US11357144B2
A component supply device includes a transport path that guides a component connected body from a component insertion port on an upstream side in a component feeding direction to a component supply position on a downstream side, the component connected body including a plurality of axial components arranged and connected at a predetermined pitch, the plurality of axial components each having a lead, and a feed mechanism that pitch-feeds the component connected body along the transport path to the downstream side. The feed mechanism includes a feed member which has a plurality of feed hooks disposed at the predetermined pitch along the component feeding direction, a rotating shaft which is connected to one end side of the feed member, and a moving mechanism which is connected to the feed member through the rotating shaft and reciprocates the rotating shaft along the component feeding direction. A length of one feed hook among the plurality of feed hooks is longer than a length of an other feed hook among the plurality of feed hooks, the other feed hook being adjacent to the one feed hook on the rotating shaft side.
US11357143B2
Devices, methods and systems disclosed herein relate to the application of a protective film on a surface of an electronic device that instantly reduces air bubbles and eliminates the waiting time usually required when using a wet fluid solution. In one embodiment, a roller device may include a carriage or housing and one or more rollers coupled or integrated with the housing, configured to apply a protective material to a surface of the electronic device in a first orientation, and configured to function as a device stand in a second orientation. In addition or alternatively, a roller guide apparatus and/or a wedge may be utilized to assist the roller device in applying the protective material to the surface of the electronic device.
US11357136B2
There is disclosed a device for cooling a server rack within a server room having a first chamber and a second chamber, the device comprising: a main chilling unit; a heat exchanging unit operatively coupled to the main chilling unit; the main chilling unit including a housing for housing: an evaporator; a first airlock device to removably secure the main chilling unit to the server rack from a side of the first chamber; a first fan configured to force air from the first chamber to the second chamber; the heat exchanging unit including a housing for housing: a condenser in fluid communication with the evaporator, the condenser being configured to transmit heat from the liquid coolant to air surrounding the condenser; a second airlock device configured to removably secure the heat exchanging unit to the second chamber; a second fan configured to blow the heated air into the second chamber.
US11357132B2
Presented herein are optical module cage designs and heatsink configurations for improved air cooling of pluggable optical modules disposed within the optical module cages. The designs and configurations presented herein facilitate efficient air cooling of higher power pluggable optical modules by enhancing airflow through the optical module cages, increasing contact between the optical modules and the heatsinks, and/or increasing the heatsink dissipation surface area.
US11357130B2
A thermal management system for a computing device includes an immersion tank with a cooling fluid therein, a computing device positioned in the cooling fluid in the immersion tank, and a thermal block positioned in the cooling fluid in the immersion tank. The computing device heats the cooling fluid, and the thermal block is configured to receive heat from the cooling fluid. The thermal block includes a fluid management feature to direct flow of the cooling fluid relative to the thermal block and computing device.
US11357128B2
A heat dissipation system with air sensation function includes a chassis, multiple fans, multiple air sensation units and an external control device connected to the fans. The chassis has an installation face for installing the fans thereon. The air sensation units are respectively disposed on the fans for detecting the air state of the corresponding fans to generate an air sensation signal. The external control device serves to receive the air sensation signal transmitted from the air sensation units and compare the data contained in the air sensation signal with preset data so as to control/adjust the rotational speed of the corresponding fans. Accordingly, a uniform airflow flows out of the fans to effectively lower the noise.
US11357124B2
A flexible cover board, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The flexible cover board includes a flexible substrate, a buffer layer, a first hardened layer, an organic layer, and a second hardened layer. The buffer layer is disposed on a side surface of the flexible substrate, and at least one through-hole penetrating the buffer layer is filled with a nanomaterial. The first hardened layer, the organic layer, and the second hardened layer stacked in sequence are disposed on a side surface of the buffer layer away from the flexible substrate.
US11357121B2
A foldable display device is provided, including a middle frame, a flexible display panel positioned on the middle frame, and a support assembly. The middle frame includes a folding part and non-folding parts positioned at two opposite sides of the folding part. The support assembly is disposed on the back of the middle frame, and buffer strips are disposed around the middle frame. The support assembly includes support frames that are rotatable relative to the non-folding parts, which can not only prevent holding the display panel by hand or using an external bracket for supporting the display panel, but also prevent damages to the flexible display panel when it is dropped.
US11357108B2
A printed circuit board connector for orthogonal mating of two or more printed circuit boards. The connector utilizes interior perimeter trace connections of a main printed circuit board and internal trace connections of a mating printed circuit board in conjunction with external trace connections. The main board may utilize surface connections, where both external trace connections and internal trace connections are exposed on a surface of the main board to couple to the mating board. The main board may include a slot or pocket, allowing for the partial insertion of the mating board into the main board, with internal trace connections disposed within the slot or pocket. The slot or pocket may extend through the main board, such that the internal trace connections are disposed along a side of the pocket to couple with corresponding internal trace connections of the mating board.
US11357107B2
An electronic device includes a first electric element a second electric element, and a circuit board. The circuit board is configured to deliver a signal between the first electric element and the second electric element. The circuit board includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion. The second and third portions extend from the first portion with the first portion therebetween. The circuit board also includes at least one signal line extending from the second portion to the third portion, a plurality of ground patterns extending from the second portion to the third portion, a plurality of first conductive vias positioned at the second portion and electrically connecting the plurality of ground patterns, and a plurality of second conductive vias positioned at the third portion and electrically connecting the plurality of ground patterns. The plurality of ground patterns include a meander form at the first portion.
US11357102B2
In a first aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method for designing a pattern of a stress relief layer for a flat device to be transformed into a shape-retaining non-flat device by deformation of the flat device. The flat device (and thus also the non-flat device) may comprise at least two components and at least one electrical interconnection between two components. In a second aspect, the present disclosure is related to a method of manufacturing a shape-retaining non-flat device by deformation of a flat device, wherein the flat device is attached to a patterned stress relief layer designed in accordance with the first aspect of the present disclosure. In preferred embodiments, the stress relief layer is a thermoplastic layer or a layer comprising a thermoplastic material and deformation of the flat device comprises deformation by a thermoforming process, after attachment of the flat device to the stress relief layer.
US11357100B2
A data transmission circuit board, a mobile industry processor interface and a device are provided. The data transmission circuit board includes: a wiring substrate; a plurality of data transmission line pairs on one side of the wiring substrate; and a plurality of transient voltage suppression diodes on the one side of the wiring substrate. Data transmission lines of the data transmission line pairs are coupled to the transient voltage suppression diodes in a one-to-one correspondence, the line width of at least one data transmission line is within a line width threshold range; and the transient voltage suppression diode is configured to discharge when a voltage to ground on the corresponding data transmission line is greater than a discharge voltage threshold, wherein the discharge voltage threshold is not less than a maximum voltage value of the differential signal transmitted on the data transmission line.
US11357098B2
A high-speed serial computer expansion bus circuit topology, comprises: a first signal path connecting between a first interface and a second interface, a second signal path connecting between the first interface and a third interface, a third signal path connecting between the third interface and a fourth interface, a first selector circuit having a first passive element and a second passive element which are respectively disposed in the first signal path and the second signal path, a second selector circuit having a third passive element and a fourth passive element which are respectively disposed in the second signal path and the third signal path. The second signal path is conducted when the first passive element and the second passive element are conducted, the third signal path is conducted when the third passive element and the fourth passive element are conducted.
US11357097B2
Heat management in electronic components is an important factor in managing the performance and longevity of such electronic components. By omitting a thermal interface layer and providing thermal vias between a heatsink and an electronic component, such as a surface mount technology (SMT) package, such components may improve thermal transfer to the heatsink and simplify assembly. Thermal vias may be fused during reflow to the heatsink and/or electronic component. As a benefit to the improved heat transfer provided, electronic components may operate at a lower temperature or be configured to perform greater heat-producing activities.
US11357091B1
The disclosure belongs to the technical field of timers, and provides a timer control circuit which comprises: a setting module configured to set timing time of a timer and generate a timing signal, a control module connected with the setting module and configured to output a control signal according to the timing signal set by the setting module, and a load switch module connected with the control module and configured to control an operation of the timer according to the control signal output by the control module. The advantages of the present disclosure are: the timing time required by the user may be accurately set by the setting module, in order to better solve the user's demand for timing; the timing time required by the user may be accurately controlled by the control module, so that the timing accuracy of the timer is greatly improved.
US11357085B2
The absorbance or emission wavelength of composite materials comprising a transition metal doped shell disposed over a rare earth doped core and a functionalizable group on the surface of the transition metal doped shell can change upon subjection to a carboxylic acid. This method of changing the absorbance or emission wavelength of a composite material can be used to identify counterfeit currency using an ink comprising a composite material.
US11357082B2
A load control device (e.g., an LED driver) for controlling the intensity of a lighting load (e.g., an LED light source) may provide a wide output range and flicker-free adjustment of the intensity of the lighting load. The load control device may comprise a load regulation circuit, a control circuit, and a filter circuit (e.g., a boxcar filter circuit) that operates in a different manner in dependence upon a target current. When the intensity of the lighting load is near a low-end intensity, the control circuit may adjust an operating frequency of the load regulation circuit in response to the target current, and may control the filter circuit to filter a current feedback signal during a filter window that repeats on periodic basis. When the intensity of the lighting load is near a high-end intensity, the control circuit may control the filter circuit to constantly filter the current feedback signal.
US11357078B1
A communication system includes a central cloud server having connectivity enhanced database that specifies uplink-and-downlink beam alignment-wireless connectivity relationships for a plurality of geographical areas for different service providers. The connectivity enhanced database is generated over a first period of time based on a plurality of vehicles. The central cloud server obtains sensing information from first edge device mounted at a new vehicle and causes one or more road-side unit (RSU) devices over a second period of time to direct one or more specific beams of radio frequency signals to service a donor side of first edge device of new vehicle when new vehicle arrives and moves along one or more first geographical areas of the plurality of geographical areas. The one or more specific beams are selected based on the connectivity enhanced database bypassing an initial access-search on first edge device and the one or more RSU devices.
US11357075B2
Dynamic control of the length of time that an RRC connection exists is implemented based on the known and anticipated data needs of the UE. More specifically, the lifetime of the RRC connection may be a) initially set, b) extended, or c) shortened, even to the point of substantially immediately releasing it, based on the expected data transmission needs of the UE. This dynamic control is implemented by elements of the core network which are aware of the known and anticipated data needs of the UE. The UE needs are a function of the applications running on the UE. In one LTE-based embodiment, the RRC release timer is responsive to the Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF), which can access information about the applications that are running at the UE. In another embodiment, the RRC release timer is responsive to the Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF).
US11357070B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for supporting mobility of a terminal. A method for performing an area update by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: receiving, by a terminal set to a radio resource control (RRC) inactive mode, radio access network-based notification area (RNA) information from a base station; when previous RNA information of the terminal and the RNA information are different, transmitting an RNA update indication message to the base station; and when the RRC inactive mode of the terminal is allowed to be maintained by the base station which has received the RNA update indication message, receiving an RNA update complete message from the base station.
US11357067B2
Apparatus and methods to support parallel access to services of multiple subscriber identity modules (SIMs) and/or electronic SIMs (eSIMs) by a wireless device are disclosed. The wireless device is a single-radio wireless device that includes wireless circuitry that supports an active voice or video connection via a single radio access network of a cellular wireless network at a time. To send or receive data for a second SIM/eSIM, when an active voice or video connection for a first SIM/eSIM uses the wireless circuitry, the single-radio wireless device can i) establish parallel, linked protocol data unit (PDU) sessions for different SIMs, ii) multiplex traffic for different SIMs over a common radio connection with SIM information embedded in protocol headers for routing by network equipment, and/or iii) use an additional dedicated bearer using a first, active SIM for each data network name (DNN) over which to route for a second, suspended SIM.
US11357063B2
A base station for performing physical cell identifier (PCI) collision detection. The base station includes at least one processor configured to determine whether a PCI in a radio resource control (RRC) re-establishment message is the same as a PCI used by a cell implemented by the base station. The at least one processor is also configured to determine whether a cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI) in the RRC Re-establishment message is outside a reserved range of C-RNTIs for the cell. The at least one processor is also configured to identify a possible PCI collision for the cell when (1) the PCI in the RRC Re-establishment message is the same as a PCI used by the cell; and (2) the C-RNTI in the RRC Re-establishment message is outside the reserved range of C-RNTIs for the cell.
US11357061B2
A system and a method of connecting devices via a Wireless-Fidelity (Wi-Fi) network are provided. The method of communication-connecting an external device to an Access Point (AP) via a Wi-Fi network is performed by a device and includes operations of receiving device information of the external device from the external device that operates in an AP mode, accessing the external device that operates in the AP mode, by using the device information, and providing connection information relating to the AP to the external device, and wherein, when the connection information is provided to the external device, the external device terminates operating in the AP mode, and the external device then accesses the AP based on the connection information.
US11357059B2
Systems, procedures, and instrumentalities are disclosed for distributed control in wireless systems, such as 5G flexible radio access technology (RAT) (5gFLEX). Example procedures are provided for WTRU and network operation associated with a distributed control plane architecture, connectionless data transfer and dedicated system information acquisition. Distributed control may be provided, for example, by replicating a plurality of access control functions (ACFs) using a plurality of instances in a plurality of different transmission/reception points (TRPs) with multi-connectivity. The plurality of TRPs may concurrently provide control services to a WTRU. Centralized control functions may manage core network connectivity and/or a plurality of user plane instances for the WTRU and/or may facilitate coordination between the plurality of ACF instances for the WTRU in the plurality of different TRPs of the WTRU's configuration.
US11357057B2
A Random Access method in a telecommunication system, includes the steps of: receiving two or more identical preambles transmitted from two or more User Equipments (UEs), respectively; determining a minimum difference between the two or more identical preambles in a given domain; transmitting a response message to each of the two or more UEs; and receiving a connection setup message using information included in the respective response messages transmitted to each of the two or more UEs.
US11357052B2
There is provided a method in a User Equipment for performing a random access procedure is provided. The method comprises receiving a request to switch a Reference Signal, RS, transmission to a serving cell. The method further comprises adaptively performing a random access procedure over the serving cell by restricting a maximum number of random access re¬transmissions to the serving cell in relation to the RS switch. There is also provided a method in a network node, a user equipment and a network node.
US11357049B2
The present technology relates to a communication apparatus that can notify surrounding apparatuses of the presence of the apparatus that is receiving data. A wireless transmission processing section of a communication apparatus serving as a data frame transmitting side transmits, under control of a transmission timing control section, a data frame to a destination communication apparatus so as to include intermittent transmission-suspension periods. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a wireless LAN system.
US11357048B2
Methods, computer readable media, and wireless apparatuses are disclosed for setting network allocation vectors (NAV) for multi-user (MU) operation. An apparatus of a wireless device is disclosed. The apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured to: decode a preamble portion of a frame, and if the preamble portion of the frame comprises a high-efficiency (HE) signal (SIG) A field (HE-SIG-A) comprising a transmission opportunity (TXOP) duration field and a media access control (MAC) portion of the frame is not decoded, set one or more NAVs based on the TXOP duration field. The processing circuitry may be further configured to: decode a MAC portion of the frame, and if the MAC portion of the frame comprises a MAC duration field, set the one or more NAVs based on the MAC duration field.
US11357025B2
A method of providing multi-link operation channel access in a multi-link network includes initiating a first backoff countdown and a second backoff countdown associated with a first link and a second link of the multi-link network, respectively, and in response to the first backoff countdown reaching zero, determining whether the second backoff countdown is less than or equal to an aggregation threshold, and in response to determining that the second backoff countdown is less than or equal to the aggregation threshold, transmitting a first frame and a second frame on the first and second links.
US11357024B2
A method of receiving data by a terminal device, comprising: determining an allocation of downlink resources of a wireless radio interface for the reception of data by the terminal device, receiving signals representing the data within the allocated downlink resources, wherein the receiving includes: determining that the allocated downlink resources include at least a portion of a first predetermined resource set, receiving via the wireless radio interface, signals within a first predetermined common pre-emption indicator transmission set of downlink resources allocated for the transmission of a first pre-emption indicator associated with the first predetermined resource set, determining, based on the signals received within the first predetermined common pre-emption indicator transmission set of downlink resources, whether a portion of the signals received within the allocated downlink resources and within the first predetermined resource set comprises data signals transmitted to a different terminal device.
US11357023B2
A communication apparatus for inter-vehicular communication according to the present invention includes: a network state estimating unit configured to estimate network state information indicating a current network state based on driving information and channel state information of neighboring vehicles; a network access controller configured to control whether to transmit a message based on the network state information; a transmission scheduler configured to control a transmission time point of the message based on the network state information; and a transmission buffer unit configured to delay transmission of the message according to the control of the transmission time point of the transmission scheduler.
US11357022B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide for a thin control channel structure that can be utilized for a variety of purposes including, for example, enabling the multiplexing of two or more data transmission formats. In another example, the thin control channel can be utilized to carry control information that relates to interference experienced by a user. By utilizing this control information on a thin control channel, the network can take suitable action to mitigate the interference. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US11357018B2
Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE) to support dual-connectivity with a Master Evolved Node-B (MeNB) and a Secondary eNB (SeNB) are disclosed herein. The UE may receive downlink traffic packets from the MeNB and from the SeNB as part of a split data radio bearer (DRB). At least a portion of control functionality for the split DRB may be performed at each of the MeNB and the SeNB. The UE may receive an uplink eNB indicator for an uplink eNB to which the UE is to transmit uplink traffic packets as part of the split DRB. Based at least partly on the uplink eNB indicator, the UE may transmit uplink traffic packets to the uplink eNB as part of the split DRB. The uplink eNB may be selected from a group that includes the MeNB and the SeNB.
US11357012B2
Embodiments of this application provide a wireless communication method, a network device, and a terminal device, to improve communication performance in terms of frequency band deployment and configuration. The method includes: determining, by a network device, a first uplink carrier, where the first uplink carrier is one of a plurality of uplink carriers that can be used for a terminal device; and sending, by the network device, configuration information to the terminal device, where the configuration information includes configuration information associated with the first uplink carrier.
US11357011B2
A communications device transmitting/receiving signals to/from a mobile communications network includes one or more network elements providing a wireless access interface for the communications device. The wireless access interface includes plural communications resource elements across a host frequency range of a host carrier, and a first section of the communications resources within a first frequency range for preferable allocation to reduced capability devices forming a first reduced bandwidth carrier and a second section of the communications resources within a second frequency range for preferable allocation to the reduced capability devices forming a second reduced bandwidth carrier. Each of the first and second frequency ranges is within the host frequency range. The communications device is configured with a reduced capability to receive the signals only within a frequency bandwidth less than the host frequency range and equal to at least one of the first frequency range or the second frequency range.
