PNP BJT) to provide protection against negative ESD events. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11152350B2
An electronic device, e.g. integrated circuit, has an n-type region and a p-type region located within a semiconductor substrate, the n-type region and the p-type region each intersecting the substrate surface. A dielectric structure is located directly on the substrate surface. The dielectric structure has first and second laterally opposed sides, with the first side located over the n-type region and the second side located over the p-type region.
US11152347B2
Cell circuits formed in circuit cells employing offset gate cut areas in a non-active area for routing transistor gate cross-connections. In exemplary aspects disclosed herein, to allow cross-connections to be made across different gates between PMOS and NMOS transistors formed in the circuit cell, cut areas in the circuit cell are located in different horizontal routing tracks and offset from each other in the direction of longitudinal axes of gates. Gate cross-connections can be routed around offset gate cut areas and coupled to active gates to form gate cross-connections. In this manner, fewer metal layers may be required to provide such cross-connections in the circuit cell, thus reducing area. Further, gate contacts of cross-connected gates can be formed as gate contacts over active areas (GCOAs) in diffusion areas of the circuit cell, thus facilitating easier routing of interconnections in non-diffusion area of the circuit cell for further ease of routing.
US11152340B2
The present invention concerns a power module comprising at least one power die, the at least one power die is embedded in a multilayer structure, the multilayer structure is an assembly of at least two sub-modules, each sub-module being formed of isolation and conductor layers and the power module further comprises at least one capacitor embedded in the multilayer structure for decoupling an electric power supply to the at least one power die embedded in the multilayer structure and at least one driving circuit of the at least one power die that is disposed on a surface of the multilayer structure or embedded completely or partially in the multilayer structure.
US11152338B2
A method includes forming a stacked structure of a plurality of first semiconductor layers and a plurality of second semiconductor layers alternately stacked in a first direction over a substrate, the first semiconductor layers being thicker than the second semiconductor layers. The method also includes patterning the stacked structure into a first fin structure and a second fin structure extending along a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The method further includes removing the first semiconductor layers of the first fin structure to form a plurality of nanowires. Each of the nanowires has a first height, there is a distance between two adjacent nanowires along the vertical direction, and the distance is greater than the first height. The method includes forming a first gate structure between the second semiconductor layers of the first fin structure.
US11152337B2
A semiconductor package including a first semiconductor chip having a first thickness, a second semiconductor chip on the first semiconductor chip and having a second thickness, the second thickness being smaller than the first thickness, a third semiconductor chip on the second semiconductor chip and having a third thickness, the third thickness being smaller than the second thickness, a fourth semiconductor chip on the third semiconductor chip and having a fourth thickness, the fourth thickness being greater than the third thickness, and a fifth semiconductor chip disposed on the fourth semiconductor chip and having a fifth thickness, the fifth thickness being greater than the fourth thickness may be provided.
US11152332B2
A device includes a semiconductor die. The semiconductor die has formed thereon a plurality of multi-phase voltage regulator modules of the same design formed on a common semiconductor substrate.
US11152326B2
The present disclosure is directed to a semiconductor die with multiple contact pads electrically coupled to a single lead via a single wire, and methods for fabricating the same. In one or more embodiments, multiple contact pads are electrically coupled to each other by a plurality of conductive layers stacked on top of each other. The uppermost conductive layer is then electrically coupled to a single lead via a single wire.
US11152319B2
A micro-connection structure is provided. The micro-connection structure includes an under bump metallurgy (UBM) pad, a bump and an insulating ring. The UBM pad is electrically connected to at least one metallic contact of a substrate. The bump is disposed on the UBM pad and electrically connected with the UBM pad. The insulating ring surrounds the bump and the UBM pad. The bump is separate from the insulating ring with a distance and the bump is isolated by a gap between the insulating ring and the bump.
US11152318B2
A semiconductor device of the present invention includes a first main electrode and a second main electrode respectively disposed on a first main surface and a second main surface of a semiconductor substrate, a protective film disposed on an edge part of the first main electrode; and a first metal film disposed in a region enclosed by the protective film on the first main electrode. The first metal film has a film thickness at a central portion larger than that at a part in contact with the protective film, and has irregularities on a surface thereof.
US11152308B2
In an example, a communication module such as an optoelectronic communication module may include an integrated circuit (IC), an electrical interconnect, and an interposer circuit. The electrical interconnect may include a radio frequency (RF) interconnect or a direct current (DC) interconnect. The interposer circuit may be electrically coupled between the IC and the electrical interconnect.
US11152305B1
Provided is a semiconductor device including a dielectric layer, a first via, a second via, a first barrier layer, and a second barrier layer. The dielectric layer has a first region and a second region. The first via is disposed in the dielectric layer in the first region. The second via is disposed in the dielectric layer in the second region. The first barrier layer lines a sidewall and a bottom surface of the first via. The second barrier layer lines a sidewall and a bottom surface of the second via. The first and second barrier layers each has an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion has a nitrogen doping concentration greater than a nitrogen doping concentration of the lower portion. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is also provided.
US11152303B2
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip has a plurality of gate structures disposed over a substrate. A plurality of metal structures continuously extend from lower surfaces contacting the plurality of gate structures to upper surfaces contacting one or more interconnects within an overlying conductive interconnect layer. The plurality of metal structures are arranged at a first pitch that is larger than a second pitch of the plurality of gate structures.
US11152296B2
A semiconductor package and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor package. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a semiconductor package, and method of manufacturing thereof, that comprises a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and comprising at least one first recess portion formed in a direction ranging from the first surface toward the second surface, a plurality of first recess conductive patterns formed in the first recess portion, and a first passive element inserted into the first recess portion of the substrate and having a first electrode and a second electrode electrically connected to the plurality of first recess conductive patterns.
US11152292B2
The present invention provides a fan-out semiconductor package, and the fan-out semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip, an encapsulant covering the semiconductor chip, a connection structure disposed below the semiconductor chip and including a redistribution layer, and first and second metal pattern layers disposed on different levels on the semiconductor chip. The first metal pattern layer is to electrically connect to an electrical connection member such as a frame, provided for electrical connection of the fan-out semiconductor package in a vertical direction through a path via the second metal pattern layer.
US11152290B2
A subfin layer is deposited on a substrate. A fin layer is deposited on the subfin layer. The subfin layer has a conduction band energy offset relative to the fin layer to prevent a leakage in the subfin layer. In one embodiment, the subfin layer comprises a group IV semiconductor material layer that has a bandgap greater than a bandgap of the fin layer.
US11152289B2
A semiconductor device comprises: a lead-frame comprising a die pad having at least one electrically conductive die pad area an insulating layer applied onto the electrically conductive die pad area. An electrically conductive layer is applied onto the insulating layer with one or more semiconductor dice coupled, for instance adhesively, to the electrically conductive layer. The electrically conductive die pad area, the electrically conductive layer and the insulating layer sandwiched therebetween form at least one capacitor integrated in the device. The electrically conductive die pad area comprises a sculptured structure with valleys and peaks therein; the electrically conductive layer comprises electrically conductive filling material extending into the valleys in the sculptured structure of the electrically conductive die pad area.
US11152277B2
Embodiments of three-dimensional (3D) memory devices have a hydrogen blocking layer and fabrication methods thereof are disclosed. In an example, a 3D memory device includes a substrate, a memory stack including interleaved conductive layers and dielectric layers above the substrate, an array of NAND memory strings each extending vertically through the memory stack, a plurality of logic process-compatible devices above the array of NAND memory strings, a semiconductor layer above and in contact with the logic process-compatible devices, a pad-out interconnect layer above the semiconductor layer, and a hydrogen blocking layer vertically between the semiconductor layer and the pad-out interconnect layer and configured to block outgassing of hydrogen.
US11152275B2
A semiconductor device includes a first insulating resin member sealing a mounting surface of a lead frame, and a second insulating resin member sealing a heat dissipating surface. The second insulating resin member contains a filler having a maximum diameter of 0.02 mm to 0.075 mm. The second insulating resin member includes a thin molded portion formed in contact with the heat dissipating surface of the lead frame. The thin molded portion has a thickness 1.1 times to 2 times the maximum diameter of the filler. The semiconductor device includes, at an interface between the first insulating resin member and the second insulating resin member, a mixture layer in which these resins are mixed with each other.
US11152256B2
A carrier film according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a base film; and a first adhesive layer formed on a surface of the base film such that an element to be transferred is attached to the first adhesive layer, wherein the magnitude of force of adhesion between the element and the first adhesive layer is in proportion to the depth of press-fitting at which the element is press-fitted into the first adhesive layer.
US11152255B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes removing a top portion of a conductive feature disposed in a first dielectric layer and over a semiconductor substrate to form a first recess, depositing a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer, where the second dielectric layer includes a first region disposed vertically above the first recess and a second region disposed adjacent the first region, and forming a third dielectric layer over the second dielectric layer. The method further includes subsequently forming openings in the third dielectric layer that extend to expose the second dielectric layer, depositing a conductive material in the openings, and planarizing the conductive material to form conductive features in the first and the second regions, where the planarizing completely removes portions of the third dielectric layer disposed in the second region.
