US11197397B2
Systems and methods for data center liquid cooling apparatus provisioning are described. In some aspects, such systems and methods may provision one or more data center liquid cooling apparatus, e.g., prior to such apparatus being put into service to a data center to cool data center devices, such as server trays (and more specifically, heat-generating devices such as processors, memories, voltage regulators, and other devices mounted on motherboards of the server trays). In some aspects, such liquid cooling apparatus include cold plates or evaporators that are mounted in thermal communication with the heat generating devices (in the server trays) and utilize a flow of a cooling liquid (e.g., water, glycol, refrigerant) to remove heat from the server tray (e.g., with or without a phase change of the cooling liquid).
US11197394B2
Apparatuses and methods are provided for blocking removal of an air-moving assembly from a housing when in operational state. The apparatus includes a protective louver assembly having a louver(s) and an interlock element(s). The louver(s) is disposed at an air inlet or an air outlet of the air-moving assembly, and pivots between an operational and a quiesced orientation, dependent on presence or absence, respectively, of airflow through the air-moving assembly. The interlock element(s) is associated with the louver(s) to pivot with the louver(s) between the operational orientation and the quiesced orientation. In the operational orientation, the interlock element(s) blocks, at least in part, access to at least one fastener securing the air-moving assembly within the housing, and thereby prevents removal of the air-moving assembly from the chassis when in the operational state.
US11197385B2
A hook fixing mechanism includes a fixing frame, a first hook, and a second hook. The first hook is rotationally mounted on the fixing frame. A first end of the first hook protrudes from the fixing frame, and a second end of the first hook is movably snapped on the fixing frame. The second hook is rotationally mounted on the fixing frame. A third end of the second hook protrudes from the fixing frame, and a fourth end of the second hook resists against the first hook.
US11197384B1
A node sled is for installation into an electronics chassis. The node sled includes a housing that contains electronic components. The housing includes a front bracket and a catch mechanism. The node sled further includes a lever having an engagement arm, an actuation arm, and a mounting portion. The mounting portion is pivotably mounted to the housing. The actuation arm is manually moveable between a first position in which the engagement arm locks the node sled into the electronics chassis, and a second position in which the engagement arm is released from the electronics chassis. The actuation arm has a latch that engages the catch mechanism in response to the actuation arm being in the first position.
US11197382B2
An electronic module for a transmission control unit may include a printed circuit board that has an electronic component. The electronic component may be electrically connected to a surface of the printed circuit board at least at one point. At least a portion of the electronic component that includes the at least one point may be covered with a protective coating. The protective coating may include a media-tight protective lacquer. The electronic component may be a semiconductor component contained in a housing.
US11197377B2
The present invention comprises: a base film on which a first element mounting part and a second element mounting part are defined; wiring patterns formed by extending from each of the first element mounting part and the second element mounting part on the base film, wherein the wiring patterns include a first terminal part in the first element mounting part and a second terminal part in the second element mounting part; and a first plating layer formed on the second terminal part, wherein the first plating layer includes a pure metal plating layer, and the first plating layer is not formed on the first terminal part.
US11197374B2
A switched inductor DC-DC power converter chiplet includes a CMOS power switch, an LC filter, regulation circuitry, feedback control circuitry, and interface control circuitry integrated on a common substrate. The inductor for the LC filter can be formed on the same surface or on opposing surfaces of the substrate as the electrical terminations for the substrate. Another embodiment includes a switched inductor DC-DC power converter chiplet having a first powertrain phase and multiple second powertrain phases. When the load current is less than or equal to a threshold load current, the power conversion efficiency can be improved by only operating the first powertrain phase. When the load current is greater than the threshold load current, the power conversion efficiency can be improved by operating one or more second powertrain phases.
US11197368B1
A circuit board with reduced dielectric losses enabling the movement of high frequency signals includes an inner circuit board and two outer circuit boards. The inner circuit board includes a first conductor layer and a first substrate layer. The first conductor layer includes a signal line and two ground lines on both sides of the signal line. The first substrate layer covers a side of the first conductor layer and defines first through holes which expose the signal line. Each outer circuit board includes a second substrate layer and a second conductor layer. The second substrate layer abuts the inner circuit board and defines second through holes which are not aligned with the first through holes, partially surrounding the signal line with air which has a very low dielectric constant. A method for manufacturing the high-frequency circuit board is also disclosed.
US11197365B2
A printed circuit board includes: multiple electrically insulating laminate sheets laminated together in a stack; a first electrically conductive layer formed from a superconductor material arranged on a first exterior surface of the stack, the first electrically conductive layer including a signal line and a ground plane; a second electrically conductive layer formed from a superconductor material arranged on a second exterior surface of the stack, the second exterior surface opposing the first exterior surface; a third conductive trace between a first electrically insulating laminate sheet of the stack and a directly adjacent second electrically insulating laminate sheet of the stack; a first via extending through from the signal line through the stack to the third conductive trace, in which the signal line is electrically connected to the third conductive trace through the via.
US11197361B1
A split-type in-wall smart switch module comprises a switching signal generation unit, a mechanical switch, a switching signal receiving and processing unit, a wireless module unit, a switching unit and a load, wherein the switching signal generation unit is connected to a live wire in mains electricity, the mechanical switch and the switching signal receiving and processing unit, respectively; the switching signal receiving and processing unit is also connected to the wireless module unit and a neutral wire in mains electricity respectively; the other end of the wireless module unit is connected to the switching unit; the other end of the switching unit is connected to the load; and the other end of the load is connected to the neutral wire in mains electricity. The switch can realize the control of turning-on and turning-off by means of a switch panel.
US11197359B1
A backlight module is disclosed, which includes light emitting units arranged in columns. Each light emitting unit includes a light emitter and a first switch in parallel connection. The first switch is configured to selectively bypass the light emitter. In the backlight module, the light emitters in the same column of light emitting units are in serial connection.
US11197356B2
This lighting circuit comprises a current source and a thermal sensing element. The thermal sensing element senses the temperature of a semiconductor light source. The current source generates a drive current that shows a positive correlation with the temperature when the temperature is in a normal range and that shows a negative correlation with the temperature when the temperature falls within a temperature range higher than the normal range.
US11197349B2
Disclosed is a heating rod comprising a ceramic heating element, a strip shaped contact sheet, and a housing in which the heating element and the contact sheet are arranged. The contact sheet is coated with nickel.
US11197339B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive (or a base station may transmit) information identifying a selected configuration for a discontinuous reception (DRX) wakeup signal (WUS) for the user equipment, wherein the selected configuration is one of a plurality of configurations; and selectively monitor a wakeup signal resource according to the selected configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11197336B2
A communication subsystem, method and computer program product preconfigure a size of a transport control protocol (TCP) buffer when connected to a master node using a first radio access technology (RAT) that supports during dual connectivity with a secondary node using a second RAT. A timer is started when the secondary node is available but not being used at least in part for data transfer. Until the timer expires, the TCP buffer is maintained in a size to efficiently provide both (i) support for data transfer using the first RAT via the master node only; and (ii) expedited setup of data transfer using at least the secondary node using the second RAT. When the timer expires without connecting to the secondary node, the controller reduces the size of the TCP buffer to release storage resources that are not needed for data transfer via only the master node.
US11197326B2
A method for random access includes: determining, by a first device, a first basic parameter set used by a first message transmitted during a random access procedure; and transmitting, by the first device using the first basic parameter set, the first message to a second device, or receiving, by the first device using the first basic parameter set, the first message transmitted by the second device.
US11197320B2
Uplink transmission resource scheduling method and device, and uplink transmission method and device
Disclosed are an uplink transmission resource scheduling method and device, and an uplink transmission method and device, which are used for reserving an uplink transmission resource on an unlicensed carrier, enabling a user equipment (UE) not to transmit an uplink signal on the reserved resource and avoiding a case in which the scheduled UE cannot access a channel, and can realize time division multiplexing of uplink transmission resources on the unlicensed carrier. An uplink transmission resource scheduling method provided by the present application comprises: a base station determines a reserved resource in an uplink subframe, the reserved resource being a transmission resource on an unlicensed carrier; and the base station sends a notification about the reserved resource in the uplink subframe to a UE.
US11197311B2
Methods of a wireless communication node are disclosed. The methods are for mitigating interference caused during an upcoming downlink transmission by a second wireless communication access point to a first wireless communication station by one or more second wireless communication stations served by a first (neighboring) wireless communication access point, wherein the first wireless communication station is served by the second wireless communication access point. The one or more second wireless communication stations are adapted to communicate using a second frequency interval and the first wireless communication station is adapted to communicate using a first (smaller) frequency interval, comprised within the second frequency interval. In one aspect, a method of the first wireless communication access point comprises receiving (from the first wireless communication station) an indication signal indicative of the upcoming downlink transmission.
US11197309B2
Provided are a method for configuring a short-TTI frame structure in a 3GPP LTE/LTE-advanced system, a method for transmitting, to a terminal, information on the configured short-TTI frame structure, and a method for receiving short-TTI frame structure configuration information by a terminal. The method may include: receiving, by the terminal, configuration information of a short-TTI configured to have a predetermined number of symbols; and receiving data through a frame structure including the short-TTI configured to have the predetermined number of symbols on the basis of the configuration information of the short-TTI.
US11197304B2
This application provides a method that includes the step of receiving, by a first device in a first time domain position, first scheduling information. The first scheduling information includes first indication information sent by a network device, wherein the first indication information is used to indicate a first interval. The method further comprises sending, by the first device, second scheduling information including second indication information to a second device in a second time domain position, wherein the second indication information is used to indicate a second interval, which is the difference between the first interval and a third interval. The second scheduling information is used by the second device to determine the target time domain position used by the second device to determine a time domain resource used to send and/or receive data.
US11197299B2
The application provide a method for transmitting data in a wireless communication network. A terminal device obtains a first configuration signaling, wherein the first configuration signaling is used to determine a first resource occupied by first data in a first slot, then the terminal device obtains third configuration signaling, wherein the third configuration signaling is used to determine a second resource occupied by second data in the first slot. When at least one time domain symbol in the second resource is located in the first resource in the first slot, the terminal device determines data transmitted in the first slot based on a preset policy; wherein the first configuration signaling is used for scheduling of data in N slots, wherein the N slots comprise the first slot, and N is an integer greater than 1.
US11197293B2
A method for transmitting an uplink signal for a terminal configured to support at least one transmission time interval (TTI) length in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, is performed by the terminal and comprises the steps of: receiving, in multiple downlink cells, a downlink data channel; and transmitting, in at least one uplink cell, uplink control information for the downlink data channel, wherein the at least one uplink cell corresponds to at least one of the multiple downlink cells, and downlink cells having the same TTI length or a TTI length of one group may correspond to one uplink cell.
US11197292B2
Provided are a resource indication method, a resource indication device, a base station and a terminal. The method includes: defining, in a hierarchical nesting manner, resource units of multiple granularities for a communication signal; and indicating one or more of the resource units to the terminal. With the present disclosure, the problem in the related art that the communication signal transmission on a full system bandwidth has high complexity and low efficiency is solved, and the purpose of flexibly defining and indicating the resources of the communication signal is realized. The present disclosure is not only easy to operate, but also is favorable to improving the transmission efficiency of communication signal.
US11197286B2
A downlink control information monitoring method, a terminal, and a base station are applied to the field of communications technologies include monitoring, by the terminal, downlink control information in a first time resource unit range according to a first rule, and monitoring, by the terminal, downlink control information in a second time resource unit range according to a second rule, wherein the first time resource unit range is different from the second time resource unit range, and wherein the first rule is different from the second rule.
US11197283B2
In a control information sending method, a network device sends first physical layer control information to a first terminal device, where the first physical layer control information indicates a first index to the first terminal device, and instructs the first terminal device to monitor second physical layer control information within a first time period. The network device sends the second physical layer control information to at least one terminal device within the first time period, where the second physical layer control information includes at least one control information field, the at least one control information field includes a first control information field, and the first control information field instructs the first terminal device to receive or send data, or the first control information field instructs the first terminal device to receive or send data or not to receive or send data.
US11197268B2
Provided is a method for obtaining a network system resource configuration. The method includes that: a terminal receives a non-anchor carrier configuration broadcast by a network device, and the terminal determines, according to the non-anchor carrier configuration, resource information for performing random access or monitoring pages with the network device. The non-anchor carrier configuration includes any one of or any combination of: a non-anchor carrier frequency point list, a non-anchor carrier configuration parameter list, an uplink non-anchor carrier frequency point list, an uplink non-anchor carrier configuration parameter list, a downlink non-anchor carrier frequency point list and a downlink non-anchor carrier configuration parameter list.
US11197255B2
A method for synchronizing in a TDMA frequency-hopping ad-hoc telecommunications network wherein slots includes at least one dwell of set duration and a guard time at least equal to the maximum propagation time in the network are respectively reserved for the emissions of one particular piece of equipment of the network, comprising: a first step of periodically allocating at least one slot per piece of equipment of the network for the transmission of a beacon, a second step wherein the beacon is emitted, a third step wherein each first piece of equipment of the network estimates a time difference Δt from a start time of the slot and from an actual reception time of the beacon, and a fourth step wherein the first piece of equipment of the network uses the time difference Δt for the reception of data slots sent by the second piece of equipment of the network.
US11197252B2
Disclosed are systems, devices and methods for transmission of messages between wireless transceiver devices including fields representing values such as, for example, a range between devices, time of transmission of a message or time of receipt of a previous message. In particular embodiments, message may also comprise fields to express a maximum error in values representing range, time of transmission of a message or time of receipt of a previous message.
US11197250B2
A method by a base station for receiving power headroom reporting from a user equipment (UE) in a Multi-Radio Access Technology (RAT)-Dual Connectivity (MR-DC) scenario, the method includes receiving a DC Power Headroom Report (PHR) Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) from the UE, the DC PHR MAC CE having a fixed number of octets with cell index fields for indicating whether a power headroom (PH) for a serving cell with a corresponding cell index is reported, wherein the fixed number of octets is independent of a highest secondary Cell Index (SCellIndex) for serving cells with configured uplinks.
US11197244B2
A user equipment (“UE”) described herein may use automated techniques to receive one or more mode triggers, each including one or more sensor profiles. The UE may monitor data from one or more sensors associated with the UE and may compare the data to the profiles. The UE may determine that the sensor data matches a profile; and may disable one or more wireless features. The UE may continue to monitor sensor data and may determine that an exit trigger condition has been satisfied based on the received data. The exit trigger condition may specify a particular mode trigger; and a set of exit sensor profiles that corresponds to an exit of the particular mode trigger. The UE may, based on determining that the exit trigger condition has been satisfied, activate one or more wireless features. The sensor profiles and/or exit trigger conditions may be received from a cloud-based entity.
US11197236B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a hotspot scanning method and an electronic device. Whether a condition of initiating a hidden hotspot scanning is met is first determined. If the condition of initiating the hidden hotspot scanning is met, a name of a hidden hotspot is obtained. Then, the hidden hotspot scanning is initiated by using the name of the hidden hotspot. If the condition of initiating the hidden hotspot scanning is not met, the hidden hotspot scanning is not initiated. In this way, whether the condition of initiating the hidden hotspot scanning is met is determined before the hidden hotspot scanning is initiated. This effectively reduces a disclosure probability of the name of the hidden hotspot, thereby achieving a purpose of reducing a security risk in hotspot scanning.
US11197233B2
Methods and apparatuses for transmitting and acquiring system information and a communication system. The apparatus for transmitting system information includes: a first transmitting unit configured to transmit a paging message on a first bandwidth part (BWP), the paging message comprising indication information indicating a system information modification; and a second transmitting unit configured to transmit updated system information on a second BWP; wherein, the first BWP is different from the second BWP. Hence, the paging message and updated system information are transmitted on different BWPs, thereby saving signaling overhead of the system for transmitting the updated system information.
US11197217B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, for a plurality of dual connectivity mobile communication devices that are in communication range of a first access point that uses a first radio access technology and a second access point that uses a second radio access technology, a plurality of network communication parameters, the first radio access technology being a different radio access technology than the second radio access technology; obtaining a list of a plurality of configurations, each configuration identifying one or more time slots in which the first radio access technology is to be used and one or more other time slots in which the second radio access technology is to be used; selecting, from the list, a respective configuration to apply to each of the plurality of dual connectivity mobile communication devices, a first configuration that is selected being selected based at least in part upon one or more first network communication parameters, a second configuration that is selected being selected based at least in part upon one or more second network communication parameters; facilitating first communications, via the first access point and the second access point, with a first dual connectivity mobile communication device according to the first configuration, which is changeable in real-time during the first communications; and facilitating second communications, via the first access point and the second access point, with a second dual connectivity mobile communication device according to the second configuration, which is changeable in real-time during the second communications. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11197216B2
A method for handling PDU session handover procedure collision in a next generation NG/5G system is proposed. Both network-triggered and UE-triggered PDU session handover procedures can occur at the same time. If Paging or Notification for PDU session handover comes before UE initiated MO PDU session establishment procedure for PDU session handover, then UE should avoid sending the PDU session establishment request for PDU session handover but only send the service request as a response to paging. On the other hand, if Paging or Notification for PDU session handover comes after UE initiated MO PDU session establishment procedure for PDU session handover, then UE should avoid sending the service request for PDU session handover but proceed with the PDU session establishment procedure as a response to paging.
US11197215B2
Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for providing core High Availability (HA) for a wireless network. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: providing a first node, a second node and a third node; allocating a set of locally generated Tunnel Endpoint Identifiers (TEIDs) for UEs anchored on the second node; detecting, by a first node, a second node having a connectivity issue; and migrating a User Equipment (UE) connected to the second node to a third node which is accessible; using the set of locally generated TEIDs to identify the UE migration.
US11197213B1
A method and system for controlling connectivity of a user equipment device (UE). When the UE is connected with an access node in a cell provided by the access node, the access node determines that uplink noise in the cell is threshold high. And responsive to at least determining that uplink noise in the cell is at least threshold high, the access node applies a battery-level-based UE-offloading process to offload the UE from the cell. For instance, the access node could cause the UE to hand over or otherwise transition from being connected in the cell to instead being connected in another cell.
US11197199B2
A control apparatus includes: a network interface configured to perform transmission and reception of a signal; a controller coupled to the network interface, the controller configured to execute transfer processing that includes transferring service class information indicating a service class for controlling a remote device, execute setting processing that includes setting the service class to transmission of an operation signal for controlling the remote device, and execute control processing that includes controlling transfer of the operation signal via the network interface by using the service class. The control processing is configured to control transfer of the operation signal by using the service class that is set to the operation signal and information that is associated with the operation signal. The information relates to a first attribute value different from a value of at least one attribute associated with the service class.
US11197194B2
Disclosed are: a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system; and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security, and safety related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. Disclosed is an operating method of a terminal, comprising the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a radio resource control (RRC) message including information for indicating whether to use uplink data compression (UDC); receiving data from an upper application layer of the terminal; compressing the data and encoding the compressed data; generating an uplink data compression (UDC) header and a service data adaption protocol (SDAP) header together; generating a block to which the UDC header and the SDAP header are bonded in the encoded data; and transmitting the block to a lower layer of the terminal.
US11197193B2
Methods and apparatus to perform multi-band link aggregation in a wireless network are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a buffer controller to store (A) a first set of data packets that have been received on a first interface and (B) a second set of data packets that have been received on a second interface into a buffer, the first and second sets of data packets being received from a wireless device during a same time frame; and a window determiner to control a first bitmap corresponding to the first set of data packets received on the first interface and a second bitmap corresponding to the second set of data packets received on the second interface, a first size of the first bitmap and a second size of the second bitmap being smaller than a third size of the buffer.
US11197185B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for NR CSI-RS based BFD/RLM in FR2. In one novel aspect, BFD in FR2, the evaluation period is extended by the N factor if the CSI-RS for BFD is in a resource set configured with repetition ON or the BFD is performed on CSI-RS#1 without beam information or, where the CSI-RS#1 is configured without beam information if CSI-RS for BFD is not QCL-TypeD with SSB for L1-RSRP beam reporting, nor the CSI-RS for BFD is not QCL-TypeD with CSI-RS for L1-RSRP beam reporting. In one embodiment, the N factor equals to 1 only when at least one predefined RX beam information is included in the RRC configuration. In another embodiment, the predefined RX beam information for BFD is Type-D QCL information for a synchronization signal block (SSB) configured in its TCI state or the CSI-RS#1 is configured with repetition ON.
US11197184B2
A method by which a user device comprising a plurality of RF modules and a plurality of antenna modules transmits and receives a signal in a wireless communication system, according to the present invention, includes the steps of: during a measurement interval for the measurement of the quality of a neighbor cell, using the first antenna module, among a plurality of antenna modules, to communicate with a serving cell, and using the second antenna module, among the plurality of antenna modules, to measure the quality of one or more neighbor cells; and reporting the measurement result to the base station of the serving cell.
US11197174B1
The present disclosure relates to the field of wireless communication technology and discloses a method for controlling a wireless communication, a radio device, and a device having a storage function. The method includes establishing a communication connection between a radio node end and a site end; obtaining an antenna field shape information between the radio node end and the site end; obtaining an image information of the site end based on the antenna field shape information between the radio node end and the site end, to monitor a motion state of the site end; determining whether the site end is displaced, and adjusting the antenna field shape between the radio node end and the site end when the site end is determined to be displaced.
US11197172B2
A reception method and apparatus for use in a multi-cell orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) wireless system. In a unicast receive mode during a first receive time period, a first group of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols is received by a mobile device from multiple of a plurality of antennas at a serving base station. In a single-frequency-network (SFN) receive mode during a second receive time period, a second group of OFDM symbols is received by the mobile device from one of a plurality of antennas at the serving base station. The transition between the first receive time period and the second receive time period occurs during a cyclic prefix or a cyclic postfix between OFDM symbols, and the plurality of antennas produce a first beam pattern during the unicast receive mode and a second beam pattern during the SFN receive mode.
US11197169B2
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 present disclosure, an operating device connected to at least one base station in a wireless communication system comprises at least one transmitter-receiver and at least one processor connected to the at least one transmitter-receiver, wherein the at least one processor can determine a coverage formed by beams of the at least one base station and change a beam operation configuration for the at least one base station when the number of beams, which can be provided to a terminal, is greater than or equal to a threshold value or another terminal is positioned outside the coverage. This study was conducted with the support of the “Cross-Ministry Giga KOREA Project” by the government (Ministry of Science, Technology and Information) in 2017 (No. GK17N0100, Development of Millimeter Wave 5G Mobile Communication System).
US11197167B2
Compensation is provided for foreign interference within a cell. Uplink (UL) noise on an UL channel to a first base station (BS) device is detected. Whether the UL noise includes interference is determined. Interference can include any device other than a mobile device configured to communicate with a BS device associated with a cell. The first service area of the BS device can be modified, e.g., scaled based on determining that the UL noise includes interference. Scaling can include reducing the first service area to a second service area that does not include an imbalance region in the first service area caused by the foreign interference. Scaling can be effected by reducing the amount of downlink power from the first BS device, or by adjusting a re-selection parameter associated with reducing the range of the BS device.
US11197163B2
All or a portion of a timeslot of a slotted communication system may be dynamically designated for transmitting or for receiving. For example, a timeslot originally designated for receiving information at a wireless node may be temporarily designated for transmitting information from the wireless node. Such a designation may be made to accommodate a temporary asymmetry in traffic flow between wireless nodes or may be made based on other criteria. In some aspects, a resource utilization messaging scheme may be employed to mitigate interference associated with the designation of timeslots for transmitting or receiving.
US11197157B2
A method, an apparatus, and a system for performing authentication on a terminal in a wireless local area network are provided. The method uses a feature code as a part of an authentication credential. The feature code is a function of capability parameters of a terminal. The feature code can identify the terminal, so that the authentication server determines the authentication result based on a MAC address and the feature code of the terminal.
US11197142B1
An audio system and method for establishing wireless data connections between a case and at least one wearable audio device is provided. The audio system can establish a first wireless data connection between the case and the wearable audio device and establish a second wireless data connection between the case and the internet. The case, in addition to electrical energy storage capacity or battery bank capabilities, can directly communicate with the internet to receive update data directly from a remote server and can pass on update data to wearable audio devices without the need for a peripheral device such as a smart phone or tablet operating an affiliated software application. The audio system provided allows for information, data, and functionality to be passed between the wearable audio devices and cloud-based services, via the case, including social networking, messaging, music services, news, entertainment, and Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol (VOIP) communication services.
US11197140B2
To control content distribution to plural mobile entities, a device for managing the distribution of the content may determine mobile entities which participate in sharing the same content and which are located in the same region. The mobile entities respectively have a first interface for communication with a mobile communication network and a second interface for forming an ad-hoc network with another mobile entity. A message indicating at least one peer address of a peer mobile entity may be selectively transmitted to a mobile entity. The peer address allows the mobile entity to retrieve at least a piece of the content over the second interface from another mobile entity.
US11197132B2
Multicast expert system information dissemination systems and methods making use of artificial intelligence are provided. The systems and methods include a wireless device for receiving RF multicast information messages from a content provider wherein said information is descriptive of objects potentially of interest to users of the device. Received multicast messages may include information parameters about objects of potentially interest to the user. The wireless device also includes a knowledge base prestored in the wireless device descriptive of the user's level of interest in various objects. Artificial intelligence expert system control is used to evaluate a combination of the user's level of interest in the object information and distance from the user to the location where the object may be obtained. The artificial intelligence expert system derives a user advisory action index. In one embodiment the artificial intelligence may be implemented using fuzzy logic inference engine apparatus.
US11197131B2
Techniques for variable length talk permit tone are provided. a request to initiate a Push-to-Talk (PTT) call may be received from a PTT call initiator. A first estimated length of time needed to set up resources for the PTT call may be determined. A second length of time to playout a talk permit tone (TPT) may be determined based on the determined first estimated length of time. An indication may be sent to the PTT call initiator to playout the TPT for the determined second length of time.
US11197129B2
A system information block (SIB) in a radio interface is dedicated to broadcast data intended for Internet of things (IoT) devices. The data can be associated with most any IoT service, such as but not limited to, a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and/or vehicle-to-everything (V2X) service. In one aspect, data, associated with an event, that has been aggregated from one or more IoT devices located within a region can be analyzed to determine a geographical area where a message regarding the event (e.g., accident) is to be broadcast. Further, the message can be dynamically prioritized and/or customized to target a particular class of IoT devices (e.g., connected cars) by employing different message identifiers.
US11197128B2
The present invention relates to a system for providing multimedia service, comprising a network device which provides multimedia services using a wireless network, and a terminal which receives the multimedia services from the network device. The network device may receive feedback on the multimedia service receiving state from the terminal that receives the multimedia services, and control the multimedia services based on the received feedback.
US11197120B2
An audio processing apparatus comprises a receiver (705) which receives audio data including audio components and render configuration data including audio transducer position data for a set of audio transducers (703). A renderer (707) generating audio transducer signals for the set of audio transducers from the audio data. The renderer (7010) is capable of rendering audio components in accordance with a plurality of rendering modes. A render controller (709) selects the rendering modes for the renderer (707) from the plurality of rendering modes based on the audio transducer position data. The renderer (707) can employ different rendering modes for different subsets of the set of audio transducers the render controller (709) can independently select rendering modes for each of the different subsets of the set of audio transducers (703). The render controller (709) can select the rendering mode for a first audio transducer of the set of audio transducers (703) in response to a position of the first audio transducer relative to a predetermined position for the audio transducer. The approach may provide improved adaptation, e.g. to scenarios where most speakers are at desired positions whereas a subset deviate from the desired position(s).
US11197118B2
Examples of the disclosure describe systems and methods for presenting an audio signal to a user of a wearable head device. According to an example method, a first input audio signal is received, the first input audio signal corresponding to a source location in a virtual environment presented to the user via the wearable head device. The first input audio signal is processed to generate a left output audio signal and a right output audio signal. The left output audio signal is presented to the left ear of the user via a left speaker associated with the wearable head device. The right output audio signal is presented to the right ear of the user via a right speaker associated with the wearable head device. Processing the first input audio signal comprises applying a delay process to the first input audio signal to generate a left audio signal and a right audio signal; adjusting a gain of the left audio signal; adjusting a gain of the right audio signal; applying a first head-related transfer function (HRTF) to the left audio signal to generate the left output audio signal; and applying a second HRTF to the right audio signal to generate the right output audio signal. Applying the delay process to the first input audio signal comprises applying an interaural time delay (ITD) to the first input audio signal, the ITD determined based on the source location.
US11197112B2
Examples described herein involve validating motion of a microphone during calibration of a playback device. An example implementation involves a mobile device detecting, via one or more microphones, audio signals emitted from one or more playback devices as part of a calibration process. After the one or more playback devices emit the audio signals, the mobile device determines whether the detected audio signals indicate that sufficient horizontal translation of the mobile device occurred during the calibration process. When the detected audio signals indicate that insufficient horizontal translation occurred, the mobile device displays a prompt to move the mobile device more while the one or more playback devices emit one or more additional audio signals as part of the calibration process. When the detected audio signals indicate that sufficient horizontal translation occurred, the mobile device calibrates the one or more playback devices with a calibration based on the detected audio signals.
US11197097B2
Devices, systems and processes for providing an adaptive audio environment are disclosed. For an embodiment, a system may include a wearable device and a hub. The hub may include an interface module configured to communicatively couple the wearable device and the hub and a processor, configured to execute non-transient computer executable instructions for a machine learning engine configured to apply a first machine learning process to at least one data packet received from the wearable device and output an action-reaction data set and for a sounds engine configured to apply a sound adapting process to the action-reaction data set and provide audio output data to the wearable device via the interface module. The audio output data may be utilized by the wearable device to provide an adaptive audio environment.
US11197096B2
Systems and methods for media playback via a media playback system include detecting a first wake word via a first network microphone device of a first playback device, detecting a second wake word via a second network microphone device of a second playback device, and forming a bonded zone that includes the first playback device and the second playback device. In response to detecting the first wake word, a first voice first voice utterance following the first wake word is transmitted a first voice assistant service. In response to detecting the second wake word, a second voice utterance following the second wake word is transmitted to a second voice assistant service. Requested media content received from the first and/or second voice assistant service is played back via the first playback device and the second playback device in synchrony with one another.
US11197081B2
A method for determining a configuration parameter includes: transmitting a detection signal; receiving a reflection signal formed after the detection signal is reflected by a characteristic structure of an ear of a user; adjusting a signal transmission parameter of the detection signal according to a signal difference between the reflection signal and a standard signal until the signal difference meets a first preset condition, to determine the configuration parameter of an earphone.
US11197079B2
A MEMS microphone with a hybrid packaging structure is provided. The microphone comprises: a first circuit board; a second circuit board, spaced apart from the first circuit board and parallel to the first circuit board; a packaging cover, covering the second circuit board, and forming an acoustic cavity with the second circuit board; wherein the first circuit board and the second circuit board form an accommodating space in which a pressure sensor is disposed. In the present invention, the chip and electronics of the MEMS microphone are installed on two different circuit boards, respectively, so that an interior space of the microphone is fully utilized, a good heat dissipation is achieved, a better sound transmission effect is achieved, and the microphone can be widely used.
US11197077B2
Transmitting devices used in an optical access system in which a plurality of the transmitting devices transmit an optical burst signal to a receiving device by time division multiple access, the transmitting devices each including an arithmetic processing unit, the arithmetic processing unit including: a data signal transmission instruction unit, the a data signal transmission instruction unit that outputs a first instruction for controlling transmission processing of a data signal on the basis of a requester's instruction; an optical signal control instruction unit that outputs a second instruction for controlling output processing of an optical signal on the basis of the requester's instruction; and an instruction output adjustment unit that adjusts a timing at which the first instruction is output and a timing at which the second instruction is output.
