US11297751B2
An automatic exchanging device for moving in an arrangement direction of multiple component mounting machines alongside the front face of a component mounting line to set feeders to and/or remove feeders from a feeder setting base of each component mounting machine, and a control device for controlling the movement of the automatic exchanging device. The control device monitors the operational states of the multiple component mounting machines and, when an error requiring the work of the operator occurs in any one of the component mounting machines, sets a predetermined range including the component mounting machine to a movement prohibited area of the automatic exchanging device to move the automatic exchanging device out of the movement prohibited area until it is determined that the work is completed.
US11297746B2
A high-frequency module (1a) includes a multilayer wiring substrate (2), a plurality of components (3a, 3b) mounted on an upper surface (20a) of the multilayer wiring substrate (2), a sealing resin layer (4) laminated on the upper surface (20a) of the multilayer wiring substrate (2) and sealing the plurality of components (3a, 3b), and a shield (5). The shield (5) is composed of shield walls (5a, 5b) arranged in grooves (12) and (13), respectively, formed between the first component (3a) and the second component (3b) in the sealing resin layer (4) and a connecting conductor (11) coupling both the shield walls (5a, 5b). A first region (40a) and a second region (40b) in the sealing resin layer (4) split by the shield (5) are contiguous at the location of the connecting conductor (11) as seen from a direction perpendicular to the upper surface (20a) of the multilayer wiring substrate (2).
US11297744B2
A capacitor and a discharge resistor can be connected using a simplified configuration without using a bus bar. A connection of a capacitor and a discharge resistor of a power conversion device are carried out using wire harnesses that form positive and negative lines. The capacitor and the discharge resistor are integrated by being directly connected using a first wire harness. A second wire harness is drawn out from a terminal portion electrically separated from a first terminal portion of the capacitor; and a third wire harness is drawn out from the discharge resistor, where the second wire harness and the third wire harness are fastened.
US11297741B2
A cooling system for an electronic rack of a data center, such as an IT rack or PoD, is disclosed. The system includes a coolant distribution unit (CDU) coupled to a rack manifold of the electronic rack through a fluid cooling loop. The CDU supplies cooling fluid that is distributed to the IT rack or PoD, and receives returning warm/hot fluid from the IT rack or PoD. The system further includes an enhancing cooling unit to receive a first part of a first distributed portion of the cooling fluid and to further cool the first part of the first distributed portion of the cooling fluid to a lower temperature value than the one of the supplied cooling fluid through an enhancing cooling loop. The system further includes a first external cooling unit connected to the CDU through a cooling fluid loop to supply the cooling fluid to the CDU. The system further includes an air cooling unit to receive a second distributed portion of the cooling fluid and to use the second distributed portion of the cooling fluid to cool the airflow for IT rack or PoD. The system is arranged in five portions, and fluids and cooling units are shared among the portions within distributing loops.
US11297736B2
A data center cooling system includes a server rack frame assembly that includes a plurality of bays defined along a lengthwise dimension of the frame assembly, each bay including a volume defined at least in part by a specified height that is orthogonal to the lengthwise dimension and a specified width that is parallel to the lengthwise dimension and sized to at least partially enclose at least one server rack configured to support a plurality of data center computing devices; and at least one cooling unit sized for a bay of the plurality of bays of the server rack frame assembly and configured to circulate a heated airflow from an open back side of the at least one server rack, cool the heated air, and circulate a cooling airflow through an open front side of the at least one server rack.
US11297734B2
A heat dissipation module for optical transceiver is provided. The heat dissipation module for optical transceiver includes a liquid cooling device, a casing assembly and an elastic fastener. The liquid cooling device includes a liquid cooling tube and a base, and the liquid cooling tube is in connection with the base. The casing assembly includes a top plate. The top plate includes a top surface, a bottom surface and an opening. The opening is through the top surface and the bottom surface. At least one part of the liquid cooling device is extended into the opening and protruded over the bottom surface. The elastic fastener is configured for fastening the liquid cooling device on the casing assembly, and the liquid cooling device is pluggably fastened to the casing assembly.
US11297713B2
A circuit board has an electrical circuit and a connector that is attached to the circuit board. The connector has metal contacts. A housing of the connector has an embedded reference metal layer that is disposed under a single-ended metal contact or differential metal contacts. The reference metal layer sets the impedance of the single-ended metal contact or the differential metal contacts.
US11297711B2
A wiring circuit board sequentially includes a conductive layer, an insulating layer, and a shield layer toward one side in a thickness direction. The insulating layer covers the conductive layer and has an insulating opening portion exposing a part of a one-side surface in the thickness direction of the conductive layer, and the shield layer has a recessed portion disposed at the inside of the insulating opening portion and recessed toward the other side in the thickness direction so as to be in contact with the conductive layer. The shield layer sequentially includes an adhesive layer and a main body layer toward one side in the thickness direction. A ratio (Tb/Ta) of a thickness Tb of the main body layer to a thickness Ta of the adhesive layer is 4 or more.
US11297691B2
Embodiments of interference coordination for aerial vehicle user equipment (UE) are described. In some embodiments, a base station (BS) is configured to select a subset of time-frequency resources dedicated for use in serving aerial vehicle UEs and communicate with the aerial vehicle UEs via the subset of time-frequency resources. In some embodiments, the BS may transmit signaling to a neighbor BS that indicates the BS has dedicated the subset of time-frequency resources for serving aerial vehicle UEs and the subset of time-frequency resources to be used. The BS may receive an indication from the neighbor BS that a neighbor BS is to dedicate the subset of time-frequency resources to serve aerial vehicle UE, and based on the indication, the BS may reduce transmission activities in the subset of time-frequency resources, including refraining from transmitting or reducing an amount of information or power level of signaling to the aerial vehicle UEs.
US11297690B2
The reconfigurable radio remote unit for distributed antenna systems comprises a plurality of integrated radio frequency boards each dedicated to a respective frequency band, and configuration means for remotely selecting the frequency bands and/or for setting the power level of the frequency bands.
US11297683B2
A method by which a terminal receives data in a wireless communication system and a device using the method are provided. The method is characterized by receiving first data in a unit of transport block, the transport block including at least one code block, transmitting acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information for each code block, of which there is at least one, and receiving, in a unit of code block, second data included in a code block, for which NACK has been transmitted, among code blocks, of which there is at least one.
US11297681B2
A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method including: selecting to create a configured sidelink grant corresponding to transmissions of at least one media access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU); and triggering a transmission carrier selection procedure based on (i) data being available in a sidelink traffic channel (STCH) associated with one or more carriers, and (ii) there being no configured sidelink grant on any carrier, among the one or more carriers, that is allowed for the STCH.
US11297680B2
Methods and systems for handling emergency services in a wireless network. A method disclosed herein includes enabling at least one User Equipment (UE) supporting only Closed Access Group (CAG) cell/non-public network (NPN) to camp onto at least one non-CAG cell/public network cell to access the emergency services. The method further includes enabling the at least one UE to switch behavior of a timer from a periodic registration timer with a “Strictly Periodic Registration Timer Indication” to a normal periodic registration timer/pre-release 16 behavior for performing the emergency services.
US11297675B2
A method for implementing discontinuous reception includes: when UE is switched from a DRX off stage in an idle state to a DRX on stage, listening indication information sent by a base station is received; and when it is determined based on the listening indication information that it is not needed to continue listening control information in the DRX on stage, the UE is controlled to switch from the DRX on stage to the DRX off stage.
US11297674B2
A method for a user equipment (UE) apparatus to reduce power consumption in response to an outcome of a signal reception. The outcome can indicate whether or not the UE needs to be active at a next discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle. The signal can also provide configurations of parameters for transmissions or receptions during the next DRX cycle and be used by the UE for measurements and to obtain channel state information.
US11297664B2
Embodiments of methods and systems for mobility in enterprise networks are presented. The methods and systems described herein provide a mobile wireless device with access to both an enterprise network and an external network by establishing a proxy connection between a gateway component of the enterprise network and a gateway component of the external network. Such embodiments may maintain the security of the enterprise network. Additionally, such embodiments may not require modification of the User Equipment (UE) or of components of the external network. Indeed, the methods and systems may operate transparently to both the UE and to components of the external network.
US11297662B1
Methods and systems for connecting a device to a wireless telecommunications network. The methods can include receiving an inquiry from a device for connecting to an antenna array. The methods can also include determining if the inquiry satisfies one or more predetermined connection rules.
US11297656B2
A method is provided for performing a random access procedure in a mobile communication system. The method includes receiving a random access response message from a Base Station (BS); transmitting a message including a Cell-Radio Network Temporary Identifier (C-RNTI) to the BS, if the C-RNTI exists; and determining that a contention for the random access procedure is resolved successfully, when User Equipment (UE)-specific control information addressable by the C-RNTI is received from the BS.
US11297655B2
A method and device for random access method and device are provided. The method includes: User Equipment (UE) receives a paging message from a network; the UE determines random access control information associated with the paging message; the UE determines a random access resource according to the random access control information; and the UE initiates a random access procedure based on the random access resource.
US11297653B2
In one aspect of the present invention, user equipment for transmitting a preamble at any timing after synchronization with a base station includes a reception unit that detects a synchronization signal or a physical broadcast channel from the base station; a resource selection unit that determines resources available for transmission of the preamble based on configuration information for preamble transmission, and selects, from the resources available for transmission of the preamble, a resource for transmitting the preamble according to the detected synchronization signal or the detected physical broadcast channel based on a mapping rule; and a transmission unit that transmits the preamble to the base station on the selected resource.
US11297652B2
A method, performed by a wireless device (130), for handling access to a cell (120). The wireless device (130) operates in a wireless communications network (100). The wireless device (130) determines (302), given a first uplink carrier (141) in use during a random access procedure to the cell (120), whether or not a second uplink carrier (142) is to be used during the random access procedure to the cell (120), instead of the first uplink carrier (141). The cell (120) is served by a network node (110) operating in the wireless communications network (100). The wireless device (130) then uses (305), based on a result of the determination, one of the first uplink carrier (141) and the second uplink carrier (142), to continue the random access procedure to the cell (120).
US11297642B2
A method for uplink transmission performed by a UE is provided. The method includes: receiving a first configured grant configuration that allocates a first PUSCH duration; receiving a second configured grant configuration that allocates a second PUSCH duration, wherein the second PUSCH duration overlaps with the first PUSCH duration; obtaining a first HARQ process ID for the first PUSCH duration, then determining whether a first configured grant timer associated with the first HARQ process ID is running; obtaining a second HARQ process ID for the second PUSCH duration, then determining whether a second configured grant timer associated with the second HARQ process ID is running; and selecting one of the first PUSCH duration and the second PUSCH duration for an uplink transmission based on whether the first configured grant timer is running and whether the second configured grant timer is running.
US11297635B2
Systems and methods to bundle mini-slots in an OFDM based wireless communication system. Mini-slots are bundled to improve the probability of successful reception by Permitting repeated transmission of a given transport block of data. Mini-slots which are contiguous or non-contiguous in time and/or frequency may be bundled, and mini-slots from different slots may also be bundled.
US11297632B2
The present disclosure relates to handling latency-sensitive traffic, in Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) for example, during measurement gaps. Latency-sensitive traffic is detected at a user equipment (UE), and transmission or reception associated with the latency-sensitive traffic is performed at the UE during a time period in which a measurement gap has been configured for the UE to perform measurement of received signal strength. The transmission or reception may be performed instead of or in addition to the measurement. Other embodiments that involve shortening measuring times and shortening or avoiding switching times associated with communication resource switching, for example, are also disclosed.
US11297630B2
[Object] To provide a grant-free transmission mechanism that ensures improved transmission efficiency of a system as a whole. [Solving Means] A transmission apparatus includes a setting section and a communication processing section. The setting section performs settings regarding a resource capable of grant-free transmission and a plurality of transmission patterns corresponding to predetermined pieces of information different from each other. The communication processing section sends data in a grant-free manner in the resource capable of grant-free transmission by using a transmission pattern selected from among the plurality of transmission patterns.
US11297623B2
The communication device is installed in an aircraft and is capable of radio communication with a base station on the ground. The communication device comprises a transmitter, a receiver, and a controller. The controller acquires location information of the aircraft at a predetermined time, and communicates with the base station using an allocation pattern of communication resources according to the location information of the aircraft.
US11297619B1
A method and system for controlling carrier load in a wireless communication system that supports multiple user equipment devices (UEs) each being primarily connected with a first access node on a first carrier and each having a respective secondary connection for dual-connectivity service. An example method includes (i) monitoring a distribution of the respective secondary connections of the UEs among being on a second carrier and being on a third carrier, the third carrier having wider bandwidth than the second carrier, (ii) based on the monitoring, determining that at least a predefined threshold portion of the UEs have their secondary connections on the third carrier rather than on the second carrier, and (iii) based at least on the determining, taking action to control load on the first carrier, such as limiting a maximum number of UEs allowed to be concurrently connected with the first access node on the first carrier.
US11297618B2
The present application discloses a method for D2D communication and a terminal device, the method including: receiving, sidelink control information (SCI) transmitted by a second terminal device; determining, by the first terminal device, that the SCI is in a first format or in a second format, where the SCI includes a resource reservation bit, and the resource reservation bit in the SCI of the first format is not used to indicate whether the second terminal device reserves a time-frequency resource for next data transmission, and the resource reservation bit in the SCI of the second format is used to indicate whether the second terminal device reserves the time-frequency resource for the next data transmission; and prohibiting data transmission on a plurality of the time-frequency resources distributed in accordance with a first time period if the first terminal device determines that the SCI is in the first format.
US11297616B2
A multi-slot transmission method and a multi-slot transmission device are provided. The multi-slot transmission method includes: determining a value of the quantity of slots in a set of the quantities of slots; and transmitting the value of the quantity of slots to a UE, the value of the quantity of slots being used by the UE to perform a PUCCH transmission and/or a PUSCH transmission within multiple slots.
US11297611B2
A communication transmitter for transmitting a control message over a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) towards a communication entity in a mobile communication network, wherein the communication transmitter comprises a processor configured to process a control block to obtain the control message, wherein the control block includes a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion includes downlink control information bits indicating information relating to data transmission over the mobile communication network, and insert prefix error detection code bits into the second portion of the control block to obtain the control message, and a communication interface configured to transmit the control message over the mobile communication network and a communication receiver for receiving the control message from the communication transmitter over the communication network.
US11297610B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting information that indicates a change in system information. One method includes determining a change corresponding to system information occurring after a first modification period boundary. The method includes transmitting information in downlink control information that indicates the change corresponding to the system information. The information is transmitted before a second modification period boundary, and the change comprises a modification to a master information block, a modification to a system information block, a modification to scheduling information, or some combination thereof.
US11297596B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for monitoring occasions in a downlink, such as paging occasions. In some example embodiments, there may be provided an apparatus that includes at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to at least receive information indicating a start of one or more paging occasions within at least a portion of a frame and monitor the one or more paging occasions in accordance with the received information. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.
US11297591B1
Examples of techniques for handling multiple fine time measurement ranging requests are described. In an example, an access point (AP) may receive a ranging request for initiating an FTM session from each client device in a set of client devices. Based on the ranging request, a plurality of burst durations, each for performing the FTM session for each client device is determined. A maximum burst duration may be determined form the plurality. If a service time for serving high priority traffic is less than the maximum burst duration, a subset of the client devices is selected for performing the FTM session, where a sum of burst durations for performing the FTM session for each client device in the subset is less than the maximum burst duration. The FTM session for each client device in the subset is initiated.
US11297586B2
Method for transmitting/receiving signal in wireless communication system and device supporting same
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and specifically, provides a communication method and a device therefor, the communication method comprising: transmitting, to a terminal, an uplink grant comprising first information for changing a timing advance (TA) value; receiving, from the terminal, a first uplink signal which is based on the first information; and receiving a first downlink signal from a base station, wherein the transmission timing of the first uplink signal from the terminal is determined on the basis of the first information so that the first uplink signal and the first downlink signal may be received simultaneously at a relay node.
US11297584B2
A method for transmitting a D2D (Device to Device) signal in a wireless communication system, includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a synchronization signal; and transmitting, by the UE, the D2D signal based on a timing advance offset related to a reception timing of the synchronization signal, wherein the timing advance offset is a value greater than 0 based on that the UE is the in-coverage of a node B, and wherein the timing advance offset is a value equal to 0 based on that the UE is the out-of-coverage of the node B and the synchronization signal is related to the in-coverage of the node B.
US11297579B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may filter a group of uplink reference signals so that filtering delays of the group of uplink reference signals are consistent based at least in part on a filtering constraint for the group of uplink reference signals; and transmit the group of uplink reference signals. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11297572B2
A method for connecting to a Registered Public Land Mobile Network (RPLMN) after receiving an accept message with limited service from a user selected CSG cell, which is associated to a different PLMN than the RPLMN during manual CSG selection mode is disclosed. The method includes connecting to the RPLMN based on the availability of the user selected CSG cell in UTRAN. If the user selected CSG cell is not available in UTRAN, then the method includes connecting to the RPLMN by the UE using the stored duplicate value of the RPLMN. If the user selected CSG cell is available in UTRAN, then the method includes sending an ATTACH request to the user selected CSG cell without disabling the EUTRA capabilities. If the ATTACH request is failed, then the method includes connecting to the RPLMN using the stored duplicate value of the RPLMN.
US11297570B2
A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications system, the terminal device configured to attempt to receive or to transmit a first signal during one or more of a plurality of predetermined time periods in response to determining that one or more second signals indicating, respectively, that the one or more of the plurality of predetermined time periods should be used for the attempted reception or transmission of a first signal have been received by the transceiver; determine a characteristic associated with the one or more second signals; and to control the transceiver to receive a third signal from the infrastructure equipment or to transmit a third signal to the infrastructure equipment, the third signal comprising information on the basis of which it is determinable whether or not a predetermined condition associated with the characteristic associated with the one or more second signals has been met.
US11297568B2
Techniques for location-based apparatus management can result in significant battery power savings for the apparatus and robust controls over the apparatus. This may be achieved by using discovered wireless network(s) to learn repeating patterns of the apparatus and, accordingly, set up soft geofences to trigger automatic operations of the apparatus. Information associated with the discovered wireless network(s) is used to determine the location of the apparatus, and the type of location can be identified. Based on the type of location, the apparatus is placed in a mode corresponding to the identified type of location. Alternatively, or additionally, specific features and/or applications on the apparatus may be activated or deactivated.
US11297555B2
In 6G, there are multiple radios that can cover the same location at any time, and yet radio failure can occur. However, a mobile edge computing (MEC) platform can increase the footprint of adjacent radios to compensate for a failed radio. To reduce the failure interruption and maintain a quality of experience for a subscriber, the MEC can utilize a virtual session capability to communicate radio change of service characteristics to a service provider. Consequently, the change in service characteristics can comprise an expanded coverage area for adjacent radios such that a mobile device of the subscriber can take advantage of the expanded coverage area without experiencing an interruption in service.
US11297553B1
Methods, systems, and processing nodes for ensuring uplink service for wireless devices capable of uplink split mode in EN-DC using both 4G LTE and 5G NR RATs, by selecting serving access nodes that are also capable of uplink split mode and/or coupled to large quantities of antenna elements relative to other potential serving access nodes. In particular, such serving access nodes are selected for wireless devices that exhibit one or more of a low power headroom, a high uplink buffer, or a high mobility.
US11297552B2
A method for performing seamless relocation of a mobile terminal in a wireless network includes selecting a first serving gateway (SGW) among a plurality of SGWs and a first packet data network gateway (PGW) among a plurality of PGWs, wherein the first SGW connects to the first PGW to setup the first S5 session, establishing a first communication channel between the terminal and the first PGW and assigning an internet protocol (IP) address to the terminal, selecting a second SGW among the plurality of SGWs when the terminal is about to move out of an area being served by the first SGW, connecting the second SGW to the second PGW to setup a new S5 session when a second PGW among the plurality of PGWs is closer to the second SGW than the first PGW or connecting the second SGW to the first PGW to modify the first S5 session when no PGW is closer to the second SGW than the first PGW, establishing a second communication channel between the terminal and the second SGW using the IP address allocated to the terminal, reconfiguring routing for terminal IP destination, and terminating the first communication channel between the terminal and the first PGW.
US11297535B2
Embodiments presented in this disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses (such as Access Points (AP's), evolved NodeB's (eNB's), etc.) for use in aggregation, or integration, between a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) and a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). In one embodiment, an eNB decides that an aggregation between the WWAN and the WLAN is to be performed for at least one bearer of one or more bearers associated with a specific UE. Next, the eNB identifies which one(s) of the at least one bearer of the specific UE that is/are to be aggregated between the WWAN and the WLAN. Also, the eNB schedules each one of the at least one bearer identified to be aggregated between the WWAN and the WLAN.
US11297527B2
A method for congestion management on a network including: determining whether a cell on the network is congested; identifying at least one heavy user on the cell; determine traffic flow criteria of the at least one heavy user; and shape network traffic of the at least one heavy user based on the traffic flow criteria of the heavy user. A system for congestion management on a network including: a QoE module configured to determine whether a cell on the network is congested; an analysis module configured to identify at least one heavy user on the cell and determine traffic flow criteria of the at least one heavy user; and at least one shaper configured to shape network traffic of the at least one heavy user based on the traffic flow criteria of the heavy user.
US11297526B2
Embodiments herein relate to method performed by a radio network node (12) for handling communication between wireless devices over a sidelink in a wireless communication network. The radio network node configures a wireless device by indicating a set of one or more quality of service, QoS, requirements, wherein each QoS requirement comprises a threshold associated with a QoS characteristic, and by indicating a mapping of one or more logical channel groups, LCG, reserved for buffer status report, BSR, reporting of a sidelink for data fulfilling respective QoS requirement out of the set of one or more QoS requirements.
US11297515B2
Methods and apparatus for providing backhaul capacity to a first Citizens Broadband Radio Service Device (CBSD) using a device to device connection to a second CBSD. An exemplary method embodiment includes operating a first Citizens Broadband Radio Service Device (CBSD) to: (i) establish a wireless device to device (D2D) communications link with a second CBSD using D2D wireless communications resources; (ii) send, via the D2D communications link, a first backhaul resource reservation signal to the second CBSD to reserve a first portion of a communications backhaul extending from the second CBSD to a service provider communication network; and (iii) communicate data for a user equipment device (UE) being served by the first CBSD to said service provider communications network via said D2D communications link and the communications backhaul extending from the second CBSD.
US11297513B2
The disclosed technology includes at least one method that enables a user of a wireless mobile device to remotely administer test cases that check the performance of telecommunications network nodes. The method includes authenticating a user for a limited time period in which the user can remotely administer the test cases. While being temporarily authenticated, the user can configure the test cases by associating services or operations with particular nodes. The executed test cases cause the nodes to generate data that indicate performance of the nodes in response to the services or operations. The results can be displayed at the mobile device used to remotely administer the test cases.
US11297509B2
The each AP includes a control unit that detects, as the wireless environment information, a signal detection level for one or more neighboring APs positioned in the neighborhood of the AP and notifies the detected signal detection level to the central coordinator, and controls the ATT value by the setting in the central coordinator; and the central coordinator includes a parameter calculation unit that calculates the ATT value for each the APs, based on the signal detection level for each the neighboring wireless access point notified from the plurality of APs and based on an RSSI threshold at which each the APs is able to secure a prescribed service area.
US11297506B2
Communication enabled circuit breakers and circuit breaker panels are described. Methods associated with such communication enabled circuit breakers and circuit breaker panels are also described. A circuit breaker panel may include a circuit breaker controller and one or more communication enabled circuit breakers. Two-way wireless communication is possible between the circuit breaker controller and the one or more communication enabled circuit breakers.
US11297494B2
An improved telecommunications network that can reduce the network load on a rich communication services (RCS) server and/or local routers that implement 1-to-N and/or M-to-N services is described herein. In particular, the improved telecommunications network may include an improved RCS server that can route secure multicast messages instead of and/or in addition to unicast messages. For example, the improved RCS server can create a multicast group for a group of UEs in response to a request from a UE to create a group of UEs. Creation of the multicast group may include creating a shared multicast group key (SMGK) for the multicast group and/or selecting a security algorithm for the multicast group. The improved RCS server can then distribute the SMGK and/or the selected security algorithm to the UEs such that the UEs can use the SMGK and/or the selected security algorithm to encrypt and/or decrypt messages.
US11297483B2
The present invention relates to transmitting user equipment for transmitting data to a receiving user equipment over a direct link connection in a communication system. The transmitting user equipment is adapted to request resources for discovery transmission in the communication system and comprises a generating unit configured to generate a resource request message for allocation of resources for discovery transmission. The resource request message includes information on the amount of data to be transmitted and on discovery indication. The transmitting user equipment may further include a transmitting unit configured to transmit to a base station the generated resource request message, and a receiving unit adapted to receive from the base station a resource configuration message allocating the requested resources for discovery transmission.
US11297480B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one wireless communication circuit, a processor, and a memory. The memory may store one or more instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to connect with a first cell of a master cell group (MCG) and a second cell of a secondary cell group (SCG) using the at least one wireless communication circuit, detect occurrence of a packet based mobile originated call, release the connection with the second cell when a type of the mobile originated call is an emergency call, and perform the mobile originated call through the first cell.
US11297479B2
A portable wireless device includes a wireless communication unit, a position information acquisition unit, an operation unit, and a control unit, in which a rescue request and state information are generated by operation of the operation unit, and the generated information is transmitted from the wireless communication unit together with position information acquired by a position acquisition unit.
US11297476B2
In a communication device mounted in a vehicle, a communication unit performs wireless communication using any one of a plurality of profiles for using a wireless communication network. A first acquisition unit acquires travel information of the vehicle. A second acquisition unit acquires position information of the vehicle. A controller controls whether or not to execute a profile determination process based on the acquired travel information and the acquired position information.
US11297470B2
Techniques are discussed herein for providing notification messages to a user are provided. An example method of sending an alert message according to the disclosure includes receiving a notification message for a user, determining a location of the user, determining one or more notification devices based the location of the user, generating the alert message based on one or more notification preferences associated with the user and the one or more notification devices, and sending the alert message to at least one of the one or more notification devices based on the notification preferences.
US11297458B1
Systems and method are provided for adaptive dashboards, wayfinding, and other services at an event venue. The systems and methods involve transmitting beacon messages using short-range wireless communications from a plurality of beacon devices provided at the event venue, wherein each beacon message comprises location identification information. The systems and method further involve processing using a module on a mobile electronic device beacon messages received by the mobile electronic device by comparing beacon identification information included as part of the beacon messages to beacon information stored on the mobile electronic device. The system and methods further involve displaying an adaptive dashboard, wayfinding information, or other event venue information to a user of the mobile electronic device based on the processing of beacon messages received by the mobile electronic device.
US11297457B2
An audio system, method, and computer program product which includes a wearable audio device and a mobile peripheral device. Each device is capable of determining its respective absolute or relative position and orientation. Once the relative positions and orientations between the devices are known, virtual sound sources are generated at fixed positions and orientations relative to the peripheral device such that any change in position and/or orientation of the peripheral device produces a proportional change in the position and/or orientation of the virtual sound sources. Additionally, first order and second order reflected audio paths may be simulated for each virtual sound source to increase the realism of the simulated sources. Each sound path can be produced by modifying the original audio signal using head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) to simulate audio as though it were perceived by the user's left and right ears as coming from each virtual sound source.
US11297456B2
During an electronic communication between a first user and a second user, an electronic device of the second user displays a graphical representation at a located selected by the first user. The graphical representation provides an indication to the second user where binaural sound associated with the graphical representation will externally localize to the second user. Subsequent movement of the graphical representation changes a location where the binaural sound externally localizes to the second user.
US11297454B2
A public address method for live broadcast, in a helmet, of an audio signal conditioned from a plurality of raw audio channels, includes a pre-processing phase including the operations that consist of taking into account characteristics of the auditory perception of the listener; correcting each channel as a function of the characteristics of the auditory perception of the listener; a mixing phase including the production, from the channels thus pre-processed, of a mixed audio signal; a post-processing phase including the operations that consist of: measuring the sound level of a background noise; correcting the mixed audio signal as a function of the sound level of the background noise; a phase of reproducing, in the helmet, the conditioned audio signal resulting from post-processing.
US11297451B2
The disclosed technology includes a system and method for providing pairing information to assist in pairing devices for wireless communication. For example, the disclosed technology includes a method for visually displaying time remaining in pairing time windows for hearing aid devices. A hearing aid professional can view the displayed information on a computer, fitting station, or mobile device and then use this information to determine which devices can be paired or how much time is remaining to pair the device.
US11297449B2
A cochlear external device with an external microphone according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include an external device body attached to a side of the head of a user, an internal microphone embedded in the external device body to collect sound, an external microphone located at the outside of the external device body to be attached around the ear of the user to collect sound, a connection cable configured to connect the external microphone and the external device body in a wired manner; and a control unit embedded in the external device body to generate an output signal based on the sound collected by at least one of the internal microphone and the external microphone and transmit the generated output signal to a cochlear implant transplanter.
US11297447B2
A hearing device includes: a processing unit configured to compensate for hearing loss of a user of the hearing device; a memory unit; and an interface; wherein the processing unit is configured to obtain one or more security settings via the interface, the one or more security settings comprising a hearing device key identifier, verify the one or more security settings, and update the hearing device based on the one or more security settings if the one or more security settings are verified.
US11297444B2
The invention concerns a hearing aid system that comprises an ear canal member comprising a sensor arrangement. The sensor arrangement comprises at least one surface electrode located at a surface of said ear canal member to allow said at least one surface electrode to contact the skin of a user when said ear canal member is operationally mounted on the user. The at least one surface electrode (150) is adapted to pick up a low voltage electric signal from the user's skin. The sensor arrangement further comprises a light sensor (180) located at a surface of said housing to allow emitting light through skin proximate to the light sensor (180) and capturing reflected and/or scattered light when said ear canal member is operationally mounted on the user. The hearing aid system further comprises a sensor signal processing unit (170) that is connected to the surface electrode (150) and the light sensor (180) and that is configured to generate one or more sensor signals from each respective output signal of the at least one surface electrode (150) and the light sensor (180). The hearing aid system further comprises or is connected to an evaluation unit (300) that is configured to generate an electrocardiogram-representing signal (ECG) from low voltage electric signals picked-up by the at least one surface electrode (150) and a plethysmographic-curve-representing signal from an output signal of the light sensor (180).
US11297438B2
An electrodynamic acoustic transducer is disclosed, which comprises a frame and/or a housing, at least one coil and a magnet system, which is fixed to the frame and/or the housing and which is designed to generate a magnetic field through the coil. Furthermore, the electrodynamic acoustic transducer comprises a polygonal membrane, which in an inner portion is fixed to the at least one coil and which in an outer annular portion is fixed to the frame or the housing. A first distance between the outer annular portion and the inner portion at a longitudinal side of the polygonal membrane is smaller or greater than a second distance between the outer annular portion and the inner portion at a corner of the polygonal membrane.
US11297431B2
A sound speaker for a vehicle is provided. The sound speaker includes a flat surface with a rod extending perpendicular from the surface, a cylindrical electro-dynamic exciter with an axial longitudinal through hole arranged for receiving the rod and a circular clamp for securing the electro-dynamic exciter on the first flat surface in a closed position. The electro-dynamic exciter includes a longitudinal rib inside the through hole and the rod includes a longitudinal recess for receiving the rib. The rod further includes a lateral recess for receiving the clamp. A least a part of the lateral recess forms a conical frustum and the clamp in the closed position forms a corresponding conical frustum. This part of the lateral recess pushes the clamp in the closed position against the electro-dynamic exciter towards the flat surface.
US11297422B1
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for wear noise audio signature suppression. An example method disclosed herein includes generating an audio signature based on a media audio signal during a first time period, collecting acceleration data during the first time period, determining whether the acceleration data corresponds to wear noise having occurred during the first time period, and in response to determining the acceleration data corresponds to wear noise during the first time period, inhibiting transmission of the audio signature to a central facility.
