US11284550B2
A method and a placement machine for equipping a carrier with components. The procedure includes: (a) positioning of the carrier in a first spatial location within the placement machine, such that components in a first section of the carrier are placeable by a placement head of the placement machine; (b) placement, by means of the placement head, of a multitude of marker components on the carrier in an overlap area of the carrier; (c) transferring of the carrier along a transport direction into a second spatial location within the placement machine, the second spatial location being selected such that components in a second section of the carrier are placeable by the placement head and that the marker components placed in the overlap area are optically detectable by a camera; (d) second optical detection by means of the camera of the marker components placed in the overlap area; and (e) placement of a multitude of components on the carrier in predefined placement positions within the second section, the spatial locations of the placement positions on the carrier depending at least on the result of the second optical detection of the placed marker components.
US11284547B2
An electronic device including a flexible display module, the flexible display module including a flexible display panel, the flexible display panel having a display portion, a panel bending portion and a display pad portion, a flexible circuit board connected with the display pad portion and disposed at a rear surface of the flexible display panel and an electrostatic shielding member covering the panel bending portion of the flexible display panel.
US11284537B2
A heat-conducting assembly includes a middle frame and a heat-conducting structure. The middle frame is plate-shaped, having a first side surface and a second side surface that are opposite to each other, and being provided with a first through hole through which the first side surface communicates with the second side surface. The heat-conducting structure includes a heat dissipation part and a conducting part. The heat dissipation part is fastened to the second side surface, and the conducting part extends into the first through hole. The conducting part includes a conductor being connected to the heat dissipation part and a heat insulator which is fastened in the first through hole through the heat insulator, and is in contact with a heat source, which is close to one end that is of the first through hole and that is located on the first side surface.
US11284536B2
A module including a cooling unit that cools a heat-generating component provided on a substrate; a connection pipe that is connected to the cooling unit; and a fixation portion that is provided at a position at which stress from the connection pipe to the cooling unit is reduced, and that fixes the connection pipe.
US11284511B2
A component carrier and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The component carrier includes an electrically conductive layer structure and an overhanging end. A first surface finish is formed on a first surface portion of the electrically conductive layer structure. Furthermore, the component carrier further includes a second surface finish on a second surface portion of the electrically conductive layer structure connected to the first surface finish and extending under the overhanging end.
US11284496B2
A light control system comprises a light control device and a sensor module configured to detect a motion pattern of a user's hand relative to the entranceway and a light control device. The light control device includes a housing, a proximity sensor configured to detect a position of a door in a vicinity of the entranceway, and a light controller disposed in the housing and communicated with the sensor module and the proximity sensor. The light controller is configured to control the light strip in response to a detected position of the door by the proximity sensor; and control the light strip in response to the motion pattern detected by the sensor module when the door is not detected at a preset opening position or no door is present at the entranceway.
US11284479B2
A wireless communication system includes an electrically powered window mounted air conditioning unit including a power cord attachable to an electrically powered wall outlet. A small cell wireless communication device is attached to or located within the electrically powered window mounted air conditioning unit. The small cell wireless communication device is configured to be powered through the power cord of the electrically powered window mounted air conditioning unit. The small cell wireless communication device includes at least one antenna for receiving and transmitting wireless information. The small cell wireless communication device is configured to communicate with a nearby wireless data communication router, wherein the wireless data communication router is configured to provide backhaul communication capabilities for the small cell wireless communication device. The small cell wireless communication device is configured to provide wireless communication capabilities for mobile wireless communication devices.
US11284471B2
A method includes, by using a first data connection (160) between a network (100) and a terminal (102), communicating, from a network node (112) of the network (100) to the terminal (102), a downlink control message (452) indicative of a timing (501) of a reserved resource (258) reserved for communication between the network (100) and the terminal (102). The reserved resource (258) is dimensioned based on a predicted size of a data transmission (401-403, 405-407) predicted by the network (100). The method also includes performing a connection release (453) of the first data connection (160). The method also includes, in accordance with the timing (501) and using the reserved resource (258), performing a network access (454) to establish a second data connection (160) between the terminal (102) and the network (100).
US11284468B2
According to an aspect, a wireless device enters an RRC inactive state from a RRC connected state, in response to a message received from the wireless network. The wireless device subsequently transitions from the RRC inactive state to the RRC connected state and resumes one or more measurements according to one or more measurement configurations stored while the wireless device was in the RRC inactive state.
US11284465B2
The present disclosure relates to an electronic device capable of performing both fourth-generation (4G) and fifth-generation (5G) communications, which includes a communication unit configured to perform wireless communication with a base station according to at least one of a first communication method and a second communication method, and a modem configured to determine whether an establishment of a communication link according to the first communication method is allowed when a first communication link command according to the first communication method is to received from the base station, and to establish the communication link according to the first communication method based on a result of the determination or re-attempt to establish the communication link according to the first communication method through a recovery process, and wherein the modem interrupts the recovery process to prevent repeated exchange of unnecessary messages with the base station when the establishment of the communication link according to the first communication method is failed even though the establishment of the communication link according to the first communication method is attempted a preset number of times.
US11284462B2
Techniques are described for integrating cellular access within an enterprise fabric. In one example, a method includes obtaining, by a cellular termination function via a cellular access point, a request from a client for data plane connectivity via a network, wherein the cellular access point is registered within the network and is in communication with a first switch of the network; obtaining, by the cellular termination function, cellular policy information and enterprise policy information for the client; obtaining, by the cellular termination function, an Internet Protocol (IP) address for the client; and establishing data plane connectivity for the client with the network via the cellular access point, the first switch of the network, and a second switch of the network based, at least in part, on the IP address for the client, wherein the second switch connects the network with one or more data networks.
US11284449B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to random access in a communication system. A first device determines whether a contention-free random access resource is allocated from a second device for a first random access type. In accordance with a determination that the contention-free random access resource is allocated, the first device compares a target transport block size corresponding to the contention-free random access resource with a first transport block size configured for a first group of preambles available for the first random access type, and performs random access to the second device based on a result of the comparison.
US11284442B2
A random access method, user equipment (UE), a base station, and a random access system, are provided to address relatively long service delay. In various embodiments, after downlink synchronization with a cell is obtained, UE can determine a preamble sequence of the UE in the cell, where the UE has not obtained uplink synchronization with the cell. The UE can then obtain service data and generate a scrambling code, and scramble the service data based on the scrambling code to obtain scrambled service data. The UE can then configure, based on a predetermined resource mapping relationship, time-frequency resources respectively occupied by the preamble sequence and the scrambled service data. The UE then sends on the configured time-frequency resources, the preamble sequence and the scrambled service data to a base station the cell belongs to and receives random access response sent by the base station based on the preamble sequence.
US11284440B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present application discloses a method for generating a random access preamble, comprising the following steps of: receiving random access configuration information, the random access configuration information comprising preamble resource pool information, the preamble resource pool information comprising available base sequences; generating M sequences according to a base sequence, the M being greater than 1; and, generating a random access preamble according to the M sequences. The present application further discloses a device for generating a random access preamble, and a method and device for indicating random access configuration information. With the technical solutions disclosed by the present application, high frequency band multi-beam operations in 5G can be adapted, and the performance of the system in the random access process can be improved.
US11284439B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting a physical random access channel (PRACH) in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives multiple PRACH configurations which include a first PRACH configuration for new radio access technology (NR) downlink/uplink (DL/UL) carrier in a NR band and a second PRACH configuration for a supplemental UL carrier in a long-term evolution (LTE) band, and transmits at least one of a first PRACH for accessing the NR DL/UL carrier in the NL band by using a first PRACH power based on the first PRACH configuration, or a second PRACH for accessing the supplemental UL carrier in the LTE band by using a second PRACH power based on the second PRACH configuration. The first PRACH configuration and the second PRACH configuration include different PRACH power configuration.
US11284436B2
The present invention discloses a data sending method and a communications device. The method includes: sensing, by a communications device, a carrier located in a first unlicensed frequency band, where the first unlicensed frequency band includes at least one carrier; and sending, by the communications device, data on a carrier whose channel state is sensed to be idle. The communications device senses a first carrier in the first unlicensed frequency band, and sends the data on the first carrier that is successfully sensed to be idle. Another communications device may also sense in the first unlicensed frequency band, and send data in the first unlicensed frequency band when sensing successfully. Therefore, users of different services may fairly contend and coexist in an unlicensed frequency band.
US11284435B2
The invention provides multi-user communication in a MU Uplink transmission opportunity in case of a multi-BSS environment of a wireless network. Resource units with AID=0 or 2045 are available for stations to transmit data to addressee virtual access points (VAPs) other than the VAP having initiated the TXOP. The initiating VAP receiving frames from the resources forwards them to the appropriate addressee VAPs within the same physical AP. Responses may be provided by the addressee VAPs directly to the stations or via the initiating VAP or the representative VAP. This approach increases the opportunities for the stations to access the medium in case of multiple BSSs. Better usage of the MU Uplink OFDMA transmission is also made.
US11284433B2
The disclosure relates to a communication technique for convergence of a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology, and a system therefor. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related services, etc.) based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for detecting an uplink listen-before-talk (LBT) failure when using a 3GPP 5G new radio (NR) technology in a wireless communication system.
US11284429B2
Control signaling mechanisms are provided to support data transmissions to or from a user equipment (UE) in an inactive state. In some embodiments, a UE in an inactive state receives DCI including: a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) that is specific to a group of UEs, the group of UEs including the UE; and a resource assignment for a data transmission to the UE. The data transmission is then received on a physical shared channel. In further embodiments, a UE in an inactive state receives DCI including: a CRC scrambled by a paging RNTI; and a resource assignment for a paging message to the UE. A data transmission is received by the UE in the paging message or in a further transmission that is scheduled by the paging message.
US11284425B2
An uplink signal transmission method includes receiving, by an active antenna unit of a base station, a first uplink signal sent by a terminal in a first band. The method also includes sending, by the base station, the first uplink signal to a first baseband processing unit of the base station corresponding to a second band for demodulation. The active antenna unit of the base station includes a first array antenna corresponding to the first band and a second array antenna corresponding to the second band. The first band is lower than the second band.
US11284424B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. The payload size for uplink transmissions of unscheduled control information may vary and, in some cases, may be dynamically determined. A user equipment (UE) may determine a payload size or may select a payload size from a set of predetermined sizes. A base station may independently determine the same payload size or it may blindly detect the payload size upon receiving the uplink (UL) transmission. Or the base station may indicate the payload size to the UE. Additionally, UL grants issued to the UE may take one of several forms (e.g., different downlink control indicator formats), and characteristics of the grant may indicate information about resources assigned by the grant, including a location of the resources among various transmission opportunities or whether the grant is for multiple subframes.
US11284422B2
A method of transmitting an indication of user equipment uplink buffer status in a wireless communications network in which user equipment is configured to communicate with one or more base stations using dual connectivity techniques, a computer program product and user equipment operable to perform that method. The method comprises: receiving an indication of a dual connectivity configuration to be used by the user equipment for uplink transmission; structuring an uplink buffer status report to group uplink buffer status by one or more scheduler to be used by the user equipment according to the received indication of a dual connectivity configuration; and transmitting the structured uplink buffer status report to the one or more base stations. Aspects and embodiments provide a method for providing buffer status reports in a network offering dual connectivity functionality according to which user equipment is served by multiple independent schedulers which may be connected via a non-ideal backhaul link.
US11284420B2
A method, network node and wireless device for determining a fixed size resource block assignment in random access response, RAR, scheduling of MSG3 transmission based on at least one of bandwidth part size, slot/non-slot transmission and resource allocation type, are disclosed. According to one or more embodiments, a network node is configured to communicate with a wireless device. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to determine a fixed size resource block, RB, assignment for random access response, RAR, scheduling of an uplink transmission based at least in part on at least one of: whether the uplink transmission is one of slot and non-slot transmission, resource allocation type, and optionally indicate the fixed sized RB assignment to the wireless device.
US11284418B2
The disclosure relates to a method (50), implemented at a radio network node, of determining a starting symbol for a scheduled uplink transmission by User Equipment, UE. The method comprises selecting (52) a starting symbol within an uplink slot for a scheduled uplink transmission by a UE; and identifying (54) the starting symbol to the UE.
US11284415B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit or receive transmissions that are out of order in relation to received preceding downlink transmissions (or resource grants), where the transmissions may include different priorities or service types. For example, a UE may transmit feedback for received downlink data including different priorities or service types, where the feedback is sent in a different order than the order in which the data was received. Additionally or alternatively, the UE may send or receive transmissions for different priorities or service types in a different order than an order in which a respective grant was received for each transmission. In addition to transmissions including different priorities or service types being scheduled out-of-order, transmissions including the same priorities or service types may be scheduled based on the order in which preceding downlink transmissions (or resource grants) were received.
US11284406B2
Disclosed is a wireless communication system using multiple transmission and reception points. In a wireless communication system having a first transmission and reception point and at least one second transmission and reception point belonging to the same cell, the first transmission and reception point has a wider transmission area than the at least one second transmission and reception point, and the first transmission and reception point and the at least one second transmission and reception point generate downlink transmission signals by using the same physical layer cell ID or virtual cell IDs allocated to each terminal, and then the terminals generate uplink transmission signals by using the allocated virtual cell IDs.
US11284402B2
A resource indication method and apparatus and a communication system. The method includes: determining indication information, the indication information is used to indicate a second uplink resource in a second uplink frequency resource segment; wherein, the second uplink frequency resource segment or the second downlink frequency resource segment includes a second downlink predetermined number of second downlink resource block groups; and transmitting the first indication information to the UE in a first downlink frequency resource segment; wherein, the first downlink frequency resource segment or the first uplink frequency resource segment to which the first downlink frequency resource segment corresponds includes a first predetermined number of first uplink resource block groups, the first predetermined number being unequal to the second predetermined number; and wherein, the first indication information is bitmap information, a bit number of the bitmap information is determined according to the first predetermined number.
US11284398B2
A communication link configuration method includes: sending capability enquiry signaling to a terminal, the capability enquiry signaling being used for querying about a wireless transmission capability of the terminal; receiving capability reporting signaling sent by the terminal, the capability reporting signaling including first information for representing the wireless transmission capability of the terminal; and configuring a corresponding communication link for the terminal according to the first information.
US11284397B2
Systems and methods according to one or more embodiments are provided for routing wireless mobile communication signals using a phased array communication network. In one example, a system includes a plurality of phased array antennas configured to receive an RF modulated data packet. The RF modulated data packet includes a header and payload data. A demodulator circuit is provided to demodulate the header to identify route information while maintaining the payload data in RF modulated format. The phased array antennas are configured to transmit a high bandwidth narrow antenna beam comprising the RF modulated data packet in accordance with the route information. Maintaining the payload data in RF modulated format during the route provides for high bandwidth and high data rate transmission required of today's wireless mobile communication networks.
US11284387B2
An advanced wireless communication system, and a method for use at an advanced wireless communication system are disclosed that support direct communication to provide flexible resource pool sharing. The method comprises: measuring, at a first UE, utilization of at least one resource pool of a direct communication channel associated with a configured shared region; transmitting, by the first UE and to at least one second UE, sidelink control information (SCI) identifying a selected resource pool of the at least one resource pool; and transmitting, by the first UE and to the at least one second UE, data associated with the SCI in the selected resource pool.
US11284385B2
A communication device for handling a reception comprises at least one storage device and at least one processing circuit, coupled to the at least one storage device. The at least one storage device stores instructions, and the at least one processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions of: receiving a DCI from a control resource set; and receiving a PDSCH according to the DCI, wherein the DCI comprising a TCI field, and the TCI field indicating a TCI codepoint corresponding to a first TCI state and a second TCI state.
US11284378B2
The present invention is designed to support various UL control channels while reducing the burden of implementation. According to the present invention, a user terminal has a transmission section that transmits uplink control information (UCI) using an uplink (UL) control channel having a first duration, and a control section that controls the transmission of the UCI. The UL control channel of the first duration is constituted by a plurality of units, and each of the plurality of units is constituted by a UL control channel having a second duration that is shorter than the first duration.
US11284373B2
Provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a paging method, a network device, and a terminal device. The method includes when a second network device determines that downlink data of a terminal device arrives, a first network device sending a first paging message to the terminal device. The first paging message is used to page the terminal device for the second network device. The first network device is a network device in a first network, the second network device is a network device in a second network, and the first network and the second network are different networks among a plurality of networks registered by the terminal device.
US11284362B2
The disclosure describes design of a synchronization signal (SS) block for an unlicensed carrier, and listen before talk (LBT) strategies for initial access. An apparatus of a radio access network (RAN) is disclosed. The apparatus includes baseband circuitry that includes one or more processors and a radio frequency (RF) interface. The one or more processors are to generate, for user equipment (UE) operating on a licensed assisted access (LAA) secondary cell (SCell), a data sequence associated with an SS block. The SS block includes a primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), but does not include a physical broadcast channel (PBCH). The RF interface is to receive the data sequence from the one or more processors.
US11284359B2
Aspects of the disclosure further provide various apparatuses and methods for wireless communications. One apparatus includes processing circuitry that can determine a first transmission power for a first uplink transmission associated with the source cell and a second transmission power for a second uplink transmission associated with the target cell. When the first uplink transmission and the second uplink transmission overlap in time domain and a total power of the first transmission power and the second transmission power is above a first threshold, the processing circuitry reduces the first transmission power for the first uplink transmission to a third transmission power so that a total power of the second transmission power and the third transmission power is equal to or less than the first threshold. The processing circuitry performs the first uplink transmission at the third transmission power and the second uplink transmission at the second transmission power.
US11284348B2
Disclosed by the implementations of the present application are a paging method, a terminal device and a network device, the method comprising: a terminal device determines a target control resource set (CORSET) corresponding thereto among a plurality of CORSETs; the terminal device receives a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) used for scheduling a paging message in a common search space within the target CORSET, and according to the PDCCH, acquires the paging message.
US11284347B2
The present invention provides an activation system information transmission method, apparatus, and device. The method includes: receiving, by UE, a first system message sent by a base station, where the first system message includes activation indication information and a change indication tag, the activation indication information is used to indicate whether a function indicated in an activation system message is activated, and the change indication tag is used to indicate whether scheduling information of the activation system message changes; obtaining, by the UE, first scheduling information of the activation system message according to the activation indication information and the change indication tag; and reading the activation system message according to the first scheduling information, and selecting, according to the activation indication information and the change indication tag, different manners to obtain the first scheduling information of the activation system message.
US11284346B2
Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving data sent by a terminal in an inactive state, where the data includes to-be-sent data sent by the terminal and identification information of the terminal; determining an anchor base station of the terminal based on the identification information; and sending the data to the anchor base station, so that the anchor base station sends the data to a core-network device. The uplink data of the terminal is forwarded to the anchor base station by using a serving base station and through an interaction between the anchor base station and the serving base station that currently provides an air interface resource for the terminal, and is then transmitted to a core network.
US11284342B2
A method and apparatus for device finding after network configuration are disclosed. The method for device finding includes: sending a message to a smart device in an Access Point (AP) mode, the message comprising information for connecting to a first router or AP; changing connection from the smart device to a network; performing a local scanning when connecting to the first router or AP; and performing a cloud scanning when the local scanning fails.
US11284337B2
Techniques are described for wireless communication. A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) includes configuring a relay selection rule; receiving at least one discovery message from each of a plurality of proximity services (ProSe) relay candidates providing access to a network; evaluating the received discovery messages with respect to the relay selection rule; selecting a first ProSe relay candidate from the plurality of ProSe relay candidates based at least in part on the evaluating; and connecting to the network via the first ProSe relay candidate. A method for wireless communication at a ProSe relay candidate includes receiving, from a network, a ProSe Relay Indication (PRI); broadcasting at least one discovery message that includes the PRI; and receiving a relay connection request from a UE based at least in part on a compliance of the at least one discovery message with a relay selection rule of the UE.
US11284336B2
Techniques, apparatus, and methods are provided in conjunction with differentiated delivery of system information (SI) in a wireless communications network.
US11284327B2
The present invention relates to a method of transmitting data by a node in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method includes the steps of: receiving a data unit including information informing whether the data unit is allowed for dynamic route selection; based on the information informing that the data unit is allowed for the dynamic route selection, determining a forwarding path of the data unit; and transmitting the data unit to a next node determined by the forwarding path.
US11284326B2
A handover control method is disclosed for a wireless communication device connected to a serving network node which provides a serving cell. The method comprises establishing a handover control configuration, shared by the WCD and the SNWN, comprising a neighboring cell measurement triggering criterion, a handover triggering criterion, and transmission resource parameters for measurement signals of a neighboring cell. The method also comprises performing channel quality measurements of the serving cell and detecting fulfillment of the neighboring cell measurement triggering criterion based on the channel quality measurements of the serving cell. The method also comprises performing channel quality measurements of the neighboring cell and detecting fulfillment of the handover triggering criterion based on the channel quality measurements of the neighboring cell.
US11284323B2
The disclosure provides a method and a device in a node for wireless communication. A first node first receives a first radio signal and a second radio signal, and transmits first information when a trigger condition is met. The first radio signal and the second radio signal are used for determining a channel quality of a first link and a channel quality of a second link respectively, the channel quality of the first link and the channel quality of the second link are used together for determining the trigger condition. The first information comprises a first parameter, and the first parameter is applied only to the first link of the first link and the second link. According to the above design, the triggering of PHR for a sidelink in V2X systems is associated with both the channel quality of the sidelink and the channel quality of a cellular link.
US11284319B2
Disclosed in the present invention are a method for activating and deactivating cell, a terminal equipment and computer storage medium, wherein the method comprises: on the basis of an instruction for activating the target band width part (BWP), activating an auxiliary cell that corresponds to the target BWP; and/or on the basis of an instruction for deactivating the target BWP, deactivating the auxiliary cell that corresponds to the target BWP.
US11284315B2
In an example aspect, a method performed by wireless device for communication establishment is provided. The method comprises, in response to a request for establishment of a communication with the wireless device using a first network, receiving a redirection instruction to redirect to a second network, and in response to whether a node in the second network supports communication with a node in the first network, selecting a first procedure or a second procedure for establishing the communication using the second network.
US11284307B2
A telecommunications network having enhanced or optimized quality of service (QoS) based on user behavior is described herein. A user behavior profile is generated by tracking the user's use of network services with corresponding location and metric information (e.g., QoS metrics). When a user equipment (UE) of the user connects to a network site, the user behavior profile is compared to a network profile site. The network site alters or adjusts one or more operating parameters to optimize delivery of a network service based on the user behavior profile. The user behavior profile is dynamic as it is continuously or repeatedly updated one or more records of interaction.
US11284294B2
A determination unit of a communication apparatus determines whether or not there has been a change of trend in the communication volume. This determination is performed based on a communication volume per session of a plurality of non-management access destination sessions in a first unit period, and a transition trend of a communication volume per session of a plurality of non-management access destination sessions in a first period. A specifying unit specifies, when it is determined that there has been a change of trend in the communication volume, an access destination that is newly set as a traffic control target access destination among a plurality of non-management access destinations that correspond to the plurality of respective non-management access destination sessions. This specification is performed based on increase rates of the communication volumes for the respective non-management access destination sessions in the first unit period and a second period.
US11284290B2
A method and corresponding terminal device that performs communication using at least one of a plurality, of network slices and includes a control circuitry that reports information used to determine a resource allocation to a network slice of the plurality of network slices used by the terminal device to a communication control device that controls the plurality of network slices.
US11284289B2
A mobile device, in particular a vehicle, or an application server, includes a processor, which is configured to receive a notification from a network entity, in particular a base station. The notification includes information about available Quality of Service, QoS. The processor is configured to transmit a confirmation message to the network entity informing the network entity about an acceptance of the notified QoS. A network entity includes a network entity controller, which is configured to transmit a notification to a mobile device, in particular a vehicle, or an application server. The notification includes information about available Quality of Service, QoS. The network entity controller is configured to receive a confirmation message from the mobile device or the application server informing about an acceptance of the notified QoS.
US11284287B2
A device may receive data indicating a required quality of service (QoS), and may receive radio access network (RAN) information associated with a RAN, wherein the RAN information is provided by a centralized unit (CU) of the RAN. The device may provide the RAN information to a multi-access edge computing (MEC) platform, and may receive, from the MEC platform, a QoS request that requests the required QoS. The device may provide the QoS request to the CU, and may receive a QoS response to the QoS request. The device may provide the QoS response to a policy control function (PCF) of a core network, and may receive an indication of approval of the QoS response from the PCF. The device may cause, based on receiving the indication of approval, the required QoS to be implemented by the MEC platform and network devices associated with the core network.
US11284274B2
A service qualification platform may receive, from a user device, a service request to qualify a unit of a multi-unit building to receive a service. The service qualification platform may obtain a service coverage mapping associated with the multi-unit building and may provide, to the user device and via a user interface that is associated with a geographic information system, a unit location request for an indication of a location of the unit within the multi-unit building. The service qualification platform may receive unit location information that is associated with the indication and may determine a service qualification metric based on the service coverage mapping and the unit location information, wherein the service qualification metric is associated with a capability of receiving the service within the unit. The service qualification platform may perform an action associated with the service qualification metric.
US11284272B2
A graph of devices is constructed, each network device serving an amount of bandwidth over the network, each vertex of the graph corresponding to a respective one of the network devices, each edge of the graph connecting network devices by interference weight, such that edges between connected network devices using different channels have an interference weight of zero, and edges between connected network devices using the same channel have an interference weight denoting an amount of interference between the connected network devices. A cell utilization of each of the network devices is determined according to an amount of traffic served by the respective network device compared to a total of the amounts of bandwidth for all network devices. A vehicle requesting bandwidth is assigned to the one of the network devices having a smallest product of cell utilization and maximum interference weight edge.
US11284269B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic device and a method for wireless communication and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, configured to: allocate a spectrum resource for a spectrum allocation object of a first set managed by a first level spectrum management device; and to generate spectrum coordination information for a spectrum allocation object of a second set managed by a second level spectrum management device located on a lower level of the first level spectrum management device, so as to provide the same to the second level spectrum management device, wherein the spectrum coordinate information is used for coordination of spectrum allocation executed by the second level spectrum management device and spectrum allocation executed by the first level spectrum management device.
US11284267B2
System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
US11284261B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently protecting communications between a base station and a UE with limited signaling and processing overhead. As described herein, a base station may generate a system information security container (SISC) including integrity information of one or more system information blocks (SIBs), and the base station may transmit (e.g., broadcast) the SISC with a signature to one or more UEs (e.g., to protect the integrity information of the SIBs in the SISC). Once a UE receives the SISC, the UE may verify the signature of the SISC, identify the system information included in the SISC (e.g., the system information included in the integrity information of the SIBs), and apply the system information for communications with the base station.
US11284260B1
A method implemented on an augmented reality (AR) electronic device includes initiating a security access code software application on the AR electronic device. A user of the AR electronic device is identified. A first electronic computing device at or near a current location of the user is identified. The first electronic computing device is an input device for entry of a security code to permit access to a protected asset. A determination is made as to whether the user is authorized to access the protected asset. When a determination is made that the user is authorized to access the protected asset, a security access code is displayed on the AR electronic device. The security access code permits the user to access the protected asset via the first electronic computing device.
US11284255B1
A lightweight, fast, and reliable authentication mechanism compatible with the 5G D2D ProSe standard mechanisms is provided. A distributed authentication with a delegation-based scheme avoids repeated access to the 5G core network key management functions. Hence, a legitimate user equipment device (e.g., a drone) is authorized by the cellular network (e.g., 5G cellular network) via offering a proxy signature to authenticate itself to other drones. Test results demonstrate that the protocol is lightweight and reliable.
US11284251B2
A mobile device and a method are provided. A mobile device includes a display, a sensor configured to sense a user operation with respect to the display, a fingerprint sensor configured to sense a fingerprint of the user that input the user operation, a storage configured to store preregistered fingerprint information, and a controller configured to perform an operation corresponding to the user operation when the fingerprint sensed by the fingerprint sensor matches the stored fingerprint information and perform a fingerprint registration operation when the fingerprint sensed by the fingerprint sensor does not match the stored fingerprint information.
US11284247B2
A terminal apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive first information related to query for capability of the terminal apparatus; and a transmitter configured to transmit second information related to the capability of the terminal apparatus, wherein the second information includes third information related to a band combination of operating bands used for carrier aggregation (CA), the band combination supported by the terminal apparatus, and in a case that more than one subcarrier spacings (SCSs) are supported by the terminal apparatus in each of the operating bands, the third information includes fourth information related to a SCS combination that can be applied to the band combination.
US11284246B2
An uplink transmission method, an uplink transmission configuration method, a UE and a base station are provided. The uplink transmission method applied for the UE includes: acquiring configuration information about one or more uplink reference signal resources configured by the base station for the UE; transmitting one or more uplink reference signals based on the configuration information about the one or more uplink reference signal resources; receiving indication information about uplink transmission determined by the base station; and performing the uplink transmission based on the indication information.
US11284239B2
The invention relates to a node in a communications network for enabling communication with at least one wireless communication terminal served by the communications network. According to an embodiment, the node stores at least one current User Equipment (UE) context of the at least one communication terminal to be used by a first network entity of the plurality of network entities in the communications network; receives, from a second network entity of the plurality of network entities, a message intended for the first network entity; and delivers at least a part of the received message to the first network entity and at least a part of the stored at least one current UE context to be used by the first network entity.
US11284237B2
A control method for an information processing apparatus that performs communication with a communication apparatus using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) includes performing first communication processing including autonomously establishing a connection using BLE, with the communication apparatus without receiving, from a user, an execution instruction for a predetermined function, performing second communication processing, in a case where an execution instruction for the predetermined function is received from the user which includes processing for establishing a connection using BLE with the communication apparatus, and performing Generic Attribute Profile (GATT) communication included in the predetermined function, via second communication processing, based on information indicating a structure of GATT data stored in the communication apparatus.
US11284234B2
The disclosure includes embodiments for a cloud server to transmit a set of wireless communications. A method includes wirelessly receiving, by the cloud server, context data from a set of connected vehicles, where the context data describes (1) a context for the set of connected vehicles and (2) a set of vehicular communications to be sent by the set of connected vehicles, including digital data describing payloads and recipients for these vehicular communications. The method includes executing a set of digital twin simulations based on the context data to generate communication plan data describing a communication plan for transmitting a set of non-vehicular communications which include a same payloads and recipients for the set of vehicular communications. The method includes wirelessly transmitting, by the cloud server, the set of non-vehicular communications in compliance with the communication plan and the standards governing transmission of vehicular communications.
US11284215B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for correlating one or more service areas of a network with one or more geolocation coordinates to determine available services for customers to the network. A service polygon may be generated that define an area in which a particular service offered by a communications network is available. The boundaries of the service polygons may be adjusted based on information corresponding to physical features of the initial area. The service polygons may aid a communications network in providing a list of available services to potential customers or devices connected to the network by determining one or more geolocation coordinate values of a potential connection site and comparing the values to the service polygons. A network management system may determine the available services, current or in the future, to offer such services to a customer to the network.