US11197073B2
The present invention relates to an advertisement detection system based on fingerprints, and provides an advertisement detection systems based on fingerprints, including a content stream storage unit for storing broadcast content in real time, a section selection unit for selecting a reference section and a test section from broadcast content stored by the content stream storage unit, a fingerprint extraction unit for extracting fingerprints from the reference section and the test section selected by the section selection unit using one or more methods, a fingerprint matching unit for comparing the fingerprints from the test section and the reference section, extracted by the fingerprint extraction unit, with each other and then performing matching between the fingerprints, an advertisement section determination unit for determining advertisement segments from the test section based on results of the matching performed by the fingerprint matching.
US11197057B2
A computer implemented method for managing data received from a video source device is disclosed. At least a first storage tier and a second storage tier on a storage medium are identified for respectively storing different categories of data. As data streams are received from the video source, the data streams are associated with at least the first storage tier or the second storage tier and data from the received streams are stored in the associated storage tier. When the storage medium is full or meets some other specified maximum capacity threshold, data is deleted beginning with data that has an age that exceeds one or more specified maximum retention times, followed by data with the oldest age from one or both of the first and second storage tiers.
US11197052B2
Methods and systems for discovering or tuning-in to near live or current playlists used to stream media content, particularly for live events during which the media content is streamed. The methods and systems can reduce the time required to tune-in to such live events. In one embodiment, a client device can receive an age data in a header of a message that returns a first playlist that was requested by an unattributed playlist request from the client device. The age data can be used to determine how many partial media segments to skip to tune-in to the live event.
US11197050B2
Methods and apparatus for monitoring and controlling access to coexisting first and second networks, such as within a venue. In one embodiment, the first network is a managed network that includes wireless access points (APs) in data communication with a backend controller, which communicates with a client process on a user device. The client process uses indigenous radio technology of the user device to scan for coexisting networks, and report results to the controller. In one variant, the controller dynamically adjusts transmit characteristics of the AP(s) to manage interference between the coexisting networks. In another variant, the controller causes the energy detect threshold of the user device to be lowered so that it may detect WLAN signals when a coexisting RAT (for example, LTE-U or LTE-LAA) occupies the same channel and/or frequency. In another variant, the client process autonomously adjusts user device operation based on the scan.
US11197047B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for targeting of advertising content for a consumer product, by obtaining consumer demographic data, the consumer demographic data including a plurality of demographic attributes for each person; identifying a plurality of media slots; and obtaining program information for a respective identified program aired in each media slot among the plurality of media slots, the program information including viewing data of a plurality of viewing persons viewing the program and each viewing person being among the plurality of persons. The methods also include enriching the viewing data with the consumer demographic data; identifying a plurality of advertiser industries; enriching the product purchaser data with the consumer demographic data; calculating a relevance of each advertiser industry among the plurality of advertiser industries for each identified program based on demographic attributes of the product purchasers in each advertiser industry and demographic attributes of the viewing persons.
US11197046B2
Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a server to access metadata identifying media presented to a user, and cookie data, the metadata and the cookie data provided by a client device. A user identifier comparator is to determine whether the cookie data identifies the user to the database proprietor, the server to, in response to the user identifier comparator determining that the cookie data does not identify the user to the database proprietor, send a redirect message instructing the client device to retransmit the metadata to a next-hop location. A metadata transmitter is to, in response to the user identifier comparator determining that the cookie data does identify the user to the database proprietor, provide the metadata and the user identifier to a central facility.
US11197044B2
The present disclosure aims to provide a communication apparatus capable of achieving media distribution with a high quality of user experience. A communication apparatus is a communication apparatus configured to distribute media data to another communication apparatus via a plurality of lines, the apparatus including: a communication quality estimation unit configured to estimate communication qualities of the respective lines; a bit rate determination unit configured to calculate, from the estimated communication qualities of the respective lines, an index value indicating a quality of user experience when each of the lines is used and determine a bit rate of the media data based on the calculated index value; and a data allocation unit configured to allocate a data amount of the media data to the respective lines based on the estimated communication qualities of the respective lines and the bit rate that has been determined.
US11197042B2
An embodiment of a semiconductor package apparatus may include technology to request video information from a source outside of a vehicle, receive the video information in response to the request, and construct 3D video information for the vehicle based on the received video information. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US11197041B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media content processor having a controller adapted to detect an event associated with recorded media content derived from one among a plurality of media content sources, select a communication device of a subscriber of the media content processor, retrieve a portion of the recorded media content, generate a notice describing the event, and transmit the notice with the portion of the recorded media content to the communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11197040B2
A method or system for supporting dynamic construction of a user selected sub-region (e.g., viewport or region of interest) from other sub-regions of a reference media presentation encodes reference media presentation as component tracks. A streaming decoder receives a streaming media file of the reference media presentation and displays an arbitrarily selected sub-region of the reference media presentation. The streaming media file has a derived track that (i) references one or more of the plurality of component tracks and (ii) specifies a set of operations for constructing media samples based on the media samples of the referenced component tracks. The streaming decoder provides media samples for the selected sub-region by retrieving the referenced component tracks and performing the set of operations specified by the derived track.
US11197035B2
The present invention relates to a video analysis method, including: receiving a plurality of chunks of a video streamed from a server; extracting one or more frames from each chunk; analysing each frame in accordance with a static image analysis engine to generate a pornographic content rating for the frame; and combining the ratings of the frames from the plurality of chunks to generate a pornographic content rating for the video. A system and software for analysing video also described.
US11197034B2
Systems and methods for managing the storage and delivery of recorded content in a network digital video recorder (DVR) system are disclosed. A plurality of requests to record a program may be received, wherein the program may comprise a plurality of segments. A segment from the plurality of segments may be determined to be copied to a first storage. A copy of the segment may be received from a second storage and a plurality of copies of the segment may be created in the first storage from the copy of the segment received from the second storage. The quantity of the plurality of copies of the segment may be equal to the quantity of the plurality of requests to record the program.
US11197030B2
A decoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry, in operation, generates a first coefficient value by applying a CCALF (cross component adaptive loop filtering) process to a first reconstructed image sample of a luma component, and clips the first coefficient value. The circuitry generates a second coefficient value by applying an ALF (adaptive loop filtering) process to a second reconstructed image sample of a chroma component, and clips the second coefficient value. The circuitry generates a third coefficient value by adding the clipped first coefficient value to the clipped second coefficient value, and decodes a third reconstructed image sample of the chroma component using the third coefficient value.
US11197028B2
Systems, devices and automated processes reduce the effects of unwanted interruption during video encoding by reserving header space at the outset of video encoding. This reserved space can be progressively filled on any periodic or other basis as encoding continues so that a recent header is always available. If an interruption occurs, only the video content encoded after the last header write will be lost, thereby greatly reducing the effects of the interruption.
US11197026B2
A method for signalling an intra chroma prediction mode and a method for implementing the signalled intra chroma prediction mode, the intra chroma prediction mode taking an intropolation of previously predicted luma samples from neighboring blocks of video data to attain an intra chroma prediction of a current chroma prediction unit.
US11197018B2
A method for predicting motion information of a picture block includes: obtaining motion information of at least one determined motion vector picture block in a picture in which a to-be-processed picture block is located, where the at least one determined motion vector picture block includes a determined motion vector picture block discontiguous to the to-be-processed picture block; obtaining first identification information, where the first identification information is used to determine target motion information from the motion information of the at least one determined motion vector picture block; and predicting motion information of the to-be-processed picture block based on the target motion information.
US11197013B2
Provided is a prediction image generating technology using a deep neural network (DNN). Provided is an image decoding method including: receiving a bitstream of an encoded image; determining at least one block split from the encoded image; determining neighboring blocks for predicting a current block among the at least one block; generating prediction data of the current block by applying the neighboring blocks to a DNN learning model configured to predict a block of an image by using at least one computer; extracting residual data of the current block from the bitstream; and reconstructing the current block by using the prediction data and the residual data.
US11197010B2
Innovations in video playback using a browser-based video decoder are described. In a computer system that includes multiple central processing units (“CPUs”), a browser-based video decoder performs operations with multiple threads that may execute simultaneously on different CPUs. The video decoder can perform decoding operations in parallel for different sections of a picture. For example, with a main CPU thread associated with a browser, the video decoder performs a first decoding workload (e.g., bitstream parsing) for a picture. With auxiliary CPU threads associated with Web workers and simultaneously executing on different CPUs, the video decoder performs a second decoding workload (e.g., entropy decoding, decoding of side information) for different sections of the picture, one section per auxiliary CPU thread. If the computer system also includes a graphics processing unit (“GPU”), the video decoder can perform additional decoding workloads with shader routines executable on the GPU.
US11197001B2
A method of performing intra prediction of a current block of a picture of a video sequence, includes determining whether a first flag indicates that an intra prediction mode corresponding to the current block is a directional mode, and based on the first flag being determined to indicate that the intra prediction mode corresponding to the current block is the directional mode, determining an index of the intra prediction mode in an allowed intra prediction modes (AIPM) list, and performing the intra prediction of the current block, using the intra prediction mode corresponding to the determined index in the AIPM list.
US11196998B2
The disclosure regards cross-component prediction and methods for deriving of a linear model for obtaining a first-component sample for a first-component block from an associated reconstructed second-component sample of a second-component block in the same frame, the method comprising determining the parameters of a linear equation representing a straight line passing through two points, each point being defined by two variables, the first variable corresponding to a second-component sample value, the second variable corresponding to a first-component sample value, based on reconstructed samples of both the first-component and the second-component; and deriving the linear model defined by the straight line parameters; wherein said determining the parameters uses integer arithmetic.
US11196994B2
Provided are image decoding/encoding methods and apparatuses for increasing coding efficiency and reducing complexity while using a flexible tree split. The image decoding method includes: obtaining, from a bitstream, a bin string corresponding to a split shape mode of a coding unit; determining a split rule of the coding unit; and splitting the coding unit into a plurality of coding units, based on at least one of the split rule and the bin string corresponding to the split shape mode, wherein the determining of the split rule includes: determining an allowable first range of a size of the coding unit according to a ratio of a width and a height of the coding unit; and determining an allowable second range of the size of the coding unit according to the split shape mode of the coding unit.
US11196991B2
A method of coding implemented by a coding apparatus. The method includes selecting an intra prediction mode for a current block, and encoding the selected intra prediction mode using truncated binary coding when the selected intra prediction mode is a remaining mode.
US11196989B2
A video encoding and decoding method, apparatus, a computer device, and a storage medium. The method includes obtaining a current frame to be encoded; determining a resolution determining mechanism among a plurality of resolution determining mechanisms to be performed on a reference frame based on a resolution relationship between the current frame and a reference frame corresponding to the current frame; generating the reference frame corresponding to the current frame according to the resolution determining mechanism; and encoding the current frame according to the reference frame to obtain encoded data corresponding to the current frame, the encoded data including the resolution relationship.
US11196975B2
During a period when a user's dominant eye is the right eye, an image generating device (200) generates an image for the right eye (272) at a standard resolution and generates a display image for the left eye (270) at a lower resolution. During a period when the dominant eye is the left eye, the image generating device (200) generates an image for the left eye (278) at the standard resolution and generates a display image for the right eye (280) at a lower resolution. In a head mounted display (100), the images with the lower resolution are enlarged into display images (274) and (276), and the image for the left eye and the image for the right eye are displayed.
US11196972B2
A device is disclosed which comprises a media interface configured to provide a plurality of media streams, each media stream being captured using a camera of at least one array of cameras, an input interface configured to receive a device position associated with an output device, and a processor configured to generate from the plurality of media streams an output stream adjusted to the device position.
US11196967B1
An image inspection device has a platform, a controlling unit, multiple image capture units, and a discharging unit. The platform has a carrier being capable of rotating for carrying products under inspection. The controlling unit is capable of controlling rotation of the carrier. The image capture units are disposed around the platform and electrically connected to the controlling unit. Each image capture unit has a zoom lens electrically connected to the controlling unit for transmitting digital information of images captured by the zoom lens to the controlling unit. The discharging unit is configured to move the products under inspection away from the carrier and electrically connected to the controlling unit.
US11196959B2
An imaging apparatus that captures moving image data including a plurality of frame images and records the moving image data onto a recording medium, includes an operation unit configured to receive a predetermined operation, a detection unit configured to detect, in response to receiving the predetermined operation during image capturing and recording of the moving image data, a frame image generated in the vicinity of receiving the predetermined operation and is in a predetermined state, and a recording unit configured to record a specific information in association with the detected frame image.
US11196956B2
To reduce the number of ADCs in a solid-state image sensor that converts an analog pixel signal into a digital signal. An effective pixel generates an analog signal according to an amount of received light as an effective pixel signal using a power supply from a power supply line. A correction signal generation unit generates an analog signal including a noise component generated in the power supply line as a correction signal. A selection unit sequentially selects and outputs the effective pixel signal and the correction signal. An analog-digital converter performs processing of converting the output effective pixel signal into a digital signal and outputting the digital signal as effective pixel data and processing of converting the output correction signal into a digital signal and outputting the digital signal into correction data. A signal processing unit corrects the effective pixel data on the basis of the correction data.
US11196953B2
A method is described that includes, on an image processor having a two dimensional execution lane array and a two dimensional shift register array, repeatedly shifting first content of multiple rows or columns of the two dimensional shift register array and repeatedly executing at least one instruction between shifts that operates on the shifted first content and/or second content that is resident in respective locations of the two dimensional shift register array that the shifted first content has been shifted into.
US11196946B1
A smart binning circuit includes an edge information generator suitable for generating edge information from pixel data outputted from a pixel array; a weight allocator suitable for allocating a weight based on the edge information; a binning component suitable for generating a binning value by performing an edge detection interpolation (EDI) binning on the edge information; a bayer binning component suitable for generating an average value representing pixels that are down-scaled through a 4-sum binning operation; and a combiner suitable for combining the binning value and the average value according to the allocated weight.
US11196943B2
Techniques are disclosed for editing captured media to overcome operational difficulties that may arise during capture operations. According to these techniques, content may be captured with a pair of cameras, a first camera having a wider field of view than a second camera. Object(s) may be detected from captured content from the wider field of view camera. The captured content may be processed from the wider field of view camera in a location of at least one detected object. Typically, operators may attempt to frame content using content from the narrower field of view camera. As a result, operators may be unaware that desired content is captured using a second, wider field of view camera. Results from the processed wider field of view data may be proposed to operators for review and, if desired, retention.
US11196942B2
An image processing device (100) for a medical observation device (102), such as a microscope (104) or endoscope, is disclosed. The image processing device (100) comprises an image processor (106). The image processor (106) is configured to obtain a digital pseudocolor pattern (116), which has a pattern characteristic (118) and comprises a pseudocolor (120). The image processor (106) is further adapted to combine the digital pseudocolor pattern (116) with an input area (122) of retrieved digital input image (108, 110), thus forming a patterned region (124). Moreover, the image processor (106) is adapted to vary the pattern characteristic at a location (126) in the patterned region (124) depending on one of the intensity (I) and brightness (B) at a corresponding location (128) in the input area (122) of at least one of the digital input images (108, 110) and retrieved digital input image (108, 110); and to output at least one digital output image (130) comprising the patterned region (124).
US11196940B2
A video camera system includes a video capture device and a camera controller. The video capture device includes a sensor that receives light, a shutter that selectively permits the light to be received at the sensor based on a shutter speed, and a frame processor that generates a plurality of video frames based on the light. The camera controller includes a frame parameter calculator that calculates a luminance parameter of the plurality of frames, a frequency domain analyzer that executes a frequency domain analysis based on the luminance parameter to generate a plurality of luminance amplitude values mapped to a plurality of frequencies, and a control signal generator that generates a target shutter speed based on the plurality of luminance amplitude values mapped to the plurality of frequencies, and transmits a control signal based on the target shutter speed to cause the shutter to operate at the target shutter speed.
US11196933B2
The image display apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention comprises: an image input device which inputs an image signal; a particular target detection device which detects a particular target included in the image signal based on a particular target evaluation value indicating the feature of the particular target; a frame display information generation device which generates frame display information indicating a frame surrounding the detected particular target and which causes the frame to change continuously or by stages according to the particular target evaluation value; and a display device which displays the frame based on the generated frame display information. That is, by causing the frame to change continuously or by stages according to the evaluation value of a particular target, it is possible to avoid sudden change in the frame display.
US11196932B2
A control method is applied in the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a terminal body and a camera assembly, the camera assembly is disposed inside the terminal body and is movable relative to the terminal body to move out of the terminal body. The mobile terminal displays a first interface, acquires interface information of the first interface; determines a second interface based on the interface information of the first interface, wherein the second interface is a next interface following the first interface and forecasted by the mobile terminal; determines whether a function supported by the second interface requires the camera assembly to be activated; and controls the camera assembly to move out of the terminal body in response to the function supported by the second interface requiring the camera assembly to be activated.
US11196930B1
Method and device are described for customizing the content selection to present on a display device based on identifying the viewer of the device. In one embodiment, the present disclosure relates to selecting from among a group of digital images, those images that are most likely to be of interest to the viewer. In general, many of the images available to the display device will be comprised of images containing subject faces. Using the relationship information to predict subject affinity, the display device computes an image affinity for each image by accumulating the individual subject affinity predictions between the viewer and each subject identified in each image. The image affinities are used to select images for presentation on the display device.
US11196923B2
To reduce power consumed when the display magnification of an image is changed. A digital camera includes a display unit having a first display region in which a first image is displayed and a second display region in which a second image is displayed, an image capture unit having a first image capture region in which first image data indicating the first image is generated and a second image capture region in which second image data indicating the second image is generated, magnification change units that change the display magnifications of the first and second images displayed on the display unit, and an image capture control unit that when the magnification change units change the display magnifications, changes the charge accumulation conditions or reading conditions of the first and second image capture regions.
US11196915B2
Disclosed herein is an image monitoring system including: a camera connected to a network; display means for displaying an image captured by the camera; and display control means for controlling display such that, in displaying images by the display means, an image is displayed in a window having a predetermined layout; wherein the display control means presets an allocation database containing a correlation between the window having a predetermined layout and a camera identification code and, when the camera is connected to the network, automatically sets a correlation between the camera identification code in the allocation database and the camera, thereby controlling image display into the window on the basis of the allocation database.
US11196900B2
A multi-headed camera assembly includes a base comprising a plurality of tracks, a plurality of image sensor assemblies each comprising a support mechanism configured to allow a quick and efficient assembly of a lens assembly within a housing and each removably coupled to the base by a corresponding support frame among a plurality of support frames. Each support frame comprises a guide member for guiding tilt movement of a corresponding image sensor assembly and a support base movably coupled to a corresponding track so as to accomplish pan movement of the corresponding image sensor assembly. The multi-headed camera assembly further includes a surface mount mechanism, an in-ceiling mount mechanism, or a pendant mount mechanism so that the multi-headed camera assembly can be removably mounted to a surface, mounted into a ceiling, or connected to a pendant base.
US11196886B2
An image processing device includes a printing unit printing an image on a sheet including first and second tags. The first and second tags have first and second antennas extending along first and second directions. The device further includes a tag reading unit including a third antenna and configured to transmit, towards the sheet from the third antenna, first radio waves polarized in the first direction and second radio waves polarized in the second direction in each of a first period during which the sheet is conveyed towards the third antenna and a second period during which the sheet is conveyed away from the third antenna, and determine an orientation of the sheet based on intensities of third radio waves polarized in the first direction and fourth radio waves polarized in the second direction, which have been received by the third antenna in each of the first and second periods.
US11196878B1
A printing system includes a printing device having different modules with components. A mobile device exchanges information and data with the printing device. The mobile device includes a mobile user interface that corresponds to a primary user interface supported by the printing device, such as on a display panel. Elements of an operation shown by primary user interface are tagged and exported to the mobile device. The mobile user interface is configured according to the elements to allow completion of the operation using the mobile device.
US11196868B2
A server, system, and client are provided. The server receives audio data from one or more clients; receives an audio data request from a requesting client, and obtains, from the audio data request, a mixing manner of audio data requested by the requesting client; preprocesses audio data of a client of the one or more clients that corresponds to the audio data request using the obtained mixing manner; and sends the preprocessed audio data to the requesting client.
US11196864B1
A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for enhancing auto dialer systems. A voice response from a communication device of a prospective customer to a telephone call made by the auto dialer is detected. The prospective customer's voice response is then analyzed to determine characteristics of the prospective customer. A profile of the prospective customer is then created containing such determined characteristics. Furthermore, the profiles of agents that are available to assist the prospective customer containing characteristics of such agents are analyzed. Additionally, the profile of the prospective customer is analyzed. After analyzing the profiles of the agents available to assist the prospective customer as well as the profile of the prospective customer, a free agent is identified that would best service the prospective customer based on such an analysis. The telephone call is then connected to the communication device of the identified agent to service the prospective customer.
US11196863B2
Techniques and architectures for implementing a team of virtual assistants are described herein. The team may include multiple virtual assistants that are configured with different characteristics, such as different functionality, base language models, levels of training, visual appearances, personalities, and so on. The characteristics of the virtual assistants may be configured by trainers, end-users, and/or a virtual assistant service. The virtual assistants may be presented to end-users in conversation user interfaces to perform different tasks for the users in a conversational manner. The different virtual assistants may adapt to different contexts. The virtual assistants may additionally, or alternatively, interact with each other to carry out tasks for the users, which may be illustrated in conversation user interfaces.
US11196861B2
A method of providing artificial intelligence (AI) functionality to target legacy customer outreach platforms of a plurality of tenant enterprises includes storing a plurality of AI templates, each of which is associated with one or more AI routines, generating a campaign object associating one or more of the AI templates with a tenant enterprise from among the plurality of tenant enterprises, transforming a communication on a switching network associated with the tenant enterprise according to the one or more AI templates associated with the campaign object, and providing the transformed communication to a target legacy customer outreach platform of the tenant enterprise.
US11196852B2
Provided are a mobile terminal and a drop protection method thereof. The mobile terminal includes a display panel, a middle frame, a rear shell, a protection module and a detection module; the middle frame being mounted in the rear shell; and the display being arranged on the middle frame. The protection module includes a buffer elastic block mounted on the middle frame and an elastic block control unit for controlling buffer elastic block to eject out if the mobile terminal is in a drop state. At the instant of dropping down to the ground, the buffer elastic block absorbs a generated momentum reduces instant impact stress of mobile terminal, thereby protecting modules, and preventing stress concentration. Since buffer elastic block is arranged on middle frame, the mobile terminal is better protected, and damages to the screen and the internal modules caused by drop of the mobile terminal are be avoided.
US11196842B2
In one example, a processing system of a mobile computing device including at least one processor may capture visual information of a first location, transmit a recognition request to a first server, the recognition request comprising the visual information, obtain a first recognition result from the first server comprising first annotation content associated with a first item in the visual information of the first location, the first recognition result further comprising visual information of the first item, present at least a portion of first annotation content via the mobile computing device, store the first annotation content and the visual information of the first item in a local cache, detect a first additional mobile computing device via a non-cellular wireless communication modality, and share the first annotation content and the visual information of the first item with the first additional mobile computing device via the non-cellular wireless communication modality.
US11196839B1
A method and system is provided for classifying one or more application processing interface (API) requests in an API processing system. The method includes receiving a client request comprising at least one API language component. The method also includes mapping a client request to a tree configuration, wherein the tree contains a plurality of nodes. The method further includes traversing the nodes of the tree to fetch information pertaining to one or more portions of the client request.
US11196829B2
A method and an apparatus for pushing target information belong to the field of Internet applications. The method includes: determining, according to target information, a user meeting a condition; determining, for each determined user, a target identifier of the target information and strength of interest of the user in the target information as a push task for the user; determining a push task having the greatest strength of interest or a push task whose strength of interest is greater than a predetermined strength threshold as a target push task; and pushing a target push message corresponding to the target push task to the user. In the present disclosure, a target push task is determined according to strength of interest of a user in a push task, a target push message is determined according to the target push task, and the target push message is pushed to the user.
US11196822B2
Embodiments provide a service acceleration method, system, apparatus, and server in an NFV system. For achieving these, a programmable package determining entity in the NFV system can determine a target service function that needs to be accelerated. A target programmable package corresponding to the target service function that needs to be accelerated can be obtained and the target programmable package to an acceleration engine in a network functions virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) can be sent. The acceleration engine runs the target programmable package to accelerate the target service function that needs to be accelerated. A programmable package of the acceleration engine can thus be dynamically replaced, and a service diversity requirement can be met, thereby improving scalability of a service acceleration function in the NFV system.
US11196819B2
A system and method for restoring a session state of a client device has been provided. The system comprises a memory with instructions executable by a processor to receive a first request from the client device, where the first request is a first type of request and is associated with a new session of the client device; process the first request without persisting a session state of the new session in the database node; receive a second request from the client device, where the second request is a first instance of a second type of request and is associated with the new session; and in response to determining to restore a persisted session state, restore the persisted session state for the client device from the database node, and assign the persisted session state as the session state of the new session of the client device.
US11196817B1
Resource utilization can be intelligently managed in desktop virtualization environments. Utilization of client and server resources can be tracked during sessions that are established to access desktops. Machine learning models can be applied to the client and server resource utilization to create policies that define configuration settings for dynamically optimizing sessions based on the current utilization of resources during the sessions.
US11196814B2
A controller in a building management system (BMS) includes an integrated wireless network processor chip. The integrated wireless network processor chip includes a wireless radio, a processor, and memory. The wireless radio is configured to exchange data communications with one or more BMS devices controlled by the controller. Both the processor and memory are in communication with the wireless radio and located on the same chip as the wireless radio. The memory includes communication stacks configured to facilitate communications using a building automation and control network communications protocol and a Wi-Fi communications protocol. The integrated wireless network processor chip receives data from the BMS devices via the wireless radio, formats the data using the processor, stores the data in the memory, and sends the data via the wireless radio without requiring any additional processing or communications components outside the integrated wireless network processor chip.
US11196806B2
Example implementations described herein are directed to replication of data between different environments selectively while maintaining the performance of applications. The replication of data may be used to replicate data from a data center running a business critical application to another data center running an analytics application. In example implementations, a storage management program translates the IDs of database tables to storage locations, and the storage management program requests a storage system to replicate those storage locations to another storage system.
US11196804B2
Systems and methods for graph based artificial intelligence systems for identity management systems are disclosed. Embodiments of the identity management systems disclosed herein may utilize a network graph approach to peer grouping of identities of distributed networked enterprise computing environment. Specifically, in certain embodiments, data on the identities and the respective entitlements assigned to each identity as utilized in an enterprise computer environment may be obtained by an identity management system. A network identity graph may be constructed using the identity and entitlement data. The identity graph can then be clustered into peer groups of identities. The peer groups of identities may be used by the identity management system and users thereof in risk assessment or other identity management tasks.
US11196792B2
A method of transmitting data, composing: transmitting a plurality of first Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) data packets to a receiving end over an RTP data link established with the receiving end; receiving a retransmission indication message sent by the receiving end, the retransmission indication message being intended to indicate an RTP data packet to be retransmitted among the plurality of first RTP data packets; encapsulating the RTP data packet to be retransmitted according to the retransmission indication message to obtain a second RTP data packet, wherein the second RTP data packet composes an RTP padding field intended to indicate that the second RTP data packet is a retransmitted RTP data packet, and a type flag of the second RTP data packet is same as a type flag of the first RTP data packet and transmitting the second RTP data packet to the receiving end over the RTP data link.
US11196780B2
Systems and methods for conferencing are disclosed. The systems and methods receive, by a computer-based system in electronic communication with a first communication endpoint and a second communication endpoint, a first communication comprising communication data. The systems and methods determine, by the computer-based system, a first communication media type of the first communication endpoint and a second communication media type of the second communication endpoint. Additionally, the systems and methods convert, by the computer-based system, the communication data into a second communication formatted according to the first communication media type or the second communication media type and transmit, by the computer-based system, the first communication or the second communication to the first communication endpoint and the second communication endpoint based on a communication media type of each communication endpoint.
US11196771B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving an endorsed storage event from a first security domain that conforms to a first security policy and that is isolated from a second security domain that conforms to a second security policy which is different than the first security policy, determining that the storage event satisfies a cross-domain security policy based on the first and second security policies, creating a cross-domain data block which stores the storage event that satisfies the cross-domain security policy as a blockchain transaction, and transmitting the cross-domain data block to a first blockchain node included in the first security domain and a second blockchain node included in the second security domain.
US11196761B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to account security operations based on security risk values that are modified based on one or more security risk criteria. In some embodiments, a system stores a plurality of key-value pairs in a datastore. Each key may specify a set of multiple access attributes corresponding to an origin computing system from which one or more access attempts were initiated and each value may include access information for one or more access attempts whose access attributes match a corresponding key. In some embodiments, the access information includes one or more account identifiers and result indications. In some embodiments, the system modifies security risk values based on multiple security risk criteria associated with different granularities of information in the datastore. A first criterion may be evaluated at a key granularity based on access attempts that match all of the multiple access attributes for a key. A second criterion may be evaluated at an account granularity based on the access attempts to the account.
US11196759B2
Embodiments provide for a security information and event management (SIEM) system utilizing distributed agents that can intelligently traverse a network to exfiltrate data in an efficient and secure manner. A plurality of agent devices can dynamically learn behavioral patterns and/or service capabilities of other agent devices in the networking environment, and select optimal routes for exfiltrating event data from within the network. The agent devices can independently, selectively, or collectively pre-process event data for purposes of detecting a suspect event from within the network. When a suspect event is detected, agent devices can select a target device based on the learned service capabilities and networking environment, and communicate the pre-processed event data to the target device. The pre-processed event data is thus traversed through the network along an optimal route until it is exfiltrated from the network and stored on a remote server device for storage and further analysis.
US11196758B2
Systems and methods for enabling automated log analysis with controllable resource requirements are provided. A training set for log pattern learning is generated based on heterogeneous logs generated by a computer system. An incremental learning process is implemented to generate a set of log patterns from the training set. The heterogeneous logs are parsed using the set of log patterns. A set of applications is applied to the parsed logs.
US11196756B2
Systems and methods are provided for identifying network addresses and/or IDs of a deduplicated list among network data, machine data, and/or events derived from network data and/or machine data, and for identifying notable events by searching for the presence of network addresses and/or network IDs that are deduplicated across lists received from multiple external sources. One method includes receiving a plurality of lists of network locations, wherein each list is received from over a network, wherein each of the network locations includes a domain name or an IP address, and wherein at least two of the plurality of lists each include a same network location; aggregating the plurality of lists of network locations into a deduplicated list of unique network locations; and searching network data or machine data for a network location included in the deduplicated list of unique network locations.
US11196754B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for protecting against malicious content may include intercepting, by a security application installed on the computing device, an original message intended for a target application installed on the same computing device. The original message may include potentially malicious content. The security application may forward the original message to a security service. The computing device may receive a clean message from the security service, wherein the clean message includes a safe representation of the potentially malicious content. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11196751B2
The disclosed system and method provide a way to easily review, audit, and modify multiple users' security access authority. The disclosed system and method may include using a trained bot that is trained using a machine learning algorithm to retrieve user profile information from a complex network of tables stored in a relational database and to analyze the user profile information to generate a recommendation to revoke or approve at least one user's security access authority for at least one transaction type. In some embodiments, the disclosed system and method allow for a human expert to revoke or approve at least one user's security access authority for at least one transaction type based on the recommendation. In some embodiments, the disclosed system and method determine whether to revoke or approve at least one user's security access authority for at least one transaction type and may also revoke or approve the at least one user's security access authority based on the decision.