US11357004B1
Method and system for latency-based management of carriers on which to serve a user equipment device
A method and system for managing carriers on which a base station provides service to a user equipment device (UE), based on consideration of latency. A base station that is arranged to operate on a plurality of carriers may, while serving a UE on a set of one or more carriers of the plurality, select, from at least two other carriers of the plurality, an additional carrier to add to the set of one or more carriers on which the base station serves the UE, and may make the selection based a latency on the selected carrier. In response to selecting the additional carrier, the base station may add the selected carrier to the set of one or more carriers on which the base station serves the UE, and may then serve the UE on the set of one or more carriers including the selected carrier.
US11356999B2
Provided herein are a method and an apparatus for blind detection of Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) and Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) using UE-specific reference signals. In an embodiment, the disclosure provides an apparatus for a UE, comprising circuitry configured to: measure a UE-specific Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) associated with a PDCCH; compute a first measurement metric M1 based on the UE-specific DMRS associated with the PDCCH before decoding the PDCCH; decode the PDCCH based on the first measurement metric M1; and decode PDSCH based on the decoded PDCCH. The disclosure may further, based on the corresponding PDCCH DMRS and/or PDSCH DMRS, determine if a PDSCH grant in a decoded PDCCH is valid or not, detect a repeated PDSCH grant in a slot, and detect cross-slot DMRS phase continuity between continuous slots.
US11356993B2
Determining, at a base station, to modify at least one parameter associated with semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) of traffic for one or more user equipments (UEs). Generating a reconfiguration control message to transmit to the one or more UEs to signal the modification of the at least one parameter. The reconfiguration control message is one of a reconfigured downlink control information (DCI) that modifies an activation DCI or a redesigned format for DCI or MAC-CE. Transmitting the reconfiguration control message to the one or more UEs.
US11356985B2
A method and a device for establishing an Evolved Packet System (EPS) bearer, where the method includes establishing, by a first base station to which a user equipment (UE) belongs, a first EPS bearer based on a first component carrier (CC) for the UE, wherein the first EPS bearer is an EPS bearer between the first base station and the UE; and instructing, by the first base station, a second base station to establish a second EPS bearer based on a second CC for the UE, wherein the second EPS bearer is an EPS bearer between the second base station and the UE. The present disclosure enables the UE to aggregate carriers of different frequency ranges from the first base station to which the UE belongs and the second base station to which the UE belongs to transmit data, thus improving the throughput of the data transmitted by the UE.
US11356983B2
In the information transmission method provided in this disclosure, a terminal device receives downlink control information. The downlink control information includes first information, and the first information indicates an uplink control channel resource for carrying uplink control information. The uplink control channel resource belongs to a first uplink control channel resource set, and the first uplink control channel resource set includes at least two uplink control channel resources that correspond to different quantities of symbols, or includes at least two uplink control channel resources that correspond to different quantities of resource blocks. The terminal device sends uplink control information to a network device by using the uplink control channel resource.
US11356972B2
A UE receives a first configuration identifier for generating downlink PRSs or CSI-RSs. The first configuration identifier is an integer in a first range that includes a second range in which a scrambling identifier for generating a CSI-RS is. The UE receives modulation symbols on a set of resource elements allocated for carrying reference signals in an OFDM symbol in a slot in a radio frame. The UE generates a seed of a pseudo-random sequence for deriving the reference signals on the set of resource elements based on a wrapping result of a first output of a function using the first configuration identifier as a parameter and an offset. A second output of the function using a second configuration identifier as a parameter is the same as the first output. The second configuration identifier is in the second range and corresponding to the first configuration identifier.
US11356966B2
Carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation is effected by transmission of contemporaneous bit patterns, detectable by a receiver. By analysis of periodicity of bit error occurrences at the receiver, a beating period caused by interference between the two transmitters can be identified. From this beating period, a measure of CFO can be obtained.
US11356964B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, a related device and a system for searching for a Synchronization Signal Block (SS block). The method includes: receiving detection configuration information of the SS block transmitted by a network device; and searching for the SS block according to the detection configuration information.
US11356958B2
Disclosed is a wireless communication device that can suppress an increase in power consumption of a terminal while preventing the degradation of SINR measurement precision resulting from TPC errors in a base station. A terminal controls the transmission power of a second signal by adding an offset to the transmission power of a first signal; an offset-setting unit sets an offset correction value in response to a transmission time gap between a third signal transmitted the previous time and the second signal transmitted this time; and a transmission power control unit controls the transmission power of the second signal using the correction value.
US11356954B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for wireless communications and more specifically for handling hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes with discontinuous reception (DRX) operations. In some implementations, a user equipment (UE) may use a timer to maintain an ON duration in a DRX cycle based on receiving a downlink control information (DCI) message with a data-to-feedback timing indicator (for example, a K1 value) indicating a non-numeric value for a data message. For example, the UE may receive a DCI message with feedback timing for the data message based on maintaining the ON duration. In some other implementations, a UE may use a timer to maintain an ON duration following a feedback opportunity to support dynamic group-based HARQ messaging. For example, the UE may receive a DCI message requesting a retransmission of feedback information based on maintaining the ON duration.
US11356928B2
Enabling a UE to determine whether the UE can skip the acquisition of SIB1-BR. An indication (e.g., a one bit flag) in the MIB is provided, which indication is set to a particular value if the UE needs to read SIB1-BR, otherwise the indication is set to a different value indicating that the UE can skip reading SIB1-BR assuming other conditions are met (e.g., assuming that the UE has previously read SIB1-BR within a MIB indication time period).
US11356920B2
A communications method and device, to reduce service interruption time and signaling overheads that are generated when an access point that provides a communication service for a station changes because the station moves or changes a direction. First frames sent by different access points in an access point set to a station include a same sending address. In this way, when the station moves or changes a direction, the access point that provides the communication service for the station changes from one access point in the access point set to another access point. Because first frames sent by access points in the access point set include a same sending address, the station may consider the access point set as one access point.
US11356914B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for selecting or reselecting a cell from among a plurality of cells. The present disclosure is also providing mobile stations for performing these methods, and computer readable media the instructions of which cause the mobile station to perform the methods described herein. For this purpose, the mobile station is detecting cells which are candidates (i.e. candidate cells) for selection or reselection, utilizing either the normal coverage mode or the enhanced coverage mode. Further, the mobile station is selecting or reselecting a cell among the candidate cells detected, utilizing either the normal coverage mode or the enhanced coverage mode. The mobile station is performing the detection and the selection or reselection on the basis of stored information indicating whether or not at least one of the candidate cells supports that the detection and the selection or reselection utilize the enhanced coverage mode.
US11356905B2
Methods and related wireless device and radio network node, which enable the handling of Quality of Experience, QoE, measurements during handover, are described. In some aspects, the wireless device may determine whether to report QoE measurements and whether to start new QoE measurements, in a cell served by a target radio network node, based, at least in part, on the presence or absence of QoE-measurement related indications in the handover command message received from the target radio network node.
US11356902B2
A solution for handover control in communication system is disclosed, the solution comprising controlling (300) more than one wireless interfaces configured to maintain more than one radio connection connecting the apparatus to one or more networks, the more than one radio connection being related to a same service and controlling (302) timing of handovers of the different radio connections to execute non overlapping handovers in time.
US11356900B2
A wireless communication circuit configured for communicating over a wireless local area network (WLAN) in its reception area to communicate real-time application (RTA) packets as well as non-real time (non-RTA) packets while utilizing carrier sense multiple access/collision avoidance (CSMA/CA). An RTA scheduling table is utilized for tracking active RTA sessions and managing transmission times for RTA traffic. Scheduling of channel time based on the expected RTA packet arrival time, and rejecting other packet transmissions during the scheduled channel time for RTA packet.
US11356895B2
A method and apparatus for load balancing. The method executed by a master base station for load balancing comprising: determining a load balancing group, wherein the load balancing group includes a plurality of secondary base stations; and sending a grouping information about the load balancing group to each secondary base station of the load balancing group. The method executed by a secondary base station of a load balancing group for load balancing comprising: receiving a grouping information about the load balancing group from a master base station; exchanging the load information with other secondary base stations of the load balancing group; selecting a target secondary base station from the other secondary base stations according to the load information of other secondary base stations; and forwarding at least a portion of load of the secondary base station to the target secondary base station.
US11356888B2
A quality of service (QoS) parameter processing method and a system, where the method includes a session management function device obtaining a core network (CN) packet delay budget (PDB) between a first access network device and a first user plane function device, and sending the CN PDB to the first access network device via a context update response message, where the first access network device is a target access network device serving a terminal device after a handover. After receiving the CN PDB, the first access network device determines an access network (AN) PDB between the terminal device and the first access network device based on the CN PDB and an end-to-end PDB between the terminal device and the first user plane function device, and then schedules an air interface resource between the terminal device and the first access network device based on the AN PDB.
US11356882B2
Various techniques are proposed to enhance or expand the capabilities or usage of buffer status request (BSR) and scheduling request (SR) in new radio (NR) applications. In an implementation, techniques are proposed to extend the SR in long term evolution (LTE) baseline with additional information to help a base station (e.g., gNB) schedule faster and more efficiently. Moreover, a new BSR triggering condition is proposed to report new data based on particular events instead of being time-based. Modifications being proposed to both BSR and SR can be customized for different numerologies/transmission time intervals (TTIs). Modifications being proposed to SR can also be used to indicate a user equipment (UE) new beam selection after recovering from a beam failure.
US11356857B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining an indication of user equipment demand associated with a plurality of mobile communication devices that are wirelessly communicating with a first access point that uses a first radio access technology and a second access point that uses a second radio access technology, the plurality of mobile communication devices comprising at least a plurality of dual connectivity mobile communication devices, the first radio access technology being a different radio access technology than the second radio access technology, and the first access point sharing a total amount of radio frequency spectrum with the second access point; determining, based at least in part upon the indication of the user equipment demand, a first split between the first access point and the second access point of the total amount of the radio frequency spectrum; and determining, based at least in part upon the first split of the total amount of the radio frequency spectrum between the first access point and the second access point, a second split between the first access point and the second access point of an internet protocol (IP) traffic flow. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11356842B2
A user equipment (UE) includes first and second subscriber identity modules (SIMs), possibly subscribed to different carriers. When the first SIM is in a connected state and the second SIM is in an idle state, the UE may need to periodically tune away a radio from a first frequency used for communication under the first SIM to a second frequency used for idle mode activity under the second SIM. The UE may provide to the network of the first SIM the second SIMs traffic activity pattern and/or serving frequency so that the network may provide coordinated configuration and/or scheduling for the UE device, e.g., in order to make the action of tuning away (and tuning back) the radio more efficient and/or to decrease the network impact of such radio tune aways (e.g., to decrease wasted uplink scheduling and wasted downlink transmissions for the first SIM).
US11356836B2
A communication method includes establishing a wireless connection between an image forming apparatus and an external access point by a wireless communication unit, establishing a direct wireless connection between the image forming apparatus and a communication partner apparatus by the wireless communication unit without the external access point, concurrently maintaining the wireless connection and the direct wireless connection with each other, and performing print processing based on data received by the wireless communication unit. The external access point is searched in a case where the wireless connection between the image forming apparatus and the external access point is disconnected, the direct wireless connection between the image forming apparatus and the communication partner apparatus is maintained, while the external access point is searched, and the external access point is external to the image forming apparatus and is external to the communication partner apparatus.
US11356830B2
A first object and a second object are movable in relation to one another. The first object includes a transponder using an integrated circuit having two terminals which may or may not be shorted. The presence or absence of a short circuit between the two terminals is detected. This is accomplished at least partly by the second object depending on the relative positioning of the first and second objects. The transponder transmits, to a module having a contactless reader function, positioning information corresponding to said relative positioning using a contactless communication protocol.
US11356823B1
A system configured to enable mutually secured information exchange between a first user of a first automobile and a second user of a second automobile includes a first device associated with the first automobile, where the first device is configured to provide a first data set indicative of first information relating to the first automobile. The system includes a second device associated with the second automobile, where the second device is configured to provide a second data set indicative of second information relating to the second automobile. The system includes officiating componentry configured to, based on a determination that the first data set and the second data set meet a threshold data requirement, transmit a third data set indicative of third information relating to the first automobile to the second device, and a fourth data set indicative of fourth information relating to the second automobile to the first device.
US11356817B2
A system and method for providing location information on a social network, including: sending, to a social mapping system, a request for one or more social media posts, wherein the request includes screen attribute information about a display of a client device, geographic location information, and an identification of a requesting account of the social network; receiving, in response to the request, a suggested group for display by the client device; and displaying, by the client device, the suggested group.
US11356815B2
Provided are a method by which a terminal receives an MBMS service in a wireless communication system and a device for supporting the same. The terminal receives an MBMS frequency type indicator for indicating a type of an MBMS frequency relating to an MBMS service to be received from a network, and can receive the MBMS service through the MBMS frequency indicated by the MBMS frequency type indicator.
US11356807B2
Beacon systems include a beacon including a transmitter, a processor, and a sensor for collecting sensor data, wherein the beacon broadcasts a beacon message comprising informational data based on a value of the sensor data and data regarding a minimum received signal strength for the relevance of the beacon message. The beacon system may include a receiving device, wherein the receiving device comprises a processor and an alarm adapted to be triggered by the beacon message, wherein the processor determines a relevance of the beacon message by comparing the minimum received signal strength for the relevance of the beacon message to an actual received signal strength of the beacon message, wherein, if the actual received signal strength is greater than or equal to the minimum received signal strength, the receiving device is within a range of relevance and the alarm is triggered.
US11356806B2
A system that can provide a real time annotation and tracking of multiple devices operating in a network using augmented reality is initiated by activating an augmented reality display system, transmitting location information to a network controller, joining a network of network devices established by the network controller, wherein the network devices of the network communicate with one another using a communication network, scanning a geographical area using a display, wherein the display comprises a display area, and in response to determining that a first device of the network devices is within the display area, displaying, via the display, a first image identifying the first device, first device location information and first distance information associated with a first distance to the first device.
US11356798B2
A method and apparatus for managing node failures in a mesh network is provided. In an example method for, a trigger is sent to a target node to return test data. The test data received from the target node is analyzed. The target node is classified as valid if the test data is within expected parameters.
US11356793B2
A device may be configured to process one or more audio streams in accordance with the techniques described herein. The device may comprise: one or more processors and a memory. The one or more processors may be configured to obtain an indication of a boundary separating an interior area from an exterior area, and obtain a listener location indicative of a location of the device relative to the interior area. The one or more processors may be configured to obtain, based on the boundary and the listener location, a current renderer as either an interior renderer configured to render audio data for the interior area or an exterior renderer configured to render the audio data for the exterior area, and apply, to the audio data, the current renderer to obtain one or more speaker feeds. The memory may be configured to store the one or more speaker feeds.
US11356784B2
During the operation of a hearing device system, there is received information characteristic of an encounter between a hearing device wearer wearing a hearing device and another person. The information is taken as a basis for indicating that the hearing device wearer has met or is about to meet the other person. Background information about the other person is collected from at least one social network, and the background information about the other person is converted into audio data. The audio data are audibly presented to the hearing device wearer by way of the hearing device of the hearing device wearer.
US11356781B2
Provided are a speaker unit and a speaker device. A main body of the speaker unit is a rectangular bowl-shaped structure, and comprises a suspension system, a magnetic circuit system having an annular magnetic gap, and a bowl-shaped frame connecting the suspension system and the magnetic circuit system. The bowl-shaped frame accommodates the suspension system and the magnetic circuit system. The magnetic circuit system is fixed to the interior of the bowl-shaped frame. The suspension system comprises a diaphragm and at least one voice coil connected to a bottom portion of the diaphragm. The magnetic circuit system comprises at least one magnetic circuit assembly matching the voice coil. One end of the voice coil is connected to the diaphragm by means of a voice coil frame. The other end of the voice coil is suspended within an annular magnetic gap of the magnetic circuit assembly. The voice coil can perform piston-like reciprocating motion in an axial direction in the annular magnetic gap so as to push the diaphragm to vibrate and emit sound. The present invention employs multiple engines to drive the same diaphragm to vibrate, such that vibration is more uniform and stable, thereby reducing nonlinear vibration, and controlling a magnitude of resistance (RE). The invention has a wide range of applications and an attractive appearance, and realizes efficient heat dissipation.
US11356768B2
The present disclosure provides an acoustic absorption material having a composite zeolite molecular sieve and a speaker using the acoustic absorption material, where the composite zeolite molecular sieve includes a first zeolite molecular sieve having a first micropore diameter and a second zeolite molecular sieve having a second micropore diameter, and the first micropore diameter is greater than the second micropore diameter, and the first zeolite molecular sieve is used as an adsorbent, and the second zeolite molecular sieve is used as a low-frequency enhancement material. In the present disclosure, a zeolite molecular sieve having a larger diameter is added as an adsorbent to a zeolite molecular sieve, to effectively absorb various volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in an application environment, thereby avoiding performance degradation or failure of the zeolite molecular sieve used as a low-frequency enhancement material.
US11356765B2
The present disclosure provides a microphone apparatus. The microphone apparatus may include a microphone and a vibration sensor. The microphone may be configured to receive a first signal including a voice signal and a first vibration signal. The vibration sensor may be configured to receive a second vibration signal. And the microphone and the vibration sensor are configured such that the first vibration signal may be offset with the second vibration signal.
US11356764B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include a headphone device which operates in various modes applying different gesture profiles based on various operational, playback, or environmental conditions. An example headphone device includes a first earbud and a second earbud communicatively coupled to each other. One or both of the earbuds include a touch-sensitive interface and a processor. The earbuds are configured to interpret a first set of gestures to the touch-sensitive interface as respective commands while operating in a first mode. Upon detecting a change in an operational condition, one or both earbuds transition to a second mode where the earbuds are configured to interpret a second set of gestures to the touch-sensitive interface as respective commands, different from the respective commands correlating to the first set of gestures to the touch-sensitive interface.
US11356758B2
A loudspeaker rigging apparatus (100) for suspending a plurality of loudspeakers from temporary or permanent structure. The loudspeaker rigging apparatus (100) comprises a beam (102) configured to be secured to an uppermost speaker in an array of speakers (106) and a trolley (121) coupled to the beam (102) and moveable along at least part of a length of the beam (102). The trolley (121) comprises a rigging point (110) configured for connection to the rigging or scaffold, and the beam (102) may be angularly displaced with respect to a horizontal plane when the rigging point (110) is connected to the rigging or scaffold.
US11356756B1
A secure tiered, robust, and deterministic converged communications architecture with the capacity to support a plurality of power distribution automation devices/components with fiber-enabled fail-over protection is described.
