US11291150B2
An apparatus and method for determining whether a conductive ring is attached to an electrically conductive shaft. The body of the apparatus includes an electrical contact and at least one magnet in a magnet recess. The at least one magnet may include a first and second conductive region, where the first conductive region is a fixed, first radial distance from a center point of the inner cavity and the second conductive region is a second radial distance from the center point of the inner cavity. A shaft recess of the conductive shaft aligns with the magnet recess when the conductive shaft is inserted into the inner cavity and an electric circuit detects whether a metal ring is secured around the conductive shaft in response to simultaneous contact between: the metal ring and the at least one magnet and the conductive shaft and the electrical contact.
US11291141B2
The present invention includes a computer server system and portions thereof, and a process for ameliorating a detrimental high temperature circumstances. An inert gas may be emitted into a server computer from any of several components.
US11291138B2
The invention provides a cooling system for a server. The cooling system includes a casing and a first heat dissipation device. The casing includes a tank and a cover. The tank has an accommodation space. The cover is movably mounted on the tank, and the cover covers the accommodation space so as to form an airtight space with the tank. The first heat dissipation device is mounted on the cover and located within the airtight space of the casing.
US11291132B2
A housing includes a base and a mark piece. The base includes a bottom wall and at least one side wall. The at least one side wall is vertically connected to the bottom wall. A height of the side wall exists between a top end of the at least one side wall and the bottom wall. The mark piece is disposed on the bottom wall and extends from the bottom wall in a direction away from the bottom wall. The mark piece has a low scale and a high scale. A distance from the low scale to the bottom wall is less than the height of the side wall. A distance from the high scale to the bottom wall is substantially the same as the height of the side wall.
US11291131B2
An electrical appliance device contains a knob which has a knob front assembly with a front cover assembly, a knob bracket, and a display module assembly disposed between the front cover assembly and the knob bracket, and a knob rear assembly including a circuit board and a hollow rotary encoder. The rotary encoder is mounted on the circuit board. The electrical appliance device further has a panel with an opening. The knob front assembly at least partially passes through the opening such as to be mounted to the knob rear assembly.
US11291125B2
A multilayer substrate includes a laminate, first and second signal lines, first and second ground conductors, and interlayer connection conductors. The first and second signal lines extend along a transmission direction and include parallel extending portions that extend in parallel or substantially in parallel with each other. The first and second ground conductors sandwich the first and second signal lines in a laminating direction. The first and second ground conductors respectively include a first opening and a third opening between the signal lines when viewed from the laminating direction, and respectively include second openings and fourth openings disposed outside in a width direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to the transmission direction in the parallel extending portions when viewed from the laminating direction. The interlayer connection conductors are disposed in the transmission direction and at least between the signal lines.
US11291122B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques for providing an apparatus with a substrate provided with plasma treatment. In some instances, the apparatus may include a substrate with a surface that comprises a metal layer to provide signal routing in the apparatus. The metal layer may be provided in response to a plasma treatment of the surface with a functional group containing a gas (e.g., nitrogen-based gas), to provide absorption of a transition metal catalyst into the surface, and subsequent electroless plating of the surface with a metal. The transition metal catalyst is to enhance electroless plating of the surface with the metal. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11291106B2
An electronic device includes a packaged device and a thermal dissipater. The packaged device includes a component that generates thermal energy, a package that encapsulates the component, and an interconnect that forms a portion of a high thermal conduction between the component and a circuit card. The thermal dissipater obtains the thermal energy using the circuit card and radiates the thermal energy.
US11291100B2
A lamp driver circuit for driving a lamp is provided. The lamp driver circuit includes: an under voltage protection circuit; a control circuit coupled to the under voltage protection circuit; and a driver transistor coupled to the control circuit for driving the lamp under the control of the control circuit. The under voltage protection circuit detects an operation voltage. When the operation voltage is lower than a threshold, the under voltage protection circuit outputs an enable signal. The control circuit receives the enable signal to shut down the control circuit and shut down the driver transistor.
US11291099B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an ornamental system, apparatus and method that is dynamically modifiable. Embodiments of the ornament system comprise a processor, at least one ornamental member and a data controller. The processor is a computer or similar device that stores data for transmission. The ornamental member is configured to receive and display data stored in a database. Embodiments of the present invention can be coupled to other ornamental systems across a wide area network, wherein users can share data files for display.
US11291098B2
A lighting system has at least one luminaire (1) for illuminating a thoroughfare (10). At least one sensor (11,12,13) detects that a fallen object (30) may be at least partially blocking said thoroughfare (10). A traffic flow monitor (11,12,13) monitors traffic flow along said thoroughfare (10). The light output by the luminaire (1) is controlled to be of a first pattern in accordance with a determination that a fallen object (30) is at least partially blocking said thoroughfare (10). The light output by the luminaire (1) is controlled to be of a second pattern in accordance with the traffic flow monitor (11,12,13) determining that traffic is flowing along said thoroughfare (10).
US11291093B2
A load control device for regulating an average magnitude of a load current conducted through an electrical load may operate in different modes. The load control device may comprise a control circuit configured to activate an inverter circuit during an active state period and deactivate the inverter circuit during an inactive state period. In one mode, the control circuit may adjust the average magnitude of the load current by adjusting the inactive state period while keeping the active state period constant. In another mode, the control circuit may adjust the average magnitude of the load current by adjusting the active state period while keeping the inactive state period constant. In yet another mode, the control circuit may keep a duty cycle of the inverter circuit constant and regulate the average magnitude of the load current by adjusting a target load current conducted through the electrical load.
US11291088B2
A microwave heating cooker (1) includes a high-frequency power source (10). The high-frequency power source (10) includes a first semiconductor amplification circuit (amplifier) (3), a second semiconductor amplification circuit (amplifier) (4), an antenna (power supply unit) (5), a high-frequency generation unit (6), a commercial power source (alternating current power source) (7), a first full-wave rectification circuit (11), and a switching converter (12). The high-frequency generation unit (6) is configured from a commercial transformer (20), a second full-wave rectification circuit (21), resistors (22 and 23), an amplifier (24), an analog multiplier (amplitude modulation unit) (25), and a high-frequency oscillator (oscillator) (26), among others. The analog multiplier (25) modulates the amplitude of the output voltage from the high-frequency oscillator (26) with a signal wave that is in synchronism with a half-period of the cycle of the commercial power source (7).
US11291087B2
A heating apparatus and a heating method are provided. The heating apparatus includes a coil configured to receive AC power to form a magnetic field that inductively heats a workpiece, a spray unit configured to spray cooling fluid including a liquid to the coil in a form of mist at least during a period in which the AC power is supplied to the coil. Alternatively, the spray unit may be configured to spray the cooling fluid in the form of mist to a heating target portion of the workpiece placed in the magnetic field at least during the period in which the AC power is supplied to the coil.
US11291079B2
Devices for and methods of providing low latency 5G FDD communications are generally described. A HARQ ACK/NACK for an xPDSCH is transmitted in the xPUCCH of the same or next subframe as the xPDSCH and xPDCCH. An xPUSCH is generated in the same subframe in response to an xPDCCH and HARQ ACK/NACK response is carried by another xPDCCH or xPHICH in the same or next subframe. The xPDCCH and the xPUCCH are at opposite ends of the same subframe, DL and UL subframe are delayed relative to each other, or at least one of the DL and UL subframe has an additional blank portion, portion with data associated with another UE or portion that contains a reference signal, broadcast signal or control information.
US11291076B2
Provided is a method of establishing a session for communication with a local network in a wireless communication system, the method including obtaining a request for using an integrated mode in which a user plane entity of a base station uses an integrated user plane entity that performs an operation of a user plane function (UPF) together, when a session between a local network and a user equipment (UE) is established, determining based on user information of the UE whether to accept use of an integrated mode, selecting the integrated user plane entity as a user plane entity in which the session is to be established, based on a result of the determining, and transmitting a session establishment request to the selected integrated user plane entity.
US11291067B2
Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for reestablishing a backhaul connection due a failed connection. According to some embodiments, a system can comprise detecting a failure in a backhaul communication link between a first node device and a second node device, wherein the second node device is communicatively connected to a core network device of a core network, selecting a new node device, other than the first node device and the second node device, that is communicatively connected to the core network device for establishment of a new backhaul communication link to replace the backhaul communication link, and establishing a connection with the new node device to provide a backhaul communication link failure indication to a controller and to request the controller to provide resources to establish the new backhaul communication link with the new node device.
US11291059B2
Methods, a user equipment (UE) and a base station are disclosed for sidelink identification. According to an embodiment, a first UE participates in an identity (ID) determination procedure such that a sidelink ID is determined for a sidelink between the first UE and a second UE. The sidelink ID comprises a full ID for identifying one of the first and second UEs and a short ID for identifying the other of the first and second UEs.
US11291052B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed, from the perspective of the UE, for performing random access procedure. In one embodiment, the method includes the UE receiving a message from a network. The message includes a TTI information of Msg3. In addition, the method includes the UE transmitting a preamble to the network. The method also includes the UE receiving a Msg2 from the network for responding the preamble. The method further includes the UE performing a Msg3 transmission to the network according to the TTI information of Msg3.
US11291046B2
Various procedures associated with autonomous uplink (AUL) are disclosed. In order to address the mismatch between listen before talk (LBT) and AUL bandwidth a fractional sensing channel is defined less than 20 MHz. Accordingly, a user equipment (UE) may use the fractional sensing channel to perform LBT only on the resources allocated for AUL. Contention window update may further be modified for transmissions spanning multiple transmission opportunities (TxOPs). A contention window update may occur over all transmission channels considering full acknowledgement information of each TxOP, a percentage of acknowledgement information weighted on the number of channels, a percentage of acknowledgement information weighted on the ratio of resources on each channel, or by selecting a primary channel of the multiple channels for the contention window update. In repetition scenarios, the reference transmission for contention window updates may be selected depending on whether all repetitions are within one or multiple TxOPs.
US11291044B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products of preamble sequence management for contention based access are provided. One method may include a user equipment sending a contention based access (CBA) request message, such as a random access procedure (RACH) message, to a network node (e.g., a base station or eNB). The CBA request message may include an indication that the user equipment wants to obtain a preamble for CBA data transmission and is not for full network access. The method may then include receiving an allocation of a preamble for CBA from the network node.
US11291023B2
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). A terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The terminal includes a transceiver, and at least one processor configured to receive, from a base station (BS), a beam failure recovery configuration comprising at least one reference signal for identifying a candidate beam for the beam failure recovery and associated random access (RA) parameters, identify the candidate beam for the beam failure recovery using the at least one reference signal, and perform a physical random access channel (PRACH) using the at least one reference signal and the associated RA parameters on the candidate beam for the beam failure recovery.
US11291017B2
A method and system are provided for scheduling data transmission in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system. The MIMO system may comprise at least one MIMO transmitter and at least one MIMO receiver. Feedback from one or more receivers may be used by a transmitter to improve quality, capacity, and scheduling in MIMO communication systems. The method may include generating or receiving information pertaining to a MIMO channel metric and information pertaining to a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) in respect of a transmitted signal; and sending a next transmission to a receiver using a MIMO mode selected in accordance with the information pertaining to the MIMO channel metric, and an adaptive coding and modulation selected in accordance with the information pertaining to the CQI.
US11291014B1
A device, system and method for radio-frequency emissions control is provided. The device comprises: a communication unit configured to communicate via main radio channels and a control channel, the main radio channels contributing to radio-frequency (RF) emissions; and a controller interconnected with the communication unit. The controller is configured to: receive, via the communication unit communicating over the control channel, an RF emissions control command to reduce the RF emissions emitted by the communication unit; and in response to receiving the RF emissions control command, control one or more of the communication unit and activity on the main radio channels to reduce the RF emissions.
US11291013B2
A transmitting device may select frequency domain resources for an alert transmission based on a severity level of the alert transmission. The transmitting device may determine a severity level of an alert transmission to be transmitted on one or more available channels. The transmitting device may determine a presence of one or more systems configured to transmit on one or more neighbor channels of the one or more available channels. The transmitting device may select, for the alert transmission, frequency domain resources within the one or more available channels based on the presence of the one or more systems and the severity level. The frequency domain resources for a highest severity level transmission are spaced further apart from the one or more neighbor channels in the frequency domain than resources for a lower severity level transmission. The transmitting device may transmit the alert transmission on the frequency domain resources.
US11291003B2
Provided is a communication system that can be normally and efficiently operated in the case where existing carriers and new carrier types coexist. A base station device and a communication terminal device are configured to perform communication in cells of legacy carriers LC1 to LC3 being existing carriers. When the base station device starts operating new carrier types NCT1 and NCT2, the NCT1 and NCT2 are associated with legacy carriers belonging to the same frequency band. For example, the NCT2 is associated with the LC2 or the LC3 and is not associated with the LC1. The legacy carriers LC1 to LC3 associated with the NCT1 and the NCT2 notify the communication terminal device of the information on the NCT1 and NCT2. This allows the communication terminal device to communicate with the NCT1 and the NCT2.
US11291000B2
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) signal including a system information block (SIB) with a first time division duplex (TDD) uplink (UL)/downlink (DL) configuration. Also, the WTRU may receive a second PDSCH signal including dedicated radio resource control (RRC) signaling with a second TDD UL/DL configuration; and may receive a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal including an uplink grant indicating at least one repetition transmission on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). Further the WTRU may determine at least one time interval of the at least one repetition transmission would overlap with a downlink time interval indicated by the first TDD UL/DL configuration, the second TDD UL/DL configuration, or both. Also, the WTRU may transmit at least one repetition transmission on the PUSCH in at least one time interval that is non-overlapping with the indicated downlink time interval.
US11290999B2
Various aspects described herein relate to techniques for frequency hopping for a wideband allocation in wireless communications. A wideband allocation of resources for transmitting uplink wireless communications can be determined, as well as a frequency hopping offset related to one or more narrowbands for transmitting uplink wireless communications. In addition, it can be determined whether to apply the frequency hopping offset to the wideband allocation in communicating data. The data can be communicated over resources related to the wideband allocation with the frequency hopping offset applied communicating, based on determining to apply the frequency hopping offset.
US11290990B2
A terminal apparatus according to an aspect of the present embodiment acquires multiple pieces of sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set configuration information indicating a configuration of multiple SRS resources, transmits an SRS and an uplink shared channel (PUSCH) based on the multiple SRS resources, acquires information (SRI) indicating one of the multiple SRS resources included in a piece of SRS resource set configuration information of the multiple pieces of SRS resource set configuration information, from control information (DCI) transmitted via a downlink control information channel (PDCCH), and acquires, from the DCI, information indicating whether only one of the multiple pieces of SRS resource set configuration information is associated with the PUSCH.
US11290986B2
Backhaul resources may be allocated to different wireless communication links between different base stations, and local redistribution of resources among base stations may be utilized to account for variations in signal quality and/or variations in traffic experienced by different nodes of the backhaul network. A first access node function (ANF) may determine a need for additional backhaul resources, and may transmit a request message to one or more user equipment functions (UEFs) for additional backhaul resources. A UEF that receives the request message may forward the request to an associated second ANF. The second ANF, if it has backhaul resources available that the first ANF can use, may send a response to the first ANF, via the associated UEF, and the first ANF may use the additional resources that were originally allocated to the second ANF.
US11290981B2
A wake-up signal (700-706) is associated with a plurality of paging occasions (4901-4904) for a plurality of terminals (102, 102-1-102-8). Each one of the plurality of paging occasions (4901-4904) is associated with one or more of the plurality of terminals (102, 102-1-102-8).
US11290978B2
A device receives, from a transaction device, transaction data associated with a transaction performed by a user, and receives first location data indicating a location of a mobile user device. The device receives, from a stationary user device, browser data associated with online activity of the user, and determines, based on the browser data, second location data indicating a location of the stationary user device. The device determines, based on the transaction data, third location data indicating a location of the transaction device, and assigns weights and time stamps to the first, second, and third location data. The device aggregates the first, second, and third location data, based on the weights and the time stamps, to generate aggregated location data. The device processes the aggregated location data, with a model, to predict a particular location of the user, and performs actions based on the particular location.
US11290977B1
An autonomous mobile device (AMD) moves within a physical space. Various wireless devices with transmitters may be present, such as internet of things (IoT) devices, smartphones, tablets, user devices, and so forth. At different physical locations in the physical space a radio receiver of the AMD receives radio signals sent by transmitters sending data. Data is stored that is indicative of the physical location where the data was acquired, an identifier of the transmitter, and a received signal strength indication (RSSI). Estimated distances, each with respect to a different physical location, are determined based on the received signal strength. A plurality of the estimated distances and associated physical locations are used to determine an estimated location of a transmitter. For example, the estimated transmitter location may be determined as a point where the estimated distances coincide.
US11290975B2
A method for obtaining an emission probability includes obtaining a plurality of measurement reports (MRs) of a terminal in a target region and an engineering parameter of at least one base station in the target region, obtaining, based on parameter information in each of the plurality of MRs and the engineering parameter of the at least one base station, a feature vector corresponding to each of the plurality of MRs, processing, using a regression model, location information in each of the plurality of MRs and the feature vector corresponding to each of the plurality of MRs, to obtain a single-point positioning model, calculating, based on the single-point positioning model, the location information in each of the plurality of MRs, and the feature vector corresponding to each of the plurality of MRs, an emission probability of the feature vector corresponding to each of the plurality of MRs.
US11290973B2
Embodiments provide devices, methods and computer programs for determining and transmitting in a mobile communication system and a system for time-synchronous sampling. A device (10) is adapted for determining a time base in a mobile transceiver (100) in a mobile communication system (300). The mobile communication system (300) comprises at least one base station transceiver (200) and the mobile transceiver (100) is configured to exchange information in repeating radio frames with the base station transceiver (200). The device (10) includes at least one interface (12) configured to communicate with the at least one base station transceiver (200) of the mobile communication system (300). The device further (10) comprises a control module (14), which is configured to control the at least one interface (12), to establish synchronization with the repeating radio frames, incrementally increment a counter, and receive a message from the at least one base station transceiver (200). The message includes information on a local time reference at the base station transceiver (200). The control module (14) is further configured to adapt the counter based on the information on the local time reference and thus determine the time base.
US11290970B2
A method for synchronizing a timing end application (TEA) in an edge communication network includes (a) receiving, at a first access device, a time stamp from a first TEA communicatively coupled to the first access device, (b) transmitting the time stamp from the first access device to a second access device via communication media of the edge communication network, (c) adjusting the time stamp to account for transit time of the time stamp from the first access device to the second access device, and (d) after adjusting the time stamp, transmitting the time stamp from the second access device to a second TEA communicatively coupled to the second access device.
US11290967B2
A method for a User Equipment, UE, operating in a wireless communication system, includes triggering power headroom reports (PHRs), in a first Medium Access Control (MAC), entity and a second MAC entity when a first type event occurs in the second MAC entity, wherein the UE is configured with the first MAC entity corresponding to a first base station and the second MAC entity corresponding to a second base station for a radio bearer; triggering a PHR in the second MAC entity only, when a second type event occurs in the second MAC entity, wherein the first type event includes: there are uplink resources allocated for transmission on any cell of the second MAC entity and a required power backoff for the any cell of the second MAC entity has changed more than a threshold, or wherein the first type event includes: there is uplink transmission on any cell of the second MAC entity and a required power backoff for the any cell of the second MAC entity has changed more than a threshold.
US11290959B1
Systems and methods for tracking resources used by triggers such as alarms and timers that are used by mobile applications to schedule tasks and intelligently manipulating the timing of the triggers to optimize usage of resources such as, but not limited to: network, battery, CPU and/or memory are disclosed. In one embodiment, an intelligent alarm manipulator and resource tracker tracks triggers from multiple applications on a mobile device and corresponding use of resources resulting from the triggers on a mobile device. The intelligent alarm manipulator and resource tracker further determines correlations between the triggers and the corresponding use of the resources on the mobile device and manipulates, based on the correlations, timing or frequency of some or all of the triggers to optimize the use of the resources on the mobile device.
US11290957B2
A method of a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises identifying a first configuration including a first set of resources for a first type of user equipment (UE) and a second configuration including a second set of resources for a second type of UE, generating a first sequence and a second sequence based on (i) the first set of resources and the second set of resources, respectively, and (ii) a physical cell identifier (PCID), generating, using the first sequence, a first signal to be transmitted to the first type of UE in the first set of resources, generating, using the second sequence, a second signal to be transmitted to the second type of UE in the second set of resources, transmitting, to the first type of UE, the first signal, and transmitting, to the second type of UE, the second signal.
US11290950B1
A method for neighbor discovery in a wireless ad hoc network based on an adaptive antenna array includes: generating a synchronous SSS with a period length of n+└log2n┘+1 timeslots, or generating a asynchronous SSS with a period length of 4n timeslots; labeling the n+└log2n┘+1 timeslots in each period of the synchronous SSS by 0, 1, . . . , n+└log2n┘; labeling the 4n timeslots in each period of the asynchronous SSS by 0, 1, . . . , 4n−1; if the node is synchronized with its neighbors, representing the number of bit 0 in a binary sequence b0b1 . . . bn−1 by a (└log2n┘+1)-bit binary sequence c0c1 . . . c└log2n┘, and then appending the (└log2n┘+1)-bit binary sequence c0c1 . . . c└log2n┘ behind the binary sequence b0b1 . . . bn−1 to generate an (n+└log2n┘+1)-bit binary sequence b0b1 . . . bn−1c0c1 . . . c└log2n┘; otherwise, extending the binary sequence b0b1 . . . bn−1 into a 4n-bit binary sequence; and based on the (n+└log2n┘+1)-bit or 4n-bit binary sequence, generating the synchronous or asynchronous SSS.
US11290936B2
During operation, an access point aggregates communication-performance information and behavior information in a wireless local area network (WLAN) corresponding to an electronic device, where the communication-performance information and the behavior information are aggregated over a time interval that is longer than an instance of a connection or association of the electronic device to the WLAN. Then, the access point provides the communication-performance information and the behavior information to a second electronic device. After receiving information about another instance of a connection or association of the electronic device to the WLAN, the access point provides a request to the second electronic device for historical information about communication performance and behavior of the electronic device in the WLAN. Moreover, after receiving the historical information, the access point selectively provides the transition recommendation in the WLAN to the electronic device, where the transition recommendation is based at least in part on the historical information.
US11290929B2
A method relating to handover in a communication system is disclosed. The method comprises establishing that a communication device is involved in a handover process from a first cell to a second cell, and increasing at least one of diversity and transmission power of a scheduling assignment transmitted on physical downlink control channel resources, wherein the physical downlink control channel resources are multiplexed with data resources in one or more orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, OFDM, symbols and wherein the scheduling assignment is specific for the communication device. A corresponding communication system, computer programs and computer program products are also disclosed.
US11290927B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a network-instructed handover of a wireless device from a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) to a Radio Access Network (RAN) of another Radio Access Technology (RAT), e.g., a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) or 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2 (3GPP2) RAT. In one embodiment, a WLAN access node determines that a handover of a wireless device from the WLAN to another RAN of a different RAT is to be performed and transmits a handover instruction to the wireless device that instructs the wireless device to perform a handover from the WLAN to a RAN of a different RAT. In this manner, the WLAN access node is able to steer the wireless device from the WLAN to a RAN of a different RAT.
US11290926B2
Method for discovering handover capabilities of a mobile communication network includes: receiving, by a user equipment, handover capability information from the mobile communication network, wherein the user equipment communicates with a core network using either a first or a second radio access technology; and based on the first radio access technology being used, initiating handover, by the user equipment, from the first to the second radio access technology when the handover capability information indicates a capability of the mobile communication network to support a handover from the first to the second radio access technology; and/or based on the second radio access technology being used, initiating handover, by the user equipment, from the second to the first radio access technology when the handover capability information indicates a capability, of the mobile communication network to support a handover from the second radio access technology to the first radio access technology.
US11290925B2
Methods and arrangements for managing a problem with a first radio link (121) between a wireless device (115) and a serving network node (110) comprised in a wireless communication network (100). The wireless communication network (100), e.g. a serving network node (110) therein sends (201a; 301, 401a; 501; 601) first information to the wireless device (115). The first information comprises a first identifier and informs the wireless device (115) that the first identifier, if received from a candidate network node (110; 111a; 111b), means that the serving network node (110) has authorized setting up a working radio link (121; 122a; 122b), without said problem, between the wireless device (115) and said candidate node (110; 111a; 111b).
US11290921B2
To provide a management server capable of changing conditions corresponding to delay requirements according to a change in wireless communication environment, a management server (10) according to the disclosure includes an update unit (11) configured to update any one of an uplink allowable delay associated with an uplink flow sent from a source communication terminal to an application server and a downlink allowable delay associated with a downlink flow sent from the application server to a destination communication terminal by using a delay of an end-to-end flow sent from the source communication terminal to the destination communication terminal through the application server and an allowable delay associated with the end-to-end flow, and a communication unit (12) configured to send the updated uplink allowable delay or the updated downlink allowable delay to a wireless access node that performs resource scheduling by using an uplink allowable delay or a downlink allowable delay.
US11290911B2
A method for transmitting a HARQ ACK/NACK feedback by a terminal may comprise: a step of transmitting, to a base station, a HARQ ACK/NACK feedback for a first downlink data, on a code block group (CBG) basis; a step of receiving, from the base station, a control channel including a specific control information; and a step of transmitting a HARQ ACK/NACK feedback on a transport block (TB) basis on the basis of the specific control information, for a second downlink data scheduled and received by the control channel, even if a CBG based retransmission is set for the terminal.
US11290907B1
Systems and methods are provided for testing features of a mobile device application based on their likely use by various user classes or personas. Each of a plurality of mobile computing devices may be associated with respective user classes that each have a respective set of characteristics. A particular mobile computing device application may be installed on each of the plurality of mobile computing devices, and each of the mobile computing devices may attempt to execute the same feature of the application. When any of the mobile computing devices fails to execute the feature, an indication of the failure may be logged, along with an indication of the user class associated with the mobile computing device that failed to execute the feature, and an error associated with the feature for one or more user classes may be detected based on the logged indication(s).
US11290899B2
Drive testing for network optimization has been supplemented by the use of information measuring radio conditions collected by mobile terminals (i.e. UEs). To improve the user experience of multicast and broadcast services based on cellular telecommunications networks, such as MBMS and eMBMS, a mechanism is described that adapts UE-based reporting of measurement reports to multicast and broadcast services.
US11290895B2
A customer premise equipment, an antenna control method and a non-transitory storage medium are provided. The customer premise equipment includes a millimeter wave antenna configured to receive and transmit antenna signals, a RF circuit configured to measure a piece of network information of each antenna signal, a driver module and a processor. The processor is configured to divide a scanning range of the millimeter wave antenna into a plurality of blocks, and constructing an interval step strategy based on the plurality of blocks, control the driver module to drive the millimeter wave antenna to rotate based on the interval step strategy, acquire a plurality of pieces of network information of antenna signals measured by the millimeter wave antenna under the plurality of blocks, and determine a target block according to the plurality of pieces of network information, and control the millimeter wave antenna to rotate to the target block.
US11290889B2
Method, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for resource allocation among network slices
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device, and a computer-readable storage medium for allocating system resources among a plurality of network slices in a communication network. In the communication network, a network device determines utility values of two network slices. A network slice corresponds to a set of network functions of a set of services served thereby. A utility value of the network slice indicates the level of demand for system resources by the set of services associated with the network slice. The network device determines a difference between the utility values of the two network slices. If the difference exceeds a threshold utility value, the network device re-allocates system resources among the plurality of network slices in the communication network. According to the embodiments, the communication network updates the system resources allocated for the plurality of network slices only when the difference between the utility values of the two network slices exceeds a certain threshold. Hence, the complexity of updating system resource allocation among the plurality of network slices may be reduced by the method according to the embodiments of the present disclosure.
US11290882B2
A method for a re-authentication of user equipment (UE), by at least a portion of a core network (CN), for steering of roaming (SoR) data delivery, includes receiving, through next generation radio access network (NG-RAN) and/or 5G system (5GS), a subscriber data management (SDM) data request for a UE. The method includes determining that re-authentication of the UE be requested. The method includes encoding a response for transmission to the UE responsive to the SDM data request. Determining that re-authentication be requested can include determining that SoR data is being sent to the UE.
US11290880B2
Disclosed is an electronic device including: an input unit provided with buttons; a plurality of sensors; and a controller configured to activate at least some of the plurality of sensors based on a received activation signal, generate authentication information based on at least one of the activated sensors, calculate a final security level score based on a security level score corresponding to the at least one authentication information, and determine whether a target service or a target external device is accessible, based on the calculated final security level score.
US11290876B2
Provided are a key derivation method and device. The method includes: acquiring a slice identifier corresponding to a network slice to which a user equipment is currently attached, where the slice identifier uniquely identifies the network slice; and transmitting the slice identifier to a designated communication device. The slice identifier is configured to instruct the designated communication device to derive, according to the slice identifier, an intermediate key required by the network slice. By means of the technical solution described above, the problem in the related art that a slice function cannot be implemented normally due to the fact that different network slices probably use the same intermediate key may be solved, and different network slices may correspond to different intermediate keys, thereby avoiding a case that the slicing function cannot be implemented normally caused by allocating the same intermediate key to different network slices.
US11290864B2
Terminal apparatus, MME, communication method of terminal apparatus, and communication method of MME
To provide a communication procedure for data transmission and/or reception suitable to a CIoT terminal. A communication control method of a terminal apparatus according to the present invention includes the steps of: transmitting an Attach Request message to a core network, receiving an Attach Accept message including at least identification information identifying Signalling Radio Bearer (SRB) and identification information identifying Data Radio Bearer (DRB) from the core network; and establishing the SRB and the DRB.
US11290863B2
The various embodiments of the present invention disclose a system and method for discovering User Equipment's over side link in device to device (D2D) communication. The present invention discloses new approaches for discovery and communication scheduling enabling optimum system performance with DRX alignment and meeting varied QoS targets. The present invention further addresses congestion handling during system overload situations. Further, the present invention discloses quality of service (QoS) scheduling methods that consider DRX function achieve substantial gains over existing methods.
US11290862B2
Methods and systems for generating time-synchronized audio messages of different content in a talkgroup. One system includes an electronic computing device that includes an electronic processor configured to generate first public safety incident information as a function of context information of a first member of a talkgroup, and second public safety incident information as a function of context information of a second member of the talkgroup. The second public safety incident information is different than the first public safety incident information. The electronic processor is further configured to generate a first audio message including the first public safety incident information sized according to a time window and a second audio message including the second public safety incident information sized according to the time window such that a playback time of the first audio message is approximately the same as a playback time of the second audio message.
US11290859B2
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a edge content distribution service is provided. The edge content distribution service may include the distribution of static content among multi-access edge computing networks. The edge content distribution service may include tiered overlay networks that are correlated to performance metrics associated with application services, static contents of the application services, and/or the acquisition and delivery of the static contents. The edge content distribution service also consider available network resources at the multi-access edge computer networks and the overlay networks of the tiered architecture.
US11290855B1
Techniques and architectures enable a wireless communications system to receive and deliver a message for which a user of a mobile device has specified which among multiple devices, all assigned the same phone number as one another, is to receive the message. The mobile device may be the sender or the receiver of the message. The message may be a scheduled message to be delivered on a particular date and time to a contact in an address book of the sender.
US11290834B2
Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An examples process of operating an intelligent automated assistant includes, at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory, receiving audio input, determining a direct-to-reverberant energy ratio based on the audio input, and determining a head pose of a user based on the direct-to-reverberant energy ratio.
US11290827B2
A method, including the actions of obtaining access to a virtual reality system; activating a cochlear implant such that the cochlear implant evokes a hearing percept based on first input; and receiving second input from the virtual reality system in temporal proximity with the evocation of the hearing percept based on the first input, wherein the cochlear implant evokes a hearing percept based on the first input, and the second input is correlated with the first input.