US11196745B2
This disclosure relates to account management. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a permission query message from a service system. Verification information is obtained from a first client based on the permission query message. The verification information is associated with an identity of the current user. In response to determining that the verification information is valid, proxy permission information for the current user is obtained from a blockchain. The proxy permission information includes at least operation permission information of the current user for the enterprise account. The proxy permission information is sent to the service system. The proxy permission information configured to be usable by the service system to determine whether to authorize the current user to perform an operation on the enterprise account.
US11196739B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of obtaining authorization for an application or client to access certain privileged resources on behalf of a user in the OAuth2 protocol based on a voice input; validating an authentication token; and logging in to a service based on the validation.
US11196737B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for secondary authentication via contactless distribution of dynamic resources. When an event request associated with a user is received, a prompt for event information is transmitted to a computing device. Based on the event information that is received, a determination is made that the event request requires a secondary authentication in the form of a near field communication (“NFC”) interaction between an NFC chip associated with the user and a secondary authentication device. The NFC chip associated with the user may additionally be associated with a dynamic resource value element. Once the NFC interaction is detected, a dynamic resource value is extracted and compared to an expected dynamic resource value. If the values match, then the user is authenticated for the requested event at the secondary authentication level.
US11196735B2
Techniques for managing certificates in segregated networks are disclosed. One example technique includes upon receiving executable instructions of a software application and a reference table containing entries of reference objects in the software application, identifying a digital certificate independently obtained by the segregated network for each of the reference objects. The method also includes generating a mapping table having entries individually identifying the reference objects and data representing the digital certificates. The method further includes deploying for execution to one or more of the servers in the segregated network, the software application along with the generated mapping table. During execution, the software application can dereference one of the reference objects to locate one of the digital certificates in in the generated mapping table corresponding to one of the reference objects.
US11196721B2
Embodiments of systems and methods are provided herein to establish a secure communication channel for communicating dock configuration actions from an administrator information handling system (IHS) to a docking station. One embodiment of such a system includes an administrator IHS configured to communicate dock configuration actions to a docking station, a host IHS configured to verify the validity of a dock certificate received from the docking station against a dock certificate authority server, and a docking station configured to verify the validity of an administrator certificate received from the admin IHS against a preconfigured list of valid administrator certificates stored within the docking station. If the validity of the dock certificate and the administrator certificate are respectively verified by the host IHS and the docking station, the host IHS and the docking station are further configured to establish the secure communication channel between the administrator IHS and the docking station.
US11196712B1
The method and system detects if proxies are used by a user from a web server's side. The method and system uses HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 protocols and, more precisely, the ping frames to test the round trip time of messages between a web server and a user. At the same time, a web server uses an Internet Control Message Protocol echo requests to measure the round trip time to an IP address. A web server can then compare, aggregate, and analyze different round trip times and determine if they are coming from different sources, i.e. if a user is using a proxy server. A web server can make decisions based on the comparison of round trip times. For example, a difference in a single user's round trip times may trigger a restrictive user policy at the web server's end and a web server can decide to return the requested content, return an error message, or ban them and similarly limit services.
US11196711B2
A method for decreasing the risk of unauthorized access to an embedded node in a secure subsystem of a process control system includes receiving a message comprising a message header and a message payload, and determining that the message is an unlock message configured to access one or more protected functions of the embedded node, at least by analyzing a bit sequence of one or more bits in the message header. The method also includes determining whether a manual control mechanism has been placed in a particular state by a human operator, and, based upon those determinations, either causing or not causing the embedded node to enter an unlocked state in which one or more of the protected functions are accessible.
US11196709B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus related to receiving, at an access point and from a wireless communication station, a media access control (MAC) address of the wireless communication station; assigning, at the access point, a prefix to the MAC address of the wireless communication station; receiving, at the access point and from the wireless communication station, a frame comprising the prefix and a random MAC address; replacing, at the access point and using the prefix, the random MAC address in the frame with the MAC address of the wireless communication station, thereby resulting in a processed frame; and transmitting, at the access point and to a destination device, the processed frame.
US11196702B2
An in-vehicle communication device is an in-vehicle communication device that performs a relay process of relaying data between functional units in an in-vehicle network, and includes a communication unit that performs the relay process using correspondence information indicating a correspondence relation between an Internet protocol (IP) address and a media access control (MAC) address of one or more functional units, an address managing unit that generates the correspondence information, and an authenticating unit that performs an authentication process for the functional unit, in which the authenticating unit performs the authentication process for the functional unit in which an IP address and a MAC address are newly registered in the correspondence information by the address managing unit, and the address managing unit deletes the correspondence relation of the functional unit from the correspondence information when the authentication process for the newly registered functional unit is not successfully performed.
US11196698B2
Systems and techniques are described that enable users to interact and share content through a social network application and/or service with other users. In some examples, a social networking system determines that at least two applications are installed on a device and are both useable to share content between a first account and one or more contact accounts. The social networking system may detect an event that causes a change in a badge count, may determine which of the applications to use to display the change, and may output the badge count change to the determined application(s).
US11196696B2
Focusing on the diversity of how people communicate with each other, the objective of the invention is to provide a signal-responsive device that achieves a digital-based method of communicating that has been nonexistent until now. Provided is a signal response operation device which sends, to a receiving device of a receiving subject, signals from a plurality of sending devices for which senders are not specified, and causes the receiving device to operate. A server registers the receiving device of the receiving subject, and groups and registers each sending device of a plurality of the senders which includes persons who have been selected by or have agreed with the receiving subject. By any of the plurality of senders operating the sending devices, the server sends a signal to the receiving device in response to the sending of a signal from the registered sender.
US11196677B2
A heterogeneous multi-protocol stack system including a plurality of heterogeneous protocol stack instances is described. Resource allocation between the protocol stack instances is unbalanced, and algorithms are independently configured, so that QoS capacities of different protocol stack instances are different. Data packets of applications or connections with different QoS requirements can be dispatched by a dispatcher to corresponding protocol stack instances at a high speed. When system resources are limited, the heterogeneous multi-protocol stack system is capable of simultaneously supporting classification optimization processing performed on data of a high-concurrency application, a high-throughput application, and a low-delay application, so as to meet QoS requirements of different types of applications, thereby improving user experience.
US11196670B2
An apparatus for monitoring a plurality of devices that use a plurality of networks includes a network interface and a processor. The processor is configured to receive, via the network interface, a plurality of packets that were collectively communicated, from the devices, via all of the networks, to aggregate the packets, using at least one field that is included in respective packet headers of the packets, into a plurality of packet aggregations, such that all of the packets in each one of the packet aggregations were collectively communicated from no more than one of the devices, to group the packet aggregations into a plurality of groups, such that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the groups and the devices, in that all of the packets in each of the groups were collectively communicated from a different respective one of the devices, and to generate an output in response thereto.
US11196665B1
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for routing communication to applications. In an embodiment, first application can transmit a connection to a second application without knowing the exact route address of the second application. An agent can intercept the connection from a first application intended for a second application. The agent can identify the route address for the second application, determine the protocol the connection was intended to be transmitted, and forward the connection based on the route address and protocol to the second application.
US11196664B2
A reliable high-throughput data transmission may be accomplished using a multi-path message distribution and a message reassembly with a forward error correction protection. An incoming flow of data from a source is received at an input parser. The incoming flow of data is divided into a plurality of packets by the input parser. The plurality of the packets is encoded with a FEC and transmitted over a network with a plurality of transmission links. The transmitted plurality of FEC encoded packets are decoded. The decoded plurality of packets is merged to an outgoing flow of data with an output multiplexor and the outgoing flow of data is sent to a destination.
US11196662B2
Disclosed are a data transmission method and a related product. The method includes: when it is detected that a data replication transmission function of a PDCP layer entity is activated, a terminal enabling a first RLC layer entity, a second RLC layer entity being in an enabled status; and invoking the PDCP layer entity to determine a first PDCP PDU associated with a first PDCP SDU, and sending the first PDCP PDU to the first RLC layer entity, wherein the first PDCP PDU is used for the first RLC layer entity and a MAC layer entity to process the first PDCP PDU into a MAC PDU and send same.
US11196660B1
In various embodiments, a method and apparatus are configured to receive information associated with a path from a first node to a second node; and generate a set of one or more segment identifiers at least one of which is in an address space having a span in a current region in which the first node resides, and is configured for use in identifying a next region, wherein the set of one or more segment identifiers encodes the path.
US11196658B2
Provided is an intermediate system to intermediate system routing protocol based notification method. The method includes: within a delay period since an intermediate system (IS) establishes a new neighbor, notifying the outside through a link state protocol (LSP) data packet that a METRIC for traffic of the IS reaching the new neighbor is a preset value; after the delay period expires, restoring the METRIC to a normal value, where the preset value is greater than the normal value. Further provided are an intermediate system to intermediate system routing protocol based notification apparatus, a storage medium and a processor.
US11196654B2
Some embodiments provide a statistics collection framework that is used to aggregate statistic for interfaces such as logical ports and logical port pairs. Flows that are related with these interfaces are tagged with the identifier of the logical entities for which statistics are being collected. The interface statistics is periodically sent in the background to a statistics aggregator. The read queries for the interface statistics are directed to the statistics aggregator. The statistics aggregator, therefore, acts as a cumulative cache for the interface statistics.
US11196651B2
Some embodiments provide a method for monitoring the status of a network connection between first and second host computers. The method is performed in some embodiments by a tunnel monitor executing on the first host computer that also separately executes a machine, where the machine uses a tunnel to send and receive messages to and from the second host computer. The method establishes a liveness channel with the machine to iteratively determine whether the first machine is operational. The method further establishes a monitoring session with the second host computer to iteratively determine whether the tunnel is operational. When a determination is made through the liveness channel that the machine is no longer operational, the method terminates the monitoring session with the second host computer. When a determination is made that the tunnel is no longer operational, the method notifies the machine through the liveness channel.
US11196645B2
The present invention relates to a computer implemented method, preferably a computer implemented method, and a system, which have been designed to bridge a gap in the End User experience monitoring that has been created by the adoption of cloud based services by Enterprise customer by replicating exactly the actions performed by the user on a cloud based application in order to determine the true end user experience and alert in case of unexpected latency and also by analyzing at the same time the impacts of the Internet network and the local infrastructure of the Enterprise user on the end user experience of the cloud based application that is monitored.
US11196639B1
A high-availability (HA) framework for services deployed in provider network environments. Services may be deployed as machine images or containers to a provider network. The HA framework provides a “wrapper” around the deployed services that provides feedback loops and flow control for inbound and outbound communications to other services on the provider network or to other external entities. The HA framework intercepts inbound and outbound traffic to the service, and may automatically determine, configure, and adjust networking management aspects such as timeouts, flow control, etc. for the service. The HA framework may also intercept outbound traffic to monitor outbound connections to other services to determine if the services satisfy HA requirements of the service.
US11196625B2
A method for cross-domain service optimization is implemented on a computing device and includes defining at least one key quality indicator (KQI) target for at least one end-to-end (E2E) service, where the at least one E2E service crosses more than one domain of a communications network, receiving an indication of quality of experience (QoE) for the at least one E2E service, based on the indication of QoE, translating the at least one KQI target to at least one set of service optimization instructions for each domain from among the more than one domain, and for each domain, applying the service optimization instructions.
US11196612B2
Computing devices, each of which monitors information in a monitoring environment, take on the role of a controller for some of them, separating the (real or virtual) elements of the environment into subsets. Computing devices provide their results to a unification device, which combines them into a monitoring parameter. Each computing device monitors its parameters based on a timestamp, so unification devices can determine whether results from those computing devices represent the same state of the environment. Unification devices divide the results from their computing devices into uniform durations. Even if results don't reflect the same environment state, unification devices can still approximate results for unification. Elements can be reassigned on time boundaries, or can be duplicated, with unification devices still able to unify results. Predicted queries can be pre-computed.
US11196608B2
One embodiment is directed to a method comprising deciding to multiplex the data of at least two users within a super-constellation; determining the power split ratio among the at least two users; selecting a super-constellation; and based on the determined power split ratio, choosing a subset of the super-constellation points forming the superposition of modulation constellations of the at least two users.
US11196607B2
Provided are a synchronization signal transmission method, a transmitting end device and a receiving end device. A frequency domain candidate position (also called SS raster) of a synchronization signal on an unlicensed frequency band is designed, the complexity of initial cell search is reduced, and the impact, on the other channels in a subband, of the position of the initial access of a cell in the unlicensed frequency band to a synchronization signal block in the subband is also reduced. The method comprises: a transmitting end device sending a synchronization signal block at a first frequency domain position, wherein the first frequency domain position is located at a frequency domain candidate position of a synchronization signal, and each 20 MHz subband comprises at least one of the synchronization signal frequency domain candidate positions.
US11196605B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for reducing or eliminating interferences between resource blocks in a transmitter and/or a receiver of a filter bank multicarrier system is provided. According to at least one embodiment, the method comprises performing discrete Fourier transform (DFT) on a data symbol vector to be transmitted thereby generating a DFT-spread data symbol vector, performing a cyclic shift operation on the DFT-spread data symbol vector to arrange a small magnitude element of the DFT-spread data symbol vector at an edge of a resource block allocated to the DFT-spread data symbol vector, and performing filter bank multicarrier (FBMC) modulation on a cyclically shifted DFT-spread data symbol vector.
US11196603B2
Disclosed techniques for improving computational efficiency can be applied to synthesis and analysis in digital signal processing. A base discrete-time Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal is generated by performing at least one linear transform, including an inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT), on a first matrix of data symbols. A sparse data matrix is provided as an update to the first matrix of data symbols. The at least one linear transform is performed on the sparse data matrix to generate an update discrete-time OFDM signal. The update discrete-time OFDM signal and the base discrete-time OFDM signal are summed to produce an updated discrete-time OFDM signal.
US11196596B2
An integrated circuit includes a bit slicing circuit with a processing circuit. The processing circuit receives discrete frequency power estimates based on an S-FSK waveform received by an S-FSK receiver associated with the bit slicing circuit. The discrete frequency power estimates are representative of digital logic levels in a series of data frames modulated using S-FSK to form the S-FSK waveform. Each data frame including at least one word. Each word includes bit periods. The processing circuit receives SNR parameters that represent a dynamic SNR for the respective discrete frequency power estimates in relation to the series of data frames. The processing circuit selects a bit slicing technique from a set of available bit slicing techniques to generate data bit values for bit periods of the discrete frequency power estimates based on the SNR parameters. A method for performing bit slicing in an S-FSK receiver is also disclosed.
US11196583B2
A method for establishment of a service path within the central office point of delivery within a broadband access network of a telecommunications network. The method to establish the service path includes: in a first step, identity information of the at least one network termination node is transmitted to the first line termination node, in a second step, subsequent to the first step, the identity information of the at least one network termination node is transmitted to the at least one repository node, and in a third step, subsequent to the second step, a first service edge node of the plurality of service edge nodes is selected or determined, based on the identity information of the at least one network termination node, and the service path for the at least one network termination node is thereby established.
US11196563B2
A device is provided that is used by a user that transmits an authentication request including a parameter for verification to a connected mobile terminal in a case where an operation request is generated, receives, from the mobile terminal, a response including signature data generated according to biometric authentication in the mobile terminal, and executes the operation request in a case where verification of the signature data using a public key received from a service provision system is successful.
US11196562B2
A node and methods for securely communicating information are described. The node includes a transducer that provides a first stream of data elements, a network interface, and a microcontroller. The microcontroller identifies a first data type associated with the first stream of data elements from the transducer, harvests each data element (e.g., measurement) from the first stream of data elements based on the first data type, aggregates a plurality of the measurements into an array of first measurements, generates a payload that includes a length identifier, a data type identifier that identifies the first data type, and the array of first measurements, identifies a destination for the payload, determines a token based on the identified destination, adds the identified token to the payload to form a datagram; and sends the datagram to the destination, via the network interface.
US11196561B2
Systems as described herein may include authorizing the sharing of data and sharing data between a variety of systems. A request to share data may be provided to a first system. The system may create sharing session data using smart contracts executed by a distributed network system. Sharing session data may be stored using a smart contract. A second system may obtain the sharing session data and verify the sharing session based on the execution of the smart contract. On verification of the sharing session, a variety of data may be shared between the systems identified in the sharing session data. The sharing session data may be established between two systems and/or a number of systems. Smart contracts may provide a variety of functions for authorizing the sharing of data between systems. Additionally, encrypted data may be stored and/or obtained using a smart contract.
US11196549B2
A key retrieval system includes a management system and a managed system that is coupled to the management system through a network. The managed system includes a managed device, a management system configuration storage, a remote access controller device that stores a management system configuration for the management system in the management system configuration storage and provides a key management client subsystem that is configured to use the management system configuration to access the management system. The managed system also includes a BIOS. The BIOS detects an event that triggers unlocking the managed device. The BIOS determines that the remote access controller device is unavailable and, in response, retrieves the management system configuration and accesses the management system using the management system configuration. The BIOS then retrieves the locking key from the management system and unlocks the managed device using the locking key.
US11196546B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus captures a memory dump of a device in a sandbox environment executing a malware sample. The apparatus identifies a cryptographic key based on a particular data structure in the captured memory dump. The apparatus uses the identified cryptographic key to decrypt encrypted traffic sent by the device. The apparatus labels at least a portion of the decrypted traffic sent by the device as benign. The apparatus trains a machine learning-based traffic classifier based on the at least a portion of the decrypted traffic sent by the device and labeled as benign.
US11196537B2
A wireless communication apparatus includes: a processor that performs distortion compensation on a transmission signal by using a distortion compensation coefficient; an amplifying unit that amplifies the transmission signal; and a feedback path that feeds back a feedback signal to the processor. The processor executes a process including: acquiring, from a transmission signal at a first timing and feedback signals at a second timing that is before the first timing and at a third timing that is after the first timing, instantaneous delay associated with propagation delay of the feedback signals in the feedback path; calculating a mean value of the instantaneous delay acquired in a predetermined time period; adding delay associated with the calculated mean value to the transmission signal; and updating the distortion compensation coefficient by using the transmission signal to which the delay is added and the feedback signal.
US11196528B2
The present application discloses a method of channel estimation based on precoding granularity of control resource set, which is applied to a user equipment with control resource set (CORESET) configured in a non-RRC manner. The method includes: determining precoding granularity according to a determination mode among a plurality of determination modes; performing channel estimation according to the precoding granularity. The plurality of determination modes includes: determining the precoding granularity according to a resource element group (REG) bindle size in frequency domain, determining the precoding granularity according to the number of consecutive resource blocks (RBs) in frequency domain of the CORESET, and determining the precoding granularity according to network configuration information. According to the present application, the precoding granularity of the control resource set configured in a non-RRC manner can be determined, so that the user equipment can determine the precoding granularity before the RRC connection is established, and then perform channel estimation.
US11196527B2
A method for supporting carrier aggregation and a short transmission time interval (sTTI) in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention is performed by a terminal, and may comprise a step of reporting the maximum number of component carriers supporting a combination of downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) sTTI lengths, in units of bands or band combinations.
US11196525B2
A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided for wireless communication at a UE. The apparatus attempts to receive a downlink transmission from a base station and determines to transmit a NACK to the base station for the downlink transmission. The UE transmits the NACK to the base station in a common resource in an uplink control channel, wherein the common resource is common to multiple UEs communicating with the base station. The UE may also transmit the NACK using a resource granted to the UE in the uplink control channel. Thus, the transmission of the NACK in the common resource may comprise a repetition of the NACK transmitted using the resource granted to the UE. The common resource may comprise a Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) resource. Thus, the UE may apply a NOMA sequence to the NACK prior to transmission of the NACK in the common resource.
US11196523B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for sounding reference signal (SRS) resource configuration enhancements. A method generally includes receiving, from the network, a message comprising sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration information, wherein the SRS configuration information comprises configuration information for a first SRS resource set and configuration information for a second SRS resource set and transmitting at least one SRS according to the received SRS configuration information.
US11196520B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may select a waveform configuration and a resource for a user equipment (UE) to use to transmit a random access channel (RACH) message 3 (msg3). The base station may transmit a value indicative of the waveform configuration to the UE, wherein the waveform configuration is further indicative of the selected resource. The UE may receive the value indication and identify the waveform configuration. Based on the waveform configuration, the UE may identify the resource to use to transmit the RACH msg3. The UE may transmit the RACH msg3 using the resource and according to the waveform configuration.
US11196510B2
A user station for a serial communication network and a method for correcting individual errors in a message of a serial communication network are provided. The user station includes a communication control unit for creating a message, which is to be transmitted serially to at least one further user station of the communication network. The communication control unit is designed to subdivide the data of the message to be created into at least one data portion and to insert into each data portion bits of an error correction code, which ensures a correction of at least one error in the message.
US11196509B2
A terminal apparatus capable of efficiently performing uplink and/or downlink communication is provided. Multiple CBs included in the transport block is decoded. HARQ-ACKs corresponding to multiple CBG are transmitted. The multiple CBs include one or more first CBs and one or more second CBs. A first size of a first CB of the one or more first CBs is greater than a second size of a second CB of the one or more second CBs. Each of the multiple CBs is included in any one of the multiple CBGs. The multiple CBGs include one or more first CBGs and one or more second CBGs. A first total number of the one or more first CBs and the one or more second CBs included in each of the one or more first CBGs is greater than a second total number of the one or more first CBs and the one or more second CBs included in each of the one or more second CBGs.
US11196508B1
A system and method for characterizing performance of a terminal radio. The method includes obtaining a plurality of SNR feedbacks by, for each input power level of varying input power levels of the terminal radio, estimating an SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) associated with a respective input power level for a burst sent from the terminal radio to a gateway, where each of the SNR feedbacks may include an estimated SNR and the respective input power level; and determining a RC (radio characterization) of the terminal radio based on where the SNR feedbacks start deteriorating without indicating a saturated response at the gateway, where bursts are transmitted at a selected frequency with a selected SYMCOD (symbol, modulation and error coding scheme).
US11196504B1
A method includes establishing an extended optical spectrum having multiple channels for transmission of signals within an optical network. The extended optical spectrum includes at least the C-band (i.e., 1530 nm to 1565 nm) plus one or more sub-bands each having a range of wavelengths including at least one optical channel outside the range of the C-band. The method also includes segmenting the extended optical spectrum into a local band and an express band having different transmission specifications. The local band is configured for transmission of signals between nodes having a relatively shorter distance therebetween and the express band is configured for transmission of signals between nodes having a relatively longer distance therebetween. A combination of the sub-bands covers less than the L-band having a range of wavelengths from 1565 nm to 1625 nm and/or less than the S-band having a range of wavelengths from 1460 nm to 1530 nm.
US11196500B1
Continuance in quality level of an input timing signal may be provided. Clock source reference timing information may be receive by a first node from a second node as an input. The first node may be downstream from the second node. Then the first node may receive an event message associated with a future event associated with the second node. The first node may then refrain, for a period of time in response to receiving the event message, from switching the input for clock source reference timing information to a source other than the second node.
US11196496B2
A frequency-selective system that may be used as, or as part of, an add/drop multiplexer. An input signal is fed to a Mach-Zehnder interferometer configured to drop, or suppress, by destructive interference, a signal component in a first frequency band from among a plurality of frequency bands. One or more bandpass filters in one arm of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer suppress other frequencies, outside of the first frequency band, so that signals at these other frequencies are not suppressed by destructive interference and are present at the output of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer. A coupler connected after the output of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer adds, into the signal path, a replacement for the dropped signal.
US11196494B2
An interference power measurement method and a device are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, first signaling that carries first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate n first channel state information-reference signal CSI RS resources, and a jth first CSI RS resource is associated with a power parameter Pc,j; and sending, by the terminal, a channel quality indicator CQI, where the CQI is determined based on a total interference power. The total interference power is a linear weighting result of an interference power measured on each of the n first CSI RS resources and an interference power I0 measured on a zero power CSI RS resource. A weighting coefficient of an interference power Ij measured on the jth first CSI RS resource is a function of the power parameter Pc,j, and a weighting coefficient of I0 is a function of 1 - ∑ j = 1 n P c , j .
US11196473B2
A method for deriving cell quality based on filtered beam measurements comprises detecting a first set of beamformed signals in a cell. The method further comprises determining a beam quality associated with each beamformed signal of the first set. The method further comprises identifying a first subset of beamformed signals. The first subset comprises the beamformed signals of the first set having a beam quality greater than a first threshold. The method further comprises initiating first beam level filters. Each first beam level filter is associated with a respective beamformed signal of the first subset of beamformed signals. The method further comprises generating filtered values for each beamformed signal of the first subset of beamformed signals.
US11196470B2
A method of communicating with UEs located within a serviced area, the method involving: defining a set of differently directed, narrow beams which collectively cover the serviced area; (a) during a first period of operation: (i) cycling through the beams one at a time by separately activating each beam in synchronization with the subframe structure of a signal from the BBU; and (ii) while each beam is activated, initiating channel sounding for all of the UEs in the serviced area; and (b) during a second period of operation immediately following the first period of operation: (i) cycling through all of the beams one at a time by separately activating each beam in synchronization with the subframe structure of the signal from the BBU; and (ii) while each beam is activated, transmitting data over that beam to the UEs in accordance with a scheduling scheme.
US11196469B1
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for overlaying a coverage area of a cellular wireless network with a coverage area of a sectorization base station are disclosed. One method includes providing, by a plurality of cellular base stations, wireless access to a plurality of wireless devices over a coverage area, providing, by a sectorization base station, wireless communication to the plurality of wireless devices over at least the coverage area, each sector of a plurality of antennas of the sectorization base station operates to cover a selectable coverage area as determined by a width of a beamforming pattern, identifying locations of each of the plurality of wireless devices, and selecting beamforming parameters of the beamforming pattern based at least on the locations of the plurality of wireless devices, wherein the selected beamforming parameters control at least a sector selection and the width of the beamforming pattern of the sector.
US11196461B2
Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for a codeblock segmentation configuration system. A base station can configure the segmentation rate or segment size, which can control the number of codeblock segments a transport block is segmented into, based on the transmission reliability and predicted interference to a mobile device. An increased number of segments can improve throughput and efficiency when interference is low and signal to noise ratios are high, but can increase latency when interference is high and signal to noise is low. The base station can determine or predict transmission reliability based on the speed of mobile devices, the location and/or distance to the mobile device, as well as the long term signal to noise ratios.
US11196458B2
A reading device includes an antenna, a data storage unit, and a controller. The antenna is configured to receive tag information from RFID tags attached to objects in a receiving range. The data storage unit stores an object ID in association with a predetermined total number of RFID tags on an object corresponding to the object ID. The controller is configured to start a reading operation in which the antenna emits radio waves and receives tag information from the RFID tags. The controller counts the number of RFID tags associated with the object ID according to the tag information received during the reading operation. The counted number is compared to the predetermined total number associated with the object ID, and the controller controls a timing for terminating the reading operation based on the comparison.
US11196454B2
A digital transceiver is provided. The digital transceiver includes a clock generator configured to generate a first clock signal having a first frequency of a fixed value and a transmitter driven by the first clock signal of the first frequency to transmit data. Additionally, the digital transceiver includes an inverter coupled to the clock generator to generate an inverted first clock signal of the first frequency. Further, it includes a frequency detector configured to compare the first frequency with a second frequency of a feedback signal in a loop of feedback to determine a frequency control word F. Furthermore, it includes a digitally-controlled oscillator driven by the frequency control word F in the loop of feedback to output a second clock signal with a time-average frequency substantially synchronous to the first frequency with a boundary spread and a receiver driven by the second clock signal to receive the data.
US11196450B2
A bicycle component device includes a bicycle component and a battery. The bicycle component includes an electric assist unit, an electric shift device and an operation device. The electric assist unit is configured to assist in rotation of a crank. The electric shift device is configured to move a bicycle chain between sprockets. The operation device is configured to perform wireless communication with the electric shift device. The battery is configured to supply power to the bicycle component.
US11196442B2
Radio-frequency (RF) receivers having bandpass sigma-delta analog sigma analog-to-digital converters (ADC) designed to digitize signals in the RF domain are described. Such bandpass ADCs utilize one or more of the following techniques to enhance noise immunity and reduce power consumption: generation of in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) paths in the digital domain, nth order resonant bandpass filtering with n>1, and signal sub-sampling in an ith Nyquist zone with i>1. Compared to RF receivers in which the I and Q paths are generated in the analog domain, these RF receivers exhibit higher IRRs because they are not susceptible to in-phase/quadrature (IQ) mismatch. Using nth order resonant bandpass filtering with n>1 attenuates unwanted image tones. The bandpass ADC-based RF receivers described herein exhibit enhanced immunity to noise, achieving for example image rejection ratios (IRR) in excess of 95 dB.
US11196441B2
A sensor device includes an A/D converter including an adder that computes a difference between an analog input signal and a predicted value, the adder includes a capacitive adder defined by a series circuit including a capacitive charge output device and a capacitor. A capacitive component in the charge output device defines a portion of the capacitance of the capacitive adder. A digital prediction filter generates the predicted value based on an output from a quantizer. The capacitive adder computes the difference between the analog input signal from the charge output device and the predicted value. The quantizer quantizes and encodes the difference. The A/D converter performs a Δ modulation on the analog input signal which is converted into a digital signal.
US11196435B1
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing an anti-aliasing technique for a time-to-digital converter are described. A pulse generator generates a pulse with a width that is representative of a voltage level of a supply voltage. A buffer chain receives the pulse from the pulse generator. A first sum is calculated by adding together a number of one bits in a first portion of the buffer chain. Also, a second sum is calculated by adding together a number of one bits in a second portion of the buffer chain. Then, a third sum is calculated by adding the first sum to the second sum if the first sum is saturated. Otherwise, the third sum is equal to the first sum if the first sum is not saturated. The third sum is used as a representation of the voltage level of the supply voltage.
US11196429B2
Locking time for a phase-locked loop is decreased by selectively controlling a division value of the feedback divider during the first division cycle to reduce the initial phase error. The division value of the feedback divider during the first division cycle is selectively set such that the locking phase relationship between the two phase detector input signals is achieved at the end of the first division cycle.
US11196425B1
An eye width monitor (EWM) for a clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit includes a delay circuit, a first multiplexer (MUX) and a calibration circuit. The delay circuit includes an input terminal and an output terminal. The first MUX, coupled to the delay circuit, includes a first input terminal, a second input terminal and an output terminal. The first input terminal of the first MUX is coupled to a clock input terminal of the EWM. The second input terminal of the first MUX is coupled to the output terminal of the delay circuit. The output terminal of the first MUX is coupled to the input terminal of the delay circuit. The calibration circuit, coupled to the delay circuit, is configured to receive an oscillation clock from the delay circuit and receive a reference clock, and calibrate the oscillation clock with the reference clock.
US11196422B2
A cell logic structure for a battery-indifferent or pure energy harvesting multi-mode system, a battery-indifferent or pure energy harvesting multi-mode system, a method of operating a cell logic structure for a battery-indifferent or pure energy harvesting multi-mode system, and a method of operating battery-indifferent or pure energy harvesting multi-mode system. The cell gate structure comprises a CMOS gate circuit; a header circuit coupled to the CMOS gate circuit and comprising first and second header transistors for coupling in parallel between a supply voltage and the CMOS gate circuit; and a footer circuit coupled to the CMOS gate circuit and comprising first and second footer transistors for coupling in parallel between the CMOS gate circuit and a ground voltage; wherein the header and footer circuits are configured for switching between different operation modes of the multi-mode system, the different operation modes chosen from a range from a normal mode in which feedback paths from an output of the CMOS gate circuit to the gate of the second header transistor and to the gate of the second footer transistor are substantially or fully disabled for full swing in the output voltage of the CMOS gate circuit, and a leakage suppression mode in which the feedback paths are substantially or fully enabled.