US11297419B2
A sound collection method and a microphone array estimate at least one sound source direction and form a plurality of sound collection beams in the estimated plurality of sound source direction, using sound collection signals of a plurality of microphones. The number of sound source directions estimated is smaller than the number of sound collection beams formed.
US11297412B2
Various implementations include loudspeaker drivers. In some aspects, an electro-acoustic driver includes: a cup section; a core section at least partially housed in the cup section, the core section including: a primary magnet; and a coin adjacent to the primary magnet; a bobbin surrounding the core section between the cup section and the core section, where the bobbin and the core section define an inner magnetic gap; a coil surrounding the bobbin and a portion of the core section; and a ferrofluid located at the inner magnetic gap, where the driver has an outer diameter less than or equal to approximately 10 millimeters.
US11297407B2
Embodiments described herein provide an earset that has a chamber for effectively blocking external noise, with a sound reproducing unit and an inner microphone mounted in the chamber. According to an embodiment of the earset, the earset includes: a housing having a mounting space in which components are mounted and an insertion tube that is inserted into an external auditory canal of the user; a sound reproducing unit mounted in the mounting space and configured to emit sounds to the insertion tube; an inner microphone mounted in the mounting space; a chamber forming a closed space that surrounds the inner microphone; and a duct mounted in the chamber and configured to transmit sounds coming through the insertion tube to the inner microphone.
US11297405B1
A combined automobile speaker and portable blue tooth speaker including a disc shaped removable speaker located in a door of an automobile. The speaker further includes a clamp on a circular speaker holding bezel. The bezel is opened, and the speaker can be inserted or removed and is plugged into the automobile speaker sound system and can communicate with a portable audio player when removed. The rear end of the removable speaker includes a subwoofer component to enhance the listening experience of a user. The speaker may be removed and propped up via legs on the back end of the speaker device. This allows for a versatile and portable speaker that is integrated into the sound system of a vehicle or used independently.
US11297404B2
An optical network includes top networking ports coupled to a packet switch, first media converters, second media converters, and bottom networking ports. The first media converters are coupled to top networking ports, each of the first media converters including a first ASIC transceiver that has a circuit switch function. The second media converters are coupled to the first media converter via optical cables to receive the optical signals. Each of the second media converters includes a second ASIC transceiver that has a circuit switch function. The bottom networking ports are coupled to the second media converters. The first ASIC transceiver and the second ASIC transceiver are configured to transmit a signal from one of the top networking ports to any one of the bottom networking ports, and transmit a signal from one of the bottom networking ports to any one of the top networking ports.
US11297402B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide measures, including apparatuses, circuity, methods and computer programs, for use in monitoring user activity. Orientation data for a user is generated. The generated orientation data is inserted into advertising packets of a wireless communication protocol. The advertising packets comprising the generated orientation data are broadcast according to the wireless communication protocol.
US11297401B2
Various embodiments include a method for operating a hazard notification system including a plurality of notification appliances connected to a bus system, each notification appliance having a signal element and an activatable energy consumption simulation unit comprising: receiving a switchover telegram at each notification appliance; attaching the respective energy consumption simulation unit of each notification appliance to the bus system in place of the signal element; measuring an energy consumption resulting in the bus system due to the activation of each energy consumption simulation unit in the course of a load test; comparing the measured energy consumption with predefined comparison values; and generating an alarm signal or a fault message as a function of the result of the comparison.
US11297395B2
An electronic system that executes video streaming includes a video sender. The video sender converts video data into plural layers of bitstream packets with varied priorities for transmission. A bitstream packet with a lower layer of the plural layers of bitstream packets has a higher priority when being transmitted to a video receiver.
US11297384B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and/or a non-transitory computer-readable record mediums for producing a video based on a bot enabling a user feedback. A video production method may include receiving a plurality of images uploaded to a chatroom in response to a bot for a video production being added to the chatroom and the chatroom including at least one user, creating at least one primary video clip using at least two images among the plurality of images, creating a single video using the at least one primary video clip, and providing the created single video to the chatroom.
US11297376B2
A set-top box with interactive features and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the set-top box, the set-top box receives various types of set-top box data such as information about display-based interactions with the set-top box, information about a plurality of amenities on a residential property co-located with the set-top box, and information from a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device interacting with the set-top box. The set-top box may render a map view of the property based on obtained map data. The map view may include an interactive graphical representation of the residential property and be annotated with at least a portion of the set-top box data.
US11297369B2
In some implementations, a system can be configured to allow remote control devices to quietly obtain status information related to various audio/video playback devices. For example, a streaming device (e.g., a user device, phone, etc.) can establish a streaming connection to a playback device. The playback device can be configured to only accept a single streaming connection (i.e., master connection). A remote control device (e.g., a user device, phone, etc.) can quietly connect (i.e., control connection) to the playback device without interrupting the master connection to obtain status information related to the playback device and or the media being streamed to the playback device. The remote control device can provide commands through the control connection to adjust the playback of the streamed media at the playback device.
US11297359B2
A media system replaces content in a first sequence of media content. The media system presents the first sequence of media content to an end-user and generates a fingerprint of the sequence of media content. The fingerprint is for comparison with a plurality of reference fingerprints so as to identify the first sequence of media content and determine a reference position within the first sequence of media content. The media system sends a request for a replacement sequence of content to a content replacement system, and receives replacement media content selected based on the identified first sequence of media content. The media system presents the replacement media content to the end-user instead of the first sequence of media content. Presenting the replacement media content begins at a position in the first sequence of media content that is determined based on the reference position.
US11297354B2
The present invention provides an encoding apparatus including a setting section that partitions each of images included in a video to be encoded into a plurality of tiles and sets a partial region including one or more of the plurality of tiles for the image, an encoding section that encodes each image on a per-tile basis to generate an encoded stream, and a transmission control section that controls transmission of the encoded stream to a decoding apparatus that decodes the video. The setting section sets out-of-tile reference for motion compensation for the tiles within the partial region to be prohibited, and the transmission control section restricts, upon detection of a loss or an absence of encoded information at the decoding apparatus, the transmission such that only an encoded stream corresponding to the tiles within the partial region is transmitted.
US11297347B2
An image decoding method according to the present document comprises a step of deriving modified transform coefficients on the basis of an inverse reduced secondary transform (RST) regarding transform coefficients regarding a target block. The inverse RST is performed on the basis of transform sets determined on the basis of a mapping relation following an intra prediction mode applied to the target block, and a transform kernel matrix selected from two transform kernel matrices included in the transform sets, respectively, and is performed on the basis of whether or not the inverse RST is applied, and a transform index indicating one of the transform kernel matrices included in the transform sets. A syntax element bin string regarding the transform index is decoded on the basis of a different context set according to the tree type regarding the division structure of the target block.
US11297336B2
A higher coding efficiency for coding a significance map indicating positions of significant transform coefficients within a transform coefficient block is achieved by the scan order by which the sequentially extracted syntax elements indicating, for associated positions within the transform coefficient block, as to whether at the respective position a significant or insignificant transform coefficient is situated, are sequentially associated to the positions of the transform coefficient block, among the positions of the transform coefficient block depends on the positions of the significant transform coefficients indicated by previously associated syntax elements. Alternatively, the first-type elements may be context-adaptively entropy decoded using contexts which are individually selected for each of the syntax elements dependent on a number of significant transform coefficients in a neighborhood of the respective syntax element, indicated as being significant by any of the preceding syntax elements.
US11297335B2
A method performed by a video encoder for encoding a current picture belonging to a temporal level identified by a temporal_id. The method includes determining a Reference Picture Set (RPS) for the current picture indicating reference pictures that are kept in a decoded picture buffer (DPB) when decoding the current picture, and when the current picture is a temporal switching point. The method further includes operating to ensure that the RPS of the current picture includes no picture having a temporal_id greater than or equal to the temporal_id of the current picture.
US11297330B2
A method of processing a video signal based on inter prediction includes constructing a first merge candidate list of a current block using a spatial merge candidate and temporal merge candidate of the current block, constructing a second merge candidate list by adding a history-based merge candidate indicating motion information of a block coded prior to the current block to the first merge candidate list, obtaining a merge index indicating a merge candidate applied to the current block within the second merge candidate list, and generating a prediction block of the current block using motion information of a merge candidate indicated by the merge index. The history-based merge candidate may be added to the first merge candidate list if the history-based merge candidate has motion information not overlapping motion information of a pre-defined merge candidate among merge candidates included in the first merge candidate list.
US11297327B2
A picture decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present disclosure includes obtaining motion prediction information from bitstream, generating an affine MVP candidate list including affine MVP candidates for a current block, deriving CPMVPs for respective CPs of the current block based on one of the affine MVP candidates included in the affine MVP candidate list, deriving the CPMVDs for the CPs of the current block based on information on CPMVDs for each of the CPs included in the obtained motion prediction information, deriving CPMVs for the CPs of the current block based on the CPMVPs and the CPMVDs, deriving prediction samples for the current block based on the CPMVs, and generating reconstructed samples for the current block based on the derived prediction samples.
US11297320B2
A video decoder parses a sequence parameter set (SPS) that is applicable to a current sequence of video pictures that includes the current picture, the SPS comprises a first dependent quantization flag and a first sign hiding flag. When the first dependent quantization flag indicates that dependent quantization is enabled for the current sequence, the decoder parses a second dependent quantization flag for indicating whether dependent quantization is used for quantizing the one or more slices of the current picture. When the second dependent quantization flag indicates that dependent quantization is not used for one or more slices of the current picture and the first sign hiding flag indicates that sign hiding is enabled for the current sequence, the decoder parses a second sign hiding flag for indicating whether sign hiding is used for quantizing the one or more slices of the current picture.
US11297319B2
The present invention provides a method for encoding an image and corresponding terminals. The method includes steps of: determine the related coding information of the raw image to be processed according to the feature information of the raw image to be processed; and encode the raw image to be processed according to the related coding information. In the present invention, the encoded raw image is transmitted to a cloud server via network, and the decoded and reconstructed raw image is optimized by the ISP module in the cloud server. Compared with the prior art where complex algorithms cannot be implemented by the ISP module in the terminal due to the limitation of its computing capacity, the present invention significantly improves the perceptual quality of the user viewing image by adopting more sophisticated image processing algorithms, while increasing the image compression ratio.
US11297314B2
A processor decodes, from a compressed bitstream, an adaptive intra-prediction mode of a set of adaptive filter modes, the adaptive intra-prediction mode indicating a number of filter coefficients and relative locations with respect to a to-be-predicted pixel of a sub-set of neighboring pixels of the to-be-predicted pixel; determines filter coefficients for generating a prediction block of the block; and generates, by recursive extrapolations that use the filter coefficients and the relative locations, the prediction block. The set of adaptive filter modes includes a first adaptive mode and a second adaptive mode. The first adaptive mode and the second adaptive mode indicate a same number of coefficients. The first adaptive mode indicates a first set of first relative locations of a first sub-set of neighboring pixels that is different from a second set of second relative locations of a second sub-set of neighboring pixels indicated by the second adaptive mode.
US11297309B2
The objective of the present invention is to provide a method and an apparatus for intra-prediction. In addition, the objective of the present invention is to provide a method and an apparatus for intra-prediction on a subblock unit basis. Furthermore, the objective of the present invention is to provide a method and an apparatus for determining a division and an encoding order of subblock units.
US11297299B2
A camera system includes a plurality of cameras configured to capture images in different directions. The camera system rotates the plurality of cameras in a predetermined direction. The plurality of cameras are configured such that, even during rotation, one of the cameras captures an image of a preset specific region. The camera system acquires parallax information regarding an object present in the specific region on the basis of a plurality of captured images of the specific region.
US11297298B2
A method for processing 360-degree image data by a device for receiving a 360-degree video according to the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving 360-degree image data; obtaining information relating to an encoded picture and metadata from the 360-degree image data, wherein the metadata includes camera lens information; decoding a picture including a target circular area on the basis of the information relating to the encoded picture; and rendering the target circular area by processing same on the basis of the camera lens information.
US11297297B2
A stereo imaging system having convergence angle and disparity control includes a pair of pivoting folded-parallel-light-channel (FPLC) units arranged to provide a virtual left side view and a virtual right side view of a scene. Each FPLC unit includes a fixed lens unit adapted to focus reflected light including an image of a scene to an image sensor and a laterally translatable light-redirecting unit including a reflector adapted to define a parallel image reflection path to the fixed lens unit via a collimated light beam defined by substantially parallel light beams. The stereo imaging system further includes a disparity-adjusting mechanism adapted to alter a distance between the pair of pivoting FPLC units and a convergence-angle-adjusting mechanism adapted to pivot the pivoting FPLC units.
US11297296B2
Unnatural display is reduced by changing the appearance of a real space. A display control apparatus includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires reliability information indicating reliability of each of element data constituting three-dimensional data of a real space; a region specification unit that specifies a region corresponding to element data of which the reliability does not meet a criterion; and a display control unit that performs display control for changing the appearance of the region specified by the region specification unit.
US11297285B2
In various examples, a dental and medical loupe system for lighting control, streaming, and augmented reality (AR) assisted procedures is provided. Facial recognition algorithms and/or inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors may be used to determine when a light disposed on eye-glasses of a wearer should be activated. As a result, instead of requiring a medical practitioner to manually turn on and off the light source, facial recognition may be used to determine when the dentist is looking toward a face of a patient, and to turn on the light when a face is present and off when a face is not present. In addition, some examples leverage augmented reality (AR) functionality to overlay patient and procedure information on one or more lenses of eye-glasses worn by a practitioner to allow for an un-occluded view of the actual location where the procedure is being performed.
US11297280B2
A network element of a cable television (CATV) network, comprising a first input for downstream signal transmission; a plurality of components arranged to form a downstream signal path, wherein at least one of said components is a downstream amplifier (330); a second input for upstream signal transmission; a plurality of components arranged to form an upstream signal path, wherein at least one of said components is an upstream amplifier (340); means (360) for inputting a control signal for adjusting one or more amplification parameters of the downstream amplifier; and means (350) for adjusting one or more amplification parameters of the upstream amplifier, wherein said one or more amplification parameters of the upstream amplifier are automatically calculated on the basis of the one or more amplification parameters of the downstream amplifier.
US11297279B2
A transmission device includes an image processing unit that controls transmission of a first packet including region information regarding a region detected from an image and controls transmission of a second packet for each of lines in which at least the region has been detected in the image. The second packet comprises a header including information regarding the line, and a payload including region data concerning a partial region corresponding to the line, out of the region, in which the header includes: identification information of the data included in the payload; an error correction code of the information included in the header; and an extension region provided so as to be interposed between the identification information and the error correction code, and information indicating whether or not the region data is included in the payload corresponding to the header is set in at least a part of the extension region.
US11297274B2
To suppress deterioration of image quality. A solid-state imaging device (1) according to an embodiment includes a first vertical signal line (VSL0k) and a second vertical signal line (VSL1k), a current mirror circuit (141) connected to the first and the second vertical signal lines, a first unit pixel (11i) connected to the first vertical signal line, a second unit pixel (11i+1) connected to the second vertical signal line, a first unit cell (11D0) connected to the first vertical signal line, a second unit cell (11D1) connected to the second vertical signal line, a current supply line (VCOM) connected to the first and the second unit pixels and the first and the second unit cells, and a constant current circuit (142) connected to the current supply line. A first amplification transistor of the first unit pixel, a second amplification transistor of the second unit pixel, the current mirror circuit, and the constant current circuit constitute a first differential amplifier circuit, and a third amplification transistor of the first unit cell, a fourth amplification transistor of the second unit cell, the current mirror circuit, and the constant current circuit constitute a second differential amplifier circuit.
US11297270B2
A time-of-flight device comprises a pixel array including an array of pixel circuits, wherein a column of the array includes: a first pixel circuit including a first photodiode, a first capacitor and a second capacitor coupled to the first photodiode, and a second pixel circuit including a second photodiode, a third capacitor and a fourth capacitor coupled to the second photodiode, a first signal line coupled to the first capacitor, a second signal line coupled to the second capacitor, a third signal line coupled to the third capacitor, a fourth signal line coupled to the fourth capacitor, a first switch circuitry, a second switch circuitry, a first comparator coupled to the first signal line and the third signal line through the first switch circuitry, and a second comparator coupled to the second signal line and the fourth signal line through the second switch circuitry.
US11297262B2
A system and method for generating an infinite number of isolated image sequences using a single camera, wherein an X-, Y-coordinate system is generated for the area and an image sequence within the field of view of a camera within the area is captured. By tracking the movements and positions of at least two assets in the field of view of the camera relative to the X-, Y-grid, at least one individual image sequence for each of the at least two assets using the image sequence captured by the camera, wherein each individual image sequence has one asset from the at least two assets as a focal point of the individual image sequence.
US11297256B2
In one embodiment, a method includes: obtaining a first image of a scene while an illumination component is set to an inactive state; obtaining a second image of the scene while the illumination component is set to a pre-flash state; determining one or more illumination control parameters for the illumination component for a third image of the scene that satisfy a foreground-background balance criterion based on a function of the first and second images in order to discriminate foreground data from background data within the scene; and obtaining the third image of the scene while the illumination component is set to an active state in accordance with the one or more illumination control parameters.
US11297242B2
An imaging apparatus includes imaging units that image a subject, a title generation executing unit that generates title images each including a display title for classifying a plurality of captured images acquired by the imaging unit and inserts the title image into the captured images, a storage unit that stores the captured images and the title images, a display unit that displays the captured images and the title images stored in the storage unit in the form of a list, and an image search executing unit that searches for a desired captured image from the plurality of captured images and the title images displayed on the display unit in the form of the list. The title generation executing unit hierarchically generates the title images in accordance with a priority set in each type of display title for classifying the captured images.
US11297240B2
An imaging device including an imaging unit that includes an imaging element converting a received subject image into an image signal and an imaging lens, and at least one of the imaging lens or the imaging element being movable in a direction orthogonal to a direction of an optical axis of an incidence ray; a shake detector that detects a shake of the imaging unit; and a processor configured to correct a shake of the subject image by moving at least one of the imaging lens or the imaging element relative to one another according to the detected shake, wherein the processor is further configured to determine whether or not a movable range of the relative movement, in which the shake of the subject image is corrected, is limited to an inside of a rectangle according to at least one of an imaging mode, an imaging timing, or a relative position of the imaging lens and the imaging element.
US11297235B2
An optical apparatus configured to correct an image blur by moving an image stabilization unit in a first direction different from an optical axis direction based on shake information obtained by a shake detector includes a vibration device configured to generate a vibration in order to transmit to a user a tactual sense according to an operation of an operation unit by the user. During an imaging and recording period, the vibration device generates the vibration having a vibration intensity in a second direction different from the first direction higher than that in the first direction.
US11297226B1
An example photographic feedback method, comprising, inputting a query image, a camera setting, a location, a temporal indicia and an environmental condition, detecting an object within the query image, projecting the location of the object, classifying the environmental condition at the location of the object, querying features of the query image of the object at the environmental condition of the projected location of the object, determining a closest image to the query image for the object at the environmental condition of the projected location of the object having a highly rated value via a cloud database and sending an updated location and at least one updated camera setting for an updated image.
US11297225B2
A video producing method, an apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The video producing method comprises: acquiring keywords configured by a user, the keywords comprising a participant and a participation event; determining a plurality of photographing tasks according to the keywords, and a trigger condition of each of the photographing tasks; prompting, according to the trigger condition, the user to perform the corresponding photographing task, to obtain at least one photo; and generating a video file according to the at least one photo.
US11297220B2
A control apparatus includes a controlling unit configured to control tilt driving for tilting at least one of an image sensor and an imaging optical system relative to a plane orthogonal to an optical axis and focus driving for moving a focus lens in an optical axis direction, an acquiring unit configured to acquire focus levels in a first area and a second area in an image captured by an image pickup apparatus, a first determining unit configured to determine whether to perform the tilt driving or the focus driving, based on an in-focus level, and a second determining unit configured to determine a driving direction of the tilt driving or the focus driving based on the in-focus level.
US11297212B2
An imaging apparatus includes a housing having an opening, a camera unit including a lens and an imaging device, disposed inside the housing, and configured to image an external object through the opening, a telecommunication member disposed inside the housing and configured to connect a control substrate controlling the camera unit to an imaging device substrate on which at least the imaging device of the camera unit is mounted, and a communication antenna at least partially disposed in a gap between an inner edge of the opening and the camera unit as viewed in an optical axis direction of the camera unit at a position substantially symmetrical to the telecommunication member across the lens.
US11297200B2
An image forming apparatus has an input portion that receives original image data, a control portion that generates output image data based on the original image data, a printing portion that performs printing based on the output image data, and a storage portion. The storage portion stores associated color information that defines colors associated with a plurality of prescribed processes respectively. When generating the output image data, the control portion, if the original image data includes a marked region, performs, out of the plurality of processes, the process associated with the color of the marked region.
US11297199B2
An image processing apparatus includes an image reading device, a communication device, and a control device. The control device acts as a controller. The controller recognizes at least one text region in the source image, extracts a predetermined keyword from the at least one text region, generates a cover page by pasting a character string of the text region from which the keyword has been extracted, on a pasting position on a predetermined cover page template, associated with the keyword extracted, and causes the communication device to transmit the generated cover page together with the source image, to the external terminal device.
US11297198B2
In the image processing apparatus according to the present disclosure, a data processing unit derives a density variation component for at least one modulation period from a difference between a reference plate reading value when the illumination is turned off, a reference plate reading value when the illumination is turned on, and black reference data and white reference data in synchronization with modulation of the SS clock, and corrects the image data with the density variation component. The white reference data indicates the light distribution of the illumination in the main scanning direction, and the data processing unit corrects the density variation component on the basis of the difference between the white reference data and the black reference data, and corrects the image data with the corrected density variation component.
US11297197B2
Embodiments of the invention include systems, methods, and computer-program products for digitizing and processing transmission of a physical resource document from an issuer to a user and from a user to a processing institution for real-time posting of physical resource documents. In this way, the invention processes a physical resource document into an image format at the issuer and transmits a secure digital image file to the user. The image format is processed and digitized for resource processing. Upon user receipt, the system validates the resource distribution. Upon validation the system allows for processing the resource document and the resource distribution from that document as a digital real-time payment.
US11297196B2
An image forming apparatus includes an original reading unit; an image forming unit, an image data sending unit; and a mode setting unit for setting one of original reading modes including a first original reading mode for the original reading unit to read originals of the same size, and a second original reading mode for the original reading unit to read originals of different sizes; and a control unit for controlling the original reading unit and the image forming unit so as to execute a copy job including the original reading process and the image forming process, and a sending job including the original reading process and the sending process. The mode setting unit is capable of independently setting, for the copy job and the sending job, a default value indicating the first original reading mode or the second original reading mode.
US11297195B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to: acquire information on a folding manner in which a folding device folds a medium; and when the folding manner does not allow reading of a folding position of the medium with the medium folded, cause a display to display information so as to prompt a user to unfold and read the medium.
US11297189B2
A computer-implemented network verification system includes a second device situated in a terminating call network and configured to receive a call signal from a first device situated in an originating network. The first device is coupled to a first registry that stores originating call records. The first registry is configured to obtain, from the first device, and store call data and a SIP identity header associated with the call signal. The system also includes a second registry coupled to the second device and configured to receive, from the first registry over an out-of-band verification network, a first verification request that contains the originating call record, including the SIP identity header associated with the call signal. The second registry is further configured to send the SIP identity header contained in the first verification request to the second device.
US11297184B1
A computer-implemented method and system for streamlining interactions between a customer and a company representative. Information related to a customer is received by a company representative. A predicted future action by the customer is then calculated by a computer process wherein the calculation is based on the received information. The predicted future action is then caused to be displayed on a computer operated by a representative of the company. A conversation plan may be generated according to the information and a business rule which may be displayed on the representative's computer.
US11297182B1
Processing of communications routed by an IPBX server are disclosed. At least one processing circuit is communicatively coupled to an Internet-Protocol Private Branch Exchange (IPBX) server that is configured and arranged to route calls for a plurality of agents in a communications/call center. The processing circuit is configured to receive communications event messages from the IPBX server for communications routed by the IPBX server, generate, during a communication to a first agent of the plurality of agents, a set of data metrics including communications summary metrics based on the communications event messages; and redirect, during the communication to the first agent, the communication to a second agent of the plurality of agents in response to the set of data metrics satisfying a set of criteria indicated in a policy.
US11297177B2
A method for detecting airbag deployment includes operating a plurality of sensors of the mobile device disposed in a vehicle during a drive to obtain a plurality of measurement signals, determining a change in at least one measurement signal of the plurality of measurement signals and that the change exceeds a first threshold. In response to determining that the change exceeds the first threshold, obtaining a pressure measurement signal from a pressure sensor of the plurality of sensors, determining a derivative of the pressure measurement signal, and determining that the derivative of the pressure measurement signal exceeds a second threshold. In response to determining that the derivative of the pressure measurement signal exceeds the second threshold, detecting a deployment of a vehicle airbag based on the change in the at least one measurement signal exceeding the first threshold and the derivative of the pressure measurement signal exceeding the second threshold.
US11297174B2
A folded module includes a housing having an internal space and including a protruding wall protruding in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis direction; a rotation holder including a reflective member, and supported by an internal wall of the housing with a rotation plate interposed therebetween to be disposed in the internal space; and a stopper coupled to the protruding wall of the housing, and limiting movement of the rotation holder in an optical axis direction, and the stopper includes a separation prevention structure.
US11297153B2
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to an evolved packet core (“EPC”) applications microservices broker (“microservices broker”). According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a microservices broker can receive a microservice request that identifies a microservice. The microservices broker can check a microservices broker database for a user equipment (“UE”) that is capable of servicing the microservice request. The microservices broker can request a status of the UE from a home subscriber server (“HSS”). The status can indicate whether or not the UE is connected to a radio access network (“RAN”). If the status indicates that the UE is connected to the RAN, the microservices broker can route the microservice request to the UE for providing the microservice.
US11297143B2
Operational parameter recording device providing a sensor affixed to a component, a central control unit and a remote server connected to the central control unit. Each sensor provides a measurement device, at least a power source, a communication device, a memory and processing device, the measurement device being configured to determine at least an operational parameter. Also a process for carrying out the function of the operational parameter recording device.
US11297141B2
A method includes creating an application instance that corresponds to a client, creating a partition on the cloud storage device, the partition corresponding to the client, and associating attributes with the partition. The attributes include a client identifier corresponding to the client, a service-level objective corresponding to the client, and an application identifier corresponding to the application instance. The method further includes receiving a request from the application instance to access the partition and accessing, in response to the request, the attributes corresponding to the partition. The method further includes ordering the request in a data structure relative to one or more other requests, the ordering based on at least one attribute of the attributes, an order in which the request was submitted, and a latency sensitivity of the application instance. The method further includes dispatching the request from the data structure in an order corresponding to the ordering.
US11297128B2
In one example, the present disclosure describes a device, computer-readable medium, and method for automating the end-to-end deployment of applications in a data center. For instance, in one example, a set of characteristics is extracted from an electronic signal. The set of characteristics pertains to an application to be deployed in a data center. A load balancer on which to deploy the application is automatically selected, based at least in part on the set of characteristics. A workflow is automatically generated for deployment of the application on the load balancer. The workflow coordinates actions among a plurality of computing resources of the data center that are used to configure the application according to the set of characteristics.
US11297126B2
An imaging platform may determine whether an image file stored on a client device is a current version of the image file, and may identify, based on determining that the image file on the client device is not the current version of the image file, the current version of the image file in an image file store. The imaging platform may determine, based on identifying the current version of the image file and based on one or more properties associated with a network connection of the client device, a bandwidth allocation for transmitting the current version of the image file to the client device. The imaging platform may transmit, to the client device, a mapping table associated with the current version of the image file, and may transmit, based on the bandwidth allocation and based on the mapping table, the current version of the image file to the client device.
US11297121B2
Systems and methods for split rendering of Network Based Media Processing (NBMP) are provided. A method includes deriving a network based media processing (NBMP) workflow, and assigning a plurality of workflow tasks of the NBMP workflow among a media sink, a media source, and at least one cloud element, network element, or edge element. A first subset of the plurality of the workflow tasks are assigned to the media source, a second subset of the plurality of the workflow tasks are assigned to the media sink, and a third subset of the plurality of the workflow tasks are assigned to the at least one cloud element, network element, or edge element. The first subset, the second subset, and the third subset do not overlap with each other.
US11297116B2
A method and system are provided for hybrid streaming of media content such as video for a computer-based game. In some implementations, a background media content stream includes a background video rendered on a server. The background media content stream is received at a client device. The client device renders one or more three-dimensional objects and forms a composite media stream by combining the background media content stream and the one or more three-dimensional objects. The composite media stream can be output to a display or other external system.
US11297114B2
Maintaining a registered state via server-managed notifications is described herein. In an example, server(s) can receive an indication from an application associated with a device, the indication can identify a response to a registration request sent by the application for registration with a service provider. Based at least partly on the indication, the server(s) can start a first timer associated with a first predetermined time interval after which the server(s) are to send a first notification to the application. The server(s) can determine, based at least in part on the first timer, a lapse of the first predetermined time interval and can send the first notification to the application. The first notification can cause the application to transition from an inactive state to an active state, and send a new registration request to register with the service provider to maintain a registered state.
US11297100B2
Concealed monitor communications from a task in a trusted execution environment (TEE) are disclosed. A first task executing in a first trusted execution environment (TEE) implemented on a processor device determines that a monitor communication is to be sent to a monitor task, the first task being configured to generate response messages in response to requests from requestor tasks, the response messages having a predetermined characteristic. The first task generates the monitor communication, the monitor communication having the predetermined characteristic and an encoded monitor communication report. The first task sends the monitor communication toward the monitor task.
US11297096B2
A method of identifying malicious activity in a computer data sequence includes providing provided the computer data sequence to a network configured to convert the computer data sequence from a high-dimensional space to a low-dimensional space, and processing the computer data sequence in the low-dimensional space to generate an approximately Gaussian distribution. The processed computer data sequence converted to the low dimensional space is evaluated relative to the approximately Gaussian distribution to determine whether the computer data sequence is likely malicious or likely benign, and an output is provided indicating whether the computer data sequence is likely malicious or likely benign.
US11297093B2
Embodiments disclosed herein describe a server, for example a security awareness server or an artificial intelligence machine learning system that establishes a job score for a user based on the user's job title. In embodiments, the vulnerability of a user to malicious cybersecurity attacks, the propensity for the user to engage with a malicious attack, and the severity of a malicious attack likely to be sent to the user and the severity of the harm to the user's organization is the user engages with the malicious attack is represented in a user risk score. The risk score for a user of a security awareness system, or for a group of users of a security awareness system, may be calculated based on one or more of a frequency score for the user, a propensity score for the user, a severity score for the user, and a job score for the user.
US11297089B2
Systems, methods, and software can be used to provide secure sensor data. In some aspects, a computer-implemented method includes: receiving, at a sensor security evaluation application executing on a device, sensor data from a sensor on the device; determining, by the sensor security evaluation application, a security confidence score associated with the sensor data; and transmitting, from the sensor security evaluation application, the security confidence score and the sensor data to a smart machine processor on the device.
US11297088B2
A system and method to identify and prevent cybersecurity attacks on modern, highly-interconnected networks, to identify attacks before data loss occurs, using a combination of human level, device level, system level, and organizational level monitoring.
US11297085B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to real-time validation of data transmissions based on security profiles. A computing platform may collect, in real-time, information associated with a plurality of data transmissions between applications, where the information may include, for each data transmission, an indication of a source application and a destination application. Then, the computing platform may retrieve, from a repository and for each data transmission, a first security profile associated with the source application, and a second security profile associated with the destination application. The computing platform may then compare, for each data transmission, the first security profile to the second security profile. Subsequently, the computing platform may detect, based on a determination that the first security profile does not match the second security profile, a potentially unauthorized data transmission. Then, the computing platform may trigger one or more security actions to prevent the potentially unauthorized data transmission.