US11284213B2
An audio system processes a multi-channel input audio signal into a stereo signal for left and right speakers, while preserving the spatial sense of the sound field of the input audio signal. The multi-channel input audio signal includes a first left-right channel pair including a left input channel and a right input channel, and a second left-right channel pair including a left peripheral input channel and a right peripheral input channel. Subband spatial processing may be applied to the first and second left-right channel pairs. A first crosstalk processing is applied to the first left-right channel pair to generate first crosstalk processed channels. A second crosstalk processing is applied to the second left-right channel pair to generate second crosstalk processed channels. A left output channel and a right output channel are generated from the first and second crosstalk processed channels. The crosstalk processing may include crosstalk cancellation or crosstalk simulation.
US11284208B2
A method and a system for monitoring operation of at least one loudspeaker in a system comprising a plurality of loudspeakers connected in series on a same amplifier output in at least one loudspeaker chain driven by an amplifier board, the method comprising measuring a current consumed by the amplifier in an operating position of the plurality of loudspeakers, yielding a reference current; stopping the masking system into an idle position; emitting the reference signal, measuring an idle current consumed by the amplifier; and comparing the idle current with the reference current. The system comprises a microprocessor unit and a current measurement module, wherein the current measurement module is configured to measure a current drawn by the amplifiers and feed a resulting signal to the microprocessor unit; and the microprocessor unit generates an output signal to respective output channel.
US11284205B2
Apparatus and methods are described herein that provide a vibratory device that can apply a vibratory signal to a portion of a head of a user such that the vibratory signal can be conducted via bone to a vestibular system of the user and cause a portion of the vestibular system to move in a manner equivalent to that of a therapeutically effective vibratory signal applied to an area overlaying a mastoid bone of the user. The vibratory device can be associated with frequencies less than 200 Hz. The vibratory device can be effective at treating a physiological condition associated with the vestibular system.
US11284204B2
In accordance with the present disclosure a hearing instrument is provided. The hearing instrument comprises a wireless communication unit for wireless communication, a speaker interconnected with the wireless communication unit and being configured to provide an output audio signal, a battery configured to supply power to the hearing instrument, a filter circuit interconnecting the battery and a power management circuit of the hearing instrument, the wireless communication unit being interconnected with the battery, the battery being configured for emission and reception of an electromagnetic field having an RF wavelength. The filter circuit is configured to de-couple the battery and the power management circuit at frequencies above 3 MHz and configured to connect the battery to the power management circuit at frequencies below 300 kHz.
US11284198B2
A speaker unit, which can be made thin, includes: a magnetic circuit 61 having a space serving as a magnetic gap G formed inside a cylindrical portion 69; a voice coil 85 arranged in the magnetic gap G; and a diaphragm 51 having a center hole 51a that penetrates a center of the diaphragm, an outer peripheral portion 51b supported on a frame 53, and an inner peripheral portion 51c whose inner peripheral surface is connected to the voice coil 85. The cylindrical portion 69 of the magnetic circuit 61 includes a standing wall 69c formed along a vibration direction A of the diaphragm 51, and a slit 69a. The inner peripheral portion 51c of the diaphragm 51 includes an insert hole (a standing wall receiving portion) 57 in which the standing wall 69c is inserted, and an insert portion 59 which is inserted in the slit 69a.
US11284186B2
A loudspeaker comprises a one-piece frame integrally molded with a venting element which is located within a vent passage extending between the frame interior and a frame flange adapted to mount to a panel of an enclosure or to a baffle wherein pressurized air created by exposure of the enclosure and loudspeaker to elevated temperatures may escape from the enclosure through a leak path formed by the vent passage and the venting element.
US11284181B2
An electronic device for charging earphones includes a housing, a processor, a power supply, a wireless communication device, and a hardware storage device in data communication with the processor. The housing is configured to couple with the earphones. The power supply is in electrical communication with the processor and with an electrical contact to provide electrical communication with earphones. The wireless communication device is in data communication with the processor and configured to be in wireless data communication with the earphones. The hardware storage device is in data communication with the processor.
US11284176B2
A panel bottom member structure includes a panel bottom member including a light absorbing member, a top bonding layer disposed on the light absorbing member, an acoustic vibration element disposed beneath the light absorbing member and generating a vibration in response to an acoustic signal, and a buffer member disposed beneath the light absorbing member and non-overlapping the acoustic vibration element, and an element circuit board connected to the acoustic vibration element and provided with an acoustic element driving chip for generating the acoustic signal.
US11284173B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) systems, methods, and structures that advantageously utilize existing telecommunications facilities that serve as not only to convey telecommunications traffic—but as a sensor medium providing useful sensory information. In sharp contrast to the prior art—a DFOS system when so deployed may advantageously exploit network topologies and optical switches to provide novel sensing features including the detection of environmental events including acoustic, temperature, and vibrational events that may be indicative of societal activity including traffic and/or emergency events.
US11284172B2
Systems and methods include receiving Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) packets from a plurality of OSPF areas; sending self-generated OSPF packets to the plurality of OSPF areas; and filtering of the received OSPF packets such that received Link State Advertisement (LSA) packets from an OSPF area (are not forwarded to other OSPF areas. In an embodiment, the systems and methods can be used for a scalable OSPF deployment for management of a network, such as an optical network.
US11284169B2
A method (1) of and a device for rendering content data of a content data stream. From content data identified in the content data stream, a level of toxicity is determined (4). The level of toxicity represents a measure of authenticity of the received content data stream. Content data of the received content data stream is rendered (6) based on an aggregated level of toxicity.
US11284168B2
Presenting information on similar objects relative to a target object is disclosed, including: obtaining a plurality of video frames; determining a target object in the plurality of video frames using a tracking recognition technique; determining time slice information corresponding to the target object; using the time slice information corresponding to the target object to determine one or more similar objects relative to the target object; receiving an indication to present information on the one or more similar objects relative to the target object; and outputting the information on the one or more similar objects relative to the target object.
US11284167B2
A content management system and method for use of same is disclosed. In one embodiment of the system, a set-top box is configured to receive a source signal which includes a stream of network programming having time slots interposed therein. The set-top box detects signaling data indicative of a designated time slot within the network programming and responsive thereto, interposes content stored at the set-top box at the designated time slot within the network programming. The set-top box then forwards the interposed content to the display. Following the forwarding of the interposed content, the set-top box returns to receiving network programming and forwarding the network programming to the display. The set-top box also provides confirmation of the displayed interposed content to a server, which may map the confirmation information.
US11284159B2
Systems and methods for incorporating online user generated media content (e.g., videos) into an interactive video gaming environment are provided. Media assets that are associated with different measures of quality generated by users are stored on a remote server. A player action is received by the remote server. A determination is made as to which one of the plurality of levels of the interactive video gaming environment corresponds to the action. One of the videos associated with one of the measures of quality is selected based on the determination of the level corresponding to the action. The selected video is transmitted to the player.
US11284156B2
A video delivery system according to the present disclosure includes: a video streaming apparatus which records and transmits a video data; and a video editing apparatus which receives video data and edits a video based on the video data. The video streaming apparatus includes a streaming processing unit which transmits information which indicates whether a record processing unit has recorded a video file. The video editing apparatus includes range designation means which indicates, to a user, a time range for which the video streaming apparatus has recorded a video file, based on determination by the additional information interpretation means.
US11284144B2
A content controller system to render frames on demand comprises a rendering server system that includes a plurality of graphics processing units (GPUs). The GPUs in the rendering server system render a set of media content item segments using a media content identification and a main user identification. Rendering the set of media content item segments includes retrieving metadata from a metadata database associated with the media content identification, rendering the set of media content item segments using the metadata, generating a main user avatar based on the main user identification, and incorporating the main user avatar into the set of media content item segments. The rendering server system then uploads the set of media content item segments to a segment database; and updates segment states in a segment state database to indicate that the set of media content item segments are available. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US11284142B2
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a reception method in broadcast and broadband cooperation service, the reception method includes: receiving broadcast content transmitted through broadcast; receiving acquisition information through the broadcast, the acquisition information being information used to play back broadband content transmitted through broadband while the broadband content is synchronized with the received broadcast content, the acquisition information being information relating to acquisition of the broadband content; and acquiring the broadband content based on the received acquisition information. Therefore, the broadband content can properly be acquired in response to the reception of the broadcast content.
US11284139B1
In some embodiments, a method receives a request for a segment of video from a client. The request is associated with an identity. The method maps the segment to a variant value in a representation for the identity and selects a variant for the segment from a plurality of variants based on the variant value in the representation. A first segment of a first variant of the plurality of variants includes a first marker and a second segment of a second variant of the plurality of variants includes a second marker. The variant of the segment is then delivered to the client.
US11284123B2
A geolocationing system and method for providing awareness in a multi-space environment, such as a hospitality environment or educational environment, are presented. In one embodiment of the geolocationing system, a vertical and horizontal array of gateway devices is provided. Each gateway device includes a gateway device identification providing an accurately-known fixed location within the multi-space environment. Each gateway device includes a wireless transceiver that receives a beacon signal from a proximate wireless-enabled personal locator device. The gateway devices, in turn, send gateway signals to a server, which determines estimated location of the wireless-enabled personal locator device.
US11284111B2
Techniques and apparatus for inter-channel prediction and transform for point-cloud attribute coding
A method of point cloud attribute coding performed by at least one processor, including obtaining an encoded bitstream corresponding to a point cloud; determining whether the encoded bitstream was encoded using an inter-channel tool for inter-channel decorrelation; based on determining that the encoded bitstream was encoded using the inter-channel tool, decoding the encoded bitstream using the inter-channel tool to reconstruct an attribute signal corresponding to the point cloud; and reconstructing the point cloud using the reconstructed attribute signal.
US11284106B2
An encoder calculates an indication to a previous reference picture having temporal identity of zero. The encoder creates a first set of indicators to the previous reference picture, to all reference pictures in a first reference picture set of the previous reference picture, and to all pictures following the previous reference picture in decoding order and precede the current picture in decoding order. The encoder sets a flag for picture order count cycle, when a long term reference picture (LTRP) has least significant bits (LSBs) of a picture order count, for which more than one picture in the first set share same value of the LSBs of picture order count as the LTRP. The decoder obtains LSB of a picture order count for a LTRP in a reference picture set of the current picture. The decoder concludes non-compliant bitstream based on indications provided by the flag.
US11284101B2
An apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive a syntax element in a bit stream indicating a maximum number of merge candidates on a merge candidate list for a set of coding blocks, and receive a merge with motion vector difference (MMVD) flag syntax element in the bit stream indicating that an MMVD mode is used to generate a motion vector predictor of a current block included in the set of coding blocks. The processing circuitry is further configured to infer a base candidate index of the MMVD mode to be a predetermined value when the maximum number of the merge candidates is less than 2.
US11284085B2
A method and device for encoding an image divided into blocks. The image contains separate first and second zones). The encoding implements the following, for at least one current block of the image: determining to which of the first and second zones the current block pertains; if the current block pertains to the first zone, encoding the current block by using a first encoding method; if the current block pertains to the second zone, encoding the current block by using a second encoding method including the following: from the position of the current block in the second zone, identifying a previously encoded, then decoded block located in the first zone of the image; and reproducing the value of at least one encoding parameter associated with the identified block.
US11284084B1
A video processing method is provided, including: performing a conversion between a coded representation of a video including one or more video regions and the video, wherein the coded representation includes reshaping model information applicable for in loop reshaping (ILR) of some of the one or more video regions, wherein the reshaping model information provides information for a reconstruction of a video unit of a video region based on a representation in a first domain and a second domain and/or scaling chroma residue of a chroma video unit, and wherein the reshaping model information includes a parameter set that includes a syntax element specifying a difference between an allowed maximum bin index and a maximum bin index to be used in the reconstruction, and wherein the parameter is in a range.
US11284081B2
The present invention relates to a method offer signaling information on a prediction mode and to a method of for decoding image information using same. According to the present invention, the method offer signaling prediction mode information, serving according to the present invention, as a method offer signaling image information, includes performing prediction on a current block and signaling the prediction-type information applied to the current block. The signaling of the information includes joint-coding and components of signaling information components constituting the prediction-type information. According to the present invention, overhead may be reduced when information on a prediction is signaled.
US11284079B2
In the subject architecture flexible binary arithmetic coding system, coding circuitry of an electronic device may receive video data that is to be coded (e.g., to be encoded or decoded) by binary arithmetic coding. The coding circuitry may also compute at least one of a least probable symbol (LPS) range or a most probable symbol (MPS) range based on a multiplication operation (e.g., without performing a table look-up operation). The coding circuitry may perform binary arithmetic coding on the video data using the at least one of the LPS range or the MPS range. The computation of the LPS range and/or the MPS range using the multiplication operation may have a lower computational cost than using a table look-up operation.
US11284063B2
A variety of device interfaces may be connected to a test platform in a fast and efficient manner using multi-pin cables and connectors to support high-volume processing of devices to be tested. The multi-pin cables and connectors may aggregate a plurality of specific device interfaces into a single cable that can be connected via a connector to a test shelf and via a connector to a test platform, reducing the time to setup for device testing and facilitating high-volume processing of devices to be tested.
US11284061B2
Systems and methods for capturing a two dimensional (2D) image of a portion of a three dimensional (3D) scene may include a computer rendering a 3D scene on a display from a user's point of view (POV). A camera mode may be activated in response to user input and a POV of a camera may be determined. The POV of the camera may be specified by position and orientation of a user input device coupled to the computer, and may be independent of the user's POV. A 2D frame of the 3D scene based on the POV of the camera may be determined and the 2D image based on the 2D frame may be captured in response to user input. The 2D image may be stored locally or on a server of a network.
US11284060B2
A display device to be disposed in front of eyes of a user includes a display unit having a right-eye region and a left-eye region, a detector configured to detect detection information enabling estimation of a direction of a line of sight of the user, a setting unit configured to set display region information indicating display regions of the right-eye and left-eye regions, and a controller configured to output the display region information and the detection information to a control device. After receiving an image including a right-eye image and a left-eye image corresponding to the display regions indicated by the display region information from the control device, the controller displays the received right-eye image in the display region of the right-eye region indicated by the display region information, and display the received left-eye image in the display region of the left-eye region indicated by the display region information.
US11284057B2
The image processing apparatus that generates a virtual viewpoint image includes a generation unit. The generation unit generates a virtual viewpoint image in which in accordance with a virtual viewpoint specified by the virtual viewpoint information. The degree of transparency of a specific object at a position a specific distance apart from a position of a first virtual viewpoint in a virtual viewpoint image in accordance with the first virtual viewpoint corresponding to a first angle of view, which is generated by the generation unit, is higher than a degree of transparency of an object at a position the specific distance apart from a position of a second virtual viewpoint in a virtual viewpoint image in accordance with the second virtual viewpoint corresponding to a second angle of view larger than the first angle of view.
US11284055B2
The invention relates to a method comprising encoding, into or along a bitstream of media content, a set of indicators to indicate one or more of unequality types, wherein an unequality type defines different encoding parameters for a video stream on a first view or region and for a video stream on a second view or region. The invention also relates to an apparatus and a computer program product for implementing the method.
US11284052B2
Method for automatically restoring a calibrated state of a projection system, allowing simple and error-free alignment of a projection system in an original error-free state of the system. A calibrated state of a projection system is automatically restored by calculating a position and orientation of at least one camera within the projection system, using fixed points, subsequently m times n markers (9′) are projected onto the projection area, using the markers by cameras to determine a reduced number, compared with the calibration, of second measurement points (QI′) that have one X, Y and Z coordinate each, the reduced number of second measurement points (QI′) is used to perform a calculation of the differences between the second measurement points (QI′) and the associated first measurement points (QI′), a displacement vector is formed, the association between the projector coordinates and 3D coordinates is adapted with the displacement vector.
US11284041B1
In a materials handling facility, events may be associated with users based on imaging data captured from multiple fields of view. When an event is detected at a location within the fields of view of multiple cameras, two or more of the cameras may be identified as having captured images of the location at a time of the event. Users within the materials handling facility may be identified from images captured prior to, during or after the event, and visual representations of the respective actors may be generated from the images. The event may be associated with one of the users based on distances between the users' hands and the location of the event, as determined from the visual representations, or based on imaging data captured from the users' hands, which may be processed to determine which, if any, of such hands includes an item associated with the event.
US11284039B2
A motion picture distribution system, the system including a central computer, an exhibitor computer, a communication channel, and a back channel. The central computer is located at a central site and configured to distribute a digital version of the motion picture. The exhibitor computer is located at an exhibitor location that is remote from the central site. The exhibitor computer is configured both to receive the digital version of the motion picture from the central computer, and to display the motion picture. The communication channel is configured to facilitate the electronic transfer of the digital version of the motion picture from the central computer to the exhibitor computer. The back channel is coupled between the central computer and the exhibitor computer, and configured to allow for the transfer of information between the exhibitor computer and the central computer.
US11284035B2
Provided is a data transmission system including analog image frame buffer, line analog-to-digital converter, line buffer memory, and an interface. First, the analog image frame buffer stores the image data lines generated from the image sensor as analog signals, and then the line analog digital converter which is electrically connected to the analog image frame buffer converts the image data lines from analog signals to digital signals. Then, the image data lines converted into digital signals are stored in one of the line buffer memories. Then, according to the user's needs, the image data line of the digital signal is temporarily stored in another line buffer memory. Finally, according to the instructions of the master device, the interface outputs the image data lines of digital signals according to the conversion order of the line analog to digital converter.
US11284030B2
An image sensor includes a pixel array; a logic circuit configured to convert an image signal generated from the pixel array during a first period into image data; and a memory. The image data may be written in the memory during a second period, of which at least a portion overlaps the first period. The logic circuit may write dummy data in the memory during a third period overlapping the first period and not overlapping the second period.
US11284027B2
A pixel circuit wherein a pixel arrangement comprises a pixel comprising a photodetector, an integrator for accumulating a signal from the photodetector, a source following output transistor for amplifying the integrated signal, and a current source for applying a readout current through the output transistor, a voltage regulating circuit comprising an amplifier, a replica transistor dimensioned substantially the same as the output transistor, and a replica current source for providing substantially the readout current through each replica transistor, a gate of the replica transistor is connected with an output node of the amplifier connected with the pixel arrangement, and a source of the replica transistor is connected with a negative input of the amplifier, and with the replica current source, a predefined reference voltage is applicable to a positive input.
US11284025B2
A digital pixel includes a capacitive transimpedance amplifier (CTIA) coupled to a photodiode that receives an electrical charge and output an integration voltage. An integration capacitor coupled to the CTIA accumulates the integration voltage over an integration period. A comparator compares the accumulated integration voltage with a threshold voltage and generates a control signal at a first level each time the accumulated integration voltage is greater than the threshold voltage. A charge subtraction circuit receives the control signal at the first level and discharges the accumulated integration voltage each time the control signal at the first level is received from the comparator. An analog or digital counter receives the control signal at the first level and adjusts a counter value each time the control signal is received from the comparator. An output interface communicates the counter value to an image processing circuit at an end of the integration period.
US11284022B2
An apparatus includes an RGB-IR rolling shutter image sensor, a structured light projector, and a control circuit. The control circuit may be configured to control an exposure time of the RGB-IR rolling shutter image sensor and a turn on time of the structured light projector to obtain a structured light pattern in images captured by the RGB-IR rolling shutter image sensor.
US11284020B2
An electronic device and a method of operating the same are provided. The electronic device includes a camera module, a display, a memory, and a processor configured to be operatively connected to the camera module, the display, and the memory, wherein the processor is further configured to display a preview image obtained from the camera module on the display, to recognize an object from the preview image, to detect a drawing input based on the object, to generate a graphic element by the detected drawing input, and to display the graphic element to correspond to the object by tracking the object. In addition, various embodiments are possible.
US11284016B2
A camera system includes an imaging device configured to change sensitivity according to an instruction from a user; a display; and a graphic interface unit that causes the display to selectively display a first image for receiving the instruction for continuously changing the sensitivity and a second image for receiving the instruction for changing the sensitivity stepwise.
US11284014B2
An image processing apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit to obtain a plurality of images that have been captured under different exposure conditions; an acceptance unit to receive designation of an area in a first image, the first image being one of the plurality of images; a brightness characteristics acquisition unit to obtain a brightness characteristic value of the designated area in the first image; and a combining unit to: determine a combining condition used for combining the first image and a second image according to the brightness characteristic value, the second image being any one of the plurality of images other than the first image, and combine the first image and the second image based on the combining condition to correct brightness of the designated area for display.
US11284011B2
A method, program and apparatus for detecting a repeating coded light message embedded in light emitted by a light source, based on images captured from rolling-shutter cameras which capture their frame areas line-but-line. Images of the light source are captured simultaneously using a plurality of different rolling-shutter cameras having different acquisition regimes in order to improve the robustness and/or speed of coded light detection. The different acquisition regimes may comprise different frame rates, different physical orientations, or different line-readout directions.
US11284008B2
A scanning camera for capturing images along three or more curved scan paths, the scanning camera comprising a camera assembly associated with each scan path, each camera assembly comprising an image sensor and a lens; a scanning mirror; and a drive coupled to the scanning mirror; wherein the drive is operative to rotate the scanning mirror about a spin axis according to a spin angle; the spin axis is tilted relative to each camera optical axis; the scanning mirror is tilted relative to the spin axis and each camera optical axis; the scanning mirror is positioned to reflect an imaging beam into each lens in turn; and each image sensor is operative to capture each image along a respective one of the scan paths by sampling the imaging beam at a corresponding spin angle.
US11284005B2
Provided are a video processing method and apparatus, a terminal device and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a video capturing mode instruction and a video capturing instruction; performing video capturing on a target scene according to the video capturing instruction until a video capturing pause instruction is acquired, and obtaining a corresponding video segment; determining whether to adjust the video segment according to the video capturing mode instruction and obtaining a corresponding target video segment; if a video generation instruction is not acquired, repeatedly acquiring the video capturing mode instruction, the video capturing instruction and the video capturing pause instruction to obtain a corresponding target video segment until the video generation instruction is acquired; and generating a target video according to an existing target video segment.
US11283998B2
An image pickup apparatus that does not disturb an image pickup operation irrespective of an image pickup posture and is capable of reducing generation of image blur. The image pickup apparatus including a main body, a frame part, and at least one operating member. The main body has an image pickup lens. The frame part forms an opening together with a part of the main body and has an opening/closing member that opens/closes the opening. The operating member is used to enter a predetermined pickup instruction and is arranged in at least one of a first surface at an object side and a second surface opposite to the first surface that are parallel to an opening plane of the opening in the main body.
US11283991B2
Image Signal Processing (ISP) optimization framework for computer vision applications is disclosed. The tuning of the ISP is performed automatically and presented as a nonlinear multi-objective optimization problem, followed by solving the problem using an evolutionary stochastic solver. An improved ISP of the embodiments of the invention includes at least features of search space reduction for reducing a number of ISP configurations, remapping the generated population to the reduced search space via mirroring, and global optimization function processing, which allow tuning all the blocks of the ISP at the same time instead of the prior art tuning of each ISP block separately. Also shown that an ISP tuned for image quality performs inferior compared with an ISP trained for a specific downstream image recognition task.
US11283973B2
Implementations generally increase the virtual resolution of a camera sensor. In some implementations, a method includes moving an image sensor in a predetermined pattern, wherein the image sensor includes an array of light collecting elements, and wherein each light collecting element of the sensor array cycles through a plurality of positions in the predetermined pattern. The method further includes capturing a plurality of samples of light at each light collecting element, wherein each light collecting element captures a plurality of the samples in a cycle of movement in the predetermined pattern. The method further includes converting each sample captured at each position into a value. The method further includes generating at least one image from an aggregate of values converted from the samples of light.
US11283969B2
The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for managing a virtual studio. A plurality of single data streams from a plurality content contributors are received. When a request is received, via public network connections, for creating a composite data stream associated with a virtual room in the virtual studio, signaling information is generated for constructing the composite data stream by stitching together some of the plurality of single data streams selected to be incorporated in the composite data stream in accordance with a layout. When an access request is received from an end user to access the composite data stream, the composite data stream is delivered to the end user in response to the access request.
US11283968B2
An image processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit that obtains attribute information that specifies a process performed by an image forming apparatus in accordance with a print job including print data, an identification unit that identifies a color of a recording medium specified by the attribute information, a generation unit that generates a display image on a basis of the color of the recording medium identified by the identification unit and the print data included in the print job, and a determination unit that determines, as the color of the recording medium identified by the identification unit, a display color of a drawing area which corresponds to an area of the recording medium for printing the print data and in which the display image generated by the generation unit is to be disposed.
US11283963B2
An image processing apparatus converts a multivalued image to a binary image, determines a character region and a non-character region in the binary image, extracts areas in units of a character from the character region, determines whether each of the areas is a character region or a non-character region, and extracts, for each of the areas determined to be the character region, a first representative color from the multivalued image included in the area, and generates a binary image corresponding to the first representative color. The apparatus decides a second representative color closest to a color of a target pixel by comparing the first representative color with the color of the target pixel, and changes the binary image of the area corresponding to the first representative color to a binary image of the decided second representative color.
US11283960B2
A portable scanner includes a housing, a transmitting path, a scanning unit and a transmission module. The transmitting path longitudinally penetrates through two opposite sides of the housing. One side of the transmitting path forms a first channel, and the other side of the transmitting path forms a second channel. The scanning unit is arranged in the transmitting path and partially projects into the first channel. The transmission module is arranged in the transmitting path and partially projects into the first channel. The transmission module is in contact with the scanning unit. The transmission module includes a transmission roller. The scanning unit and the transmission roller are disposed to two facing sides of the transmitting path along an up-down direction. The scanning unit is disposed on and contacts with the transmission roller in the transmitting path.
US11283956B2
Methods, systems, and storage media for issuing and verifying a secondary cryptographic photo ID are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: capture, using a scanning component of a printing device, a primary digital image of a primary photo ID; recognize, using a processing component of the printing device, alphanumeric information in the captured primary digital image; encrypt, using the processing component of the printing device, the recognized alphanumeric information; generate, using the processing component of the printing device, a digital watermark comprising the encrypted recognized alphanumeric information; recognize, using the processing component of the printing device, a photograph in the primary digital image; generate, using the processing component of the printing device, a secondary digital image comprising the recognized photograph and the generated digital watermark; and print, using a printing component of the printing device, a secondary photo ID comprising the secondary digital image.
US11283949B2
An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus including a generating unit that generates personal setting information that is used to set an operation screen on a per user basis, and a transmitting unit that transmits the personal setting information generated by the generating unit to an external apparatus, and a portable terminal apparatus including a memory that saves the personal setting information transmitted by the first information processing apparatus, and a transmitting unit that, when the portable terminal apparatus is linked to a second information processing apparatus different from the first information processing apparatus having generated the personal setting information, transmits the personal setting information saved on the memory to the second information processing apparatus.
US11283943B2
A system including at least one server includes an obtaining unit that, in a case where a print instruction is issued by voice to a voice control device, obtains information based on the print instruction, and a generation unit that generates print data based on the obtained information, where the generation unit generates the print data by using a previously registered print setting when a print setting is not included in the obtained information.
US11283942B2
A portable terminal includes: a display; a user interface; a memory; a network interface; and a controller, the controller performs performing a deciding processing of deciding the display mode of instructions objects corresponding to the external instructions specified in the first specifying processing, based on attribute information; performing a display control processing of controlling the display to display a selection screen including instructions objects having the display mode decided in the deciding processing; performing a first receiving processing of receiving a user operation of selecting an object included in the selection screen, via the user interface; performing, in response to the operation of selecting a instructions object in the first receiving processing, an activation processing of activating an external instructions corresponding to the selected object; performing an designation information acquiring processing of acquiring designation information from the external instructions activated in the activation processing.
US11283937B1
The present disclosure describes a first device to send a second device a face template of the user of the first device. When the second device captures an image, the second device may compare the face template to a second face template derived from the captured image. If a match is determined to exist, the second device may send the captured image to the first device. The face template may be transferred over a first communication interface, while the captured image may be sent over a second communication interface. The first communication interface may be Bluetooth and the second communication interface may be WIFI Direct. As such, the system may function in environments without cellular coverage and/or infrastructure WIFI networks. Additionally, the user of the first device does not need to be identified, only matched to the second face template.
US11283936B1
A system is disclosed. The system at least one physical memory device to store ink estimation logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, to execute the ink estimation logic to receive a histogram for each of a plurality of color planes, receive uncalibrated drop fraction data for each of a plurality of drop sizes in a printing system, perform a direct drop fraction conversion of the uncalibrated drop fraction data to generate calibrated drop fraction data for each of the plurality of drop sizes by applying a first transfer function to the uncalibrated drop fraction data and generate estimated ink usage data for each of the plurality of drop sizes based on the histograms and the calibrated drop fraction data.
US11283933B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a computer-readable storage medium in a telephone having computer instructions to execute a web server application in the telephone. The web server application can be operable to detect an incoming plain old telephone service call, identify a calling party identifier from the incoming plain old telephone service call, and direct one of a plurality of devices detected by web server application to present the calling party identifier. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11283924B2
Contact manager computer system and method to dynamically generate an aggregated context information, including: a monitoring module configured: to monitor a communication session with a customer; to determine one or more communication contexts of the customer; to determine one or more communication contexts of an agent assisting the customer; to obtain customer context information from the one or more determined communication contexts of the customer; to obtain agent context information from the one or more determined communication contexts of the agent; a processor coupled to a memory, the memory configured to store context information under control of the processor; an aggregated context information generation module to generate the aggregated context information from the obtained customer context information and the obtained agent context information; an inference module to create an inference from the aggregated context information; and a display module to display a result of the inference to an agent.
US11283918B2
A method for automatic transmission of status information from a first communications terminal set up for speech communication to a second communications terminal set up for text communication is provided. The speech communication between communications terminals is processed over a speech communications server and the text communication between communications terminals over a text communications server. The speech communications server and the text communications server exchange messages over at least one converter device. The status information will be transmitted from the first communications terminal over the speech communications server, the converter device, and the text communications server to the second communications terminal.
US11283917B2
A method and system are disclosed for enabling a telephone call to be made an actionable object and enabling that actionable object to be updated. The user device may have a graphical user interface on which the phone call is presented as an actionable object. The user device may be the same device (e.g. a smartphone) on which the call was made and/or may be a separate device (e.g. a desktop or laptop or tablet computer or the like). The data received by the computer apparatus may be for example one or more of start time of the call, end time of the call, duration of the call, telephone number of the third party, location of the user and call disposition.
US11283913B1
Systems and methods for voice-enabled configurations for audio-output devices are disclosed. User accounts may be associated with one or more voice-enabled devices. Those voice-enabled devices may include audio-output functionality, while other voice-enabled devices do not include audio-output functionality. For devices without audio-output functionality, sending and/or receiving calls and/or messages may depend on whether the device is connected to an auxiliary device with audio-output functionality, via wired and/or wireless connection. Notifications of whether calling and/or messaging is enabled may be sent to the sending and/or receiving devices.
US11283912B2
This application provides a display method and a device and relates to the field of communications technologies, so as to display different content on a terminal and an external display apparatus. A specific solution includes: displaying, by the terminal, a first screen, and instructing the external display apparatus to display a first desktop including a first application but not including a second application, where the first screen is different from the first desktop; and displaying, by the terminal in response to a first input of a user on the first screen, a second screen including the first application and the second application on the terminal, and instructing the external display apparatus to display a second desktop including the first application and the second application.