US11196409B2
A ramp signal generator generates a slope compensated ramp signal with optimal slope compensation for a current mode control modulator. In some embodiments, the ramp signal generator generates a ramp signal for the current control loop having a first ramp portion with slope compensation and a second ramp portion that matches the expected current mode signal. In some embodiments, the ramp signal generator is implemented using a switched capacitor circuit with charge scaling to generate the ramp signal with optimal slope compensation built into the ramp signal.
US11196403B2
A piezoelectric vibrator is a piezoelectric vibrator including a vibration portion. The vibration portion has an n-type Si layer which is a degenerated semiconductor and which has a resistivity of not less than 0.5 mΩcm and not greater than 1.2 mΩcm and preferably not greater than 0.9 mΩcm.
US11196402B2
A microelectromechanical resonator includes a support structure, a resonator element suspended to the support structure, and an actuator for exciting the resonator element to a resonance mode. The resonator element includes a plurality of adjacent sub-elements each having a length and a width and a length-to-width aspect ratio of higher than 1 and being adapted to a resonate in a length-extensional, torsional or flexural resonance mode. Further, each of the sub-elements is coupled to at least one other sub-element by one or more connection elements coupled to non-nodal points of the of said resonance modes of the sub-elements for exciting the resonator element into a collective resonance mode.
US11196380B2
A power generation prediction system using a first and second neural networks is provided, and the first neural network is connected to the second neural network. The first neural network receives first input data, and generates the amount prediction data according to the first input data. The first input data is used to determine amount prediction data, and the amount prediction data is used to determine power generation prediction data. The second neural network receives the amount prediction data, and calculates the power generation prediction data according to the amount prediction data. When a device in a selected area is deteriorated or reinstalled, the second neural network is fine-tuned and trained again. The power generation prediction data is a power generation prediction bound having a maximum and minimum power generation prediction values, and thus the power deployment terminal in a power grid can deploy power more precisely.
US11196372B2
A control apparatus for a rotating electric machine is applied to a rotating electric machine system. The rotating electric machine system includes a rotating electric machine having a multiple-phase winding, a first inverter connected to a first end of the winding for each phase, a second inverter connected to a second end of the winding for each phase, a high-potential-side connection line, and a low-potential-side connection line. The control apparatus acquires a parameter that has a correlation with a fundamental current that flows to the winding of each phase. The control apparatus stores, in a storage unit, correspondence information in which the parameter is associated with an amplitude and a phase of a harmonic voltage that is generated in the rotating electric machine. The control apparatus controls each of the first inverter and the second inverter to suppress the harmonic voltage based on the correspondence information and the acquired parameter.
US11196369B2
Protection devices prevent damage to synchronous generators during loss-of-field events. In various embodiments, a first protective element is associated with a first protection zone to protect a generator from a loss-of-field event at full load. A second protective element is associated with a second protection zone to prevent thermal overload during underexcited operation of the generator and to protect from loss-of-filed at light load. A third protective element associated with a third protection zone limits operation of the generator within the generator's specific steady-state stability limits. A fourth protective element is associated with a fourth protection zone to provide an alarm prior to operation of the second protective element. In various embodiments, characteristics and limits of each of the protective elements are defined in the same plane (specifically, the P-Q plane) to simplify settings and allow for visualization of the element characteristics and the generator capability curve at one or more temperatures or cooling capacities.
US11196366B2
An automatic correction method for a pin connection and a motor driving device are provided. The automatic correction method includes: sensing a driven motor to generate a plurality of sensing results corresponding to a plurality of pin connection modes between a Hall sensor and a motor controller, and counting a number of changes of the plurality of sensing results to obtain a plurality of numbers of external interruptions corresponding to the plurality of pin connection modes; obtaining a correct pin connection mode in the plurality of pin connection modes according to the plurality of numbers of external interruptions; and operating the Hall sensor and the motor controller to be electrically coupled via the correct pin connection mode.
US11196361B2
An electric motor control device controls driving of electric motors connected in parallel with each other and includes a power converter converting power from a power supply, and supply the converted power to each of the electric motors, a switching device to be turned on to electrically connect the power converter and at least one of the electric motors and to be turned off to electrically disconnect the power converter and the at least one of the electric motors, a current detection unit detecting a current that flows in the electric motors, and a controller controlling the power converter on the basis of operation of the switching device, rotation frequency command values from an external device, and a value of the current detected by the current detection unit. The controller turns the switching device from off to on so that start timing of control is different for each electric motor.
US11196347B2
A controller for use in a power converter that is configured to operate in a plurality of modes including a first mode and a second mode includes a frequency monitor module coupled to measure a signal characteristic of a switch drive signal coupled to control switching of a switches block of the power converter. The frequency monitor module includes a memory coupled to store a measured signal characteristic of the switch drive signal measured during the first mode. The frequency monitor module is coupled to generate a clock signal in response to the measured signal characteristic stored in the memory. The switch drive signal is coupled to be generated in response to the clock signal during the second mode.
US11196345B1
An interleaved power converter includes a control circuit and multiple phase-shifted subconverters each having at least one power switch. The control circuit is coupled to the subconverters for controlling the power switches to balance currents in the subconverters over multiple periods. The control circuit includes a current compensator configured to determine a first duty cycle multiple times over the multiple periods, generate a PWM control signal having a present value of the first duty cycle for controlling the power switch of one of the subconverters during a period, determine a second duty cycle based on the present value of the first duty cycle and a previous value of the first duty cycle, and generate another PWM control signal having the second duty cycle for controlling the power switch of another one of the subconverters during the period. Other example power converters and control circuits are also disclosed.
US11196343B2
A DC-DC converter generates an output voltage from an input voltage through current-mode control output feedback control using a current sense signal commensurate with a sampled value obtained by sampling a coil current in a switching output stage, for example, at the midpoint of the ON period or the OFF period of the switching output stage.
US11196340B2
Described herein are systems, architectures, circuits, devices, and methods for a DC-DC converter that dynamically adjusts a supply voltage to a power amplifier based on the number of resource blocks in a signal to be transmitted. The disclosed technologies estimate the number of resource blocks in a signal, generate a signal corresponding to the estimated number of resource blocks, and modify a supply voltage based on the generated signal. These technologies can be used to increase the efficiency of power amplifier systems for cellular signals being transmitted that have fewer resource blocks than is typically assumed (e.g., at least 100 resource blocks).
US11196332B1
A recharging electric generator system which generates electrical energy and recharges itself, and methods thereof. A recharging electric generator system comprises at least one inverting apparatus; at least one power source/storage device to start the system and store electrical energy; at least one switching device; at least one transformer unit to adjust the voltage of the electrical energy, at least one rectifying unit to convert a portion of the electrical energy from alternating current to direct current and to transfer electrical energy to recharge the at least one power source/storage device; and at least one power outlet/output terminal to distribute electrical energy for further use. A recharging electric generator system seeks to provide of renewable source of energy which could be applied to different sectors and is conducive to conditions in both developed and developing countries.
US11196320B2
A rotor of an electric machine includes a main rotor body having a longitudinal axis, the main rotor body comprising: a hollow cylinder body with a first end and a second end; an integral end flange at the first end; a separate end flange disposed at the second end of the cylinder body; and laminations disposed on an outer surface of the cylinder body, the laminations comprising magnetic material.
US11196316B2
A motor includes a rotor, a stator surrounding an outer side of the rotor in a radial direction and including a coil, and a bus bar of a wire electrically connected to the coil and having conductivity, wherein the stator is provided with a hole extending in an axial direction, the bus bar includes stretched portions extending in the axial direction, and each of the stretched portions is disposed in the hole.
US11196310B2
Disclosed is a rotor for an electrical machine includes a rotor hub comprising a multifaceted surface extending along a perimeter of the rotor hub. Each facet of the multi-faceted surface may have a substantially planar surface. A plurality of permanent magnet assemblies is disposed circumferentially around the multifaceted surface. Each individual permanent magnet assembly of the plurality of permanent magnet assemblies is coupled to the substantially planar surface of a corresponding facet.
US11196305B2
The present disclosure provides a wireless charging device and a wireless charging method. The wireless charging device includes a communication control module. The communication control module is configured to, when a power supply device is in a sleep state, control the power supply device to enter a wakeup state; and communicate with the power supply device in the wakeup state to determine a type of the power supply device, where the type of the power supply device includes a fast charging type and a non-fast charging type, a maximum output power of a fast charging power supply device is greater than or equal to a preset value, and a maximum output power of a non-fast charging power supply device is less than the preset value.
US11196304B2
According to certain embodiments, an electronic device comprises a plurality of coils configured to transmit charging power; a communication circuit; at least one processor; and at least one memory. The at least one memory stores instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to perform a plurality of operations. The plurality of operations comprises transmitting a first signal for requesting device-related information to a plurality of external electronic devices through the communication circuit, receiving a corresponding plurality of first response signals in response to the first signal from the plurality of external electronic devices through the communication circuit, selecting at least one external electronic device from among the plurality of external electronic devices on the basis of the plurality of first response signals, and upon selecting the at least one selected external electronic device, transmitting a second signal that indicates the at least one selected external electronic device and comprises at least information associated with the plurality of external electronic devices to the plurality of external electronic devices via the communication circuit.
US11196303B2
A control device to be used in a power receiving device that receives power from a power transmitting device by contactless power transmission includes a power supply portion that supplies power to a load based on power received by a power receiving portion, a communication portion that performs communication in which communication data is transmitted to the power transmitting device, and a control portion that controls the power supply portion and the communication portion. The control portion causes the communication portion to start the communication when an output voltage of the power receiving portion becomes higher than a first voltage, and causes the power supply portion to start power supply to the load when, after the communication is started, the output voltage of the power receiving portion becomes higher than a second voltage that is different from the first voltage.
US11196289B2
A power supply unit, an electrically operated system and a method for operating an electrical system, wherein the power supply unit connects through a basic supply voltage or a buffer voltage, which is provided by an energy store unit, where to perform a controlled switch-on process of the electrical loads, a switch-on delay time is specified, after the expiration of which the basic supply voltage or the buffer voltage is connected through at the output of the power supply unit, and where to perform a controlled switch-on process of the electrical loads, a voltage is output only when a charge level of the energy store unit is greater than or equal to a threshold value of the energy store charge level such that switch-on management for power supplies that ensures absolutely safe interruption-free and thus trouble-free start-up of a plurality of electrical loads is achieved.
US11196288B2
A direct current power supply system includes at least one first input source, a second input source, a phase shifting transformer set, a rectifier set and a monitoring module. The phase shifting transformer set is for converting a medium voltage alternating current of the first input source and/or the second input source to a low voltage alternating current. The rectifier set is for rectifying the low voltage AC to a low voltage DC. The phase shifting transformer set and the rectifier set are disposed either in a power supply housing, or in two adjacent power supply housings. The monitoring module includes a phase shifting transformer monitoring unit for retrieving at least one of temperature data, voltage data and current data of the phase shifting transformer set and a rectifier monitoring unit for retrieving at least one of temperature data, voltage data and current data of the rectifier set.
US11196287B2
A real-time clock module includes a switch circuit that is electrically coupled to a first node to which a first power supply voltage is applied and a second node to which a second power supply voltage is applied and switches between outputting the first power supply voltage and outputting the second power supply voltage, a power supply detection circuit that detects a voltage value of the first power supply voltage, a switch control circuit that controls the switching of the switch circuit based on an output of the power supply detection circuit, a constant voltage circuit that outputs a constant voltage signal based on the output of the switch circuit, and a current control circuit that controls a current supplied to the constant voltage circuit, in which, when where the switch control circuit switches the switch circuit, the current control circuit increases the current supplied to the constant voltage circuit.
US11196286B2
The present disclosure relates to communicating fault event information between power supply devices. In an example, a fault event communication system can include a comparator that can be coupled to a node that can have a shared bus voltage established by current sharing circuitry. The comparator can compare the shared bus voltage to a reference voltage and output a fault alert signal based on the comparison to alert a respective power supply device that another power supply device is experiencing a fault event. The system can include logic circuitry that can initiate a timer for a time interval in response to receiving the fault alert signal. The logic circuitry can determine a type of fault event at the respective power supply device based on the fault alert signal and duration of time that has elapsed since initiating the timer.
US11196274B2
A charging case assembly for a vaporizer device includes a lower housing pivotably coupled to an upper housing. The lower housing can include a rechargeable power supply and a coupling mechanism configured to receive and position the vaporizer device within the lower housing. The coupling mechanism can include a cradle portion positioned along the lower housing and further include an elongated base that is recessed along an inner surface of the lower housing. The cradle portion can be configured to receive the vaporizer device such that a first elongated side of the vaporizer device is positioned against the base of the cradle portion. The coupling mechanism can further include a pair of case contacts positioned adjacent a first end of the base.
US11196272B2
A method, circuit and system arrangement is described for providing rapid de-energization for safety reasons of conductors having a DC power source at both ends. The invention is particularly envisaged for use in solar energy systems in which a battery is charged by solar power from a photovoltaic array, the invention comprising controlling the array to interrupt charge current flow and then isolating the battery from the conductors to be de-energized in a fail-safe manner.
US11196271B2
Provided is a full-charge-capacity estimating device that has one or more of a plurality of battery modules, as battery-modules-to-be-measured, charged or discharged by means of a first switch element and a second switch element according to whether a power supply device is in a powering state or a regenerating state, measures an integrated current value and a change in the state-of-charge of the battery-module-to-be-measured, and then estimates the full charge capacity of the battery-module-to-be-measured from the integrated current value and the change in the state-of-charge.
US11196269B2
A battery cell evaluation apparatus is provided that includes a current source configured to output a current at a frequency, measurement circuitry, and control circuitry. The control circuitry may be configured to electrically connect a cell of a battery to the current source and the measurement circuitry to apply the current across terminals of the cell and receive a measurement of an impedance phase shift of the cell as phase shift data from the measurement circuitry. The control circuitry may also be configured to compare the phase shift data to a protection profile, and trigger a protection device to prevent damage to the battery based on the comparison of the phase shift data to the protection profile.
US11196247B1
A digital device is provided. The digital device uses three states, including a ground (GND) state, a voltage (VDD) state, and a FLOAT state. On designing a chip, two storage units and a pad circuit are set inside; the pad circuit comprises a current limiter and two switches; and less ports contained are required than the conventional. That is, one port obtains three states. As comparing to the conventional having only two states, the present invention uses the port connected with two storage units in the pad circuit for obtaining the three states; a circuit featuring “pull up” and “pull down” is used to identify the state of connection of the port; and the port determines a plurality of definitions through the three states of GND, VDD and FLOAT. Thus, a pad is saved for reducing the space and cost of the chip.
US11196243B2
An example system includes an input voltage terminal; a power converter integrated circuit (IC) package fuselessly coupled to the input voltage terminal and having first and second pins, the power converter IC package configured to detect a short between the first and second pins; and a load circuit coupled to the power converter IC package.
US11196238B2
A device for identifying contact with an electrical conductor by at least one electrically conductive tool (2ra, 2rb). The device comprises a tool holder (Ir) rotationally mounted about a rotation axis (X), and the tool (2ra, 2rb) arranged on the tool holder. The device additionally comprises an electrically conductive body (ECB) and a rotor-side inductive element (L1) arranged on the electrically conductive body (Ir). A parallel resonant circuit comprises at least one rotor-side circuit element (A), at least one stator-side circuit element (B), a stationary circuit arrangement (28) and a stator-side inductive element (L2). The rotor-side inductive element and the stator-side inductive element are arranged to measure characteristic oscillation parameters (φ, Am, f) of the parallel resonant circuit independently of the rotation speed of the tool holder (Ir). An insulation-stripping machine and a method for identifying contact with an electrical conductor by at least one electrically conductive tool as disclosed.
US11196234B2
In various embodiments, laser apparatuses include thermal bonding layers between various components and creep-mitigation systems for preventing or retarding movement of thermal bonding material out of the thermal bonding layers.
US11196215B2
An electrical connector comprises an insulative module loaded with terminals therein and a mounting member. The insulative module defines a pair of panel-supporting surface at each opposite end thereof, and a cavity going through one panel-supporting face. The mounting member comprises a board main receiving in the cavity and an operating portion projecting outwards. The insulative module defines a pair of elastic arms slanting into the cavity and each slates away from the panel-supporting face. The board main defines a pair of locking recesses at opposite edges thereof. The elastic arms are locked with the locking recesses in condition that the mounting member slides upwards beyond the panel-supporting faces.
US11196213B2
The present disclosure provides a cable end connector comprising a plugging member, a plurality of cables, an insulating body, a latch component, and two positioning bumps. The insulating body comprises a plugging surface, a first surface and a connecting surface. The plugging member protrudes from the plugging surface. One ends of the plurality of cables pass through the connecting surface. The first surface comprises a latch accommodating groove comprising a buckling hole. The latch component is disposed in the latch accommodating groove. The latch component comprises a first latch plate and a second latch plate opposite to the first latch plate. The first latch plate comprises a buckling elastic sheet. The buckling elastic sheet is disposed in the buckling hole. The second latch plate comprises a buckling bump. The two positioning bumps are oppositely disposed on the plugging surface and are disposed on a side edge of the plugging surface.
US11196208B2
The present disclosure relates to a terminal protection device of a connector capable of protecting a terminal from an external impact, thereby preventing deformation of the terminal, and an object of the present disclosure is to provide a terminal protection device of a connector capable of implementing a terminal protection structure using a conventional moving plate with a minimum configuration.
US11196206B2
A connector comprises an external mounting flange that provides a housing in which a gimbal shell assembly sits and pivots. An internal recessing shell is capable of having an electrical connection with the gimbal shell assembly, wherein when the gimbal shell assembly is disengaged, no electrical connection exists between internal recessing shell and gimbal shell assembly. A center screw is capable of being torqued to disengage and reengage the gimbal shell assembly.
US11196189B2
An electronics housing includes: a housing body; and a printed circuit board. The housing body has a connecting device for connecting a conductor, in particular a shield conductor, of a cable to the printed circuit board. The connecting device has a receiving body in which a receiving space with an opening for the conductor is formed. A cover for the opening is provided and is movable between an open position, in which the cover opens the opening for inserting an uninsulated conductor section of the conductor into the receiving space, and a closed position, in which the cover closes the opening at least in sections. The receiving body of the connecting device is disposed such that the printed circuit board is arrangeable with at least one contact section in the receiving space, and, in a closed position, the cover presses the uninsulated conductor section.
US11196187B2
In various representative aspects, the present invention relates generally to providing an apparatus for securing a solar panel module to a solar panel rail guide structure. More specifically, the invention relates to providing an end clamp that mounts a bottom flange of a solar panel module to a solar panel rail guide structure. The end clamp does not require any tools for insertion. It mechanically fastens and electrically bonds the solar panel module to a solar panel rail guide structure.
US11196181B2
Front end circuits and associated apparatus, systems, and methods for use in electronic devices such as buried utility locators are disclosed. The circuits include receivers and filters on input signals that are coupled to ground rather than differentially. A multiplexing circuit allows shared use of amplifiers, and analog-to-digital converters via a switching mechanism for selectively making or breaking electrical connection to the receiver channels for efficient sharing of electronics resources while minimizing crosstalk interference and advantageously reducing costs.
US11196180B2
An electronic device including an antenna is provided. The electronic device includes a housing that includes a first plate, a second plate facing away from the first plate, and a side member surrounding a space between the first plate and the second plate, the side member being coupled to the second plate or integrally formed with the second plate, a printed circuit board that is disposed in the space and includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a third conductive layer, and a ground, and an antenna structure that is disposed in the space. The antenna structure includes a first conductive pattern that is formed at the first conductive layer and is electrically connected with a first feeding line, a second conductive pattern that is formed at the second conductive layer interposed between the first conductive layer and the third conductive layer and is electrically connected with the ground, and a third conductive pattern that is formed at the third conductive layer and is electrically connected with a second feeding line. The first conductive pattern includes a first conductive line extended in a first direction parallel to the first conductive layer, and a first radiation part extended from the first conductive line in a second direction making a first angle between 0 to −90 degrees with the first direction. The third conductive pattern includes a second conductive line extended in the first direction, and a second radiation part extended from the second conductive line in a third direction making a second angle between 0 to +90 degrees with the first direction. The second conductive pattern includes a portion electrically connected with the ground, a third conductive line extended from the portion in the first direction, a third radiation part extended from the third conductive line in a fourth direction facing away from the second direction, a fourth conductive line spaced from the third conductive line and extended from the portion in the first direction, and a fourth radiation part extended from the fourth conductive line in a fifth direction facing away from the third direction.
US11196167B2
The manufacturing method of the antenna pattern has: a step of forming a dipole antenna on a front surface of a continuous substrate while conveying the continuous substrate; and a step of forming a sub-element on a back surface of the continuous substrate.
US11196164B2
An antenna for electrical coupling to a wireless communication circuit includes a first conductive strip segment having a first length, a second conductive strip segment having a second length different from the first length and coupled to the first conductive strip segment at a feed point to be electrically coupled to the drive node, and a third conductive strip segment having a third length less than both the first length and the second length. A first end of the third conductive strip is coupled to the feed point and a second end is coupled to circuit ground. The first conductive strip segment provides a first specified operating frequency range at a fundamental resonance mode corresponding to the first length plus the third length, and the second conductive strip segment provides a second specified operating frequency range at a fundamental resonance mode corresponding to the second length plus the third length.
US11196156B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to a node in a fixed wireless network. The node includes a Beam Steering Antenna Module (“BSAM”) having a beam steering antenna to generate RF beams at controlled directions, and an antenna controller to control the directions of the generated RF beams. The node also includes a transceiver control having an Optimal Path Module (“OPM”) to determine data paths in the fixed wireless network and direct the antenna controller according to the determined data paths.
US11196154B2
In an antenna device, when an AM/FM antenna as a first antenna and an SDARS antenna or a GPS antenna as a second antenna that have different frequency bands are provided in a common case, an additional conductor portion extends out from a conductor main body portion of a capacitive element, and the additional conductor portion includes a parallel strip-shaped portion having a length that is ¼ of an effective wavelength in a frequency band of the second antenna, and extending parallel to the conductor main body portion.
US11196149B2
A wearable device comprises a body (1) and an outer casing (2) detachably mounted on the body (1). The body (1) is provided therein with a first printed circuit board (PCB) and a body antenna connected to each other, and the first PCB is provided thereon with a control circuit. The outer casing (2) is provided thereon with an outer casing antenna (201), and when the outer casing (2) and the body (1) are assembled, the outer casing antenna (201) is connected to the first PCB. The control circuit controls switching between the outer casing antenna (201) and the body antenna to use the outer casing antenna (201) or the body antenna as a working antenna. Also provided are an outer casing and a method for controlling an antenna of a wearable device.
US11196147B2
An electronic device having antennas according to an implementation is provided. The electronic device may include a first antenna disposed on a rim thereof and configured to receive a first signal that is a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) signal or a New Radio (NR) signal of a first band, a second antenna disposed to be spaced apart from the first antenna by a predetermined interval, and configured to receive a second signal that is an LTE or NR signal of a second band higher than the first band, and a transceiver circuit operably coupled to the first antenna and the second antenna. In one implementation, the electronic device may include a baseband processor configured to control the transceiver circuit to receive the first signal through the first antenna and the second signal through the second antenna.
US11196137B2
Disclosed herein is a radio frequency filter having a notch structure. The radio frequency filter includes a hollow housing having a plurality of partition walls defining a plurality of cavities and an open surface formed on one side, a cover configured to shield the open surface of the housing, a plurality of resonance elements positioned in the cavities of the housing, a coupling substrate arranged to cross a partition wall between at least two of the plurality of resonance elements, and a tuning screw inserted into the housing through the cover. The partition wall crossed by the coupling substrate includes a support window formed to have a first depth from the open surface, the coupling substrate being arranged through the support window, and a tuning window formed to have a second depth greater than the first depth from the open surface, the tuning screw being inserted into the tuning window.
US11196128B2
The present disclosure provides a battery module and a busbar assembly thereof. The busbar assembly comprises a first busbar, a second busbar and a first insulator. The first busbar comprises a first connecting portion connected to a first battery unit, a second connecting portion connected to a second battery unit and a first main portion connecting the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion. The second busbar comprises a third connecting portion connected to a third battery unit, a fourth connecting portion connected to a fourth battery unit and a second main portion connecting the third connecting portion and the fourth connecting portion. The first main portion partially overlaps the second main portion, and the first insulator insulates the second main portion and the first main portion. The first battery unit, the third battery unit, the second battery unit and the fourth battery unit are arranged sequentially.
US11196123B2
A battery pack (1) includes a housing (2) and an array (40) of electrochemical cells (80) disposed in the housing (2). The housing (2) includes a container (3) and a lid (30) that closes an open end of the container (3). The container (3) has a base (4), a sidewall (8) that surrounds the base (4), and a spring plate (110) disposed inside the side wall (8) between the cells (80) and the sidewall (8). The spring plate (110) is free standing within the container (3) and applies a spring force to the cell array (40) that restrains the cells (80) along an axis normal to the surface of the spring plates (110). The lid (30) includes inwardly-protruding pins (50, 60) that further restrain the cells (80) within the housing (2).
US11196121B2
A battery is provided. The battery includes a battery enclosure that includes opposing top and bottom sides in a height direction, opposing left and right sides in a width direction, and opposing front and rear sides in a length direction. A first engaging portion extends in the length direction. A first lower surface is positioned on a plane between the top side and the bottom side in the height direction. A first rib is provided between a plane of the first engaging portion and the plane of the first lower surface in the height direction. A first upper surface is positioned on a plane between the top side and the bottom side in the height direction. A first wall is provided between the plane of the first lower surface and the plane of the first upper surface in the height direction.
US11196118B2
The invention relates to an energy storage module comprising a plurality of electrochemical cells for storing electric energy and comprising at least one contacting device for electrically contacting the plurality of electrochemical cells. Each of the plurality of electrochemical cells has a first flat connection lug for contacting a first electrode of the respective electrochemical cell and a second flat connection lug for contacting a second electrode of the respective electrochemical cell. The plurality of electrochemical cells are arranged in a stacked formation and form a cell pack such that the first and second flat connection lugs extend outwards from two opposing sides of the cell pack in an at least substantially perpendicular manner. According to the invention, the at least one contacting device is substantially comb-shaped in particular and has a plurality of teeth which are formed and arranged such that a first or second connection lug is received or can be received between two adjacent teeth.
US11196117B2
A pouch case sealing apparatus for sealing a pouch case that includes a pouch body for accommodating an electrode assembly of a battery cell and a pouch terrace extending from the pouch body is provided. The pouch case sealing apparatus includes: a pair of sealing jigs, each sealing jig having a pressing surface, the pair of sealing jigs being configured to press and thermally fuse the pouch terrace from upper and lower directions of the pouch terrace so that the pouch case is sealed; and a pair of terrace anti-protruding units formed at respective pressing surfaces of the pair of sealing jigs to prevent an end portion of the pouch terrace from protruding beyond the pouch body in a horizontal direction of the pouch body when the pouch terrace is pressed and thermally fused. A method for sealing a pouch case is also provided.
US11196116B2
A method of manufacturing a battery, in particular a button battery, including a case, provided with a container and a cap, and a polymer gasket, in particular made of polypropylene, compressed and bonded between the container and the cap. The method successively includes a step of implanting a silicatised layer by tribochemical sand blasting on all or part of the surface of the gasket, a step of adding a layer of adhesive to the surface of the gasket including the silicatised layer and/or on all or part of the surface of the container and of the surface of the cap intended to be joined to the gasket, a step of assembling the case with the gasket positioned by compression and bonding with the layer of adhesive between the container and the cap.
US11196109B2
A battery module for a motor vehicle includes two contact-making plates, which are arranged in parallel or approximately in parallel with one another, including a first and a second contact-making plate, and a plurality of battery cells, which are arranged next to one another and between the two contact-making plates. Each battery cell has a longitudinal axis and two axially opposite ends. The ends of each battery cell are connected to the contact-making plates, and the battery cells are arranged in such a way that i) an outer circumferential surface of each battery cell fully surrounded by adjacent battery cells touches outer circumferential surfaces of at least three adjacent battery cells, and ii) an outer circumferential surface of each battery cell not fully surrounded by adjacent battery cells touches outer circumferential surfaces of at least two adjacent battery cells.
US11196100B2
An apparatus for automatically collecting gas generated in a secondary battery which is being developed as an energy source for vehicle battery cells, mobile devices, power tools, etc., and automatically injecting the gas into an analysis apparatus so that the gas can be analyzed. The automated apparatus includes a plurality of battery holders in which a plurality of secondary batteries are capable of being mounted, respectively, a battery holder tray in which the plurality of battery holders are placed, a collecting unit which moves in the direction perpendicular to the surface of a secondary battery to be analyzed among the plurality of secondary batteries; and a punching unit which moves in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the secondary battery to punch the surface of the secondary battery The battery holder tray is capable of rotating such that the surface of the secondary battery can face the collecting unit.
US11196092B2
A dendrite resistant battery may include a first electrode, a second electrode, and an electrolyte interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The dendrite resistant battery may further include at least one acoustic wave device configured to generate a plurality of acoustic waves during a charging of the battery. The charging of the battery may trigger cations from the first electrode to travel through the electrolyte and deposit on the second electrode. The plurality of acoustic waves may agitate the electrolyte to at least homogenize a distribution of cations in the electrolyte. The homogenization of the distribution of cations may prevent a formation of dendrites on the second electrode by at least increasing a uniformity of the deposit of cations on the second electrode. Related methods and systems for battery management are also provided.
US11196087B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte includes a nonaqueous solvent and an alkali metal salt dissolved in the nonaqueous solvent. The nonaqueous solvent contains a perfluoropolyether and a nitrile compound represented by a formula Rf—CN, where Rf represents a hydrocarbon group which has a carbon number of 2 to 4 and in which at least one hydrogen atom is substituted with fluorine.
US11196085B2
A rechargeable battery is designed with cells having a specific combination of anode, cathode, and electrolyte compositions to maintain long cycle life at extreme high temperatures and deliver high power at extreme low temperatures. These properties can significantly reduce or altogether eliminate the need for thermal management circuitry, reducing weight and cost. Applications in telecommunications backup, transportation, and military defense are contemplated.
US11196083B2
As a novel sulfide compound having a low elastic modulus while retaining the high ion conductivity, a sulfide compound for a solid electrolyte of a lithium secondary battery that includes a crystal phase of a cubic argyrodite type crystal structure, and is represented by the compositional formula: Li7−xPS6−xClyBrz, wherein x in the compositional formula satisfies x=y+z and 1.0
US11196079B2
The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery 100 herein proposed is characterized by being manufactured by performing an initial charging and discharging treatment on an assembly, in which are accommodated in a battery case 80 an electrode body 40, and a nonaqueous electrolyte containing a compound expressed by a general formula: A+[PX6-2n(C2O4)n]−, the content of the compound being 1.1 mass % to 1.2 mass % when the total mass of the nonaqueous electrolyte is assumed to be 100 mass %.