US11356750B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for automatically and programmatically generating crowdsource trailers. In an embodiment, interactions with streaming content performed by a plurality users who consumed the content are received. A value is assigned to each of the interactions. A plurality of windows of content are identified within the streaming content. The values of the interactions for each of the landing frames within each of the plurality of windows are accumulated. A particular one of the plurality of windows with a highest accumulated value is selected. A trailer for the content is generated based on the selected particular window and provided.
US11356743B2
A testing system and application performs validation testing on a media services delivery system by generating test transactions and validating test results at a plurality of support systems updated by the test transactions in a test environment. Support systems are independent systems that may be geographically and network distant, thus are cumbersome to access for validating corresponding updates based on a test transaction. The test system is accessible via an Internet or network portal for accessing an application that generates a test transaction, invokes a system under test for implementing the test transaction, and validates the results of the support system updates with known values for successful test completion. The test system automates the identification, retrieval and comparison of test generated values with known values corresponding to a successful transaction, and is operable to perform a suite of tests in succession from a set of predetermined test transactions and corresponding known values.
US11356741B2
An image display apparatus and an operating method thereof are provided. The image display apparatus may be connected to an image processing device and include a memory storing one or more instructions, and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to: create a table including physical address information of each of at least one source device connected to the image processing device and device identification information corresponding to the physical address information; display a user interface including the device identification information included in the table; and change to an input mode of a source device corresponding to device identification information selected in response to a user input to select device identification information, based on the physical address information corresponding to the selected device identification information.
US11356736B2
Systems and methods for customizing video include providing a portion of video to an electronic display and identifying a character or personality in the portion of video. A request to perform an action regarding the portion of video may be detected and the action may be associated with the identified character or personality. The action may be performed on a second portion of video in response to the character or personality being identified in the second portion of video.
US11356735B2
Devices, systems and processes for multi-device access, control and presentation of streaming content are described. A system may include a first content access device that includes a first storage component, a first communications component operable to receive first content, and a first hardware processor operable to access a second content access device, control the second content access device, provide a first content to the second content access device, and swap a presentation of the second content on the second presentation device with a presentation of the first content on the second presentation device. A first presentation device may present the first content. A second presentation device may present the second content. Second storage, communications, and hardware processor components are operable to execute the second set of computer instructions that are substantially similar to the first set of computer instructions may be used.
US11356734B1
The present disclosure is directed to counseling a user with respect to supervised content. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure may: determine, based at least in part on one or more machine learning (ML) models, that one or more interfaces displayed to a user include content of a content type designated by a content supervisor of the user for identification; and, responsive to determining that the interface(s) include content of the content type, generate data representing a graphical user interface (GUI) for presentation to the user, the GUI indicating detection of the content of the content type and comprising educational material counseling the user with respect to the content type.
US11356733B2
Methods and apparatus to generate reference signatures are disclosed. An example method includes collecting a first signature for media being presented to a plurality of households; crediting the media when the first signature matches a reference signature in a reference signature database; in response to determining that the first signature does not match a reference signature in the reference signature database and the first signature does not match an unidentified signature in an unknown signature database, storing the first signature in the unknown signature database; in response to determining that a second signature does not match the reference signature in the reference signature database and the second signature matches the unidentified signature in the unknown signature database, and increasing a count associated with the unidentified signature.
US11356727B2
Circuit integrated with voice wake-up function, television and voice control method. The circuit integrated with voice wake-up function comprises television mainboard and far-field voice module. The far-field voice module comprises: microphone unit for collecting voice simulation signal; analog-digital conversion unit for converting voice simulation signal to digital signal; main control unit for processing converted digital signal and outputting same to television mainboard; and voice wake-up unit for processing voice simulation signal and outputting wake-up signal to television mainboard. Microphone unit is connected to analog-digital conversion unit and voice recognition unit, respectively; analog-digital conversion unit is connected to main control unit and television mainboard, respectively; and television mainboard is connected to main control unit and voice wake-up unit, respectively.
US11356719B2
The present technology relates to a reception device, a reception method, a transmission device, and a transmission method that make it possible to provide content according to a preference of a user. Provided is a reception device including: a tuning control unit configured to perform tuning control for tuning digital broadcasting using an Internet Protocol (IP) transmission scheme; and an acquisition control unit configured to perform acquisition control for acquiring content transmitted in the digital broadcasting according to a result of a matching process on a provider-side PDI-A indicating an answer set by a provider that provides content to a question on preference of a user included in transmission information transmitted in an upper layer of an IP layer of protocol layers of the IP transmission scheme and client-side PDI-A indicating an answer set by the user to the question in the digital broadcasting. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a television receiver set.
US11356718B2
Systems and methods for switching from a linearly distributed live content and/or internet stream to other contents are provided by aligning timing between contents. Break points may be programmed between diverse non-time synced source encoder of the respective contents to facilitate switching between contents. A first linear stream is caused to be provided. A switchover time to a second linear stream is then identified. The second linear stream is caused to be provided at the switchover time. In different embodiments, switching may occur between different number of contents using the described systems and methods. One or more streaming contents may be up-converted and/or down-converted in different streaming systems.
US11356712B2
A method executed by a processing system of an edge router deployed in a content distribution network includes receiving a request from an endpoint device for a first file, determining that a portion of the first file is not stored in a cache of the edge router, determining that the cache is at a capacity threshold, selecting a second file to evict from the cache, wherein the second file is one of a plurality of files stored in the cache, wherein each file of the plurality of files is scheduled to be evicted from the cache when a threshold period of time has passed since a last request for the each file was received by the edge router, and wherein the threshold period of time associated with the second file is scheduled to expire soonest among all of the plurality of files, and evicting the second file from the cache.
US11356710B2
A method for decoding a video according to the present invention may comprise: determining whether to divide a current block with quad tree partitioning, determining whether to divide the current block with binary tree partitioning when the current block is not divided with the quad tree partitioning, determining a binary tree partition type for the current block when it is determined to divide the current block with the binary tree partitioning, and dividing the current block into two partitions according to the determined binary tree partition type.
US11356706B2
A device for processing video data can be configured to receive a configuration record for decoding a bitstream of the video data, wherein the configuration record for the bitstream includes a toolset indication syntax element that includes information identifying, from a set of video decoding tools, tools that are required to decode the bitstream associated with the configuration record; based on the toolset indication syntax element, determine whether to retrieve the bitstream associated with the configuration record; and based on the determination to retrieve the bitstream associated with the configuration record, retrieve the bitstream and outputting the bitstream to a video decoder for decoding.
US11356696B2
An image coding method includes: deriving a candidate for a motion vector predictor from a co-located motion vector; adding the candidate to a list; selecting the motion vector predictor from the list; and coding a current block and coding a current motion vector, wherein the deriving includes: deriving the candidate by a first derivation scheme in the case of determining that each of a current reference picture and a co-located reference picture is a long-term reference picture; and deriving the candidate by a second derivation scheme in the case of determining that each of the current reference picture and the co-located reference picture is a short-term reference picture.
US11356693B2
Coding a motion vector difference (MVD) during an inter-prediction process. Example techniques may include determining a particular coding and/or signaling method for an MVD from among two or more MVD coding and/or signaling techniques. A video coder (e.g., a video encoder and/or a video decoder) may determine a particular MVD coding and/or signaling technique based on characteristics of video data or coding methods, including MV precision, Picture Order Count (POC) difference, or any other already coded/decoded information of a block of video data.
US11356689B2
A method of video decoding at a decoder can include receiving a bitstream including encoded data of a picture, decoding a plurality of coding units (CUs) in the picture based on motion information stored in a history-based motion vector prediction (HMVP) table, resetting the HMVP table for every N CTU rows. The method also provides updating the HMVP table with the motion information of the last Q of the plurality of CUs.
US11356686B2
The present invention relates to a video signal decoding method based on a Multiple Transform Selection (MTS). The method may comprise the steps of: parsing a first syntax element representing whether MTS applies to the inverse transformation of a current block, wherein the MTS represents a transform mode which uses a transform type other than a default transform type predefined for the current block; by performing inverse quantization on the current block, deriving an inverse-quantized transform coefficient array having the width and the height of the current block; determining, on the basis of the first syntax element, a vertical transform type applying to the vertical direction of the current block, and a horizontal transform type applying to the horizontal direction of the current block; and, by performing inverse transformation on the inverse-quantized transform coefficient array by using the vertical transform type and the horizontal transform type, deriving a residual sample array having the width and the height of the current block.
US11356683B2
A transcoder for transcoding a basic representation of a videostream into one or more arbitrary representations comprises: a receiver adapted for receiving the basic representation and at least one frame information set comprising one or more frame information packets; a decoder adapted for decoding the basic representation; a re-encoder adapted for selecting at least one frame information set and for selecting one or more frame information packets from this at least one frame information set for forming a arbitrary representation, the re-encoder is adapted for extracting coding information from the frame information packets, and for re-encoding the decoded basic representation using the coding information thereby obtaining the one or more arbitrary representations.
US11356682B2
In a conventional art, an output layer set having no output layer is sometimes defined. Consequently, even if the decoder decodes a bit stream to obtain each layer in the output layer set without the output layer, there is no picture to be outputted. There is a possibility that such coded data causes the decoder expecting an output to operate unexpectedly. Output layer sets having the same configuration may be defined. Consequently, the amount of code pertaining to the output layer sets defined in an overlapping manner is redundant. According to an aspect of the present invention, specification of a bit stream conformance pertaining to the output layer set prevents occurrence of an output layer set without an output layer and a redundant output layer set.
US11356677B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for processing video content. The method can include: partitioning, along a partitioning edge, a plurality of blocks associated with a picture into a first partition and a second partition; performing inter prediction on the plurality of blocks, to generate a first prediction signal for the first partition and a second prediction signal for the second partition; and blending the first and second prediction signals for edge blocks associated with the partitioning edge.
US11356670B2
Described is picture segmentation through columns and slices in video encoding and decoding. A video picture is divided into a plurality of columns, each column covering only a part of the video picture in a horizontal dimension. All coded tree blocks (“CTBs”) belonging to a slice may belong to one or more columns. The columns may be used to break the same or different prediction or in-loop filtering mechanisms of the video coding, and the CTB scan order used for encoding and/or decoding may be local to a column. Column widths may be indicated in a parameter set and/or may be adjusted at the slice level. At the decoder, column width may be parsed from the bitstream, and slice decoding may occur in one or more columns.
US11356669B2
A moving picture coding apparatus includes an intra-inter prediction unit which calculates a second motion vector by performing a scaling process on a first motion vector of a temporally neighboring corresponding block, when selectively adding, to a list, a motion vector of each of one or more corresponding blocks each of which is either a block included in a current picture to be coded and spatially neighboring a current block to be coded or a block included in a picture other than the current picture and temporally neighboring the current block, determines whether the second motion vector has a magnitude that is within a predetermined magnitude or not within the predetermined magnitude, and adds the second motion vector to the list when the intra-inter prediction unit determines that the second motion vector has a magnitude that is within the predetermined magnitude range.
US11356655B2
A device for testing cameras which is adaptable for testing optical devices of different sizes and types includes a holder, a top plate, and an illumination assembly. The holder includes a frame. The top plate is disposed on the frame. The illumination assembly includes a lamp holder and an illumination module. The lamp holder is slidably disposed on a surface of the top plate facing away from the frame in a first direction. The illumination module, wherein the illumination module is slidably disposed on the lamp holder facing away from the frame in a second direction.
US11356651B2
The present invention relates to a head mount system for providing a surgery support image, the system including: a head mount body wearable on a user's head; a near-infrared camera installed on the head mount body and capturing near-infrared light; a near-infrared image projection unit installed on the head mount body and projecting a near-infrared image; a near-infrared image processing unit receiving a captured image taken by the near-infrared camera, generating the near-infrared image, and transmitting the near-infrared image to the near-infrared image projection unit; and a transparent optic system installed on the head mount body to be positioned in front of user's eyes when the head mount body is worn on the user's head, transmitting visible light to enable a user to see a user's front, reflecting the near-infrared light coming from the user's front to the near-infrared camera to allow the near-infrared camera to capture the near-infrared light.
US11356647B2
A system, method, and computer program product for generating a digital image is disclosed. In use, a first image and a second image are received from a first image sensor, where the first image sensor detects wavelengths of a visible spectrum. A third image and a fourth image are received from a second image sensor, where the second image sensor detects wavelengths of a non-visible spectrum. Using an image processing subsystem, a resulting image is generated by combining at least three of: the first image, the second image, the third image, or the fourth image.
US11356643B2
A method of presenting appropriate actions for responding to a visitor to a smart home environment via an electronic greeting system of the smart home environment, including detecting a visitor of the smart home environment; obtaining context information from the smart home environment regarding the visitor; based on the context information, identifying a plurality of appropriate actions available to a user of a client device for interacting with the visitor via the electronic greeting system; and causing the identified actions to be presented to the user of the client device.
US11356638B2
A device may control a video communication via transcoding and/or traffic shaping. The device may include a multipoint control unit (MCU) and/or a server. The device may receive one or more video streams from one or more devices. The device may analyze a received video stream to determine a viewing parameter. The viewing parameter may include a user viewing parameter, a device viewing parameter, and/or a content viewing parameter. The device may modify a video stream based on the viewing parameter. Modifying the video stream may include re-encoding the video stream, adjusting an orientation, removing a video detail, and/or adjusting a bit rate. The device may send the modified video stream to another device. The device may determine a hit rate for the video stream based on the viewing parameter. The device may indicate the bit rate by sending a feedback message and/or by signaling a bandwidth limit.
US11356637B2
A method of transmitting image data in a safety sensor or in a safety system is provided, in which transmission errors are recognized in that meta information is added to the image data prior to the transmission and the meta information is checked after the transmission. The image data are here transmitted by an unsafe communication link, in particular a black channel, the meta information is prepended and/or appended to the image data and/or to the partial packets, and the meta information comprises a piece of information on the structure of the image data.
US11356633B2
[Object] To contribute to the achievement of a workflow in which an HDR video and an SDR video are compatible with each other. [Solving Means] This video signal processing apparatus includes an HDR video generation unit including a first converter unit that performs OOTF conversion on an HDR video by using an exponentiation function for calculating an exponentiation of 1.2, where 100% is 1, to an input signal level of the HDR video having a range from a point of 0%, where an expression range of an input signal level of an SDR video is 100%, to a change point optionally determined within a range of 100% to 500%, and by using a linear function for multiplying an input signal level of the HDR video having a range higher than the change point by a predetermined coefficient to maintain a change rate of a calculation result in a portion of the change point calculated by using the exponentiation function.
US11356631B2
An image sensor includes image sensor cells, each configured to generate an image signal in response to control signals. The image sensor also includes an ADC to receive the image signals of the image sensor cells, and a first driver to generate one or more first control signals for a first image sensor cell, where the first driver includes a first negative supply terminal. The image sensor also includes a first multiplexor to selectively connect the first negative supply terminal of the first driver to one of a plurality of power supply nodes, and a second driver to generate one or more second control signals for a second image sensor cell, where the second driver includes a second negative supply terminal. The image sensor also includes a second multiplexor to selectively connect the second negative supply terminal of the second driver to one of the power supply nodes.
US11356624B2
A solid-state imaging element includes a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels having different spectral characteristics are arranged and one or more pixels of the plurality of pixels have a spectral characteristic that includes spectral characteristics of two or more pixels that are different from the one or more pixels. The solid-state imaging element further includes a signal processing unit that synthesizes signals of one or more pixels of the pixels that have the included spectral characteristics with a luminance signal, when a signal of a pixel that has two or more spectral characteristics in the pixel array is used to generate the luminance signal.
US11356621B2
An imaging system is provided that includes a pixel array having a plurality of columns with rows of pixels and with each pixel having a plurality of photodiodes and a common readout circuit that stores respective accumulation voltages from each of the plurality of photodiodes. Moreover, the system includes row driver circuitry that control the pixel array for pixel addressing and readout, such that the respective accumulation voltages of the photodiodes is read out on a readout channel coupled to a bit line column, and a hybrid multiplexer that multiplexes and routes output signals from the pixel array to a video imaging device to be displayed thereon.
US11356614B2
An electronic device includes a body and an image capturing assembly mounted on the body. The image capturing assembly comprising an imaging device and a device control assembly coupled to the imaging device to control a movement of the imaging device along a central axis of the image capturing assembly to allow the imaging device to be positioned at multiple positions along the central axis of the image capturing assembly. The device control assembly includes a first guide member, a second guide member rotatably disposed within the first guide member, and an inner body movably disposed within the second guide member. In response to a rotational motion of the second guide member with respect to the first guide member, the inner body is to move in axial direction with respect to the second guide member to move the imaging device along the central axis of the image capturing assembly.
US11356612B2
The embodiments of the present application provide an electronic device, the electronic device defines a channel. A driving board is fixedly connected with a camera module, and an output shaft of a driving motor is mounted with a driving gear. A driven gear is meshed with both of the driving gear and a rack, a diameter of the driven gear is greater than a diameter of the driving gear. The driving motor can drive the driving board to move along a direction from the channel to the outside of the electronic device through the rotation of the driving gear and the rotation of the driven gear, thereby to drive the camera module from in the channel to the outside of the electronic device.
US11356608B2
A system and method includes operations and steps for obtaining a moving endoscopic image. An optical device stream is received from an optical device by data processing hardware. The data processing hardware identify image frames of the image stream, each including a plurality of rows of pixels. The data processing hardware determines a row exposure value for each of the rows of pixels in each frame, and identifies a defective image frame having at least one overexposed row and a reference frame having a replacement row corresponding to the overexposed row. The data processing hardware modifies the defective image frame by replacing the overexposed row with the corresponding replacement row of the reference frame.
US11356597B2
A support for image processing is provided, comprising: (a) detecting respective face regions from images consecutively photographed for a first person at predetermined time intervals by an image pickup unit to display images of the face regions detected in relation to the first person in a first region of a screen, and providing a user interface for indicating that a specific face image is selected from the face images of the first person displayed in the first region; (b) additionally displaying the specific face image through a second region adjacent to the first region; and (c) displaying a synthesized image using the specific face image as a representative face of the first person, when the specific face image displayed through the second region is selected.
US11356587B2
An array imaging apparatus having discrete camera modules is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a substrate; and heterogeneous camera modules attached to the substrate and in a geometric relationship with each other, the heterogeneous camera modules having a substantially similar photometric response.