US11283910B2
A mobile terminal includes a first frame, a second frame slidable from the first frame in a first direction or in a second direction opposite to the first direction, a slide frame movable in the first direction with respect to the second frame, a flexible display unit including a first, a second region, and a third region, and a driver for providing a force to move the second frame, wherein the driver includes a first driver part positioned on the first frame, a second driver part coupled to the second frame, wherein the second driver part receives the driving force to move the second frame while moving in the first direction n with respect to the first driver part, a stopping groove defined in the second driver part, a stopper fastened to the stopping groove, and an electromagnet for inserting or spacing the stopper into or from the stopping groove.
US11283900B2
In some implementations, an interface indicating a set of software objects used in a first server environment may be provided. Data indicating a selection of testing parameters including a load level and one or more software objects selected from among the set of software objects may be received. A server environment test configured to generate concurrently running tasks at the indicated load level using the selected software objects may be generated. The server environment test may be performed on the first server environment to generate first results indicating at least server resource usage levels and response times of the first server environment during the server environment test. The server environment test may be performed on a second server environment to generate second results. An output data set indicating performance of the second server environment relative to performance of the first server environment may be provided.
US11283898B2
Data collection system and method for transmitting multiple data sequences with different attributes
A data sequence including pieces of data having one attribute is transmitted with a data sequence including pieces of data having another attribute. An acquisition unit acquires a plurality of data pieces having attributes differing from each other. An addition unit, when connected with the server apparatus establishes, adds, to each piece of data included in each of a plurality of data sequences including different pieces of data of the plurality of data pieces acquired, an identifier identifies a data group wherein the data piece belongs, of a plurality of data groups, and is associated with the connection. A transmission unit transmits the plurality of data sequences where the identifier is added, to the server apparatus via the connection, by inserting, between data pieces included in one data sequence of the plurality of data sequences, a piece of data included in another data sequence of the plurality of data sequences.
US11283896B2
An embodiment of the present invention is directed to a framework for consumption of services for enterprise cloud platforms. A method implements a framework for consumption of services for enterprise cloud platforms and comprises the steps of: implementing a platform component that builds, deploys and operates a plurality of cloud platform instances in a plurality of regions, wherein the platform component bridges each of the plurality of cloud platforms and service provider APIs; and providing a service framework registry that stores data associated with one or more services to be consumed by each cloud platform and stores constraint and policy metadata wherein the platform component is synchronized with the service framework registry; wherein one or more service providers provide services for execution on the cloud platform via the service provider APIs and in accordance with one or more credentials required for service consumption at run time.
US11283892B1
A technology is described for managing dynamic groups of devices using device representations. An example method may include receiving a request for a dynamic group of device representations. In response to the request, a membership parameter used to identify member device representations included in the dynamic group of device representations may be obtained. Device representations may be queried using the membership parameter to identify member device representations that have a state that corresponds to the membership parameter, and the dynamic group of device representations may be generated to include identifiers for the member device representations.
US11283884B2
A method for managing sharing of data on location between a user's source device and at least one third party's destination device. The method includes receiving first identifiers of the user's source device and of the third party's destination device and an authorization message indicating whether the destination device is authorized to obtain data on location of the source device; building or updating a table of correspondence associating the first identifier of the source device with the first identifier of the destination device; receiving data on location of the user's source device; receiving a request for transmitting data on location of the user's source device, corresponding to the first identifier of the user's source device, and a second identifier of the third party's destination device; and transmitting the data on location to the third party's destination device when the first and second identifiers of the third party's destination device correspond.
US11283879B2
A method, apparatus and system for assisted code provisioning of an end to end network includes automatically providing a first interface menu for enabling an initial user input of at least one of configuration information and application logic information for devices of the end to end network and continuing to automatically provide subsequent interface menus for receiving configuration information and application logic information for all devices and interconnections required to establish the end to end network in which a subsequent interface menu provided for input can be dependent upon an input made to a previously provided interface menu, and an order of interface menus automatically provided guides a user through a provisioning of the end to end network without the need to enter programming code. Programming code can be automatically generated from the input information and deployed for each of the devices required to establish the end to end network.
US11283876B2
A first device may receive, from a first client device, a request for information from a second client device, wherein the second client device is connected to a second device that is geographically separated from the first device, and the first device is hosted in a first cloud computing environment and the second device is hosted in a second cloud computing environment. A first outbound routing agent associated with the first device may route the request to a second outbound routing agent associated with the second device, wherein the second outbound routing agent routes the request to the second client device to cause the second client device to generate a response. A first inbound routing agent associated with the first device may receive the response from a second inbound routing agent associated with the second device, and may provide the response to the first client device.
US11283874B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for collectively optimizing cooperative actions among autonomous connected vehicles. A system may include a plurality of autonomous connected machines and/or vehicles that may establish a mesh network for communication amongst one another. Remote from the mesh network, the system may include a consortium configured to communicate with the mesh network, such as by cellular communication. The mesh network of connected vehicles may collectively receive, from the remote consortium, reliability information associated with the autonomous vehicles in the mesh network, and may collectively generate a shared map of the environment surrounding the plurality of autonomous connected vehicles in accordance with the reliability information. Based on the shared map, the mesh network of connected vehicles may collaboratively generate a collective navigation plan for the plurality of vehicles to navigate the environment.
US11283870B2
A system and method for a network-attached storage system includes at least one network-attached storage device, an application server, and a control server. In various embodiments, the control server is configured to discover the at least one network-attached storage device and configure a storage volume and a storage pool having the at least one network-attached storage device. The control server may claim each of the at least one network-attached storage device by sending each network-attached storage device a device whitelist. The control server is also configured to map the application server to the storage volume and provide the application server with an application server whitelist.
US11283868B2
One method involves configuring one or more computing resources (selected according to a workflow that specifies an application to be executed) of a computing node and executing, using the one or more computing resources, at least a portion of an application al the computing node. At least one of the one or more computing resources is a reconfigurable logic device, and the configuring, at least in part, configures the reconfigurable logic device according to a configuration script of the workflow. The executing comprises performing one or more operations. The one or more operations are performed by the reconfigurable logic device. The reconfigurable logic device is configured to perform the one or more operations by virtue of having been configured according to the configuration script.
US11283867B2
A replication system for data of mobile devices is disclosed. The data of a mobile device is uploaded to stations in an area. Metadata associated with the objects is stored in a centralized or decentralized system. The metadata can be accessed to identify the stations storing the device's objects and the data of the mobile device can then be retrieved from the stations and reconstructed.
US11283863B1
A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for managing a network data processing system. Digital twins of physical devices in the network data processing system are run by a computer system. The digital twins process workloads and the digital twins communicate with each other. An impact on a number of parameters for a first set of the digital twins that a second set of the digital twins has on the first set of the digital twins is identified by the computer system. A set of actions is performed by the computer system based on the impact on the number of parameters.
US11283860B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long-term evolution (LTE). The disclosure relates to an apparatus for resource adjustment in a cloud system, and a method for operating the apparatus. The method includes receiving status information indicating operation performance for a management or control plane (MCP) and one or more user workloads or applications (UWAs) in a host server. The method also includes determining an action related to the resource adjustment based on the status information. The method further includes performing, for the MCP and the one or more UWAs, the action related to the determined resource adjustment.
US11283855B1
A method includes determining a first upload start timestamp and a first upload end timestamp of a video file from a client device to an object storage device. The method further includes monitoring an upload of the video file from the object storage device to a server-less framework to determine a second upload start timestamp and a second upload end timestamp of the video file. The method further includes determining, by a processing device, a latency of the upload in view of the first upload timestamp, the second upload timestamp, the first upload end timestamp, and the second upload end timestamp. The method further includes providing a latency adjustment instruction to the client device in view of the latency.
US11283854B2
A method of downloading a multimedia content from a content server to a client through a wireless communication network is provided. The multimedia content is subdivided into a plurality of chunks and for each chunk the content server has at least two corresponding versions thereof encoded with different encoding rates. The method includes having the client send a first request of a first version of a corresponding requested chunk, and having a proxy server intercept the first request to generate a second request of a second version of the requested chunk. The method also includes having the proxy server send the second request to the content server in place of the first request, and having the content server send the second version to the client. The second request is generated based on the amount of information content of the versions of said requested chunk.
US11283849B2
There is provided a client device arranged to receive a live adaptive titrate stream, the client device further arranged to: request a manifest file; and request a manifest update hint. The client device further arranged to receive a manifest update hint, the manifest update hint including an indication of when the manifest will be updated; and request an updated manifest file at a time indicated by the manifest update hint.
US11283847B2
There is provided mechanisms for handling content delivery in a client node. A method being performed by the client node. The method comprises registering, by an application entity of the client node and with an MBMS entity of the client node, for enabling the client node to receive content delivered by encrypted unicast transmission and to receive the content delivered by broadcast transmission. The method comprises selectively controlling, by a trusted entity of the client node, reception of the content in a media player of the client node between reception of the encrypted unicast transmission and broadcast transmission depending on whether the content is available or not for reception on the broadcast transmission.
US11283844B2
Systems and methods for virtual conferencing that allow a missing participant to provide information to active participants in a conference session in real time are disclosed. The systems and methods can be used to allow a missing participant to respond to queries submitted in a query bucket by one or more active participants. Responses provided by the missing participant can be viewed by active participants during the virtual conference session.
US11283843B2
In one embodiment, the method of processing telephony sessions includes: communicating with an application server using an application layer protocol; processing telephony instructions with a call router; and creating call router resources accessible through a call router Application Programming Interface (API). In another embodiment, the system for processing telephony sessions includes: a call router, a URI for an application server, a telephony instruction executed by the call router, and a call router API resource.
US11283842B2
A method is described, the method relating to control of a communication between a first device and a second device using a communication protocol including at least a first transaction, and at least one subsequent second transaction. The method can include transmission, by the first device to the second device during the first transaction, of both a maximum acceptable delay between the end of the first transaction and the beginning of the second transaction, as well as an explicit indication of the type of message characterizing the beginning of the second transaction. The second device can then trigger a timer for the delay. The method is applicable to IMS networks.
US11283840B2
Techniques are disclosed for usage-tracking of various information security (InfoSec) entities for tenants/organization onboarded on an instant multi-tenant security assurance platform. The InfoSec entities include policies, procedures, controls and evidence tasks. A policy or procedure is enforced by implementing one or more controls, and the collection of one or more evidence tasks proves/verifies the implementation of a control. The InfoSec entities are linked to each other across the platform and accrue a number of benefits for the tenants. These include efficiently generating a security questionnaire response (SQR), measuring readiness via a readiness project for an audit project, sharing InfoSec entities across the various products of a tenant organization, risk assessment, automatic collection of evidence tasks, among others.
US11283839B2
Predicting access impact of a plurality of rule changes on a corpus of information assets is provided. A set of affected rules in a new rule space for controlling access to the corpus of information assets is received. The set of affected rules is shredded to identify right-hand side terms contained in predication blocks of the set of affected rules. An enforcement knowledge graph is traversed to identify a set of hot information assets having same terms as the right-hand side terms of the set of affected rules. The set of hot information assets having the same terms as the right-hand side terms of the set of affected rules is added to a hash table of hot information assets.
US11283838B2
Systems and methods are provided for provisioning access rights to physical computing resources using an IAM system implementing an IAM data model. The IAM data model may identify logical and physical computing resources. An access request handler may receive an access request and identify a set of logical permissions based on the access request. The access request handler may derive a set of logical entitlements based on the set of logical permissions. An entitlement translator may translate the set of logical entitlements to a physical entitlement specification based on a set of physical permission specifications associated with the set of logical permissions. A physical permission specification may be obtained by mapping a logical permission to one or more physical permissions. An access control manager may then provision access rights to at least one physical computing resource indicated in the physical entitlement specification.
US11283825B2
Implementations of the present disclosure include receiving, from an agile security platform, attack graph (AG) data representative of one or more AGs, each AG representing one or more lateral paths within an enterprise network for reaching a target asset from one or more assets within the enterprise network, processing, by a security platform, data from one or more data sources to selectively generate at least one event, the at least one event representing a potential security risk within the enterprise network, and selectively generating, within the security platform, an alert representing the at least one event, the alert being associated with a priority within a set of alerts, the priority being is based on the AG data.
US11283820B2
Analysis of samples for maliciousness is disclosed. A sample is executed and one or more network activities associated with executing the sample are recorded. The recorded network activities are compared to a malware profile. The malware profile comprises a set of network activities taken by a known malicious application during execution of the known malicious application. A verdict of “malicious” is assigned to the sample based at least in part on a determination that the recorded network activities match the malware profile.
US11283819B2
A multiple vehicle cyber-attack detection system including a vehicle operations center coupled to and monitoring vehicles, where each operations center includes a cyber-attack alert module. A vehicle cyber-attack detection system is in communication with each operations center and includes a first tier security module coupled to an onboard system of each vehicle and receives system log data generated by the onboard system. The first tier security module extracts extracted features from a time series of overlapping windowed system log data generated from the system log data with natural language processing and includes a first cyber-attack anomaly detection module that identifies a first cyber-attack based on system entropy measurements. A second cyber-attack anomaly detection module includes a deep learning component that identifies a second cyber-attack based on classification of the extracted features. Each cyber-attack alert module generates a notification of the first cyber-attack and/or the second cyber-attack on a user interface.
US11283817B2
A method includes determining, based on login information corresponding to a plurality of login attempts, that a set of password spray criteria have been satisfied. The method also includes generating respective scoring patterns corresponding to one or more password lengths and based on the respective scoring patterns, generating a common digital signature for a set of common passwords. The method further includes generating a spray digital signature for a set of potential spray passwords based on the respective scoring patterns. Additionally, the method includes comparing the spray digital signature with the common digital signatures to determine a number of matching components between the spray digital signatures and the common digital signature. Based on the number of matching components, the method includes determining whether a password spray has been attempted.
US11283814B2
Embodiments provide for distributed transaction-based provenance tracking of agricultural data, secured access to authorized user accounts, auditability of the data, and transactional oversight of the data when exchanged between user accounts. A distributed ledger network including a primary node and a plurality of secondary nodes can store transactions generated based on various operations on or associated with agricultural data, including the certification of select portions of agricultural data collected by a data collection device, commands received from client devices associated with user accounts purchasing or licensing the agricultural data, and detected attempts to access the agricultural data, among other things. The primary node provides a variety of security features that can ensure that the agricultural data is protected, remains auditable by tracking the provenance of the agricultural data, and cannot be subjected to unauthorized sale, each feature having ironclad reliability based on immutable transactions stored on a distributed ledger.
US11283807B1
An inter-frame and webpage generation and communication system and method provide a mechanism by which a parent webpage or frame can allocate a child frame of the displayed page for content generated by a web application other than that generating the parent webpage or frame and certain information can be exchanged between the child frame and the parent webpage or frame. Multiple frames of a webpage not only react to interactive events occurring within that frame, but also react to events occurring in child frames. In at least one embodiment, a mechanism for inter-frame communication is provided to enable communication between child and parent frames, and the inter-frame communication mechanism is agnostic as to whether the code displayed in the child and parent frames is provided by one or more web application servers.
US11283806B2
A security system executing on an intelligent assistant is provided. A computing device receives communicated data from a user within a threshold level of proximity of an intelligent assistant. A computing device determines an identity of the user based, in part, on the communicated data. Responsive to a computing device (i) analyzing the communicated data and (ii) a history of interactions between the user and an authorized user of the intelligent assistant, the one or more processors generate a predicted response of the authorized user to the communicated data. A computing data communicated the predicted response to the user via the intelligent assistant.
US11283804B2
Example implementations relate to hard zoning capabilities for devices using Internet small computer system interface (iSCSI) protocol. For example, a method includes creating a virtual local area network (VLAN) at an Ethernet switch between an initiator and target adapter. The method includes assigning an access control list (ACL) to the VLAN, The method includes segregating a device of a plurality of devices connected to the SAN into a zone group. The method also includes controlling access of a zone group based on the ACL and frame filtering.
US11283798B2
Methods and network nodes of a wireless communications network are disclosed. The network nodes are operable to initiate a plurality of authentication mechanisms. Responsive to receipt of a request for authentication transmitted by a terminal device of the wireless communications network, the network nodes are configured to select an authentication mechanism from the plurality of authentication mechanisms; and are further configured to initiate the selected authentication mechanism to authenticate the terminal device with the wireless communications network.
US11283797B2
Particular systems, methods, and program products for web-based security systems for user authentication and processing in a distributed computing environment are disclosed. A computing sub-system may receive an electronic processing request and a first signed data packet having a first payload that was hashed and encrypted using a first private key. The first payload may comprise first processing output and a first timestamp. The sub-system may verify the first signed data packet by decrypting it using a first public key. The sub-system may execute computing operations to satisfy the electronic processing request, producing second processing output. The sub-system may configure a data packet with a second payload comprising at least the second processing output and a second timestamp. The sub-system may encrypt the second payload using a second private key producing a second signed data packet. The sub-system may transmit to a second sub-system the second signed data packet.
US11283794B2
The present invention discloses a tamper-proof ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system against a database server administrator, and a Logbook is setup for the database server administrator on the database server level in the ERP system. A reliable Logbook is created for the database server administrator on the database server level outside an ERP Application. Additionally, the Logbook also contains the needed information to restore the SQL database completely. This solution can be realized together with selection of a suitable SQL database server which prevents full unrestricted administrator access by using a two-factor authentication, wherein a first factor is known/selectable by end user only, and a second factor is managed by the ERP Application only.
US11283792B2
The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for improved back-end integration of third-party content and an administrative framework allowing for user experience management for a computer-based environment. Described herein, for example, are approaches to improving secure access to multiple web-based systems, integrating web-based content, and controlling timing of web interaction. The problems addressed herein relate to coordinating access and delivery of web content from and to multiple sources and multiple users in an integrated and time-controlled manner.
US11283787B2
A method, system, and computer program product for implementing computer resource provisioning is provided. The method includes receiving a first request for identification credentials associated with a user. In response, resource identification credentials for the user are generated and a second request for generating a first computer resource is received in response to analyzing the resource identification credentials. The resource identification credentials are validated with respect to a local ID cache structure and it is determined if the resource identification credentials are available for usage by the user. In response, a resource implementation process is executed.
US11283780B2
Collaboratively editing a document in a system of sharee clients includes creating a document change, generating a document token for encrypting the document change, encrypting the document change with the document token, making the encrypted document change available to the other sharee clients, and generating a plurality of copies of the sharee document token. Each sharee document token is encrypted with a respective sharee's public key. Each encrypted sharee document token is distributed to respective sharee clients. Each sharee client is configured to: decrypt a sharee document token using a respective private key, decrypt the encrypted document change using the share document token, and consolidate the document change into a document.
US11283778B2
The present application discloses a data exchange system, method, and device. The system comprises a first server configured to acquire a to-be-exchanged data identifier based on requirement information; store the to-be-exchanged data identifier; acquire a storage address of the to-be-exchanged data identifier; and encrypt the storage address of the to-be-exchanged data identifier to generate a first encrypted storage address; and a second server configured to acquire the first encrypted storage address from the first server; decrypt the first encrypted storage address to acquire the storage address of the to-be-exchanged data identifier; acquire the to-be-exchanged data identifier based on the storage address of the to-be-exchanged data identifier; and find to-be-exchanged data indicated by the to-be-exchanged data identifier from a pre-stored data set based on the to-be-exchanged data identifier, such that the first server acquires the to-be-exchanged data from the second server, the data set including data and a data identifier.
US11283773B2
There are provided mechanisms for registering and subsequently communicating with classified subscribers in an IMS environment. The method comprises replacing an IMS Public -and Private User identity (IMPU/IMPI) with randomized temporary identifiers. Parties, in particular parties with 5 access to network entities outside the home-network cannot relate the observed IMPU/IMPI to the subscriber's original IMPU/IMPI as provisioned, and as the temporary IMPU changes frequently, there is no pattern (registration nor call) to be allocated to the subscriber's UE.
US11283761B2
Mapping anonymous Internet entities to known accounts. In an embodiment, events, representing online activity and comprising IP addresses, are received from a plurality of sources. Subsets of the events are aggregated into mappings that associate the IP address, shared by the subset, with an account. Each mapping is associated with statistics regarding the events. A confidence value is calculated for each mapping based on the statistics, and a final subset of the mappings is selected based on the confidence values. Subsequently, when a request with an IP address is received, the final subset of mappings is searched for the requested IP address, and an indication of the account associated with the requested IP address is returned in response to the request.
US11283758B2
Presented herein are techniques to facilitate OpenRoaming integration into a Wireless Roaming Intermediary Exchange (WRIX) data-clearing and financial-settlement architecture. In one example, a method is provided that may include querying, by an application endpoint, a Domain Name System (DNS) server to determine support for a service for a domain; and obtaining, by the application endpoint from the DNS server, an explicit indication that one of: the service is not supported for the domain; or the service is proprietary and is supported for the domain.
US11283756B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for gateway selection. One apparatus identifies a country in which the apparatus is currently located and transmits a query to a DNS server if the apparatus not being located in a home country, the query identifying the country in which the apparatus is currently located and receives a query response from the DNS server. The apparatus determines that gateway selection is mandated in the country if it receives a query response containing one or more records and selects a first gateway in a VPLMN indicated by the one or more records, each record indicating a VPLMN in the country. The apparatus determines that gateway selection is not mandated in the country if the query response contains no records and selects a second gateway, the second gateway selected in a VPLMN indicated in stored gateway selection information.
US11283752B2
A method includes identifying, at an electronic device a candidate name responsive to user input indicating a salutational trigger during composition of a body of a message of a messaging application. Identifying the candidate name including at least one of: parsing a recipient-specific portion of a recipient message address of the message; parsing a display name associated with the recipient message address; parsing a content of the message body; parsing an attachment name associated with an attachment field of the message; identifying the candidate name from a contact record selected from a contacts database based on a recipient-specific portion of a recipient message address of the message; and parsing user-readable content of an application from which composition of the message was triggered. The method further includes facilitating composition of a recipient name in the body of the message based on the candidate name.
US11283747B1
A server maintains a gallery of ephemeral messages respectively comprising visual media content, such as user-provided photographic content or user-provided video content. Each ephemeral message is posted to the gallery by a user for viewing by recipients via recipient devices. In response to a gallery view request from any of the recipient devices, the ephemeral messages in the gallery are displayed on the requesting device in automated sequence, each message being displayed for a respective display duration before display of the next message in the gallery. The gallery has a global gallery availability parameter, and each message has a gallery participation timer. The gallery is made unavailable for viewing upon expiry of the gallery availability parameter or upon expiry of the gallery participation timer of a last posted message in the gallery, whichever occurs first.
US11283743B1
Techniques for scam detection and prevention are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise an interaction processing component operative to generate a scam message example repository; submit the scam message example repository to a natural-language machine learning component; and receive a scam message model from the natural-language machine learning component in response to submitting the scam message example repository; an interaction monitoring component operative to monitor a plurality of messaging interactions with a messaging system based on the scam message model; and determine a suspected scam messaging interaction of the plurality of messaging interactions; and a scam action component operative to perform a suspected scam messaging action with the messaging system in response to determining the suspected scam messaging interaction. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11283742B2
A method for audio-based social media messaging for a wearable device includes generating a first audio message using a wearable device, the wearable device having at least one microphone and at least one speaker and conveying the first audio message from the wearable device to an audio-based social media platform using a wireless radio transceiver within the wearable device.
US11283737B2
Techniques for described for invoking a chatbot in a chatbot system, in response to an event notification from a software application. The event notification can be sent to the chatbot system based on the software application determining that one or more conditions associated with an event are satisfied. In certain embodiments, the event notification contains information indicating a dialog flow state for starting a new conversation between a particular chatbot and a user. The event notification can also identify the user and/or the particular chatbot. In some instances, a prompt is output to the user requesting the user to confirm a start of the new conversation. Whether the prompt is output or not can depend on whether there is an existing conversation between the user and a chatbot in the chatbot system.
US11283735B2
Systems and methods for incorporating intelligent virtual assistants into advertisements on social networking platforms are provided. When a user interacts with a content item, an intelligent virtual assistant is selected and put into contact with the user. The intelligent virtual assistant is provided with a context that includes information about the user in the social networking platform, information about the user in a customer relationship management platform, and information about the product, service, or entity associated with the content item. The context allows the intelligent virtual assistant to converse with the user in a way that feels natural and relevant to the user and allows the intelligent virtual assistant to answer any questions about the product, service, or entity associated with the content item.
US11283734B2
Method and apparatus for minimizing on-die memory in pull-mode switches. A disaggregated edge switch (DSW) includes a local communication interface including a plurality of outer ports configured to be coupled to a plurality of local hosts or servers via respective outer links, and a network interface configured to couple to at least one remote apparatus via a respective inner port and link. Data is transferred between the local hosts/servers using pull-mode transfers under which a receiver port “pulls” data from a local source port. The use of pull-mode data transfers between the local host/servers is managed by a scheduler so as to minimize the amount of buffers space for these local data transfers. Techniques are also disclosed for extending pull-mode data transfers using the Ethernet protocol over Ethernet links.
US11283733B2
Methods and systems for modifying network traffic data. The method of modifying network traffic may include receiving a network traffic data unit that includes an identifier, at a proxy port; based on the identifier, performing a proxy port action set to obtain a modified network traffic data unit; and transmitting the modified network traffic data unit towards an egress port.
US11283721B2
Various example embodiments for supporting application-based traffic control in a multipath network are presented herein. Various example embodiments for supporting application-based traffic control in a multipath network may be configured to support application-based traffic steering, application-based traffic blocking, or the like, as well as various combinations thereof. Various example embodiments for supporting application-based traffic control in a multipath network may be configured to support application-based traffic control in various types of multipath networks, such as multipath networks combining wireline and wireless access technologies between an end-user customer premises and a network gateway (e.g., between a hybrid-access customer premises equipment (HCPE) and a hybrid-access gateway (HAG), in a hybrid-access communication network (e.g., based on a Broadband Forum TR-348 specification), that are in communication based on a multipath communication capability), multipath networks combining multiple wireless access technologies (e.g., cellular, WiFi, or the like) between an end user mobile device and a network gateway, or the like.
US11283718B2
Embodiments of hybrid network processing load distribution in a computing device are disclosed therein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a main processor, an indication from the network interface controller to perform network processing operations for first and second packets in a queue of a virtual port of the network interface controller, and in response to receiving the request, assigning multiple cores for performing the network processing operations for the first and second packets, respectively. The method also includes performing the network processing operations at the multiple cores to effect processing and transmission of the first and second packets to first and second applications, respectively, both the first and second applications executing in a virtual machine hosted on the computing device.
US11283714B2
Provided are a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus and controlling methods thereof. The transmitting apparatus includes: at least one processor configured to implement a packet generator which generates a packet including a header and a payload based on a plurality of input packets; and a signal processor which signal-processes the generated packet, and a transmitter configured to transmit the signal-processed packet. A base field included in the header includes a first field set to a first value representing that the base field is a first length or a second value representing that the base field is a second length.
US11283700B2
Technologies for low-latency data streaming include a computing device having a processor that includes a producer and a consumer. The producer generates a data item, and in a local buffer producer mode adds the data item to a local buffer, and in a remote buffer producer mode adds the data item to a remote buffer. When the local buffer is full, the producer switches to the remote buffer producer mode, and when the remote buffer is below a predetermined low threshold, the producer switches to the local buffer producer mode. The consumer reads the data item from the local buffer while operating in a local buffer consumer mode and reads the data item from the remote buffer while operating in a remote buffer consumer mode. When the local buffer is above a predetermined high threshold, the consumer may switch to a catch-up operating mode. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11283695B2
A distributed cloud computing system is disclosed that includes a controller configured to deploy a plurality of gateways in a first cloud computing network and logic, stored on non-transitory, computer-medium. The logic, upon execution by one or more processors, causes performance of operations including: generating a topology mapping of the first cloud computing network including a plurality of constructs and connections therebetween, wherein the plurality of constructs includes the plurality of gateways, receiving input corresponding to a selection of a source construct and a destination construct, determining a data transmission path between the source construct and the destination construct, generating a visualization illustrating the data transmission path, and causing rendering of the visualization on a display screen of a network device.
US11283689B2
A method for managing of managing a server center comprising: obtaining, from the switch, a MAC address and location information of each of the servers connected to the switch, and generating a first list; obtaining a MAC addresses and an IP address of each of the servers from the server center by using an IPMI command, and generating a second list; generating a third list based on the first list and the second list; obtaining a MAC address or an IP address of a server to be queried; and comparing the MAC address or the IP address of the server to be queried and the third list, and obtaining the location information of the server to be queried. A server center managing device and a non-transitory storage medium are also provided.
US11283675B2
A system for maintenance of electronic programmable devices. The system includes a cabinet having at least a first compartment and a second compartment. The first compartment includes a first communication interface, a second communication interface and a third communication interface configured to be connected to different electronic programmable devices. The system further includes a cabinet server installed in the second compartment; a communication module configured to connect the cabinet server to a remote computer or to a remote server, and configured to connect the electronic programmable device to the remote computer or to the remote server; and a cabinet communication network configured to connect the electronic programmable device to the cabinet server.
US11283660B2
The present disclosure relates to mobile communications methods for obtaining a reference signal in a wireless communications system. In one example method, a network device obtains a demodulation reference signal sequence corresponding to position offset information, maps the demodulation reference signal sequence to a resource element in a control channel resource set, and sends demodulation reference signal corresponding to the demodulation reference signal sequence.
US11283658B2
Methods and apparatus for phased-based pre-carrier signal detection in a communication system are described. In embodiments, inphase and quadrature (IQ) data is generated from a received signal. A current phase delta value is determined from the IQ data and combined with existing phase delta value, such as an averaged phase delta value, which is compared with a threshold value to determine if a pre-carrier signal in the received signal has ended.
US11283652B2
A communication system and method is disclosed, applicable to the mobile communication using pilot-free channel estimation. In the uplink multiple access, the present invention utilizes the gain division multiple access (GDMA) technology to allow multiple users to share the same resource by utilizing the knowledge of different channel coefficients (channel gains) to distinguish signals transmitted by different users when the transmissions are over different and independent fading channels. Without using pilot signals for channel estimation, the present invention uses the clustering algorithm and the geometrical configuration of the superimposed signals for the superimposed signal sequence received by the base station to implement the estimation of channel gains corresponding to multiple users, and, according to the estimated channel gains, the GDMA technology is utilized to recover the original message transmitted by each user.
US11283646B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of monitoring Local Interconnect Network (LIN) nodes and a monitoring device performing the method. In an aspect a method of a monitoring device of monitoring a plurality of LIN buses is provided, wherein at least one LIN node is connected to each LIN bus, said plurality of LIN buses being interconnected via the monitoring device. The method comprises detecting, for each LIN bus, any dominant data being sent over said each LIN bus by a LIN node connected to said each LIN bus and routing said any dominant data received by the monitoring device over said each LIN bus to all remaining LIN buses without overwriting any dominant data sent over the remaining LIN buses.
US11283640B2
A device for operation in a wireless network may comprise a transmitter configured to transmit protocol information to a plurality of base stations. The protocol information may comprise resource scheduling information and sequence number information. The resource scheduling information may include a bitmap which indicates whether subchannels are organized consecutively or whether subchannels are distributed. The sequence number information may allow the plurality of base stations to sequentially order received packets. The transmitter may be further configured to transmit data, to the plurality of base stations, in accordance with the resource scheduling information and the sequence number information.