US11196076B2
Provided is a secondary battery manufacturing system for forming an electrode assembly using unit cells manufactured by laminating, and the secondary battery manufacturing system includes: a unit cell forming device for forming unit cells, in which a separator, an anode cell, a separator, a cathode cell, and a separator are stacked in order, from a separator roll, an anode cell roll, and a cathode cell roll, which are rolled; an inverting device for forming inverted unit cells, in which a separator, a cathode cell, a separator, an anode cell, and a separator are stacked in order, by inverting some of two or more unit cells formed by the unit cell forming device; and a stacking device for stacking a unit cell, an anode cell, an inverted unit cell, and a cathode cell in order, in which the process of manufacturing an electrode assembly is simplified, and the defect rate of the manufactured electrode assembly is lowered.
US11196074B2
The invention provides reversible bio sensitized photoelectric conversion and H2 to electricity conversion devices which use one or more of a proton pumping photoactive biological layers to generate a proton gradient that is harnessed to produce electrical energy. It is also provided a photoelectric conversion element that incorporates the device of the present invention.
US11196072B2
A composite proton-conducting membrane comprising an inorganic polymer whose pores are filled with an organic polymer, wherein both the inorganic polymer and the organic polymer are proton conductors and wherein said composite proton-conducting membrane can operate in the absence of solvents, such as water.
US11196071B2
A method for manufacturing a membrane electrode and gas diffusion layer assembly includes: applying a catalyst ink including an ionomer to a second surface of an electrolyte membrane while conveying a first sheet in which a first surface of the electrolyte membrane is supported by a back sheet; drying the catalyst ink by blowing air vibrated with ultrasonic waves onto a surface of the catalyst ink to produce a second sheet in which a catalyst layer is provided on the second surface of the electrolyte membrane; forming a first roll by winding the second sheet; and producing a third sheet by stacking a gas diffusion layer on the catalyst layer and pressing them in a stacking direction as heating to join the catalyst layer and the gas diffusion layer while conveying the second sheet unwound from the first roll.
US11196068B2
A method of operating a fuel cell system includes providing an anode exhaust from a fuel cell stack to a water injector, supplying water to the water injector, and injecting the water from the water injector into the anode exhaust to vaporize the water and generate a humidified anode exhaust.
US11196063B2
A formed substrate assembly includes an air flow form plate, a fuel flow form plate, and an anode. The fuel flow form plate is positioned over the air flow form plate. The fuel flow form plate partially defines a plurality of first channels. The fuel flow form plate also defines a plurality of second channels. The plurality of second channels defines a plurality of apertures, where a portion of the apertures extend from the plurality of second channels to the plurality of first channels. The anode is positioned over the fuel flow form plate. The anode partially defines the plurality of first channels such that the fuel flow form plate and the anode define the plurality of first channels. The portion of the plurality of apertures is configured to channel a flow of fuel from the plurality of second channels to the plurality of first channels.
US11196062B2
According to at least one aspect, a hydrogen gas dispensing system is provided. The hydrogen gas dispensing system includes a source configured to provide a hydrogen gas, a storage device configured to store the hydrogen gas up to a first pressure level, a dispenser configured to dispense the hydrogen gas up to a second pressure level that is higher than the first pressure level, and a compressor configured to compress the hydrogen gas from the source up to the first pressure level for storage in the storage device and configured to compress the hydrogen gas from the storage device up to the second pressure level for dispensing via the dispenser. According to at least one aspect, the dispensing system comprises an input power port configured to receive input power and an output power port configured to deliver output power derived from the input power to charge an electric vehicle.
US11196045B2
Methods of forming a lithium-based negative electrode assembly are provided. A surface of a metal current collector is treated with a reducing plasma gas so that after the treating, a treated surface of the metal current collector is formed that has a contact angle of less than or equal to about 10° and has less than or equal to about 5% metal oxides. The metal current collector may include a metal, such as copper, nickel, and iron. A lithium metal is applied to the treated surface of the metal current collector in an environment substantially free from oxidizing species. Lithium metal flows over and adheres to the treated surface to form a layer of lithium. The layer of lithium may be a thin layer having a thickness of ≥about 1 μm to ≤about 75 μm thus forming the lithium metal negative electrode assembly.
US11196043B2
The present invention relates to a silicon-based particle-polymer composite, which includes silicon-based particles; and a polymer coating layer formed on the silicon-based particles, in which the polymer coating layer includes metal-substituted poly(acrylic acid) in which hydrogen atoms in carboxyl groups of the poly(acrylic acid) chain are substituted with one or more selected from the group consisting of K, Na and Li.
US11196041B2
This application relates to a positive electrode plate and a lithium-ion secondary battery, wherein the positive electrode plate comprises a positive electrode current collector and a positive active material layer disposed on at least one surface of the positive electrode current collector, wherein the positive active material layer comprises a first positive active material Li1+xNiaMebM1−a−bO2−yAy and a second positive active material Li1+zMncZ2−cO4−dBd, and wherein the positive electrode plate satisfies: 0.04≤R·P/C≤10, wherein R is the resistance of the positive electrode plate, and the unit of R is Ω; P is the packing density of the positive electrode plate, and the unit of P is g/cm3; C is the single-side areal density of the positive electrode plate, the unit of C is g/1540.25 mm2. The lithium-ion secondary battery in this application simultaneously has high safety performance, low-temperature kinetic performance, high-temperature cycle performance and high-temperature storage performance.
US11196022B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a package structure and a display device including package structure. The package structure includes a graphene layer and a graphene oxide layer which are disposed in a stack. In the package structure according to the embodiments of the present application, the graphene oxide layer is stacked on the graphene layer.
US11196021B2
A composite film layer, a method for manufacturing the same, and a method for manufacturing an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel are provided. The composite film layer includes first sub-film layers and second sub-film layers having different refractive indices, wherein the first sub-film layers and the second sub-film layers are alternately stacked, and thicknesses of the first sub-film layer and thicknesses of the second sub-film layer gradually increase or decrease in a direction perpendicular to the composite film layer.
US11196017B2
The present invention provides a display, including: a panel including a bending area and two non-bending areas disposed on opposite sides of the bending area; and a first metal sheet and a second metal sheet respectively disposed on the two non-bending areas, wherein an end portion of at least one of the first metal sheet and the second metal sheet close to the bending area has a blunt structure.
US11196015B2
A display apparatus and a manufacturing method of the display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes a substrate and a first sub-pixel located on the substrate. The first sub-pixel includes a first bottom electrode, a first light-emitting layer, and a first top electrode. The first light-emitting layer is located on the first bottom electrode. The first light-emitting layer includes a first groove structure or a first protrusion structure. The first top electrode is located on the first light-emitting layer.
US11195991B2
A magnetic random access memory assisted non-volatile Hall effect device includes a spin orbit torque layer disposed over a substrate, and a magnetic layer disposed over the spin orbit torque layer. A metal oxide layer disposed over the magnetic layer. Portions of the spin orbit torque layer extend outward from the magnetic layer and the metal oxide layer on opposing sides of a first direction and opposing sides of a second direction in plan view, and the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction.
US11195975B2
Solid state light emitting micropixels array structures having hydrogen barrier layers to minimize or eliminate undesirable passivation of doped GaN structures due to hydrogen diffusion.
US11195973B1
Disclosed herein are techniques for improving the light emitting efficiency of micro light emitting diodes. According to certain embodiments, micro-LEDs having small physical dimensions are fabricated on III-nitride materials with semi-polar crystal lattice orientations to reduce the surface recombination of excess charge carriers that does not generate photons and to reduce the polarization induced internal field that may cause energy band shift and aggravate the Quantum-Confined Stark Effect, thereby increasing the peak quantum efficiencies and/or reducing the peak efficiency current density of the micro-LEDs.
US11195970B2
An LED panel including a substrate, multiple first pixels, multiple second pixels, multiple first protrusion structures and second protrusion structures is provided. The first pixels and second pixels each disposed in a display area of the substrate has at least one light emitting element. The second pixels are positioned on at least one display edge of the display area and positioned between the first pixels and a substrate edge. Each first protrusion structure is positioned on the periphery of the at least one light emitting element of one corresponding first pixel. Each second protrusion structure is positioned on the periphery of the at least one light emitting element of one corresponding second pixel. The orthogonal projection contour of each first protrusion structure on the substrate is different from that of each second protrusion structure on the substrate. A tiling display apparatus adopting the light emitting diode panel is also provided.
US11195962B2
A high responsivity, high bandwidth photodiode is disclosed which includes at least one substrate, at least one n+ type layer may be formed on the at substrate and configured to receive at least a portion of an incident optical signal from the substrate, at least one supplemental layer formed on the n+ type layer and configured to receive at least a portion of the incident optical signal from the n+ type layer, at least absorbing layer formed on the supplemental layer and configured to receive at least a portion of the incident optical signal from the supplemental layer, at least one angled facet formed on the substrate and configured to direct at least a portion of the incident optical signal to at least one of the n+ type layer, the supplemental layer, and the absorbing layer at angle of incidence from 15° to 89° from a normal angle of incidence.
US11195960B2
A solar module includes a series circuit of solar cells, a switch arranged in parallel with a section of the series circuit, and an actuation circuit. The actuation circuit is operably coupled to the switch, and is configured to actuate the switch in a clocked manner with a duty cycle, wherein the duty cycle is based on a voltage dropped across the series circuit or across a portion of the series circuit.
US11195958B2
A semiconductor device with an isolation structure and a trench capacitor, each formed using a single resist mask for etching corresponding first and second trenches of different widths and different depths, with dielectric liners formed on the trench sidewalls and polysilicon filling the trenches and deep doped regions surrounding the trenches, including conductive features of a metallization structure that connect the polysilicon of the isolation structure trench to the deep doped region to form an isolation structure.
US11195952B2
Semiconductor devices are provided. A semiconductor device includes a fin structure including a stress structure and a semiconductor region that are sequentially stacked on a substrate. The semiconductor device includes a field insulation layer on a portion of the fin structure. The semiconductor device includes a gate electrode on the fin structure. Moreover, the stress structure includes an oxide.
US11195945B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a high voltage device that includes a substrate comprising a first semiconductor material. A channel layer that comprises a second semiconductor material is arranged over the substrate. An active layer that comprises a third semiconductor material is arranged over the channel layer. Over the active layer is a source contact spaced apart from a drain contact. A gate structure is arranged laterally between the source and drain contacts and over the active layer to define a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) device. Between the gate structure and the source contact is a cap structure, which is coupled to the source contact and laterally spaced from the gate structure. The cap structure and a gate electrode of the gate structure comprise a same material.
US11195943B2
The present invention relates to an epitaxial structure of Ga-face group III nitride, its active device, and its gate protection device. The epitaxial structure of Ga-face AlGaN/GaN comprises a silicon substrate, a buffer layer (C-doped) on the silicon substrate, an i-GaN (C-doped) layer on the buffer layer (C-doped), an i-AlyGaN buffer layer on the i-GaN (C-doped) layer, an i-GaN channel layer on the i-AlyGaN buffer layer, and an i-AlxGaN layer on the i-GaN channel layer, where x=0.1˜0.3 and y=0.05˜0.75. By connecting a depletion-mode (D-mode) AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) to the gate of a p-GaN gate enhancement-mode (E-mode) AlGaN/GaN HEMT in device design, the gate of the p-GaN gate E-mode AlGaN/GaN HEMT can be protected under any gate voltage.
US11195942B2
An embodiment of a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor mesa in an active device area. The semiconductor mesa includes source regions arranged along a longitudinal direction of the semiconductor mesa and separated from one another along the longitudinal direction. The semiconductor device further includes an electrode trench structure including a dielectric and an electrode. The electrode trench structure adjoins a side of the semiconductor mesa. The semiconductor device further includes an isolation trench structure filled with one or more insulating materials. The isolation trench structure extends through the semiconductor mesa and into or through the electrode trench structure along a first lateral direction.
US11195937B2
A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a first channel member including a first channel portion and a first connection portion, a second channel member including a second channel portion and a second connection portion, a gate structure disposed around the first channel portion and the second channel portion, and an inner spacer feature disposed between the first connection portion and the second connection portion. The gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode. The gate dielectric layer extends partially between the inner spacer feature and the first connection portion and between the inner spacer feature and the second connection portion. The gate electrode does not extend between the inner spacer feature and the first connection portion and between the inner spacer feature and the second connection portion.
US11195935B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed including a gate electrode structure and raised drain and source regions that extend to a first height level and a sidewall spacer element positioned adjacent the sidewalls of the gate electrode structure between the raised drain and source regions and the gate electrode structure. The sidewall spacer element includes an upper portion that extends above the first height level wherein an inner part of the spacer element faces the gate electrode structure and extends to a second height level that is less than a third height level of an outer part of the upper portion of the spacer element.
US11195925B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to heterojunction bipolar transistors and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a sub-collector region in a substrate; a collector region above the sub-collector region, the collector region composed of semiconductor material; an intrinsic base region composed of intrinsic base material surrounded by the semiconductor material above the collector region; and an emitter region above the intrinsic base region.
US11195923B2
Implementations of the present disclosure generally relate to methods for forming a transistor. More specifically, implementations described herein generally relate to methods for forming a source/drain contact. In one implementation, the method includes forming a trench in a dielectric material to expose a source/drain region of a transistor, performing a pre-clean process on the exposed source/drain region, forming a doped semiconductor layer on the source/drain region by an epitaxial deposition process, and fill the trench with a conductor. The doped semiconductor layer has a lower electrical resistance than the source/drain region due to a higher dopant concentration in the doped semiconductor layer. As a result, the contact resistance of the source/drain contact is reduced.
US11195921B2
A semiconductor device includes a gate electrode and a gate dielectric. The gate electrode extends from a first surface of a silicon carbide body into the silicon carbide body. The gate dielectric is between the gate electrode and the silicon carbide body. The gate electrode includes a metal structure and a semiconductor layer between the metal structure and the gate dielectric.
US11195911B2
A semiconductor structure is provided that includes nanosheet containing devices having a bottom dielectric isolation structure and high quality source/drain (S/D) structures. In the present application, the bottom dielectric isolation structure is formed after the S/D structures to ensure high quality epitaxy for both long channel and short channel nanosheet containing devices. The bottom dielectric isolation structure of the present application has a first portion that is located beneath each nanosheet stack and a second portion that is located in a single diffusion break point trench.
US11195901B2
A display device includes a substrate having a first area, a second area, and a bending area disposed between the first area and the second area. An inner wiring is disposed in the first area. An outer wiring is disposed in the second area. An interlayer insulating layer covers the inner wiring and the outer wiring, and includes a first contact hole. A conductive layer is disposed on the interlayer insulating layer, and is connected to the inner wiring or the outer wiring through the first contact hole. An inorganic protective layer covers at least a portion of the conductive layer and includes an inorganic insulating material.
US11195896B2
An organic light emitting diode display includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer on the substrate, the semiconductor layer including a doped area and an undoped area, a first insulation layer that covers the semiconductor layer, a first conductor on the first insulation layer, a second insulation layer that covers the first conductor, a second conductor on the second insulation layer, a third insulation layer that covers the second conductor, and a third conductor on the third insulation layer, wherein, in the semiconductor layer that overlaps the first conductor, the doped area is between undoped areas.
US11195886B2
Provided are an organic light emitting diode (OLED), a three-dimensional (3D) tactile display apparatus, and a manufacturing method thereof. The OLED includes a stretchable driving part including a stretchable field effect transistor (FET) and a stretchable light emitting part including a stretchable material on the stretchable driving part. The 3D tactile display apparatus includes a stretchable actuator having a driving layer formed of transparent rubber, a stretchable driving part having a stretchable FET, and a stretchable light emitting part including a stretchable material.
US11195884B2
An organic light emitting display is provided. The organic light emitting display includes a first base substrate; a plurality of organic light emitting diodes disposed on the first base substrate; an encapsulation layer disposed on the organic light emitting diodes; and a plurality of first color conversion filters disposed on the encapsulation layer. The encapsulation layer includes: a first sub-inorganic layer disposed on the organic light emitting diodes; a second sub-inorganic layer disposed on the first sub-inorganic layer and having a refractive index different from that of the first sub-inorganic layer; an organic layer disposed on the second sub-inorganic layer; and a third sub-inorganic layer disposed on the organic layer.
US11195883B2
An organic light emitting diode display device includes a substrate, a pixel defining layer disposed on the substrate and defining an opening, a first thin film encapsulation sublayer disposed on the pixel defining layer and in the opening, a color filter layer disposed in the opening, a second thin film encapsulation sublayer covering the first thin film encapsulation sublayer and the color filter layer, and a third thin film encapsulation sublayer disposed on the second thin film encapsulation sublayer.
US11195880B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate comprising a first pixel region and a second pixel region adjacent to the first pixel region; a circuit device layer on the substrate; a first light-emitting device module on the circuit device layer, the first light-emitting device module comprising a first light-emitting device overlapping the first pixel region to display a first color; and a second light-emitting device module on the first light-emitting device module, the second light-emitting device module having a first pixel penetration hole overlapping the first pixel region, the second light-emitting device module further comprising a second light-emitting device overlapping the second pixel region to display a second color different from the first color.
US11195877B2
An ultra-small light-emitting diode (LED) electrode assembly having an improved luminance is provided. More particularly, an ultra-small LED electrode assembly in which light, which is blocked by an electrode and cannot be extracted, is minimized, an ultra-small LED device is connected to an ultra-small electrode without a defect such as an electrical short-circuit, and a very excellent luminance is exhibited even at a direct current (DC) driving voltage, and a method of manufacturing the same are provided.
US11195862B2
A thin film transistor includes an active layer on a substrate, a gate electrode configured to be spaced from the active layer and partially overlapped with the active layer, and a gate insulating layer, at least a part of the gate insulating layer being disposed between the active layer and the gate electrode, wherein the gate insulating layer includes a first gate insulating layer between the active layer and the gate electrode, and a second gate insulating layer configured to have a dielectric constant (k) which is different from a dielectric constant of the first gate insulating layer, and disposed in a same layer as the first gate insulating layer, and wherein at least a part of the second gate insulating layer is disposed between the active layer and the gate electrode.
US11195858B2
Provided is a semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment including: a stacked body including gate electrode layers stacked in a first direction; a semiconductor layer provided in the stacked body and extending in the first direction; and a gate insulating layer provided between the semiconductor layer and at least one of the gate electrode layers, and the gate insulating layer including a first region containing a first oxide including at least one of a hafnium oxide and a zirconium oxide, in which a first length of the at least one of the gate electrode layers in the first direction is larger than a second length of the first region in the first direction.
US11195846B2
Embodiments of staircase structures for three-dimensional (3D) memory devices double-sided routing are disclosed. In an example, a 3D memory device includes a substrate, a memory stack disposed above the substrate and including conductor/dielectric layer pairs stacked alternatingly, and an array of memory strings each extending vertically through an inner region of the memory stack. An outer region of the memory stack includes a first staircase structure disposed on the substrate and a second staircase structure disposed on the substrate. First edges of the conductor/dielectric layer pairs in the first staircase structure along a vertical direction away from the substrate are staggered laterally toward the array of memory strings. Second edges of the conductor/dielectric layer pairs in the second staircase structure along the vertical direction away from the substrate are staggered laterally away from the array of memory strings.
US11195845B2
Provided is a substrate processing method that may prevent the non-uniformity of the thickness of landing pads deposited on each step in a vertical NAND device having a stepped structure. The substrate processing method includes stacking, a plurality of times, a stack structure including an insulating layer and a sacrificial layer and etching the stack structure to form a stepped structure having an upper surface, a lower surface, and a side surface connecting the upper surface and the lower surface. The method also includes forming a barrier layer on the stepped structure, forming a mask layer on the barrier layer and exposing at least a portion of the barrier layer by etching at least a portion of the mask layer with a first etching solution The method further includes etching the exposed barrier layer with a second etching solution and etching the mask layer with a third etching solution.
US11195843B2
According to one embodiment, a non-volatile memory device includes electrodes, an interlayer insulating film, at least one semiconductor layer, conductive layers, first and second insulating films. The electrodes are arranged in a first direction. The interlayer insulating film is provided between the electrodes. The semiconductor layer extends in the first direction in the electrodes and the interlayer insulating film. The conductive layers are provided between each of the electrodes and the semiconductor layer, and separated from each other in the first direction. The first insulating film is provided between the conductive layers and the semiconductor layer. The second insulating film is provided between each of the electrodes and the conductive layers, and extends between each of the electrodes and the interlayer insulating film adjacent to the each of the electrodes. A width of the conductive layers in the first direction is narrower than that of the second insulating film.
US11195841B2
A method for manufacturing an integrated circuit is provided. The method includes depositing a floating gate electrode film over a semiconductor substrate; patterning the floating gate electrode film into at least one floating gate electrode having at least one opening therein; depositing a control gate electrode film over the semiconductor substrate to overfill the at least one opening of the floating gate electrode; and patterning the control gate electrode film into at least one control gate electrode over the floating gate electrode.
US11195835B2
A memory device includes a memory cell, a writing transistor, and a reading transistor. The memory cell includes a semiconductor substrate, a tunneling layer, a storage layer, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode. The tunneling layer is over the semiconductor substrate. The storage layer is on the tunneling layer. The first electrode is on the storage layer. The second electrode is on the tunneling layer. The storage layer has a sidewall facing the second electrode. The third electrode is spaced apart from the second electrode. The writing transistor is electrically connected to the first electrode of the memory cell. The reading transistor is electrically connected to the second electrode of the memory cell.
US11195834B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second voltage device regions and a deep well common to the first and second voltage device regions. An operation voltage of electronic devices in the second voltage device region is higher than that of electronic devices in the first voltage device region. The deep well has a first conductivity type. The first voltage device region includes a first well having the second conductivity type and a second well having the first conductivity type. The second voltage region includes a third well having a second conductivity type and a fourth well having the first conductivity type. A second deep well having the second conductivity type is formed below the fourth well. The first, second and third wells are in contact with the first deep well, and the fourth well is separated by the second deep well from the first deep well.
US11195825B2
A semiconductor device arrangement and a method of operating a semiconductor device arrangement. The semiconductor device can be arranged for bidirectional operation. The semiconductor device arrangement can comprise: a field effect transistor comprising first and second input terminals; a control terminal; a first diode connected between the first terminal and the control terminal; and a second diode connected between the second terminal and the control terminal; wherein the first terminal and the second terminal are configured and arranged to be connected to respective signal lines.
US11195821B2
The present invention is concerned with an LED packaging unit, a manufacturing method for the same, and an LED lamp. The LED packaging unit has a common substrate, N number of red LED chips, M number of green LED chips and X number of blue LED chips. The N number of red LED chips, the M number of green LED chips and the X number of blue LED chips are arranged and packaged on a bottom surface of a recess of the common substrate. The red LED chips, the green LED chips and the blue LED chips are all monochromatic LED chips, with N, M, and X being integers greater than 1. The distances between any adjacent two red LED chips (or green LED chips or blue LED chips) are substantially consistent.
US11195814B2
A semiconductor device includes a first lead portion and a second lead portion spaced from each other in a first direction. A semiconductor chip is mounted to the first lead portion. A first connector has a first portion contacting a second electrode on the chip and a second portion connected to the second lead portion. A second connector has third portion that contacts the second electrode, but at a position further away than the first portion, and a fourth portion connected to the second portion. At least a part of the second connector overlaps a part of the first connector between the first lead portion and the second lead portion.
US11195807B2
Reduction in impedance in a lead connected to a semiconductor element is achieved while achieving anchor effect. The semiconductor device includes a heatsink, a semiconductor element, a lead disposed on an upper side of the heatsink, and a molding material formed to cover the lead, the heatsink, and the semiconductor element. Formed on an edge portion of a lower surface in a position, in the heatsink, overlapping with the lead in a plan view is a first convex portion protruding more than an edge portion of an upper surface in the position, and formed on an edge portion of an upper surface in a position, in the heatsink, which does not overlap with the lead in a plan view is a second convex portion protruding more than an edge portion of a lower surface in the position.
US11195806B2
An integrated circuit (IC) comprises a substrate, a first die mounted on the substrate, a second die mounted on the substrate and a waveguide structure mounted on the first die and the second die to enable high frequency wireless communication between the first die and the second die.
US11195787B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip and a redistribution layer on a first side of the semiconductor chip. The redistribution layer is electrically coupled to the semiconductor chip. The semiconductor device includes a dielectric layer and an antenna on the dielectric layer. The dielectric layer is between the antenna and the semiconductor chip.
US11195786B1
A semiconductor device package includes an embedded plurality of solder balls within an integrated circuit die (ICD) substrate In one embodiment, the integrated circuit die (ICD) substrate has a top surface and a bottom surface, and a plurality of solder balls at least partially embedded in the ICD substrate, where each of the plurality of solder balls comprises an exposed surface that is substantially flat and parallel planar to the bottom surface, and where the exposed surface of each of the plurality of solder balls is disposed in the bottom surface. In certain examples, the apparatuses also include a plurality of integrated circuit dies stacked on the top surface of the ICD substrate.
US11195779B2
A module. In some embodiments, the module includes a substrate; a plurality of electronic components, secured to an upper surface of the substrate; a thermally conductive heat spreader, on the electronic components and in thermal contact with an electronic component of the plurality of electronic components; a standoff, between the substrate and the heat spreader; an alignment element, extending into the substrate; a hard stop, under the substrate; and a plurality of compressible interconnects, under the substrate, and extending through the hard stop. The electronic components may be within a sight area of the substrate. The module may be configured to transmit a compressive load from an upper surface of the standoff to a lower surface of the substrate through a load path not including any of the electronic components.
US11195772B2
A semiconductor device comprises a first doped semiconductor layer, a second doped semiconductor layer, an oxide layer covering the first doped semiconductor layer and the second doped semiconductor layer, and an interconnect. The first doped semiconductor layer is electrically connected with the second doped semiconductor layer by means of the interconnect which crosses over a sidewall of the second doped semiconductor layer. The interconnect comprises a metal filled slit in the oxide layer. At least one electronic component is formed in the first and/or second semiconductor layer. The semiconductor device moreover comprises a passivation layer which covers the first and second doped semiconductor layers and the oxide layer.
US11195766B2
A method for manufacturing a combined semiconductor device. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate, providing a protective layer or a protective layer stack in a non-CMOS area of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the non-CMOS area is portion of the semiconductor substrate reserved for a non-CMOS device, at least partially manufacturing a CMOS device in a CMOS area of the semiconductor substrate, the non-CMOS area and the CMOS area being different from each other, removing the protective layer or the protective layer stack, to expose the semiconductor substrate in the non-CMOS area, and manufacturing a non-CMOS device in the non-CMOS area of the semiconductor substrate.
US11195765B2
There are provided a semiconductor device, a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic device including the device. According to an embodiment, the semiconductor device may include a substrate, and a first device and a second device formed on the substrate. Each of the first device and the second device includes a first source/drain layer, a channel layer and a second source/drain layer stacked on the substrate in sequence, and also a gate stack surrounding a periphery of the channel layer. The channel layer of the first device and the channel layer of the second device are substantially co-planar with each other, and the respective second source/drain layers of the first device and the second device are stressed differently.
US11195764B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device including vertical transport fin field-effect transistors (VTFETs) is provided. The method includes forming a bottom spacer on a first device region associated with a first VTFET and a second device region associated with a second VTFET, forming a liner on the bottom spacer, on a first fin structure including silicon germanium (SiGe) formed in the first device region and on a second fin structure including SiGe formed in the second device region, and forming crystalline Ge having a hexagonal structure from the SiGe by employing a Ge condensation process to orient a (111) direction of the crystalline Ge in a direction of charge flow for a VTFET.
US11195756B2
Methods of and carriers for dicing semiconductor wafers, each wafer having a plurality of integrated circuits, are described. In an example, a cover ring for protecting a carrier and substrate assembly during an etch process includes an inner opening having a diameter smaller than the diameter of a substrate of the carrier and substrate assembly. An outer frame surrounds the inner opening. The outer frame has a bevel for accommodating an outermost portion of the substrate of the carrier and substrate assembly.
US11195755B2
A method of forming a transistor device is provided. The method includes forming a plurality of gate structures including a gate spacer and a gate electrode on a substrate, wherein the plurality of gate structures are separated from each other by a source/drain contact. The method further includes reducing the height of the gate electrodes to form gate troughs, and forming a gate liner on the gate electrodes and gate spacers. The method further includes forming a gate cap on the gate liner, and reducing the height of the source/drain contacts between the gate structures to form a source/drain trough. The method further includes forming a source/drain liner on the source/drain contacts and gate spacers, wherein the source/drain liner is selectively etchable relative to the gate liner, and forming a source/drain cap on the source/drain liner.
US11195747B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency (RF) device including a device substrate, a thinned device die with a device region over the device substrate, a first mold compound, and a second mold compound. The device region includes an isolation portion, a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion, and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion with a contact layer and an active section. The contact layer resides over the BEOL portion, the active section resides over the contact layer, and the isolation portion resides over the contact layer to encapsulate the active section. The first mold compound resides over the device substrate, surrounds the thinned device die, and extends vertically beyond the thinned device die to define an opening over the thinned device die and within the first mold compound. The second mold compound fills the opening and directly connects the isolation portion of the thinned device die.
US11195728B2
Disclosed is a temporary protective film for semiconductor sealing molding 10 including a support film 1; and an adhesive layer 2 provided on the support film 1 and containing an acrylic rubber. A solid shear modulus at 200° C. of the temporary protective film for semiconductor sealing molding 10 may be 5.0 MPa or higher.
US11195724B1
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes the following operations. A substrate embedded with a shallow trench isolation is received. A first dielectric layer is formed on the substrate. An etching process is performed to form a hole in the first dielectric layer and form a pit in the substrate, wherein an upper surface of the shallow trench isolation is exposed from the hole, and the pit is adjacent to the shallow trench isolation. A second dielectric layer is formed on the first dielectric layer and the shallow trench isolation and in the pit. The second dielectric layer is treated with a plasma to convert a first portion of the second dielectric layer substantially on the first dielectric layer and the shallow trench isolation to a plasma-treated layer. The plasma-treated layer is removed to remain a second portion of the second dielectric layer in the pit.
US11195713B2
In one aspect, a method of forming a silicon-insulator layer is provided. The method includes arranging a silicon structure in a plasma etch process chamber and applying a plasma to the silicon structure in the plasma etch process chamber at a temperature of the silicon structure equal to or below 100° C. The plasma includes a component and a halogen derivate, thereby forming the silicon-insulator layer. The silicon-insulator layer includes silicon and the component. In another aspect, a semiconductor device is provided having a silicon-insulator layer formed by the method.
US11195697B2
A plasma control apparatus includes a power source unit, a resonance producing unit, and a voltmeter. The resonance producing unit includes an LC circuit formed by a coil L1 and a capacitor C1 connected to each other, and a sensor S2 configured to detect a phase difference between current flowing in and voltage applied to the LC circuit, and the capacitor C1 of the LC circuit has a capacitance larger than an expected capacitance of the plasma P. The power source unit 1 configured to control the magnitude of radio-frequency power to be supplied in such a manner as to bring the voltage measured with the voltmeter 5 close to a set voltage as a target, and controls the frequency of the radio-frequency power to be supplied in such a manner as to minimize the phase difference detected with the sensor S2.