US11290821B2
An audio processor for providing loudspeaker signals on the basis of input signals, like channel signals and/or object signals, obtains an information about the position of a listener and an information about the position of a plurality of loudspeakers, or sound transducers. The audio processor selects one or more loudspeakers for a rendering of the objects and/or of the channel objects and/or of the adapted signals, derived from the input signals. The selection depends on the information about the position of the listener and about the positions of the loudspeakers and takes into consideration the information about one or more acoustic obstacles. The audio signal processor renders the objects/channel objects/adapted signals derived from the input signals, in dependence on the information about the position of the listener and about positions of the loudspeakers, in order to obtain the loudspeaker signals, such that a rendered sound follows a listener.
US11290817B2
A headset system comprising a headset, which headset comprises at least a first earphone, a D/A converter, a first cable and a first connector. The headset system further comprises a control box, which control box comprises a second connecter, which is adapted to be connected to the first connector, and a third connector which is adapted to be connected to a fourth connector of a computing device. The control box comprises a user interface. The D/A converter is arranged at the headset and the control box is adapted to send control signals via the first cable to the headset, when the user interface is activated by a user.
US11290816B2
Provided are a loudspeaker and an audio video device. The loudspeaker includes a loudspeaker box and a drive unit. The loudspeaker box includes a middle frame, a first diaphragm and a second diaphragm. The first diaphragm and the second diaphragm are respectively disposed at the two ends of the middle frame, the first diaphragm, the second diaphragm and the middle frame are enclosed to form a sound cavity. The drive unit is disposed in the sound cavity. The drive unit comprises a U-iron, a magnet, a magnetic conductive plate and a voice coil. The magnet is disposed on the U-iron, the magnetic conductive plate is disposed on the magnet, and the voice coil is sleeved on the magnet and the magnetic conductive plate. The U-iron is disposed on the first diaphragm, and the voice coil is disposed on the second diaphragm.
US11290810B1
A device includes a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) element configured to sense acoustic signals. The device also includes a circuitry configured to enable the microphone element to sense the acoustic signals. The circuitry is further configured to disable the microphone element to prevent the microphone element to sense the acoustic signals. It is appreciated that the circuitry is further configured to apply a test signal to the MEMS element when the microphone element is disabled. The microphone element outputs a signal in response to the test signal to the circuitry. The circuitry in response to the output signal with a first value determines that a diaphragm of the MEMS element is nonoperational and the circuitry in response to the output signal with a second value determines that the diaphragm of the MEMS element is operational.
US11290803B2
The present technology relates to a headphone and a reproduction control method that enable external sound to be caught more easily and promptly, and a program. The headphone includes: a sound collecting unit configured to collect outer sound; a detection unit configured to detect a specific motion to a sensor unit for capture of the outer sound; and a reproduction control unit configured to cause, in a case where the specific motion is detected, the outer sound collected by the sound collecting unit to be reproduced and volume of audio under reproduction to be reduced or the reproduction of the audio to stop. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a headphone.
US11290799B2
An ear unit for stably fitting in an ear includes a first surface facing inwardly toward the ear, a second, opposite surface facing outwardly from the ear and an outer circumferential surface formed between the first and second surfaces. The outer circumferential surface is shaped as a decremental curve. The distance between the ends of the decremental curve is approximately equal to the distance between a first cavity formed under the tragus of the ear and second cavity covered by the lower node of the antihelix of the ear. The first surface is provided with a curvature that provides a contact surface that substantially conforms to the concha, providing an improved attachment, thereby enabling the ear unit to fit closely against the concha when the ear unit is positioned into the ear.
US11290798B2
A microphone assembly includes a circuit board and a microphone array disposed on the circuit board. The circuit board includes: a first FPC extending along a first direction, and a second FPC extending along a second direction different from the first direction and separated from the first FPC, the second FPC and the first FPC are fixed to each other and form an electrical connection, and the microphone array is disposed on the first FPC.
US11290792B2
Provided are a loudspeaker assembly and an electronic device. The loudspeaker assembly includes: a housing having an internal cavity; a loudspeaker unit built in the internal cavity and including a loudspeaker diaphragm; and a separator provided in the internal cavity, the internal cavity being divided by the separator and the loudspeaker unit into a first cavity and a second cavity; where the housing has a through hole, the first cavity communicates with an exterior of the housing by the through hole, and the loudspeaker diaphragm is positioned in the first cavity; and the separator is provided with a balance hole in communication with the first cavity, and the second cavity is in communication with the first cavity through the balance hole.
US11290787B2
Multicast video program switching architecture. In one embodiment, a user makes a request for service. A controller determines whether the channel is currently broadcast. When the channel is currently broadcast, redirect the user to an address of the channel. When the channel is not currently broadcast, query a storage apparatus to find a currently broadcast channel that has no current viewership, send, a request to a multicast network address translation (MNAT) router comprising a multicast address of the currently broadcast channel and an identifier of the requested channel to modify MNAT settings on the MNAT router and redirect the user to the multicast address, the multicast address associated with the requested channel.
US11290768B2
An information processing apparatus and server apparatus are disclosed. In one example, the information processing apparatus is configured to display content on a first display and transmit an instruction to display the content, which is being displayed on the first display, on a second display of a first external device. This instruction causes a displaying of the content at a specified playback start point on the second display.
US11290766B2
In one example, a method performed by a processing system in a telecommunications network includes acquiring live footage of an event, acquiring sensor data related to the event, wherein the sensor data is collected by a sensor positioned in a location at which the event occurs, extracting an analytical statistic related to a target participating in the event, wherein the extracting is based on content analysis of the live footage and the sensor data, filtering data relating to the target based on the analytical statistic to identify content of interest in the data, wherein the data comprises the live footage, the sensor data, and data relating to historical events that are similar to the event, and generating computer-generated content to present the content of interest, wherein when the computer-generated content is synchronized with the live footage on an immersive display, an augmented reality media is produced.
US11290761B2
A method of detecting CPD in an HFC network that includes a remote PHY device (RPD) is disclosed. The RPD includes a transmitter, receiver, and diplexer having forward and return legs. The receiver receives a return signal from a cable plant via the return leg. The transmitter provides a forward signal to the cable plant via the forward leg. A portion of the forward signal leaks through the return leg and travels to the receiver. The return signal contains a CPD signal generated by the forward signal and a CPD source in the cable plant. The forward signal propagates from RPD to CPD source and CPD signal propagates from CPD source to RPD within a round-trip interval. The method comprises: (a) adjusting the capturing bandwidth of the receiver to include return and leaked forward signals; (b) operating receiver to capture return and leaked forward signals over a limited duration of at least the round-trip interval; and (c) detecting CPD signal by processing captured leaked forward and return signals.
US11290756B2
Implementations described herein relate to methods, devices, and computer-readable media to transcode a video. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining a video that includes a plurality of tracks. The method further includes determining whether a partial transcoded file is available that corresponds to the video. The method further includes, if the partial transcoded file is available, obtaining a timestamp associated with the partial transcoded file, transcoding a portion of the video that begins at the timestamp associated with the partial transcoded file, and combining the partial transcoded file and the transcoded portion of the video to generate an output video. The method further includes, if the partial transcoded file is not available, transcoding the video from a start of the video using the transcoder to obtain a plurality of output tracks and combining the plurality of output tracks to obtain the output video.
US11290752B2
Provided is a method of providing a plurality of images on the basis of meta information about a free viewpoint relation. In this case, the plurality of images includes a reference image and a surrounding image. Accordingly, a user at a remote site may view one piece of content at various viewpoints and the accessibility and convenience of use may be improved.
US11290748B2
The present disclosure provides a method for reconstructing a video signal through a low-complexity Discrete Sine Transform-7 (DST7) design, including: obtaining a transform index of a current block from the video signal, wherein the transform index corresponds to any one of a plurality of transform combinations including combinations of DST7 and/or a Discrete Cosine Transform-8 (DCT8); deriving a transform combination corresponding to the transform index, wherein the transform combination includes a horizontal transform and a vertical transform, and wherein the horizontal transform and the vertical transform correspond to any one of the DST7 and the DCT8; performing an inverse transform on the current block in a vertical or horizontal direction using the DST7 or the DCT8; and reconstructing the video signal using the inverse transformed current block, wherein a 33-point Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) is applied to the DST7 when the DST7 is 16×16 and a 65-point DFT is applied to the DST7 when the DST7 is 32×32.
US11290747B2
An image decoding method comprises the steps of: deriving transform coefficients through inverse quantization on the basis of quantized transform coefficients for a target block; deriving modified transform coefficients on the basis of an inverse reduced secondary transform (RST) for the transform coefficients; and generating a restoration picture on the basis of residual samples for the target block, on the basis of an inverse primary transform for the modified transform coefficients, wherein the inverse RST is performed on the basis of: transform sets determined by a mapping relation according to an intra prediction mode applied to the target block; and a transform kernel matrix selected from among two transform kernel matrices included in each of the transform sets, and is performed on the basis of: whether the inverse RST is applied; and a transform index for indicating any one of the transform kernel matrices included in the transform sets.
US11290735B1
Techniques are described for adaptive encoding of different visual elements in a video frame. Characteristics of visual elements can be determined and used to set encoding parameters for the visual elements. The visual elements can be encoded such that one visual element is encoded differently than another visual element if they have different characteristics.
US11290731B2
According to an aspect of the disclosure, a method of video decoding is performed in a video decoder. In the method, coded information of a current block is received from a coded video bitstream. The coded information includes prediction information of the current block. A determination is made whether the current block is predicted using a neighboring reconstructed sample from a non-zero reference line based on the coded information. A primary transform type is determined based on the determination that the current block is predicted using the neighboring reconstructed sample from the non-zero reference line. A primary transform is performed for a transform block that is partitioned from the current block in accordance with the determined primary transform type.
US11290724B2
An inter prediction method includes parsing, by a processor, a bitstream to obtain a location of a target adjacent image block of a current image block. The method further includes obtaining a preset correspondence between an adjacent image block location and a motion vector precision, wherein in the preset correspondence, locations of at least two adjacent image blocks correspond to different motion vector precisions. The method further includes determining, based on the location of the target adjacent image block and the preset correspondence, a target motion vector precision corresponding to the target adjacent image block. The method further includes determining a motion vector predictor of the current image block based on the location of the target adjacent image block and the target motion vector precision.
US11290721B2
A deblocking filter of an image processing device is provided. The deblocking filter is used in an image coding process, for deblocking a block edge between a first coding block and a second coding block of an image. The first block has SA samples perpendicular to the block edge by N samples parallel to the block edge, and the second block has SB samples perpendicular to the block edge by N samples parallel to the block edge. No more than IA samples of the first coding block are used as first filter input values, and no more than IB samples of the second coding block are used as second filter input values. No more than MA samples of the first coding block are modified as first filter output values, and no more than MB samples of the second coding block are modified as second filter output values.
US11290710B1
Systems and methods are described herein for encoding and decoding image data. In one aspect, pixel data of a frame of image data may be obtained, where the pixel data contains multiple values. The pixels values may be encoded by determining a length of a first value, where the length is determined using a number of bits of the value for a first type of color value and a modified number of bits for a second type of color value. Both of the number of bits and the modified number of bits map to a first color type lookup table. A code length of the value may be determined using the first color type lookup table, wherein the first color type lookup table maps a plurality of lengths to a plurality of code lengths. A code may be generated for the value based on the value and the code length.
US11290708B2
In an arrangement where a physical phenomenon affects a digital video camera and is measured or sensed by a sensor, a delay of a digital video stream from the digital video camera is estimated. The digital video stream is processed by a video processor for producing a signal that represents the changing over time of the effect of the physical phenomenon on the digital video camera. The signal is then compared with the sensor output signal, such as by using cross-correlation or cross-convolution, for estimating the time delay between the compared signals. The estimated time delay may be used for synchronizing when combining additional varied data to the digital video stream for low-error time alignment. The physical phenomenon may be based on mechanical position or motion, such as pitch, yaw, or roll. The time delay estimating may be performed once, upon user control, periodically, or continuously.
US11290704B2
A method and corresponding system for reconstructing the surface geometry of a three-dimensional object is disclosed. The system comprises a cluster of heterogeneous sensors, including a two-dimensional high-resolution camera and a three-dimensional depth camera, and a turntable operable to rotate incrementally. In operation, the turntable is rotated to first and second positions and two-dimensional and three-dimensional data sets are obtained using the two-dimensional high-resolution camera and the three-dimensional depth camera. Corresponding features from the two-dimensional data sets are identified and used to identify the same corresponding features in the three-dimensional data sets. The three-dimensional corresponding features are used to calculate a three-dimensional homography, which is used to align the three-dimensional data sets. Following alignment, a three-dimensional mesh is generated from the aligned data sets.
US11290694B1
Optical scanning apparatus includes an emitter array, including a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of optical emitters, which are configured to emit respective beams of optical radiation and which are arranged on the semiconductor substrate in an array of rows and columns, the columns having mutually-parallel column axes. A scanner is configured to intercept and deflect the emitted beams at respective angles that vary about a scan axis that is parallel to the column axes. Control circuitry is configured to select the optical emitters that are to be actuated to emit the respective beams in each of a succession of time slots and to drive the scanner in synchronization with the time slots to deflect the emitted beams at an angular scan rate selected so as to cause the beams emitted from successive columns of the array to impinge on an image plane in succession along a common line.
US11290689B2
Embodiments described herein provide various examples of synchronizing the playback of a recorded video of a surgical procedure with a live video feed of a user performing the surgical procedure. In one aspect, a system can simultaneously receive a recorded video of a surgical procedure and a live video feed of a user performing the surgical procedure in a training session. More specifically, the recorded video is shown to the user as a training reference, and the surgical procedure includes a set of surgical tasks. The system next simultaneously monitors the playback of a current surgical task in the set of surgical tasks in the recorded video and the live video feed depicting the user performing the current surgical task. Next, the system detects that the end of the current surgical task has been reached during the playback of the recorded video. In response to determining that the user has not completed the current surgical task in the live video feed, the system pauses the playback of the recorded video while awaiting the user to complete the current surgical task.
US11290683B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, method, and user interfaces to facilitate communication between users via multiple modes of electronic communication. The system displays a conversation view that presents messages exchanged between a first user and at least one other user in an electronic chat conversation. The conversation view includes an interactive element to enable the first user to initiate a video call with the at least one other user. Based on receiving user input corresponding to an interaction with the interactive element, the system initiates the video call with the at least one other user. The system displays an active call view to facilitate the video call with the at least one other user. The system toggles from displaying the active call view to displaying the conversation view in response to further user input.
US11290681B2
A virtual presence system includes a display having a structural matrix configured to arrange a plurality of spaced pixel elements. A plurality of spaced pixel elements collectively form an active visual area wherein an image is displayable. At least one image capture device is disposed within the active visual area for capturing an image. The system is able to sense the environment in front of the display and, in response to what is sensed, is able to change one or more attributes of a displayed image, or, is able to change the displayed image or a portion of the displayed image.
US11290677B2
An electronic device has pixels that form an active area of a display for displaying images for a user. A layer of black ink or other opaque material may be formed on an inner surface of a display cover layer in an inactive area of the display that does not overlap pixels. The housing may have sidewalls such as a rear housing wall that faces away from the display. Ambient light sensor windows may be formed from tapered holes or other holes. The tapered holes may be formed in the opaque material on the display cover layer, may be formed in a rear housing wall or other hosing structure, or may be formed in other portions of the electronic device. Non-tapered holes may also form windows. Tapered holes may have sidewalls with portions that run parallel to their longitudinal axes and portions that are angled relative to their longitudinal axes.
US11290674B1
A pixel cell readout circuit includes an amplifier and a capacitor switch circuit that includes a first routing path coupled to an input of the amplifier. A second routing path includes switches coupled in series along the second routing path. A first end of the second routing path is coupled to a bitline. A second end of the second routing path is coupled to an output of the amplifier. Only one of the switches is turned off and a remainder of the switches are turned on. Capacitors are coupled in parallel between the first routing path and the second routing path. A first end of each of the capacitors is coupled to the first routing path. A second end of each of the capacitors is coupled to the second routing path. The switches are interleaved among the second ends of the capacitors along the second routing path.
US11290668B2
An imaging element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a photoelectric conversion layer; a first electrode that collects a negative signal charge generated in the photoelectric conversion layer; and a second electrode that collects a positive signal charge generated in the photoelectric conversion layer. Each of the first electrode and the second electrode is provided on side opposite to a light incident surface of the photoelectric conversion layer.
US11290665B2
There is provided a solid-state imaging device and an electronic apparatus that performs focus detection and image generation on objects of various shapes. A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array in which multiple pixels are arrayed. The multiple pixels each receive light in a predetermined wavelength band. The pixel array includes at least one or more first pixels and at least one or more second pixels. The at least one or more first pixels each include a pair of sub-pixels provided beneath one microlens. The pair of sub-pixels is aligned in a first direction. The at least one or more second pixels each include a pair of sub-pixels provided beneath one microlens. The pair of sub-pixels is aligned in a second direction. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction.
US11290659B2
A processing system having at least one processor may establish a communication session between a first communication system of a first user and a second communication system of a second user, the communication session including first video content of a first physical environment of the first user and second video content of a second physical environment of the second user, determine a first visualization action for a first physical object in the first physical environment in accordance with a first configuration setting of the first user for the communication session, obtain the first video content from a first camera of the first communication system, detect the first physical object in the first video content, and perform the first visualization action to modify the first video content. The processing system may then transmit first visualization information including the first video content that is modified to the second communication system.
US11290657B2
A finder apparatus according to a first aspect of the present invention includes an optical finder for observing an optical image of a subject using an eyepiece portion, a display device that displays information, a half mirror that is arranged on an optical path of the optical finder, an electronically variable ND filter that is inserted on a subject side from the half mirror on the optical path of the optical finder and is divided into a plurality of regions, a brightness information acquisition unit that acquires brightness information of external light, a brightness measurement unit that measures brightness of incident light for each of the plurality of regions, and a transmittance calculation unit that calculates transmittance of the electronically variable ND filter for each of the plurality of regions based on the measured brightness and the acquired brightness information.
US11290656B2
Method of operating a leaky integrator, leaky integrator and apparatus comprising a leaky integrator
The present disclosure relates to receiving an input signal; generating an output signal by integrating a leaked signal over an integration time, wherein the leaked signal is obtained based on a dampening signal, a leak factor and the input signal; and providing the output signal.
US11290653B1
This application discloses a method for controlling an optical sensing circuit, an optical sensing circuit, and an imaging device. The optical sensing circuit includes an optical sensor and a voltage dividing circuit connected in series, an input voltage (a voltage of the voltage dividing circuit) and an output voltage are obtained, a resistance value of the optical sensor is calculated according to the input voltage, a light intensity value is obtained according to the resistance value of the optical sensor, and then, different loads are controlled based on a level of the output voltage for light intensity in different ranges to perform corresponding operations. This application has high flexibility and strong adaptability, and can effectively broaden an application scope of a photosensitive device.
US11290645B2
A video display method for a video display device is provided. The video display method comprises: acquiring a plurality of captured images from each of a plurality of cameras for each frame; generating a plurality of correction images from the plurality of captured images by performing parallax correction in each of the plurality of captured images for each frame, the parallax correction being performed between images captured by adjacent cameras; and compositing the plurality of correction images to generate a 360° panoramic composite image for each frame. An amount of the parallax correction of each captured image in each frame is limited so that an amount of change from a previous amount of the parallax correction in a previous frame is within a range defined by a predetermined limitation value.
US11290644B2
A 360° view of an area is obtained by stitching together multiple images each of the images obtained at a different point of view. One of the points of view or each one of the points of view receives different angled views of different features in the image. Each feature in the image is therefore imaged from multiple different angles. The images are stitched together into a three-dimensional panorama which is optimized for display on a display where one image is intended for users left eye and another image is intended for the users right eye. The left eye sees features of the image from one field of view, and the right eye sees features of that same image from a different field of view, where each field in the image is shown to the different eyes at different points of view. Therefore, the different eyes perceive different parts of the depth of the image. And that last part into the specification and maybe into the claims.
US11290638B1
A system for consistently imaging objects may include an imaging device that presents a visual guide on a display for aligning with a target object, and that uses sensors of the imaging device to provide exact direction for correctly aligning the visual guide with the target object prior to capturing an image of the target object. The system may include a device that receives a particular image of a particular object, selects a model that defines positional commonality or visual characteristic commonality between a set of images of the particular object or a particular object type that includes the particular object, and that generates an edited image by correcting one or more deviations between positioning of the particular object in the particular image and the positional commonality specified in the model, or between visual characteristics of the particular image and the visual characteristic commonality specified in the model.
US11290636B2
The present invention provides a mobile terminal and a method of capturing an image using the same. The mobile terminal controls a camera conveniently and efficiently to capture an image and performs focusing in various manners to capture an image. Accordingly, a user can obtain a desired image easily and conveniently.
US11290628B2
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus comprises a housing, a display unit, a backlight module and at least one image capturing device. The at least one image capturing device is located in the housing and is used for capturing an image of the display unit.
US11290617B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to extracting a plurality of features from a document according to a heuristic extraction model, generating a vector representation of the document according to the plurality of extracted features, associating at least one security rule with the document, determining if a received vector representation matches the stored vector representation of the document, and providing a response to a requested action on the document according to the determination.
US11290612B1
According to some embodiments, a camera captures a sequence of input images. These input images are then merged by a massively parallel processor into a merged intermediate image, which is represented in memory as floating point numbers of a greater bit depth than the bit depth of the input images, thus creating a cumulative image representing a long exposure. After finishing exposure with a desired number of input images, the merged image is tonemapped with an HDR tonemapping operator. Other embodiments are shown and discussed.
US11290611B2
A document reading apparatus includes a document supporting portion, a conveyance portion, a driving motor, an image reading unit, and a control portion. The control portion is configured to execute a high speed mode in which the conveyance speed is set to a first conveyance speed and a low speed mode in which the conveyance speed is set to a second conveyance speed slower than the first conveyance speed. When the control portion executes the low speed mode, if the document has a first thickness, the control portion is configured to execute a first low speed mode where a first drive speed is set to the driving motor. If the document has a second thickness thicker than the first thickness, the control portion is configured to execute a second low speed mode where a second drive speed faster than the first drive speed is set to the driving motor.
US11290607B2
An image reading apparatus includes a reading processing unit that acquires image data including an image of a document placed on a document placement unit. A first detection processing unit detects a first line image whose width or density exceeds a predetermined first threshold value from the image data. A second detection processing unit detects a rectangular area that is defined by the first line image, included in the image data, and satisfies a predetermined detection condition. A third detection processing unit detects a second line image whose width or density exceeds a second threshold value smaller than the first threshold value from the rectangular area. A fourth detection processing unit detects, as document areas of the respective documents, the rectangular area not divided by the second line image and divided areas included in the rectangular area divided by the second line image.
US11290599B1
A method performed by a near-end headphone device, while the device is engaged in a voice communication session with a far-end device. The method receives a downlink audio signal from the far-end device and drives a speaker with the downlink audio signal. The method receives an accelerometer signal from an accelerometer of the near-end device and performs echo cancellation and residual echo suppression. The method generates a combined SNR-RES signal based on a SNR of the echo cancelled the accelerometer signal and the residual echo suppression signal. The method determines whether the combined SNR-RES signal is below a threshold. In response to being below the threshold, the method gates the echo cancelled accelerometer signal, generates an uplink audio signal by blending the gated signal with a microphone signal and transmits the uplink audio signal to the far-end device.
US11290596B2
An enhanced routing system determines a service provider best suited to fulfill a user's request to interact and establishes a communication session between the user's client device and a device of the service provider. The enhanced routing system may use user characteristics and behavior to select the service provider. For example, the enhanced routing system receives a request to connect to a customer service system from a user who has recently started a new job and has been accessing a banking application on his mobile phone. The enhanced routing system may determine that a payroll service provider is best suited to fulfill the user's request. For example, the enhanced routing system uses a machine learning model that has been trained on previously fulfilled requests. In this way, the enhanced routing system improves upon systems that continuously prompt the user for information by selecting a service provider without overburdening the user.
US11290582B2
A mobile terminal includes a display screen, an internal support unit, an antenna module and a rear shell. The display screen cooperates with the rear shell to form a cavity therebetween. The internal support unit is located in the cavity for fixing and supporting components. The antenna module is located in the cavity and at a position close to a sidewall of the rear shell, and is fixed and supported by the internal support unit. The internal support unit defines a through hole to form a unobstructed signal channel between the antenna module and the side of the internal support unit closest to the rear shell, optimizing a performance of the antenna module, realizing a broadband phased array module with better spatial coverage in a limited space, optimizing the direction of the antenna module, improving the gain and coverage of the antenna module, and optimizing the CDF index.
US11290580B2
An attachment module, having a fixing mechanism, couples detachably with a mobile device, thereby enabling a user to carry the module attached or detached from the mobile device. In at least one embodiment, the fixing mechanism includes an adhesive portion that binds the module to the mobile device. In at least one embodiment, the module holds a pair of wireless earphone to the mobile device in a position where the earphone speaker portion is generally positioned in line with the depth of the mobile device, thereby only minimally adding to the depth of the combined unit. In at least one embodiment, the module may be equipped with wired or wireless charging to charge its battery or that of the mobile device.
US11290545B2
Described herein are method and apparatus for servicing software components of nodes of a cluster storage system. During data-access sessions with clients, client IDs and file handles for accessing files are produced and stored to clients and stored (as session data) to each node. A serviced node is taken offline, whereby network connections to clients are disconnected. Each disconnected client is configured to retain its client ID and file handles and attempt reconnections. Session data of the serviced node is made available to a partner node (by transferring session data to the partner node). After clients have reconnected to the partner node, the clients may use the retained client IDs and file handles to continue a data-access session with the partner node since the partner node has access to the session data of the serviced node and thus will recognize and accept the retained client ID and file handles.
US11290539B2
A user terminal grouping method, including receiving a conference participation request sent by a first user terminal, acquiring an identity code of a user of the first user terminal from the conference participation request, involving the first user terminal in a conference, comparing the identity code with identity codes corresponding to other user terminals that participate in the conference, determining that a second user terminal among the other user terminals and the first user terminal correspond to the same identity code, and sending, to a user terminal of another user in the conference, description information used to indicate that both the first user terminal and the second user terminal belong to the same user.
US11290523B1
Automatic file transfer is provided. A file is obtained utilizing a file generating application on a mobile device in response to an input from a user. The mobile device connected to a network. The file is automatically transferred from the mobile device to a target service via the network utilizing a high-speed file transfer application running on the mobile device such that high-speed transfer of the file from the mobile device to the target service is enabled even though the file generating application does not support the high-speed transfer.
US11290520B1
A first set of blocks is caused, by a first computer system, to be downloaded from a file located on a second computer system. A second set of blocks to download from the file is identified, based at least in part on the first set of blocks. A subset of the second set of blocks that are not in a cache of the first computer system are determined. For each determined block in the subset, an available thread is assigned from a thread pool to the determined block, the available thread is caused to download, in concurrence with blocks being downloaded by threads assigned to other determined blocks of the subset, the determined block from a second computer system into the cache of the first computer system.
US11290517B2
A display data providing apparatus includes an application server configured to generate display data, and a two-way communication WEB server which is configured to provide the display data generated by the application server to a display device, in response to a request from the display device, and which is configured to perform two-way communication with the display device. The application server includes a data update management unit configured to determine whether to update the display data, and a data generation unit configured to generate the display data if the data update management unit determines that the display data is to be updated. If the data update management unit determines that the display data is to be updated, the two-way communication WEB server provides the display data generated by the data generation unit to the display device, regardless of the request from the display device.
US11290516B1
This technology enables prioritization of Multiple Stream Reservation Protocol (“MSRP”) transmissions in Audio Video Bridging (“AVB”) virtual local area networks (“VLANs”). An AVB switch receives a status from listener devices, associates a state with each of the statuses indicating whether each listener device is active or in-active, and stores each state in a database. For each listener device, a queue of MSRP protocol data unit (“PDU”) packets exists to be transmitted to the listener device. The AVB switch searches the database for listener devices with an active state, searches the queue for each active listener device for packets associated with an active state, and transmits the packets associated with the active state to each active listener device. Subsequently, the AVB switch searches each listener device's queue for packets associated with an in-active state and transmits the packets associated with an in-active state to each listener device.
US11290515B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing real-time, low-latency packetization protocols for live compressed video data are disclosed. A wireless transmitter includes at least a codec and a media access control (MAC) layer unit. In order for the codec to communicate with the MAC layer unit, the codec encodes the compression ratio in a header embedded inside the encoded video stream. The MAC layer unit extracts the compression ratio from the header and determines a modulation coding scheme (MCS) for transferring the video stream based on the compression ratio. The MAC layer unit and the codec also implement a feedback loop such that the MAC layer unit can command the codec to adjust the compression ratio. Since the changes to the video might not be implemented immediately, the MAC layer unit relies on the header to determine when the video data is coming in with the requested compression ratio.
US11290512B2
In one example, the present disclosure describes a device, computer-readable medium, and method for improving media quality at the network edge by encoding the media into a digital stream that is carried, end-to-end, to a peer edge device. For instance, in one example, a method includes initiating, by a first computing device, a connection to a second computing device, selecting, by the first computing device, a codec for encoding data into a data stream, wherein the codec is selected such that the data stream can be decoded by the second computing device without being transcoded by an intermediary, encoding, by the first computing device, the data into the data stream using the codec, and sending, by the first computing device, the data stream to the second computing device.
US11290507B1
Systems and methods are provided for a computer-implemented method of implementing an on-demand computing network environment. A network specification is received from a user. Resources from one or more resource providers are provisioned including an audio server resource. The on-demand computing network is configured, where configuring includes assigning a first provisioned resource as a hub device. One or more second provisioned resources are assigned as rim devices, where rim devices are configured to communicate with one another only via the hub device. One rim device is a proxy server to which the user connects using a device having an address, where the audio server transmits audio data to the user via the proxy server without knowledge of the address of the user device.
US11290504B2
A method and system for sharing an output device between multimedia devices to transmit and receive data, is provided. The method includes operations of automatically discovering one or more second multimedia devices, when a first multimedia device is positioned within communication range of the one or more second multimedia devices that transmit a low power signal; and transmitting data of the first multimedia device to the one or more second multimedia devices, when the one or more second multimedia devices are discovered.
US11290495B2
Solution management systems and methods are presently disclosed that enable receiving, compiling, and analyzing vendor solutions, determining the vendor solutions that address a target vulnerability of a client network and/or client devices, determining additional vulnerabilities of the client network and/or client devices that the vendor solutions address, and selecting a vendor solution to remediate the target vulnerability. The presently disclosed systems and methods also enable scoring, risk evaluation, and additional metrics to facilitate determining the vendor solution(s) that have the largest impact and/or benefit to the various vulnerabilities of the client network and/or client devices.
US11290492B2
Embodiments for detecting malicious modification of data in a network, by: setting, by a first layer of network resources, a number of markers associated with input/output (I/O) operations of the network; saving the markers, location, and associated metadata in a marker database; reading, by a second layer of the network resources, the markers corresponding to relevant I/O operations; and verifying each scanned I/O operation against a corresponding marker to determine whether or not data for a scanned specific I/O operation has been improperly modified for the first and second layers and any intermediate layer resulting in a fault condition, and if so, taking remedial action to flag or abort the specific I/O operation.
US11290491B2
A method for utilizing a security service engine (SSE) to assess security vulnerabilities on a security gateway element (SGE) includes establishing a security configuration for a SGE corresponding to a provisioned security service policy definition and configuring a plurality of SGE security service managers hosted by a SSE on the SGE based on policies included in the security service policy definition. The method further includes executing, by the SSE, each of the plurality of SGE security service managers as a software based service in real time to enforce the policies of the security service policy definition on the SGE and remediating the security configuration of the SGE if one or more of the plurality of SGE security service managers detects a security vulnerability corresponding to the operation of the SGE.