US11297078B2
Computer system security is often implemented using rules-based systems (e.g., allow traffic to this network port, deny it for those network ports; user A is allowed access to these files, but not those files). In enterprises, multiple such systems may be deployed, but fail to be able to intelligently handle anomalies that may technically be permissible but in reality represents a high possibility that there is an underlying threat or problem. The present disclosure describes the ability to build adaptive models using machine learning techniques that integrate data from multiple different domains (e.g. user identity domain, system device domain) and allow for automated decision making and mitigation actions that can provide greater effectiveness than previous systems allowed.
US11297074B1
According to one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a processor and memory. Communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory includes a detection module that, when executed, conducts an analysis of a received object to determine if the received object is associated with a malicious attack. The detection module is configurable, and thus, certain capabilities can be enabled, disabled or modified. The analysis is to be altered upon receipt of a configuration file that includes information to alter one or more rules controlling the analysis conducted by the detection module.
US11297069B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for utilizing blockchain to implement named data networking. In various embodiments, a computing system might determine whether a cache that is communicatively coupled to the computing system contains data that is responsive to a first request received from a user. If so, the computing system might retrieve and send (to the client device) data that is responsive to the received first request. If not, the computing system might send, to a blockchain system, a second request for identifying a blockchain containing a block containing data responsive to the received first request. In response to identifying such a blockchain, the computing system might receive a copy of the identified blockchain; might abstract, from the identified blockchain, the block containing the data responsive to the received first request; might abstract the data from the identified block; and might send the data to the client device.
US11297064B2
An example operation may include one or more of storing a public key and one or more corresponding addresses associated with a user profile in a blockchain, creating a credential for the user profile based on the public key, forwarding the credential to the one or more addresses, receiving a request for access to a site from a user device associated with the user profile, and retrieving the credential based on the one or more addresses from the blockchain.
US11297060B1
A system and method detects and handles replay attacks using counters maintained for each of several different periods for various values of IP addresses and browser description attributes encountered.
US11297059B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for facilitating user-centric identity management. In this regard, various aspects of identity management are designed to be more transparent to users to bolster user assurance with respect to “behind-the-scenes” procedures of identity management. Generally, indications of data flow between service providers, identity providers, and/or user devices can be provided to the user device for presentation to the user. As a result, visual representations of data flow, notifications of data flow, or the like, can be presented to the user to expose various aspects of identity management. In some embodiments, users may be able to control aspects of identity management, for example, by confirming or preventing data flow between providers.
US11297058B2
Systems and methods include, in a cloud node, receiving Mobile Device Management (MDM) data from a central authority, wherein the MDM data includes policy metadata specifying MDM functions for mobile devices associated with users of an enterprise; communicating to an application on a mobile device associated with a user, via a tunnel, wherein the application is configured for service discovery and connectivity; and providing the MDM data to the mobile device associated with the user via the tunnel.
US11297054B1
Authentication processing is provided which includes generating an authentication parameter as a function of a time-dependent input using a predetermined transformation having an inverse transformation. Multiple authentication modes are supported, with a bit-length of the time-dependent input of one authentication mode being different from a bit-length of the time-dependent input of another authentication mode. Generating the authentication parameter is dependent, in part, on whether the time-dependent input is of the one authentication mode or the other authentication mode. A time-dependent password including a character string is generated from the authentication parameter using another predetermined transformation having another inverse transformation. The time-dependent password is forwarded within the authentication system for authentication by an authenticator.
US11297051B2
A virtual session manager of an electronic device maintains a web session for a user across multiple electronic devices. The virtual session manager receives an authentication request from a first electronic device that is in a communication range of the device. The virtual session manager transmits the authentication request to an endpoint device with a grant token without providing the first electronic device with any access to the grant token. The virtual session manager will receive, from the endpoint device, a first access token in response to the first authentication request. The virtual session manager will transmit the first access token to the first electronic device so that the first electronic device can establish a virtual session with the first web resource.
US11297045B2
An information recording apparatus has a drive unit to record digital information including digital contents; and a host unit to control reading and writing of the digital information for the drive unit. The host unit has a network processing unit to communicate with a server, a shadow determination unit to determine whether a shadow boot program to be executed prior to a boot program is executable, a shadow reading unit to read the shadow program from the drive unit when the shadow determination unit determines to be executable, a shadow execution unit to execute the shadow program, a server authentication unit to perform authentication with the server in accordance with a processing of the shadow program, and a password transmitter to transmit to the drive unit a password used for unlock of the drive unit when the authentication with the server is successful.
US11297039B1
A method for providing a notification system in a virtual private network (VPN), the method comprising configuring a VPN server to receive, from a user device, an indication that data of interest is to be requested, the indication including domain information associated with a host device capable of providing the data of interest; and configuring the VPN server to transmit, based at least in part on the domain information, a notification indicating to the user device that the data of interest to be received from the host device potentially includes harmful content. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11297035B2
A system for web traffic control is provided that is based on information related to a user's previous online activity. In one embodiment, the system is able to collect information about incoming traffic, compare the information to a generated ruleset, and make and implement a decision about how to handle each request/user interaction. In one embodiment, the ruleset is based on e-commerce rules. An e-commerce rule is a unit of decision making logic based on the user's previous online activity on the e-commerce platform, e.g. “If request is to add an item to user's cart, and if user already added something to their cart less than one second ago, then block request”. In some embodiments, the rules may be executed at the firewall and/or in a web application on the e-commerce platform. In some embodiments, one or more rules may be recommended to a merchant.
US11297033B2
A system for concurrently publishing a current version of a plurality of Domain Name System (DNS) records for a zone of domain name and for storing a next version of the plurality of DNS records for the zone, the system comprising: a record selection module for obtaining registry data associated with the domain name stored in a registry database; a DNS Security (DNSSEC) signing system having a first High Security Module (HSM) of a first vendor for facilitating digital signing of the registry data to generate a first signed DNS record using a first signing key (SK1) and a second HSM of a second vendor for facilitating digital signing of the registry data to generate a second signed DNS record using a second signing key SK2, the SK1 different from the SK2; and a distribution system for coordinating concurrent generation and transmission of the current version and the next version; the distribution system and signing system cooperating to: generate the concurrent version using SK1 to include the first signed DNS record according to a first set of generation instructions and transmit in a first transmission path that bypasses storing of the current version in the registry database; and while the current version is operational in the DNS, generate the next version using SK2 to include the second signed DNS record according to a second set of generation instructions and transmit to a publication storage for at least one of testing or validation by a processing facility in a second transmission path that bypasses storing of the next version in the registry database.
US11297025B2
An operation method of an electronic device, according to various embodiments, comprises the steps of: displaying a notification list; determining a first notification among a plurality of notifications, which are included in the notification list, according to the detection of a first input; and displaying the notification list based on the determination. The first notification is maintained in the notification list even if a second input for initializing the notification list is detected. A second notification among the plurality of notifications is deleted from the notification list according to the detection of the second input.
US11297021B2
A filtering system for received content, uses a computer, which receives content to be posted, the computer receiving content from a plurality of different users; the computer including a content filtering system, receiving the content from the plurality of different users, and operating to carry out a first autonomous screening of the content to use rules to determine whether the content meets a posting criteria, and categorizing the content as to whether the autonomous screening indicates that the content has met the posting criteria, the computer further receiving input from a human screening process which carries out humans to screen the criteria; and a machine learning system, that uses differences between the autonomous rules and the results of the human screening to learn from the human screening more about which autonomous rules are properly written, which rules are suspect, and also to create new autonomous rules.
US11297017B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing access to digital media content within a conversational messaging environment, through the use of a conversational agent, generally referred to as a “bot”. A media content bot leverages a user's interaction with the bot, to access a media server, which in turn can determine one or more recommended items of media content that are appropriate for the user and/or their interaction. The recommended media content can be provided to the user, or to a media device, in the form of a link, playlist, or other type of reference by which the user can stream, download, access, or otherwise use the recommended media content. In accordance with various embodiments, the media content bot and media server can support atypical or other user inputs in addition to text inputs, for example the use of emojis, and respond accordingly.
US11297008B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to software-defined networks, and particularly, but not exclusively to programmable packet data processing systems, methods and computer readable products for use therein.
US11297001B2
A closed loop processing interaction network in which the resource pool source of the user and the resource pool destination are both within the same organization or group of organizations. As such, resources associated with interactions may be distributed directly between the resource pools of the members within the interaction network without having to use the traditional processing networks. The interactions may occur through communication between user computer systems (e.g., mobile devices, or the like) and/or interaction terminals of product providers (e.g., mobile devices, or the like) that are able to handle both traditional processing, as well as closed loop processing. The closed loop interaction network improves the processing speeds, memory requirements, security, and costs associated with processing resources related to interactions.
US11296995B2
Implementations of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for reducing the size of packet headers without reducing the range of packet lengths supported. A packet header includes a fixed-width length field. Using a linear encoding, the maximum packet size is a linear function of the fixed-width length field. Thus, to expand the range of sizes available, either the granularity of the field must be decreased (e.g., by changing the measure of the field from flits to double-flits) or the size of the field must be increased (e.g., by changing the size of the field from 4 bits to 5 bits). However, by using a non-linear encoding, the difference between the minimum and maximum size can be increased without decreasing the granularity within a first range of field values and without increasing the size of the length field.
US11296993B2
Systems and techniques for information centric network (ICN) approximate computation caching are described herein. For example, an interest packet that includes a feature set of input data may be received. A node may then perform a search of a local data store using the feature set to determine an approximate computation result cached in the local data store. Here, the approximate computation result may be based on input data that differs from the input data named in the interest packet. The node may then return the approximate computation result to an author of the interest packet in response to the search.
US11296990B2
In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there are provided methods, systems, mechanisms, techniques, and apparatuses for traffic aggregation on multiple WAN backhauls and multiple distinct LAN networks; for traffic load balancing on multiple WAN backhauls and multiple distinct LAN networks; and for performing self-healing operations utilizing multiple WAN backhauls serving multiple distinct LAN networks. For example, in one embodiment, a first Local Area Network (LAN) access device is to establish a first LAN; a second LAN access device is to establish a second LAN; a first Wide Area Network (WAN) backhaul connection is to provide the first LAN access device with WAN connectivity; a second WAN backhaul connection is to provide the second LAN access device with WAN connectivity; and a traffic aggregation unit is to form a logically bonded WAN interface over the first WAN backhaul and the second WAN backhaul. In some embodiments an optional traffic de-aggregation unit may be used.
US11296987B2
A system to facilitate resolving traffic congestion in a network switching fabric is described. The system includes a processor and a machine readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive a notification from a virtual connect switch indicating that a congestion condition has been detected in remote direct memory access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) data traffic flowing from a first end point to a second end point via a first of a plurality of paths between the first end point and the second end point, identify a second of the plurality of paths between the first end point and the second end point and modify the RoCE data traffic to flow from the first end point to the second end point via the second path.
US11296984B2
For a managed network, some embodiments provide a method for a set of service nodes in an active-active service node cluster in conjunction with a host computer hosting a destination data compute node (DCN) to improve the efficiency of directing a return data message to a service node storing state information for the flow to which the data message belongs. A primary service node in some embodiments receives a data message in a particular data message flow addressed to a destination DCN, performs a service on the data message and forwards the data message, along with information identifying the primary service node, to a host computer on which the destination DCN executes. The host computer generates an entry in a reverse forwarding table including identifying information for the particular data message flow and the primary service node to use to forward data messages in the particular data message flow to the primary service node.
US11296983B1
A software defined networking (SDN) controller or routers in a network determine unicast paths from an ingress router to egress routers from the network based on quality-of-service (QoS) metrics for links between routers of the network. A subset of the unicast paths is associated with a multicast flow based on one or more QoS criteria for the multicast flow. A router pushes a label stack onto a packet of the multicast flow. The label stack includes labels that identify the subset of the unicast paths. The packet including the label stack is multicast through the network to the egress routers. Routers that receive the multicast packet selectively modify the label stack in the packet based on the labels that identify the subset of the unicast paths. The routers selectively forward the packet based on the labels.
US11296978B2
The technology disclosed herein enables multi-path routing in virtual edge systems of a virtual network environment. In a particular embodiment, a method provides establishing a connection for a communication with a client outside of the virtual network environment through a first virtual edge system of a plurality of virtual edge systems. The method further provides generating state information about the connection that indicates properties of the connection with respect to the first virtual edge system and updating a state information base of the first virtual edge system with the state information. Also, the method provides transferring the state information to one or more other virtual edge systems of the plurality of virtual edge systems and updating respective state information bases of the one or more other virtual edge systems with the state information.
US11296975B2
Examples of the present disclosure can include a method. The method may include (1) obtaining, by an network function virtualization orchestrator (“NFVO”), path computation information from the integrated network, the integrated network including a virtual source and a virtual destination, (2) generating, using the path computation information, segments identifying portions of a virtual network path originating at the virtual source and terminating at the virtual destination, (3) generating, by a virtual infrastructure manager (“VIM”), a plurality of labels associated with physical links on the physical network corresponding to the identified portions of the virtual network path, and (4) determining, by the NFVO and using the plurality of labels, a network path for data transfer over the integrated network, the network path identifying virtual and physical network elements.
US11296970B2
A system for detecting a disruption in a communication system of a vehicle. The system includes a vehicle bus and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to receive a message, from a vehicle bus. The message has a format and a plurality of signals. The electronic processor is configured to detect anomalies in a bus identifier, the message format, a time the message is received, and a signal parameter of a signal of the plurality of signals. The electronic processor is also configured to generate an error if an anomaly is detected in the message format, an anomaly is detected in the time the message is received, or an anomaly is detected in the signal parameter of the signal of the plurality of signals.
US11296968B2
A control method, device, computer program, computer-readable medium and method for data communication in an industrial network that includes at least one node point, via a stream, in which resources are reserved on the at least one node point for data transmission between subscribers via the node point, using a reservation protocol, and data is transmitted via the stream, and a data frame is sent from the transmitter to transmit data from a transmitter to receivers, the data frame being formed from a plurality of data subrecords determined for different receivers, and on at least one output port of at least one node point, at least one data subrecord is filtered out of the data frame, and/or data is transmitted from a plurality of transmitters to a receiver via data frames that have a plurality of data subrecords originating from different emitters, on at least one node point.
US11296964B2
Technologies for dynamically generating topology and location based network insights are provided. In some examples, a method can include determining statistical changes in time series data including a series of data points associated with one or more conditions or parameters of a network; determining a period of time corresponding to one or more of the statistical changes in the time series data; obtaining telemetry data corresponding to a segment of the network and one or more time intervals, wherein a respective length of each time interval is based on a length of the period of time corresponding to the one or more of the statistical changes in the time series data; and generating, based on the telemetry data, insights about the segment of the network, the insights identifying a trend or statistical deviation in a behavior of the segment of the network during the one or more time intervals.
US11296959B2
The disclosure relates to a communication method and a system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure relates to apparatuses and methods for detecting a specific service through a network data analytics function (NWDAF) in a mobile communication system and analyzing a characteristic related to the service.
US11296957B2
A network slice template management method includes: receiving, by a first management unit, a subnet management request, where the subnet management request carries indication information of a subnet template; obtaining, by the first management unit, network service descriptor association information or a network service descriptor based on the indication information of the subnet template; and obtaining, by the first management unit, a network service instance based on the network service descriptor association information or the network service descriptor.
US11296943B2
An information processing apparatus includes a management unit configured to manage configuration information indicating a device configuration of the information processing apparatus, a receiving unit configured to receive setting information to be used by the information processing apparatus to perform an operation, from a server, and a control unit configured to control, in a case where setting information stored in the information processing apparatus is updated by using the received setting information, whether to execute processing for causing the information processing apparatus to reflect the update of the setting information, based on a type of the setting information to be updated and the configuration information.
US11296942B1
A presence of a secondary device is detected by a primary device. The primary device is operating in a first configuration. A current placement of the secondary device is identified by the primary device. Based on the current placement of the secondary device a list of potential future placements of the secondary device is determined by the primary device. The list of potential future placements of the secondary device is prioritized by the primary device. A first candidate future placement of the secondary device is selected based on the list by the primary device.
US11296935B2
An Internet of Things (IoT) network includes an orchestrator to issue service management requests, a service coordinator to identify components to participate in the service, and a component to perform a network service element. An IoT network includes an IoT device with service enumerator, contract enumerator, and join contract function. An IoT network apparatus includes permissions guide drafter for discovered peers, and permissions guide action executor. An IoT network apparatus includes floating service permissions guide drafter for discovered hosts, host hardware selector, floating service permissions guide executor, and service wallet value transferor. An IoT network apparatus includes permissions guide drafter for first and second discovered peers, parameter weight calculator, permissions guide term generator, and permissions guide action executor. An IoT network includes an IoT device with resource hardware component identifier, processor to process a received indication of an external module hardware requirement, an external module comparer, and deactivation signal transmitter.
US11296934B2
To provide a provisioning system capable of providing a valid device with valid provisioning data and preventing intrusion of an unauthorized device. A device provisioning system that provides a device 4 with provisioning data for provisioning the device 4 includes: public key providing means configured to acquire a first public key unique to the device 4 from a blockchain 2 storing the first public key in association with a first trail in response to a query using the first trail; and provisioning data providing means configured to acquire the first public key through the public key providing means in response to a query using the first trail from the device 4 and transmit the provisioning data encrypted with the first public key to the device 4.
US11296932B2
A terminal apparatus, a server, a system, a method for a terminal apparatus, and a program for a terminal apparatus, capable of easily making a setting of kitting data necessary for the operation of a gateway are provided. A terminal apparatus 11 according to the present disclosure includes an application unit 111 configured to transmit predetermined user information of the terminal apparatus 11 and predetermined identification information of the terminal apparatus 11 to a server 12, and receive, when the predetermined user information and the predetermined identification information are included in management data managed by the server 12, predetermined kitting data associated with the predetermined user information and the predetermined identification information from the server 12, and a radio communication unit 112 configured to transmit the predetermined kitting data to a gateway 13, the kitting data being data for making a setting necessary for an operation of the gateway 13.
US11296931B2
A method is devised of deploying a network configuration in a datacenter. The network configuration includes one of more points of interconnection, a point of presence of the datacenter being one of the one or more points of interconnection. Each of the one or more points of interconnection in the network configuration is modeled through objects comprising, for each given point of interconnection, a node object representing the point of interconnection, an interface object hierarchically inferior to the node object and representing a connection to the point of interconnection, an evpnEdge object representing the transport to/from of the point of interconnection in the network, and a layer object hierarchically inferior to the evpnEdge object, and representing the characteristics of the protocol of transport to/from the point of interconnection. The network configuration is set up by a succession of commands on the objects and then pushed to the datacenter.
US11296928B2
Examples described herein relate to systems and methods for containing a faulty stimulus. A computer-implemented method may include listing in a suspect list every received stimulus including the faulty stimulus, and implicitly testing the stimuli by respectively acting upon those stimuli by a software application. Responsive to successfully acting upon each of the stimuli besides the faulty stimulus, each non-faulty stimulus is deleted from the suspect list and, responsive to such deletion, made available to a downstream node. Responsive to acting upon the faulty stimulus, the software application crashes which leaves the faulty stimulus listed in the suspect list. The software application then restarts and deems the faulty stimulus as being faulty based upon the faulty stimulus still being listed in the suspect list after the restart.
US11296926B1
The present disclosure relates to a timeline visualization to enable users to more quickly find information and limit the amount of displayed information associated with one or more records. The timeline visualization displays events associated with a record as areas that are positioned along the timeline visualization. In some embodiments, the events displayed on the timeline visualization may be selected based on properties of the events and timeline parameters, such as dimensions of the timeline visualization and the areas to be displayed using the timeline visualization.
US11296923B2
Concepts and technologies directed to network fault originator identification for virtual network infrastructure are disclosed herein. Embodiments can include a control system that is communicatively coupled with network infrastructure. The control system can include a processor and memory that, upon execution, causes the control system to perform operations. The operations can include determining, based on a source ticket, a network fault condition associated with the network infrastructure. The operations can further include identifying, from the source ticket, a trap set and an alarm set that are associated with origination of the network fault condition. The operations can include the control system collecting network event data from the network infrastructure prior to a polling time of a fault reporting schedule; determining that a qualified source ticket should be created; and generating the qualified source ticket based on the network event data.
US11296922B2
Configuration management persistent storage contains entries representing configuration items and relationships between pairs of the configuration items. Event management persistent storage contains entries representing alert records. Change request persistent storage contains change records respectively referring to changes made to the configuration items. One or more processors may be configured to: extract, from a particular alert, a particular configuration item referred to therein that is associated with a particular problem; determine, by way of the relationships, a set of configuration items within a topological distance of the particular configuration item; identify, by way of the change records, one or more change requests that refer to any of the set of configuration items; and calculate root cause scores for the one or more change requests, wherein the root cause scores respectively represent estimations of impacts that the changes of the one or more change requests had on causing the particular alert.
US11296918B2
A method for receiving, by a terminal, downlink control information in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving information on a reference subcarrier spacing (SCS) from among a plurality of SCS numerologies; receiving downlink control information through a terminal group common physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); and obtaining information on a slot format from the downlink control information, wherein the downlink control information indicates the slot format on the basis of the reference SCS, and when the SCS of the terminal is different from the reference SCS, the terminal may convert the slot format of the reference SCS according to the SCS of the terminal.
US11296904B1
An Ethernet transceiver is disclosed. The Ethernet transceiver includes transceiver circuitry to couple to one end of an Ethernet link. The transceiver circuitry includes transmit circuitry to transmit high-speed Ethernet data along the Ethernet link at a first data rate and receiver circuitry. The receiver circuitry includes adaptive filter circuitry and correlator circuitry. The receiver circuitry is responsive to an inline signal to operate in a low-power alert mode with the adaptive filter circuitry disabled and to receive alert signals from the Ethernet link simultaneous with transmission of the Ethernet data by the transmit circuitry. The alert signals are detected by the correlator circuitry and include a sequence of alert intervals exhibiting encoded data at a second data rate less than the first data rate.
US11296893B2
A method for verifying the identity of a new user, the method comprising providing a Certification Authority platform that is accessible via the internet. The platform receives an identity verification request of the new user and requests the new user to enter the user's full name and at least one other personal identity data. The platform may then identify at least two already verified users in the proximity of the new user, and ask the existing verified users to vouch for the complete list of the personal identity data of the new user. The existing verified users may then vouch for the new user and the platform makes the new user a verified user and generates a digital certificate.
US11296892B2
Secure communications between services or components of a cloud computing system, are facilitated by generating at a first service provided by a first computing entity of a cloud computing system, a request for computing resources, generating at the first computing entity a digital data signature based at least on the request, using a private key associated with the first service; and inserting the digital data signature within an HTTP header associated with the request. A computer data network is used to communicate the request to a second service. The second service extracts the digital data signature and uses a public key to validate the digital data signature.
US11296891B2
A microcode signature security management system based on a Trustzone technology comprises the steps of: starting a normal operating system; acquiring the signature-encrypted microcode file and outputting the signature-encrypted microcode file and a switching signal by the normal operating system; receiving the switching signal and starting the monitor mode by the microprocessor to start a secure operating system; receiving the signature-encrypted microcode file, performing signature verification on the signature-encrypted microcode file, loading the file when the signature verification passes, otherwise outputting microcode error information when the signature verification fails by the secure operating system. The security of microcode is ensured on the basis of a secure operating system safety environment to which a system layer is inaccessible. A cryptography tool measure is adopted, so that the security, integrity and correctness of loaded microcode are ensured, and the risk of breaking, modifying and replacing an existing microcode management mechanism is lowered.
US11296886B2
A construction of a dynamic object password (DOP) is initiated by selecting an object from a set of objects in a step of the construction. A transformation is applied to the object to form a transformed object by altering a dynamic aspect of the object. A placement operation is performed on the transformed object relative to a field position of the DOP. As a part of the step, a triple is generated including an identifier of the selected object, an identifier of the transformation, and an identifier of the placement operation. The triple is transmitted as a part of transmitting an authorization code, the authorization code forming the DOP.
US11296876B1
A system and method for cross-domain parallel inspection of data packets in transit between domains of differing security classification incorporating sequential cryptographic control is disclosed. In embodiments, the system includes first and second random number generators, each generating a one-time pad for transmission to both a corresponding front-end cryptographic engine and a parallel guard engine. The cryptographic engines double encrypt the data packet in sequence according to the one-time pads, storing the encrypted packet in a holding register. Each guard engine inspects the data packet in parallel, indicating approval by transmitting a release to the holding register and sending its one-time pad to a back-end cryptographic engine. When the holding register receives both releases, the double encrypted packet is sequentially decrypted by the back-end cryptographic engines in reverse order according to the one-time pads received from the guard engines. The fully decrypted data packet is transferred to the second domain.
US11296874B2
One-time password (“OTP”) generation on a smartwatch is provided. OTP generation may include communication between an application on a smartwatch and an application on a smartphone. The request for an OTP may be received at the smartwatch. The smartwatch application may communicate with the smartphone application. An OTP may be generated within a third-party library within the smartphone application. The generated OTP may be transmitted from the smartphone application to the smartwatch application. The OTP may be displayed on the smartwatch.
US11296871B2
Embodiments of content management systems that utilize encryption are disclosed. An object management module of a content management system is adapted to encrypt an object using a data key that is generated based on the content. The data key is encrypted using a tenant key associated with a tenant of the system. The encrypted object is stored in an object store, and a storage record for the stored encrypted object is stored in a data store, along with the encrypted data key and a tenant key identifier.
US11296868B1
A cyber threat intelligence of a cyber threat includes a threat chain that describes objects involved in the cyber threat and relationships between the objects. A related object hash of an object is calculated by calculating a hash of one or more objects that are linked to the object as indicated in the cyber threat intelligence. A related object sequence hash of the threat chain is generated by calculating a total of the related object hashes. The related object sequence hash of the threat chain is compared to a related object sequence hash of another threat chain to detect cyber threats.
US11296866B2
Integrated circuits, methods, and computer programs are directed to performing proof-of-work (POW) operations. One integrated circuit includes a nonce register for storing a nonce value, a first one-way function (OWF) circuit configured to generate a hash of a header, a dynamic transform circuit configured to transform the hash of the header to generate a transform value, and a second OWF circuit configured to generate a hash of the transform value to obtain a validation parameter. The header includes the nonce value for POW validation of the header. Further, the transformation by the dynamic transform circuit is based on the nonce value. The validation parameter determines whether the POW meets a predetermined target for validation of the header with the nonce value.
US11296861B1
A Paillier decryption system, IC, and method. The IC includes: a modular exponentiation module, for performing modular exponentiation operations related to a first subitem and a second subitem, where a Paillier decryption process of encrypted data is divided into a first subitem and a second subitem according to the Chinese remainder theorem, the first subitem corresponding to a first prime, the second subitem corresponding to a second prime, a public key of the encrypted data being a product of the first prime and the second prime, a bit width of the first prime being the same as a bit width of the second prime; a first module combination corresponding to the first subitem, for determining a computation result of the first subitem; and a second module combination corresponding to the second subitem, for determining a computation result of the second subitem.
US11296858B2
Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of communications involves determining a time-division multiplex (TDM) communications schedule over an asymmetrical point-to-point link and at a communications device, transmitting or receiving data according to the TDM communications schedule over the asymmetrical point-to-point link. The TDM communications schedule specifies multiple non-overlapping transmission time slots for different communications devices and a silent period for echo fade-out between consecutive transmission time slots of the non-overlapping transmission time slots.
US11296856B2
Provided are a method for transmitting information and a device. The method comprises: a receiving end device receiving, within a first time unit, first information sent by a sending end device; and the receiving end device sending, within a second time unit, second information corresponding to the first information to the sending end device, wherein the duration of the first time unit is different from that of the second time unit. By means of the method for transmitting information in the embodiments of the present invention, when different transmission time intervals are used for an uplink and a downlink or a plurality of types of transmission time intervals are used for a communication system, rational scheduling and a time sequence fed back can be determined for devices at a receiving end and a sending end so as to ensure normal transmission of the information.
US11296853B2
The disclosure pertains to a method of operating a user equipment in a Radio Access Network. The method includes transmitting signaling in a first transmission timing structure starting at a starting symbol, the starting symbol being determined based on a received transmission timing structure indication, the transmission timing structure indication indicating the first transmission timing structure. The disclosure also pertains to related methods and devices.
US11296840B1
A first communication device in a wireless local area network (WLAN) determines one or more frequency division, full duplex (FDFD) parameters for an FDFD operation that includes FDFD communications via a first frequency segment and a second frequency segment. The first frequency segment and the second frequency segment are separated by a gap in frequency. The one or more FDFD parameters include a parameter indicating a duration of the FDFD operation. The first communication device generates a communication frame that includes one or more indications of the one or more FDFD parameters. The one or more indications in the communication frame include an indication of the duration of the FDFD operation. The first communication device transmits the communication frame to prompt a plurality of second communication devices to participate in the FDFD operation.
US11296830B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to an enhanced hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ). A device may determine two or more HARQ medium access control (MAC) frames. The device may determine a difference between a first number of bits of a physical layer (PHY) codeword and a second number of bits of a first HARQ MAC frame of the two or more HARQ MAC frames. The device may generate, based on the difference, a third number of bits, wherein the first number of bits is equal to a sum of the second number of bits and the third number of bits. The device may generate an aggregated MAC frame comprising the first HARQ MAC frame, the third number of bits, and a second HARQ MAC frame of the two or more HARQ MAC frames. The device may send the aggregated MAC frame.
US11296828B2
A method by which a station (STA) transmits a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) in a wireless LAN system supporting an HARQ process, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: generating a HARQ PPDU including allocation information on a HARQ burst, which is unit data to which the HARQ process is applied, and a plurality of HARQ bursts; and transmitting the HARQ PPDU, wherein the HARQ PPDU includes a HARQ signaling (SIG) field of a physical layer for transmitting the allocation information on a HARQ burst, and the allocation information on a HARQ burst can include STA ID for each of the plurality of HARQ bursts, HARQ burst size information, HARQ process channel ID and information indicating, in a toggle manner, whether a transmission is a new transmission or retransmission.
US11296820B2
Provided are a signaling coding and modulation method and a demodulation and decoding method and device, characterized in that the method comprises the steps of: extending signaling which has been subjected to first predetermined processing according to an extension pattern table to obtain an extended codeword, and conducting predetermined coding on the extended codeword to obtain a encoded codeword; conducting parity bit permutation on a parity bit portion in the encoded codeword and then splicing the permutated parity bits to the end of information bits in the encoded codeword, to obtain a permutated encoded codeword; according to the length of the signaling, punching the permutated encoded codeword according to a predetermined punching rule to obtain a punched encoded codeword; and conducting second predetermined processing on the punched encoded codeword to obtain a tuple sequence, which is used for mapping, and then mapping the tuple sequence.
US11296816B2
A method of signal demodulation includes receiving, by a signal receiver, a first signal modulated by a symbol corresponding to a point in a constellation; generating, by the signal receiver and on the basis of the first signal, a modulation estimate; identifying, by the signal receiver and on the basis of the modulation estimate, a row or column of a candidate lookup table, the row or column corresponding to a region of the constellation; reading, by the signal receiver, from the row or column of the candidate lookup table one or more candidate points of the constellation, at least one among the one or more candidate points being more distant, from a center of the region, than a point, in the constellation, not among the one or more candidate points, and demodulating, by the signal receiver and on the basis of the one or more candidate points, the first signal.
