US11212948B1
A thermal management system for tightly controlling temperature of a thermal load (e.g., onboard an aircraft) includes: a pressurized tank for storing an expendable coolant; a control valve downstream of the pressurized tank for controlling a flow rate of the expendable coolant; a heat exchanger downstream of the control valve for transferring heat from a thermal load to the expendable coolant at a predetermined temperature; a back pressure regulator (BPR) downstream of the heat exchanger, the BPR having a set point controlled to maintain the expendable coolant at the predetermined temperature in the heat exchanger; optionally, a sensor or orifice downstream of the heat exchanger for determining vapor quality at an exit of the heat exchanger; and a system exit downstream of the BPR for removing some or all of the expendable coolant from the thermal management system after transferring heat from the thermal load to the expendable coolant.
US11212946B2
An electronic rack includes an array of server blades arranged in a stack. Each server blade contains one or more servers and each server includes one or more processors to provide data processing services. The electronic rack further includes a coolant distribution unit (CDU) and a rack management unit (RMU). The CDU is configured to supply cooling liquid to the processors and to receive the cooling liquid carrying the heat exchanged from the processors. The CDU includes a liquid pump to pump the cooling liquid and a pump controller to control a pump speed of the liquid pump. The RMU is configured to manage the operations of the components within the electronic rack such as CDU, etc. The RMU includes control logic to determine an optimal pump speed of the liquid pump by optimizing an objective function based on processor power consumption of the processors, cooling power consumption of the CDU, and a benchmark performance measurement of the data processing services and to control the pump speed of the liquid pump based on the optimal pump speed.
US11212945B2
A method for configuring the airflow direction through a chassis having electronic components installed therein. The method may include: powering on at least a first power supply unit installed within the chassis; determining an airflow direction of the first power supply unit may include one or more unidirectional fans; configuring the airflow direction through the chassis to be the airflow direction of the first power supply unit to create a first configured airflow direction; determining an airflow direction of a first fan tray installed within the chassis, the first fan tray may include one or more unidirectional fans; and conducting a conflict check between the first configured airflow direction and the airflow direction of the first fan tray to determine if the airflow directions are substantially the same.
US11212940B1
The present document describes a passive thermal-control structure for speakers and associated apparatuses and methods. The architecture of the passive thermal-control structure is such that heat is transferred from electronic subsystems of the electronic speaker device to the passive thermal-control structure, which acts as an internal, structural frame of the electronic speaker device and provides both thermal mitigation and structural stability. The passive thermal-control structure conducts heat from the electronic subsystems to a housing of the electronic speaker device. The housing of the electronic speaker device may dissipate the heat to the ambient environment to prevent thermal runaway of the electronic subsystems, and the internal frame mitigates the temperature of the housing from exceeding ergonomic temperature limits.
US11212932B2
An interposer and method of providing spatial and arrangement transformation are described. An electronic system has an electronic package, a motherboard and an interposer between the package and the motherboard. The interposer has signal and ground contacts on opposing surfaces that are respectively connected. The contacts opposing the package has a higher signal to ground contact ratio than the contacts opposing the motherboard, as well as different arrangements. Ground shielding vias in the interposer, which are connected to a ground plane, electrically isolate the signals through the interposer. The package may be mounted on a shielded socket such that signal and ground pins are mounted respectively in signal and ground socket mountings, ground shielding vias are between the signal socket mountings, and the ground socket mountings contain plated socket housings.
US11212927B2
An extendable display screen structure, wherein a hollow part is provided on at least one side of a main base and two guiding components are symmetrically provided in the main base along two sides of the hollow part; at least one driving component is provided in the main base, and the driving component is provided with a power source to drive the driving component to move along the guiding component; at least one side of a flexible screen is wound around an outer periphery of at least one rotating shaft, the rotating shaft is rotatably disposed on a side of the driving component and forms linkage, the driving component, in linkage with the rotating shaft, moves along the guiding component out of the main base, whereby the flexible screen can be gradually released from the outer periphery of the rotating shaft to be extended outwards, and on the contrary, the driving component, in linkage with the rotating shaft, gradually moves into the main base, whereby the rotating shaft retracts the flexible screen.
US11212926B2
A display apparatus includes a PCB on which a plurality of LEDs emitting light in a first direction are mounted, a frame configured to support the PCB, and a chassis coupled to the frame. The frame has a length in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction that is longer than that of the PCB.
US11212925B2
An LED (light emitting diode) panel. In particular, an LED panel that is part of a modular system used to construct a wall mounted LED video screen. An LED panel includes a chassis and an LED tile including a plurality of surface mount devices attached thereto. The LED tile is removably mounted to a front of the chassis, and further includes: a first power connector and a first data connector; and a connector assembly mounted on the chassis. The connector assembly includes a support board; a second power connector; a second data connector; and a biasing member arranged to urge the support board in a direction towards the front of the chassis, such that the second power connector and second data connector engage with the first power connector and first data connector, respectively.
US11212916B2
The present invention is directed to flexible printed circuits for dermal applications that include a synthetic polymer membrane 702 and at least one electrically conductive trace 705. In an alternative embodiment, the electrically conductive trace is located on both sides of the microporous synthetic polymer membrane. The electrically conductive trace may be located on the surface of or be imbibed into the pores and through the thickness of a microporous synthetic polymer membrane. The flexible printed circuits may be electrically coupled to an electronic component to form a flexible printed circuit board and adhered to the skin 701 by a dermally acceptable adhesive. The flexible printed circuit or the flexible printed circuit board may be coupled to an electronic module 703 to form a hybrid flexible printed circuit board. The flexible printed circuit, flexible printed circuit board, and hybrid flexible printed circuit board achieve a balance of comfort, flexibility, and durability for on-skin use.
US11212908B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a metal body in which a through hole is formed, a socket that covers the metal body without closing the through hole, a connection terminal connected to the metal body and exposed to an outside of the socket, a control board having a metal pattern and a circuit pattern, and a semiconductor chip having a control terminal connected to the circuit pattern via the through hole without being in contact with the metal body, the connection terminal being connected to the metal pattern.
US11212904B2
A plasma arc torch system comprising a plasma arc torch is provided. The torch includes an electrode, a nozzle, a vent passage and a shield. The nozzle is spaced from the electrode to define a plasma chamber therebetween. The plasma chamber is configured to receive a plasma gas. The vent passage, disposed in the nozzle body, is configured to divert a portion of the plasma gas exiting the plasma chamber from a nozzle exit orifice. The shield is spaced from the nozzle to define a flow region therebetween. The flow region is configured to (i) receive a liquid and (ii) expel the liquid along with a plasma arc substantially surrounded by the liquid via a shield exit orifice.
US11212897B2
A lighting apparatus includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a lighting source, a rectifier, a driver and an electric shock prevention circuit. The first electrode and the second electrode receive an external power source. The external power source is either an alternating current or a direct current. The light source has multiple LED modules. The rectifier is used for rectifying the external power source to a rectified power. The driver is used for converting the rectified power to a driving current supplying to the light source.
US11212892B1
A control circuit for a light source comprises: a light source, a drive circuit applying a pulse width modulated (PWM) drive signal to the light source; and a pulse width modulator generating the PWM drive signal having a PWM ON time ratio responsive to a control signal and a PWM drive frequency that varies over a range of frequencies repeatedly and substantially continuously. A method for controlling a light source comprises: applying a pulse width modulated (PWM) drive signal to the light source; generating the PWM drive signal having a PWM ON time ratio responsive to a control signal and having a PWM drive frequency that is varied over the range of frequencies repeatedly and substantially continuously. The PWM drive signal causes the light source to produce light at the varying frequency, whereby light at a frequency exhibited by a moving object does not continuously illuminate a moving object.
US11212890B2
Lighting control systems are disclosed, which are configured to detect a rate at which a total current from a current driver is being changed. The total current is an amount of current for a plurality of LED channels comprising a first LED channel and a second LED channel. The systems are also configured to control a first current to the first LED channel and a second current to the second LED channel, the first current and the second current each being a portion of the total current. The controlling comprises: when the rate is detected as being a first slope, changing a ratio of the second current to the first current; and when the rate is detected as being a second slope different from the first slope, keeping the ratio constant while the total current is adjusted according to the dimmer control.
US11212889B2
The present disclosure provides methods for generating white light. The methods use a plurality of LED strings to generate light with color points that fall within blue, yellow/green, red, and cyan color ranges, with each LED string being driven with a separately controllable drive current in order to tune the generated light output.
US11212885B2
System controller and method for a lighting system. The system controller includes a first controller terminal configured to receive a first signal, and a second controller terminal configured to output a second signal to a diver component. The driver component is configured to receive a first current and provide one or more drive currents to one or more light emitting diodes in response to the second signal. Additionally, the system controller is configured to process information associated with the first signal, determine a first time period for the first signal to increase from a first threshold to a second threshold, and determine a second time period for the first signal to decrease from the second threshold to the first threshold.
US11212877B2
[Problem] To achieve a voice communication system which communicates between two networks that use partially overlapping address spaces. [Solution] According to the present invention, first and second networks are connected to one another by means of a gateway device provided with: a first protocol stack which manages transmission and reception addresses of communication packets in the first network; a second protocol stack which manages transmission and reception addresses of communication packets in the second network; and a call control unit which, upon reception of a communication packet from either network, determines the transfer destination network and transfer destination address of the packet on the basis of call destination information included in the packet.
US11212867B2
A method of performing communication, by a terminal, in a wireless communication system, the method including receiving a radio resource control (RRC) release message; identifying configuration information for suspending based on the received RRC release message; suspending bearers including a data radio bearer (DRB) and a signaling radio bearer (SRB), except an SRB0; and indicating a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) suspend of the DRB.
US11212865B2
A terminal apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a designate of an environment where a set of information related to a job performed with a system connected to the terminal apparatus, and connection information used to connect to the system is taken out to and used, and a display controller that performs, prior to taking out the set, control to display determination results as to whether the system is connectable from the environment.
US11212858B2
The same or similar physical signals can be used for both user equipment (UE) and an integrate access backhaul (IAB) node. Different configurations of the resources and/or transmission periods of the signals can be used for initial access for access UEs and IAB nodes. In addition, to support topology formation, mobility/multi-connectivity procedures, and backhaul link management, periodic measurements and reports can be configured by a parent IAB node to a child IAB node UE function. This can comprise radio resource management (RRM), radio link monitoring (RLM), and beam management (L1-BM) measurements and reports.
US11212854B2
A method for indicating a radio bearer (RB), implemented by a base station, includes: configuring at least one transmission function for an RB; configuring at least two transmission entities shared by the at least one transmission function; adding first information into a first indication message, the first information indicating the at least one transmission function and the at least two transmission entities; and sending the first indication message to a terminal to enable the terminal to set a transmission function and transmission entities corresponding to the RB according to the first indication message.
US11212853B2
Aspects of the disclosure can provide a method and an apparatus for Cell Global Identifier (CGI) reading in a New Radio (NR) system. The method can include receiving a request over a serving cell to report Cell Global Identifier (CGI) information of a target cell to a network node, and decoding system information to acquire the CGI information of the target cell by using Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) and Remaining Minimum System Information (RMSI) occasions in Discontinuous Reception (DRX) off duration of the serving cell, using at least one autonomous gap in data reception and transmission of the serving cell, or using at least one specific gap to interrupt data reception and transmission in DRX on durations of the serving cell. Subsequently, the CGI information of the target cell can be transmitted to the network node.
US11212846B2
Enhanced random access procedures for link-budget-limited user equipment (UE) devices are disclosed. A user equipment device may transmit a first message containing a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH). The PRACH contains instances of a Zadoff-Chu sequence, and may be transmitted repeatedly as part of a single random attempt, to facilitate correlation data combining at the base station. The available Zadoff-Chu sequences may be partitioned among a plurality of sets, each set being associated with a respective Doppler shift range (or frequency hop pattern or time repetition pattern). A UE device may signal Doppler shift (or other information) to the base station by selection of one of the sets. The first PRACH transmission and the following PRACH transmission may occur in consecutive subframes. A UE device may select from a special set of Zadoff-Chu sequences (different from a conventional set of sequences), to signal its status as a link-budget-limited device.
US11212840B2
Disclosed are a method for random access, a terminal, and a network device. The method comprises: a first terminal transmits a random access request to a network device; the first terminal receives a random access response transmitted by the network device; and the first terminal transmits uplink synchronization information and/or an uplink resource to the second terminal, the uplink synchronization information being used by the first terminal and/or the second terminal for uplink synchronization with the network device, and the uplink resource being used by the first terminal and/or the second terminal for communication with the network device. For embodiments of the present application, the first terminal requests the uplink synchronization information and/or the uplink resource from the network device, the uplink synchronization information is used by the first terminal and/or the second terminal for uplink synchronization with the network device, and the uplink resource is used by the first terminal and/or the second terminal for communication with the network device. In other words, the first terminal can assist the second terminal in requesting the uplink synchronization information and/or the uplink resource from the network device, thus increasing the flexibility of a random access process for the first terminal and the second terminal in a relay scenario.
US11212838B2
A method and an apparatus is provided for transmitting uplink data on uplink resources. The method and apparatus includes receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message indicating uplink resources for wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and medium access control (MAC) timer information, transmitting uplink data based on the indicated uplink resources, and deactivating the indicated uplink resources in response to a MAC timer expiring, wherein the MAC timer is configured based on the MAC timer information.
US11212835B2
A method of transmitting information in an unlicensed band, a network device and a terminal are provided. The method includes: when information needs to be transmitted with a transmission beam, listening to a channel of the unlicensed band with a reception beam of the node to obtain a channel listening result; and in a case that the channel listening result indicates that the channel is in an idle state, transmitting the information on the channel with the transmission beam.
US11212834B2
This disclosure is directed to allocation of one or more radio bands to a user equipment (UE) for establishing a radio link with a radio node (e.g., eNodeB or gNodeB). The radio bands may include a shared band, such as citizens band radio service (CBRS), a primary licensed band, such as the B66 band, and/or an unlicensed band, such as B46 band. A radio communications system may consider a variety of parameters associated with the distance of a UE from a radio node, signal strength of a signal from the UE, the services requested by the UE, and/or spectral availability of the each of the radio bands to determine which radio band(s) to allocate to the UE. In some cases, the radio band allocated to a UE may be dynamically changed by the radio communications system as conditions related to the UE and/or the mobile network change.
US11212830B2
A user equipment (UE) receives, from a network, a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource configuration. The PUCCH resource configuration may be included in the SPS configuration. When a change of an SPS operation is required, the user equipment transmits an SPS change request to the network and receives, from the network, an SPS resource grant activated according to the SPS change request. The user equipment changes allocation of a PUCCH resource allocated according to the PUCCH resource configuration, on the basis of the received SPS resource grant. For example, a timing at which or a period in which the PUCCH resource is allocated can be changed.
US11212821B2
A first transmission occasion and a first priority of a first uplink channel can be determined. A second transmission occasion and a second priority of a second uplink channel can be determined. The first priority can be higher than the second priority. The first transmission occasion can overlap in time with the second transmission occasion. A particular symbol of the second uplink channel to cancel the transmission of the second uplink channel can be determined based on the first transmission occasion overlapping in time with the second transmission occasion. The transmission of the second uplink channel from the particular symbol can be cancelled.
US11212818B2
There is provided a system, method, and interfaces for Radio Access Networks and Cloud Radio Access Networks.
US11212816B2
A flying device that flies by being controlled from an external location, the flying device including a determination unit that determines a communication quality on a first wireless communication channel used for transmitting data to a control device that controls the flying device within a prescribed range from a flight position at which the flying device is flying; and a transmission control unit that controls a type of data to be transmitted to the control device on the basis of the communication quality determined by the determination unit.
US11212812B2
A method of allocating resources in a first wireless system, wherein the first wireless system shares a frequency spectrum with a second wireless system, is described. The method comprises detecting a level of interference to the second wireless system caused by the first wireless system on a first frequency within the spectrum; determining if transmission on the first frequency should be restricted based on the level of interference; and restricting transmissions in the first system on the first frequency if it was determined that transmission on the first frequency should be restricted while allowing normal use of the remaining portions of the frequency spectrum to continue in the first system. A system for allocating resources in a first wireless system, wherein the first wireless system shares a frequency spectrum with a second wireless system, is also described.
US11212808B2
Methods and systems provide for coordinated control between multiple devices of playback of a media track or playlist. The multiple devices may form an ad-hoc network for sharing control of media. A control device may coordinate control of the playlist and facilitate playback of the media at a playback device. Then when the control device leaves the group, a second device in the group will seamlessly become the control device and control playback and playlist coordination. The playback device may also be the control device. The playback advice may be a network-enabled speaker. Where the playback device is separate from the control device, the playback device may maintain sufficient information to operate without a control device until a new control device is selected.
US11212806B2
One or more wireless stations operate to configure direct communication with neighboring mobile stations, e.g., direct communication between the wireless stations without utilizing an intermediate access point. A wireless station may determine a further availability window schedule for a first time period, including specifying availability for particular channels at particular time slots at a first time slot increment. The wireless station may specify availability at a second time slot increment for a subset of the time slots specified at the first time slot increment. The second time slot increment may be less than the first slot time increment. The wireless station may negotiate, with a neighboring wireless station, a peer-to-peer communication schedule for the peer-to-peer communication application based on the further availability window schedule, including specifying a portion of the peer-to-peer schedule using the second time slot increment.
US11212805B2
This application provides a terminal mode obtaining method and apparatus, and a device. The method includes: obtaining, by a first terminal device, at least two types of terminal information comprising terminal information of terminal devices that can use a shared resource pool, where the shared resource pool is shared by the terminal devices in at least two types of terminal modes, and the terminal information includes a terminal mode and a terminal type; receiving control information sent by a second terminal device, where the control information indicates that the second terminal device sends data on a first time-frequency resource in a first time period in the shared resource pool; and determining, based on the control information and the terminal information, a terminal mode that is of the second terminal device and that exists when the second terminal device sends data on the first time-frequency resource.
US11212804B2
Methods and apparatus for communicating and utilizing persistent allocation of resources are described herein. A base station may allocate persistent resources to a client station, and may associate the client station or persistent resource allocation with a particular shared NACK channel. The base station may monitor the NACK channel for a NACK indicating a map error. The base station may monitor the resource allocation to implicitly determine a map error. The base station may resend one or more persistent resource allocation information elements in response to the NACK or implicit error determination. A client station having a persistent resource allocation may monitor persistent resource allocation information elements in map messages and/or may indicate failure to receive a persistent resource allocation information element in a NACK message on a shared NACK channel.
US11212788B2
A method of wireless communication including a base station transmitting a preamble including information indicating a sector identifier and an antenna port value. The base station further transmits a pilot sequence, wherein the pilot sequence and the location of the pilot sequence are based on the sector identifier and on the antenna port value. A base station configured to perform the method is also disclosed. A corresponding subscriber station configured to receive the preamble and pilot sequence is also disclosed, as well as a subscriber station method.
US11212787B2
Enhanced Machine Type Communications (eMTC) is a wireless communication technology with reduced system bandwidth. To improve spectral efficiency, user equipment (UE) is configured to receive first downlink control information (DCI) from a base station. The first DCI indicates a resource block (RB) sized frequency allocation for the UE. Additionally, the UE is configured to receive second DCI from the base station. The second DCI indicates a sub RB sized frequency allocation for the UE. The UE is configured to transmit a plurality of uplink data transmissions to the base station in a variable frequency allocation such that the plurality of uplink data transmissions switches between using the RB sized frequency allocation and the sub RB sized frequency allocation. Thus, by using the sub RB sized frequency allocation, more UEs can be allocated to the same RB without lowering the data rate thereby improving total uplink capacity.
US11212784B2
The technology disclosed herein concerns, e.g., apparatus, methods, and procedures for generating, transmitting, and processing a combined message that both indicates RAN-based notification area update (RNAU) and a system information request. A user equipment (36-16) which communicates over a radio interface with an access node (22-16) of a radio access network (RAN) comprises receiver circuitry (46), processor circuitry (40), and transmitter circuitry (44). The receiver circuitry (46) is configured to receive first type system information (SI) from the access node (22-16). The first type system information comprises: scheduling information specifying downlink radio resources for second type SI message(s), each of the second type SI message(s) comprising at least one system information block (SIB), and an indication of a delivery mode for each of the second type SI message(s), the delivery mode being either periodic broadcast or on-demand basis. The processor circuitry (40) is configured to generate, in a case that the user equipment is in an inactive state, a request message for both initiating a RAN-based area update (RNAU) procedure and requesting transmission of at least one second type SI message. The transmitter circuitry (44) is configured to transmit the request message.
US11212777B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for dynamic resource unit allocation for wireless local-area networks (WLANs) include an apparatus of an access point (AP) including processing circuitry configured to determine a group of stations (STAs) and first RUs for uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) orthogonal frequency division multiple-access (OFDMA) transmissions. The processing circuitry is further configured to transmit a trigger frame (TF) including indications of the determined first RUs for the group of STAs to transmit trigger-based (TB) physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDUs) (TB PPDUs) in response to the TF. The processing circuitry may be further configured to in response to a STA not responding to the TF, determine the STA as being inactive, and reallocate to active STAs RUs of inactive STAs, and transmit a second TF to the group of STAs that are active.
US11212774B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present invention relates to a method for preventing resource selection collision between terminals and succeeding in more quickly transmitting data, on the basis of a resource pool sharing plan, in order to support low latency data transmission of a V2X terminal in a wireless communication system.
US11212771B2
Method, device, base station and user equipment for implementing paging monitoring are described. At a base station side, the method includes: grouping a user equipment in a cell controlled by the base station, and allocating a group identifier to each group; for each user equipment, transmitting the group identifier corresponding to the user equipment and a paging indicator monitoring occasion to the user equipment; transmitting a paging indicator to the user equipment currently required to be paged or scheduled. At a user equipment side, the method includes: receiving a group identifier and a paging indicator monitoring occasion transmitted from a base station; monitoring a paging indicator at the paging indicator monitoring occasion; starting to monitor paging control information, when it is monitored that the paging indicator contains the group identifier.
US11212768B2
The technologies described herein are generally directed to facilitating operation of a system for implementing fifth generation (5G) or other next generation networks. In accordance with one or more embodiments, a method described herein can include identifying, by a device comprising a processor, predicted resource usage of a first antenna covering a geographic zone. Further, the method can include selecting, by the device, a group of geographic siting locations within the geographic zone for potentially siting ones of a group of second antennas. In addition, selecting, by the device, a spatial arrangement in relation to the first antenna, of a subset of the group of geographic siting locations can occur, with a selected spatial arrangement including an arrangement to maintain the predicted resource usage in the condition.
US11212766B2
Data transmission methods, apparatuses, base stations, and servers are provided, and relate to the field of the Internet of things. A data transmission method includes determining a system time difference between a first base station and a second base station based on an actual transmission time length of a wireless frame; modifying a sending time of first data according to the system time difference, the sending time of the first data being determined according to a receiving time of second data at the first base station; and sending the first data from the second base station according to the modified sending time of the first data. The present disclosure can reduce the data transmission cost, and improves the reliability of data transmission.
US11212765B2
According to certain embodiments, a method for synchronous control of timing configurations includes operating a wireless device according to a first timing configuration associated with a first delay duration for transmitting feedback to a network node. A second timing configuration associated with a second delay duration for transmitting feedback to the network node is received from the network node. The second delay duration is different from the first delay duration. In response to a first downlink transmission from the network node, a first feedback is scheduled for transmission at a transmission time determined based on the second delay duration associated with the second timing configuration.
US11212752B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for spatial reuse for neighboring nodes of distribution networks, so they may transmit without causing interference to nodes of the distribution network.
US11212744B2
Systems and methods for cell selection, reselection and camping are provided. A network node transmits cell broadcast information including a cell reservation indication and a cell reservation exception indication. A wireless device receives cell broadcast information and determines if the cell is reserved for selection. The cell can be selected, and camped on, in accordance with the wireless device being associated with the cell reservation exception indication.
US11212732B2
A second access network node sends endpoint information of a second transmission path on the second access network node side to the first access network node. The second transmission path is a transmission path that is between the second access network node and a third access network node. The third access network node sends endpoint information of the second transmission path on the third access network node side to the first access network node. The first access network node sends the endpoint information of the second transmission path on the third access network node side to the second access network node, and sends the endpoint information of the second transmission path on the second access network node side to the third access network node.
US11212729B2
Disclosed are a method and system for establishing a route in a connectionless mesh network. The method comprises the following steps of: a sink device periodically broadcasting information to one or more surrounding devices of the sink device, wherein the information comprises information indicating the sink device as a sink, a MAC address of the sink device, and a signal strength between the sink device and an external router; a non-sink device periodically monitoring information broadcast by one or more surrounding devices of the non-sink device, and determining whether the information broadcast by the sink device is present; if so, the non-sink device selecting a sink device having a highest signal strength therewith as a next hop device, and the non-sink device periodically broadcasting information to the one or more surrounding devices of the non-sink device, wherein the information comprises a number of hops from the non-sink device to the sink device, a MAC address of the sink device, and the signal strength between the non-sink device and the sink device; if not, the non-sink device selecting a device having a highest signal strength therewith as the next hop device thereof, and the non-sink device periodically broadcasting information to the one or more surrounding devices of the non-sink device, wherein the information comprises the number of hops from the non-sink device to the sink device, a MAC address of the next hop device, and the signal strength between the non-sink device and the next hop device. The present invention may enable each device to find and maintain a route having the highest signal strength to a network sink.
US11212728B2
The identification of a user device as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) may cause the wireless communication network to implement certain operations. A user device communicating with a wireless communication network may be determined to be an UAV based on one or more behavior characteristics of the user device. Accordingly, a base station handover threshold for the UAV may be modified to prolong a communication duration of the UAV with a base station when a decrease in signal strength or an increase in signal interference of a signal provided by the base station occurs. The base station handover threshold is a threshold for determining when to handover communication between the UAV and the wireless communication network from the base station to an additional base station. The modification of base station handover threshold reduces a handover rate of the UAV between multiple base stations of the wireless communication network.
US11212727B2
The behavior of devices on a network can be modified on the medium access control level to achieve various application level objectives. These types of modifications can include organizing the behavior of transmitting stations to achieve various objectives (e.g., equal allocation of airtime on a wireless network link) for the transmission of data back to those stations' access points. Other modifications, such as changing various stations' maximum data transmission size and modifying an access point's amplifier gain could also be made.
US11212726B2
Determining to initiate a user equipment handover event based on a signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value is disclosed. The disclosed subject matter can employ the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value in lieu of a reference signal receive power value. In an aspect, a handover based on the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value can generally be determined faster and with greater reliability than basing the handover on the reference signal receive power value. In an aspect, some embodiments can substitute a determined uplink signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value for a downlink signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value. In some embodiments, a predicted signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value can be determined based on historical channel characteristics, hysterical wireless network environment features, or other historical data. A predicted signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value can be validated to a determined current signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value, permitting a validated predicted value to be employed until a next validation event.
US11212725B2
A user equipment and a method of wireless communication of same are provided. The method includes transmitting, to a first network, an indication when the user equipment is connected to the first network and is intended to be connected to a second network, and switching a transmission of the user equipment on the first network to the second network.
US11212722B2
A wireless device, a network node and methods therein are provided for achieving an improved link utilization. The method in a wireless device comprises obtaining a configuration related to a first and a second set of resources which the wireless device may use for requesting communication resources from the network. The method further comprises requesting communication resources for uplink or downlink communication using at least one resource from each set of the first and second set. The method further comprises: when a criterion related to at least one of the first and second set is fulfilled: entering a fallback scheme associated with the fulfilled criterion.
US11212721B2
Method for performing registration with network in wireless communication system and device therefor
Disclosed are a method for performing registration with a network in a wireless communication system and a device therefor. Specifically, a method for performing registration with a core network by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system may comprise the steps of: transmitting a registration request message to a first core network in a first cell; receiving a registration rejection message from the first core network in the first cell; discovering a second core network which is of a different type from the first core network and is supported in the first cell; when the second core network supported in the first cell is discovered, determining whether the UE supports the second core network; and when the UE supports the second core network, performing a registration procedure with the second network in the first cell.
US11212699B1
A wireless User Equipment (UE) attaches to a Fifth Generation New Radio (5GNR) gNodeB in a wireless communication network. The wireless communication network receives a Guaranteed Bit Rate (GBR) request for the UE. In the wireless communication network, a Policy Control Function (PCF) efficiently invokes an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) and a Session Management Function (SMF) to effectively serve the GBR request. The AMF signals the UE and the 5GNR gNodeB to initiate the GBR service over the Long Term Evolution eNodeB. The SMF signals a data gateway to initiate the GBR service with the LTE eNodeB. The UE attaches to the LTE eNodeB. The LTE eNodeB and the data gateway deliver the requested GBR service to the UE.
US11212698B2
Example communication methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes that a first communications apparatus sends quality of service (QoS) flow information to a second communications apparatus, where a QoS flow indicated by the QoS flow information corresponds to at least one bearer type. The first communications apparatus receives a QoS flow list sent by the second communications apparatus based on the QoS flow information, where each QoS flow list is mapped to a radio bearer. The first communications apparatus sends a radio bearer identifier of the QoS flow list to the second communications apparatus. In the embodiments of this application, a base station itself determines a radio bearer or a DRB used to transmit the QoS flow.
US11212692B2
A non-connection state measurement method, UE, and a base station are provided. The measurement method according to this disclosure includes: acquiring measurement configuration information, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more frequencies; starting, by the UE in a non-connection state, to perform measurements in the one or more frequencies according to the measurement configuration information; and reporting, by the UE after the UE enters a connected state from the non-connection state, a measurement result obtained from the measurements.
US11212691B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may perform a first interference measurement on a first subband of a plurality of subbands configured for the UE and a second interference measurement on a second subband of the plurality of subbands. The UE may identify a first interference level based at least in part on the first interference measurement and a second interference level based at least in part on the second interference measurement. The UE may transmit, to a base station, a first sounding reference signal (SRS) on the first subband and a second SRS on the second subband, wherein an SRS sequence of the first SRS indicates the first interference level, and wherein an SRS sequence of the second SRS indicates the second interference level. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11212687B2
The method includes transmitting request messages to at least one first network node, the request messages each including at least a sampling time-window and a network slice identifier, the sampling time-window defining a duration of time, the network slice identifier identifying a designated network slice within the communication network, receiving packet reports from the at least one first network node, the packet reports including latency information for packets that are processed by the at least one first network node during the sampling time-window for the designated network slice, and controlling the operation of the communication network based on the latency information.
US11212682B2
A user equipment, base station and methods are provided. The user equipment includes processing circuitry configured to obtain an indication of a resource mapping for a first radio access technology, RAT, that allows for co-existence with a second RAT within at least a portion of a transmission band, and determine communication resources based on the obtained resource mapping indication.
US11212679B2
A wearable device can establish a verified session with a host device (e.g., by establishing that the wearable device is present in the vicinity of the host device and is currently being worn). The existence of such a verified session can be used to control user access to sensitive information that may be stored in or otherwise accessible to a host device. For example, the host device and/or application programs executing thereon can be configured to restrict a user's ability to invoke program functionality that accesses sensitive information based on whether a verified session with a wearable device is currently in progress.
US11212674B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first processor configured to perform communication with an external electronic device, a second processor configured to execute at least one application, and a secure module configured to include a first interface electrically connected with the first processor, a second interface electrically connected with the second processor, a memory storing subscriber information and biometric information, and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to provide the subscriber information to the first processor through the first interface, based at least on a request received in connection with the communication from the first processor and provide the biometric information to the second processor through the second interface, based at least on a request received in connection with at least a portion of the at least one application from the second processor.
US11212665B2
A node device configuring a peer-to-peer network includes: a network interface; and a blockchain management part configured to receive, through the network interface, an information registration request transaction that includes embedded Subscriber Identity Module, SIM, information including SIM identification information, an electronic signature put on the embedded SIM information by using a private key of an information registrant, and a public key paired with the private key, and accumulate the received information registration request transaction into a blockchain based on a consensus building algorithm executed in cooperation with another node device configuring the peer-to-peer network.
US11212635B2
A method of playing back audio content with improved immersiveness can include receiving, at a playback device, audio input including vertical content having a high-frequency portion and a low-frequency portion. The playback device can face along a first sound axis and comprise an up-firing transducer configured to direct sound along a second sound axis that is vertically angled with respect to the primary sound axis and a side-firing transducer or array configured to direct sound along a third axis that is horizontally angled with respect to the first sound axis. The low-frequency portion of the vertical content can be played back via the side-firing transducer or array, while the high-frequency portion of the vertical content can be played back via the up-firing transducer.