US11290487B2
The embodiments herein disclose methods and systems for reducing network protocol latency for at least one application on an electronic device, a method includes pre-resolving a plurality of Domain Name System (DNS) queries for the at least one application. The plurality of DNS queries is pre-resolved before triggering at least one DNS resolution query from the at least one application. The method includes pre-connecting a plurality of TCP connections of the at least one application with at least one Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) server. The plurality of TCP connections are pre-connected before triggering at least one TCP connection request from the at least one application. The method includes exchanging a plurality of secure certificates with the at least one TCP server to secure the plurality of pre-connected TCP connections. The secure certificates are exchanged before receiving at least one request from the at least one application for secure certificate negotiation.
US11290486B1
The disclosure relates to provisioning honeypot computing services using computing resources in a defective computing resource pool. In one example, a computing system can generate a maliciousness score for a received resource allocation request, determine that the generated maliciousness score exceeds a maliciousness threshold and identify a computing resource in a defective resource pool that is eligible to satisfy the request. The system can then provision honeypot computing services to fulfill the request, using the identified computing resource in the defective resource pool.
US11290484B2
A bot characteristic detection method and apparatus, where the apparatus obtains a first dynamic behavior file and a second dynamic behavior file, where the first dynamic behavior file is a behavior file resulting from dynamic behavior detection performed on a malicious file in a first sandbox, and the second dynamic behavior file is a behavior file resulting from dynamic behavior detection performed on the malicious file in a second sandbox. The apparatus determines a bot characteristic of the malicious file based on a common characteristic of the first dynamic behavior file and the second dynamic behavior file.
US11290477B2
In one embodiment, a device obtains characteristics of a first anomaly detection model executed by a first distributed learning agent in a network. The device receives a query from a second distributed learning agent in the network that requests identification of a similar anomaly detection to that of a second anomaly detection model executed by the second distributed learning agent. The device identifies, after receiving the query from the second distributed learning agent, the first anomaly detection model as being similar to that of the second anomaly detection model, based on the characteristics of the first anomaly detection model. The device causes the first anomaly detection model to be sent to the second distributed learning agent for execution.
US11290465B1
One example method includes connecting, by a first client device associated with a user, to a video conference hosted by a video conference provider, the video conference having a plurality of participants; receiving participant information for each participant of the plurality of participants; generating, for one or more of the participants, an identity record corresponding to the respective participant, the identity record including video conference information, at least a portion of the participant information, and a cryptographic signature; appending, for each generated identity record, the respective identity record to a user contact list; and verifying at least one participant of the plurality of participants based on the user contact list.
US11290460B2
A system and method for method for protecting cloud native environments based on cloud resource access. The method includes determining a mapping of a plurality of cloud assets to a plurality of cloud resources based on resource access data for a cloud native environment, wherein the plurality of cloud assets and the plurality of cloud resources are deployed in the cloud native environment, wherein each of the plurality of cloud assets is mapped to at least one associated cloud resource of the plurality of cloud resources; detecting at least one improper resource access based on the mapping and a cloud access security stream for the cloud native environment, wherein each of the at least one improper resource access deviates from the mapping; and performing at least one mitigation action with respect to the detected at least one improper resource access.
US11290453B2
Systems and methods for authenticating presumptively incompatible elements in a digital network are provided. A method may include receiving an access request from a client node in the network. The access request may be requesting access to an application in the network. The access request may be associated with a uniform resource identifier (“URI”). The method may include extracting a target application from the URI. The method may include determining an authentication protocol that is supported by the target application. The method may include generating, based on the authentication protocol, a series of one or more authentication tests that, in combination, satisfy the authentication protocol. The authentication tests may satisfy the authentication protocol even when the client node natively supports a different authentication protocol. The method may include executing the series of authentication tests to authenticate the client node vis-à-vis the target application.
US11290452B2
Disclosed are non-limiting methods for authenticating devices, comprising receiving a request for a device authentication identifier, transmitting a device authentication request message via a frame embedded in a webpage of a merchant website, the device authentication request message comprising challenge data associated with a challenge, receiving a device authentication response message via the frame embedded in the webpage of the merchant website based on the device authentication request message, the device authentication response message comprising challenge response data associated with a challenge response, transmitting the device authentication identifier message based on the device authentication response message, receiving a transaction request message for a transaction, comprising the device authentication identifier and transaction data associated with the transaction, determining the device score based on the device authentication identifier, and generating, an authorization request message based on the transaction data and the device score. Systems and computer program products are also disclosed.
US11290451B2
An information processing apparatus includes: an instruction unit configured to instruct an image processing apparatus to request a management server to issue identification information; an identification information obtaining unit configured to obtain, from the image processing apparatus, the identification information issued to the image processing apparatus by the management server; an identification information transmission unit configured to transmit the obtained identification information to a service provision server; a request reception unit configured to receive a request to transmit user information necessary for using a predetermined service from the service provision server as a response to the transmission of the identification information; and a user information transmission unit configured to transmit the user information to the service provision server in response to the received transmission request.
US11290444B2
A system and method for the generation of cryptographic keys for authentication and secure communications. The invention is an improvement over other existing authentication and encryption methods because it is not susceptible to hackers who have access to previous login sessions since authentication data is unique to each session, it is not susceptible to hackers using brute force attacks to determine underlying algorithms due to the complexity of the method and the extensive ability to customize the underlying data, and it allows for a key length as large as the message and unique to each login session which is what Claude Shannon showed to achieve the so-called perfect secrecy. The disclosed invention is also an improvement over existing authentication and encryption methods because it allows for multiple valid responses in each login session.
US11290440B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for blocking network connections to network resources of forbidden categories. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, intercepting a certificate when a connection is being established between a client and a server, determining categories of resources to which a connection of the client is forbidden, determining a category of the intercepted certificate, the determination comprising: identifying a resource to which the intercepted certificate corresponds, determining whether the intercepted certificate is unknown, and determining the category of the intercepted certificate based on whether the certificate is unknown, extracting attributes from the intercepted certificate, and blocking the network connection when the determined category of the intercepted certificate is a category of the network resources to which the connection of the client is forbidden, or when the attributes extracted from the intercepted certificate are found to be similar to attributes of forbidden certificates.
US11290435B2
Data storage operation commands are digitally signed to enhance data security in a distributed system. A data storage client and a compute-enabled data storage device may share access to a cryptographic key. The data storage client uses the cryptographic key to digitally sign commands transmitted to the data storage device, which can use its copy to verify a digital signature of a command before fulfilling the command. The storage device can also determine whether to perform a transformation, such that requests authenticated to a first identity might receive cleartext while a request authenticated to a second identity might receive ciphertext. The compute-enabled storage device can also receive unauthenticated calls and attempt to retrieve the appropriate key from a key management service or other such source.
US11290431B2
A communication network encrypts a first portion of a transaction associated with point-to-point communications using a point-to-point encryption key. A second portion of the transaction associated with end-to-end communications is encrypted using an end-to-end encryption key.
US11290426B2
Various embodiments that pertain to an enterprise network that employs a block chain portion and a non-block chain portion. For a single transaction, a header of the transaction can be sent over the block chain network and the non-header of the transaction can be sent over the non-block chain network. A hash-based cuckoo filter can be used for communication of the header along the block chain network.
US11290423B2
A system for managing a data stream between first and second networks is described in which a node entity transmits a data stream addressed to a destination device in the second network and a gateway entity receives the data stream from the first network. The gateway entity identifies at least one characteristic of the destination device and transmits it to the node entity in the first network in such a way that the characteristic is relatable to the data stream. The node entity receives the characteristic of the destination device from the gateway entity and relates it to the data stream and performs Quality of Service management on the data stream based on the at least one characteristic. A gateway device and a method of managing a data stream are also described. The system, gateway, node and method extend the application of QoS performance and management.
US11290422B1
Systems and methods include, responsive to routing a packet to a destination via an external interface of a plurality of external interfaces, receiving the packet; checking if the packet belongs to an existing session for network address and port translation based on a session key; if the packet does not belong to the existing session, assigning the packet an Internet Protocol (IP) address and port based on the routing; if the packet belongs to the existing session, checking if an active path has changed, and, if not, performing the network address and port translation based on the session; and, if the active path has changed, assigning the packet an Internet Protocol (IP) address and port based on another external interface associated with the changed active path.
US11290420B2
Methods and related systems are presented that relate to automatically avoiding address conflicts when establishing a secure communications link over a public network between a local computer, associated with a local network, and a remote device, located outside the local network. Local network addresses on the local network reserved for use, and a block of local network addresses that do not conflict with the reserved local network addresses, are identified. At least one local network address is selected from the block and assigned as an address of the local device for use in communicating with the remote device securely over the public network. Communication is facilitated with the remote device using the network driver based on the assigned at least one local network address.
US11290419B2
An example object is to appropriately provide, to a terminal apparatus, both a service via a packet data network gateway and a service for Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) in an Evolved Packet Core (EPC) network. A first communication processing unit 131 transfers data between a terminal apparatus 500 and a packet data network gateway 200 when a destination address of the data for the terminal apparatus 500 is an address other than an address of an MEC server 300, and a second communication processing unit 133 transfers data between the terminal apparatus 500 and the MEC server 300 when a destination address of data for the terminal apparatus 500 is an address of the MEC server 300.
US11290417B2
A method and apparatus of a device that starts an address resolution service on a network element after a boot-up of this network element is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the network element sends an indication of the boot-up. The network element further sends a request for an address resolution table and receives a reply with the requested address resolution table. In addition, the network element starts the address resolution service using the requested address resolution table.
US11290412B2
Techniques for ascribing social attributes to content items and for selecting content to display in a content feed are described. According to various embodiments, accessing one or more content items accessible via a network are accessed, each of the content items having received one or more social activity signals. Thereafter, members of an online social network service that submitted the social activity signals may be identified. Member profile data identifying member profile attributes of the members cemented the social activity signals may then be accessed. Thereafter, social attribute information may be generated and associated with each of the content items, the social attribute information identifying the member profile attributes of the members that submitted the social activity signals associated with each of the content items.
US11290411B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for determining whether a message received by a client may be spam, in a computing environment that preserves privacy. The message may be encrypted. A client invokes the methods when a message is received from a sender that is not known to the client. A client can decrypt the message, break the message into chunks, and apply a differentially private algorithm to the set of chunks. The client transmits the differentially private message sketches to an aggregation server. The aggregation server receives a large collection of such message sketches for a large plurality of clients. The aggregation server returns aggregated message chunk (e.g. frequency) information to the client to assist the client in determining whether the message may be spam. The client can process the message based on the determination without disclosing the message content to the server.
US11290401B2
A middleware messaging system is connected between user devices and content providers possibly through one or more networks. The middleware messaging system includes a coordination manager for coordinating partial messages transmitted between the user devices and the content providers. Partial messages received by the middleware messaging system from one or more sources through one or more channels. Partial messages that are associated with each other comprise a single context and as such are coordinated and transmitted to one or more destinations through one or more channels.
US11290398B2
An information management system may store information related to tasks to be performed by workers in an organization. Workers in the organization may communicate with the information management system using email messages. The information management system may not require a login or authentication procedure, and workers may interact with the information management system without the need to log in to the information management system. The information management system may receive an email message from a worker that indicates a request for a report. The information management system may determine whether to transmit the report to the worker based on whether the worker is appropriately registered with the information management system, and/or whether the worker has administrative privileges. The information management system, in response to a positive determination, may transmit the report to the email address from which the requesting email message was sent.
US11290396B1
Technology is described for receiving a request for data packets at a server from a device. The server may determine a predicted number of data packets that are expected to be lost during fulfillment of the request based in part on a device profile. The server may send, in response to the request, the requested data packets and parity packets to the device. The number of parity packets may be based on the predicted number of data packets. The parity packets may enable the device to rebuild requested data packets that are lost during fulfillment of the request.
US11290394B2
A Software Defined Networking (SDN) controller controls multicast traffic in an SDN domain and one or more non-SDN domains imbedded in the SDN domain.
US11290386B2
The present disclosure discloses a flow specification (FlowSpec) message processing method. In the method, a controller forwards device interface information reported by the forwarding device; selects at least one forwarding device interface to which a FlowSpec rule needs to be applied from the received forwarding device interface information; generates an application interface rule based on the at least one forwarding device interface to which the FlowSpec rule needs to be applied; and sends a FlowSpec message to the forwarding device.
US11290376B2
A network device is described that includes one or more processors configured to select a prioritized sub-set of a plurality of routing protocol sessions based on peer priority information. The one or more processors are configured to establish one or more routing protocol sessions of the prioritized sub-set. The one or more processors are configured to, in response to determining that a threshold for establishing the prioritized sub-set of the plurality of routing protocol sessions is satisfied, establish one or more routing protocol sessions of the plurality of routing protocol sessions that are not included in the prioritized sub-set. The one or more processors are configured to forward network traffic using the established one or more routing protocol sessions of the prioritized sub-set and the established one or more routing protocol sessions of the plurality of routing protocol sessions that are not included in the prioritized sub-set.
US11290369B2
A method in a telecommunications network comprises acquiring values of one or more parameters relating to traffic flow between a first group of nodes in the network. The method further comprises using a first reinforcement learning agent to dynamically adjust a first routing metric used to route traffic through the first group of nodes, based on the values of the one or more parameters, so as to alter the traffic flow through the first group of nodes.
US11290367B2
Systems, methods, apparatus and computer-readable medium are described for improving efficiency and robustness for configuring data-planes. Furthermore, systems, methods, and devices are provided for efficiently storing, maintaining and retrieving configuration information for data-planes. The configuration information may be stored and retrieved from a hierarchy of information stored in memory, such as a hierarchy of information in memory, wherein the hierarchy of information has configuration data for one or more data-planes and represents one or more command sequences issued by a controller of the control-plane to one or more data-planes. In certain implementations, the hierarchy of information comprises a plurality of nodes, wherein each node represents at least a portion of a command sequence issued by the controller. The command sequences may be configuration command sequences issued by the control plane to configure the data-planes.
US11290358B2
Some embodiments provide a novel method of performing health monitoring for resources associated with a global server load balancing (GSLB) system. This system is implemented by several domain name system (DNS) servers that perform DNS services for resources located at several geographically separate sites. The method identifies several different groupings of the resources. It then assigns the health monitoring of the different resource groups to different DNS servers. The method then configures each particular DNS server (1) to send health monitoring messages to the particular group of resources assigned to the particular DNS server, (2) to generate data by analyzing responses to the sent health monitoring messages, and (3) to distribute the generated data to the other DNS servers. The method in some embodiments is performed by a set of one or more controllers.
US11290353B2
A Network Service Descriptor (NSD) is generated, from Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) existing in a VNF catalog, for instantiating a network service which satisfies given network service requirements. From the VNF catalog, a system selects VNFs that provide functionalities and architectural blocks required to fulfill the NS requirements. The system generates at least a VNF forwarding graph (VNFFG), which includes relations between the functionalities and the architectural blocks of the selected VNFs as well as traffic flows between the selected VNFs. The system then creates the NSD, which includes the VNFFG, for instantiating the network service.
US11290342B2
A network simulation system comprises a request processor and a simulation engine. The request processor receives node data indicative of resource levels of nodes of the network, and relationship data indicative of relationship parameters of a plurality of relationships between the nodes. The simulation engine outputs a stream of event data based on the relationship data. Respective events are generated by: determining source and destination nodes, and corresponding relationship parameters for the relationship between them; determining an event time based on a rate parameter of the corresponding relationship parameters; determining a transfer value; and if the transfer value does not exceed a current resource level of the source node, modifying current resource levels of the source and destination nodes according to the transfer value, and generating, at the event time, event data comprising a timestamp, a source node identifier of the source node, a destination node identifier of the destination node, and the transfer value.
US11290327B1
A device receives personality profiles sent from multiple network elements of a network and obtains configuration parameters for each of the multiple network elements from the personality profiles. The device receives first scores generated for the multiple network elements, where each of the first scores relates to assessing a usefulness status of a respective one of the multiple network elements. The device identifies a network element of the multiple network elements for modifying the identified network element's configuration based on the obtained configuration parameters and the received first scores.
US11290322B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes for performing honeypot asset cloning in cybersecurity computing environments. A computing asset and associated configuration information is identified along with configuration requirements for a honeypot. The configuration is modified to generate replication configuration information based partly on the configuration requirements. The replication configuration information is deployed in the network. A request to manage a configuration deployment in the network is received. In response to the request, the computing asset is configured based on the configuration information and the honeypot is generated based on the replication configuration information. The configuration is normalized and mapping information that is part of the configuration information that is supported by the honeypot is identified. A value in the configuration is replaced with another value associated with the part of the configuration information that is supported by the honeypot.
US11290318B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods by which different services registered with cloud infrastructure may recover in case of disaster. Also directs procedures with which a resource provider may recover and rebuild its cloud resource information by scanning actual resources available. A resource provider will synchronize resources with a central service to get updated consumer and subscription information. In the scenario in which a central service fails and is recovered from backup, the central service should synchronize with resource providers to update its resource information.
US11290316B2
A method for determining and compensating for residual phase noise in a 5G NR DL signal includes converting a block of 5G NR DL time domain signal samples into a block of frequency domain samples for one OFDM data symbol and equalizing and combining the frequency domain samples that fall in an outermost sample accumulation region of each quadrant to form a first composite sample for each quadrant, selecting a signal constellation point belonging to one of the four outermost constellation point decision region as a reference constellation point, rotating at least some of the first composite samples so that the first composite samples are in the same quadrant as the reference constellation point, combining the rotated first composite samples to produce a second composite sample, calculating a phase error between the second composite sample and the reference constellation point, applying phase correction corresponding to the phase error to all subcarriers of the OFDM data symbol, and generating output data from the phase-error-corrected OFDM symbol.
US11290310B2
The present disclosure relates to signal processing methods and apparatus. One example method includes determining a first sequence {x(n)} based on a preset condition and a sequence {s(n)}, generating a reference signal of a first signal by using the first sequence, and sending the reference signal on a first frequency-domain resource. The preset condition is xn=y(n+M)mod K, where y n = A · e j × π × s n 8 , M∈{0, 1, 2, . . . , 5}, a length of the first sequence is K=6, n=0, 1, . . . , K−1, A is a non-zero complex number, and j=√{square root over (−1)}. The first signal is a signal modulated by using π/2 binary phase shift keying (BPSK). The first frequency-domain resource comprises K subcarriers each having a subcarrier number of k, k=u+L*n+delta, L is an integer greater than or equal to 2, delta∈{0, 1, . . . , L−1}, u is an integer, and subcarrier numbers of the K subcarriers are numbered in ascending or descending order of frequencies.
US11290309B2
The present invention discloses a Trellis-Coded-Modulation (TCM) decoder applied in a receiver, wherein the TCM decoder includes a branch metric unit, a path metric unit, a trace-back length selection circuit and a survival path management circuit. In operations of the TCM decoder, the branch metric unit is configured to receive multiple input codes to generate multiple sets of branch information. The path metric unit is configured to calculate multiple survival paths according to the multiple sets of branch information. The trace-back length selection circuit is configured to select a trace-back length, wherein the trace-back length is determined according to a signal quality of the receiver. The survival path management circuit is configured to return the multiple survival paths for the trace-back length in order to generate an output code.
US11290304B2
Sounding reference signal (SRS) carrier switching with short transmission time interval (sTTI)/short processing time (sPT) is discussed. A user equipment (UE) with aggregated communications including multiple time division duplex (TDD) downlink-only configured carriers may be triggered for sounding reference signal (SRS) carrier switching via a downlink control signal. The UE determines whether there are any other signals colliding or that may conflict with its transmission of SRS on a new carrier and resolves any apparent collision or conflict using a combination of signal, timing, or processing configuration prioritization. The SRS may be transmitted when conditions allow the UE to tune to the other carrier and tune back before any higher priority transmissions are scheduled.
US11290297B2
System, device, and method of multi-path wireless communication. A method includes: constructing in an electronic device of a user, a control message indicating a user command intended to be performed by a Home Automation Device (HAD) of the user; wherein the constructing includes inserting into the control message a unique Message-Identifier. The method then transmits the control message, from the electronic device of the user to the HAD, concurrently via at least two different wireless communications channels which include at least: (i) a first wireless communication channel that includes passage of traffic through the Internet, and (ii) a second wireless communication channel in which no traffic passes through the Internet.
US11290296B2
Systems and methods for providing a collaboration work management platform that facilitates differentiation between users in an overarching group and one or more subsets of individual users within the overarching group to enable the users within the individual subsets to use the collaboration work management platform differently users within the other subsets, the method being implemented by a computer system including one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information for maintaining a collaboration environment.
US11290295B2
Techniques for bridging communication between multiple networks to facilitate distribution of multicast data are described herein. For example, a node that is able to communicate with its network and an adjacent network may send a subscription message indicating that the node is a member of a multicast group. The subscription message may be forwarded up both networks. The node may then forward, between the networks, data that is destined for members of the multicast group.
US11290289B2
An apparatus is provided which comprises: a phase detector to receive a reference clock and a feedback clock; and one or more switchable heat elements controllable by an output of the phase detector, wherein the one or more switchable heat elements are coupled to a physically unclonable function circuit.
US11290281B2
This specification describes techniques for managing assets in a blockchain. One example method includes receiving, from a target user recorded in a distributed database of a blockchain network, a user input including a request to update a status of a target object, determining, based on a contract object, whether the target user is a member user with an update permission for the target object, the contract object being published in the blockchain network and corresponding to an asset type of the target object, wherein the target object was created using the contract object, and in response to determining that the target user has the update permission for the target object, performing a status update on the target object by using the contract object.
US11290265B2
A server device, a secret equality determination system, a secret equality determination method and a secret equality determination program recording medium are provided which, regardless of the server sharing scheme, can run with no difference in the number of communication rounds, whether carried out with a ring of order 2 or with a ring of an order greater than 2. This server device is provided with a secret shared data generation unit, a data storage unit, a mask unit, a random number share bit-conjunction unit, a random number share generation unit, a determination bit-conjunction unit and a secret shared data restoration unit. The secret shared data generation unit generates secret shared data. The data storage unit stores the secret shared data. The mask unit uses random number secret shared data to mask certain shared data. The random number share generation unit generates random number shares in which random numbers are secretly shared. In parallel with other calculations, the random number share bit-conjunction unit calculates the logical product of the values in which the random numbers are secretly shared. The determination bit-conjunction unit performs a secret equality determination using the value outputted by the random number share bit-conjunction unit.
US11290262B2
For communicating securely between electronic devices using symmetric key encryption, a first electronic device transfers to a second electronic device metadata with positional information which indicates the position of a first cryptographic key in a cryptographic key hierarchy. The second electronic device derives the first cryptographic key by way of a one-way function from a second cryptographic key stored in the second electronic device, using the positional information received from the first electronic device. Subsequently, the first electronic device and the second electronic device communicate data securely with symmetric key encryption using the first cryptographic key.
US11290259B2
A computer-implemented platform has a cloud-based offset engine that determines data stored on a local storage device of an external device exceeds a predetermined local data storage threshold, whereby the external device is remotely situated from the computer-implemented platform. Further, the computer-implemented platform has a receiver that receives, via a network, first level encrypted offset data. The encrypted offset data is the data that is encrypted by the external device according to a first encryption key, and that is timestamped by the external device according to a first timestamp. Moreover, the computer-implemented platform has a compression assessment engine that determines that the external device is incapable of performing compression according to one or more predefined compression criteria and that performs compression of the first level encrypted offset data according to the one or more predefined compression criteria to generate compressed and encrypted offset data.
US11290250B2
A line card in a network box receives a SyncE clock signal and an input SYNC signal. A phase-lock loop (PLL) in the line card receives the SyncE clock signal as a reference clock signal and generates an output SyncE clock signal. The line card regenerates a SYSCLK signal using a digitally controlled oscillator that receives a timing signal from the SyncE PLL and receives a control signal from control logic on the line card. The frequency and phase information contained in the SYNC signal is utilized to control the DCO. The SYSCLK signal is divided to generate an output SYNC signal. The control logic uses the time difference between the input SYNC signal and a SYNC feedback signal to control the DCO to provide a zero delay SYNC output signal. The output SYNC signal and the SYSCLK signal control a time of day counter in the line card.
US11290240B2
One or more nodes transmit CSI-RS symbols in a set of N CSI-RS elements, each CSI-RS element in the set corresponding to at least one resource element in a time-frequency grid of resource elements. The nodes select, from the N CSI-RS elements, a first set of CSI-RS elements to be measured by a first wireless device, the first set comprising one or several of the N CSI-RS elements. The nodes also transmit, to the first wireless device, a message comprising a first K-bit indicator identifying the first set of CSI-RS elements, wherein K
US11290238B2
A method for customizing wireless communication beacons includes (a) transmitting a first Unicast beacon from a first wireless termination point (WTP) to a first user equipment (UE) station, (b) receiving, at the first WTP, an acknowledgement data frame from the first UE station, (c) determining one or more characteristics of the first UE station from the acknowledgement data frame, (d) customizing one or more second Unicast beacons for the first UE station, based at least in part on the one or more characteristics of the first UE station, and (e) transmitting the one or more second Unicast beacons from the first WTP to the first UE station.
US11290220B2
A method and apparatus for implicitly determining a PUCCH resource. The invention allows for flexible selection of a PUCCH resource in the PUCCH resource subset for configurations of PDCCH resources without collisions through the use of indices for control channel element subsets.
US11290219B2
The invention discloses a method for receiving a data packet from a first communication device by a second communication device in a wireless network comprising the following steps: —awaiting the data packet at the second communication device; determining a context information related to the data packet by the second communication device; if the data packet is not received successfully, controlling transmission of a negative acknowledgement indicator, NACK, and/or transmission of a channel quality indicator, CQI, by the second communication device to the first communication device based on the context information.
US11290213B2
A user equipment (18) is configured for use in a wireless communication system (10). The user equipment (18) is configured to receive from radio network equipment (24) a command (32) with respect to an operating configuration (20). The operating configuration (20) specifies a set of transmission parameters for communication. The user equipment (18) is also configured to confirm receipt of the command (32) by setting the value of a confirmation field (36) in a message (34) and transmitting the message (34). In some embodiments, the confirmation field (36) is shared for confirming receipt of a number of different types of commands with respect to the operating configuration (20) that is greater than a number of possible values of the confirmation field (36).
US11290211B2
For example, a wireless station may be configured to map a plurality of data symbols to Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a plurality of spatial (space-time) streams, to map a plurality of modulated pilot sequences to the OFDM symbols according to a pilot mapping scheme, and to transmit an OFDM Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) transmission based on the plurality of spatial streams.
US11290206B2
In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration from a base station that indicates whether to use a first channel quality indicator (CQI) table from a first set of CQI tables associated with terrestrial network communications or whether to use a second CQI table from a second set of CQI tables associated with non-terrestrial network communications. The UE may transmit CQI feedback to the base station based at least in part on the configuration. The UE may transmit the CQI feedback using the first CQI table when the configuration indicates that the first CQI table is to be used or may transmit the CQI feedback using the second CQI table when the configuration indicates that the second CQI table is to be used.
US11290202B2
An optical reception apparatus (1) of the present invention includes: a local oscillator (11) outputting local oscillation light (22); an optical mixer (12) receiving a multiplexed optical signal (21) and the local oscillation light, and selectively outputting an optical signal (23) corresponding to the wavelength of the local oscillation light from the multiplexed optical signal; a photoelectric converter (13) converting the optical signal (23) output from the optical mixer into an electric signal (24); a variable gain amplifier (15) amplifying the electric signal (24) to generate an output signal (25) whose output amplitude is amplified to a certain level; a gain control signal generating circuit (16) generating a gain control signal (26) for controlling the gain of the variable gain amplifier (15); and a monitor signal generating unit (17) generating a monitor signal (27) corresponding to the power of the optical signal (23) using the gain control signal (26).
US11290190B2
An apparatus for automatic amplifier gain setting of an optical amplifier, said apparatus comprising an optical channel counter, OCC, unit configured to detect a number of channels present in an optical transmission spectrum; a determination unit configured to determine an average power per channel calculated by dividing a measured total power of a signal input and/or signal output of the optical amplifier by the number of channels detected by said optical channel counter, OCC, unit and a gain adjustment unit configured to adjust the amplifier gain of said optical amplifier automatically depending on a calculated power difference between a predetermined desired power per channel and the determined average power per channel provided by said determination unit.
US11290186B2
A modular electromagnetic antenna assembly configured for securement to a structure is provided. The assembly includes an antenna, a radio, and a base. The base has a bracket securable to the structure and the base has at least one feed. The radio and base together form a waveguide that transmits radio waves between the radio and the antenna. The radio is removably secured to the base so as to form a removable mechanical connection to the base and a removable communication connection with the at least one feed through the base.
US11290174B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine, based at least in part on a determination that a scheduling offset is less than a beam switching latency threshold, a set of beams for communicating with a set of transmit-receive points (TRPs), that use single downlink control information for scheduling, based at least in part on at least one of a transmission configuration indicator codepoint mapping or a control resource set configuration. The UE may communicate with the set of TRPs using the set of beams based at least in part on determining the set of beams. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11290173B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a radio link monitoring method and apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method may include: receiving, by a higher layer of a terminal, a beam detection result message from a lower layer of the terminal, where the beam detection result message is used to indicate a result of beam monitoring; and controlling, by the higher layer of the terminal, a radio link monitoring procedure based on the beam detection result message.
US11290165B2
This transmitter is provided with: a digital delay circuit which delays a 1-bit digital RF signal on the basis of another 1-bit digital RF signal; an amplifier which amplifies a signal output by the digital delay circuit; and a band-pass filter which allows signals in a prescribed frequency band, from among signals output by the amplifier, to pass. A signal output by the band-pass filter is input into a corresponding one antenna element from among a plurality of antenna elements, and controls the directionality of a beam formed by the plurality of antenna elements.
US11290159B2
An electronic device and a communication method. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, configured to: determine transmitting signals simultaneously to at least two user devices and proximity of directions of downlink transmission signals for the at least two user devices satisfying a predetermined condition; and acquire, an amount of antenna elements to be activated for downlink beamforming, which is determined based on the directions of downlink transmission signals for the at least two user devices.
US11290153B2
A system and method for multi-cell access are provided. A method includes transmitting at least one control channel to a communications device. The at least one control channel includes control information, and the transmitting is performed by at least one cell in a subset of a cooperating set. The method also includes transmitting to the communications device based on control information transmitted to the communications device, or receiving from the communications device based on control information transmitted to the communications device. The transmitting is performed by at least one other cell in the cooperating set, or the receiving is performed by the at least one other cell in the cooperating set.
US11290148B2
An operation method is implemented by a receiver device. The operation method includes following steps: detecting a signal on a transmission line; performing a channel estimation to acquire a length of the transmission line; comparing the length with at least one length threshold value to generate a comparison result; and adjusting a depth of a FIFO process according to the comparison result.
US11290145B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for data transmission in synchronization slots. A method for use by a base station for data transmission in synchronization slots includes transmitting a synchronization signal (SS) burst, wherein different SS blocks of the burst are transmitted using different transmit beams and performing frequency division multiplexing (FDM) or time division multiplexing (TDM) to include one or more other types of signals that need to be multicast and are also transmitted using the different transmit beams.
US11290144B2
A radio frequency module includes: a module board including first and second principal surfaces on opposite sides of the module board; a semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) including third and fourth principal surfaces on opposite sides of the semiconductor IC; and an external-connection terminal disposed on the second principal surface. The third principal surface faces the second principal surface and is closer to the second principal surface than the fourth principal surface is to the second principal surface, and the semiconductor IC includes: at least one of (i) a power amplifier (PA) control circuit configured to control a radio frequency component using a control signal, (ii) a low noise amplifier configured to amplify a reception signal, or (iii) a switch; and a signal electrode disposed on the fourth principal surface, and via the signal electrode the semiconductor IC is configured to receive or output a radio frequency signal and/or the control signal.