US11296811B2
An apparatus includes a first input port, a first switch, and a second switch. The first switch and the second input port are in optical communication with the first input port. The apparatus also includes a second input port, a third switch, and a fourth switch. The third switch and the fourth switch are in optical communication with the second input port. Each switch is switchable between a first state to pass optical signals and a second state to block optical signals. The apparatus also includes a first combiner in optical communication with the first input port via the first switch and the second input port via the third switch. The apparatus also includes a second combiner in optical communication with the first input port via the second switch and the second input port via the fourth switch.
US11296809B2
A small cell interference coordination method and wireless communication device includes obtaining mobile information of at least one of the small cells. Relative movement between the small cells is determined according to at least the movement information. A Doppler frequency shift of a signal between small cells is estimated according to the relative movement. An interference alignment policy between small cells is implemented according to the estimated Doppler frequency shift.
US11296802B1
An electronic device may include a harmonic rejection mixer with a delay line, mixer array, and load. The delay line may generate LO phases. Each mixer in the array may have a first input that receives an LO phase and a second input coupled to an input switch and the first input of the next mixer circuit through an inter-mixer switch. The load may include a set of switches. In a transmit mode, the input switches and set of switches may be closed while the inter-mixer switches are open. In a self-calibration mode, the input switches and set of switches may be open while the inter-mixer switches are closed. A controller may sweep through phase codes for the programmable delay line while storing a digital output from the load. The controller may calibrate the phase code based on the digital output.
US11296797B2
A method and apparatus for monitoring the change of state of polarization and a receiver. The method for monitoring the change of state of polarization includes: extracting a matrix of equalization filter tap coefficients of a receiver; performing an FFT operation of N taps on each path of equalization filter tap coefficients of the matrix to obtain a converted matrix, a sum of each path of equalization filter tap coefficients of the converted matrix being a value of non-zero frequency; and estimating an amount of change of state of polarization by using at least one path of equalization filter tap coefficients of the converted matrix. Thus, as the sum of the tap coefficients is shifted in the frequency domain from the zero frequency to a higher frequency (non-zero frequency), an effect of imperfection of the transmitter on a monitoring result of the change of state of polarization may be avoided.
US11296784B1
An Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) module obtains Optical Return Loss (ORL) of a fiber plant. Calibration information is obtained of at least internal OTDR reflections associated with the OTDR module. The OTDR module is connected to the fiber plant. An ORL response is measured due to reflections of an ORL signal transmitted from the OTDR module along the fiber plant, and a peak OTDR response is measured in response to reflections of an OTDR signal transmitted from the OTDR module along the fiber plant. A corrected ORL response of the fiber plant is determined by: using the measured peak OTDR response (e.g., peak value or area under the peak) and the calibration information to calculate the calculated ORL due to internal reflections, and then adjusting the measured ORL response by the calculated ORL to represent the corrected ORL of the fiber plant.
US11296783B2
This disclosure is related to devices, systems, and techniques for using an aggregation device to manage satellite devices that are coupled to host devices. For example, a system includes a set of satellite devices providing switching functionality and an aggregation device configured to communicate with an orchestrator of a wide area network (WAN), where the aggregation device serves as a master switch and is coupled to the set of satellite devices via a set of cascade ports. The aggregation device is configured to detect, using a port extension service virtual network function (VNF) executing on the aggregation device, each satellite device of the set of satellite devices coupled to the aggregation device and send, to the orchestrator, data indicating the satellite devices as respective sub-systems within a logical switch comprising the aggregation device and the set of satellite devices.
US11296778B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is disclosed. The UAV includes a flight system, a communications system, and a processing system. The communications system includes a cellular radio configured to support multiple contemporaneous communications connections, including at least a first communications connection with a cellular radio access network, at least a second communications connection with a second UAV in a set of one or more UAVs, and at least a third communications connection with a user equipment (UE) in a set of one or more UEs. The processing system is configured to control the flight system and relay communications between the cellular radio access network, the set of one or more UAVs, and the set of one or more UEs, in accordance with a mesh network protocol.
US11296777B2
Methods, devices and systems for increasing wireless communication range are provided. A device includes a reconfigurable antenna system having a plurality of antenna configurations; an antenna logic system configured to select one of the antenna configurations based on signal strength indicators of the plurality of antenna configurations; and a radio frequency (RF) transceiver configured to communicate with a client device using the selected antenna configuration.
US11296776B2
Systems and methods for managing a network are disclosed. In an aspect, a method can comprise receiving first information by an access node of a premises network via a first radio frequency band. At least a portion of the first information can be transmitted via a second radio frequency band to a gateway node of the premises network. Second information can be received from the gateway node via the second radio frequency band. At least a portion of the second information can be transmitted via the first radio frequency band to a source of the first information.
US11296775B2
A Motion Aware Scheduler (MAS) is configured to obtain, from a controller through an interface, Motion State Information (MSI) for a motion of at least one movable apparatus, also configured to obtain, from a physical layer of a radio node comprising the MAS, Channel State Information (CSI), also configured to associate the CSI and the MSI in order to obtain a mapping information, and also configured to store the mapping information in order to obtain a stored mapping information.
US11296766B2
Systems and techniques for reporting channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system and a device therefor. Particularly, a method for reporting channel state information (CSI) of a terminal in a wireless communication system can include the steps of: measuring a CSI reference signal (CSI-RS) transmitted by means of multi-panels from a base station; and reporting CSI, which is generated on the basis of the CSI-RS measurement, to the base station. If the terminal receives, from the base station, configuration of a CSI report excluding a matrix index for phase calibration between panels, the CSI includes only a first matrix index, for wide-band (WB) panel compensation, and a second matrix index, for subband (SB) panel compensation, and can be calculated by means of the first matrix index, the second matrix index and a particular matrix index associated with the phase calibration between the panels.
US11296765B2
A method by a first network node for handling directions of transmission of beamformed beams by a first radio network node. Both nodes operate in a wireless communications network. The first network node determines, out of a set of directions in which the first radio network node is capable of transmitting the beams, a subset of directions of transmission of the beams having a probability of detection above a threshold, by a first wireless device. The determining is based on data obtained from previous attempts of positioning one or more second wireless devices using at least some of the directions. The first network node also initiates providing, to at least one of the first radio network node and a second network node operating in the wireless communications network, an indication of the determined subset.
US11296762B2
A method for providing user equipment access to millimeter wave stations through a microwave station includes receiving an indication of millimeter wave stations operating within a microwave coverage area of a microwave station. In a microwave band, information associated with the millimeter wave stations is broadcasted to user equipment in the microwave coverage area. A request is sent to the millimeter wave stations to transmit configuration signals over a microwave band. An instruction is transmitted over the microwave band to the user equipment to perform proximity measurements of the configuration signals. According to the proximity measurements, a request is sent to a particular millimeter wave station to transmit beamforming signals over a millimeter wave band. An instruction is transmitted over the microwave band to the user equipment to perform beamforming measurements of the beamforming signals. According to the beamforming measurements, the user equipment is switched to millimeter wave operation.
US11296755B2
This application provides a communication method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: generating, by a terminal device, first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate a precoding matrix, the precoding matrix is applied to at least one antenna panel and includes at least one precoding vector, each precoding vector includes a plurality of subvectors, each subvector corresponds to an antenna port on the antenna panel and includes two polarization vectors, and each polarization vector is generated by performing weighted combination on a plurality of basis vectors; and sending the first indication information. In embodiments of this application, accuracy of a codebook can be improved.
US11296750B2
One example discloses a near-field wireless device, including: a stack of layers distributed along a first axis; a first near-field antenna having a conductive surface and embedded in a first layer within the stack of layers; wherein the conductive surface is configured to carry non-propagating quasi-static near-field electric-induction signals for on-body near-field communications; a second near-field antenna having an inductive loop and embedded in a second layer within the stack of layers; wherein the inductive loop is configured to carry non-propagating quasi-static near-field magnetic-induction signals for off-body near-field communications; wherein the first and second layers are different layers; and wherein the first and second antennas are not in galvanic contact.
US11296747B2
An information processing device and method, a transmitting device and method, and a receiving device and method are disclosed for multiplexing transmission signals in the same channel. In one example, transmission signals are generated by performing chirp modulation on data to be transmitted, and the transmission signals are multiplexed by shifting transmission timings of a plurality of transmission signals in a time direction and transmitting the transmission signals. Further, a plurality of chirp-modulated transmission signals which are multiplexed by shifting the transmission timing in the time direction and transmitted from a transmission side are received, and the plurality of received transmission signals are dechirped at timings according to the transmission timings.
US11296741B2
A receiving device includes: a frequency mixer that converts a frequency of a reception signal to a baseband; an envelope demodulator; an upper sideband demodulator; and a lower sideband demodulator. Each of the envelope demodulator, the upper sideband demodulator and the lower sideband demodulator demodulates an output from the frequency mixer. The receiving device further includes: a first adder that adds an output from the envelope demodulator and an inverted output obtained by inverting an output from the upper sideband demodulator; a second adder that adds the output from the envelope demodulator and an inverted output obtained by inverting an output from the lower sideband demodulator; and a third adder that adds the output from the envelope demodulator, an inverted output obtained by inverting an output from the first adder, and an inverted output obtained by inverting an output from the second adder, to output a demodulation signal.
US11296736B2
A time-sharing detection control circuit connected to a plurality of amplification links, includes: a control module to sequentially output a number of switching control signals at preset intervals; a detection module electrically connected to the control module, and a change-over switch. The detection module converts output signals from the amplification links into detection signals and output the detection signals to the control module. The change-over switch is connected to the control module, the detection module and each of the amplification links, and sequentially selects one of the amplification links to be connected to the detection module at preset intervals under control of the switching control signals so as to enable the output signals from the one of the amplification links to be inputted into the detection module.
US11296733B2
A communication apparatus and a communication method are provided. The communication apparatus includes an antenna configured to receive a wireless signal, an oscillator driven by a driving current and configured to generate an oscillating signal based on the wireless signal, a measurer configured to measure an oscillation degree of the oscillating signal, and an accumulator configured to accumulate a difference between a target value and a measurement value of the oscillation degree. A value of the wireless signal is determined based on a cumulative signal corresponding to the accumulated difference.
US11296729B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus related to memory devices such as solid state drives. In one approach, data is received from a host system (e.g., data to be written to an SSD). The received data is encoded using a first error correction code to generate first parity data. A temperature at which memory cells of a storage device (e.g., the SSD) will store the received data is determined. In response to determining the temperature, a first portion of the received data is identified (e.g., data in memory storage that is error-prone at a predicted higher temperature that has been determined based on output from an artificial neural network using sensor(s) input). The identified first portion is encoded using a second error correction code to generate second parity data. The second error correction code has a higher error correction capability than the first error correction code. The encoded first portion, the first parity data, and the second parity data are stored in the memory cells of the storage device.
US11296728B2
An interleaving and mapping method and a deinterleaving and demapping method for an LDPC codeword are provided. The interleaving and mapping method comprises: performing first bit interleaving on a parity bits part of the LDPC codeword to obtain interleaved parity bits; splicing an information bit part of the codeword and the interleaved parity bits into a codeword after the first bit interleaving; dividing the codeword after the first bit interleaving into multiple consecutive bit subblocks in a predetermined length, and changing the order of the bit subblocks according to a corresponding permutation order (bit-swapping pattern) to form a codeword after second bit interleaving; dividing the codeword after the second bit interleaving into two parts, and writing the two parts into storage space in a column order respectively and reading the two parts from the storage space in a row order respectively to obtain a codeword after third bit interleaving.
US11296727B2
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 channel encoding method in a communication or broadcasting system includes identifying an input bit size, determining a block size (Z), determining an LDPC sequence for LDPC encoding, and performing the LDPC encoding based on the LDPC sequence and the block size.
US11296726B2
A low density parity check (LDPC) channel encoding method is used in a wireless communications system. A communication device encodes an input bit sequence by using an LDPC matrix, to obtain an encoded bit sequence for transmission. The LDPC matrix is obtained based on a lifting factor Z and a base matrix. The base matrix may be one of eight exemplary designs. The encoding method can be used in various communications systems including fifth generation (5G) telecommunication systems, and can support various encoding requirements for information bit sequences with different code lengths.
US11296717B2
A mixed-signal integrated circuit that includes: a global reference signal source; a first summation node and a second summation node; a plurality of distinct pairs of current generating circuits arranged along the first summation node and the second summation node; a first current generating circuit of each of the plurality of distinct pairs that is arranged on the first summation node and a second current generating circuit of each of the plurality of distinct pairs is arranged on the second summation node; a common-mode current circuit that is arranged in electrical communication with each of the first and second summation nodes; where a local DAC adjusts a differential current between the first second summation nodes based on reference signals from the global reference source; and a comparator or a finite state machine that generates a binary output value current values obtained from the first and second summation nodes.
US11296702B1
A signal transmission circuit of a semiconductor device includes a first emphasis circuit and a second emphasis circuit. The first emphasis circuit feeds a signal of an output node back to an input node. The first emphasis circuit may perform a first emphasis operation on a signal of the input node and the signal of the output node by adjusting a feedback time of the first emphasis circuit. The second emphasis circuit may be connected in parallel with the first emphasis circuit to perform a feedback of the signal of the output node to the input node. The second emphasis circuit may perform a second emphasis operation on the signal of the input node and the signal of the output node by adjusting a feedback time of the second emphasis circuit.
US11296701B2
A semiconductor device capable of level shifting in a negative potential direction using an n-channel transistor is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first source follower, a second source follower, and a comparator. The first source follower is supplied with a second high power supply potential and a low power supply potential; the second source follower is supplied with a first high power supply potential and the low power supply potential; and a digital signal which expresses a high level or a low level using the second high power supply potential or the first high power supply potential is input to the first source follower. Here, the second high power supply potential is a potential higher than the first high power supply potential, and the first high power supply potential is a potential higher than the low power supply potential. The comparator compares output potentials of the first source follower and the second source follower and outputs a digital signal which expresses a high level or a low level using the first high power supply potential or the low power supply potential.
US11296700B1
A triple modular redundancy (TMR) flip-flop includes a set of master-gate-latch circuits including a first set of inputs to receive a first digital signal, and a second set of inputs to receive a clock; and a voting logic circuit including a set of inputs coupled to a set of outputs of the set of master-gate-latch circuits, and an output to generate a second digital signal based on the first digital signal. Another TMR flip-flop includes a set of master-gate-latch circuits to receive a set of digital signals in response to a first edge of a clock, respectively; and latch the set of digital signals in response to a second edge of the clock, respectively; and a voting logic circuit to receive the latched set of digital signals; and generate a second digital signal based on a majority of logic levels of the latched first set of digital signals, respectively.
US11296690B2
According to an embodiment, an input-voltage control circuit outputs an input voltage when a control signal is in an enabled state. A backflow prevention circuit includes a first transistor and a first body diode. The first transistor turns on to output the input voltage to the input-voltage control circuit when the control signal is in the enabled state. The first body diode is formed in the first transistor and having an anode connected to the first terminal of the first transistor and a cathode connected to a second terminal of the first transistor. The booster circuit receives the input voltage outputted from the input-voltage control circuit and boosts the input voltage to generates a boosted voltage. The boosted voltage is outputted from the driver circuit and supplied to the control terminal of an external output transistor.
US11296683B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for low-swing Schmitt triggers. For example, an apparatus includes a Schmitt trigger including an input node, an output node, and a feedback node that is configured to bear a feedback voltage level that is a sum of an input voltage level at the input node and an attenuated voltage level of the output node; a current source connected to the output node; a voltage sensor connected to the feedback node and configured to cause the current source to pull up an output voltage level at the output node responsive to the feedback voltage level crossing a threshold.
US11296681B2
A fast Mux-D scan flip-flop is provided, which bypasses a scan multiplexer to a master keeper side path, removing delay overhead of a traditional Mux-D scan topology. The design is compatible with simple scan methodology of Mux-D scan, while preserving smaller area and small number of inputs/outputs. Since scan Mux is not in the forward critical path, circuit topology has similar high performance as level-sensitive scan flip-flop and can be easily converted into bare pass-gate version. The new fast Mux-D scan flip-flop combines the advantages of the conventional LSSD and Mux-D scan flip-flop, without the disadvantages of each.
US11296666B1
A high CMRR current monitoring circuit includes a first stage that receives a current sense signal, a voltage across a current sense resistor in series with an output of a class-D amplifier. First stage is powered by at least one floating supply and/or reference that tracks the amplifier output. First stage applies gain to the current sense signal to generate an intermediate signal. A second stage receives the intermediate signal and is powered by a ground-referenced supply and provides an amplified representation of the current sense signal. The floating supply is supplied by a capacitive-coupled power source driven by the ground-referenced supply. The second stage output may be a voltage relative to ground or a digital signal. The intermediate signal may be a current, digital signal, or amplified version of the current sense signal voltage. The first stage may be a transconductance amplifier and the second stage a transimpedance amplifier.
US11296654B2
An electronic envelope detection circuit includes an input signal detecting circuit having at least one MOS transistor configured to receive a radiofrequency input signal and to deliver an internal signal on the basis of the input signal. The biasing point of the at least one transistor is controlled by the input signal and a control signal. A processing circuit that is coupled to the input signal detecting circuit is configured to deliver a low-frequency output signal on the basis of the internal signal and further deliver the control signal on the basis of the output signal. In operation, the value of the control signal decreases when the average power of the input signal increases, and vice versa.
US11296652B1
Aspects of the present disclosure provide an oscillating circuit. An example oscillating circuitry generally includes a differential control pair comprising a first control node and a second control node. The oscillating circuit further includes a first voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) comprising a first differential varactor circuit having a first positive control input coupled to the first control node and a first negative control input coupled to the second control node. The oscillating circuit also includes a second differential varactor circuit having a second positive control input coupled to the second control node and a second negative control input coupled to the first control node.
US11296647B2
Solar array (1) comprising solar modules (3) distributed in rows (10), each solar module comprising solar collector (5) carried by a single-axis solar tracker (4), a reference solar power plant (2) comprising a central reference solar module and at least one secondary reference solar module, and a piloting unit (7) adapted for: piloting the angular orientation of the central reference module according to a central reference orientation setpoint corresponding to an initial orientation setpoint, piloting the orientation of each secondary reference module according to a secondary reference orientation setpoint corresponding to the initial orientation setpoint shifted by a predefined offset angle; receiving an energy production value from each reference module; piloting the orientation of the modules, except for the reference modules, by applying the reference orientation setpoint associated to the reference module having the highest production value.
US11296645B2
A system and method for improving solar collector design to provide thermal and electric output during times of low or no solar intensity. The improved solar collector design includes an infrared heater to supplement energy provided by the sun during time of low or no solar intensity.
US11296637B2
A control device includes angular velocity detecting circuitry, feedback circuitry, torque command calculation circuitry, a limiter, a drive controller, and correction circuitry. The angular velocity detecting circuitry detects an angular velocity of a motor. The feedback circuitry obtains a feedback value from the angular velocity. The torque command calculation circuitry obtains a torque command value according to a superordinate torque command value supplied from a superordinate device and the feedback value. The limiter limits the torque command value obtained by the torque command calculation circuitry so as not to exceed a preset torque upper limit value. The drive controller performs a drive control of the motor according to the limited torque command value. The correction circuitry corrects the superordinate torque command value or the torque command value according to the feedback value and the superordinate torque command value.
US11296627B2
An electronic watch includes a motor including a coil, a driver controlled to an ON state for supplying a driving current to the coil and an OFF state for not supplying the driving current, a driver controller configured to control the driver to the ON state or the OFF state depending on a value of a current flowing through the coil, and a polarity switcher configured to switch a polarity of the driving current when a prescribed condition is satisfied after detecting that an ON time, which is a duration of the ON state of the driver controller, reaches a maximum.
US11296623B2
A system includes a converter operatively connected to an alternating current (AC) power source and a direct current (DC) bus, an inverter operatively connected to a motor and the DC bus, and a controller. The converter includes a first plurality of switching devices in selective communication with each phase of the AC power source and the DC bus. The inverter includes a second plurality of switching devices in selective communication with each phase of a plurality of phases of the motor and the DC bus. The controller is operable to command dropping of a brake through a passive delay circuit responsive to detection of an emergency stop condition for a load driven by the motor and reduce a voltage on the DC bus by dropping at least one phase of the AC power source and/or using a dynamic braking resistor prior to the brake physically dropping.
US11296620B2
The invention describes a metal container that comprises a cathode containing an insulated anode with gases at pressures less than a fraction (0.1-0.9) of a mmHg. Metallic normal glow discharge diode and triode devices with large cold cathode area as efficient charge generator to function as a power cell. A metallic glow discharge device comprising a cylindrical cathode and a coaxial insulated anode containing gas at very low pressure utilizing radial electric field. A metallic normal glow discharge diode device containing a planar geometry, with an insulated metallic plate parallel to the broad side of the container forms the anode, while the container acts as the cathode.
US11296619B2
Disclosed is a force transfer device that includes a first body that has a first body frame that defines a first chamber and at least one gear element. The gear element has a central gear element region. A first membrane is affixed to a surface of the first body frame, the membrane covering the chamber and having an annular aperture enclosing a central region of the membrane that is affixed to the central gear element region of the gear element. The disclosed force transfer device can be axle or shaft based. Also disclosed in a micro electrostatic motor that includes a motor body having a first and a second face, the motor body defining a chamber and a rotor having a central region. A membrane is disposed over the first face of the motor body, the membrane supporting a pair of spaced electrodes that are electrically isolated by a gap, the membrane having an annular aperture that defines a central region of the membrane that is coupled to the central region of the rotor. The force transfer device can be driven by the electrostatic motor.
US11296617B2
An inverter control device that includes an electronic control unit that is configured to perform full active short circuit control when the contactors are in an open state and the rotating electrical machine is in a rotating state, the full active short circuit control bringing an upper-stage-side switching element and a lower-stage-side switching element for at least one phase among switching elements for a plurality of phases in the inverter into an on state to allow current to flow back between the rotating electrical machine and the inverter.
US11296614B2
A power conversion device for a vehicle, may include a power conversion module assembly having a capacitor configured to receive a direct current (DC) current from a battery of the vehicle, a power conversion module configured to convert the DC current supplied from the capacitor, into an alternating current (AC) current, and a control unit connected to the power conversion module and configured to control the power conversion module; a housing assembled with the power conversion module assembly; and an output terminal assembly including a plurality of output terminals through which the AC currents converted through the power conversion module assembly are output, a core, and a Hall integrated circuit (IC) configured to detect a variation in magnetic flux of the core when the AC currents flow in the output terminals and measure the AC currents of the output terminals.
US11296607B2
A DC-DC converter comprises at least a first and a second inductive element. Each inductive element comprises a transformer (312, 322), input terminals (314, 324, 315, 325) and output terminals (316, 326, 317, 327). A switching circuit (2) is arranged to supply a first alternating voltage to input terminals (314, 315) of the first inductive element, and a second alternating voltage to input terminals of the second inductive element (31, 32). A rectification circuit (4) is arranged to rectify a first and a second output voltage arising at output terminals (316, 317) of the first and second inductive elements (31, 32), respectively. One of the output terminals of the first inductive element (31) is capacitively coupled to one of the output terminals of the second inductive element (32).
US11296604B2
A control circuit for controlling a power stage circuit of a switching converter, where the power stage circuit includes a magnetic component and a power switch, can include: the control circuit being configured to determine a turn-on trough of a current cycle by determining whether a time signal corresponding to a lock-on trough of the current cycle is within a threshold range, thereby controlling the power switch to be turned on at the determined turn-on trough; and whereby an ordinal number of the lock-on trough of the current cycle is the same as an ordinal number of the turn-on trough of the last cycle.
US11296597B1
A power converter circuit included in a computer system includes a switched-capacitor circuit as well as one or more bypass devices, and generates a particular voltage on a regulated power supply node. In response to situations that can result in a rapid transient of the voltage level on the regulated power supply node (e.g., upscaling or downscaling), the power converter circuit may activate the bypass devices to source or sink current from the regulated power supply node. By employing both the switched-capacitor circuit and the bypass devices, the power converter may be able to more rapidly adjust the voltage level of the regulated output supply node, as well as maintain voltage across the devices and capacitors included in the switched-capacitor circuit within specified tolerances.
US11296594B2
A failure prediction system disclosed herein is configured to predict a failure of a power converter which converts output power of a power source to power for driving a traction motor. The system may include: a sensor provided at the power converter; and a controller configured to predict a failure of the power converter based on a measurement value of the sensor. The controller may be configured to: calculate a difference between previous and present measurement values of the sensor, wherein the controller repeatedly calculates the difference at predetermined time intervals; obtain intermediate data by applying variable conversion to a plurality of the past differences; calculate a damage level of the power converter based on the intermediate data; and output a warning signal in a case where the damage level exceeds a damage threshold, wherein the warning signal indicates that a timing when the failure occurs is approaching.
US11296589B2
An electrical machine comprises a longitudinally movable device and an intermediate rotor. A first arrangement of magnets is disposed on a first surface of the longitudinally movable device, and a second arrangement of magnets is disposed on a first surface of the intermediate rotor. The longitudinally movable device is movable in a first direction. The intermediate rotor's first surface is held adjacent the first surface of the longitudinally movable device such that it cannot move in the first direction. The intermediate rotor is, however, rotatable about an axis and the arrangement of the first and second arrangements of magnets translates movement of the longitudinally movable device into rotation of the intermediate rotor about the axis.
US11296579B2
A Vernier external rotor machine for direct drive of a load is provided. The Vernier external rotor machine includes an external rotor configured to mechanically directly drive to a load.
US11296572B1
A radial flux electric machine includes a rotor configured to rotate about an axis of rotation and a stator fixedly positioned proximate the rotor. At least one of the rotor or the stator may include a plurality of teeth annularly arranged about the axis of rotation. Each tooth of the plurality of teeth may extend in a radial direction such that a plurality of cross-sectional areas of each tooth in a plurality of planes perpendicular to the radial direction may vary. And perimeters of the plurality of cross-sections may be substantially the same across the plurality of perpendicular planes.
US11296571B2
A stator assembly for driving a rotor of a planar electrical motor includes longitudinal stator layers with first coil conductors and inclined stator layers with second coil conductors. The first coil conductors extend in an elongated manner in a first direction, and the second coil conductors extend in an elongated manner in a second direction, different from the first direction. The longitudinal and inclined stator layers are arranged on top of one another in a third direction, oriented perpendicularly to the first and second direction. An uppermost and lowermost stator layer of the stator assembly are each formed as a longitudinal stator layer with first coil conductors. The longitudinal stator layers are arranged in the third direction at most on one side next to an inclined stator layer, and the inclined stator layers are arranged in the third direction at most on one side next to a longitudinal stator layer.
US11296559B2
Provided are an apparatus and method for performing foreign object detection in a wireless power transfer system. The present specification discloses a method comprising receiving a digital ping from the wireless power transmitter; transmitting an identification and configuration packets to the wireless power transmitter; transmitting a foreign object detection (FOD) state packet which indicates a reference Q factor of the wireless power receiver to the wireless power transmitter; and receiving wireless power through magnetic coupling from the wireless power transmitter based on the foreign object detection result of the wireless power transmitter using the reference Q factor. Irrespective of individual characteristics of a wireless power receiver, accuracy and reliability of detecting a foreign object may be improved.
US11296536B2
A charging power supplying system using a motor driving system includes an inverter that is connected to a battery, includes at least one switching device, and is configured to change an on/off state of the switching device and to convert power stored in the battery to output the converted power to an output terminal of the inverter, a motor including a plurality of coils that each receive power provided from the output terminal of the inverter, a charging power output terminal that is connected to a neutral point to which the plurality of coils of the motor is commonly connected and outputs current output from the neutral point to an external charging target, and a controller configured to control the switching device in the inverter based on current of the output terminal of the inverter.
US11296534B2
According to a first aspect of the present disclosed subject matter, a system for managing inductive charging of at least one device, the system comprising: at least one venue comprising: a plurality of charging spots each of which comprises a dedicated Bluetooth low energy (BLE) transceiver designed to enable communication between charging spots of the plurality of charging spots, wherein at least one charging spot of the plurality of charging spots is capable of being configured as a relay; at least one gateway comprising a BLE transceiver; wherein the gateway is capable of communicating, by its BLE transceiver, with each charging spot either directly or indirectly via the relay; and a cloud computing server configured to provide services to the at least one venue; and wherein the CCS is connected with at least one venue via the Internet.
US11296527B1
A power supply system can include a plurality of battery backup units and a control unit. The battery backup units may be utilized to supply backup energy to a power supply unit, for example, in case of a power outage event. The control unit can gauge a respective capacity, temperature, age, and/or other characteristic of each respective battery backup unit of the plurality of battery backup units. The control unit can designate a particular battery backup unit of the plurality of battery backup units as a spared unit, e.g., to be spared in the power outage event. The designation may be based at least in part on the respective capacity or other characteristic of each respective battery backup unit gauged.
US11296512B2
A reference capacity determiner determines a reference capacity of each power storage apparatus, under an assumption that power is not transmitted/received among the customer facilities. An actual capacity determiner determines an actual capacity of each power storage apparatus, under an assumption that power is transmitted/received among the customer facilities. A characteristic value determiner determines a first number of charging/discharging cycles, under an assumption that power is not transmitted/received among the customer facilities and each power storage apparatus has the reference capacity. A charging/discharging plan determiner determines a second number of charging/discharging cycles, under an assumption that power is transmitted/received among the customer facilities and each power storage apparatus has the actual capacity, and determine a charging/discharging plan of the power storage apparatuses so as to minimize an objective function indicating a degree of degradation from the first number of cycles to the second number of cycles.
US11296506B2
The invention relates to a bidirectional charging panel (BCP). The BCP includes a relay for controlling a combustion engine and a battery voltage sensor for monitoring a battery voltage. The BCP also includes a grid switch to transfer continuous power between the battery and a grid interface, where the grid interface further includes a grid voltage sensor for monitoring a grid voltage of a grid of devices and a grid direct current outlet to transfer power to and from a grid of devices. The BCP also includes a controller to manage the flow of power between the battery and the grid of devices, where the controller uses the relay to start or stop the combustion according to the battery voltage and uses the grid interface to transfer power from the grid of devices to the battery in response to determining the battery voltage is lower than the grid voltage.
US11296502B2
An electrostatic discharge protection circuit includes an electrostatic discharge clamp between a first rail and a second rail, a trigger device configured to activate the electrostatic discharge clamp in response to an electrostatic discharge event, and a charge dissipation element between the first rail and the second rail to dissipate a residual charge at an input of the trigger device.
US11296489B2
A mounting system for a first support and a second support for electrical components can include a first mounting interface and a second mounting interface. The first mounting interface can include a first channel, and a first insertion slot extending from inside of the first channel to outside of the first channel. The second mounting interface can include a second channel and a first interface arm, and a second interface arm. The second channel can be configured to nest with the first channel. The first interface arm can extend through the first insertion slot when the second channel is nested with the first channel.
US11296485B2
A semiconductor laser element includes an n-side semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a p-side semiconductor layer. A least a portion of the p-side semiconductor layer forms a ridge projecting upward. The p-side semiconductor layer includes an undoped first part, an electron barrier layer containing a p-type impurity and having a larger band gap energy than the first part, and a second part having at least one p-type semiconductor layer. The first part includes an undoped p-side composition graded layer in which a band gap energy increases towards the electron barrier layer, and an undoped p-side intermediate layer disposed on or above the p-side composition graded layer. A lower end of the ridge is positioned at the p-side intermediate layer.
US11296474B2
A flexible strip assembly system includes a first conveyor conveying a first layer of material, a pick-up device picking up a conductor and placing the conductor at a predefined position on an upper surface of the first layer of material, a second conveyor conveying a second layer of material, and a first pair of guiding rollers. The conductor is conveyed under driving of the first layer of material. The first pair of guiding rollers press and stick the second layer of material to the first layer of material and the conductor on the upper surface of the first layer of material to form a flexible strip with the conductor clamped between the first layer of material and the second layer of material. At least one of the upper surface of the first layer of material and a lower surface of the second layer of material has an adhesive layer.