US11356579B2
A method for steganographic processing and compression of image data with negligible information loss, wherein said image data comprises noise and information. The method includes the steps of: acquiring image data to be processed and/or compressed, storing and/or transmitting the image data, and preparing the acquired image data for compression. The preparation step includes determining an input noise model and corresponding parameters adapted to reflect noise created by an image sensor used to capture said image data, and removing, with negligible information loss, noise from the acquired image data by use of the input noise model such as to produce noise-reduced image data.
US11356575B2
A printing apparatus connectable to an external power supply having a plurality of outputtable electric power information, including: a printing head performing printing by electric power supplied from the external power supply; and a controller configured to: obtain the plurality of electric power information; determine whether the printing can be performed if electric power indicated by the obtained electric power information is supplied from the external power supply; decide, as request electric power information, any one of the electric power information indicating possible electric powers; request the external power supply to output electric power indicated by the request electric power information; calculate a print control value for controlling the printing head based on the decided request electric power information; and control the printing head to perform the printing based on the calculated print control value.
US11356571B2
A display apparatus include: a displayer that displays on a screen at least one image used for an operation to instruct execution of processing under a predetermined condition; a preparation detector that detects preparation performed by a user for the processing; and a disabling unit that disables a non-target image used for an operation to instruct execution of non-target processing different from target processing corresponding to a result of detection of the preparation detector, the non-target image being of the at least one image displayed on the screen.
US11356560B2
A device receives, from a user device, a communication associated with a support issue encountered by a user of the user device and assigns the communication to a position in a support queue based on when the communication is received, wherein the support queue includes data identifying positions of other communications received from other users, and data identifying when the other communications were received. The device processes data identifying the communication and historical communication data describing prior communications associated with the user, with a model, to determine an average time spent on hold by the user for the prior communications. The device modifies the position of the communication in the support queue based on the average time and performs one or more actions based on modifying the position of the communication in the support queue.
US11356552B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed for integrating at least one first communication terminal assigned to a user as a preferred device in a static configuration of a communication system and/or for dynamically switching from a first communication terminal used as a preferred device to a second communication terminal as a preferred device for providing a one-number service using the preferred device, to which a one-number service number is assigned, wherein at least two communication terminals are statically assigned to the user and a preferred device is also dynamically assigned to the user through a virtual device. Also disclosed is communication system designed for this purpose.
US11356546B2
Systems and methods are described for automating retrieval of application data prior to wireless network outages and rendering mobile device UIs during the outages. The system includes a server and database of data object files corresponding to features of applications executable on the mobile device. The mobile device receives a notification from the server before a predicted network outage, and sends back a request including parameters indicating resource status. The mobile device receives a response including a data object file from the database and automatically invokes a network bot, UI bot, and navigation bot. The network bot retrieves application data from a web server based on an object from the data object file. The navigation bot generates a navigation handle based on an object from the data object file, and the UI bot renders a UI based upon a UI object from the data object file and the navigation handle.
US11356545B2
A communication terminal and a method of providing a unified natural language interface to the same are disclosed. The method includes: determining, when text information containing many characters is created, whether the text information conforms to one of preset grammatical constraints; extracting, when the text information conforms to one of the grammatical constraints, tokens of one or more of characters from the text information, and extracting, when the text information does not conform to one of the grammatical constraints, one or more characters having an attribute probability higher than a reference probability as a token; and analyzing the extracted tokens to determine a function to handle the extracted tokens, and executing the determined function based on the extracted tokens.
US11356544B2
A configurable, multi-function IP-based communication product has a touch screen display and common hardware set form factor that can be configured for use in any of a plurality of operational modes and can be ruggedized for use in harsh environments. The common hardware set form factor enables the IP-based communication product to be optimized for commercial use, that is, easily adapted for different applications and environments using a minimal number of housing configurations or features (e.g., tactile buttons or dials). The operational modes can include, but are not limited to, VoIP telephone, video streaming for video calls, intercom, alarm activation for a central public address/general alarm (PA/GA) system, a “serverless” page-party (SP2) system, voice product with FLASH, product with conference function, transit on-board communications device, and so on.
US11356539B2
Dynamic utilization of condensing metadata is enabled by condensing information being communicated to/from a mobile device. The communication exchange occurs between a mobile device and an internet service, and it involves a mobile internet service proxy. The information is condensed or compressed responsive to condensing metadata and uncondensed or uncompressed using the condensing metadata. The mobile internet service proxy may provide condensing metadata to the mobile device. This condensing metadata may be provided to the mobile device so that condensed data may be communicated at least between the mobile device and the mobile internet service proxy. In some instances, the mobile device may request that information be compressed and receive compressed information as a result. The mobile device may then utilize the condensing metadata to uncompress data provided from the internet service and/or the mobile internet service proxy.
US11356538B2
A semiconductor manufacturing system according to an embodiment includes: a controller configured to control a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus; and a server configured to bidirectionally communicate with the controller via a communication line. The server includes a first processor configured to: transmit a backup file creation request (signal) that sets data specific to each controller as a backup file and transmit a backup file acquisition request (signal) requesting acquisition of the created backup file; and receive the created backup file. The controller includes a second processor configured to: receive a request (signal) from the server; and create the backup file when receiving the backup file creation request (signal).
US11356534B2
A method and system for processing media content in Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) Network Based Media Processing (NBMP) includes obtaining a list of function repositories, each function repository storing one or more functions for processing the media content, obtaining a descriptor identifying a location of each of the function repositories identified in the list of function repositories, selecting a function repository, from among the function repositories, according to a criterion, and processing the media content using a function included in the selected function repository.
US11356529B2
Devices, computer-readable media, and methods for pre-loading video chunks of a video program at an edge server are disclosed. For example, a processor may receive a manifest file for a video program, determine a bitrate for a first segment of the video program, request a video chunk of the first segment at the first bitrate from an edge server in accordance with the manifest file, and request a subset of a video chunk of a second segment of the video program from the edge server.
US11356527B1
A method for providing high availability Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) includes determining, by a VDI client and based on connection information for a first VDI broker associated with a first datacenter, whether a connection to the first VDI broker is available, and responsive to determining that the connection to the first VDI broker associated with the first datacenter is available, connecting the VDI client to a first VDI broker associated with a first datacenter. The method also includes sending authentication information pertaining to the user to the first VDI broker to authenticate the user through a domain controller, receiving, from the first VDI broker, a list of desktop pools available for one or more groups containing the user that has been authenticated with the first VDI broker, sending, to the first VDI broker, a desktop pool identifier associated with a desktop pool from the list of available desktop pools, receiving, from the first VDI broker, an address of a desktop selected from the desktop pool associated with the desktop pool identifier sent to the VDI broker, and providing the selected desktop to the user.
US11356523B2
A method for selecting an information pushed-to terminal, including determining, by a first terminal, a service type of received service information according to a preset terminal service type table, acquiring, by the first terminal from a terminal status table configured in the first terminal, characteristic information of second terminals connected to the first terminal, and determining working statuses of the second terminals according to the characteristic information, selecting, by the first terminal from the second terminals according to a preset information push rule, the service type of the service information and the working statuses of the second terminals, a target terminal of information push, and sending a prompt message of having received the service information to the target terminal.
US11356512B2
A method by which a server controls a home device is provided. The method includes receiving a trigger signal generated by a sensor in a home in response to a mobile device being present at a specific location in the home, determining a home device corresponding to the specific location by using the trigger signal, selecting context information related to an operation of the determined home device from among context information received from the mobile device, and providing the selected context information to the home device.
US11356511B2
An electronic device mountable on an autonomous driving vehicle and a method for controlling the same are provided. The electronic device of the disclosure includes: a communicator including circuitry, a memory, and a processor configured to: control the electronic device to receive metadata for map streaming from a server via the communicator based on at least one communication method, determine at least one type of data to be received from the server among a plurality of types of data included in the metadata based on state information of the vehicle and a bandwidth of the at least one communication method, and control the electronic device to receive and provide the determined at least one type of data from the server via the communicator.
US11356506B2
A system for optimizing data acceptance and data storage in distributed computing network may be configured to implement tuning algorithms in order to improve the performance of a data requests in the distributed computing network. The tuning algorithms may be applied based on identifying components of the distributed computer network that are performing below an optimal level. Tuning algorithms may comprise implementing a parallel validation process; restructuring a memory hierarchy for fast data access; increasing a number of endorsing peers; increasing a number of transactions per node; reducing a number of node commits; implementing an event handling strategy; or other similar mechanisms.
US11356496B2
A method includes storing, at one or more data storage devices, a design in a platform-independent format. The method also includes generating, at a web front end, a GUI including a publish option associated with the design. The method includes sending the GUI to a client device. The method also includes receiving a user request indicating a selection of the publish option, and, in response to receiving the user request, generating first output based on the design, the first output having a HTML format. The method includes identifying a rendering engine based on browser information associated with the client device and generating second output by rendering the first output at the rendering engine, the second output having an image format. The method includes sending the second output to at least one of a data storage device of the data storage devices, a publishing endpoint, or the client device.
US11356487B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method, system and apparatus for causing a communication client to join a media-over-packet communication session. The method comprises receiving from a communication client an indication indicative of a desire of the communication client to establish a communication session, the communication client being registered in association with a user account. The method further comprises determining if there exists at least one active communication session established with at least one other communication client registered in association with the user account. Responsive to determining that there does exist at least one active communication session, the method further comprises causing the communication client to join at least one of the at least one active communication session.
US11356466B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for reconstructing network activity. A network activity monitor is configured to monitor network activity for various network entities. Based on the monitoring, a set of features may be obtained for each network entity. A determination may be made for a number of vertices suitable for describing the sets of features in a multidimensional space. In some implementations, the vertices may define a convex hull in the multidimensional space. Each of the vertices may be assigned a different usage pattern that represents a certain type of network usage types. Reconstructed network activity for a particular network entity may be represented as a weighted combination of the usage patterns. Based on the reconstruction, a network anomaly may be detected, a network may be modified, and/or an alert may be generated.
US11356454B2
A system provides cloud-based identity and access management. The system receives a request for an identity management service, authenticates the request, and forwards the request to a microservice configured to perform the identity management service, where the microservice is implemented by a microservice virtual machine provisioned by a provisioning framework, and the forwarding is according to routing information configured based on metadata information stored in a registry by the provisioning framework. The system then performs the identity management service by the microservice.
US11356448B1
A private network includes a plurality of network security appliances participating in authenticating end users. Each network security appliance maintains a locally stored user list. A first network security appliance receives at least a portion of a non-local user list comprising second user identifier records for a second network security appliance of the plurality of network security appliances. The first network security appliance compares the local user list with the non-local user list received from the second network security appliance to identify one or more deviations. The first network security appliance merges the portion of the second user identifier records of the non-local user list corresponding with the one or more deviations with the first user identifier records of the local user list to generate an updated local user list. The first network security appliance authenticates a request to access the network using the updated local user list.
US11356443B2
Systems and methods described herein are directed to associating a distributed ledger identity of a user with a centralized identity of the user, and generating a verifiable claim including a reference to the user's centralized identity. In some implementations, a method includes: proving a claim using a distributed ledger identity; requesting that a server system create an attestation to the claim proven using the distributed ledger identity that includes a centralized identity of a user, authenticating the centralized identity at an authentication server; and receiving a confirmation message from the server system that a verifiable claim including the user's centralized identity has been created.
US11356440B2
Automated registration of one or more IoT devices seeking connection to one or more IoT platforms using a secure provisioning service. The secured provisioning service verifies and administers connection credentials to each IoT device, ensuring legitimate devices cannot be impersonated or controlled by unauthorized personnel. The provisioning service matches the IoT devices and metadata of each IoT device to the provisioning rules. Connection credentials and/or rules defining each IoT device's access to IoT platforms are based on the provisioning rules of the rules registry. Matching each IoT device to one or more provisioning rules offers flexibility to dynamically add, delete or amend one or more rules in a complex rules-based system, allowing for automatic updates to the connection credentials of each IoT device, wherein each IoT device can be provisioned or re-provisioned using the most up to date set of new or amended rules.
US11356434B2
A method of controlling an environment using a roaming electronic assistant. The method comprises receiving user environment setting preferences, user entertainment service authorizations, and user entertainment authorization credentials from devices in a home environment by an application executing on a computer system, establishing communication by the application with a destination location, receiving information about application programming interfaces (APIs) of devices located in the destination location by the application, establishing communication with the devices located in the destination location by the application based on the API information, whereby a presentation layer of the application is enabled to control the environment of the user at the destination location based on the user environment setting preferences, the user entertainment service authorizations, and the user entertainment authorization credentials.
US11356429B2
There is provided a method and system for securely coupling and transferring data between devices. In a preferred embodiment, the devices may comprise two devices, a transferring device and a receiving device, and both devices are mobile devices. Embodiments of the present invention allow the wireless transfer of data such as contacts, photo images, video files, or other data from one device to another device, without need for special hardware or cabling.
US11356423B2
In one embodiment, a network security device is configured to monitor data traffic between a first device and a second device. The network security device may be configured to intercept a first initial message of a first encrypted handshaking procedure for a first secure communication session between the first device and the second device, the first initial message specifying a hostname that has been encrypted using first key information associated with the network security device, decrypt at least a portion of the first initial message using the first key information to determine the hostname, re-encrypt the hostname using second key information associated with the second device, and send, to the second device, a second initial message of a second encrypted handshaking procedure for a second secure communication session between the network security device and the second device, the second initial message specifying the hostname re-encrypted using the second key information.
US11356422B2
A system and method used for generating encryption keys on multiple devices and for encrypted data transfer between two or multiple devices. A sender system includes at least one sender device with nonlinear I-V characteristics. A receiver system includes at least one receiver device with nonlinear I-V characteristics. The at least one sender device with nonlinear I-V characteristics generates at least one sender output value used to create a string of characters or bits or bytes or numbers. The string of characters is used to encrypt data which is sent to the receiver device. The at least one receiver device with nonlinear I-V characteristics generates at least one receiver output value, and uses the at least one receiver output value to create the string of characters from the at least one receiver output value. A receiver processing unit generates the data from the encrypted data using the string of characters.
US11356420B2
A single Internet of Things (IoT) gateway flow computer (either on a gateway machine or a non-gateway machine) that controls flow through both of the following types of gateways: (i) cloud gateways; and (ii) edge gateways. Both overall configuration and sub-configuration are automatically and dynamically controlled by the single, system-wide IoT gateway flow computer.
US11356418B2
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for using unencrypted communication tunnels. A first device intermediary between a client and a server may maintain an encrypted tunnel and an unencrypted tunnel with a second device intermediary between the client and the server. The first device may communicate, with the second device, at least one network address translation (NAT) rule via the encrypted tunnel. The first device may translate address information of a first packet, using the at least one NAT rule. The first device may send the first packet with the translated address information via the unencrypted tunnel, to the second device to reverse the translation of the address information using the at least one NAT rule.
US11356417B2
A private cloud routing server client device (PCRSCD) is disclosed which connects to a private cloud routing server (PCRS) by a connection based on whether the PCRS is in a same Local Area Network (LAN) as the PCRSCD and whether the PCRS is directly connected to the public cloud network.
US11356416B2
This application discloses a service flow control method and apparatus, to resolve an existing problem of relatively low security. The method includes: generating, by a terminal device, a service flow policy; and sending, by the terminal device, the service flow policy to a routing device, where the service flow policy is used to instruct the routing device to perform data packet filtering on a downlink data packet according to the service flow policy.
US11356415B2
A method and system for detecting impersonated network traffic by a protected computing device and a network protection system. The method includes the computing device receiving installation of a browser application, the browser application configured to generate requests to communicate with other computers via the World Wide Web and receiving a configuration for the browser application. The browser application is configured to obtain a short-lived password (SLP) in coordination with generating a request and insert the short-lived password into the generated request before transmitting the request. The SLP is synchronized with an expected value generated by the network protection system. The transmitted request is passed to the network protection system and treated as legitimate network traffic by the network protection system only if the network protection system detects and verifies the SLP.
US11356414B2
Embodiments described herein relate generally to network-based threat detection mechanisms. Specifically, embodiments described herein describe a communication mechanism that filters (e.g., allows or blocks) received communications according to an iterative security list.
US11356409B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for managing network address allocations using prefix allocation trees. In one embodiment, a request is received to allocate a network address block. The request specifying a prefix size for the network address block. A particular network address block having the prefix size that is allocatable is determined based at least in part on a prefix allocation tree representing the available and allocated network address space. The prefix allocation tree is updated to indicate that the particular network address block is allocated. An identification of the particular network address block is returned in response to the request to allocate the network address block.
US11356399B2
Disclosed is technique for a user context detection and interaction with a messaging service based on a user context in a messaging service environment. An interaction method of a mobile device may include acquiring information associated with a context of at least one of a mobile device and a user of the mobile device under control of an application installed and executed on the mobile device in association with a messaging service, determining a context of the user based on the acquired information, verifying a function to be provided to the user through the messaging service based on the determined context of the user, dynamically determining a configuration of a user interface based on the determined context of the user, and providing the function through the user interface of which the configuration is dynamically determined.
US11356394B2
A system and a method for processing a message on a processing platform, such as a Kafka processing platform, are provided. The method includes: acquiring a plurality of partitions from the messaging platform; designating a first partition from among the plurality of partitions as a sticky partition; generating a plurality of routing keys that are configured to route messages to the sticky partition; using a first routing key from among the plurality of routing keys to identify a first service subscription; subscribing to a second service using the first routing key; and receiving a message transmitted by the second service.
US11356391B2
A method of role-based collaboration includes accessing information about a project that includes tasks to be executed, and that includes roles for execution of the tasks, the information including the roles and specified team members assigned to the roles. The method includes creating a conferencing channel for the project, with role-based group membership. The method includes role-based joining the specified team members as group members of the conferencing channel. The specified team members are automatically joined as the group members, which automatically change contemporaneous with any corresponding changes in the specified team members assigned to the roles. The method further includes transferring messages between the group members and thereby the specified team members via the conferencing channel that is accessible to the specified team members from client software running on devices usable by the specified team members.
US11356387B1
Methods and systems for performing operations comprising: accessing one or more data objects including a data set that has been collected over a given span of time, the data set representing a plurality of parameters corresponding to resource utilization of a given server; computing first and second statistical measures based on the plurality of parameters; obtaining current resource utilization corresponding to at least a subset of the plurality of parameters; determining a first condition in which values of the current resource utilization exceed a first threshold associated with the first statistical measure; determining a second condition in which values of the data set corresponding to a time period associated with the current resource utilization exceed a second threshold associated with the second statistical measure; and triggering an anomaly detection operation in response to determining the first and second conditions.