US11290141B2
A protective cover is used for covering and fixing a mobile device selectively fixed to a fastener having a first or second female part. The protective cover includes an elastic protective-cover main body, a first rigid male part and a second rigid male part. The first and second rigid male parts to match first and second female parts of the fastener are selectively engaged with the elastic protective-cover main body. In addition, a protective cover kit is provided to include an elastic protective-cover main body, a rigid male part and a female-part carrier assembly. The female-part carrier assembly includes a universal female part and a female-part carrier. The universal female part, detachably connected with the female-part carrier, is universally used for detachably engaging the first or second connection part of the rigid male part. Thereupon, poor commonality between the male and female parts can be resolved.
US11290131B2
A method includes: receiving a first result obtained by performing BIP check on a sent first to-be-checked bit stream; performing BIP check on a received second to-be-checked bit stream to obtain a second result, where the second to-be-checked bit stream is a bit stream received by a receiving device after the first to-be-checked bit stream is transmitted; detecting a type of a control block in the second to-be-checked bit stream, and determining a third result based on impact of the type of the control block on a BIP check result; comparing the first result, the second result, and the third result; and if the first result is different from the second result, the first result is different from the third result, and the second result is different from a predetermined result, determining that a bit error occurs when the first to-be-checked bit stream is transmitted.
US11290126B2
A key scanning method, a scan method for a key scan circuit, and an input device thereof are provided. The key scanning method comprises performing a first scan procedure which includes triggering a first main scan line and reading electrical signals received via a plurality of signal sensing lines to determine whether any of the keys among a first key group is triggered. Then, performing a second scan procedure which includes triggering at least one of a plurality of secondary scan lines and reading the electrical signals received via the plurality of signal sensing lines to determine whether any of the keys among a second key group is triggered. In the key scanning method, the first scan procedure and the second scan procedure are performed one after another, and each of the secondary scan lines is triggered at least once.
US11290121B2
A successive approximation ADC includes: a comparator generating a judge signal related to an input analog and a reference signals; a SAR successively generating a register signal including a first and a second bit signals based on the judge signal and generating an AD conversion value of the input analog signal; a thermometer decoder switching different thermometer code conversion rules and converting the first bit signal to thermometer codes corresponding to the different thermometer code conversion rules in one AD conversion cycle; a first and a second DA converters respectively converting the thermometer codes to a first analog signal and the second bit signal to a second analog signal; an average value calculator averaging the AD conversion values by the thermometer codes. Two of the different thermometer codes have values that a high-order bit and a low-order bit groups by dividing total bits of the thermometer code equally are exchanged.
US11290120B2
A data acquisition system (DAS) for processing an input signal from a resistive sensor (e.g., Hall effect sensor) includes a sensor signal path that digitizes the input signal. An input impedance of the sensor signal path attenuates the input signal. A gain error corrector applies a gain error correction factor in a digital domain of the DAS to the digitized input signal to compensate for a loading effect to the resistive sensor. The sensor signal path includes an inverting amplifier that provides low distortion for the input signal and an ADC (e.g., delta-sigma, SAR, pipelined, auxiliary) that digitizes the input signal. A sensor characterization path digitizes the sensor resistance which the gain error corrector uses, along with the inverting amplifier input impedance, to calculate the gain error correction factor.
US11290119B1
A controlled oscillator Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) includes an analog interface configured for receiving an analog differential input signal, and configured for providing a differential control signal; first and second controlled oscillators configured for receiving the differential control signal; and a frequency-to-digital converter having a first input coupled to an output of the first controlled oscillator, a second input coupled to an output of the second controlled oscillator, and an output for providing a digital output signal proportional to the analog differential input signal, wherein the analog interface or at least one of the first and second controlled oscillators is configured for receiving at least one disturb signal to prevent locking between the first and second controlled oscillators.
US11290113B1
A clock stretcher includes a digital DLL that derives delayed versions of an input clock signal, and a combiner that cyclically selects the delayed versions to generate a modified clock signal. The combiner uses a hop code, dependent on a sensed condition, to determine the step size for the cyclical selection. The digital DLL corrects its delay speed at discrete times, during which it may be active. If the DLL delay line becomes slower while it is active, the modified clock signal would incur a glitch. The clock stretcher corrects for this glitch by using an increased hop code when a speed change occurs. The clock stretcher may operate from a sensed power supply without intervening voltage regulation.
US11290110B2
A hardware cell and method for performing a digital XNOR of an input signal and weights are described. The hardware cell includes input lines, a plurality of pairs of magnetic junctions, output transistors and at least one selection transistor coupled with the output transistors. The input lines receive the input signal and its complement. The magnetic junctions store the weight. Each magnetic junction includes a reference layer, a free layer and a nonmagnetic spacer layer between the reference layer and the free layer. The free layer has stable magnetic states and is programmable using spin-transfer torque and/or spin-orbit interaction torque. The first magnetic junction of a pair receives the input signal. The second magnetic junction of the pair receives the input signal complement. The output transistors are coupled with the magnetic junctions such that each pair of magnetic junctions forms a voltage divider. The output transistors form a sense amplifier.
US11290103B1
Charge transfer between gate terminals of sub-threshold current reduction circuit (SCRC) transistors and related apparatuses and methods is disclosed. An apparatus includes a pull-up SCRC transistor, a pull-down SCRC transistor, and a charge transfer circuit. The pull-up SCRC transistor includes a pull-up gate terminal. The pull-down SCRC transistor includes a pull-down gate terminal. The charge transfer circuit is electrically connected between the pull-up gate terminal and the pull-down gate terminal. The charge transfer circuit is configured to transfer charge between the pull-up gate terminal and the pull-down gate terminal.
US11290099B2
An integrated communications subsystem (ICSS) includes a pulse-width modulator which drives a power stage, such as a motor. The pulse-width modulator is configured shut off the power stage when the pulse-width modulator receives a trip signal from a logic circuit of the ICSS. The logic circuit can easily be reprogrammed to send a trip signal only when certain error conditions are detected. Moreover, the ICSS contains one or more filters which can adjust the sensitivity of the logic circuit to error signals, enabling the ICSS to distinguish between true errors which require shutdown and glitches, which can be ignored during operation of the ICSS.
US11290094B2
An input buffer using a frequency dependent impedance circuit to compensate for nonlinearity in low frequency is shown. In a pseudo-differential architecture, a frequency-dependent impedance circuit is coupled between the drain of a positive input transistor of the flipped voltage follower and the drain of a negative input transistor of the flipped voltage follower. In a single-ended architecture, the frequency-dependent impedance circuit is coupled between the drain of an input transistor of the flipped voltage follower and an alternating current ground. The frequency-dependent impedance circuit includes a capacitor.
US11290091B2
The present disclosure provides a high-speed regenerative comparator circuit, including: a signal input stage connected with an input terminal for differential signal input; a latch for caching and serving as a differential signal output terminal; a current source connected with the signal input stage for providing a power supply voltage; a fast path connected with the output terminal and used for increasing a voltage difference of the output terminal and turning on a positive feedback network of the latch; and a reset switch, including a first reset switch and a second reset switch. In the high-speed regenerative comparator circuit of the present disclosure, the transmission delay of the regenerative comparator circuit can be greatly reduced; and in a latch phase, a bias voltage is disconnected by means of timing control, and thus the power consumption of a comparator can be reduced. The present disclosure has simple circuit and high reliability.
US11290084B2
A method and apparatus for modifying or controlling a resonator connected to a signal loop having an input (18828), an output (18822), and a closed loop frequency response. The signal loop has a primary resonator (18810) having a primary frequency response. There is at least one adjustable resonator (18812) having an adjustable frequency (f) and a secondary Q-factor. An adjustable scaling block (18824) applies a gain factor (g). A controller is connected to the at least one adjustable resonator (18812) and the adjustable scaling block (18824). The controller has instructions to adjust the closed loop frequency response toward a desired closed loop frequency response by controlling the adjustable frequency (f) of the at least one adjustable resonator (18812) and the gain factor (g) of the adjustable scaling block (18824).
US11290077B2
A receiver (100) with an antenna array (150) provides interference reduction for blocking signals received by the receiver (100) by controlling different receiver blocks (110) associated with different antenna elements (112) of the array (150) differently, particularly for those antenna elements (112) in the corner or proximate a corner or edge of the array (150), responsive to a power level of a combined signal resulting from all antenna elements (112). As a result, the solution presented herein enables a receiver (100) to more accurately target the gain control such that the antenna elements (112) and associated receiver circuitry (110) most likely to be impacted by unwanted signals have a reduced gain, while the antenna elements (112) and associated receiver circuitry (110) less likely to be impacted by unwanted signals can operate with a higher gain.
US11290076B2
An amplifier circuit includes a first terminal and a second terminal, an amplifier disposed in a first path connecting the first terminal and the second terminal, a first switch circuit disposed in the first path between the amplifier and the second terminal, an attenuator disposed in the first path between the amplifier and the first switch circuit, and a second switch circuit disposed in a second path that is connected to the first terminal and the second terminal while bypassing the amplifier, the attenuator, and the first switch circuit.
US11290071B2
A system may include a Class-D stage comprising a first high-side switch coupled between a supply voltage and a first output terminal of the Class-D stage, a second high-side switch coupled between the supply voltage and a second output terminal of the Class-D stage, a first low-side switch coupled between a ground voltage and the first output terminal, and a second low-side switch coupled between the ground voltage and the second output terminal. The system may also include current sensing circuitry comprising a first sense resistor coupled between the first high-side switch and the supply voltage, such that an output current through a load coupled between the first output terminal and the second output terminal causes a first sense voltage proportional to the output current across the first sense resistor when the first high-side switch is activated. The current sensing circuitry may also include a second sense resistor coupled between the second high-side switch and the supply voltage, such that an output current through the load causes a second sense voltage proportional to the output current across the second sense resistor when the second high-side switch is activated. The system may also include measurement circuitry configured to measure the first sense voltage and the second sense voltage to determine the output current.
US11290065B2
A switched capacitor digital power amplifier (DPA) or a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is disclosed. The DPA/DAC includes a plurality of switched capacitor cells connected in parallel. Each switched capacitor cell includes a capacitor and a switch. The switch selectively drives the capacitor in response to an input digital codeword. The switched capacitor cells are divided into sub-arrays and a series capacitor is inserted in series between two adjacent sub-arrays of switched capacitor cells. All the sub-arrays of switched capacitor cells may be in a unary-coded structure. Alternatively, at least one of the sub-arrays may be in a C-2C structure and at least one another sub-array may be in a unary-coded structure. The switch in the switched capacitor cells is driven by a local oscillator signal, and a phase correction buffer may be added for adjusting a delay of the local oscillator signal supplied to sub-arrays of switched capacitor cells.
US11290063B2
A low noise amplifier includes a preamplifier, first differential amplifiers, second differential amplifiers, a signal adder, and a load circuit. The preamplifier receives an input signal, and amplifies the input signal to generate a first signal. The input signal and the first signal have the same phase. The first differential amplifiers receive the first signal and a first reference signal and generate a first output differential signal pair. The second differential amplifiers receive the input signal and a second reference signal and generate a second output differential signal pair. The signal adder adds up the first output differential signal pair and the second output differential signal pair. The load circuit is coupled to the signal adder, and generates a third output differential signal pair according to the addition result.
US11290059B2
An apparatus is provided which comprises: a crystal having an input and an output; a first interconnect line having first and second ends, wherein the first end is coupled to the input; a second interconnect line having first and second ends, wherein the first end is coupled to the output; a first capacitor coupled to the input and ground; and a second capacitor coupled to the second end of the second interconnect line. An apparatus is provided which comprises: a high pass filter; a pair of AC coupling capacitors coupled to the high pass filter; a low pass filter coupled to the pair of AC coupling capacitors; and an analog to digital converter (ADC) coupled to the low pass filter.
US11290047B2
The present disclosure relates to a DC bus discharge control method, including that: an active discharge instruction is received; a motor current signal is acquired according to the active discharge instruction; the motor current signal is converted into a current signal in a stator coordinate system; a voltage control signal in the stator coordinate system is output based on the current signal in the stator coordinate system and a random current reference instruction of a preset stator coordinate system; and the voltage control signal in the stator coordinate system is converted into a three-phase voltage control signal, and a working state of a switching device is controlled according to the three-phase voltage control signal.
US11290035B2
A method for determining a rotation variable of a rotatably mounted rotor of a mechanically commutated electric motor, having a motor current path formed between two brush elements of the electric motor, and leading via the commutator bars contacted by the brush elements, and via coil windings of the rotor electrically connected to said commutator bars, wherein an oscillating input signal is fed into the motor current path and the rotation variable is determined with the aid of a ripple of a resultant output signal, said ripple being due to the mechanical commutation of the motor current path.
US11290028B2
A power supply includes an inverter configured to direct current (DC) power into alternating current (AC) power, an impedance matching circuit configured to supply the AC power to a load; and a controller configured to adjust disposition of a powering period, in which the AC power is output, and a freewheeling period, in which the AC power is not output, to adjust a power amount of the power supplied to the load through the impedance matching circuit by the inverter.
US11290026B2
A converter system includes a DC bus for each phase of an input AC power signal; a first switching cell for each phase, including first two active switches coupled in series across the DC bus and forming a first switching cell AC pole therebetween, the first switching cell AC pole being coupled to a respective phase; and a second switching cell for each phase, including second two active switches coupled in series across the DC bus and forming a second switching cell AC pole therebetween. The second switching cell AC poles are coupled to each other to form a flying neutral. One of the first switching cell and the second switching cell switches at a frequency at least an order of magnitude greater than the line frequency. The other of the first switching cell and the second switching cell switches at a frequency approximately equal to the line frequency.
US11290025B2
Positive and negative power terminals protrude from a power terminal arrangement surface not facing a capacitor element. Positive and negative electrode bus bars gather with each other after at least one of them extends along a non-electrode surface of the capacitor element, and then run side by side in a bus bar parallel running section. The positive electrode bus bar runs in parallel with the negative electrode bus bar in the bus bar parallel running section, and then extends along the positive power terminal from the proximal end of the positive power terminal to the distal end thereof. The negative electrode bus bar runs in parallel with the positive electrode bus bar in the bus bar parallel running section, and then extends along the negative power terminal from the proximal end of the negative power terminal to the distal end thereof.
US11290020B2
A voltage mode controller applied to short-circuited protection of a power converter includes gate control signal generation circuit and control circuit. The control circuit generates control signal to make the gate control signal generation circuit generate predetermined signal to power switch of the primary side of the power converter before the power converter starts up and when supply voltage is greater than first reference voltage, enables short-circuited protection after predetermined enabling period of the predetermined signal if detection voltage is less than second reference voltage during the predetermined enabling period. The short-circuited protection makes the power converter not start up, and after the power converter starts up, the short-circuited protection is enabled to turn off the power converter if the detection voltage is less than the second reference voltage for de-bounce time and compensation voltage is greater than third reference voltage.
US11290017B2
A power converter comprises a primary stage including four switches forming a first H bridge; a control circuit capable of applying a first control signal to the first H bridge; a secondary stage including four switches forming a second H bridge; a control circuit capable of applying a second control signal to the second H bridge; and a power transmission stage coupling the primary stage to the secondary stage, wherein the control circuit of the secondary stage is electrically isolated from the control circuit of the primary stage. During a measurement period of a synchronization phase, the switches of the secondary stage are maintained in a short-circuit configuration while the switches of the primary stage are controlled in switched mode.
US11290016B2
A converter assembly including a source connection system comprising a primary source connection, and at least one secondary source connection; a load connection system; a primary source converter including a primary rectifier connected electrically to the primary source connection, and having a boost topology, and a DC link connected electrically between the primary rectifier and the load connection system, the DC link including DC link capacitance; a secondary source converter, which is a direct-current converter having a boost topology, connected electrically between the at least one secondary source connection and the DC link; and a pre-charge converter adapted for pre-charging the DC link capacitance. The pre-charge converter includes a pre-charge direct-current converter having a step down topology.
US11290002B2
A power conversion apparatus and a charging method of the power conversion apparatus are provided. A synchronous rectifier controller provides a voltage of a drain terminal of a synchronous rectifier transistor to charge a capacitor of a power supply terminal of the synchronous rectifier controller when the synchronous rectifier transistor is turned from an on state to an off state and a voltage of the power supply terminal is less than a preset voltage.
US11289993B2
A switching element control circuit: a third electrode voltage control part; a temperature detection part; a first electrode current detection part; a memory part which stores information including an initial threshold voltage and an operation temperature/first electrode current characteristic of the threshold voltage; and a threshold voltage calculation part which calculates a threshold voltage at the time of operating the switching element based on information including the initial threshold voltage, the operation temperature of the switching element, and a first electrode current, and information relating to an operation temperature/first electrode current characteristic of a threshold voltage, wherein the third electrode voltage control part controls the third electrode voltage based on a threshold voltage at the time of operating the switching element calculated by the threshold voltage calculation part.
US11289992B2
In an UPS system, following components are arranged in a machine cabinet: an AC-to-DC converter connected to a DC voltage link on its output side, a DC-to-AC converter connected to the DC voltage link on its input side; a motor/generator electrically connected to the DC voltage link and having a flywheel coupled to its rotor; a bypass to the AC-to-DC converter and the DC-to-AC converter connected in series, a bypass switch being arranged in the bypass; a controller; and a blower which draws air out of the surroundings through air filters, blows the air in the machine cabinet through a heat exchanger, and ejects the air again. The heat exchanger is arranged in a coolant circuit together with a coolant pump, cooling bodies for the power output stages, and coolant channels which include stator channels running through a stator of the motor/generator.
US11289986B2
A motor for an air compressor is provided. The motor includes a stator including a first coil to generate a magnetic flux for driving the motor and a second coil positioned in a space the same as a space for the first coil to increase an inductance, and a rotator to mutually interact with the stator to rotate.
US11289982B2
A circuit board includes a circuit board main body including a first through hole and a second through hole, a first inlay member inserted into the first through hole, and a second inlay member inserted into the second through hole. A first end surface of the first inlay member includes a first end portion on the side of the second inlay member, a second end portion on the opposite side of the second inlay member, a first area including the first end portion, and a second area including the second end portion. A first end surface of the second inlay member includes a third end portion on the side of the first inlay member, a fourth end portion on the opposite side of the first inlay member, a third area including the third end portion, and a fourth area including the fourth end portion. The circuit board further includes a first resist provided in the second area, and a second resist provided in the fourth area.
US11289977B2
The cooling device is intended for an electric motor and has a rotor cooling flange and a stator cooling flange (2), of which one is rotatable with respect to the other. At least one of the two cooling flanges (2) is provided with cooling ribs (8) arranged distributed over its circumference. During operation of the electric motor, at least one of the two cooling flanges gives off heat to the surrounding air. At least some of the cooling ribs (8) of a heat-emitting cooling flange (2) have an undulating profile over their length. In this context, the surface area of a cooling rib (8) having an undulating profile is larger than the surface area of the associated straight reference rib.
US11289972B2
An electric motor comprising: a first element having at least one electromagnet, a second element, rotatable relative to the first element about an axis, the second element comprising at least one permanent magnet, wherein the electric motor is arranged to generate a torque by applying a rotating magnetic field to the second element, and a friction member coupled to the first element such that the friction member is non-rotatable relative to the first element about the axis, the friction member comprising a magnetically susceptible material and being biased by a first biasing force toward the second element, wherein the first element, the second element and the friction member are configured such that: when the electromagnet is not energized, the first biasing force causes the friction member to contact the second element to generate a braking torque.
US11289966B2
A prefabricated coil for placement on a tooth for a direct drive is orthocyclically wound from a wire of circular cross section. The coil includes two straight portions having an inner surface facing an interior of the coil and an outer surface opposite and parallel to the inner surface. A distance between the inner surface and the outer surface defines a thickness of the coil. Two coil overhangs connect the straight portions. A distance between the coil overhangs defines a height of the straight portions. The inner and outer surfaces of the straight portions have the height of the straight portions and a width of the straight portions. A sheet-like insulator covers the straight portions. The wire and the sheet-like insulator are bonded together such that the coil is self-supporting under the application of pressure and temperature. The sheet-like insulator has a joint region at the outer surface.
US11289964B2
The present application provides an amortisseur-spring assembly for use about at least one of a wedge and a retaining ring of a generator. The amortisseur-spring assembly may include an amortisseur, a spring, a creepage block, and a locking mechanism extending through the amortisseur, the spring, and the creepage block.
US11289961B2
An embodiment provides a motor comprising: a stator including a through hole; a cylindrical rotor which is disposed in the through hole; a rotor center shaft which is formed in the central region of the rotor and to which a rotary shaft is coupled; and a first magnet and a second magnet which are disposed between the stator and the rotor, wherein: the rotor includes an outer contour portion and a patterned portion formed between the outer contour portion and the rotor center shaft; the patterned portion includes a plurality of unit patterns and a hollow portion formed in each of the unit patterns; the outer contour portion includes an outer circumferential surface on which the first magnet and the second magnet are disposed and an inner circumferential surface which comes in contact with the plurality of unit patterns; the inner circumferential surface of the outer contour portion further includes a first protrusion portion protruding in a first direction toward the rotor center shaft; and in the first direction, the maximum length of the first protrusion portion is greater than the maximum length of each of the unit patterns.
US11289948B2
A wireless charging device includes a driver unit configured to generate one of a first AC voltage signal having a first frequency and a second AC voltage signal having a second frequency. Also, the wireless charging device includes a transmitting unit having a first coil and a first capacitor and configured to transmit the first AC voltage signal. Further, the transmitting unit includes a second coil and a second capacitor and configured to transmit the second AC voltage signal. Additionally, the wireless charging device includes a control unit configured to detect a first receiver device operating at the first frequency based on a change in a first voltage in the transmitting unit, and detect a second receiver device operating at the second frequency based on a change in a second voltage in the transmitting unit.
US11289947B2
In the present invention, junction capacitance is increased by stabilizing the junction capacitance of rotating electrodes such that a short circuit does not occur between the electrodes. Provided is a rotating electrode unit comprising a rotor electrode unit in which one or more rotor electrodes and one or more rotor spacers are alternately stacked, and a stator electrode unit in which one or more stator electrodes and one or more stator spacers are alternately stacked, wherein the rotating electrode unit is configured such that when the rotor electrodes are power transmitting electrodes, the stator electrodes are power receiving electrodes, when the rotor electrodes are power receiving electrodes, the stator electrodes are power transmitting electrodes, the rotor electrode unit and the stator electrode unit are combined in a nesting arrangement so as to be mutually rotatable, at least the outer peripheral section of the rotor electrodes is constituted by a member comprising a magnetic body, and the stator spacers have a magnet which attracts the outer peripheral section of the rotor electrodes via magnetic force.
US11289945B2
Power outages and restorations at customer premises can be automatically detected and reported. A method may include receiving, from a network terminal, a first notification associated with a power outage; retrieving location information associated with the network terminal; sending a second notification indicating that the outage has occurred and that includes the location information associated with the network terminal; retrieving prior outage information that corresponds to a set of network terminals associated with a group of set top boxes; determining that an outage event is triggered, when a quantity of outages is greater than a threshold, where the quantity of outages is based on the outage and other outages obtained from the prior outage information; and sending a third notification based on the determination that the outage event is triggered.
US11289944B2
A distribution network risk identification system and method and a computer storage medium include: multi-source information data for risk identification is acquired; the multi-source information data is analyzed and processed to obtain a risk characteristic; a risk identification index is calculated on the basis of the risk characteristic, and a state of a power grid is determined according to the risk identification index; a temporal and spatial variation rule and variation trend of the risk characteristic are analyzed; a location and cause of occurrence of a risk are determined according to the temporal and spatial variation rule and variation trend of the risk characteristic; a severity of the risk is analyzed by adopting an analogue simulation manner; and the severity of the risk is assessed, and risk early warning information is issued on the basis of an assessment result.
US11289943B2
A method and system for contraband detection is provided that allows for the determining whether devices are authorized to receive power from an outlet. A power adapter and/or an outlet authenticate a device when it is connected to the outlet through the power adapter. On the basis of this authentication, a determination is made whether the devices are to receive power from the outlet. If the device is authorized, the outlet is activated, transitioning from inactive state (where no power is relayed through the outlet) to an active state (where power is relayed through the outlet).
US11289924B2
Embodiments described herein provide a battery pack that includes a housing and a plurality of battery cells. The housing includes a support portion that is configured to removably connect to a device, such as a cordless, hand-held power tool. The battery pack is configured to electrically and/or communicatively connect to a device through at least one terminal. The at least one terminal can include a high-current discharge terminal and a common ground terminal. The battery pack is also configured to electrically and/or communicatively connect to device through a low-current discharge terminal and the common ground terminal. A current limiting circuit is connected between the plurality of battery cells and the low-current discharge terminal to limit the discharge current from the low-current discharge terminal. Both the high-current discharge terminal and the low-current discharge terminal provide the same value for output voltage (e.g., 18V).
US11289921B1
An integrated battery energy storage system and method for integrating electric vehicle battery packs into an integrated battery energy storage system are disclosed. The integrated battery energy system includes: a plurality of electric vehicle battery packs coupled in a series/parallel arrangement, the series/parallel arrangement including a plurality of series strings of electric vehicle battery packs, each of the plurality of series strings of electric vehicle battery packs includes at least two of the plurality of electric vehicle battery packs coupled in series; and wherein the plurality of series strings of electric vehicle battery packs are connected in parallel.
US11289918B2
Batteries, battery systems, battery submodules, battery operational methods, battery system operational methods, battery charging methods, and battery system charging methods are described. According to one aspect, a battery includes a first battery terminal, a second battery terminal, and a plurality of submodules individually comprising a first submodule terminal, a second submodule terminal, a plurality of rechargeable cells electrically coupled between the first and second submodule terminals, and switching circuitry configured to electrically couple one of the first and second battery terminals with one of the first and second submodule terminals of one of the submodules during an engaged mode of operation of the one of the submodules and to electrically isolate the one of the first and second battery terminals from the one of the first and second submodule terminals of the one of the submodules during a disengaged mode of operation of the one of the submodules.
US11289917B1
Different systems to achieve solar power conversion are provided in at least three different general aspects, with circuitry that can be used to harvest maximum power from a solar source (1) or strings of panels (11) for DC or AC use, perhaps for transfer to a power grid (10) three aspects can exist perhaps independently and relate to: 1) electrical power conversion in a multimodal manner, 2) alternating between differing processes such as by an alternative mode photovoltaic power converter functionality control (27), and 3) systems that can achieve efficiencies in conversion that are extraordinarily high compared to traditional through substantially power isomorphic photovoltaic DC-DC power conversion capability that can achieve 99.2% efficiency or even only wire transmission losses. Switchmode impedance conversion circuits may have pairs of photovoltaic power series switch elements (24) and pairs of photovoltaic power shunt switch elements (25).
US11289913B2
A dynamic stability analysis and control method for a voltage sourced converter based high voltage direct current (VSC-HVDC) transmission system. The method includes the following steps: unlocking a converter station of the VSC-HVDC transmission system to make the VSC-HVDC transmission system run in a non-island control mode; extracting corresponding parameters of the VSC-HVDC transmission system, wherein the parameters include an effective voltage value Ut0 of an AC system, an outgoing reactive power Qvsc0 of the VSC-HVDC transmission system, a gain kp of a phase-locked loop (PLL), and a proportional integral time constant ki of the PLL; calculating a short-circuit ratio (SCR), an unit value of Ut0 and an unit value of Qvsc0; calculating a key stable component; checking the sign of the key stable component to determine the stability of the VSC-HVDC transmission system.
US11289911B2
A device is for reactive power compensation in a high-voltage network having a phase conductor. The device has a first high-voltage terminal, which is configured to be connected to the phase conductor. For each first high-voltage terminal, a first and a second core section, which are part of a magnetic circuit, a first high-voltage winding, which encloses the first core section, and a second high-voltage winding are provided. Moreover, the device has a saturation switching branch, which saturates the core sections and has controllable power semiconductor switches. A control unit is used to control the power semiconductor switches. The first and the second high-voltage windings are connected by the high-voltage end to the associated first high-voltage terminal and on the low-voltage side can be connected to one or the saturation switching branch. To be able to be connected in series into the high-voltage network, a second high-voltage terminal is provided.
US11289905B2
Disclosed in the present invention is a voltage and current control method for a direct-current transmission system. The method comprises: calculating a DC voltage reference value of a voltage source converter of a DC voltage control end, on the basis whether a direct-current voltage end of a direct-current pole of a direct-current transmission system substantially controls a direct-current voltage; using ½ of the calculated direct-current voltage reference value of the voltage source converter as a bridge arm voltage direct-current bias, calculating a difference between the direct-current voltage reference value of the voltage source converter and a measured direct-current voltage value, and inputting the difference into a direct-current voltage control outer loop of the voltage source converter to perform closed-loop control, so as to control the direct-current voltage or the direct current of the direct-current pole. Correspondingly, also provided is a voltage and current control device for the direct-current transmission system. By the means of the present invention, the direct-current voltage and the direct current of the direct-current transmission system provided with the voltage source converter can be effectively controlled.
US11289901B2
A direct current electrical network includes nodes linked by branches and protection elements mounted on the branches, each protection element includes a central processing unit, a current sensor, a current limiter device and a circuit breaking device, wherein: the current sensor is configured to determine the direction of the current in the branch relative to the node with which said protection element is associated; the central processing unit is configured to select, as a function of the direction of the current, a selected threshold value as one of a first value or a second threshold value greater than the first threshold value in absolute value, and to compare the value of the intensity of the current to the selected threshold value; and the current limiter device is bidirectional and is configured to limit the current passing through the branch to the selected threshold value.
US11289900B2
The present disclosure pertains to detection of a broken conductor in an electric power system. In one embodiment, a broken conductor detector may be configured to be mounted to an electrical conductor and may comprise a communication subsystem configured to transmit a signal configured to indicate that the conductor is broken. A sensor may determine a plurality of vectors. A processing subsystem may be configured to receive the plurality of vectors from the sensor and to identify when the vector is outside of a range defined by a threshold value. The processing subsystem may determine that the conductor is falling based on the plurality of vectors remaining outside of the threshold for a period of time determined by the timer subsystem. A signal may be transmitted by the communication subsystem to indicate that the conductor is falling.
US11289891B2
A method for reducing leakage currents in a protective conductor of an electricity network including a neutral conductor and a phase conductor in addition to the protective conductor. A differential current is determined depending on a phase conductor current in the phase conductor and a neutral conductor current in the neutral conductor. A compensation current is fed into the phase conductor and/or into the neutral conductor. The compensation current compensates for a leakage current caused by the differential current. Also described is a device for carrying out such a method.
US11289890B2
A method operates an electrical network, in particular a power supply network or power distribution network, in which protective apparatuses are connected to a multiplicity of measurement positions. The protective apparatuses monitor an assigned network section of the electrical network and are respectively parameterized with at least one apparatus-side parameter value which influences the mode of operation of the respective protective apparatus. Accordingly, the protective apparatuses are remotely readable and are connected to a superordinate central device, and the central device reads out the apparatus-side parameter values from the protective apparatuses.
US11289888B2
Exemplary embodiments are directed to a seal apparatus for sealing an opening of a structure having a thickness at the opening. The seal apparatus includes a first section disposed at a proximal end, a second section disposed at a distal end, and an intermediate section disposed between the first and second sections. The first section defines a cone-like configuration. An opening extends through the first section, the second section, and the intermediate section.
US11289865B2
The current disclosure is regarding an electrical slip ring assembly that transmit signals, data, and power across rotary platforms, especially for high frequency applications. The high frequency slip ring assembly with through bore may include a first stage slip ring, a second stage slip ring, a gear assembly, and an internal cable assembly. Rings may have an angled notch on a circumference to break said rings and have the same diameter. The first stage slip ring and second stage slip ring may be connected in series sequence, i.e., the stator in first stage slip ring is mechanically connected with the rotor in second stage slip ring. The internal cable assembly electrically connects the brush assembly in first stage slip ring with the ring assembly in said second stage slip ring in each channel respectively.