US11212633B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method, comprising: receiving, by a media processor including a processor, spherical audiovisual media content from a content delivery network; rendering, by the media processor, video for a point of view in the spherical audiovisual media content at a display device coupled to the media processor; receiving, from a remote control device coupled to the media processor, a control signal panning the point of view, resulting in a new field of view; and generating, by the media processor, audio signals from the spherical audiovisual media content corresponding to the new field of view, wherein the audio signals are adapted to audio reproduction equipment coupled to the media processor. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11212631B2
Disclosed is an audio signal processing method including: receiving a stereo signal; transforming the stereo signal into a frequency-domain signal; rendering the first signal based on a first ipsilateral filter coefficient; generating a frontal ipsilateral signal relating to the frequency-domain signal; rendering the second signal based on a second ipsilateral filter coefficient; generating a side ipsilateral signal relating to the frequency-domain signal; rendering the second signal based on a contralateral filter coefficient; generating a side contralateral signal relating to the frequency-domain signal; transforming an ipsilateral signal, generated by mixing the frontal ipsilateral signal and the side ipsilateral signal, and the side contralateral signal into a time-domain ipsilateral signal and a time-domain contralateral signal, which are time-domain signals, respectively; and generating a binaural signal by mixing the time-domain ipsilateral signal and the time-domain contralateral signal.
US11212626B2
The current invention is intended to render artifacts, which are introduced by changes in coefficients in an FIR filter, inaudible by applying a window to the filtered signal that results in the output of the filter (e.g. FIR filter), in which the coefficients are being changed, supplying little or none of the total output while the output of the filter, in which the coefficients are stable, supplies most or all of the total output.
US11212624B2
A MEMS-transducer comprises a membrane structure having a first main surface and a second main surface opposing the first main surface. A substrate structure holds the membrane structure, wherein the substrate structure overlaps with the first main surface of the membrane structure in a first edge region being adjacent to a first inner region of the first main surface. A gap is formed between the membrane structure and the substrate structure in the first edge region and extends from the first inner region into the first edge region.
US11212623B2
The invention provides a piezoelectric micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) microphone having a base with a cavity, a piezoelectric diaphragm, and a limit element. The base has a ring base, and a support column. The piezoelectric diaphragm includes diaphragm sheets. Each diaphragm sheet have a fixing end connected with the support column and a free end suspended above the cavity. The limit element includes a limit part arranged apart from the piezoelectric diaphragm to limit the free ends in vibration directions of the diaphragm sheets, and an edge fixing plate connected with the outer edge of the limit part and arranged on the ring base. When the diaphragm sheets greatly deform upwards under impact force, deformation of the diaphragm sheets can be controlled, and the diaphragm sheets are protected to prevent the diaphragm sheets from breaking, thereby improving the stability of the piezoelectric MEMS microphone.
US11212620B2
The present invention discloses a screen sounding device, including a screen, a frame and an electromagnetic driving module. The electromagnetic driving module includes an electromagnet, a magnetic conduction base and a magnetic conduction covering plate. The strength of the driving force can be controlled by changing the magnitude of the electric current flowing into the coil, which can provide a greater driving force to obtain a better sound effect. In addition, the driving module of the present invention has a simple structure and can be easily installed; the vibration amplitude of the screen is small, and the sounding device can be made thinner and smaller; compared with the traditional speaker and receiver, the structure such as the diaphragm is omitted, and the manufacturing cost is lower.
US11212613B2
The signal processing device is a signal processing device that collects a target sound output from an object to be a sound source, and includes a communication circuit that inputs image data produced by a camera and an acoustic signal output from a microphone array, and a control circuit that controls a sound collection direction of the acoustic signal in at least any one of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction relative to the microphone array based on at least any one of the image data and the acoustic signal.
US11212605B1
An electronic device including a housing comprising one or more walls that define an interior cavity and that include a first wall having an audio opening extending through the first wall from an exterior surface of the housing to the interior cavity; a bracket disposed within the interior cavity and having first and second opposing surfaces, a first channel extending along the first surface and having a first end spaced apart from and surrounding the audio opening, and a second channel fluidly coupled to and extending perpendicular to the first channel through the second surface at a location laterally displaced from the audio opening; and a microphone disposed within the interior cavity and coupled to the second surface of the bracket over the second channel, wherein the bracket cooperates with the first wall to create an acoustic pathway that extends from the audio opening through the first wall, through the first channel and through the second channel to the microphone.
US11212600B2
An integrated dynamic bandwidth allocation method and apparatus in a passive optical network (PON) are provided. The bandwidth allocation method performed by an optical line terminal (OLT) includes generating a service level agreement (SLA) table including an SLA required for calculation for bandwidth allocation corresponding to at least one service queue included in at least one optical network unit (ONU) connected to the OLT, calculating maximum allocatable bandwidths for respective predetermined cycles based on the generated SLA table, and, when a service queue requiring bandwidth allocation is present in the ONU, performing bandwidth allocation according to different bandwidth allocation methods based on a priority level of the service queue using the calculated maximum allocatable bandwidths.
US11212599B2
A system and method is disclosed in which circuitry of a first controller of a first node on a first path within a transport network receives a first signal indicating a failure within the first path from a second controller. The first node is an end node of the first path. A first client signal failure clear signal is received from a second node upstream of the first node on the first path. The first client signal failure clear signal indicates that a non-restorable fault has been resolved such that the first path can be considered for carrying data traffic. The non-restorable fault is a failure at the source. Subsequent to receiving the first signal indicating the failure within the first path, a backward defect indication clear signal is transmitted to the second node, the backward defect indication clear signal indicating an absence of a failure in the first path.
US11212598B2
Apparatus and method for translating automatic meter reading signals to instantaneous meter readings
A resource monitor for monitoring consumption of a resource includes: a commissioning processor, configured to pair with a client device via a Bluetooth link, and configured to receive WIFI network credentials from the client device, and configured to transmit the credentials to commission the resource monitor onto the WIFI network, and configured to initiate communications with a resource server over the internet cloud; and a meter reading processor, that receives meter identifiers from the resource server via the internet cloud for resource meters within radio range, and that tunes a meter receiver to narrowband frequency channels to detect and decode radio signals transmitted by resource meters to extract the meter identifiers along with corresponding meter readings, and that periodically transmits the meter identifiers along with the corresponding meter readings to the resource server over the internet cloud.
US11212597B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for early termination of content. An information processing apparatus including circuitry is provided. A manifest file for a content stream is received from a first server and primary content is received from the first server based on the manifest file. Manifest file update information is received from the first server. The manifest file update information indicates early termination of secondary content of the content stream during a period is permitted. A request for the secondary content associated with the period is sent to a second server based on the manifest file update information. The secondary content is received from the second server. Further, the secondary content is output for display during the period based on whether the secondary content is terminated early.
US11212596B2
Methods and apparatus to synthesize reference media signatures based on constituent media signatures generated by metered media devices are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a collector to collect first constituent media signatures from a first media device that identify a first portion of media, a collector to collect second constituent media signatures from a second media device that identify a second portion of the media, and a synthesizer to combine the first constituent media signatures from the first media device and the second constituent media signatures from the second media device to form a reference media signature that represents the media, the reference media signature for comparison with third constituent media signatures collected from a third media device to detect consumption of the media at the third media device.
US11212589B2
Method and systems are disclosed for presenting media asset identifiers retrieved based on a user search criteria. User's input of a first information, a second information, and a third information is received. The system identifies an information type associated with each received information. If the first information and the third information are associated with the same information type, a first query is created that combines the first information and the third information to retrieve media asset identifiers according to information type instructions associated with the first information type. The second information is integrated into the first query. If the second information and the third information are associated with the same information type, a second query is created that combines that second information and the third information to retrieve media asset identifiers according to instructions associated with the second information type. The first information is integrated into the second query.
US11212584B2
A method of setting controls on a digital communication device operated by an end user participant in a digital content event provided from a digital communication network includes operating a tracking control in the digital communication network to track activity of the digital communication device in a context of the digital content event; operating a timer in conjunction with the activity to form a time-stamped set of ranking controls; attenuating the time-stamped set of ranking controls according to an elapsed time; applying the time-stamped set of ranking controls and content inputs from a digital content manager to operate a ranking control and digital filter to generate a control interface for the digital communication device, the control interface comprising a plurality of individually operable controls; and configuring the digital communication device with the control interface.
US11212582B2
A processing device for generating a viewing data report is disclosed. The processing device may include a memory device and a processor. The memory device may store instructions. The processor may be operatively coupled to the memory device. The processor may execute the instructions to: determine first viewing data associated with a first ACR event; determine second viewing data associated with a second ACR event; determine that a data field of a plurality of data fields in the first viewing data is incomplete; derive new data for the data field using other data fields of the first viewing data; aggregate the first viewing data and the second viewing data into a single data model to obtain aggregated viewing data of viewing behavior of a first viewer and a second viewer; and create a viewing data report as a compilation of the aggregated viewing data.
US11212572B2
An identifier of query content is accurately determined. A content determining device 100 includes an input unit 2 that inputs query content, a storage unit 1 that stores a plurality of pieces of master content, and a content determining unit 4 that determines a region where feature values of two pieces of master content out of the plurality of pieces of master content do not match each other, calculates a matching feature count which is a count of feature values of the region that match feature values in a corresponding region of the query content, for each of the two pieces of master content, and determines an identifier of the query content on the basis of the matching feature count of each of the pieces of master content.
US11212571B2
A video aggregation system for providing a user personalized video content from videos available on the Internet generates a selective feed by combining a first feed and a second feed. The video aggregation system receives a search request from an Internet service and transmits a search reply containing a separately resolvable link to a video content object from the selective feed.
US11212568B2
In some aspects, control circuitry detects a plurality of instances in which the number of requests to simultaneously stream media from a subscription service to different devices exceeds a number of streams available to the user from the subscription service. The control circuitry generates a plurality of timestamps corresponding to the plurality of instances, and compares each timestamp to a range of timestamps that corresponds to a subscription period for the subscription service in order to determine a number of instances that occurred during the subscription period. The control circuitry compares the number of instances that occurred during the subscription period to a threshold number for the subscription period. Control circuitry transmits a message, from the server to one of the different devices, if the threshold is exceeded.
US11212560B2
A method and system for using steganographically-encoded time information as a basis to control when a client carries out a content-related action. The client processes for presentation one or more linear media streams, each defining a respective time sequence of frames of media content, and at least one of the streams being steganographically encoded with at least one watermark at a respective time-point within the stream, the watermark encoding a timestamp of the respective time-point within the stream according to a server clock. The client extracts the timestamp from the watermark and computes a time offset based on a difference between the extracted timestamp and a current time according to a client clock. And the client uses the computed time offset as a basis to determine when the client should carry out a content-related action in a given one of the one or more linear media streams.
US11212545B2
According to an aspect of the disclosure, a method of video decoding for a decoder is provided. In the method, transform block signaling information is acquired from a coded video bitstream. In addition, a determination is made to determine whether the transform block signaling information indicates an implicit transform scheme, and at least one of a low-frequency non-separable transform (LFNST) and a matrix-based intra predication mode (MIP) is invalid. In response to the determination that the transform block signaling information indicates the implicit transform scheme, and at least one of the LFNST and MIP is signaled as invalid, a primary transform type is determined based on a size of a coding block unit (CU), and a primary transform is performed for a transform block that is partitioned from the CU in accordance with the determined primary transform type.
US11212543B2
A method for restoring a compressed image according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes receiving monochrome image data and low resolution color image data generated from an original color image of the monochrome image data, decoding the monochrome image data and generating a low resolution monochrome image, decoding the low resolution color image data generating a low resolution color image; processing the low resolution monochrome image and generating a high resolution monochrome image in accordance with a super resolution imaging neural network; and generating a high resolution color image based on the low resolution color image and the high resolution monochrome image in accordance with a colorization imaging neural network. The imaging neural network of the present disclosure may be a deep neural network generated by machine learning, and images may be input and output in the Internet of Things environment using a 5G network.
US11212542B2
A video data stream is rendered reducible in a manner so that the reduction leads to a restriction of pictures of the reduced video data stream to merely a predetermined subarea of the pictures of the original video data stream and in a manner so that transcoding, such as re-quantization, may be avoided and a conformance of the reduced video data stream relative to the codec underlying the original video data stream be maintained. This is achieved by providing the video data stream with information including an indication of the predetermined subarea and replacement indices for redirecting the indices included by the payload portion so as to refer to, and/or replacement parameters for adjusting the first set of coding parameter settings so as to result in, a second set of coding parameter settings.
US11212540B2
A system for encoding and decoding a sequence of frames of video data. The system includes encoding processing circuitry configured to encode a sequence of source video frames using other source frames as reference frames. The encoding processing circuitry is also configured, when encoding a new source frame that has a different resolution to the resolution of a reference frame, to generate a scaled copy of the reference frame for the new source frame. The encoding processing circuitry is also configured to encode the new source frame using the scaled copy of the reference frame to provide output encoded video image data. The system also includes a video decoder configured to decode the encoded scaled copy of the reference frame and decode the encoded source frame using the decoded scaled copy of the reference frame to provide output video image data for the source frame.
US11212537B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing efficient video compression are disclosed. A video processing system includes a transmitter sending a video stream over a wireless link to a receiver. The transmitter includes a processor and an encoder. The processor generates rendered blocks of pixels of a video frame, and when the processor predicts a compression level for a given region of the video frame is different from a compression level for immediately neighboring blocks, the processor generates side information. The side information identifies a location of the given region in the video frame and a type of content that causes the compression level differences. The processor sends the rendered video information and the side information as accompanying metadata to the encoder. The encoder updates encoding parameters based on the received side information, and compresses the rendered given region based on the updated encoding parameters.
US11212530B2
Methods and systems for decoding a picture. A method includes receiving a coded video stream including a picture partitioned into first sub-picture units, the first sub-picture units including one first sub-picture unit, and an additional first sub-picture unit including a first ordered second sub-picture unit, from among second sub-picture units of the additional first sub-picture unit, and a last ordered second sub-picture unit, from among the second sub-picture units of the additional first sub-picture unit. The method further including decoding the picture, the decoding including obtaining index values of the first ordered second sub-picture unit and the last ordered second sub-picture unit of the additional first sub-picture unit, without the coded video stream explicitly signaling any of the index values and a difference value between the index values of the first ordered second sub-picture unit and the last ordered second sub-picture unit to the at least one processor.
US11212529B2
An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided. The image processing apparatus includes: a division control unit that, on the basis of a first boundary dividing an image into a plurality of partial areas, further sets a second boundary and divides each of the partial areas into a plurality of slices; and an encoding unit that encodes the image on the basis of the first boundary and the second boundary, in which the division control unit sets the second boundary such that the plurality of slices included in the partial area has unequal numbers of lines, and the slice situated at the bottom among the plurality of slices included in the partial area is not a slice having the most lines in the partial area.
US11212528B2
An efficient encoding/decoding method for block compression for RRR, provides an area-saving method that operates at high speed even with a dense bit string. A block encoding device generates blocks having a first block length by dividing an input bit string into a plurality of blocks, determines a first weight of each block from the number of 1 values included in the bit string, divides each block into small blocks having a second block length, determines a first order of the blocks in a set in which predetermined bit strings having the first block length and the first weight are arranged in a predetermined order on the basis of the weight and value of each of the small blocks, and generates block encoding data by converting the bit string of each block into the values of the determined first weight and first order.
US11212526B2
A video decoding method according to an embodiment of the present invention may include determining a type of a filter to be applied to a first-layer picture which a second-layer picture as a decoding target refers to; determining a filtering target of the first-layer picture to which the filter is applied; filtering the filtering target based on the type of the filter; and adding the filtered first-layer picture to a second-layer reference picture list. Accordingly, the video decoding method and an apparatus using the same may reduce a prediction error in an upper layer and enhance encoding efficiency.
US11212525B2
An encoding device 1 includes: a transformation unit 13 configured to calculate an orthogonal transform coefficient by performing an orthogonal transformation process on a residual image indicating a difference between the input image and a predicted image of the input image; a quantization unit 14 configured to generate a quantization coefficient by quantizing the orthogonal transform coefficient on the basis of a quantization parameter; an entropy encoding unit 24 configured to generate encoded data by encoding the quantization coefficient; an image decoding unit 10 configured to restore an orthogonal transform coefficient from the quantization coefficient on the basis of the quantization parameter and generate a reconstructed image by adding the predicted image to a residual image restored by performing inverse orthogonal transformation on the orthogonal transform coefficient; and a deblocking filtering unit 18 configured to perform a filtering process on the reconstructed image, wherein the deblocking filtering unit 18 controls a filtering strength depending on a luminance signal level of the reconstructed image and the quantization parameter.
US11212520B2
Disclosed herein is a region-based reference management system using in video frame encoding. Source content, such as video game streaming or remote desktop sharing, that includes scene changes or significant instantaneous changes in a region from one frame to the next can present encoding challenges. Techniques disclosed herein use hints about changes in regional frame content, dissect frame content into regions, and associate the dissected regions with stored reference frame data using the hints and information about the regions to more efficiently encode frames.
US11212518B2
Provided is a method for accelerating coding and decoding of an HEVC video sequence. The method includes following steps: an original video stream is decoded, a LCU and a PU1 are extracted, and the complexity of the PU1 is calculated; a block size division is performed; a quantization step QP1 of the original video stream is recorded; the decoded video stream is recoded, a quantization step QP2 of the recoded stream is set, and a CU2 of a previous frame of a frame to be coded and a CU3 of coded frames 1˜N−1 are extracted; a coding unit of a frame currently being coded is obtained; a final prediction unit mode is determined according to the PU1; a division mode of the coding unit of the frame currently being coded is determined according to a depth information category of the coding unit of the frame currently being coded.
US11212504B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding or decoding a 360-degree image. An image decoding method and apparatus according to an embodiment include: obtaining image data from a bitstream; decoding a first region of a projection image corresponding to a non-clipping region of a 360-degree image from the image data; obtaining information about a clipping region of the 360-degree image from the bitstream; determining a second region of the projection image, based on the information about the clipping region; and converting the projection image including the first region and the second region into the 360-degree image.
US11212502B2
A method of modifying an image on a computational device and a system for implementing the method is disclosed. The method comprising the steps of: providing image data representative of at least a portion of a three-dimensional scene, the scene being visible to a human observer from a viewing point when fixating on a visual fixation point within the scene; displaying an image by rendering the image data on a display device; capturing user input by user input capturing means; modifying the image by: computationally isolating a fixation region within the image, the fixation region being defined by a subset of image data representing an image object within the image, wherein the image object is associated with the visual fixation point; spatially reconstructing the subset of image data to computationally expand the fixation region; spatially reconstructing remaining image data relative to the subset of image data to computationally compress a peripheral region of the image relative to the fixation region in a progressive fashion as a function of a distance from the fixation region, wherein the modification of the image is modulated by the user input such that a modified image is produced which synthetically emulates how the human observer would perceive the three-dimensional scene.
US11212501B2
A portable device includes a display module, an image capture module, and an eye-tracking module. The image capture module is used to capture images steadily. The eye-tracking module is used to track a user's viewpoint position relative to the portable device. Viewport within the images captured by the image capture module is adjusted in accordance with the user's viewpoint position for generating modified images displayed on the display module instantaneously. The modified images shown on the display module can fit the background scene seen by the user, and the augmented reality experience on the portable device may be improved accordingly.
US11212497B2
Accordingly embodiments herein disclose a method for producing 360 degree image content on a rectangular projection. The method includes detecting whether at least one discontinuous boundary is present in the 360-degree image content, wherein the at least one discontinuous boundary is detected using the packing of one or more projection segments. Further, the method includes obtaining one or more reconstructed blocks from the 360-degree image content. The reconstructed blocks are generated from the 360 degree image content. Further, the method includes performing one of enabling at least one in-loop filtering function on the one or more reconstructed blocks of the 360 degree image content when the at least one of image content discontinuous boundary is not present and disabling at least one in-loop filtering function on the one or more reconstructed blocks of the 360 degree image content located around the at least one discontinuous boundary.
US11212496B2
Conversion between different projection formats of a 360-degree video may be performed in a uniform way. The geometric characteristics of the different projection formats may be considered when applying 3D-to-2D and 2D-to-3D mapping. Parameters reflective of the geometric characteristics of the different projection formats may be determined and used in the mapping and/or conversion. The parameters may include a normal vector that is perpendicular to a projection plane, a reference point in the projection plane, and/or unit vectors defined in the projection plane. An architecture with consolidated modules for handling the various projection formats may be provided.
US11212486B1
This disclosure is directed to facilitating voice and video communication between users independent of a location or a device. A communication request can specify users, who may be identified and located in their respective environments. For example, users can be identified and located using facial recognition imaging techniques and/or by monitoring a radio frequency (RF) signal associated with a device that is carried or worn by a user. After determining a location of a user, individual devices can be configured as a functionally grouped device to allow the users to communicate. For example, capabilities of a television, microphone, speaker, and imaging device can be combined to allow a video communication between users. Further, as a user moves around his or her environment, the location of the user can be tracked and additional functionally grouped devices can be provided for seamless communication.
US11212485B2
A signaling device able to operate in association with a capturing device able to capture a scene. The signaling device includes: an obtaining module able to obtain a first observation direction from the scene captured by the capturing device, a determining module able to determine a first field of observation associated with the first observation direction, and a signalling module able to signal the first observation field using first signage based on at least one sensorial indicator.
US11212483B2
A computing device obtains a live video of a user and obtains selection of at least one makeup effect. The computing device generates a user interface displaying the live video in a virtual mirror with the at least one makeup effect applied to a facial region of the user and monitors for an occurrence of a first target event relating to actions by the user in the live video. In response to detecting an occurrence of the first target event during the live video, the computing device records the live video based on the occurrence of the first target event, detects an occurrence of a second target event relating to actions by the user, and stops recording of the video responsive to occurrence of the second target event.
US11212479B2
Examples described herein include systems, devices, and methods for backscattering carrier signals in accordance with pixel values of an image and/or video. Signals having a property proportionate to pixel values may be converted into a pulse-containing waveform having pulses whose widths and/or duty cycles are determined based on the pixel values. Backscatter transmitters may backscatter a carrier signal in accordance with the pulse-containing waveform to provide the pixel values to a receiver. In this manner, video transmission at low power and/or battery-free operation may be provided.
US11212474B2
The present disclosure provides a bidirectional TDI line image sensor. The bidirectional TDI line image sensor according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a pixel unit, which has N line sensors having M CCDs arranged in a line and being arranged in a scan direction, moves, in the scan direction, charges accumulated in the respective columns of the line sensors, and accumulates the same; and an output unit for parallelly receiving as inputs the charges accumulated in the pixel unit from the respective columns, performing analog-to-digital conversion on and storing the charges, and then sequentially outputting same.
US11212473B2
An embodiment includes a plurality of pixels each including a light receiving unit that outputs a pulse in response to incidence of a photon, and a signal generation unit that generates a signal in accordance with the number of pulses output from the light receiving unit, wherein the plurality of pixels includes a first pixel in which an upper limit value of a signal generated by the signal generation unit is a first value and a second pixel in which an upper limit value of a signal generated by the signal generation unit is a second value that is smaller than the first value.
US11212466B2
Techniques are disclosed for facilitating multiple microbolometer selection for simultaneous readout. In one example, a device includes a plurality of microbolometers. The plurality of microbolometers includes a first set and a second set of serially-connected microbolometers. The device further includes a first plurality of switches configured to selectively short the plurality of microbolometers. The device further includes a second plurality of switches configured to selectively couple the plurality of microbolometers to ground. The device further includes a third plurality of switches configured to selectively provide a bias signal to the plurality of microbolometers. The device further includes a processing circuit configured to configure the first plurality, second plurality, and third plurality of switches to cause simultaneous read out of one microbolometer of the first set and one microbolometer of the second set. Related methods and systems are also provided.
US11212465B2
An endoscopy video feature enhancement platform (EVFEP) is connected to the output of any type endoscope system, and inputs and captures the output video. The video is visually augmented live with indicators of possible polyp detection and localization, polyp attributes, and procedure metrics, based on the collective learning of the output results of many different types of endoscopy systems on a large scale. An artificial intelligence model is trained on confirmed polyp detection previously determined by this and other EVFEP devices used with many different types of endoscope systems on a large scale. Augmented video, images and automatically generated short video clips of key procedure segments are passed to a reporting system, and supplemented with meta data.
US11212462B1
Methods and apparatus for detecting and correcting for lens tilt in cameras. The common mode signal may be derived from autofocus position (AP) sensors and used as a measure of the autofocus position of the lens on the Z axis. The differential mode signal may also be derived from the AP sensor signals. The differential mode signal may indicate that the lens is or is not tilted, and if tilted may indicate the direction and magnitude of the tilt. The differential mode signal may be used to apply a tilt correction transform to image data based on the strength and direction of the signal. The differential mode signal may also be used to translate the lens on an axis orthogonal to the Z axis to partially correct for lens tilt to align the image plane with the photosensor.
US11212461B2
This image pickup system includes an image pickup unit that captures a subject to obtain a pixel signal, and a processing circuit that generates a first video signal having a first dynamic range from the pixel signal generated by the image pickup unit, and generates a second video signal having a second dynamic range correlated with the first dynamic range.
US11212452B2
A control apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire optical information, a tilt control unit configured to tilt an image sensor relative to a plane orthogonal to an optical axis of an imaging optical system, and a calculation unit configured to calculate an image shift amount by a phase difference detection method based on a signal from the image sensor and to calculate a defocus amount based on the image shift amount and a conversion coefficient. The calculation unit changes at least one of a correction amount of the signal and the conversion coefficient based on the optical information and a tilt angle that is an angle formed by the image sensor and the plane.
US11212449B1
The present disclosure generally relates to user interface for capturing and managing media (e.g., photo media, video media). In some examples, user interfaces for capturing media (e.g., photo media, video media) are described. In some examples, user interfaces for displaying camera controls and indicators are described. In some examples, user interfaces for adjusting media (e.g., photo media (e.g., a sequence of images, a single image), video media) are described. In some examples, user interfaces for managing the file format of media (e.g., photo, video media) are described. In some examples, user interfaces for storing media (photo media (e.g., a sequences of image, a single still image), video media) are described.
US11212443B2
A method for providing location-dependent recording modes for an event detection and reporting system of a vehicle includes detecting that the vehicle is approaching or is in an area in which the recordation of data is restricted by rule, and operating the event detection and reporting system in a restricted mode in response to detecting that the vehicle is approaching or is in the area in which the recordation of data is restricted. The method also includes recording, while the event detection and reporting system is in the restricted mode, either correlated video or non-video data in an obscured format, and the other of the correlated video or non-video in an unobscured format.
US11212438B2
An example method includes, receiving an encoded picture of 360-degree video data, the encoded picture of 360-degree video data being arranged in packed faces obtained from a projection of a sphere of the 360-degree video data; decoding the picture of encoded 360-degree video data to obtain a reconstructed picture of 360-degree video data, the reconstructed picture of 360-degree video data being arranged in the packed faces; padding the reconstructed picture of 360-degree video data to generate a padded reconstructed picture of 360-degree video data; in-loop filtering the padded reconstructed picture of 360-degree video data to generate a padded and filtered reconstructed picture of 360-degree video data; and storing the padded and filtered reconstructed picture of 360-degree video data in a reference picture memory for use in predicting subsequent pictures of 360-degree video data.
US11212437B2
In an embodiment, a system includes an immersive camera module including a camera mounting block having a plurality of camera mounting sites and a plurality of cameras mounted to the plurality of camera mounting sites. Each of the plurality of cameras includes a partially-overlapping field of view, and the camera module is configured to comprehensively capture a target space. The system further includes a chassis operatively coupled with the immersive camera module, the chassis configured to smoothly maneuver the camera module comprehensively through the target space. Aspects herein can also relate to methods for capturing immersions, systems and methods for providing immersions, and systems and methods for viewing and controlling immersions.
US11212430B2
An interchangeable lens that is removably attachable to a camera body, includes: a first clock receiving unit that receives a first clock from the camera body; a second clock transmitting unit that transmits a second clock to the camera body; a lens that drives by receiving a driving force from a first driving member; a diaphragm member that drives by receiving a driving force from a second driving member; a receiving unit that receives an instruction from the camera body synchronized with the first clock; a first transmitting unit that periodically transmits positional information on the lens in synchronization with the second clock, to the camera body; and a second transmitting unit that transmits a state of the diaphragm member based on the instruction in synchronization with the first clock, to the camera body.
US11212429B2
A camera module for a vehicular vision system includes a front camera housing having a housing portion and a cylindrical lens barrel extending from the housing portion and accommodating a lens. An imager printed circuit board is attached at the front camera housing portion. With the imager printed circuit board attached at the front camera housing, the imager is optically aligned with an optical axis of the lens. A rear camera housing portion is mated with the housing portion of the front camera housing so as to encase the imager printed circuit board in the camera module. The housing portion of the front camera housing includes mounting structure configured to mount the camera module at a vehicle. The lens barrel includes a material having a lower coefficient of thermal expansion as compared to the material of the front camera housing.
US11212427B2
This application is directed to a doorbell camera for illuminating and capturing scenes. The doorbell camera includes at least a subset of processors for operating a camera module, an image sensor having a field of view of a scene and configured to capture video of a portion of the scene, one or more infrared (IR) illuminators for providing illumination, a waterproof button assembly, and a microphone and a speaker for enabling a real-time conversation between a visitor located at the doorbell camera and a user of a remote client device. The waterproof button assembly is configured to receive a user press on a button top, block water from entering the electronic device, and display a visual pattern uniformly at a peripheral region of the button assembly using LEDs and light guide component that are disposed under the button top.
US11212424B2
A display driver comprises drop amount calculation circuitry and digital gamma correction circuitry. The drop amount calculation circuitry is configured to calculate a drop amount of a power source voltage supplied to a display panel from a setting value. The digital gamma correction circuitry is configured to perform digital gamma correction on an input image data based on the drop amount.
US11212417B2
A controller of an image processing apparatus performs one or both of an enlargement process and a conversion process when a coded image in which information is coded is included in the image data. The enlargement process is a process of pasting an enlarged coded image instead of the coded image on the image data. The conversion process is a process of pasting decoded information instead of the coded image.
US11212411B2
An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The information processing apparatus receives an initialization instruction from an external apparatus, initializes second information among first information and the second information stored in a first memory in response to the initialization instruction, notifies the external apparatus of completion of initialization of the second information, and initializes the first information after the completion of initialization of the second information is notified to the external apparatus.
US11212408B2
A multimedia device 2 is proposed having a display unit 6 for displaying at least one optical code 5, wherein the optical code 5 is configured to be acquired by a read device 3, wherein the multimedia device 2 comprises a coding unit 4, wherein the coding unit 4 is configured to code operating data of the multimedia device 2 as the optical code 5.
US11212407B2
A control method for an apparatus for controlling a reading apparatus that performs reading in a transmission mode includes a read controlling step, a generating step and a processing step. In a read controlling step, the reading apparatus is controlled to read at least one film in the transmission mode based on a reading instruction from operating system standard software. In a generating step, a display image is generated, in which at least one frame image is arranged, based on a read image obtained by the reading in the read controlling step. In a processing step, a processing for displaying the display image generated in the generating step by using the operating system standard software, is executed.
US11212404B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a reception part that receives specification of a print mode and specification of a sheet type to be used for printing; a sheet supply part that sends a sheet to a sheet conveyance path; a detection part that detects a type of a sheet sent to the sheet conveyance path; and a hardware processor that controls a printing operation, wherein when a sheet type received by the reception part is a type for which printing in the print mode received by the reception part is allowed, the sheet supply part sends a sheet to the sheet conveyance path, the hardware processor determines whether or not the print mode received by the reception part is a prohibition mode, when it is determined that the print mode is the prohibition mode, the detection part detects a type of a sheet sent to the sheet conveyance path.
US11212400B2
An information processing apparatus includes a display and a controller. The display displays a document and displays a list of multiple graphic symbols respectively indicating multiple jobs with respect to the document. In a case where any one of the multiple graphic symbols is selected, the controller displays the selected graphic symbol in a distinguishable mode from another non-selected graphic symbol.
US11212380B2
Ruggedized voice and data communication systems are disclosed having ruggedized enclosures for housing a communications board with at least one transceiver and a plurality of interfaces. The system has a power supply configured to receive a first voltage and convert the first voltage to a second voltage and provide the second voltage to the communications board.