US11356384B1
A state of resource allocation is represented as a matrix. Each intersection of a row and column of the matrix indicates a number of units of a resource being provided by a respective node and consumed by a respective client. The allocation is modeled using a characteristic equation of the matrix. The characteristic equation is applied to the matrix to find an eigenvalue indicating a degree of scale the allocation can tolerate. An eigenvector is found for the eigenvalue to determine a direction of scale. A prediction is made as to whether the current state can scale at least one of upwards or downwards by the eigenvector.
US11356379B1
Apparatus and method relating generally to a channelized communication system is disclosed. In such a method, a read signal and a switch control signal are generated by a controller. Received by channelized buffers are data words from multiple channels associated with groups of information and the read signal. The data words are read out from the channelized buffers responsive to the read signal. A switch receives the data words from the channelized buffers responsive to the read signal. A gap is inserted between the groups of information by the switch. One or more control words are selectively inserted in the gap by the switch responsive to the switch control signal. The switch control signal has indexes for selection of the data words and the control words.
US11356368B2
Techniques for ensuring that, in the context of network traffic load-balanced across a plurality of service devices connected to a network device, all of the bi-directional traffic between a given pair of hosts residing in different domains is sent to the same service device, where a “domain” is a group of one or more hosts/subnets that is reachable by a service device via an interface of that device. In one set of embodiments, these techniques can include (1) creating a load balancer group on the network device for each domain defined on the service devices, such that the load balancer group for a given domain D includes all of the service device interfaces mapped to D, (2) enabling symmetric hashing with respect to each load balancer group, and (3) synchronizing the hash tables of the load balancer groups such that a given hash bucket (across all hash tables) maps to an interface of a single service device.
US11356366B2
A system and method are disclosed for enabling interoperability between asymmetric and symmetric Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB) modes. A system is configured to receive a route advertisement, examine the label fields of the route advertisement, and determine whether Layer 2 or Layer 3 information is conveyed. The system is further configured to build a route advertisement to advertise to a second device based on whether Layer 2 or Layer 3 information is conveyed in the first route advertisement.
US11356364B2
Techniques are provided for intelligent routing to a node in a network, such as a transport computer. A gateway server may receive authorization requests from a resource provider computer. There may be multiple potential transport computers to which to potentially route the authorization requests, depending on relationships established between the parties. A routing decision may be made automatically based on real-time network measurements and/or static rules. Real-time network measurements may be obtained by monitoring transport computers for failures, delays, or other undesirable activity. The routing decisions may further be based on expected volumes (e.g., based on analysis of historical spikes in volume). The routing decisions may further be based on user-configured rules and preferences, received via a routing administration interface.
US11356363B2
A method includes receiving a message at a network bridge from a computer system where the network bridge stores a forwarding table. The method also includes determining a type of the message. The method also includes upon a determination that the type of message is a network notification message, determining whether data within the message corresponds to an entry within the forwarding table. The method also includes upon determining that the data within the message corresponds to the entry within the forwarding table, halting a transmission of the message. The method also includes upon determining that the data within the message does not correspond to the entry in the forwarding table, transmitting the message to a device in communication with the network bridge.
US11356360B2
The present technology relates to an information processor, an information processing method, and a program that are able to convey information with a higher reliability. An information processor according to an aspect of the present technology generates a conveyance route as a route to a node of a conveyance destination, the conveyance route including, as transit nodes, a node of a device and a node of a person, and outputs information that indicates a conveyance content along the conveyance route. The present technology is applicable to an agent apparatus that assists an action of a user.
US11356355B1
Embodiments of the invention are directed to utilizing an extension to software defined networking (SDN) to manage storage area networks (SANs) by receiving, at a switch configured with and managed by a SDN architecture, at least one table. The at least one table being operable in the SDN architecture and including routing information. The switch routes traffic over a SAN using the routing information in the at least one table.
US11356354B2
Systems and methods provide congruent bidirectional Segment Routing (SR) tunnels, namely congruent and fate-shared traffic forwarding for bidirectional SR tunnels. A bidirectional SR tunnel, as described herein, includes two unidirectional SR tunnels where the forward and reverse traffic directions follow the same path through the network when forwarded based on prefix and adjacency Segment Identifiers (SIDs). The term “congruent” is used herein to refer to the fact that the two unidirectional SR tunnels, i.e., the forward and reverse traffic directions, follow the same path through the network but in opposite directions. The guarantee of congruency is based on modification of the Segment Identifier (SID) configuration at the source nodes of each tunnel. Accordingly, the present disclosure maintains compatibility with existing Segment Routing configurations with the modifications solely at the source nodes.
US11356350B2
Internet of Things (IoT) event objects can be tailored to specific device types and capabilities. An IoT event object can use a flexible definition of an event that can be reconfigured. An IoT event object allows for the ability to set different triggering conditions and priorities. Individual event definitions can be extended to create more complex events. A Notification Handler supports sending a request or command in response to an event that requires action.
US11356349B2
Communications services are provided to a device. For instance, where a communications resource is being used by a device via a first communications service provider (CSP) component associated with a first CSP, based on a probabilistic analysis of loading parameters received from a device at the first CSP component. A likelihood that the device will move can be predicted, comprising determining the likelihood is not less than a threshold likelihood. If likely to move, and based on the loading parameters, a loading profile associated with a user of the device is updated resulting in updated likelihoods of usages of the communication resource by the device via respective other CSP components other than the first CSP component. Further, based on the updated likelihoods of usages of the communication resource, at least part of the communications resource can be allocated to the respective other CSP components to facilitate communications with the device.
US11356347B2
The method includes obtaining latency-related data of a VNF for performance monitoring; and evaluating performance of the VNF based on the latency-related data.
US11356343B2
An example embodiment may involve performing a discovery process to identify configuration items representing computing devices and applications in a managed network and determining that the configuration items exceed a threshold payload size. The embodiment may then involve generating a graph that represents the configuration items as nodes interconnected by unidirectional edges. The edges may represent respective associations between pairs of configuration items to which they connect, and the respective associations are classified either as weak associations that represent non-dependency relationships between a respective pair of nodes or as strong associations that represent dependency relationships between the respective pair of nodes. The embodiment may involve dividing the graph into overlapping sub-graphs based on the respective associations represented by the edges and, for each sub-graph, separately transmitting the configuration items defined therein to one or more server devices.
US11356342B2
This disclosure describes techniques for providing a network diagnostic system with on-premise node processing and cloud node processing to optimize bandwidth usage and decrease memory footprint. The on-premise node may receive streaming telemetry from connected network devices and encode to the telemetry data into filtered data objects. The on-premise node may determine whether the state of a network device has changed to determine to push the filtered data object to a cloud node for further diagnostic analysis. The cloud node may include a gateway and a pool of proxy servers, wherein each proxy server is designated to perform diagnostic analysis on a single product type.
US11356340B2
Examples of an apparatus and method for provisioning a service are described. Descriptors are described that represent the service. These are accessed and used to determine a reference required to implement the service. The reference indicates a type of entity and an entity to be passed to a function. The descriptor for the service is instantiated to obtain an instance of the service. This includes obtaining an instance of the type of entity indicated by the reference.
US11356337B2
Various embodiments of a system and method for tracking service requests are described. Embodiments may include call tree generation logic configured to receive multiple request identifiers associated with a respective one of multiple service requests. Each given request identifier may include an origin identifier, a depth value, and a request stack comprising one or more interaction identifiers. The call tree generation logic may also be configured to, based on multiple request identifiers that each include an origin identifier associated with a particular root request, generating a data structure that specifies a hierarchy of services called to fulfill that particular root request. Based on one or more of the interaction identifiers and one or more of the depth values, the generated data structure may specify for each given service of the hierarchy: a parent service that called the given service, and one or more child services called by the given service.
US11356331B2
Wireless configuration diagnosis framework may be provided. A label for a choreography comprising a sequence of frames to be exchanged between a first access point and a first client device may be created by a controller. A reference footprint for the choreography may be created. The reference footprint may comprise, for each frame of the sequence of frames, a frame type, an information element for the frame type, and a bit value for the information element. The reference footprint may be sent to the first access point. A plurality of frames exchanged between the first access point and the first client device associated with the choreography and an outcome for the choreography may be received from the first access point in response to the choreography being triggered.
US11356318B2
Examples herein describe systems and methods for self-healing in a Telco network function virtualization cloud. KPI attributes for virtual network functions can be mapped to physical fault notifications to create synthesized alerts. The synthesized alerts can include information from both a virtual and physical layer, allowing a self-healing action framework to determine root causes of problems in the Telco cloud. Remedial actions can then be performed in either the virtual or physical layer of the Telco cloud. Remedial actions in one layer can be based on root causes identified in the other, which can allow for remediation before network downtime occurs.
US11356307B2
One aspect of the present invention includes a bi-phase communication receiver system. The system includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to sample a bi-phase modulation signal to generate digital samples of the bi-phase modulation signal. The system also includes a bi-phase signal decoder configured to decode the bi-phase modulation signal based on the digital samples. The system further includes a preamble detector comprising a digital filter configured to evaluate the digital samples to generate an output and to detect a preamble of the bi-phase modulation signal for decoding the bi-phase modulation signal based on the output.
US11356305B2
Various embodiments may employ neural networks at transmitting devices to compress transmit (TX) waveform distortion. In various embodiments, compressed TX waveform distortion information may be conveyed to a receiving device. In various embodiments, the signaling of TX waveform distortion information from a transmitting device to a receiving device may enable a receiving device to mitigate waveform distortion in a transmit waveform received from the transmitting device. Various embodiments include systems and methods of wireless communication by transmitting a waveform to a receiving device performed by a processor of a transmitting device. Various embodiments include systems and methods of wireless communication by receiving a waveform from a transmitting device performed by a processor of a receiving device.
US11356303B2
Systems and methods for electronic devices including two or more semiconductor devices coupled via an interconnect. The interconnect includes multiple lanes each having a link between the first and second semiconductor devices. One or more lanes of the multiple lanes each include clock and data recovery circuitry to perform full clock and data recovery. One or more other lanes of the multiple lanes each do not include clock and data recovery circuitry and instead includes a phase adjustment and clock multiplier circuit that is slave to clock and data recovery circuitry of the one or more lanes.
US11356298B2
An access management apparatus is presented which is capable of realizing integrated access management based on an access management policy set independently of protocols of a plurality of processing systems. The access management apparatus is provided with a gateway including an access management function unit that is connected between an access source (AS) and a plurality of processing systems (PS), and that is configured to receive an access request from the access source (AS), and to control the access request based on the set access management policy.
US11356297B2
A user station for a bus system and a method for transmitting a message at different bit rates in a bus system is provided. The user station includes a communication control unit for creating a message for at least one further user station of the bus system. The communication control unit is designed to provide in the message a first phase to be transmitted at a first bit rate, and to provide a second phase to be transmitted at a second bit rate, which is faster or slower than the first bit rate. The communication control unit is designed to provide in the message between the first and second phase a predetermined bit pattern for a bit rate switchover between the first and second bit rate. The predetermined bit pattern includes, both before and after the bit rate switchover, a flank for synchronization.
US11356292B2
A building system of a building including one or more memory devices having instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to identify a capability of an entity in a building graph, the building graph including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, the plurality of nodes representing entities of the building including the entity and the capability, the plurality of edges representing relationships between the entities of the building and the capability. The instructions cause the one or more processors to receive a command to perform an operation associated with the entity, the operation associated with the capability of the entity and provide the command to perform the operation associated with the entity to an operating system.
US11356271B2
Systems and methods for providing a trusted keystore are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for providing a trusted keystore may include: (1) selecting and storing a root Keyblock Protection Key (KBPK) in a trusted domain; (2) for each key class: creating a keyblock with a class KBPK; and storing the keyblock in an untrusted keystore in an unfrosted domain; (3) loading keyblocks to a trusted key manager in the trusted domain; (4) decrypting the keyblocks with an encryption class key; (5) verifying the keyblocks under a MAC class key; (6) loading class keyblocks to the trusted key manager from the untrusted keystore; (7) writing the keyblocks to the untrusted keystore; and (8) writing class keyblock MACs in a hierarchy to the untrusted keystore. A number of levels in the hierarchy is based on an amount of available storage in the trusted domain.
US11356263B2
A computer-implemented method is described for enabling recovery of one or more digital assets held on a blockchain by a user under a public key Pk after a corresponding private key Sk for accessing the one or more digital assets is lost. The computer implemented method comprises setting access for the one or more digital assets held on the blockchain under the public key Pk and accessible using the corresponding private key Sk of the user such that the one or more digital assets are also accessible using a private key x shared by a congress on the blockchain network, the congress comprising a group of users on the blockchain network, each member of the congress having a private key share xi, the private key share xi to be used in a threshold signature scheme in which at least a threshold of private key shares must be used to generate a valid signature through the combination of partial signatures of the congress to access the one or more digital assets on behalf of the user. If the private key Sk is lost then the congress can be notified to access the one or more digital assets on behalf of the user, the user proving their identity to the congress by providing a recovery password.
US11356253B2
To propose a technique for solving a key delivery problem. Both of a client and a server have a function of generating the same solution at the same date and time based on the same initial solution. The client sends identification information for identifying the client to the server (S1002). The client and the server generate the same solution with time synchronization based on the initial solution (S1003 and S2002). The client and the server perform encrypted communication using the same key as a common key (S1004 and S2003).
US11356249B2
A method for regulating modification of a distributed digital ledger at a node comprises controlling access to a cryptographic key used to enable modification of the distributed digital ledger according to a policy maintained by at least one owner of the distributed digital ledger.
US11356245B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for data tracing are provided. One of the methods includes: receiving a data backtracking request, the data backtracking request comprising a version identifier of a first data version of a target object; obtaining, from the blockchain, version identifiers of a plurality of second data versions of the target object and a plurality of data blocks in the blockchain, wherein the second data versions comprise an initial data version of the target object, and at least one of the obtained data blocks comprises a version identifier of the initial data version; and determining, based on the version identifier of the initial data version, data content corresponding to the initial data version of the target object.
US11356243B2
Object to be solved is to achieve novel information management. In order to solve the above circumstances, the present invention provides an information management system including: a blockchain stored in first and second nodes, in which the first or second node includes an authenticating means that executes an authentication process on a basis of feature data, the first node includes a first signing means that generates a first transaction signature and adds the first transaction signature to an unfinalized block in the blockchain, the second node includes a second signing means that generates a second transaction signature and adds the second transaction signature to the unfinalized block on a basis of a result of the authentication process and the first transaction signature, and the first node includes a chain updating means that hashes the unfinalized block and generates a block on a basis of the second transaction signature. According to the present invention, management of transaction on a network can be secured on the basis of individual authentication.
US11356233B2
This application provides an information transmission method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: receiving downlink control information DCI, where the DCI includes indication information, the indication information indicates at least one demodulation reference signal DMRS antenna port group and layer information of downlink data, the at least one DMRS antenna port group is one or more of a plurality of DMRS antenna port groups, and DMRS antenna ports in a same DMRS antenna port group satisfy a quasi co-location QCL relationship; and determining, based on the indication information, a DMRS antenna port occupied by the downlink data. According to embodiments of this application, a DMRS antenna port can be indicated when DMRS antenna ports are grouped.
US11356231B2
Short Control Channel Elements (SCCE) to Short Resource Element Groups (SREG) mapping for Short Physical Downlink Control Channel (SPDCCH) is provided. A User Equipment (UE) receives a communication from a base station; determines a mapping between one or more SCCE and corresponding SREG; and processes the communication based on the mapping. A base station determines a mapping between one or more SCCE and corresponding SREG for a communication to a UE and transmits a communication to the UE based on the mapping. In this way, the localized and distributed SCCE to SREG mapping for CRS-based SPDCCH is defined. Also, the SCCE to SREG mapping for 2 and 3 OFDM symbols DMRS-based SPDCCH is defined. For DMRS-based SPDCCH, a distributed configuration at SCCE level is defined. This may improve latency and can improve the average throughput of a communications system. Radio resource efficiency could be positively impacted by latency reductions.
US11356230B2
Disclosed in the present invention are a channel transmission method and device. The method includes that: a terminal determines transmission time corresponding to a first channel as a first moment, wherein a Band Width Part (BWP) activated by the terminal presently is a first BWP; the terminal receives first control information from a network device, wherein the first control information includes first indication information, and the first indication information is to indicate that a to-be-activated BWP is a second BWP; and the terminal transmits no first channel at the first moment when the first BWP and the second BWP meet a predetermined rule.
US11356226B2
The invention relates methods for triggering channel quality feedback for at least one of plural component carriers of a communication system available for downlink transmission. The invention suggests a mechanism for triggering channel quality feedback from a terminal where the downlink control signaling overhead for the selection of component carrier(s) to be reported on is minimized. One aspect of the invention is a new interpretation of a predetermined format for dedicated control information comprising a CQI request flag, which is depending on the status of the CQI request flag. In case the CQI request flag is set at least one further bit of the dedicated control information is interpreted as information indicative of the one or more component carriers available for downlink transmission to the terminal and the terminal is providing channel quality feedback on the channel quality experienced on the indicated component carrier or component carriers.
US11356219B2
In the method of present application, a terminal device obtains resource indication information. The resource indication information indicates frequency domain resources of a data channel of a terminal device. The resource indication information comprises S bits, where S is a positive integer. The terminal device determines the frequency domain resources of the data channel of the terminal device based on the resource indication information.
US11356214B2
An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal; a power normalizer configured to reduce power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing time-interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling start position information and size information for each of Physical Layer Pipes (PLPs). In this case, the Physical Layer Pipes include a core layer physical layer pipe corresponding to the core layer signal and an enhanced layer physical layer pipe corresponding to the enhanced layer signal.
US11356209B2
A communication method and a communications device are disclosed. A first device in a communications system separately sends, to a second device, responses used to indicate a transmission result of target data: a first response and a second response. An indication manner of the first response is different from an indication manner of the second response. This approach can improve flexibility of a response indication manner. Therefore, the communications system can flexibly adjust indication manners of responses sent at different times to ensure indication precision of the responses while reducing transmission resources of the responses.
US11356206B2
Methods, systems, and devices related to related to digital wireless communication, and more specifically, to techniques related to transmitting data and feedback data between network elements is disclosed. In one exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication includes transmitting data from a first network element to a second network element. The method also includes receiving, at the first network element, feedback data from the second network element, where the feedback data includes a highest delivered packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) sequence number (SN) and information indicative of a range of data that has been successfully delivered to a terminal. The method also includes retransmitting at least a portion of the data from the first network element based on the feedback data.
US11356203B2
An embodiment of the present invention discloses a data sending and receiving method. A first FEC unit of a sending device sends, by using a first channel, a first data stream on which first FEC encoding has been performed; a second FEC unit of the sending device sends, by using a second channel, a second data stream on which second FEC encoding has been performed; and the sending device performs interleaving on the first data stream and the second data stream, to obtain an output data stream, and sends the output data stream to a receiving device and error correction capability of a receiving device could be improved. In addition, in the present invention, an operation of writing by row and reading by column does not need to be performed. Therefore, no delay is generated.