US11152252B2
An interconnect structure and methods of forming the interconnect structure an interconnect dielectric including at least one contact landing within the interconnect dielectric and/or underlying the interconnect dielectric. The structure and methods include roughening an exposed surface of at least one contact landing to increase the surface area of a conductive metal subsequently disposed in a contact feature and in direct contact with the roughened surface of the least one contact landing.
US11152251B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a source region, a drain region, and a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode covering a channel region between the source region and the drain region, forming an insulating layer over the source region, the drain region, and the gate electrode, forming first to third vias penetrating the insulating layer and exposing portions of the source region, the drain region, and the gate electrode, respectively, forming a source contact in the first via to electrically connect to the source region, forming a drain contact in the second via to electrically connect to the drain region, and forming a gate contact in the third via to electrically connect to the gate electrode. One or more of the first to third vias is formed by ion bombarding by a focused ion beam and followed by a thermal annealing process.
US11152246B2
A chuck table holding a frame unit including a workpiece is securely placed in an opening of an annular frame by a tape. A transparent holder having a holding surface holds the workpiece with the tape interposed therebetween. A frame body is erected around and surrounding the holder, the frame body having a plurality of suction holes that are open in an inner circumferential surface of the frame body. The frame body has an inside diameter equal to or smaller than an inside diameter of the annular frame. While an opening of the frame body is being covered by the tape, a suction force is transmitted through the suction holes into the frame body, discharging air from between the tape and the holding surface to bring the tape into intimate contact with the holding surface thereby securing the workpiece of the frame unit to the holding surface.
US11152239B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for removing fume which includes, a wafer cassette for stacking wafers; and an exhaust for exhausting the fume of the wafers stacked in the wafer cassette, wherein the wafer cassette includes stacking shelves provided at both sides for stacking wafers; and a front opening for incoming and outgoing of the wafers which are being stacked in the stacking shelf, wherein the stacking shelves include multiple inclined ramp portions which are slanted towards the wafers stacked in the stacking shelves as they travel towards the front opening, wherein a purge gas outlet is provided in the inclined ramp portion for supplying purge gas for the wafers stacked in the stacking shelves. According to the present invention, the residual process gases on wafers can be removed efficiently.
US11152229B2
A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a chuck stage, a scrubber nozzle, a scrubber nozzle scan mechanism, a stage rotation mechanism, and a holding stage including a holding fluid nozzle and a top plate, the top plate having one main surface facing an opposite surface of a wafer, and the holding fluid nozzle being disposed adjacent to a center rather than a periphery portion of the top plate. A holding fluid discharged from the holding fluid nozzle is caused to flow through an area between the opposite surface of the wafer and the one main surface of the top plate to produce holding force, and the holding force causes the opposite surface to hold pressure applied to a processing surface of the wafer by a scrubbing fluid discharged from the scrubber nozzle.
US11152226B2
A structure with controlled capillary coverage is provided and includes a substrate including one or more first contacts, a component and adhesive. The component includes one or more second contacts and a rib disposed at a distance from each of the one or more second contacts. The component is disposed such that the one or more second contacts are communicative with the one or more first contacts and corresponding surfaces of the substrate and the rib face each other at a controlled gap height to define a fill-space. The adhesive is dispensed at a discrete point whereby the adhesive is drawn to fill the fill-space by capillary action.
US11152223B2
Etching gases are disclosed for plasma etching channel holes, gate trenches, staircase contacts, capacitor holes, contact holes, etc., in Si-containing layers on a substrate and plasma etching methods of using the same. The etching gases are trans-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-2-butene; cis-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-2-butene; hexafluoroisobutene; hexafluorocyclobutane (trans-1,1,2,2,3,4); pentafluorocyclobutane (1,1,2,2,3-); tetrafluorocyclobutane (1,1,2,2-); or hexafluorocyclobutane (cis-1,1,2,2,3,4). The etching gases may provide improved selectivity between the Si-containing layers and mask material, less damage to channel region, a straight vertical profile, and reduced bowing in pattern high aspect ratio structures.
US11152216B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a fixing layer that is a thin film for coupling at least a portion of a main surface of the semiconductor thin film layer on the side opposite to a base material substrate side and at least a portion of the surface of the base material substrate on a semiconductor thin film layer side, forming a void by removing a partial region of the semiconductor thin film layer or the base material substrate, coupling an organic material layer formed on a pick-up substrate to the fixing layer after forming the void, separating the semiconductor thin film layer from the first substrate by moving the pick-up substrate away from the base material substrate with the organic material layer bonded to the coupling region, and bonding the semiconductor thin film layer to the second substrate after separation from the base material substrate.
US11152207B2
A substrate processing method is described for forming a titanium nitride material that may be used for superconducting metallization or work function adjustment applications. The substrate processing method includes depositing by vapor phase deposition at least one monolayer of a first titanium nitride film on a substrate, and treating the first titanium nitride film with plasma excited hydrogen-containing gas, where the first titanium nitride film is polycrystalline and the treating increases the (200) crystallographic texture of the first titanium nitride film. The method further includes depositing by vapor phase deposition at least one monolayer of a second titanium nitride film on the treated at least one monolayer of the first titanium nitride film, and treating the at least one monolayer of the second titanium nitride film with plasma excited hydrogen-containing gas.
US11152205B2
A silicon chalcogenate precursor comprising the chemical formula of Si(XR1)nR24-n, where X is sulfur, selenium, or tellurium, R1 is hydrogen, an alkyl group, a substituted alkyl group, an alkoxide group, a substituted alkoxide group, an amide group, a substituted amide group, an amine group, a substituted amine group, or a halogen group, each R2 is independently hydrogen, an alkyl group, a substituted alkyl group, an alkoxide group, a substituted alkoxide group, an amide group, a substituted amide group, an amine group, a substituted amine group, or a halogen group, and n is 1, 2, 3, or 4. Methods of forming the silicon chalcogenate precursor, methods of forming silicon nitride, and methods of forming a semiconductor structure are also disclosed.
US11152194B2
An apparatus comprises an electron source chamber, an electron-beam sustained plasma (ESP) processing chamber, and a dielectric injector disposed between the electron source chamber and the ESP processing chamber. The dielectric injector comprises a first flared input region comprising a wide entry opening and a narrow exit opening. The wide entry opening opens into to the electron source chamber. The first flared input region is radially symmetric about a longitudinal axis of the dielectric injector. The dielectric injector further comprises a first parallel region comprising an input opening and an output opening. The input opening is adjacent to the narrow exit opening. The output opening is disposed opposite of the input opening. The first parallel region is cylindrical.
US11152176B2
A relay control device includes a coil, a movable iron armature that is switched from an open state to a closed state when the coil is excited, a switching current output circuit that applies first current for switching the movable iron armature from the open state to the closed state to the coil, and a holding current output circuit that applies second current for holding the movable iron armature in the closed state to the coil. The switching current output circuit applies the first current to the coil when a first time has elapsed from when the second current is started to be applied to the coil, and the value of the second current is lower than the value of the first current.
US11152173B2
A method for operating a drive of a vacuum interrupter in opening mode includes: dividing an opening movement of at least one movable contact into serial phases, an opening phase, and an isolating phase, driven in at least two different velocities. In the opening phase a velocity of the opening movement is lower than in the isolating phase.
US11152154B2
An electronic component includes an element body and an external electrode. The element body includes a side surface and an end surface. The external electrode includes a conductive resin layer disposed over the side surface and the end surface. The conductive resin layer includes a first region positioned on the end surface, a second region positioned on the side surface, and a third region positioned on a ridge portion between the end surface and the side surface. In a case where a maximum thickness of the first region is T1 (μm), a maximum thickness of the second region is T2 (μm), and a minimum thickness of the third region is T3 (μm), the maximum thickness T1 and the maximum thickness T2 satisfy a relation of T2/T1≥0.11, and the maximum thickness T1 and the minimum thickness T3 satisfy a relation of T3/T1≥0.11.
US11152153B2
A method of manufacturing a multilayer ceramic electronic component includes preparing a ceramic green sheet, forming an internal electrode pattern by coating a paste for an internal electrode including nickel (Ni) powder including a coating layer having a surface including copper (Cu) on the ceramic green sheet, forming a ceramic multilayer structure by stacking the ceramic green sheet with the internal electrode pattern formed thereon, and forming a body including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode by sintering the ceramic multilayer structure. The content of Cu is equal to or greater than 0.2 wt %, based on a total weight of the Ni powder.
US11152149B2
An electronic component includes insulator layers having first and second sides respectively extending in first and second directions from a first point, and outer conductor layers extends in the first and second direction from the first point. Each of the outer conductor layers has second and third points. One of the outer conductor layers has a fixing portion inside a region having a third side connecting the second and third points, and fourth and fifth sides respectively extending from the second point in the reverse first direction and from the third point in the reverse second direction.