US11212378B2
A foldable electronic device is provided, which includes a flexible display; a hinge assembly configured to fold and unfold a first area and a second area of the flexible display onto and away from each other; and a heat diffusion member. The hinge assembly includes a first hinge frame attached to a bottom face of the first area via a first adhesive member; a second hinge frame attached to a bottom face of the second area via a second adhesive member; a hinge pivotally connecting the first hinge frame and the second hinge frame to each other; and a hinge housing including a space, which accommodates the hinge, and connecting the first hinge frame and the second hinge frame to each other. At least a partial area of the heat diffusion member may be disposed between the flexible display and the hinge housing, in the space or at a position communicating with the space.
US11212372B2
Methods and systems for enhanced multipath transport (MPT) are provided. Exemplary methods include: receiving by a hub a first data packet from a client; identifying a priority of the first data packet; encapsulating the first data packet based on the priority; redundantly sending a first encapsulated first data packet to an MPT server over a wired broadband network and a second encapsulated first data packet to the MPT server over a wireless broadband network; getting a second data packet responsive to the first encapsulated data packet, the second data packet being produced by a service; forwarding the second data packet to the client.
US11212371B2
Embodiments of the present specification disclose operation request allocation methods, apparatuses, and devices. One method includes: obtaining, by a server, an operation request sent by a client device for performing an operation associated with a blockchain; obtaining, by the server, attribute information of a user of the client device; determining, by the server, a node condition selected by the user based on the attribute information; determining, by the server based on the node condition, a target node from a set of nodes that have persistently connected to the server; and assigning the operation request to the target node.
US11212370B1
Different server engines may be used to process queries from a client application. The different engines may have different capabilities and support different features. A server may only provide system level capabilities such that it will indicate that it is not capable of supporting a particular feature if not all of its engines are capable of supporting that feature. In order to use features actually supported, a client application may override the server's feature support information using a client library. The client application may render user interface dialogs supporting a particular feature based on the feature support information from the server as modified by the client library. The dialog may be used to query the server using the feature indicated as not being supported by the server at a system level.
US11212369B2
A method for storing session state data of a session between a system having a plurality of nodes and a client device includes delivering a service to the client device during a session identified or otherwise specified by a session identifier. The service is delivered by a first of the plurality of nodes in the system. During the session, at least a second node in the system is selected on which session state data associated with the session is to be saved. The second node is selected based on the session identifier such that another node in the system is able to locate the session state data when stored on the second node from the session identifier without contacting a centralized mechanism that specifies where session state data is stored. The session state data is saved to the second node that is selected.
US11212368B2
In various embodiments, a proxy application processes requests associated with a network-based service. In operation, the proxy application determines that a first request received from a client application indicates that a response to the first request can be offloaded from a server machine. Prior to transmitting the first request to the server machine, the proxy application transmits a response to the first request to the client application. The response indicates that the server machine has successfully processed the first request. Advantageously, upon receiving the response, the client application is able to initiate a second request irrespective of the server machine.
US11212364B2
The present application describes a communication system including a first apparatus including a single application processor operably coupled to a non-transitory memory including instructions and a local group of discrete radio resources each including a modem. The single application processor of the first apparatus is configured to at least execute the instructions of sending a request for capacity information to a second, remote apparatus. The second apparatus includes a single application processor, a non-transitory memory operably coupled to the single application processor, and a local group of discrete radio resources each including a modem operably coupled to the single application processor. The first apparatus is also configured to execute the instructions of determining, from the local group of discrete radio resources of the first and second apparatuses, a dedicated resource to handle a communication request.
US11212363B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing a dossier interface and distributing the dossier are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving data identifying one or more documents to include in a dossier. The actions further include receiving a request to share the dossier with a first user. The actions further include providing a link to the dossier. The actions further include receiving a request to modify the dossier. The actions further include storing data that indicates the modification and maintaining the data identifying the one or more documents that represent the dossier. The actions further include receiving, from the first user, a request to share the dossier with a second user. The actions further include providing, to the second user, a link that identifies the dossier and the data that indicates the modification.
US11212349B1
In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes transmitting a first set of data from a data storage system to a computing device using a first network protocol. The method also includes analyzing network conditions of a network used by the computing device and the data storage system. The method further includes determining whether to use a second network protocol to transmit a second set of data to the computing device. The method further includes in response to determining that the second network protocol should be used to transmit the second set of data, transmitting the second set of data to the computing device using the second network protocol.
US11212345B2
A method and apparatus of a network entity in a wireless communication system supporting ranging capability. The method includes generating a medium access control (MAC) common part sublayer-data request primitive including a ranging enable indicator and a ranging request measurement and control IE (RRMC IE) with a reply-time request. The RRMC IE includes request fields for a reply time, a round-trip measurement, a time-of-flight, an angle of arrival (AOA) azimuth, an AoA elevation, a ranging control information, a reserved bit, an RRMC table length, and an RRMC table. The method further includes transmitting MAC Data including the RRMC IE to another network entity and receiving MAC Data including a ranging reply time instantaneous IE from the other network entity. A local value of a receive ranging counter is identified at the network entity.
US11212344B1
An illustrative workload management system obtains resource utilization data representing utilization of network equipment of a communication network, obtains utilities data representing information about utilities at network facilities at which the network equipment is deployed, and assigns, based on the resource utilization data and the utilities data, a workload among the network equipment deployed at the network facilities. Corresponding methods and systems are also described.
US11212331B1
Method for triggering changes to real-time special effects included in a live streaming video starts with a processor transmitting in real-time a video stream captured by a camera via a network. The processor causes a live streaming interface that includes the video stream to be displayed on the plurality of client devices. The processor receives a trigger to apply one of a plurality of special effects to the video stream and determines a first special effect of the plurality of special effects is associated with the trigger. The processor applies in real-time the first special effect to the video stream to generate a video stream having the first special effect and transmits in real-time the video stream having the first special effect via the network. The processor causes the live streaming interface that includes the video stream having the first special effect to be displayed on the plurality of client devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11212328B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems are provided for improving utilization of a communications system through various atom-based techniques for enhancing the viewing experience for Internet protocol content. Some embodiments exploit atom-based processing to determine which content atoms to broadcast (e.g., multicast) over which channels to which subscribers. Other embodiments make atom-based filtering, caching, and/or other determinations at the user terminal. For example, low-level (e.g., physical layer) filtering may be used to limit the amount of user-layer processing needed, and to facilitate delivery of content to those users most likely to desire that content. Still other embodiments allow users to create customized channels of cached content for viewing as a shared channel. Embodiments include techniques for addressing synchronization of channel content and viewing, and social networking, for subscribers to the shared channel. The shared channels may be further used to facilitate social networking among subscribers.
US11212321B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for securing user plane (e.g., MB2-U) interface between a group communication service application server (GCS AS) and Broadcast Multicast Service Center (BM-SC) are provided. One method may include transmitting a message via a control plane, to an application server, indicating whether to establish a security association on a user plane in an interface between the GCS AS and the BM-SC. The method may also include providing, to the GCS AS, a target internet protocol (IP) address and possible port as a target for the security association.
US11212319B2
Techniques that facilitate multiple sentinels for securing communications are provided. In one example, a system communicates with at least one multi-purpose device configured to communicate with one or more sources, at least one computing device configured to communicate with a defined source that is different than the one or more sources, and at least one security sentinel that manages one or more security processes for a communication network associated with the at least one multi-purpose device and the at least one computing device. The system also manages one or more other security processes for the communication network associated with the at least one multi-purpose device and the at least one computing device.
US11212314B2
The invention proposes a method for an object (1) to communicate with a server (2) of a connected objects network to report that a clone may be impersonating the object in the network, which method comprises the following steps implemented by the object (1): transmitting (106) to the server (2) a request from the object (1) to join the connected objects network; after transmitting the join-request, detecting (110) whether a reference message (uplink) transmitted by the object (1) to the server (2) was rejected or ignored; in response to the detection, transmitting (114) to the server (2) an alert message indicating the rejection or ignoring.
US11212313B2
A method for evaluating domain names includes storing a listing, for a plurality of non-ASCII Unicode characters, of corresponding ASCII characters that are visually similar to the non-ASCII Unicode characters. A record is received of one or more Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), each IDN containing at least one of the non-ASCII Unicode characters. The corresponding ASCII characters are substituted for the non-ASCII Unicode characters in the record in order to generate candidate ASCII domain names corresponding to the one or more IDNs. The candidate ASCII domain names are compared to one or more protected ASCII domain names. When a candidate ASCII domain name matches one of the protected ASCII domain names, a protective action is initiated with regard to the IDN corresponding to the candidate ASCII domain name.
US11212312B2
Techniques for polluting phishing campaign responses with content that includes fake sensitive information of a type that is being sought in phishing messages. Embodiments disclosed herein identify phishing messages that are designed to fraudulently obtain sensitive information. Rather than simply quarantining these phishing messages from users' accounts to prevent users from providing “real” sensitive information, embodiments disclosed herein analyze these phishing messages to determine what type(s) of information is being sought and then respond to these phishing messages with “fake” sensitive information of these type(s). For example, if a phishing message is seeking sensitive credit card and/or banking account information, some fake information of this type(s) may be generated and sent in response to the phishing message. In various implementations, a natural language processing (NLP) model may be used to analyze the phishing message and/or generate a response thereto.
US11212308B1
Computerized methods and systems locate a first device connected to a first network. One or more logs, each generated at a corresponding second device connected to the first network, are received via a second network linked to the first network. Each log has network data having network information associated with the corresponding second device, and location data having location information indicative of a location of the corresponding second device. The network data is analyzed to identify network information in at least one log that matches received network information associated with the first device. Location information in the location data of the at least one log is used to determine a location associated with the first device. In some implementations, the network data in the at least one log and timestamps associated with the network data in the at least one log are used in order to classify the determined location.
US11212300B2
A secure investigation platform in a sovereign cloud includes a request processing system that receives requests to investigate an incident. A control message processing system creates a workspace, within the sovereign cloud, so that an investigation can be conducted within that workspace. The control message processing system performs investigation tasks within the workspace. A secure log generation system captures information corresponding to the tasks and generates an event record based on the captured information.
US11212293B1
A computer program product and a networking device, such as a router or firewall, including a processor for executing the computer program product to cause the processor to perform various operations. The operations may include providing network access to a computing device, establishing a default rule to change the network access at a first time-of-day, and establishing a conditional rule that the network access will remain unchanged in response an ongoing network session at the first time-of-day that will reach completion before the second time-of-day. The operations may further include obtaining session progress data for the ongoing session, continue providing the network access until completing the session in response to determining that the ongoing session can reach completion before the second time-of-day, and changing the network access before the session reaches completion in response to determining that the ongoing session will not reach completion before the second time-of-day.
US11212292B2
Systems and methods are provided for chaining network access control authorization processes. A method includes executing a first authorization process to generate a first authorization result for a user according to first authorization data obtained from a first authorization source corresponding to the first authorization process; executing a second authorization process to generate a second authorization result for the user according to second authorization data obtained from a second authorization source corresponding to the second authorization process and the first authorization data obtained by the first authorization process; and authorizing the user to access a network resource according to the first authorization result generated by the first authorization process and the second authorization result generated by the second authorization process.
US11212288B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for thwarting attempts at the unauthorized access to the restricted resources within the target server in a multi-node system. Real-time detection of the user ID and thread ID associated with attempts to access the restricted resources within the target server in a multi-node system is achieved by analyzing causality, message queue, and event-driven patterns.
US11212278B1
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for secure logon. One or more method includes: determining, via authentication information provided by a user of an electronic device, that the user is authorized to access an online account provided by the online account provider; providing the user with a selectable option to enable an expedited logon process by which the user can access the online account by solely providing a particular authentication item of the user; receiving a verification credential in response to a next logon attempt using the expedited logon process; and verifying that the received verification credential matches an assigned verification credential provided to the user for use in conjunction with the next logon attempt using the expedited logon process.
US11212271B2
Technologies related to trusted user account login are disclosed. In one implementation, a temporary trusted login token request for accessing a service page from an originating application is received. A temporary trusted login token based on the temporary trusted login token request is generated. The temporary trusted login token is sent to the originating application. A service page access request is received for accessing the service page generated based on the temporary trusted login token. The temporary trusted login token including the service authorization from the service page access request is identified. Whether the service page is included in the one or more service pages that are identified by the service authorization is determined, and trusted login to the service page from the originating application is allowed if the service page is included in the one or more service pages.
US11212269B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and a device are provided. The device determines that a target event occurred at a first server in a group of servers that are jointly managed. The device obtains, for the first server, a public-private key pair including a first key and a second key. The device provides the first key to the first server such that the first server is accessible by authentication with the first key. The device provides the second key to a client device such that the first server is accessible by the client device by providing the second key to the server. Subsequently, the device revokes the first key from the first server.
US11212266B2
A user account access management system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a user account access software code. The hardware processor executes the user account access software code to receive, from a first user device, a secondary account profile data for generating a secondary account associated with a primary user account registered with a web based service, and to receive, from a second user device, a sign up request for using the web based service. The hardware processor further executes the user account access software code to transmit an authentication token to one of the first user device and the second user device, receive the authentication token from the other of the first user device and the second user device, and link the secondary account with the second user device based on receiving the authentication code.
US11212262B2
Network access is provided to a networking device. In one approach, a method includes: obtaining, by a gateway, access rules for a networking device; providing, by the gateway, one or more dedicated networking tunnels between the gateway and respective remote gateways to one or more respective network segments, wherein the networking device is authorized to access the one or more network segments by the access rules; and routing, by the gateway, networking packets from the networking device based on source address information in the networking packets to the one or more dedicated networking tunnels, and based on destination address information in the networking packets, routing the networking packets to a selection of the one or more dedicated networking tunnels.
US11212259B2
A method, system, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for performing packet processing of network traffic on a master security device of a plurality of security devices, such packet processing including connection tracking for the network traffic, and offloading packet inspection of the network traffic to one or more slave security devices of the plurality of security devices.
US11212254B2
A system and method for facilitating controlled access by a client device to one or more services provided by a server are disclosed. The client device's access to the services provided by the server may be dynamically controlled by a controller, which may generate instructions to an agent to effectuate the access control. The agent may be configured to control one or more access components associated with the server. The instructions generated by the controller may instruct the agent to cause the access control components to grant or remove the client device's access to the services provided by the server. In some implementations, the controller may generate such instructions based on a status of a session established between the controller and the client device.
US11212253B2
This application provides a user equipment management method and a device, to help reduce complexity of operation and maintenance. The method includes: obtaining, by a gateway device, identifiers IDs of N user equipments and information about a first service, where the N user equipments are terminals configured to implement the first service, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 1; obtaining, by the gateway device, an ID of a logical device based on the information about the first service, where the logical device is a set of logical elements that are in the gateway device and that are configured to implement the first service; and binding, by the gateway device, the ID of the logical device and the IDs of the N user equipments.
US11212252B2
An Internet Protocol (IP) address allocation method and a device to resolve a technical problem that an IP address conflict occurs when a control plane device and a user plane device allocate an IP address for one user equipment (UE) at the same time. When receiving a session establishment request message, a control plane network device may determine whether a first user plane network device is capable of allocating an IP address for a terminal device. If the first user plane network device is capable of allocating the IP address for the terminal device, the control plane network device may send an address allocation indication to the first user plane network device.
US11212248B2
A method for managing a user includes: sending, to a second network device, first equipment identification information of a first user equipment corresponding to a first user account; receiving connection record information corresponding to the first user equipment returned by the second network device; and determining, based on the connection record information, one or more second user accounts corresponding to the first user account, where there is at least one same visited wireless access point between a second user equipment corresponding to each of the second user accounts and the first user equipment. According to the present application, a social account is recommended in a social server based on the same wireless access point according to a connection record in a hotspot server.
US11212245B1
An e-mail message is sent from a public e-mail address via the e-mail account of a user and delivered to an e-mail gateway. The message is destined for the e-mail account of a recipient. The gateway determines that the public e-mail address is on a list of users desiring two-factor authentication. The gateway determines that the message contains an anomaly indicating fraud or possible forgery. The gateway sends a two-factor authentication message to a hidden e-mail account of the user. The user reviews the message and responds with a confirmation message either confirming that the message is legitimate or indicating that it is a forgery. If the message is legitimate the gateway allows the message to be delivered to the recipient; if not, the message remains in quarantine and is not delivered. The gateway exists at the user's corporation, the recipient's corporation or is hosted at a third-party cloud service.
US11212242B2
Systems and methods for presenting graphical user interfaces corresponding to users and including portions of one or more chat sessions the users are participants in, the chat sessions facilitating synchronous textual communication between the users that takes place through a chat system are disclosed. Some implementations may: obtain chat information characterizing participants in the chat sessions; and effectuate presentation, responsive to receiving user input indicating a selection of the first user by the second user, of a first graphical user interface corresponding to the first user via a client computing platform associated with the second user.
US11212241B1
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to providing virtual assistants. More specifically, various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and systems for providing a simulation-based virtual advisor. In some embodiments, the systems and methods combine and/or integrate the functionality of a conversational virtual agent (e.g., a virtual assistant) with the functionality of a simulation virtual agent, to provide users, customers, or members with targeted, user-specific information in response to questions or other intentions posed by the users via messages exchanged between the users and the agents.
US11212220B2
A method performed by a switch in a software-defined network (SDN), the switch being communicatively coupled to a controller, is provided. The method includes performing a first flow action with respect to a first flow (e.g., deleting the first flow). The method further includes storing a first flow event data object, the first flow event data object indicating the first flow and the first flow action. The method further includes storing a first tag in association with the flow event data object. The method further includes generating a flow event message comprising the first flow event data object and the first tag. The method further includes sending the flow event message to the controller.
US11212218B2
Method and system for message based communication and failure recovery for FPGA middleware framework
The disclosure herein describes a method and a system for message based communication and failure recovery for FPGA middleware framework. A combination of FPGA and middleware framework provides a high throughput, low latency messaging and can reduce development time as most of the components can be re-used. Further the message based communication architecture built on a FPGA framework performs middleware activities that would enable reliable communication using TCP/UDP between different platforms regardless of their deployment. The proposed FPGA middleware framework provides for reliable communication of UDP based on TCP as well as failure recovery with minimum latency during a failover of an active FPGA framework during its operation, by using a passive FPGA in real-time and dynamic synchronization with the active FPGA.
US11212215B2
Systems, methods, and devices for improved routing operations in a network computing environment. A system includes a network topology comprising a spine node and a plurality of leaf nodes. The system is such that at least one of the plurality of leaf nodes is associated with one or more networking prefixes. The spine node stores a prefix table. The prefix table includes a listing of networking prefixes in the network topology. The prefix table includes an indication of at least one equal-cost multipath routing (ECMP) group associated with each of the networking prefixes in the network topology. The prefix table includes an indication of at least one leaf node of the plurality of leaf nodes associated with each of the networking prefixes in the network topology.
US11212213B2
A wireless network device may receive a broadcasted hello message. The wireless network device may determine, based on the broadcasted hello message, interfaces to communicate with neighbor devices. The wireless network device may determine costs for links of the interfaces. A highest cost link of the interfaces may be blocked and a lowest cost link of the interfaces may be unblocked. The wireless network device may transmit, in the network, an announce message that indicates the highest cost link as blocked and the lowest cost link as unblocked.
US11212212B2
Example implementations relate to management of network topologies. A primary tree having multiple connection graphs is generated for each node in the network. Each connection graph has at least one ordered list of one or more network node connections and the generated connection graphs provide a full network fit for each node in the network. The connection graphs are stored in at least one network switch to be used for network switch functionality. Additional connection graphs are generated for one or more network nodes connections based at least on network link capacity and provide for sharing of one or more of network links between multiple network node connections. The additional connection graphs are stored in the at least one network switch to be used for subsequent network switch functionality.
US11212210B2
Systems and methods for selectively advertising routing information by a network appliance to a neighboring computing device are disclosed. In exemplary embodiments, customized export policies are created based on source type for each neighboring computing device to a network appliance. A source type for routing information is determined by the network appliance. The routing information is exported by the appliance to the neighboring computing device, such as a BGP router, based on the customized export policy associated with the source type.
US11212206B2
A control system 10 may include a packet size analysis unit (14) that analyzes a distribution of packet sizes of traffic input to VNFs, a capacity calculation unit (123) that calculates a traffic volume per unit time processible by one VNF based on VNF capacity information indicating a traffic volume (bps, pps) per unit time processible by one VNF for a packet size and the distribution of the packet sizes input to the VNFs, and an installation number calculation unit (124) that calculates the number of VNFs to be increased or decreased based on the traffic volume per unit time processible by one VNF and the resource amount necessary for forwarding of the traffic.
US11212192B2
A system and methods comprise a touchscreen at a premises. The touchscreen includes a processor coupled to a security system at the premises. User interfaces are presented via the touchscreen. The user interfaces include a security interface that provides control of functions of the security system and access to data collected by the security system, and a network interface that provides access to network devices. A camera at the premises is coupled to the touchscreen via a plurality of interfaces. A security server at a remote location is coupled to the touchscreen via a plurality of channels and a plurality of protocols. The channels include a short message service (SMS) channel, a remote control channel, and an asynchronous event channel. The security server comprises a client interface through which remote client devices exchange data with the touchscreen and the security system.
US11212182B2
A network management entity for a communication network includes: a processor configured to operate a logic subnetwork in the communication network, wherein the logic subnetwork is configured to enable a first communication device to communicate via the logic subnetwork and to provide the first communication device with further resources of the logic subnetwork; and a communication interface configured to receive a position signal indicating a position of a second mobile communication device. The processor is further configured to incorporate the second mobile communication device in the logic subnetwork to provide the logic subnetwork with at least one resource of the second mobile communication device if the position of the second mobile communication device is within a defined position range.
US11212171B1
Techniques for self-service provisioning and activation of cloud services are disclosed. In some embodiments, a self-service user interface is generated through which a cloud service subscriber may input configuration parameters to customize an instance of the cloud service. The configuration parameters may define topology, deployment, and/or operational configurations for the cloud service. Responsive to receiving configuration parameters through the self-service user interface, a set of instructions may be automatically generated and executed to perform one or more provisioning operations.
US11212169B2
A device configured to or programmed to instantiate an isolated sub-fabric is presented. A network configuration device uses a virtual air gap policy to instantiate a sub-fabric from a fabric of networking nodes. The sub-fabric is configured with an internal routing policy that respects the nature of the defined isolation. Further, the fabric is provisioned with a virtual air gap that ensures the external networking nodes respect the isolation of the sub fabric.
US11212164B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to a method comprising determining, at a first node, that a first Ethernet Ring Protection Switching (ERPS) port of the first node is down, wherein the first node belongs to a plurality of network nodes connected in a ring topology to form an access network. The method includes determining, at the first node, that the first ERPS port is a querier port, wherein the first ERPS port is paired with a second ERPS port of the first node and marking the second ERPS port as the querier port of the first node. The method includes transmitting, by the first node, an IGMP join message to a device part of a multicast implementation, wherein the multicast implementation covers at least the ring topology.
US11212161B2
The present disclosure describes methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses supporting management and resolution of alarms of a communication network. In one example, management and resolution may include receiving a new alarm, determining an alarm resolution of the new alarm based on the new alarm and historical alarm information, and initiating an alarm resolution action for resolving the new alarm based on the alarm resolution of the new alarm. In one example, management and resolution may include maintaining historical alarm information for a set of historical alarms, receiving a new alarm, determining a set of similar alarms including one or more of the historical alarms similar to the new alarm, determining an alarm resolution for the new alarm based on the set of similar alarms similar to the new alarm, and initiating an alarm resolution action for resolving the new alarm based on the alarm resolution of the new alarm.
US11212156B2
A method for uplink multiuser data transmission and a system for uplink multiuser multiple input multiple output are provided. The method includes: sending, by an access point (AP), indication information to at least two stations (STAs), wherein the indication information is used for indicating that the at least two STAs perform an uplink multiuser data transmission; receiving, by the AP, uplink data sent by the at least two STAs through channels from the at least two STAs to the AP, respectively; and demodulating, by the AP, the uplink data sent by the at least two STAs using receiving beams corresponding to pre-estimated channels from the at least two STAs to the AP, respectively.
US11212152B2
According to some embodiments, a user equipment (UE) and a method in the UE are disclosed. The UE is served by a cell managed or served by a network node. The UE comprises processing circuitry, a transceiver coupled to the processing circuitry, and memory containing instructions executable by the processing circuitry. The UE is operative to determine that a center frequency of a radio frequency (RF) reception bandwidth of the UE is different than a center frequency of a RF transmission bandwidth of the cell serving the UE. The UE is further operative to receive a signal from the cell serving the UE over a center subcarrier within the RF reception bandwidth of the UE, and puncture a portion of the signal received over the center subcarrier within the RF reception bandwidth of the UE.
US11212140B2
In one exemplary aspect, an edge-gateway multipath method includes the step of providing an edge device in a local network communicatively coupled with a cloud-computing service in a cloud-computing network. A set of wide area network (WAN) links connected to the edge device are automatically detected. The WAN links are automatically measured without the need for an external router. The edge device is communicatively coupled with a central configuration point in the cloud-computing network. The method further includes the step of downloading, from the central configuration point, an enterprise-specific configuration data into the edge device. The enterprise-specific configuration data includes the gateway information. The edge device is communicatively coupled with a gateway in the cloud-computing network. The communicatively coupling of the edge device with the gateway includes a multipath (MP) protocol.
US11212133B2
A device management system includes: a server communicatively connected to a network; a base station for long-distance wireless communication that is communicatively connected to the network; and a device that is communicatively connected to the base station and transmits, to the server via the base station, state information indicating a state of the device. The server receives the state information from the device, generates notification information in accordance with the received state information, and transmits the generated notification information to the device.
US11212121B2
An example acoustic detector includes an acoustic transducer, an analog-to-digital converter, an encryption module, and a wireless communication interface. The acoustic transducer is to be coupled to a solid medium and is configured to generate an electrical signal in response to acoustic waves propagating through the solid medium. The analog-to-digital converter is coupled to the acoustic transducer to convert the electrical signal into digital acoustic data. The encryption module is coupled to encrypt the digital acoustic data to generate encrypted acoustic data and the wireless communication interface is coupled to transmit the encrypted acoustic data via one or more radio access technologies (RATs).
US11212117B2
A validation record chain that is generated for a particular version of a software package may be used to verify the legitimacy of the particular version. A hash that is generated by a software building platform for a particular version of a software package is received. A validation record chain for the particular version is then generated that includes a plurality of certificates such that a first certificate in the validation record chain contains the hash, and each of one or more subsequent certificates is signed with a corresponding hash signature of a corresponding certifier application and contains a prior hash signature of a previous certificate in the validation record chain. The validation record chain is stored for validation of the particular version of the software package via the plurality of certificates.
US11212116B2
An information processing apparatus automatically deletes an electronic certificate according to acquisition of another electronic certificate.
US11212113B2
A computing device may include a memory and a processor cooperating with the memory and configured to receive a connection request from a client device having a public/private encryption key pair associated therewith. The connection request may be based upon a connection lease and the public key for the client device, and the connection lease may be generated based upon an authenticated version of the public key for the client device. The processor may also be configured to verify that the authenticated version of the public key upon which the connection lease was generated matches the public key for the client device and authorize a connection with the client device and provide the client device with access to a virtual computing session via the connection.
US11212100B2
Systems and methods for facilitating use of physical tokens in a transit system are disclosed. In one implementation, a method for facilitating use of physical tokens by a server includes generating a token identifier and generating, using a private key associated with the server, a cryptographic signature based on the token identifier. The method further includes transmitting the token identifier and the cryptographic signature to a token dispenser. The token dispenser is configured to dispense a physical token, and the physical token is configured to provide the token identifier and the cryptographic signature to a token validator. The method also includes receiving, from the token dispenser, (i) a first indication that the physical token is dispensed, (ii) selection of a fare type, and (iii) dispenser context data including a dispense location, associating the token identifier with the selected fare type and the dispenser context data, and receiving, from the token validator, a second indication that the physical token is being validated. The second indication (i) is transmitted after the token validator verifies the cryptographic signature using a public key associated with the server, and (ii) includes the token identifier provided by the physical token and validator context data including a validation location. Furthermore, the method includes identifying the fare type associated with the token identifier, accessing, based on the fare type, a set of restrictions governing use of the physical token, and determining whether the physical token is valid based on (i) the accessed set of restrictions, (ii) the validator context data associated with the token identifier provided by the physical token, and (iii) the dispenser context data received from the token validator. Moreover, the method includes transmitting a communication to the ticket validator indicating whether the physical token is valid, wherein the ticket validator, in response to receiving the communication, outputs an indicator whether the physical token is valid.
US11212099B2
Some embodiments relate to an electronic network node (110) configured for a cryptographic operation. The network node obtains a shared matrix (A) by selecting integers, polynomials, and/or polynomial-coefficients from a shared pool, the shared pool being shared with the second network node, wherein the selecting is done according to one or more selection functions.
US11212094B2
A computer-implemented method for escrowing secret data in a server of a client-server network, the client-server network comprising: a first client having at least one public and private client key pairs, at least one trusted client having at least one public and private trusted client key pairs, a server having a public and private server key pairs, a blockchain system comprising a plurality of nodes which are configured to store the public keys of the elements of the client-server network. It is also described a computer-implemented method for obtaining secret data of a server wherein the secret data is escrowed with the above computer-implemented method for escrowing secret data in a server. System, computer-readable mediums and computer programs, which are configured to implement or perform said computer-implemented methods, are also described.
US11212090B1
In one arrangement, a method for using symmetric keys between two entities comprising a device and a host include initiating, by the device, a transaction involving original data, wherein the original data needs to be verified by the host. The method further includes deriving, by the device, a first key based on a previously generated key and a first number, wherein the first key is unique to the transaction, and the first number is randomly generated. The method further includes sending, by the device, the first key to the host for verification.
US11212089B2
Embodiments include a method for secure data storage including constructing an encryption key from a plurality of key elements, the constructing including distributing the plurality of key elements to a plurality of key maintenance entities, each of the plurality of key maintenance entities employing a plurality of independent safe guards for their respective key elements of the plurality of key elements; and requiring access to the plurality of key elements to construct the encryption key. The method includes receiving a subset of the plurality of key elements via a twice-encrypted communications channel; and regenerating the encryption key at the client node; and after encrypting data, deleting the subset of the plurality of key elements received over the twice-encrypted communications channel, retaining any of the plurality of key elements previously stored at the client node.
US11212082B2
Methods are described for constructing a secret key by multiple participants from multiple ciphertexts such that any quorum combination of participants can decrypt their respective ciphertexts and so generate a fixed number of key fragments that can be combined by a recipient to generate the secret key. Worked examples are described showing how the encryption keys for the ciphertexts may be key wrapped using a key encapsulation mechanism for which ciphers that are resistant to attack by a quantum computer may be used. In these cases, a post-quantum quorum system is realised. Methods are described by which the quorum key fragment ciphertexts may be updated so that the original key fragments become invalid without necessitating any change to the secret key.
US11212079B2
In one embodiment, a network assurance service maintains a first set of telemetry data from the network anonymized using a first key regarding a plurality of network entities in a monitored network. The service receives a key rotation notification indicative of a key changeover from the first key to a second key for anonymization of a second set of telemetry data from the network. The service forms, during a key rotation time period associated with the key changeover, a mapped dataset by converting anonymized tokens in the second set of telemetry data into anonymized tokens in the first set of telemetry data. The service augments, during the key rotation time period, the first set of telemetry data with the mapped dataset. The service assesses, during the time period, performance of the network by applying a machine learning-based model to the first set of telemetry data augmented with the mapped dataset.
US11212078B2
Provided is a method for sending digital data over a number of channels wherein a sender performs the following steps: encoding source data having a first number of source symbols, the encoding being such that an error correction code is generated from the source data, the error correction code comprising a second number of repair symbols higher than the first number as well as identifiers where each identifier is assigned to a corresponding repair symbol, the error correction code adding redundancy to the source data; encrypting each repair symbol by an encryption process which is based on a shared secret between the sender and a receiver, where the encryption process for a respective repair symbol depends on the identifier assigned to the respective repair symbol; feeding pairs of the encrypted repair symbols and the assigned identifiers to the number of channels which are connected to the receiver.
US11212077B2
The disclosure provides an approach for authenticating the contents of a control message sent between data centers. The data centers are located in a computing system comprising multiple data centers. The computing system has a controller, and each data center has a local controller. The message contents comprise a tree of data objects. The tree is converted to a hash tree, and the root hash of the hash tree is stored on a distributed blockchain. Storage on the distributed blockchain ensures that the root hash is not tampered with by an attacker. The receiver of the message then authenticates that the hash tree has not been modified by comparing various hash values, as described herein.