US11289861B2
A power panel of an electrical distribution system including a bus arrangement with a plurality of conductive bus bars. At least one electrical accessory is coupled to the plurality of bus bars and a plurality of clip assemblies are coupled to the plurality of bus bars and the at least one electrical assembly to establish an electrical connection there between. The clip assembly for use with the bus stack arrangement includes a metallic clip with a tang and a C-shaped section interconnected with and arranged opposite the tang and a biasing element coupled to the tang.
US11289859B2
A method of operation of a controller and a controller are provided. The controller is configured to receive from a first electrical switch information indicating a state change at the first electrical switch. The controller is configured to determine, based on the received information from the first electrical switch, at least one of one or more electrical switches or one or more electrical outlets. Further, the controller is configured to send to the at least one of the one or more electrical switches or the one or more electrical outlets an action order to change a state pursuant to the information indicating the state change at the first electrical switch. The controller may be configured to receive a programming indicating the at least one of the one or more electrical switches or the one or more electrical outlets that are responsive to the state change at the first electrical switch.
US11289855B2
A shield connector includes a shield member for covering an outer periphery of a terminal, and a substrate mounting surface provided on the shield member and fixed to a surface of a substrate via solder, wherein the substrate mounting surface has a reference surface and a stepped surface having a different height with respect to the reference surface. For example, the stepped surface is formed by at least one of a convex portion protruding from the reference surface of the substrate mounting surface and a concave portion recessed from the reference surface of the substrate mounting surface.
US11289849B2
A magnetized data connector assembly includes a male data coupler that is insertable into a female data port on a first electronic device. A female data coupler is engageable to a male data port on a second electronic device. The female data coupler releasably engages the male data coupler thereby facilitating the female data coupler to disengage from the male data coupler. In this way each of the male data coupler and the female data coupler inhibit the female data port and the male data port from being damaged. Moreover, the first female data port is in electrical communication with the first male data port to facilitating electronic communication between the first electronic device and the second electronic device.
US11289848B2
The maximum value of the reaction force generated on the circuit substrate can be reduced. An electronic control device includes a cover having a hollow opening; a connector inserted into the opening; and a seal member having compressibility that is arranged in contact with a first position of an inner peripheral portion of the opening and that comes into close contact with the inner peripheral portion of the opening and the connector in a compressed state; where the opening has a thickness in a first direction penetrating through the hollow of the opening; an area of a hollow region which is a hollow region of the opening is reduced or maintained along the first direction; the seal member is arranged on an outer peripheral portion of the connector and inserted in the first direction to the opening together with the connector; and an area of the hollow region at the first position is smaller than an area of the hollow region at an entrance of the opening in the first direction.
US11289845B2
A modular system for producing an electrical device includes: a plurality of terminal devices arrangeable on a printed circuit board to connect electrical conductors to the printed circuit board, the terminal devices each having a housing that has a connection side, arranged on which is a plug-in connection opening for insertion of an electrical conductor, and two lateral flanks, which are spaced apart from each other along a width direction and between which the connection side extends. A first terminal device of the plurality of terminal devices is a spring-force terminal. A second terminal device of the plurality of terminal devices is a screw-connection terminal. A housing of the first terminal device and a housing of the second terminal device have a same width, measured along the width direction.
US11289836B2
An land grid array (LGA) or hybrid land grid array (HLGA) includes a socket housing and a plurality of electrical contacts. The socket housing is made of a first material that defines a first dielectric constant. The plurality of electrical contacts extends through the socket housing to electrically couple a printed circuit board on a first side of the socket housing to a processor on a second side of the socket housing. A coating of a second material that defines a second dielectric constant that is higher than the first dielectric constant covers surfaces of a subset of the plurality of electrical contacts.
US11289828B2
A conductor connection terminal with an insulating material housing, which has a conductor insertion channel, a busbar in the insulating material housing and a clamping spring. The clamping spring has a contact leg which is supported on the busbar, a spring arch adjoining the contact leg, a clamping leg with a clamping edge adjoining the spring arch, which together with the busbar form a clamping point for clamping an electrical conductor, and a pull tab projecting from the clamping leg. Furthermore, the conductor connection terminal has an operating lever which is pivotably mounted in the insulating material housing, wherein the operating lever has a driver lug and is designed to grip the pull tab with the driver lug and to move the pull tab when the operating lever is pivoted so as to open and close the clamping point.
US11289826B2
A connection structure for an electric wire includes an electric wire that has a conductor and an outer sheath covering the conductor; a bonding member that is made of a conductive metal material and is attached to the electric wire and; and a busbar that is made of a conductive metal material and on which the bonding member is overlapped and ultrasonically bonded with the conductor interposed between the busbar and the bonding member. The bonding member includes a crimping portion for crimping and fixing the electric wire.
US11289820B2
An antenna system includes a first antenna including first radiating components and first planar re-radiating components, a second antenna including second radiating components and second planar re-radiating components, and reflective components positioned between the first planar re-radiating components and the second planar re-radiating components.
US11289816B2
The present disclosure relates to a horn antenna or waveguide system comprising a corrugated horn or waveguide, wherein the corrugation takes the form of a helical spiral along the inner surface of the horn or waveguide. The present disclosure further relates to radar antenna.
US11289814B2
The concepts, systems, circuits and techniques described herein are directed toward a spiral antenna which may be provided using additive manufacturing technology so as to provide an antenna capable of operation at frequencies which are higher than spiral antennas manufactured using standard photo-etch or printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing processes.
US11289807B2
Example embodiments relate to 3D phased array-antenna systems and devices. A system may include a 3D structure with its center located at an origin of a reference coordinate system that includes an X-axis, a Y-axis, and a Z-axis extending from the origin of the reference coordinate system. The system may also include antenna arrays that have antenna elements configured to operate via electronic steering. The antenna arrays can be coupled to the 3D structure such that electronically steering antenna elements of the antenna arrays enables the antenna elements to transmit and receive electromagnetic signals simultaneously in numerous directions relative to the X-axis, the Y-axis, and the Z-axis of the reference coordinate system. The system may be used in various applications, including data transmission and reception, radar, and broadband signaling.
US11289806B1
An ESA system includes first antennas, second antennas, a power supply, a transmit module and/or receive module, and a controller. The first antennas operate over a first frequency bandwidth from a first frequency to a second frequency greater than the first frequency. The second antennas operate over a second frequency bandwidth from the first frequency to a third frequency less than the second frequency. The transmit module receives DC power from the power supply and provides RF power corresponding to at least one first control point to the antennas. The controller adjusts the at least one first control point based on a predetermined ratio of a first RF signal strength associated with the first antennas to a second RF signal strength associated with the second antennas, a first passive antenna gain of the first antennas, and a second passive antenna gain of the second antennas.
US11289800B2
A base station antenna includes a remote electronic tilt (“RET”) actuator, a phase shifter having a moveable element and a mechanical linkage extending between the RET actuator and the phase shifter. The mechanical linkage includes a RET rod. An adjustable RET rod support includes a base member and an adjustable member, the adjustable member has a RET rod holder and is movably mounted to the base member.
US11289799B2
Base station antennas include a RET actuator, a plurality of phase shifters and a plurality of mechanical linkages, where each mechanical linkage is connected between the RET actuator and a respective one or more of the phase shifters. The RET actuator includes a drive element, a rotatable element and a mechanical linkage selection system that is configured to move a selected one of the mechanical linkages into engagement with the drive element. The drive element is configured to move linearly in response to rotation of the rotatable element to move the selected one of the mechanical linkages.
US11289796B2
The present invention relates to a circuit board arrangement including a circuit board, whose metallization comprises at least one coplanar stripline for supplying signals to a radiator, in particular a mobile communication radiator. In this circuit board arrangement, the circuit board comprises a field converter, which is electrically connected to the coplanar stripline and which conducts a coaxial field through at least one layer of the circuit board and converts it into the coplanar stripline field of the coplanar stripline.
US11289791B1
An antenna connector for a portable communication device including, in one implementation, a housing bracket, a core mounting member, a front mounting member, and a back mounting member. The housing bracket includes an antenna barrel that is configured to engage a ferrule antenna connector. The core mounting member includes a radio-frequency (RF) switch that includes a ground barrel, a first electrical contact, and a second electrical contact. The second electrical contact is configured to disconnect from the first electrical contact when a coaxial connector engages completely with the ground barrel. The front mounting member includes a front guiding section that is configured to connect with the core mounting member. The front guiding section is further configured to align the ground barrel with the antenna barrel. The back mounting member includes a back guiding section to keep the core mounting member connected to the front guiding section.
US11289785B2
Systems and methods for phasing line holders are described herein. In certain embodiments, an apparatus includes a groove in a conductive body. Additionally, the apparatus includes a phasing line for electrically coupling a plurality of components, the phasing line extending through the groove. Further, the apparatus includes a holder inserted into the groove, the holder maintaining the phasing line at a specific position in relation to a plurality of groove surfaces, wherein a plurality of holder surfaces apply sufficient pressure to the plurality of groove surfaces to secure the holder within the groove.
US11289775B2
Provided is a battery wiring module according to which a load that acts on module-side terminals accompanying expansion or contraction of battery cells can be reduced. A housing includes: a wire accommodating portion for accommodating wires; multiple terminal accommodating portions for accommodating module-side terminals; and first elastic joining portions that join the wire accommodating portion and the terminal accommodating portions in an elastically-deformable manner in the direction in which the battery cells are aligned.
US11289772B2
A battery pack has bus bars at one end, freeing the other end of the battery pack for cooling or other arrangements. A plurality of battery cells has first terminals of the battery cells at first ends of the battery cells. Portions of second terminals of the battery cells are at the first ends of the battery cells. The first ends of the battery cells are in a coplanar arrangement. A plurality of bus bars is assembled proximate to the first ends of the battery cells. The bus bars are coupled to the first terminals and the second terminals of the battery cells at the first ends of the battery cells to place the battery cells in one of a series connection, a parallel connection or a series and parallel connection.
US11289768B2
Disclosed are a lithium secondary battery including: a positive electrode; a negative electrode; an electrolyte; and a separator including a separator substrate and a ceramic layer formed on one surface or both surfaces of the separator substrate. Particularly, the ceramic layer may include a first ceramic particle including an epoxide group and a second ceramic particle including an amine group, and the first ceramic particle may be chemically bonded to the second ceramic particle.
US11289763B2
A battery and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The battery module includes: a battery cell group, in which a plurality of battery cells is laminated; a pair of end plates, which is arranged on two end portions of the battery cell group; and restraint members, which are disposed over the pair of end plates and restrain the battery cell group between the pair of end plates. The restraint members are coupled by grappling structures to the pair of end plates on two end portions along the lamination direction the battery cells, and the pair of end plates clamps the battery cell group in a state that the battery cell group is compressed and pulling forces toward opposite directions act on the two end portions of the restraint members by a restoration force when the battery cell group restores from the compression state.
US11289759B2
The disclosure provides seals for devices that operate at elevated temperatures and have reactive metal vapors, such as lithium, sodium or magnesium. In some examples, such devices include energy storage devices that may be used within an electrical power grid or as part of a standalone system. The energy storage devices may be charged from an electricity production source for later discharge, such as when there is a demand for electrical energy consumption.
US11289754B2
A cooling structure of a battery pack includes an assembled battery including stacked battery modules, an intake passage, and a discharge passage. Ventilation passages extend between adjacent ones of the battery modules. The intake passage extends in a stacking direction of the battery modules and includes an intake port to draw in cooling air from a blower. The discharge passage extends in the stacking direction and includes a discharge port at a first end to discharge the cooling air, which flows through the ventilation passages, to the outside. The first end of the discharge passage and the intake port of the intake passage are located at the same side. The discharge passage is defined by a wall that includes a communication portion disposed at a position toward a second end of the discharge passage opposite to the first end to partially discharge air from the exhaust passage.
US11289752B2
A plate assembly for a heat exchanger includes a first plate, a second plate, and an intermediate plate arranged between the first and second plates. The intermediate plate is joined to the first and second plates at peripheral edges to create a sealed periphery of the plate assembly. Corrugations of the intermediate plate provide crests and troughs that are in contact with inwardly facing surfaces of the first and second plates. The plate assembly can be configured as a battery cooling plate heat exchanger to transfer heat from a battery to fluid flowing through the plate assembly.
US11289749B2
A battery pack having thermal diffusivity and anti-vibration property is provided. The battery pack includes a plurality of batteries and a battery holder having a plurality of battery housing portions configured to store the batteries, wherein the battery holder includes an elastic material having thermal conductivity. The elastic material includes rubber or a thermoplastic elastomer. The battery holder includes an electrically insulating material.
US11289740B2
A rechargeable lead-acid battery is provided. The rechargeable lead-acid battery includes a casing, a grid structure and an electro-mechanical assembly. The casing defines an interior configured to accommodate plates and a supply of fluid that is electrically reactive with the plates to generate electricity. The grid structure is interposed between lower edges of the plates and a bottom of the casing. The electro-mechanical assembly is coupled with the grid structure and operable to agitate the grid structure.
US11289738B2
Described herein are: An electrolyte composition comprising a) a fluorinated solvent for an electrolyte salt; b) an oxalate salt represented by the Formula LiPF(6-2q)(Ox)q, wherein Ox is an oxalate moiety and q is 1, 2 or 3; and c) optionally, at least one electrolyte salt. In some embodiments, the electrolyte composition comprises a mole ratio of Ox/P in the range of from 0.001 to 5. The electrolyte compositions are useful in electrochemical cells, such as lithium ion batteries.
US11289733B2
A rechargeable lithium battery includes a positive electrode including a positive current collector and a positive active mass layer on the positive current collector, the positive active mass layer including a positive active material; a negative electrode including a negative current collector and a negative active mass layer on the negative current collector, the negative active mass layer including a negative active material; and an electrolyte, wherein Equation 1 is satisfied: 0.3≤A/B≤2.5 Equation 1 wherein, in Equation 1, A satisfies Equation 2, and B satisfies Equation 3: 0.01≤active mass density (g/cc) of the positive active mass layer/thickness (μm) of the positive electrode≤0.1 Equation 2 0.01≤active mass density (g/cc) of the negative active mass layer/thickness (μm) of the negative electrode≤0.05 Equation 3.
US11289725B2
The present disclosure is directed to a fuel cell module. The fuel cell module may include a fuel cell having an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte positioned between the anode and the cathode. The fuel cell module may also include an enclosure housing the fuel cell therein. The enclosure may include an air inlet and an air outlet. The fuel cell module may further include an air pressurizing mechanism fluidly connected to the enclosure. The air pressurizing mechanism may be configured to draw air through the air inlet into the enclosure and from the enclosure to the air pressurizing mechanism through the air outlet. The air pressurizing mechanism may be configured to pressurize the air to form a pressurized air stream that is directed to the cathode.
US11289724B2
A fuel cell vehicle includes a hydrogen injector, a controller, and a first power supply. The hydrogen injector is configured to open when supplied with a current large than or equal to a predetermined current threshold. The controller is configured to control a current that is supplied to the hydrogen injector such that the supply current follows a target current value. The first power supply is configured to supply electric power to the hydrogen injector and a prescribed auxiliary. The controller is configured to increase the target current value when the controller detects at least one of a first start signal for starting the prescribed auxiliary and a second start signal for informing startup of the prescribed auxiliary.
US11289711B2
Disclosed are a catalyst electrode for a fuel cell, a method for fabricating the catalyst electrode, and a fuel cell including the catalyst electrode. The presence of an ionomer-ionomer support composite in the catalyst electrode prevents the porous structure of the catalyst electrode from collapsing due to oxidation of a carbon support to avoid an increase in resistance to gas diffusion and can stably secure proton channels. The presence of carbon materials with high conductivity is effective in preventing the electrical conductivity of the electrode from deterioration resulting from the use of a metal oxide in the ionomer-ionomer support composite and is also effective in suppressing collapse of the porous structure of the electrode to prevent an increase in resistance to gas diffusion in the electrode. Based on these effects, the fuel cell exhibits excellent performance characteristics and prevents its performance from deteriorating during continuous operation.
US11289710B1
Electrooxidative materials and various method for preparing electrooxidative materials formed from an alloy of oxophilic and electrooxidative metals. The alloy may be formed using methods such as spray pyrolysis or mechanosynthesis and may or may not include a supporting material which may or may not be sacrificial as well as the materials.
US11289708B2
A gas diffusion layer for an electrolyser or for a fuel cell comprises a first nonwoven layer of metal fibers provided for contacting a proton exchange membrane, a second nonwoven layer of metal fibers, and a third porous metal layer. The first nonwoven layer of metal fibers comprises metal fibers of a first equivalent diameter. The second nonwoven layer of metal fibers comprises metal fibers of a second equivalent diameter. The second equivalent diameter is larger than the first equivalent diameter. The third porous metal layer comprises open pores. The open pores of the third porous metal layer are larger than the open pores of the second nonwoven layer of metal fibers. The second nonwoven layer is provided in between and contacting the first nonwoven layer and the third porous metal layer. The second nonwoven layer is metallurgically bonded to the first nonwoven layer and to the third porous metal layer. The thickness of the third porous metal layer is at least two times—and preferably at least three times—the thickness of the first nonwoven layer.
US11289706B2
A lithium ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode having a positive electrode active material layer on a current collector, a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material layer on a current collector, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode and impregnated with a non-aqueous electrolyte solution. The positive electrode active material layer contains a positive electrode active material and a binder, the negative electrode active material layer contains a negative electrode active material and a binder, the binder of the negative electrode active material layer contains a copolymer of vinyl alcohol and an alkali metal neutralized product of ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid, and the separator includes a polymeric base material containing an inorganic compound or includes a polymer having a melting point or glass transition temperature of 140° C. or higher.
US11289703B2
Provided is a novel positive electrode active material for a sodium-ion secondary cell having a good discharge capacity. A positive electrode active material for a sodium-ion secondary cell, the positive electrode active material containing, in terms of % by mole of oxide, 8 to 55% Na2O, 10 to 70% NiO, 0 to 60% CrO+FeO+MnO+CoO, and 15 to 70% P2O5+SiO2+B2O3 and containing an amorphous phase.
US11289701B2
Provided herein are nanostructures for lithium ion battery electrodes and methods of fabrication. In some embodiments, a nanostructure template coated with a silicon coating is provided. The silicon coating may include a non-conformal, more porous layer and a conformal, denser layer on the non-conformal, more porous layer. In some embodiments, two different deposition processes, e.g., a PECVD layer to deposit the non-conformal layer and a thermal CVD process to deposit the conformal layer, are used. Anodes including the nanostructures have longer cycle lifetimes than anodes made using either a PECVD or thermal CVD method alone.
US11289693B2
Provided is a lithium-ion battery or lithium-ion capacitor electrode material that can compensate for the drawbacks of a hydrophobic active material, that can impart hydrophilicity to the hydrophobic active material, and that can exhibit excellent dispersibility without deteriorating electrode characteristics. Specifically provided is an electrode material for a lithium-ion battery or a lithium-ion capacitor, the electrode material comprising a composite powder in which a B component is supported or coated on a surface of an A component, the A component comprising a material capable of electrochemically occluding and releasing lithium ions, the B component being sulfur-modified cellulose, and the B component being contained in an amount of 0.01 mass % or more based on 100 mass % of the total amount of the A component and the B component.
US11289680B2
A flexible display and manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. In one aspect, the flexible display includes a flexible substrate including a bending area, an insulating layer disposed on the flexible substrate, and at least one groove in the insulating layer within the bending area. The flexible display also includes a stress relaxation layer disposed on the at least one groove and a plurality of wires formed over the insulating layer and the stress relaxation layer.
US11289679B2
A flexible display apparatus includes: a substrate; a gate insulating layer including an inorganic layer disposed on the substrate; a gate line disposed on the gate insulating layer; an inter-insulating layer including an inorganic layer and covering the gate line; and a data line disposed on the inter-insulating layer, where the flexible display apparatus has a first region which is bendable and second regions at opposite sides of the first region, respectively, portions of the gate insulating layer and the inter-insulating layer in the first region are removed, and the gate insulating layer and the inter-insulating layer in the second region have a patterned structure.
US11289676B2
A display device with a good overall encapsulation effect, includes a light-emitting display layer, a planarization layer and an encapsulation layer which are sequentially laminated. The planarization layer is provided with at least one closed circular groove, and a projection of a closed circle formed by the groove on a plane on which the light-emitting display layer is located is completely placed outside the light-emitting display layer and surrounds the light-emitting display layer.
US11289673B2
The present application provides a display panel and a manufacturing of the display panel, the display panel includes a substrate, a thin film transistor layer, and a light emitting layer successively laminated and formed. The light emitting layer includes an anode layer, a light emitting portion, and a cathode layer successively laminated and formed. The anode layer includes a laminated structure, the laminated structure includes at least one first sub layer and at least one second sub layer alternant formed on the thin film transistor layer, the laminated structure is used to form a Bragg reflection, thereby improving display quality of the display panel.
US11289662B2
The present disclosure relates to an organic electroluminescent compound and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same. By comprising the organic electroluminescent compound of the present disclosure, an organic electroluminescent device having low driving voltage and/or high luminous efficiency can be provided. At the same time or selectively, an organic electroluminescent device having excellent lifespan characteristic and/or formable of a thin film of excellent quality can be provided.
US11289656B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for monitoring and controlling electronic devices using wired and wireless protocols are disclosed. The systems and apparatus may monitor their environment for signals from electronic devices. The systems and apparatus may take and disambiguate the signals that are received from the devices in their environment to identify the devices and associate control signals with the devices. The systems and apparatus may use communication means to send control signals to the identified electronic devices. Multiple apparatuses or systems may be connected together into networks, including mesh networks, to make for a more robust architecture.
US11289655B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technologies, and provides an organic electroluminescent device. The organic electroluminescent device comprises a hole injection layer. The hole injection layer includes at least one hole injection material and at least one free radical molecular material doped in the hole injection material.
US11289647B2
A memory cell includes: a first electrode; a resistive material layer comprising one horizontal portion and two vertical portions that are respectively coupled to ends of the horizontal portion; and a second electrode, wherein the second electrode is partially surrounded by a top boundary of the U-shaped profile and the first electrode extends along part of a bottom boundary of the U-shaped profile.
US11289636B2
An energy recovery unit (8) for use in a vehicle exhaust system (6) comprises an inlet (24) for receiving exhaust gas from the exhaust system (6); an outlet (26) for returning exhaust gas to the exhaust system (6); a thermoelectric generator (20) disposed between the inlet (24) and the outlet (26); and a valve arrangement operable to direct exhaust gas entering the inlet (24) across the thermoelectric generator (20) to enable the thermoelectric generator (20) to generate electrical energy from thermal energy contained in the exhaust gas, wherein the valve arrangement is operable to vary the direction of exhaust gas flow across the thermoelectric generator (20).
US11289617B2
A technique for interconnecting PV cells using partial overlapping method is disclosed with at least one part of the PV cell is applied with a non-conductive bonding material. Another PV cell is then placed above this PV cell in a partial overlapping manner and depending on the type of bonding material used, the necessary curing step is performed. The disclosed method can be used to interconnect 1) PV cells; 2) shingled PV strings; 3) PV cell and other components to external circuitry, within a shingled PV module. The interconnecting method also improves the aestheticism, reliability, and manufacturability of shingled PV modules that are constructed with shingled PV cells.
US11289608B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to ferroelectric materials and semiconductor devices, and more particularly to semiconductor memory devices incorporating doped polar materials. In one aspect, a semiconductor device comprises a capacitor which in turn comprises a polar layer comprising a base polar material doped with a dopant. The base polar material includes one or more metal elements and one or both of oxygen or nitrogen. The dopant comprises a metal element that is different from the one or more metal elements and is present at a concentration such that a ferroelectric switching voltage of the capacitor is different from that of the capacitor having the base polar material without being doped with the dopant by more than about 100 mV. The capacitor stack additionally comprises first and second crystalline conductive oxide electrodes on opposing sides of the polar layer. The capacitor stack further comprises first and second barrier metal layers on respective ones of the first and second crystalline conductive oxide electrodes on opposing sides of the polar layer
US11289601B2
A semiconductor sensor includes a source element; a drain element; and a semiconductor channel element between the source element and the drain element, forming an electrically conductive channel. An insulator is positioned between the semiconductor channel element and a solution to be sensed. A reference contacts the solution and sets an electric potential of the solution. A bias voltage source generates an external sensor bias voltage for electrically biasing the reference electrode. A sensing surface interacts with the solution comprising analytes for generating a surface potential change at the sensing surface dependent on the concentration of analytes. The sensor further includes a ferroelectric capacitance element between the insulator and the bias voltage source for generating a negative capacitance for a differential gain between the external sensor bias voltage and an internal sensor bias voltage sensed at a surface of the channel element facing the insulator or ferroelectric capacitance element.
US11289599B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor region disposed over a second semiconductor region, wherein the first and second semiconductor regions have a first doping type and a second doping type, respectively; a first source/drain contact region and a second source/drain contact region having the second doping type and laterally spaced; and a gate electrode disposed laterally between the first and second source/drain contact regions, wherein the gate electrode comprises a first sidewall relatively closer to the first source/drain region and a second sidewall relatively closer to the second source/drain region, and wherein respective cross-sectional areas of the first and second sidewalls of the gate electrode are different from each other.
US11289594B2
A GaN-based superjunction vertical power transistor and a manufacturing method thereof. The transistor includes: a N−-GaN layer; a first P-GaN layer as a current blocking layer, formed on the N−-GaN layer and having a gate region window; and a thin barrier Al(In, Ga)N/GaN heterostructure conformally formed on the current blocking layer and filling the bottom and one or more sidewalls of the gate region window, wherein the N−-GaN layer has an etched groove completely or partially filled with a second P-type GaN layer, an N+-GaN layer is formed under the second P-type GaN layer, and the N+-GaN layer is in direct contact with the second P-type GaN layer and the N−-GaN layer to form a superjunction composite structure.
US11289591B1
The present disclosure provides embodiments of bipolar junction transistor (BJT) structures. A BJT according to the present disclosure includes a first epitaxial feature disposed over a well region, a second epitaxial feature disposed over the well region, a vertical stack of channel members each extending lengthwise between the first epitaxial feature and the second epitaxial feature, a gate structure wrapping around each of the vertical stack of channel members, a first electrode coupled to the well region, an emitter electrode disposed over and coupled to the first epitaxial feature, and a second electrode disposed over and coupled to the second epitaxial feature.
US11289581B2
An insulated gate field effect transistor with (a) a base having source/drain regions, a channel forming region, a gate insulating film formed on the channel forming region, an insulating layer covering the source/drain regions, and a gate electrode formation opening provided in a partial portion of the insulating layer above the channel forming region; (b) a gate electrode formed by burying a conducive material layer in the gate electrode formation opening; (c) a first interlayer insulating layer formed on the insulating layer and the gate electrode and containing no oxygen atom as a constituent element; and (d) a second interlayer insulating layer on the first interlayer insulating layer.
US11289579B2
Methods of forming and processing semiconductor devices are described. Certain embodiments related to electronic devices which comprise a dipole region having an interlayer dielectric, a high-κ dielectric material, and a dipole layer. The dipole layer comprises one or more of titanium aluminum nitride (TiAlN), titanium tantalum nitride (TiTaN), titanium oxide (TiO), tantalum oxide (TaO), and titanium aluminum carbide (TiAlC).
US11289568B2
The present disclosure relates to a MIM (metal-insulator-metal) capacitor having a top electrode overlying a substrate. A passivation layer overlies the top electrode. The passivation layer has a step region that continuously contacts and extends from a top surface of the top electrode to sidewalls of the top electrode. A metal frame overlies the passivation layer. The metal frame continuously contacts and extends from a top surface of the passivation layer to upper sidewalls of the passivation layer in the step region. The metal frame has a protrusion that extends through the passivation layer and contacts the top surface of the top electrode.
US11289565B2
In an organic electroluminescent light emitting display device comprising a plurality of pixels each of which includes an organic electroluminescent element emitting light by a current supplied thereto, a plurality of active elements including a first active element which acquires a data signal and a second active element which regulates the current supplied to the organic electroluminescent element in accordance with the data signal, and a capacitive element storing the data signal, the present invention utilizes a part of the capacitive element arranged in one of the pixels for a light shielding member which shields the plurality of active elements arranged the one of the pixels from light emitted by the organic electroluminescent element arranged therein or another pixel adjacent thereto so as to suppress image quality deterioration and smear appearing in an image display area of the organic electroluminescent light emitting display device.
US11289556B2
The present disclosure relates to a display device. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a display device including a substrate and an active pattern positioned above the substrate. To the active pattern includes a channel region and a conductive region having a higher carrier concentration than the channel region. A first insulating layer is disposed on the active pattern. A first conductive layer is disposed on the first insulating layer and includes a first conductor. The channel region of the active pattern includes a first channel region overlapping the first conductor along a direction orthogonal to an upper surface of the substrate. The conductive region of the active pattern includes a first conductive region overlapping the first conductor along the direction orthogonal to the upper surface of the substrate.
US11289553B2
A display device includes a substrate including a display region and a peripheral region, display structures at the display region of the substrate, a plurality of blocking structures at the peripheral region of the substrate wherein the blocking structures have heights different from each other, an organic layer on the display structures and the blocking structures, and an inorganic layer on the organic layer.
US11289550B2
A flexible display device includes a first flexible substrate, a display unit on the first flexible substrate, a thin film encapsulation layer for encapsulating the display unit, a cover layer for covering the thin film encapsulation layer, a touch screen layer on the cover layer, and a second flexible substrate on the touch screen layer, wherein the touch screen layer includes a sensing pattern unit, and a touch pad unit electrically connected to the sensing pattern unit, wherein the cover layer is under the sensing pattern unit, and wherein a thickness of the cover layer from an upper surface of the thin film encapsulation layer to a lower surface of the touch screen layer is about 1 μm to about 20 μm.
US11289541B2
A resistive random access memory (RRAM) device is provided. The RRAM device includes a gate structure on a substrate, and a source region and a drain region disposed on opposite sides of the gate structure on the substrate. The source region includes a semiconductor bulk, and the drain region includes a plurality of semiconductor fins adjacent to the semiconductor bulk, wherein the semiconductor fins are separated from each other by an isolation layer. The RRAM device further includes a plurality of RRAM units, wherein each of the RRAM units electrically contacts one of the semiconductor fins.
US11289536B2
A display apparatus including a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate, a first LED sub-unit disposed on the TFT substrate, a second LED sub-unit disposed on the first LED sub-unit, a third LED sub-unit disposed on the second LED sub-unit, electrode pads disposed between the TFT substrate and the first LED sub-unit, and connectors connecting the first, second, and third LED sub-units to a respective one of the electrode pads, in which the first LED sub-unit, the second LED sub-unit, and the third LED sub-unit are configured to be independently driven, light generated from the first LED sub-unit is configured to be emitted to the outside of the display apparatus by passing through the second LED sub-unit and the third LED sub-unit, and light generated from the second LED sub-unit is configured to be emitted to the outside of the display apparatus by passing through the third LED sub-unit.
US11289531B2
A detection panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a photo detection device are provided. The detection panel includes a plurality of detection pixel units in an array, the detection pixel unit includes a reflective structure on a base substrate, a detection circuit and a photoelectric conversion structure on the reflective structure; the photoelectric conversion structure includes a first electrode, a photodiode and a second electrode stacked sequentially, and the first electrode is electrically connected with the detection circuit, and the first electrode is an optically transparent electrode, and an orthographic projection of the reflective structure on the base substrate at least covers an orthographic projection of the photodiode on the base substrate.
US11289528B2
Provided is an imaging apparatus including an imaging unit having a plurality of pixels, the pixels each having: a conversion element converting incident light into photoelectrons; a floating diffusion layer electrically connected to the conversion element and converting the photoelectrons into a voltage signal; a differential amplifier circuit electrically connected to the floating diffusion layer, including an amplifier transistor to which a potential of the floating diffusion layer is input, and amplifying the potential of the floating diffusion layer; a feedback transistor electrically connected to the amplifier transistor and initializing the differential amplifier circuit; a clamp capacitance connected in series between the floating diffusion layer and the amplifier transistor; and a reset transistor connected in parallel between the floating diffusion layer and the clamp capacitance and initializing the potential of the floating diffusion layer.