US11283636B2
A method for enabling a charging of packet switched data transfer between an authorized customer and a network. The method includes transferring a total data volume via at least a first data path and a second data path between an equipment related to the authorized customer and a hybrid access aggregation point (HAAP) as an access to the network. Each of the at least a first data path and a second data bath use a different access technology for transferring its respective part of the total data volume. The total data volume is determined as a sum of the respective parts of the total data volume transferred in both the first path and the second path. The total data volume is used by a central charging unit for a charging.
US11283633B2
Systems and methods for secure communication between devices where one device has a physical unclonable function (“PUF”) array of PUF devices and another device stores data representing characteristics of the PUF array include encryption schemes using repeated application of one-way cryptographic functions to message segments. The devices transmit or receive a processing instruction used to determined PUF devices whose measured characteristics are used to derive encryption keys. Messages are segmented and message information is securely transmitted by repeatedly application of a suitable one-way cryptographic function to each message segment where the number of applications of the function is determined by each message segment. Because both devices may independently generate the same encryption keys (including “public” keys which otherwise would need to be exchanged or published) by either measuring the PUF devices or retrieving data representing characteristics of the PUF devices, communications overhead is reduced and security is improved.
US11283628B2
An information processing device includes: a non-volatile storage; a communication interface; a processor; and a memory. The non-volatile storage is configured to store a private key. The memory stores computer-readable instructions therein. The computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the information processing device to perform: acquiring the private key from the non-volatile storage; acquiring a certificate from a specific external device via the communication interface, the certificate including a public key corresponding to the private key, and the specific external device being different from the information processing device; converting specific data using the private key to generate converted specific data, the converting including one of encrypting the specific data and decrypting the specific data encrypted using the public key; and outputting the certificate.
US11283624B2
A method and a computer system is provided for executing the method for providing a registration data directory service (RDDS). The method includes obtaining, at a RDDS, a RDDS query comprising a location assertion from a RDDS client from a RDDS client; providing, by the RDDS, a request for personally identifying information (PII) for the RDDS query from a privacy provider, wherein the request comprises the location assertion; obtaining, by the RDDS, the PII for the RDDS query; and providing, by the RDDS, a response to the RDDS query to the RDDS client, wherein the response comprises PII.
US11283622B2
Implementations of this specification provide signature verification methods and apparatuses for a blockchain ledger. An example method includes receiving by a server, a signature verification instruction that comprises a verification object parameter and a hash value. The verification object parameter includes a third-party parameter, a platform parameter, or a time service certificate parameter, the verification object parameter indicates a type of a to-be-verified object, and the server is configured to store data by using the blockchain ledger. The server obtains the to-be-verified object based on the verification object parameter and the hash value. The type of the to-be-verified object includes a third-party digital signature, a server digital signature, or a time service certificate. The server sends the to-be-verified object to a client for verification by the client.
US11283618B1
Examples described herein relate to systems, apparatuses, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for cryptographically determining a loyalty account identifier, including determining a cryptographic key, determining an input parameter, and generating the loyalty account identifier using a cryptography method based on the cryptographic key and the input parameter. The cryptographic key and the input parameter are inputs to the cryptography method. The loyalty account identifier is an output of the cryptography method.
US11283615B2
A system and method for user authentication at a kiosk from a mobile device is disclosed. A particular embodiment is implemented for: configuring a kiosk to detect the presence of a mobile device in the proximity of the kiosk; configuring the mobile device to detect the presence of kiosk in the proximity of the mobile device; prompting a user of the mobile device to perform a login operation on the mobile device upon detection of the kiosk in the proximity of the mobile device; verifying the authentication of the user with the mobile device as a result of the login operation on the mobile device; and transferring unique kiosk session keys from the mobile device to the kiosk in proximity of the mobile device upon authentication of the user with the mobile device.
US11283612B2
An information processing device according to the present invention includes: a memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform: acquiring a first time; generating, based on the first time, a term of validity of a first access token, and generating a policy including the first access token, the term of validity, and identification information of a receiver of the first access token; generating a digital signature, based on the policy; generating a second access token including the policy and the digital signature; and transmitting the second access token to another device.
US11283608B2
A device and method for processing a ciphertext, including determining a seed using a secret key and the ciphertext, extracting a public key candidate from the ciphertext using the seed, determining a checkvalue candidate based on the public key candidate, comparing the checkvalue candidate with a checkvalue, and further processing the ciphertext if the comparison indicates that the checkvalue candidate corresponds to the checkvalue.
US11283606B2
The present disclosure provides a trusted execution environment-based key burning system. After a terminal device is enabled, a normal operating system is started, the normal operating system acquires key data to be burned and outputs a switching signal and the key data to be burned, a microprocessor receives the switching signal in a monitor mode and the microprocessor is switched to the secure operating system from the normal operating system, the secure operating system receives the key data to be burned and decrypts the data to be burned according to preset key data, to acquire and write the corresponding original key data into a secure storage area of the secure operating system. Due to the use of the trusted execution environment-based key burning, the key is burned, stored and used safely. In addition, the cryptography protects the key from unexpected damage in transmission and keeps the key integral.
US11283604B2
Concepts and technologies are described herein for sharing encrypted data with enhanced security. In some configurations, an encryption key is generated from a password by the use of a password-based key generation technology. In addition, input data is encrypted using the encryption key. The encrypted data and the generated key may be then shared with a remote computer, such as a server. The encrypted data can then be decrypted at the remote computer by the use of the key. By the use of the technologies described herein, the contents of an encrypted file may be accessed at a remote computer without requiring a user to share the actual password.
US11283593B2
In general, this disclosure describes encryption engines that adaptively synchronize signals and suppress glitch propagation in a data decryption pipeline. An apparatus includes a decryption data path having a plurality of computational stages arranged in a pipeline configured to decrypt an encrypted block of data to form a decrypted block of data. One of the computational stages included in the pipeline of the decryption data path includes multiple asymmetric logical paths. A first signal traverses a first logical path and a second signal traverses a second logical path having a greater number of logical units than the first logical path. A glitch suppression register of the apparatus is configured to synchronize the first signal with respect to the second signal such that the first signal and the second signal arrive at a downstream logic element of the computational stage of the decryption data path at substantially a same time.
US11283589B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing a deskewing method for a physical layer interface on a multi-chip module are disclosed. A circuit connected to a plurality of communication lanes trains each lane to synchronize a local clock of the lane with a corresponding global clock at a beginning of a timing window. Next, the circuit symbol rotates each lane by a single step responsive to determining that all of the plurality of lanes have an incorrect symbol alignment. Responsive to determining that some but not all of the plurality of lanes have a correct symbol alignment, the circuit symbol rotates lanes which have an incorrect symbol alignment by a single step. When the end of the timing window has been reached, the circuit symbol rotates lanes which have a correct symbol alignment and adjusts a phase of a corresponding global clock to compensate for missed symbol rotations.
US11283585B2
A decentralized communication device is provided that facilitates optimal positioning and orientation of one or more antennas for wireless communication with external devices. The decentralized communication device includes one or more master components and one or more slave components. The master and the slave components are physically separate and communicate wirelessly. In some embodiments the slave acts as a carrier frequency translator between the master and an external wireless device, where it communicates with the external device using a first frequency and communicates with the master using a second frequency which is different from the first frequency. In another embodiment the slave has most or all the physical layer to do the digital coding, digital modulation, data framing, data formatting and data packetization for communicating with an external device, in which case digital coding and digital modulation is distributed between the master and the slave.
US11283579B2
There is provided a method for performing communication related to inter-band CA. The method is performed by a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device may receive cell information from a PCell. The cell information may include first information that the PCell is collocated with a SCell within a base station or second information that the PCell is not collocated with the SCell. The PCell and the SCell are configured for the inter-band CA. The wireless communication device may perform communication with at least one of the PCell and the SCell.
US11283571B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a sounding reference signal (SRS) on a plurality of antenna ports. The UE may transmit the SRS on one or more virtual antenna ports, the one or more virtual antenna ports being based at least in part on the plurality of antenna ports. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11283563B2
A method of power saving for a wireless transceiver (FIGS. 1 and 2) is disclosed. The transceiver has an active power mode (504) and a reduced power mode (510). The transceiver is operated in the reduced power mode (510) and monitors transmissions from a remote wireless transmitter while in the reduced power mode. The transceiver identifies a transmission from the remote wireless transmitter by a transceiver identity included in the transmission (FIG. 6, UE identification). The transceiver transitions to the active power mode (512) in response to identifying the transmission.
US11283558B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for aligning uplink transmission with downlink transmission. The method includes at least one of: obtaining a time unit; performing at least one of uplink transmission or downlink transmission on a spectrum resource corresponding to the time unit; or configuring at least one timing advance (TA) adjustment amount over the time unit.
US11283553B2
Embodiments of this application provide a data processing method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a first device, control information, where the control information includes information about a first resource and information about a HARQ process; receiving, by the first device on a second resource, data associated with the control information; and placing the data into a buffer of a HARQ process of a HARQ entity associated with the first resource. The associated data is sent on the plurality of resources. The initially transmitted data and the retransmitted data are stored in the buffer of the specified process of the specified HARQ entity according to an indication of the control information, to improve a decoding success rate.
US11283550B2
An embodiment method comprises receiving at least one frame comprising consecutive bits transported by a serial bus; estimating an arrival period of a last bit of the consecutive bits; and starting a sending of an acknowledgement of receipt before the end of the estimated arrival period.
US11283549B2
Embodiments related to retransmission in a communication system are described and depicted. In one embodiment, a retransmission entity repeats a transmission of data transfer unit by the device after a predetermined number of other transmitted data transfer units has been transmitted. The retransmission entity may also determine whether a measure for a time period since the first transmission of the data transfer unit by the device has exceeded a predetermined threshold and to provide a final transmission of the data transfer unit based on the determining that the measure for the time period has exceeded the predetermined threshold.
US11283548B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may identify a first grant repetition configuration of a plurality of grant repetition configurations for a user equipment (UE). The base station may generate a grant repetition parameter corresponding to the first grant repetition configuration. The base station may transmit the grant repetition parameter to the UE to indicate the first grant repetition configuration. The base station may transmit a repetition of grants in accordance with the first grant repetition configuration. The UE may receive the grant repetition parameter from the base station and determine a grant repetition configuration corresponding to the grant repetition parameter. The UE may monitor for a repetition of grants corresponding to the determined grant repetition configuration.
US11283547B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related user multiplexing with discrete Fourier transform (DFT) precoded frequency interlaces are provided. A first wireless communication device identifies a first block-spreading code from a set of block-spreading codes associated with user multiplexing. The first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device using a frequency interlace in a frequency spectrum, a first communication signal including a first block of information symbols spread across a set of resource blocks (RBs) within the frequency interlace based on the first block-spreading code. The first communication signal is generated by block-spreading the first block of information symbols based on the first block-spreading code to produce a first block of spread information symbols, performing a DFT on the first block of spread information symbols, and mapping the first block of spread information symbols to the set of RBs.
US11283539B2
Described is a method performed by an encoder of a base station system of a wireless communication network, for handling a data stream comprising a number of consecutive IQ samples for transmission over a transmission network between a remote unit and a base unit of the base station system. The remote unit is arranged to transmit wireless signals to and receive from mobile stations, each of the number of IQ samples comprising a first number of bits. The method comprises quantizing, by a quantizer, the IQ samples or IQ prediction errors of the IQ samples with a second number of bits, wherein an amplitude range of the quantizer for the second number of bits is variable and set based on an acceptable signal quality value, entropy encoding the quantized IQ samples or IQ prediction errors applying a first entropy encoding dictionary out of a plurality of entropy encoding dictionaries, based on the set amplitude range of the quantizer, and transmitting, to a decoder, the entropy encoded and quantized IQ samples or IQ prediction errors over the transmission network.
US11283534B2
The interference power estimation apparatus 1 calculates an inter-station vector from an interfering station over a sphere to an interfered station installed in the sphere based on a position of each station. In a case where a line segment connecting the position of the interfered station and the position of the interfering station does not intersect with the sphere, an angle between an antenna direction vector representing a direction of an antenna from the position of the interfered station and the inter-station vector is derived, and a sum of an antenna directivity attenuation amount obtained based on the angle and propagation losses calculated based on a distance between the interfered station and the interfering station is calculated. The interference power estimation apparatus 1 calculates the sum for each of a plurality of possible positions of the interfering station, but does not calculate the sum in a case where the line segment connecting the position of the interfered station and the position of the interfering station intersects with the sphere. The interference power estimation apparatus 1 calculates interference power from the interfering station, based on a minimum value of the calculated sum.
US11283530B2
Certain aspects involve a wideband remote unit. The wideband remote unit can include one or more antennas and an analog-to-digital converter (“ADC”). The antenna can receive wideband signals. The wideband signals can include an uplink RF signal and a leaked downlink RF signal. The uplink RF signal can have an uplink signal power at or near a noise level. The leaked downlink RF signal can have a downlink signal power greater than the uplink signal power. The ADC can convert the received wideband signals to digital RF signals representing the uplink signal and the downlink signal. The wideband remote unit can transmit the digital RF signals to a unit of a DAS that is in communication with a base station.
US11283528B2
A digital coherent receiver includes: an adaptive equalizer configured to execute, using a first tap coefficient, adaptive equalization processing on a digital signal that corresponds to a signal; a first coefficient updating unit configured to update the first tap coefficient based on the digital signal on which the adaptive equalization processing has not been executed, the digital signal on which the adaptive equalization processing has been executed, and a first step size; a second coefficient updating unit configured to update a second tap coefficient based on the digital signal on which the adaptive equalization processing has not been executed, the digital signal on which the adaptive equalization processing has been executed, and a second step size; and a control unit configured to detect a fluctuation speed of a state of polarization of the digital signal based on the second tap coefficient, and change the first tap coefficient to the updated second tap coefficient if it is determined that the fluctuation speed is higher than or equal to a speed threshold.
US11283527B2
An optical transmission system includes an optical transmitter and an optical receiver. The optical transmitter includes a low speed signal generation unit configured to generate, based on an input signal of a transmission data sequence and a signal obtained by cyclically shifting a spectrum of the input signal, a plurality of low speed signals, a high speed signal generation unit configured to digital-to-analog convert and synthesize the plurality of low speed signals to generate a high speed signal, and an optical modulation unit configured to transmit an optical signal obtained by modulation of the high speed signal to a transmission path. The optical receiver includes a reception unit configured to receive the optical signal from the transmission path and output the high speed signal obtained from the optical signal that is received, an optical-receiver-side high speed signal compensation unit configured to compensate, based on the high speed signal output by the reception unit and a signal obtained by cyclically shifting a spectrum of the high speed signal, for the high speed signal, and a reception data decoding unit configured to decode the high speed signal compensated by the optical-receiver-side high speed signal compensation unit to restore binary information included in the optical signal transmitted by the optical transmitter.
US11283523B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for an optical domain controller for managing and maintaining a record of network component configuration and interconnections. The optical domain controller detects changes in a configuration of optical network elements in response to a requested service from the network, coordinates additional changes in configurations to optical network elements that may be affected by the detected change, communicates with the optical network elements to incorporate the changes to the configurations of the network element, and stores the configurations and states of the network elements. The use of the optical domain controller may thus replace or supplement a database storing network configuration information by automatically managing changes to the network as new services are instantiated directly on the optical network elements.
US11283520B2
A display apparatus comprises an at least partially transparent display, the display configured to generate light to form an image for display to a user positioned in front of the display, and at least one light-transmitting and/or light-receiving device positioned behind the display, wherein the at least one light-transmitting and/or light-receiving device is configured to transmit and/or receive light through at least part of the display, wherein the at least one light-transmitting and/or light-receiving device comprises or forms part of an optical wireless communications (OWC) apparatus configured to transmit and/or receive the light through the at least part of the display.
US11283518B2
An optical network having a first terminal node, a second terminal node, and a network service system is described. The first terminal node has a plurality of ports and a signal restoration component to create a restored path. The second terminal node has a plurality of ports and a failure monitor to issue a path failure notice. A working path, a protection path, and the restored path are each fiber optic lines optically coupling the first terminal node to the second terminal node to enable a service, each path requiring a quantity of exclusive licenses. The network service system receives a path failure notice indicating a working path failure, calculates the quantity of licenses required by the restored path, releases the quantity of licenses required by the working path and applies at least a portion of the quantity of licenses to the quantity of licenses required by the restored path.
US11283510B2
An network of wireless RF repeaters includes a first communication device and a second communication device. The first communication device obtains a plurality of radio frequency (RF) signals corresponding to different communication protocols from a plurality of communication systems. A frequency of each of the plurality of RF signals is upconverted to a different frequency, which introduces a phase noise in the plurality of RF signals. The plurality of RF signals corresponding to different communication protocols are merged into a mmWave RF signal of a specified frequency and a defined pilot tone is inserted into the mmWave RF signal. The second communication device captures the mmWave RF signal having the defined pilot tone over-the-air. At least one RF signal is down converted to a source frequency and the phase noise in the one extracted RF signal is reduced concurrently based on a reference of the defined pilot tone.
US11283503B2
This application provides a communication method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes the steps of: receiving, by the terminal device, configuration information, where the configuration information is used to instruct the terminal device to jointly report channel state information (CSI) for at least two groups of channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) resources; receiving, by the terminal device, CSI-RSs carried on the at least two groups of CSI-RS resources; and jointly reporting, by the terminal device, CSI based on a result of measuring the CSI-RSs carried on the at least two groups of CSI-RS resources. According to embodiments of this application, transmission performance can be improved.
US11283493B2
A communication system utilizing reconfigurable antenna systems is described where beam steering and null forming techniques are incorporated to limit the region or volume available for communication with client devices. The communication system described restricts communication to defined or desired area and degrades signal strength coverage outside of a prescribed region. An algorithm is used to control the antenna system to monitor and control antenna system performance across the service area. This antenna system technique is applicable for use in communication systems such as a Local Area Network (LAN), cellular communication network, and Machine to Machine (M2M).
US11283485B2
A circuit for the connection, by means of signals, of a microcontroller for generating a near-field communication signal to an antenna structure for near-field communication signal transmission, the circuit including a filter circuit and the antenna structure, the filter circuit being an even-numbered order filter circuit, the ordinal number being at least 4, wherein an amplitude response (FG) of the circuit decreases monotonically in a defined frequency range.
US11283484B2
Various embodiments are directed to dynamically and temporarily adjusting power to an NFC reader of a computing device from a first power level to a second power level based on a feedback mechanism between a contactless card and the computing device. The contactless card may provide a message containing a checksum. The computing device may receive the message and calculate a checksum based on the received message. By comparing these two checksums, it may be determined whether the entire message has been correctly received. If not, the power to the NFC reader may be temporarily increased to allow better communication between the contactless card and the computing device.
US11283482B2
A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that receives a system information including an index; and a processor that determines a parameter set corresponding to a value of the index from a plurality of cell-specific parameter sets for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) before radio resource control (RRC) connection, and determines an initial cyclic shift index from the determined parameter set based on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), wherein the plurality of cell-specific parameter sets includes a first parameter set having an initial cyclic shift index set {0,3} for PUCCH format 0, and a second parameter set having an initial cyclic index set {0,6} for PUCCH format 1. In another aspect, a base station is also disclosed.
US11283479B2
Apparatus and methods for radio frequency (RF) signal limiting are provided. In certain embodiments, an RF signal limiting system includes a cascade of a front limiter and a biased limiter. Additionally, the front limiter provides an initial amount of limiting to an RF signal, while the biased limiter serves to further limit the RF signal. The biased limiter is adaptively biased such that the amount of limiting provided to the RF signal increases in response to an increase in the RF signal level. Such an RF signal limiting system can be used in a variety of applications, including protecting an input of a low noise amplifier (LNA).
US11283477B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio receiving device for a vehicle, having a first signal processing unit, which comprises an MRC module for combining a plurality of synchronized analog intermediate frequency signals into one combined analog intermediate frequency signal and a demodulator for extracting a useful signal from the combined analog intermediate frequency signal. The present disclosure further relates to a radio receiving system and a method for a vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and/or for receiving a radio signal from a stationary radio transmitter.
US11283471B2
A bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) reception device and a BICM reception method are disclosed herein. The BICM reception device includes a demodulator, a bit deinterleaver, and a decoder. The demodulator performs demodulation corresponding to 1024-symbol mapping. The bit deinterleaver performs group-unit deinterleaving on interleaved values. The interleaved values are generated after the demodulation. The decoder restores information bits by LDPC-decoding deinterleaved values generated based on the group-unit deinterleaving. The deinterleaved values corresponds to a LDPC codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 2/15.
US11283469B2
An integrated circuit for outputting a function value, comprising a pattern matching circuit, configured to compare an input value and multiple transformed versions of the input value with a specified bit pattern, wherein the transformed versions of the input value or the specified bit pattern are created by repeated application of a transformation to the input value or the specified bit pattern, wherein the function is invariant under the transformation or wherein an inverse transformation exists for the transformation, by means of which a change in the function values that is caused by the transformation of the input values can be reversed, a selection circuit configured to select a function value depending on the matching result of the pattern matching circuit and the input value, and an output circuit configured to output a function value for the input value based on the selected function value.
US11283467B1
A network interface groups and encodes a plurality of bits into a plurality of bit blocks such that a number of bits within the fixed-length frame are available for use as parity bits in a fixed-length frame. The network interface device aggregates a first set of bit blocks and a second set of bit blocks into an aggregated bit block, and encodes a portion of the aggregated bit block using a first encoder to generate a first set of encoded bits according to a first error correction encoding scheme. The network interface device encodes a remaining portion of the aggregated bit block using a second encoder to generate a second set of encoded bits according to a second error correction encoding scheme. A number of parity bits generated by the first and second encoders does not exceed the number of bits in the fixed-length frame made available for use as parity bits.
US11283466B2
An identification is made that a link is to exit an active state, the link comprising a plurality of lanes. Parity information is maintained for the lanes based on data previously sent over the link, and an indication of the parity information is sent prior to the exit from the active state.
US11283449B2
An interface system including: a receiver; a transmitter configured to transmit a signal including a common mode voltage to the receiver through transmission lines; and a plurality of bias circuits configured to adjust the common mode voltage of the signal, wherein the bias circuits are configured to receive a bias control bit to generate a biased common mode voltage.
US11283447B2
An impedance calibration circuit includes first and second calibration circuits, a switch circuit and a control circuit. The first calibration circuit is coupled to an external resistance, and generates a first voltage. The second calibration circuit generates second and third voltages. The switch circuit is coupled to the first and second calibration circuits. The switch circuit selectively provides the first, second, and third voltages to first and second nodes. The control circuit is coupled to the first and second nodes. The control circuit generates first, second, and third control signals according to voltages of the first and second nodes. In a first time interval, the switch circuit provides the first voltage to the first and second nodes. In a second time interval, the switch circuit provides the second voltage to the first and second nodes, or provides the second and third voltages respectively to the first and second nodes.
US11283445B1
Trap circuits for use with superconducting integrated circuits having capacitively-coupled resonant clock networks are described. An example superconducting integrated circuit (IC) includes a clock structure coupled: (1) to a first Josephson junction (JJ) via a first capacitor, where the first capacitor is configured to receive a clock signal via the clock structure and couple a first bias current to the first JJ, and (2) to a second JJ via a second capacitor, where the second capacitor is configured to receive a clock signal via the clock structure and couple a second bias current to the second JJ. The superconducting IC further includes a trap circuit coupled between the first capacitor and the first JJ, where the trap circuit is configured to attenuate any signals generated by a triggering of the first JJ to reduce crosstalk between the first JJ and the second JJ.
US11283444B2
Techniques are provided for fanning out a signal from a balun. In various aspects, the system can include a balun configured to receive a signal for transmission at an input and to provide a representation of the signal at an output, a plurality of pass gate circuits, each pass gate circuit configured to receive the representation of the signal at a first node, to receive a control signal at a second node to pass the representation of the signal to a third node when the control signal is in a first state, and to isolate the representation of the signal from the third node when the control signal is in a second state. The first state of the control signal can include a non-zero voltage, and the second state of the control signal can include the non-zero voltage with a polarity opposite the non-zero voltage of the first state.
US11283442B2
A semiconductor device, including a power supply terminal, an output terminal, a ground terminal, an N-channel main MOSFET connected between the power supply terminal and the output terminal, a drive circuit which operates to drive the main MOSFET, using a potential difference, between the power supply terminal and an internal ground, as a power supply thereof, an internal ground generation circuit which is provided between the power supply terminal and the ground terminal and which generates the internal ground, an N-channel first MOSFET provided between an output terminal of the internal ground generation circuit and the ground terminal, and a low voltage detection circuit which is provided between the power supply terminal and the ground terminal, and which turns on the first MOSFET upon detecting that a voltage between the power supply terminal and the ground terminal drops below a prescribed voltage.
US11283439B2
A semiconductor device includes a power semiconductor chip, a threshold setting unit and a breaker circuit. The power semiconductor chip is connected between an output terminal and an earth terminal, and is configured to be turned on or off according to a potential at a gate terminal thereof. The threshold setting unit outputs an interrupt signal upon detecting that a voltage of a control signal received at an input terminal is lower than a predetermined voltage. The breaker circuit is connected between the gate terminal and the earth terminal, and switches on upon receiving the interrupt signal to thereby turn off the power semiconductor chip. The threshold setting unit includes a feed circuit that is configured to supply an electric charge stored in gate capacitance of the power semiconductor chip to the threshold setting unit responsive to a sudden drop of the voltage of the control signal.
US11283436B2
Circuitry and methods of operating the same to delay a signal by a precise and variable amount. One embodiment is directed to a high speed delay line used in automated test equipment. The inventors have recognized and appreciated that an input signal having high data rate may be split into parallel split signals having lower data rates that are delayed in respective parallel delay paths before being combined to generate a delayed signal. One advantage of delaying a signal in such a fashion is to provide high delay line timing accuracy at high data speeds, while using a compact circuit design using circuitry components of lower bandwidth with reduced power consumption, for example by using complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS). A further advantage is that a high speed delay line may be constructed from multiple lower data rate parallel delay lines that are modular, simplifying circuit design.
US11283427B2
Hybrid filters and more particularly filters having acoustic wave resonators (AWRs) and lumped component (LC) resonators and packages therefor are described. In an example, a packaged filter includes a package substrate, the package substrate having a first side and a second side, the second side opposite the first side. A first acoustic wave resonator (AWR) device is coupled to the package substrate, the first AWR device comprising a resonator. A plurality of inductors is in the package substrate.
US11283422B2
A resonator that includes a substrate, an insulating film that is formed on the substrate, and vibration regions each of which is formed on the insulating film and includes lower electrodes that are formed on the insulating film, a piezoelectric film that is formed on the lower electrodes, and an upper electrode that is formed on the piezoelectric film. At least one lower electrode of the lower electrodes that are formed on the insulating film has an electric potential that differs from an electric potential of another lower electrode such that at least one vibration region vibrates in antiphase with another vibration region. Moreover, a package seals a resonator and includes the substrate, the insulating film, and the vibration regions and includes a ground terminal for grounding the substrate.
US11283418B2
An electronic device comprises a speaker protection module (36) arranged to receive an audio signal (22) and to use one or more parameters relating to a loudspeaker to produce a controlled audio signal (34). An amplifier (40) is arranged to amplify the controlled audio signal to produce an amplified audio signal (24, 26) which is passed to the loudspeaker. The amplitude of the controlled audio signal (34) is such that the amplified audio signal (24, 26) is less than or equal to an amplitude determined to be safe for the loudspeaker in view of the one or more parameters. An ultrasound generator (16) is arranged to generate an ultrasound signal (30) that is mixed (32) with the controlled audio signal (34) before the controlled audio signal (34) is passed to the amplifier (40). The ultrasound generator (16) is capable of producing said ultrasound signal at a plurality of frequencies.
US11283417B2
A decline in image quality that is caused by a variation of a gain in an amplification circuit is suppressed. The amplification circuit includes an amplification transistor, a cascode transistor, and a control circuit. The amplification transistor amplifies an input signal. The cascode transistor is configured to, in a case where a drain-source voltage between a drain and a source is higher than a predetermined voltage, supply a substantially-constant drain current to a reference potential line with a predetermined reference potential via the amplification transistor. Further, the control circuit is configured to, in a case where an initialization instruction is issued, control the drain-source voltage to be a value higher than the predetermined voltage.
US11283415B2
A MIM capacitor is included in any one or more of a first matching circuit and a second matching circuit. The mat capacitor performs impedance matching of a fundamental wave included in a high-frequency signal with a transmission line, and forms a short-circuit point for a harmonic included in the high-frequency signal at a connection point with the transmission line.
US11283404B1
A tunable oscillator includes a current bias circuit configured to generate a reference bias current, a variable voltage bias circuit configured to receive the reference bias current and generate a bias voltage varied based on a voltage control signal, an oscillation signal generator circuit configured to generate an oscillation signal based on the reference bias current and a switching control signal, and a switching control circuit configured to generate the switching control signal based on the bias voltage and the oscillation signal. A frequency of the oscillation signal is varied based on a magnitude of the bias voltage.
US11283403B1
A temperature-controlled and temperature-compensated oscillating device and a method of temperature control and temperature compensation is disclosed. The operating temperature of a frequency source is adjusted by driving a heater to a target temperature when the ambient temperature is in a first range between a first temperature and a second temperature higher than the third temperature. The frequency variation of the frequency source resulted from a variation of the ambient temperature is reduced by applying a voltage to the frequency source when the ambient temperature is in a second range between a third temperature and a fourth temperature higher than the third temperature. The third temperature is higher than the first temperature.
US11283394B2
A system including a solar module installed on a roof deck, including a superstrate layer, an encapsulant having an upper layer and a lower layer, and a photovoltaic layer intermediate the upper layer and the lower layer of the encapsulant. An upper surface of the superstrate layer includes an indentation pattern. The indentation pattern includes a mesh of indentations indented into the upper surface of the superstrate layer and a plurality of openings defined by the mesh of indentations.
US11283391B2
Systems and methods for detecting a current measurement gain error in a current measurement system is disclosed. The method includes reading an output voltage signal, extracting a signature of a current measurement gain error from the output voltage signal, detecting an existence of the current measurement gain error based on the signature, and responsive to detecting the existence of the current measurement gain error, identifying a diagnostic voltage phase in which the current measurement gain error exists.
US11283389B2
A motor system includes first and second solid-state relays disposed between an inverter configured to control energization to a first coil set of a motor and an in-vehicle battery for supplying power to the inverter, and connected in series in this order in a direction from the inverter to the battery. The first solid-state relay has a first diode of which a forward direction is from the battery to the inverter. The second solid-state relay has a second diode of which a forward direction is from the inverter to the battery. Motor relays, each having a third diode of which a forward direction is from the neutral point to the inverter, are connected to the phase coils of the first coil set. When power supply from the battery to the inverter is interrupted, the first solid-state relay is turned off after the motor relays are turned off.
US11283387B2
A system includes a motor and a motor controller coupled to the motor. The motor controller includes a current sense circuit configured to: receive a first phase current sense measurement on a first measurement path; receive the first phase current sense measurement on a second measurement path; receive a second phase current measurement on the first measurement path; receive the second phase current on the second measurement path; average the first phase current sense measurement on the first measurement path with the first phase current sense measurement on the second path; and average the second phase current sense measurement on the first measurement path with the second phase current sense measurement on the second path.