US11356180B2
Consistent with the present disclosure a network is provided that includes a primary node and a plurality of secondary nodes. The primary node, as well as each of the secondary nodes, includes a laser that is “shared” between the transmit and receive sections. That is, light output from the laser is used for transmission as well as for coherent detection. In the coherent receiver, the frequency of the primary node laser is detected and, based on such detected frequency, the frequency of the secondary node laser is adjusted to detect the received information or data. Such frequency detection also serves to adjust the transmitted signal frequency, because the laser is shared between the transmit and receive portions in each secondary receiver. Light output from the primary node laser, which is also shared between transmit and receive portions in the primary node, is thus also set to a frequency that permits detection of each of the incoming optical signals by way of coherent detection. Since, in this example, only one laser is employed in the primary node, the primary node may have a simpler design and may be less expensive to manufacture compared to a primary node having multiple local oscillator lasers, each associated with a corresponding uplink optical signal.
US11356174B1
Systems, methods, and computer-executable programs are provided for estimating margin in a network path. A method, according to one implementation, includes the step of executing a section-based analysis by estimating a margin parameter for each section of a plurality of sections forming a path through a network. The margin parameter is related to at least an available Optical Signal-to-Noise Ratio (OSNR) parameter and a Required OSNR (ROSNR) parameter. The method further includes the step of combining the estimated margin parameters for the plurality of sections to obtain a section-based estimate. In response to determining that the section-based estimate falls outside an acceptable confidence range, the method includes executing an additional path-based analysis to modify the estimate of the margin parameter.
US11356173B2
A computationally efficient real-time photonic cyclic autocorrelation function (CAF) analysis device and method are disclosed. In embodiments, the CAF analyzer generates a photonic carrier which is converted into upper and lower comb signals (comprising a set of N tones) by upper and lower optical frequency comb generators (OFCG), the lower comb signal offset from the upper. An inbound radio frequency (RF) signal is received and modulates the upper and lower comb signals via amplitude modulation. An optical delay line (e.g., ring resonator) introduces a delay into the modulated lower comb signal. The upper and lower comb signals are demultiplexed into their modulated frequency component and sent to a bank of N coherent I/Q receivers, which generate a slice of the CAF for the received RF signal based on the selected delay.
US11356171B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described and may include a user terminal and a satellite establishing a communication link over a channel having a channel delay and a medium access control-control element (MAC-CE) delay being determined based on the channel delay. The user terminal and the satellite may be within a non-terrestrial network (NTN). The user terminal may receive a MAC-CE command that indicates a communication parameter to be implemented or adjusted. The user terminal may transmit feedback, for example, to the satellite in response to the MAC-CE command, and the user terminal and the satellite may communicate according to the communication parameter in the MAC-CE command after an end of the MAC-CE delay.
US11356170B2
The present invention provides a method of reducing interference caused by an aerial vehicle in a mobile communications system, the method comprising arranging for the aerial vehicle to steer radio transmissions when the aerial vehicle is airborne such that a direction of the transmissions is adjusted to be directed vertically downward.
US11356162B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE determines to report CSI reports. The UE determines that a first CSI report and a second CSI report to be reported contain same CSI information. The UE determines that total processing units required for updating the first CSI report and the second CSI report to be processing units required for updating one of the first CSI report and the second CSI report. The UE updates the first CSI report and the second CSI report based on a same CSI calculation.
US11356161B2
Fast calculation of channel state information using demodulation reference signals (DM-RS) is provided herein. The channel state information can be calculated by estimating the signal to noise ratio of a communication link based on the DM-RS, and then estimating the channel quality indicator based on the SINR. The advanced receivers can use list-based detection methods which the estimated SINR can improve the performance thereof. Channel state information is traditionally calculated based on the channel state reference signals (CS-RS). Demodulation reference signals, which are used for channel estimation for a data channel, are transmitted at different times than CS-RS however, and so some portions of the channel state information including layer indicator (LI) and channel quality indicator (CQI) can be calculated based on the demodulation reference signals, allowing a network to adapt more quickly to changing channel conditions, without having to transmit a CS-RS.
US11356157B2
A device and method for improving the accuracy of angle of arrival and departure computations is disclosed. The device and method rely on manipulation of the antenna switching pattern to achieve an improved calculation of arrival angle. In one embodiment, the device calculates an estimate angle of arrival using conventional methods. The device then determines which of a plurality of different antenna switching pattern yields the more accurate results at this estimated angle of arrival. The AoA measurement is then repeated using the preferred antenna switching pattern. In another embodiment, the device captures the amplitude and/or phase of the signal from each antenna element. The device then sorts these antenna elements and defines a preferred antenna switching pattern based on the sort list. The AoA measurement is then performed using the preferred antenna switching pattern. In another embodiment, neural networks may be utilized to determine the preferred antenna switching pattern.
US11356150B2
The present invention concerns a cellular communication network having a base station serving a radio cell and at least one user equipment located within the radio cell, wherein the base station is configured to receive a radio signal from the user equipment and to determine at least one signal property of the received radio signal, wherein the base station is further configured to assign a user equipment identifier to the user equipment based on the a least one determined signal property. The present invention further concerns a base station to be used in the above mentioned cellular network as well as corresponding methods.
US11356145B2
A wireless charging method and apparatus are provided. Identification information is transmitted, through a near field communication antenna, to a wireless power transmitter for an authentication process of the electronic device, if the electronic device is put on the wireless power transmitter for wireless charging and a near field communication controller is in an initial or idle state. Wireless power is received through a wireless power receiving antenna from the wireless power transmitter after the authentication process. Wireless charging is performed through a wireless charging controller by using the received wireless power. It is determined whether the wireless charging is complete. A charging completion signal is transmitted, through the near field communication antenna, to the wireless power transmitter based on the determining.
US11356132B2
A radio frequency module includes a module board, a transmission power amplifier, a first inductance element mounted on a first principal surface and connected to an output terminal of the transmission power amplifier, a reception low-noise amplifier, and a second inductance element mounted on a first principal surface connected to an input terminal of the reception low-noise amplifier. In a plan view of the module board, a conductive member mounted on the first principal surface is disposed between the first inductance element and the second inductance element.
US11356125B2
An integrated circuit comprises an input, a digital step attenuator, an analog-to-digital converter, a first output, a second output, a first bandwidth filter, a first band attack detector, a first band decay detector, a second bandwidth filter, a second band attack detector, a second band decay detector, and an automatic gain control. The ADC is configured to output a digital signal including a first and a second frequency range. The first and second bandwidth filters are configured to extract respective digital signals comprising the first and second frequency ranges. The band attack and decay detectors are configured to detect band peaks or decays thereof such that the DSA and External AMP may be controlled by means of the AGC based on the detected band peaks or decays, and ADC attack and ADC decay.
US11356123B2
Memory controllers, decoders and methods to selectively perform bit-flipping (BF) decoding and min-sum (MS) decoding on codewords of an irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) code. Bit-flipping (BF) decoding is executed with respect to variable nodes having relatively high column weights. MS decoding is executed with respect to variable nodes having relatively low column weights. A column-weight threshold is used to group the variable nodes into the higher and lower column weight groups. The two decoding techniques exchange results during the overall decoding process.
US11356122B2
A communication device includes a first alignment circuit configured to receive, from a host device, a first encoded data stream including a plurality of symbols encoded with a first type of error correction code. The first alignment circuit is configured to output an aligned first encoded data stream that is aligned to boundaries between the plurality of symbols encoded with the first type of error correction code. An interleaver is configured to interleave the plurality of symbols of the aligned first encoded data stream into symbol sections each including a predetermined number of symbols encoded with the first type of error correction code. An encoder is configured to generate, for each of the symbol sections, a parity block corresponding to the symbols in the symbol section and to output a second encoded data stream including the aligned first encoded data stream and the parity block.
US11356082B2
A device includes a first ramp generator having a first ramp generator output configured to provide a first ramp, a second ramp generator having a second ramp generator output configured to provide a second ramp, and a third ramp generator having a third ramp generator output configured to provide a third ramp. The first ramp is a sawtooth voltage waveform having a first common mode voltage and a first peak-to-peak voltage. The second ramp is a sawtooth voltage waveform having a second common mode voltage and a second peak-to-peak voltage. The third ramp is a sawtooth voltage waveform having a third common mode voltage and a third peak-to-peak voltage. A frequency of the second ramp is approximately equal to a frequency of the third ramp, and the frequency of the third ramp is approximately double a frequency of the first ramp.
US11356078B2
Systems, methods, and devices for reducing insertion loss and/or swapping transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) frequencies in an electrical balance duplexer (EBD) used in a transceiver device for frequency division duplexing (FDD) applications are provided. Feed-forward receiver path from the antenna to a low noise amplifier (LNA) and a feed-forward path from the antenna to a power amplifier (PA) of the EBD may be used for reducing insertion loss of the RX and TX signals. In some embodiments, switches may be used to selectively alter operational modes for varied levels of isolation and/or swapping of TX and RX frequencies.
US11356072B2
Customizable tunable filters are provided herein. In certain implementations, a tunable filter including: a first filter bank including a plurality of high-pass filters each having a different cutoff frequency, and a second filter bank including a plurality of low-pass filters each having a different cutoff frequency. The tunable filter further includes a first pair of switches configured to select a first filter chosen from the first filter bank, and a second pair of switches configured to select a second filter chosen from the second filter bank. The tunable filter operates with a first cutoff frequency of the first filter and with a second cutoff frequency of the second filter.
US11356058B1
An example voltage controlled oscillator includes an inductor, a capacitor coupled to the inductor, and a signal source coupled to the inductor and the capacitor to sustain an oscillating signal. The voltage controlled oscillator includes a first varactor coupled to the inductor and the capacitor, wherein the first varactor is biased by a first bias voltage and is configured to change a frequency of the oscillating signal based on a first control voltage signal. The voltage controlled oscillator includes a second varactor coupled to the inductor, the capacitor, and the first varactor, wherein the second varactor is biased by a second bias voltage and is configured to compensate temperature variation of the frequency of the oscillating signal over a plurality of frequency bands based on second control voltage signal.
US11356057B2
In-package temperature is controlled with higher accuracy. To this end, a temperature control circuit includes a temperature sensor arranged in a package and detecting temperature in the package, a heater current detection circuit detecting a driving amount of a heater, a target temperature generation circuit generating a target temperature from an intended temperature of a resonator and a detection value of the driving amount detected by the heater current detection circuit, a heater current driver controlling the heater so that the detection temperature detected by the temperature sensor coincides with the target temperature, and an Nth-order correction circuit receiving the detection value of the driving amount detected by the heater current detection circuit or a signal based on the target temperature and cancelling influence of a second or higher order fluctuation component generated in the heater current detection circuit on temperature of the resonator.
US11356052B2
The present disclosure describes an energy device with a solar module having a form factor configured to be inserted into and to match an inner portion of a coin-type cell holder of an electronic device. The solar module includes one or more photovoltaic cells to capture energy from ambient light and a pair of electrodes. The energy device may be configured to provide, to the electronic device via contact with the coin-type cell holder, electric energy produced from the ambient light energy. The solar module may include a converter module to convert the ambient light energy into the electric energy. The energy device may also include an energy storage module and/or a power management module that are stackable below the solar module with electrical connectivity to the solar module, and that combined with the solar module have the appropriate form factor for the coin-type cell holder.
US11356041B2
A motor starter and a method for starting an electric motor are disclosed. In an embodiment, the motor starter includes a phase gating unit and a control unit. The phase gating unit is configured to be deactivated via the control unit after an activity period of the phase gating unit has elapsed and is configured to be deactivated during operation after the activity period has elapsed.
US11356034B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a multi-level inverter clamping modulation method and apparatus, and an inverter. Switching elements of an inverter are controlled when an output voltage of the inverter crosses zero, and switching elements in each inverter bridge arm of an active clamp multi-level inverter include an internal tube, an external tube, and a clamping tube. The internal tube and the external tube are connected in series between a positive bus and a negative bus, the clamping tube is connected between a common terminal of the internal tube and the external tube and a bus, the internal tube is a low-frequency switching element, and the external tube and the clamping tube are high-frequency switching elements.
US11356032B2
A method for operating switching elements of a multilevel energy converter using at least three electric potentials and to which a multiphase electrical machine is connected. Switching elements of the multilevel energy converter are operated in a predefined clock mode by corresponding switching signals. The switching signals for the switching elements are each assigned to one of the phases and are determined in accordance with each desired voltage signal, in order to apply a phase voltage to each phase of the multiphase electrical machine. The switching signals are determined additionally in accordance with a predefined overlaying voltage signal such that an overlaying voltage dependent on the overlaying voltage signal is overlaid onto each phase voltage.
US11356025B2
System and method for protecting a power converter. The system includes a first comparator configured to receive a first threshold signal and a first signal and to generate a first comparison signal. The first signal is associated with an input current for a power converter. Additionally, the system includes a second comparator configured to receive a second threshold signal and the first signal and to generate a second comparison signal. The second threshold signal is different from the first threshold signal in magnitude. Moreover, the system includes a first detection component configured to receive at least the second comparison signal, detect the second comparison signal only if one or more predetermined conditions are satisfied, and generate a first detection signal based on at least information associated with the detected second comparison signal.
US11356018B2
A charge pump includes an intermediate node capacitively coupled to receive a first clock signal oscillating between a ground and positive supply voltage, the intermediate node generating a first signal oscillating between a first and second voltage. A level shifting circuit shifts the first signal in response to a second clock signal to generate a second signal oscillating between first and third voltages. A CMOS switching circuit includes a first transistor having a source coupled to an input, a second transistor having a source coupled to an output and a gate coupled to receive the second signal. A common drain of the CMOS switching circuit is capacitively coupled to receive the first clock signal. When positively pumping, the first voltage is twice the second voltage and the third voltage is ground. When negatively pumping, the first and third voltages are of opposite polarity and the second voltage is ground.
US11356011B2
Provided are examples of electromagnetic interference (EMI) filters for reducing radiated EMI in power converters. An example EMI filter includes a common mode (CM) choke located on an input cable connected to a first side of a converter a first set of Y-capacitors located between a primary ground (PGND) node of the converter and a secondary ground (SGND) node of the converter, and a second set of Y-capacitors located between the first side of the converter and the SGND node. A first shielding may be connected to the SGND node. One or more additional shieldings may be inside the first shielding and connected to one of the PGND node or the SGND node. The converter may be one or more of an isolated converter, an LLC resonant power converter, a Flyback converter, a forward converter, or a push-pull power converter.
US11356010B2
A controller comprising a regulation circuit and a frequency request circuit. The regulation circuit configured to receive a signal representative of an output and a reference representative of a desired value of the output, the regulation circuit configured to output a regulation signal in response to a difference between the signal and the reference. The frequency request circuit configured to receive the regulation signal and outputs an increment signal representative of a request to increase a switching frequency and a decrement signal representative of a request to decrease the switching frequency in response to the regulation signal. The frequency request circuit configured to assert the increment signal when the output is less than the desired value for a duration longer than a first period and assert the decrement signal when the output is greater than the desired value for a duration longer than a second period.
US11356006B2
An electric machine includes a machine rotor circumscribed by a machine stator, and having a rotor shaft, rotor stack, and end cap which rotate about an axis. The end cap includes lobes equal in number to a number of pole pairs of the machine rotor. A position sensor assembly has a predetermined alignment with the machine rotor and stator. The sensor assembly includes a sensor rotor formed by the lobes and a sensor stator having a printed circuit board with conductive sine and cosine traces. Machine rotor rotation causes the sensor assembly to output an unmodulated sine and cosine signals to a controller, which then calculates a calibrated reference angle. A magnetic axis of an electrical phase of the machine is aligned with and bisects a peak of the sine trace. A direct axis of the machine rotor aligns with an edge of a lobe.
US11355999B2
A method for cooling an electrical machine includes the following steps: guiding a coolant in an axial coolant supply line which is arranged in the rotor shaft, and conducting the coolant into an interior chamber of the electrical machine via a radial coolant supply line which is connected in a coolant-conducting manner to the axial coolant supply line. The electrical machine has an axial coolant supply line and at least one radial coolant supply line connected in a coolant-conducting manner to the axial coolant supply line, both of which are arranged in the rotor shaft. An interior chamber of the electrical machine is connected in a coolant-guiding manner to the radial coolant supply line.
US11355992B2
An electric machine (10) has a rotor (15) and a stator (11). The rotor (15) has a rotor shaft (16) and a rotor laminated core (17). The stator (11) has a housing (12) with a housing cover (14) and a stator laminated core (13). The rotor shaft (16) is mounted rotatably in the housing (12) via bearings (18, 19). Each bearing (18, 19) has a bearing inner ring (18a, 19a) that bears against the rotor shaft (16), and a bearing outer ring (18b, 19b) that bears against the housing (12). Sections (24) of the housing (12) against which the respective bearing outer ring (18b, 19b) bears are formed from a light metal alloy material or a light metal material that has a transformed material structure such that the housing (12) is of electrically insulating configuration in these sections (24).
US11355990B2
This drive device is provided with a motor section (2) and a wheel (102) which is connected to the output section (44) of the motor section (2) and which rotates. The wheel (102) has a circular plate-shaped disk section (104) which is affixed to the output section (44), and a rim section (105) which extends in the axial direction of the output section (44) from the outer periphery of the disk section (104) and on which a tire (103) is mounted. The disk section (104) is provided with a rib (116) surrounding the periphery of the motor section (2).
US11355979B2
A motor includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor includes: a plurality of rotor core segments arranged along a circumferential direction of the rotor on the inner side or the outer side of the stator and spaced apart from one another to define a plurality of permanent magnet arrangement slots between the plurality of rotor core segments, a plurality of permanent magnets inserted into the plurality of permanent magnet arrangement slots, respectively, a rotor frame that couples the plurality of rotor core segments and the plurality of permanent magnets to each to other, and an outer ring that is made of a non-magnetic material and that surrounds an outer end of the plurality of rotor core segments and an outer end of the plurality of permanent magnets. The plurality of rotor core segments and the plurality of permanent magnets are alternately arranged along the circumferential direction of the rotor.
US11355971B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for transmitting data in a wireless power transmission system. The method for transmitting data by a wireless power transmitter in a wireless power transmission system may comprise the steps of: receiving from a wireless power receiver, within a first control error interval, a first control error packet containing a control error value with respect to power transmitted from the wireless power transmitter; determining the size of a first data packet on the basis of the length of the first control error interval; and transmitting the first data packet to the wireless power receiver.