US11212070B2
Embodiments of this application provide a clock phase recovery apparatus and method, and a chip. The clock phase recovery apparatus includes an ADC, a dispersion compensation unit, a digital interpolator, a MIMO equalization unit, and a clock offset phase obtaining unit. The ADC is connected to the dispersion compensation unit, and the dispersion compensation unit is connected to a first input end of the digital interpolator. An output end of the digital interpolator is connected to an input end of the MIMO equalization unit, and an output end of the MIMO equalization unit is connected to an input end of the clock offset phase obtaining unit. The digital interpolator is configured to adjust, based on first offset phase information output by the clock offset phase obtaining unit, a dispersion-compensated signal output by the dispersion compensation unit.
US11212063B2
Techniques are described for wireless communication. One method for wireless communication includes transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), an indication of a control channel subcarrier spacing to be used by the UE; and transmitting a control message having a subcarrier spacing in accordance with the indication. Another method for wireless communication includes transmitting, to a UE, an indicator channel identifying at least a subcarrier spacing to be used in one or more subsequent control channels. One or more subsequent control channels are then transmitted in accordance with the subcarrier spacing indicated by the indicator channel.
US11212062B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and apparatus for downlink control information (DCI) communication and processing. One example method generally includes determining a limit, between a transmission time of a control channel carrying a DCI of a plurality of DCI and a time of an event enabled by the DCI, of a quantity of the plurality of DCI in a frame, generating a frame comprising the plurality of DCI in accordance with the determined limit, and transmitting the frame to a user-equipment (UE).
US11212056B2
Provided are a data transmission method or apparatus. The method includes determining time domain resource information of different carrier signals used for performing data transmission; and sending configuration information to a UE, where the configuration information is used by the UE for determining the time domain resource information of the different carrier signals used for performing the data transmission.
US11212055B2
There is provided a communication system in which a base station apparatus communicates with a terminal apparatus and a communication apparatus flexibly designed to address diverse use cases so as to significantly enhance the transmission efficiency of the system as a whole. The communication apparatus includes an acquisition section that acquires information from an apparatus in wireless communication, and a control section that selects either orthogonal multiple access communication or non-orthogonal multiple access communication for communication with the apparatus on the basis of the information acquired by the acquisition section.
US11212052B2
A user terminal according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a transmission section that transmits a UL signal; and a control section that decides a number of sequences equal to or less than a defined overall number of sequences based on information and/or a sequence length notified from a base station, and controls the transmission of the UL signal to which a sequence number selected from the number of sequences has been applied. According to one aspect of the present invention, it is possible to appropriately control UL transmission even when a larger number of cell IDs is configured to a radio communication system than to existing LTE systems.
US11212042B2
A method of performing, by a base station, communication in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes obtaining feedback configuration information of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process for performing a feedback, in a unit of code block group (CBG), on a result of decoding, comparing a size of a bitmap required for the feedback in the unit of CBG with a size of an available bitmap of the base station, and transmitting feedback information in which a number of bits are restricted according to a preset method, when the size of the bitmap required for the feedback is greater than the size of the available bitmap.
US11212020B2
Disclosed in the present invention are an FM channel finding and searching method, a mobile terminal and a storage apparatus. By means of establishing a data table of different channels and priority levels of corresponding numbers of times connecting thereto or pre-determined priority levels, ordering current FM channel information by priority level according to the data table, and acquiring an updated channel list, then loading and displaying corresponding channels, thereby increasing speed of a user finding and searching FM channels, and making use more convenient.
US11212011B2
A system and method for ultrashort signal detection adds an optical weighting element upstream of a detector within a direct detection receiver. The optical weighting element is configured to generate an optical pulse that closely matches at least one ultrashort pulse within the input signal so that portions of the input signal that are nonoverlapping with the at least one ultrashort pulse are rejected.
US11212005B1
A bidirectional optical communication system employing one or more spans of hollow-core optical fiber. In at least some embodiments, the hollow-core optical fiber can be used to simultaneously transmit, in opposite directions, optical data signals having substantially the same carrier wavelength. In such embodiments, the spectral efficiency of the bidirectional optical communication system can advantageously be about two times higher than the spectral efficiency of a comparable conventional optical communication system employing only solid-core optical fibers. In some embodiments, the bidirectional optical communication system may have a solid-core optical fiber end-connected between two spans of hollow-core optical fiber. In some embodiments, the bidirectional optical communication system may use a hollow-core optical fiber for transmission of different WDM optical data signals in opposite directions.
US11212002B1
The present application relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting a data signal between a stator ring and a rotor ring including generating, by a transmitter, a transmission signal in response to receiving the data signal, transmitting, by a plurality of optical transmitters coupled to an inner surface of the stator ring, the transmission signal to a plurality of detectors coupled to an outer surface of the rotor and wherein the optical transmitters are configured to transmit the transmission signal towards a focus of the stator ring, summing a plurality of representations of the transmission signal received by each of the plurality of detectors to generate a summed transmission signal, and extracting, by a receiver, the data signal from the summed transmission signal.
US11211995B2
A base station is provided with a communication unit for communicating with a mobile terminal via a relay link between the base station and a relay device and an access link between the relay device and the mobile terminal, and a selection unit for selecting an allocation pattern of an uplink of the relay link, a downlink of the relay link, an uplink of the access link, and a downlink of the access link to frequency-time blocks from a plurality of allocation patterns that are different in delay occurring between the base station and the mobile terminal.
US11211993B2
Communication apparatus of a cellular communication network, wherein the apparatus is configured to receive a reference signal; and to estimate a phase estimate based on the received reference signal; and to provide a localization module with the phase estimate.
US11211991B2
A sensing system. In some embodiments, the sensing system includes an imaging radio frequency receiver, an imaging radio frequency to optical converter, an imaging optical receiver, an optical beam combiner, and an imaging optical detector. The optical beam combiner is configured to combine an optical signal of the imaging radio frequency to optical converter, and an optical signal of the imaging optical receiver. In operation, the imaging radio frequency receiver, the imaging radio frequency to optical converter, and the optical beam combiner together form, on the imaging optical detector, an optical image of a radio frequency scene within a field of view of the imaging radio frequency receiver, and the imaging optical receiver and the optical beam combiner together form, on the imaging optical detector, an optical image of an optical scene within a field of view of the imaging optical receiver.
US11211983B2
A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. In one example, a network node configured for performing dual beam sweep, the dual beam sweep including a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) beam sweep and a corresponding physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) beam sweep that are separated in time to each other. The network node is configured to, and/or including a radio interface and/or including processing circuitry configured to: configured to: indicate, in a PDCCH transmission within the PDCCH beam sweep, a time domain resource allocation for the corresponding PDSCH beam, the time domain resource allocation corresponding to an offset in time slots between the PDCCH beam and the corresponding PDSCH beam, the offset being one of a plurality of offsets that can be indicated for the corresponding PDSCH beam; and perform the dual beam sweep using at least in part the indication.
US11211979B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique converging a 5G communication system with IoT technology to support a higher data transmission rate compared to a 4G system. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail, security- and safety-related services) based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The present invention relates to a method for controlling transmission power of a terminal in a wireless communication system. More particularly, a method for the terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving a power control command from a base station; determining a power control value according to the power control command; determining power control information according to the power control command: determining the number of RF chains required for power control based on the power control information: and controlling the transmission power using a beam pattern according to the determined number of RF chains.
US11211978B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, configuration information indicating that the UE is to compress a precoding matrix indicator in connection with channel state information reporting, wherein the precoding matrix indicator is to be compressed based at least in part on a quantization dependency between transmission layers or an orthogonality relationship between the transmission layers, and wherein the configuration information is associated with a type II, higher rank codebook for multiple input multiple output configuration. The UE may transmit, to a base station (BS), the compressed precoding matrix indicator to the base station based at least in part on receiving the configuration information. The UE and BS may use a communication configuration based at least in part on a precoding matrix indicator recovered from the compressed precoding matrix indicator. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11211959B2
A wireless receiver (10) includes a down converter module (210) operable to deliver a signal having a signal bandwidth that changes over time, a dynamically controllable filter module (200) having a filter bandwidth and fed by said down converter module (210), and a measurement module (295) operable to at least approximately measure the signal bandwidth, said dynamically controllable filter module (200) responsive to said measurement module (295) to dynamically adjust the filter bandwidth to more nearly match the signal bandwidth as it changes over time, whereby output from said filter module (200) is noise-reduced. Other wireless receivers, electronic circuits, and processes for their operation are disclosed.
US11211957B2
An Internet-of-things (IoT)/machine-to-machine (MTM) wireless transmitter is obtained that has a semiconductor device including variable-resistance elements each of which is nonvolatile and rewritable and is able to hold each internal state without electric energy, and a modulator for receiving information from the semiconductor device and transmitting the information as a wireless signal.
US11211956B2
A receiver, a system and a method is described comprising: receiving radio frequency signals at a plurality of receiver modules, wherein each receiver module comprises a plurality of channels, each channel comprising a receiver antenna and a mixer for converting an output of the respective antenna to an analog intermediate frequency signal having a frequency; for each of the plurality of receiver modules, combining the analog intermediate frequency signals of the respective channels into a receiver module analog intermediate frequency signal; and combining the receiver module analog intermediate frequency signals for each of the plurality of receiver modules into a composite output signal, wherein the frequency of the intermediate frequency signal of each channel of each receiver module is different. A similar transmitter, method and transmission system is also described.
US11211955B2
Voltage protection circuit to prevent power amplifier burnout, and electronic device having the same
Disclosed is a voltage protection circuit for preventing power amplifier burnout in an electronic device. The electronic device includes a power amplifier (PA) configured to amplify a transmission signal, a switch configured to set a path of a signal outputted from the PA, a bias control circuit configured to control the supply of a bias current driving the PA, and a voltage protection circuit configured to provide a main control signal for turning off the PA earlier than turning off the switch based on a battery voltage providing a driving power of the electronic device, and forward the main control signal to the bias control circuit, wherein, in response to receiving the main control signal instructing to turn off the PA from the voltage protection circuit, the bias control unit stops the supply of the bias current driving the PA.
US11211951B2
A method for performing encoding on the basis of a parity check matrix of a low density parity check code according to the present embodiment comprises the steps of: generating a parity check matrix by a terminal, wherein the parity check matrix corresponds to a characteristic matrix, each component of the characteristic matrix corresponds to a shift index value determined through a modulo operation between a corresponding component in a basic matrix and Zc, which is a lifting value, and the basic matrix is a 42×52 matrix; and performing encoding of input data, by the terminal, using the parity check matrix, wherein the lifting value is associated with the length of the input data.
US11211948B2
According to some embodiments, a method in a wireless device comprises obtaining a set of information bits for wireless transmission and dividing the set of information bits into one or more subsets of information bits. For each subset, generating extra cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits using a CRC polynomial capable of generating N CRC bits. The extra CRC bits for each subset comprise less than N CRC bits. The method further comprises: generating a final set of N or less CRC bits for the set of information bits using the CRC polynomial; generating a set of coded bits by encoding the set of information bits for wireless transmission, together with the extra CRC bits and the final set of CRC bits, using a polar encoder; and transmitting the set of coded bits using a wireless transmitter.
US11211947B2
This application provides a polar code encoding and decoding method and apparatus and a device. An example method includes: sequentially configuring, by a sending device, information bits and first check bits on subchannels in a first subchannel set, and configuring frozen bits on subchannels in a second subchannel set, where the subchannels in the first subchannel set are sorted according to a natural order of serial numbers of the subchannels; and performing polarization encoding on bits on the subchannels to obtain an encoded sequence. In this way, encoding efficiency and decoding efficiency are improved.
US11211937B2
Implementations provide a phase locked loop (PLL) device that includes: a phase and frequency detector (PFD) and charge pump (CP) portion; a low pass filter; a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) driven by the low pass filter to generate a VCO clock signal, multiple divider configured to receive the VCO clock signal and frequency divide the VCO clock signal in stages to generate a series statically divided VCO clock signals and a dynamically divided VCO clock signal; a feedback portion including a first component configured to receive the dynamically divided VCO clock signal and generate indicator signals; and a second component configured to multiplex from the indicator signals to generate the feedback clock signal set for the PFD and CP portion; and a master phase/frequency control engine configured to assert a division control over at least one divider and a multiplex control over the multiplex network.
US11211933B2
An FPGA chip includes one functional unit, one pre-allocation manager, and wiring segments. The functional unit includes a first module CPE and a second module PLF. The pre-allocation manager may be connected by means of one of the wiring segments. By configuring one pre-allocation manager, data transmission directions of the wiring segments may be changed. The functional unit is connected to one pre-allocation manager by means of a conventional line. The first module CPE and the second module PLF which are adjacent in the same functional unit are connected by means of a cross-connection line. The second functional modules are interconnected by means of a conventional routing system. Different functional blocks can be connected to each other from any position of a circuit.
US11211929B2
The present application relates to electronics and in particular to switch drive circuits and more particularly to galvanically isolated switch circuits with power transfer from the switch driver input side to the switch side. More specifically, the present application provides a switch drive circuit using a single transformer to transfer control signals to a secondary side for control of the switch along with power to a secondary side circuit to drive the switch in response to the control signals. By detecting the control signal first before drawing current, the effects of leakage inductance in the transformer are reduced.
US11211923B2
A method for operating an IGBT includes determining a maximum stationary reverse bias required for operation of the IGBT, determining a first removal charge, the removal of which at the gate of the IGBT causes an electric field strength that enables the IGBT to accept the maximum stationary reverse bias during stationary blocking, determining a second removal charge, the removal of which at the gate causes an electric field strength that leads to a dynamic avalanche, and, when the IGBT is switched off, removing from the gate during a charge removal duration a removal charge that is greater than the first removal charge and smaller than the second removal charge.
US11211917B2
An acoustic wave filter includes: a series-arm resonator disposed on a path that connects input/output terminals; and a parallel-arm circuit connected to a node on the path and a ground. The parallel-arm circuit includes a parallel-arm resonator and a capacitor connected in parallel to each other. The capacitor includes a comb-shaped electrode that includes electrode fingers. A frequency at which impedance of the capacitor has a local maximum value is located outside a passband of the acoustic wave filter. The comb-shaped electrode has at least two different electrode finger pitches or at least two different electrode finger duty ratios.
US11211912B2
A noise filter includes a first capacitor and a second capacitor which are two line-to-line capacitors. Currents flowing through the first capacitor and the second capacitor are in directions opposite to each other, and meanwhile, currents flowing through a first connection wire and a second connection wire are in the same direction and parallel to each other. Accordingly, magnetic coupling is caused between the connection wires and the line-to-line capacitors. Thus, the residual inductance of a line-to-line capacitor itself is reduced, whereby an attenuation characteristic for normal mode noise is further improved.
US11211911B2
Examples of a capacitive-coupled bandpass filter include a plurality of coupling capacitors connected in series along a signal path extending between an input contact and an output contact, a first harmonic suppression notch circuit configured to provide a first harmonic suppression notch in a frequency response of the capacitive-coupled bandpass filter, and a second harmonic suppression notch circuit configured to provide a second harmonic suppression notch in the frequency response of the capacitive-coupled bandpass filter. The first harmonic suppression notch circuit includes a first pair of series L/C resonators connected in shunt between the signal path and a reference potential, and the second harmonic suppression notch circuit includes a second pair of series L/C resonators connected in shunt between the signal path and the reference potential.
US11211903B1
An over charge protection method applied to a voltage converter which can operate in a quaternary modulation mode (Q mode) or a ternary modulation mode (T mode). The over charge protection method comprises: (a) determining whether the voltage converter operates in the Q mode or the T mode; and (b) setting a current threshold of the voltage converter to a first over current threshold if the voltage converter operates in the T mode; and (c) setting the current threshold to a second over current threshold if the voltage converter operates in the Q mode, wherein the first current threshold is smaller than the second over current threshold.
US11211884B2
According to one embodiment, a controller of a stepping motor includes a table generating unit and a current controlling unit. The table generating unit generates a data table of a threshold by using values of induced voltage at frequencies of switching signal that changes a set value of a drive current, the threshold being proportional to a frequency of the switching signal within an operation region in which the frequency of the switching signal is lower than a predetermined frequency, the values of the induced voltage including a first induced voltage generated at a first frequency of the switching signal and a second induced voltage generated at a second frequency of the switching signal. The current controlling unit controls a value of the drive current in accordance with a comparison result between the threshold and an induced voltage that is detected at a frequency lower than the predetermined frequency.
US11211882B2
A thyristor starter accelerates a synchronous machine from a stop state to a predetermined rotation speed by sequentially performing a first mode of performing commutation of an inverter by intermittently setting DC output current of a converter to zero and a second mode of performing commutation of the inverter by induced voltage of the synchronous machine. In the thyristor starter, during a first time period from start of performance of the second mode to arrival of the induced voltage of the synchronous machine at a first voltage value, a phase control angle of the inverter is changed such that a value thereof becomes larger as a rotation speed of the synchronous machine becomes higher.
US11211881B2
A power conversion device achieves size reduction and reliability by reducing the number of components of the system. The power conversion device has a semiconductor module of a half-bridge configuration in which two semiconductor elements are arranged in series. The semiconductor module has a cuboidal shape and has, along a longitudinal direction thereof, a positive pole terminal, a negative pole terminal, and terminals for inputting or outputting alternating current or for forming a single phase of the power conversion device. In the vertical direction corresponding to a widthwise direction of the cuboid, a plurality of the semiconductor modules are arranged vertically, forming a plurality of phases of the power conversion device. The semiconductor modules of the plurality of phases are installed in contact with a cooling unit, and one or more capacitors are disposed so as to face the cooling unit across the semiconductor modules of the plurality of phases.
US11211875B2
A power converter that includes a rectifier rectifying a voltage supplied from a three-phase AC power supply, a voltage step-down circuit including a voltage step-down switching element, a reactor, a backflow prevention element, and a smoothing capacitor and stepping down a DC voltage supplied from the rectifier, and an inverter circuit converting the DC voltage smoothed by the smoothing capacitor into an AC voltage. The power converter includes an imbalance determining unit determining, based on states of the voltage step-down circuit and the smoothing capacitor, whether or not voltage imbalance has occurred in the three-phase AC power supply and a voltage step-down control unit performing switching of the voltage step-down switching element in a case where the imbalance determining unit determines that the voltage imbalance has occurred.
US11211863B2
An arrangement includes a conductor, forming the primary side of a transformer, the secondary side being connected to a rectifier circuit. The rectifier output is connected to a voltage stabilizing circuit for an electronic unit and to a first series circuit formed by a first switching component and a first resistor. In the event of a first voltage value being reached at the first input of the voltage stabilizing circuit, the first switching component is switched to be conductive. The secondary current of the transformer flows via the first resistor to drop an electrical voltage across the first resistor. The electric current of conductor is determinable from the voltage. The use of just one transformer used both for energy generation and for current measurement makes it possible to realize a very compact and small design of a current measuring device having a simple construction.
US11211862B2
An apparatus for electric power conversion includes a converter having a regulating circuit and switching network. The regulating circuit has magnetic storage elements, and switches connected to the magnetic storage elements and controllable to switch between switching configurations. The regulating circuit maintains an average DC current through a magnetic storage element. The switching network includes charge storage elements connected to switches that are controllable to switch between plural switch configurations. In one configuration, the switches forms an arrangement of charge storage elements in which at least one charge storage element is charged using the magnetic storage element through the network input or output port. In another, the switches form an arrangement of charge storage elements in which an element discharges using the magnetic storage element through one of the input port and output port of the switching network.
US11211860B2
A tubular linear switched reluctance machine includes a segmented translator having a non-magnetic material body and ring segments of magnetic material axially separated from each other and provided on the body. The ring segments are distributed along the axial direction of the body. The machine also includes a stator arranged to electromagnetically interact with the segmented translator, wherein the stator has a plurality of coaxially arranged annular modules, and a respective annular non-magnetic spacer arranged between each pair of subsequently arranged modules.
US11211858B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a linear motor and a compressor which are effective against a non-fixed structure in which end portions of a resonant spring are not fixed and are capable of restraining loads in an up-down direction and a left-right direction which act on a slider. A linear motor includes a slider (2) which is driven in a first direction, a resonance spring (400) which is capable of vibrating in the first direction, and a permanent magnet (210) which is provided at the slider (2) and is magnetized in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The linear motor includes a bearing (480) that is movable against both forces of a force in the second direction and a force in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, and an elastic-body support member (450) which connects the resonant spring (400) and the bearing (480) to each other.
US11211852B2
A magnetic circuit for a rotary electric machine, a method and an associated electrical machine are described. The magnetic circuit includes an element comprising a plurality of stacks of compacted sheets disposed in an axial direction and clamped between two clamping plates connected by removable retaining bars, where at least one clamping plate includes as many openings as removable retaining bars. The openings of the at least one clamping late and at least one end of each retaining bar are configured to cooperate so that the end of each retaining bar engages a rim of the opening.
US11211847B2
A hinge device includes: a first and a second hinge components having a common reference axis; and a power generating device. The first and the second hinge components are engaged with each other, so as to be rotatable about the reference axis relative to each other, and so that one of the first and the second hinge components supports the other. The power generating device includes a housing and an input shaft, and generates electric power by rotation of the input shaft. The housing of the power generating device is fixed to the first hinge component, so that the input shaft of the power generating device is positioned on the reference axis. The input shaft of the power generating device is restrained to the second hinge component with respect to the direction of rotation about the reference axis, so that the input shaft of the power generating device rotates by as much as rotation of the second hinge component when the second hinge component rotates about the reference axis.
US11211846B2
A power tool includes a motor (8) having a stator (9), a rotor (10) and three terminals (81). The stator includes a tubular stator core (60) having six teeth (63), first and second electrically insulating members (61, 62) affixed to the stator core, and six coils (64) wound around the teeth such that three phases are defined. The three terminals are held by the first electrically insulating member and are respectively electrically connected to the three phases. All of the six coils may be formed by winding a single continuous winding wire (101) sequentially around each of the six teeth. All of the three terminals (81) may be disposed within a semicircular area of the stator core. At least a first crossover wire portion (102) of the winding wire may be disposed on the second electrically insulating member.
US11211842B2
An inner-rotor motor including: an armature assembly including a rotating shaft, an armature unit coupled to the rotating shaft and a pressing unit; a frame assembly including a frame housing the armature unit, a first bearing unit located on one side with respect to the armature unit in an axial direction, and a second bearing unit located on another side with respect to the armature unit in the axial direction; and an urging structure that urges the rotating shaft in a direction away from the second bearing unit and that presses the pressing unit toward the first bearing unit.
US11211839B2
The invention provides a vibration motor includes a housing, a vibrator in the housing, a stator accommodated in the housing, and a number of elastic parts suspending the vibrator in the housing. One of the vibrator and the stator includes a magnetic circuit system, and the other includes a coil. The elastic part is in an H shape, each has a first fixation part fixedly connected with the magnetic circuit system, and two second fixation parts perpendicularly extending from two opposite ends of the first fixation part. In addition, an interval is formed between the two second fixation parts. The second fixation parts and the first fixation part are fixedly connected with the housing. Therefore, the amount of parts of the vibration motor is reduced, the structure of the elastic part is simple, the machining and forming are simplified, and the cost is lower.
US11211837B2
A direct drive drive actuator includes a base structure and a driven structure that is journally supported and translatable relative to the base structure. The driven structure is disposed in a fixed spacial relationship to the base structure. A plurality of first pole arrays is disposed on the driven structure. A plurality of second pole arrays, corresponding in number to the plurality of first pole arrays is disposed on the base structure. An electrical power source is provided. A controller is coupled to the power source and the first plurality of pole arrays and the second plurality of pole arrays, wherein the controller is configured to selectively electrically energized windings of the first plurality of pole arrays and the second plurality of pole arrays such that an electro-magnetic force is formed between poles of the first plurality of pole arrays and poles of the second plurality of pole arrays. The driven structure is translatable relative to the base structure responsive to the electro-magnetic force.
US11211834B2
Systems and methods are described for extended foreign object detection (FOD) signal processing. In aspects, an oscillator reset is implemented in a FOD system to mitigate the effects of intermodulation products. In addition, dynamic frequency allocation is implemented to avoid high noise desensitizing the FOD system. Also, a slow sampling mode is implemented to increase a tolerance to transient foreign objects. Reference tracking and auto-recovery is implemented to bridge power outages. Additionally, the FOD system is configured to support position finding for determining an alignment between the vehicle pad and the base pad using a passive beacon transponder circuit and to perform beacon response cancellation as needed in concurrent FOD operation.
US11211830B2
Systems and methods are described for operating a wireless power transmission system. The wireless power transmission system receives an encoded beacon signal delivered from and initiated by a wireless power receiver client configured to receive wireless power from the wireless power transmission system. The wireless power transmission system also delivers wireless power to the wireless power receiver client and simultaneously detects for additional encoded beacon signals delivered from and initiated by additional wireless power receiver clients.
US11211826B2
A system for wireless power reception, preferably including one or more: antennas, dynamic impedance matches, RF-DC converters, DC impedance converters, and/or DC power outputs. A method for wireless power reception, preferably including: receiving power wirelessly at an antenna, dynamically adjusting an input impedance of a dynamic impedance match coupled to the antenna, and/or delivering the power to a load.
US11211816B1
A static transfer switch is provided for supplying power to a load alternately from two different power sources. Switching between the two power sources may occur within a fraction of one electrical cycle. In response to sensing degraded performance in the power source supplying the load, resonant turn off circuits connected directly to the main switches of two phases of the power source are actuated to commutate the respective main switches. The main switch of the third phase is commutated with one or more of the resonant turn off circuits through the delta side of a transformer connected to the three phases of the power source.
US11211803B2
A system and associated method are described for balancing an electrical parameter associated with stored electric power in a multi-cell battery. A cell charge balancing system determines a first plurality of the electrical parameters associated with respective ones of the plurality of cells, a plurality of first charge parameters associated with the cells, and a first quality index. A second plurality of the electrical parameters are determined, and second charge parameters are determined to determine a second quality index. The first and second quality indices are compared, and a cell charge balancing routine controls the balancing system based upon the first quality index when the first quality index is greater than the second quality index. The cell charge balancing routine controls the cell charge balancing system based upon the second quality index when the first quality index is less than the second quality index.
US11211801B2
A hydraulic fracturing system is disclosed as including a singular mobile platform of at least one mobile power unit (MPU) and at least one first switch gear that is configured to handle electric power from the MPU. The MPU is configured to generate voltage that matches the capabilities of an electrical bus from the at least one switch gear such that a combined electrical current generated as a result of the generated voltage and required load is provided to the electrical bus to the components of the hydraulic fracturing system. Further, the hydraulic fracturing system may include electrical fracturing equipment with at least one second switch gear to support the at least one first switch gear in handling electric power from the MPU. A datavan may be included in the system to control load shedding, load sharing, and power distribution for the electrical fracturing equipment comprising the at least one second switch gear.
US11211799B2
The invention provides a method and system for operating a solar farm inverter as a Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) device—a STATCOM—for voltage control. The solar farm inverter can provide voltage regulation, damping enhancement, stability improvement and other benefits provided by FACTS devices. In one embodiment, the solar farm operating as a STATCOM at night is employed to increase the connectivity of neighbouring wind farms that produce peak power at night due to high winds, but are unable to connect due to voltage regulation issues. The present invention can also operate during the day because there remains inverter capacity after real power export by the solar farm. Additional auxiliary controllers are incorporated in the solar farm inverter to enhance damping and stability, and provide other benefits provided by FACTS devices.
US11211788B2
Systems and methods may mitigate risk of fire caused by an electric power system. In one embodiment, a system may include an intelligent electronic device (IED). The IED includes a communication subsystem to receive a signal from a sensor related to a condition of the electric conductor. A processing subsystem in communication with the communication subsystem may operate in at least two modes comprising a high security mode and a fire prevention mode. In the fire prevention mode, the IED may interrupt a flow of electric current based on the signal from the at least one sensor associated with the electric conductor. In the high security mode, the system may interrupt a flow of electric current based on the signal from the at least one sensor associated with the electric conductor and based on a second condition relating to the electric conductor.
US11211786B2
A communications and processing module is provided. The communications and processing module is electrically coupleable to a circuit breaker to provide the circuit breaker with additional capabilities. The communications and processing module includes a housing, at least one electrical contact positioned in the housing, an output lug positioned in the housing, wherein an electrical path is defined between the at least one electrical contact and the output lug, at least one sensor positioned in the housing and operable to sense at least one operating condition of the circuit breaker, and at least one communications interface positioned in the housing and communicatively coupled to the at least one sensor, the communications interface operable to receive data from the at least one sensor that is indicative of the at least one sensed operating condition to facilitate exporting the received data to a remote computing device.
US11211785B2
A method for dynamic limiting of battery voltage includes determining that a voltage delivered by a battery exceeds a predefined maximum safe voltage for operation of a portable electronic device in a hazardous environment and, in response, enabling a voltage restriction circuit in a supply line between the battery and the portable electronic device to reduce the voltage delivered by the battery below the maximum safe voltage, and supplying electrical power to the portable electronic device at the reduced voltage. Enabling the voltage restriction circuit may include deactivating a MOSFET switch that includes a forward biased body diode to allow the body diode to provide a fixed voltage drop. The method also includes determining that the voltage delivered by the battery no longer exceeds the maximum safe voltage and, in response, disabling the first voltage restriction circuit by activating the MOSFET, thus allowing the body diode to be bypassed.
US11211781B2
A wiring device including an interrupting device, a fault detection circuit, and a testing circuit. The interrupting device is electrically connecting one or more line terminals to one or more load terminals. The fault detection circuit is configured to detect a fault condition and generate a fault detection signal in response to detecting the fault condition. The fault detection signal being provided to the interrupting device to place the interrupting device in a tripped condition. The testing circuit is configured to determine a frequency of an input voltage at the one or more line terminals, filter the frequency of the input voltage, determine whether the filtered frequency is within a predetermined range, and when the filtered frequency is within the predetermined range, perform a test of the wiring device.
US11211780B1
A pass-through device seals an opening of a barrier while permitting one or more cables to pass through the opening. The pass-through device includes a two-part seal that moves between an open position that permits insertion of a cable, and a closed position that establishes an airtight seal around the cable. The two-part seal can include a stationary seal segment and a moving seal segment. The moving seal segment can be moved away from the stationary seal segment by unlatching and opening a door on the pass-through device. A cable can be placed between the seal segments, and the door can be closed until it latches, thus sealing the cable between the seal segments. The seal segments can include inclines to urge the cable towards cable openings of the seal segments. In some cases, the two-part seal can include openings for multiple cables.
US11211779B2
A cable lead-through assembly (2) includes s frame (10) delimiting a cable reception space (20); and an in-frame sub-system (11) configured for securing cables (1) to the frame (10). The in-frame sub-system (11) includes at least two plates (32) intended for extending in said cable reception space (20), the plates (32) being configured for being coupled to the frame (10) and for forming between each other at least one cable's path for at least one cable (1); securing means (14) configured for securing the or each cable (1) to a corresponding plate (32); and a locking unit (16) coupled to the frame (10). The locking unit (16) has an at-rest configuration and an operational configuration. The locking unit (16) is configured for displacing the plates (32).
US11211778B2
A telecommunication system powers and distributes a signal within a telecommunication network. The system includes a cable distribution assembly includes a housing defining an interior. The housing includes a body and a cover configured to provide access to the interior. The cover includes at least two connectors. The cable distribution assembly includes a splitter coupled to the cover. At least two distribution cables each extend between a first end and a second end. Each of the first ends are coupled to the splitter. Each of the second ends of the distribution cables individually correspond to, and are connected to, the connectors. The splitter, the at least two distribution cables, and the at least two connectors are continuously coupled to the cover when mounted to and removed from the body. A trunk cable assembly includes a power cable connected to the splitter and communication cables connected to the connectors.
US11211777B2
A mounting device includes a panel portion, and a fastener receiving structure provided within a perimeter of the panel portion. The fastener receiving structure can include an aperture to receive an insertive fastener, and a flexure mechanism to enable at least a portion of the fastener receiving structure that includes the aperture to flex with insertion of the fastener in the aperture that attaches the panel portion against an underlying surface.