US11283386B2
There is provided a power conversion device capable of eliminating a disadvantage of a sharp temperature rise in a switching element by using a discontinuous modulation method. The power conversion device includes a phase voltage command operation unit 33 which calculates a sinusoidal modulation voltage command value to be applied to a motor 8, an inter-line modulation operation unit 34 which, based on the sinusoidal modulation voltage command value, calculates a discontinuous modulation voltage command value for allowing an ON/OFF state of a switching element of one phase of a three-phase inverter circuit 28 to be fixed, and modulating ON/OFF states of switching elements of other two phases, and a PWM signal generation unit 36. The inter-line modulation operation unit sets a switching density of the switching element of at least one phase to a value different from that of the other phase.
US11283385B2
A motor is provided with stator windings arranged on a circumference of stator. Multiple-phase currents are supplied to the stator windings. A current is supplied to rotor windings. The multiple-phase currents include torque current components, which are arranged to be opposite in directions to torque current components of the current. By this mutually opposite-directional current arrangement, a sum of both torque current components results in a magnetomotive force of zero. It is also possible to reduce influence of the torque current components on the field magnetic fluxes of the motor. In the motor, circumferential magnetic flux components can be concentrated on an airgap and a portion near therearound, so that a larger amount of torque can be obtained, and constant output control can be performed more easily.
US11283374B2
A method is provided for manufacturing a dielectric elastomer transducer including a dielectric elastomer layer and electrode layers sandwiching the elastomer layer. The elastomer layer when stretched exhibits a stress-strain curve having: a low strain and high elasticity region; a low elasticity region; and a high strain region. The method includes: a pre-stretching process to reduce hysteresis in elastic behavior of the elastomer layer by stretching the elastomer layer one or more times under a load as heavy as a first load before the electrodes are provided, each stretching causing the elastomer layer to undergo a tension falling in the low elasticity region; and a dielectric elastomer layer fixing process including applying a second load smaller than the first load to the elastomer layer so as to fix the elastomer layer to a support member under a second tension smaller than the first tension.
US11283363B2
A modular power conversion system is provided which includes a plurality of building blocks comprised of transformers and power conversion bridges, and a high frequency AC link that transfers power and provides galvanic isolation between the building blocks. The high frequency link includes an insulating tube separating an AC link conductor and the building blocks. The insulating tube is further provided with conductive or semiconductive layers on its inner and outer surfaces for referencing them to the electric potentials of the adjacent conductors and windings, thereby placing the high electric fields substantially directly across the tube and reducing electric fields and partial discharge or corona in the adjoining space or media. The building blocks may be arranged in multiple stacks for DC or AC interface, preferably with neutral or lower voltage connections at the outer edges of the stacks and higher voltage terminals at the centers of the stack.
US11283357B2
In one embodiment, a control circuit configured for an interleaved switching power supply, can include: (i) a feedback compensation signal generation circuit configured to sample an output voltage of the interleaved switching power supply, and to generate a feedback compensation signal; (ii) a first switch control circuit configured to compare a voltage signal indicative of an inductor current in the first voltage regulation circuit against the feedback compensation signal, and to control a first main power switch in the first voltage regulation circuit; and (iii) a second switch control circuit configured to turn on a second main power switch in the second voltage regulation circuit after half of a switching cycle after the first main power switch is turned on, and to regulate an on time of the second main power switch.
US11283355B2
A simulation current signal generation circuit applied to a power conversion circuit is disclosed. The power conversion circuit has an output terminal and includes an output stage, a PWM circuit and an impedance component. One terminal of impedance component is coupled to the output terminal. The generation circuit includes a first current signal circuit, a second current signal circuit and a switching circuit. The first current signal circuit, coupled to another terminal of impedance component, provides a first current signal. The second current signal circuit, coupled to the output stage, senses a current of a power switch in the output stage to provide a second current signal. The switching circuit, coupled to the first current signal circuit, second current signal circuit and PWM circuit respectively, selectively outputs the first current signal or second current signal according to a PWM signal provided by the PWM circuit.
US11283352B2
The present invention discloses a modular multilevel dynamic switching DC-DC transformer, which consists of N DC-DC sub-modules connected in series. Each of the DC-DC sub-modules is of a symmetrical structure capable of realizing bidirectional power flow, which consists of two half-bridge sub-modules and isolating switches S1, S2 between capacitors C1, C2 of the two half-bridge sub-modules. The capacitors C1, C2 are disposed in parallel between the half-bridge sub-modules and the isolating switches. Assuming that the power flows in the primary side of the DC-DC transformer and flows out from the secondary side; the half-bridge sub-module located on the primary side of the DC-DC transformer is referred to as a primary-side sub-module; and, the half-bridge sub-module located on the secondary side of the DC-DC transformer is referred to as a secondary-side sub-modules. By turning on or off the switching devices, the switch-on or switch-off of the primary-side sub-module or the secondary-side sub-module can be realized, leading to the dynamic switching in four different operating states of the DC-DC transformer and realizing the voltage conversion and energy exchange. Compared with the prior art, the present invention is able to change the transformer ratio dynamically, realizing the control of the DC power flow, and, greatly decreases the number of sub-modules, has remarkable economic efficiency, can effectively reduce the size of DC-DC transformers, and it is advantageous for popularization.
US11283346B2
The invention discloses a system and a method for dynamic over-current protection for power converters. The system can be connected to the output of a power stage and comprises: a comparator that measures an output current (IOUT) of the power stage; a control device that measures a voltage (VDC) of the power stage; a test generator that comprises pairs of voltage-current values (VDC-IREF) that relate voltage values with current values of the power stage, where the test generator receives the measured voltage value from the control device and sends the corresponding current value from the pairs of voltage-current values to the comparator, which halts the power stage if the output current of the power stage is higher than or equal to the value of the current associated with the measured voltage.
US11283340B2
A coil assembly in which a slack can be formed in a coil wire without increasing assembly cost, and a stepping motor using the same, are provided; the coil assembly includes a bobbin 232 having flange portions 233 and 234 at both ends thereof, multiple terminal pin embedding portions 235a arranged at one flange portion 234, a terminal pin 236 embedded in the terminal pin embedding portion 235a, and a coil 231 of which an end portion of coil wire 237 is entwined around the terminal pin 236, the coil wire 237 wound around the bobbin 232, in which a concave portion 238 which concaves to a radial direction of the bobbin 232 and penetrates to an axial direction of the bobbin 232 is formed between the terminal pin embedding portions 235a, the coil wire 237 exists from a base portion of the terminal pin 236, passes through the concave portion 238, started to be wound around the bobbin 232, and has a slack portion 237a which exists in the concave portion 238.
US11283337B2
A system may include a signal generator configured to generate a raw waveform signal and a modeling subsystem configured to implement a discrete time model of an electromagnetic load that emulates a virtual electromagnetic load and further configured to modify the raw waveform signal to generate a waveform signal for driving the electromagnetic load by modifying the virtual electromagnetic load to have a desired characteristic, applying the discrete time model to the raw waveform signal to generate the waveform signal for driving the electromagnetic load, and applying the waveform signal to the electromagnetic load.
US11283331B2
A rotating electric machine includes a rotating shaft, a rotor fixed on the rotating shaft, a stator arranged to radially face the rotor, and a housing having a tubular part. The tubular part has the stator assembled thereto on a radially inner or radially outer side thereof. Moreover, the tubular part has an inner wall portion and an outer wall portion that are radially spaced from and radially face each other. Between the inner wall portion and the outer wall portion, there is formed an annular coolant passage through which coolant flows. On an external surface of the tubular part of the housing on an opposite radial side to the stator, at least one elongate protrusion is formed, in an axial range where the at least one elongate protrusion radially overlaps the coolant passage, to extend obliquely or parallel to an axial direction of the rotating shaft.
US11283328B2
A flywheel energy storage system incorporates various embodiments in design and processing to achieve a very high ratio of energy stored per unit cost. The system uses a high-strength steel rotor rotating in a vacuum envelope. The rotor has a geometry that ensures high yield strength throughout its cross-section using various low-cost quenched and tempered alloy steels. Low-cost is also achieved by forging the rotor in a single piece with integral shafts. A high energy density is achieved with adequate safety margins through a pre-conditioning treatment. The bearing and suspension system utilizes an electromagnet that off-loads the rotor allowing for the use of low-cost, conventional rolling contact bearings over an operating lifetime of several years.
US11283320B2
A stator includes a stator core, and a coil mounted on the stator core and having an insulating film, at least a part of the insulating film being coated with a protective paint, wherein a concave section is formed in a surface of the insulating film, and the protective paint is present in the concave section. The insulating film has hollow capsules formed therein.
US11283315B2
There are provided electric motors each having a rotor, a stator, and a plurality of conductive windings each disposed around a corresponding tooth of the stator. The rotor is to rotate about an axis of rotation defining an axial direction. The rotor includes a backiron and a plurality of magnets secured to an inner surface of the backiron. The stator is disposed inside the rotor and centered about the axis of rotation. The stator includes a plurality of teeth each extending radially relative to the axis of rotation towards the inner surface of the backiron and terminating in a corresponding tooth end disposed proximal to the inner surface.
US11283313B2
A rotor assembly for a permanent magnet electric motor defines an axis of rotation and includes a jacket member and a magnet member. The magnet member is received within the jacket member. The magnet member defines a central aperture with a first end and a second end. The axis of rotation extends through the first end and the second end. The rotor assembly further includes a shaft arrangement with a first shaft structure and a second shaft structure. The first shaft structure is received in the first end of the magnet member, and the second shaft structure is received in the second end of the magnet member. The first shaft structure and the second shaft structure are attached within the magnet member at an internal coupling. The shaft arrangement and the jacket member cooperate to compress the magnet member radially with respect to the axis of rotation.
US11283312B2
A stator system for an electric vehicle motor may include a stator having a torque key extending axially from a first stator end, a case configured to surround the stator and defining a case opening to receive the torque key, the case defining a keyway between the torque key and the case opening, a torque key mechanism arranged within the keyway, wherein the torque key mechanism includes a pair of reciprocally aligned wedges defining a channel through at least one of the wedges, and a bolt insertable at the channel and configured to engage the channel to move at least one wedge and create an interference fit of the torque key mechanism within the keyway to attach the stator to the case.
US11283310B2
The invention relates to a stator, an electric machine comprising the stator, a vehicle comprising the electric machine, and a method for producing the stator. The stator comprises a stator laminated core and a housing element. The stator laminated core comprises a plurality of layered stator laminations, wherein each stator lamination has a plurality of tooth portions, each formed radially inwardly at an angular position, and indentations radially outwardly at each of the angular positions, each of which indentations has an at least partially curved edge having two radially outwardly curved edge portions, which meet at a point of intersection and describe an arc of a circle segment. The housing element comprises a cylindrical inner volume, in which the stator laminated core is arranged, the indentations forming cooling channels.
US11283306B2
A system for inductive charging is provided. In accordance with an embodiment, the system comprises a permanent magnet structure having two or more discontinuous permanent magnet sections assembled to form a full or partial ring shape. The sections are each magnetized in a direction perpendicular to their top and bottom surfaces in a pattern comprising multiple opposing poles at each surface to reduce an effect of a magnetic field generated by the permanent magnet structure on magnetically sensitive components of the portable device or battery or other nearby devices.
US11283304B2
A rectenna device (400) for converting incident light to electrical energy is disclosed. The rectenna device comprises a substrate (402), a first metallic layer (404) having a predefined thickness deposited on top of the substrate, a rectifying element (405) deposited on top of the first metallic layer, a second metallic layer (408) deposited on top of said rectifying element and configured to collect electromagnetic waves of the incident light and to couple it into plasmonic waves within the rectenna device, the second metallic layer comprising an array of a plurality of metallic patches (410) spaced from each other according to a predefined spacing, each metallic patch having predefined dimensions. The rectifying element is configured to rectify the plasmonic waves to produce a direct current, the plasmonic waves being generated at one or more operating wavelengths, and at least one dimensioning parameter of the rectenna device is determined from at least one operating wavelength, the at least one dimensioning parameter being chosen in a group comprising the dimensions of the plurality of metallic patches, the spacing of the metallic patches in the array, and the predefined thickness of the first metallic layer.
US11283285B2
Examples of the disclosure include an uninterruptible power supply comprising an input configured to be coupled to a power source, an output configured to output power to a load, a main controller, a main logic power supply, an auxiliary logic power supply, and an auxiliary controller configured to receive power from the auxiliary logic power supply, the auxiliary controller being configured to receive a signal indicating that the load is not powered by the uninterruptible power supply, output a first signal to initiate shutdown of the main controller and the main logic power supply, and output a second signal to power-up the main controller and the main logic power supply after a predetermined period of time elapses after outputting the first signal.
US11283282B2
Disclosed is multi-functional smart wireless charging device for cell phone in horizontal placement and vertical placement, including a hollow main body rear shell. A protection assembly is fixedly provided in the main body rear shell. A main PCB is provided on top of the protection assembly. One side of the PCB being abutted against a wireless charging PCB fixedly provided on top of the protection assembly. The wireless charging PCB is connected with a main body front shell on one side of the wireless charging PCB remote from the main PCB. A wireless charging bottom shell is slidably connected with the main body front shell at its one side remote from the main body rear shell. One side of the wireless charging bottom shell is provided with a wireless charging front shell. The device may also charging by wire when wireless charging is not carried out.
US11283279B2
Provided is a charging control device including a current detector, an abnormal current determination circuit, and a charging stop circuit. The current detector is configured to detect a charging current, the abnormal current determination circuit is configured to determine whether the charging current is attenuated and/or increased in a constant voltage charging region, and to determine whether a value of the charging current per unit time is increased, and the charging stop circuit is configured to stop a constant voltage charging when the value of the charging current per unit time is increased.
US11283278B2
An electronic system can include a charged system and a charging system. The charged system can include a charger and a battery configured to be charged thereby. The charger may be configured to receive power from a charging system that includes a power converter configured to supply power to the charger and a controller configured to control the power converter. The controller may be configured to receive feedback information from the charged system, including one or more voltages. The controller may be further configured to determine an output voltage compensation value for the power converter as a function of the feedback information and to set an output voltage of the power converter as a function of the compensation value. The compensation value and output voltage may be selected to maintain a preselected headroom between a battery charging target voltage of the charger and a voltage supplied to the charger.
US11283272B1
A charging station for providing power connections, charging and/or data connections includes one or more wiring devices mounted to a power module that slides in the housing of the main assembly of the charging station such that each wiring device is recessed from the outer surface of the charging station. A back wall of the power module serves as a barrier between different branch circuits for code compliance. The charging station includes a cover assembly with a sloped upper surface and is constructed so that most of the required electrical connections are made on the power module prior to the assembly of the charging station.
US11283260B2
A method and a system for controlling a distributed power generation system are disclosed. The distributed power generation system includes N sub isolated three-port converters and N independent distributed DC power sources in a one-to-one correspondence to the N sub isolated three-port converters, N is a natural number greater than 1; an input-port of each of the sub isolated three-port converters is connected to the corresponding distributed DC power source, bidirectional-ports of the sub isolated three-port converters are connected in parallel to build a low voltage DC bus, and output-ports of the sub isolated three-port converters are connected in series and connected to a medium voltage DC distribution network. The control method comprises: controlling an input power of each of the sub isolated three-port converters independently, performing a power-voltage droop control strategy based on a virtual resistor on the bidirectional-port and the output-port to realize the stable control of the bidirectional-port voltage and the voltage sharing control of the output-port voltage of each of the sub isolated three-port converters. A modular design is realized. Thus a viable technical solution is provided for connecting the distributed power generation system to the medium voltage DC distribution network.
US11283258B2
A solid state circuit breaker apparatus includes a solid state switch, a current sensor, and a control circuit. The control circuit is programmed to operate the solid state switch by, in response to receipt of a signal from the current sensor indicating that an overcurrent condition exists: (i) using pulse width modulation to generate a set of control pulses; and (ii) using the control pulses to trigger the solid state switch to open and close in a pattern that corresponds to the control pulses, and thus limit an amount of let-through current that the solid state switch may pass to a load. The amount of let-through current that the solid state switch may pass to the load may be, for example, a threshold level above which the overcurrent condition will exist.
US11283256B2
Disclosed are a power interruption method and a power interruption device based on power phase measurement and arc detection and a method thereof and disclosed are a power interruption method and a power interruption device which accurately determine, when a value measured by a current transformer (CT), a voltage detector, etc., is input into the main control unit, whether the measured value is a value equal to or more than a predetermined threshold through a comparison between phases of voltage and current to effectively prepare for a disaster such as preventing fire or protecting a subsequent circuit by a rapid and accurate power interruption by arc at a load side.
US11283252B2
Disclosed is a wire protector for use in a wire protection system. The wire protector includes a first tubular member and a second member fittable within the first tubular member. The second member includes flexible or bendable fingers which expand after being passed through the first tubular member to lock the second member with respect to the first tubular member. A plurality of wire protectors are placed into studs during construction of a building. Electrical wires are passed through the plurality of wire protectors.
US11283249B2
A sheathing member includes: a plurality of tubular units into each of which a wiring material having conductivity is inserted; and a connecting unit configured to connect respective open ends of the plurality of tubular units with each other, in which the tubular units respectively include lap portions in which the open ends to be connected overlap each other along a diameter direction, and the connecting unit includes a projection that is provided in the lap portion of one of the tubular units to be connected and projects along the diameter direction, and a groove unit that is provided in the lap portion of the other of the tubular units to be connected, includes a first groove extending from the open end along an axis direction and a second groove extending from an axially-extended end of the first groove along a circumference direction, and has the projection passed therethrough.
US11283247B2
A carrier mechanism for walking on a line includes a carrier platform constituted by a first mounting plate, a second mounting plate and a longitudinal movable plate, a walking apparatus, a clamping apparatus, a driving apparatus, and a self-balance control apparatus configured to adjust a posture of the carrier mechanism. The longitudinal movable plate is slidably arranged on the second mounting plate fixedly connected to the first mounting plate in parallel. The walking apparatus includes at least two sets of walking wheels arranged along a walking direction. The clamping apparatus is slidably arranged on the lower side of the longitudinal movable plate. The driving apparatus includes a first driving apparatus configured to drive the walking wheels to roll, and a second driving apparatus configured to drive the longitudinal movable plate to move. The clamping apparatus is driven by the longitudinal movable plate to clamp or release a to-be-inspected target.
US11283244B2
A topological laser system is described. The laser system comprises an array of optical elements arranged in an array and coupled between them such that the array is configured for supporting one or more topological modes. The plurality of optical elements comprises optical elements carrying gain material configured for emitting optical radiation in response to pumping energy. The laser system further comprises a pumping unit configured to provide pumping of a group of the optical elements of the array within at least a portion of the spatial region corresponding with said topological mode; and at least one output port optically coupled to one or more of the optical elements associated with said topological mode. The at least one output ports is configured for extracting a portion of light intensity from said laser system.
US11283243B2
A method for manufacturing a surface emitting laser made of a group-III nitride semiconductor by an MOVPE method includes: (a) growing a first cladding layer of a first conductive type on a substrate; (b) growing a first optical guide layer of the first conductive type on the first cladding layer; (c) forming holes having a two-dimensional periodicity in a plane parallel to the first optical guide layer, in the first optical guide layer by etching; (d) supplying a gas containing a group-III material and a nitrogen source and performing growth to form recessed portions having a facet of a predetermined plane direction above openings of the holes, thereby closing the openings of the holes; and (e) planarizing the recessed portions by mass transport, after the openings of the holes have been closed, wherein after the planarizing at least one side surface of the holes is a {10-10} facet.
US11283240B2
A backside Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) has a substrate. A first mirror device is formed on the substrate. An active region is formed on the first mirror device. A second mirror device is formed on the active region. A pillar is formed by directional Inductive Coupled Plasma-Reactive Ion Etcher (ICP-RIE). The pillar exposes a portion of the first mirror device, the active region and the second mirror device. A first metal contact is formed over a top section of the pillar. A second metal contact is formed on the substrate. An opening formed in the second metal contact and aligned with the pillar.
US11283236B2
A tunable laser has a solid state laser medium with optical gain region and generates coherent radiation through a facet. A lens collects the coherent radiation and generates a collimated light beam. An external cavity includes a reflective surface and an optical filter, the reflective surface reflecting the collimated beam back to the lens and laser medium, the optical filter positioned between the reflective surface and the lens and having two surfaces and a thermally tunable optical transmission band within the optical gain region of the laser medium. The optical filter (1) transmits a predominant portion of the collimated beam at a desired wavelength of operation, and (2) specularly reflects a remaining portion of the collimated beam from each surface, the collimated beam being incident on the optical filter such that the reflected collimated beams propagate at a non-zero angle with respect to the incident collimated beam.
US11283232B2
A laser protection system includes a high-power laser source, an optical diffuser, a photo detector, a signal-processing device, and a control module. The high-power laser source generates a first laser light beam, and the optical diffuser attenuates a laser power of the first laser light beam to form a second laser light beam. The photo detector obtains an optical detection signal from the second laser light beam. The signal-processing device includes a signal conversion module, a processor, and an encoder. The signal conversion module transforms the optical detection signal into a measurement data eigenvalue. The encoder encodes the measurement data eigenvalue into a measured encoded data, and the setting data eigenvalue into a set encoded data. The control module evaluates the set encoded data and the measured encoded data to determine whether or not the high-power laser source needs to be stopped.
US11283224B1
An adapter mechanism includes an electrical adapter and an attachment device. The electrical adapter includes an adapter housing and a pair of conductive prongs. The adapter housing includes a first complementary connector, and the pair of conductive prongs is configured to be inserted into an electrical outlet. The attachment device includes a fixation aperture and a second complementary connector. The attachment device is configured to move relative to the adapter housing between a retracted position and an extended position. When the attachment device is in the retracted position, the second complementary connector is uncoupled from the first complementary connector. When the attachment device is in the extended position, the fixation aperture is extended out from the adapter housing and the second complementary connector is coupled to the first complementary connector to secure the attachment device in place at the adapter housing.
US11283219B2
Mechanisms that may help to secure connector inserts in place when they are plugged into a connector receptacle on an electronic device. One example may provide a connector receptacle having a friction mechanism to provide friction between a connector insert and a connector receptacle when the connector insert is inserted in the connector receptacle. Other examples may provide a connector receptacle having a locking mechanism to hinder or prevent extraction of a connector insert.
US11283218B2
An electrical connector assembly includes a housing having an upper housing half removably assembled to a lower housing half via a plurality of fasteners. A circuit board is at least partially disposed in a housing cavity formed by the upper and lower housing halves. The circuit board includes a plurality of conductive front and rear pads electrically connected to each other. Flat cables terminate at the conductive rear pads disposed on upper and lower major surfaces of the circuit board. A plurality of alternating ridges and channels is disposed on a top side of the upper housing half, extending along a length of the housing. Bottom surfaces of the channels along a length of the channels are at a same height or higher than uppermost surfaces of the fasteners in the plurality of fasteners. The channels are configured to transfer heat generated by the connector assembly.
US11283215B2
A system and method for coupling is described. The system includes, a printed electronic circuit having one or more conductive traces disposed on a flexible substrate The printed electronic circuit includes one or more magnetic couplers disposed on the flexible substrate. The system includes a magnetic connector having one or more magnets that each magnetically attach to a corresponding one of the one or more magnetic couplers The magnetic connector includes one or more spring-loaded pins each aligned with and electrically coupled to a corresponding one of the one or more conductive traces.
US11283214B1
Described is a power connector device for separating an electrical connection under direct current (DC) voltage or alternating current (AC) voltage between an electrical connector element and an electrical contact element. The power connector device includes the electrical contact element. The electrical contact element has a first conductive part and a second conductive part spaced apart one from the other so as not to be directly electrically conductively connected to one another. The power connector device includes a semiconductor switch for maintaining an electrical connection between the electrical connector element and the electrical contact element during separation of contact between said electrical connector element and said first conductive part to thereby prevent arcing during electrical disengagement of the electrical connector element from the electrical contact element. The first conductive part of the electrical contact element is only electrically connected to the second conductive part of the electrical contact element when the semiconductor switch is activated or when the electrical connector element is in contact with both the first and second conductive parts of the electrical contact element.
US11283210B2
An electrical plug-in connector includes an internal conductor contact element, an external conductor contact element and an insulating protective element arranged between the internal conductor contact element and the external conductor contact element. The external conductor contact element may have a recess for providing an assembly access point for fastening the internal conductor contact element to an internal conductor of an electrical cable. The insulating protective element can be displaced between an assembly position, in which the assembly access point is cleared through the assembly recess to the internal conductor contact element, and an insulating protection position, in which the assembly access point to the internal conductor contact element is blocked by the insulating protective element.
US11283209B2
A connector housing includes a contact housing receptacle and a contact housing disposed in the contact housing receptacle. The contact housing has a movable contact securing flap. The contact securing flap is disposed inside the contact housing receptacle and is movable between an open position, in which the electrical contact units are unlocked in the connector housing, and a locking position in which the contact units are locked in the connector housing.
US11283208B2
A single piece electrical connector having a housing with a mating face, a wire receiving face, and housing side walls. Terminal receiving cavities extend from the mating face to the wire receiving face. The terminal receiving cavities have cavity side walls. Resilient securing arms are provided in the terminal receiving cavities. The resilient securing arms have fixed portions which extend from and are integrally attached to base members which extend from and are integrally attached to the cavity side walls of the terminal receiving cavities. The resilient securing arms are made from the same material and in the same manufacturing process that forms the housing. The fixed ends are spaced from the cavity side walls by gaps. The gaps between the resilient securing arms and the cavity side walls facilitate the cleaning or removal of excess material formed during the manufacturing process of the electrical connector.
US11283207B2
An electrical connector apparatus for use in a downhole tool comprising a housing, a contact screw within outer threads and inner threads, a contact plunger within the inner bore of the housing and a second cylinder protruding from the first cylinder. The contact spring is located between the contact plunger and the contact screw and pre-loads the contact plunger within the housing.
US11283204B1
Systems and methods for simultaneously coupling a plurality of high speed electrical connectors to a Printed Wiring Board (“PWB”). The methods comprise: obtaining a composite electrical connector comprising the plurality of high speed electrical connectors which are serially arranged in a side-by-side manner and coupled to each other; automatedly engaging a smooth surface of the composite electrical connector; placing the composite electrical connector on the PWB so that pins of the plurality of high speed electrical connectors are concurrently inserted into vias formed in the PWB; and coupling the composite electrical connector to the PWB by soldering the pins in the vias.
US11283194B2
A radiator assembly for a base station antenna includes two dipoles arranged in a cross-over manner, each dipole including two dipole arms, and two feeding lines, each feeding line being associated with a respective one of the dipoles. Each dipole arm is integrally formed of sheet metal, and includes a radiating surface and a leg projecting from the radiating surface at an angle with the radiating surface, where the leg is electrically grounded.
US11283184B2
This invention presents embodiments of a coupler array to couple the RF signals between the antenna array of a MIMO base station and a MIMO RF channel emulator. The embodiments enable testing of a large scale MIMO wireless communication system without the need of connecting a large number of RF cables to the antenna ports of the MIMO base station.
US11283173B2
Described herein are techniques related one or more systems, apparatuses, methods, etc. for integrating a near field communications (NFC) coil antenna in a portable device. For example, the NFC antenna is integrated under a metal chassis of the portable device. The metal chassis and a conductive coating—that is integrated underneath the full metal chassis—are designed to include one or more slots to provide high impedance to Eddy current induced in the conductive coating.
US11283166B2
A module unit includes a carrier substrate and an antenna substrate. The carrier substrate at least includes an embedded chip and a redistribution layer arranged on the first main surface. The antenna substrate including a base material includes an antenna structure arranged on the side of the first main surface, and a cavity introduced on the side of the second main surface, the cavity being aligned with the antenna structure at least in areas. The antenna substrate is connected with the second main surface to the first main surface of the carrier substrate, so that the antenna substrate and the carrier substrate form a layer stack.
US11283156B2
Disclosed is an electronic device including a housing including a first plate facing a first direction, a second plate facing a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a lateral member surrounding a space between the first plate and the second plate, a first antenna structure disposed to be substantially parallel with the second plate in the space, and including a substrate disposed in the space, and at least one antenna element disposed on the substrate to face at least the second plate, a conductive member disposed in the space and spaced apart from the at least one antenna element by a predetermined interval when the second plate is viewed from above.
US11283147B2
A directional coupler includes first to fourth terminals, a first line, a second line, a ground conductor portion, and a stack. The first line includes a first center portion, a first connecting portion, and a second connecting portion. The second line includes a second center portion, a third connecting portion, and a fourth connecting portion. A distance between the first and third connecting portions and a distance between the second and fourth connecting portions decrease toward the first and second center portions. The first to fourth terminals are located on a bottom surface of the stack.
US11283146B2
Disclosed herein is a non-reciprocal circuit element that includes a substrate having lower and upper surfaces, a magnetic metal layer provided on the lower surface of the substrate, a magnetic rotator provided on the upper surface of the substrate, and a permanent magnet for applying a magnetic field to the magnetic rotator. The magnetic metal layer includes a lower yoke provided at a position overlapping the magnetic rotator in a plan view and a plurality of terminal electrodes connected to the magnetic rotator.
US11283139B2
A method for manufacturing a secondary battery includes a forming step of pressing a pouch sheet by using a press die so that left and right accommodation grooves, which are bilaterally symmetrical to each other and are opened upward, and a bridge connecting the left and right accommodation grooves to each other are formed in the pouch sheet, wherein the bridge protrudes upward with respect to bottom surfaces of the left and right accommodation grooves, and a curved portion having a rounded shape is formed on an upper end of the bridge, a seating step of seating an electrode assembly in one of the left and right accommodation grooves, and a folding step of folding the pouch sheet so that the left and right accommodation grooves face each other.
US11283138B2
A connection member for connecting to a busbar of a battery includes a first section adapted to be connected to a battery cell, a second section adapted to be connected to the busbar attached to a support structure for the battery cell, and a pair of bends between the first section and the second section.
US11283114B1
A method for key predictors and machine learning for configuring battery cell performance may include providing a cell that may include a cathode, a separator, and a silicon-dominant anode; measuring a plurality of parameters of the cell; and using a machine learning model to determine cell performance based on the plurality of measured parameters. The plurality of parameters may include initial coulombic efficiency and/or second cycle coulombic efficiency. Cells may be classified based on the determined cell performance and similarly performing cells may be binned together. A battery pack may be provided with a plurality of cells. The plurality of cells may be assessed during cycling using the machine learning model. One or more of the plurality of cells may be replaced when the assessing determines a different performance of the one or more of the plurality of cells. The battery pack may be in an electric vehicle.
US11283099B2
A battery pack includes: a plurality of battery cells arranged in a line in one arrangement direction; a pair of end plates disposed at opposite ends of the plurality of battery cells in the arrangement direction; a pair of binding bars disposed on opposite sides of the plurality of battery cells in a direction perpendicular to the arrangement direction; and an insulator disposed in a gap between each of the binding bars and the battery cells. The insulator having an initial thickness larger than a thickness of the gap before insertion of the insulator into the gap in a compressed state. The end plates sandwich the battery cells therebetween in the arrangement direction, and the binding bars sandwich the battery cells therebetween in the direction perpendicular to the arrangement direction.
US11283097B2
Improved membrane electrode assemblies, cation-associating components thereof, and methods of making and treating the same are provided. Membrane electrode assemblies may include an ionomer having a first pKa value, and a water-insoluble net polymer having a weakly-acidic functional group, wherein the weakly-acidic functional group has a second pKa value greater than the first pKa value.