US11289526B2
There is provided a solid-state imaging device including: a first substrate including a first semiconductor substrate and a first wiring layer, the first semiconductor substrate having a pixel unit with pixels; a second substrate including a second semiconductor substrate and a second wiring layer, the second semiconductor substrate having a circuit with a predetermined function; and a third substrate including a third semiconductor substrate and a third wiring layer, the third semiconductor substrate having a circuit with a predetermined function, the first, second, and third substrates being stacked in this order, the first substrate and the second substrate being bonded together with the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer opposed to each other, a first coupling structure on bonding surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate, and including an electrode junction structure with electrodes formed on the respective bonding surfaces in direct contact with each other.
US11289519B2
The present technology relates to a semiconductor device capable of providing a heat-stable optical system, and an electronic apparatus. A semiconductor device is provided, and the semiconductor device includes a sensor and a holding substrate that holds the sensor. In the semiconductor device, (EI×tI)+(ES×tS)>30 and 1.5
US11289516B2
Disclosed is an array substrate. The array substrate includes a display area and a terminal area defined at an edge of the display area; a plurality of thin film transistors are arranged in the display area, and a plurality of driving terminals are arranged at intervals in the terminal area; the driving terminals are electrically connected to the thin film transistors; an insulated film is arranged above an interval area of the driving terminals, to shield the interval area.
US11289512B2
A substrate includes: a base substrate, a thin film transistor disposed on the base substrate, an organic insulating layer disposed on the thin film transistor, an inorganic passivation layer disposed on the organic insulating layer, and at least a portion of the organic insulating layer which is in contact with the inorganic passivation layer is provided with a concave-convex structure.
US11289510B2
A first amorphous film including hafnium, oxygen and a first element is formed, and a plurality of grains including a second element which differs from any of hafnium, oxygen and the first element is formed on the first amorphous film. An insulating film including a third element that differs from any of hafnium and the second element is formed over the plurality of grains and the first amorphous film, thereby forming a plurality of grains including the second element and the third element. A second amorphous film including the same materials as those of the first amorphous film is formed on the plurality of grains and the first amorphous film. By performing heat treatment, the first amorphous film and the second amorphous film are crystallized to form a first ferroelectric film which is an orthorhombic and a second ferroelectric film which is an orthorhombic, respectively.
US11289501B2
Some embodiments include a memory array which has a vertical stack of alternating insulative levels and wordline levels. A channel material extends vertically along the stack. The channel material includes a semiconductor composition and has first segments alternating with second segments. The first segments are adjacent the wordline levels and the second segments are adjacent the insulative levels. The first segments have a first dopant distribution and the second segments have a second dopant distribution which is different from the first dopant distribution. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11289497B2
Approaches for integrating FE memory arrays into a processor, and the resulting structures are described. Simultaneous integrations of regions with ferroelectric (FE) cells and regions with standard interconnects are also described. FE cells include FE capacitors that include a FE stack of layers, which is encapsulated with a protection material. The protection material protects the FE stack of layers as structures for regular logic are fabricated in the same die.
US11289496B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a stacked body above a substrate. The stacked body includes a first stacked region in which a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer are alternately stacked and a second stacked region in which a conductive layer and the first insulating layer are alternately stacked. The semiconductor storage device includes a memory pillar that extends through the second stacked region of the stacked body in a stacking direction. The second insulating layer comprising a first insulating material within the first stacked region and a second insulating material on ends of the second insulating layer in a direction intersecting to the stacking direction.
US11289495B1
SRAM cell circuits have a minimum distance between a storage circuit active region and a read port circuit active region to reduce area. SRAM cell circuits are formed in FinFETs in a storage circuit active area and a read port active area each including one or more diffusion regions of a substrate. Design rule constraints limit a minimum center-to-center distance between adjacent parallel fins. The SRAM bit cell has a reduced total area because a distance between the storage circuit active area and the read port active area is reduced to a minimum separation distance of between 1.0 and 2.15 times the smallest center-to-center distance between adjacent fins. Minimizing a separation distance may include relocating a gate contact of a write access transistor from a location between the storage circuit active region and the read port active region to a location overlapping the storage circuit active area.
US11289494B2
A method includes providing a substrate having an n-type fin-like field-effect transistor (NFET) region and forming a fin structure in the NFET region. The fin structure includes a first layer having a first semiconductor material, and a second layer under the first layer and having a second semiconductor material different from the first semiconductor material. The method further includes forming a patterned hard mask to fully expose the fin structure in gate regions of the NFET region and partially expose the fin structure in at least one source/drain (S/D) region of the NFET region. The method further includes oxidizing the fin structure not covered by the patterned hard mask, wherein the second layer is oxidized at a faster rate than the first layer. The method further includes forming an S/D feature over the at least one S/D region of the NFET region.
US11289492B1
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a bit line. The substrate has a plurality of active areas and isolation areas. Each isolation area is located between immediately-adjacent two of the active areas to isolate the active areas from each other. The first bit line is formed on a first active area of the active areas. A bottom portion of the first bit line extends within the first active area. The extending bottom portion is surrounded by the first active area.
US11289486B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory cell transistors arranged along a common semiconductor layer. Each of the plurality of memory cell transistors comprises a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region formed in the common semiconductor layer; a gate stack formed on a portion of the common semiconductor layer between the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region; and an electrical floating portion in the portion of the common semiconductor layer, a charge state of the electrical floating portion being adapted to adjust a threshold voltage and a channel conductance of the memory cell transistor. The plurality of memory cell transistors connected in series with each other along the common semiconductor layer provide a memory string.
US11289482B2
The present disclosure provides a method that includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a first region and a second region; forming a first gate within the first region and a second gate within the second region on the semiconductor substrate; forming first source/drain features of a first semiconductor material with an n-type dopant in the semiconductor substrate within the first region; forming second source/drain features of a second semiconductor material with a p-type dopant in the semiconductor substrate within the second region. The second semiconductor material is different from the first semiconductor material in composition. The method further includes forming first silicide features to the first source/drain features and second silicide features to the second source/drain features; and performing an ion implantation process of a species to both the first and second regions, thereby introducing the species to first silicide features and the second source/drain features.
US11289480B2
A method includes forming a first semiconductor fin in a substrate, forming a metal gate structure over the first semiconductor fin, removing a portion of the metal gate structure to form a first recess in the metal gate structure that is laterally separated from the first semiconductor fin by a first distance, wherein the first distance is determined according to a first desired threshold voltage associated with the first semiconductor fin, and filling the recess with a dielectric material.
US11289475B2
A semiconductor device having favorable electrical characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes a transistor and a capacitor. The transistor includes a first conductor and a second insulator over a first insulator; a third insulator over the first conductor and the second insulator; a fourth insulator over the third insulator; a first oxide over the fourth insulator; a second oxide and a third oxide over the first oxide; a second conductor in contact with a top surface of the third insulator, a side surface of the fourth insulator, a side surface of the first oxide, a side surface of the second oxide, and a top surface of the second oxide; a third conductor in contact with the top surface of the third insulator, a side surface of the fourth insulator, a side surface of the first oxide, a side surface of the third oxide, and a top surface of the third oxide; a fourth oxide over the first oxide; a fifth insulator over the fourth oxide; and a fourth conductor over the fifth insulator. The capacitor includes a fifth conductor over the first insulator, the third insulator over the fifth conductor, and the second conductor over the third insulator.
US11289474B2
Structures including a passive device and methods of forming such structures. Multiple fins are positioned on a substrate, and an interconnect structure is positioned over the substrate. The fins contain a polycrystalline semiconductor material, and the interconnect structure includes a passive device that is positioned over the fins. The passive device may be, for example, an inductor or a transmission line.
US11289473B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising a substrate including a first region and a second region, a first gate pattern on the substrate of the first region, and a second gate pattern on the substrate of the second region. The first gate pattern comprises a first high-k dielectric pattern, a first N-type metal-containing pattern, and a first P-type metal-containing pattern that are sequentially stacked. The second gate pattern comprises a second high-k dielectric pattern and a second P-type metal-containing pattern that are sequentially stacked.
US11289468B2
A package structure includes an inner wiring layer, a first dielectric layer, a first outer wiring layer, and an electronic component assembly. The first dielectric layer includes a first surface and a second surface facing away from the first surface. The inner wiring layer and the electronic component assembly are embedded into the first dielectric layer from the first surface. The first outer wiring layer is disposed on the second surface. The electronic component assembly includes a first electronic element and a second electronic element. The second electronic element is disposed close to the second surface, and an electrical connector of the second electronic element faces the second surface. The first electronic element is disposed on a side of the second electronic element facing away from the second surface, and exposed from the first surface. The first outer wiring layer electrically connects the electrical connector of the second electronic element and the inner wiring layer, respectively. A method for manufacturing the package structure is also provided.
US11289461B2
A light emitting device for a display including a first LED sub-unit, a second LED sub-unit disposed on the first LED sub-unit, a third LED sub-unit disposed on the second LED sub-unit, electrode pads disposed below the first LED sub-unit, and a filler disposed between the electrode pads, in which the electrode pads include a common electrode pad electrically connected in common to the first, second, and third LED sub-units, and first, second, and third electrode pads connected to the first, second, and third LED sub-units, respectively, the first, second, and third LED sub-units are independently drivable, light generated in the first LED sub-unit is configured to be emitted to the outside of the light emitting device through the second and third LED sub-units, and light generated in the second LED sub-unit is configured to be emitted to the outside through the third LED sub-unit.
US11289457B2
A multi-chip package includes a first die having temperature sensors and a second die. The first die generates temperature deviation information of m (m
US11289448B2
A method of generating a wire loop profile in connection with a semiconductor package is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) providing package data related to the semiconductor package; and (b) creating a loop profile of a wire loop of the semiconductor package, the loop profile including a tolerance band along at least a portion of a length of the wire loop.
US11289439B2
A method of fabrication of a semiconducting structure intended to be assembled to a second support by hybridisation. The semiconducting structure comprising an active layer comprising a nitrided semiconductor. The method comprises a step for the formation of at least one first and one second insert and during this step, a nickel layer is formed in contact with the support surface, and a localised physico-chemical etching step of the active layer, a part of the active layer comprising the active region being protected by the nickel layer.
US11289435B2
The present disclosure provides a fan-out antenna packaging structure for a semiconductor chip and its fabricating method. The structure is a stacked-up two sets of metal connecting columns and antenna metal patterns arranged in two sequential layers of packaging materials. In some applications there can be more than two sets of the stacked-up antenna structures, fabricated around the chip at one side of a rewiring layer. The chip is interconnected to external metal bumps on the other side of the rewiring layer.
US11289429B2
A vertically alternating sequence of continuous insulating layers and continuous sacrificial material layers is formed over a substrate. Memory stack structures are formed through the vertically alternating sequence. Divider trenches and slit trenches are formed such that the divider trenches laterally extend along a first horizontal direction and divide the vertically alternating sequence into a plurality of alternating stacks of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers, and the slit trenches laterally extend along a second horizontal direction that is perpendicular to the first horizontal direction. The sacrificial material layers are replaced with electrically conductive layers employing the divider trenches as a conduit for an etchant and for a reactant. Each of the divider trenches and the slit trenches are filled with material portions to provide a plurality of divider trench fill structures in the divider trenches and to provide a plurality of slit trench fill structures in the slit trenches.
US11289425B2
Various embodiments include a semiconductor component comprising: a first carrier part; a second carrier part arranged opposite the first carrier part; a semiconductor element arranged between the first carrier part and the second carrier part; a contact surface arranged on one of the parts; a contact sleeve arranged on one of the carrier parts opposite the contact surface; and a contact pin with, at one axial end, an end face providing an electrical contact connection of the contact surface and, in a region averted from said axial end, a connection region for the connection of the contact pin with the contact sleeve by means of press fitting. At least one of the first carrier part or the second carrier part comprises a printed conductor connected to the contact surface and/or to the contact sleeve.
US11289418B2
A package structure includes a redistribution circuit structure, at least one semiconductor die, an insulating encapsulation, insulators, and metallic patterns. The at least one semiconductor die is located on and electrically connected to the redistribution circuit structure. The insulating encapsulation encapsulates the at least one semiconductor die and located on the redistribution circuit structure. The insulators are located on the redistribution circuit structure, wherein the insulators are separated and spaced apart from each other, wherein edges of each of the insulators are distant from edges of the at least one semiconductor die by an offset in a stacking direction of the redistribution circuit structure and the insulating encapsulation. Each of the metallic patterns is located on a respective one of the insulators.
US11289417B2
A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate structure, a dielectric structure and a contact structure. The substrate has source/drain (S/D) regions. The gate structure is on the substrate and between the S/D regions. The dielectric structure covers the gate structure. The contact structure penetrates through the dielectric structure to connect to the S/D region. A lower portion of a sidewall of the contact structure is spaced apart from the dielectric structure by an air gap therebetween, while an upper portion of the sidewall of the contact structure is in contact with the dielectric structure.
US11289415B2
A semiconductor chip is mounted on a mounting substrate. The semiconductor chip includes plural first bumps on a surface facing the mounting substrate. The plural first bumps each have a shape elongated in a first direction in plan view and are arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The mounting substrate includes, on a surface on which the semiconductor chip is mounted, at least one first land connected to the plural first bumps. At least two first bumps of the plural first bumps are connected to each first land. The difference between the dimension of the first land in the second direction and the distance between the outer edges of two first bumps at respective ends of the arranged first bumps connected to the first land is 20 μm or less.
US11289411B2
A substrate structure includes a wiring structure, a first bump pad, a second bump pad and a compensation structure. The wiring structure includes a plurality of redistribution layers. The first bump pad and the second bump pad are bonded to and electrically connected to the wiring structure. An amount of redistribution layers disposed under the first bump pad is greater than an amount of redistribution layers disposed under the second bump pad. The compensation structure is disposed under the second bump pad.
US11289408B2
A semiconductor device according to one embodiment includes a first leadframe, a second leadframe, a semiconductor chip, and a conductive member. The second leadframe has a first face provided with a recess and is separated from the first leadframe. The semiconductor chip is mounted on the first leadframe. The conductive member has a second face connected to the first face with a conductive adhesive, the second face provided with a protrusion housed in the recess at least partially, and the conductive member electrically connected the semiconductor chip and the second leadframe to each other. The recess and the protrusion are longer in a first direction in which the first face extends than in a second direction along the first face and orthogonal to the first direction.
US11289403B2
A multi-layer substrate includes: a first insulating layer; a conductor layer that is provided on an upper surface of the first insulating layer and that has a penetrating portion; a second insulating layer that covers the conductor layer and that is stacked on the upper surface of the first insulating layer; a via hole that penetrates the second insulating layer from an upper surface of the second insulating layer to reach an inside of the first insulating layer and that includes the penetrating portion; and an insulating member with which the via hole is filled. The conductor layer has a portion exposed in the via hole, and the insulating member covers an upper surface and a lower surface of the conductor layer exposed in the via hole through the penetrating portion of the conductor layer.
US11289400B2
Forming aluminum circuit layers forming an aluminum circuit layers on one surface of a ceramic substrate and forming copper circuit layers are included. The copper circuit layers are formed by laminating copper boards for the circuit layers on the respective aluminum circuit layers, arranging the laminate between a pair of support boards having a convex curved surface at least on one surface so as to face to each other, moving the support boards in a facing direction to press the laminate in a lamination direction, and heating in this pressing state so that the copper boards for the circuit layers are bonded on the aluminum circuit layers respectively by solid phase diffusion. In the step of forming the copper circuit layers, the support boards are arranged so that either one of the convex curved surface is in contact with the adjacent copper boards for the circuit layers in the laminate.
US11289397B2
A semiconductor package according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a heat sink board including an insulated board and a first metal layer formed on the insulated board; at least one semiconductor chip placed on the first metal layer; a plurality of lead frames connected to the semiconductor chips used to electrically connect the semiconductor chips to the outside; and a package housing partially covering the heat sink board, wherein both end parts of the insulated board are projected further than both end parts of the first metal layer.
US11289396B2
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor die including a sensing component, an encapsulant extending along sidewalls of the semiconductor die, a through insulator via (TIV) and a dummy TIV penetrating through the encapsulant and disposed aside the semiconductor die, a patterned dielectric layer disposed on the encapsulant and exposing the sensing component of the semiconductor die, a conductive pattern disposed on the patterned dielectric layer and extending to be in contact with the TIV and the semiconductor die, and a first dummy conductive pattern disposed on the patterned dielectric layer and connected to the dummy TIV through an alignment opening of the first patterned dielectric layer. The semiconductor die is in a hollow region of the encapsulant, and a top width of the hollow region is greater than a width of the semiconductor die.
US11289392B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency device that includes a mold device die and a multilayer redistribution structure underneath the mold device die. The mold device die includes a device region with a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion over the BEOL portion, a barrier layer, and a first mold compound. The FEOL portion includes isolation sections and an active layer surrounded by the isolation sections. The barrier layer formed of silicon nitride resides over the active layer and top surfaces of the isolation sections. The first mold compound resides over the barrier layer. Herein, silicon crystal does not exist between the first mold compound and the active layer. The multilayer redistribution structure includes a number of bump structures, which are at a bottom of the multilayer redistribution structure and electrically coupled to the FEOL portion of the mold device die.
US11289391B2
A device comprising a semiconductor substrate, an electrically-conductive layer covering the substrate, and an insulating sheath, the conductive layer being in contact with the insulating sheath on the side opposite to the substrate.
US11289390B2
Provided with an insulation circuit board in which a circuit layer is joined to one side of a ceramic substrate and a metal layer made of aluminum or aluminum alloy is joined to the other side of the ceramic substrate, and a heat sink joined to the metal layer; the heat sink has a first metal layer made of copper joined to the metal layer, a ceramic board material joined to the first metal layer at an opposite side to the metal layer, and a second metal layer made of copper or copper alloy joined to an opposite side of the ceramic board material to the first metal layer; and a thickness T1 of the first metal layer is 0.3 mm to 3.0 mm inclusive and equal to or more than a thickness T2 of the second metal layer.
US11289386B2
A method for electrically characterizing a layer disposed on a substrate and electrically insulated from the substrate is disclosed. The method can include forming a test pattern, contacting the test pattern with electrical contact elements at contact regions, and measuring an electrical parameter of the layer by passing a first set of test currents between contact regions. The test pattern can be formed by pushing a pattern forming head against a top surface of the layer, introducing a first fluid into the cavity, and converting the sacrificial portion of the layer into an insulator using the first fluid and forming the test pattern under the test-pattern-shaped inner seal.
US11289383B2
An embodiment method includes: forming fins extending from a semiconductor substrate; depositing an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer on the fins; forming masking layers on the ILD layer; forming a cut mask on the masking layers, the cut mask including a first dielectric material, the cut mask having first openings exposing the masking layers, each of the first openings surrounded on all sides by the first dielectric material; forming a line mask on the cut mask and in the first openings, the line mask having slot openings, the slot openings exposing portions of the cut mask and portions of the masking layers, the slot openings being strips extending perpendicular to the fins; patterning the masking layers by etching the portions of the masking layers exposed by the first openings and the slot openings; and etching contact openings in the ILD layer using the patterned masking layers as an etching mask.
US11289381B2
Implementations of a method for aligning a semiconductor wafer for singulation may include: providing a semiconductor wafer having a first side and a second side. The first side of the wafer may include a plurality of die and the plurality of die may be separated by streets. The semiconductor wafer may include an edge ring around a perimeter of the wafer on the second side of the wafer. The wafer may also include a metal layer on the second side of the wafer. The metal layer may substantially cover the edge ring. The method may include grinding the edge ring to create an edge exclusion area and aligning the semiconductor wafer with a saw using a camera positioned in the edge exclusion area on the second side of the wafer. Aligning the wafer may include using three or more alignment features included in the edge exclusion area.
US11289367B2
This document is directed at a method of manufacturing a semiconductor element, the method comprising manipulating a surface of a substrate using an atomic force microscope, the atomic force microscope including a probe, the probe including a cantilever and a probe tip, the substrate including at least one or more device features embedded underneath the surface. The method comprises: imaging the embedded device features, and identifying that a position of the probe tip of the atomic force microscope is aligned with the feature; and displacing the probe tip transverse to the surface for exerting a stress for performing the step of surface manipulation, as for example contact holes. Imaging is performed by applying and obtaining an acoustic signal to and from the substrate via the probe tip, including a first and a second signal component at different frequencies. The imaging and surface manipulation are performed using said same probe and probe tip.
US11289354B2
A conveying mechanism includes a suction part that has a suction pad and sucks and holds a target object by the suction pad, a bracket connected to the suction part through a joint that is swingable, an elastic component in which one end part is fixed to the suction part and the other end part is fixed to the bracket, a negative pressure control unit that controls generation of a negative pressure at the suction part, and a movement unit that moves the bracket. The elastic component permits a swing of the suction part according to tilt or deformation of the target object that is sucked and held and, when suction holding of the target object is released, the elastic component returns the orientation of the suction pad to a predetermined orientation when the suction pad is not sucking and holding the target object.
US11289352B2
Methods and apparatus for the in-situ measurement of metrology parameters are disclosed herein. Some embodiments of the disclosure further provide for the real-time adjustment of process parameters based on the measure metrology parameters. Some embodiments of the disclosure provide for a multi-stage processing chamber top plate with one or more sensors between process stations.
US11289345B2
A method for manufacturing a heat releasing semiconductor chip package includes attaching a first surface of a semiconductor chip onto an insulating film, injecting a coating liquid onto a second surface of the semiconductor chip to form a liquefied coating layer and curing the liquefied coating layer to form a heat releasing layer. The coating liquid includes a liquefied molding compound for heat releasing and fine alumina particles. Therefore, the heat releasing semiconductor chip package and method for manufacturing the semiconductor chip package form a heat releasing layer in direct contact with the semiconductor chip to maximize a heat releasing effect.
US11289340B2
A dry etching method according to the present invention includes etching silicon nitride by bringing a mixed gas containing hydrogen fluoride and a fluorine-containing carboxylic acid into contact with the silicon nitride in a plasma-less process at a temperature lower than 100° C. Preferably, the amount of the fluorine-containing carboxylic acid contained is 0.01 vol % or more based on the total amount of the hydrogen fluoride and the fluorine-containing carboxylic acid. Examples of the fluorine-containing carboxylic acid are monofluoroacetic acid, difluoroacetic acid, trifluoroacetic acid, difluoropropionic acid, pentafluoropropionic acid, pentafluorobutyric acid and the like. This dry etching method enables etching of the silicon nitride at a high etching rate and shows a high selectivity ratio of the silicon nitride to silicon oxide and polycrystalline silicon while preventing damage to the silicon oxide.
US11289319B2
The present invention relates to a system for analyzing particles, the system comprising: a NEMS device comprising at least one NEMS sensor for detecting particles impacting the at least one NEMS sensor, each NEMS sensor comprising a NEMS sensor area, a particle lens assembly, the particle lens assembly comprising at least one particle lens for focusing particles onto a NEMS sensor of the at least one NEMS sensor, wherein the particle lens assembly is spaced from the at least one NEMS sensor area by a separation distance, wherein the system is configured to sustain a space defined between the particle lens assembly and the NEMS device at a pressure where a mean free path for a reference particle is greater than the separation distance. The present invention also relates to a corresponding method.
US11289317B2
This invention relates to graphical user-interactive analysis of data, including in particular, mass spectrographic data analysis, as well as methods and software for generating and using such. One aspect provides user-customizable reports, including methods and apparatuses for generating customizable pivot tables and graphs specific to mass spectrographic data.
US11289313B2
Provided is a plasma processing apparatus including a processing unit in which a sample is plasma processed and which includes a monitor (optical emission spectroscopy) that monitors light emission of plasma, wherein the processing unit includes a prediction model storage unit that stores a prediction model predicting a plasma processing result, and a control device in which the plasma processing result is predicted by using a prediction model selected based on light emission data and device data as an indicator of state change of the processing unit.
US11289301B2
A multi-pixel x-ray source is provided. The x-ray source includes a plurality of transmission target assemblies. The transmission target assembly includes a tungsten target and a diamond substrate. The substrate includes a first transmission surface and a second transmission surface opposite first transmission surface. The substrate further includes a first side surface and a second side surface disposed between the first and second transmission surfaces. The target covers the first transmission surface of the substrate. The transmission target assembly further includes a base. The base surrounds the first and second side surfaces of substrate, exposing a collimator surface of the second transmission surface and the target. The transmission target assembly is configured to transmit x-ray generated by the target through the target and the substrate.
US11289291B2
A gas circuit breaker includes: a fixed arc contact disposed on an axis of motion, whose tip is directed to one side in a first direction that is parallel to the axis of motion; a movable arc contact that can reciprocate along the axis of motion between a position when in contact with the tip of the fixed arc contact and a position when separated from the tip of the fixed arc contact; and a first permanent magnet and a second permanent magnet as a permanent magnet whose magnetic poles are aligned in a second direction that is a direction perpendicular to the first direction. The fixed arc contact has a shape that is gradually widened in a direction away from the axis of motion from the tip toward another side in the first direction.
US11289289B2
The problem to be addressed is to provide a highly safe and compact switch that is adapted to improvements in portability, weight reduction and size reduction of machines, or the like. An operating part has a button covering the upper part of a cylindrical housing that receives a downward pushing operation and a rotational operation. A contact unit part has contacts which open by being coupled to the downward pushing operation of the button. A twisting coil spring is disposed on the interior of the button, one end being joined to the housing, and the other end being joined to the button. A latch part disposed to the interior of the twisting coil spring, has a plunger coil spring that expands and contracts in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the downward pushing operation, and when a downward pushing operation is performed on the button, causes a sliding rod to slide along an inner wall of the housing while being displaced in the direction of the downward pushing operation.
US11289276B2
A porous metal foil and porous metal wire are described. Capacitor anodes made from either or both of the porous metal foil and porous metal wire are further described as well as methods to make same.
US11289272B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic element body formed by alternately laminating dielectric layers and internal electrode layers. The dielectric layers include a main component containing barium titanate and a sub-component containing boron oxide and/or lithium oxide. The internal electrode layers include a main component of copper and/or silver. A coverage ratio of the internal electrode layers to the dielectric layers is 98% or less.
US11289269B2
There is provided a coil unit capable of decreasing an installation area while inhibiting transfer of heat to a capacitor. The coil unit includes: a coil made of a conductor in a spiral shape at least around a first axis; a capacitor module configured to include a substrate in which one or more capacitors are installed and be disposed to be separate from the coil in an axial direction of the first axis; a casing configured to have the coil and the capacitor module disposed inside; and a first resin configured to thermally connect at least a part of the coil and at least a part of the casing, wherein the first resin is separate from the capacitors and the substrate.
US11289261B2
A circuit assembly that includes an inductor including a core; a fixation member to which the inductor is fixed; a base that is attached to the core, wherein: the fixation member is made of a first material having a coefficient of thermal expansion larger than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the core, and the base is made of a second material having a coefficient of thermal expansion larger than the coefficient of thermal expansion of the core and smaller than the coefficient of thermal expansion of the fixation member; and an adhesive layer that is disposed between the base and the fixation member, and that bonds the base and the fixation member together.
US11289238B2
A solvent-free electroconductive composition may be used to make electroconductive lines on a surface of a substrate or electroconductive plugs within via holes of a substrate. The solvent-free electroconductive composition is generally made of about 40 to about 95 wt % of a conductive component, about 4 to about 30 wt % of a polymer or oligomer comprising a reactive functional group, up to about 20 wt % of a monomeric diluent comprising a reactive functional group, and up to about 3 wt % of a curing agent. In some instances, the solvent-free electroconductive composition further includes up to about 3 wt % of a lubricating compound. Substrates made using solvent-free electroconductive compositions may be used in printed circuit boards, integrated circuits, solar cells, capacitors, resistors, thermistors, varistors, resonators, transducers, inductors, and multilayer ferrite beads.
US11289223B2
Chemical control system for a power plant including at least one coolant electrochemical indication sensor of a flow type electrically connected to the measurement data processing and transmission unit with its outlet connected to a central computer (CPC) controlling the actuator for injection of hydrogen and chemical reagents. The hydraulic inlet of the electrochemical sensor in use of the system is connected by a sampling tube to the power plant process circuit and its hydraulic outlet is hydraulically connected to the first heat exchanger and the first throttling device with a coolant supply circuit in series. The sampling tube is configured to pass a coolant sample to the coolant electromechanical sensor and the coolant supply circuit contains tubes and valves configured to reverse the flow of the coolant sample through the first throttling device.
US11289222B2
An unlatching tool configured for actuating a movable section of a control rod drive shaft in a pressurized water reactor includes a base; a gripper assembly configured for gripping the movable section of the control rod drive shaft; a rod movably connecting the gripper assembly to the base; and a mechanical actuator fixed to the base and configured for rotating the rod to raise and lower the gripper assembly. A method for actuating a movable section of a control rod drive shaft includes installing an unlatching tool on the control rod drive shaft; latching the unlatching tool to a stationary section of the control rod drive shaft; and raising a rod connected to a gripper assembly to cause the gripper assembly to grip the movable section and move the movable section upward.
US11289212B2
Plurality of layers form a nuclear fission reactor structure, each layer having an inner segment body, an intermediate segment body, and an outer segment body (each segment body separated by an interface). The layers include a plurality of cladding arms having involute curve shapes that spirally radiate outward from a radially inner end to a radially outer end. Chambers in the involute curve shaped cladding arm contain fuel compositions (and/or other materials such as moderators and poisons). The design of the involute curve shaped cladding arms and the composition of the materials conform to neutronic and thermal management requirements for the nuclear fission reactor and are of sufficiently common design and/or have sufficiently few variations as to reduce manufacturing complexity and manufacturing variability.
US11289203B2
A computing system receives a plurality of medical perspectives for each medical treatment option of a plurality of medical treatment options. A machine learning model assigns a weight to each medical perspective for each medical treatment option by determining how often a care provider has agreed with each perspective within the plurality of medical perspectives. The computing system receives a medical treatment option ranking for each of the medical perspectives. The computing system generates a score for each medical perspective as applied to each medical treatment option based on a combination of the weight and the ranking for each medical perspective. The computing system aggregates the scores across the plurality of medical perspectives into an overall score for each medical treatment option.
US11289200B1
In some examples, authorized user profiles and generic models are generated using historical interaction data of authorized users. The authorized user profiles provide an experience profile for authorized users. The generic models are data models used to model authorized user actions. The authorized user profiles and generic models are used to generate support elements. The support elements are presented to authorized users and feedback is collected. Based on the feedback, the authorized user profiles and generic models are updated.
US11289196B1
Systems and methods for providing a universal platform for at-home health testing and diagnostics are provided herein. In particular, a health testing and diagnostic platform is provided to connect medical providers with patients and to generate a unique, private testing environment. In some embodiments, the testing environment may facilitate administration of a medical test to a patient with the guidance of a proctor. In some embodiments, the patient may be provided with step-by-step instructions for test administration by the proctor within a testing environment. The platform may display unique, dynamic testing interfaces to the patient and proctor to ensure proper testing protocols and accurate test result verification.
US11289188B2
A system, method and computer readable storage medium for generating a context driven summary view of medical findings by retrieving a current study including at least one image to be analyzed, extracting current context information from the current study and storing the current context information in a database and matching the current context information with prior context information from prior studies to return a set of relevant prior studies.
US11289187B2
The method for evaluating mental health of a patient includes displaying a series of inquiries from mental health questionnaires on a display device. Each inquiry of the series of inquiries includes text and a set of answers. A series of selections is received from a user interface. Each selection of the series of selections is representative of an answer of the set of answers for each corresponding inquiry in the series of inquiries. Unprocessed MRI data are received. The unprocessed MRI data correspond to a set of MRI images of a biological structure associated with a patient. Using a machine learning model, the series of selections and the unprocessed MRI data are processed. The series of selections being processed corresponds to the series of inquiries. A symptom severity indicator for a mental health category of the patient is outputted.