US11211768B2
A semiconductor optical integrated device according to the present invention includes a conductive substrate, a laser provided to the conductive substrate, a semi-insulating semiconductor layer provided on the conductive substrate, a photodiode provided on the semi-insulating semiconductor layer and a waveguide that is provided on the conductive substrate and guides output light of the laser to the photodiode, wherein an anode of the photodiode and a cathode of the photodiode are drawn from an upper surface side of the photodiode, and the waveguide and the photodiode are separated from each other by the semi-insulating semiconductor layer.
US11211763B2
A system includes a master oscillator configured to generate a first optical beam and a beam controller configured to modify the first optical beam. The system also includes a PWG amplifier configured to receive the modified first optical beam and generate a second optical beam having a higher power than the first optical beam. The second optical beam has a power of at least about ten kilowatts. The PWG amplifier includes a single laser gain medium configured to generate the second optical beam. The system further includes a feedback loop configured to control the master oscillator, PWG amplifier, and beam controller. The feedback loop includes a laser controller. The laser controller may be configured to process wavefront information or power in bucket information associated with the second optical beam to control an adaptive optic or perform a back-propagation algorithm to provide wavefront correction at an output of the PWG amplifier.
US11211760B2
Aspects of the invention include a stutter step press-fit connector insertion process. A non-limiting example of a method includes applying a force to at least one press-fit pin for causing the press-fit pin to move in a direction of a through-hole of a printed circuit board, wherein a value of the force increases as the press-fit pin moves in the direction of the through-hole. In response to detecting contact between the press-fit pin and a surface profile of the through-hole, a first pause of the force is introduced for a pre-determined time interval, wherein the value of the force remains generally static during the pre-determined time interval. The force is reapplied to the press-fit pin upon completion of the time interval, wherein the value of the force increases during the reapplying until the press-fit pin is inserted into the through-hole.
US11211754B2
A device has a wiring terminal for connecting a busbar, the wiring terminal has a connecting rod, which partly inserts into the wiring terminal and has an interference fit with the wiring terminal, the connecting rod has a conductive first column portion that has an interference fit with the busbar, the first column portion axially arranges a conductive second column portion that has an interference fit with the first column portion, the second column portion is located inside of the first column portion, a thermal expansion coefficient of the second column portion is greater than that of the first column portion, a resistivity of the second column portion is greater than that of the first column portion, a material of the second column portion is an aluminum or an aluminum alloy, and a material of the first column portion is a copper or a copper alloy.
US11211744B2
A receptacle connector includes an insulative receptacle housing and a plurality of receptacle contacts retained in the receptacle housing. The plug connector includes an insulative plug housing and a plurality of plug connectors retained in the plug connector. The receptacle housing includes a rear wall extending along a lengthwise direction, and a pair of side walls extending from two opposite ends of the rear wall along the front-to-back direction perpendicular of the lengthwise direction, to commonly form a receiving space thereamong. The receiving space forms a front opening and an upper opening for communicating with an exterior. The receptacle contacts are retained in the rear wall and extend into the receiving space. The plug connector is adapted to be rearwardly inserted into the receiving space along the front-to-back direction via the front opening, or be downwardly and rotationally inserted into the receiving space via the upper opening.
US11211743B2
A communication system includes a plug module having a plug housing and a plug latch and a receptacle module having a receptacle housing and a receptacle latch. The receptacle module includes a receptacle connector with a card slot receiving a plug module circuit board. The receptacle connector includes cables terminated to contacts and extending from the receptacle connector. A receptacle cage includes a front cage interface receiving the plug module and a rear cage interface receiving the receptacle module. The front cage interface matches the rear cage interface including a front latching feature and a rear latching feature interfacing with the plug and receptacle latches.
US11211741B2
A hermetic feedthrough terminal pin connector for an active implantable medical device (AIMD) includes an electrical insulator hermetically sealed to an opening of an electrically conductive ferrule. A feedthrough terminal pin is hermetically sealed to and disposed through the insulator, the feedthrough terminal pin extending outwardly beyond the insulator on the inside of the casing of the AIMD. A circuit board is disposed on the inside of the casing of the AIMD. A terminal pin connector includes: an electrically conductive connector housing disposed on the circuit board, wherein the connector housing is electrically connected to at least one electrical circuit disposed on the circuit board; and at least one electrically conductive prong supported by the connector housing, the at least one prong contacting and compressed against the feedthrough terminal pin, the at least one prong making a removable electrical connection.
US11211733B1
An electrical contact a mating portion for mating with a mating contact. The mating portion has a contact portion and a retention portion. The mating portion has a mating portion bottom wall, a mating portion top wall and mating portion side walls. A respective mating portion side wall has an upper portion which extends beyond the top wall. The retention portion has a retention portion top wall, a retention portion side wall and a retention portion back wall. The retention portion back wall is configured to approximate the space provided between the mating portion top wall, the upper portion of the respective mating portion side wall, the retention portion top wall and a retention portion side wall. The retention portion back wall prevents damage or deformation of the retention portion as a force applied to the retention portion.
US11211724B2
An apparatus including a substrate, a power conversion circuit coupled to the substrate, a power prong coupled to the power conversion circuit, a device connector to couple to a device, and a device connector cable to couple the device connector to the power conversion circuit is disclosed.
US11211715B2
An antenna apparatus having directivity includes an antenna portion having a power feeding portion, a plate-like first antenna element, and a second antenna element connected to a side of the first antenna element through the power feeding portion, the second antenna element having a width smaller than that of the first antenna element; and a plate-like parasitic element disposed opposite to the antenna portion. The parasitic element has a length that is approximately one-half or more of a wavelength of an operating frequency. The second antenna element has a length that is shorter than one-fourth of the wavelength of the operating frequency. The antenna portion and the parasitic element have a distance capable of being connected electromagnetically to each other.
US11211710B2
In an array antenna apparatus, a first height of top faces of plurality of antenna elements is greater than or equal to a second height of a first top of a first electronic component relative to a first primary surface. The first electronic component is the tallest among one or more electronic components mounted on fourth primary surfaces of one or more first external circuit boards. A third height of a second primary surface is greater than a fourth height of fourth primary surfaces. Accordingly, the array antenna apparatus has good antenna characteristics.
US11211707B1
An apparatus and method for wavelength conversion of a signal, for example, a dual-polarization signal, is disclosed. The apparatus implements a single-loop counter-propagating wavelength conversion scheme which provides both up-conversion and down-conversion of the signal within the same loop. Nonlinear wavelength conversion devices in the loop provide both up-conversion and down-conversion of the polarization components of the signal within the loop depending on whether the polarization component travels through the nonlinear conversion device in a clockwise or a counter-clockwise direction. The wavelength-converted signal is available to be extracted from the wavelength-conversion loop. An all-optical wavelength-division multiplexing transponder based on the wavelength-conversion scheme is also disclosed.
US11211704B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to a switched coupled inductance phase shift mechanism. The phase shift mechanism includes a variable inductor element configured to toggle between a first inductance state and a second inductance state in response to a first control bit value, and a plurality of variable capacitor elements coupled to the variable inductor element and configured to toggle between a first capacitance state and a second capacitance state in response to a second control bit value. The variable inductor element and the variable capacitor elements collectively produce a first phase shift using the first inductance and capacitance states, and collectively produce a second phase shift using the second inductance and capacitance states, where a target phase shift is produced from a difference between the first and second phase shifts. Other examples disclosed herein relate to an antenna array and a method of phase shifting with switched coupled inductance.
US11211703B2
A system for adjusting bias power provided to a radio-frequency amplifier to increase plurality of figures of merit based on sensed characteristics of the amplifier and/or characteristics of the input or output power.
US11211698B2
An apparatus comprises a radio frequency (RF) antenna circuit; an antenna aperture tuning circuit; an antenna impedance measurement circuit; and a processor circuit electrically coupled to the tunable antenna aperture circuit and the impedance measurement circuit. The processor circuit is configured to: set the antenna aperture tuning circuit to an antenna aperture tuning state according to one or more parameters of an RF communication network; initiate an antenna impedance measurement; and change the antenna aperture tuning state to an antenna aperture tuning state indicated by the antenna impedance.
US11211697B2
Antenna apparatus includes a driven trace coupled to a dielectric body and extending parallel to a ground plane. The driven trace includes first and second branches and an impedance-tuning portion that joins the first and second branches. Each of the first and second branches are configured to resonate at a respective radio-frequency (RF) band. The respective RF bands may or may not be the same. The antenna apparatus also includes a first conductive pathway extending from the driven trace through the dielectric body and configured to feed the driven trace. The antenna apparatus also includes a second conductive pathway that extends from the driven trace through the dielectric body and electrically connects the driven trace to the ground plane. The impedance-tuning portion extends between the first and second conductive pathways.
US11211693B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, devices and methods for eyeglasses frames and eyeglasses frames assemblies for wearable electronic devices, and particularly relates to systems, devices, and methods that employ an antenna in eyeglasses frames and eyeglasses frames assemblies for wearable heads-up displays. In an embodiment, a pair of eyeglasses includes a first arm housing a radio and an antenna passing internally from the radio to at least a portion of a front eyeglass frame, which includes a first and second rim securely physically coupled by a bridge. A power source is coupled to the first arm or a second arm and electrically coupled to the radio via an electrically conductive path.
US11211686B2
An information handling system to wirelessly transmit and receive data at an antenna may include a base housing chassis containing components of the information handling system including a processor and memory and including a C-cover and a metal D-cover; a display chassis assembly having a display screen and including an A-cover; a hinge mechanically coupling the display chassis assembly to the base housing chassis; a hinge gap integrated along a hinge between an edge of the A-cover and an edge of the metal D-cover; an antenna to emit a radio frequency signal to a contained hinge gap resonant cavity formed within the hinge gap; and a flexible printed circuit (FPC) having a ground line operatively coupling the base housing chassis to the display chassis assembly to form a ground path across the hinge gap to shunt excitation currents along the hinge gap and to determine a size of the contained hinge gap resonant cavity between the A-cover and D-cover to accommodate an operating frequency of the radio frequency signal or harmonics of the operating frequency.
US11211685B2
Antenna system includes a base structure and a multiplicity of vertebrae arranged in a stack to define a spine. The spine has an elongated length which extends from a base end to a tip end. A compression applicator is configured to apply an elastic compression force on the stack in a direction along the elongated length from the tip end to the base end. Vertebra interfaces associated with each of the adjacent pairs of the vertebrae are configured to facilitate a variable deviation in an angular alignment of a vertebra axis of each vertebra relative to an adjacent one of the vertebra contained in the stack.
US11211682B1
A communication apparatus that includes a first antenna array having a first plurality of antenna elements, and a first plurality of thermoelectric devices that are arranged on the first plurality of antenna elements of the first antenna array such that each thermoelectric device covers a different subset of antenna elements of the first plurality of antenna elements. The communication apparatus further includes a processor that determines an operational state of the first plurality of antenna elements. The processor controls each of the first plurality of thermoelectric devices based on the determined operational state of the first plurality of antenna elements such that an adaptive cooling is applied on different subsets of antenna elements of the first plurality of antenna elements to maintain a temperature of the first plurality of antenna elements in a specified temperature range.
US11211681B2
Disclosed is a capacitive non-directional coupler having a non-directional coupler printed circuit board (PCB) and a capacitive attenuator. The non-directional coupler PCB includes a coupler section configured to carry energy travelling on a main transmission line. The non-directional coupler PCB and the capacitive attenuator are configured as a capacitive voltage divider, and provide a sample of the energy on the main transmission line. Also disclosed is a method for measuring for measuring RF power using an RF power sensor having the capacitive non-directional coupler that includes with the non-directional coupler printed circuit board and the capacitive attenuator. Also disclosed is an RF power metering system that includes an RF power sensor having the capacitive non-directional coupler.
US11211680B2
A waveguide disclosed herein may be implemented as a hollow irregular hexagonal metal structure which receives an electromagnetic signal and propagates the signal through the hollow hexagonal metal structure. The waveguide may be fabricated using metal additive manufacturing techniques and include one or more downward facing and unsupported surfaces.
US11211678B2
Provided is a dual-band resonator which can be downsized further than conventional ones. A dual-band resonator is provided with a first conductor and a second conductor. The first conductor is configured to be folded at a first folding part at the center so that both extensions are in a prescribed direction and adjacent to one another with a prescribed space therebetween, wherein a conductor part closer to one end side than the first folding part and a conductor part closer to the other end side than the first folding part are further folded at second folding parts between the one end and the first folding part and between the other end and the first folding part, respectively, in a direction in which the one end and the other end are apart from each other. The second conductor extends in a prescribed direction contiguously to the first folding part of the first conductor. The first conductor constitutes a half-wavelength resonator, and odd-mode resonance occurs in the first conductor. The first conductor and the second conductor constitute a half-wavelength resonator, and even-mode resonance occurs in the first conductor and the second conductor.
US11211653B2
A battery module comprising at least one battery cell (2), wherein the battery module (1) further comprises a propagation protection element (3) which is connected in a thermally conductive manner to the battery cell (2) and which is designed in such a way that, when a specific value for a temperature of the at least one battery cell (2) is exceeded, an endothermic process which is being executed within the propagation protection element (3) absorbs heat which is given off by the at least one battery cell (2).
US11211642B2
A process for treating an electrochemical cell is presented. The process includes charging the electrochemical cell in a discharged state to at least 20 percent state-of-charge of an accessible capacity of the electrochemical cell at a first temperature to attain the electrochemical cell in a partial state-of-charge or a full state-of-charge and holding the electrochemical cell in the corresponding partial state-of-charge or full state-of-charge at a second temperature. The first temperature and the second temperature are higher than an operating temperature of the electrochemical cell.
US11211640B2
Electrolysis of an aqueous electrolyte solution on a surface of an anode is suppressed when an aqueous lithium ion secondary battery is charged/discharged. In an aqueous electrolyte solution that is used for an aqueous lithium ion secondary battery, at least one metal cation selected from an aluminum ion, a titanium ion, a manganese ion, a zinc ion, a gallium ion, a yttrium ion, a zirconium ion, an indium ion, a lanthanum ion, a cerium ion, a neodymium ion, and a hafnium ion is contained so that its content is more than 0 mol and no more than 0.01 mol per kilogram of the aqueous electrolyte solution, in addition to a lithium ion and at least one imide based anion.
US11211639B2
Embodiments of a method for the preparation of an electrode assembly, include removing a population of negative electrode subunits from a negative electrode sheet, the negative electrode sheet comprising a negative electrode sheet edge margin and at least one negative electrode sheet weakened region that is internal to the negative electrode sheet edge margin, removing a population of separator layer subunits from a separator sheet, and removing a population of positive electrode subunits from a positive electrode sheet, the positive electrode sheet comprising a positive electrode edge margin and at least one positive electrode sheet weakened region that is internal to the positive electrode sheet edge margin, and stacking members of the negative electrode subunit population, the separator layer subunit population and the positive electrode subunit population in a stacking direction to form a stacked population of unit cells.
US11211624B2
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a fuel gas supply line, an oxidizing agent gas supply line, a fuel gas discharge line, and a reformer provided in the fuel gas supply line. A first circulating line circulates the fuel gas from the fuel gas discharge line to an upstream side of the reformer in the fuel gas supply line as a first circulating gas. The circulation device is provided in the fuel gas supply line, and suctions the first circulating gas by using the flow of the fuel gas flowing through the fuel gas supply line as a driving flow. A second circulating line circulates the fuel gas from a downstream side of the circulation device in the fuel gas supply line or the fuel gas discharge line to the upstream side of the circulation device in the fuel gas supply line as a second circulating gas.
US11211623B2
A drive upper limit electrical energy for an air compressor is set variably in correspondence with vehicle velocity Vv. In this manner, for example, surplus power generation electrical energy of a fuel cell stack is consumed (discarded) by the air compressor in a range where NV (noise and vibration) of the air compressor does not give passengers any sense of discomfort.
US11211622B2
A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell that includes an anode and a cathode and generates electricity by reducing a mediator at the cathode; a regenerator that oxidizes the mediator reduced by the cathode; a first path that leads from the cathode to the regenerator and through which the mediator reduced by and discharged from the cathode is guided to the regenerator; a second path that leads from the regenerator to the cathode and through which the mediator oxidized at the regenerator is returned to the cathode; and a first heat exchanger that exchanges heat between a first fluid and a second fluid, the first fluid being a fluid flowing in the first path and containing the mediator reduced by cathode, and the second fluid being a fluid flowing in the second path and containing the mediator oxidized at the regenerator.
US11211617B2
Disclosed is a fuel cell filter including a body including therein an internal space in which a fluid flows, an inlet port provided in the body and configured to receive a fluid discharged from a fuel cell stack, a gas-water separating membrane disposed in the internal space and configured to block a liquid fluid included in a fluid absorbed in the inlet port from flowing upwards, a discharge port provided in the body and configured to externally discharge the liquid fluid blocked in the gas-water separating membrane, a water absorbent disposed in the internal space and configured to absorb water included in a gaseous fluid passing through the gas-water separating membrane, and a gas outlet port provided in the body and configured to externally discharge gas separated in the gas-water separating membrane.
US11211608B2
The present disclosure provides the use of a biomolecule, flavin, appended to a polymerizable unit that can then be polymerized to form an electroactive active polymer. The polymer and the flavin unit are comprised of an organic material containing C, H, N, and O atoms. The electroactive functionality is related to the double bonds that are present in the flavin unit that are appended to a non-electroactive backbone. This appended unit is rendered insoluble in the electrolyte of the discussed secondary battery unit. Several different molecular structures are disclosed exhibiting efficacy as energy storage medium in energy storage devices. Compounds have also been synthesized from which these different energy storage molecular structures are produced.
US11211607B2
Bipolar electrodes comprising a carbon felt loaded with a polymer material and a nanocarbon material are described herein. The bipolar electrodes are useful in electrochemical cells. In particular, the loaded carbon felt can be used in bipolar electrodes of zinc-halide electrolyte batteries. Processes for manufacturing the loaded carbon felt are also described, involving contacting (e.g., dipping) a carbon felt in a mixture of solvent, polymer material and nanocarbon material.
US11211606B2
An electrode for a battery, comprising an active material and a metallic fabric is disclosed. The metallic fabric comprises fibers being at least partially covered by a coating of nickel or copper, which comprises a layer and a plurality of protrusions protruding from the layer. The active material is attached on the protrusions. The metallic fabric provides a high electrical conductivity and a high mechanical stability, and demonstrates outstanding performance for the use as a current collector of battery.
US11211601B2
According to one embodiment, an electrode is provided. The electrode includes an active material-containing layer. The active material-containing layer includes an active material and a conductive agent. The active material contains primary particles of a niobium-titanium composite oxide. The conductive agent contains fibrous carbon. The primary particles have an average particle size of 0.3 μm or more and 2 μm or less. At least a part of a surface of the primary particles is coated with the fibrous carbon. A covering ratio of the primary particles by the fibrous carbon is 0.01% or more and 40% or less.
US11211599B2
Provided is a lithium complex oxide sintered plate for use in a positive electrode of a lithium secondary battery. The lithium complex oxide sintered plate has a structure in which a plurality of primary grains having a layered rock-salt structure are bonded, and has a porosity of 3 to 40%, a mean pore diameter of 15 μm or less, an open porosity of 70% or more, and a thickness of 15 to 200 μm. The plurality of primary grains has a primary grain diameter, i.e., a mean diameter of the primary grains, of 20 μm or less and a mean tilt angle of more than 0° to 30° or less. The mean tilt angle is a mean value of the angles defined by the (003) planes of the primary grains and the plate face of the lithium complex oxide sintered plate.
US11211598B2
A nanofiber based micro-structured material including metal fibers with metal oxide coatings and methods are shown. In one example, nanofiber based micro-structured material is used as an electrode in a battery, such as a lithium ion battery, where the nanofibers of micro-structured material form a nanofiber cloth with free-standing, core-shell structure.
US11211595B2
A method for manufacturing a negative electrode, the method including immersing a preliminary negative electrode in a pre-lithiation solution, the pre-lithiation solution including a lithium organic compound and a pre-lithiation solvent, taking the preliminary negative electrode out of the pre-lithiation solution and then removing pre-lithiation solvent present in the preliminary negative electrode, wherein the preliminary negative electrode includes a current collector and a preliminary negative electrode active material layer on the current collector, the preliminary negative electrode active material layer includes a negative electrode active material, and a standard reduction potential of the lithium organic compound is lower than a standard reduction potential of the negative electrode active material.
US11211592B2
The present disclosure relates to an organic luminescent substrate. The organic luminescent substrate may include a first organic luminescent field effect transistor and a second organic luminescent field effect transistor. The first organic luminescent field effect transistor may include a first gate electrode, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first active luminescent layer. The second organic luminescent field effect transistor may include a second gate electrode, a third electrode, a fourth electrode, and a second active luminescent layer. One of the first organic luminescent field effect transistor and the second organic luminescent field effect transistor may be an N-type transistor and the other one may be a P-type transistor. The first gate electrode may be coupled to the second gate electrode.
US11211591B2
Organic light-emitting display device having an encapsulating substrate of high thermal conductivity
An organic light-emitting display device including an encapsulating layer covering a light-emitting element and an encapsulating substrate on the encapsulating layer is provided. The organic light-emitting display device may include metal particles which are dispersed on an outer surface of the encapsulating substrate having a high thermal conductivity, so that damage of the light-emitting element due to external impact may be prevented. And, the organic light-emitting display device may include a capping layer covering the metal particles, so that the surface roughness due to the metal particles may be reduced.
US11211585B2
A flexible substrate includes a first flexible thin film including a first region and a second region surrounding the first region; a second flexible thin film on the first thin film and in the first and second regions; and an intermediate blocking layer between the first and second thin films and in the first region.
US11211582B2
A thin film transistor is disposed on a substrate. A via insulating layer having a via hole covers the thin film transistor. A pixel electrode is disposed on the via insulating layer and electrically connected to the thin film transistor through the via hole. A first protection layer surrounds the pixel electrode. A pixel-defining layer covers an edge region of the pixel electrode and at least a portion of the first protection layer. The pixel-defining layer includes an opening through which an upper surface of the pixel electrode is exposed. An opposite electrode faces the pixel electrode. An intermediate layer is disposed between the pixel electrode and the opposite electrode.
US11211581B2
A display panel is provided, the display panel including a back plate, a cover plate, a first spacer, and a second spacer, wherein the back plate has a first surface, the cover plate is disposed opposite the back plate and has a second surface opposite the first surface, the first spacer protrudes from an edge of the first surface and has a closed structure, a first connecting end, and a first free end, the first connecting end connected to the back plate, and the first free end extending away from the back plate, the second spacer protrudes from an edge of the second surface and has a closed structure, a second connecting end, and a second free end, the second connecting end connected to the cover plate, and the second free end extending away from the cover plate, and the first free end presses against the second free end.
US11211579B2
In the present embodiment, a sealing agent (50) sealing two substates contains a low melting-point glass material and is adhered to each of a first substrate (10) and a second substrate (20), a barrier rib (60), which is formed in such a manner as to surround the outer periphery of an electronic element (30), is disposed between the sealing agent (50) and the electronic element (30), and between the first substrate (10) and the second substrate (20), and the sealing agent (50) is spaced apart from the barrier rib (60). As a result, a deterioration of the electronic element, caused by the heat produced when sealing, may be prevented while the electronic element formed between the two substrates is protected from moisture and oxygen.
US11211563B2
The present invention relates to an organic light emitting device comprising a light emitting layer including a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 and an electron transport region including a compound represented by Chemical Formula 2, and having improved driving voltage, efficiency, and lifetime.
US11211562B2
A method of forming a polymer, the method comprising combining 4-bromo-7-[5-bromo-4-(alkyl)thiophen-2-yl]-6-chloro-5-fluoro-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole, (3,3′-difluoro-[2,2′-bithiophene]-5,5′-diyl)bis(trimethylstannane), [4-(alkyl)-5-[5-(trimethylstannyl)thiophen-2-yl]thiophen-2-yl]trimethylstannane, tris(dibenzylideneacetone), and dipalladium P(o-tol)3 tris(2-methylphenyl)phosphane to form the polymer: In this polymer, W is selected from the group consisting of: S, Se, O, and N-Q. Additionally, Q is selected from the group consisting of: a straight-chain carbyl, silyl or hydrocarbyl, branched, cyclic alkyl with 1 to 30 atoms, and fused aromatic rings. Furthermore in this polymer, R1, and R4 are independently selected from the group consisting of: F, Cl, I, Br, CN, —NCO, —NCS, —OCN, —SCN, —OX, —SX, —NH2, —C(═O)X, —C(═O)—OX, —OX, —NHX, —NXX′, —C(═O)NHX, —C(═O)NXX′, —SO3X, —SO2X, —OH, —NO2, CF3, —SF5, a straight-chain or branched carbyl, silyl, or hydrocarbyl, a branched or cyclic alkyl with 1 to 30 atoms, a fused substituted aromatic ring, and a fused unsubstituted aromatic ring. This polymer can also have R2 and R3 are independently selected from F, Cl, Br and I. Additionally, in this polymer, the fused aromatic rings can be independently fused with groups consisting of: a straight-chain or branched carbyl, silyl, or hydrocarbyl, a branched or cyclic alkyl with 1 to 30 atoms, a fused substituted aromatic ring, and a fused unsubstituted aromatic ring. Lastly, in this polymer, h+j is between 0.2 to 0.6 and i+k is between 0.4 and 0.8.
US11211560B2
Sub-lithographic structures configured for selective placement of carbon nanotubes and methods of fabricating the same generally includes alternating conformal first and second layers provided on a topographical pattern formed in a dielectric layer. The conformal layers can be deposited by atomic layer deposition or chemical vapor deposition at thicknesses less than 5 nanometers. A planarized surface of the alternating conformal first and second layers provides an alternating pattern of exposed surfaces corresponding to the first and second layer, wherein a width of at least a portion of the exposed surfaces is substantially equal to the thickness of the corresponding first and second layers. The first layer is configured to provide an affinity for carbon nanotubes and the second layer does not have an affinity such that the carbon nanotubes can be selectively placed onto the exposed surfaces of the alternating pattern corresponding to the first layer.
US11211557B2
The present invention relates to formulations comprising at least one organic semiconductor and at least one organic solvent, characterized in that the formulation contains less than 100 ppm of phenole type impurities, to their use for the preparation of electronic devices, to methods for preparing electronic or optoelectronic devices using the formulations of the present invention, and to electronic or optoelectronic devices prepared from such methods and formulations.
US11211554B2
A magnetic cell includes a free region between an intermediate oxide region (e.g., a tunnel barrier) and a secondary oxide region. Both oxide regions may be configured to induce magnetic anisotropy (“MA”) with the free region, enhancing the MA strength of the free region. A getter material proximate to the secondary oxide region is formulated and configured to remove oxygen from the secondary oxide region, reducing an oxygen concentration and an electrical resistance of the secondary oxide region. Thus, the secondary oxide region contributes only minimally to the electrical resistance of the cell core. Embodiments of the present disclosure therefore enable a high effective magnetoresistance, low resistance area product, and low programming voltage along with the enhanced MA strength. Methods of fabrication, memory arrays, memory systems, and electronic systems are also disclosed.
US11211548B2
This spin current magnetization reversal element includes a magnetoresistance effect element having a first ferromagnetic metal layer having a fixed magnetization direction, a second ferromagnetic metal layer having a variable magnetization direction, and a non-magnetic layer sandwiched between the first ferromagnetic metal layer and the second ferromagnetic metal layer, and spin-orbit torque wiring which extends in a first direction that intersects the stacking direction of the magnetoresistance effect element, and contacts the surface of the magnetoresistance elect element on the side facing the second ferromagnetic metal layer, wherein at least one surface of the second ferromagnetic metal layer in the stacking direction has an inclined surface that is inclined in the first direction, and the direction of magnetization of the second ferromagnetic metal layer is inclined due to the inclined surface.
US11211537B2
Various embodiments of light emitting devices, assemblies, and methods of manufacturing are described herein. In one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a lighting emitting device includes forming a light emitting structure, and depositing a barrier material, a mirror material, and a bonding material on the light emitting structure in series. The bonding material contains nickel (Ni). The method also includes placing the light emitting structure onto a silicon substrate with the bonding material in contact with the silicon substrate and annealing the light emitting structure and the silicon substrate. As a result, a nickel silicide (NiSi) material is formed at an interface between the silicon substrate and the bonding material to mechanically couple the light emitting structure to the silicon substrate.
US11211532B2
A light emitting device includes a mounting board, light sources, a light diffuser, a wavelength conversion layer, and scatter reflection portions. Each of the light sources has an upper face on which a light reflecting layer is disposed. The light diffuser is arranged above the plurality of light sources. The wavelength conversion layer is located at least between the light sources and the light diffuser. The wavelength conversion layer is configured to absorb at least a portion of light from the light sources and to emit light having a wavelength which is different from a wavelength of the light from the light sources. The scatter reflection portions are arranged on a surface of the wavelength conversion layer that is closer to the light diffuser. Each of the scatter reflection portions is arranged above at least a portion of the upper face of a corresponding one of the light sources.
US11211530B2
A light source and an illumination device including the light source are provided. By adjusting peak wavelengths, peak intensities and color coordinates of blue light, red light and green light in the illumination light emitted by the light source to preset ranges, the illumination light emitted by the light source has a specific spectral distribution. In another embodiment, a specific light color is achieved by a specific phosphor ratio. Not only the color theory is considered for the evaluation of the lighting effect, but also the influence of the spectrum on the actual lighting effect is considered. At the same time, the influence of the luminescent material on the spectrum is considered. Thus, a light source having a high comfort, a high preference, a high color rendering index, and a high color gamut index is obtained, and the light source has a similar effect to the sunlight.
US11211526B2
A semiconductor light-emitting element having an emission peak wavelength of 395 nm or more and 425 nm or less, comprises: a substrate including a first surface and a second surface, at least one surface selected from the group consisting of the first and second surfaces having an uneven region; a semiconductor layer on the first surface; and a multilayer reflective film on the second surface or the semiconductor layer, wherein the multilayer reflective film includes a structure having a plurality of first dielectric films and a plurality of second dielectric films, the first dielectric films and the second dielectric films being alternately stacked.
US11211505B2
In this photoelectric conversion element wherein group III-IV compound semiconductor single crystals containing zinc as an impurity are used as a substrate, the substrate is increased in size without lowering conversion efficiency. A heat-resistant crucible is filled with raw material and a sealant, and the raw material and sealant are heated, thereby melting the raw material into a melt, softening the encapsulant, and covering the melt from the top with the encapsulant. The temperature inside the crucible is controlled such that the temperature of the top of the encapsulant relative to the bottom of the encapsulant becomes higher in a range that not equal or exceed the temperature of bottom of the encapsulant, and seed crystal is dipped in the melt and pulled upward with respect to the melt, thereby growing single crystals from the seed crystal. Thus, a large compound semiconductor wafer that is at least two inches in diameter and has a low dislocation density of 5,000 cm−2 can be obtained, despite having a low average zinc concentration of 5×1017 cm−3 to 3×1018 cm−3, at which a crystal hardening effect does not manifest.
US11211500B2
A semiconductor device with a high on-state current is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first insulator, a first oxide over the first insulator, a second oxide over the first oxide, a first conductor and a second conductor over the second oxide, a third oxide over the second oxide, a second insulator over the third oxide, a third conductor that is located over the second insulator and overlaps with the third oxide, a third insulator that is located over the first insulator and in contact with a side surface of the first oxide, a side surface of the second oxide, a side surface of the first conductor, a top surface of the first conductor, a side surface of the second conductor, and a top surface of the second conductor, and a fourth insulator over the third conductor, the second insulator, the third oxide, and the third insulator. The fourth insulator is in contact with a top surface of each of the third conductor, the second insulator, and the third oxide.
US11211497B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second fin patterns on a substrate and extending apart from each other, a field insulating film on the substrate and surrounding parts of the first and second fin patterns, a first gate structure on the first fin pattern and intersecting the first fin pattern, a second gate structure on the second fin pattern and intersecting the second fin pattern, and a separating structure protruding from a top surface of the field insulating film and separating the first and second gate structures, the field insulating film and the separating structure including a same insulating material.
US11211496B2
A finFET device and a method of forming are provided. The device includes a transistor comprising a gate electrode and a first source/drain region next to the gate electrode, the gate electrode being disposed over a first substrate. The device also includes a first dielectric layer extending along the first source/drain region, and a second dielectric layer overlying the first dielectric layer. The device also includes a contact disposed in the first dielectric layer and in the second dielectric layer, the contact contacting the gate electrode and the first source/drain region. A first portion of the first dielectric layer extends between the contact and the gate electrode. The contact extends along a sidewall of the first portion of the first dielectric layer and a first surface of the first portion of the first dielectric layer, the first surface of the first portion being farthest from the first substrate.