US11283096B2
A method for fabricating an electrochemical sensor material includes positioning sheets of molded graphene nanoplatelets on each side of a proton exchange membrane and integrating graphene nanoplatelets into regions of the proton exchange membrane adjacent its surfaces by applying heat to increase the temperature of the proton exchange membrane to its glass transition temperature and applying compressive pressure to press a portion of each sheet of molded graphene nanoplatelets into the softened polymeric material of the proton exchange membrane. Following application of heat and pressure, the proton exchange membrane is cooled and excess graphene material is exfoliated. Electrochemical sensor components are cut from the material and electrochemical devices and systems are constructed therefrom.
US11283088B2
The present disclosure relates to a cooling system for a fuel cell electric vehicle. The cooling system includes a stack cooling line that cools a fuel cell stack of the fuel cell electric vehicle and a first cooling line of a closed loop type that cools at least some of first components that generate a larger amount of heat during braking of the vehicle than during driving of the vehicle, among components of the vehicle.
US11283085B1
A fuel cell system component ink includes a fuel cell system component powder, a solvent including propylene carbonate (PC), and a binder including polypropylene carbonate (PPC).
US11283080B2
Provided are an electrodeposited copper foil, a current collector, an electrode, and a lithium-ion secondary battery comprising the same. The electrodeposited copper foil has a deposited side and a drum side opposite the deposited side. In a first aspect, ΔRS between the deposited side and the drum side is at most about 95 MPa, and the deposited side exhibits a Vv in a range from about 0.15 μm3/μm2 to about 1.35 μm3/μm2. In a second aspect, the deposited side has a Sku of about 1.5 to about 6.5 and the deposited side exhibits a Vv in a range from about 0.15 μm3/μm2 to about 1.35 μm3/μm2. The characteristics are beneficial to improve the quality of the electrodeposited copper foil, thereby extending the charge-discharge cycle life of a lithium-ion secondary battery comprising the same.
US11283075B2
An object is to reduce variation in shape of crystals that are to be formed. Solutions containing respective raw materials are made in an environment where an oxygen concentration is lower than that in air, the solutions containing the respective raw materials are mixed in an environment where an oxygen concentration is lower than that in air to form a mixture solution, and with use of the mixture solution, a composite oxide is formed by a hydrothermal method.
US11283073B2
A positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery includes secondary particles which are aggregates of primary particles that are capable of being doped and dedoped with lithium ions, in which the secondary particles have a total specific surface area of pores having a pore radius of 10 nm or more and 50 nm or less of 0.27 m2/g or more and 0.90 m2/g or less in a pore distribution measured by a mercury porosimetry method.
US11283065B2
The present invention provides an electrode that is excellent in conductivity and improves the power density and energy density of a power storage device, a method for manufacturing the same, and a power storage device using the same. The electrode of the present invention is an electrode containing at least a graphene aggregate having a particle diameter of 0.1 μm or more and less than 100 μm, wherein the graphene aggregate is an aggregate of graphene basic structures each having graphene layers among which a fibrous material is located. A method for manufacturing the electrode of the present invention comprises a step of mixing the above-mentioned graphene basic structures with at least a lower alcohol having 1 or more and 5 or less carbon atoms to form a graphene aggregate in which the graphene basic structures are aggregated, and a step of forming a film using the graphene aggregate.
US11283059B2
A positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries includes secondary particles of lithium transition metal oxide including aggregates of primary particles of the oxide. The primary particles have an average particle size of not less than 1 μm, and the secondary particles have a void content of more than 30%.
US11283056B2
The disclosure relates to display panel and display apparatus including the same. The display panel includes a substrate including a display part displaying an image, an adhesive layer covering the display part, on the substrate, and a heat dissipation member on the adhesive layer. The heat dissipation member includes a first metal layer, a middle layer including an organic layer and a plurality of partition walls provided on the first metal layer, and a second metal layer provided on the middle layer.
US11283054B2
A display device includes a first substrate including a display area and a peripheral area outside the display area, pixels arranged in the display area and each including an emission area defined by a non-emission area, a thin-film encapsulation layer covering the pixels and including at least one inorganic encapsulation layer and at least one organic encapsulation layer, a pattern layer above the thin-film encapsulation layer, the pattern layer including a first light-blocking pattern shielding at least a portion of the non-emission area, and a second substrate facing the first substrate and including a second light-blocking pattern shielding at least a portion of the non-emission area.
US11283051B2
A display panel includes a substrate, an organic light emitting structure, a first electrode, a light extraction layer, a protection layer, and a thin film packaging layer, which are stacked in sequence. The organic light emitting structure, the first electrode, the light extraction layer and the protection layer are coated by the thin film packaging layer. The light extraction layer is located between the protection layer and the first electrode, and completely isolates the protection layer and the first electrode.
US11283048B2
The present application relates to an organic electronic device, and provides the organic electronic device including an encapsulating structure capable of effectively blocking water or oxygen introduced from the outside into the organic electronic device, thereby securing the lifetime of the organic electronic device and implementing endurance reliability of the encapsulating structure at high temperature and high humidity, and having high shape retention characteristics.
US11283045B2
A light-emitting device (10) is, for example, a segment type display device, a display, or a lighting device, and includes a light-emitting portion (140), a light-transmitting portion (142), and an insulating film (150). The light-emitting portion (140) has a first electrode (110), an organic layer (120), and a second electrode (130). The light-transmitting portion (142) has the first electrode (110), the second electrode (130), and a first layer. The first layer is located between the first electrode (110) and the second electrode (130). In an example illustrated in the figure, the first layer is at least a part of the organic layer (120). The insulating film (150) defines the light-emitting portion (140) and is located in the light-transmitting portion (142).
US11283044B2
An electroluminescent display panel and manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The electroluminescent display panel includes a base substrate, pixel structures disposed on the base substrate; and an encapsulating layer disposed on the pixel structures. The pixel structures are arranged in an array, the pixel structure including a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array, the pixel structure array has a first direction and a second direction intersected with each other, the edge of the sub-pixel including a first portion gradually away from a straight line where the first direction lies, and an extending direction of the first portion does not coincide with the second direction.
US11283041B2
A display device includes: a circuit element layer comprising a transistor; a display element layer comprising a first electrode connected to the transistor, a second electrode facing the first electrode, an organic pattern between the first electrode and the second electrode, a pixel defining layer having an opening exposing the first electrode, an auxiliary electrode spaced apart from the opening to cover a portion of the pixel defining layer and connected to the second electrode, a first protection pattern covering the second electrode, and a second protection pattern covering the first protection pattern; and an encapsulation layer covering the display element layer, wherein the first protection pattern and the second protection pattern have stress in directions different from each other.
US11283040B2
A light-emitting device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The light-emitting device includes an anode, a luminous layer, and a cathode, which are disposed in a stacked manner, and a material of the luminous layer includes a perovskite material. A first transport layer is further provided between the luminous layer and the anode, and the first transport layer is configured to transport holes. Alternatively, a second transport layer is further provided between the cathode and the luminous layer, and the second transport layer is configured to transport electrons.
US11283031B2
A silicon-containing compound represented by Formula 1 and an organic electroluminescence device including the same in at least one of a plurality of organic layers of the device are provided.
US11283023B2
Disclosed is a polymer blend comprising an organic semiconductor (OSC) polymer blended with an isolating polymer and method for making the same. The OSC polymer includes a diketopyrrolopyrrole fused thiophene polymeric material, and the fused thiophene is beta-substituted. The isolating polymer includes a non-conjugated backbone, and the isolating polymer may be one of polyacrylonitrile, alkyl substituted polyacrylonitrile, polystyrene, polysulfonate, polycarbonate, an elastomer block copolymer, derivatives thereof, copolymers thereof and mixtures thereof. The method includes blending the OSC polymer with an isolating polymer in an organic solvent to create a polymer blend and depositing a thin film of the polymer blend over a substrate. Also disclosed is an organic semiconductor device that includes a thin semiconducting film comprising OSC polymer.
US11283018B2
Technologies relating to RRAM-based crossbar array circuits with increase temperature stability are disclosed. An example apparatus includes: a bottom electrode; a filament forming layer formed on the bottom electrode; and a top electrode formed on the filament forming layer, wherein the filament forming layer is configured to form a filament within the filament forming layer when applying a switching voltage upon the filament forming layer, and wherein a material of the filament includes nitrogen-doped Ta2O5, Ta2N/Ta2O5, or TaNyOz.
US11283015B2
A method of forming a phase change memory device is provided. The method includes forming a spacer layer on a substrate, and forming a heater terminal contact in the spacer layer. The method further includes forming a liner layer on the heater terminal contact and the spacer layer, and forming a heater terminal in electrical contact with the heater terminal contact in the liner layer. The method further includes forming a conductive projection segment on the heater terminal. The method further includes forming a phase change material layer on the conductive projection segment, and forming a phase change material terminal on the phase change material layer, wherein an electrical current can pass between the heater terminal and the phase change material terminal through the phase change material layer.
US11282993B2
A display device is provided, including a display panel; a light-emitting element disposed under the display panel; an optical functional film disposed between the display panel and the light-emitting element. The optical functional film is capable of transmitting at least part of the light emitted from the light-emitting element. A diffuser film is disposed between the display panel and the light-emitting element. The haze of the diffuser film is greater than 85%, and the thickness of the diffuser film ranges from 0.1 mm to 0.3 mm.
US11282988B2
A light-emitting device includes a composite structure having a phosphor crystal sheet and phosphor crystal powders on the phosphor crystal sheet. A light-emitting unit of the device is disposed under a side of the phosphor crystal sheet that is opposite to a side of the phosphor crystal powders. A problem of blue-enriched white light may be tackled.
US11282987B2
A method of manufacturing a display device includes preparing a plurality of light-emitting element packages on a substrate, preparing a first solution including first semiconductor nanocrystals, applying a voltage to a part of the plurality of light-emitting element packages to transport the first semiconductor nanocrystals to a region overlapped with the part of the plurality of light-emitting element packages, and forming a first color conversion layer with the first semiconductor nanocrystals.
US11282985B2
The present invention discloses a flip-chip LED chip used in a backlight and a producing method thereof. The flip-chip LED chip used in the backlight comprises a substrate, an epitaxial layer, a transparent conductive layer, an insulating layer, a first reflecting layer, a second reflecting layer, a first electrode, and a second electrode. In the present invention, the first reflecting layer and the second reflecting layer are formed on both sides of the substrate. By adjusting the reflectance of the first reflecting layer and the second reflecting layer, the light emitted by the epitaxial layer is reflected by the first reflecting layer and the second reflecting layer, resulting in 20-40% of the light being emitted from the back of the chip, and 60-80% of the light being emitted from the side of the chip. This increases the light uniformity of the LED backlight.
US11282983B2
A semiconductor chip may have a radiation-permeable support, a semiconductor body, and a transparent current spreading layer. The semiconductor body may have an n-sided semiconductor layer, a p-sided semiconductor layer, and an optically active area therebetween. The semiconductor body may be secured to the support by means of a radiation permeable connection layer. The current spread layer may be based on zinc selenide and may be adjacent to the n-sided semi-conductor layer. A method for producing this type of semiconductor chip is also disclosed.
US11282976B2
A solar panel module has a flexible circuit board, a matrix of solar cells surface mounted thereto, a coverglass extending over the matrix of solar cells and the flexible circuit board bonded to a rigid support panel. The circuitry including electrical connection pads in an arrangement on the first side surface for electrical connection of the circuitry to each of the matrix of solar cells, flat bypass diodes may be disposed on the first side surface under the cells and connecting to the circuitry. Conductive adhesives adhering each of the solar cells to the flex circuit at the electrical connection pads that correlate to electrical connection points on underside of each solar cells. The first side having a plurality of standoffs for receiving each of the matrix of solar cells providing raised levels for the solar cells, the landing portions projecting outwardly from a base level surface.
US11282974B2
A photosensitive element includes a first film layer, a second film layer and a third film layer. The first film layer, the second film layer and the third film layer are in a sequentially stacked structure, the first film layer is a p-type copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) layer, the second film layer is an i-type CIGS layer, and the third film layer is an n-type film layer, and the first film layer, the second film layer and the third film layer form a PIN junction structure.
US11282973B2
The present invention relates to a semiconductor device comprising a semiconducting material, wherein the semiconducting material comprises a halometallate compound comprising: (a) cesium; (b) palladium; and (c) one or more halide anions [X]. The invention also relates to a layer comprising the semiconducting material. The invention further relates to a process for producing a halometallate compound of formula (IV): [A]2[MIV][X]6, which process uses a H[X] and a compound comprising a sulfoxide group.
US11282953B2
According to various embodiments, a transistor device may include a substrate. The transistor device may further include a drain terminal and a source terminal formed in the substrate, and a gate terminal formed over the substrate. The transistor device may further include an insulator structure arranged between the drain terminal and the source terminal, and at least partially under the gate terminal. The insulator structure may include an oxide member and a trench isolation region. The oxide member may be at least partially formed over the trench isolation region.
US11282952B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer having a main surface in which a trench is formed, a first-conductivity-type body region formed along a sidewall of the trench in a surface layer portion of the main surface of the semiconductor layer, a second-conductivity-type impurity region formed along the sidewall of the trench in a surface layer portion of the body region, a gate insulating layer formed on an inner wall of the trench, a gate electrode that is embedded in the trench and that faces the body region and the impurity region with the gate insulating layer placed between the gate electrode and the body region and between the gate electrode and the impurity region, a contact electrode that passes through the sidewall of the trench from inside the trench and is drawn out to the surface layer portion of the main surface of the semiconductor layer and is electrically connected to the body region and to the impurity region, and an embedded insulating layer that is interposed between the gate electrode and the contact electrode in the trench and that insulates the gate electrode and the contact electrode.
US11282950B2
Provided is a technology for obtaining a drain current of a sufficient magnitude in a field effect transistor using a nitride semiconductor. A channel layer that is Alx1Iny1Ga1-x1-y1N is formed on an upper surface of a semiconductor substrate, and on an upper surface of the channel layer, a barrier layer that is Alx2Iny2Ga1-x2-y2N having a band gap larger than that of the channel layer is formed. Then, on an upper surface of the barrier layer, a gate insulating film that is an insulator or a semiconductor and has a band gap larger than that of the barrier layer is at least partially formed, and a gate electrode is formed on an upper surface of the gate insulating film. Then, heat treatment is performed while a positive voltage is applied to the gate electrode.
US11282941B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming a gate over a semiconductor substrate; forming doped regions in the semiconductor substrate on both sides of the gate; depositing a dielectric layer on sidewalls of the gate; depositing a spacer laterally surrounding the dielectric layer, the spacer including a carbon-free portion and a carbon-containing portion laterally surrounding the carbon-free portion; removing the gate and vertical portions of the dielectric layer to form a recess; and filling a conductive layer in the recess.
US11282939B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device comprising a multi-channel active pattern on a substrate, a high dielectric constant insulating layer formed along the multi-channel active pattern on the multi-channel active pattern, wherein the high dielectric constant insulating layer comprises a metal, a silicon nitride layer formed along the high dielectric constant insulating layer on the high dielectric constant insulating layer and a gate electrode on the silicon nitride layer.
US11282937B2
The invention provides an inexpensive flywheel diode having a low power loss. A semiconductor substrate side of a gate electrode provided on a surface of an anode electrode side of a semiconductor substrate including silicon is surrounded by a p layer, an n layer, and a p layer via a gate insulating film. The anode electrode is in contact with the p layer with a low resistance, and is also in contact with the n layer or the p layer, and a Schottky diode is formed between the anode electrode and the n layer or the p layer.
US11282925B2
A silicon carbide semiconductor device has a gate insulating film, a first gate electrode, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a gate runner. A silicon carbide substrate has a first main surface and a second main surface. The silicon carbide substrate includes a first impurity region, a second impurity region, and a third impurity region. The first main surface is provided with a gate electrode trench and a gate runner trench. The gate electrode trench is defined by a side surface and a bottom surface continuous to the side surface. The gate insulating film is in contact with both the side surface and the bottom surface. The first gate electrode is provided on the gate insulating film. The second gate electrode is provided in the gate runner trench, and is electrically connected to the first gate electrode. The gate runner is provided on the second gate electrode.
US11282923B2
Disclosed is a transistor having a base, a substrate, and a collector between the substrate and the base. The collector has a first region of a first thickness under the base and is made up of a first dopant type having a substantially constant doping concentration across the first thickness. A second region with a second thickness under the first region is made up of a second dopant type that is different from the first dopant type and has a substantially constant doping concentration across the second thickness. A third region with a third thickness under the second region is made up of the second dopant type with a graded doping concentration that is a function of increasing distance from the second region through the third thickness. An emitter is located over the base opposite the collector.
US11282920B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a source/drain contact structure formed over a semiconductor substrate, and a first gate stack formed over the semiconductor substrate and adjacent to the source/drain contact structure. The semiconductor device structure also includes an insulating cap structure formed over and separated from an upper surface of the first gate stack. In addition, the semiconductor device structure includes first gate spacers formed over opposing sidewalls of the first gate stack to separate the first gate stack from the source/drain contact structure. The first gate spacers extend over opposing sidewalls of the insulating cap structure, so as to form an air gap surrounded by the first gate spacers, the first gate stack, and the insulating cap structure.
US11282912B2
A display module and a method for manufacturing a display module, and a display device are provided. The display module includes a display panel, a main flexible printed circuit board, a secondary flexible printed circuit board and a driving circuit. The display panel comprises a signal line. The main flexible printed circuit board is at least partially on a first side of the display panel and is electrically connected to the signal line. The secondary flexible printed circuit board is at least partially on a second side of the display panel and is electrically connected to the signal line. The driving circuit is configured to provide signals to the signal line through the main flexible printed circuit board and the secondary flexible printed circuit board respectively.
US11282911B2
Display devices, display modules, and methods of manufacture are disclosed. In one example, a display device includes a pixel region in which pixels for displaying an image are arranged, on an upper surface of a substrate. A device-side signal electrode for exchanging a signal related to the pixels with an outside is disposed on a side surface of the substrate. A module casing is configured to store the display device and to have a casing-side signal electrode electrically connected to the device-side signal electrode in a spot facing the device-side signal electrode.
US11282901B2
A display device includes a display panel, a control part below the display panel and including a first control layer below the display panel, a second control layer below the first control layer, and a third control layer below the second control layer. The first control layer includes a first transmission portion and a first absorption portion. The second control layer includes a second transmission portion and a second absorption portion. The third control layer includes a third transmission portion and a third absorption portion. The display panel also includes a sensing layer below the control part to recognize biometric information.
US11282890B2
A method of fabricating a target shallow trench isolation (STI) structure between devices in a wafer-level image sensor having a large number of pixels includes etching a trench, the trench having a greater depth and width than a target STI structure and epitaxially growing the substrate material in the trench for a length of time necessary to provide the target depth and width of the isolation structure. An STI structure formed in a semiconductor substrate includes a trench etched in the substrate having a depth and width greater than that of the STI structure, and semiconductor material epitaxially grown in the trench to provide a critical dimension and target depth of the STI structure. An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate, a photodiode region, a pixel transistor region and an STI structure between the photodiode region and the pixel transistor region.
US11282889B2
A substrate for a front-side type image sensor includes a supporting semiconductor substrate, an electrically insulating layer, and a silicon-germanium semiconductor layer, known as the active layer. The electrically insulating layer includes a stack of dielectric and metallic layers selected such that the reflectivity of the stack in a wavelength range of between 700 nm and 3 μm is greater than the reflectivity of a silicon oxide layer having a thickness equal to that of the stack. The substrate also comprises a silicon layer between the electrically insulating layer and the silicon-germanium active layer. The disclosure also relates to a method for the production of such a substrate.
US11282884B2
There is provided an imaging device with a semiconductor substrate having a first side and a second side opposite the first side. A photoelectric conversion unit is on the first side of the semiconductor substrate. A multilayer wiring layer is on the second side of the semiconductor substrate. A through electrode extends between the photoelectric conversion unit and the multilayer wiring layer. The multilayer wiring layer includes a local wiring layer. A second end of the through electrode is in direct contact with the local wiring layer.
US11282881B2
A solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate provided with an effective pixel region including a light receiving section that photoelectrically converts incident light; an interconnection layer that is provided at a plane side opposite to the light receiving plane of the semiconductor substrate; a first groove portion that is provided between adjacent light receiving sections and is formed at a predetermined depth from the light receiving plane side of the semiconductor substrate; and an insulating material that is embedded in at least a part of the first groove portion.
US11282870B2
To make the dimension of an electrostatic protection circuit small with the same maintained high in sensitivity. The electrostatic protection circuit is of the configuration that a first diode and a second diode are connected in series, wherein a semiconductor layer owned by each diode is configured to be sandwiched between a gate electrode and a conductive light shielding film. The light shielding film is formed to overlap with the semiconductor layer and has a wider area than the semiconductor layer. This results in having a gate covering the semiconductor layer from an upper side and a back gate covering the semiconductor layer from a lower side, so that the sensitivity can be maintained high irrespective of decreasing the electrostatic protection circuit in dimension.
US11282869B2
The preset disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes: a first substrate; a first bonding electrode which is located on a first surface of the first substrate facing a light-outgoing direction of the display panel and is located at an edge outside a display area of the display panel.
US11282867B2
The present disclosure provides a display substrate motherboard and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device, wherein the display substrate motherboard includes a plurality of display units located on an organic substrate and a cutting region between adjacent display units, and the cutting region includes therein the organic substrate and an inorganic film layer covering the organic substrate.
US11282864B2
To reduce power consumption and suppress display degradation of a liquid crystal display device. To suppress display degradation due to an external factor such as temperature. A transistor whose channel formation region is formed using an oxide semiconductor layer is used for a transistor provided in each pixel. Note that with the use of a high-purity oxide semiconductor layer, off-state current of the transistor at a room temperature can be 10 aA/μm or less and off-state current at 85° C. can be 100 aA/μm or less. Consequently, power consumption of a liquid crystal display device can be reduced and display degradation can be suppressed. Further, as described above, off-state current of the transistor at a temperature as high as 85° C. can be 100 aA/μm or less. Thus, display degradation of a liquid crystal display device due to an external factor such as temperature can be suppressed.
US11282863B2
The present disclosure provides a demultiplexer, an array substrate and a display device. The array substrate comprises a plurality of data line leads, a plurality of data lines arranged side by side and the demultiplexer. The demultiplexer includes first to third control gate lines arranged in parallel and first to sixth thin film transistors. The first thin film transistor to the third thin film transistor are positioned at a side of the demultiplexer proximal to the first control gate line, the fourth thin film transistor to the sixth thin film transistor are positioned at a side of the demultiplexer proximal to the third control gate line, and drains of the first thin film transistor to the sixth thin film transistor are respectively coupled to corresponding ones of the plurality of data lines.
US11282862B2
The disclosure provides a bonding structure of a lateral side of a display panel, including an array substrate, a color filter, an inner circuit, and a lateral circuit. By defining a through hole in a gate insulating layer, a second metal layer may be directly connected to a first metal layer, thereby reducing layers flaked off from a glass when a lateral side of the glass is edged.
US11282859B2
The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate having active regions; field-effect devices disposed on the semiconductor substrate, the field-effect devices including gate stacks with elongated shape oriented in a first direction; a first metal layer disposed over the gate stacks, the first metal layer including first metal lines oriented in a second direction being orthogonal to the first direction; a second metal layer disposed over the first metal layer, the second metal layer including second metal lines oriented in the first direction; and a third metal layer disposed over the second metal layer, the third metal layer including third metal lines oriented in the second direction. The first, second, and third metal lines have a first thickness T1, a second thickness T2, and t a third thickness T3, respectively. The second thickness is greater than the first thickness and the third thickness.
US11282852B2
A vertical memory device includes a gate line structure including a cell region in which a vertical channel structure is formed, and a first connection region and a second connection region which are respectively arranged at first and second ends of the cell region in a first direction. Each of the first connection region and the second connection region includes a first protrusion of the first gate line and a second protrusion of the second gate line which are parallel to a top surface of the substrate and arranged as steps in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The first protrusion of the second connection region is arranged diagonally from the first protrusion of the first connection region with respect to a center line of the cell region which is parallel to the first direction.
US11282847B2
A method used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises forming a lower portion of a stack that will comprise vertically-alternating first tiers and second tiers on a substrate. The stack comprises laterally-spaced memory-block regions. Material of the first tiers is of different composition from material of the second tiers. Horizontally-elongated lines are formed in the lower portion that are individually between immediately-laterally-adjacent of the memory-block regions. The lines comprise sacrificial material. The lines individually comprise laterally-opposing projections longitudinally there-along in a lowest of the first tiers. The vertically-alternating first tiers and second tiers of an upper portion of the stack are formed above the lower portion and the lines, and channel-material strings are formed that extend through the first tiers and the second tiers in the upper portion to the lower portion. Horizontally-elongated trenches are formed into the stack that are individually between the immediately-laterally-adjacent memory-block regions and extend to the line there-between. The sacrificial material of the lines and projections is removed through the trenches. Intervening material is formed in the trenches and void-spaces left as a result of the removing of the sacrificial material of the lines. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11282836B2
Provided is an integrated circuit including at least one cell, the at least one cell includes first and second active regions spaced apart from each other, a dummy region disposed between the first and second active regions, at least one first active fin disposed in the first active region and extending in a first direction, at least one second active fin extending along the first direction over the entire length of the second active region, and an active gate line extending in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the active gate line vertically overlaps the first active region and the dummy region and does not vertically overlap the second active region.
US11282834B2
Provided is a semiconductor device which is a facedown mounting, chip-size-package-type semiconductor device and includes: a transistor element including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a control electrode which controls a conduction state between the first electrode and the second electrode; a plurality of first resistor elements each including a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrodes of the first resistor elements being electrically connected to the second electrode of the transistor element; one or more external resistance terminals to which the second electrodes of the plurality of first resistor elements are physically connected; a first external terminal electrically connected to the first electrode of the transistor element; and an external control terminal electrically connected to the control electrode. The one or more external resistance terminals, the first external terminal, and the external control terminal are external connection terminals provided on a surface of the semiconductor device.
US11282830B2
A device comprises a high voltage n well and a high voltage p well over a buried layer, a first low voltage n well over the high voltage n well, wherein a bottom portion of the first low voltage n well is surrounded by the high voltage n well, an N+ region over the first low voltage n well, a second low voltage n well and a low voltage p well over the high voltage p well, a first P+ region over the second low voltage n well and a second P+ region over the low voltage p well.
US11282817B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor die package. The first semiconductor package includes a molding compound, and a conductive element in the molding compound, wherein a top surface of the conductive element is above or co-planar with a top-most surface of the molding compound. The semiconductor device further includes a second semiconductor die package. The second semiconductor package includes a plurality of copper-containing contacts on a single metal pad, wherein each of the plurality of copper-containing contacts is bonded to the conductive element.
US11282815B2
A microelectronic device comprises a memory array region, a control logic region, and an additional control logic region. The memory array region comprises a stack structure comprising vertically alternating conductive structures and insulating structures, and vertically extending strings of memory cells within the stack structure. The control logic region underlies the stack structure and comprises control logic devices configured to effectuate a portion of control operations for the vertically extending strings of memory cells. The additional control logic region overlies the stack structure and comprises additional control logic devices configured to effectuate an additional portion of the control operations for the vertically extending strings of memory cells. Methods of forming a microelectronic device, and additional microelectronic devices and electronic systems are also described.
US11282807B2
In some examples, a system comprises a set of nanoparticles and a set of nanowires extending from the set of nanoparticles.
US11282801B2
A process for the production of a permanent, electrically conductive connection between a first metal surface of a first substrate and a second metal surface of a second substrate, wherein a permanent, electrically conductive connection is produced, at least primarily, by substitution diffusion between metal ions and/or metal atoms of the two metal surfaces.
US11282793B2
A method of forming a package assembly includes forming a first dielectric layer over a carrier substrate; forming a conductive through-via over the first dielectric layer; treating the conductive through-via with a first chemical, thereby roughening surfaces of the conductive through-via; and molding a device die and the conductive through-via in a molding material.
US11282791B2
A semiconductor device includes a first chip package, a heat dissipation structure and an adapter. The first chip package includes a semiconductor die laterally encapsulated by an insulating encapsulant, the semiconductor die has an active surface and a back surface opposite to the active surface. The heat dissipation structure is connected to the chip package. The adapter is disposed over the first chip package and electrically connected to the semiconductor die.
US11282788B2
A structure (interconnect or memory structure) is provided that includes a first electrically conductive structure having a concave upper surface embedded in a first interconnect dielectric material layer. A metal-containing cap having a convex bottom surface directly contacts the concave upper surface of the first electrically conductive structure. A metal-containing structure having a planar bottommost surface directly contacts a planar topmost surface of the metal-containing cap. A second electrically conductive structure contacts the planar topmost surface of the metal-containing structure. A second interconnect dielectric material layer is present on the first interconnect dielectric material layer and is located laterally adjacent to an upper portion of the metal-containing cap, the metal-containing structure, and the second electrically conductive structure.
US11282777B2
A semiconductor package includes a core layer, a conductive interconnect and a semiconductor chip. The core layer has a top surface and a bottom surface opposite to the top surface. The conductive interconnect penetrates through the core layer. The conductive interconnect has a top surface and a bottom surface respectively exposed from the top surface and the bottom surface of the core layer. The semiconductor chip is disposed on the top surface of the core layer. The semiconductor chip includes a conductive pad, and the top surface of the conductive interconnect directly contacts the conductive pad.
US11282770B2
A leadless packaged semiconductor device includes a metal substrate having at least a first through-hole aperture having a first outer ring and a plurality of cuts through the metal substrate to define spaced apart metal pads on at least two sides of the first through-hole aperture. A semiconductor die that has a back side metal (BSM) layer on its bottom side and a top side with circuitry coupled to bond pads is mounted top side up on the first outer ring. A metal die attach layer is directly between the BSM layer and walls of the metal substrate bounding the first through-hole aperture that provides a die attachment that fills a bottom portion of the first through-hole aperture. Bond wires are between metal pads and the bond pads. A mold compound is also provided including between adjacent ones of the metal pads.
US11282769B2
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an integrated chip structure. The integrated chip structure includes a standard via disposed on a first side of a substrate. An oversized via is disposed on the first side of the substrate and is laterally separated from the standard via. The oversized via has a larger width than the standard via. An interconnect wire vertically contacting the oversized via. A through-substrate via (TSV) extends from a second side of the substrate, and through the substrate, to physically contact the oversized via or the interconnect wire. The TSV has a minimum width that is smaller than a width of the oversized via.
US11282768B2
A method is presented for constructing fully-aligned top-via interconnects by employing a subtractive etch process. The method includes building a first metallization stack over a substrate, depositing a first lithography stack over the first metallization stack, etching the first lithography stack and the first metallization stack to form a receded first metallization stack, and depositing a first dielectric adjacent the receded first metallization stack. The method further includes building a second metallization stack over the first dielectric and the receded first metallization stack, depositing a second lithography stack over the second metallization stack, etching the second lithography stack and the second metallization stack to form a receded second metallization stack, and trimming the receded first metallization stack to form a via connecting the receded first metallization stack to the receded second metallization stack.