US11296468B2
A power adapter is disclosed. The first guiding slot of the movable member is inserted with the shaft rod of the plug assembly, and the crack arm performs a rotation around a fixed axis about the shell. Additionally, the second guiding slot of the movable member and the post of the socket assembly are embedded for sliding. The movable member slides in two different directions to drive the socket assembly performing an ascending and lowering movements in a vertical direction, and the plug assembly is driven to rotate around a fixed axis at the same time. Thereby, the overall height is reduced to facilitate storage and carry; additionally, each pin can be stored in the shell to prevent the bag from being pierced and prevent other items in the bag from being scratched.
US11296465B2
An electrical plug-in connection provides a connecting element having an electrically conductive outer housing with a first electrical plug-in connector at a first end that has a ring-segment shaped first contact region, and a first electrical counterpart plug-in connector having contact springs that act via the first contact region to produce electrical contact and a mechanical connection between the first plug-in connector and the first counterpart plug-in connector and the contact springs generate an axial force which acts along a longitudinal axis of the first counterpart plug-in connector which pushes the outer housing against an axial end stop of the first counterpart plug-in connector, and/or the contact springs exert on the first contact region and on a ring-segment shaped, and axially offset, second contact region a radial force, which acts orthogonally with respect to the longitudinal axis of the first counterpart plug-in connector.
US11296464B2
A connector assembly which controls impedance. The connector assembly includes a first metallic outer housing and a second metallic outer housing. The second metallic housing has a conductor receiving portion. A rib is formed in the conductor receiving portion, the rib extends in a direction which is parallel to a longitudinal axis of the second metallic outer shell. A terminal positioned in the connector assembly has a conductor receiving section and a mating terminal receiving section. The mating terminal receiving section has a lead-in portion and securing projections. At least one longitudinally extending opening is positioned about the circumference of the mating terminal receiving section, the opening reduces the cross section of the terminal. The opening provides impedance tuning to allow for a defined pitch of the terminal to be maintained without an impedance drop because of the close proximity of the terminal to an adjacent terminal.
US11296459B2
A lever-type connector includes a mating housing having a cam boss and a release rib portion, a housing that has a support shaft and a temporarily locked portion and that is fitted into and removed from the mating housing, and a lever having a temporary locking arm portion where a temporary locking portion is temporarily locked to the temporarily locked portion and is unlocked from the temporarily locked portion by the release rib portion, the lever having a cam groove including a boss pick-up portion and a boss holding portion that engage with the cam boss, and the lever being rotated from a temporary locking position to a fitting completion position via the support shaft to cause the cam groove to engage with the cam boss, thus moving the mating housing toward the housing and fitting the mating housing and the housing to each other.
US11296450B2
An electrical connector assembly includes a receptacle connector and a plug connector adapted to be mated with each other. The receptacle connector includes a contact unit forwardly assembled into the receptacle housing and having a plurality of receptacle contacts and a common mode choke electrically connected together. The plug connector includes a resilient latch associated with the plug shell and received within an enlarged area of a circumferential space formed between the receptacle shell and the receptacle housing.
US11296442B2
A socket of a connector includes a socket housing, a socket terminal element, and an outer shield element. The socket housing includes a bottom plate, and first and second side wall portions facing each other and provided on an upper surface of the bottom plate. The outer shield element includes a main body portion disposed on an outer surface of the first side wall portion, a contact portion extending from the main body portion to the inner surface of the first side wall portion, and an outer shield terminal portion extending from the main body portion toward the bottom plate. The contact portion is configured to be electrically connected to an outside of the socket housing. The outer shield terminal is electrically connected to the contact portion via the main body portion. This connector suppresses generation of unnecessary radiation and noise, and also suppresses interference between high-frequency signals.
US11296435B2
A nut assembly for a coaxial cable connector includes a nut configured to engage an interface port and a cap encircling the nut. The nut includes an internal threaded portion configured to engage external threads of the interface port and at least one resilient finger extending in an axial direction from the internal threaded portion toward a forward end of the nut. The forward end includes a tooth extending radially inward, the tooth is configured to contact a surface of a thread of the external threads when the nut is coupled to the interface port, and the tooth is configured to provide ground continuity between the nut and the interface port before the internal threaded portion of the nut is coupled with the external threads. The internal threaded portion and the external threads are configured to provide a retention force between the nut and the interface port.
US11296428B2
A first antenna array includes antenna panels including: first antenna panels arranged on a first circle having a first radius, each of the first antenna panels including antenna elements; and second antenna panels arranged on a second circle having a second radius, each of the second antenna panels including antenna elements, the second circle being concentric with the first circle at a center point, the second antenna panels being arranged at a first angle around the center point with respect to the first antenna panels, the first radius, the second radius, and the first angle being computed in accordance with wireless transmission conditions including: a line-of-sight distance to a second antenna array including third antenna panels arranged on two or more circles; and a carrier frequency of a line-of-sight wireless transmission between the first antenna array and the second antenna array.
US11296423B2
A structure including a first wafer, including first active components configured so as to introduce a phase shift; a first metal layer, formed on a first surface of the first wafer; a first interconnect structure, formed on a second surface of the first wafer, including first bias lines; a set of first planar antennas, formed on the first interconnect structure; a second wafer; a second metal layer, formed on a first surface of the second wafer; a set of second planar antennas, formed on a second surface of the second wafer; the first and second wafers being joined by way of the first and second metal layers such that the first and second planar antennas are aligned, the first and second metal layers forming a ground plane.
US11296418B2
The invention discloses a dual-polarized filtering magneto-electric dipole antenna, which comprises an upper dielectric substrate and a lower dielectric substrate. The upper surface of the upper dielectric substrate is printed with a radiator structure, and the lower dielectric substrate is printed with a slot coupling feed network; the radiator structure comprises four parasitic patches loaded with symmetrical slots. The parasitic patches are loaded with short-circuit probes, and the slot coupling feed network comprises two orthogonal sets of Y-shaped feeders and cross-shaped slots, and the cross-shaped slots are printed on a metal floor. The new parasitic slot structures on the radiator structure increases the bandwidth while introducing a high roll-off band edge filtering effect, and combined with the slot coupling feed network with filtering function to achieve good band-pass filtering characteristics and hardly introduce additional insertion loss.
US11296417B2
Reconfigurable antennas are provided. A reconfigurable antenna includes a plurality of antenna radiators and a plurality of feeds that are electrically or electromagnetically coupled to the plurality of antenna radiators. The plurality of feeds control current or voltage of the plurality of antenna radiators. Related methods of operating a reconfigurable antenna are also provided.
US11296414B2
An antenna assembly has a conductive line coupled to a feed point. An element is configured to resonate at a predetermined frequency. The element is electrically coupled to the conductive line and aligned perpendicular to the conductive line wherein the predetermined frequency of the element determines a distance from the feed point along the conductive line.
US11296409B1
Technologies directed to embedding a calibration antenna in an antenna structure of a phased array antenna are described. The antenna structure includes a ground plane, a first antenna element, and a second antenna element. The first antenna element and the second antenna element are located in a first plane. The second antenna element is separated from the first antenna element by a first distance. Dielectric material is located between the ground plane and the first plane. The antenna structure further includes a third antenna element that is located in a second plane. The second plane is located between the ground plane and the first plane. The third antenna element is located in an area with a first dimension and a second dimension that are each less than half of the first distance.
US11296406B2
A planar antenna includes a plurality of antenna elements and transmits and receives a radio wave to and from a target. An attitude controller is attached to the planar antenna and controls an attitude of the planar antenna mechanically. An antenna controller controls the attitude controller such that the planar antenna points in a predetermined direction with respect to the target. A scan controller controls beam scanning performed by the planar antenna and adjusts an excitation phase of each of the antenna elements in accordance with a signal level of a reception signal generated from a radio wave received from the target during performance of the beam scanning, thereby directing a beam from the planar antenna toward the target. The scan controller limits a range of the beam scanning to a range within which no grating lobe occurs.
US11296404B2
An interface in accordance with present embodiments includes a base and a theme portion disposed on the base. A first layer is disposed on the base and includes a mixture with metallic powder suspended within a translucent medium. A second layer is disposed on the base over the first layer and over the theme portion, and includes the mixture. A third layer is disposed on the base and on the theme portion over only portions of the second layer. The third layer includes paint and paint thinner. A fourth layer is disposed on the theme portion over the third layer and exposed portions of the second layer. The fourth layer also includes the mixture.
US11296391B2
The present disclosure provides a secondary battery and an assembly therefor. The secondary battery includes: a cap plate provided with a first electrode terminal; electrode assemblies, each electrode assembly comprising a first electrode tab; a first connecting piece connected between the first electrode tab and the first electrode terminal. The first connecting piece includes a first electrode terminal connecting portion, a first electrode tab connecting portion and a first fusing portion. The secondary battery further includes an insulating holding block connected with the first electrode terminal connecting portion and the first electrode tab connecting portion respectively, and the insulating holding block is configured to maintain the first electrode terminal connecting portion and the first electrode tab connecting portion in position relative to each other when the first fusing portion is fused.
US11296390B2
A cylindrical battery cell including a first electrode terminal and a second electrode terminal having different polarities: an electrode assembly in which a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode are wound; a battery case configured to include the electrode assembly therein in a state of being impregnated with an electrolytic solution; a cap assembly mounted to a top end of the battery case; and a connection cap including a cap housing loaded on the battery case and the cap assembly and having an insulating material, and a first connection plate and a second connection plate placed on the cap housing and electrically connected to the first electrode terminal and the second electrode terminal, respectively.
US11296386B2
A containment system (100) includes a housing (106). A battery pack (104) is situated within the housing. One or more ports (114) are disposed along a surface of the housing. An effluent containment pouch (108) is coupled to the surface of the housing. The effluent containment pouch spans the one or more ports. The effluent containment pouch expands when an electrochemical cell (105) experiences a thermal runaway condition, capturing expelled effluent (116).
US11296374B2
A metal-air battery includes a metal negative electrode (12), an oxygen-generating electrode placed on a surface of the metal negative electrode, and an air electrode placed on another surface of the metal negative electrode. The metal negative electrode includes at least a negative electrode active material layer facing the oxygen-generating electrode. A first separator placed in contact with the negative electrode active material layer is placed between the negative electrode active material layer and the oxygen-generating electrode.
US11296371B2
A cell-tab-cooling type battery may include a plurality of battery cells respectively including tabs for electrical connection from each other, the respective tabs of the plurality of battery cells being aligned in one direction thereof; a plurality of bus bars connected in common to the tabs of the battery cells adjacent to each other among the plurality of battery cells to form an electrical connection between the battery cells; and a plurality of cooling capsules respectively including a coolant and being respectively bonded on the plurality of bus bars.
US11296366B2
An apparatus, a method and a battery pack for detecting a fault of at least one of first and second electrical conductors connected to a positive terminal and a negative terminal of the battery, respectively. The apparatus includes a current sensor measuring a battery current, a voltage sensor measuring a voltage between the first electrical conductor and the second electrical conductor as a battery voltage, and a control unit. The control unit determines an idle voltage value indicating the battery voltage measured while charging and discharging of the battery is stopped. The control unit determines a diagnosis voltage value indicating the battery voltage measured while the battery is being charged or discharged. The control unit determines whether at least one of the first and second electrical conductors is faulty based on a difference between the idle voltage value and the diagnosis voltage value.
US11296352B2
An object of the present invention is to obtain a secondary battery that allows grasping a position of a mixture layer on an electrode and facilitates adjustment of positions of a positive electrode and a negative electrode. A secondary battery (100) of the present invention includes a negative electrode (32) that includes a strip-shaped copper foil (45) having both surfaces, negative electrode mixture layers (32a) on both the surfaces, a negative electrode foil exposed portion (32b), and insulating layers (31). The negative electrode foil exposed portion (32b) where the copper foil (45) is exposed is formed in an end portion on one side in a width direction of the copper foil (45). The insulating layers (31) are disposed on the negative electrode mixture layers (32a) and on the negative electrode foil exposed portion (32b). The insulating layer (31) includes a window portion (31a) at a position corresponding to a boundary part between the negative electrode mixture layer (32a) and the negative electrode foil exposed portion (32b). An end portion of the negative electrode mixture layer (32a) is visually recognizable from the window portion (31a).
US11296345B2
An air cleaner is provided in a cathode system device of a fuel cell system that is mounted in a fuel cell vehicle. The air cleaner comprises a casing having an internal space through which air flows, and an air filter accommodated in the internal space. The air filter has a flat plate shape, and is arranged on an outer side of a fuel cell stack in a horizontal direction, and in a state of being inclined with respect to the horizontal direction.
US11296341B2
A method and a system for controlling startup of a fuel cell are provided. The method includes sensing a startup request signal and boosting a Bi-directional high-voltage DC/DC Converter (BHDC) of a main bus stage when the startup request signal has been sensed by a controller. A valve of an air/hydrogen line is then opened together with the boosting of the BHDC and the startup of the fuel cell is completed by allowing an output of the fuel cell after the valve of the air/hydrogen line is opened.
US11296339B2
An apparatus and method for controlling hydrogen purging are provided. The hydrogen purging control apparatus includes a purge valve that is disposed at an outlet on an anode side of a fuel cell stack and is configured to adjust an amount of emission of hydrogen containing impurities. Additionally, a controller is configured to adjust an opening and closing cycle of the purge valve based on a required output or an output current of the fuel cell stack.
US11296336B2
A water separator for a fuel cell system includes a closed housing with a gas connection, and a base plate arranged remotely from the gas connection and having a drainage outlet, an inside width of the housing at least in portions decreasing from the base plate towards the gas connection, and the height of the housing being less than the greatest inside width of the housing.
US11296322B2
Graphene is formed with a practically uniform thickness on an uneven object. The object is immersed in a graphene oxide solution, and then taken out of the solution and dried; alternatively, the object and an electrode are immersed therein and voltage is applied between the electrode and the object used as an anode. Graphene oxide is negatively charged, and thus is drawn to and deposited on a surface of the object, with a practically uniform thickness. After that, the object is heated in vacuum or a reducing atmosphere, so that the graphene oxide is reduced to be graphene. In this manner, a graphene layer with a practically uniform thickness can be formed even on a surface of the uneven object.
US11296321B2
The present disclosure provides a negative electrode plate and a battery, the negative electrode plate comprises a negative current collector and a negative film, the negative film is provided on at least one surface of the negative current collector and comprises a negative active material, the negative active material comprises graphite, and the negative electrode plate satisfies a relationship: 0.27≤P×1.1/G+2/VOI≤1.3, P represents a porosity of the negative film, G represents a graphitization degree of the negative active material, VOI represents an OI value of the negative film. The battery of the present disclosure can have the characteristics of long cycle life, high energy density and excellent dynamics performance at the same time.
US11296320B2
The present disclosure provides a secondary battery, the secondary battery comprises a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, a separator and an electrolyte, the positive electrode plate comprises a positive current collector and a positive film, the positive film is provided on at least one surface of the positive current collector and comprises a positive active material, the negative electrode plate comprises a negative current collector and a negative film, the negative film is provided on at least one surface of the negative current collector and comprises a negative active material, the negative active material comprises graphite, and an average particle diameter of the positive active material represented by D50 and a thickness of the negative film represented by Hn satisfy a relationship: 6≤0.06Hn×(4−1/D50)≤31. The battery of the present disclosure has the characteristics of excellent dynamics performance and long cycle life at the same time.
US11296317B2
A method of producing a positive-electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery is provided. The method includes obtaining a precipitate containing nickel and manganese from a solution containing nickel and manganese, heat-treating the resulting precipitate at a temperature of from 850° C. to less than 1100° C. to obtain a first heat-treated product, mixing the first heat-treated product and a lithium compound, and heat-treating the resulting lithium-containing mixture at a temperature of from 550° C. to 1000° C. to obtain a second heat-treated product. The second heat-treated product contains a group of lithium transition metal composite oxide particles having an average particle diameter DSEM of from 0.5 μm to less than 3 μm and D50/DSEM of 1 to 2.5. The lithium transition metal composite oxide particles have a spinel structure based on nickel and manganese.
US11296307B2
The present disclosure provides an OLED display and a method for manufacturing the same. The method comprises steps of forming a planarization layer on the auxiliary electrode, wherein the planarization layer includes an opening; forming a transparent conductive layer and a pixel defining layer on the planarization layer, and patterning the same, such that both the transparent conductive layer and the pixel defining layer is located above the opening to shield a side of the opening that is adjacent to a non-display area; and forming a cathode electrode on the pixel defining layer by evaporation, such that the cathode electrode partially covers a side of the auxiliary electrode.
US11296306B2
A display panel and a display device are provided, wherein the display panel includes a substrate; a pixel definition layer is disposed on the substrate, wherein the pixel definition layer includes a plurality of pixel definition blocks disposed apart from each other; and a plurality of light-emitting units each are disposed between adjacent pixel definition blocks, wherein two sides of each light-emitting unit are provided with a shading part.
US11296303B2
A flexible display and a method of fabricating same are provided. The flexible display integrates at least two of a flexible display panel, a touch function member, a polarizing member, and a protective cover in the flexible display. It is not necessary to use optical glue or the like to connect components that are integrated, thereby reducing a thickness of the flexible display and alleviating a technical problem that a current display device has a large thickness.
US11296287B2
A display device includes: an insulating substrate having flexibility and including a bent portion that is bent at 90 degrees or more outside a display area provided with an image display function; and a spacer disposed inside the bent portion and including a curved area around which the bent portion is wrapped and a plane area facing the insulating substrate, wherein the insulating substrate includes a flat portion adjacent to the bent portion and provided so as to face the plane area.
US11296276B2
Disclosed is a memory device including a multi-bit perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction, wherein the multi-bit perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction includes an upper synthetic antiferromagnetic layer, pinned layer, lower dual free layer, and upper free layer formed in a laminated manner between a top electrode and a bottom electrode.
US11296272B2
A multilayer piezoelectric element includes a ceramic base body, a pair of external electrodes, multiple internal electrodes, and surface electrodes. The ceramic base body is formed by a piezoelectric ceramic. The pair of external electrodes cover a pair of end faces. The multiple internal electrodes are stacked inside the ceramic base body along a thickness direction crossing at right angles with a longitudinal direction, and connected alternately to the pair of external electrodes in the thickness direction. The surface electrodes are provided on a pair of principal faces, respectively, and are each connected to the external electrode different from the one to which the internal electrode adjacent in the thickness direction is connected. The pair of external electrodes have a higher porosity than the surface electrodes.
US11296265B2
A radiation-emitting semiconductor device and a fabric are disclosed. In an embodiment, a radiation-emitting semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer sequence having an active region configured to generate radiation and at least one carrier on which the semiconductor layer sequence is arranged, wherein the at least one carrier has at least one anchoring structure on a carrier underside facing away from the semiconductor layer sequence, wherein the at least one anchoring structure includes electrical contact points for making electrical contact with the semiconductor layer sequence, and wherein the at least one anchoring structure is configured to receive at least one thread for fastening the semiconductor device to a fabric and for electrical contacting the at least one thread.
US11296262B2
A device may include a wavelength converting layer on an epitaxial layer. The wavelength converting layer may include a first surface having a width that is equal to a width of the epitaxial layer, a second surface having a width that is less than the width of the first surface, and angled sidewalls. A conformal non-emission layer may be formed on the angled sidewalls and sidewalls of the epitaxial layer, such that the second surface of the wavelength converting layer is exposed.
US11296258B2
A light emitting diode includes a first conductivity type semiconductor layer and a mesa disposed on the first conductivity type semiconductor layer wherein the mesa is a semiconductor stack including an active layer and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer; a ZnO layer disposed on the second conductivity type semiconductor layer; a lower insulation layer covering the ZnO layer and the mesa, and including an opening exposing the ZnO layer; a first pad metal layer disposed on the lower insulation layer, and electrically connected to the first conductivity type semiconductor layer; a second pad metal layer electrically connected to the ZnO layer through the opening of the lower insulation layer, and an upper insulation layer covering the first pad metal layer and the second pad metal layer.
US11296255B2
A method of manufacturing a light-emitting element including, in the following order, steps of: preparing a wafer on which a semiconductor layer including an light-emission layer is formed; forming a resist film comprising a main body and a protrusion; forming a first metal film; forming a second metal film on the resist film and on the first metal film; pulling the protrusion of the resist film upward by raising and then lowering a temperature of the wafer; forming a third metal film on the second metal film and covering an end of the first metal film by the third metal film; and removing the resist film. In the step of forming the second metal film, the end of the first metal film is exposed from the second metal film.
US11296254B2
A diode array is provided. The diode array includes a substrate and a plurality of light emitting diodes disposed on the substrate and arranged in an array, wherein each of the light emitting diodes includes a stack of functional layers comprising a first type semiconductor layer, a second type semiconductor layer, and a light emitting layer located between the first type semiconductor layer and the second type semiconductor layer, wherein at least one of the light emitting diodes includes: a first current limiting region abutting a vertically extending boundary of the second semiconductor layer; wherein, with respect to a top down view, the first current limiting region is formed about an outer edge of the light emitting diode and an outer perimeter of the first current limiting region is equal to or less than 400 micrometers (μm).
US11296246B2
The present disclosure relates to a photosensitive component, a detection substrate and a method for manufacturing the detection substrate. The photosensitive component includes: a first electrode layer, a photoelectric conversion layer, a second electrode layer, an insulating layer and a reflective layer. The photoelectric conversion layer is located on the first electrode layer. The second electrode layer is located on a surface of the photoelectric conversion layer away from the first electrode layer. The insulating layer covers side surfaces of the photoelectric conversion layer and at least a part of a surface of the second electrode layer away from the photoelectric conversion layer, and the insulating layer includes a transparent material. The reflective layer covers the insulating layer, and the reflective layer is configured to reflect at least a part of light entering the insulating layer to the side surfaces of the photoelectric conversion layer.
US11296232B2
An oxide thin-film transistor includes a substrate; a first gate electrode formed on the substrate; a gate insulator formed on the first gate electrode; an oxide semiconductor layer formed on the gate insulator to correspond to the first gate electrode; source/drain electrodes formed to be spaced from each other on the oxide semiconductor layer and formed in a shape of a plurality of island patterns; a passivation layer formed on the source/drain electrodes, where the source/drain electrodes include a first area formed in a direction of the first gate electrode with respect to a horizontal plane of the substrate; and a second area formed in an opposite direction to the first area, and the plurality of island patterns are formed such that the first areas are separated from each other and thus have resistance to external stress.
US11296231B2
A semiconductor device that can be highly integrated is provided. The semiconductor device includes first and second transistors and first and second capacitors. Each of the first and second transistors includes a gate insulator and a gate electrode over an oxide. Each of the first and second capacitors includes a conductor, a dielectric over the conductor, and the oxide. The first and second transistors are provided between the first capacitor and the second capacitor. One of a source and a drain of the first transistor is also used as one of a source and a drain of the second transistor. The other of the source and the drain of the first transistor is also used as one electrode of the first capacitor. The other of the source and the drain of the second transistor is also used as one electrode of the second capacitor. The channel lengths of the first and second transistors are larger than the lengths in a direction parallel to short sides of fourth and fifth conductors.
US11296226B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method of forming a semiconductor device. In a non-limiting example, the method includes forming a first channel region over a substrate, forming a second channel region over the first channel region, and forming a merged source or drain (S/D) region over the substrate and adjacent to the first channel region and the second channel region. The merged S/D region is communicatively coupled to the first channel region and the second channel region. A wrap-around S/D contact is formed such that it is on a top surface, sidewalls, and a bottom surface of the merged S/D region.
US11296222B2
A lateral double diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) transistor and a semiconductor can reduce the size of the entire power block and can decrease costs by preventing formation of an edge termination region between adjacent device tips or ends along a width direction when the corresponding LDMOS transistor cell has a limited width and the LDMOS transistor is a multi-finger LDMOS transistor.
US11296220B2
A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes: a nitride semiconductor layer including a first GaN region of n-type, a second GaN region of n-type on the first GaN region, a third GaN region of p-type on the first GaN region, a fourth GaN region of p-type sandwiching the second GaN region with the third GaN region, a fifth GaN region of p-type on the third GaN region, a sixth GaN region of p-type sandwiching the second GaN region with the fifth GaN region, a seventh GaN region of n-type on the fifth GaN region, an eighth GaN region of n-type on the sixth GaN region, a trench between the seventh GaN region and the eighth GaN region, the trench having an inclination angle of less than 90 degrees; a gate insulating layer including an aluminum nitride film in the trench; a gate electrode; a first electrode; and a second electrode.
US11296218B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body having first and second opposing surfaces, an active area including active transistor cells, and an edge termination region laterally surrounding the active area. Each active transistor cell includes a mesa and a columnar trench having a field plate. The edge termination region includes inactive cells each including a columnar termination trench having a field plate, and a termination mesa including a drift region of a first conductivity type. The edge termination region includes a transition region laterally surrounding the active region and an outer termination region laterally surrounding the transition region. In the transition region, the termination mesa includes a body region of a second conductivity type arranged on the drift region. In the outer termination region, the drift region extends to the first surface. A buried doped region of the edge termination region is positioned in the transition and outer termination regions.
US11296211B2
A method for preparing a semiconductor device includes forming a ring structure over a semiconductor substrate, and etching the semiconductor substrate by using the ring structure as a mask to form an annular semiconductor fin. The method also includes epitaxially growing a first bottom source/drain structure within the annular semiconductor fin and a second bottom source/drain structure surrounding the annular semiconductor fin. The method further includes forming a first silicide layer over the first bottom source/drain structure and a second silicide layer over the second bottom source/drain structure. In addition, the method includes forming a first gate structure over the first silicide layer and a second gate structure over the second silicide layer, and epitaxially growing a top source/drain structure over the annular semiconductor fin.
US11296210B2
A method for manufacturing a fin structure of a vertical field effect transistor (VFET) includes: (a) patterning a lower layer and an upper layer, deposited on the lower layer, to form two patterns extended in two perpendicular directions, respectively; (b) forming a first spacer and a second spacer side by side in the two patterns along sidewalls of the lower layer and the upper layer exposed through the patterning; (c) removing the first spacer, the second spacer and the upper layer above a level of a top surface of the lower layer, and the first spacer below the level of the top surface of the lower layer and exposed through the two patterns in the plan view; (d) removing the lower layer, the upper layer, and the second spacer remaining on the substrate after operation (c); and (e) etching the substrate downward except a portion thereof below the first spacer remaining on the substrate after operation (d), and removing the remaining first spacer, thereby to obtain the fin structure.
US11296201B2
A gate structure includes at least one spacer defining a gate region over a semiconductor substrate, a gate dielectric layer disposed on the gate region over the semiconductor substrate, a first work function metal layer disposed over the gate dielectric layer and lining a bottom surface of an inner sidewall of the spacer, and a filling metal partially wrapped by the first work function metal layer. The filling metal includes a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion is between the second portion and the semiconductor substrate, and the second portion is wider than the first portion.
US11296195B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an active layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a p-type doped layer, a gate electrode, a passivation layer, and a field plate. The active layer is disposed on the substrate. The source electrode, the drain electrode and the p-type doped layer are disposed on the active layer. The p-type doped layer is disposed between the source electrode and the drain electrode, and has a first thickness. The gate electrode is disposed on the p-type doped layer. The passivation layer covers the gate electrode and the active layer. The field plate is disposed on the passivation layer and is electrically connected to the source electrode. The field plate includes a field dispersion portion disposed between the gate electrode and the drain electrode. The passivation layer between the field dispersion portion and the active layer has a second thickness smaller than the first thickness.
US11296193B2
A nitride semiconductor device 1 includes a first nitride semiconductor layer 4, constituting an electron transit layer, a second nitride semiconductor layer 5, formed on the first nitride semiconductor layer 4 and constituting an electron supply layer, a nitride semiconductor gate layer 6, disposed on the second nitride semiconductor layer 5 and containing an acceptor type impurity, a metal film 7, formed on the nitride semiconductor gate layer 6, and a gate pad 23, connected to the metal film 7 via a gate insulating film 8 having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface of the gate insulating film 8 is electrically connected directly or via a metal to the metal film 7, and the second surface of the gate insulating film 8 is electrically connected directly or via a metal to the gate pad 23.
US11296190B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to field effect transistors with back gate contact and buried high resistivity layer and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a handle wafer comprising a single crystalline semiconductor region; an insulator layer over the single crystalline semiconductor region; a semiconductor layer over the insulator layer; a high resistivity layer in the handle wafer, separated from the insulator layer by the single crystalline semiconductor region; and a device on the semiconductor layer.
US11296184B2
The present disclosure relates to a display panel, a display screen, and a display terminal. The display panel includes a substrate, a pixel-defining layer disposed on the substrate, and an isolation structure disposed on the pixel-defining layer. The isolation structure includes at least two layer structures stacked in sequence along a direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate. At least one of the at least two layer structures has a width varied continuously or intermittently along an extending direction of the isolation structure. The extending direction of the isolation structure is parallel to the surface of the substrate. The width of the layer structure refers to a size of a projection, along a direction perpendicular to the extending direction, of the layer structure on a plane coplanar with the surface of the substrate.
US11296182B2
Organic light-emitting diode display substrate, method of manufacturing the same, and display device
An OLED display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The OLED display substrate includes a base substrate, a conductive pattern, a driving circuit layer, an anode layer, a light-emitting layer and a cathode layer. The driving circuit layer, the anode layer, the cathode layer and the light-emitting layer are arranged at a same side of the base substrate. The conductive pattern is arranged between the base substrate and the driving circuit layer and electrically connected to the cathode layer through a plurality of via holes.
US11296180B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate including a transmitting area, a display area surrounding the transmitting area, a first non-display area disposed between the transmitting area and the display area, and a second non-display area surrounding the display area. A plurality of pixels is arranged in the display area. A set of 2n connection wirings (where n is a positive integer) is disposed in the first non-display area and each of the 2n connection wirings extends along at least a part of an edge of the transmitting area. Each of a plurality of voltage wirings extends in a first direction and is connected to at least some of pixels disposed in a common row from among the plurality of pixels. Each of the plurality of voltage wirings is connected to one of the 2n connection wirings.
US11296171B2
A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes sub-pixels and a light emitting control signal line. The sub-pixel includes an organic light emitting element and a pixel circuit, the organic light emitting element includes a second electrode, the pixel circuit includes a driving transistor and a first light emitting control transistor, and the pixel circuit further includes a connection structure. In the second color sub-pixel, a first electrode of the first light emitting control transistor is electrically connected with the connection structure through a first connection hole, and the connection structure is electrically connected with the second electrode through a second connection hole, the first connection hole and the second connection hole are located on both sides of the light emitting control signal line. In the third color sub-pixel, the second electrode does not overlap with a channel of the driving transistor.
US11296169B2
An array substrate, a display panel and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array, each pixel unit includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel and a third sub-pixel, and each of the first, second and third sub-pixels includes a pixel circuit including a switching transistor, a driving transistor, a sensing transistor, a storage capacitor and a light-emitting device. The first sub-pixels, the second sub-pixels and the third sub-pixels included in each row of the array are controlled by four scanning lines, and at least one of the four scanning lines is shared by the row of the array and another row of the array adjacent to the row of the array. Each column of pixel units of the array are coupled to a same data line.
US11296165B2
An array substrate includes a flexible base substrate; a buffer layer on the flexible base substrate and continuously extending from a display area into a peripheral area, including a first portion substantially extending throughout the display area and a second portion in the peripheral area, the first portion and the second portion being parts of an integral layer, an organic insulating layer substantially extending throughout but limited in the display area and on a side of the buffer layer away from the flexible base substrate; an inorganic insulating layer limited in the peripheral area and on a side of the buffer layer away from the flexible base substrate; a planarization layer on a side of the organic insulating layer away from the buffer layer, and a plurality of light emitting elements on a side of the planarization layer away from the organic insulating layer.