US11195689B2
A sample holder for electron microscopy of air-sensitive samples for use in electron microscopy incorporates a housing and a closure assembly. The closure assembly comprises a lid comprising at least one closure arm receiving portions recessed within a flat, planar upper surface thereof. The housing comprises one or more closure arm(s) corresponding to one or more closure arm receiving portion(s). In a fully closed position, the closure arm(s) share contact with the closure arm receiving portion(s). The lid is flexibly coupled to a motor cover plate which can be actuated by a motor assembly configured to open and close the lid. The sample holder also includes an elevator assembly with a vertically adjustable sample stage which sits below the lid. The sample stage is vertically adjusted by actuation of a bellows assembly which sits beneath the sample stage.
US11195681B2
A circuit breaker includes: a tripped indicator for indicating a tripping of the circuit breaker, the tripped indicator having a first pivot element mounted on a first pivot pin; and a switch lock with a pawl pivotally mounted on a pawl pin. The first pivot element is actuated by the pawl to indicate a tripped condition of the circuit breaker. The first pivot pin is arranged substantially normal to the pawl pin.
US11195673B2
An arc chamber for a DC circuit breaker includes an entry side adapted to receive an electric arc, which was generated outside of the arc chamber and which propagates in a forward direction, a plurality of stacked splitter plates, and at least one inhibitor barrier. The at least one inhibitor barrier is arranged on the entry side to inhibit a reverse propagation of the electric arc out of the arc chamber in a reverse direction. DC circuit breaker comprising an arc chamber. Use of an arc chamber with a circuit breaker in a DC electrical system.
US11195671B2
A system includes a mechanical switching device having a first moveable contact operatively connected to selectively contact a first static contact. A second moveable contact is operatively connected to selectively contact a second static contact that is electrically connected in parallel with the first static contact. The first and second moveable contacts are mechanically connected to each other to move between a closed circuit position and an open circuit position. The first moveable contact contacts the first static contact before the second moveable contact contacts the second static contact as the first and second moveable contacts move into the closed circuit position from the open circuit position. The first moveable contact disconnects from the first static contact after the second moveable contact disconnects from the second static contact as the first and second moveable contacts move from the closed circuit position into the open circuit position.
US11195669B2
An energy-storage device is provided. It includes a charge-storing supercapacitor cell comprised of electrodes at least one of which includes a nano-carbon component, a ion-permeable membrane and an electrolyte characterised in that the cell is embedded or encapsulated in a flexible or rigid matrix.
US11195666B2
A device includes an electrode stack including a plurality of conductive anodes, a plurality of conductive cathodes, a plurality of separators arranged between the conductive anodes and the conductive cathodes, and a dielectric material disposed on a surface of each of the conductive anodes. The stack has a top surface, a bottom surface, and an edge extending between the top surface and the bottom surface. A continuous electrically insulating film overlies the edge, peripheral portions of the top surface and peripheral portions of the bottom surface so that a central portion of the top surface and a central portion of the bottom surface are exposed. An electrolyte is disposed between the conductive anodes and the conductive cathodes.
US11195661B2
Provided is a manufacturing method of a thin film capacitor comprising a capacitance portion in which at least one dielectric layer is sandwiched between a pair of electrode layers included in a plurality of electrode layers, the manufacturing method including a lamination process of alternately laminating the plurality of electrode layers and a dielectric film and forming a laminated body which will be the capacitance portion, a first etching process of forming an opening extending in a laminating direction with respect to the laminated body and exposing the dielectric film laminated directly on one of the plurality of electrode layers on a bottom surface of the opening, and a second etching process of exposing the one electrode layer at the bottom surface of the opening. In the second etching process, an etching rate of the one electrode layer is lower than an etching rate of the dielectric film.
US11195658B2
A multi-layer ceramic electronic device includes an element body and terminal electrodes. The terminal electrodes include end electrode parts covering ends of the element body in which internal electrode layers are led and upper electrode parts continuing to the end electrode parts and each partially covering an upper surface of the element body in a lamination direction. The terminal electrodes are not substantially formed on a lower surface of the element body located opposite to the upper surface of the element body in the lamination direction.
US11195657B2
A multilayer electronic component includes a body including a capacitance forming portion including dielectric layers and first and second internal electrodes with respective dielectric layers interposed therebetween and an upper cover portion and a lower cover portion, respectively disposed above and below the capacitance forming portion, and first and second external electrodes disposed on the body and respectively connected to the first and second internal electrodes. At least one of the upper cover portion or the lower cover portion includes a dummy electrode layer including a dummy pattern having a mesh shape. The dummy pattern includes a first dummy pattern, connected to the first external electrode, and a second dummy pattern spaced apart from the first dummy pattern and connected to the second external electrode.
US11195655B2
Techniques are provided for segmented windings of a coupled inductor within a DC-DC voltage converter or regulator. In an example, a coupled inductor circuit can include a first winding comprising a conductive coil having a central axis, and a second winding configured to magnetically couple with the first winding. The second winding can have a plurality of individual segments. Each individual segment can form a fraction of one turn of the second winding. Each segment can include a first conductor, a ground conductor, and a first switch to selectively couple, and selectively isolate, the first conductor and the ground conductor.
US11195653B2
A coil component including a magnetic portion that includes metal particles and a resin material, a coil conductor embedded in the magnetic portion, and outer electrodes electrically connected to the coil conductor. Also, a protective layer containing Ti is disposed on the magnetic portion.
US11195651B2
An inductance element includes a magnetic core and a coil having a portion embedded in the magnetic core. This portion includes a wound portion formed by winging a wire-shaped coil material including a wire-shaped conductive material and an insulating coating. The insulating coating includes a thin-walled portion reduced in thickness. A biting ratio R is defined by formula: R=ds/B, which is from 0.4 to 0.85 inclusive, where B is the average thickness of inter-coil insulating coatings, and ds is an upper biting limit obtained by measuring a biting depth, approximating a frequency distribution of the results by a normal distribution, and computing, as the upper biting limit, the sum of the mean da of the normal distribution and the product of 3.99 and the standard deviation σ. The biting depth is obtained by subtracting, from the average thickness B, the thickness of the thin-walled portion.
US11195636B2
A pressure sensitive electrically conductive composition comprises a contained quantity of magnetite particles, wherein the quantity of magnetite particles includes a distribution of particle sizes between sub-micron and tens of microns, and wherein the magnetite particles have a plurality of planar faces, adjacent planar faces connected at a vertex, the particles each having a plurality of vertices wherein the magnetite particles are irregular in shape and have a low aspect ratio.
US11195620B2
Computer-implemented methods, computer program products, and system facilitating evaluation of a progress of a diagnosis process are provided. The computer-implemented method comprises: obtaining, by a device operatively coupled to one or more processing units, a list of symptom(s); retrieving, by the device, a sub-graph associated with the list of symptom(s) from a knowledge graph; extracting, by the device, a list of feature(s) from the retrieved sub-graph; estimating, by the device, an average number of inquiries based on the extracted list of feature(s); and calculating, by the device, the progress of the diagnosis process based on the estimated average number of inquiries.
US11195610B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed herein for generating and sending priority alert notifications based on medical information, such as, for example, medical information obtained from analyzing medical images. In one embodiment, the method comprises: determining, using an image analysis engine, whether one or more features in a medical image of a patient meet predefined criteria, the predefined criteria being indicative of a medical condition; determining, using the image analysis engine, whether an alert notification is to be sent regarding results of determining whether the one or more features in the medical image meet the predefined criteria; and sending the alert notification with indicia indicative of a priority level if the one or more features in the medical image meet the predefined criteria, including sending medical information that prompted the image analysis engine to send the notification at the priority level.
US11195603B2
A method is provided, the method including receiving a test result data, wherein said test result data represents a result of a test on a physical specimen, associating said test result data with a standard-of-care data, wherein said standard-of-care data represents a recommended course of action for the condition represented by the test result data, and transforming said specimen data and said standard-of-care data into a human-readable form. A system including a processor is provided, a software adapted to be executed on said processor, said software comprising instructions for receiving a test result data, wherein said test result data represents a result of a test on a physical specimen, associating said test result data with a standard-of-care data, wherein said standard-of-care data represents a recommended course of action for the condition represented by the test result data, and transforming said specimen data and said standard-of-care data into a human-readable form.
US11195600B2
Automatic discrepancy detection in medical data is provided. In various embodiments, a disease label for a present study is determined, indicative of a disease condition. Retrospective review of a plurality of electronic medical records is performed. The retrospective review comprises searching for electronic medical records relevant to the disease condition. The earliest electronic medical record reflecting the disease condition is identified. Based on the earliest electronic medical record reflecting the disease condition, one or more of the electronic medical records having an omission or inconsistency is identified. The one or more of the electronic medical records having an omission or inconsistency are flagged for supplemental review in a worklist.
US11195599B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product are provided. Electronic health records of patients, indicating encounters with healthcare providers for medical conditions, are analyzed to determine networks of healthcare providers. Based on the analyzing, healthcare provider network data corresponding to a graphical representation of the determined networks of healthcare providers are generated. The healthcare provider network data includes multiple paths, each of which indicates a series of healthcare providers. Based on the generated healthcare provider network data, a path indicating a series of healthcare providers within the healthcare provider network data and corresponding to at least one medical condition indicated by an electronic health record of a patient is identified. An action for the patient and a corresponding healthcare provider to perform the action is determined based on the identified path. An appointment is automatically scheduled for the patient with the corresponding healthcare provider.
US11195596B2
Embodiments of techniques for analyzing one or more genomic regions of a genome of an organism. Data about a genomic region may be analyzed to determine an information content of the genomic region, which may indicate an amount of information provided by the genomic region. The data about the genomic region may be or include data identifying a chromatin state for the genomic region. A chromatin state may be one of a set of chromatin states that each define a different set of one or more chromatin characteristics. Chromatin characteristics may be structural and/or functional features of genomic regions. A chromatin state of a genomic region may be determined from, and describe, the genomic region such that when a genomic region has a set of one or more chromatin characteristics, a chromatin state associated with that combination of one or more chromatin characteristics is identified for the genomic region.
US11195585B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured: to store, in a buffer, a data set read from a cell unit, and an expected data set generated by an error correction on the data set; to count a number of first and second memory cells corresponding to a first and a second combination of data in the data set and the expected data set, respectively, among the memory cells in the cell unit; to calculate a shift amount of a read voltage used in a read operation from the cell unit, based on the number of the first and second memory cells; and to apply the shift amount to a next read operation from the first cell unit.
US11195583B2
A method of accessing a nonvolatile memory device which includes a memory block where semiconductor layers including word lines are stacked includes receiving a write request for the memory block, determining whether the write request corresponds to one or more leading word lines, programming, in response to the write request determined as corresponding to the leading word lines, memory cells connected thereto in a first program mode, and programming, when the write request is determined as corresponding to a following word line different from the leading word lines, memory cells connected to the following word line in a second program mode. The second program mode is performed with a second program parameter including at least one of a number of program pulses, a number of program verify pulses, a program start voltage, and a program end voltage that is different from a corresponding first parameter of the first program mode.
US11195578B2
One embodiment of a memory device comprises a selector and a storage capacitor in series with the selector. A further embodiment comprises a conductive bridging RAM (CBRAM) in parallel with a storage capacitor coupled between the selector and zero volts. A plurality of memory devices form a 1S-1C or a 1S-1C-CBRAM cross-point DRAM array with 4F2 or less density.
US11195576B2
A sense amplifier enable signal and a tracking signal are generated in response to an indication that a sufficient voltage difference has developed across bit lines of a memory. The sense amplifier enable signal has a pulse width between a leading edge and a trailing edge. The sense amplifier enable signal is propagated along a first U-turn signal line that extends parallel to rows of the memory array and is coupled to sense amplifiers arranged in a row to generate a sense amplifier enable return signal. The tracking signal is propagated along a second U-turn signal line extending parallel to columns of the memory array to generate a tracking return signal. The sense amplifier enable return signal and the tracking return signal are logically combined to generate a reset signal. Timing of the trailing edge of the pulse width is controlled by the reset signal.
US11195573B2
Embodiments provide one write operation circuit, which includes: a serial-to-parallel conversion circuit that performs serial-to-parallel conversion on a first DBI data of a DBI port to generate a second DBI data for transfer by a DBI signal line, and that generates an input data of a data buffer module depending on the second DBI data; a data buffer module that determines whether to flip a global bus depending on the input data of the data buffer module; the DBI decoding module that decodes a global bus data according to the second DBI data, and writes the decoded data into a memory bank, where decoding includes determining whether to flip the global bus data; and a precharge module that is coupled to a precharge signal line and that sets the initial state of the global bus to high.
US11195572B2
A memory is disclosed that includes a logic die having first and second memory interface circuits. A first memory die is stacked with the logic die, and includes first and second memory arrays. The first memory array couples to the first memory interface circuit. The second memory array couples to the second interface circuit. A second memory die is stacked with the logic die and the first memory die. The second memory die includes third and fourth memory arrays. The third memory array couples to the first memory interface circuit. The fourth memory array couples to the second memory interface circuit. Accesses to the first and third memory arrays are carried out independently from accesses to the second and fourth memory arrays.
US11195560B2
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a memory array, and having digit lines extending along a first direction through the memory array. Insulative spacers are along sidewalls of the digit lines. The insulative spacers extend continuously along the digit lines through the memory array. Conductive regions are laterally spaced from the digit lines by intervening regions. The conductive regions are configured as segments spaced apart from one another along the first direction. The intervening regions include regions of the insulative spacers and include void regions adjacent the regions of the insulative spacers. The void regions are configured as void-region-segments which are spaced apart from one another along the first direction by insulative structures. Storage-elements are associated with the conductive regions. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11195556B2
An approach is provided for a segment-based viewing of a watermarked recording. The approach involves receiving a request, from an evaluator, to access one of a plurality of media associated with a plurality of interviewees, wherein each of the plurality of media represents a recording of an interview of a corresponding interviewee; and wherein the request relates to evaluation of the corresponding interviewee for admission or hiring. The approach also involves determining source-identifying information associated with the evaluator. The approach further involves determining source-identifying information associated with the request. The approach additionally involves generating a watermark based on the source-identifying information, wherein the watermark is configured to depict an identifier of the evaluator during a presentation of the requested media. The approach further involves modifying the one media to superimpose the watermark on the recording. The approach also involves initiating transmission of the requested media with the generated watermark to a target device associated with the evaluator.
US11195552B1
Methods, apparatus, computer program products for pausing playback of a video based on competency assessment of a user are provided. In response to receiving a request to play a video from a user, a processor obtains corresponding competency values for the user, wherein each competency values indicate a competency assessment of the user imitating a content of the video. A processor determines one or more nodes from respective split nodes of adjacent segments in the video as pausing nodes based on the competency values and correlation of the adjacent segments, wherein the split nodes and the correlation of the adjacent segments are determined based on the content of the video. A processor pauses a playback of the video based on the pausing nodes during the playback of the video for the user.
US11195551B1
A remapping space may define correspondence between times within a video and times within a time-remapped video. Responsive to user selection of a moment within the video for initiation of time remapping using a selected playback speed, a start point and an end point may be inserted at the selected moment within the remapping space. Responsive to user selection of a segment within the video to apply the selected playback speed in the time remapping, the start point and/or the end point may be moved to change the correspondence between times within the video and times within the time-remapped video.
US11195543B2
Disclosed herein are new techniques carried out by a computing system for determining delays of various components of an audio system to allow for accurate correction of these delays, which may improve the audio quality of live performances for listeners who hear audio reproduced by loudspeakers at live performance venues. In one implementation the computing system, which may comprise a transmitter device and one or more receiver devices, may be configured to perform functions, including receiving a first audio signal, receiving, via an audio input interface of the receiver, a second audio signal, and determining, based on the first audio signal and the second audio signal, an audio delay that is associated with the second audio signal. The computing system may be configured to perform further functions, including based on a determined cross-correlation between a downsampled audio signal and a filtered second audio signal, determining the audio signal delay.
US11195540B2
Methods and apparatus for digital signal processing of signals received from sensors are provided. A first input signal and a second input signal are received. A noise correlation statistic between the first input signal and the second input signal is estimated. An inter sensor signal model representative of a relationship between desired signal components present in the first input signal and the second input signal is estimated. Responsive to the noise correlation statistic meeting a predefined condition, estimating the inter sensor signal model is based on the noise correlation statistic. Responsive to the noise correlation statistic not meeting the predefined condition, estimating the inter sensor signal model is based on a constrained noise correlation statistic derived from the noise correlation statistic.
US11195532B2
The present disclosure relates to chatbot systems, and more particularly, to techniques for detecting that there are multiple intents represented in an utterance and then matching each detected intent to an intent associated with a chatbot in a chatbot system. In certain embodiments, a chatbot system receives an utterance from a user. A language of the utterance is determined and a set of rules identified for the language of the utterance. The utterance is parsed to extract information relating to the sentence structure of the utterance. The set of one or more rules is used to (1) determine whether the utterance is formed of two or more parts that each correspond to a separate intent of a user, and (2) split the utterance into the two or more parts for separate processing including matching of each user intent to an intent configured for a chatbot.
US11195528B2
An artificial intelligence device for performing speech recognition includes a database configured to store correction data replacing a predetermined speech command, a microphone configured to receive a first speech command from a first user, and a processor configured to store the first speech command in the database when operation to be performed with respect to the first speech command is not determined, acquire correction data replacing the first speech command from a second user, and map and store the first speech command and the correction data in the database.
US11195517B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including a data acquisition section that acquires related information related to display information displayed by a display apparatus, and a provision section that, when intent of a voice recognition result is interpreted based on the related information, provides a user with a process result based on an intent interpretation result.
US11195513B2
A technique for estimating phonemes for a word written in a different language is disclosed. A sequence of graphemes of a given word in a source language is received. The sequence of the graphemes in the source language is converted into a sequence of phonemes in the source language. One or more sequences of phonemes in a target language are generated from the sequence of the phonemes in the source language by using a neural network model. One sequence of phonemes in the target language is determined for the given word. Also, technique for estimating graphemes of a word from phonemes in a different language is disclosed.
US11195511B2
Described herein is a method for creating object-based audio content from a text input for use in audio books and/or audio play, the method including the steps of: a) receiving the text input; b) performing a semantic analysis of the received text input; c) synthesizing speech and effects based on one or more results of the semantic analysis to generate one or more audio objects; d) generating metadata for the one or more audio objects; and e) creating the object-based audio content including the one or more audio objects and the metadata. Described herein are further a computer-based system including one or more processors configured to perform said method and a computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium with instructions adapted to carry out said method when executed by a device having processing capability.
US11195506B2
A sound-modulating window assembly, as well as systems and methods of using and operating the same, are disclosed herein. The sound-modulating window assembly can include sensors, a controller, and a sound modulation assembly. The sound-modulating window assembly The sound-modulating window assembly can receive information about one or more sounds in a vehicular environment. Then, the sound-modulating window assembly can produce a modulation profile. The modulation profile can be used by the sound modulation assembly to alter one or more characteristics of the windows, such that the sounds are mitigated or minimized.
US11195505B2
The present disclosure relates to a lightweight noise absorbing material and a substrate having the same attached thereto, and more particularly, to a lightweight noise absorbing material providing lightweight and excellent noise absorption performance compared to existing noise absorbing materials by including a triple thin fiber layer in which upper and lower fine fiber layers are stacked respectively on upper and lower surfaces of a fibrous non-woven fabric, and a substrate having the lightweight noise absorbing material attached thereto.
US11195502B2
Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and apparatus for cellular compositions/generating music in real-time using cells (i.e. short musical motifs), where the cellular compositions are dependent on user data.
US11195501B2
An electronic-drum module for connection to one or more electronic-drum pads is provided. The module includes an electronic display, a memory storing audio files for playback when the playback is triggered by a signal received from a pad, and one or more processors coupled to the electronic display and the memory. The processors are configured to play a portion of the audio files when the playback is triggered by the signal received from the one or more electronic-drum pads. The processors are also configured to display, on the display, a user interface for an application, which includes a waveform associated with recorded audio. The processors are also configured to display, on the display, tempo gridlines with a tempo-gridline spacing over the waveform. The module includes a control for adjusting the tempo-gridline spacing. The control is a wheel and is actuated by a rotation of the wheel.
US11195494B2
A screen brightness adjustment method includes: determining a direction of brightness adjustment based on a screen brightness adjustment instruction, and controlling a brightness level of a screen and a grayscale parameter of an image displayed on the screen based on the direction of brightness adjustment, such that brightness of the screen is adjusted to target brightness desired by the screen brightness adjustment instruction.
US11195486B2
A driving device and a driving method thereof. The driving device comprises a system-on-chip and a timing control board. The system-on-chip is set to receive and process image data signals of frames to be transmitted, and output a first image data signal and a difference signal between image data signals of the current frame and the previous frame. The timing control board is set to process the first image data signal, then output a second image data signal, and to perform the output according to the difference signal and the second image data signals of the current frame and the previous frame.
US11195481B2
An electrophoretic display comprising a fluid including a first species of particles and a charge control agent disposed between first and second electrodes. When a first addressing impulse have an electrical polarity is applied to the medium, the first species of particles move in one direction relative to the electric field, but when a second addressing impulse, larger than the first addressing impulse but having the same electrical polarity, is applied to the medium, the first species of particles move in the opposed direction relative to the electric field.
US11195479B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for driving a display device, a driving apparatus, a display device, and a computer-readable medium. The display device includes a backlight module, which includes a plurality of backlight regions. The method includes: determining a first backlight signal value of each of the plurality of backlight regions according to input grayscale values of pixels in an image to be displayed; determining a second backlight signal value of each of the plurality of backlight regions according to the first backlight signal values of the plurality of backlight regions and a preset backlight diffusion function; and driving each of the plurality of backlight regions to emit light using the second backlight signal value of the backlight region.
US11195472B2
A display device includes a display panel, a data driving circuit, a gate driving circuit, and a timing controller, each pixel of the display panel includes a light-emitting diode, a driving transistor, second to sixth switching transistors, and a storage capacitor, and at a sensing step at which the light-emitting diode does not emit light, a conduction path that is connected through the sixth switching transistor, the driving transistor, the second switching transistor, and the third switching transistor is formed, and an electrical signal reflecting a threshold voltage of one of the second to fourth switching transistors is transferred to a data line through the conduction path.
US11195468B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a first gate driver, a second gate driver, a third gate driver, and a data driver. The display apparatus is operable in a low frequency driving mode, and the low frequency driving mode includes a writing frame and a holding frame. At least one of gate power voltages used to generate a first gate signal, a second gate signal, and an emission signal has a first voltage level in the writing frame of the low frequency driving mode and a second voltage level in the holding frame of the low frequency driving mode. The data voltage is applied to the pixel in the writing frame of the low frequency driving mode. The data voltage applied to the pixel in the writing frame of the low frequency driving mode is maintained in the holding frame of the low frequency driving mode.
US11195463B2
A pixel driving circuit includes a current control circuit and a time control circuit, the current control circuit controls to generate a driving current, and outputs the driving current through a driving current output terminal, the time control circuit includes a first data writing-in circuit and a driving time control circuit. The first data writing-in circuit writes a first data voltage provided by a first data line to the driving time control circuit under the control of a first gate driving signal provided by a first gate line. The driving time control circuit is connected to a reference voltage terminal, the current control circuit, the first data writing-in circuit, and a light emitting element, and controls a light emitting time period of the light emitting element based on the reference voltage and the first data voltage, the reference voltage terminal is used to provide the reference voltage.
US11195462B2
Provided are a display device. The display device comprises: a display unit defined by a display area and a non-display area located outside the display area, and including pixels arranged in the display area, first sensing wirings electrically connected to the pixels, and auxiliary voltage wirings electrically separated from the pixels; and a sensing unit electrically connected to the first sensing wirings, wherein the first sensing wirings and the auxiliary voltage wirings extend in a first direction and are sequentially arranged along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction at first intervals, the first sensing wirings are spaced apart from each other along the second direction at second intervals greater than the first intervals and are electrically separated from each other, and the auxiliary voltage wirings are electrically connected to each other.
US11195452B1
Presented herein are techniques to retain full resolution across all screens of a video wall and achieve perfect visual synchronization (sync), such that all screens in a video wall configuration act and look like a single screen. In one form, a system is provided that includes a plurality of displays being arranged in one or more adjacent vertical columns, and a plurality of media players. Each media player of the plurality of media players is coupled to a corresponding display of the plurality of displays and is configured to play out a corresponding positional subset of an overall media content, with a corresponding delay, to the corresponding display arranged in the one or more adjacent vertical columns to compensate for scan out lag associated with the media content.
US11195445B2
This application discloses a driving method and a driving apparatus of a display device. The driving method comprises: acquiring a target color system which is to-be-adjusted, acquiring color shift grayscales corresponding to a color shift generated by the target color system, acquiring original grayscales corresponding to the target color system in an input signal, deleting a portion of color shift grayscales in the original grayscales, obtaining mapping grayscales corresponding to the target color system, adopting a high-bit drive semiconductor element or a frame ratio control, and outputting a signal of the mapping grayscales corresponding to the target color system.
US11195441B2
A display device including: a base layer including a first region, a second region, and a bending region, the bending region including a first bending region adjacent to the first region and a second bending region adjacent to the second region; pixels disposed on the first region; pads disposed on the second region; signal lines electrically connected to the pixels and disposed on the first region, the bending region, and the second region; a first sensor line disposed on the first bending region; first sensor connection lines electrically connected to the first sensor line, extending through the first bending region, the second bending region, and the second region; a second sensor line disposed on the second bending region and between the first sensor line and the second region; and second sensor connection lines electrically connected to the second sensor line, extending through the second bending region and the second region.
US11195438B2
A light fixture sign includes a sign message structure including letter-shaped structures. The light fixture sign includes an illumination source to generate light to be projected through a front surface of the letter-shaped structures. The light fixture sign includes at least one reflective mirror having a first surface attached over a back surface of the letter-shaped structures and a reflective surface opposite the first surface to reflect light.
US11195437B2
A flexible display device, which at least includes a plurality of bonding pins. A plurality of first bonding pins are disposed on an interlayer between a TFT array substrate and a color film substrate, and the plurality of the first bonding pins respectively extend to a first lateral surface of the TFT array substrate and a first lateral surface of the color film substrate; a plurality of second bonding pins are used for bonding with a first flexible circuit board and are partially disposed on a bottom surface of the TFT array substrate; and a plurality of third bonding pins are used for bonding with a second flexible circuit board and are partially disposed on an upper surface of the color film substrate.
US11195429B2
A system and method are that includes a frame and a weapon mount on the frame that receives a weapon mock-up. The method includes setting up a trainer simulator including opening a transportable shipping container, wherein the transportable shipping container includes a coupled integrated common base frame and a universal mount tower. The method includes assembling a seat and pivoting the universal mount tower from a horizontal position to a vertical position wherein the universal mount tower auto-locks into position. The method includes delivering ground vehicle based weapon system training to a user using a continuum of human interface fidelities that includes a first, second and third fidelity, wherein the user is first delivered training at a first fidelity, and then at a second fidelity and then at a third fidelity. A system for a mission reconfigurable trainer simulation is also presented.
US11195428B2
Systems and methods are provided for feedback-driven provision of information in relation to a plurality of information resources. Some such methods involve: accessing information resources from one or more information resource repositories to establish a mapping between each information resource and each of the other information resources; maintaining a state table comprising a plurality of state-table records, each state-table record attributing a value to a state-action pair, the state-action pair comprising an indication of a series of one or more actions in relation to the information resources; monitoring actions of a first user in relation to the information resources; receiving a feedback metric related to interaction of the first user with the information resources; using the feedback metric as a basis for updating the values of a subset of the state-table records, the subset of the state-table records comprising state-action pairs which correspond to the monitored actions of the first user in relation to the information resources; and providing output information related to the information resources based at least in part on the updated values of the state-table records.
US11195427B2
System and methods of gating notifications for content objects of an electronic learning platform are described herein. The notification may be conditioned on whether the content object is available to a user receiving the notification, or the state of the content object, for example.
US11195423B2
A method, executed by a processor, includes the processor receiving signals information from a device located on a departing airplane; verifying an identification of the airplane and identifying an expected departure sequence of aircraft surface states; monitoring and identifying additional signals information received from the mobile device, including comparing the additional signals information to known data; logging the additional signals information, and processing the additional signals information, and determining the logged data corresponds to events indicative of an aircraft surface state; sending an aircraft surface state reached message to Local and Center flight management; and executing a statistical routine and providing statistical data from the execution relating to an occurrence of upcoming aircraft surface state event and sending the statistical data with the aircraft surface state message.
US11195419B2
A method includes: extracting Time to Closest Point of Approach included in a predetermined time from “risk value information” that stores a “Closest Point of Approach”, the “Time to Closest Point of Approach” and a “risk value” for “a first vessel and a second vessel”, the risk value being a value indicating a possibility of collision between the first vessel and the second vessel at the Closest Point of Approach and the Time to Closest Point of Approach; acquiring the Closest. Point of Approach and the risk value corresponding to the extracted Time to Closest Point of Approach from the risk value information; determining to which sea area the acquired Closest. Point of Approach belongs to; and executing calculation processing that includes calculating a sum of risk values corresponding to the Closest Point of Approach for each of sea areas to which the determined Closest Point of Approach belongs.
US11195412B2
A system and method for the prediction of vehicle traffic congestion on a given roadway within a region. In particular, the computer implemented method of the present disclosure utilize real time traffic images from traffic cameras for the input of data and utilizes computer processing and machine learning to model a predictive level of congestion within a category of low congestion, medium congestion, or high congestion. By implementing machine learning in the comparison of exemplary images and administrator review, the computer processing system and method steps can predict a more efficient real time congestion prediction over time.
US11195407B1
A mobile computing device includes: a beacon transmitter; a receiver; a controller connected with the beacon transmitter and the receiver, the controller configured to: control the beacon transmitter to broadcast a lost device signal, the lost device signal configured for locating the mobile computing device and including an indicator of a designated reception window; during the designated reception window, enable the receiver; and in response to receiving a discovery command from a searching device, control the beacon transmitter to transmit a response signal for locating the mobile computing device.
US11195400B2
A smoke detector comprising a body, having a detection chamber therein; a first transmitting tube and a second transmitting tube, arranged in the body and configured to be capable of transmitting a first ray of light and a second ray of light into the detection chamber, respectively; a receiving tube, where the first ray of light and the second ray of light can be incident after refraction and/or scattering, and which generates outputs according to the intensity of incident light; and a control device, coupled with the receiving tube to receive a first output generated by the first ray of light on the receiving tube and a second output generated by the second ray of light on the receiving tube, and configured to determine whether there is a fire based on a difference or ratio between the first output and the second output, or the combination thereof.
US11195398B1
An apparatus includes a capture device, a light, a processor and a communication device. The capture device may be configured to generate high resolution video frames of an area below a level of the apparatus. The light may be configured to illuminate the area in a first mode and focus a light beam on a target in a second mode. The processor may be configured to perform video analysis on the high resolution video frames to detect objects, change the light to the second mode by identifying the target from the objects detected, perform digital pan, zoom and tilt operations on the high resolution video frames and crop the high resolution video frames to a low resolution video frame using the operations. The communication device may be configured to receive the low resolution video frame from the processor and transmit the low resolution video frame to a user device.
US11195394B2
A system and method for identifying if a drone is illegitimately video streaming a location, object or person. An interceptor intercepts radio transmissions and identifies if a radio transmission is an FPV video transmission. A watermarker is used for emitting a periodic physical stimulus at a given frequency for a given duration. The system then verifies if there is a correlation between the video transmission and the periodic physical stimulus; and issues a privacy invasion attack notification if such a correlation is determined between the video transmission and the periodic physical stimulus.