US11152146B2
The proposed annular magnetic power unit includes an annular magnetic core comprising a first partial magnetic core and a second partial magnetic core, overlapped and facing to each other, the first and second partial magnetic cores being divided by two parallel air-gaps in a first and second central magnetic core portion, a first and second left side core portion and in a first and second right side core portion; the annular power unit also including at least one electro-conductive inner coil included within an annular groove of the annular magnetic core; and left and right independent electro-conductive outer coils wound around the first and second left side core portions and the first and second right side core portions respectively.
US11152134B2
The present invention relates to a flexible flat cable including a plurality of conductive wires disposed between an upper film and a lower film, in which the conductive wires are fixed by a first thermal bonding resin of the upper film and a second thermal bonding resin of the lower film, an air gap is formed between the conductive wires, and a side end of the upper film and a side end of the lower film are bonded by the first thermal bonding resin and the second thermal bonding resin, and an impedance matching sheet is attached to a lower surface of the lower film, an upper portion of the upper film, or both the upper portion of the upper film and the lower surface of the lower film.
US11152132B2
A covering material for an electric wire contains a polyvinyl chloride. The covering material has a property of a change curve of loss modulus with respect to temperature which shows no peak within a temperature range in a usage environment for the electric wire.
US11152131B2
The present disclosure provides compositions including a conductive polymer; and a fiber material comprising one or more metals disposed thereon. The present disclosure further provides a component, such as a vehicle component, including a composition of the present disclosure disposed thereon. The present disclosure further provides methods for manufacturing a component including: contacting a metal coated fiber material with an oxidizing agent and a monomer to form a first composition comprising a metal coated fiber material and a conductive polymer; and contacting the first composition with a polymer matrix or resin to form a second composition.
US11152128B2
The present invention relates to rigid structures and composite materials thereof for providing radiation attenuation/shielding. Some embodiments pertain to a radiation shielding apparatus including: a plurality of positionable radiation-shielding stacks of tiles. The stacks are subsequently and adjacently arranged in a contiguous configuration. A tile positioning mechanism allows movement of tiles within a stack between a stacked (retracted) position and an extended position. In the extended position, the tiles of each of the plurality of radiation shielding stacks at least partially overlap tiles of subsequent and adjacent tile stack at corresponding opposing side-margins thereof.
US11152124B2
Contract tracing systems and methods for infectious disease tracking are disclosed. An infectious disease tracking system includes a plurality of user devices, each user device configured to detect, using a wireless communication module, a signal emitted by another one of the plurality of user devices. The user device can determine that a strength of the signal exceeds a predetermined event initiation signal strength threshold corresponding to a physical proximity between users of the devices and can store a contact tracing event record in response to determining that the strength of the signal exceeds the predetermined event initiation signal strength threshold. The user device can transmit the contact tracing event records to a data center where they can be stored and used to identify close contacts when an index case of an infectious disease is identified.
US11152120B2
A method of searching a database of medical research for documentation in support of a specific treatment for a patient, the method including: identifying a medical condition; identifying attributes of the patient; searching the database for treatment regimens for the medical condition; scoring identified treatment regimens based on similarity of the attributes of the patient to cohorts treated with the treatment regimens and outcomes; and providing a recommendation for a treatment regimen for the patient based on the attributes of the patient.
US11152110B2
Various techniques for facilitating communication with and across a clinical environment and a cloud environment are described. For example, a method for tagging messages with facility identifiers in a manner that does not require changing the identifiers when logically re-arranging the facilities. A connectivity adapter in the clinical environment can receive a message from an infusion pump and tag the message with only permanent IDs such that when the facility in which the connectivity resides is categorized under a different system or region, the identifiers in the message need not be updated.
US11152105B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus including an image supply unit that supplies a plurality of input images showing corresponding objects to an image processing unit and obtains a plurality of object images as an image processed result from the image processing unit, and a display control unit that synchronously displays the plurality of object images that have been obtained. The object images are regions including the corresponding objects extracted from the plurality of input images, and orientations, positions, and sizes of the corresponding objects of the plurality of object images are unified.
US11152103B1
A system for generating a comestible plan to manage musculoskeletal system disorders is disclosed. The system comprises a computing device configured to receive an input comprising physiological data. Computing device may generate a physiological data classifier, Computing device may classify, using the physiological data classifier, the physiological data to a class of physiological data relating to musculoskeletal disorders. Computing device may extract a plurality of biological determinants of a disease state from the physiological data, wherein the plurality of biological determinants includes at least one biological determinant related to at least one disorder located in musculoskeletal system. Computing device may determine a biological determinant concentration. Computing device may identify a musculoskeletal system disorder based on the at least one biological determinant and the biological determinant concentration. Computing device may generate a comestible plan as a function of a positive result for the musculoskeletal system disorder.
US11152099B2
A computerized process for managing member participation and progression in a health engagement program including the steps of automatically validating eligible members, queuing for manual review and validation, members not automatically validated, and providing an interactive portal to enable an administrator to manually validate. Also, gathering with the assistance of a communication device in communication with a server, member screening information that includes access to equipment required for the health engagement program, and at least one medical factor associated with each member's health history. Further, stratifying, with the assistance of an application program in communication with the server, each of the validated members into risk categories based on the screening information gathered, and determining whether each validated member is appropriate for and suitable to continue with the health engagement program, and flagging, if deemed appropriate, each of the validated members indicating conditions for participation by analyzing the screening information.
US11152098B2
Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for identifying gaps in health management data, and combining an estimated data subset with the health management data to fill in gaps in the health management data. The health management data can be derived from a wearable electronic fitness tracking device such as a smart watch or pedometer. The estimated data subset can be derived based on historical data for the individual, average data for a demographic group, crowdsourced, or estimated based on user profile information, and/or portable electronic device information, such as from a smartphone belonging to a user. The estimated data subset is combined with the health management data to form a revised health parameter dataset. The estimated data subset may be sent to a wearable electronic fitness tracking device, which causes the wearable electronic fitness tracking device to initiate a fitness program adjustment based on the revised health parameter dataset.
US11152092B2
An improved adherence monitoring system increases the efficiency for obtaining patient adherence information. The improved adherence monitoring system reduces network traffic with regards to the communication of patient adherence information. The improved adherence monitoring system automates an adherence notification pathway. The improved adherence monitoring system can increase patient adherence by increasing the efficiency of medication therapy. The improved adherence monitoring system may also increase the efficiency by which patient adherence information is disbursed.
US11152091B1
A server EHR executing on a server computing device is in communication with a client EHR executing on a first client computing device, and receives a prescription authorization from the client EHR, the prescription authorization based on input received from an authorized clinician user of the client EHR during performance of a clinical subtask of a prescription ordering task. The server EHR assigns a non-clinical subtask of the prescription ordering task to a non-clinician user operating a client application executing on a second client computing device. The non-clinician user provides input to the client application that pertains to completion of the non-clinical subtask. The client application transmits prescription ordering data to the server EHR, whereupon the server EHR outputs a prescription order to a second server computing device associated with a pharmacy indicated in the prescription ordering data.
US11152086B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for collection of and utilization of electroencephalography (EEG) data for user experience and interaction management. The invention interconnects with a network for real-time user experience modification based on user identification via EEG data. In this way, upon recognition and analysis of EEG data, the invention forms and modify a user specific experience via integration within third party systems. EEG readings are segmented, sorted, and matched to a user baseline EEG reading to identify the user and modify the user experience based on quantifiable points.
US11152080B2
The present invention relates to methods for evaluating and/or predicting the outcome of a clinical condition, such as cancer, metastasis, AIDS, autism, Alzheimer's, and/or Parkinson's disorder. The methods can also be used to monitor and track changes in a patient's DNA and/or RNA during and following a clinical treatment regime. The methods may also be used to evaluate protein and/or metabolite levels that correlate with such clinical conditions. The methods are also of use to ascertain the probability outcome for a patient's particular prognosis.
US11152078B1
Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses methods for checking redundancy information for row addresses prior to performing various refresh operations, such as auto refresh and targeted refresh operations. In some examples, refresh operations may be multi pump refresh operations. In some examples, a targeted refresh operation may be performed prior to an auto refresh operation responsive to a multi pump refresh operation. In some examples, redundancy information for the auto refresh operation may be performed, at least in part, during the targeted refresh operation. In some examples, refresh operations on word lines may be skipped when the redundancy information indicates the word line is defective or unused.
US11152075B2
A memory system according to an embodiment includes a semiconductor memory, and a memory controller. The semiconductor memory comprises memory cells and word lines. Each of the word lines is connected to the memory cells. The memory controller executes a patrol operation including a read operation of the semiconductor memory. The word lines are classified into one of first and second groups. The memory controller executes patrol operations in which the word lines are respectively selected in a first patrol period and, in a second patrol period subsequent to the first patrol period, executes a patrol operation in which the word line included in the first group is selected and omits a patrol operation in which the word line included in the second group is selected.
US11152069B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a first memory string including a first memory transistor, a first word line connected to a gate electrode of the first memory transistor, a source line connected to one end of the memory string, and a first connection transistor connected between the first word line and the source line.