US11211491B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor memory structure and a method for preparing the semiconductor memory structure. The semiconductor memory structure includes a substrate, a gate structure, a drain stressor and a source stressor. The gate structure is disposed in the substrate. Each of the source stressor and the drain stressor includes a strained part disposed in the substrate.
US11211484B2
The present disclosure describes vertical transistor device and methods of making the same. The vertical transistor device includes substrate layer of first conductivity type, drift layer of first conductivity type formed over substrate layer, body region of second conductivity type extending vertically into drift layer from top surface of drift layer, source region of first conductivity type extending vertically from top surface of drift layer into body region, dielectric region including first and second sections formed over top surface, buried channel region of first conductivity type at least partially sandwiched between body region on first side and first and second sections of dielectric region on second side opposite to first side, gate electrode formed over dielectric region, and drain electrode formed below substrate layer. Dielectric region laterally overlaps with portion of body region. Thickness of first section is uniform and thickness of second section is greater than first section.
US11211482B2
An AND-gate device having a structure arms, a channel from a first arm and a second arm extends to a channel of a third arm. When a current from a first voltage flowing from a first electrode of the first arm to a second electrode of the second arm, a flow of electrons is generated that flows through the third arm channel from the channel of the first and second arms to the third arm channel. At least two input structures are positioned in series in the third arm. Each input structure includes a fin structure having a gate controlled by an individual voltage applied to an electrode which induces an electric-field structure that shifts by an amount of the voltage. The controllable gate opening changes a depletion width, causing an amount of flow of ballistic electrons to pass through the channel. A sensor detects the ballistic electrons.
US11211476B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a fin over a substrate, forming an isolation region adjacent the fin, forming a dummy gate structure over the fin, recessing the fin adjacent the dummy gate structure to form a first recess using a first etching process, reshaping the first recess to form a reshaped first recess using a second etching process, wherein the second etching process etches upper portions of the fin adjacent the top of the recess more than the second etching process etches lower portions of the fin adjacent the bottom of the recess, and epitaxially growing a source/drain region in the reshaped first recess. Reshaping the first recess includes performing an oxide etch process, wherein the oxide etch process forms a porous material layer within the recess.
US11211468B2
A silicon carbide device includes a silicon carbide body with a trench gate structure that extends from a first surface into the silicon carbide body. A body region is in contact with an active sidewall of the trench gate structure. A source region is in contact with the active sidewall and located between the body region and the first surface. The body region includes a first body portion directly below the source region and distant from the active sidewall. In at least one horizontal plane parallel to the first surface, a dopant concentration in the first body portion is at least 150% of a reference dopant concentration in the body region at the active sidewall and a horizontal extension of the first body portion is at least 20% of a total horizontal extension of the body region.
US11211461B2
A semiconductor device having favorable electrical characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor, a first insulator in contact with the oxide semiconductor, and a second insulator in contact with the first insulator. The first insulator includes excess oxygen. The second insulator has a function of trapping or fixing hydrogen. Hydrogen in the oxide semiconductor is bonded to the excess oxygen. The hydrogen bonded to the excess oxygen passes through the first insulator and is trapped or fixed in the second insulator. The excess oxygen bonded to the hydrogen remains in the first insulator as the excess oxygen.
US11211460B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device having two dimensional (2D) lateral hetero-structures includes forming alternating regions of a first metal dichalcogenide film and a second metal dichalcogenide film extending along a surface of a first substrate. The first metal dichalcogenide and the second metal dichalcogenide films are different metal dichalcogenides. Each second metal dichalcogenide film region is bordered on opposing lateral sides by a region of the first metal dichalcogenide film, as seen in cross-sectional view.
US11211449B2
A semiconductor device wherein a high-side circuit region, a low-side circuit region, and a high-voltage MOS that transmits a signal between the high-side circuit region and the low-side circuit region are provided on one semiconductor substrate, includes: a high-voltage isolation region isolating the high-side circuit region and the low-side circuit region from each other; a trench isolation isolating the high-voltage MOS and the high-voltage isolation region from each other; an N-type diffusion layer provided on an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate in the high-side circuit region and the high-voltage isolation region; and an N-type region provided on both sides of the trench isolation and having an impurity concentration lower than an impurity concentration of the N-type diffusion layer.
US11211445B2
The foldable display panel includes a substrate and a pixel array. The substrate has a surface and display and periphery areas thereon. The periphery area is on at least one side of the display area, and has first and second bonding areas. The first and second bonding areas are at opposite first and second sides of the periphery area, respectively. The first and second bonding areas are spaced apart by a first distance along a first direction. The substrate has a foldable line passing through a center of the display area between the first and the second bonding areas. The first and second sides are on two sides of the foldable line. The pixel array is on the display area and overlaps the foldable line. The pixel array is between the first and second sides and includes sub pixel units arranged in an array.
US11211444B2
A display apparatus may include a metal substrate, an electroluminescence display panel, including a first contact hole and a base voltage pad adjacent to the first contact hole, on the metal substrate, a first adhesive member, including a second contact hole exposing at least a portion of the base voltage pad, on the electroluminescence display panel, and a conductive filler, filled in the first contact hole and the second contact hole, electrically connecting the metal substrate and the base voltage pad.
US11211441B2
An OLED device includes a substrate, a first active layer, a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode, first source and first drain electrodes, a first high dielectric constant (high-k) insulation structure, and a light emitting structure. The substrate has a first region and a second region. The first active layer is disposed in the first region on the substrate. The first gate electrode is disposed on the first active layer, and has a first thickness. The second gate electrode is disposed on the first gate electrode. The first source electrode and first drain electrode are disposed on the second gate electrode, and constitutes a first semiconductor element together with the first active layer and the first gate electrode. The first high-k insulation structure is disposed between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode, and is spaced apart from the first source electrode and first drain electrode.
US11211423B2
A method of producing a semiconductor epitaxial wafer is provided. The method includes irradiating a surface of a semiconductor wafer with cluster ions to form a modified layer in a surface portion of the semiconductor wafer, in which the modified layer includes a constituent element of the cluster ions in solid solution. The method further includes forming an epitaxial layer on the modified layer of the semiconductor wafer. The irradiating is performed such that a portion of the modified layer in a thickness direction becomes an amorphous layer, and an average depth of an amorphous layer surface from a semiconductor wafer surface-side of the amorphous layer is at least 20 nm from the surface of the semiconductor wafer.
US11211413B2
The present technology relates to an imaging element, an imaging device, and a manufacturing apparatus and a method that facilitate electric charge transfer. An imaging element of the present technology includes a vertical transistor that has a potential with a gradient in at least part of a charge transfer channel that transfers electric charge of a photoelectric conversion unit. Also, an imaging device of the present technology includes: an imaging element including a vertical transistor that has a potential with a gradient in at least part of a charge transfer channel that transfers electric charge of a photoelectric conversion unit; and an image processing unit that performs image processing on captured image data obtained by the imaging element. Further, a manufacturing apparatus of the present technology includes a vertical transistor manufacturing unit that manufactures a vertical transistor having a potential with a gradient in at least part of a charge transfer channel that transfers electric charge of a photoelectric conversion unit. The present technology can be applied to imaging elements, imaging devices, and manufacturing apparatuses and methods, for example.
US11211404B2
The disclosed technology is generally directed to semiconductor integrated circuit devices and more particularly to a three-transistor random access memory (3T RAM) device, and a method of fabricating and operating the same. In one aspect, a 3T RAM cell includes a ferroelectric-based field effect transistor (FeFET) having a first gate connected as a storage node and a second transistor connected between the FeFET and a read bit line having a second gate connected to a read word line. The 3T RAM cell also includes a third transistor connected between the storage node and a write bit line having a third gate connected to a write word line.
US11211401B2
A memory device includes a substrate. A first dielectric layer is disposed over the substrate. A plurality of conductive layers and a plurality of dielectric layers are alternately and horizontally disposed on the substrate. A channel column structure is disposed on the substrate and in the conductive layers and the dielectric layers. A side wall of the channel column structure is in contact with the plurality of conductive layers. A second dielectric layer covers the first dielectric layer. A conductive column structure is in the first and second dielectric layers, adjacent to the channel column structure, and in contact with one of the plurality of conductive layers. The conductive column structure includes a liner insulating layer as a shell layer.
US11211393B2
Methods and structures of a three-dimensional memory device are disclosed. In an example, the memory device includes a substrate having one or more first recesses in a first region and one or more second recesses in a second region. A liner layer is disposed over the sidewalls and bottom of the one or more first recesses in the first region and an epitaxially-grown material is formed in the one or more second recesses in the second region. One or more NAND strings are formed over the epitaxially-grown material disposed in the one or more second recesses, and one or more vertical structures are formed over the one or more first recesses in the first region.
US11211392B1
A memory device disclosed herein. The memory device comprises: a memory string including a first select transistor, a memory cell transistor, and a second select transistor connected in series; a bit line connected to one end of the first select transistor; a source line connected to one end of the second select transistor; a first select line connected to a gate of the first select transistor; a word line connected to a gate of the memory cell transistor; a second select line connected to a gate of the second select transistor; and a control circuit configured to perform, before a program operation, a pre-charge operation comprising: applying a voltage to the second select line connected to the gate of the second select transistor to cause gate-induced drain leakage from the second select transistor.
US11211391B2
A memory device includes a peripheral circuit region including a first substrate and circuit elements on the first substrate, the circuit elements including a row decoder; a cell array region including wordlines, stacked on a second substrate on the peripheral circuit region, and channel structures extending in a direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the second substrate and penetrating through the wordlines; and a cell contact region including cell contacts connected to the wordlines and on both sides of the cell array region in a first direction parallel to the upper surface of the second substrate, the cell contacts including a first cell contact region and a second cell contact region, the first and second cell contact regions having different lengths to each other in the first direction. Each of the first and second cell contact regions includes first pads having different lengths to each other in the first direction and second pads different from the first pads, and the cell contacts are connected to the wordlines in the first pads. The number of the second pads included in the first cell contact region is greater than the number of the second pads included in the second cell contact region.
US11211382B2
Apparatuses and methods are disclosed. One such apparatus includes a well having a first type of conductivity formed within a semiconductor structure having a second type of conductivity. A boundary of the well has an edge that is substantially beneath an edge of an active area of a tap to the well.
US11211378B2
Three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor memory structures and methods of forming 3D semiconductor memory structures are provided. The 3D semiconductor memory structure includes a chip comprising a memory and Through-Silicon Vias (TSVs). The 3D semiconductor memory structure further includes a hardware accelerator arranged on and coupled face-to-face to the above chip. The 3D semiconductor memory structure also includes a substrate arranged under the under the (3D) semiconductor memory structure and the hardware accelerator and attached to the TSVs and external inputs and outputs of the memory chip and the hardware accelerator.
US11211371B2
In an embodiment, a structure includes: a graphics processor device; a passive device coupled to the graphics processor device, the passive device being directly face-to-face bonded to the graphics processor device; a shared memory device coupled to the graphics processor device, the shared memory device being directly face-to-face bonded to the graphics processor device; a central processor device coupled to the shared memory device, the central processor device being directly back-to-back bonded to the shared memory device, the central processor device and the graphics processor device each having active devices of a smaller technology node than the shared memory device; and a redistribution structure coupled to the central processor device, the shared memory device, the passive device, and the graphics processor device.
US11211369B2
The present disclosure describes a service module for a System in a Package (SiP) device. This includes methods of manufacture, use, and testing relating to the same.
US11211357B2
A method for processing an ultra-high density interconnect wire under light source guidance, comprising preparing a photo-thermal response conductive paste, and putting it into an air pressure injector; driving the air pressure injector; the air pressure injector extrudes the photo-thermal response conductive paste, so that the photo-thermal response conductive paste is connected with the first chip to form an interconnection wire; stopping extruding the photo-thermal response conductive paste, and driving the air pressure injector to pull off the interconnection wire; a linear light source emits light and irradiates on the interconnection wire to bend to an upper side of a second chip bonding pad; an extrusion mechanism presses a free end of the interconnection wire on the second chip bonding pad; the first chip and the second chip are subjected to glue dripping encapsulation.
US11211350B2
A semiconductor package and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor package includes first dies, an insulating encapsulation laterally encapsulating the first dies, a second die disposed over the portion of the insulating encapsulation and at least partially overlapping the first dies, and a redistribution structure disposed on the insulating encapsulation and electrically connected to the first dies and the second die. A second active surface of the second die faces toward first active surfaces of the first dies. The redistribution structure includes a first conductive via disposed proximal to the first dies, and a second conductive via disposed proximal to the second die. The first and second conductive vias are electrically coupled and disposed in a region of the redistribution structure between the second die and one of the first dies. The first conductive via is staggered from the second conductive via by a lateral offset.
US11211349B2
A semiconductor device comprising: bonding pads formed in the first wiring layer; and first wirings and a second wiring formed in a second wiring layer provided one layer below the first wiring layer. Here, a power supply potential and a reference potential are to be supplied to each first wiring and the second wiring, respectively. Also, in transparent plan view, each of the first wirings is arranged next to each other, and is arranged at a first position of the second wiring layer, that is overlapped with the bonding region of the first bonding pad. Also, in transparent plan view, the second wiring is arranged at a second position of the second wiring layer, that is overlapped with a first region located between the first bonding pad and the second bonding pad. Further, a width of each first wiring is less than a width of the second wiring.
US11211344B2
An apparatus and method for a frequency based integrated circuit that selectively filters out unwanted bands or regions of interfering frequencies utilizing one or more tunable notch or bandpass filters or tunable low or high pass filters capable of operating across multiple frequencies and multiple bands in noisy RF environments. The tunable filters are fabricated within the same integrated circuit package as the associated frequency based circuitry, thus minimizing R, L, and C parasitic values, and also allowing residual and other parasitic impedance in the associated circuitry and IC package to be absorbed and compensated.
US11211343B2
Disclosed is a fan-out antenna packaging method. A front surface of a semiconductor chip is jointed to a top surface of a separating layer; side surfaces and a bottom surface of the semiconductor chip are merged into a packaging layer; the packaging layer is separated from the separating layer to expose the front surface of the semiconductor chip; a rewiring layer is electrically connected to the semiconductor chip; a first antenna structure and a second antenna are stacked on a top surface of the rewiring layer, the antenna structures is electrically connected to the rewiring layer; a through hole runs through the packaging layer and exposes a metal wiring layer in the rewiring layer; and a metal bump electrically connected to the metal wiring layer is formed by using the through hole.
US11211342B1
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a conductive segment, a conductive layer, a first contact element and a second contact element. The semiconductor substrate includes an active region. The conductive segment is formed on the semiconductor substrate, and extends across the active region. The conductive layer is formed over the semiconductor substrate and the conductive segment. The first contact element, formed between the conductive segment and a first conductive portion of the conductive layer, is arranged to electrically connect the conductive segment to the first conductive portion. The second contact element is formed between the conductive segment and a second conductive portion of the conductive layer. The first contact element and the second contact element are formed on the conductive segment and spaced apart from each other. The second contact element is arranged to electrically isolate the conductive segment from the second conductive portion.
US11211341B2
Provided is a package structure, including a die, a plurality of through vias, an encapsulant, a plurality of first connectors, a warpage control material and a protection material. The plurality of through vias are disposed around the die. The encapsulant laterally encapsulate the die and the plurality of through vias. The plurality of first connectors are electrically connected to the plurality of through vias. The warpage control material is disposed over a first surface of the die. The protection material is disposed over the encapsulant, around the plurality of first connectors and the warpage control material.
US11211337B2
A face-up fan-out electronic package including at least one passive component located on a support. The electronic package can include a die. The die can include a plurality of conductive pillars having a proximal end communicatively coupled to the first side of the die and a distal end opposite the proximal end. A mold can at least partially surround the die. The mold can include a first surface that is coplanar with the distal end of the conductive pillars and a second surface opposing the first surface. In an example, the passive component can include a body and a lead. The passive component can be located within the mold. The lead can be coplanar with the first surface, and the body can be located at a distance from the second surface. The support can be located between the body and the second surface.
US11211330B2
A system and method for efficiently creating layout for a standard cell are described. A standard cell to be used for an integrated circuit uses a full trench silicide strap as drain regions for a pmos transistor and an nmos transistor. Multiple unidirectional routes in metal zero are placed across the standard cell where each route connects to a trench silicide contact. Power and ground connections utilize pins rather than end-to-end rails in the standard cell. Additionally, intermediate nodes are routed in the standard cell with unidirectional routes.
US11211318B2
A method includes receiving a first design for conductive bumps on a first surface of an interposer, the conductive bumps in the first design having a same cross-section area; grouping the conductive bumps in the first design into a first group of conductive bumps in a first region of the first surface and a second group of conductive bumps in a second region of the first surface, where a bump pattern density of the second region is lower than that of the first region; forming a second design by modifying the first design, where modifying the first design includes modifying a cross-section area of the second group of conductive bumps in the second region; and forming the conductive bumps on the first surface of the interposer in accordance with the second design, where after being formed, the first group of conductive bumps and the second group of conductive bumps have different cross-section areas.
US11211314B2
An integrated circuit structure may be fabricated having a first integrated circuit package comprising a first integrated circuit device electrically attached to a first surface of a first substrate, a second integrated circuit package comprising a second integrated circuit device electrically attached to a first surface of a second substrate and an opening extending between a first surface of the second substrate and the second surface of the second substrate, and an interconnection structure electrically attached to the first surface of the first substrate, wherein a portion of the interconnection structure extends into the second substrate opening and wherein the interconnection structure is electrically attached to a first surface of the second substrate.
US11211313B2
A lead frame array for carrying chips includes a plurality of lead frames. Any four lead frames adjacent to each other and have two pairs of linking bridge groups which are connected any two lead frames adjacent to each other by one of the linking bridge groups. Each linking bridge group has an inner linking bridge, a slanted linking bridge and an outer linking bridge. An LED package structure with multiple chips is further provided, which includes a lead frame formed by cutting the lead frame array.
US11211310B1
A package structure is provided. The package structure includes a leadframe, a device, first protrusions, second protrusions, a conductive unit, and an encapsulation material. The device includes a substrate, an active layer, first electrodes, second electrodes and a third electrode. The first electrodes have different potentials than the second electrodes. The first electrodes and the second electrodes are arranged so that they alternate with each other. The first protrusions are disposed on each of the first electrodes. The second protrusions are disposed on each of the second electrodes. The first protrusions and the second protrusions are connected to the leadframe. The first side of the conductive unit is connected to the substrate of the device. The conductive unit is connected to the leadframe. The encapsulation material covers the device and the leadframe. The second side of the conductive unit is exposed from the encapsulation material.
US11211305B2
An integrated circuit having a body comprised of semiconducting material has one or more electronic components formed in a first region of the body and at least another electronic component formed in the second region of the body. A thermal barrier separates the two regions. By one approach that thermal barrier comprises a gap formed in the body. The gap may comprise an air gap or may be partially or wholly filled with material that inhibits thermal conduction. The thermal barrier may at least substantially surround the aforementioned second region. The second region may also include one or more temperature sensors disposed therein. A temperature control circuit may use the corresponding temperature information from within the second region to actively control the second region temperature using a temperature forcing element that is disposed at least proximal to the second region.
US11211303B2
An embodiment of a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body having a first main surface. The semiconductor body includes an active device area and an edge termination area at least partly surrounding the active device area. The semiconductor device further includes a contact electrode on the first main surface and electrically connected to the active device area. The semiconductor device further includes a passivation structure on the edge termination area and laterally extending into the active device area. The semiconductor device further includes an encapsulation structure on the passivation structure and covering a first edge of the passivation structure above the contact electrode.
US11211301B2
A semiconductor device includes a first conductive feature and a second conductive feature. A first passivation layer is positioned between the first conductive feature and the second conductive feature. A second passivation layer is positioned between the first conductive feature and the second conductive feature and over the first passivation layer. A lowermost portion of an interface where the first passivation layer contacts the second passivation layer is positioned below 40% or above 60% of a height of the first conductive feature.
US11211293B2
FinFET device and method of forming the same are provided. The method of forming the FinFET device includes the following steps. A substrate having a plurality of fins is provided. An isolation structure is on the substrate surrounding lower portions of the fins. A hybrid fin is formed aside the fins and on the isolation structure. A plurality of gate lines and a dielectric layer are formed. The gate lines are across the fins and the hybrid fin, the dielectric layer is aside the gate lines. A portion of the gate lines is removed, so as to form first trenches in the dielectric layer and in the gate lines, exposing a portion of the hybrid fin and a portion of the fins underlying the portion of the gate lines. The portion of the fins exposed by the first trench and the substrate underlying thereof are removed, so as to form a second trench under the first trench. An insulating structure is formed in the first trench and the second trench.
US11211292B2
Some embodiments include an assembly having a CMOS tier. The CMOS tier includes a PMOS deck and an NMOS deck, with the decks being vertically offset relative to one another. The PMOS deck has p-channel transistors which are substantially identical to one another, and the NMOS deck has n-channel transistors which are substantially identical to one another. An insulative region is between the PMOS deck and the NMOS deck. The CMOS tier has one or more circuit components which include one or more of the n-channel transistors coupled with one or more of the p-channel transistors through one or more conductive interconnects extending through the insulative region. Some embodiments include methods of forming assemblies to comprise one or more CMOS tiers.
US11211282B2
Embodiments of process kit components for use in a substrate support, and substrate supports incorporating same, are provided herein. In some embodiments, the substrate support may include a body, a grounding shell formed of an electrically conductive material disposed about the body, a liner formed of an electrically conductive material disposed about the grounding shell, where the liner includes an upper lip that extends inwardly towards the body, a metal fastener disposed through the upper lip to couple the liner to the grounding shell, and a first insulator ring disposed atop the upper lip of the liner and covering the metal fastener.
US11211281B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a placing unit, a supply, an embankment and a moving mechanism. The placing unit is configured to place a substrate thereon. The supply is configured to supply a processing liquid onto the substrate placed on the placing unit. The embankment is disposed to surround the substrate placed on the placing unit to suppress an outflow of the processing liquid supplied onto the substrate from the substrate. The moving mechanism is configured to vary a height of the embankment.
US11211280B2
Described herein is a technique capable of preventing a susceptor made of quartz from being damaged by contacting a reflector deformed by thermal expansion. A substrate support according to the technique may include an upper susceptor made of quartz; a lower susceptor made of quartz; and a reflector reflecting heat and made of a metal in a planar shape. A lower surface of the upper susceptor is bonded with an upper surface of the lower susceptor such that the reflector is interposed therebetween, a first recess accommodating the reflector is provided at the upper surface of the lower susceptor, and a portion of the lower surface of the upper susceptor facing the first recess is roughened.
US11211278B2
There is provided a substrate processing apparatus for processing a substrate, including: a storage part provided on an uppermost portion of the substrate processing apparatus and on which a substrate accommodation container for accommodating the substrate is placed; and a first transfer device configured to directly or indirectly deliver the substrate accommodation container between the storage part and a loading/unloading part, wherein the loading/unloading part is configured to place the substrate accommodation container thereon in the substrate processing apparatus and to load and unload the substrate into and from a processing part of the substrate processing apparatus, and the first transfer device is configured to deliver the substrate accommodation container with respect to an overhead hoist transport that moves above the substrate processing apparatus.
US11211256B2
The present disclosure provides a method for fabricating a semiconductor structure that includes a first dielectric layer over a semiconductor substrate, and a first cap layer over the first dielectric layer. The method includes forming a first metal feature in the first dielectric layer; performing a first CMP process on the first metal feature using a first rotation rate; and performing a second CMP process on the first metal feature using a second rotation rate slower than the first rotation rate. The second CMP process may be time-based. The second CMP process may stop on the first cap layer. After performing the second CMP process, the method includes removing the first cap layer. The first CMP process may have a first polishing rate to the first metal feature. The second CMP process may have a second polishing rate to the first metal feature lower than the first polishing rate.
US11211254B2
A first dielectric layer made of a first dielectric material is deposited over a semiconductor substrate. A buffer layer is then deposited on an upper surface of the first dielectric layer. A trench is opened to extend through the buffer layer and the first dielectric layer. A second dielectric layer made of a second dielectric material is the deposited in a conformal manner on the buffer layer and filling the trench. Chemical mechanical polishing of the second dielectric layer is performed to remove overlying portions of the second dielectric layer with the buffer layer being used as a polish stop. After removing the buffer layer, the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric material filling the trench form a pre-metallization dielectric layer having a substantially planar upper surface.
US11211242B2
A cleaning material, device, and method for predictably cleaning the contact elements and support hardware of a tester interface, such as a probe card and a test socket, in which the cleaning pad has a predetermined configuration appropriate for the particular pin contact elements and a substrate having a defined functionalized surface topology and geometry which can be introduced into the testing apparatus during the normal testing operations. The cleaning material has a predetermined topography with a plurality of functional 3-dimensional (3D) microstructures that provide performance characteristics which are not possible with a non-functionalized and flat surface.
US11211233B2
According to one embodiment, a film formation apparatus includes a chamber having an interior to be vacuumed, a carrying unit which is provided in the chamber, and which carries a workpiece that has a processing target surface in a solid shape along a circular carrying path, a film formation unit that causes a film formation material to be deposited by sputtering on the workpiece that is being carried by the carrying unit to form a film thereon, and a shielding member which has an opening located at a side where the workpiece passes through, and which forms a film formation chamber where the film formation by the film formation unit is performed. A compensation plate that protrudes in the film formation chamber is provided, and the compensation plate has a solid shape along a shape of the processing target surface of the workpiece, and is provided at a position facing the workpiece.
US11211232B2
The present disclosure describes a chuck-based device and a method for cleaning a semiconductor manufacturing system. The semiconductor manufacturing system can include a chamber with the chuck-based device configured to clean the chamber, a loading port coupled to the chamber and configured to hold one or more wafer storage devices, and a control device configured to control a translational displacement and a rotation of the chuck-based device. The chuck-based device can include a based stage, one or more supporting rods disposed at the base stage and configured to be vertically extendable or retractable, and a padding film disposed on the one or more supporting rods.
US11211229B2
A method of processing an object using a plasma processing apparatus is provided. The plasma processing apparatus includes a stage on which the object is placed in a chamber, an outer peripheral member disposed around the stage, a first power supply configured to apply voltage to the outer peripheral member, and a memory storing information about a relationship between the voltage applied to the outer peripheral member and an adjustment amount of a process parameter. The method includes: applying voltage from the first power supply to the outer peripheral member; adjusting the process parameter based on the voltage applied to the outer peripheral member, by referring to the information stored in the memory; and performing a plasma process under a process condition including the adjusted process parameter.
US11211224B2
To improve detection efficiency of secondary particles without increasing a size of a charged particle beam apparatus, a charged particle beam apparatus according to the invention includes: a charged particle beam source configured to irradiate a sample with a primary particle beam; a scanning deflector configured to scan and deflect the primary particle beam to a desired position of the sample; and a detector configured to detect secondary particles emitted from the desired position. The charged particle beam apparatus further includes: a focusing lens electrode arranged coaxially with the primary particle beam and configured to generate a focusing electric field that is an electric field that focuses a trajectory of the secondary particles; and a mesh electrode configured to reduce leakage of the focusing electric field on a trajectory of the primary particle beam.
US11211222B2
Automatic alignment of the zone axis of a sample and a charged particle beam is achieved based on a diffraction pattern of the sample. An area corresponding to the Laue circle is segmented using a trained network. The sample is aligned with the charged particle beam by tilting the sample with a zone axis tilt determined based on the segmented area.
US11211217B2
A relay for a high voltage circuit comprises a main coil and a first armature, wherein the first armature is located in the high voltage circuit and is correspondingly in a position to open and close the high voltage circuit in response to power down and power up of the main coil; a secondary coil that cooperates with the first armature and a driving circuit that supplies power to the secondary coil, wherein the driving circuit is powered by a high voltage supply of the high voltage circuit, the secondary coil is powered up to generate additional electromagnetic force that places the first armature in the closed position when the driving circuit is closed; and a second armature located in the driving circuit, and is correspondingly in a position to open or close the driving circuit in response to power down and power up of the main coil.
US11211216B2
An electrical relay (2) includes an electromagnetic drive system for providing bi-directional drive. The electrical relay (2) includes a first a coil (212) and a second coil (213). A current is supplied to the coils (212) and (213) in opposite directions. The two coils (212) and (213) can be used to accelerate the armature in either direction in relation to the two contacts. This can be used to drive the armature to either one of the contacts and to accelerate and decelerate the armature during a single transit. In the latter regard, the armature can be accelerated and decelerated to shorten the transit time, reduce bounce, reduce wear on the contacts, and allow for different contact material options.
US11211215B2
The present disclosure provides a high voltage and high current switch with zero-phase waiting and a control method. The switch includes two or more switching units connected in series, each of the switch unit modules includes a main switch circuit, an auxiliary switch circuit, a voltage-equalizing power supply circuit unit, a switch control and communication circuit unit, and a current transformer; and the auxiliary switch circuit and the voltage-equalizing power supply circuit unit are connected in parallel between two ends of the main switch circuit, and the current transformer is connected to the main switch circuit; an output of the current transformer is connected to the voltage-equalizing power supply circuit unit which supplies power to the switch control and communication circuit unit, and the switch control and communication circuit unit is configured to control the closing and opening of a main relay and an auxiliary relay.
US11211206B2
A charging mechanism for charging a stored-energy spring of a stored-energy spring mechanism includes a charging gear coupled to the stored-energy spring, an intermediate shaft coupled to the charging gear, an idler gear that can be driven by a charging motor, a freewheel coupled to the idler gear, and a dog clutch that couples the freewheel to the intermediate shaft in order to charge the stored-energy spring and uncouples same from the intermediate shaft in the charged state of the stored-energy spring. The dog clutch has a first clutch block coupled to the intermediate shaft for conjoint rotation, and a second clutch block connected to the freewheel. The first clutch block can be displaced along an axis of rotation of the intermediate shaft between two end positions and, in an intermediate position between the end positions can be freely rotated only in a direction of rotation with respect to the second clutch block.
US11211194B2
A coil electronic component includes a body having a coil portion embedded therein, and external electrodes connected to the coil portion, wherein the body includes a plurality of magnetic portions having a form in which magnetic particles are dispersed in an insulator and one or more insulating portions disposed between the plurality of magnetic portions.
US11211185B2
Disclosed herein is a transport system, comprising an electrified static cable system, a carriage supported by a non-electrified static cable, an electrical drive system incorporated into the carriage—wherein the electrical drive system is utilized to move the carriage along the pair of parallel non-electrified cables, a transconnector configured to supply electrical power to the carriage, and a cabin mounted to the carriage. Corresponding methods of making and using the system also are disclosed.
US11211182B2
A cable conductor includes a conductor portion and an insulating material covering the conductor portion. The conductor portion includes a plurality of conductive materials having different characteristics.
US11211176B2
Spent nuclear fuel is added to an electro-reduction cell, wherein the electro-reduction cell includes a halide salt electrolyte, and anode, and a cathode including an alloy of uranium and a first metal forming a low melting point alloy with uranium, the first metal being one or more of: iron; chromium; nickel; manganese; and cobalt. The spent nuclear fuel is electrochemically reduced at a potential sufficient to reduce plutonium and lanthanides in the spent nuclear fuel, to form a molten alloy of the first metal, uranium and higher actinides present in the spent nuclear fuel. The alloy is extracted from the electro-reduction cell while uranium oxide is present in the electro-reduction cell. The spent nuclear fuel includes uranium oxide and at least 1 mol of lanthanides per tonne of uranium in the spent nuclear fuel, and the electro-reduction cell is operated at a temperature above the melting point of the alloy.
US11211171B2
Improved systems, methods, and architectures to enhance decision making in Smart Cities and Smart Regions. A system includes an index structure including a first hierarchical data structure including a first hierarchical score based on a plurality of first-level elements, each of the plurality of first-level elements having a respective weighting, and a second hierarchical data structure including a plurality of second hierarchical scores based on a plurality of second-level elements, each of the plurality of second-level elements having a respective weighting, such that the first hierarchical score is based on the plurality of second hierarchical scores through an index factor; and a computer-implemented regional monitor engine to manage local access to a plurality of external data sources to coordinate writes to the index structure.