US11195385B2
The method of awarding a bonus includes executing a game so as to define a combination (Step S2); ascertaining if the combination falls within a predefined sub-set of combinations (Step S3), and, if so, setting the combination as a target combination (Step S4). Once a target combination has been set, further games are executed (Step S5), each of which defines a further combination. If the further combination bears a predefined relationship to the target combination (Step S6) then bonus is awarded (Step S7).
US11195377B2
An electronic gaming machine (EGM) or another type of gaming device may be configured to provide games that involve “WYSIWYG” (what you see is what you get) symbols or “prize on” symbols. The gaming device may be configured to provide the value of all “prize on” symbols that land during a single instance of a game if a prize on trigger symbol, which also may be referred to herein as a blast symbol, lands during the same instance of the game. In some examples, the game may be a base game. According to some examples, a feature does not need to be triggered during the instance of the base game for the value of all prize on symbols that land during the instance of the base game to be awarded. In other examples, the game may be a feature game, such as a “hold and spin” game.
US11195371B2
A blockchain system for facilitating preparation and installation of electronic gaming devices using a blockchain network is provided. The blockchain system includes an electronic gaming machine (EGM). The EGM includes a memory, a network interface, and at least one processor. The processor is configured to execute the operating system and the blockchain client, initiate a software installation on the EGM of a software component after the EGM has been delivered to an operational venue, including transmitting a software request transaction into the blockchain network for addition to the blockchain, identify a software permission blockchain transaction from the blockchain authorizing the installation of the software component on the EGM, download the software component from a cloud server of a regulated cloud storing certified software images of software components for EGMs in the blockchain network, and install the software component on the EGM.
US11195369B2
A pedestal system including a pedestal is described. The pedestal includes a base, an access door, and a button deck. The access door is rotatably coupled to the pedestal between a first open position and a first closed position wherein the access door is configured to allow access to an interior portion of the pedestal. The button deck includes one or more of a display and a button panel including one or more buttons. The button deck is rotatably coupled to the pedestal between a second open position and a second closed position wherein the button deck is configured to allow access to the interior portion of the pedestal when the button deck is in the second open position.
US11195366B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a gaming token representing a wager amount placed in a game that can provide different sensory feedback responses in response to different sensed contexts associated with the token. Illustratively, a method of facilitating player interaction in a game includes receiving, by a gaming system, a gaming token representing a wager amount placed in a game; receiving, by a processor of the gaming system from a context sensor, input that a context is associated with the gaming token; determining by the processor, from among a plurality of different possible sensory feedback responses, a selected sensory feedback response corresponding to a determined context; and causing, by the processor, the gaming token to produce the processor selected sensory feedback response.
US11195354B2
A gesture access system adapted to operate in conjunction with a containment carried by a user. The access system includes an access assembly, a mobile device, a storage medium, and a processor. The assembly is adapted to operate between an access and no-access states, and includes a controller, and a signal receiver. The device is disposed in the containment and includes an inertial measurement unit sensor system configured to measure a device motion of the device to conditionally detect an intentional body gesture of the user indicative of an intent to gain access. The intentional body gesture is contrary to routine containment motions caused by routine body motions of the user. The storage medium and the processor are configured to store and execute an application and preprogrammed motion scenario data to analyze the device motion and conditionally send a command signal to the assembly.
US11195350B2
Methods and systems for operating axles of a vehicle are provided. In one example, an apparatus is configured to consume a first amount of electric power to indicate a first axle operating state. The apparatus is also configured to consume a second amount of electric power to indicate a second axle operating state.
US11195349B2
An external-world recognition system includes: a satellite positioning device that measures the position of a vehicle by receiving radio waves transmitted from artificial satellites; a yaw rate sensor that detects or estimates the movement of the vehicle; a camera that acquires external-world information about the surroundings of the vehicle; and an external-world recognition device that recognizes external-world information considering a reference direction as the center. The external-world recognition device corrects a detection value from the yaw rate sensor on the basis of time-series positions of the vehicle as measured by the satellite positioning device and corrects the reference direction on the basis of the corrected detection value.
US11195341B1
Eyewear providing an interactive augmented reality experience to allow a user of an eyewear device to display a 3D overlay image on a viewed person. The user can select the overlay image from a list of images, such as costumes, stored in memory or generated by the user. The images can be sorted in memory based on common attributes. Registration points of the person are continuously aligned with registration points of the overlay as the person moves such that the user appears to be wearing the 3D costume during movement. By aligning the registration points, the costume adapts to different body types and heights. The coloring of the costume can change based on the environment, such as the lighting, or to contrast with colors viewed in a viewfinder.
US11195337B2
A method of augmented reality video communications between a remote system having a camera and a local system having a display. The remote and local systems are in communication with each other. A select portion of a remote camera video from the remote system is communicated to the local system. A local overlay is provided at the local system corresponding to a target portion of the local display field of view. Interpolation between the local overlay and the local display field of view specifies a local augmented reality portion of a local display corresponding to the local overlay. The select portion of the remote camera video is displayed onto the local augmented reality portion of the local display.
US11195332B2
An information exchange method based on a virtual space scene is performed at a computing device, the method including: obtaining location information of a current terminal; obtaining, according to the location information of the current terminal, map data of a range in which the current terminal is located; drawing, according to the map data, a map in a constructed three-dimensional space, to obtain a drawing result; simulating, according to the drawing result, a real environment of a geographical location of the current terminal in the three-dimensional space, to obtain a virtual space for information exchange; and collecting an operation triggered by at least two terminals in the virtual space, and controlling information exchange processing of the at least two terminals according to a generated operation instruction.
US11195330B2
The disclosure notably relates to a computer-implemented method for generating a structured three-dimensional (3D) model from a mesh. The method includes obtaining a mesh that comprises faces, each face of the mesh including a normal and principal curvature values; computing a distribution of the principal curvatures values over the whole mesh by counting the number of occurrences of discretized curvature values; identifying in the computed distribution one or more dominant ranges of principal curvature values; for each identified dominant range, computing one or more regions of the mesh that includes faces belonging to the identified dominant range; for each computed region, detecting a primitive type by using the curvatures values of all faces of the region and identifying parameters of the detected primitive by using the mesh surface of the region.
US11195327B2
A surveying apparatus (100) comprising a controller (CPU), the controller (CPU) being configured to: receive an image stream representing a video sequence; determine a camera pose for a second image in the image stream relative a first image in the image stream; match the first image with the second image, based on the camera pose; and generate a three dimensional model based on the image match.
US11195319B1
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a distortion mesh defined in a 3D space by a plurality of mesh coordinates that are respectively associated with a plurality of predetermined points in a screen representation, where each mesh coordinate specifies a trajectory for a ray cast from the associated predetermined point into the 3D space; determining a sampling point within the screen representation; selecting a set of mesh coordinates from the plurality of mesh coordinates based on proximities between the sampling point and the predetermined points associated with the set of mesh coordinates; computing a sampling trajectory for the sampling point based on the selected set of mesh coordinates; casting a ray into the 3D space using the sampling trajectory; computing an intersection location between the cast ray and an object in the 3D space; and determining a color value for the sampling point based on the intersection location.
US11195313B2
A cross-modality neural network transform for semi-automatic medical image annotation is provided. In various embodiments, an input medical image is mapped to a first vector in a text vector space. The first vector corresponds to the features of the medical image. A set of predetermined vectors is searched for a closest one of the predetermined vectors to the first vector. From the closest one of the predetermined vectors, one or more keywords is determined describing the input medical image.
US11195312B1
A graph processing system, method and apparatus classifies graphs based on a linearly computable set of features defined as a feature vector adapted for comparison with the feature vectors of other graphs. The features result from graph statistics (“gragnostics”) computable from the edges and vertices of a set of graphs. Graphs are classified based on a multidimensional distance of the resulting feature vectors, and similar graphs are classified according to a distance, or nearest neighbor, of the feature vector corresponding to each graph. Projection of the feature vector onto two dimensions allows visualization of the classification, as similar graphs appear as clusters or groups separated by a relatively shorter distance. Different types or classifications of graphs also appear as other, more distant, clusters. An initial training set defines the classification types, and sampled graphs are evaluated and classified based on the feature vector and nearest neighbors in the training set.
US11195308B2
Generating a look of characters using visible brush strokes, including: receiving an input image and a pattern image; replacing each patch in the pattern image with an average color of pixels in the input image corresponding to pixels of each patch to produce a color-averaged output; and applying distortion to the color-averaged output using a distortion image.
US11195305B2
A method and device for identifying a stereoscopic object, and a vehicle and a storage medium are described. They are used for solving the problem that a monocular camera cannot determine whether an object to be identified is a stereoscopic object. The method is applied to a vehicle, and the method comprises: during driving, photographing an object to be identified by means of a monocular camera on the vehicle, so as to obtain a plurality of images (S11); determining, according to the plurality of images, an imaging change rule of the object to be identified that is projected onto an imaging plane of the monocular camera, wherein the imaging changes along with a change in the distance between the object to be identified and the vehicle (S12); and if the imaging change rule matches a quadratic curve, determining that the object to be identified is a stereoscopic object (S13).
US11195304B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure propose an apparatus and a method for processing an image for converting a frame rate. To this end, the present invention is capable of providing an apparatus and a method for processing an image, configured to convert a frame rate on the basis of monochrome image frames acquired through a monochrome sensor, and perform an image synthesis with the frame rate converted monochrome image frame by using a downsampled color image frame acquired through a color sensor.
US11195293B2
An information processing device extracts an image of a marker from a photographed image, and obtains a position of a representative point of the marker in a three-dimensional space. Meanwhile, a position and an attitude corresponding to a time of photographing the image are estimated on the basis of an output value of a sensor included in a target object. A weight given to positional information of each marker is determined by using a target object model on the basis of the estimation, and positional information of the target object is calculated. Further, final positional information is obtained by synthesizing estimated positional information at a predetermined ratio, and the final positional information is output and fed back for a next estimation.
US11195281B1
A method for determining healing progress of a tissue disease state includes receiving a thermal image of a target wound area from a thermal imaging system, processing the thermal image to construct an isotherm map of at least one selected area, determining a thermal index value from the isotherm map, correlating the wound thermal index value with a reference thermal index value representative of an injury-free state.
US11195276B2
The invention provides systems and methods for imaging a sample. In various embodiments, the invention provides a system comprising an image sensor, a laser for emitting excitation light for an infrared or near-infrared fluorophore, a visible light source, a notch beam splitter, a notch filter, a synchronization module, an image processing unit, an image displaying unit, and light-conducting channels. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a system comprising an image sensor, a laser for emitting excitation light for an infrared or near-infrared fluorophore, a laser clean-up filter, a notch filter, a white light source, an image processing unit, an image displaying unit, and light-conducting channels. In accordance with the present invention, the image sensor can detect both visible light and infrared light.
US11195273B2
Systems and methods for developing a disease detection model. One method includes training the model using an image study and an associated disease label mined from a radiology report. The image study including a sequence of a plurality of two-dimensional slices of a three-dimensional image volume, and the model including a convolutional neural network layer and a convolutional long short-term memory layer. Training the model includes individually extracting a set of features from each of the plurality of two-dimensional slices using the convolutional neural network layer, sequentially processing the features extracted by the convolutional neural network layer for each of the plurality of two-dimensional slices using the convolutional long short-term memory layer, processing output from the convolutional long short-term memory layer for a sequentially last of the plurality of two-dimensional slices to generate a probability of the disease, and updating the model based on comparing the probability to the label.
US11195267B1
Disclosed herein is a computerized system including scanning equipment configured to obtain multi-perspective scan data of a slice on a sample. The scanning equipment includes: (i) a light source configured to generate a light beam; (ii) an acousto-optic deflector (AOD) configured to focus the light beam such as to generate a beam train scanned along consecutive lines on the slice, in groups of n≥2 successively scanned lines, along each of which the beam train forms at least one illumination spot, respectively; and (iii) one or more detectors configured to sense light returned from the slice. The n≥2 lines are scanned different perspectives, respectively. The consecutive lines may be longitudinally displaced relative to one another, such as to overlap in 100·(n−1)/n % of widths thereof, so that the slice may be fully scanned in each of the perspectives.
US11195265B2
Provided are a server and method for recognizing an image to determine whether an inspection target is faulty. The method includes generating a new image by transforming N images acquired from an inspection target into one or more channel spaces, and extracting a feature value by learning N images acquired by separating the new image according to channels.
US11195255B2
In order to efficiently provide an image suitable for detecting a defect in a structure, an image processing apparatus inputs an image and a parameter for geometrically correcting the image, calculates a resolution of a corrected image obtained in a case of geometrically correcting the image using the parameter, and displays resolution information relating to the calculated resolution in association with the image.
US11195249B2
A processing device includes a low-speed storage unit that stores an image extending in a column direction and a row direction, a high-speed storage unit on which reading is executed at a higher speed than the low-speed storage unit and which stores a region corresponding to the entire image in the column direction and a predetermined storage row that is a portion in the row direction of the image, a reading unit that continuously reads the image in the column direction from the high-speed storage unit, and a determining unit that reads the image from the low-speed storage unit and writes the image to the high-speed storage unit. The determining unit determines a row number to be read next in the image based on the minimum or maximum row number in the row direction of the image, stored in the high-speed storage unit for each of targets that are to be processed and are obtained by dividing the column direction into predetermined pixels.
US11195243B2
Methods of verifying an onboard presence of a passenger of a transportation vehicle are provided. A method of verifying an onboard presence of a passenger of a transportation vehicle includes generating, via a wireless electronic device of the passenger while on board the transportation vehicle, different first and second data indicating the onboard presence of the passenger. Moreover, the method includes transmitting the different first and second data indicating the onboard presence of the passenger from the wireless electronic device to a server. Related wireless electronic devices, servers, and computer program products are also provided.
US11195241B2
Embodiments for a rentable multipurpose private facility and method of use are provided. The facility includes frontend space, a backend space, a plurality of customization options, and a point-of-sale system. Generally speaking, these components are structured such that the facility includes a frontend space and a backend space with the point-of-sale system located in the frontend space. The method includes displaying information identifying reservation option, reserving a rentable multipurpose private facility, displaying information identifying configuration selection options for the rentable multipurpose private facility, receiving the configuration selection, displaying information identifying payment selection options, receiving payment selection, in response to receiving payment selection, configuring and furnishing the rentable multipurpose private facility according to the configuration selection, displaying information identifying selection of purchasable services and items for the rentable multipurpose private facility, and preserving the configuration selection for continued use at a later date.
US11195238B2
In general, the present disclosure includes a system, method and architecture for use in analyzing content of a social network data to identify a financial market trend, e.g., a trend associated with a financial market instrument.
US11195234B1
The present embodiments relate to detecting fraudulent insurance claims. According to certain aspects, a central monitoring server may receive and examine data detected by at least one unmanned vehicle and generate an estimated insurance claim for a loss event. The central monitoring server may then receive an actual insurance claim relating to the loss event, and may compare the estimated insurance claim to the actual insurance claim to identify potential buildup included in the actual insurance claim. If buildup is detected, the central monitoring server may then process the actual insurance claim accordingly based upon the potential buildup. As a result, claim monies may be paid to insureds that more accurately reflect actual losses resulting from the loss event, and insurance cost savings may be ultimately passed onto typical insurance customers.
US11195232B2
The traditional Markowitz mean-variance-optimization (MVO) framework that uses the standard deviation of the possible portfolio returns as a measure of risk does not accurately measure the risk of multi-asset class portfolios whose return distributions are non-Gaussian and asymmetric. A scenario-based conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) approach for minimizing the downside risk of a multi-asset class portfolio is addressed that uses Monte-Carlo simulations to generate the asset return scenarios. These return scenarios are incorporated into a modified Rockafellar-Uryasev based convex programming formulation to generate an optimized hedge. One example addresses hedging in an equity portfolio with options. Testing shows that a hierarchical CVaR approach generates portfolios with better predicted worst case loss, downside risk, standard deviation, and skew.
US11195230B2
Systems including a hub platform, communication network, and memory configured for processing data involving time-stamped/time-sensitive aspects and other features are disclosed. In one example, such system may comprise a hub entity computer platform and associated computing components configured to generate a hub entity and a plurality of portals including at least first and second portals, wherein information displayed therein is automatically updated in real-time between portals, automatically attach timestamps and identifier information to orders upon receipt and acceptance thereof, automatically generate and/or process order book data, generate and/or interactively display GUI-based order depth tables that are automatically updated/sorted/ranked based on various inputs and/or information, generate order depth graphs for display, and/or generate other GUI features that, for example, graphically display and automatically update level-of-involvement information.
US11195225B2
The invention provides methods and apparatus for detecting when an online session is compromised. A plurality of device fingerprints may be collected from a user computer that is associated with a designated Session ID. A server may include pages that are delivered to a user for viewing in a browser at which time device fingerprints and Session ID information are collected. By collecting device fingerprints and session information at several locations among the pages delivered by the server throughout an online session, and not only one time or at log-in, a comparison between the fingerprints in association with a Session ID can identify the likelihood of session tampering and man-in-the middle attacks.
US11195224B2
A method provides for using a wireless patron unit within a venue and within a vicinity of the venue. The method includes providing at least one patron with a wireless patron unit by either permitting the at least one patron to temporarily use a provided wireless patron unit that includes at least one venue specific application program, or by providing at least one venue specific application program to the at least one patron for downloading into a patron-owned wireless communication device that can be used during the at least one patron's visit to the venue. The method also includes connecting the wireless patron unit to a server enabling communication between the wireless patron unit and the server, entering a patron order for at least one item or service provided by the venue into the wireless patron unit, and determining a current location of the wireless patron unit.
US11195222B2
In an online concierge system, a customer adds items to an online shopping cart. The online concierge system determines key ingredients from the items in the online shopping cart by mapping the items to generic items and removing non-ingredient items and staple items. The online concierge system retrieves recipes including at least one of the key ingredients. The online concierge system determines complementary ingredients based on the other ingredients in the recipes and calculates co-occurrence scores for the complementary ingredients. Using the co-occurrence scores, the online concierge system ranks the complementary ingredients and sends for display a subset of the complementary ingredients as recommended items.
US11195219B2
This disclosure provides an AVI system, including: a back-end server; and one or more shopping kiosks. Each shopping kiosk includes a user device; and a stand, wherein the user device is placed on the stand. The stand further includes one or more bars at an upper part of the stand, and one or more clothing samples are capable of being hung on the one or more bars. One or more orders are placed by a customer through a shopping application installed on the user device after trying on the one or more clothing samples.
US11195215B1
An ambient transaction system is described for facilitating various transactions types between a management system and a connected device over a transaction platform. Based on a variety of different triggering conditions, the transaction platform may establish an integrated session among the transaction platform, the management system, and the connected device. The transaction platform includes integrated logic of the management system such that a presentment layer provided to the connected device by the transaction platform via the integrated session includes features of the management system associated with the transaction type. When the transaction is a payment transaction, the features may include a payment feature through which checkout options may be selected for payment via the connected device. Upon receiving a payment selection from the connected device, the transaction platform may transmit the payment information to a payment processing system, and provide payment confirmation to at least the management system.
US11195205B2
In certain aspects, the disclosed implementations include methods and systems for providing transaction affinity merchant recommendation information performed by transaction affinity platform computing components that execute software stored in a memory. In certain aspects, the disclosed implementations may determine transaction affinity relationship data for transactions associated with a set of account records. Each account record in the set of account records may be associated with a set of users. The disclosed implementations may also determine transaction affinity relationship profiles based on transaction affinity profile parameters that are associated with the transaction affinity relationship data and first transaction data. Further, the disclosed implementations may determine one or more transaction affinity patterns based on the transaction affinity relationship data and the transaction affinity relationship profiles. In certain aspects, the disclosed implementations may further determine transaction affinity merchant recommendation information based on the one or more transaction affinity patterns.
US11195198B2
A payment card benefit assessment system and method includes a computing device accepting payment card benefit catalog information from a payment card issuer and payment card transaction data from a payment card processing network. The payment card transaction data is analyzed to group cardholders into one demographic clusters and to determine an estimated benefit value for each of the demographic clusters. Individualized payment card benefit options are presented to an individual cardholder based on the individual cardholder's payment card transactions and the determined estimated benefit value for a corresponding one of the plurality of demographic clusters.
US11195183B2
A server device obtains historical transaction data regarding transactions involving a network service, obtains historical calendar data regarding static date information for a historical time period that corresponds with the historical transaction data, and processes the historical transaction data and historical calendar data to train a machine learning model using a gradient boosting machine learning technique to predict a normal transaction volume for a period of time and confidence bands associated with the normal transaction volume. The server device generates the normal transaction volume for the period of time and confidence bands using the machine learning model, obtains real-time data concerning a transaction volume during the period of time, detects a transaction volume anomaly based on comparing the real-time data and normal transaction volume and confidence bands, and sends an alert, based on the transaction volume anomaly, to cause a remote device to display the alert and perform an action.
US11195172B2
A device receives information indicating first names and last names of individuals and applies different cursive fonts to each of the first names and the last names to generate images of different cursive first names and different cursive last names. The device applies different transformations to the images of the different cursive first names and the different cursive last names to generate a set of first name images and a set of last name images. The device combines each first name image with each last name image to form a set of signature images and trains a neural network model, with the set of signature images, to generate a trained neural network model. The device receives an image of a signature and processes the image of the signature, with the trained neural network model, to recognize a first name and a last name in the signature.
US11195161B2
A registration apparatus stores input data. The registration apparatus outputs the stored data. A checkout apparatus receives an input relating to payment for a commodity before data input of all commodities purchased by a customer at the registration apparatus is terminated. The checkout apparatus stores data relating to the received input. The checkout apparatus generates transaction data indicating a content of one transaction based on the stored data and the data output from the registration apparatus and issues a receipt.
US11195152B2
Determines an optimal route for a given user to travel from the given user's current physical location to a secondary location so that the given user can perform an exercise routine at the secondary location. In order to determine the optimal route for the given user, at least some of the following factors are considered: the amount of available time the given user has between engagements in his or her daily schedule, the distance between the current location and the secondary location, and the weather.
US11195149B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to cryptography. In particular, example embodiments relate to computing a relationship between private data of a first entity and private data of a second entity, while preserving privacy of the entities and preventing inter-entity data sharing. A server includes a first component to compute an intersection of two datasets, without directly accessing either dataset. The server includes a second component to compute a relationship, such as a regression, between data in the first dataset and data in the second dataset, without directly accessing either dataset.
US11195144B2
Systems and methods for enabling gifting of a gift product on a merchant store front determine eligibility of an abstract product available for purchase on the merchant store front to be selected as a gift product, the abstract product representing a set of all available SKUs for a given product, a gift product representing a subset of all available SKUs for a given abstract product, and the subset including less than all available SKUs for the given abstract product and greater than one available SKU for the given abstract product; generate and place an embedded widget on the merchant store front to determine gift intent to initiate a gift transaction of the gift product; assign at least one representative SKU to represent the gift product; and mimic an orchestrated transaction between a user and the merchant store front prior to final selection of a specific SKU of the gift product.
US11195143B1
In an example embodiment, a method may generate an item layout map for a shelving unit, where the shelving unit stores item types associated with a product category. The method may determine product attributes associated with the product category and divider configurations of the shelving unit, where a divider configuration divides the shelving unit into one or more candidate regions. The method may generate an ontology entry associated with a product attribute and the divider configuration based on the item layout map and the divider configuration of the shelving unit, the ontology entry indicating a regional entropy values of a product attribute for the candidate regions generated by the divider configuration. In some instances, the method may generate a guidance instruction related to the product attribute of the product category based on the ontology entry and provide the guidance instruction to a user.
US11195142B2
Systems and methods for automated cloud infrastructure operations using a structured inventory are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for automated cloud infrastructure operations using a structured inventory may include: (1) receiving unstructured data from a platform, wherein the unstructured data comprises unstructured inventory operational data; (2) transforming the unstructured data into structured data; (3) identifying at least some of the structured data as emerging reference data based on a request for at least some of the structured data; (4) providing at least some of the emerging reference data to an inventory event stream; and (5) applying a template to the inventory event stream to generate an authoritative inventory.
US11195137B2
One embodiment provides model-driven and automated generation of information technology (IT) solutions including obtaining a set of business and technical requirements for IT infrastructure and applications. A client business and technical requirement model is generated based on generic model constructs and extending with constructs specific to capturing client requirements. A draft IT solution is generated using an automated model-driven process to generate the draft IT solution configuration for client requirements for a target shared resource environment offering. The generated draft IT solution is translated into a language of a constraint satisfaction engine that propagates values of chosen attributes in the draft solution to identify valid values for unset attributes, and identifies conflicts. An IT solutions interface is generated based on auto-population of verified attribute results.
US11195132B2
A maintenance prioritization method, system, and computer program product, include collecting information including image data and status data for a plurality of objects of interest, building a three-dimensional image for each object, and estimating a risk factor of failure for each object by analyzing the information and the three-dimensional image of the object to compare with known characteristics of the object and a reference object description.
US11195131B2
Systems and methods for increasing usage for a software service. One example system includes a database storing workflow data for the service, user profile data for a plurality of users, and service usage data for the users; and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to determine a target user engagement level for the service. The electronic processor is configured to retrieve from the database based on the service, a first workflow action, and to execute the first workflow action for the plurality of users. The electronic processor is configured to receive, from the service, a usage level for a user of the plurality of users, and to compare the usage level for the user to the target level for the service. The electronic processor is configured to, when the usage level fails to exceed the target, execute an additional workflow action, different from the first, for the user.
US11195129B2
The customer order fulfillment system includes an order collection unit for collecting information associated with a plurality of customer orders from a plurality of customers and generating customer order data that includes data associated with each of the plurality of customer orders and the plurality of customers. Each of the plurality of customer order includes one or more items associated therewith. The system also includes an order generating unit for receiving the customer order data from the order collection unit and generating in response thereto consolidated order fulfillment data, and a pick tour generating subsystem for receiving the consolidated order fulfillment data from the order generating unit and in response thereto generating pick tour instructions associated with a pick tour from the consolidated order fulfillment data.
US11195121B2
A machine learning method includes: obtaining first teacher data, which includes first encrypted words and corresponding search word information including one or more second encrypted words to be used for search, the first encrypted words being generated such that the first encrypted word includes a code sequence different from other encrypted words even though both of the first encrypted words and the other encrypted words have been generated from a same word; obtaining a group of words from among the first encrypted words by using a trapdoor scheme; generating second teacher data by using one encrypted word included in the obtained group to replace a rest of the obtained group of words; and performing, on the basis of the second teacher data, machine learning of a parameter to determine, in response to receiving of one or more encrypted words, one or more encrypted words to be used for search.
US11195110B2
A score explanation method for explaining a score includes at least steps of: a1) providing a first score associated with a first vector containing the first values of the parameters; b) generating a first set of lists, each list including a second number of indicators; c) generating, from a list, of at least a third vector wherein each parameter has a third value; the third value being equal to the corresponding first value when the list does not include an indicator of the corresponding parameter, and different from the corresponding first value otherwise; d) calculating the score of at least one third vector; e) evaluating, from the scores calculated for each of the third vectors, an indicator of significance of each parameter; f) elaborating, from the evaluated indicators of significance, an explanation of the first score.
US11195104B2
In one or more embodiments of the present invention, a method modifies a graphical user interface (GUI) for an application to improve GUI usability. One or more processors identify a non-intuitive icon on a current graphical user interface (GUI) The processor(s) match the non-intuitive icon to a traditional icon that performs a same function as the non-intuitive icon when selected by a user. The processor(s) replace the non-intuitive icon with the traditional icon on the current GUI.
US11195102B2
A system, computer program product, and method are provided to apply artificial intelligence and natural language processing to a route navigation module. An artificial intelligence platform transforms the functionality of the navigation module in real-time. As natural language input is received, a parser is leveraged to parse the input into grammatical sub-components. An analyzer is involved to analyze and identify an associated category for the parsed sub-component(s). A sensor is provided operatively couple to the navigation module. The parsed and analyzed data are applied to an operating state of the sensor. The artificial intelligence platform dynamically translates the identified category of the received input to a natural language instruction congruent with the parsed grammatical sub-components.
US11195101B2
A plurality of computing devices, in a set of computing devices, each perform one or more tasks. A program monitors the tasks performed on each of the computing devices and determines a usage pattern. Based on the usage pattern the program determines one or more programs available for one or more of the computing devices. The program outputs a recommendation to install one or more of the available programs on one or more of the computing devices.
US11195098B2
Disclosed are a method for generating a neural network, an apparatus thereof, and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining an optimal neural network and a worst neural network from a neural network framework by using an evolutionary algorithm; obtaining an optimized neural network from the optimal neural network by using a reinforcement learning algorithm; updating the neural network framework by adding the optimized neural network into the neural network framework and deleting the worst neural network from the neural network framework; and determining an ultimately generated neural network from the updated neural network framework. In this way, a neural network is optimized and updated from a neural network framework by combining the evolutionary algorithm and the reinforcement learning algorithm, thereby automatically generating a neural network structure rapidly and stably.
US11195091B2
To realize a reservoir computing system easily implemented as hardware, provided is a reservoir computing system including a reservoir operable to output an inherent output signal in response to an input signal. An input node is operable to supply the reservoir with an input signal corresponding to input data, and an output node is operable to output an output value corresponding to an output signal that is output by the reservoir in response to the input data. An adaptive filter is operable to output output data based on a result obtained by weighting a plurality of the output values output from the output node at a plurality of timings with a plurality of weights. Also provided are a learning method and a computer program product.
US11195086B2
Techniques are disclosed for fabricating and using a neuromorphic computing device including biological neurons. For example, a method for fabricating a neuromorphic computing device includes forming a channel in a first substrate and forming at least one sensor in a second substrate. At least a portion of the channel in the first substrate is seeded with a biological neuron growth material. The second substrate is attached to the first substrate such that the at least one sensor is proximate to the biological neuron growth material and growth of the seeded biological neuron growth material is stimulated to grow a neuron in the at least a portion of the channel.
US11195082B2
Embodiments relate to a first processing node that processes an input data having a temporal sequence of spatial patterns by retaining a higher-level context of the temporal sequence. The first processing node performs temporal processing based at least on feedback inputs received from a second processing node. The first processing node determines whether learned temporal sequences are included in the input data based on sequence inputs transmitted within the same level of a hierarchy of processing nodes and the feedback inputs received from an upper level of the hierarchy of processing nodes.
US11195076B2
The present invention improves the communication characteristics of an inlay using an auxiliary antenna, while protecting the inlay from physical and mechanical external forces, shocks or the like, without being subjected to the constraints of a dipole antenna. To that end, the present invention has a configuration, including: an inlay having an IC chip and only a loop circuit antenna, on which the IC chip is mounted, and not including another antenna; a casing for accommodating the inlay therein; and a planar top cover covering one surface side of the casing. The top cover is formed of a prescribed metallic material and includes a cutout opening at least on one side. The inlay is disposed in the casing so as to be positioned inside the cutout. The top cover functions as an antenna of the inlay by being electrically connected to the inlay.
US11195070B2
A print processor is provided and executes layout processing excluding reduction processing in accordance with at least a determination that a print setting causing the reduction processing is made as a print setting, and notifies a printer driver of information about the layout processing excluding the reduction processing. The printer driver scales, upon reception of the information about the layout processing excluding the reduction processing from the print processor, rendering data subjected to the layout processing excluding the reduction processing by the print processor based on a parameter included in the notified information, and generates print data to be transmitted to a printing apparatus, based on the scaled rendering data.