US11289186B2
Systems and methods are provided for determining the placement of energy-delivery nodes of an energy-based therapeutic device. In one aspect, recommended placement locations are customized by analyzing an image or video of the user and may be superimposed on an image corresponding to an affected body part.
US11289185B2
A method for displaying archived exercise classes comprising displaying information about archived exercise classes that can be accessed by a first user via a computer network on a display screen at a first location, wherein the first user can select among a plurality of archived classes, outputting digital video and audio content comprising the selected archived class, detecting a performance parameter for the first user at a particular point in the selected class, displaying the performance parameter on the display screen, and displaying performance parameters from a second user at a second location on the display screen such that at least one of the performance parameters from the first user and at least one of the performance parameters from the second user at the same point in the class are presented for comparison.
US11289181B2
A system comprising a staging area and a packing area. The staging area may include a plurality of staging bins and a shuttle moveable along the plurality of staging bins. A staging bin of the plurality of staging bins may be configured to selectively retain a component of an order therein. Such staging bin may be configured to selectively release the component to the shuttle. The packing area may include a slide, a scanner, and a wrap seal conveyor. The shuttle may be configured to release the component onto the slide, and the scanner may be operable to scan and verify the component during placement of the component onto the wrap seal conveyor.
US11289179B1
Provided is a system providing a solution for improving prescription drug compliance monitoring and compliance. Prescription drug compliance monitoring may be achieved by using patient's electronic device to initiate secure digital imaging. Medications may be dispensed in containers with pre-printed encoded unique identifiers and markings. The patient may use the digital camera in their smart phone to take a picture of the dispensed blister pack which may be processed and analyzed. Analysis may include assessment of the number of pills taken from and remaining in the uniquely identified blister pack. Package identification and consumption information may then be linked with other prescription information to determine if the observed rate of use is compliant with the legal prescription and to document that the imaged medication package is the same as the dispensed medication package. Data may also be linked with pharmacologic and clinical data to categorize risk and urgency of misuse.
US11289178B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a computer-implemented method for generating a framework for analyzing adverse drug reactions. A non-limiting example of the computer-implemented method includes receiving to a processor, a plurality of drug chemical structures. The non-limiting example also includes receiving, to the processor, a plurality of known drug-adverse drug reaction associations. The non-limiting example also includes constructing, by the processor, a deep learning framework for each of a plurality of adverse drug reactions based at least in part upon the plurality of drug chemical structures and the plurality of known adverse-drug reaction associations.
US11289177B2
Computer-implemented methods and systems for performing a local assembly of a genomic region of interest include the de novo or assisted creation of a directed graph, such as a directed acyclic graph (DAG), from a plurality of obtained nucleotide sequence reads. First and second sequence reads are aligned to each other to define at least one node of the DAG. Successive alignments of the remaining sequence reads to the then-defined DAG are performed to extend nodes and/or add nodes to the DAG. Graph-aware alignment techniques that produce alignment scores or indicators are employed in defining the nodes of the DAG from the sequence reads. The created DAG represents and describes in detail the genomic region of interest and can be used to perform variant calls.
US11289175B1
A method is disclosed. The method models a plurality of visual cortex neurons, models one or more connections between at least two visual cortex neurons in the plurality of visual cortex neurons, assigns synaptic weight value to at least one of the one or more connections, simulates application of one or more electrical signals to at least one visual cortex neuron in the plurality of visual cortex neurons, adjusts the synaptic weight value assigned to at least one of the one or more connection based on the one or more electrical signals, and generates an orientation map of the plurality of visual cortex neurons based on the adjusted synaptic weight values.
US11289165B2
A memory device may include: memory cells each having any one of first and second programmed states as a target programmed state; a peripheral circuit configured to perform a program operation so that each memory cell has a threshold voltage corresponding to the target programmed state; and a control circuit configured to control the peripheral circuit. The control circuit may include a program operation controller configured to control the peripheral circuit so that, during the program operation, an intermediate program operation is performed on the memory cells using an intermediate verify voltage, an additional program operation is performed on memory cells each having the second programmed state as a target programmed state if an intermediate verify operation passes, and a final program operation is performed on the memory cells such that each memory cell has a threshold voltage corresponding to the target programmed state.
US11289164B2
Various embodiments of tandem row decoders are disclosed. Each embodiment of a tandem row decoder comprises a word line decoder and a control gate decoder. The tandem row decoder exhibits reduced leakage current on the word line and the control gate line when the tandem row decoder is not enabled.
US11289162B2
An analog content addressable memory cell includes a match line, a high side, and a low side. The high side encodes a high bound on a range of values and includes a first three terminal memory device. The first three terminal memory device includes a first gate that sets a high voltage bound of the first three terminal memory device. Specifically, an input voltage applied at the first gate of the first memory device, if higher than the high voltage bound, turns the first memory device ON which discharges the match line. Similarly, the low side encodes a lower bound on a range of values and includes a second three terminal memory device. The second three terminal memory device includes a second gate that sets a low voltage bound of the second three terminal memory device. Specifically, an input voltage applied at the second gate of the second memory device, if lower than the low voltage bound, turns the first memory device ON which discharges the match line.
US11289151B2
Compensation for threshold voltage mismatches in cross-coupled pairs of transistors and related systems, devices, and methods are disclosed. An apparatus includes a cross-coupled pair of transistors, and a compensation pair of transistors. The cross-coupled pair of transistors includes a first transistor and a second transistor. A first gate of the first transistor is coupled to a first bit line and a second gate of the second transistor coupled to a second bit line. The compensation pair of transistors includes a third transistor and a fourth transistor. The third transistor is coupled in series with the first transistor between a first source of the first transistor and a common source line. The fourth transistor is coupled in series with the second transistor between a second source of the second transistor and the common source line. A memory device includes the sense amplifier. A computing system includes the memory device.
US11289150B2
A memory system is provided. The memory system includes a memory device having a plurality of memory cells; and a memory controller configured to control the memory device to: store write data in first memory cells from among the plurality of memory cells, identify a current charge amount of a first cell string including at least one of the first memory cells and a current charge amount of a second cell string adjacent to the first cell string, and store dummy data in at least one memory cell connected to the first cell string or the second cell string based on the current charge amount of the first cell string and the current charge amount of the second cell string.
US11289146B2
Methods, systems, and devices for word line timing management are described. In some examples, a digit line may be precharged as part of accessing a memory cell. The memory cell may include a storage component and a selection component. A word line may be coupled with the selection component, and the word line may be selected in order to couple the storage component with the digit line, by way of the selection component. The word line may be selected while the digit line is still being precharged, and the storage component may become coupled with the digit line with reduced delay after the end of precharging of the digit line, concurrent with the end of the precharging of the digit line, or while the digit line is still being charged. Related techniques for sensing a logic state stored by the memory cell are also described.
US11289145B2
According to various aspects, a memory cell is provided, the memory cell may include a field-effect transistor; a first control node and a second control node, a first capacitor structure including a first electrode connected to the first control node, a second electrode connected to a gate region of the field-effect transistor, and a remanent-polarizable region disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode of the first capacitor structure; and a second capacitor structure including a first electrode connected to the second control node, a second electrode connected to the gate region of the field-effect transistor. In some aspects, the first capacitor structure may have a first capacitance and the second capacitor structure may have a second capacitance different from the first capacitance.
US11289143B2
A magnetic memory device includes a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack, a spin-orbit torque (SOT) induction wiring disposed over the MTJ stack, a first terminal coupled to a first end of the SOT induction wiring, a second terminal coupled to a second end of the SOT induction wiring, and a shared selector layer coupled to the first terminal.
US11289141B2
An integrated circuit includes a first array of memory cells, a second array of memory cells, a first pair of complementary data lines, a second pair of complementary data lines, and a third pair of complementary data lines. The first pair of complementary data lines extend along the first array of memory cells, and are coupled to the first array of memory cells. The second pair of complementary data lines extend along the second array of memory cells, and are coupled to the first pair of complementary data lines. The third pair of complementary data lines extend along the second array of memory cells, and are coupled to the second array of memory cells. A number of rows of memory cells in the first array of memory cells is different from a number of rows of memory cells in the second array of memory cells.
US11289136B1
An access method for a memory device is provided. The access method includes receiving external data; reading a plurality of first memory cells of the memory device according to a write address to obtain first original data; comparing the external data and the first original data to determine whether the number of specific cells among the first memory cells is higher than a predetermined value, wherein the value of each of the specific cells would be changed from a first value to a second value in response to the external data being written into the first memory cells; and reversing the external data to generate reversed data and writing the reversed data into the first memory cells to replace the first original data in response to the number of specific cells being higher than the predetermined value.
US11289130B2
A memory device includes a periphery wafer, a memory array chip stack, and a plurality of first conductive contacts. The periphery wafer has a functional surface. The memory array chip stack is disposed on the periphery wafer and has a functional surface, in which the functional surface of the periphery wafer faces toward the functional surface of the memory array chip stack, and a first side of the memory array chip stack is in a staircase configuration. The first conductive contacts are on the first side of the memory array chip stack, and between and interconnecting the functional surface of the periphery wafer and the functional surface of the memory array chip stack.
US11289128B2
A system may perform operations including displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) on a display screen of a web client; displaying a first content prompt on a prompt screen comprised in the GUI, wherein the prompt screen is disposed on the GUI at least one of proximate or adjacent to a camera of the web client; recording a first video clip while displaying the first content prompt; displaying a second content prompt on the prompt screen in response to the recording the first video clip being completed; recording a second video clip while displaying the second content prompt; and/or concatenating the first video clip and the second video clip into a video.
US11289127B1
Systems and methods for instant video editing (e.g., trimming and stitching) are provided. In one embodiment, the trimming method includes receiving a video file. The video file includes a plurality of labeled video segments and a playlist. The playlist includes a plurality of segment labels, where each video segment includes a plurality of frames and a corresponding plurality of timestamps. The method receives a trim request including a target time range to be removed from the video file. The target time range starts at a beginning bookend timestamp and ends at an ending bookend timestamp. The method identifies a beginning bookend segment and an ending bookend segment. Finally, the method executes the trim request by processing one of the beginning bookend segment and the ending bookend segment. Also disclosed is a stitching method for stitching together two or more video files, which method may be utilized after each video file is trimmed.
US11289120B1
A head gimbal assembly for supporting a disk drive includes a flexure, a slider, a load beam and a gimbal affixed to the load beam. The flexure includes a first end extending along the load beam through a center region of a longitudinal axis of the head gimbal assembly and second end that includes a plurality of bond pads electrically coupled to the slider. The gimbal includes a detab, a connector region, a stator region and a central tongue region. The gimbal includes a gimbal tether configured to reduce stress on a first portion of the gimbal by coupling the first portion of the gimbal to a second portion of the gimbal.
US11289115B1
Embodiments are disclosed for a method. The method includes generating a file list of an original source tape. The file list identifies files that are stored on the original source tape. The method further includes determining a number of possible parallel copies for a data storage system having multiple tape drives. The method additionally includes generating multiple tape file lists. Each of the tape file lists identify copies of the files stored on one of multiple source tapes. Further, the method includes generating multiple new copies of the files by copying, in parallel, a subset of the files, and a subset of the copies, based on the tape files lists, and using a first of the tape drives, and a second of the tape drives.
US11289109B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for audio signal processing. An exemplary system may include a communication interface configured to receiving a first audio signal acquired from an audio source through a first channel, and a second audio signal acquired from the same audio source through a second channel. The system may also include at least one processor coupled to the communication interface. The at least one processor may be configured to determine channel features based on the first audio signal and the second audio signal individually and determine a cross-channel feature based on the first audio signal and the second audio signal collectively. The at least one processor may further be configured to concatenate the channel features and the cross-channel feature and estimate spectral-spatial masks for the first channel and the second channel using the concatenated channel features and the cross-channel feature. The at least one processor may also be configured to perform beamforming based on the spectral-spatial masks for the first channel and the second channel.
US11289106B2
A method for decoding an encoded audio bitstream is disclosed. The method includes receiving the encoded audio bitstream and decoding the audio data to generate a decoded lowband audio signal. The method further includes extracting high frequency reconstruction metadata and filtering the decoded lowband audio signal with an analysis filterbank to generate a filtered lowband audio signal. The method also includes extracting a flag indicating whether either spectral translation or harmonic transposition is to be performed on the audio data and regenerating a highband portion of the audio signal using the filtered lowband audio signal and the high frequency reconstruction metadata in accordance with the flag.
US11289095B2
There is a method and system for translating speech to text, the speech having been received by a client device. A user utterance corresponding to the speech is received. A first predicted text corresponding to the user utterance and a first confidence score corresponding to the first predicted text are determined using a local graph. The user utterance is transmitted to a server. A second predicted text corresponding to the user utterance and a second confidence score corresponding to the second predicted text is received from the server. If the first confidence score is higher than the second confidence score, the first predicted text is output.
US11289094B2
Systems and methods are provided for playback clearance assistance, the system includes a processing system configured to: in response to receipt of a voice clearance communication comprising a clearance message, decode the clearance message to identify features contained within the clearance message related to a command instruction or clearance data for a flight; determine, at least one applicable clearance message amendment solution for use to amend the clearance message from a set of applicable clearance message amendment solutions wherein the applicable clearance amendment solution is determined based on keywords retrieved from a plurality of databases comprising at least contextual and prior clearance message data; and apply the applicable clearance message amendment solution to append keywords to the clearance message to generate an appended clearance message that reduces ambiguity in the clearance message resulting from at least missing value data, non-standard terminology or incomplete message information.
US11289090B2
Systems and methods are described for handling interruptions during a digital assistant session between a user and a digital assistant by detecting if an interruption event is to occur during the digital assistant session. In response to detecting that the interruption event is to occur, an operation that addresses the interruption event may be caused to be performed.
US11289083B2
An electronic apparatus, based on a text sentence being input, obtains prosody information of the text sentence, segments the text sentence into a plurality of sentence elements, obtains a speech in which prosody information is reflected to each of the plurality of sentence elements in parallel by inputting the plurality of sentence elements and the prosody information of the text sentence to a text to speech (TTS) module, and merges the speech for the plurality of sentence elements that are obtained in parallel to output speech for the text sentence.
US11289082B1
Described herein is a system for adapting an output to a user input over a period of time based on how often the user interacts with the system. The system may determine a user's level of familiarity of the system, and may determine to personalize the output to a user request based on his level of familiarity. The user's level of familiarity may be determined by analyzing historical interactions between the user and the system. The level of personalization applied to the output may be determined based on the user's level of familiarity. As user becomes more familiar with the system, the output may be more personalized.
US11289076B2
Detecting and resolving conversation loops during a meeting is provided. A conversation between a set of participating entities is monitored during the meeting. A visual representation of the conversation is updated within a dashboard when one or more of a first predefined set of triggers are activated based on monitoring the conversation. A conversation loop is detected in the conversation when one or more of a second predefined set of triggers are activated based on monitoring the conversation and updating the visual representation of the conversation within the dashboard. Support materials that provide support for resolving the conversation loop are retrieved from at least one of local sources including a knowledgebase and remote sources including websites. The support materials are displayed in the dashboard along with an input section for the set of participating entities to indicate a consensus for resolving the conversation loop.
US11289073B2
Systems and processes for generating speech from text are provided. An example method of generating speech from text includes, at an electronic device having at least one processor and memory, obtaining text; generating a plurality of segments of a spectrogram using a first neural network, each spectrogram segment of the plurality of spectrogram segments representing a portion of the text; generating, based on the plurality of spectrogram segments, a plurality of speech segments using a second neural network; and providing the plurality of speech segments as a speech output.
US11289066B2
A voice synthesis method includes: sequentially acquiring voice units comprising at least one of diphone or a triphone in accordance with synthesis information for synthesizing voices; generating statistical spectral envelopes using a statistical model built by machine learning in accordance with the synthesis information for synthesizing the voices; and concatenating the sequentially acquired voice units and modifying a frequency spectral envelope of each voice unit in accordance with the generated statistical spectral envelope, thereby synthesizing a voice signal based on the concatenated voice units having the modified frequency spectra.
US11289061B2
A process for making a variable wind guitar pickup and a variable wind guitar pickup made by the process is provided. The pickup is capable of many sounds by changing the number of windings using a selector switch such as a five-position or six-position selector switch.
US11289047B2
A display device includes: a frame data counter configured to calculate frame information of an image displayed in a display area; a speed controller configured to determine a moving speed of the image; and a scenario determiner configured to determine a moving direction and moving amount of the image.
US11289046B2
The present invention is targeted at suppressing ringing and overvoltage. A driver circuit (200) drives a plurality of loads (Z1 to ZN). A plurality of output terminals (Po1 to PoN) are connected to the plurality of loads (Z1 to ZN). A plurality of drivers (Dr1 to DrN) correspond to the plurality output terminals (Po1 to PON), and generate driving signals (Vo#) applied to the respectively corresponding load (Z#). A plurality of clamp circuits (260_1 to 260_N) correspond to the plurality of drivers (Dr1 to DrN), and include Schottky diodes (SD) connected to input nodes or output nodes of the respectively corresponding drivers (Dr).
US11289032B2
A display device includes: a display panel including pixel rows to which line images are written; and a red, a green, and a blue light source. A display period of a frame image includes six subframe periods, each including a writing period and a lighting period. The line image of a color component corresponding to a combination of light emitted during the lighting period of a preceding period of two consecutive subframe periods, and light emitted during the lighting period of a subsequent period is written during the writing period of the preceding period. The subframe periods includes a first and a second subframe period provided alternately and consecutively, the first subframe period includes the writing period during which the line image is written to a first pixel row, and the second subframe period includes the writing period during which the line image is written to a second pixel row.
US11289030B2
Often when there is a glare on a display screen the user may be able to mitigate the glare by tilting or otherwise moving the screen or changing their viewing position. However, when driving a car there are limited options for overcoming glares on the dashboard, especially when you are driving for a long distance in the same direction. Embodiments are directed to eliminating such glare. Other embodiments are related to mixed reality (MR) and filling in occluded areas.
US11289029B1
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, and a panel driver configured to drive the display panel. The panel driver drives the display panel at a frame frequency corresponding to 1/N of an emission frequency such that each frame period corresponds to an N multiple of an emission period, where N is an integer greater than 1. The panel driver gradually decreases the frame frequency of the display panel in a case where input image data are not received and gradually increases the frame frequency of the display panel in a case where the input image data are received.
US11289028B2
The present disclosure describes an organic light emitting display device including: a display panel including data lines, gate lines, emission lines, and pixels, a data driver applying data signals to the data lines, and a gate driver applying gate signals and emission signals to the gate lines and the emission lines, respectively. At least one of the pixels may be operated in a first period in which a data voltage is applied, a second period in which the data voltage is remained and a driving current is provided according to the data voltage, and a third period in which the data voltage is remained and light emitting is not performed, where a ratio between lengths of the second and third periods can be adjusted. The at least one pixel may receive a preset voltage in the second period and the third period.
US11289017B2
A pixel circuit, a related driving method and a display panel are provided. The pixel circuit, which is a 7T1C type circuit includes a storage capacitor (Cst), a first transistor (T1), a second transistor (T2), a third transistor (T3), a fifth transistor (T5), and a first lighting element (R).
US11289014B2
A display device, a driving circuit, and a driving method, and there are provided a structure and a driving circuit allowing overlap driving for improving a charging rate and fake data insertion driving, in which a fake image is inserted between real images to prevent afterimages and improve moving picture response time, to be simultaneously performed, thereby making it easier to implement high resolution.
US11289010B2
The present application discloses a pixel driving circuit with touch-sensing function. The driving circuit includes a first drive-control sub-circuit, a display-drive sub-circuit, a second drive-control sub-circuit, and an emission-control sub-circuit connected in series to generate a drive-current to drive a light-emission device in the subpixel under control of an emission-control signal in a respective one of multiple emission duty periods of a cycle time for displaying one frame of image. The drive circuit also includes a data-input sub-circuit and a charge sub-circuit to set a first voltage to the control terminal of the display-drive sub-circuit. Additionally, the drive circuit includes a photo-sensing sub-circuit configured to reset a photo-sensing device integrated with the light-emission device in the subpixel for touch sensing in a touch-sensing period before entering any one of the multiple emission duty periods of the cycle time.
US11289007B2
A gate on array (GOA) driving unit, a GOA circuit, and a display device are provided. The GOA driving unit includes a GOA module configured to output a low voltage-level signal through a first output end of the GOA module under the control of a first clock signal and to output a high voltage-level signal through the first output end under the control of a second clock signal, wherein the first output end is configured to output the high or low voltage-level signal to the next level of GOA driving unit; and a protective module having a control end connected to a constant direct-current signal, an input end connected to the first output end, and a second output end configured to output the high or low voltage-level signal as a gate driving signal to a corresponding pixel unit under the control of the constant direct-current signal.
US11289006B2
Example display power management control circuitry is to determine a baseline image quality parameter associated with a baseline display power mode based on: a baseline first relationship parameter associated with a first relationship between original and boosted pixel values; a baseline percentage of pixels having a color value; and a baseline second relationship parameter associated with a second relationship between the numbers of original pixel values and boosted pixel values; determine a value of a subsequent first relationship parameter based on an adjusted second relationship parameter and a second percentage of pixels having the color value; determine a second image quality parameter associated with the subsequent first relationship parameter, the adjusted second relationship parameter, and the second percentage of pixels; and select the subsequent first relationship parameter and the adjusted second relationship parameter based on comparing the second image quality parameter to the baseline image quality parameter.
US11289004B2
A pixel driving circuit, an organic light emitting display panel and a pixel driving method. The pixel driving circuit includes: a switching sub-circuit, a driving sub-circuit, a storage capacitor and a charge eliminating sub-circuit; the charge eliminating sub-circuit has a control terminal connected to a first scanning signal line, and other terminals connected to the first terminal of the driving sub-circuit, a cathode of the organic light emitting element (OLED) and a reference voltage terminal respectively, and can enable a potential between the anode and the cathode of the organic light emitting element to be reversed under control of the first scanning signal line.
US11288998B2
A display device includes: a substrate including a first display area and a second display area including a transmission area; first pixels in the first display area; and second pixels in the second display area, wherein a distance between a first sub-pixel from among the first pixels, the first sub-pixel being adjacent to a boundary area between the first display area and the second display area, and a second sub-pixel from among the second pixels, the second sub-pixel being adjacent to the boundary area, is set to a certain value.
US11288981B2
A set of simulator hardware and software provide a realistic training environment for pressure equalization tube delivery to a tympanic membrane using a semi-automated pressure equalization tube delivery device (“PETDD”). An anatomically realistic ear model is attached to a touch sensitive display so that the ear model aligns with a displayed virtual image of the middle ear, creating a realistic view through the ear canal of the ear model. A training PETDD and other devices of the simulator provide pressure and location data for the training PETDD as a trainee inserts the PETDD tip into the ear canal to rest against the virtual TM and simulate a PE tube delivery event. Resulting data is examined to determine whether the simulated delivery would have been successful if it had been a real scenario.
US11288977B1
In an embodiment of the present invention, a method for generating a prediction of ability of a subject to perform a task in a future time step includes receiving performance data corresponding to a performance of the subject on the task; receiving a plurality of biometric inputs computed based on physiological data during the performance of the subject on the task; identifying a numerical relationship between the performance data and the plurality of biometric inputs; generating a modulation parameter for each of the plurality of biometric inputs based on the identified numerical relationship; loading a plurality of state variable inputs produced by a generic model of performance; and generate the prediction of ability to perform the task at the prediction time, generated by a trained performance predictor based on biometric inputs predicted based on the modulation parameters.
US11288965B2
A vibration control device which can make a user recognize a vibration by using a plurality of vibration units appropriately is provided. In a first vibration pattern, by interposing a low-vibration period (Ti) between a first standard vibration period (T1) and a second standard vibration period (T2), a user recognizes more easily a vibration by a vibration unit which vibrates in the second standard vibration period (T2). Therefore, even when the user's weight acts on the vibration unit which vibrates in the second standard vibration period (T2) lightly, the vibration of this vibration unit is easily recognized.
US11288959B2
A system of active lane markers in a roadway, the active lane markers comprising sensors, transmitters and receivers to monitor the status of the roads and provide vehicle guidance to vehicles in response to analysis of sensor data.
US11288947B2
A manual call point (MCP) (130) is provided and includes a housing (210), a frangible element (220) disposed on the housing (210) to be accessible to and operable by a user and a control system (120). The control system (120) is disposed within the housing (210). The control system (120) includes a detector (232) configured to detect frangible element (220) operations, a sensor (233) configured to measure forces applied to the frangible element (220) and a processing unit (234) configured to initiate an alarm responsive to the detector (232) detecting a frangible element (220) operation, to determine whether the measured forces are indicative of an event and to generate a report in accordance with determination results.
US11288937B2
A security camera system includes a base unit and sensor modules for generating image data. The base unit includes several mounting sockets arranged at different elevational and azimuthal directions around the base unit, and the sensor modules attach, for example, magnetically, to the mounting sockets. Each mounting socket includes a socket ID, which is used to stitch together the image data from different sensor modules. The security camera system is capable of automatic detection of the location of the sensor modules, as the socket IDs for the mounting sockets to which the sensor modules are attached are identified by various means including readable indicia and reader modules including optical codes and readers, membrane switches, optical sensors, and radio-frequency identification tags and readers.
US11288932B2
A system is configured for detecting errors in an ATM. The system includes a processor that receives a withdrawal request from a user to receive cash from a cash dispenser of the ATM. Currency denominations and a number of bills for each currency denomination needed to fulfill the withdrawal request is determined. The system sends signal commands to cassettes of the ATM to dispense bills to fulfill the withdrawal request. A camera is positioned in a pathway of the bills being dispensed from the cassettes to the cash dispenser. The camera captures images of bills being dispensed from the cassettes and sends them to the processor. The processor generates an alert if a number of bills dispensed from at least one cassette does not match a corresponding number of bills expected to be dispensed from the at least one cassette.
US11288931B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for facilitating financial services through point of sale (POS) systems. A system for facilitating financial services comprises a retail central computer system and a POS system. The POS system is configured to receive an input to switch from a retail mode to a financial services mode, receive, from the card reader, debit card information from a debit card associated with an account of a customer, transmit the debit card information and the cash amount to the retail central computer system, and remove the debit card information from a memory of the POS system. The retail central computer system is configured to encrypt the debit card information received from the POS system, generate a load cash request message, and remove the debit card information from the memory device after encrypting the debit card information.
US11288927B2
A computer implemented game involving analytics and real time data analysis. The game can allow players to predict and wager on the types of plays that have yet to occur, for example, in a football game. The game may utilize an algorithm that compares situational data in a game to stored data regarding similar situations in past games. The game can then provide a likelihood that a certain type of play can be performed, which may be interpreted as odds of a certain type of play. Users can then utilize this information to predict and wager on the upcoming play. Depending on the results of the play, users may win or lose their wager.
US11288925B2
A gaming system, apparatus, and method are disclosed providing improvements to feature games played on slot machines or other gaming machines. A bonus symbol feature game selection is provided that determines multiple feature games to be made available for the player by a player selection. The games made available are determined at least in part based on the base game result. A wheel enhancement feature game is provided in which a wheel is modified with various types of persistent modifications selected by player picks. The enhancements accumulate until a wheel spin is achieved, building excitement with the player. Chances of achieving a wheel spin may also be altered by the persistent modifications.
US11288920B2
An electronic gaming machine includes a display, a digital camera device, a credit input mechanism, and a processor programmed to perform operations comprising: (i) receiving, from the digital camera device, a digital image of the player; (ii) determining an emotional state of the player by performing facial expression analysis on the digital image; (iii) determining an emotion level of the player by categorizing the emotional state of the player based on the determined emotional state, the categorizing includes a first state representing a positive emotional level and a second state representing another emotional level; (iv) determining that the emotional level is the other emotional level; and (v) automatically initiating a game session action during the game play session, the game session action is configured to cause the player to transition to the positive emotional level.
US11288919B2
Systems and methods for generating a multidimensional data structure based on fantasy sports account activity are described herein. Processors can maintain user profiles, each user profile having player lineups associated with fantasy sports contests. The processors can identify, for a first user profile, player lineups of the first user profile and respective contests for which the player lineups were entered. Each player lineup including players having players attributes. Each contest having contest attributes. The processors can generate, for the first user profile, a multidimensional data structure including a plurality of features. Each feature can have a respective value that is based on the player attributes corresponding to the players included in the player lineups and the contest attributes corresponding to the contests for which the player lineups were entered. The processors can then provide content selected using the generated multidimensional data structure to a device associated with the user profile.
US11288918B2
A gaming system, including a game outcome server, an account handling device and a client device communicatively coupled via network, is described. The game outcome server may be operable to send command, instructions, data or combinations thereof that allow an interface for a wager-based game to be generated on the client device, generate a game outcome for the wager-based game that is displayed on the client device and generate an update to a player balance maintained on the account handling device. The account handling device is operable to provide gaming services related to the game play on the client device including a) web-site hosting where the web-site lists available gaming services including games provided by the game outcome server, b) accounting, c) money handling including player account management and d) player eligibility functions.
US11288914B2
Some methods involve receiving user input for initiation of an instance of a slot game, determining a game outcome that includes corresponding display symbols and an award determination, controlling a display system to display the display symbols at a plurality of display symbol positions and controlling the display system to present award effects corresponding to the award determination. The display symbol positions may be arranged in display symbol rows and display symbol columns. At least one of the display symbols may be a metamorphic display symbol that includes a metamorphic image. A state of the first metamorphic image may correspond to a level of progress towards attaining a goal. Progress towards the goal may be based, at least in part, in the number of occurrences of the metamorphic display symbol.
US11288908B2
Aspects of the invention are directed towards method and system for providing secure access to a user inside the premises. One or more embodiments of the invention describe receiving a user defined pre-access condition for a predetermined time by an input interface coupled to an intrusion panel. The pre-access condition for a user are authenticated and an authentication result is notified to a cloud server. The authentication is confirmed based on the pre-access condition together with geo-location information of the user within a defined geo-fencing boundary thereby satisfying dual authentication and transmitting the authentication result to the cloud server. A preset emergency notification and location tracking information are triggered on breach of the pre-access condition and/or geo-location information to a predefined user.
US11288902B2
Electric vehicles indicate charge levels in different ways. A lighting control module is communicatively is configured to illuminate an exterior light of an electric vehicle to indicate a charge status of a battery for the electric vehicle. The charge status is indicated based on varying an intensity of the exterior light, based on illuminating a subset of the exterior lights, and/or based on an animation. The display of the charge indicator varies based on a location of the vehicle, the presence of a person in proximity to the vehicle, and/or a charger connected to the vehicle.
US11288897B2
A crane risk logic apparatus and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the crane risk logic apparatus, the crane risk logic apparatus is integral with a crane, such as a mobile or crawler crane or a tower crane, and located in communication with a load moment indicator. The crane risk logic apparatus receives crane data from the load moment indicator and determines various data analytics, such as, lift angle data, allowable capacity data, operator override data, anti-two-block activation data, operational time data, lift cycle count data, lift classification data, slewing speed data, wind speed data, warning message data, error message data, and winch direction and speed data for each crane lift cycle. The data analytics may be utilized to inform a crane operator evaluation or a crane maintenance schedule for the crane, for example.
US11288896B2
A method for uniquely identifying mailpieces having non-personalized enclosures during an inserting and printing process in a mailpieces production system, the method including: creating a Job file containing at least a mailing list of addresses to be printed on mailpieces, allocating a distinct mailpiece identifier for a mailpiece, allocating a temporary machine identifier to a non-personalized enclosure extracted from an insert feeder of the mailpiece production system, associating said temporary machine identifier with said distinct mailpiece identifier and recording the mailpiece identifier as being in process, creating the mailpiece by inserting at least the non-personalized enclosure into an envelope, printing on the envelope an address associated with the mailpiece identifier, and recording the mailpiece identifier as being inserted.