US11152063B2
Structures and methods for a multi-bit phase change memory are disclosed herein. A method includes establishing a write-reference voltage that incrementally ramps over a write period. The increments of the write-reference voltage correspond to discrete resistance states of a storage cell of the multi-bit phase change memory.
US11152062B2
A memory device comprises: an array of memory cells arranged in a plurality of columns in a first direction and a plurality of rows in a second direction, wherein each memory cell in the array comprises: a select transistor, wherein a source terminal of the select transistor is coupled to a source line, and wherein a gate terminal of the select transistor is coupled to a word line, and a memory element coupled in series with the select transistor, wherein a first end of the memory element is coupled to a drain terminal of the select transistor, and wherein a second end of the memory element is coupled to a bit line; and a control circuit configured to provide an unselected source line voltage to source lines of unselected memory cells before providing a selected word line voltage to a word line of a selected memory cell.
US11152055B1
Apparatuses including threshold voltage compensated sense amplifiers and methods for compensating same are disclosed. An example threshold voltage compensated sense amplifier according to the disclosure includes circuits, such as isolation transistors and at least one precharge transistor, that are used to provide threshold voltage compensation.
US11152052B1
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for fuse based device identification. A device may include a number of fuses which are used to encode permanent information on the device. The device may receive an identification request, and may generate an identification number based on the states of at least a portion of the fuses. For example, the device may include a hash generator, which may generate the identification number by using the fuse information as a seed for a hash algorithm.
US11152049B1
Methods, systems, and devices for differential sensing for a memory device are described. A memory device in accordance with examples as disclosed herein may include a sense component having a signal development component for generating a sense signal, a reference component for generating a reference signal, and a tail component coupled with the signal development component and the reference component. The tail component may be configured for canceling common aspects of the sense signal and the reference signal. Additionally or alternatively, a memory device in accordance with examples as disclosed herein may include a sense component having a sense amplifier configured to operate in multiple power domains, with one power domain associated with sense signal and reference signal generation and comparison, and another power domain associated with logical signal or information transfer.
US11152044B1
A system for performing a phase matching operation includes a controller configured to output a dock, a command, and a strobe signal, and to input/output data. The system also includes a semiconductor device configured to generate an internal strobe signal by matching the phases of the command and the strobe signal according to the clock, and to input/output the data in synchronization with the internal strobe signal, wherein the semiconductor device generates the internal strobe signal from the strobe signal by compensating for a delay amount of a first path to which the command is inputted and a delay amount of a second path to which the strobe signal is inputted.
US11152040B1
Methods, systems, and devices for delay calibration oscillators for a memory device are described. In some examples, a memory device may include a delay chain operable (e.g., for a calibration operation) in a ring oscillator configuration that includes a pulse generator. The pulse generator may be configured to output a pulse signal responsive to a transition of an input signal. By generating a pulse signal in a feedback loop of a ring oscillator, the ring oscillator may support a cycle that does not rely on both a first transition propagation pass (e.g., a rising edge propagation) and a responsive, opposite transition propagation pass (e.g., a falling edge propagation) through the delay chain, which may support a ring oscillator cycle time (e.g., period) that more closely represents aspects of the delay chain that are meant to be calibrated.
US11152038B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for testing a one-time programmable (OTP) memory device, including the functionality of a sense amplifier circuit. The OTP memory device includes a memory array, an input latch circuit, and a sense amplifier circuit comprising a current source and a multiplexer. The multiplexer has a first input coupled to an output of the memory array, a second input coupled to the input latch circuit, and an output coupled to an input of the current source circuit.
US11152034B2
A device for use in a system for tracking a chain-of-manipulation (CoM) of audio-video (AV) content includes a hardware processor, and a system memory storing a CoM tagging software code and an AV processing application. The hardware processor executes the CoM tagging software code to detect manipulation of the AV content by the AV processing application that modifies at least one of video or audio of the AV content, and to generate, when the manipulation is detected, one or more CoM tag(s) including a device identification tag identifying the device used for modifying the AV content. The hardware processor also executes the CoM tagging software code to insert the CoM tag(s) in each modified segment of the AV content modified by the AV processing application, the inserted CoM tag(s) being human and machine imperceptible when the AV content is played back by a playback device on a display.
US11152031B1
System and method to compress multiple videos are provided. the system includes a video retrieve module configured to retrieve videos from a video library database; a video selection module configured to select videos by a user upon viewing the plurality of videos; a video clipping module configured to clip each of the multiple videos into a multiple video clips based on features with assigned importance levels, and to select one or more video clips by the user upon viewing the multiple video clips; a video summarization module configured to create a video summary, a video editing module configured to operate multiple video clips from the video summary on receiving a feedback from the user, to generate a modified video summary to compress the multiple videos. a video time calculator module configured to calculate total time eliminated; a video timer module configured to set a time frame enable the modified video summary to be played.
US11152030B1
A graphical user interface for setting speed and direction of video playback may include a timeline representation of video duration. Playback speed and playback direction from a selected point of the video may be determined based on user interaction with the graphical user interface. A portion of the video to which the selected playback speed and selected playback direction is applied may be determined based on user movement of the timeline representation.
US11152029B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a magnetic disk, a magnetic head, and a controller. The magnetic disk has a plurality of tracks. The magnetic head performs reading and writing from and to the magnetic disk. The controller controls write operations to a first region and a second region of the magnetic disk in different manners. The second region is narrower in track pitch than the first region.
US11152027B2
A product, according to one approach, includes an underlayer and a magnetic recording layer formed above the underlayer. The underlayer includes first encapsulated nanoparticles each comprising a first magnetic nanoparticle encapsulated by a first aromatic polymer, and a first polymeric binder binding the first encapsulated nanoparticles. The recording layer includes second encapsulated nanoparticles each comprising a second magnetic nanoparticle encapsulated by an encapsulating layer, and a second polymeric binder binding the second encapsulated nanoparticles.
US11152014B2
The present document describes a method (600) for estimating source parameters of audio sources (101) from mix audio signals (102), with. The mix audio signals (102) comprise a plurality of frames. The mix audio signals (102) are representable as a mix audio matrix in a frequency domain and the audio sources (101) are representable as a source matrix in the frequency domain. The method (600) comprises updating (601) an un-mixing matrix (221) which is configured to provide an estimate of the source matrix from the mix audio matrix, based on a mixing matrix (225) which is configured to provide an estimate of the mix audio matrix from the source matrix. Furthermore, the method (600) comprises updating (602) the mixing matrix (225) based on the un-mixing matrix (221) and based on the mix audio signals (102). In addition, the method (600) comprises iterating (603) the updating steps (601, 602) until an overall convergence criteria is met.
US11152013B2
Various embodiments of a systems and methods for a triplet network having speaker diarization are disclosed.
US11152010B2
An acoustic noise suppressing apparatus outputs a first suppression audio signal in which the acoustic noise is suppressed by subtracting a first pseudo noise signal from the picked up audio signal, the first pseudo noise signal being generated based on a first delay signal and a first filter updated by a first algorithm which is valid when a plurality of talkers are talking, and outputs a second suppression audio signal in which the acoustic noise is suppressed by subtracting a second pseudo noise signal from the picked up audio signal, the second pseudo noise signal being generated based on a second delay signal and a second filter updated by a second algorithm which is valid when one talker is talking. The apparatus outputs a suppressed one of the first suppressed audio signal or the second suppressed audio signal.
US11151998B2
An artificial intelligence device according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a microphone configured to receive voice; a sound output unit configured to output sound; an artificial intelligence unit configured to acquire context information of a target, based on at least one of an image received from a camera disposed outside and a voice received from the microphone, generate feedback information according to the acquired context information, and determine output volume intensity of the generated feedback information; and a controller configured to control the sound output unit to output the feedback information at the determined output volume intensity.
US11151991B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for detecting trigger phrases and transmitting electronic messages to devices are provided. For example, audio received via a microphone of a first device may be monitored. Responsive to detecting a first trigger phrase in a first audio segment identified during the monitoring, a first electronic message comprising instructions to activate a microphone function of a second device may be generated and the first electronic message may be transmitted to the second device. Responsive to detecting a second trigger phrase in a second audio segment identified during the monitoring, a second electronic message comprising instructions to activate a microphone function of a third device may be generated and the second electronic message may be transmitted to the third device.
US11151987B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a system for interacting with a third-party application. The method includes receiving voice data from a user for launching the third-party application; sending the voice data to a cloud server; receiving the instruction for launching the third-party application from the cloud server; executing the instruction to launch the third-party application; receiving voice data for operating the third-party application from the user after the third-party application is launched; sending the voice data to the cloud server, such that the cloud server performs voice recognition and semantic understanding on the voice data to obtain an instruction for operating the third-party application; receiving the instruction for operating the third-party application sent by the cloud server and forwarding the instruction to the third-party application, such that the third-party application executes the instruction.