US11355970B2
According to various embodiments, a wireless power transmission device comprises: a first-scheme communication circuit; a power source for generating a source signal; a power transmission circuit for forming an RF wave on the basis of the source signal; and a control circuit, wherein the control circuit can be configured to receive, from an electronic device supporting first-scheme communication and second-scheme communication, a communication signal including information on a communication environment according to the second-scheme communication through the first-scheme communication circuit, and to control, on the basis of the information on the communication environment according to the second-scheme communication, the frequency of the source signal generated by the power source and/or the transmission strength of the RF wave. Other various embodiments are possible.
US11355958B2
Where an Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) is used in a system to ensure highly reliable power supply to an electronic system, occasional maintenance or repair of the UPS or its storage batteries may be required. Effecting this servicing while ensuring that the utility power continues to be supplied to the load may involve a Maintenance Bypass Assembly (MBA) comprising a plurality of manually-operated circuit breakers. The possibility of an incorrect actuation of such circuit breakers is precluded by the coordination of a plurality of electromechanically actuated circuit breakers in communication with a controller that may store a table of permitted state transitions and sequences for safe operation. Such operation may be confirmed by one or more sensors monitored by the controller.
US11355945B2
A compensation device (20) for compensating for a discharge current has a compensation current generation device (28), a potential generation device (150), active conductor terminals (61, 62, 63, 64) and a PE conductor terminal (65), which active conductor terminals (61, 62, 63, 64) have a first active conductor terminal (61) and a second active conductor terminal (62; 64), which potential generation device (150) is interconnected with the first active conductor terminal (61) and has a potential generation device terminal (155), which potential generation device (150) is designed to provide a potential at the potential generation device terminal (155) which at least temporarily differs from the potential at the first active conductor terminal (61), and which compensation current generation device (28) is designed to effect a compensation current (I_COMP) between the potential generation device terminal (155) and the PE conductor terminal (65).
US11355942B2
A car charger includes a main body, a charging slot, and a charging module. The main body has an insertion portion and a top portion. The charging slot is located at the top portion. The charging slot has a concave surrounding wall, and the surrounding wall has a receiving space. The charging module includes an input terminal, a first charging terminal, and a conversion circuit. The input terminal is located at the insertion portion. The first charging terminal is located at the surrounding wall. The conversion circuit is electrically connected to the input terminal and the first charging terminal. The conversion circuit is configured to convert power from the input terminal and output the power to the first charging terminal.
US11355939B2
A device discharges an intermediate circuit capacitor. The device includes a power converter for supplying electricity to an electrical machine powering a vehicle, having the intermediate circuit capacitor and a discharge device with a series circuit of a controllable switching element and a load resistor, and a high-voltage battery feeding the power converter on the input side. The power converter has a control equipment to control the switching element, depending on a signal state at an input of the control equipment, to perform a fixed predefined number of switching operations, in which the switching element conducts, with a fixed predefined duration and a fixed predefined delay between two successive switching operations. The load resistor and its heat transfer to the power converter are set so that the load resistor is not damaged if a maximum constant voltage of the high-voltage battery is applied during a respective switching operation.
US11355938B2
A charging load detection circuit includes a charging circuit, a frequency generation unit, and a control unit. The control unit controls the frequency generation unit to generate a pulse voltage with a fixed first frequency and a fixed first amplitude, and the frequency generation unit provides the pulse voltage to an output terminal of the charging circuit. The control unit detects whether a load is coupled to the output terminal by detecting whether the first frequency and the first amplitude are varied, and controls connecting or disconnecting a charging path of the charging circuit according to whether the load is coupled to the output terminal.
US11355930B2
A device includes at least one processor configured to determine, based on (i) a first plurality of time-varying electrical measurements corresponding to a feeder head of a power distribution network having a plurality of phases and (ii) a second plurality of time-varying electrical measurements corresponding to a node in the power distribution network, and using statistical analysis, a predicted phase, from the plurality of phases, that corresponds to the node. The processor may be configured to use ranked correlation coefficients (such as the Kendall rank correlation coefficient) to determine the predicted phase and may use principle component analysis. The processor is also configured to cause at least one device of the power distribution network to modify operation based at least on part on the predicted phase.
US11355929B1
Systems for power sharing coordination of parallel sources are provided. Aspects include a first DC power supply, a second DC power supply, a first generator controller configured to operate the first DC power source, a first current sensing device coupled between the first DC power supply and the common bus point, a second current sensing device coupled between the common bus point and a load, wherein the first generator controller is configured to receive a first current signal from the first current sensing device, receive a second current signal from the second current sensing device, determine a load share percentage for the first DC power supply, determine a first voltage adjustment based on the first current signal, the second current signal, and the load share percentage, and operate the first DC power supply to adjust a first voltage output by the first voltage adjustment.
US11355925B2
A neutral arrangement is provided for a converter station of a direct current power transmission system that includes a first converter. The neutral arrangement includes surge arrestors and a group of neutral buses. Each surge arrestor is connected between a neutral bus and ground. The neutral arrangement includes a high voltage insulation zoom area having a first group of surge arrestors and a low voltage insulation zoom area having a second group of surge arrestors. The surge arrestors in the first group have a first arrestor reference voltage and the surge arrestors in the second group have a second arrestor reference voltage that is lower than the first arrestor reference voltage.
US11355916B2
Devices having one primary transistor, or a plurality of primary transistors in parallel, protect electrical circuits from overcurrent conditions. Optionally, the devices have only two terminals and require no auxiliary power to operate. In those devices, the voltage drop across the device provides the electrical energy to power the device. A third or fourth terminal can appear in further devices, allowing additional overcurrent and overvoltage monitoring opportunities. Autocatalytic voltage conversion allows certain devices to rapidly limit or block nascent overcurrents.
US11355915B2
A protection relay comprises a digital processing unit including: a first filter to eliminate a DC component in the time-series data, the first filter having a first window length; a second filter to eliminate a DC component in the time-series data, the second filter having a second window length shorter than the first window length; and a coefficient calculation unit to multiply an amplitude value of an output signal of the first filter and an amplitude value of an output signal of the second filter by first and second coefficients respectively, and integrate multiplication results. An operation determination is performed based on an output of the coefficient calculation unit. The first coefficient is decreased and the second coefficient is increased when a failure of the power system is detected, and thereafter, the first coefficient and the second coefficient are changed with a lapse of time.
US11355897B2
In an embodiment a light-emitting component includes a housing and an edge emitting semiconductor laser arranged in the housing, wherein the semiconductor laser is configured to emit light at a side face in an angle range, wherein the housing includes an emission opening for emitting the light, wherein the semiconductor laser is arranged in a first layer having a first material, wherein a second layer is arranged on the first layer, the second layer having a second material, wherein the first layer and the second layer are transmissive to the light, wherein the second layer is arranged between the first layer and the emission opening, wherein the emission opening lies at least partly outside the angle range of the semiconductor laser, and wherein a part of the light is directed directly onto an interface between the first and second layers.
US11355891B2
A faceplate assembly may include a faceplate having an opening configured to receive an electrical device insert, and an adapter that is disposed between the faceplate and a structure. The adapter may about a surface of the structure. The one or more biasing members may apply forces against the faceplate that may cause the faceplate to be biased outward relative to the surface of the structure.
US11355867B2
A polarized wave shared array antenna according to an example embodiment includes: antenna elements 11a and 11b provided adjacent to each other on one surface of an antenna substrate 1, each of which being configured to generate two orthogonal linear polarized waves; feeding points 12a and 12b disposed in a first direction when viewed from each antenna element and feeding points 14a and 14b disposed in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction when viewed from each antenna element; transmission and reception units 21a, 21b, 22a, and 22b that are provided on an integrated circuit on the other surface of the antenna substrate 1 and are respectively connected to the feeding points, in which in a plan view, the feeding points are disposed so as to be arranged on a straight line, and wirings connecting the transmission and transmission units to the corresponding feeding points are equal in length.
US11355852B2
A dielectric resonator antenna and a dielectric resonator antenna array. The dielectric resonator antenna includes a ground plane, a dielectric resonator element operably coupled with the ground plane, and a feed network operably coupled with the dielectric resonator element for exciting the dielectric resonator antenna to provide a wideband omnidirectional response. The dielectric resonator element includes a plurality of portions, including, at least, an innermost portion and an outermost portion arranged around the innermost portion. The innermost portion has a first effective dielectric constant and outermost portion has a second, different effective dielectric constant.
US11355851B2
A first independent unit includes a support substrate with an integrated network of electrical connections. An electronic integrated circuit chip is mounted above a front face of the support substrate. A second independent unit includes a dielectric support. The second independent unit is stacked above the first independent unit on a side of the front face of the first independent unit. An electromagnetic antenna includes an exciter element and a resonator element. The exciter element provided at the support substrate. The resonator element is provided at the dielectric support.
US11355837B1
Accumulation of debris, snow, ice, wildlife, insects, and other contaminants adversely affect antennas that are mounted outdoors. An antenna comprises a housing and a removeable inflatable cover. The housing may include one or more engagement features, such as a perimeter channel into which perimeter of an opening of the covering is retained. The covering may be selectively inflated to produce a motion in the covering that displaces accumulated contaminants and discourages further accumulation. Heaters may warm air inside the covering to facilitate melting of ice. Inflation of the covering may be responsive to environmental conditions. For example, during high wind conditions, the covering may be evacuated and retained in a collapsed configuration to reduce damage.
US11355836B2
There is provided a combined antenna and radome arrangement. The combined antenna and radome arrangement comprises an advanced antenna system (AAS). The AAS comprises antenna elements and is configured for communication in a frequency range of 2.5 GHz to 10 GHz. The combined antenna and radome arrangement further comprises a radome. The radome has a first layer sandwiched between two second layers. The two second layers are of a second dielectric material. The first layer is of a first dielectric material and has a thickness t1, where t1≤λmin/3, wherein λmin is the wavelength of the highest frequency in the frequency range of the AAS. The radome is placed in front of the AAS such that the radome forms a cover for the AAS.
US11355833B2
According to an aspect, a wireless communication device is wearable on a living body. The wireless communication device includes an antenna and an attachment. The antenna has a first conductor, a second conductor, at least one third conductor, a fourth conductor, and a feeding line. The first conductor and the second conductor are opposed to each other in a first axis. The third conductor is positioned between the first conductor and the second conductor. The third conductor extends in the first axis. The fourth conductor extends in the first axis. The feeding line is electromagnetically connected to any one of at least one third conductor. The first conductor and the second conductor are capacitively connected to each other through the third conductor. The attachment allows the fourth conductor to be opposed to the living body.
US11355826B2
A collector that electrically connects tabs derived from electrode bodies and terminals of a battery to each other includes a first connection portion to which the conductive member on a tab side is connected, a second connection portion to which the conductive member on a terminal side is connected. The first connection portion and the second connection portion are connected by a connecting portion. The collector opposes the sealing plate with the insulating member in between, the second connection portion includes a fuse portion including a through hole between the conductive member connection portion on the terminal side and the connecting portion, and the fuse portion is disposed so as not to come in contact with the insulating member.
US11355819B2
An embodiment is directed to a multi-layer contact plate configured to establish electrical bonds to battery cells in a battery module. The multi-layer contact plate includes two or more primary conductive layers (e.g., Al, Cu, etc.), and a cell terminal connection layer (e.g., steel, Al, Cu, etc.) that is joined with, and sandwiched by, the two or more primary conductive layers. A portion of the cell terminal connection layer is configured to form a set of bonding connectors (e.g., bonding ribbons) to provide a direct electrical bond between the multi-layer contact plate and terminals (e.g., positive terminals, negative terminals, or a combination thereof) of at least one group of battery cells (e.g., a single group of battery cells, two groups of battery cells that are connected in series, etc.).
US11355818B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for manufacturing an electrode assembly. The method for manufacturing the electrode assembly comprises a melting induction process of inducing melting on an outer surface of a separator by a melting induction solvent to increase an adhesion force of an interface between an electrode and the separator and a lamination process of alternately combining and laminating the electrode and the separator, wherein the melting induction process comprises a vaporization process of vaporizing the melting induction solvent to form a space that is humidified by vapor, and the electrode and the separator are disposed in the space that is humidified by the vapor to induce the uniform melting on the outer surface of the separator.
US11355811B2
An environmental enclosure is disclosed. The environmental enclosure may include sidewalls defining an enclosure volume, each of the sidewalls having an internally facing surface and an externally facing surface, and a solar shield comprising a reflective surface. The solar shield is spaced a first distance externally from the enclosure volume and is connected to a sidewall. The first distance defines a portion of a flow area that is configured to produce stack effect draft. Further specialized civil works are also disclosed. Additional devices, systems, and methods are contemplated in the patent disclosure herein, including panel soiling detection and mitigation, cathodic protection, thermal management features, each including unique automation so that they may be used unattended in remote regions.
US11355799B2
A cooling plate (10) for the temperature control of at least one battery cell, especially for a traction battery, comprising a frame (12) with flow ducts (16) designed for the flowing of a coolant through them and a flexibly configured cover (14), which bounds the flow ducts (16) in fluid-tight manner and is provided for the thermal contacting of the at least one battery cell. It is proposed that the flow ducts (16) comprise at least one perturbing contour (28), which is provided to increase the turbulence in the coolant flowing through the flow ducts (16).
US11355798B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a device for cooling a battery pack, the device including: a housing including flow passages extending in a first direction; a first sub-housing provided on the housing in the first direction; and a second sub-housing arranged opposite the first sub-housing in the first direction and provided on the housing, wherein the first sub-housing includes a first coupling hole communicating with one of the flow passages and a first guide hole communicating with at least one of the flow passages, the second sub-housing includes a second coupling hole communicating with one of the flow passages and a second guide hole communicating with at least one of the flow passages, and a path of a fluid flowing in the flow passages varies according to installation positions of coupling members inserted into the first and second coupling holes.
US11355794B2
The present disclosure provides a secondary battery module capable of optically transmitting measurement data on characteristics of cells forming a battery pack and further reducing a complicated procedure of wiring. The secondary battery module of the present disclosure includes: a battery pack in which a plurality of cell units are connected, each of the cell units including a cell and a light-emitting unit, the cell including a stacked unit and an electrolyte, the light-emitting unit being configured to measure characteristics of the cell and generate an optical signal according to the characteristics; and an optical waveguide into which an optical signal is introduced from the light-emitting unit of each of the cell units, wherein the number of optical waveguides is less than the number of optical signals, and the optical waveguide provides a common optical path through which optical signals are propagated from the light-emitting units provided in the battery pack.
US11355790B2
An energy storage module includes a plurality of energy storage devices electrically connected together in series; and a plurality of electronics boards distributed across the module, in electrical contact with one or more of the energy storage devices. The module further includes a plurality of flexible printed circuit boards whereby each of the plurality of electronics boards are electrically connected together in series with a neighboring one of the plurality of electronics boards by a different one of the flexible printed circuit boards. For each electronics board and for each flexible printed circuit board, a ground plane is provided, whereby the ground planes provide electrical grounding at substantially the same potential across all the electronics boards and all the flexible printed circuit boards.
US11355787B2
A method for regenerating an end of life (EOL) cell which comprises an electrode assembly including a cathode, an anode, and a separator interposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the EOL cell is left under a high temperature environment of 80° C. or higher for a predetermined time while pressure is applied thereto, whereby gas located within the electrode assembly is moved to the outer portion of the electrode assembly is provided. The method can regenerate an EOL cell in a simple and economical way without breaking or damaging the same, and furthermore can also be applied to a pack or module which is an extended unit of the cell. A pressuring jig is also provided.
US11355783B2
A method of manufacturing a lithium-ion secondary battery of the present invention includes at least four steps as follows: an initial charging step of charging the lithium-ion secondary battery, which has not been subjected to initial charging, under a temperature environment ranging of equal to or higher than −20° C. and equal to or lower than 15° C.; an aging step of leaving the lithium-ion secondary battery under a temperature environment ranging of equal to or higher than 30° C. and equal to or lower than 80° C. after the initial charging step; a short circuit detecting step of detecting the presence or absence of a short circuit of the lithium-ion secondary battery by measuring a voltage drop quantity of the lithium-ion secondary battery and comparing the voltage drop quantity with a reference value; and a sorting step of sorting out a lithium-ion secondary battery in which no short circuit is detected.
US11355767B2
A fuel cell stack includes a cell stack body including a plurality of stacked power generation cells together. A metal plate and an elastic seal member are overlapped with each other at a position facing a bead seal formed on an end metal separator. A support member includes a recess accommodating the metal plate. A gap is provided between an inner peripheral end of the metal plate and the recess, or between an outer peripheral end of the metal plate and the recess, for absorbing thermal expansion difference between the metal plate and the support member.
US11355765B2
A cooling control system and method for fuel cells are provided. The cooling control system includes a fuel cell, a cooling circulation line connected to the fuel cell to circulate cooling water for cooling the fuel cell therein and a cooling water pump provided on the cooling circulation line to adjust a circulation amount of the cooling water. A calculation unit calculates a thermal energy change of the fuel cell based on a heating value and an amount of radiant heat of the fuel cell. A controller operates the cooling water pump based on the calculated thermal energy change of the fuel cell.
US11355763B2
A cell-monitoring connector is configured to be detachably mounted to a fuel cell. A housing configured such that a portion thereof is insertable into a receiving space. A pair of lever operators is configured to be movable by a first external pressure in a third direction that intersects the first direction and the second direction. A number of levers are coupled to the pair of lever operators inside the housing. The levers include latching protrusions configured to operate in connection with movement of the lever operators. The latching protrusions are movable between a first position at which the latching protrusions protrude in the third direction from an outer surface of the housing and a second position at which the latching protrusions do not protrude from the outer surface of the housing.
US11355751B2
A battery includes an electrode group including an air electrode and a negative electrode stacked with a separator therebetween, and a battery case accommodating the electrode group along with an alkali electrolyte solution, wherein the air electrode includes an air electrode mixture containing a pyrochlore-type composite oxide and a manganese oxide, and the pyrochlore-type composite oxide is a bismuth-ruthenium oxide.
US11355746B2
Provided is a magnesium-sulfur secondary battery including a positive electrode that includes a carbon material layer and a laminated structure of a positive electrode active material layer including sulfur or a sulfur compound; an electrolyte layer; and a negative electrode. In the magnesium-sulfur secondary battery, the positive electrode active material layer, the carbon material layer, and the electrolyte layer are provided in this order, and the positive electrode active material layer and the carbon material layer are in contact with each other.