US11296158B2
A pixel structure. The pixel structure includes a base substrate; an insulating island on the base substrate; a light emitting element on a side of the insulating island away from the base substrate; an insulating layer on the base substrate and surrounding the insulating island, the insulating layer spaced apart from the insulating island by a groove; and a reflective layer on a lateral side of the insulating layer surrounding a periphery of the light emitting element, and configured to reflect light laterally emitted from the light emitting element to exit from a light emitting surface of the pixel structure. The insulating layer has a height relative to a main surface of the base substrate greater than a height of the insulating island relative to the main surface of the base substrate. The reflective layer is in direct contact with the base substrate in the groove.
US11296150B2
Embodiments of a display device are described. A display device includes first and second sub-pixels. The first sub-pixel includes a first light source having a multi-layer stack and a first substrate configured to support the first light source. The multi-layer stack includes an organic phosphor film or a quantum dot (QD) based phosphor film configured to emit a first light having a first peak wavelength. The first substrate includes a first control circuitry configured to independently control the first light source. The second sub-pixel includes a second light source and a second substrate configured to support the second light source. The second light source has a microLED or a miniLED configured to emit a second light having a second peak wavelength that is different from the first peak wavelength. The second peak wavelength can be in the blue wavelength region of the visible spectrum. The second substrate includes a second control circuitry configured to independently control the second light source.
US11296147B2
A memory device includes a first bottom electrode, a first memory stack, and a second memory stack. The first bottom electrode has a first portion and a second portion connected to the first portion. The first memory stack is over the first portion of the first bottom electrode. The first memory stack includes a first resistive switching element and a first top electrode over the first resistive switching element. The second memory stack is over the second portion of the first bottom electrode. The second memory stack comprises a second resistive switching element and a second top electrode over the second resistive switching element.
US11296146B2
According to an embodiment, a magnetoresistive memory device includes a first conductor with a first surface. A first structure on the first surface of the first conductor includes a first ferromagnetic layer. An insulating layer is on the first structure. A second structure on the insulating layer includes a second ferromagnetic layer. A second conductor is in contact with the first surface of the first conductor and a side surface of the first structure. A first insulator on the second conductor covers a side surface of the insulating layer, and is in contact with the side surface of the first structure and a side surface of the second structure. A third conductor on the first insulator is in contact with the side surface of the second structure.
US11296144B2
Provided is a micro light emission element including a compound semiconductor in which an N-side layer, a light emission layer, and a P-side layer are laminated sequentially from a side of a light emitting surface, in which an N-electrode coupled to the N-side layer and a P-electrode coupled to the P-side layer are disposed on another surface opposite to the light emitting surface, the P-electrode is disposed on the light emission layer, the N-electrode is disposed in an isolation region which is a boundary region of the micro light emission element and isolates the light emission layer from a light emission layer of another micro light emission element, a surface of the N-electrode on a side of the other surface and a surface of the P-electrode on the side of the other surface are flush with each other, and the N-electrode and the P-electrode are both formed of a single interconnection layer.
US11296143B2
The disclosure provides a display panel, including a substrate layer, a luminescent layer, and a plurality of composite black matrix layers. The luminescent layer is disposed on the substrate layer, the composite black matrix layers are disposed beside two sides of the luminescent layer and are disposed on the substrate layer, and the composite black matrix layers comprise a black matrix layer and a light reflective layer.
US11296136B2
In an imaging apparatus provided with a substrate having transparency, warping of the substrate is prevented while stray light is shielded. The imaging apparatus includes a sensor chip, a transparent substrate, a light shielding wall, and an optical filter. In this imaging apparatus, a solid-state imaging element is provided in a light receiving region of the sensor chip. Furthermore, in the imaging apparatus, the transparent substrate is equipped on an outer edge portion of the sensor chip. In addition, in the imaging apparatus, the light shielding wall shields light that passes through the transparent substrate and enters the front light receiving region. The light shielding wall is formed on the optical filter.
US11296132B2
A peeling method at low cost with high mass productivity is provided. A resin layer having a thickness greater than or equal to 0.1 μm and less than or equal to 3 μm is formed over a formation substrate using a photosensitive and thermosetting material, a transistor including an oxide semiconductor in a channel formation region is formed over the resin layer, the resin layer is irradiated with light using a linear laser device, and the transistor and the formation substrate are separated from each other. A first region and a second region which is thinner than the first region or an opening can be formed in the resin layer. In the case of forming a conductive layer functioning as an external connection terminal or the like to overlap with the second region or the opening of the resin layer, the conductive layer is exposed.
US11296130B2
The present application provides a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof. The display panel includes a first substrate, a plurality of bonding pads, an insulating adhesive, a sealant, a blocking layer, a second substrate, and a chip on film (COF). The display panel of the present application effectively reduces an area of a non-display region of a display panel in the prior art by side-bonding the COF and realizes an ultra-narrow bezel display with a width of the non-display region being less than 1 mm. Meanwhile, through a configuration of the blocking layer, the conductive adhesive can be prevented from overflowing and causing short circuits between each of the plurality of bonding pads.
US11296124B2
It is an object of the present invention to form a pixel electrode and a metal film using one resist mask in manufacturing a stacked structure by forming the metal film over the pixel electrode. A conductive film to be a pixel electrode and a metal film are stacked. A resist pattern having a thick region and a region thinner than the thick region is formed over the metal film using an exposure mask having a semi light-transmitting portion. The pixel electrode, and the metal film formed over part of the pixel electrode to be in contact therewith are formed using the resist pattern. Accordingly, a pixel electrode and a metal film can be formed using one resist mask.
US11296120B2
The power consumption of a shift register or a display device including the shift register is reduced. A clock signal is supplied to a shift register by a plurality of wirings, not by one wiring. Any one of the plurality of wirings supplies a clock signal in only part of the operation period of the shift register, not during the whole operation period of the shift register. Therefore, the capacity load caused with the supply of clock signals can be reduced, leading to reduction in power consumption of the shift register.
US11296117B2
The disclosed technology relates generally to semiconductor memory devices, and more particularly to three-dimensional (3D) ferroelectric memory devices, methods of fabricating 3D ferroelectric memory devices, and methods of conditioning 3D ferroelectric memory devices. The 3D ferroelectric memory device exploits programmed memory cells as selector devices. In one aspect, a 3D ferroelectric memory device comprises a stack comprising a plurality of gate electrode layers and spacer layers, which are alternatingly arranged. The 3D ferroelectric memory device additionally comprises a semiconductor channel extending through the stack and a ferroelectric layer arranged between the gate electrode layers and the semiconductor channel. The gate electrode layers form, in combination with the channel and the ferroelectric layer, a string of ferroelectric transistors, wherein each ferroelectric transistor is associated with one cell of the memory device. The first ferroelectric transistor and the last ferroelectric transistor in the string have a lower threshold voltage than the other ferroelectric transistors.
US11296105B2
A vertical semiconductor device includes a substrate, a cell array region and a pad region formed on the substrate, and gate patterns and respective insulation layers. The gate patterns may be stacked in a vertical direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate. Each of the gate patterns may extend in a first direction parallel to the upper surface of the substrate on the cell array region and the pad region of the substrate. The gate patterns may include pads, respectively, at edge portions thereof in the first direction. The respective insulation layers may be between adjacent gate patterns in the vertical direction. The gate patterns and the insulation layer on the pad region may serve as a pad structure, and the pad structure may include a first staircase structure having a stepped shape, a second staircase structure having a stepped shape and disposed below the first staircase structure, a flat surface portion between the first and second staircase structures, and a dummy staircase structure formed on the flat surface portion. The dummy staircase structure may be spaced apart from each of the first and second staircase structures.
US11296095B2
A memory device includes a substrate, first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers alternately stacked over the substrate, a first gate structure and a second gate structure crossing the first semiconductor layers and the second semiconductor layers, a first via and a second via over the first gate structure and the second gate structure, and a first word line and a second word line over the first via and the second via. Along a lengthwise direction of the first and second gate structures, a width of the first semiconductor layers is narrower than a width of the second semiconductor layers.
US11296088B2
Disclosed are a semiconductor device capable of reducing parasitic capacitance between adjacent conductive structures and a method for fabricating the same. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of bit line structures each comprising a first contact plug formed over a substrate and a bit line formed over the first contact plug. A spacer structure having air gaps is formed on sidewalls of the first contact plug and on sidewalls of the bit line. An plug isolation layer is formed between the plurality of bit line structures. The isolation layer includes an opening. A second contact plug is formed in the opening and a memory element is formed over the second contact plug.
US11296087B2
Embodiments herein describe techniques for a semiconductor device including a TFT having a gate electrode with a gate length determined by a spacer. Embodiments may include a gate electrode above a substrate, a channel layer above the gate electrode, and a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a spacer above the channel layer. The drain electrode may be separated from the source electrode by the spacer. The drain electrode and the source electrode may have different widths or include different materials. Furthermore, the spacer may overlap with the gate electrode, hence the gate length of the gate electrode may be determined by the spacer width. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11296085B2
A semiconductor device that can be highly integrated is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and an electrode. The first transistor and the second transistor include an oxide, a gate insulator over the oxide, and a gate. The electrode is connected to one of a source and a drain of the first transistor and one of a source and a drain of the second transistor. The channel length of the first transistor is longer than the short side of the first conductor. The channel length of the second transistor is longer than the short side of the second conductor.
US11296083B2
3D vertically-integrated FETs electrically coupled by integrated vertical FET-to-FET interconnects for reducing an area of CMOS cell circuits are disclosed. Vertically integrated FETs reduce a footprint area of an integrated circuit chip. The FETs include horizontal channel structures that are vertically integrated by stacking a second channel structure of a second FET above a first channel structure of a first FET. The first and second FETs can include a combination of a PFET and NFET that can be used to form a 3D CMOS cell circuit as an example. The area occupied by the 3D CMOS cell circuit includes interconnects for electrically coupling terminal regions of the FETs internally and externally. Vertical FET-to-FET interconnects extend between the FETs to electrically couple terminal regions of the FETs to reduce a number of vias from a semiconductor layer of the 3D CMOS cell circuit to metal interconnect layers above the vertically-integrated FETs.
US11296081B2
A first gate-all-around (GAA) transistor and a second GAA transistor may be formed on a substrate. The first GAA transistor includes at least one silicon plate, a first gate structure, a first source region, and a first drain region. The second GAA transistor includes at least one silicon-germanium plate, a second gate structure, a second source region, and a second drain region. The first GAA transistor may be an n-type field effect transistor, and the second GAA transistor may be a p-type field effect transistor. The gate electrodes of the first gate structure and the second gate structure may include a same conductive material. Each silicon plate and each silicon-germanium plate may be single crystalline and may have a same crystallographic orientation for each Miller index.
US11296079B2
Techniques are disclosed for using compositionally different contact materials for p-type and n-type source/drain regions on a common substrate. The different contact materials may be within a common source/drain contact trench, or in type-dedicated trenches. A given contact trench may span one or more fins and include one or more source/drain regions on which a corresponding contact structure is to be made. In an embodiment, an isolation structure between p-type and n-type fins is selective to the trench etch and therefore remains intact within the trench after the target source/drain regions have been exposed. In such cases, the isolation structure physically separates n-type source/drain regions from p-type source/drain regions. The contact structures on the different type source/drain regions may be shorted proximate the top of the isolation structure. Numerous material systems can be used for the channel and source/drain regions, including germanium, group III-V materials, and 2-D materials.
US11296078B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of semiconductor patterns that are sequentially stacked and spaced apart from each other on a substrate, and a gate electrode on the plurality of semiconductor patterns. The gate electrode includes a capping pattern and a work function pattern that are sequentially stacked on the plurality of semiconductor patterns. The capping pattern includes a first metal nitride layer including a first metal element, and a second metal nitride layer including a second metal element whose work function is greater than a work function of the first metal element. The first metal nitride layer is disposed between the second metal nitride layer and the plurality of semiconductor patterns. The first metal nitride layer is thinner than the second metal nitride layer.
US11296075B2
The present disclosure introduces, among other things, an electronic device, e.g. an integrated circuit (IC). The IC includes a semiconductor substrate comprising a first doped layer of a first conductivity type. A second doped layer of the first conductivity type is located within the first doped layer. The second doped layer has first and second layer portions with a greater dopant concentration than the first doped layer, with the first layer portion being spaced apart from the second layer portion laterally with respect to a surface of the substrate. The IC further includes a lightly doped portion of the first doped layer, the lightly doped portion being located between the first and second layer portions. A dielectric isolation structure is located between the first and second layer portions, and directly contacts the lightly doped portion.
US11296074B2
An electrostatic protection circuit and a manufacturing method, an array substrate and a display apparatus in field of display technologies are provided. The electrostatic protection includes a first thin film transistor, a second thin film transistor, and an electrostatic protection line; a gate and a second electrode of the first thin film transistor are connected to a signal line, and a first electrode of the first thin film transistor is connected to the electrostatic protection line; a gate and a second electrode of the second thin film transistor are connected to the electrostatic protection line, and a first electrode of the second thin film transistor is connected to the signal line; each thin film transistor is an oxide thin film transistor, a length-width ratio of a channel of each thin film transistor is greater than or equal to a length-width ratio threshold, the length-width ratio threshold being 5.
US11296072B2
A semiconductor substrate includes a doped region having an upper surface. The doped region may comprise a conduction terminal of a diode (such as cathode) or a transistor (such as a drain). A silicide layer is provided at the doped region. The silicide layer has an area that only partially covers an area of the upper surface of the doped region. The partial area coverage facilitates modulating the threshold voltage and/or leakage current of an integrated circuit device.
US11296070B2
Disclosed embodiments herein relate to an integrated circuit including metal rails. In one aspect, the integrated circuit includes a first layer including a first metal rail and a second layer including a second metal rail, where the second layer is above the first layer along a first direction. In one aspect, the integrated circuit includes a third layer including an active region of a transistor, where the third layer is above the second layer along the first direction. In one aspect, the integrated circuit includes a fourth layer including a third metal rail, where the fourth layer is above the third layer along the first direction. In one aspect, the integrated circuit includes a fifth layer including a fourth metal rail, where the fifth layer is above the fourth layer along the first direction.
US11296066B2
A non-volatile memory includes a first semiconductor layer vertically stacked on a second semiconductor layer and including a first memory group, a second memory group, a third memory group and a fourth memory group. The second semiconductor layer includes a first region, a second region, a third region and a fourth region respectively underlying the first memory group, second memory group, third memory group and fourth memory group. The first region includes one driving circuit connected to memory cells of one of the second memory group, third memory group and fourth memory group through a first word line, and another driving circuit connected to memory cells of the first memory group through a first bit line, wherein the first word line and first bit line extend in the same horizontal direction.
US11296060B2
An LED pixel device is disclosed. The LED pixel device includes a first light-transmitting substrate, a second light-transmitting substrate overlying the first light-transmitting substrate, a third light-transmitting substrate overlying the second light-transmitting substrate, a first light-emitting cell underlying the first light-transmitting substrate, a second light-emitting cell interposed between the first light-transmitting substrate and the second light-transmitting substrate, and a third light-emitting cell interposed between the second light-transmitting substrate and the third light-transmitting substrate. The first light-emitting cell, the second light-emitting cell, and the third light-emitting cell emit light of different wavelengths.
US11296041B2
An integrated antenna package structure including a chip package and an antenna device is provided. The antenna device is disposed on the chip package. The chip package includes a chip, an encapsulant, a circuit layer, and a conductive connector. The encapsulant at least directly covers the back side of the chip. The circuit layer is disposed under the encapsulant and electrically connected to the chip. The conductive connector penetrates the encapsulant and is electrically connected to the circuit layer. The antenna device includes a dielectric body, a coupling layer, and an antenna layer. The dielectric body has a first dielectric surface and a second dielectric surface opposite to the first dielectric surface. The coupling layer is disposed on the second dielectric surface of the dielectric body. The antenna layer is disposed on the first dielectric surface of the dielectric body. The antenna layer is electrically connected to the conductive connector. A manufacturing method of an integrated antenna package structure is also provided.
US11296040B2
Disclosed herein are structures, devices, and methods for electrostatic discharge protection (ESDP) in integrated circuits (ICs). For example, in some embodiments, an IC package support may include: a first conductive structure in a dielectric material; a second conductive structure in the dielectric material; and a material in contact with the first conductive structure and the second conductive structure, wherein the material includes a polymer, and the material is different from the dielectric material. The material may act as a dielectric material below a trigger voltage, and as a conductive material above the trigger voltage.
US11296032B2
An array of through-silicon via (TSV) structures is formed through a silicon substrate, and package-side metal pads are formed on backside surfaces of the array of TSV structures. The silicon substrate is disposed over a carrier substrate, and an encapsulant interposer frame, such as an epoxy molding compound (EMC) interposer frame is formed around the silicon substrate. A die-side redistribution structure is formed over the silicon substrate and the EMC interposer frame, and at least one semiconductor die is attached to the die-side redistribution structure. The carrier substrate is removed from underneath the package-side metal pads. A package-side redistribution structure is formed on the package-side metal pads and on the EMC interposer frame. Overlay tolerance between the package-side redistribution wiring interconnects and the package-side metal pads increases due to increased areas of the package-side metal pads.
US11296031B2
An apparatus is provided which comprises: a substrate, the substrate comprising crystalline material, a first set of one or more contacts on a first substrate surface, a second set of one or more contacts on a second substrate surface, the second substrate surface opposite the first substrate surface, a first via through the substrate coupled with a first one of the first set of contacts and with a first one of the second set of contacts; a second via through the substrate coupled with a second one of the first set of contacts and with a second one of the second set of contacts, a trench in the substrate from the first substrate surface toward the second substrate surface, wherein the trench is apart from, and between, the first via and the second via, and dielectric material filling the trench. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US11296024B2
An integrated circuit (IC) package is described. The IC package includes back-end-of-line layers on a substrate. The IC package also includes a nested interconnect structure on the back-end-of-line layers on the substrate. The nested interconnect structure is composed of an inner core pad and an outer ring pad in a concentric arrangement. The IC package further includes a redistribution layer on the nested interconnect structure. The IC package also includes an under bump metallization layer on the redistribution layer to support package balls.
US11296015B2
A semiconductor device includes a carrier, a power semiconductor die that includes first and second opposite facing main surfaces, a side surface extending from the first main surface to the second main surface, and first and second electrodes disposed on the first and second main surfaces, respectively, a die attach material arranged between the carrier and the first electrode, wherein the die attach material forms a fillet at the side surface of the power semiconductor die, wherein a fillet height of the fillet is less than about 95% of a height of the power semiconductor die, wherein the height of the power semiconductor die is a length of the side surface, and wherein a maximum extension of the die attach material over edges of a main surface of the power semiconductor die facing the die attach material is less than about 200 micrometers.
US11296010B2
The disclosure describes a heat-dissipating object having a reservoir structure so that a reservoir system can be formed in an electronic device, allowing for a liquid TIM in the gap between the heat-dissipating object and the heat-generating object of the electronic device. The reservoir structure comprises a seal ring, a connecting hole and a reservoir which is a space for taking in a liquid material and releasing it again when needed. As a specific case of the heat-dissipating object and the electronic device, a lid having a reservoir structure and a lidded flip chip package based on the lid are particularly described in details of the embodiments of the present invention.
US11296001B2
A package substrate includes a first dielectric layer, a first patterned conductive layer and a first set of alignment marks. The first patterned conductive layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer. The first set of alignment marks is disposed on the first dielectric layer and adjacent to a first edge of the first dielectric layer. The first set of alignment marks includes a plurality of alignment marks. Distances between the alignment marks of the first set of alignment marks and the first edge are different from each other.
US11295992B2
Techniques related to III-N transistors having improved performance, systems incorporating such transistors, and methods for forming them are discussed. Such transistors include first and second crystalline III-N material layers separated by an intervening layer other than a III-N material such that the first crystalline III-N material layer has a first crystal orientation that is inverted with respect to a second crystal orientation of the second crystalline III-N material layer.
US11295982B2
A method of fabricating ultra-thin chips is provided. The method includes patterning circuit elements onto a substrate such that sections of the substrate are exposed and etching trenches into the sections of the substrate to define pedestals respectively associated with a corresponding circuit element. The method further includes depositing stressor layer material onto the circuit elements and applying handling tape to the stressor layer material. In addition, the method includes at least one of weakening the substrate in a plane defined by base corners of the pedestals and initiating substrate cracking at the base corners of the pedestals to encourage spalling of the pedestals off the substrate.
US11295980B2
Methods for depositing a molybdenum metal film over a dielectric surface of a substrate by a cyclical deposition process are disclosed. The methods may include: providing a substrate comprising a dielectric surface into a reaction chamber; depositing a nucleation film directly on the dielectric surface; and depositing a molybdenum metal film directly on the nucleation film, wherein depositing the molybdenum metal film includes: contacting the substrate with a first vapor phase reactant comprising a molybdenum halide precursor; and contacting the substrate with a second vapor phase reactant comprising a reducing agent precursor. Semiconductor device structures including a molybdenum metal film disposed over a surface of a dielectric material with an intermediate nucleation film are also disclosed.
US11295973B2
An apparatus and an operating method for automated wafer carrier handling are provided. The apparatus includes a base frame and an engaging mechanism disposed on the base frame. The engaging mechanism includes a controller and an active expansion component moveably coupled to the base frame and controlled by the controller to perform a reciprocating movement relative to the base frame. The active expansion component is driven by the controller to pass through the base frame to be engaged with a top flange mounted on the wafer carrier.
US11295964B2
A pressure regulating device cooperates with a semiconductor production system to regulate a pressure in a pipe of a semiconductor production apparatus in the semiconductor production system. The pressure regulating device reduces the pressure in the pipe of the semiconductor apparatus by a suction pump to prevent from liquid leakage when the pipe is broken. In addition, the pressure regulating device can periodically record the pressure change in the pipe to facilitate an operator to judge whether the pipe is damaged and analyze the cause of decrease in production yield.
US11295958B2
Methods of forming a semiconductor device and semiconductor device formed by the methods are provided. The methods of forming a semiconductor device may include providing a first substrate and a first bonding layer that is provided on the first substrate, forming a sacrificial pattern and an active pattern on a second substrate, forming a second bonding layer on the active pattern, bonding the second bonding layer onto the first bonding layer, removing the second substrate, and removing the sacrificial pattern to expose the active pattern. Forming the sacrificial pattern and the active pattern on the second substrate may include forming a preliminary sacrificial pattern and the active pattern on the second substrate and oxidizing the preliminary sacrificial pattern. The preliminary sacrificial pattern and the active pattern may be sequentially stacked on the second substrate.
US11295947B2
Conventional ozone water is still insufficient in the removal rate and cleaning ability of resist required in today's semiconductor manufacturing field, and it does not fully meet the expectation of further improvement in the effects of sterilization, deodorization, and cleaning in the fields such as cleaning of foodstuffs, cleaning of process equipment and tools, and cleaning of fingers, as well as in the fields such as deodorization, sterilization, and preservation of freshness of foodstuffs. The above problem can be solved by defining the values of a plurality of specific production parameters in the production of ozone water into specific ranges.
US11295935B2
The electromagnet device of the present invention comprises: a yoke having an annular groove in a front surface thereof; an annular coil provided in the groove; and an epoxy resin provided on an outer surface of the coil configured to secure the coil to the yoke, wherein there is a clearance between an outer circumferential surface of the groove in the yoke and the epoxy resin provided on an radially outer side of the coil.
US11295924B2
An x-ray window can include an adhesive layer sandwiched between and providing a hermetic seal between a thin film and a housing. The adhesive layer can include liquid crystal polymer. The liquid crystal polymer can be opaque, gas-tight, made of low atomic number elements, able to withstand high temperature, low outgassing, low leakage, able to relieve stress in the x-ray window thin film, capable of bonding to many different materials, or combinations thereof.
US11295922B2
Fuse programming circuits, devices and methods. In some embodiments, a fuse circuit can include a fuse pad configured to receive a voltage, a fuse having a first end coupled to the fuse pad and a second end coupled to a switching element configured to enable a current to pass from the fuse pad to a ground potential.
US11295918B2
A first fixed terminal includes a first support portion and a first extending portion. The first support portion is located in a closing direction with respect to a movable contact piece. The first support portion supports a first fixed contact. The first support portion extends from the first fixed contact in a first lateral direction. The first lateral direction is one direction in a longitudinal direction of the movable contact piece. The first extending portion is connected to the first support portion. The first extending portion extends in the closing direction from the first support portion. The first extending portion is disposed apart from the movable contact piece in the first lateral direction.
US11295915B2
The invention relates to a thermally triggerable indication or switching device, having a movable, mechanically preloaded slide which directly or indirectly triggers or actuates the indication or switching device, and having a preformed part which changes its state of aggregation under the effect of heat, the preformed part, in the functional state, being adapted to be arranged so as to block the movable slide. According to the invention, in the initial state, the preformed part is loosely located in a receiving space. For transferring the preformed part to the functional state, the slide is moved in a position such that a gap space opens between the slide and a slide stop, wherein the preformed part enters the gap space and the slide is simultaneously preloaded.
US11295913B2
A vacuum circuit breaker includes a vacuum circuit breaker tube having a vacuum housing in which a contact system is disposed. The contact system includes two contacts which are movable relative to one another. An electrical pre-arcing unit having an ignition electrode in the vacuum housing is provided for igniting an arc along an arc current path.
US11295901B2
A bipolar capacitor-assisted solid-state battery is disclosed that includes a plurality of electrochemical battery unit cells, each of which includes a negative electrode, a positive electrode, and a lithium ion-conductive electrolyte-containing separator disposed between the negative electrode and the positive electrode. The lithium ion-conductive electrolyte-containing separator of each electrochemical battery unit cell comprises a solid-state electrolyte material, and, additionally, at least one negative electrode of the electrochemical battery unit cells or at least one positive electrode of the electrochemical battery unit cells includes a capacitor material. The bipolar capacitor-assisted solid-state battery further includes a bipolar current collector disposed between a negative electrode of one electrochemical battery unit cell and a positive electrode of an adjacent electrochemical battery unit cell. A method for manufacturing the disclosed bipolar capacitor-assisted solid-state battery is also disclosed.
US11295900B2
An electrolytic capacitor that includes a resin molded body having opposed first and second end surfaces, the body including a stack that includes a capacitor element with an anode exposed at the first end surface, a dielectric layer on a surface of the anode, and a cathode opposite to the anode and exposed at the second end surface, and a sealing resin that encloses the stack; a first external electrode on the first end surface of the resin molded body and electrically connected to the anode; and a second external electrode on a second end surface of the resin molded body and electrically connected to the cathode, wherein the first external electrode and the second external electrode each include a resin electrode layer containing a conductive component and a resin component.
US11295889B2
A novel pulling plate structure for a three-dimensional wound core of a transformer, including a three-dimensional wound core spliced by three rectangular single frames, the three-dimensional wound core includes three core legs, an upper iron yoke and a lower iron yoke, an upper frame surrounding the upper iron yoke is installed in a top of the three-dimensional wound core, a lower frame surrounding the upper iron yoke is installed at a bottom of the three-dimensional wound core, the core leg has a longitudinal cross-section opposite and parallel to inside faces of the upper frame and the lower frame, a pulling plate is installed in a plane of the longitudinal cross-section, the pulling plate is connected with the upper frame and the lower frame.
US11295886B2
A winding configuration for a transformer or an inductor has a winding formed by a winding conductor, a solid insulation surrounding the winding and a connecting unit embedded in the solid insulation. The aim is to obtain a winding configuration which provides the required dielectric strength even at higher operating voltages. In order to achieve this goal, the connecting unit is a plug lead-through and is configured to allow the connection of a cable connector.
US11295874B2
A cable system is provided which is configured with both electric wires and a fluid conduit running through the axial passage of a surrounding flexible sheath of the cable. The system allows for communication of electricity over the wires for electrical circuits and concurrent communication of a fire ignition suppressant fluid or gas through the fluid conduit, to all points in an electric circuit using the cable. Suppressant chambers may be located in or on or engaged with junction boxes in such circuits to locally extinguish electrical fires. Fluid nozzles may be operatively engaged with sidewalls of the junction box to disburse fire suppressant therefrom.
US11295869B2
A method of preserving a nuclear fuel includes exposing a surface of a fuel element comprising aluminum to a phosphorus-containing acid and reacting the phosphorus-containing acid with the aluminum to form aluminum phosphate (AlPO4). A nuclear fuel element includes a nuclear fuel and a shell surrounding the nuclear fuel. The shell comprises aluminum phosphate.
US11295862B2
An application server predicts respiratory disease risk, rescue medication usage, exacerbation, and healthcare utilization using trained predictive models. The application server includes model modules and submodel modules, which communicate with a database server, data sources, and client devices. The submodel modules train submodels by determining submodel coefficients based on training data from the database server. The submodel modules further determine statistical analysis data and estimates for medication usage events, healthcare utilization, and other related events. The model modules combine submodels to predict respiratory disease risk, exacerbation, rescue medication usage, healthcare utilization, and other related information. Model outputs are provided to users, including patients, providers, healthcare companies, electronic health record systems, real estate companies and other interested parties.
US11295859B2
A method for handing off diagnostic test results to a telemedicine provider is provided. The method comprises receiving diagnostic test results in response to a diagnostic test, determining if the diagnostic test results include a positive result, storing the diagnostic test results on a server disposed on a network, sending the diagnostic test results from the server to the telemedicine provider, sending additional medical history information to the telemedicine provider, and initiating a telemedicine conference with the telemedicine provider.
US11295852B2
A method is for calculating a personalized patient model including an external surface model of a patient and an organ model of the patient. In an embodiment, the method includes acquiring metadata of the patient, the metadata being assigned to at least one metadata category; ascertaining, using the patient metadata acquired, the external surface model of the patient and an internal anatomical model of the patient, the internal anatomical model including a body cavity of the patient; ascertaining the organ model of the patient using the patient metadata acquired and using the internal anatomical model of the patient ascertained; and calculating the personalized patient model, the external surface model of the patient ascertained and the organ model of the patient ascertained, being combined.
US11295849B2
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.
US11295848B2
A computer-implemented system includes a treatment apparatus configured to be manipulated by a patient while performing a treatment plan, and a server computing device configured. The server computing device receives treatment plans that, when applied to patients, cause outcomes to be achieved by the patients, receives monetary value amounts associated with the treatment plans, where a respective monetary value amount of the monetary value amounts is associated with a respective treatment plan of the treatment plans. The server computing device receives constraints including rules pertaining to billing codes associated with the treatment plans. An artificial intelligence engine generates optimal treatment plans for a patient based on the treatment plans, the monetary value amounts, and the constraints, wherein each of the optimal treatment plans complies with the constraints and represents a patient outcome and an associated monetary value amount generated.
US11295845B2
Methods, computer systems and computer readable media cause an infusion pump to provide visual confirmation of line checks. In embodiments, an indication is provided that one or more infusions need a line check. A selection of on the one or more infusion is received. Information corresponding to the selection of the one of the one or more infusions is received from an electronic medical record (EMR) and communicated to a corresponding infusion pump. The infusion pump then provides a visual indication of the line check.
US11295840B2
A medical scan header standardization system is operable to determine a set of standard DICOM headers based on determining a standard set of fields and based on further determining a standard set of entries for each of the standard set of fields. A DICOM image is received via a network, and a header of the DICOM image is determined to be incorrect. A selected one of the set of standard DICOM headers to replace the header of the DICOM image is determined. The selected one of the set of standard DICOM headers is transmitted, via the network, to a medical scan database for storage in conjunction with the DICOM image.
US11295839B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for automating a follow-up process is executed on a computing device and includes prompting a patient to provide encounter information via a virtual assistant during a post-visit portion of a patient encounter. Encounter information is obtained from the patient in response to the prompting by the virtual assistant.
US11295838B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for automated clinical documentation is executed on a computing device and includes obtaining encounter information of a patient encounter. The encounter information is processed to generate an encounter transcript. At least a portion of the encounter transcript is processed to populate at least a portion of a medical record associated with the patient encounter.