US11151985B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for speech recognition. One method includes obtaining an input acoustic sequence, the input acoustic sequence representing an utterance, and the input acoustic sequence comprising a respective acoustic feature representation at each of a first number of time steps, processing the input acoustic sequence using a first neural network to convert the input acoustic sequence into an alternative representation for the input acoustic sequence, processing the alternative representation for the input acoustic sequence using an attention-based Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) to generate, for each position in an output sequence order, a set of substring scores that includes a respective substring score for each substring in a set of substrings; and generating a sequence of substrings that represent a transcription of the utterance.
US11151984B2
The invention discloses a multi-language mixed speech recognition method, which belongs to the technical field of speech recognition; the method comprises: step S1, configuring a multi-language mixed dictionary including a plurality of different languages; step S2, performing training according to the multi-language mixed dictionary and multi-language speech data including a plurality of different languages to form an acoustic recognition model; step S3, performing training according to multi-language text corpus including a plurality of different languages to form a language recognition model; step S4, forming the speech recognition system by using the multi-language mixed dictionary, the acoustic recognition model and the language recognition model; and subsequently, recognizing mixed speech by using the speech recognition system, and outputting a corresponding recognition result. The above technical solution has the beneficial effects of being able to support the recognition of mixed speech in multiple languages, improving the accuracy and efficiency of recognition, and thus improving the performance of the speech recognition system.
US11151980B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for detecting dubbed speech in a media asset and receiving metadata corresponding to the media asset. The systems and methods may determine a plurality of scenes in the media asset based on the metadata, retrieve a portion of the dubbed speech corresponding to the first scene, and process the retrieved portion of the dubbed speech corresponding to the first scene to identify a speech characteristic of a character featured in the first scene. Further, the systems and methods may determine whether the speech characteristic of the character featured in the first scene matches the context of the first scene, and if the match fails, perform a function to adjust the portion of the dubbed speech so that the speech characteristic of the character featured in the first scene matches the context of the first scene.
US11151979B2
A method and apparatus include receiving a text input that includes a sequence of text components. Respective temporal durations of the text components are determined using a duration model. A spectrogram frame is generated based on the duration model. An audio waveform is generated based on the spectrogram frame. Video information is generated based on the audio waveform. The audio waveform is provided as an output along with a corresponding video.
US11151977B2
The present disclosure discloses an audio playback apparatus having a noise-canceling mechanism that includes an audio-receiving circuit, an adjusting parameter generation circuit, a frequency-warping filter circuit and an audio playback circuit. The audio-receiving circuit receives an audio signal. The adjusting parameter generation circuit generates adjusting parameters according to at least the audio signal. The frequency-warping filter circuit includes first order all pass filter units to filter the audio signal in series to generate a plurality of filtered results, multiplication units to respectively multiply each of the filtered results by one of adjusting parameters to generated adjusted filtered results and an adder circuit to add the filtered results to generate a noise-canceling signal. The audio playback circuit playbacks the audio signal and the noise-canceling signal at the same time.
US11151976B2
A method and system for operating a signal filter device are provided in the present disclosure. The signal filter device may include M adaptive filters, M first analysis filters, M second analysis filters, and a controller. M may be an integer above two. The method may include generating, by the M first analysis filters, M first sub-band signals based on an input signal. The method may also include generating, by the M second analysis filters, M second sub-band signals based on a reference signal. The method may further include adjusting, by the controller, the working states of the M adaptive filters based on correlations between the M first sub-band signals and the M second sub-band signals.
US11151975B2
A method for sound wave generation includes sensing one or more characteristics of a sound wave; calculating an inverted sound wave based on the one or more characteristics; and emitting the inverted sound wave by flowing a current, selected according to the inverted sound wave, through a wire under tension that passes through a positive pole of a magnet and a negative pole of the magnet, thereby causing the wire to vibrate. An apparatus for sound wave generation includes a microphone configured to detect one or more characteristics of a sound wave detected in a predetermined vicinity of the microphone; a processor coupled to the microphone, configured to calculate an inverted sound wave based on the one or more characteristics; a power supply; and at least one emitter module coupled to the processor, each emitter module including one or more magnets with a positive pole and a negative pole, a wire, made of a conductive material, under tension, that passes between the positive pole and the negative pole, and the power supply configured to deliver a current passing through the wire, the current selected by the processor to vibrate the wire and thereby emit the inverted sound wave.
US11151974B1
An apparatus on a vehicle comprises one or more sensors, one or more nozzles that output fluid to clean the respective one or more sensors, and a compressor that generates fluid such as compressed air. The compressor is in fluid communication with the one or more nozzles. The apparatus further comprises one or more processors, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to determine information of an acoustic emission from the compressor and to counteract the acoustic emission based on the determined information.
US11151968B1
A stringed instrument, for example an electric guitar, comprises a neck and a body defining a neck and body joint. The neck and body joint includes a neck having a tapered tenon, and a body having a complementary tapered mortise surrounding the tapered tenon. The tapered tenon may be held within the tapered mortise with a tensioning device without the use of adhesives between surfaces of the tapered tenon and surfaces of the tapered mortise.
US11151961B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one sensor; at least one input interface; at least one output interface; a display; at least one processor electrically connected to the at least one sensor, the at least one input interface, the at least one output interface and the display; and memory electrically connected to the at least one processor, wherein memory is configured to store instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to receive a sound from a user via the at least one input interface, execute an application for interaction with the user based on the received sound, identify the user based on information associated with the user obtained using the at least one sensor, and control the display to display information related to at least one function of the application executed in association with the user.
US11151956B1
A gate driver is constituted of a first gate driver including a first shift register that is configured by bistable circuits corresponding to gate bus lines on odd-numbered lines arranged on one side of a display portion and can switch a shift direction, and a second gate driver including a second shift register that is configured by bistable circuits corresponding to gate bus lines on even-numbered lines arranged on another side of the display portion and can switch the shift direction. A first buffer circuit is provided on one side of both ends of each gate bus line, and a second and a third buffer circuits are provided on another side thereof.
US11151955B2
A display panel of the present application comprises a driving module. The driving module controls a scan line connected to a sub-pixel to provide a scan signal, and a precharge signal sent earlier than the scan signal. A data signal has the same polarity when the scan line is providing the precharge signal and the scan signal. When the display panel is being driven, the precharge signal can be provided to the sub-pixel before the scan signal is provided to the sub-pixel, and when the polarity of the data signal is the same as the polarity of the data signal when the scan signal is provided to the sub-pixel, so as to turn on and precharge the sub-pixel.
US11151954B2
An array substrate, a display panel, and a display device are provided. A Thin Film Transistor (TFT) device of a Gate Driver on Array (GOA) circuit includes a first-type TFT, a second-type TFT, a third-type TFT, and a fourth-type TFT that are disposed at intervals.
US11151952B2
Provided is a liquid crystal display or the like that is able to achieve prevention of or recovery from an image sticking phenomenon in the liquid crystal display, while ensuring convenience for an operator of the liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel that displays an image, and a display control unit that controls display of a predetermined image to respond to image sticking on the liquid crystal panel. The liquid crystal display includes a selection receiving unit that receives a selection of a display mode from among a plurality of display modes in which the predetermined image is displayed, and the display control unit controls the display of the predetermined image in accordance with the display mode selected at the selection receiving unit.
US11151945B2
The present disclosure provides an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device and control method thereof. The OLED display device includes: a plurality of subpixels that are arranged in an array having a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, wherein at least one of the subpixels comprises a control transistor, a light emitting element, and a drive transistor for driving the light emitting element; a plurality of detection lines, wherein at least one of the detection lines is electrically connected with the control transistors of subpixels in a same column, for detecting an electrical property of the drive transistors of subpixels in the same column through respective control transistors; and a plurality of group detection control lines, wherein at least one of the group detection control lines is electrically connected with control transistors of a subpixel group, the subpixel group comprising subpixels in a first row and subpixels in a second row.
US11151941B1
A display driver includes signal supply circuitry and a power source controller. The signal supply circuitry is configured to update a display panel during a refresh period and not update the display panel during a non-refresh period that follows the refresh period. The power source controller is configured to modify a high-side power source voltage supplied to the display panel at least during the non-refresh period.
US11151939B2
A display device includes a pixel array section, the pixel array section having pixels arranged in a matrix form, at least one of the pixels including an electro-optical element, a write transistor, a capacitor, a drive transistor, and a switching transistor. A write scan line is disposed for each pixel row of the pixel array section and adapted to convey a write signal to be applied to a gate electrode of the write transistor. The wiring structure of the write scan line does not cross a wiring pattern connected to a gate electrode of the drive transistor.
US11151934B2
The present disclosure discloses an AMOLED display sticking images elimination method. When an AMOLED display panel is detected to be connected to electricity, the first duration of electricity connection of the display panel is calculated. Based on the first duration of electricity connection, gray scale compensation values of the corresponding TFTs are obtained; based on the gray scale compensation values, the TFTs are compensated according to the gray scale compensation values, so that the driving electricity of the TFTs corresponding to the display panel is amended, and the driving electricity flowing through the TFT is kept consistent. The disclosure further discloses a display terminal and a computer readable storage medium. According to the present disclosure, the problem of the AMOLED display sticking images is solved by using the low-cost and simple implementation mode.