US11211165B1
Systems and methods for improving Remote Patient Monitoring by utilizing a plurality of physiological test devices with built-in hardware, software and wireless connectivity redundancy mechanisms to help ensure successful remote patient monitoring in the event of hardware and software failures as well as wireless communication disruption and down-time. A time-delayed method for the transmission of the acquired physiological parameters are utilized for reliable delivery of patient test data to remote server in the event of disruption in wireless communication services. Additionally, Artificial Intelligent (AI) Avatar Virtual Assistant with passive “Check My Status' monitoring is utilized to provide a multilayer testing mechanism within remote patient monitoring by interactively communicating with the patient via voice using Speech To Text (STT), Text To Speech (TTS) and Natural Language Processing (NLP).
US11211158B1
A system for representing an arranged list of alimentary aliment possibilities includes a computing device configured to receive an input of an autoimmune disorder, identify a marker associated with the autoimmune disorder, generate a marker classifier, wherein the marker classifier out puts a disorder state label, determine an aliment instruction set including a plurality of edible programs corresponding to a plurality of provider alimentary possibilities, locate, from each alimentary provider device of a plurality of alimentary provider devices, a plurality of provider aliment possibilities, generate an arranged list of edible programs as a function of the plurality of provider aliment possibilities, obtain a user preference of a provider aliment possibility corresponding to an edible of the plurality of provider alimentary possibilities, and generate a updated arranged list of alimentary possibilities as a function of the user preference and the aliment instruction set.
US11211156B2
Methods and devices include identifying a plurality of target users for the digital therapeutic based on one or more target parameters, conducting outreach to one or more of the plurality of target users using an outreach medium, identifying an activation mechanism to optimize use of the digital therapeutic, and encouraging an engagement level of the digital therapeutic by one or more of the plurality of target users.
US11211154B2
A context-aware method and system for facilitating the delivery of healthcare to patients within a clinical environment monitored by real-time locating apparatus including auto-ID patient tags where patients having tags are located within the environment in real time by the apparatus are provided. The system includes a plurality of self-service units where one or more of the units is configured to store a plurality of auto-ID patient tags and where the one or more of the units includes a dispensing mechanism to dispense stored tags. The system further includes a control computer subsystem coupled to the at least one of the units and including at least one user interface. The subsystem still further includes a processor operable to execute software instructions and a memory operable to store software instructions accessible by the processor. The subsystem still further includes a set of software instructions stored in the memory to at least partially perform the steps of: identifying an incoming patient; assigning a stored auto-ID patient tag to the identified patient to obtain a tag assignment; transmitting a signal over a communication channel to an electronic medical record subsystem to link the tag assignment to a medical record of the patient whereby the patient becomes a linked patient; and controlling the dispensing mechanism to dispense a stored tag to the linked patient.
US11211143B2
The present invention relates to a combination of experimental and computational workflows that allow characterization of specific molecular mechanisms by which the microbiome contribute to skin health and skin age.
US11211130B2
A semiconductor device comprises an input circuit that includes a first comparator configured to output a first output signal and a second output signal having a phase opposite to that of the first output signal, based on a comparison result of a first input signal and a second input signal which is a complementary signal of the first input signal. A duty ratio of the first output signal and a duty ratio of the second output signal are different from a duty ratio of the first input signal and a duty ratio of the second input signal, respectively.
US11211125B2
A semiconductor memory cell including a capacitorless transistor having a floating body configured to store data as charge therein when power is applied to the cell, and a non-volatile memory comprising a bipolar resistive change element, and methods of operating.
US11211121B2
An electronic device including a semiconductor memory is provided to include one or more resistive storage cells; at least one reference resistance block including at least two reference resistance transistors which are coupled in series; a data sensing block suitable for comparing resistance values of a resistive storage cell selected among the one or more resistive storage cells and the reference resistance block, and sensing data of the selected resistive storage cell; and a reference resistance adjustment block suitable for adjusting the resistance value of the reference resistance block by adjusting gate voltages of the reference resistance transistors.
US11211116B2
A static random-access memory (SRAM) semiconductor device including a memory unit is provided. The memory unit includes a bit array arranged in rows and columns. The columns are defined by a plurality of bit line pairs connecting to a plurality of memory cells in the column. The memory unit also includes an edge area adjacent an edge row of the bit array, wherein the edge row includes a plurality of dummy memory cells. The memory unit further includes a plurality of bit line drivers adjacent the bit array and opposite the edge area. The bit line drivers are for driving the bit lines with data to the memory cells during a write operation. The dummy memory cells include a write assist circuit for each bit line pair. The write assist circuit is used for facilitating the writing of the data on the bit line pairs to the memory cells.
US11211108B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to a memory device, and more particularly to a ferroelectric memory device and a method of operating the memory device. According to one aspect, a memory device comprises a bit cell. The bit cell comprises a write transistor, a read transistor and a ferroelectric capacitor. A write word line is connected to a gate terminal of the write transistor. A write bit line is connected to a first terminal of the write transistor. A read bit line connected to a terminal of the read transistor. A first control line is connected to a first electrode of the ferroelectric capacitor. A second terminal of the write transistor is connected to the gate terminal of the read transistor, and a second electrode of the ferroelectric capacitor is connected to the second terminal.
US11211107B1
The present invention is directed to a nonvolatile memory device that includes a plurality of memory slices, each memory slice including one or more memory sectors and a read circuit for sensing the resistance state of a magnetic memory cell in the memory sectors. The read circuit includes first and second input nodes; a sense amplifier having first and second input terminals; a first target resistor and a balancing resistor connected in series between the first input node and the first input terminal; a multiplexer having a first input, a second input, and an output, with the first input being connected to the second input node and the output being connected to the second input terminal; a second target resistor and an offset resistor connected in series between the second input node and the second input; and first and second current sources connected to the first and second input terminals, respectively.
US11211106B2
A device includes a first reference storage unit, a second reference storage unit, a first reference switch, and a second reference switch. The first reference switch includes a first terminal coupled to a first reference bit line, a second terminal coupled to the first reference storage unit, and a control terminal coupled a reference word line. The second reference switch includes a first terminal coupled to a second reference bit line, a second terminal coupled to the second reference storage unit, and a control terminal coupled the reference word line. The first reference storage unit is configured to receive a bit data through the first reference switch, and to generate a first signal having a first logic state.
US11211094B1
A data storage device configured to access a magnetic tape is disclosed, wherein the data storage device comprises at least one head configured to access the magnetic tape. A first plurality of data blocks are encoded into a first plurality of ECC sub-blocks including a first ECC sub-block, and the first plurality of ECC sub-blocks are encoded into a first ECC super-block. The first ECC sub-block is written to the magnetic tape, and a write-verify of the first ECC sub-block is executed by reading the first ECC sub-block. When the write-verify passes, a second plurality of data blocks are encoded into a second ECC super-block, and when the write-verify fails, a third plurality of data blocks and the first ECC sub-block are encoded into the second ECC super-block, wherein the second ECC super-block is written to the magnetic tape.
US11211082B1
A magnetic head includes a medium facing surface, a main pole, a trailing shield, a spin torque oscillator, and a first insulating layer. The first insulating layer is interposed between a portion of the main pole and a portion of the spin torque oscillator. The first insulating layer has a first end closest to the medium facing surface. The spin torque oscillator has a rear end farthest from the medium facing surface. The first end of the first insulating layer is located closer to the medium facing surface than the rear end of the spin torque oscillator is.
US11211079B2
An AI device is provided. The AI device includes a memory to store data, a voice acquisition interface to acquire a voice signal, and a processor to perform preprocessing for the voice signal based on a parameter, to provide the preprocessed voice signal to a voice recognition model, to acquire a voice recognition result, to store a characteristic of the preprocessed voice signal in the memory, and to change the parameter using a distribution of characteristics of voice signals accumulated in the memory.
US11211069B2
An information processing system includes first circuitry and second circuitry. The first circuitry generates a processing command based on a recognition result of audio information acquired from a voice input device, and instructs the second circuitry to process process data based on the processing command. The second circuitry generates an execution command in response to the instruction from the first circuitry, and transmits the execution command to the information processing apparatus to instruct the information processing apparatus to execute processing of the process data.
US11211066B2
Various embodiments include a hazard detector comprising: a microphone configured to record an audio signal; a hazard sensor; a detection circuit connected to the hazard sensor; and a processing unit connected to the detection circuit and the microphone. The detection circuit receives signals from the hazard sensor and generates a signal as a function thereof. The processing unit comprises a digital interface for communication with an external computer and is configured: to receive the detector signal from the detection circuit; to receive the audio signal from the microphone and to detect a predetermined preamble comprising a word in the audio signal; and if the detector signal contains a positive indication with respect to a hazard or if a predetermined preamble is detected in the audio signal, to generate a output signal as a function of the received signal and send the output signal to the computer via the interface.
US11211064B2
The technology disclosed relates to retrieving a personal memo from a database. The method includes receiving, by a virtual assistant, a natural language utterance that expresses a request, interpreting the natural language utterance according to a natural language grammar rule for retrieving memo data from the natural language utterance, the natural language grammar rule recognizing query information, responsive to interpreting the natural language utterance, using the query information to query the database for a memo related to the query information, and providing, to a user, a response generated in dependence upon the memo related to the query information.
US11211060B2
Disclosed systems and methods predict visemes from an audio sequence. In an example, a viseme-generation application accesses a first audio sequence that is mapped to a sequence of visemes. The first audio sequence has a first length and represents phonemes. The application adjusts a second length of a second audio sequence such that the second length equals the first length and represents the phonemes. The application adjusts the sequence of visemes to the second audio sequence such that phonemes in the second audio sequence correspond to the phonemes in the first audio sequence. The application trains a machine-learning model with the second audio sequence and the sequence of visemes. The machine-learning model predicts an additional sequence of visemes based on an additional sequence of audio.
US11211045B2
Provided is an artificial intelligence apparatus for predicting a performance of a voice recognition model in a user environment including: a memory configured to store a performance prediction model; and a processor configured to: obtain first controlled environment data including first controlled environment factors corresponding to a first controlled voice recognition environment and a first controlled voice recognition performance of a target voice recognition model in the first controlled voice recognition environment; obtain first user environment factors corresponding to a first user environment, in which the performance is to be predicted; predict, using the performance prediction model, a first user voice recognition performance of the target voice recognition model in the first user voice recognition environment from the obtained first controlled environment data and the first user environment factors; and output the predicted first user voice recognition performance.
US11211042B2
A sound damping device adapted to be arranged inside a duct, comprises a first element (40a) including at least one first wall (20a) of a first channel (12a) having a first channel inlet (13a) and a first channel outlet (13b), a second element (40b) including at least one second wall (20a) of a second channel (16a) having a second channel inlet (14b) and a second channel outlet (14b), said and outlet regions being substantially opposite to one another, wherein at least a portion of at least one of said first and second elements (40a, 40b) comprises an acoustic energy dissipative sheet material. In accordance with the invention, said first element (40a) comprises a guide means (21) further defining said first channel (12a); said second element (40b) comprises a second guide means (21) further defining said second channel (16a); and said first and second guide means (21) are arranged in relation to one another in such a way that the first channel (12a) forms a first angle in relation to the second channel (16a).
US11211028B2
A display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a plurality of pixel electrodes to which pixel voltages are applied and a shield electrode disposed between the pixel electrodes. A shield voltage is applied to the shield electrode. The second substrate faces the first substrate. The second substrate includes a common electrode to which a common voltage is applied.
US11211020B2
A display may have rows and columns of pixels. Gate lines may be used to supply gate signals to rows of the pixels. Data lines may be used to supply data signals to columns of the pixels. The data lines may include alternating even and odd data lines. Data lines may be organized in pairs each of which includes one of the odd data lines and an adjacent one of the even data lines. Demultiplexer circuitry may be configured dynamically during data loading and pixel sensing operations. During data loading, data from display driver circuitry may be supplied, alternately to odd pairs of the data lines and even pairs of the data lines. During sensing, the demultiplexer circuitry may couple a pair of the even data lines to sensing circuitry in the display driver circuitry and then may couple a pair of the odd data lines to the sensing circuitry.
US11211017B2
Disclosed are embodiments of in-situ display monitoring and calibration systems and methods. An image acquisition system captures images of the viewing plane of the display. Captured images may then be processed to characterize various visual performance characteristics of the display. When not in use capturing images of the display, the image acquisition system can be stored in a manner that protects it from environmental hazards such as dust, dirt, precipitation, direct sunlight, etc. A calibration image in which a plurality of light emitting elements is set to a particular color and intensity may be displayed, an image then captured, and then a difference between what was expected and what was captured may be developed for each light emitting element. Differences between captured images and expected images may be used to create a calibration data set which then may be used to adjust the display of further images upon the display.
US11211012B2
A display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes: a display region including at least one rounded corner; and a non-display region located at a periphery of the display region. The non-display region includes: a gate drive circuit; and a plurality of first dummy pixels located outside the at least one rounded corner of the display region, a first power line of each of the plurality of the first dummy pixels being connected with a signal line of the gate drive circuit.
US11211004B1
A pixel includes a light-emitting element, a driving transistor that controls an amount of a driving current flowing to the light-emitting element according to a gate-source voltage, first and second compensation transistors that operate in response to a first scan signal and are electrically connected in series with each other between a gate and a drain of the driving transistor, first and second gate initialization transistors that operate in response to a second scan signal and are electrically connected in series with each other between a voltage line and the gate of the driving transistor, and a node connection transistor that connects a first floating node and a second floating node to each other in response to the second scan signal. The first floating node is between the first and second compensation transistors, and the second floating node is between the first and second gate initialization transistors.
US11211002B2
An electrooptical device and apparatus are disclosed. In one example, an electrooptical device includes a scanning line, a signal line, a feed line to which a low potential is supplied, a pixel circuit, a drive circuit for driving the pixel circuit, a level shift block connected to the signal line, a first capacitor on the level shift block, and a second capacitor formed by a parasitic capacitance between the signal line and the feed line. A video signal voltage is written into the pixel circuit by capacitive coupling between the first capacitor and the second capacitor. The signal line is formed of a first metal layer. The feed line is formed of a second metal layer that is approximately equal in width to the first metal layer. The first metal layer and the second metal layer form the first capacitor and the second capacitor.
US11210998B2
A display device having a partially transparent substrate with a plurality of electrical consumers arranged in series having first and second contacts for applying a first and a second potential, and a third contact for receiving a control signal. A partially transparent electrically conductive layer electrically contacts the electrical consumers. A first and second connector for applying the first and the second potential to the conductive layer, and a third connector for applying the control signal. The conductive layer is attached to the transparent substrate with the three segments insulated from one another. A first and second segment are distanced from one another by a third segment. The first segment contacts the first connector and the first contact of one or more consumers, and the second segment contacts the second connector and the second contact of a consumers. The third segment contacts a third contact of an electrical consumer.
US11210977B2
Systems and methods are described for preventing damage from overcurrent flows in a display device. The display device may include a display panel, a display panel driving circuit, and a driving control circuit. The display device also includes, a power management integrated circuit and a display panel protection circuit. If an overcurrent condition is detected, the display panel protection circuit may periodically mask frames from being sent to the display panel to prevent damage.
US11210975B2
Disclosed are a transparent display panel and a transparent display device, which each include a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of transparent pixels each including a plurality of subpixels which display different colors and are disposed adjacent to each other in a first direction and a transparent area disposed adjacent to a corresponding subpixel in a second direction, thereby enabling a pixel defect such as a dark spot or a hot spot to be repaired and enabling normal driving. To this end, the transparent display panel and the transparent display device each include a repair line overlapping a first transparent pixel and a second transparent pixel adjacent to each other in the second direction in the plurality of transparent pixels.
US11210974B2
This application provides a driving circuit including a switching module, a control unit, a first switch, and a voltage adjusting module. A first input line of the switching module receives a first signal. When a control signal of the control unit is at a first potential, the switching module to enable an output line to electrically communicate with a first input line, and an output signal of the output line is equal or close to the first signal. When the control signal is at a second potential, the switching module to enable the output line to electrically communicate with a second input line, the first switch is turned on, the voltage adjusting module adjusts the first signal to a second signal and outputs the second signal to the second input line, and the output signal of the output line is equal or close to the second signal.
US11210973B2
Disclosed is a wheel dynamic imaging display rack which comprises a frame. A sleeve is fixed to the frame. A hollow shaft motor is fixed to the sleeve. The hollow shaft of the hollow shaft motor is fixedly connected to the wheel through the sleeve, the hollow shaft motor can drive the flange, the wheel and the LED lamp blade to rotate, and clear images are shown in the LED lamp blade.
US11210961B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for providing virtual feedback of a neural pattern to create a neural pathway corresponding to an action of an affected limb of a brain injury patient. Embodiments provide for detecting a neural pattern and determining a target action associated with the detected neural pattern. A virtual feedback is generated that includes a virtual action to be performed in a virtual representation of the affected limb. In embodiments, the brain injury may prevent the affected limb from performing the target action. The virtual representation of the affected limb is superimposed over a real-world presence of the affected limb such that the virtual representation is presented to the patient in lieu of the real-world presence, and the virtual action is performed in the virtual representation, such that the virtual action is presented to the patient in lieu of the target action in the real-world.
US11210957B2
A method for generating a view for an unmanned aerial vehicle is provided. The method includes obtaining an origin and a destination of the unmanned aerial vehicle, determining a group of imaging devices based on a route between the origin and the destination of the unmanned aerial vehicle, and obtaining a view of the unmanned aerial vehicle following the route based on images of the unmanned aerial vehicle captured by the group of imaging devices. The group of imaging devices form one or more collaborative camera sensor networks. The collaborative camera sensor networks identify an unmanned aerial vehicle and create human operator's view of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The route of the unmanned aerial vehicle is determined based on the availability of imaging devices of the camera sensor network. The route of the unmanned aerial vehicle may be changed based on the availability of imaging devices.
US11210954B2
A vehicular communication apparatus is configured to be mounted on a movable body and to receive movement data related to movements of other movable bodies. The apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a memory, and a data managing unit. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire the movement data on the other movable bodies. The memory is configured to store and record therein the movement data acquired by the acquiring unit. The data managing unit is configured to manage the record of the movement data in the memory. The data managing unit is configured to acquire a virtual speed of each movable body that is obtained from the movement data recorded in the memory, and invalidate or delete the movement data recorded in the memory on a movable-body by movable-body basis, in accordance with the acquired virtual speed of each movable body.
US11210947B2
The network system triggers registration of the start of a transport journey in response to a communication of a transport user device and a transport provider device with each other, performs a continuous coordinated proximity monitoring to verify the identity of a transport user and a transport provider vehicle, and triggers registration of the end of the transport journey through communication of the transport user device and the transport provider device with each other.
US11210945B2
An infrastructure system includes at least one sensor, a transceiver, and a computer communicatively coupled to the at least one sensor and to the transceiver. The computer is programmed to receive data from the at least one sensor indicating respective locations and motions of objects in an environment surrounding the at least one sensor; in response to one of (a) the data from the at least one sensor or (b) a request from a user, generate a virtual traffic marker at a first location in the environment; and instruct the transceiver to broadcast the virtual traffic marker to vehicles in the environment. The first location is based on the data from the at least one sensor, and the virtual traffic marker is data including the first location and traffic instructions corresponding to the first location.
US11210942B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for optimizing a traffic control plan. The system may include at least one storage device configured to store instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving traffic system log data and parsing the traffic system log data to obtain a first set of traffic performance parameters. The operations may also include receiving trajectory data relating to a plurality of vehicle movements and parsing the trajectory data to obtain a second set of traffic performance parameters. The operations may further include determining relationships between vehicle delays and degrees of saturation based on the first and second sets of traffic performance parameters. In addition, the operations may include optimizing the traffic control plan based on the relationships.
US11210940B2
Determining that a vehicle is speeding in violation of a speeding regulation. Capture a timed sequence of image frames of the target vehicle at known capture times of the vehicle, identify corresponding images of a license plate of the target vehicle in the image frames, recognize an alphanumeric character of the license plate in the corresponding images of the license plate, measure respective image dimensions of the alphanumeric character; and responsive to a change between the image dimensions of the alphanumeric character, compute a speed of the target vehicle relative to the camera. Font style and font size are stored of one or more standard vehicle license plate.
US11210930B2
The invention relates to a device (1) and a corresponding method for monitoring a two-wire line (2), in particular a two-wire line (2) of a fire protection system. The device (1) comprises a passive terminating component (10) for terminating the two-wire line (2), wherein the passive terminating component has a chargeable energy storage (12), a constant current source (20) for providing a measuring current (I1) to the passive terminating component, a voltage detection unit (30) for detecting a voltage curve (V1) at output terminals (4, 6) of the two-wire line (2), a control unit (40) for controlling the constant current source (12) and for evaluating the detected voltage curve, the control unit (40) being configured to separately determine a series resistance (RL) and a parallel resistance (PS) of the two-wire line (2).
US11210924B1
Methods and systems for alerting a user to a device low battery state are disclosed herein. An example method includes receiving, at a charging station for a scanning device, a notification from the scanning device when the scanning device is not coupled to the charging station indicating that the scanning device has entered a low battery state. The scanning device may be communicatively coupled to the charging station by a wireless communication protocol. Further, the example method may include generating, by the charging station, an indication of the low battery state of the scanning device based upon the notification. The example method may also include displaying, by the charging station, the indication for a user.
US11210923B2
An illustrative example monitoring system includes a carbon monoxide sensor configured to detect carbon monoxide within an area, a heater situated near the carbon monoxide sensor to regulate a temperature of the carbon monoxide sensor, an ambient temperature sensor configured to provide an indication of an ambient temperature in the area, an occupancy sensor configured to provide an indication whether the area is occupied by at least one individual and a controller. The controller is configured to determine whether the ambient temperature in the area is below a threshold based on the indication from the ambient temperature sensor, determine whether the area is occupied by at least one individual based on the indication from the occupancy sensor, and activate the heater when the ambient temperature in the area is below the threshold and the area is occupied by at least one individual.
US11210918B2
An electronic patient monitoring system and method of operation that includes one or more generally non-metal, tamper-resistant patient identification and monitoring devices, an observer transmitter/receiver device configured to receive and detect one or more beacon signals that exceed a predetermined threshold from at least one of the not easily removable patient identification and monitoring devices, set a time to hold open a window for a response on the transmitter/receiver device, and send a request for information to the observer with the transmitter/receiver device, and a central computer system. Each of the transmitter/receiver device and the central computer system, including, at least, a computer processor, communications components and system software to communicate with the observer transmitter/receiver device at specified/predetermined time intervals to receive observer- and patient-specific information.
US11210910B2
A system and method for finding the proximate location of an indoor active shooter including: a plurality of acoustic sensors for receiving acoustic information from a monitored area, the sensors being dispersed in the monitored area, and each sensor having a processor for discriminating gunshot candidates from other sounds; and a host processor/server for receiving the gunshot candidates from the sensor and provide further processing to determine if the gunshot candidate is a gunshot. The server may use the first sensor to report as the proximate location of the shooter. As nearby sensors report the same incident, the server may refine the proximate location to within a few feet of the actual location of the shooter. The host processor includes a program or instructions to determine exit routes from the detected shooter and to activate a warning system which directs people away. The warning system includes a plurality of signaling lights capable of producing light in a plurality of selectable colors such that the host processor commands the lights to signal colors which warn people of the direction of the proximate location and other colors which direct people away from the proximate location.
US11210908B2
Administrating a package of shuffled playing cards to prevent fraudulent card exchanges. The administrating system is configured to calculate places and a number of packages of shuffled playing cards at places of the backyard, the places of playing tables, places of carriers and the disposition place using information obtained by the loading step and unloading step and the administrating system calculates by every ID codes bases 1) places of packages registered by the registering step for registering to a data base of administrating system and a number of packages place by place from information obtained from the loading step and the unloading step. The administrating system is configured to recognize whether there is a lost package by comparing the information of all ID codes registered in registering steps with the ID codes at places of packages obtained at the calculating step from the loading step and the unloading step.
US11210907B2
In various embodiments, players may compete in a gaming context.
US11210904B2
A game machine with a controllable an opening angle is characterized in that: including: a main body, having two lateral plates, an accommodation space and a mounting rod, wherein a front end of the accommodation space has a front opening; a movable gate, disposed at the front opening, wherein a rear end of the movable gate has a pivotal part pivoted to top end of the main body; and a movable mounting rack, having one end thereof disposed at a rear end of the movable gate and having two lateral mounting plates and at least one connection rod between the two lateral mounting plates, the lateral mounting plates are disposed at two sides of the movable mounting rack, the lateral mounting plates correspondingly have at least two mounting slots allowing the mounting rod to be mounted; a retractable rod is disposed between the moveable gate and the main body.
US11210890B2
Pressure and movement sensitive inputs for gaming devices, and related devices, systems, and methods
Pressure and movement sensitive inputs for gaming devices, and related devices, systems, and methods, are disclosed. An input device includes a plurality of input locations and a pressure sensor to detect, for each input location, an amount of pressure applied by a player to the input device at the input location of the gaming device. A processor circuit receives, from the pressure sensor, a first pressure parameter value corresponding to a first amount of pressure being applied by the player to the input device at a first input location at a first time, and a second pressure parameter value corresponding to a second amount of pressure being applied by the player to the input device at a second input location at a second, later time. Based on the first pressure parameter value and the second pressure parameter value, a user interface element of the gaming device may be modified.
US11210886B2
An object of the present invention is to avoid as much as possible a state where recognition results with respect to the same paper sheet become different. Provided is a paper sheet identification system including a first paper sheet identification device and a second paper sheet identification device. The second paper sheet identification device includes a second identification unit that identifies the authenticity of paper sheets based on a second set value, and a first acquisition unit that acquires previous process data.
US11210884B2
An electronic device having at least one operational setting, such as a power setting, with at least a first state and a second state. The electronic device may also include an access controller that can receive state data and authorization data from an external source such as a remote control. The access controller may enable a state of the operational setting upon receipt of proper authorization data received from or related to the output from at least one biometric sensor associated with the remote control.
US11210877B1
A method for a secure Passive Entry Passive Start (PEPS) authentication protocol measures the walking gait of a user approaching a related vehicle using a passive key device carried by the user. The method also includes measuring the user's gait from the perspective of the vehicle using a vehicle perception system to compare the two and validate the security of an unlock request, authenticate the unlocking session, and protect against relay attacks. The two-factor authentication protocol validates the physical presence and temporal state of the key fob or mobile phone relative to the vehicle using detected key gait measurement (key G-gait) and a vehicle perception-based gait (C-gait) measurement by comparing the independent gaits and generating control commands responsive to consistent and inconsistent measurements.
US11210869B2
The present subject matter provides various technical solutions to technical problems facing sensor-based vehicle safety technology. To address problems facing identification of safety features (e.g., safety sensors) for a particular vehicle, a vehicle safety feature identification system may be used to identify a vehicle and the safety features that are installed on that vehicle. To address problems facing identification of which safety sensors require maintenance, a vehicle safety feature maintenance system may be used to identify vehicle safety sensors based on information received about one or more vehicle repairs, such as structural repairs following a vehicle collision. The vehicle safety feature maintenance system may use image data or other inputs to identify a vehicle repair area, identify other vehicle components that must be removed or adjusted to complete the vehicle repair, and identify all vehicle safety sensors and other safety features that will need to be repaired, replaced, or recalibrated.
US11210867B1
This patent discloses a method of creating a computer-generated patient specific image to help improve communication amongst health care workers and in between health care workers and patients. Medical data including images, and terminology from a multiple sources is inputted and a computer generated patient specific image is created and optimized for physician-to-physician or physician-to-patient communication.
US11210863B1
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for real-time object placement guidance in augmented reality experience. An example method may include receiving, by a device having a sensor, an indication of an object to be viewed in an physical environment of the device. The example method may also include determining a 3D model of the physical environment using data of the physical environment captured by the sensor. The example method may also include determining that a first surface in the 3D model of the environment is a first floor space, and a second surface in the 3D model of the environment is a first wall space. The example method may also include determining that a portion of the first surface is unoccupied and sized to fit the object. The example method may also include determining a first location in the 3D model of the physical environment for placement of a virtual representation of the object based on a 3D model of the object, wherein the first location corresponds to the portion of the first floor space. The example method may also include generating the virtual representation of the object for display at the first location, the virtual representation of the object having a first orientation, wherein the first orientation is based on a second orientation of the second surface. The example method may also include generating a first real-time view of the physical environment comprising the virtual representation of the object within the portion of the first location and in the first orientation. In some cases, a real-time virtual overlay may also be generated in the physical environment, the real-time virtual overlay indicating a location of a floor space in the physical environment.
US11210862B1
A computing device spatially reconstructs a virtual feature surface in a mixed reality environment. The computing device detects addition of a raycast element to a virtual user space, maps multiple feature points detected from multiple video frames of a physical user space into a virtual user space, selecting at least three feature points from the multiple feature points that satisfy selection criteria applied in the virtual user space along a raycast axis of the raycast element in the virtual user space, and defines the virtual feature surface in the virtual user space using the at least three selected feature points. At least two of the at least three feature points are detected in different video frames.
US11210861B2
The disclosure relates to a method for setting and visualizing parameters of an objective lens of a camera, in particular for focusing on a moving object, and to a system for per-forming the method. The camera is, for example, embodied as a film camera, in particular as a film camera used in cinematography. The method includes the following steps: calcu-lating a relative position and an alignment of a depth of field of the objective lens in the 3D space, observing the 3D space and/or the object with an AR display and observation de-vice, displaying the relative position and the alignment of the depth of field of the objective lens as an image in the AR display and observation device and/or displaying a focal plane as an image in the AR display and observation device, and setting the objective lens to ob-tain a desired depth of field of the objective lens.
US11210856B2
A system and method for facilitating tracking of interactions with a plurality of content types within a digital reality. One or more users enter a public digital zone where content from one or more holographic applications is available for interaction through digital reality devices. Interactions include seeing, looking at, clicking on, engaging with, and immersing into the digital content from the one or more holographic applications. Potential outputs of these interactions include transactions, switching to other holographic applications, or completely exiting the holographic application. Each of these interactions is continuously tracked by a telemetry and tracking cloud server communicatively connected to a cloud server and holographic application. Cloud servers of each public digital zone connect to cloud servers of other public digital zones, enabling users to seamlessly access holographic applications located in other public digital zones.
US11210845B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and computer readable media for performing data conversion on sensor data to obtain modified sensor data that is formatted/structured appropriately for downstream processes that rely on the sensor data as input. The sensor data can include point cloud data captured by a LiDAR, for example. A grid structure and corresponding grid characteristics can be determined and the sensor data can be converted to grid-based sensor data by associating the grid structure and its characteristics with the sensor data. Generating the grid-based sensor data can include reformatting the point cloud data to superimpose the grid structure and its grid characteristics onto the point cloud data. Various downstream processing that cannot feasibly be performed on the raw sensor data can then be performed efficiently on the modified grid-based sensor data by virtue of the grid structure imbuing the sensor data with spatial proximity information.
US11210836B2
This disclosure describes techniques that include generating, based on a description of a scene, a movie or animation that represents at least one possible version of a story corresponding to the description of the scene. This disclosure also describes techniques for training a machine learning model to generate predefined data structures from textual information, visual information, and/or other information about a story, an event, a scene, or a sequence of events or scenes within a story. This disclosure also describes techniques for using GANs to generate, from input, an animation of motion (e.g., an animation or a video clip). This disclosure also describes techniques for implementing an explainable artificial intelligence system that may provide end users with information (e.g., through a user interface) that enables an understanding of at least some of the decisions made by the AI system.
US11210835B2
A computer generated (CG) hair groom for a virtual character can include strand-based (also referred to as instanced) hair in which many thousands of digital strands represent real human hair strands. Embodiments of systems and methods for transferring CG hair groom data from a first (or source) virtual character to a second (or target) virtual character are provided. Some embodiments can factor in a difference between a hairline of the first virtual character and a hairline of the second virtual character to improve the overall appearance or fit of the hair groom on the second virtual character.
US11210829B2
A hobby determining unit counts the number of times of appearances of tag information by using the number of imaging days of the images, for each kind of the tag information, and determines that a first user has a hobby related to the tag information for which a ratio of the number of times of appearances of the tag information to the total number of times of appearances of all kinds of the tag information items is equal to or greater than a threshold value, or counts the number of times of appearances of the tag information by using the number of the images, and determines that a first user has a hobby related to the tag information for which the number of times of appearances of the tag information is equal to or greater than the threshold value.
US11210821B2
When processing graphics primitives in a graphics processing system, the render output is divided into a plurality of regions for rendering, each region comprising a respective area of the render output. It is determined for which of the plurality of regions of the render output a primitive should be rendered for. For each region of the render output it is determined a primitive should be rendered for, geometry data for the primitive is stored in memory in a respective data structure for the region in a compressed form, such that the geometry data for the primitive to be rendered is stored in a compressed form, in a respective, different data structure for each different region of the render output it is determined the primitive should be rendered for.