US11282762B2
A flip chip ball grid array (FCBGA) comprises a substrate, a cavity forming ring stiffener, an external heat sink, and a thermal interface material. The cavity forming ring stiffener is disposed on the substrate. The cavity forming ring stiffener has a segment which forms a cavity with the substrate, and exposes a top of the silicon chip. The external heat sink is disposed on the silicon chip and the segment of the cavity forming ring stiffener. A thermal interface material separates the segment of the cavity forming ring stiffener and the top of the silicon chip from the external heat sink and conducts heat from the silicon chip to the external heat sink.
US11282756B2
An organic interposer includes polymer matrix layers embedding redistribution interconnect structures, package-side bump structures, die-side bump structures and connected to a distal subset of the redistribution interconnect structures through a respective bump connection via structure. At least one metallic shield structure may laterally surround a respective one of the die-side bump structures. Shield support via structures may laterally surround a respective one of the bump connection via structures. Each metallic shield structure and the shield support via structures may be used to reduce mechanical stress applied to the redistribution interconnect structures during subsequent attachment of a semiconductor die to the die-side bump structures.
US11282750B2
An apparatus includes a first source and a common drain and on opposite sides of a first gate surrounded by a first gate spacer, a second source and the common drain on opposite sides of a second gate surrounded by a second gate spacer, a first protection layer formed along a sidewall of the first gate spacer, wherein a top surface of the first protection layer has a first slope, a second protection layer formed along a sidewall of the second gate spacer, wherein a top surface of the second protection layer has a second slope, a lower drain contact between the first gate and the second gate and an upper drain contact over the lower drain contact and between the first gate and the second gate, wherein at least a portion of the upper drain contact is in contact with the first slope and the second slope.
US11282749B2
A method includes forming a dummy gate stack over a semiconductor region of a wafer, and depositing a gate spacer layer using Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) on a sidewall of the dummy gate stack. The depositing the gate spacer layer includes performing an ALD cycle to form a dielectric atomic layer. The ALD cycle includes introducing silylated methyl to the wafer, purging the silylated methyl, introducing ammonia to the wafer, and purging the ammonia.
US11282746B2
A method of manufacturing a microelectronic device may include forming a wiring layer on a first surface of a wafer. The method may also include forming a modified layer along separation regions for each microelectronic device of the wafer by focusing a laser on an inside portion of the wafer. The method may also include removing material from the second surface of the wafer. The wafer may be cooled to a temperature where a low dielectric constant layer extending across the separation regions is brittle while the material is removed from the second surface of the wafer. The method may further include separating the wafer along the separation region to form separate microelectronic devices.
US11282728B2
The present disclosure relates to a contamination controlled semiconductor processing system. The contamination controlled semiconductor processing system includes a processing chamber, a contamination detection system, and a contamination removal system. The processing chamber is configured to process a wafer. The contamination detection system is configured to determine whether a contamination level on a surface of the door is greater than a baseline level. The contamination removal system is configured to remove contaminants from the surface of the door in response to the contamination level being greater than the baseline level.
US11282725B2
A wafer transfer unit includes at least one data processing unit, which is configured at least for a registration and/or processing of sensor data of at least one sensor, allocated to at least one sub-component of a wafer transfer system, of a sensor module, in particular includes at least one wafer processing module of the wafer transfer system, includes at least one wafer interface system of the wafer transfer system with a wafer transport container and a loading and/or unloading station for a loading and/or unloading of the wafer transport container and/or of the wafer processing module, includes at least one wafer transport container transport system of the wafer transfer system and/or includes at least one wafer handling robot of the wafer transfer system.
US11282715B2
Apparatus for use in preparing heterostructures having a reduced concentration of defects including apparatus for stressing semiconductor substrates to allow them to conform to a crystal having a different crystal lattice constant.
US11282714B2
The etching method of the present invention includes the step of supplying a first mixed gas containing a β-diketone-containing etching gas and a nitrogen oxide gas to a target having, on a surface, both a first metal film containing cobalt, iron, or manganese and a second metal film containing copper, thereby selectively etching the first metal film over the second metal film, or the step of supplying a second mixed gas containing a β-diketone-containing etching gas and oxygen gas to the target, thereby selectively etching the second metal film over the first metal film.
US11282709B2
According to the present disclosure, there is provided a water-repellent protective film-forming liquid chemical capable of achieving an improved water repellency imparting effect. The water-repellent protective film-forming liquid chemical according to the present disclosure contains the following compositions: (I) an aminosilane composition of the following general formula [1]; (II) a silicon compound of the following general formula [2]; and (III) an aprotic solvent, wherein the amount of the component (I) contained is 0.02 to 0.5 mass % based on the total amount of the components (I) to (III). (R1)aSi(H)b(NH2)4-a-b [1] (R2)cSi(H)dX4-c-d [2]
US11282708B2
Performed is a hydrogen anneal of heating a semiconductor wafer on which a thin film containing a dopant and carbon is formed to an anneal temperature in an atmosphere containing hydrogen. Subsequently, a hydrogen atmosphere in a chamber is replaced with an oxygen atmosphere, and the semiconductor wafer is preheated to a preheating temperature in the oxygen atmosphere. Performed then is a flash heating treatment of heating a surface of the semiconductor wafer to a peak temperature for less than one second. The semiconductor wafer is heated in the oxygen atmosphere, thus activation of dopant and binding of carbon in the thin film and oxygen in the atmosphere are promoted, and carbon is exhausted from the thin film to prevent hardening of the thin film. As a result, the thin film containing carbon can be easily peeled from the semiconductor wafer.
US11282705B2
A semiconductor device includes a gate electrode, spacers and a hard mask structure. The spacers are disposed on opposite sidewalls of the gate electrode. The hard mask structure includes a first hard mask layer and a second hard mask layer. A lower portion of the first hard mask layer is disposed between the spacers and on the gate electrode, and a top portion of the first hard mask layer is surrounded by the second hard mask layer.
US11282704B2
Systems and methods for forming semiconductor layers, including oxide-based layers, are disclosed in which a material deposition system has a rotation mechanism that rotates a substrate around a center axis of a substrate deposition plane of the substrate. A material source that supplies a material to the substrate has i) an exit aperture with an exit aperture plane and ii) a predetermined material ejection spatial distribution from the exit aperture plane. The exit aperture is positioned at an orthogonal distance, a lateral distance, and a tilt angle relative to the center axis of the substrate. The system can be configured for either i) minimum values for the orthogonal distance and the lateral distance to achieve a desired layer deposition uniformity using a set tilt angle, or ii) the tilt angle to achieve the desired layer deposition uniformity using a set orthogonal distance and a set lateral distance.
US11282699B2
There is provided a substrate processing apparatus including: a processing container having a vacuum atmosphere formed therein; a stage provided within the processing container and configured to place a substrate on the stage; a film-forming gas supply part configured to supply a film-forming gas for forming an organic film on the substrate placed on the stage; and a heating part configured to heat the substrate placed on the stage in a non-contact manner so as to remove a surface portion of the organic film.
US11282693B2
A method of operating a quadrupole device is disclosed. The method comprises applying a main drive voltage to the quadrupole device and applying three or more auxiliary drive voltages to the quadrupole device. The three or more auxiliary drive voltages correspond to two or more pairs of X-band or Y-band auxiliary drive voltages.
US11282692B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for IMR-MS and/or PTR-MS, comprising a sample gas inlet (202, 206), a first ion source (209), a reaction chamber (203), a mass analyzer (204), wherein the reaction chamber (203) and the mass analyzer (204) are arranged along a central axis (A), characterized by a second ion source (209), wherein the sample gas inlet (202, 206) is arranged to introduce gas essentially along the central axis (A) and is connected to the reaction chamber (203); wherein the first ion source (209) and the second ion source (209) are arranged so as to emit reagent ions essentially perpendicularly to the central axis (A); said apparatus further comprising at least one electrode (302, 303, 304, 305), such that the reagent ions emitted from the first or second ion source (209) can be deflected into the reaction chamber (203) essentially in the downstream direction of the central axis (A).
US11282687B2
Methods and systems for chemical analysis. For instance, a device for chemical analysis of a sample includes a housing, an inlet, a pump, multiple membranes and at least one detector. The housing contains an interior chamber of the device. The inlet on the housing introduces the sample into the interior chamber. The pump is connected to the housing to form a partial vacuum in the interior chamber. The multiple membranes have different response times to different constituents of the sample. The multiple membranes include at least a first membrane and a second membrane. The multiple membranes have different response times to different constituents of the sample. The detector is for detecting the different constituents of the sample after interaction with the multiple membranes. In addition, a method for chemical analysis of a sample. A first step includes introducing a sample to multiple membranes having different response times to different constituents of the sample. A second step includes separating the different constituents of the sample due to the different response times of the multiple membranes. A third step includes detecting the different constituents of the gas after separating with the multiple membranes.
US11282681B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes placing a substrate in a housing, supplying first gas containing molybdenum to the housing to form a film that contains molybdenum, on the substrate, removing the substrate with the formed film from the hosing, and then supplying second gas containing chlorine to the housing to remove molybdenum deposited on a surface of the housing.
US11282678B2
According to a method of controlling uniformity of plasma, a first RF driving pulse signal including first RF pulses is generated by pulsing a first RF signal having a first frequency, and a second RF driving pulse signal including second RF pulses is generated by pulsing a second RF signal having a second, lower frequency. The first and second RF driving signals are applied to a top electrode and/or a bottom electrode of a plasma chamber. A harmonic control signal including harmonic control pulses is generated based on timing of the first and second RF pulses. A harmonic component of the first and second RF driving pulse signals is reduced via intermittent activation and deactivation of a harmonic control circuit as controlled by the harmonic control signal. The uniformity of plasma is improved through the control based on timings of the RF driving pulses.
US11282677B2
Systems and methods for plasma processing are disclosed. An exemplary system may include a plasma processing chamber including a source to produce a plasma in the processing chamber and at least two bias electrodes arranged within the plasma processing chamber to control plasma sheaths proximate to the bias electrodes. A chuck is disposed to support a substrate, and a source generator is coupled to the plasma electrode. At least one bias supply is coupled to the at least two bias electrodes, and a controller is included to control the at least one bias supply to control the plasma sheaths proximate to the bias electrodes.
US11282675B2
The present disclosure proposes a crossover-forming deflector array of an electro-optical system for directing a plurality of electron beams onto an electron detection device. The crossover-forming deflector array includes a plurality of crossover-forming deflectors positioned at or at least near an image plane of a set of one or more electro-optical lenses of the electro-optical system, wherein each crossover-forming deflector is aligned with a corresponding electron beam of the plurality of electron beams.
US11282656B2
Key assemblies having a foldable stabilizer are disclosed. The stabilizer can be positioned under a keycap to help guide the keycap and limit rotation or movement when the key is pressed. The stabilizer can have a pointed-star shape with multiple folding axes and can have multiple points of connection or linkage to the keycap or other surrounding components. The stabilizer can unfold or flatten as the keycap is pressed and can fold as the keycap is raised.
US11282648B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a body including dielectric layers and first and second internal electrodes disposed with respective dielectric layers interposed therebetween to be point-symmetrical to each other, first and second connection electrodes penetrating through the body in a direction perpendicular to the dielectric layer, and connected to the first internal electrode, third and fourth connection electrodes penetrating through the body in the direction perpendicular to the dielectric layer, and connected to the second internal electrode, first and second external electrodes disposed on both external surfaces of the body and connected to the first and second connection electrodes, and third and fourth external electrodes spaced apart from the first and second external electrodes and connected to the third and fourth connection electrodes. Each of the first and second internal electrodes includes an electrode-unformed region.
US11282640B2
A DC link capacitor cooling system having an integrated heat sink disposed across a bottom surface of a DC link capacitor with a dielectric thermal interface material covering the integrated heat sink, and a chassis contacting the dielectric thermal interface material, wherein the chassis has an active fluid coolant domain therein.
US11282630B2
A common mode choke coil includes a body, a first spiral conductor, a second spiral conductor, a first extension conductor, and a second extension conductor. The thickness of the first extension conductor is equal to or less than (thickness of the first spiral conductor)/(winding number of the first spiral conductor), and the width of the first extension conductor is equal to or more than (width of the first spiral conductor)×(thickness of the first spiral conductor)/(thickness of the first extension conductor). The thickness of the second extension conductor is equal to or less than (thickness of the second spiral conductor)/(winding number of the second spiral conductor), and the width of the second extension conductor is equal to or more than (width of the second spiral conductor)×(thickness of the second spiral conductor)/(thickness of the second extension conductor).
US11282622B2
A ferrite composition includes a main component and a sub-component. The main component includes 10.0 to 38.0 mol % of a Fe compound in terms of Fe2O3, 3.0 to 11.0 mol % of a Cu compound in terms of CuO, 39.0 to 80.0 mol % (excluding 39.0 mol %) of a Zn compound in terms of ZnO, and a balance of a Ni compound. The sub-component includes 10.0 to 23.0 parts by weight of a Si compound in terms of SiO2, 0 to 3.0 parts by weight (including 0 parts by weight) of a Co compound in terms of Co3O4, and 0.1 to 3.0 parts by weight of a Bi compound in terms of Bi2O3 with respect to 100 parts by weight of the main component.
US11282618B2
A high-speed flat cable includes a plurality of shielded signal units, one or more bendable composite layers, and an adhesive layer. The shielded signal units are substantially coplanar, spaced apart from each other or adjoining each other. The one or more bendable composite layers includes an inner insulating film layer, a bendable aluminum foil layer, and an outer insulating film layer. The one or more bendable composite layers composed of the inner insulating film layer, the bendable aluminum foil layer, and the outer insulating film layer increase its mechanical bending/folding property to improve the bending/folding memory. The one or more bendable composite layers allows the flat cable to be bent with ease without rebounding, thereby enhancing production efficiency.
US11282611B2
This disclosure includes a method of classifying a plurality of subjects associated with medical documents. The method includes receiving, with a computer system, an indication of at least one clinical concept, parsing, with the computer system, the medical documents for corresponding indications of the clinical concept, identifying, with the computer system, subjects in the plurality of subjects as meeting the clinical criterion based on prioritization of sections within the medical documents and locations of the corresponding indications of the clinical concept within the medical documents, and outputting, with the computer system, indications of the subjects in the plurality of subjects identified as meeting the clinical criterion.
US11282607B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that access over a network a set of codes and respective code descriptions from a first data store. Course data for courses is accessed over a network from a second data store. Code descriptions and course data are compared, and the comparison is used to generate a mapping of courses to codes. The network interface is used to access codes associated with patient records for a plurality of patients from an electronic medical record system associated with a medical service provider. Relevancy values are calculated for codes using the codes associated with patient records. The calculated relevancy values and the accessed mapping of courses to codes are used to generate a first ranked presentation of recommended courses. A course selection is detected. Using the selection, a second ranked presentation of recommended courses is generated by a learning engine with updated learning engine weights.
US11282598B2
Systems and methods for treating a subject are provided. A first dataset comprising timestamped autonomous glucose measurements of the subject over a first time course is obtained. A second dataset, associated with a standing insulin regimen for the subject over the first time course and comprising insulin medicament records, is also obtained. Each record comprises a timestamped injection event including an amount and type of insulin medicament injected into the subject by an insulin pen. The first and second datasets serve to calculate a glycaemic risk measure and an insulin sensitivity factor of the subject during the first time course, which are used to obtain a basal titration schedule and a fasting blood glucose profile model over a subsequent second time course for the subject. The model predicts the fasting blood glucose level of the subject based upon amounts of basal insulin medicament injected into the subject.
US11282596B2
A computer system automatically generates and provides real-time feedback to a healthcare provider about a selected Evaluation and Management (E/M) level to assign to a patient encounter. The system provides the feedback while the healthcare provider is creating the clinical note that documents the patient encounter. The system may also automatically generate and suggest E/M levels to the healthcare provider for approval by the healthcare provider while the healthcare provider is creating the clinical note.
US11282594B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for analyzing and presenting healthcare information are described. Some embodiments may include a system configured to receive healthcare information relating to a patient and to generate a patient profile. The patient profile may include a physiological status as well as a physiological assessment and a treatment assessment based on the automatic and dynamic analysis of the healthcare information. The healthcare information and the patient profile may be updated and/or accessed in real-time or substantially real-time through client logic devices in communication with the system. In this manner, a healthcare professional may enter healthcare information for a patient that is readily accessible by other healthcare professionals through the system. The system may present navigation objects that include a plurality of navigation layers selectively displayed based on user input. In addition, information objects may be displayed to users based on user navigation selections.
US11282592B2
A healthcare information system, method and computer program product are provided to receive, process and output healthcare data in compliance with data use restrictions associated with the healthcare data, even in instances in which data projections are assembled from the data elements. In regards to a healthcare information system, processing circuitry is configured to assemble the data projection from a plurality of data elements. At least some data elements have different data use restrictions associated therewith. The processing circuitry is also configured to determine a combined data use restriction for the data projection based upon the data use restrictions of the data elements from which the data projection is assembled. The processing circuitry is further configured to associate metadata with the data projection including the combined data use restriction. Further, the processing circuitry is configured to control access to the data projection in accordance with the combined data use restriction.
US11282589B2
System and method to determine a reduced cohort criteria, the method including: defining N selection criteria to select a cohort from among a universe of patient data; querying a patient database, by use of a processor, and by use of the N selection criteria, in order to define a full patient population; selecting a subset of size M of the N selection criteria, to produce a subset criteria; selecting a permutation of the subset criteria, to produce a permuted subset criteria in a predetermined order; for each member of the permuted subset criteria: querying the patient database by use of the member of the permuted subset criteria to produce a respective interim patient population; combining all respective interim patient populations to produce a partial patient population; and calculating, by a processor, a coverage figure of merit that compares the partial patient population to the full patient population.
US11282581B1
A memory device has a plurality of blocks of memory cells and a plurality of bit lines, each block including a group of word lines, and a set of NAND strings. Each block in the plurality of blocks of memory cells has a plurality of sub-blocks, each sub-block including a distinct subset of the set of NAND strings of the block selected, and a respective sub-block string select line. Control circuits are configured to execute a program operation including applying word line voltages and string select line voltages at a precharge level to precharge the set of NAND strings in the selected block, then lowering the gate voltages on all the sub-block string select lines of the block, and then lowering the word line voltages on the group of word lines. Thereafter, the program of cells in a selected sub-block is executed.
US11282574B2
Methods, systems, and devices related to auto-referenced memory cell read techniques are described. The auto-referenced read may encode user data to include a predetermined number of bits having a first logic state prior to storing the user data in memory cells. The auto-referenced read may store a total number of bits of the user data having a first logic state in a separate set of memory cells. Subsequently, reading the user data may be carried out by applying a read voltage to the memory cells storing the user data while monitoring a series of switching events by activating a subset of the memory cells having the first logic state. During the read operation, the auto-referenced read may compare the number of activated memory cells to either the predetermined number or the total number to determine whether all the bits having the first logic state has been detected. When the number of activated memory cells matches either the predetermined number or the total number, the auto-referenced read may determine that the memory cells that have been activated correspond to the first logic state.
US11282565B1
According to on embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile memory, a memory controller including a data buffer configured to store first data, and a backup power supply configured to supply first power to the non-volatile memory and the memory controller, when second power from an external main power supply is off. The memory controller is configured to write second data including information identifying the first data in the non-volatile memory without writing the first data in the non-volatile memory, when the first power is supplied from the backup power supply, and transmit the information stored in the non-volatile memory to an external host device, after a recovery of the second power from the main power supply.
US11282551B2
A data sorting control circuit includes a phase detector suitable for detecting a phase of each of a first clock signal, a second clock signal, a third clock signal, and a fourth clock signal in response to a read command, an order determiner suitable for determining a data order as a first order or a second order based on a seed address and the detected phase of each of the clock signals, and an sorting control signal generator suitable for shifting the read command based on the first clock signal to the fourth clock signal to generate a first sorting control signal, a second sorting control signal, a third sorting control signal, and a fourth sorting control signal, and outputting the first sorting control signal to the fourth sorting control signal according to the first order or the second order.
US11282544B2
Motion within first video content and second video content may be assessed. A match between the motions assessed within the first video content and the second video content may be determined. The match may include a first set of video frames within the first video content and a second set of video frames within the second video content within which the matching motion is present. A first video portion (including frame(s) of the first set of video frames) of the first video content and a second video portion (include frame(s) of the second set of video frames) of the second video content may be identified based on the match. The first video portion and the second video portion may be concatenated to provide a transition between the first video portion and the second video portion in which continuity of motion may be achieved.
US11282539B2
According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a magnetic disk, a load beam, a flexure, a head unit, and a first restrictor. The load beam has a first face facing the magnetic disk. The flexure is attached to the first face. The head unit includes: a magnetic head attached to the flexure, configured to read and write information from and to the magnetic disk; and a heat-assister attached to the magnetic head, configured to heat the magnetic disk. The first restrictor is included in the head unit, configured to come in contact with at least one of the load beam and the flexure along with movement of the magnetic head away from the first face by a first distance.
US11282535B2
Disclosed is an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a storage for storing a plurality of filters trained in a plurality of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) respectively and a processor configured to acquire a first spectrogram corresponding to a damaged audio signal, input the first spectrogram to a CNN corresponding to each frequency band to apply the plurality of filters trained in the plurality of CNNs respectively, acquire a second spectrogram by merging output values of the CNNs to which the plurality of filters are applied, and acquire an audio signal reconstructed based on the second spectrogram.
US11282533B2
The present application relates to a method, system, and computer program product of dynamically adjusting thresholds of a compressor responsive to an input audio signal. A scene switch analyzer receives an input audio signal having a plurality of frequency band components. The scene switch analyzer determines whether a scene switch has occurred in the input audio signal. The frequency band components of the input audio signal are processed. In response to determine that scene switch has not occurred, a distortion audibility system applies slow smoothing to compressor thresholds of the frequency band components. In response to determine that scene switch has occurred, the distortion audibility system applies fast smoothing or no smoothing to the compressor thresholds of the frequency band components.
US11282530B2
Methods, an encoder and a decoder are configured for transition between frames with different internal sampling rates. Linear predictive (LP) filter parameters are converted from a sampling rate S1 to a sampling rate S2. A power spectrum of a LP synthesis filter is computed, at the sampling rate S1, using the LP filter parameters. The power spectrum of the LP synthesis filter is modified to convert it from the sampling rate S1 to the sampling rate S2. The modified power spectrum of the LP synthesis filter is inverse transformed to determine autocorrelations of the LP synthesis filter at the sampling rate S2. The autocorrelations are used to compute the LP filter parameters at the sampling rate S2.
US11282527B2
A method and processing system for validating an audio signal is disclosed. A valid audio signal is an audio signal that has been determined to originate from a microphone and has not been provided by a digital audio source. In some implementations, one or more speakers may generate a sequence of one or more subaudible tones. Simultaneously, a microphone near the one or more speakers captures an audio signal. If the captured audio signal includes the one or more subaudible tones from the speakers, then the audio signal is a validated.
US11282524B2
A device may receive a set of audio data files corresponding to a set of calls, wherein the set of audio data files includes digital representations of one or more segments of respective calls of the set of calls, and wherein the set of calls includes audio data relating to a particular industry. The device may receive a set of transcripts corresponding to the set of audio data files. The device may determine a plurality of text-audio pairs within the set of calls, wherein a text-audio pair, of the plurality of text-audio pairs, comprises: a digital representation of a segment a call of the set of calls, and a corresponding excerpt of text from the set of transcripts. The device may train, using a machine learning process, an industry-specific text-to-speech model, tailored for the particular industry, based on the plurality of text-audio pairs.
US11282523B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a web-enabled mobile device operating voice assistant manager software configured and programmed to receive a request for a web-enabled operation, construct a voice command configured to implement the operation using a device-level voice assistant, and provide a voice indication of the operation result when the voice assistant is activated with the constructed voice command. In an illustrative example, the requested operation may be user designated in a web-enabled device visual interface. The operation may be an action, including, for example, user actions recorded from the visual interface, including text selection, form input, taps, or clicks, permitting construction of a voice command configured to implement the actions. In some examples, the operation may be a data retrieval operation providing a result vocalized to the user through the web-enabled device. Various examples may advantageously provide improved interoperability and enhanced ease of access between users, the user's web-enabled devices, software applications operating on the user's web-enabled devices, and various diverse device-level voice assistant implementations.
US11282521B2
According to one embodiment, a dialog system includes a processor. When a first sentence including one or more words is input by a user, the processor sets at least a part of the one or more words as a first query keyword. The processor selects, from a question-answer table including question-answer pairs, one or more of the question-answer pairs including the first query keyword. Each question-answer pair includes a question and an answer to the question. When a number of the selected question-answer pairs is 1, the processor outputs a first response indicating the answer. When the number is not less than a first threshold, the processor outputs a second response including first and second question keywords. The first question keyword is extracted from question keywords included in one of the pairs. The second question keyword is extracted from other question keywords included in another one of the pairs.
US11282507B1
Described techniques select portions of an audio stream for transmission to a trained machine learning application, which generates response recommendations in real-time. This real-time response is facilitated by the system identifying, selecting and transmitting those portions of the audio stream likely to be most relevant to the conversation. Portions of an audio stream less likely to be relevant to the conversation are identified accordingly and not transmitted. The system may identify the relevant portions of an audio stream by detecting events in a contemporaneous event stream, use a trained machine learning model to identify events in an audio stream, or both.
US11282504B2
The present disclosure is generally directed a system to detect activation phrases within input audio signals transmitted over a low-bandwidth network. The system can use a two-stage activation phrase detection process. First a sensing device, which can include a plurality of microphones for detecting an input audio signal, can detect an input audio signal that includes a candidate activation phrase. Second, the sensing device can transmit the recordings of the input audio signal to a client device for confirmation that the input audio signal includes the activation phrase.
US11282503B2
The present disclosure discloses a voice conversion training method. The method includes: forming a first training data set including a plurality of training voice data groups; selecting two of the training voice data groups from the first training data set to input into a voice conversion neural network for training; forming a second training data set including the first training data set and a first source speaker voice data group; inputting one of the training voice data groups selected from the first training data set and the first source speaker voice data group into the network for training; forming the third training data set including the second source speaker voice data group and the personalized voice data group that are parallel corpus with respect to each other; and inputting the second source speaker voice data group and the personalized voice data group into the network for training.
US11282497B2
Embodiments are disclosed for a method for dynamic text reading. The method includes performing pre-processing for a text document. Pre-processing includes determining the text document comprises an emotional statement based on an indicator of an emotion associated with the emotional statement. Pre-processing also includes identifying a speaker of the emotional statement. Further, pre-processing includes generating a role-to-voice map that associates the speaker with a digital representation of a voice for the speaker. The method additionally includes generating, based on the pre-processing, the voice for the speaker reading aloud a text of the text document using the digital representation of the voice with a tonal modulation that conveys the emotion.
US11282495B2
A first neural network model of a user device processes audio data to extract audio embeddings that represent vocal characteristics of a user of an utterance represented in the audio data. The audio embeddings may then be hashed to remove characteristics specific to the user while still maintaining a unique set of characteristics. The hashed embeddings may be sent to a remote system, which may use them to identify the user.
US11282479B2
A display control apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first microcomputer and a second microcomputer. The first microcomputer switches display luminance of a display. The second microcomputer switches contrast of the display. One of the first and second microcomputers delays switching according to switching of the other of the first and second microcomputers.
US11282475B2
Electronic device control method and electronic device applying the electronic device control method
An electronic device control method applied to an electronic device can operate in a display mode and a touch sensing mode. The method comprises: (a) controlling the electronic device to have a first mode switch frequency; and (b) controlling the electronic device to have a second mode switch frequency different from the first mode switch frequency. The first mode switch frequency and the second mode switch frequency are frequencies for switching between the display mode and the touch sensing mode.
US11282473B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for identifying a rising/falling edge and a display panel. The method for identifying a rising/falling edge includes the following steps: acquiring a real-time voltage increment of the current signal; determining whether or not a variation mode of the voltage increment is linear variation; and determining that a rising/falling edge of the current signal reaches at current moment.
US11282468B2
A pixel circuit includes a liquid crystal capacitor, a memory circuit, a driving circuit, a mode-switching circuit, and a control circuit. The memory circuit is configured to store a status signal. The driving circuit includes a first terminal configured to receive a data voltage and a second terminal electrically coupled to a first terminal of the liquid crystal capacitor, and the driving circuit is configured to be ON or OFF according to a scan signal selectively. The mode-switching circuit is configured to be ON or OFF according to a mode-switching signal selectively. The control signal is electrically coupled to the mode-switching circuit at a first node, and is configured to control the voltage level of the first node corresponding to the status signal, and output a display voltage to the liquid crystal capacitor via the mode-switching circuit when the mode-switching circuit is ON.
US11282458B2
Systems and methods are presently disclosed that compensate for temperature-based parasitic capacitance variation of a pixel of a display by causing a driver transistor of the pixel to enter an ohmic or linear region. A lookup table is generated based on temperatures at the pixel, diode voltages, and target diode currents or luminances at a diode of the pixel. A correction voltage is determined based on a target diode current or luminance, a temperature at the pixel, and the lookup table. A data voltage is applied corresponding to the target diode current or luminance and the correction voltage to the driver transistor.
US11282450B2
Provided is a display device including: a substrate including an active area, a non-active area, a bending area and a pad area; the active area including pixels to display images, each pixel including an organic light emitting layer and a thin-film transistor (TFT); the non-active area located between the active area and the bending area; and the bending area configured to be bent and located between the non-active area and the pad area, the bending area including a signal line and a power line that are made of a same material as a source electrode or a drain electrode of the TFT in the active area.
US11282446B2
A graphical display integrated into a rotary knob vehicle shifter assembly including a surface display located outside of the knob which can incorporate any of transistor LCD or organic LED interior components, such as which can be presented into either of segmented or OLED/TFT pixelated image display variants. In either instance, a connector end of an associated harness or ribbon cable extends from the graphical display and, when connected to a remote PCB board integrated into the shifter assembly, is configured to provide variable display options not limited to shifter position and including variable supporting graphics and other designs.
US11282444B2
A light emitting display apparatus includes a light emitting display panel including a plurality of pixels each operating in order of an initialization period, a sampling period, an offset voltage formation period, a data writing period, and a light emission period; a data driving circuit configured to supply data voltage to each of the pixels; a gate driving circuit configured to provide, to each of the pixels, a control signal having voltage levels determined for the initialization period, the sampling period, the offset voltage formation period, the data writing period, and the light emission period of a corresponding pixel; and a timing controller configured to control the data driving circuit and the gate driving circuit, wherein the offset voltage formation period is longer than the sampling period.
US11282432B2
A display device includes a processor and a display panel for receiving observation grayscale values from the processor. The display panel includes a data driver for applying data voltages to data lines, a target pixel coupled to at least one of the data lines, and observation pixels each coupled to at least one of the data lines, and located adjacent to the target pixel. The display panel applies a first data voltage to the target pixel, when the observation grayscale values for the observation pixels exceed a reference value. The display panel applies a second data voltage to the target pixel, when at least one of the observation grayscale values does not exceed the reference value. The first data voltage and the second data voltage are different from each other.
US11282428B2
The display panel includes an active region including data lines, gate lines crossing the data lines, and pixels arranged in a matrix, and a shift register arranged distributively in the active region and configured to supply a gate pulse to the gate lines.