US11151928B2
A flexible display device includes a flexible display panel that includes a display region, a gamma data storage that stores entire driving gamma data generated by a first multi-time programming for an entirety of the display region, and partial driving gamma data generated by a second multi-time programming for a portion of the display region, a gamma reference voltage generator that generates a gamma reference voltage based on the entire driving gamma data when the flexible display panel is not deformed, and generates the gamma reference voltage based on the partial driving gamma data when the flexible display panel is deformed, and a data driver that provides data voltages to the flexible display panel based on the gamma reference voltage.
US11151927B2
An integrated circuit, a mobile phone and a display are provided with the integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes a substrate, a data distributor and a data driver distributed on the substrate. A power line trace gap is provided within the data distributor; a first data line connected to the data driver and to the data distributor; and a first power line connected to the data driver and passing through the power line trace gap.
US11151926B2
A display device includes a substrate including a first pixel area, a second pixel area, and a third pixel area, each of the second and third pixel areas having a smaller surface area than the first pixel area and being connected to the first pixel area, first to third pixels provided in the first to third pixel areas, respectively, first to third lines connected to the first to third pixels, respectively, a line connecting part connecting the second and third lines, and a dummy unit overlapping the line connecting part to compensate for a difference of a load value of the first line and a load value of the second line.
US11151920B2
A demultiplexer for sequentially outputting a data signal to a plurality of data lines disposed in a display panel can include a first switch connected to a first control node, the first switch being configured to electrically connect a first channel with a first data line among the plurality of data lines; a second switch connected to a second control node, the first switch being configured to electrically connect the first channel with a second data line among the plurality of data lines; a third switch connected to a third control node, the third switch being configured to electrically connect a second channel with a third data line among the plurality of data lines; and a fourth switch connected to a fourth control node, the fourth switch being configured to electrically connect the second channel with a fourth data line among the plurality of data lines, in which the first control node and the third control node are configured to receive a single first control signal, and be electrically disconnected from each other at a point in time, the second control node and the fourth control node are configured to receive a single second control signal, and be electrically disconnected from each other at a point in time, and the first control node and the third control node have different voltage conditions than the second control node and the fourth control node.
US11151919B2
A method of operating a display device includes: receiving image data at an input frame frequency; generating a modulated clock signal by modulating an input clock signal according to a modulation frequency; randomly selecting an output frame frequency within a data frequency selection range, the input frame frequency being within the data frequency selection range; determining an output start timing of the image data based on the output frame frequency; initiating, at the output start timing, output of the image data in synchronization with the modulated clock signal; and displaying an image based on the outputted image data.
US11151907B2
A label is constructed with multiple separate adhesives or a mixture of a non-moisture activated adhesive and a moisture-activated adhesive and applied in multiple patterns on a backside of the label. The label maintains adhesive bonding characteristic when the backside of the label is affixed to dry, cool, warm, and wet surfaces.
US11151892B2
The present disclosure provides an Internet teaching platform-based following teaching system. By using a recording and broadcasting system of an Internet teaching platform, recording class teaching of a standard teacher and then performing standardization segmentation processing on data of the recorded class teaching, a standard teaching recorded and broadcast course is formed, and after learning the standard teaching recorded and broadcast course, a following teacher can imitate the standard teacher to perform local class teaching, which is also recorded by means of the recording and broadcasting system. By using the system of the present disclosure to perform processing of relationship construction, statistics, analysis and comparison on a variety of collected data, the recording and guiding before, during and after a teaching process of the following teacher can be realized, so as to facilitate the following teacher in effectively completing the local class teaching.
US11151888B1
Methods and systems described in this disclosure are directed at delivery of educational concepts for increasing the financial literacy of youths. In some embodiments, a mobile application program is disclosed that facilitates management of tasks assigned to youths, setting up a rewards program for participants that complete tasks successfully on time, integrating different types of data from various devices to determine whether an assigned task is successfully completed. In some embodiments, the disclosed platform can integrate with electronic payment systems managed by external third parties for rewarding youths on successfully completing the task.
US11151875B2
A method for providing vehicle assistance to a vehicle when parking in a parking lot is provided. The method includes identifying, by the path controller, one or more available parking spaces based on the one or more images. The method includes displaying, on a user interface in communication with the path controller, a representation of the identified one or more available parking spaces, and receiving, on the user interface, a driver selection of a representation of the identified one or more available parking spaces. The method includes determining, by the path controller, a path from a current position of the vehicle to an available parking space associated with the driver selection of the representation. The method includes instructing, a drive system of the vehicle, to autonomously drive the vehicle along the path.
US11151871B2
An autonomous driving vehicle information presentation apparatus includes: a traffic signal information obtaining unit that obtains traffic signal information on a traffic light at an intersection ahead of a host vehicle in a direction of advance; a check-recognition unit that recognizes change timing of a traffic signal of the traffic light based on the traffic signal information on the traffic light; and an information presentation unit that presents traffic signal information including an instruction to stop, a warning for advance, or a permission to advance expressed by the traffic signal of the traffic light, with a rear display unit provided at a position at which the rear display unit is visible to an occupant in a trailing vehicle. The information presentation unit presents the traffic signal information further containing the change timing of the traffic signal of the traffic light recognized by the check-recognition unit, with the rear display unit.
US11151870B2
The present disclosure provides a traffic scheme control method and device. The method includes: obtaining green light waste time of each lane in each flow direction at a traffic intersection during a green light time period; obtaining a class saturation of each lane, and obtaining a class saturation of each flow direction according to the class saturation of each lane; obtaining a class saturation of a current control scheme based on the class saturation of each group of flow directions in the current control scheme; determining a class saturation of each candidate control scheme; and determining a target control scheme having a minimum class saturation, and when the class saturation of the current control scheme is greater than the minimum class saturation, controlling a signal controller to control a next traffic cycle at the traffic intersection according to the target control scheme.
US11151868B2
In an example, a method determines one or more characteristics of an intersection of two or more lanes of a roadway and determines a plurality of compatible movement groups representing allowable movement options of vehicles approaching the intersection. The method further calculates delays for the compatible movement groups, respectively, selects a compatible movement group from the plurality of compatible movement groups based on the delays, and provides control instructions to a set of the vehicles in a control region of the intersection associated with the compatible movement group to control one or more dynamics of each of the vehicles of the set as the vehicles of the set traverse the intersection.
US11151861B2
A vehicle includes a first detector configured to transmit and receive an ultrasonic signal to detect a presence or absence of an occupant inside the vehicle based on the ultrasonic signal; a second detector configured to detect an opening and closing state of a window including at least one of an upper window or a side window provided in the vehicle; and a controller configured to compare an intensity of the ultrasonic signal received by the first detector and a preset level to determine the presence of the occupant. The controller may be configured to change the preset level based on the opening and closing state detected by the second detector.
US11151852B2
A firearm discharge detection method includes: programming a gunfire detector to report audio sensor data that comprises acoustic data falling outside of an expected sound level; receiving the audio sensor data; comparing the audio sensor data to stored gunshot signatures to identify possible gunfire; reporting the possible gunfire.
US11151841B2
A gaming machine, system, and method for presenting a game may include accepting a wager, randomly selecting k relocatable indicia from a set of N possible indicia, where N>k, positioning the k indicia into j possible locations (j>=k), evaluating the k indicia relative to first paytable with payout rules based solely on the indicia values, evaluating the k indicia relative to a second paytable with payout rules based on at least the location of the indicia, and awarding any prizes earned.
US11151839B2
The present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems and methods for facilitating an automatic transfer of funds to and from an electronic gaming machine via a mobile device.
US11151838B2
A ticket issuer server provides a digital instant lottery ticket, such as a smart contract instant lottery ticket (SILT) on a digital ledger, such as a blockchain infrastructure that supports execution of smart contracts. The ticket issuer server obtains an encryption key from a key issuer, encrypts a prize code with the encryption key to provide an encrypted prize code, creates an object, such as a smart contract representing the SILT, wherein the smart contract includes a ticket owner address attribute, a ticket issuer address attribute, a key issuer address attribute and the encrypted prize code, and stores the object on the digital ledger.
US11151837B2
A computer-implemented method of operating a computing device may comprise accepting, in the computing device, funds from a player and enabling the player to play a wager-based game that comprises a plurality of game levels. A plurality of payout schedules may be provided, each of which defining a respectively different Return to Player (RTP) percentage. The performance of the player during each of the plurality of game levels may be monitored and, during each of the plurality of game levels, a number of performance indicia may be awarded and displayed, depending upon the monitored player performance, such that a higher player performance is awarded a greater number of performance indicia than is a comparatively lower player performance. When game play has reached an end of a current level of the plurality of game levels, a bonus reward may be awarded, a value of the bonus reward being determined using a selected one of the plurality of payout schedules. The payout schedule used to determine the bonus reward may be selected according to the number performance indicia awarded and displayed during the current game level. Awarding the bonus reward may include generating and displaying one discrete graphic element for each performance indicium awarded, each being configured to enable at least a portion of the bonus reward to be displayed.