US11295824B2
A memory controller and a storage device including the same are provided. The memory controller groups pages in a memory block into page groups of different classes according to bit error rates, and allocates a page to be programmed according to a reliability requirement of a logical block address (LBA).
US11295823B2
In a semiconductor integrated circuit, an internal circuit is capable of executing a first operation and a second operation concurrently, and an output circuit outputs to the outside of the semiconductor integrated circuit information indicating whether or not the first operation is being executed and information indicating whether or not the second operation is executable.
US11295816B2
Provided herein is a semiconductor memory device and a method of operating the semiconductor memory device. The semiconductor memory device includes: a memory cell array including a plurality of word lines; a peripheral circuit coupled to the memory cell array through the plurality of word lines and configured to apply a program voltage to a selected word line of the plurality of word lines during a program operation and apply a pass voltage to unselected word lines of the plurality of word lines; and control logic configured to control the peripheral circuit to apply a first pass voltage to word lines adjacent to the selected word line among the unselected word lines during a first program operation of the program operation and apply a second pass voltage to the word lines adjacent to the selected word line during a second program operation of the program operation.
US11295801B1
The present invention provides a method for managing a flash memory module, wherein the method includes the steps of: grouping a plurality of blocks within the flash memory module into a plurality of groups; scanning a target block of each group, without scanning all of the blocks within the group, to determine if at least a portion of blocks of the group needs to be refreshed, wherein the group that is determined that at least the portion of blocks needs to be refreshed is marked as a marked group; only scanning at least the portion of blocks of the marked group, without scanning the groups that is not marked, to determine which block needs to be refreshed, wherein the block that is determined to be refreshed is marked as a marked block; refreshing the marked block(s) by moving valid data of the marked block(s) to at least one blank block.
US11295796B1
Endurance mechanisms are introduced for memories such as non-volatile memories for broad usage including caches, last-level cache(s), embedded memory, embedded cache, scratchpads, main memory, and storage devices. Here, non-volatile memories (NVMs) include magnetic random-access memory (MRAM), resistive RAM (ReRAM), ferroelectric RAM (FeRAM), phase-change memory (PCM), etc. In some cases, features of endurance mechanisms (e.g., randomizing mechanisms) are applicable to volatile memories such as static random-access memory (SRAM), and dynamic random-access memory (DRAM). The endurance mechanisms include a wear leveling scheme that uses index rotation, outlier compensation to handle weak bits, and random swap injection to mitigate wear out attacks.
US11295795B2
The present disclosure provides a data reading circuit and a storage unit. The data reading circuit includes a being read unit connected to a voltage stabilizing unit and configured to store data. The voltage stabilizing unit is configured to stabilize and output a current from the being read unit to a first amplifying unit. The first amplifying unit is configured to amplify and output the current from the being read unit to a comparing unit. A reference unit is connected to a second amplifying unit, to output a reference current to the second amplifying unit. The second amplifying unit is configured to amplify and output the reference current to the comparing unit. The comparing unit is configured to compare a comparing point voltage, that is based on the amplified current of the being read unit and the amplified reference current, with a reference voltage and to output comparison results.
US11295792B2
A system includes: a processor; a register configured to store a plurality of words, non-volatile memory having a plurality of cells, each cell corresponding to one of the words of the register, and wherein the each cell of the plurality of cells are set to an initial reset value; a first controller that in response to a loss in power: determines the word stored by the register; and changes the initial reset value of the cell of the non-volatile memory corresponding to the determined word stored by the register to a set value; a second controller that in response to detecting a restoration in power: identifies the cell having the set value; writes the word corresponding to the identified cell to the register; and resets the cells of the non-volatile memory to the initial reset value.
US11295791B2
A memory device Input/Output includes a memory cell having a local bit line. A first IO circuit is coupled to the local bit line and is configured to output a local IO signal to a global bit line. A second IO circuit is coupled to the global bit line and is configured to output a global IO signal. A latch circuit is configured to latch the local IO signal in response to a data signal on the local bit line.
US11295788B2
A method provided herein is adapted to a sense amplifier having a first cross-coupled latch and a second cross-coupled latch, each of which includes a first pair of transistors and a pair of coupling capacitors coupled to respective gate terminals of the first pair of transistors. The method includes, during a first phase, charging the pair of coupling capacitors of a first pair of transistors at a first cross-coupled latch to achieve zeroing and providing a first set of input voltages to a second cross-coupled latch, and, during a second phase following the first phase, discharging the pair of coupling capacitors to cancel a mismatch between the first pair of transistors and comparing the first set of input voltages provided to the second cross-coupled latch to generate a first set of output voltages.
US11295787B1
A methodology and apparatus are disclosed for providing standby power during standby mode by applying a low frequency sampling clock signal to first and second comparators which are connected to compare an output voltage generated at an external capacitor to, respectively, a first higher voltage threshold and a second lower voltage threshold, where the first comparator generates an enable signal in response to the output voltage reaching the first higher voltage threshold for use in activating one or more switched regulator circuits to pump up the output voltage at the external capacitor to exceed the first higher voltage threshold, and where the second comparator generates an undervoltage signal in response to the output voltage reaching the second lower voltage threshold for use in reactivating the main regulator to pump up the output voltage at the external capacitor to exceed the first higher voltage threshold.
US11295782B2
Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for editing video clips. The method includes displaying a preview of a video clip through a user interface. The method also includes adding a timed element to the video clip through the user interface. The method also includes adjusting a timing for the timed element through an adjustable timeline, the adjustable timeline based on a length of the video clip. The method also includes adjusting a location of the timed element in the video clip. The method also includes finalizing the video clip to include the timed element.
US11295775B2
A magnetic recording medium includes a nonmagnetic substrate, a soft magnetic underlayer, an orientation control layer, a perpendicular magnetic layer, and a protection layer that are arranged in this order. The perpendicular magnetic layer includes a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer that are arranged in this order on the orientation control layer. The first magnetic layer has a granular structure including an oxide at grain boundary parts of magnetic grains, and the second magnetic layer is closest to the protection layer among layers within the perpendicular magnetic layer, and includes magnetic grains made of a CoCrPt alloy, and a nitride of carbon or a hydride of carbon.
US11295765B1
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a first plurality of heads actuated over a first subset of disk surfaces by a first servo control loop comprising a first coarse actuator and a first fine actuator, and a second plurality of heads actuated over a second subset of the disk surfaces by a second servo control loop comprising a second coarse actuator and a second fine actuator. A plurality of access commands are received, wherein each access command is associated with one of the heads. While executing a first access command using the first servo control loop, a disturbance is ramped while injecting the disturbance into the second servo control loop, and the second fine actuator is calibrated based on the disturbance.
US11295764B1
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a magnetic media, wherein the head comprises a write element and a first read element. A preamp circuit comprising an interface includes at least a write line associated with the write element of the head and a first read line associated with the first read element of the head. A first read signal is received from the preamp circuit over the first read line during a read operation, and configuration data is transmitted to the preamp circuit over the first read line during a write operation.
US11295744B2
A voice assistance device includes a microphone picking up and transmitting a first signal to a detection unit; the detection unit routing, in case of detection of the wakeup word in the first signal, the first signal to an analysis unit; the analysis unit processing the first signal and generating an output signal. The detection unit includes a first module detecting the wakeup word in the first signal, a second module detecting the wakeup word in a second signal received from at least one external audio source and a control module routing the first signal to the analysis unit when the wakeup word is detected solely by the first module of the detection unit.
US11295729B2
A processor-implemented response inference method and apparatus are disclosed. The response inference apparatus receives an input, generates a latent variable vector in a latent variable region space by encoding the input, generates a validation vector with a predetermined phase difference from the latent variable vector, generates an output response by decoding the latent variable vector, generates a validation response by decoding the validation vector, and validates the output response by comparing the output response to the validation response.
US11295728B2
This disclosure relates generally to speech signal processing, and more particularly to method and system for improving recognition of disordered speech. In one embodiment, a method and a system for identifying extent of deviation in speech utterances of a user from a normal level, caused due to such impairments are provided. The system further makes appropriate modifications to generate utterances pertaining to healthy speech. This data may be fed as input to the speech recognition systems, as those systems can interpret the corrected data.
US11295723B2
A voice synthesis method includes: supplying a first trained model with control data including phonetic identifier data to generate a series of frequency spectra of harmonic components; supplying a second trained model with the control data to generate a waveform signal representative of non-harmonic components; and generating a voice signal including the harmonic components and the non-harmonic components based on the series of frequency spectra of the harmonic components generated by the first trained model and the waveform signal representative of the non-harmonic components generated by the second trained model.
US11295722B2
A device causes a communication session to be established between the device and a user device to allow the device and the user device to communicate speech, and receives user speech from the user device. The device processes the user speech using a natural language processing technique to determine a plurality of characteristics of the user speech, and updates a speech generation setting of a plurality of speech generation settings based on the plurality of characteristics of the user speech. The device generates, after updating the speech generation setting, device speech using a text-to-speech technique based on the speech generation setting, and sends the device speech to the user device.
US11295714B2
A controller device for the production of electronic music includes multiple control surfaces, including a touch sensitive display and a matrix of actuator pads, each of which are capable of operating in different modes simultaneously.
US11295707B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of forming an expandable display device capable of maintaining a fixed pixel density at any display area from a relatively smaller first display area to a relatively larger second display area. The expandable display device includes an upper display layer and a lower display layer. In a first display position, the display elements having a defined pixel density included in the upper display layer obscure the display elements included in the lower display layer. The upper display layer and lower display layers are disposed on expandable substrates capable of continuous displacement between the first and second display positions. In the second display position, the display elements included in the lower display layer are visible through gaps between the display elements included in the upper display layer. The resultant display provides a uniform pixel density at all displacements between the first and second display positions.
US11295698B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a connector for a display device and a relevant display device. The connector includes an input cable interface for connecting an input cable to receive an input mixed signal, a signal processor for processing a first signal in the mixed signal received via the input cable interface to obtain a video signal for display, a signal separator for separating a second signal from the mixed signal and to generate a DC voltage based on the second signal, a video signal output interface for connecting a display interface of the display device to output the video signal, and a power output interface for connecting a power supply interface of the display device to output the DC voltage generated by the signal separator to the display device. Externally-connection interfaces and connection wires are reduced by using one cable to transmit signals of multiple properties.
US11295697B2
A display device includes a display panel which includes pixels arranged in a matrix form and a controller which receives a first image signal corresponding to a first active period of a first frame, outputs a first final output signal corresponding to a first conversion active period of the first frame, and drives the display panel based on the first final image signal. The controller includes a timing changing unit which receives the first image signal and changes a first image signal pixel size corresponding to the first image signal to a panel pixel size corresponding to the display panel to generate the first output signal, and a frequency changing unit which receives the first output signal from the timing changing unit and reduces a frame frequency of the first output signal based on the first image signal to output the first final output signal.
US11295696B2
An image display apparatus and a method thereof. The image display apparatus includes: a display; a processor; a memory including a first buffer and a second buffer; and at least one program stored in the memory and executed by the processor. The instructions included in the program cause the processor to perform graphics processing on a first image, convert an attribute of the graphics-processed first image, generate an on screen display (OSD) image and control the memory to store the OSD image in the second buffer, perform image quality processing on the first image of which the attribute is converted, and control the display to display the image-quality-processed first image and the OSD image.
US11295691B2
A current limiting circuit, comprising a switching circuit and a voltage stabilizing circuit. The switching circuit is separately connected to a voltage input terminal VIN and a voltage output terminal VOUT, and used for transmitting an input voltage to the voltage output terminal VOUT from the voltage input terminal VIN; and the voltage stabilizing circuit is separately connected to the switching circuit, the voltage input terminal VIN, and the voltage output terminal VOUT, used for controlling an output current to reduce together with the switching circuit when the output current of the voltage output terminal VOUT is increased and the output current is less than a preset output current, and further used for controlling the output current to be zero together with the switching circuit when the output current of the voltage output terminal VOUT is greater than or equal to the preset output current.
US11295682B2
This application relates to a driving method for a display device. Turn-on/turn off of a color light source corresponding to a minimum average value in a time period of displaying a second gray-scale data group is controlled according to the determining of whether a color saturation value C falls within a specified range of a color saturation value of a display area.
US11295681B2
A display device includes a non e-paper portion to display a first pattern element and a passive e-paper display portion to display a second pattern element juxtaposed relative to the first pattern element.
US11295668B2
Provided are a pixel circuit, a display panel, a display device and a pixel driving method, the pixel circuit including: a data compensation circuit, a storage circuit, a driving transistor and a replication transistor, the replication transistor and the driving transistor have the same structure; the data compensation circuit writes, in an initialization stage, a first voltage into a first node under a control of a second control signal and a third control signal; and to write, in a data writing and compensation stage, under a control of the third control signal and a first control signal, a data voltage to a first electrode of the replication transistor to detect a threshold voltage thereof, write a compensation voltage to the first node for storage by the storage circuit, the compensation voltage being equal to a sum of the data voltage and the threshold voltage of the replication transistor.
US11295667B2
Provided are a pixel structure, a display panel and a control method thereof. The pixel structure includes four sub-pixel units, wherein the i-th sub-pixel unit includes: an i-th element to be driven and an i-th drive circuit, 1≤i≤4, and the i-th drive circuit is respectively connected with an M-th data line and an N-th scanning line, and is configured to drive the i-th element to be driven according to a data signal of the M-th data line under control of the N-th scanning line, M = { 1 , 1 ≤ i ≤ 2 2 , 3 ≤ i ≤ 4 , N = { 1 , 2 ≤ i ≤ 3 2 , i is 1 or 4 .
US11295665B2
Displaying device comprising an emissive display and at least one controller configured to control said Mrs display, said display comprising a matrix array (100) of light-emitting pixels deposited on a substrate, each pixel (101) being formed, at least in one portion of said emissive display, of a plurality of elementary emitting zones Z, said elementary emitting zones Z comprising at least one elementary emitting zone ZA of a first group A and at least one elementary emitting zone ZB of a second group B, said device being characterised in that the ratio S of the sum SB of the areas of the elementary emitting zones ZB of the second group B and of the sum SA of the areas of the elementary emitting zones ZA of the first group A, which is defined by S=SB/SA, is lower than 0.35, preferably lower than 0.20, more preferably lower than 0.10, and even more preferably lower than 0.05.
US11295659B2
Display device includes a scan driver to receive a scan start signal and to supply scan signals of a turn-on level to scan lines in response to the scan start signal; a data driver to receive grayscale values and to supply data voltages corresponding to the grayscale values and a reference data voltage to data lines; pixels connected to the scan lines and the data lines, the pixels including display target pixels configured to receive the data voltages and at least one sensing target pixel configured to receive the reference data voltage; and a scan start signal adjusting unit to detect the display target pixels among the pixels using the grayscale values and to adjust a phase of the scan start signal when at least one of the display target pixels comprises a sensing target pixel.
US11295657B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and system for switched display of a grayscale of a multi-line scan light-emitting diode (LED), and relates to the field of LED display technology. In view of the problems in the prior art that a multi-line scan constant-current source chip has an insufficient refresh rate, a low grayscale level, and a poor low-grayscale effect, the present disclosure provides a method during the display of relatively high grayscales, a display cycle is scrambled. During the display of relatively low grayscales, the grayscales are combined. In the present disclosure, a relatively high refresh rate and a grayscale level can still be ensured in a case of a relatively large quantity of line scans. In addition, in the case of low-grayscale display, the problems such as low-grayscale speckles, slightly dark low-grayscale, and relatively poor low-grayscale linearity are resolved, thereby improving a picture display effect.
US11295648B2
The present disclose is related to a gate drive unit. The gate drive unit may include a shift register; and a signal filter. The signal filter may respectively connect to a clock signal terminal, a filter output terminal, an input terminal and a reset terminal. The signal filter may be configured, under control of an effective signal provided by the input terminal, to transmit a clock signal of the clock signal terminal to the filter output terminal after the input terminal stops providing the effective signal and before the reset terminal provides an effective signal and, under control of an effective signal provided by the reset terminal, to disconnect the clock signal terminal and the filter output terminal.
US11295645B2
A shift register and a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus are disclosed. The shift register includes an input circuit, a pull-up node charging circuit and an output circuit. The pull-up node charging circuit is connected with a first voltage terminal, a second voltage terminal, the input circuit and a pull-up node, and is configured to charge the pull-up node and maintain a level of the pull-up node under control of the first input signal.
US11295638B2
The present invention provides a display panel support and a display device. A bending area of the display panel is protected by friction or resistance generated between the second support plate and the third support. In addition, the bending area of the display panel is protected by resistance caused by an elastic force or repulsive force or resistance between magnetism.
US11295627B2
Disclosed are training method, program and computing device to ameliorate visual field defect. The method includes presenting, by a computer, a virtual first object on a screen, wherein the first object is presented in an approaching manner toward the subject from a first position to a second position, when a position of the first object reaches the second position, the dividing, by the computer, of the first object into objects and presenting the divided objects on the screen or removing, by the computer, the first object from the screen, when the first object is divided or removed, presenting, by the computer, a virtual second object and a virtual third object on the screen, and receiving, by the computer, an identification input about the second object and the third object from a response input device of the subject.
US11295616B2
A design is disclosed for a stop signal light emitter and receiver which together enable simple automatic stopping control within designated spaces for moving entities like vehicles, robots or drones, while the transmitted signal remains clearly visible to animals or people. The motivation is to provide a minimum design and standardized spatial signal for safe operation of vehicles and machines and movement of animals and people where a stop signal is linked to a local spatial area. The local spatial area of the signal emitter is linked via transmission from an emitter which is part of a signaling device (where the signaling device is a traffic light or brake light for example), to a receiver where there signal is detected by optical and or photoelectric circuitry.
US11295614B2
In an example embodiment, an electronic device includes a communication module comprising communication circuitry, a display, a sound output device comprising sound output circuitry, a processor, and a memory. Instructions stored in the memory, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic device to control the communication module to transmit and/or receive a plurality of pieces of wireless access in vehicular environment (WAVE) information. In addition, the electronic device identifies a plurality of events, based on the plurality of pieces of WAVE information, and generates a plurality of messages related to the plurality of events. The electronic device further determines priorities of the plurality of messages, based on status information of the electronic device, and outputs the plurality of messages based on the determined priorities through at least one of the display and the sound output device.
US11295605B2
In response to a detected presence of an intended target appliance within a logical topography of controllable appliances identity information associated with the intended target appliance is used to automatically add to a graphical user interface of a controlling device an icon representative of the intended target appliance and to create at a Universal Control Engine a listing of communication methods for use in controlling corresponding functional operations of the intended target appliance. When the icon is later activated, the controlling device is placed into an operating state appropriate for controlling functional operations of the intended target appliance while the Universal Control Engine uses at least one of the communication methods to transmit at least one command to place the intended target appliance into a predetermined operating state.
US11295602B2
The disclosure relates to a system and method for providing enhanced security of physical assets within a physical infrastructure. The method includes receiving an overall layout of the physical infrastructure and multi-modal input with respect to the physical asset from a plurality of sensors installed within the physical infrastructure. The multi-modal input includes acoustic signal generated by or reflected off the physical asset and captured by a set of acoustic sensors. The method further includes generating a digital asset corresponding to the physical asset by determining an identification, a location, a shape, a size, and a behavior of the physical asset based on the multi-modal input and the overall layout, detecting one or more events of interest involving the digital asset based on the behavior of the physical asset, and simulating the one or more events of interest to evaluate a possible fault or a possible security threat.
US11295597B2
A system for securely transporting an item is disclosed, the system comprising a container comprising walls defining an inner cavity and a detection means for detecting tampering, wherein the detection means is contained within the walls of the container. The system further comprises an electronic sensor module, wherein the electronic sensor module comprises a continuity sensor configured to detect a discontinuity in the detection means. The system further comprises a transmitter configured to transmit a signal indicative of whether or not the continuity sensor has detected a discontinuity in the detection means. The signal may comprise a first type of signal responsive to the continuity sensor not detecting a discontinuity in the detection means and a second type of signal responsive to the continuity sensor detecting a discontinuity in the detection means. The transmitter is further configured to transmit a signal indicative of the continuity sensor having detected a discontinuity in the detection means after a pre-determined period of time has elapsed. The system thereby provides a system for remotely detecting tampering and improving the security of transported items to an expected location.
US11295593B2
A rack for a scalable tracking system includes weight sensors disposed on shelves that hold items. The weight sensors detect the weight of the items and communicates signals indicating that weight to a circuit board positioned in the rack. The circuit board communicates these detected weights to a weight server that determines, based on these weights, whether items were removed from the shelves.
US11295586B2
It is provided a method for determining when a break-in attempt is in process. The method is performed in a break-in determiner and comprises the steps of: determining that a first vibration condition is tme when a vibration parameter associated with a barrier is greater than a first threshold, wherein the first vibration parameter is obtained from measurements from an accelerometer; determining whether an acceptable activity condition is tme or not, such that the acceptable activity condition is true only when there is an auxiliary signal indicating acceptable activity comprising determining that the acceptable activity condition is tme only when a time difference between determining that the first vibration condition is true and receiving the auxiliary signal is less than a threshold duration; and determining that a break-in attempt is in process when the first vibration condition is tme and the acceptable activity condition is false.
US11295577B2
Users will often want to calculate odds for a variety of combinations of events to establish a favourable/desired amount of risk in order to place a wager. Regrettably, odds produced by bookmakers often change with sufficient frequency that it is not possible for a user to calculate all the possible odds for a variety of combinations of events before the odds produced by a bookmaker change, thus invalidating their calculations. The invention provides a computer system for enabling placement of wagers that calculates a plurality of combined odds, each of the combined odds comprising a combination of events with corresponding selected outcome types. In this way, users may place combination wagers on the outcomes of a combination of events in an informed manner; that is, being aware of the combined odds and alternative combined odds available.
US11295575B2
A system and method for allowing wagers to be made on a game and awarding a payout as a function of an outcome of the game is provided. The game may played by a game server, located at a gaming facility, which is located at a predefined geographic location. A remote device may be provided at a location outside of the predefined geographic location. An agent, in communication with the game server and the remote device, may receive instructions from a patron via the remote device to place a wager on a game and for instructing the server to place the wager in response to receiving the instructions from the patron.
US11295574B2
An electronic gaming machine is provided, including a player interface, a meter, a game display, and a game controller. The player interface is configured to receive a wager for a round of the wagering game. The meter is configured to record a wager amount for the round. The game display is configured to display a matrix of symbols. The game controller is coupled to the meter and the game display. The game controller is configured to conduct the round of the wagering game, including selecting the matrix of symbols. The game controller is further configured to detect a trigger symbol among the matrix of symbols. The trigger symbol corresponds to a multiplier feature. The game controller is further configured to award a multiple of the wager amount according to the multiplier feature.
US11295571B2
A towel set includes a towel holder and a plurality of towels stacked on one another. Each towel includes an opening, and the towel holder projects through the openings of the towels.
US11295565B2
The present application provides an unlocking solution. In this solution, after obtaining a digital key seed, a user mobile device can generate a digital key for multiple times by using the digital key seed and first check data corresponding to a current unlocking operation, and then send the digital key to a smart door lock for verification and unlocking. Because the digital key includes the first check data only corresponding to the current unlocking operation, an attacker cannot use the digital key to perform unlocking again even if the attacker obtains the digital key. In addition, because the digital key seed can be used for multiple times, a smart door lock server does not need to be connected each time to obtain the digital key. Therefore, both security and ease of use are satisfied.
US11295562B2
A vehicle includes an automotive staged diagnostic system including: one or more components of the vehicle, a user interface, and a control unit configured to receive a signal identifying at least one malfunctioning component of the vehicle. The system may automatically identify a diagnostic procedure for the malfunctioning component from a plurality of diagnostic procedures, initiate and execute the steps of the identified diagnostic procedure by: soliciting information from a user, issuing instructions to the user, executing branching logic steps, and checking electrical pathways upstream and downstream of the malfunctioning component. The control unit is further configured to initiate repair or replacement of the malfunctioning component based on a user action received via the user interface, and recommend service options if the diagnostic procedure is unable to return the malfunctioning component to working order.
US11295552B2
A system and method for extracting uncoupled information from a user interface output that includes collecting image data; processing the image data associated with the device interface source; and exposing the result to the extracted interface representation.
US11295548B2
A display with integrated matrix sensor for the optical recording of the papillary structure of at least one finger (F), in which an angular diaphragm with an aperture is arranged in each instance in front of the individual sensor elements of the matrix sensor, which aperture is offset relative to the sensor element in each instance in an offset direction (RV). Because of different dimensioning of the apertures and/or different offset directions (RV), the acceptance angle of the sensor elements of the matrix sensor is also influenced in direction orthogonal to the offset directions (RV) so that the display is suitable for making a recording having an isotropic and high contrast. The invention is also directed to a method by which, using a display according to the invention with integrated matrix sensor, an initial recording is transformed into a corrected recording having an at least approximately isotropic and high contrast.
US11295542B2
A firearm monitoring and remote support system monitors firearms and other assets within a deployment location to detect threats to users of the firearms and to perform actions in response to the threats. Measurements recorded using sensors of the firearms and/or of the other assets are used to determine changes in motion, position, orientation, and/or operation of the firearms and/or of the other assets. The measurements are processed to determine the nature of a threat and the particular actions to perform in response thereto. Graphical user interfaces visualizing the users within the deployment location are updated using the measurements to show, in real-time, positions and orientations of cones of fire for the users within the deployment location. In some cases, the cones of fire may be used to detect threats within the deployment location. In some cases, the actions to perform in response to a detected threat may be automated.
US11295540B2
A sensor calibration target includes dark markings on a light substrate. The dark markings absorb more heat from a heat source than the light substrate, and are visually distinguishable from the light substrate. Thus, the dark markings are discernable by the both a camera and an infrared sensor of a vehicle during vehicle sensor calibration. The sensor calibration target may otherwise non-metallic but include a metallic feature for calibrating a radio detection and ranging (RADAR) sensor. The sensor calibration target may also include one or more apertures in the substrate for calibrating a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor.
US11295535B2
Embodiments are disclosed for synchronously editing locally repeating vector geometry. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods comprise receiving a selection of a first plurality of segments of a vector-based object to be edited, generating a stencil mask of the first plurality of segments, the stencil mask representing segment placement and primitive types for each of the first plurality of segments, identifying a second plurality of segments of the vector-based object using the stencil mask and a stencil predicate, determining a transform between the first plurality of segments and the second plurality of segments, receiving an edit to the first plurality of segments, and applying the edit to the second plurality of segments using the transform.
US11295529B2
In one implementation, a method of including a person in a CGR experience or excluding the person from the CGR experience is performed by a device including one or more processors, non-transitory memory, and a scene camera. The method includes, while presenting a CGR experience, capturing an image of scene; detecting, in the image of the scene, a person; and determining an identity of the person. The method includes determining, based on the identity of the person, whether to include the person in the CGR experience or exclude the person from the CGR experience. The method includes presenting the CGR experience based on the determination.
US11295523B2
In a computer-implemented method and system for capturing the condition of a structure, the structure is scanned with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Data collected by the UAV corresponding to points on a surface of a structure is received and a 3D point cloud is generated for the structure, where the 3D point cloud is generated based at least in part on the received UAV data. A 3D model of the surface of the structure is reconstructed using the 3D point cloud.
US11295516B2
A generation method is disclosed. Two-dimensional (2D) images that are generated by photographing a space from different viewpoints with at least one camera are obtained. Resolutions of the 2D images are reduced to generate first images, respectively. Second images are generated from the 2D images, respectively such that a resolution of each of the second images is higher than a resolution of any one of the first images. First three-dimensional (3D) points are generated based on the first images. The first 3D points indicate respective first positions in the space. A second 3D point is generated based on the second images. The second 3D point indicates a second position in the space. A 3D model of the space is generated based on the first 3D points and the second 3D point.
US11295514B2
Inverse rendering estimates physical scene attributes (e.g., reflectance, geometry, and lighting) from image(s) and is used for gaming, virtual reality, augmented reality, and robotics. An inverse rendering network (IRN) receives a single input image of a 3D scene and generates the physical scene attributes for the image. The IRN is trained by using the estimated physical scene attributes generated by the IRN to reproduce the input image and updating parameters of the IRN to reduce differences between the reproduced input image and the input image. A direct renderer and a residual appearance renderer (RAR) reproduce the input image. The RAR predicts a residual image representing complex appearance effects of the real (not synthetic) image based on features extracted from the image and the reflectance and geometry properties. The residual image represents near-field illumination, cast shadows, inter-reflections, and realistic shading that are not provided by the direct renderer.
US11295512B2
Described herein are apparatuses, systems and methods for generating an interactive three-dimensional (“3D”) environment using virtual depth. A method comprises receiving a pre-rendered media file comprising a plurality of frames, receiving depth data related to the media file, wherein the depth data corresponds to each of the plurality of frames, creating an invisible three-dimensional (“3D”) framework of a first frame of the media file based on the corresponding depth data, and rendering a new first frame in real time to include the pre-rendered first frame, one or more virtual visible 3D objects and the invisible 3D framework.
US11295511B1
A system and method for generating a multi-user presentation including receiving a graphic, anchoring a first instance of the graphic in a collaboration environment with a first position, first scale, and first orientation relative to an initial position of a presenting user in the collaboration environment; applying a first anchor transform to a second instance of the graphic, the first anchor transform anchoring the second instance of the graphic in the collaboration environment with the first position, the first scale, and the first orientation relative to an initial position of a first attendee in the collaboration environment; sending the first instance of the graphic for presentation to the presenter, and the second instance of the graphic for presentation to the first attendee; receiving a first presenter interaction modifying the first instance, where the modified first instance includes a first modification to one or more of the first position, the first scale, and the first orientation relative to the presenter; applying a first local transform to the first anchor transform associated with the second instance, where application of the first local transform modifies the second instance, where the modified second instance includes the first modification to one or more of the first position, the first scale, and the first orientation relative to the first attendee; and sending the modified first instance of the graphic for presentation to the presenter, and the modified second instance of the graphic for presentation to the first attendee.
US11295510B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to a method and apparatus for displaying information. In a specific embodiment, at least two pluralities of voxel values for a corresponding at least two functions with respect to at least a portion of a subject can be obtained. The at least a portion of the subject can have a plurality of local volume elements, where the at least two pluralities of voxel values for the corresponding at least two functions each correspond to the plurality of local volume elements. In this way, there is a voxel value for each function for each local volume element of the portion of the subject. Each of the at least two pluralities of voxel values represents the value of the corresponding function of the at least two functions for the corresponding plurality of local volume elements. A representation is created where the value of one of the at least two functions is on a first axis and a count of voxels is on a second axis. The count of voxels on the second axis is at least a portion of the count of voxels having the value of the one of the at least two functions on the first axis. In another embodiment, the value of the other one of the at least two functional mechanisms can be on a third axis. The count of voxels on the second axis can then be the count of voxels having the value of the one of the at least two functional mechanisms on the first axis and having the value of the other one of the at least two functional mechanisms on the third axis.
US11295509B2
Ray tracing systems and computer-implemented methods perform intersection testing on a bundle of rays with respect to a box. A bundle of rays to be tested for intersection with a box is received, and a first bundle intersection test is performed to determine whether or not all of the rays of the bundle intersect the box, wherein if the first bundle intersection test determines that all of the rays of the bundle intersect the box, an intersection testing result for the bundle with respect to the box is that all of the rays of the bundle intersect the box. If the first bundle intersection test does not determine that all of the rays of the bundle intersect the box, a second bundle intersection test is performed, which determines whether or not all of the rays of the bundle miss the box, the result of which is used to determine the intersection testing result for the bundle with respect to the box.
US11295506B2
An electronic chip and a chip assembly are described. The electronic chip comprises one or more processing cores and at least one hardware interface coupled to at least one of the one or more processing cores. At least one of the one or more processing cores implements a game engine in hardware.