US11282427B2
A display device includes pixels coupled to scan lines, control lines, data lines, and sensing lines, a scan driver for supplying a scan signal to the scan lines and supplying a control signal to the control lines, a data driver for supplying one of an image data signal and a sensing data signal to the data lines, and a sensing circuit including an analog-digital converter (“ADC”) which converts a sensing value supplied through the sensing lines into a current code in a digital form, the sensing circuit correcting the current code by reflecting a conversion characteristic of the ADC, the sensing circuit sensing characteristics of the driving transistor based on the corrected current code.
US11282426B2
A display device, including: pixels coupled to scan lines and data lines; a data driver configured to supply respective data signals to the data lines, including an amplifier disposed at an output terminal of the data driver, the amplifier including a first power terminal and a second power terminal; a switch unit configured to perform a power switching operation of alternately connecting the first power terminal and the second power terminal of the amplifier to a first driving power source and a second driving power source; and a driving controller configured to control the data driver and the switch unit, wherein the driving controller is configured to output a switch control signal to control the switch unit and interrupt the power switching operation during a blank period between source output periods, during which the data driver is configured to output the data signals of each frame.
US11282413B2
Embodiments of a secure multi-party computation method are provided. The method can include: dynamically converting a multi-party computation program segment into a first garbled circuit by using a multi-party computation operator of a first main body, and executing garbled gates of the first garbled circuit in sequence through an execution engine of the first main body, to encrypt data of the first main body; transmitting to a second main body the encrypted data of the first main body and identifiers for garbled gates of the first garbled circuit; performing a second encryption on the encrypted data of the first main body by the second main body in sequence according to the received identifiers for the garbled gates of the first garbled circuit, and returning to the first main body a result of the second encryption on the encrypted data of the first main body.
US11282411B2
The technology disclosed herein includes a navigation system for a visually impaired person. The navigation system may include a plurality of fixtures, a plurality of installations, wherein each installation is electronically connected to a fixture, and an electronic device, the electronic device configured to receive auditory or tactile signals from each installation and produce a signal indicative of a fixture location.
US11282408B2
A user computing entity executes application program code to cause display of an IUI via a user interface of the user computing entity. The IUI comprises an action list comprising one or more action items corresponding to one or more team members of a team. The action items are automatically ordered based on one or more action priorities. At least one of the action items corresponds to a coaching opportunity and a recommendation for responding thereto. The coaching opportunity is automatically identified using a recommendation model trained using machine learning based at least in part on performance data corresponding to a plurality of key performance indicator metrics. The recommendation for responding to the coaching opportunity is determined using the recommendation model and based on the performance data. The recommendation model is trained using information regarding previous handlings of coaching opportunities and corresponding outcome indicators for a cluster of teams.
US11282401B2
Described herein are methods and systems for automatically operating autonomous vehicles to accomplish a coverage task by receiving a plurality of task parameters defining a coverage task in a certain geographical area, calculating and outputting instructions for operating first autonomous vehicle(s) to cover the certain geographical area according to a first movement path computed according to operational parameters of the first autonomous vehicle with respect to the task parameters, identifying uncovered segment(s) in the certain geographical area by analyzing coverage of the certain geographical, and calculating and outputting instructions for operating second autonomous vehicle(s) to cover the uncovered segment(s) according to a second movement path computed according to operational parameters of the second autonomous vehicle. The first autonomous vehicle(s) and the second autonomous vehicle(s) are selected to optimally accomplish the coverage task. The second autonomous vehicle having increased coverage precision and reduced coverage rate compared to the first autonomous vehicle.
US11282390B2
An information processing system includes vehicles and a server. Each of the vehicles generates a video obtained by imaging outside scenery in association with a time and transmit the video and position information of a host vehicle at a time when the video is generated to the server. The server detects attribute information of a person in the video from the video and detects position information of the person at the time based on the position information of the host vehicle at the time when the video is generated, when the video and the position information are received from the host vehicle. The server specifies the same person appearing in two or more videos of videos respectively received from the vehicles and transmits the attribute information of the specified person and movement path information including time-series data of the position information of the person to a client.
US11282388B2
An edge device can send a vehicle-specific alert to a connected vehicle, which is configured to communicate with the edge device. The edge device can receive observations of other vehicles on the road from connected vehicles and/or roadside units. The edge device can also receive driving history and/or other information about the other vehicles from a server. The edge device can classify the behavior of vehicles detected in the observations based on the observations, driving history, and/or other information. Based on the classified behavior, the edge device can determine whether and how the connected vehicle is impacted and, if impacted, send the vehicle-specific alert to the connected vehicle.
US11282387B2
A method and system generates a collision warning to a driver of a host vehicle. The system includes an on-board sensor of the host vehicle to detect presence of a preceding vehicle, wireless communication circuitry to establish wireless communication with a remote vehicle, and processing circuitry to detect existence of a slow remote vehicle ahead of the host vehicle, track an immediately preceding vehicle ahead of the host vehicle, confirm that the slow remote vehicle is affecting the host vehicle's lane speed of traffic by detecting that the immediately preceding vehicle is decelerating. When it is determined that, that the remote vehicle is sow, display an information message indicating the existence of the slow remote vehicle, and output, when the remote vehicle is slow and the preceding vehicle is decelerating, the collision warning as an audio sound and a visual message.
US11282386B2
A parking lot management device includes a memory and a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to identify a plurality of vehicles which enters a parking lot by analyzing an image which is captured at an entrance of the parking lot, to select parking positions which are different in the parking lot and in which moving routes from the entrance of the parking lot to the parking positions do not interfere with movement and parking of other vehicles in the parking lot for the plurality of vehicles, and to transmit the selected parking positions and the moving routes to the parking positions to the plurality of vehicles.
US11282385B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and apparatus for operating a computational network are provided. The apparatus may obtain a set of navigational instructions describing a route to a destination. The apparatus may obtain first image data through a first camera that is oriented toward the route, the first image data depicting a first scene associated with the route. The apparatus may determine a first field of view associated with a user that is navigating the route to the destination based on a first sensor that is oriented toward the user. The apparatus may identify at least one salient object represented in the first scene based on the first field of view. The apparatus may output instructional information describing a first navigational instruction of the set of navigational instructions with reference to the at least one salient object.
US11282383B1
Constructing a noise pollution map for an area includes a first subset of users performing initial noise recordings in the area using audio devices, using machine learning to provide classification of noises in the initial noise recordings, a second subset of users, larger than the first subset of users, capturing noise in the area using audio devices, creating summaries of noises using the classification to classify noises captured by the second subset of users, and aggregating the summaries to construct the noise pollution map of the area. The audio devices may include headsets, smart speakers, smart television sets, and/or computers. The summaries of noises may be created using software that is installed locally on devices of the second subset of users. The summaries may include source information, amplitude and frequency characteristics, duration, parameters of a corresponding one of the audio devices, user location, surroundings, and/or user movement information.
US11282381B2
An electronic apparatus and method for traffic speed enforcement based on license plate detection is provided. The electronic apparatus controls an image-capture device on a first vehicle to capture a sequence of images of a second vehicle and detects a license plate of the second vehicle in the captured sequence of images. The electronic apparatus extracts a set of license plate images from a set of images in the sequence of images and determines a first change in a size of a first license plate image with respect to that of a second license plate image. The electronic apparatus further determines a speed of the first vehicle and a traffic speed violation by the second vehicle based on the determined first change and the determined speed of the first vehicle. The electronic apparatus further controls a media device to output a notification indicative of the determined traffic speed violation.
US11282380B2
A detection and response device for a surveillance system detects events, responds to events, or both. The detection and response device may be used with or provided by a variety of surveillance systems, including peer to peer surveillance architectures. The device may utilize one or more defined geospaces. If an event occurs in a geospace a predefined response may then be provided. The predefined response may include automatically targeting one or more cameras to areas relevant to the event and presenting one or more predefined views optimized for viewing the event. If an event does not occur within a geospace, the detection and response device may provide one or more default responses.
US11282379B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for slowdown detection. Location data received from vehicles traveling a road is evaluated to identify a road segment associated with vehicle speeds below a threshold. A space-time diagram is generated, and location data associated with vehicles traveling the road segment are plotted within the space-time diagram. The space-time diagram is processed using a convolutional neural network to determine a probability that the space-time diagram illustrates a slowdown. If the probability that the space-time diagram illustrates the slowdown is greater than a threshold, then a notification of the slowdown is transmitted to one or more computing devices associated with vehicles that may encounter the slowdown.
US11282367B1
A system includes video cameras arranged to monitor a vulnerable person, and a processor system that receives video frames from the video cameras, the processor system comprising a processor and a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium having machine instructions executed by the processor. The processor detects and identifies objects in a current received video frame, classifies an identified object as the person by applying a facial recognition algorithm that identifies the person, determines a posture of the person by identifying joints, limbs, and body parts, and their respective orientations to each other and to a plane, and immediately discards the current video frame. The processor then determines a change in motion, of the person, between the current received video frame and one or more prior received video frames, and, based on the determined posture and the change in motion, determines that the person has experienced a defined event.
US11282366B2
The present invention relates to a system for preventing mistreatment of a person in care. In particular a mistreatment sensor worn by a person in care wirelessly linked to an audio and video recording device.
US11282358B1
Techniques for gunshot analysis in an indoor environment are disclosed. A gunshot sensor is placed in the indoor environment. The gunshot sensor includes multiple individual sensors, including, but not limited to, an infrared sensor and an acoustic sensor. A firearm typically emits energy within the infrared spectrum, which is detected by the infrared sensor. A firearm typically further emits an acoustic pressure wave, which is detected by acoustic sensor. The gunshot detector can differentiate between a gunshot and a strobe from a fire alarm, based on information from the infrared sensor and acoustic sensors. The infrared sensor information and the acoustic sensor information are analyzed to determine that a gunshot has occurred in a timeframe between strobe events. The gunshot determination takes place independently of the location of the gunshot sensor. Reverberations and reflections add cumulatively to the collected acoustic and infrared information.
US11282352B2
Disclosed is a hub station of an alarm system, having: a hub station housing; a hub station controller disposed within the hub station housing, wherein the hub station is configured for: communicating, bi-directionally over a short range network during an active alarm condition, with a plurality of client stations that are distributed in a plurality of zones, the plurality of client stations each including a housing and located therein a power transformer, a speaker, a microphone, and one of a plurality of controllers; obtaining, from the communicating during the active alarm condition, intrusion sound data indicative of sounds received by one or more of the plurality of client stations; and determining, from the intrusion sound data, intrusion location data indicative of a location and movement of an intrusion among the architectural zones; and forwarding, over a long range telecommunications network, the intrusion location data to a central station.
US11282343B2
Location based wagering method sand systems. An online wagering service can be invoked via a mobile device. A determination can be then made regarding the location of the mobile device and a jurisdiction (e.g., state, county, city, etc.) associated with that location. The mobile device and hence a user can be authorized to access the online wagering service based on the location of the mobile device. Based on the location, it can also be determined if use of the online wagering service is allowed in the jurisdiction along with prescribed limitations of use in that jurisdiction. Wagering options are then presented via the mobile device, which conform to the laws and/or regulations of the jurisdiction.
US11282337B2
A gaming system and method for enabling financial transactions in a gaming environment are described. The gaming system includes an electronic funds transfer (EFT) terminal, a gateway, a financial network, and a Slot Accounting System (SAS). The gateway retrieves transaction information related to a fund transfer request. The gateway can then independently determine that the fund transfer request complies with the applicable gaming limits and gaming rules. Compliant transactions that are approved by the financial network(s) are submitted to the SAS by the gateway for generation of a corresponding voucher validation code.
US11282329B2
A gaming system combines roulette and mahjong gaming into a single new game for ball-effecting a mahjong event. The game may comprise a grouped series of roulette wheel assemblies bearing mahjong symbols and a plurality of balls respectively receivable in ball-receiving sectors for identifying a number of mahjong symbols. The group of mahjong symbols identified by the randomly received balls defines a wagerable mahjong event. Players may participate in the gaming in a player participation area, which area is opposed a theatrical or auditorium type visual display of the grouped roulette wheel assembly action. Players may input their wagers in the player participation area and watch the roulette action unfold on the visual displays. Certain methodology for effecting the mahjong event is further supported by the roulette medium.
US11282328B2
A food management system includes a cabinet having a chamber, a lift, and an ejector. The chamber is defined, in part, by a front wall including a chute defining a first end of a dispensing region along the cabinet. At least one lift is disposed within the chamber, and is configured to receive a plurality of containers therein. The lift is operable to sequentially present at least one of the containers to the dispensing region of the cabinet. The ejector includes a bumper disposed within the dispensing region. The bumper is operable to translate through the dispensing region from a retracted position on an opposite side of the at least one lift from the chute, to an extended position between the retracted position and the chute to bias the at least one of the containers from the at least one lift through the chute.
US11282315B2
A wireless access tag duplication device, system and method is provided. The wireless access tag duplication system comprises: a wireless access tag reader; a wireless access tag writer; a processor, coupled to the wireless access card reader and the wireless access card writer; and a memory. The memory includes instruction code, executable by the processor, for: determining a first key of a first wireless access tag; determining remaining keys of the first wireless access tag using nested authentication and the first key; reading data of the first tag using the wireless access card reader, the first key and the remaining keys; and writing the data to a second tag using the wireless access card writer, the first key and the remaining keys.
US11282314B2
Disclosed systems and methods relate to a smart access control reader for an access control system. According to embodiments, a method can include installing the smart access control reader to the access control system by connecting the smart access control reader to the access control system via wiring of the access control system. The method can also include receiving, by the smart access control reader, one or more first credentials for authenticating one or more users by the access control system. The method can further include determining, by the smart access control reader, that the one or more first credentials are authorized. Moreover, the method can include transmitting, by the smart access control reader, a second credential to an access control panel of the access control system, in response to a request by a first user to access an area monitored by the access control system.
US11282313B2
Smart locking devices, systems and methods are provided. A user mobile device can transmit a wireless signal to an electronic locking device. The electronic locking device includes a power sensor to sense the harvested power, and a controller to process the communication component to determine an algorithm to operate the electronic locking device. The mobile device is connected to a network environment where user authentication and encryption data can be generated, stored, and relayed to multiple user mobile devices for wireless key management for authentication.
US11282311B2
A door lock mechanism is disclosed that includes door lock and alarm features. The mechanism includes a controller and a sensor useful to detect motions that are representative of attempted access through a door to which the door lock mechanism is attached. The controller can set an alarm condition if a measured motion, such as a measured acceleration, meet and/or exceeds a threshold. If an appropriate access control credential is provided through a user device then the alarm condition may not be set by the controller. The door lock mechanism can be coupled to a remote station via a communications link if needed, such as a radio frequency link. The remote station can additionally be in communication with the door lock mechanism via a network. The remote station can be used to send and receive messages regarding door lock mechanism status, configuration, etc.
US11282309B2
A control method of controlling, using a distributed ledger, locking or unlocking of one or more storage units, in each of which an item is storable, includes: operating a first smart contract and one or more second smart contracts by a code, stored in the distributed ledger, being executed by a computer, the first smart contract managing the one or more second smart contracts that are in one-to-one correspondence with the one or more storage units; controlling, by each of the one or more second smart contracts, locking or unlocking of a corresponding one of the one or more storage units, the controlling being performed under the management by the first smart contract; and controlling, by the first smart contract, whether to place each of the one or more second smart contracts under the management.
US11282300B2
A toll collection system includes: a roadside antenna operable to carry out wireless communications with an onboard unit mounted on a vehicle; a wireless communication control device operable to carry out communication processing with the onboard unit; a toll collection processing unit operable to acquire, from the wireless communication control device, a result of the communication processing, and to carry out toll collection processing for the onboard unit based on the result of the communication processing; a vehicle detector operable to detect a vehicle entering a communication range of the roadside antenna; a soundness determination unit operable to determine, based on a detection result of the vehicles by the vehicle detector and a result of the toll collection processing carried out by the toll collection processing unit, whether an abnormality has occurred in at least any one of the roadside antenna, the wireless communication control device, and the toll collection processing unit.
US11282296B2
A face identification method includes performing a distance detection to obtain a detected distance value; determining whether the detected distance value is smaller than a distance threshold; when the detected distance value is smaller than the distance threshold, determining a luminance corresponding to the detected distance value and emitting an infrared light according to the luminance; capturing an infrared light image and performing face identification to the infrared light image; and when the face identification is successful, performing a corresponding event. A face identification apparatus configured to perform the face identification method is further provided.
US11282291B1
Techniques are described for automated analysis and use of images acquired of an object of interest, such as from one or more fixed-location camera devices with only partial visual coverage of the object exterior, such as to automatically generate a computer model of the object from visual data in the images and to use the computer model to automatically estimate values for one or more object attributes. For example, the described techniques may be used to measure the volume of a pile of material significantly larger than a human using images acquired by one or more fixed-location cameras that provide visual coverage of only a subset of the pile's exterior. The images from such fixed-location cameras may be acquired at various times (e.g., when triggered by conditions in the environment of the object, dynamically upon request, etc.), and may be used to monitor changes in the object.
US11282283B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a process that analyzes image content of an immersive video frame and identifies a first group of segments of the immersive video frame based on the analysis. The segments collectively span an entire space portrayed by the immersive video frame and the first group of segments spans less than the entire space. A size of a display region of an immersive video viewer is determined that spans less than the entire space and a second group of segments is determined based on the first group of segments and the size of the display region. Transport of the second group of segments, spanning less than the entire space, is facilitated via a communication network to the immersive video viewer for presentation, without requiring transmission of all of the segments. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11282276B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to providing an optical display apparatus that can be used to make a light source display variable apparent sizes in response to light intensities emitted by the light source. In an illustrative example, the optical display apparatus may have a first baffle arranged on the top of a light source. The optical display apparatus may also include a second baffle, the first baffle may be nested in the second baffle such that a first intensity of a first beam of light guided within the first baffle is stronger than a second intensity of the second beam of light guided between the first baffle and the second baffle. By adjusting the light intensities, different display regions of a translucent diffuser may be lit, which may provide controllable apparent sizes of a light structure.
US11282275B1
A method for generating a storybook includes generating metadata including shape information which is a predefined value for specifying a shape that a character model has in each of scenes in which a character of storybook content appears, receiving a facial image of a user, generating a user model based on a user face by applying texture information of the facial image to the character, generating a model image of the user model having a predefined shape in each of the scenes by reflecting shape information predefined in each of the scenes into the user model, and generating a file printable on a certain actual object to include at least one of the model images.
US11282272B2
A model simplification method is provided. The model simplification method includes: constructing a surrounding body to surround a model, wherein the model includes at least one primitive and a plurality of vertexes; drawing the model and the surrounding body to at least one rendering surface by respectively taking each of the plurality of vertexes as an eye-position; determining whether the surrounding body drawn on the rendering surface by taking a current vertex of the plurality of vertexes as the eye-position is occluded to decide whether to mark the current vertex as an invisible vertex; and eliminating a current primitive from the model when all vertexes of the current primitive of the at least one primitive are marked as the invisible vertex.
US11282271B2
A method in constructing a model of a scenery comprises: receiving (200) a plurality of images depicting the scenery, wherein each image is acquired by a camera (104) from a position at a rotational angle; creating (202) a plurality of sub-models, wherein each sub-model is created by: selecting (400) a basis image; determining (402) images related to the basis image; and determining (404) the sub-model based on the basis image and the related images, wherein the sub-model defines relative positions and rotational angles of the camera (104) for the basis image and the related images and the sub-model further defines three-dimensional structures of objects depicted in the plurality of images; and separately merging (204) the defined relative positions and rotational angles of cameras (104) for the plurality of sub-models.
US11282266B2
A three-dimensional shape data generation apparatus includes: a processor configured to obtain two-dimensional shape data representing a two-dimensional shape corresponding to a three-dimensional shape of a target to which attribute information is to be assigned, obtain the attribute information of the two-dimensional shape, and assign the obtained attribute information to at least some three-dimensional elements among plural three-dimensional elements representing the three-dimensional shape to generate three-dimensional shape data.
US11282253B2
Methods, devices, media, and other embodiments are described for generating pseudorandom animations matched to audio data on a device. In one embodiment a video is generated and output on a display of the device using a computer animation model. Audio is detected from a microphone of the device, and the audio data is processed to determine a set of audio characteristics for the audio data received at the microphone of the device. A first motion state is randomly selected from the plurality of motion states, one or more motion values of the first motion state are generated using the set of audio characteristics, and the video is updated using the one or more motion values with the computer animation model to create an animated action within the video.
US11282251B2
A system and method for constructing virtual radial ultrasound images from CT data includes receiving CT data, calculating a gradient of the CT data, and obtaining 2D slices by interpolation in 3D. The method further includes calculating transmission and reflection values on each radial line away from a center of each 2D slice to create a lesion image, converting the lesion image to polar, generating random noise in the polar image, and adding random comet tails to the polar image. A background image is created by computing the mean profile along the radius from a series of polar lesion images. The background image is merged with the polar lesion image and random noise is generated in the background of the merged image. Density variations are simulated in the merged image and coordinates of the merged image are transformed to Cartesian to construct a virtual radial ultrasound image.
US11282249B2
A method and system of stitching a plurality of image views of a scene, including grouping matched points of interest in a plurality of groups, and determining a similarity transformation with smallest rotation angle for each grouping of the matched points. The method further includes generating virtual matching points on non-overlapping area of the plurality of image views and generating virtual matching points on overlapping area for each of the plurality of image views.
US11282245B2
A method of displaying a price range of a market traded security during a time period includes a charting engine displaying a price bar, having a width of the time period, generating at least one of an upper and lower price bar, the upper bar having a height of a high price at a first time and the lower bar having a height of a low price at a second time during the time period, connecting a bottom of the upper price bar to the top of the price bar and the top of the lower bar to the bottom of the price bar, and displaying the price bar, the upper bar, and the lower bar that visually depicts and enables the user to see proportional to the price bar when the upper price bar and the lower price bar have occurred during the time period.
US11282242B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions readable and executable by a workstation (18) including at least one electronic processor (20) to perform an image reconstruction method (100). The method includes: generating, from received imaging data, a plurality of intermediate images reconstructed without scatter correction from data partitioned into different energy windows; generating a fraction of true counts and a fraction of scatter events in the generated intermediate images; generating a final reconstructed image from the intermediate images, the fraction of true counts in the intermediate images, and the fraction of scatter counts in the intermediate images; and at least one of controlling the non-transitory computer readable medium to store the final image and control a display device (24) to display the final image.
US11282238B2
A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. To compress the attribute and/or spatial information, the encoder is configured to convert a point cloud into an image based representation. Also, the decoder is configured to generate a decompressed point cloud based on an image based representation of a point cloud. The encoder is configured project the point cloud on to patch planes to compress the point cloud, and supports multiple layered patch planes. For example, some point clouds may have a depth, and points at different depths may be assigned to different layered patch planes.
US11282233B1
Embodiments facilitate the calibration of cameras in a live action scene. In some embodiments, a system receives images of the live action scene from a plurality of cameras. The system further receives reference point data generated from a performance capture system, where the reference point data is based on at least three reference points, where the at least three reference points are positioned within the live action scene, and where distances between the at least three reference points are predetermined. The system further determines a location and orientation of each camera based on the reference point data.
US11282229B2
It is possible to provide an inspection apparatus having a function of automatically checking a validity of an appearance inspection result without manual operation. An inspection apparatus for performing an appearance inspection using a plurality of images obtained by imaging an inspection target includes a determination unit that estimates an inspection result on each of the plurality of images based on a predetermined relationship model between the image and the inspection result and calculates a comprehensive inspection result based on reliability of each of the inspection results on the plurality of images.
US11282227B2
A trailer assist system for a vehicle includes a camera disposed at a rear portion of a vehicle and viewing a trailer hitch disposed at the vehicle. A control includes an image processor that processes image data captured by the camera that is representative of images of the trailer hitch viewed by the camera. The control, responsive to processing at the control of image data captured by the camera, detects a feature of the trailer hitch at determines Cartesian coordinates of the trailer hitch location and transforms the Cartesian coordinates of the detected feature to cylindrical coordinates. The control, responsive at least in part to determining the cylindrical coordinates of the detected feature, determines a three-dimensional location of the trailer hitch at the vehicle.
US11282223B2
Provided are a signal processing apparatus, a signal processing method, and an imaging apparatus for estimating depth with a high degree of accuracy from video signals of a plurality of cameras. The signal processing apparatus includes a detection unit that detects depth from video captured by a plurality of cameras, an estimation unit that estimates camera motion by detecting a camera position, a prediction unit that predicts present depth from camera motion and depth obtained previously, and a synthesis unit that synthesizes depth detected by the detection unit and depth predicted by the prediction unit on the basis of a result of estimating the amount of blur that occurs in each image captured by cameras. The amount of blur can be estimated using camera motion, previous depth information, and shutter time.
US11282221B1
Disclosed herein are methods and system for training artificial intelligence models configured to execute image segmentation techniques. The methods and system describe a server that receives a first image including a set of pixels depicting multiple objects. The server also receives a second image having a second set of pixels depicting the same set of objects. The server then analyzes the pixels from the first and second images. When a difference between at least one visual attribute of a pixel within the second image and a corresponding pixel within the first image satisfies a predetermined threshold, it will be encoded as spikes to send to the model, the model will be trained using supervised STDP rule by revising weights associated with the nodes within the AI model where the node corresponds to the pixels within the first and/or the second image.
US11282217B2
The present disclosure is directed to a software tool that engages in a pattern matching technique. In one implementation, the software tool retrieves a two-dimensional drawing and identifies walls as lines, rotates the drawing until a threshold number of lines are aligned with either the X or Y axes, discards lines that are not aligned with either the X or Y axis, identifies intersection points, identifies a subset of intersection points that have a maxima or minima coordinate, constructs a data library indicative of the relative positions of the points in the identified subset; and compares the constructed data libraries for the two-dimensional drawing to data libraries constructed for another two-dimensional drawing.
US11282214B2
A method which includes obtaining a first sequence of images of a user attempting to reproduce a sequence of poses of a reference user and determining correct performance of the user. For each body part of a plurality of body parts of the user, a spatial orientation of the body part in a referential independent of an orientation of any other body part of the user is compared to the spatial orientation of the reference user. If the comparison does not meet a matching criterion for at least one body part of the user, data representative of a mismatch between the orientation of the body part of the user and the spatial orientation of the reference user is output, thereby enabling the user to correct his pose using a feedback pointing to the body part to be corrected.
US11282213B1
Systems and methods are provided to evaluate moving objects undergoing periodic motion through the screening of a video recording of such objects in motion for frequency peaks in the spectral data, and to determine spatially where these frequencies occur in the scene depicted in the video recording, wherein a frequency spectrum is created for a subset of pixels or virtual pixels and a composite frequency spectrum table or graph is constructed of frequencies that are selected from among the larger group of frequencies represented by the frequency peaks of the spectral data.
US11282209B2
A system and method for generating contours in medical imaging scans. In some embodiments, the method includes calculating a first threshold, based on a first target point in a normalized scan data array, and generating a first contour. The contour may be a boundary of a first region, the first region being a region within which the elements of the normalized scan data array are less than the first threshold.
US11282207B2
An image processing method performed by a computing device deployed with a deep-learning neural network is provided. An image, including an object to be segmented from the image, is acquired. The object is segmented from the image by using the deep-learning neural network to acquire a first segmentation result. Correction information input by a user with respect to the first segmentation result is acquired. Based on correction information, the first segmentation result is modified by using the deep-learning neural network, to acquire a second segmentation result.
US11282197B2
The present disclosure provides an operating method of a system for analyzing brain tissue based on computerized tomographic imaging, and the operation method includes steps as follows. A computed tomography image of a subject is aligned to a predetermined standard brain space image, to obtain a first normalized test computed tomography image. A voxel contrast of the first normalized test computed tomography image is enhanced to obtain an enhanced first normalized test computed tomography image. The enhanced first normalized test computed tomography image is aligned to an average computed tomographic image of a control group to obtain a second normalized test computed tomography image. An analysis based on the second normalized test computed tomography image and a plurality of computerized tomographic images of the control group is performed to obtain a t-score map.
US11282195B2
A system for creating decision support material indicating damage to an anatomical joint of a patient. The system is configured to: i) receive a series of radiology images of at least a part of the anatomical joint; ii) obtain a three-dimensional image representation of the at least part of the anatomical joint; iii) identify tissue parts of the anatomical joint using image analysis; iv) determine damage to the anatomical joint by analyzing said image representation; v) mark damage to the anatomical joint in the obtained three-dimensional image representation; and vi) generate decision support material. The analysis comprises: detecting an irregular shape of a contour of a tissue part; and/or detecting that the intensity in an area within or adjacent to bone and/or cartilage parts differs from a predetermined value; and/or comparing at least one identified tissue part with a template representing a predefined damage pattern for an anatomical joint.
US11282194B2
Systems and methods for detecting, counting and analyzing the blood content of a surgical textile are provided, utilizing an infrared or depth camera in conjunction with a color image.
US11282180B1
A method includes determining a detection output that represents an object in a two-dimensional image using a detection model, wherein the detection output includes a shape definition that describes a shape and size of the object; defining a three-dimensional representation based on the shape definition, wherein the three-dimensional representation includes a three-dimensional model that represents the object that is placed in three-dimensional space according to a position and a rotation; determining a three-dimensional detection loss that describes a difference between the three-dimensional representation and three-dimensional sensor information; and updating the detection model based on the three-dimensional detection loss.
US11282179B2
A system and method for assessing video quality of a video-based application inserts frame identifiers (IDs) into video content from the video-based application and recognizes the frame IDs from the video content using a text recognition neural network. Based on recognized frame IDs, a frame per second (FPS) metric of the video content is calculated. Based on the FPS metric of the video content, objective video quality of the video-based application is assessed.
US11282175B2
There is provided an apparatus with a sample holder to hold a sample to be imaged. An image capture device has a field of view and captures an image of the field of view. Also provided is an actuator. A controller controls the actuator to cause relative movement between the sample holder and the image capture device at a given speed and at a given direction during an exposure time of the image capture device such that, in use, the sample moves across at least a portion of the field of view during the exposure time. A processor performs a deblur algorithm to deblur the image using the given speed and the given direction.
US11282174B1
Disclosed is a method for maintaining user privacy of a user when others take a picture of the user. The method can include receiving, from a first user device operated by a first user, an image of a second user having a second user device, wherein the second user has a user profile with a privacy setting indicating that pictures or video taken of the second user by the first device should be blurred. Based on the user profile, the method includes blurring the image of the second user taken by the first user device and transmitting a request to the second user device to unblur the image. When the second user authorizes, via interacting with the request, that the image can be unblurred, the method includes unblurring the image. When the second user declines to authorize that the image can be unblurred, the method includes maintaining the blurring of the image.
US11282168B2
Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program that can highly efficiently execute a generation process of a color image based on an image including a plurality of pixel sets each including a plurality of single-color pixels arranged in a predetermined color pattern, in which the pixel sets are vertically and horizontally arranged side by side. An intermediate image generation unit (64) generates, based on a basic image, an intermediate image in which pixel values of a plurality of basic pixels included in the pixel set are set as values of intermediate pixel data of one intermediate pixel associated with the pixel set. A pixel value determination unit (70) determines pixel values of a plurality of colors of at least one final pixel associated with a target intermediate pixel based on values of the intermediate pixel data of the target intermediate pixel and values of the intermediate pixel data of the intermediate pixel adjacent to the target intermediate pixel. A final image generation unit (72) generates a final image based on pixel values of a plurality of colors of a plurality of final pixels.