US11151836B2
According to various systems and methods, financial indicators may be used as random number generators to determine variables, such as numbers and cards, for various games, including casino-style games like roulette and poker. Players may place wagers relating to one or more game variables, such as one or more cards, hands, a roulette wheel spin, a lottery number, or other variable or outcome of a game. After bets are received, one or more random numbers may be determined based on one or more financial indicators, such as a least significant digit of the price or value of a financial instrument, index, or financial metric at a specific time. The random number(s) may be used to determine game variables, such as a winning lottery number, slot reel values, or numbers and suits of cards dealt. In some embodiments, players may select one or more financial instruments or indicators that will be used to resolve one or more game variables.
US11151834B2
Disclosed are gaming systems, methods and machines for a gaming cabinet configuration. In particular, the gaming systems, methods and machines may incorporate gaming cabinets that include one or more curved or arcuate screens, one or more candles integrated into the gaming cabinet, and/or one or more diffuse lighting elements to provide lighting features or effects.
US11151831B1
A card reader for use in an augmented reality poker game wherein the card reader facilitates the participation of a remote player in a card game at a casino. The card reader includes a base member wherein the base member includes an interior volume. A controller is disposed within the interior volume and includes the necessary electronics to receive, store, transmit and manipulate data. The card reader includes a card reading tray that is slidably coupled to the base member and includes an upper surface that is configured to capture and relay image data of a playing card placed thereon. The base member has operably coupled thereto a camera that is secured to a camera mount configured to provide height adjustment of the camera. The camera is operably coupled to the controller and is configured to be manipulated by the remote player engaged with the card reader.
US11151822B2
A safety switch for controlling the access to industrial machines comprises a switching device having switching means, an actuator device (3) to interact with the switching means at the opening/closing of the access for passing from a removed condition to an inserted condition, locking/unlocking means adapted to lock the actuator device on the switching device following their mutual interaction, an electronic control unit having a first communication channel with a first inlet and a first outlet and a second communication channel with a second inlet and a second outlet, wherein said first inlet and said second outlet are of safe type and adapted to vary their state after detecting the condition of said actuator device and wherein said electronic control unit is adapted to vary the state of said first outlet and said second outlet upon detection respectively of a first and a of second condition for said actuator device.
US11151812B2
A new automotive collision repair technology is provided, including system and data flow architectures that are designed to provide enhanced data and enhanced data flow in the context of vehicle diagnosis and repair, particularly when repairs are necessary due to collisions. In some examples, the data flow through the network is streamlined, to avoid network congestion, to use fewer computer and network resources and/or to enable the utilization of smaller databases. In other examples, enhanced access to data in real-time and near real-time enabled by a Workflow Module supports more accurate and timely decision on vehicle repair. An advantage of this new automotive collision repair technology is that it enables proper and proven repairs, which in turn increases operation safety of repaired vehicle and people safety.
US11151810B2
An adaptable vehicle monitoring system is disclosed. The system includes a core platform having a state monitoring subsystem and a feedback subsystem. The core platform interconnects a perception subsystem, a knowledge acquisition subsystem, and a user interface. The perception subsystem is configured to acquire current vehicle state data from instruments of a vehicle. The knowledge acquisition subsystem includes a context awareness subsystem configured to determine a current vehicle context. The state monitoring subsystem is configured to derive a current vehicle state based at least in part on the vehicle state data and vehicle context. The knowledge acquisition subsystem further includes a database subsystem configured to store the current vehicle state data, current vehicle context, and current vehicle state. The trend monitoring subsystem is configured to analyze the one or more stored vehicle state data, stored vehicle contexts, and stored vehicle states to identify one or more trends. The feedback subsystem is configured to prepare operator and deliver operator feedback via the user interface based at least in part on a comparison between the current vehicle state and/or current trend and an expected vehicle state and/or previously identified trends.
US11151806B2
Apparatus, device, methods and system relating to a vehicular telemetry environment for the real time generation and transformation of raw telematics big data into analytical telematics big data that includes raw telematics big data and supplemental data.
US11151803B2
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for simulating the fit of a particular garment on a user using a fit simulation garment. The fit simulation garment is wearable by a user and comprises a plurality of actuators configured to simulate tightness of regions of the particular garment. The method includes receiving a garment fit model defining the fit of the particular garment on the user. The method further includes parsing the garment fit model to generate control data for controlling the fit simulation garment, and transmitting the control data to the fit simulation garment to cause the plurality of actuators to collectively simulate the fit of the particular garment on the user.
US11151793B2
An augmented reality (AR) device can be configured to generate a virtual representation of a user's physical environment. The AR device can capture images of the user's physical environment to generate a mesh map. The AR device can project graphics at designated locations on a virtual bounding box to guide the user to capture images of the user's physical environment. The AR device can provide visual, audible, or haptic guidance to direct the user of the AR device to look toward waypoints to generate the mesh map of the user's environment.
US11151792B2
According to an aspect, a method for creating a three-dimensional map for augmented reality (AR) localization includes obtaining a digital representation of a scene of an AR environment, where the digital representation has been captured by a computing device. The method includes identifying, using a machine learning (ML) model, a region of the digital representation having visual data identified as likely to change, and removing a portion of the digital representation that corresponds to the region of the digital representation to obtain a reduced digital representation, where the reduced digital representation is used to generate a three-dimensional (3D) map for the AR environment.
US11151770B2
In one embodiment, a method for rendering objects within an operating system includes receiving multiple data structures from applications executing on the operating system. Each data structure includes a declarative definition of one or more objects within a volumetric space to be displayed to a user of the operating system. The operating system can generate a render graph that includes the declarative definition of each data structure and can cause images of the objects associated with each data structure to be rendered based on the render graph and a pose of the user relative to the volumetric space.
US11151769B2
One embodiment provides for a graphics processor comprising a block of graphics compute units, a graphics processor pipeline coupled to the block of graphics compute units, and a programmable neural network unit including one or more neural network hardware blocks. The programmable neural network unit is coupled with the block of graphics compute units and the graphics processor pipeline. The one or more neural network hardware blocks include hardware to perform neural network operations and activation operations for a layer of a neural network. The programmable neural network unit can configure settings of one or more hardware blocks within the graphics processor pipeline based on a machine learning model trained to optimize performance of a set of workloads.
US11151759B2
An emission image is generated from poor quality emission data. A machine-learned model may be used to recover information. Emission imaging may be provided due to the recovery in a way that at least some diagnostically useful information is made available despite corruption that would otherwise result in less diagnostically useful information or no image at all.
US11151755B1
Methods and systems disclosed herein relate generally to systems and methods for modifying pixel values of an image to improve the visibility of target pixel patterns. A pixel-simulation application accesses an initial image including an initial set of pixel values. The initial set of pixel values define, in an initial color space, a particular color of pixels that indicate a target pixel pattern. The pixel-simulation application generates, based on the initial set of pixel values, a simulated image including a modified set of pixel values that visually indicate another color of pixels in an intermediate color space. The pixel-simulation application generates a pixel map by identifying a difference between the initial set pixel values of the initial image and the modified set of pixel values of simulated image. The pixel-simulation application generates, for display, an output image based at least in part on the pixel map.
US11151747B2
Provided is creating an augmented reality video using a set-top box. The set-top box may include a communication circuit and a processor. The communication circuit may be configured to receive a first video stream including a target object image in real time from a server and to receive a second video stream captured by a user device from the user device. The processor may be configured to: extract the target object image from each frame of the first video stream using WebGL, correct a color of a boundary line of the target object image between the target object and the background, and composite the extracted target object image into an each frame of the second video stream.
US11151742B2
Disclosed herein are a point cloud data transmission method including encoding point cloud data and transmitting the point cloud data, and a point cloud data reception method including receiving point cloud data, decoding the point cloud data, and rendering the point cloud data.
US11151741B2
A method for assisting obstacle avoidance of a mobile platform includes determining to use a detection mode from a plurality of detection modes, detecting a characteristic condition of the mobile platform with respect to an obstacle using the detection mode, and directing the mobile platform to avoid the obstacle based on the detected characteristic condition.
US11151727B2
Image processing devices utilize computationally efficient operations based on exposure time and object speed to detect and estimate motion blur. These operations include determining, from a plurality of image frames of an object, a representative length of movement associated with at least one feature point of the object, which undergoes movement between the plurality of image frames. This representative length of movement is converted to an estimate of motion blur for a respective image frame, using operations that are function of length of movement and exposure time.
US11151717B2
A non-invasive computer-aided diagnosis system generates a diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment, a disease state which often leads to the development of Alzheimer's disease. The system uses as inputs both functional positron emission tomography and structural magnetic resonance imaging data, reconstructs a model of the patient's cortex, uses machine-learning techniques to generate probabilities for mild cognitive impairments for local cortical regions, uses machine-learning techniques to fuse the local diagnoses to generate a global diagnosis based on each imaging modality, then uses machine-learning techniques to fuse the modality-specific global diagnoses to generate a final global diagnosis.