US11295504B1
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive render instructions for rendering an animation. The animation comprises a plurality of layers, each layer comprising one or more layer properties, and a first dynamic property to be defined at runtime prior to rendering the animation. The first dynamic property is mapped to a first set of layer properties of the one or more layer properties. A first dynamic property value is received for the first dynamic property. The first set of layer properties are defined based on the first dynamic property value. The animation is rendered on a computing device based on the render instructions and the first dynamic property value.
US11295503B1
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to creating interactive avatars that can be pinned as world-locked artificial reality content. Once pinned, an avatar can interact with the environment according to contextual queues and rules, without active control by the avatar owner. An interactive avatar system can configure the avatar with action rules, visual elements, and settings based on user selections. Once an avatar is configured and pinned to a location by an avatar owner, when other XR devices are at that location, a central system can provide the avatar (with its configurations) to the other XR device. This allows a user of that other XR device to discover and interact with the avatar according to the configurations established by the avatar owner.
US11295501B1
Most of the prior art references that generate animations fail to determine and consider head movement data. The prior art references which consider the head movement data for generating the animations rely on a sample video to generate/determine the head movements data, which, as a result, fail to capture changing head motions throughout course of a speech given by a subject in an actual whole length video. The disclosure herein generally relates to generating facial animations, and, more particularly, to a method and system for generating the facial animations from speech signal of a subject. The system determines the head movement, lip movements, and eyeball movements, of the subject, by processing a speech signal collected as input, and uses the head movement, lip movements, and eyeball movements, to generate an animation.
US11295499B1
A switchable rendering system uses both instanced rendering and vector rendering in rendering a raster or vector graphic with a nested repetition. The nested repetition includes multiple levels of repetition and for each level the switchable rendering system selects instanced rendering or vector rendering to render the level. This selection is based on resource availability, such as using instanced rendering for a level when the current resource availability is sufficient to allow instanced rendering for the level, and using vector rendering for a level when the current resource availability is not sufficient to allow instanced rendering for the level.
US11295496B2
A technique for providing intelligent exporting of images is provided. The technique includes receiving information identifying a set of images to be exported and receiving a set of parameter values to be used for exporting the set of images. The technique includes receiving a target total export size value for exporting the set of images. The target total export size indicates a memory size for storing a set of exported images corresponding to the set of images. The technique includes determining an image quality level to be used for exporting the set of images based upon the target total export size value and the set of parameter vales. The technique includes generating a set of exported images corresponding to the set of images. In one example, the set of exported images are generated using the image quality level and the set of one or more parameter values such that a total memory size for storing the set of exported images is within a threshold value of the target total export size.
US11295490B2
The present invention comprises an improved system and method for visualizing data. In a preferred form of the invention, there is provided an improved system and method for comprehending and communicating time course or sequential numerical data, and their complex interdependencies, through the use of a novel three dimensional orthogonal chart system. In another preferred form of the invention, there is provided a three dimensional orthogonal chart system for visualizing data comprising of a plurality of data sets, wherein each of the data sets is represented as a separate ribbon propagating along the first axis. In another preferred form of the invention, there is provided a three dimensional orthogonal chart system for visualizing data comprising of a plurality of data sets, wherein each of the data sets is represented as a separate ribbon propagating along a first axis, with the separate ribbons being displaced from one another along another axis.
US11295488B2
In a console according to an embodiment, a control unit functions as a generation unit that generates a tomographic image from a plurality of projection images, which have been captured by a radiation detector at each of a plurality of imaging positions with different irradiation angles, with radiation sequentially emitted from each of the plurality of imaging positions, using a reconstruction process. In addition, the control unit functions as a derivation unit that derives the degree of enhancement as a parameter value used in a frequency enhancement process which is an example of image processing for a tomographic image, on the basis of the image analysis result of a projection image corresponding to an irradiation angle of 0 degrees. Furthermore, the control unit functions as a correction unit that corrects the parameter value according to image processing used in the reconstruction process and an image processing unit that performs the image processing on a tomographic image on the tomographic image using the corrected parameter value.
US11295487B2
An X-ray CT apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a first data set corresponding to first X-ray energy and a second data set corresponding to second X-ray energy different from the first X-ray energy, with respect to a region including a part of a subject by performing scanning using X-rays. The processing circuitry generates a scatter diagram representing a contained amount of each of reference materials at each of positions in the region on the basis of the first data set and the second data set. The processing circuitry sets weights for at least a part of the scatter diagram. The processing circuitry generates an analysis image based on the contained amounts and the weights.
US11295474B2
A gaze point determination method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining two-dimensional coordinates of eye feature points of at least one eye of a face in an image, the eye feature points including an eyeball center area feature point; obtaining, in the preset three-dimensional coordinate system, three-dimensional coordinate of a corresponding eyeball center area feature point in a three-dimensional face model corresponding to the face in the image based on the obtained two-dimensional coordinate of the eyeball center area feature point; and obtaining a determination result for a position of a gaze point of the eye of the face in the image according to two-dimensional coordinates of feature points other than the eyeball center area feature point in the eye feature points and the three-dimensional coordinate of the eyeball center area feature point in the preset three-dimensional coordinate system.
US11295471B1
Aspects of camera-based pallet placement detection and notification are described. An image is captured using a camera device. The image includes a pallet placement region within a field of view of a camera device. A pallet placement is detected by determining at least one orthogonal intersection between a plurality of position lines identified from the image. A user interface provides the detected pallet position to facilitate corrective measures.
US11295470B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for a system, devices, and methods for simultaneous localization and mapping in a high- and low-frequency dynamic environment. One exemplary embodiment relates to a method that includes generating a first SLAM map of the environment; generating a second SLAM map of a portion of the environment at least in part from visual feature data received from a first client device located in the portion of the environment; receiving a localization signal from a second client device indicating the location of the client device; sending, in response to the localization signal, data that includes a minimum number of map points that a SLAM process on the second client device should be able to detect in the portion of environment.
US11295462B2
A medical data processing method, performed by a computer (2), for determining error analysis data describing the registration accuracy of a first elastic registration between first and second image data (A, B) describing images of an anatomical structure of a patient, comprising the steps of: —acquiring the first image data (A) describing a first image of the anatomical structure, —acquiring the second image data (B) describing a second image of the anatomical structure, —determining first registration data describing a first elastic registration of the first image data (A) to the second image data (B) by mapping the first image data (A) to the second image data (B) using a registration algorithm, —determining second registration data describing a second elastic registration of the second image data (B) to the first image data (A) by mapping the second image data (B) to the first image data (A) using the registration algorithm, —determining error analysis data describing the registration accuracy of the first elastic registration based on the first registration data and the second registration data.
US11295447B2
A method, a program, and a method determining hypermutated type cancer with higher accuracy than before is provided. Provided is a system for determining hypermutated cancer comprising, an input unit configured to be capable of inputting a plurality of first image data, a plurality of second image data and a plurality of third image data, wherein the first image data represents an image of a pathological section of stained hypermutated cancer, the second image data represents an image of a pathological section of cancer which is not hypermutated, and is stained same as the pathological section of the first image data, and the third image data represents an image of a pathological section of cancer which is newly determined whether hypermutated or not, and is stained same as the pathological section of the first image data, a holding unit configured to be capable of holding a first image data and a second image data, a machine learning execution unit configured to be capable of generating a determination model determining whether a cancer is hypermutated or not, using the first image data and the second image data held by the holding unit as training data, and a determining unit configured to be capable of determining whether the third image data represents an image of hypermutated cancer or not, by inputting the third image data into the determination model.
US11295438B2
Mixed-mode includes receiving inspection results including one or more images of a selected region of the wafer, the one or more images include one or more wafer die including a set of repeating blocks, the set of repeating blocks a set of repeating cells. In addition, mixed-mode inspection includes adjusting a pixel size of the one or more images to map each cell, block and die to an integer number of pixels. Further, mixed-mode inspection includes comparing a first wafer die to a second wafer die to identify an occurrence of one or more defects in the first or second wafer die, comparing a first block to a second block to identify an occurrence of one or more defects in the first or second blocks and comparing a first cell to a second cell to identify an occurrence of one or more defects in the first or second cells.
US11295424B2
Disclosed is an electronic device and a method to generate alpha masks of video frames in a video comprising a plurality of video frames including a first video frame and a second video frame following the first video frame, where the method comprising; obtaining a first alpha mask of the first video frame; providing a first downscaled video frame, wherein the first downscaled video frame is a lower resolution version of the first video frame; providing a first downscaled alpha mask of the first alpha mask; estimating a first primary coefficient and a first secondary coefficient based on the first downscaled video frame and the first downscaled alpha mask; and generating a second alpha mask for the second video frame based on the first primary coefficient and the first secondary coefficient.
US11295416B2
A method for picture processing is provided. The method includes the following. Multiple pictures are obtained through photographing. At least two pictures are selected from the multiple pictures, and according to facial information of each of the at least two pictures, feature information of a preset facial part in each of the at least two pictures is obtained. One or more target pictures are determined in response to the feature information of the preset facial part in one of the at least two pictures indicating that the preset facial part is in a preset feature state, where the one of the at least two pictures is determined as one target picture. When multiple target pictures are obtained, a multi-frame denoising processing is performed on the target pictures to obtain an output picture.
US11295412B2
An image processing apparatus applies an image to a first learning network model to optimize the edges of the image, applies the image to a second learning network model to optimize the texture of the image, and applies a first weight to the first image and a second weight to the second image based on information on the edge areas and the texture areas of the image to acquire an output image.
US11295411B2
An image scaling method based on a linear extension/contraction mode, includes step I: compressing an original image matrix composed of image pixels in a row by row manner with a Linearlization or OptimalPLR compression method to obtain a line segment segmentation form; step II: lengthening the line segments under Policy I or shortening the line segments under Policy II by resampling at a upscaling or downscaling factor, to obtain an upscaled or downscaled image in the row direction; and step III: upscaling the data upscaled in the row direction in the step II in a column by column manner through the process in the step II, to obtain an image upscaled in the column direction. The method which is an image scaling technique directly based on PLA for data compression, not only can compress static image data, but also can compress image data of dynamic data streams.
US11295401B2
A method, system, and computer program product for predicting a hotel room arrival for a guest at a hotel. The method comprises a hotel computer system receiving calendar information for the guest from a mobile device for the guest of the hotel while the guest is in the hotel. The method predicts the hotel room arrival for the guest at the hotel using the calendar information. The method performs an action in the hotel based on the hotel room arrival predicted for the guest.
US11295397B1
A system for matching a consumer of a service with a provider of the service includes a service consumer program host computer communicatively coupled to a consumer/provider matching computer through a first network. The system also includes a service provider host computer communicatively coupled to the consumer/provider matching computer through a second network. The system further includes a consumer computer communicatively coupled to the consumer/provider matching computer through a third network. Moreover, the system includes a provider computer communicatively coupled to the consumer/provider matching computer through a fourth network. The consumer/provider matching computer generates a ranked list of providers by analyzing consumer data.
US11295392B1
A system for enhanced personal property replacement (i) builds a virtual inventory of personal belongings, such as by performing object recognition techniques on mobile device digital images with the customer's permission or affirmative consent; (ii) receives user preferences transmitted from their mobile device; (iii) receives a request from the user to handle an insurance claim after an insurance-related event; (iv) determines items to purchase for the user based upon the user preferences, and/or the extent of damage; and/or (v) transmits, to a retailer remote server a virtual order for the items to be delivered to the user at a temporary (hotel) or permanent (home) address. Insurance claim monies may be used to pay for the items. As a result, after an event (e.g., fire, tornado, hurricane), household or other goods may be automatically purchased and delivered to a customer to alleviate the negative impact of the event on their life.
US11295391B1
System and methods are disclosed for determining, through vehicle-to-vehicle communication, whether vehicles are involved in autonomous droning. Vehicle driving data and other information may be used to calculate an autonomous droning reward amount. In addition, vehicle involved in a drafting relationship in addition to, or apart from, an autonomous droning relationship may be financially rewarded. Moreover, aspects of the disclosure related to determining ruminative rewards and/or aspects of vehicle insurance procurement/underwriting.
US11295377B1
The AUTOMATIC REMOTE DEPOSIT IMAGE PREPARATION APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (hereinafter “MultiCrop”) transforms uploaded check images and check deposit information inputs via MultiCrop components image into deposit confirmation outputs. For example, in one embodiment, a user may employ a personal computer connected to a web camera, and/or a smartphone with a built-in camera to initiate the remote deposit by holding a check in front of the camera, and the MultiCrop may capture images of the check and send them to a financial institution for deposit processing.
US11295375B1
A platform identifies and matches software application programs for a business user based on his/her context such as industry, location, size, etc. by providing nuanced and personalized guidance for the business user to define the business problem and the capabilities needed to solve the problem. The platform permits use of custom dimensions to map software application programs to a business user's needs, fitment etc. to help him/her find a software program that matched to the business user's needs. The platform further harvest insights from a broad spectrum of inputs, such as thought leaders, to help a business user get insight on which software program best suits him/her. The platform provides a social platform for business users to collaborate and find the best software program for their needs.
US11295373B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a multi-dimensional commerce platform that may be utilized for the communication of data. Aspects of the multi-dimensional commerce platform may include various functional components to facilitate a system to receive inventory data at a first server associated with the multi-dimensional commerce platform, provide a second server associated with a third-party (e.g., a third party seller/distributor) access to the inventory data, alter or modify the inventory data based on attributes of the second server, and cause display of a presentation of the modified inventory data at a client device.
US11295371B2
Techniques and arrangements for integrating predefined templates with open ticket functionality. For instance, a merchant device can identify a type of transaction between a merchant and a customer, select a ticket type for the transaction based on the type of transaction, and select a transaction flow based on the ticket type. The merchant device can then generate an open ticket for the transaction based on the ticket type, and associated transaction flow with the open ticket. Additionally, the merchant device can generate a visual representation of data associated with the open ticket, where a layout of the data within the visual representation is based on the type of transaction and the transaction flow, and present the visual representation to the merchant. In some examples, the type of transaction is identified using received input. In some examples, the type of transaction is identified based on a group associated with the customer.
US11295364B1
The present disclosure relates to a system, method, and computer program for matching products across merchants and updating registries based on other users' actions. A registry product database is maintained with product records that correspond to items that have been added to users' registries. Information is received related to a new registry item added to a user's registry from a merchant source. The system determines whether the new registry item matches a product record in the registry product database. If no match, a new product record is created for the new registry item and associated with a new merchant offer. If a match, the registry item is associated with the matching product record and the associated merchant offer is updated. The registries of all users in the system having a registry item matching the product record are updated to reflect a new merchant source or a different valid price.
US11295360B1
Systems and methods for authenticating access to multiple data stores substantially in real-time are disclosed. The system may include a server coupled to a network, a client device in communication with the server via the network and a plurality of data stores. The server may authenticate access to the data stores and forward information from those stores to the client device. An exemplary authentication method may include receipt of a request for access to data. Information concerning access to that data is stored and associated with an identifier assigned to a client device. If the identifier is found to correspond to the stored information during a future request for access to the store, access to that store is granted.
US11295359B1
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving one or more selected options for one or more of multiple contract conditions generated based on transaction information associated with a request to create a blockchain-related invoice and generating instructions for a blockchain-enforced contract based on the transaction information and the one or more selected options. The instructions for the blockchain-enforced contract correspond to a first nested contract including a first contract condition required for a transfer of a value and a second nested contract including a second contract condition required for at least a partial reversal of the transfer of the value. The method also includes, in response to receiving an input regarding the second contract condition, cause the instructions for the blockchain-enforced contract to be executed on a blockchain network.
US11295356B2
The present disclosure provides generally for methods and systems relating to relocation estimates. According to the present disclosure, sales representatives and prospective customers may have access to the relocation estimate system to see how a quote is being generated and what the resource allocation was. These parties may make suggestions or ask questions about how a quote was generated. These parties may correct or update a quote based on needs not known during an initial walkthrough. Based on information input by a user, the relocation estimate system may provide a quote in real-time.
US11295354B2
A computer-implemented method includes communicating a ratings user interface to allow a user to provide a movie title rating value, wherein a movie title rating value is based upon a user's unique appreciation and/or enjoyment of the movie title. The method further includes receiving one or more movie title rating values, the one or more movie title rating value input by the user into the ratings user interface. In addition, the method includes generating one or more movie card images, by the server computing device, for the one or more movie titles based at least in part on the received one or more movie title rating values, the one or more movie card images varying in border design, color, filtering techniques, or opacity based at least in part on the received movie title rating values; and communicating the one or more generated movie card images.
US11295352B2
A method for displaying product information for an electronic price tag includes: displaying a piece of first product information of at least one first product in an area where the electronic price tag is located, the first product information comprising at least one of name information and price information of the first product; and receiving a trigger instruction and displaying at least one piece of second product information of a second product, the second product being (i) at least one product each associated with the first product and having a discounted price, or (ii) at least one product each associated with the first product and having a discounted total price incurred when purchased together with the first product, the second product information comprising at least one of name information, price information, and location information of the second product.
US11295344B2
A computer system for providing digital advertiser referrals comprising a third party referral provider operable to maintain a store of digital referral objects, each digital referral object associated with an advertiser for referral to a consumer. The third party referral provider being further operable to engage with a consumer while the consumer is accessing digital content on a publisher site subscribing to the third party referral provider by way of a computer presentation interface, such that once the consumer has engaged with the third party referral provider, the third party referral provider is operable to refer one or more of the advertisers to the consumer through presentation of an associated digital referral object on the presentation interface.
US11295340B2
A system and method for advertising cannibalization management are provided. In example embodiments, historical data comprising advertisement revenue, advertisement parameters, and a cannibalization metric are accessed. The cannibalization metric is indicative of sales loss associated with an advertisement presentation. A value for at least one of the advertisement parameters that, when used, causes a desired advertisement revenue with respect to a bounded cannibalization metric is determined by analyzing the historical data. An advertisement is presented, in real time, on a user interface of a client device using the determined value.
US11295329B2
A system for geographic resource mapping is provided. The system comprises: a memory device with computer-readable program code stored thereon; a communication device connected to a network; a processing device, wherein the processing device is configured to execute the computer-readable program code to: receive a geographic location for a proposed resource site from a user; extract historical interaction information associated with the geographic location and the user from an interaction database; generate a resource map for the geographic location based on the historical interaction information and the proposed resource site; calculate a landscape score for the proposed resource site at the geographic location, wherein the landscape score compares the proposed resource site with other resource sites associated with the geographic location based on the generated resource map; and based on the landscape score falling below a predetermined threshold, reject the proposed resource site at the geographic location.
US11295325B2
A benefit prediction requirement may be received and associated benefit data from a plurality of sources may be obtained. The benefit prediction requirement may be associated with determining a probability of a benefit being surrendered by a benefit user. Further, a plurality of benefit attributes may be identified and mapped with benefit user data to create a benefit surrender database. From the benefit surrender database, a survival probability and a hazard probability may be determined and benefit assessment data may be created therefrom. Based on the benefit assessment data, a benefit surrender prediction model including a surrender probability may be created and a surrender pattern of the benefit user may be determined. Furthermore, a benefit surrender result may be generated and a remedial action in response to the benefit prediction requirement may be performed.
US11295322B1
An online order management service is configured to interface between merchants and order/delivery services so that a merchant can provide a catalog to multiple order/delivery services without having to communicate directly with the order/delivery services. A recommendation service is also provided to provide recommendations to merchants regarding which of multiple order/delivery services to use. The recommendation service bases its recommendations on historical order data that has been archived by the online order management service, as well as on known or derived merchant properties. The recommendation service may also recommend product items to be included in a catalog in order to improve sales results achieved when listing the catalog with any particular order/delivery service.
US11295318B2
Presented are cryptographic digital assets for retail products, methods for making/using such cryptographic digital assets, and computing systems for generating, intermingling, and exchanging blockchain-protected products. A method for provisioning cryptographic digital assets associated with retail product transfers includes broadcasting notifications of a future transaction of a retail product, and receiving, over a distributed computing network from the computing devices of multiple users, requests to participate in the transaction. A select number of users is added to a virtual line associated with the retail product transaction; from the virtual line, a first user is selected to receive the retail product and a second user is selected to receive a cryptographic digital asset containing a digital retail product and a unique digital asset code. The cryptographic digital asset is transferred to the second user's digital wallet, and the unique digital asset code is recorded on a record block of a blockchain ledger.
US11295311B2
Systems and methods for transaction processing control are presented. Transaction processing control may be obtained through interaction of a POS device, an account card, and a mobile device. Transaction processing control may be provided in the context of providing account information, including handling requests to select and provide a second account number via a mobile device in communication with a rejected card such that the rejected card need not be removed from the point of sale device and a second card need not be submitted to the point of sale device.
US11295309B2
Embodiments describe an approach for smart lens-based transactions using eye contact. Embodiments comprise identifying a focus angle of a user wearing a smart lens, determining a smart lens-based transaction is occurring based on the focus angle including a second user or a point of sale sensor for a predetermined amount of time, and verifying the focus angle overlaps with a transacting focus angle of the second user or the point of sale sensor. Additionally, embodiments comprise authenticating the user based on biometric security measures on the smart lens, displaying an augmented reality prompt to the user on the smart lens, wherein the augmented reality prompt on the smart lens prompts the user to select a stored payment method and confirm an amount or file associated with the smart lens-based computing event, and executing the smart lens-based transaction based on the verified overlapping focus angles and the user confirmation.
US11295301B1
A method for managing secure processing of electronic payment transactions includes receiving a request submitted by a merchant computing system for a security verifier. The security verifier is to be displayed on an electronic display associated with the merchant computing system. A set of security credentials received from a security service provider is measured against a security threshold. When the set of security credentials meets the security threshold, a uniform resource locator (“URL”) is transmitted to the merchant computing system. The URL identifies the security verifier to be retrieved and displayed at the electronic display associated with the merchant computing system.
US11295300B2
An online image search and marketplace platform and browser plug-in system is described. The system is configured to execute image-based searches of the Internet to correlate hosted images with ownership and licensing metadata, facilitating the marketing of images to users and expediting the purchase of licensing for said images. The system employs an online platform in communication with an image metadata database, providing a conduit for users to execute an image search from an image search field populated by a target image URL or direct image upload. An auto-cropping feature combined with extensive steganography integration ensures accurate image identification, ownership mapping, and usage tracking. The browser plug-in facilitates the execution of an image search within the right-click menu of any image hosted to the Internet. Image tracking enables content owners to be alerted in real-time when unlicensed use of content is detected.
US11295299B2
An information processing apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus includes an electronic money unit including a processor, a memory configured to store a balance of electronic monetary value, a terminal communication unit configured to receive a first command from an electronic money terminal using a terminal antenna, a mobile communication unit including a phone antenna for mobile communication via a base station; an interface unit configured to receive a second command from an electronic money server through an encrypted connection over the mobile communication; wherein the processor is configured to change the balance of electronic monetary value in response to at least one of the first command and the second command.
US11295298B2
A wireless connection may be established between a mobile device and a reader device and/or a sensor. The reader device and/or sensor may authenticate the mobile device. The reader device and/or sensor may receive a credential or token from the mobile device. An action may be performed based on certain criteria such as if the credential or token is valid.
US11295291B2
A system and/or method may be provided to assure a payment being made via a user device before the user device fully runs out of battery power. In particular, while a user device is running out of battery power, the system may allow a user to designate a merchant/user/service to which the user may make payments via a user device without user authentication and/or awareness. Under the same situation of low battery power, the system may also allow the user to make payments to a merchant/user/service with which the user frequently shops without user authentication and/or initial awareness. After the payment being made, the system may communicate with the user with further action, which requires no or low consumption of battery power.
US11295282B2
A system and method for receiving and executing emoji based commands in messaging applications. The system and method may include processes such as identifying emojis in a message, determining one or more action based on the emoji, and completing the determined actions.
US11295281B2
Embodiments are directed to monetary transaction system for conducting monetary transactions between transaction system subscribers and other entities. In one scenario, the monetary transaction system includes a mobile device that runs a monetary transaction system application. The monetary transaction system also includes a subscriber that has a profile with the system. The subscriber indicates a transaction that is to be performed with the monetary transaction system. The system further includes a monetary transaction system processor that performs the transactions specified by the subscriber including communicating with a monetary transaction database to determine whether the transaction is permissible based on data indicated in the subscriber's profile. The monetary transaction system also includes at least one entity that is to be involved in the specified transaction, where the entity has a profile with the monetary transaction system. This entity may be a person, a retail store, an agent or other entity.
US11295274B1
A conversational and live interactions development and marketplace distribution system and process are disclosed for the purpose of enhancing customer engagement experiences by implementing lead/customer engagement and call-to-action strategy in social media advertisement, digital marketing, and customer success. The conversational and live interactions development and marketplace distribution system includes a stateful network of live interaction plug-ins that are triggered on demand and on-the-fly from inside social media, applications, or messaging channels. The conversational and live interactions development and marketplace distribution system provides a platform for development of conversational and live interaction plug-ins, chatbots, and smart human chat components. The conversational and live interactions development and marketplace distribution system hosts a cloud marketplace for distribution of conversational and live interaction plug-ins, chatbots, and smart human chat components.
US11295268B2
Systems and methods for determining an inventory. The methods comprise: performing operations by an internal circuit of a light provider to control operations of a light element to produce visible light, where the light provider is coupled to a light fixture installed on a physical structure of a facility; and performing operations by the internal circuit to connect with a network, receive a tag identifier associated with an alert event from at least one external device via the network, read tags, and control the light element to modify at least one characteristic of the visible light produced thereby when information read from one of the tags includes the tag identifier.
US11295261B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a risk trace matrix engine for managing database associations, in a quality management system (QMS), between risk mitigations and features of a system having a risk-based profile. In an illustrative example, metadata may be created to associate risk mitigations with elements of a product and then metadata may be stored in a database during the design or operating lifecycle of the product, for example. The engine may dynamically build one or more trace matrices for the product design, each matrix associating risk mitigations to elements of the product design documentation. In response to any modifications that may relate to the component's specifications, for example, the engine may retrieve associated metadata and generate notifications prompting for user verification. In various implementations, such engines may advantageously reduce the risk by automatically generating traceability via a matrix of associations between features and components, which may be hardware and/or software components.
US11295246B2
Methods and apparatus for portable network interfaces to manage authentication and license enforcement. A system may include a plurality of resource instances including a producer instance configured to implement a network-accessible service, and an authentication coordinator. The coordinator may assign an interface record to the service, wherein the interface record comprises an IP address and a set of security properties. The coordinator may configure the security properties to allow a client to request an attachment of the interface record to a selected resource instance, such that the selected resource instance is enabled to transmit network messages from the IP address using one or more physical network interfaces of the selected resource instance. The producer resource instance initiates authentication operations for the service, including at least one authentication operation based on the IP address of the interface record.
US11295237B2
In some examples, special-purpose machines are provided that facilitate smart copy optimization in a network service or publication system, including software-configured computerized variants of such special-purpose machines and improvements to such variants, and to the technologies by which such special-purpose machines become improved compared to other special-purpose machines that facilitate adding the new features. Such technologies can include special artificial-intelligence (AI), machine-learning (ML), and natural-language-processing (NLP) techniques.
US11295235B2
Technology for a data filter device operable to filter training data is described. The data filter device can receive training data from a data provider. The training data can be provided with corresponding metadata that indicates a model stored in a data store that is associated with the training data. The data filter device can identify a filter that is associated with the model stored in the data store. The data filter device can apply the filter to the training data received from the data provider to obtain filtered training data. The data filter device can provide the filtered training data to the model stored in the data store, wherein the filtered training data is used to train the model.
US11295234B2
Methods and systems are disclosed herein for accurately training a machine learning model with a reduced training data set. A large number of data records may be parsed. Each record may be reduced to a set of symbols representing the composition of each record. A user may assign a classification to each symbol within each record. Records with identical arrangements and classifications of symbols may be grouped together, and a representative sample of data records from each group may be fed into the model as the reduced training data set.
US11295228B2
Methods, devices, and non-transitory computer readable media that add interoperable BOTs to a stored BOT inventory. Each of the BOTs is associated with a BOT type, has a common structure, and automates at least a portion of an enterprise process. Assembly rules are obtained. Each of the assembly rules includes one or more constraints for inclusion of one or more of the BOTs in one or more of a plurality of workflows based on the one of the BOT types associated with each of the one or more of the BOTs. The workflows are assembled based on one or more the assembly rules. Each of the workflows comprises a subset of the BOTs and each BOT of the subsets of the BOTs is included in one or more of the workflows based on at least one of an associated functionality, performance, or service level.
US11295218B2
Telematics and external data relating to the real-time driving of a population of drivers vehicle may be collected and used to calculate a driving pattern map. The driving pattern map is used to determine a driving quotient for individual drivers wherein the driving quotient is a relative score. The driving quotient may be displayed to the driver.
US11295214B2
Watershed hydrology analysis and management process and system with a network of weather stations and artificial drainage systems with artificial and natural reservoir management through locks and pumping stations. It evaluates potential hydrologic risk in each area and analyses the possible consequences of future precipitations using simulations. To make the simulation, it calculates hydrographs for each sub-basin, streams and rivers in the basin. It simulates the behavior of the basin under different scenarios corresponding to different types of management of the operation of locks and/or pumps and compares its results in terms of loss of flooded area, economic loss in each area, loss for flooding of urban areas, etc. Optimization of the simulation through artificial intelligence (AI, meta-heuristic algorithms, neural networks, etc.) allows it to act as a search engine to find better solutions and the best configuration of resource management that allows minimizing the socio-economic impact on each basin.
US11295205B2
A neural processing unit (NPU) is described. The NPU includes an NPU direct memory access (NDMA) core. The NDMA core includes a read engine having a read buffer. The NDMA core also includes a write engine having a write buffer. The NPU also includes a controller. The controller is configured to direct the NDMA core to perform hardware memory bandwidth optimization for reading/writing NDMA data in the read buffer and/or NDMA data in the write buffer. The NDMA core is also configured to transparently combine NDMA transaction requests for a data stripe to increase local access to available tensors in artificial neural networks.
US11295204B2
Architectures for multicore neuromorphic systems are provided. In various embodiments, a neural network description is read. The neural network description describes a plurality of logical cores. A plurality of precedence relationships are determined among the plurality of logical cores. Based on the plurality of precedence relationships, a schedule is generated that assigns the plurality of logical cores to a plurality of physical cores at a plurality of time slices. Based on the schedule, the plurality of logical cores of the neural network description are executed on the plurality of physical cores.
US11295201B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to a time-division multiplexed neurosynaptic module with implicit memory addressing for implementing a neural network. One embodiment comprises maintaining neuron attributes for multiple neurons and maintaining incoming firing events for different time steps. For each time step, incoming firing events for said time step are integrated in a time-division multiplexing manner. Incoming firing events are integrated based on the neuron attributes maintained. For each time step, the neuron attributes maintained are updated in parallel based on the integrated incoming firing events for said time step.
US11295200B1
Some embodiments provide a method for a neural network inference circuit that executes a neural network including multiple nodes. The method loads a first set of weight values into a first set of weight value buffers, a second set of weight values into a second set of weight value buffers, a first set of input values into a first set of input value buffers, and a second set of input values into a second set of input value buffers. In a first clock cycle, the method computes a first dot product of the first set of weight values and the first set of input values. In a second clock cycle, the method computes a second dot product of the second set of weight values and the second set of input values. The method adds the first and second dot products to compute a dot product for the node.
US11295194B2
An artificial intelligence assistant (“chatbot”) operates within a multi-tenant database and allows users to interact with the underlying structured database through a natural language interface without using a standard structured query language or database interface. Users may interact with the chatbot via a chatroom and perform database queries using natural language expressions in the same manner as asking a person to perform the tasks. In addition, the chatbot may check user permissions and security parameters to determine if the user is permitted to access or alter data within the multi-tenant database.