US11288894B2
Described is a technique for optimization an image for facial detection. More specifically, described is a process of predicting the location of a face within an image and adjusting image settings based on at least a portion of the predicted location of the face. An image may be adjusted based on the characteristics of a metering region, which may be selected prior to performing facial detection. For example, the metering region may be a specified shape with dimensions equal to a certain percentage of the input image and placed at a specified location. The result of using such a metering region is that the image adjustments may be based on a portion of the face, and therefore, may be optimized for facial detection.
US11288893B2
A touch display device with a fingerprint anti-spoofing function and an associated fingerprint anti-spoofing method are provided, where the touch display device may include a touch display panel and a processing circuit. The touch display panel may include a plurality of display units and one or more codebooks, where each of the display units includes a sensor unit, and the one or more codebooks may make the sensor units receive sensing information of an object which is put on the touch display panel. In addition, the processing circuit may obtain the sensing information from the sensor units, and determine whether the object is a real finger based on the sensing information and reference information.
US11288873B1
Various implementations provided herein provide a computer-generated reality (CGR) experience on a head mounted device (HMD) that includes intentionally blurring virtual content to provide a more natural user experience. For example, while the user is focused on an object 10 feet away, a virtual object 3 feet away that is not focused upon but still visible may be intentionally blurred so that it does not appear crisp. The blurring depends on the distance of what the user is focusing on and the distance of the virtual object that the user is not focusing on. The CGR environment may involve virtual reality, mixed reality, optical see through, or video pass through.
US11288870B2
A method of guiding a user when performing a three-dimensional scan of an object includes determining two-dimensional feature points from two-dimensional captured images of the object, determining three-dimensional coordinates for the two-dimensional feature points, determining a cut plane based on the three-dimensional coordinates that divides the object into a target portion and a cut-away portion, and displaying the target portion of the object on a display using a first indicium and the cut-away portion of the object on the display using a second indicium that is different from the first indicium.
US11288869B2
An information processing device including a display control unit that controls, when recognition information related to recognition based on sensing of a real object includes first recognition information, shielding display representing shielding of a virtual object by the real object such that the shielding display presents a first boundary representation at a boundary between the virtual object and the real object or at a position near the boundary, and controls, when the recognition information includes second recognition information different from the first recognition information, the shielding display such that the shielding display presents a second boundary representation different from the first boundary representation at the boundary or at a position near the boundary.
US11288868B2
Disclosed herein is a simulated reality (SR) display system with an adjustable perspective. A simulated reality display system with an adaptable user space can receive a real world layout corresponding to a physical space in which the SR environment will be displayed to the user. Using the real world layout, a default user space can be adapted to conform to one or more aspects of the physical space forming an adjusted user space. Assets of an SR layer can be repositioned relative to the adjusted user space, with the SR layer defining a layout of a plurality of assets in the SR environment. The SR environment can be displayed on the display device, in accordance with the SR layer, allowing the user to safely move around the user space to explore the SR environment without undesirable interactions with the one or more aspects of the physical space.
US11288866B2
Methods, systems, and techniques for generating a new anatomy use a processor to obtain a skin mesh of the new anatomy that is in correspondence with a skin mesh of a template anatomy; after obtaining the skin mesh, transfer a fascia mesh of the template anatomy to the new anatomy; and after the fascia mesh is transferred, generate a fat displacement field defining fat of the new anatomy. The displacement field includes multi-dimensional displacement vectors, and each of the displacement vectors relates a vertex of the skin mesh of the new anatomy to a corresponding vertex of the fascia mesh of the new anatomy. A new anatomy may also be generated by interpolating from anatomies in a database.
US11288863B2
A computer-implemented method that allows users evaluate the densities of images and search for abnormalities in three-dimensional space. The voxel buildup uses a series of two-dimensional images and evaluates every pixel based on the user described predetermined threshold value at runtime. Once all the voxels are created, the user may manipulate the set of voxels as if they are one mesh.
US11288851B2
A signal output unit outputs an acquired signal. A signal attribute value display unit displays a value of an attribute related to an element constituting a target represented by the acquired signal or a signal generation source in a state in which a change instruction of the value of the attribute is able to be received. A changed attribute value acquisition unit acquires a changed value of the attribute when the change instruction of the value of the attribute is received. A change unit changes the value of the attribute for which the change instruction has been received on the basis of the changed value of the attribute acquired by the changed attribute value acquisition unit. A changed signal output unit outputs a changed signal in which the value of the attribute has been changed.
US11288847B2
Methods for simulating, and correcting for, doubly scattered annihilation gamma-ray photons in both time-of-flight (TOF) and non-TOF positron emission tomography scan data are disclosed.
US11288843B2
A decoding device, an encoding device and methods for point cloud encoding and decoding are disclosed. The method for decoding includes decoding an attribute frame, a geometry frame, and occupancy map frame from a received bitstream. The attribute and geometry frames include pixels representing points of a 3D point cloud and the occupancy map frame includes values. The method also includes generating a binary occupancy map frame based on comparing the values in the occupancy map frame to a scaling threshold to determine whether the pixels included in the attribute and geometry frames at corresponding positions in the binary occupancy map frame are valid pixels. The method further includes generating the 3D point cloud using the attribute frame, the geometry frame, and the binary occupancy map frame.
US11288841B2
A system for patient positioning is provided. The system may acquire image data relating to a patient holding a posture and a plurality of patient models. Each patient model may represent a reference patient holding a reference posture, and include at least one reference interest point of the referent patient and a reference representation of the reference posture. The system may also identify at least one interest point of the patient from the image data using an interest point detection model. The system may further determine a representation of the posture of the patient based on a comparison between the at least one interest point of the patient and the at least one reference interest point in each of the plurality of patient models.
US11288834B2
A method for determining the relative position between a first camera and a second camera used in a medical application, wherein the first camera captures a 2D image of a phantom, the second camera emits light onto the phantom and analyzes the reflected light, thus generating a 3D point cloud representing points on the surface of the phantom, and the phantom has a planar surface forming a background on which a plurality of 2D markers are formed, wherein one of the background and the 2D markers is reflective, thus reflecting light emitted by the second camera back to the second camera, and the other one is non-reflective, thus not reflecting light emitted by the second camera back to the second camera, the method involving that a) the first camera captures a 2D image of the phantom, b) the second camera generates a 3D point cloud representing the planar surface of the phantom, c) the 2D markers are identified in the 2D image, thus obtaining 2D marker data representing the locations of the 2D markers in the 2D image, d) the 2D markers are identified in the 3D point cloud using the property that points on a non-reflective part of the planar surface are identified as having a larger distance to the second camera than points on a reflective part of the planar surface, thus obtaining 3D marker data representing the locations of the 2D markers in a reference system of the second camera, and e) finding the relative position between the first camera and the second camera by applying a Perspective-n-Points algorithm on the 2D marker data and the 3D marker data.
US11288828B2
An object recognition system based on machine learning includes a 2D image capture module, a 3D space capture module, a data selection module, a data alignment module, a feature capture module and a detection module. The 2D image capture module captures a 2D image. The 3D space capture module captures 3D point cloud data. The data selection module performs object segmentation and depth recognition to select at least one region of interest (ROI). The data alignment module maps coordinates of the at least one ROI to coordinates of the 2D image. The feature capture module calculates features of the 2D image and extracts at least one feature of interest corresponding to the coordinates of the ROI from the features of the 2D image. The detection module obtains the feature of interest and identifies at least one object in the 2D image according to the feature of interest.
US11288827B2
A measurement device of a shovel, wherein the measurement device is installed in the shovel including a lower travelling body that performs traveling operation; an upper turning body pivotably mounted on the lower traveling body; a boom that is attached to the upper turning body, the boom being included in an attachment; and an arm that is attached to the boom, the arm being included in the attachment, wherein the measurement device measures a landform in a vicinity of the shovel at a plurality of positions based on an output of a device that captures information on a distance to a surrounding measurement target, the device being located above the lower traveling body.
US11288822B2
The present subject matter refers a method for training image-alignment procedures in a computing environment. The method comprises communicating one or more images of an object to a user and receiving a plurality of user-selected zones within said one or more through a user-interface. An augmented data-set is generated based on said one or more images comprising the user-selected zones, wherein such augmented data set comprises a plurality of additional images defining variants of said one or more communicated images. Thereafter, a machine-learning based image alignment is trained based on at-least one of the augmented data set and the communicated images.
US11288819B2
In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to systems, methods, and computer readable media for detecting movement in a scene. A first temporal pixel image is generated based on a first set of images of a scene over time, and a second temporal pixel image is generated based on a second set of images. One or more derived values are determined based on values of the temporal pixels in the first temporal pixel image, the second temporal pixel image, or both. Correspondence data is determined based on the first temporal pixel image and the second temporal pixel image indicative of a set of correspondences between image points of the first set of images and image points of the second set of images. An indication of whether there is a likelihood of motion in the scene is determined based on the one or more derived values and the correspondence data.
US11288815B2
A system for tracking single-cell movement trajectories is disclosed. The system can record, to a plurality of frames, cells (events) within a microfluidic device. Also, the system can identify an event within each frame including whether the event is a single cell or multiple cells. When the event appears differently between frames (e.g., single cell in one frame and multiple cells in another frame), the system can either segment or merge the cell(s). Then, the system can determine a trajectory for the events based on a position of the event in the frames. Further, the system can determine cell properties based on the trajectory of the events.
US11288810B2
A method for operating a robotic system includes obtaining and processing first data representative of an object at a start location. An event may be detected while implementing an operation based on the image data. A gripper height that corresponds to the event may be determined. Accordingly, the method may include calculating an object height that represents a height estimate of the object.
US11288807B2
The disclosure relates to a method, an electronic device and a storage medium for segmenting an image. The method includes: obtaining an image to be segmented; determining a first face result by detecting a face in the image and a first key-point result by detecting one or more key-points of the face in the image; determining a first face region in the image based on the first face result and the second face result; and segmenting a hair region from the first face region by an image segmentation model, wherein the image segmentation model is trained based on sample images, label mask images and a probability distribution map of hair, and the label mask image comprises a hair region of the sample image, and the probability distribution map of hair comprises a probability distribution of hair in the sample images.
US11288804B2
A brain tumor image segmentation method and device are disclosed. The disclosed method includes acquiring a basic white matter template generated based on brain magnetic resonance images of a plurality of healthy samples, collecting corresponding low, mid and high b-value diffusion weighted images of the brain of a patient, segmenting out a tumor region including the tumor body and the edema on each image based on the signal distribution of each image in a first set image group of the patient, removing the normal white matter region from the tumor region according to the basic white matter template and the high b-value diffusion weighted image, and classifying the value of the voxel in each image in a second set image group and a second apparent diffusion coefficient image obtained through calculations to obtain a tumor body region and an edema region.
US11288802B2
A method, user device, and system for displaying augmented anatomical features is disclosed. The method includes detecting a target individual, displaying a visual representation of the body, and determining an anatomical profile of the target individual based on a plurality of reference markers. The method further includes displaying, on the display, a graphical representation of the inner anatomical features onto the visual representation of the body so as to assist in the identification of the inner anatomical features. In another aspect, an initial three-dimensional representation of the body is mapped and a preferred anatomical profile is determined based upon the reference markers. The initial three-dimensional representation of the body is modified to be the shape of the preferred anatomical profile and displayed.
US11288799B2
The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and/or quantified parameters.
US11288784B1
An automated method and apparatus are provided for identifying when a first video is a content-identical variant of a second video. The first and second video each include a plurality of image frames, and the image frames of either the first video or the second video include at least one black border. A plurality of variants are generated of selected image frames of the first video and the second video. The variants are then compared to each other, and the first video is identified as being a variant of the second video when at least one match is detected among the variants.
US11288778B2
A digital medium environment is described to improve creation and rasterization of a shape through pixel alignment. In one example, a pixel alignment system is implemented at least partially in hardware of a computing device. The pixel alignment system receives an input that specifies a geometry, a stroke setting, and a location that serves as a basis to position the shape. The pixel alignment system then snaps the location as specified by the at least one input to a snapped location based on a pixel grid. The snapped location based on the geometry, the stroke setting, and the location as specified by the input. A rasterization module is then employed to rasterize the shape as pixels based on the snapped location.
US11288772B2
Systems, methods, and devices for super resolution and color motion artifact correction in a pulsed fluorescence imaging system are disclosed. A method includes actuating an emitter to emit a plurality of pulses of electromagnetic radiation and sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation resulting from the plurality of pulses of electromagnetic radiation with a pixel array of an image sensor to generate a plurality of exposure frames. The method includes detecting motion across two or more sequential exposure frames of the plurality of exposure frames, compensating for the detected motion, and combining the two or more sequential exposure frames to generate an image frame. The method is such that at least a portion of the plurality of pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises one or more of electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 770 nm to about 790 nm or from about 795 nm to about 815 nm.
US11288765B2
Methods for graphics processing are provided. One example method includes executing a plurality of kernels using a plurality of graphics processing units (GPUs), wherein responsibility for executing a corresponding kernel is divided into one or more portions each of which being assigned to a corresponding GPU. The method includes generating a plurality of dependency data at a first kernel as each of a first plurality of portions of the first kernel completes processing. The method includes checking dependency data from one or more portions of the first kernel prior to execution of a portion of a second kernel. The method includes delaying execution of the portion of the second kernel as long as the corresponding dependency data of the first kernel has not been met.
US11288752B1
A computer system for enhanced personal property replacement may be provided. The computer system may include at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device. The at least one processor may programmed to receive a plurality of user preferences transmitted from a user computer device associated with a user, receive a request from the user to cover a claim, determine a first plurality of items for the user based upon the claim and the plurality of user preferences, and/or transmit, to a retailer computer device associated with a retailer, an order for the determined first plurality of items with the retailer to be delivered to the user at an address associated with the user.
US11288751B1
Methods and systems for monitoring use and determining risks associated with operation of a vehicle having one or more autonomous operation features are provided. According to certain aspects, operating data may be recorded during operation of the vehicle. This may include information regarding the vehicle, the vehicle environment, use of the autonomous operation features, and/or control decisions made by the features. The control decisions may include actions the feature would have taken to control the vehicle, but which were not taken because a vehicle operator was controlling the relevant aspect of vehicle operation at the time. The operating data may be recorded in a log, which may then be used to determine risk levels associated with vehicle operation based upon risk levels associated with the autonomous operation features. The risk levels may further be used to adjust an insurance policy associated with the vehicle.
US11288747B2
A method for developing, evaluating, and validating investment glide paths for an investment event having an expected first duration includes: generating, with at least one processor, execution logic associated with at least one delayed onset investment glide path associated with the investment event and having the first duration, the at least one delayed onset investment glide path including: (1) an extended fixed allocation glide path, the extended fixed allocation glide path at a beginning of the delayed onset investment glide path, and (2) a reallocation glide path, the reallocation glide path immediately following the extended fixed allocation glide path and continuing for a remainder of the first duration; and automatically initiating, with at least one processor, execution of the at least one delayed onset investment glide path according to the execution logic.
US11288746B2
Token exchange systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed that allow a user to get access to a wired, wireless, or virtual network or the like by earning tokens to be used for said access, in which the user may earn tokens by making purchases or completing tasks in a token exchange system. In an exemplary embodiment, the user connects to a network, interacts with the network in order to earn tokens by making purchases through said network or completing tasks assigned by said network, and exchanges tokens for access time, whereby said user will be connected to the network or the internet for an amount of time commensurate with the amount of tokens exchanged for the access time.
US11288737B2
Systems and methods are provided for calculating a savings amount for loan refinancing. According to one implementation, a method includes displaying a graphic user interface comprising a widget at a client device and receiving input data from a user regarding a loan. In some embodiments, the input data may include the user's credit level and the current monthly payment, APR, and payoff amount associated with the user's current loan. The method further includes determining a saving amount based on a comparison of the input data with historical savings data accessible to the widget, and displaying the savings amount in the graphic user interface.
US11288736B1
Blockchain-based systems and methods related to creating and distributing cryptographically secure, digital tokens representing equity in assets corresponding to loan agreements. The system may comprise a transaction interface portal configured to collect and manage information pertaining to the origination of a loan agreement or a token transaction agreement. The system may include an underwriting smart contract configured to autonomously verify the value of an asset corresponding to a loan origination based at least partially on information not originating on the blockchain. The system may deliver tokens through a programmable escrow wallet configured to deliver tokens to buyers upon the satisfaction of encoded regulatory criterion. The system may be configured to determine the price of one or more tokens before delivery and adjust the price based at least on the appreciating value of the assets corresponding to the loan agreements and the number of tokens retired by the system.
US11288727B2
Content creation suggestion techniques are described. In one or more implementations, techniques are implemented to generate suggestions that are usable to guide creative professionals in the creation of content such as images, video, sound, multimedia, and so forth. A variety of techniques are usable to generate suggestions for the content professionals. In a first such example, suggestions are based on shared characteristics of images obtained by users of a content sharing service, e.g., licensed by the users. In another example, suggestions are generated by the content sharing service based on keywords used to locate the images. In a further example, suggestions are generated based on data described communications performed using social network services. In yet another example, recognition of failure of search is used to generate suggestions. A variety of other examples are also contemplated and described herein.
US11288719B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for converting unstructured documents to structured key-value pairs. In one aspect, a method comprises: providing an image of a document to a detection model, wherein: the detection model is configured to process the image to generate an output that defines one or more bounding boxes generated for the image; and each bounding box generated for the image is predicted to enclose a key-value pair comprising key textual data and value textual data, wherein the key textual data defines a label that characterizes the value textual data; and for each of the one or more bounding boxes generated for the image: identifying textual data enclosed by the bounding box using an optical character recognition technique; and determining whether the textual data enclosed by the bounding box defines a key-value pair.
US11288713B2
An email payment gateway may be configured to send emails to potential donors. The emails may include mailto hyperlinks. Each mailto hyperlink may be associated with one or more fundraising campaigns, and each mailto hyperlink describes an email message that may be generated when that hyperlink is selected. When a mailto hyperlink is selected, the generated email message may include one or more parameters related to the fundraising campaign associated with the hyperlink, such as an identifier of the fundraising campaign, donor identity or donation amount. The generated email message may then be transmitted to the email payment gateway. The email payment gateway may receive the message and, based on the parameters in the received message, process the donation on behalf of the donor.
US11288712B2
Items are identified and valuated based at least in part on an image that shows a depiction of the one or more items. The image is analyzed to identify the items, such as by a categorization. The items are valuated based upon the description, category, and/or additional information from the user about the items. The valuation is also based upon information from a valuation database. The identification and valuation may then be used for any of numerous purposes.
US11288711B1
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed that improve the efficiency and speed with which promotions can be generated. The method includes creating a promotion builder document, wherein the promotion builder document comprises a set of data elements guiding assembly of a promotion. The method further includes storing the promotion builder document in a memory connected to a computer network, and authorizing, by a processor, one or more remote users to access, via the computer network, the promotion builder document. The method further includes modifying the promotion builder document in response to instructions from at least one of the one or more remote users and assembling the promotion based on the promotion builder document. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are described herein.
US11288705B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, for detour based content selection. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, at a data processing apparatus, location data for a plurality of users, the location data describing, for each user, locations of a user device of the user; determining, from the location data, route data for the plurality of users, the route data describing, for each user, a route traveled by the user; determining, by the data processing apparatus, for at least one or more of the users, a detour from the route traveled by the user to a retail location of the offeror; determining, by the data processing apparatus, for each of the at least one or more of the users, whether the user is eligible for an offer of the offeror based on the detour; and for each user eligible for an offer, enabling the offeror to provide an offer to the user.
US11288703B2
The disclosed embodiments include methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for providing offers for linked transactions. Transaction data corresponding to a first product physically purchased using a financial service account and product identification data identifying the first purchased product are received. The transaction data and the product identification data are associated. A consumer that purchased the first product is determined based on at least the transaction data. Follow-on purchase to offer for sale to the consumer based on the product identification data is determined and a follow-up purchase offer to purchase the follow-on product is generated. The consumer is provided with the follow-on purchase offer to enable the consumer to purchase the follow-on product in an electronic commerce purchase transaction.
US11288701B2
The present disclosure relates to analysis of content to determine an equity index of a brand by building a data record by procuring input data from at least one platform; enriching the data record to remove noise from the input data to obtain an enriched data record; classifying the enriched data record into at least one category of one or more categories to obtain a classified data record; determining a sentiment ratio for the classified data record; determining an engagement metrics for the brand; and determining the equity index for the brand based on the at least one category and the sentiment ratio, the sentiment ratio and one or more variables.
US11288679B2
A system for authorizing an electronic transaction in an augmented reality environment comprises an augmented reality user device and an authentication server. The augmented reality user device includes a display that overlays virtual objects onto a field of view of the user. The user device receives a request to verify information about a payment card used in an electronic transaction. The request includes a virtual authentication object, which is a virtual representation of an object capable of being manipulated by the user in a particular sequence to enter an authentication code. The user device displays the virtual authentication object to the user and detects gestures performed on the virtual authentication object. The user device sends the detected gestures to the authentication server. The authentication server determines the authentication code using the virtual authentication object and the detected gestures, and uses it to authorize the transaction.
US11288669B1
Described herein is a relationship based fulfillment system. Such a system may provide on-demand product fulfillment by personal and/or social contacts of a purchaser. The system may utilize the personal contacts and/or relationships of a user, as indicated through various contact databases or social groups of the user, to connect the user to various potential partners for providing relationship based fulfillment of products that are purchased by the user or performance of other relationship based services. Furthermore, the system described herein may allow for the utilization of one or more currencies, such as cryptocurrencies, within the system. Techniques are described herein to allow for the utilization of such currencies in a resource efficient manner.
US11288668B1
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for the direct sharing and use of transaction data separately from transaction authorization processes. Transaction metadata associated with a transaction may be received and validated. Authorization information corresponding to the transaction may be received. The degree to which the transaction metadata is tested may be based on a predicted time of receipt of the authorization information. The transaction metadata and authorization information may be correlated. A computing device may determine whether to authorize the financial transaction based on the authorization information and the correlated transaction metadata. All or portions of the transaction metadata may be provided to one or more users after the transaction has been authorized or denied.
US11288663B1
A blockring service system may include a processor and memory, wherein the processor is configured to: receive a blockring request from the at least one user node; parse the request to derive blockring parameters; generate a blockring having a plurality of blocks connected by bonds based on the blockring parameters; and send the blockring to the at least one user node for distribution.
US11288662B2
A system and method for providing security to a token, including: a digital security system generating a unique token identification code for each token to be locked; the digital security system storing in a security system database each token identification code; for a token being purchased, a point-of-sale system obtaining the unique token identification code from the token being purchased; the point-of-sale system sending the unique token identification code obtained from the token being purchased to the digital security system for activation of the token being purchased; the digital security system receiving the unique token identification code sent from the point-of-sale system and comparing the received unique token identification code with token identification codes in the security system database to authenticate the unique token identification code; and the digital security system activating the unique token identification code.
US11288659B2
Disclosed are a system and methods enabling updating of a card number of a payment card and thereby reissuing the payment card utilizing a reissue application associated with the payment card. The reissue application, when executed communicates with a service provider that manages the payment card. The payment card includes processing circuity and a rewriteable visual display. Using cryptographic techniques, the reissue application and payment card are authenticated to the service provider. Upon verification, an updated card number is obtained and provided via near-field communication to the payment card. In response to the update payment card number received from the reissue application, the rewriteable visual display on the payment card is updated with the updated card number. Other information may also be presented on the rewriteable visual display of the payment card based on user preferences.
US11288658B2
Contactless payment data can be received from a mobile device via a contactless payment terminal. Responsive to receiving the contactless payment data from the mobile device, a token can be communicated to the mobile device via the contactless payment terminal, the token configured to be processed by the mobile device to initiate a particular communication functionality by the mobile device.
US11288653B2
A method, apparatus and system for processing a payment request for a virtual commodity on an open network platform are provided. The method includes: receiving a payment request that is sent by a third-party application server according to a request from a terminal, the payment request carrying at least an account identifier; deducting a charge from an account corresponding to the account identifier according to a payment attribute corresponding to the account identifier; and sending a charge deduction result corresponding to the account to the terminal via the third-party application server. According to the present method, usage rate of network and system resources is improved.
US11288651B2
A commodity sales data processing apparatus registers, if a code obtained by a receiver is a first code for identifying a commodity, sales data of the commodity identified by the first code. The apparatus acquires, if the code input by the receiver is a second code for identifying a commodity group ordered via a network, data of the commodity group identified by the second code from a saving destination where data of ordered commodities is saved. The apparatus registers, based on the data acquired from the saving destination, sales data of a commodity included in the commodity group identified by the second code. The apparatus executes settlement processing based on the sales data of the commodity identified by the first code and the commodity included in the commodity group identified by the second code.
US11288640B2
A cloud-based computing system is provided that includes a payments platform for integrating payment gateway services with a cloud computing platform so that clients of the cloud computing platform can perform payment transactions with customers via the cloud computing platform. The payment gateways that include a particular synchronous payment gateway. The cloud computing platform can include a multitenant database system that provides applications and services to a plurality of clients, and a payments platform module. Each client can be, for example, a tenant or organization of the cloud computing platform that transacts business with one or more customers via a payment gateway. The payments platform module has a pluggable architecture for integrating payment gateway adapters with the cloud computing platform.
US11288629B2
Systems and methods of detecting, identifying, and classifying objects positioned on a shelf are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a sensor pad comprises a plurality of electrical contacts disposed in the pad as a matrix of rows and columns of electrical contacts. Further, each contact corresponds to a different surface area of the pad and has a first electrical conductor positioned on a first layer and a second electrical conductor positioned opposite to the first conductor on a second layer. Also, at least one of the first and second conductors is operable to vary in resistance or capacitance based on an amount of pressure applied to that conductor. In addition, each contact is configured to enable an electrical connection between the first and second conductors with a resistance or capacitance that varies based on an amount of pressure applied to a corresponding area of the pad when an object is positioned on that pad.
US11288624B2
A method at a computing device for determining future utilization of a shipping yard, the method including detecting a number of assets within the shipping yard; determining, based on asset scheduling information, future yard activity; and correlating the number of assets within the shipping yard with the future yard activity to provide a predictive yard utilization.
US11288622B2
A method for package delivery includes identifying a plurality of delivery locations for package delivery. The method includes determining a driving route for an automated ground vehicle to optimize delivery to the delivery locations using one or more automated aerial vehicles. The method includes controlling the automated ground vehicle to navigate the delivery route. The method further includes determining timing for release of the one or more automated aerial vehicles during navigation of the delivery route to deliver packages to the plurality of delivery locations.
US11288608B2
A project management portal is disclosed that may include a graphical user interface (GUI) by which individuals internal and external to the enterprise may coordinate performance of tasks and communicate with one another to complete the project. The GUI may include a job list window that displays a plurality of selectable jobs, each corresponding to a job that has been created by a user, and a job details window that displays information associated with a job corresponding to a selected job within the job list window. The job details window may include any number of data entry fields that allow a job to be configured. In some embodiments, some jobs within a job list window may be dependent upon other jobs, such that data produced during performance of a first job acts as an input to be used during performance of a second job.
US11288602B2
Systems and methods include processors for receiving training data for a user activity; receiving bias criteria; determining a set of model parameters for a machine learning model including: (1) applying the machine learning model to the training data; (2) generating model prediction errors; (3) generating a data selection vector to identify non-outlier target variables based on the model prediction errors; (4) utilizing the data selection vector to generate a non-outlier data set; (5) determining updated model parameters based on the non-outlier data set; and (6) repeating steps (1)-(5) until a censoring performance termination criterion is satisfied; training classifier model parameters for an outlier classifier machine learning model; applying the outlier classifier machine learning model to activity-related data to determine non-outlier activity-related data; and applying the machine learning model to the non-outlier activity-related data to predict future activity-related attributes for the user activity.
US11288598B2
Techniques for providing third-party analytics via a virtual assistant interface are disclosed. A third-party analytics service trains a machine learning model, based at least on interaction histories of users of a consumer-facing application. The interaction histories include sales data associated with the users. The third-party analytics service receives, via a virtual assistant interface, a request for a recommended marketing strategy to be targeted at one or more users of the consumer-facing application. The third-party analytics service applies the request to the machine learning model, to obtain the recommended marketing strategy responsive to the request. The recommended marketing strategy is based at least on a predicted effectiveness of the recommended marketing strategy targeted at the one or more users of the consumer-facing application. The third-party analytics service presents, via the virtual assistant interface, the recommended marketing strategy responsive to the request.
US11288592B2
A machine learning model can be trained to infer the probability of the presence of categories of a software bug in a source code file. A bug tracker can provide information concerning the category to which a software bug belongs. The bug data supplied to a machine learning model for inferring the presence of particular categories of bugs can be filtered to exclude a specified category or categories of bugs. Information including but not limited to organizational boundaries can be inferred from the category of bugs present in a body of source code. The inferred organization boundaries can be used to generate team-specific machine learning models.
US11288589B1
Method, apparatus and product for modeling of quantum circuits and usages thereof. A method includes obtaining a model of a quantum circuit that comprises a set of decision variables, corresponding domains, and constraints, wherein the set of decision variables comprise gate assignment decision variables that define an assignment of a gate to a qubit in a cycle in the quantum circuit. The method includes automatically determining a set of valuations for the set of decision variables. The set of valuations are selected from the corresponding domains and satisfy the constraints. Based on the set of valuations the quantum circuit is synthesized.
US11288586B2
Disclosed herein are quantum dot devices, as well as related computing devices and methods. For example, in some embodiments, a quantum dot device may include a base and a fin extending away from the base and including a quantum well layer. The device may further include a first gate disposed on a first side of the fin and a second gate disposed on a second side of the fin, different from the first side. Providing gates on different sides of a fin advantageously allows increasing the number of quantum dots which may be independently formed and manipulated in the fin. The quantum dots formed in such a device may be constrained in the x-direction by the one or more gates, in the y-direction by the fin, and in the z-direction by the quantum well layer, as discussed in detail herein. Methods for fabricating such devices are also disclosed.
US11288583B2
A method includes detecting a defective entigen group within a knowledge database. The defective entigen group includes entigens and one or more entigen relationships between at least some of the entigens. The defective entigen group represents knowledge of a topic. The method further includes obtaining corrective content for the topic based on the defective entigen group and generating a corrective entigen group based on the corrective content. The method further includes updating the defective entigen group utilizing the corrective entigen group to produce a curated entigen group.
US11288582B2
Systems and associated methods are described for providing content recommendations. The system accesses a plurality of recommendation algorithms and assigns a plurality of weight values to each prediction algorithm. Then, the system generates a set of candidate weight combinations, such that each candidate combination includes a weight value assigned to each prediction algorithm. Then requests for content items are received over a predetermined period of time. For each combination, the system generates a set of recommended content items and an evaluation metric that is based on matches with requests. Afterwards, the system replaces a candidate combination that resulted in a generation of a lowest evaluation metric. The aforementioned steps are repeated until the evaluation metrics stop improving. Then display identifiers are displayed for a set of recommended content items generated for a candidate combination with the highest evaluation metric.
US11288574B2
Systems and methods for creating and/or using an artificial intelligence memory system that models human memory are provided. The AI memory system creates and/or uses a user centric memory graph. The user centric memory graph implicitly links memory elements of a user utilizing relationships created in space, time, and cognitive dimensions similar to how the human brain stores and recalls different memory elements. The user centric memory graph is used by searching and/or constraining the user centric memory graph based on a determined user context and/or a user query.
US11288571B1
Disclosed herein are systems and methods that identify and improve upon false positive scores. Some embodiments may include artificial neural network learning methods that utilize data input from users as well as enterprise machines. Information, such as transaction timing, prior transaction data, and demographics, may be taken as inputs to the neural network processing. The processing may be done on one or more neural network computers or nodes.