US11151710B1
There is provided a system comprising a processor configured to obtain a set of images of a semiconductor specimen, (1) for an image of the set of images, select at least one algorithmic module MS out of a plurality of algorithmic modules, (2) feed the image to MS to obtain data DMS representative of one or more defects in the image, (3) obtain a supervised feedback regarding rightness of data DMS, (4) repeat (1) to (3) for a next image until a completion criterion is met, wherein an algorithmic module selected at (1) is different for at least two different images of the set of images, generate, based on the supervised feedback, a score for each of a plurality of the algorithmic modules, and use scores to identify one or more algorithmic modules Mbest as the most adapted for providing data representative of one or more defects in the set of images.
US11151708B2
The present invention relates to a print quality inspection apparatus comprising: an illuminator (35 or 35A-35C) for irradiating light onto a printout (1) provided with a motion thread (1b); a camera (34 or 34A) for capturing an image of the printout; and a print quality inspection unit (10) for inspecting the print quality of the printout (1) on the basis of image data captured by the camera (34 or 34A). The camera (34) captures images of printouts (1) for each RGB color, and the print quality inspection unit (10) performs a print quality inspection having a scope that includes the motion thread (1b) on the basis of image data of a color of the same hue as the color of the motion thread (1b), or the illuminator (35A-35C) emits a color of the same hue as the color of the motion thread (1b), and the monochrome camera (34A) captures a monochrome image.
US11151703B2
An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for image artifact removal. The method, computer program product and computer system may include computing device which may receive a primary image and analyze the primary image for global artifacts and local artifacts. The computing device may, in response to identifying a global artifact in the primary image, generate a secondary image with the global artifact removed utilizing a first generative adversarial network. The computing device may, in response to identifying a local artifact in the primary image, generate a patch with the local artifact removed utilizing a second generative adversarial network. The computing device may generate a hybrid image containing a reduction of global artifacts and a reduction of local artifacts by combining the secondary image and the patch utilizing a hybrid generative adversarial network.
US11151696B2
An image processing apparatus for obtaining an output image by performing a filter processing of an input image, includes a setting unit configured to set a plurality of local regions in the input image, a deriving unit configured to derive a plurality of coefficients corresponding to each of the plurality of local regions based on statistics indicating variations in pixel values in the plurality of local regions, and a filter processing unit configured to obtain an output pixel value by performing a liner transformation of the input image based on the plurality of the coefficients, wherein the plurality of local regions include a region that is partitioned diagonally to a raster scan direction; wherein the filter processing unit performs the liner transformation of the input image based on a coefficient adaptively selected from the plurality of coefficients.
US11151695B1
Some embodiments provide a method for processing a video that includes a sequence of images using a neural network. The method receives a set of video images as a set of inputs to successive executions of the neural network. The method executes the neural network for each successive video image of the set of video images to reduce an amount of noise in the video image by (i) identifying spatial features of the video image and (ii) storing a set of state data representing identified spatial features for use in identifying spatial features of subsequent video images in the set of video images. Identifying spatial features of a particular video image includes using the stored sets of spatial features of video images previous to the particular video image.
US11151692B2
A method for processing an image includes: an image to be processed with a first resolution is acquired; and the image to be processed is processed by a target neural network model to obtain a target image, the target image being a denoised image with a second resolution, the second resolution being higher than the first resolution, and the target neural network model including a first preset number of convolutional layers and a second preset number of sub-pixel up-sampling portions.
US11151685B2
Tiling engines and methods for use in a graphics processing system for hierarchically tiling a plurality of primitives. The tiling engine includes: a chain of sorting units comprising a top level sorting unit followed by one or more lower level sorting units, wherein: the top level sorting unit is configured to: determine which of a plurality of regions of a render space each of the plurality of primitives, at least partially, falls within; and for each region a primitive, at least partially, falls within, store an identifier of that primitive in a queue of the top level sorting unit that is associated with that region; and each of the one or more lower level sorting units is configured to: select one or more queues of a preceding sorting unit in the chain to process; for each of the selected queues, determine which of a plurality of sub-regions of the region associated with that queue each of the primitives identified in that queue, at least partially, falls within; and for each sub-region a primitive, at least partially, falls within, store an identifier of that primitive in a queue of the lower level sorting unit that is associated with that sub-region; and an output unit configured to output the primitives identified in the queues of the last lower level sorting unit in the chain on a queue by queue basis.
US11151679B2
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to monitoring the quality of packages loaded onto delivery vehicles for delivery to customers. In some embodiments, there is provided a system including: a database receiving and storing package quality reports in which each report corresponds to the transport of packages by a delivery vehicle to a customer; at least one package quality report including: delivery route identification information, and package quality feedback information identifying package quality conditions of packages transported by the delivery vehicle from a group of package quality conditions; and a control circuit configured to: allow a first group of users to access the package quality reports received and stored in the database, and allow a second group of users to each transmit and store a new package quality report in the database but not to access the package quality reports previously received and stored.
US11151678B2
A citation system may receive data, including an image, from a handheld photo enforcement unit and issue a citation based on the image with minimal officer input. The citation system manipulates photos to identify license plate numbers involved in an event. The citation system requests identification from a driver database, issues a citation, and forwards the citation according to information from the driver database.
US11151676B2
A system and method for tagging, organizing and tracking evidence during an investigation has evidence kits and mobile communication devices that collect physical, photographic and interpretive evidence, such as materials from a crime scene and interviews with witnesses. The evidence kits can be used to collect physical evidence, and the mobile devices or other computers are used to upload information about the evidence. The system includes multiple user accounts with varying permissions for access by various parties associated with the evidence. Accordingly, some user accounts are configured to permit user inputs on a permanent and temporary basis and other user accounts are configured to only provide read-only access.
US11151673B1
Embodiments are directed to managing data correlation over a network. Student information may be provided. Position information based on potential employers may be provided. Student profiles may be generated based on translation models and the student information. The student information may be translated into unified facts included in the student profiles. Position profiles may be generated based on the translation models and the position information. The position information may be translated into other unified facts in the position profiles. The student profiles may be correlated with the position profiles based on recommendation models, the unified facts, and the other unified facts. Each student profile and position profile pair may be associated with a score based on a strength of the correlation. Reports may be provided that include each pair of the student profile. A plurality of pairs may be ordered based on the score associated with each pair.
US11151668B1
Approaches for determining scheduling assignments for the movement of people along a multi-segment path from a starting location to a destination location, are used to manage crowds, predict crowd behavior, and mitigate crowd turbulence. For example, to mitigate crowd congestion, routing solutions specifying an amount of time to spend at a destination and a departure time can be provided. Itinerary assignments, crowd data, and data associated with an event can be analyzed and weighted to determine scheduling assignments. Scheduling assignments can be validated against current crowd data and event data. Current crowd data and event data and crowd simulation can be used to predict future crowd behavior or crowd problems. Scheduling assignments can be rescheduled to mitigate crowd problems or emergencies.
US11151666B2
A distribution grid management apparatus that is a power generation amount estimation apparatus includes a communication unit to acquire a solar radiation amount that is a measurement value measured by a solar radiation meter at an interval shorter than a data collection interval that is an interval at which a measurement value from a smart meter that measures the amount of electric power is collected; and a power generation amount calculation unit to estimate, on the basis of the solar radiation amount, the power generation amount of each of a plurality of photovoltaic facilities connected to a distribution line of a high-voltage grid.
US11151660B1
A system and method classify insurance documents. The system and method access documents from an assessment queue stored in a memory where each of the documents have a predefined destination stored in metadata. The system and method remove the metadata associated with each document and covert the documents into single physical page documents by splitting each of the of documents into files, consisting essentially of a single physical page. The system and method convert each of the files into separate recognition vectors and classify the files through an additive learning algorithm in which routing data is embedded in second metadata associated with the files. The system and method merge the files, route the files to predefined destinations stored in the metadata, and process insurance documents automatically in response to the routing of the merged documents.
US11151652B2
An enhanced system and method for handling, matching and executing a diverse group of limit-priced orders in an electronic options environment is disclosed. Most of the order types disclosed are automatically repriced and reposted as the NBBO changes to increase their execution opportunities. Market maker entitlements are integrated with the order processing, so that the market maker is guaranteed an allocation of the trade if the market maker is at the NBBO when an order priced at or better than the NBBO is received. Once posted to the order book, the displayed price of an order may be eligible for preferential execution in a market maker entitlement process, regardless of whether the displayed price is original or has been automatically repriced.
US11151648B2
Systems and method for recording voice/audio during a trade activity. The system includes a trader device, a domain name server (DNS), and one or more voice recorders. A trade request to conduct the trade activity in a regional location is accessed via the system. The trade request includes trader DNS information based on the trader device for identifying the location of the trader in the regional location. The system identifies the trader, and one or more trade locations where the trader is authorized to trade, and generates a recording request upon determining that trades in the regional location are authorized. The generated recording request includes a single URL as the default recorder DNS information. The system further identifies a regional recording device in the regional location based on the trader DNS information and a trade rule, and updates the single URL based on the regional recording device DNS information.