US11210818B2
Some embodiments include a server system including a computing device configured to be coupled to a communications network, a user device, a mapping database with mapping data, and an asset or infrastructure database including asset or infrastructure data. Program logic can receive a data communication including location information from the user device and display a map and asset or infrastructure information and a graphical user interface (GUI) on a display of the user device. Displayed information can be related to an emergency or safety alert, a condition related to asset or infrastructure data, or a response or status of assets or infrastructure to an environmental factor or human-made phenomenon.
US11210811B2
In one example, a system for real-time three-dimensional (3D) calibration includes a processor detecting mark corners at two-dimensional (2D) coordinates in an image coordinate system of an image of a specified pattern. The processor determines 3D coordinates of the mark corners in a world coordinate system based on the pattern. The 3D coordinates correspond to the 2D coordinates. The processor determines baseline depth values corresponding to original depth values for proper points on a mark plane, based on the 2D coordinates and the 3D coordinates. The processor generates a fitting model based on the baseline depth values.
US11210810B2
A camera localization method includes: obtaining an environment map of a target environment, predicting a location of a camera when shooting a target image according to location information of the camera when shooting a history image before the target image is shot to obtain predicted location information of the camera; filtering out at least one feature point that is currently not observable by the camera in the environment map according to the predicted location information of the camera, location information of each feature point and viewing-angle area information of each feature point in the environment map; and matching the feature point in the target image with remaining feature points in the environment map after the filtering to obtain a feature point correspondence, and determining location information of the camera according to the feature point correspondence.
US11210805B2
A simultaneously localization and dense three-dimensional reconstruction method, being capable of processing rapid motion and frequent closing of a loop in a robust manner, and operating at any time in a large-scale scene. Provided by the method is a key frame-based simultaneous localization and map construction framework. First, depth and color information are used simultaneously, and the framework may operate on central processing unit (CPU) at high speed based on localization of the key frame, and operate in challenging scene in robust manner. To reduce accumulated errors, the method introduces increment bundle adjustment, which may greatly reduce an operation amount and enable local and global bundle adjustment to be completed in a unified framework. Secondly, provided by the method is a key frame-based fusion method, and a model may be generated online and a three-dimensional model may be updated in real time during adjustment of the key frame's pose.
US11210800B2
The present disclosure provides a method for generating a verification template. The verification template includes an infrared template and a depth template. The method includes: obtaining an infrared image of a target object and storing the infrared image into a trusted execution environment as the infrared template; controlling a laser projector to project laser light to the target object; obtaining a laser pattern modulated by the target object; and processing the laser pattern to obtain a depth image and storing the depth image into the trusted execution environment as the depth template.
US11210788B2
Disclosed are example embodiments of methods and systems for identifying and quantifying manufacturing defects of a manufactured dental prosthesis. Certain embodiments of the system for performing quality control on manufactured dental prostheses includes: a quality control module configured to determine whether the dental prosthesis is a good or a defective product based at least on a differences model generated by comparing a design model and a scanned model of the manufactured dental prosthesis.
US11210784B2
A method includes generating spectral image data reproducible as one or more spectral images of a plurality of regions of interest in a sample. The method also includes analyzing the spectral image data to identify a plurality of scattering components in the spectral image data, each of the plurality of scattering components being associated with one or more biological properties of the sample. The method also includes identifying a feature of interest in the sample based at least in part on one or more the identified plurality of scattering components.
US11210778B2
An image processing apparatus includes an identifiability value obtaining portion, an inspection region generation portion, and an image inspection portion. The identifiability value obtaining portion is configured to obtain, for each pixel address constituting an image plane, an identifiability value for identifying which of a first inspection result and a second inspection result the pixel address corresponds to. The inspection region generation portion is configured to generate an inspection region serving as a target of image processing by setting a portion of the image plane including the pixel address where the obtained identifiability value satisfies a specific condition as the inspection region. The image inspection portion is configured to perform image processing for inspection on a partial image corresponding to the inspection region among a third image obtained by imaging a third target object.
US11210777B2
There is presented a system and method for detecting mobile device fault conditions, including detecting fault conditions by software operating on the mobile device. In one embodiment, the present invention provides for systems and methods for using a neural network to detect, from an image of the device, that the mobile device has a defect, for instance a cracked or scratched screen. Systems and methods also provide for, reporting the defect status of the device, working or not, so that appropriate action may be taken by a third party.
US11210776B2
Systems and methods can be used for analyzing image data to determine an amount of vibration and/or misalignment in an object under analysis. In some instances, as operating equipment heats up during operation, temperature changes of various portions of the operating equipment leads to changes in dimensions of such portions, leading to misalignment. Multiple sets of data representative of the operating equipment in multiple operating conditions can be used to determine an amount of misalignment due to thermal offsets. Hot and cold temperatures of the equipment can be used to calculate thermal growth of various portions of the equipment, which can be used to determine an amount a misalignment due to thermal offsets. Additionally or alternatively, image data representing the equipment can be used to observe changes in alignment between states.
US11210771B2
There are provided an image evaluation apparatus, an image evaluation method, and an image evaluation program capable of highly evaluating an image having an impression of a user's preference. A plurality of images included in a first image group are input to an image evaluation apparatus (step 21). A plurality of representative image candidates are displayed (step 22), and the user selects a desired representative image from the representative image candidates (step 23). The difference between the impression value of the representative image and the impression value of the input image is calculated (step 24), and the image quality of the input image is determined (step 25). An image evaluation value is calculated so as to become higher as the difference between the impression values becomes smaller and the image quality becomes higher (step 26).
US11210769B2
Techniques for enhancing an image are described. For example, a lower-resolution image from a video file may be enhanced using a trained neural network applying the trained neural network on the lower-resolution image to remove artifacts by generating, using a layer of the trained neural network, a residual value based on the proper subset of the received image and at least one corresponding image portion of a previously generated higher resolution image in the video file, upscaling the received image using bilinear upsampling, and combining the upscaled received image and residual value to generate an enhanced image.
US11210762B2
This invention provides an apparatus that carries out a playback process on a RAW moving-image, where the apparatus comprises an image processing unit for generating a processed moving image by carrying out image processing, including a developing process, on the RAW moving-image; a memory for storing the processed moving image; and a display control unit for carrying out control so that a bar corresponding to the length of a time axis of the RAW moving-image is displayed, wherein the display control unit displays a processable range, which is a range for which, of the RAW moving-image, the moving image subject to the image processing by the image processing unit can be temporarily stored in the memory, along with the bar, before the image processing on the RAW moving-image in that processable range ends.
US11210760B2
One embodiment provides for a compute apparatus to perform machine learning operations, the compute apparatus comprising a decode unit to decode a single instruction into a decoded instruction, the decoded instruction to cause the compute apparatus to perform a complex machine learning compute operation.
US11210752B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: obtaining a travel plan of a user including one or more travel item. Success values of respective travel items are calculated based on respective preferences by the user for each travel item in respective SV categories. Real time data relevant to the travel items are acquired and success values are updated for any predicted changes to any travel items, as caused by the real time data. The changes and updated SV is produced to the user.
US11210747B2
The present disclosure provides a distributed and anonymous approach to demand response of an electricity system. The approach conceptualizes energy consumption and production of distributed-energy resources (DERs) via discrete energy packets that are coordinated by a cyber computing entity that grants or denies energy packet requests from the DERs. The approach leverages a condition of a DER, which is particularly useful for (1) thermostatically-controlled loads, (2) non-thermostatic conditionally-controlled loads, and (3) bi-directional distributed energy storage systems. In a first aspect of the present approach, each DER independently requests the authority to switch on for a fixed amount of time (i.e., packet duration). The coordinator determines whether to grant or deny each request based electric grid and/or energy or power market conditions. In a second aspect, bi-directional DERs, such as distributed-energy storage systems (DESSs) are further able to request to supply energy to the grid.
US11210721B1
Generating a vector space model to analyze menu items for restaurants in order to determine optimized geographic locations for merchants to position restaurants is described herein. In one example, the techniques include converting the menu items into vectors using the vector space model, and using the vectors, grouping or assigning the menu items to cuisine types. Once assigned to cuisine types, one or more servers of a food-ordering service may analyze transaction histories for customers in a particular geographic area to determine how “adventurous” the customers are, or how diverse the customer's orders are amongst cuisine types. If the customers in a particular geographic area are adventurous or diverse consumers, the food-ordering service may recommend that a merchant establish a dine-in restaurant in the geographic area, offer food delivery to the geographic area, and/or include the geographic area in a schedule for a mobile restaurant.
US11210720B2
A server apparatus includes a storage unit that stores a proposal condition for proposing a product pertaining to a usage of an object and product information indicating the product. The proposal condition is stored in association to the product information. The server apparatus further includes a determination unit that determines whether one or more target management objects satisfy the proposal condition based on a first collection information including information pertaining to the one or more target management objects, and an output unit that outputs information indicating the one or more target management objects and the product information stored in association to the proposal condition when the one or more target management objects satisfy the proposal condition.
US11210717B2
In some examples, a server may determine a browsing history associated with a user, identify activities associated with purchasing a device, and determine features of the device. Individual features may be assigned a corresponding priority based on the browsing history. A machine learning algorithm may predict a configuration of the device based on the features and the corresponding priorities. The server may create a web page that describes a specification of the device based on the configuration and includes a comparison of at least some of the features of the device with other features of similar devices. The server may send a notification with a link to the web page. The web page may enable the user to modify the configuration and modify a price of the device. The server may receive a purchase order to purchase the device and instruct a manufacturing facility to build-to-order the device.
US11210710B2
Techniques for inserting advertising content into digital content are disclosed. The system may determine a compatibility between advertising content and digital content, determine candidate advertising content and candidate digital content using the determined compatibility, determine that the candidate digital content includes an advertising zone specifying an area where advertising content may be inserted, determine that an advertising slot of the candidate advertising content matches the advertising zone, and select digital content from the candidate digital content. The system may further select advertising content from the candidate advertising content, and combine selected digital content and selected advertising content by inserting the selected advertising content into the advertising zone.
US11210706B2
An approach is provided for determining the context-aware similarity between applications. A similarity platform processes one or more context logs associated with one or more devices to determine one or more context intents. The similarity platform further determines one or more distributions of one or more applications executed at the one or more devices with respect to the one or more context intents. The similarity platform also determines a context-aware similarity between two or more applications based, at least in part, on the one or more application distributions.
US11210702B2
Provided is a process of distributing offers to non-location-sensing devices based on a geolocation sensed by another device, the process comprising: obtaining a geolocation of a user from a mobile device of the user; associating the geolocation of the user with an identifier of the user in an offers engine; receiving a request for an offer from another computing device of the user, the request including or prompting obtaining data from the other computing device sufficient to identify the user; retrieving the geolocation of the user obtained from the mobile device by identifying the user with the data from the other computing device sufficient to identify the user account; selecting, with the offers engine, a responsive offer based on the geolocation of the user obtained from the mobile device; and sending the responsive offer to the other computing device of the user.
US11210692B2
Systems and methods to deliver dynamic context sensitive offers to intent user behavior are discussed. For example, a method to deliver a dynamic context sensitive oar can include operations for generating a dynamic offer, delivering the dynamic offer, receiving data associated with a user, updating a context input with data associated with the user, and adjusting the value of the dynamic offer. Generating the dynamic offer includes associating a rule for manipulating the value of the dynamic offer based on a context input. Updating the context input of the rule includes extracting context information from the data associated with the user. Adjusting the value of the dynamic offer can be based on reevaluation of the rule with the updated context input.
US11210688B2
A computer-implemented method for interactive shopping by a customer includes providing a downloadable user interface readable on a mobile electronic device that receives shopping list data representing items in a shopping list associated with the customer and receives coupon data representing coupons held by the customer for one or more of the items in an inventory of items for sale at a retail store. The shopping list includes items selected by the customer from the inventory of items. The method may further include receiving a request to checkout from the customer and, in response thereto, consummating a sale of the items in an electronic shopping cart by discounting a price of each item in the electronic shopping cart for which the customer holds coupons by an amount corresponding to the respective coupons.
US11210683B2
A processing module may be centralized and coupled to multiple inputs from customers, and behave deterministically, e.g., programmed to depend on state, inputs and outputs. The rapid speed of automated trading systems implementing such a centralized, deterministic module, where all users can access a central limit order object, can quickly result in an object state that does not reflect a true consensus or desirable state. Accordingly the resulting problem is a problem arising in computer systems due in part to the high speeds of computer systems. The solutions disclosed herein are, in one embodiment, implemented as automatic responses and actions by a computing system.
US11210681B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed to forecast new product launch sourcing. An example method includes identifying shared attributes between the new product and a plurality of existing products in the target market, calculating theoretical co-penetration values between the attributes shared between the new product and at least one of the plurality of existing products, calculating actual co-penetration values between the attributes shared between the new product and at least one of the plurality of existing products, calculating an attribute distance value between corresponding ones of the theoretical and actual co-penetration values, and calculating a percent volume of the new product expected to be sourced from one of the plurality of existing products based on the attribute distance value.
US11210680B2
The user wearable devices are configured to allow attendees of events to exchange their information upon a simultaneous input into their respective device. The simultaneous inputs initiate a verification that the two users are registered for and present at the same event before initiating a pairing through single direction short range antennas. The simultaneous inputs can also verify whether the two users are facing one another and an appropriate distance apart to coordinate the simultaneous input.
US11210673B2
The present specification discloses a method and an apparatus for training a transaction feature generation model, and a method and an apparatus for generating a transaction feature. The method for generating a transaction feature can include the following: obtaining a target dataset, where the target dataset includes some pieces of transaction data; obtaining some original features of the transaction data and determining one or more combination methods for the original features; determining a feature vector of a new feature that is obtained by combining the original features based on each combination method; inputting the feature vector into a trained transaction feature generation model, and outputting a prediction result of the new feature; and selecting some new features whose prediction results meet a specified condition as transaction features generated for the target dataset.
US11210672B2
Account functionality may be modified in response to an event. A processor may determine that a status of at least one of a user, a device associated with the user, and data associated with the user is potentially insecure due to the event. The processor may identify an account of the user. The account may provide access to electronic financial transaction functionality. In response to the determining that the status of at least one of the user, the device associated with the user, and the data associated with the user is potentially insecure, the processor may modify a condition affecting the access to the electronic financial transaction functionality.
US11210668B2
The invention concerns a process for carrying out transactions which includes issuing electronic tokens marked by a first unique identification code and a monetary value, assigning electronic tokens having a reference code associated with the consumer addressee stored inside to a consumer, and using electronic tokens to carry out transactions such as purchasing goods and/or services at merchants. At the end of each transaction, the consumer reference code is deleted from the tokens used in the transaction and a reference code of the merchant who received the tokens in the transaction is stored in the electronic tokens.
US11210663B2
The embodiments described herein comprise hardware and software improvements in blockchain-asset exchange technology, whereby one or more servers automatically, based on a set of predetermined rules, executes a mechanism allowing blockchain-asset exchange customers to place standing-limit or market orders for blockchain-based digital assets (e.g., cryptocurrencies) with a counter-party, but without counter-party risk. The counter-party will not receive the payment until the customer's exchange order has executed, and the customer has taken possession and ownership of the desired asset. The customer cannot reverse payment or otherwise rescind the payment from the counter-party once the customer receives the desired asset. The systems and methods use blockchain databases, multisignature key signing procedures, and a transparent, objective, automated, rules-based software agent t manage and autonomously govern transfer of digital blockchain-based assets in a multi-party exchange scenario, without risk of asset loss and without the discretion of any human actor.
US11210661B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for providing a payment agency service and a server using same, and a method for registering an authentication certificate, a method for providing a payment agency service, a card company server, and a payment agency server. The method comprises steps of a payment agency server: (a) delivering identity authentication information and a first push token ID delivered from a user terminal to a card company server; (b) delivering a successful authentication result to the user terminal to support generating and saving a public key and a private key of the user; and (c) managing the first push token ID or a second push token ID as an integrated push token ID when the first push token ID and the second push token ID match, and saving registration information including the integrated push token ID and the public key.
US11210657B2
A method, electronic device, and non-transitory computer readable medium for a mobile wallet remittance are provided. The method includes receiving a request to remit money from a sender to a receiver, wherein the request includes transaction information. The method also includes generating a list of eligible providers from a plurality of providers based on the transaction information. Additionally, the method includes notifying a provider to transfer the money when an indication is received that a provider is selected from the list of eligible providers.
US11210649B2
A computing system implements a network transaction service. Users of the network transaction service can launch a service application to indicate a transaction at a location of a merchant. A transaction data set is then received from a point-of-sale terminal of the merchant, which enables the computing system to fund the transaction from a shared funding source of the network transaction service. Subsequently, the computing system can access a customer account of the user to reimburse the shard funding account for an amount corresponding to the transaction.
US11210645B2
A method for authenticating access to remote devices. The method includes receiving authentication data for authenticating a user for using a pointing device at an input of a Point-of-Sale (PoS) device for initiating of a transaction. The method includes receiving a user input that includes an authenticating input, the user input provided via the pointing device at an input device of the POS device, the authenticating input for authenticating the user for the transaction. The method includes accessing encoded data that is embedded in the user input, and determining a correlation between the authentication data and the encoded data. The method includes determining, based on the correlation and the authenticating input, authentication for initiating the transaction by the user at the POS device.
US11210644B2
A self-service POS terminal device comprises a first antenna and a second antenna, and reads, via each of the first antenna and the second antenna, commodity-related information stored in IC tags of commodities. The first antenna is positioned at a position for reading the IC tags of the commodities loaded in a shopping basket at a prescribed position, and forms a first reading area. The second antenna is positioned at a position for reading the IC tags of the commodities taken out from the shopping basket at the prescribed position and put into a shopping bag, and forms a second reading area.
US11210642B2
Methods and systems are described for verifying an identity of a user through contextual knowledge-based authentication. The system described uses contextual knowledge-based authentication. By verifying an identity of a user through contextual knowledge-based authentication, the verification is both more secure and more intuitive to the user. For example, by relying on confidential and/or proprietary information, the system may generate verification questions, the answers to which are known only by the user.
US11210640B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for asset management. Embodiments include receiving a request from a user to initiate management of a new asset. Embodiments include validating the request based on one or more of a characteristic of the user, a location of the asset, funding related to the asset, or a type of the asset. Embodiments include generating a data vault for the asset, wherein the data vault comprises at least an identifier. Embodiments include identifying at least one user that is an authoritative resource associated with the asset and providing the at least one user with the identifier. Embodiments include receiving, from the at least one user, descriptive data related to the asset. Embodiments include providing the descriptive data to a data store for storage in a data store component.
US11210634B2
A method and system for collaboration between users for editing and reviewing a live procedure flow comprising at least one decision step and at least one action step is disclosed. Each step is interconnected with at least one other step by at least one flow arrow indicating a direction of flow. There is disclosed a method of displaying a live version and an edited version of a procedure flow on a display device side-by-side and highlighting the edited portions in both the live version and an edited version while providing for synchronised scrolling of both versions. There is disclosed a method of navigating between procedure flows of a given procedure comprising rendering a graphical representation of a procedure flow, comprising steps, on a display, anchoring a hyperlink on one of the steps wherein when the hyperlink is selected, a sub procedure flow is displayed.
US11210633B2
A method including obtaining preset environment data by a client terminal of a mobile group office platform; and performing, by the client terminal, collaborative processing on a preset office event according to the preset environment data. According to the technical solutions of the present disclosure, collaborative processing is actively performed on the preset office event based on changes to environment data, thereby improving the processing efficiency of office events.
US11210630B2
A mobile computing device may include a screen, a camera, a communication interface, a processor, and memory. A native mobile application executing thereon may be configured to: obtain, by way of the communication interface, a plurality of orders; display, on the screen, a first graphical user interface depicting one or more of the plurality of orders; receive, by way of the screen, a selection of a particular order from the one or more of the plurality of orders; display, on the screen, a second graphical user interface depicting the particular order and that the line item has been ordered but not received; capture, by way of the camera, an image of a physical package; determine that a machine-readable representation from the image is associated with the line item; and transmit, by way of the communication interface, an update indicating that the line item has been received.
US11210629B2
A system and method for optimizing management of inventory data is provided. A set of variables required for operating an inventory is determined. The set of variables represents one or more parameters associated with stock maintenance data of items present in the inventory. Further, a set of actionable variables from the set of variables is determined based on ranking two or more pre-determined variables from a set of pre-determined variables with respect to one or more target variables. The set of actionable variables represents one or more variables from the ranked variables. Lastly, a correlation is computed between the inventory stock maintenance data and the set of actionable variables based on an optimization model. The optimization model is trained and generated based on the set of actionable variables.
US11210628B2
Aspects of the invention include a computer-implemented method, in which includes determining whether a combination of a first commodity and a computing system satisfies a manufacturing requirement. Additionally, whether a combination of a second commodity and the computing system satisfies the manufacturing requirement is predicted based at least in part on a comparison of the combination of the first commodity and the computing system and the combination of the second commodity and the computing system. Then either the first commodity or the second commodity is inserted into a computer system based at least in part on a comparison of an actual performance of the first commodity and a predicted performance of the second commodity in the computing system.
US11210625B2
Disclosed herein are computer-implemented systems comprising: a digital processing device and a computer program to create a hybrid delivery model application for regulated products comprising: a database of at least one delivery territory; product depot; regulated products; and delivery vehicles, each vehicle comprising a regulated product inventory case and configured to operate in either of a dynamic delivery model and a batch delivery model and optionally switch between models; a software module setting the delivery model for each vehicle and optionally switching the delivery model for one or more of the vehicles; a software module providing the dynamic delivery model, and a software module providing the batch delivery model, wherein a content of the inventory case is determined based at least on the upper inventory case value threshold.
US11210620B2
Systems and methods for recommending merchant actions include a physical merchant location having a plurality of beacon devices. A system provider device receives a plurality of first location information from the plurality of beacon devices that is collected from a customer beacon communication device that is associated with a customer. The system provider device also receives a plurality of second location information over the network from the plurality of beacon devices that is collected from a merchant beacon communication device that is associated with an asset of the merchant. The system provider device analyzes the plurality of first location information and the plurality of second location information to determine at least one merchant action recommendation related to the customer and the asset of the merchant and provides the at least one merchant action recommendation over the network for display on a display device.
US11210619B2
A method for reducing the consumption of fuel by passenger aircraft in an air transportation system which includes at least two airports between which there is at least one flight route, having the following steps: a) retrieving flight data F relating to the airports from a first memory; b) determining a flight route along which a number of n≥2 flights, whose departure times are in a first time window T1 by means of n first passenger aircraft are carried out, from the flight data F; c) determining a total number of passengers Z of the n flights and storing the total number of passengers Z in a second memory; d) selecting m≤n−1 second passenger aircrafts with a total capacity of Gm≥Z for carrying out m flights; e) retrieving passenger data P of the n flights from a third memory and storing the passenger data P in the second memory; f) configuring equipment features Mm of the m second passenger aircrafts taking into account the passenger data P; g) carrying out the m flights along the determined flight route with the m second passenger aircrafts with departure times in the first time window T1.
US11210616B2
A system and method for presenting information for evaluating asset allocation. In example embodiments, the method includes determining a readiness score associated with a request location and in response to determining the readiness score associated with the request location transgresses a threshold readiness score, causing display of an alert notification within a user interface. The method further includes receiving a request submitted via the user that specifies a requested quantity of the asset type to be allocated to the request location. Based on the request, the user interface displays a fulfillment indicator to indicate a portion of the requested quantity of the asset type that is fulfilled based on combination of reallocation quantities of the asset type to be allocated to the request location from each destination location in a set of destination locations.
US11210610B2
Systems and methods for providing improved content previews of files stored in an online content management system with collaboration environment are disclosed. An optimized PDF rendering engine is used to reproduce the appearance of previewed PDF documents. The present disclosure includes a method of evaluating the available system tools for converting files from an existing format to a target format to determine the optimum tool(s) to use for the conversion process of a file.
US11210598B2
A system and method for providing customized content recommendations to a user based on extrapolated data is described. The system may receive an answer to a question from a user and determine a second unanswered question having a threshold relationship level with the question. The system may compute a predicted probability that the user would answer the second question correctly, calculate a first comparative skill level of the user among a cohort of similar users, and rank the first comparative skill level of the user against a second comparative skill level of the cohort to determine a skill gap of the user. Further, in some implementations, the system may generate a search query based on the skill gap of the user, and determine recommended content customized to the skill gap of the user.
US11210578B2
Determining cognitive models to be deployed at auxiliary devices may include maintaining relations, e.g., in a database. The relations map hardware characteristics of auxiliary devices and example datasets to cognitive models. Cognitive models are determined for auxiliary devices, based on said relations, e.g., for each of the auxiliary devices. An input dataset is accessed, which comprises data of interest, e.g., collected at a core computing system (CCS), and hardware characteristics of each of the auxiliary devices. An auxiliary cognitive model is determined based on a core cognitive model run on the input dataset accessed, wherein the core cognitive model has been trained to learn at least part of said relations. Parameters of the auxiliary model determined can be communicated to said each of the auxiliary devices for the latter to deploy the auxiliary model determined. Method may be implemented in a network having an edge computing architecture.
US11210577B2
A neuromorphic device includes a pre-synaptic neuron, a synapse electrically coupled to the pre-synaptic neuron through a row line, and a post-synaptic neuron electrically coupled to the synapse through a column line. The post-synaptic neuron includes an integrator, a comparator, and an error corrector including an error detector and a correction signal generator. The comparator and the error corrector receive an output of the integrator.
US11210573B2
Techniques are provided for multi-modal sensitive recognition. A digital data set for an object is obtained according to a modality, where the digital data set includes digital representations of the object at different values of a dimension of relevance of the modality. A reference location associated with the object is identified. A modal descriptor is derived for the modality according to an implementation of a multi-modal recognition algorithm by deriving a set of feature descriptors for the reference location and at the different values of the corresponding dimension of relevance, calculating a set of differences between the feature descriptors in the set of feature descriptors, and aggregating the set of differences into the modal descriptor. A device is then configured to initiate an action as a function of the modal descriptor.
US11210568B2
In some aspects, there is provided a method for determining a rotational orientation of an object in an image. The image depicts the object in a scene. The method includes providing images depicting the object in the scene to a trained statistical model. The images depict the scene of the image at different rotation angles. A rotation angle of a respective image corresponds to a potential rotational orientation of the object depicted in the respective image. The method further includes, in response to the providing, receiving, for each image, a confidence score indicating a likelihood generated by the trained statistical model that the object is at the potential rotational orientation corresponding to the rotation angle of the respective image. The method further includes determining the rotational orientation of the object in the image based at least in part on an analysis of the confidence scores and respective potential rotational orientations.
US11210565B2
Representative embodiments disclose machine learning classifiers used in scenarios such as speech recognition, image captioning, machine translation, or other sequence-to-sequence embodiments. The machine learning classifiers have a plurality of time layers, each layer having a time processing block and a depth processing block. The time processing block is a recurrent neural network such as a Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) network. The depth processing blocks can be an LSTM network, a gated Deep Neural Network (DNN) or a maxout DNN. The depth processing blocks account for the hidden states of each time layer and uses summarized layer information for final input signal feature classification. An attention layer can also be used between the top depth processing block and the output layer.
US11210563B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for processing an image. The method may include: acquiring a feature of a target image; acquiring a style of the target image, and searching a feature most similar to the feature of the target image from a set of image related information of the style, where the set of image related information comprises features of multiple groups of paired images; and using a paired image of an image corresponding to the found feature as a paired image of the target image and outputting the paired image of the target image.
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A device and a method for electromagnetic field simulation are provided. The image processing device is to obtain, with a first resolution, a first electromagnetic field simulation result of a simulation region, and to derive a second electromagnetic field simulation result with a second resolution, according to the first electromagnetic field simulation result, using a model trained based on a deep learning method. The second resolution is higher than the first resolution.
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A recognition apparatus includes: a memory configured to store a scene recognition dictionary relating a feature of a person included in distance information indicating a distance to the person with a scene identified by a formed angle between a plurality of reference axes perpendicular to each other and a vector based on a skeleton of the person and a skeleton recognition dictionary relating distance information corresponding to the scene with a joint position of the person; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: in a case where recognition distance information, which is distance information on an object person, is acquired, recognize a scene corresponding to the recognition distance information based on a feature of the recognition distance information and the scene recognition dictionary, and recognize a skeleton of the object person based on a recognition result of the scene recognized, the recognition distance information, and the skeleton recognition dictionary.
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A high-dimensional image feature matching method and device relating to the field of image retrieval. The method includes extracting a high-dimensional image feature of an image to be retrieved; dividing the high-dimensional image feature of the image to be retrieved into a plurality of low-dimensional image features; comparing each of the low-dimensional image features of the image to be retrieved with clustering centers at each layer of the low-dimensional image features of the images in a database; and determining a similarity the low-dimensional image feature between the image to be retrieved and each of some images in the database according to a comparison result, so that at least one feature matching the high-dimensional image feature of the image to be retrieved is retrieved in the database.
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Disclosed herein are computer-implemented methods; computer-implemented systems; and non-transitory, computer-readable media, for quantifying text similarity. One computer-implemented method includes obtaining a plurality of shortest operation paths including one or more edit pairs for correcting an optical correction recognition (OCR) text string with an edit text string, where each of the one or more edit pairs denotes an operation performable to a character of the OCR text string during correction by the edit text string. A plurality of similarity scores is determined, each corresponding to one of the plurality of shortest operation paths and determined by summing historical similarity scores of the one or more edit pairs of each of the plurality of shortest operation paths. A minimum one of the plurality of similarity scores is selected to quantify text similarity between the OCR text string and the edit text string.
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Systems and methods are provided for automatically detecting a change in a feature. For example, a system includes a memory and a processor configured to analyze a change associated with a feature over a period of time using a plurality of remotely sensed time series images. Upon execution, the system would receive a plurality of remotely sensed time series images, extract a feature from the plurality of remotely sensed time series images, generate at least two time series feature vectors based on the feature, where the at least two time series feature vectors correspond to the feature at two different times, create a neural network model configured to predict a change in the feature at a specified time, and determine, using the neural network model, the change in the feature at a specified time based on a change between the at least two time series feature vectors.
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Systems and methods which provide iterative multi-directional image searching are described. Embodiments utilize a multi-directional searching pattern for defining one or more searching areas within a source image. A searching area of embodiments provides a searching area within a source image for searching for a template image in the multiple directions of the multi-directional searching pattern. A location of the searching area within the source image may be updated iteratively, such as based upon motion vectors derived from the searching, until a template image match position is identified within the source image. Embodiments transform the template image and the searching area within a source image to 1D representations corresponding to each direction of the multi-directional image search. Embodiments accommodate rotation and scale variance of the subject (e.g., object of interest) of the template image within the source image.
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A method includes: storing (i) a reference image of a chute for receiving objects, and (ii) a region of interest mask corresponding to a location of the chute in a field of view of an image sensor; at a processor, controlling the image sensor to capture an image of the chute; applying an illumination adjustment to the image; selecting, at the processor, a portion of the image according to the region of interest mask; generating a detection image based on a comparison of the selected portion and the reference image; determining, based on the detection image, a fullness indicator for the chute; and providing the fullness indicator to notification system.
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Real-time scene understanding system employing an object detection module with an algorithm for localization and classification of objects in an image, and a semantic segmentation module with an algorithm for classification of individual pixels in the image, wherein the system comprises an encoder module operable on an input image for the extraction of notable features in the input image, one or more attention modules to attribute among the notable features in the input image as provided by the encoder a relative contribution of each of such notable features in an output image to be reconstructed from the input image, and a decoder module for reconstructing the output image using the notable features, wherein the reconstructed output image is made available to the object detection module with the algorithm for localization and classification of objects in the image, and to the semantic segmentation module with the algorithm for classification of individual pixels in the image.
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The present disclosure proposes an end-to-end text recognition method and apparatus, computer device and readable medium. The method comprises: obtaining a to-be-recognized picture containing a text region; recognizing a position of the text region in the to-be-recognized picture and text content included in the text region with a pre-trained end-to-end text recognition model; the end-to-end text recognition model comprising a region of interest perspective transformation processing module for performing perspective transformation processing for the text region. The technical solution of the present disclosure does not need to serially arrange a plurality of steps, and may avoid introducing the accumulated errors and may effectively improve the accuracy of the text recognition.