US11195063B2
A system and method for determining the presence of a hidden hazard may include identification of an operational scene for a host vehicle, and identification of an operational situation for the host vehicle. Information from a plurality of proximity sensors is collected and classified. A plurality of hidden hazard presence probabilities corresponding to the information from each of the plurality of proximity sensors, the operational scene, the operational situation, and at least one of a comparative process and a dynamic neural network process are estimated. A fusion process may be performed upon the plurality of hidden hazard presence probabilities to determine the presence of a hidden hazard.
US11195054B2
Technologies are described for the automated determination of materials. For example, material can be automatically identified (e.g., unique material numbers can be determined) based on sensor data and using machine learning models. In some implementations, as part of a first phase, a first set of sensor information describing the material is obtained. Using the first set of sensor information, a material class of the material is determined. As part of a second phase, a second set of sensor information describing the material is obtained. Using the second set of sensor information, the specific material is identified (e.g., a unique material identifier is determined for the material).
US11195048B2
In implementations of generating descriptions of image relationships, a computing device implements a description system which receives a source digital image and a target digital image. The description system generates a source feature sequence from the source digital image and a target feature sequence from the target digital image. A visual relationship between the source digital image and the target digital image is determined by using cross-attention between the source feature sequence and the target feature sequence. The system generates a description of a visual transformation between the source digital image and the target digital image based on the visual relationship.
US11195046B2
Methods and systems for processing an image are described. A saliency map is generated from the image. The saliency map indicates one or more salient portions of the image that have saliency values satisfying a saliency criterion. A scene graph is generated for at least the one or more salient portions. The scene graph represents a plurality of objects detected in the image. The scene graph further represents one or more relationships between each respective object pairs. One or more dataset entries associated with the image are generated. Each of the one or more relationships for each of the one or more object pairs is indicated by a respective dataset entry. The one or more dataset entries are stored in a first dataset.
US11195045B2
A method for regulating a position of an object includes detecting a plurality of first alignment structures of the object under rotation of the object, wherein a plurality of second alignment structures of the object sequentially face a photosensitive element during the rotation of the object, and when the plurality of first alignment structures have reached a first predetermined state, stopping the rotation of the object and performing an image capturing procedure of the object. The image capturing procedure includes: capturing a test image of the object, wherein the test image includes an image block presenting the second alignment structure currently facing the photosensitive element; detecting the position of the image block in the test image; when the image block is located in the middle of the test image, capturing a detection image of the object.
US11195032B2
An image processing device includes: a delimiting line detection unit configured to detect a delimiting line candidate based on image data obtained by capturing a surrounding of a vehicle, the delimiting line candidate being a candidate of a delimiting line that delimits a parking space; and an exclusion determination unit configured to determine whether or not to exclude the delimiting line candidate detected by the delimiting line detection unit from the candidate of the delimiting line. In a case where a plurality of the delimiting line candidates is detected within a predetermined range in the image data, the exclusion determination unit determines whether or not to exclude the delimiting line candidate from the candidate of the delimiting line by comparing edge strength of the plurality of delimiting line candidates.
US11195026B2
An object detection and display apparatus for mounting in a moveable body includes a far infrared camera (10), a display device (30), and a controller (22) (processor). The controller (22) detects, from a first image outputted by the far infrared camera (10), an image of a display target object at a distance equal to or greater than the distance reached by light from headlights (5) of the moveable body, and causes the display device (30) to display an image element corresponding to the display target object based on the position of the image of the display target object in the first image.
US11195015B2
An agricultural method includes providing a positive air pressure chamber to prevent outside contaminants from entering the chamber; growing crops in a plurality of cells in the chamber, each cell having multi-grow benches or levels, each cell further having connectors to vertical hoists for vertical movements in the chamber; maintaining pre-set temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, watering and lighting levels to achieve predetermined plant growth; using motorized transport rails to deliver benches for operations including seeding, harvesting, grow media recovery, and bench wash; dispensing seeds in the cell with a mechanical seeder coupled to the transport rails; growing the crops with computer controlled nutrients, light and air level; and harvesting the crops and delivering the harvested crop at a selected outlet of the chamber.
US11195011B2
Aerial vehicles that are equipped with one or more imaging devices may detect obstacles that are small in size, or obstacles that feature colors or textures that are consistent with colors or textures of a landing area, using pairs of images captured by the imaging devices. Disparities between pixels corresponding to points of the landing area that appear within each of a pair of the images may be determined and used to generate a reconstruction of the landing area and a difference image. If either the reconstruction or the difference image indicates the presence of one or more obstacles, a landing operation at the landing area may be aborted or an alternate landing area for the aerial vehicle may be identified accordingly.
US11195004B2
A system and method to extract data from regions of interest on a document is disclosed. A storage device stores an image derived from a document having text information. A region of interest identification engine scans the image and identifies at least one region of interest on the image. An optical character recognition module is operable to convert image data in the region of interest to machine readable data. A classification engine classifies the data obtained by the optical character recognition module from the region of interest.
US11195002B2
An image sensor includes an active pixel array including a number of pixels and image sensor control circuitry configured to perform a read operation only on a subset of the pixels of the active pixel array such that pixels not in the subset remain inactive. By reading out only the subset of pixels in the active pixel array and keeping the remaining pixels inactive, the temperature of the active pixel array may be reduced compared to a conventional read out process, thereby reducing thermal noise in the resulting pixel data.
US11194990B2
A fingerprint sensor package and method are provided. Embodiments include a sensor and a sensor surface material encapsulated within the fingerprint sensor package. An array of electrodes of the sensor are electrically connected using through vias that are located either in the sensor, in connection blocks separated from the sensor, or through connection blocks, or else connected through other connections such as wire bonds. A high voltage die is attached in order to increase the sensitivity of the fingerprint sensor.
US11194985B2
Provided is an apparatus for fingerprint detection, where the apparatus includes a sensor chip array and an MCU, the sensor chip array includes a first chip set in which chips multiplex a first signal line and a second chip set in which chips multiplex a second signal line, where the chips in the first chip set and the chips in the second chip set are alternately arranged in each row and each column, and the MCU is configured to: control one first chip in the first chip set to perform fingerprint detection on a finger on the display screen at a time; and/or, control one second chip in the second chip set to perform fingerprint detection on the finger at the time.
US11194984B2
The present disclosures relates to finding or localizing machine readable indicia (e.g., a barcode or digital watermark) in imagery. One claim recites an apparatus comprising: memory for buffering blocks of image data, the image data having been captured with a camera and depicting a printed object; one or more processors programmed for: generating an edge orientation sensitive feature set from the image data; using a first trained classifier to determine whether the feature set includes data representing a barcode; and using N additional trained classifiers to determine an orientation angle associated with the barcode, wherein N comprises an integer greater than 3, and wherein the orientation angle is selected based on a probability metric. Of course, other claims and combinations are provided too.
US11194983B1
A tag positioned on an object provides information for selecting augmented reality (AR) content that is based, at least in part, on a user profile or other user information. The tag may be utilized to transmit messages between users where AR content can be integrated into the message and presented upon scanning and processing of the tag. The AR content may also be related to user interests or real time user information, such as user location. The user may interact with the AR content to retrieve additional information, which provides an improved customer experience and improved integration into a provider ecosystem.
US11194980B2
A system and method for training in the cleaning of a room. The system includes a room having a plurality of locations to be cleaned; a plurality of optical tags, each of the optical tags positionable to be located at one of the locations to be cleaned and containing codes that link to a website having information about one or more pre-selected janitorial and cleaning products and the use thereof at the one of the locations to be cleaned; and a reader operable by a user and configured to scan the codes of the optical tags and display to the user the room and selectively the information from the website about the one or more pre-selected janitorial and cleaning products and the use thereof at the locations to be cleaned.
US11194979B1
A computer-implemented method includes determining that a group of items left a space together based on RFID exit times and determining that at least one item of the group of items left the space without authorization by evaluating transactions that took place within a first time period before the at least one item left the space. A single investigation file is automatically created that includes the group of items that left the space together.
US11194978B2
An apparatus and method for combined radio frequency identification (RFID)-based asset management and component authentication are provided. The apparatus comprises a plurality of components to be authenticated, a memory configured to store inventory data, a plurality of root-of-trust (RoT) integrated circuits (ICs), a wired communication bus, and a radio frequency identification (RFID) relay tag. Each RoT IC is mechanically coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of components and configured to generate authentication data based on a unique key generated for authenticating the corresponding component. The RFID relay tag is connected to each of the RoT ICs via the wired communication bus and is configured to communicate with each of the RoT ICs via the wired communication bus and pass the authentication data and the inventory data to an RFID reader via a radio frequency signal to facilitate authentication of components and inventory management.
US11194977B2
According to one embodiment, a merchandise reading apparatus is equipped with a storage chamber formed of a radio wave shielding member and a reading apparatus which reads information of a radio tag from merchandise attached with the radio tag and stored in the storage chamber, and at least a part of the storage chamber is formed of a light transmitting member.
US11194941B2
A method comprising: simulating, in a lattice velocity set, movement of particles in a volume of fluid, with the movement causing collision among the particles; based on the simulated movement, determining relative particle velocity of a particle at a particular location within the volume, with the relative particle velocity being a difference between (i) an absolute velocity of the particle at the particular location within the volume and measured under zero flow of the volume, and (ii) a mean velocity of one or more of the particles at the particular location within the volume; and determining, based on the relative particle velocity, a non-equilibrium post-collide distribution function of a specified order that is representative of the collision.
US11194939B2
Systems, methods, tangible non-transitory computer-readable media, and devices associated with testing, simulation, or operation of an autonomous device including an autonomous vehicle are provided. For example, a service entity computing system can perform operations including obtaining operating software data associated with operating software of the autonomous vehicle. Log data associated with one or more real-world scenarios can also be obtained. One or more first simulations of the operating software can be performed based on the one or more real-world scenarios. A latency distribution profile associated with the operating software can be generated based on the one or more first simulations. One or more second simulations of the operating software can be performed based on the latency distribution profile and one or more artificially generated scenarios. Furthermore, a real-world behavior of the autonomous vehicle can be predicted based on the one or more second simulations.
US11194930B2
The present disclosure relates to systems for “cookieless” tracking across a wide range of websites and mobile applications. The systems do not involve the use of tracking pixels or code on individual webs pages and associated web or other servers and may be achieved through use of a single URL for tracking a user across multiple websites while a browser session is initiated. Methods of enhanced tracking of user activity without requiring cookies or tracking pixels are also described herein.
US11194927B2
Storing and executing an application in a personal storage with a user-granted permission in a decentralized network that implements a distributed edger. First, receiving a request from an entity for storing an application in a data storage that is associated with a DID owner. The application is configured to use data stored in the data storage as one or more inputs to generate one or more results. Next, one or more characteristics of the application associated with the entity is identified. Based on identified one or more characteristics, a write permission is to be granted to the entity, and the application is stored in the data storage. Thereafter, the application stored in the data storage is executed using data stored in the data storage.
US11194926B2
A processor may identify that an application is being downloaded to a computing device. The processor may generate an authorization that regulates data that can be used by the application. The processor may prompt a user to select a first set of addendums for the authorization. The first set of addendums indicate specific data that can be used by the application. The processor may receive a request from the application to access a first specific datum. The processor may determine whether the application is authorized to access the first specific datum.
US11194916B1
A system and method for mitigating risks when a company employee logs in to the company server from a remote location such as her home office, a hotel room or a public location such as a coffee shop. The system mitigates any risks by ensuring that voice-activated functions such as IPAs on intelligent listening devices are disabled while the employee is working from the remote location.
US11194901B2
Systems and methods for identifying a computer security threat based on communication via a computer network. A method includes receiving a definition of acceptable network communication characteristics for communication protocols; receiving a set of security events for the communication, each security event including network communication characteristics for the communication; for each security event: a) identifying a communication protocol associated with the event; b) detecting deviations of network communication characteristics of the event from the acceptable network communication characteristics for the identified communication protocol; and c) generating a record of each deviation identifying a communication characteristic for which the deviation is detected, so as to generate a set of one or more records of deviation for the set of security events; and storing the set of records of deviation as a security threat identifier for identifying subsequent security threats by comparing with the set of records.
US11194898B2
This invention relates generally to blockchain implementations and is suited for, but not limited to, use with the Bitcoin blockchain. It can be used for the implementation of automated processes such as device/system control, process control, distributed computing and storage and others. The invention provides a solution which uses a blockchain to control a process executing on a computing resource. In a preferred embodiment, the computing resource, running simultaneously and in parallel to the blockchain, manages a loop-based operation. The computing resource continuously monitors the state of the blockchain as well as any other off-blockchain input data or source. The execution of the loop is influenced by the state of the blockchain. Each iteration of the loop that is executed by the computing resource is recorded in a transaction that is written to the blockchain. It is stored as a hash within the transaction's metadata. If the computing resource finds a transaction which contains a hash relating to the loop it accesses the relevant portion of code. The loop contains a conditional statement which enables the computing resource to decide which action to take. The condition may be dependent upon the state of the blockchain or any other data source. The action can be any type of action, on or off the blockchain. Thus, the combination of the computing resource and blockchain provide a solution which is (at least partially) Turing-complete.
US11194895B2
A terminal, a server, and a system for authenticating biometric information and a biometric information authentication method are provided. A method, performed by a terminal, of registering biometric information includes: transmitting a registration request and biometric capability information of the terminal to a server; receiving biometric capability information of the server from the server; acquiring a user's biometric information based on the biometric capability information of the server; acquiring a pseudonymous identifier (PI) and auxiliary data (AD) based on the user's biometric information; and transmitting the PI and the AD to the server.
US11194890B2
A system for rendering a content, the rendering of which is subject to conditional access security conditions. The system includes a host device and a detachable security device, the security device configured to decrypt the encrypted content, re-encrypt it under a local key and to deliver the re-encrypted content to the host device while ensuring that the host device applies or otherwise enforces any conditions associated with the rendering of the content.
US11194889B2
This disclosure aims to overcome at least some of the drawbacks associated with today's content sharing applications. In one aspect, this disclosure enables decentralized sharing of content based on crypto protocols and distributed database technology (e.g., blockchain technology). In one aspect, the content to be shared is encrypted and included in a session document that is stored in a distributed database that can be shared without requiring a central administrator.
US11194881B2
An electronic device is disclosed comprising a camera, a display, a wireless communication circuit, at least one processor operatively connected to the display, the camera and the wireless communication circuit, and a memory operatively connected to the at least one processor and storing instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to: obtain a first image through the camera; extract a marker included in the first image; obtain a universal resource locator (URL) using the extracted marker; receive content of a web page associated with the URL through the wireless communication circuit, display the first image and at least a portion of the received content at a position on the first image determined based on a location of the marker on the display.
US11194873B1
The present disclosure relates to methods for ranking location data to increase processing efficiency and user-interface usability. A method includes receiving from a client a query that defines an area, subdividing the area into a plurality of grid areas, and determining a set of locations that are disposed in the area. The method includes dividing the set of locations into a plurality of groups based on the grid area that corresponds to each respective location. Within each group, the method includes scoring and sorting the locations according to a set of criteria, and assigning a respective rank to each of the locations according to the relative position of each of the locations in the group. The method further includes recombining the locations of plurality of groups and sorting by rank to yield a grid-ranked set of locations, and sending to the client the grid-ranked set of locations.
US11194864B2
A computer system contains a module configured to receive a query, to request rows and columns from a data store, to add or remove rows in such a way that combinations of queries cannot be used to infer information about individuals in the data store. The module executes a statistical computation over the adjusted rows and columns to produce a perturbed answer so that neither the perturbed answer alone, nor repeats of the perturbed answer can be used to infer information about individuals in the data store.
US11194862B2
One embodiment provides a method that includes generating, by a processor, a topic graph by converting information to topic nodes and edges in the topic graph. Bridges from a given topic node are provided to a neighbor node based on a weight assignment. The bridges are converted to an electronic form of communication. The processor orders suggested paths based on a determined distance from at least one other topic node to a topic goal node via an earliest topic node on each suggested path. The determined distance is found by a first search of the topic graph.
US11194860B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for question generation to obtain more related medical information based on observed symptoms from a patient. In embodiments, possible diseases associated with the observed symptoms are generated by querying a knowledge graph. In embodiments, candidate symptoms associated with the possible diseases are also identified and are combined with the observed symptoms to obtain combined symptom sets. In embodiments, discriminative scores for the candidate symptom sets are determined and candidate symptoms with top discriminative scores are selected. In embodiments, these selected candidate symptoms may be checked for conflicts with observed symptoms and removed from further consideration if a conflict exists. In embodiments, one or more questions may be generated based on the remaining selected candidate systems to aid in collecting information about the patient. In embodiments, the process may be repeated with the updated observed symptoms.
US11194858B1
The present invention provides audio bible players with a 6-digit or 5-digit numerical indexing system to the chapter level, or a 9-digit or 8-digit numerical indexing system to the verse level. Users can not only find a particular chapter or verse of the bible quickly, but also can switch to the same chapter or verse of a different translation easily for comparison study. They are easy and convenient to use, and are great tools for bible study, bible memorization, language study, and sharing bible with people speaking other languages.
US11194856B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, generating, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosure provides a novel, computerized framework for automatically selecting the most definitive, precise and high-quality content files corresponding to POIs. The disclosed systems and methods utilize the performance of visual comparisons with a set of definitive content files of a given POI, and by incorporating visual aesthetic features as a factor of such comparisons, a search result is identified that down-weights imprecise and poor quality content files of a given POI, and ensures that only high quality, accurate content files are selected or identified.
US11194848B2
A method and system for selecting documents for inclusion into a search engine search index executed by a machine learning algorithm (MLA) comprising: acquiring a plurality of digital documents, each respective document having a respective size, determining a respective value parameter based on user interactions, ranking the digital documents to obtain a ranked list of documents based on: a respective quality value parameter based on the respective value parameter and the respective size, the ranking being performed such that a cumulative quality value parameter is maximized based on: the quality value parameter of a given digital document is weighted by a sum of the sizes of a given subset of documents, wherein the given subset consists of documents having a respective value parameter below the value parameter of the given digital document, selecting a subset from the ranked list and storing the subset in the search index.
US11194844B1
A system and method for identifying second degree connections between entities represented in different databases. The method includes: identifying a second participating entity that owns a subject entity, wherein identifying the second participating entity further comprises resolving the subject entity between a first database and a second database, wherein the subject entity is resolved such that respective instances of the subject entity in the first database and the second database are determined as each uniquely identifying the same subject entity, wherein resolving an entity further comprises applying resolution rules requiring at least matching a plurality of features between respective instances of the entity; determining a second degree connection between a first participating entity and the second participating entity, wherein the second degree connection includes a linking entity that is connected to each of the first participating entity and the second participating entity in at least one third database.
US11194840B2
Examples described herein generally relate to a computer system including a knowledge graph storing a plurality of entities. The computer system compares source documents within an enterprise intranet to a plurality of templates defining potential entity attributes to identify extracts matching at least one of the plurality of templates. The computer system parses the extracts according to respective templates of the plurality of templates that match the extracts to determine instances. The computer system performs incremental clustering on a number of the instances to determine potential entity names. The computer system queries the knowledge graph with the potential entity names to obtain a set of candidate entity records. The computer system links the potential entity names with at least partial matching ones of the set of candidate entity records to define updated matching candidate entity records. The computer system updates the knowledge graph with the updated matching candidate entity records.
US11194836B2
Proposed are concepts for managing the distribution of data elements in a distributed data storage system comprising: a plurality of distributed assets; and a mobile asset associated with a home location. A proposed method comprises: allocating a data element based on a current location of the mobile asset. If the current location of the mobile asset differs from the home location associated with the mobile asset, a replica of the data element is allocated to another asset.
US11194831B2
Systems, methods, and techniques for optimizing a plurality of data integration tasks within a data integration collection by identifying, as a sub-set of the plurality of data integration tasks, a plurality of point-to-point data integration tasks defining a data integration transformation plan to include: generating one or more publication data integration tasks comprising publishing from each respective data source of the plurality of point-to-point data integration tasks to generate a single publication topic; and generating one or more subscription data integration tasks causing each respective target of the plurality of point-to-point data integration tasks to subscribe to the single publication topic; and generating a set of optimization instructions configured to cause the at least one computer to implement the data integration transformation plan; and executing the set of optimization instructions to generate the one or more publication data integration tasks and the one or more subscription tasks.
US11194825B2
A distributed sequential pattern data mining framework mines user data to determine statistically-relevant sequential patterns which are used to correlate the sequential patterns to a particular outcome. The correlation is provided by a statistical model, a binary predictive model and/or a logistic regression model which uses the sequential patterns to learn the behavior of end users during their usage of a software application.
US11194823B2
An anonymizing method for a database system is provided. The method includes receiving a query, identifying one or more attack components in the query, computing one or more noise elements from the one or more attack components, and computing fixed noise or fixed thresholds from the one or more noise elements.
US11194822B2
The present application relates to a search ranking method, a search ranking apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium. In an embodiment of the method, acquiring search keywords and determining a plurality of initial search results that match with the plurality of keywords; extracting text similarity, update time dimension, and objective importance of contacts according to the initial search results; acquiring a weight of the text similarity, a weight of the update time dimension, and a weight of the objective importance of the contacts; performing a fusion calculation on each of the initial search results to obtain a comprehensive weight of each of the initial search results; and ranking the plurality of initial search results according to the comprehensive weights. The method enables the user to quickly find relevant information, simplifies the operation, and improves the searching efficiency.
US11194817B2
A system includes reception of a query input by a user into a user interface, determination, in response to reception of the query, of a plurality of query results, each of the query results associated with a respective object instance of one of a plurality of object types, where the plurality of object types comprise a master data object type and a report object type, and presentation of the plurality of query results to the user, the plurality of query results comprising a first indicator of a first query result associated with an instance of the report object type and a second indicator a second query result associated with an instance of the master data object type, where the first indicator is selectable by the user to cause execution of the instance of the report object type to create a report and presentation of the report to the user, and where the second indicator is selectable by the user to cause retrieval and presentation of the instance of the master data object type to the user.
US11194810B2
A method of aggregating and using medical device data from a plurality of remote institutions. The system and method electronically receives at a central computer system a plurality of established medical device data, each of the plurality of established medical device data being received from a respective medication delivery system, each of the respective medication delivery systems having a respective plurality of medical devices within the respective remote institution, such as medication delivery pumps, associated therewith and utilized therein. The system and method electronically combines and stores the plurality of established medical device data from each of the plurality of remote institutions within a memory, and electronically provides a remote client computer access to at least one of a central reporting application adapted for providing summary information to the remote client computer about the medical device data, and/or other applications.
US11194801B2
Techniques are described for executing a query with a top-N clause to select a first N-number of rows in a data source arranged at least according to a first key and a second key of the data source using a first sort order respectively specified for the first key and a second sort order respectively specified for the second key by the query. The data source may include one or more tiles that include at least a portion of the first key and the second key. To execute the query, in an embodiment, a DBMS determines, in a first vector of first key values that are in a first tile, row identifiers identifying entries of the first vector that contain values equal to a tail value that follows a particular top number of the first key values. The DBMS may select, from a second vector of values of the second key in the first tile, second key values identified based on the determined row identifiers of the first vector. In an embodiment, the DBMS generates a result set of the query that includes at least a value from the second key values selected from the second vector based on the determined first row identifiers.
US11194797B2
An information processing system, a computer readable storage medium, and a computer-implemented method, collect tables from a corpus of documents, convert the collected tables to flattened table format and organized to be searchable by schema-less queries. A method collects tables, extracts feature values from collected table data and collected table meta-data for each collected table. A table classifier classifies each collected table as being a type of table. Based on the classifying, the collected table is converted to a flattened table including table values that are the table data and the table meta-data of the collected table. Dependencies of the data values are mapped. The flattened table and mapped dependencies are stored in a triple store searchable by schema-less queries. The table classifier learns and improves its accuracy and reliability. Dependency information is maintained among a plurality of database tables. The dependency information can be updated at variable update frequency.
US11194783B2
A method for validating data in a hybrid cloud model that includes providing a validation layer in the brokerage module of the hybrid architecture. The validation layer is separate from an applications layer of the hybrid architecture. The method includes sending target object values to a centralized brokerage layer composite query generator (BLCQG) component of the validation layer from an application needing validation of target data time. The method continues with generating a composite validation rule set with the brokerage layer composite query generator (BLCQG) component based on the parameters of the target object values. The method further includes validating the target data item of the target object values with the composite validation rule in the validation rules validator (VRV) component; and sending the target data item that has been validated to the application.
US11194782B2
The subject technology executes a change on an existing micro-partition of a table, the executing of the change comprising generating a new micro-partition that embodies the change and deleting the existing micro-partition. The subject technology receives a request for a delta for the table between a first timestamp and a second timestamp. The subject technology responsively determines the delta based on a table history, the delta including information indicating at least one operation that was performed to at least one row of a set of rows of the table, without including information as to intermediate changes made to at least one row of the set of rows of the table between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, that facilitates a reduction in storage of historical versions of the set of rows of the table.
US11194780B2
According to embodiments of the present invention, methods, systems and computer-readable media are presented for scanning a plurality of storage regions within memory for a specified quantity of results, wherein each storage region is associated with an interval including first and second interval values indicating a value range for values within that storage region. The techniques comprise sorting the first interval values into an order, wherein the order of the first interval values determines a scanning order for the plurality of storage regions, determining a result value, wherein the result value is an upper bound, a lower bound, or is outside of the specified quantity of results, and examining the sorted first interval values and scanning corresponding individual storage regions in response to a comparison of the determined result value with the first interval value of that storage region. In some embodiments, scanning exits upon establishing that the specified quantity of results has been achieved and that a first interval value in a list of sorted first interval values is greater than the determined result value.
US11194777B2
Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and/or systems for manipulating hierarchical sets of data are disclosed. In particular, methods, apparatus devices and or/or systems for analyzing hierarchical data are disclosed.
US11194776B2
Systems and methods of providing content for display on a computing device via a computer network using a location feature index are provided. A data processing system can receive a request for content from the computing device, and can determine a geographic location of the computing device associated with the request for content. The data processing system can identify a keyword indicating a non-geographic semantic feature of the determined geographic location. The identification can be based on the determined geographic location and from a location feature index that maps geographic areas to keywords that indicate non-geographic semantic features of the geographic areas. The data processing system can select, based on the keyword, a candidate content item for display on the computing device.
US11194772B2
A mechanism is provided for preparing a high-quality data repository. Data and related metadata from a set of data sources are ingested thereby forming a set of unprepared data. The set of unprepared data is transformed based on a set of functions into a set of transformed data. A set of semantic text descriptions that detail the transformation of the set of unprepared data to the set of transformed data is generated using a first set of semantic associations, a second set of semantic associations, and a set of semantic transformation associations. The set of transformed data is tested against one or more governance policies that tracks data lineage to ultimately show that prepared data is in compliance. Responsive to the set of transformed data adhering to the one or more governance policies, a high-quality data repository is automatically built using the transformed data.
US11194771B2
A computer-implemented method for transferring a reserve to a target host, according to one embodiment, includes granting to a source system, by a control unit, a reserve for a volume of a storage device. A push reserve command is received from the source system. The push reserve command specifies: a transfer of the reserve to a target system, parameter data identifying the target system, and path information specifying the source system. The reserve is transferred only to the target system in response to release of the reserve by the source system.
US11194769B2
A system and method to ensure the consistency of a data warehouse or backup database with a source database are described. The method alleviates issues of comparing two sets of the same data on disparate network systems and eliminates having to reload the entire target database or compare every field to ensure reasonable consistency of the contents. The process involves loading a unique record identifier, an optional record change timestamp, and an optional record archive field of a source database into a work file or temporary database table. Source work file records or temporary database tables records that do not exist in the target database or have timestamp mismatches are retrieved from the source database and added to or updated in the target database. Target database records that are archived or missing in the work file or temporary database table are archived or deleted from the target database.
US11194768B2
A taxonomy model in a unified data store includes a data graph structure with self-describing data objects each of which includes a unique identifier, a relationship object linking the self-describing data object to a plurality of other self-describing data objects, a domain object linking the self-describing data object to a plurality of domains, and a token object representing the self-describing data object within a domain. The model further includes an n-tuple-based multimodal data structure a content addressable memory, a tuple-reader, and a tuple evaluator configured with a set of tuple semantic rules.
US11194765B2
An overlay optimizer can be configured to accelerate the moving of files from an overlay and to atomically move files from the overlay. To accelerate the moving of files from the overlay, the overlay optimizer can continuously monitor the consumption of the overlay. If the consumption exceeds an optimized threshold, the overlay optimizer can cause the file system cache to be invalidated to thereby release handles to any closed files that are still cached. To move files atomically from the overlay, the overlay optimizer can be configured to handle attempts to open a file by determining whether the file is in the process of being moved from the overlay. If so, the overlay optimizer can detect which stage the move process has reached and can dynamically adapt the move process to enable the attempt to open the file to be completed successfully and in a consistent manner.
US11194764B1
In an embodiment, processing logic receives a request to perform an operation with respect to a resource associated with an account. Processing logic determines a tag policy for the account, wherein the tag policy specifies a required tag for resources associated with the account, wherein the required tag comprises a key value pair comprising a tag key and an associated tag value. Processing logic determines or more tag compliance rules of the tag policy, wherein the one or more tag compliance rules comprise a required syntax for the tag key and a set of permissible values for the tag value. Processing logic determines that the resource fails to comply with the one or more tag compliance rules of the tag policy and performs a remedial action with respect to the resource.
US11194758B1
Technology is described for data archiving in a service provider environment. A first archive data package may be received from an archival data store in the service provider environment. The first archive data package may include first data blocks and first key block data. Second data blocks and second key block data may be received from a source data store in the service provider environment. Merged data blocks may be created by combining the first data blocks with the second data blocks. The merged data blocks may be sent to the archival data store while merged key block data is being created. The merged data blocks and the merged key block data may be included in a second archive data package that is stored at the archival data store.
US11194754B2
PCI Express is a Bus or I/O interconnect standard for use inside the computer or embedded system enabling faster data transfers to and from peripheral devices. The standard is still evolving but has achieved a degree of stability such that other applications can be implemented using PCIE as basis. A PCIE based interconnect scheme to enable switching and inter-connection between multiple PCIE enabled systems each having its own PCIE root complex, such that the scalability of PCIE architecture can be applied to enable data transport between connected systems to form a cluster of systems, is proposed. These connected systems can be any computing, control, storage or embedded system. The scalability of the interconnect will allow the cluster to grow the bandwidth between the systems as they become necessary without changing to a different connection architecture.
US11194753B2
There is disclosed in one example an accelerator apparatus, including: a programmable region capable of being programmed to provide an accelerator function unit (AFU); and a platform interface layer (PIL) to communicatively couple to the AFU via an intra-accelerator protocol, and to provide multiplexed communication with a processor via a plurality of platform interconnect interfaces, wherein the PIL is to provide abstracted communication services for the AFU to communicate with the processor.
US11194752B2
A memory card includes a card substrate on which a controller and a memory device are mounted, and a card enclosure that accommodates the card substrate and exposes terminals for electrical connection to an external device. The controller is operable in a universal flash storage (UFS) mode and in a first sub-mode other than the UFS mode. The terminals that are exposed include a UFS terminal group according to a UFS standard, and a first sub-mode terminal group. The UFS terminal group includes first row terminals arranged adjacent to an insertion side edge of the memory card and second row terminals arranged apart from the insertion side edge such that the first row terminals are provided between the second row terminals and the insertion side edge. The first sub-mode terminal group is adjacent to the first row terminals.