US11355741B2
The present invention is directed towards a method of coating a substrate comprising electrocoating an electrodepositable coating composition onto the substrate, the electrodepositable coating composition comprising a binder comprising a pH-dependent rheology modifier; an electrochemically active material and/or an electrically conductive agent; and an aqueous medium. Also disclosed are electrodepositable coating compositions, coated substrates and electrical storage devices.
US11355736B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus comprising: a pixel define layer (PDL) on a support and having a hole therein; a light emitting layer (EML) at least partially within the hole; and a first reflective layer on a sidewall of the hole and configured to reflect light emitted by the EML. Also disclosed herein is a display panel and a system comprising a plurality of the apparatus. Further disclosed herein is a method of making the apparatus.
US11355735B2
An embodiment of the present invention discloses a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a dual-sided light emitting device layer, an optical modulation layer, and a cover plate layer. The optical modulation layer is located between the dual-sided light emitting device layer and the cover plate layer. The optical modulation layer is configured to reflect light emitted from the dual-sided light emitting device layer toward the cover plate layer. The present invention disposes the optical modulation layer between the dual-sided light emitting device layer and the cover plate layer to prevent light waste.
US11355725B2
A composite thin film includes N thin film layers stacked one over another in sequence from a first thin film layer to an N-th thin film layer. N is an integer satisfying 3≤N≤9. The N thin film layers are nano-ZnO thin films. A nano-ZnO particle size of the nano-ZnO thin films gradually increases or decreases from the first thin film layer to the N-th thin film layer.
US11355717B2
A flexible substrate and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The flexible substrate includes a substrate and an alignment layer. The alignment layer is disposed on the substrate and is in direct contact with the substrate. The alignment layer includes an alignment material and a plurality of core-shell particles. The core-shell particles are suspended in a surface layer of the alignment layer. The core-shell particles are decomposed when the alignment material is cured by heat to simultaneously generate a plurality of hollow structures that are approximately same size as the core-shell particles in the alignment layer, thereby forming an anti-reflection layer. The anti-reflection layer is configured to refract and block light from entering the substrate.
US11355693B2
An electromechanical transducer includes an electromechanical transducer film of laminated layers including a perovskite-type complex oxide represented by a general formula of ABO3; and a pair of electrodes opposed to each other with the electromechanical transducer film interposed between the pair of electrodes. In the general formula of ABO3, A includes Pb and B includes Zr and Ti. A variable ratio ΔPb of Pb, determined by Pb(max)−Pb(min), is 6% or less and a variable ratio ΔZr of Zr, determined by Zr(max)−Zr(min), is 9% or less, where an atomic weight ratio of Pb in the electromechanical transducer film is denoted by Pb/B, an atomic weight ratio of Zr in the electromechanical transducer film is denoted by Zr/B, a maximum value and a minimum value of the atomic weight ratio of Pb in a film thickness direction of the electromechanical transducer film are denoted by Pb(max) and Pb(min), respectively, and a maximum value and a minimum value of the atomic weight ratio of Zr in the film thickness direction of the electromechanical transducer film are denoted by Zr(max) and Zr(min), respectively.
US11355691B2
A piezoelectric actuator control device comprising a first voltage converter supplying a DC voltage on a DC power supply bus to which is connected a second voltage converter capable of generating a variable excitation voltage under the control of a control computer, the second voltage converter comprising two switch half-bridges mounted in parallel with the terminals of a bus capacitor, the control computer being suitable for controlling the two switch half-bridges according to a first control configuration, in which they are controlled independently in order to each supply a voltage in a range between zero and a maximum positive value and according to a second control configuration, in which they are jointly controlled as a full-bridge for supplying a voltage between a minimum negative value and said maximum positive value.
US11355681B2
A light emitting device including a fluorescent material with reduced hue, and a method of manufacturing the light emitting device are provided. A light emitting device 100 includes: a light emitting element 1; a first light-transmissive member 3 covering the light emitting element 1; and a light diffusing member 5 contained in the first light-transmissive member 3. The light diffusing member 5 includes hollow particles. The surface of the first light-transmissive member 3 has irregular shapes attributed to the light diffusing member 5. The first light-transmissive member 3 is covered with a second light-transmissive member 4. The second light-transmissive member 4 has a convex structure in which the center is the uppermost point. The irregular shapes attributed to the light diffusing member 5 are covered with the second light-transmissive member 4.
US11355660B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a photovoltaic module including a base plate, a cell string and a cover plate stacked in order; a first packaging layer located between the base plate and the cover plate and surrounding the cell string, the first packaging layer, the base plate and the cover plate defining a sealed space; and a moisture treatment layer located in the sealed space. The moisture treatment layer includes at least one of a functional layer and a moisture detection layer. The functional layer is adaptive to absorb moisture and be converted into a solidified layer, the solidified layer has a degree of cross linking greater than a degree of cross linking of the functional layer. The moisture detection layer is adaptive to detect and determine whether there is moisture in the sealed space through response information of the moisture detection layer.
US11355653B2
The SPAD device comprises a single-photon avalanche diode and a further single-photon avalanche diode having breakdown voltages, the single-photon avalanche diodes being integrated in the same device. The breakdown voltages are equal or differ by less than 10%. The single-photon avalanche diode is configured to enable to induce triggering or to have a dark count rate that is higher than the dark count rate of the further single-photon avalanche diode.
US11355641B2
The present application provides a semiconductor device and the method of making the same. The method includes recessing a fin extending from a substrate, forming a base epitaxial feature on the recessed fin, forming a bar-like epitaxial feature on the base epitaxial feature, and forming a conformal epitaxial feature on the bar-like epitaxial feature. The forming of the bar-like epitaxial feature includes in-situ doping the bar-like epitaxial feature with an n-type dopant at a first doping concentration. The forming of the conformal epitaxial feature includes in-situ doping the conformal epitaxial feature with a second doping concentration greater than the first doping concentration.
US11355636B2
Existing semiconductor transistor processes may be leveraged to form lateral extensions adjacent to a conventional gate structure. The dielectric thickness under these lateral gate extensions can be varied to tune RF switch FET device performance and enable resistance to breakdown at high operating voltages. These extensions may be patterned with dimensions that are not limited by lithographic resolution and overlay capabilities and are compatible with conventional processing for ease of integration with other devices. The lateral extensions and dielectric spacers may be used to form self-aligned source, drain, and channel regions. A thick dielectric layer may be formed under a narrow extension gate to improve operation voltage range. The present invention provides an innovative structure with lateral gate extensions which may be referred to as EGMOS (extended gate metal oxide semiconductor).
US11355627B2
In SiC-MOSFETs including Schottky diodes, passage of a bipolar current to a well region in a terminal region cannot be sufficiently reduced, which may reduce the reliability of elements. A SiC-MOSFET including Schottky diodes includes a gate electrode formed, through a second insulating film thicker than a gate insulating film in an active region, on a separation region between a first well region in the active region that is the closest to the terminal region and a second well region in the terminal region, wherein the second well region has a non-ohmic connection to a source electrode. Thus, a decrease in the reliability of elements is prevented.
US11355624B2
Embodiments are directed to electrically confined ballistic devices, circuits, and networks. One such device includes a heterostructure that has a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a two-dimensional electrode gas (2DEG) layer between the first and second semiconductor layers. The device further includes an input electrode electrically coupled to the 2DEG layer and an output electrode electrically coupled to the 2DEG layer. A first confinement electrode is positioned on the heterostructure. The first confinement electrode, in use, generates first space charge regions which at least partially define a boundary of the ballistic device within the 2DEG layer between the input electrode and the output electrode in response to a first voltage.
US11355622B2
A semiconductor device and a method for forming the semiconductor device are provided. The method includes providing a substrate, sequentially forming at least two sacrificial layers on the substrate, and forming a liner layer between any adjacent sacrificial layers of the at least two sacrificial layers. The method also includes forming a hard mask layer on a top layer of the at least two sacrificial layers, and sequentially etching the hard mask layer, the at least two sacrificial layers, the liner layer, and a portion of the substrate, thereby forming a plurality of fins that are discretely arranged on a remaining portion of the substrate. The method also includes forming a dummy gate structure across the plurality of fins on the remaining portion of the substrate, and removing a portion of the at least two sacrificial layers under the dummy gate structure, thereby forming tunnels.
US11355618B2
A method for fabricating a heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) comprises providing a semiconductor support layer and forming an even number of at least four elongated wall structures on the support layer. The wall structures are arranged side-by-side at a regular interval. An odd number of at least three semiconductor collector-material ridge structures are formed on the support layer. Each ridge structure is formed between two adjacent wall structures. A semiconductor base-material layer is formed on a determined ridge structure of the at least three ridge structures. A semiconductor emitter-material layer is formed on the base-material layer. The base-material layer is epitaxially extended so that it coherently covers all the wall structures and all the ridge structures. All the ridge structures except for the determined ridge structure are selectively removed.
US11355616B2
A method includes forming an opening in a first dielectric layer. A region underlying the first dielectric layer is exposed to the opening. The method further includes depositing a dummy silicon layer extending into the opening, and depositing an isolation layer. The isolation layer and the dummy layer include a dummy silicon ring and an isolation ring, respectively, in the opening. The opening is filled with a metallic region, and the metal region is encircled by the isolation ring. The dummy silicon layer is etched to form an air spacer. A second dielectric layer is formed to seal the air spacer.
US11355615B2
Field effect transistor and manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The field effect transistor includes a substrate, fins, a gate structure, a first spacer and a second spacer. The fins protrude from the substrate and extend in a first direction. The gate structure is disposed across and over the fins and extends in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The first spacer is disposed on sidewalls of the gate structure. The second spacer is disposed on the first spacer and surrounds the gate structure. The first spacer is fluorine-doped and includes fluorine dopants.
US11355611B2
A semiconductor device includes a source/drain feature disposed over a substrate. The source/drain feature includes a first nanowire, a second nanowire disposed over the first nanowire, a cladding layer disposed over the first nanowire and the second nanowire and a spacer layer extending from the first nanowire to the second nanowire. The device also includes a conductive feature disposed directly on the source/drain feature such that the conductive feature physically contacts the cladding layer and the spacer layer.
US11355605B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes providing a substrate, a first nanostructure, and a second nanostructure. The method includes forming an isolation layer over the base. The method includes forming a gate dielectric layer over the first nanostructure, the second nanostructure, the fin, and the isolation layer. The method includes forming a gate electrode layer over the first part. The method includes forming a spacer layer. The method includes removing the second part of the gate dielectric layer and the first upper portion of the isolation layer to form a space between the fin and the spacer layer. The method includes forming a source/drain structure in the space and over the first nanostructure and the second nanostructure.
US11355603B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes forming a fin structure on a substrate; forming a dummy gate over the fin structure; forming spacers on sides of the dummy gate; forming a doped region within the fin structure; replacing the dummy gate with a metal gate; replacing an upper portion of the metal gate with a first dielectric layer; forming a conductive layer directly on the doped region; replacing an upper portion of the conductive layer with a second dielectric layer; removing the first dielectric layer thereby exposing a sidewall of the spacer; removing an upper portion of the spacer to thereby expose a sidewall of the second dielectric layer; removing at least a portion of the second dielectric layer to form a trench; and forming a conductive plug in the trench.
US11355601B2
A semiconductor structure includes a source feature, a drain feature, one or more channel layers connecting the source feature and the drain feature, and a gate structure between the source feature and the drain feature. The gate structure engages each of the one or more channel layers. The semiconductor structure further includes a first source silicide feature over the source feature, a source contact over the first source silicide feature, a second source silicide feature under the source feature, a via under the second source silicide feature, and a power rail under the via. The first and the second source silicide features fully surround the source feature in a cross-sectional view. The power rail is a backside power rail.
US11355599B2
Methods of forming a ferroelectric material layer below a field plate for achieving increased Vbr with reduced Rdson and resulting devices are provided. Embodiments include forming a N-Drift in a portion of the Si layer formed in a portion of a p-sub; forming an oxide layer over portions of the Si layer and the N-Drift; forming a gate over a portion of the oxide layer; forming a S/D extension region in the Si layer; forming first and second spacers on opposite sides of the gate and the oxide layer; forming a S/D region in the Si layer adjacent to the S/D extension region and a S/D region in the N-Drift remote from the Si layer; forming a U-shaped ferroelectric material layer over the oxide layer and the N-Drift, proximate or adjacent to the gate; and filling the U-shaped ferroelectric material layer with a metal, a field gate formed.
US11355595B2
Directly beneath p−-type base regions, n-type storage regions are provided. The storage regions contain hydrogen donors as an impurity and have an impurity concentration higher than that of the n−-type drift region. The storage regions are formed by hydrogen ion irradiation from a back surface of a semiconductor substrate. The storage regions have a peak hydrogen concentration and are at positions that coincide with where the hydrogen ions have been irradiated. By the hydrogen ion irradiation, a crystal defect region that is a carrier lifetime killer region is formed concurrently with the storage regions, closer to the back surface of the semiconductor substrate than are storage regions. The crystal defect region has a crystal defect density with a peak density at a position closer to the back surface of the semiconductor substrate than are the storage regions. A semiconductor device having such storage regions and a carrier lifetime killer region is enabled.
US11355594B2
A diode includes an n-type semiconductor layer including an n-type Ga2O3-based single crystal, and a p-type semiconductor layer including a p-type semiconductor in which a volume of an amorphous portion is higher than a volume of a crystalline portion. The n-type semiconductor layer and the p-type semiconductor layer form a pn junction.
US11355593B2
A semiconductor device comprises: a nitride semiconductor layer; an oxide insulating film formed to contact the nitride semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode formed to contact the oxide insulating film and made of metal nitride in a crystal orientation including at least one of the (200) orientation and the (220) orientation.
US11355580B2
A method for fabricating a MOSFET includes forming a source region and a drain region on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, forming a gate region, forming a body diffusion region, forming metal structures, and forming a drift region including an n-type drift structure having a stepped dopant concentration profile with dopant concentrations increasing along a lateral direction from the drain region to the source region of the device.
US11355576B2
Provided is a display panel including a substrate layer, an active layer, a first insulating layer, a first metal layer, a second insulating layer, and a second metal layer that are stacked. The second metal layer located in a display area of the display panel comprises a first portion and a second portion, and the second metal layer located in a non-display area of the display panel comprises a third portion, wherein a thickness of the first portion of the second metal layer is less than thicknesses of the second portion and the third portion of the second metal layer.
US11355575B2
Provided are an organic light-emitting display panel and manufacturing method thereof, a display device and a mask. The organic light-emitting display panel includes: multiple organic light-emitting units, a photosensitive module setting area, a display area surrounding the photosensitive module, and a bezel area surrounding the display area. The display area includes a first display area and a second display area. Organic light-emitting units in the first display area share a first cathode. Organic light-emitting units in the same group in the second display area share a second cathode. Two adjacent second cathodes are separated by a first gap. The bezel area extends to the photosensitive module setting area by the first gap.
US11355573B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate having a first area, a second area, and a bending area disposed therebetween. The substrate is bent at the bending area about a bending axis. An inorganic insulating layer is disposed over the substrate and includes an opening or groove corresponding to the bending area. An organic material layer fills the opening or groove. A first conductive layer extends from the first area to the second area through the bending area. The first conductive layer is disposed over the organic material layer and includes a multipath portion having a plurality of through holes. A length of the multipath portion, in a direction from the first area to the second area, is greater than a width of the opening or groove, in the direction from the first area to the second area.
US11355567B2
A display device includes: a substrate; a first pixel unit disposed over the substrate and including at least two pixel areas emitting lights of different colors; a second pixel unit neighboring the first pixel unit and including at least two pixel areas emitting lights of different colors; a first opposite electrode disposed on an area corresponding to the first pixel unit; and a second opposite electrode disposed on an area corresponding to the second pixel unit, wherein the first pixel unit includes a first pixel area and a second pixel area that neighbor each other, the second pixel unit includes a third pixel area and a fourth pixel area that neighbor each other, and a first distance between the first pixel area and the second pixel area is less than a second distance between the third pixel area and the first pixel area.
US11355564B2
An OLED device includes: a first substrate having a bonding surface; a second substrate having a first surface; a coloring unit including an OLED layer and optionally a color-transformation layer, the OLED layer being formed on a selected one of the first and second substrates, the color-transformation layer being formed on the second substrate; and a pixel circuit with TFT functions disposed on the first substrate and coupled to the OLED layer. The bonding surface of the first substrate and the first surface of the second substrate are in direct bonding.
US11355562B2
Disclosed is a display apparatus, comprising a first display region serving as a fingerprint identification region and a second display region serving as a display region, and comprising a display layer and a driver layer stacked in a stacking direction perpendicular to a plane where the display apparatus is placed. The display layer comprises a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer stacked in the stacking direction, and the driver layer comprises a plurality of driver units. In the first display region, the first electrode layer has a first part corresponding to the first display region, the second electrode layer has a second part corresponding to the first display region, and a projection of the first part in the stacking direction and a projection of the second part in the stacking direction are not completely overlapped.
US11355552B2
A memory material and a memory device applying the same are provided. The memory material is a chalcogenide doped with carbon atom. The chalcogenide contains arsenic (As) atom, selenium (Se) atom, germanium (Ge) atom and silicon (Si) atom.
US11355549B2
A light emitting diode (LED) may include a conductive via in a first portion of an epitaxial layer and a first contact on a second portion of the epitaxial layer. The first portion and the second portion may be separated by an isolation region. The LED may include a transparent conductive layer on the epitaxial layer.
US11355537B2
A pixel cell includes a photodiode buried beneath a first side of semiconductor material and coupled to photogenerate image charge in response to incident light. A transfer gate is disposed over the photodiode and includes a vertical transfer gate portion extending a first distance from the first side into the semiconductor material. A floating diffusion region is disposed in the semiconductor material proximate to the transfer gate and is coupled to transfer the image charge from the photodiode toward the first side of the semiconductor material and into the floating diffusion region in response to a transfer control signal. A first pixel transistor having a first gate is disposed over the photodiode proximate to the first side of the semiconductor material. The first gate has a ring structure laterally surrounding the floating diffusion region and the transfer gate at the first side of the semiconductor material.
US11355535B2
Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a first display area and a second display area. The first display area at least partially surrounds the second display area, and the second display area is configured to provide a photosensitive element. The first display area and the second display area are each provided with multiple sub-pixels. Each of the multiple sub-pixels includes a pixel circuit and a light emitting element. In each of the first display area and the second display area, active layers of the pixel circuits of the sub-pixels in each column have discontinuity points. The discontinuity point is located between respective two adjacent sub-pixels in the same column, or is located within each sub-pixel.
US11355530B2
A semiconductor device including: a first insulator in which an opening is formed; a first conductor positioned in the opening; a first oxide over the first insulator; a second oxide over the first oxide; a third oxide and a fourth oxide over the second oxide; a second conductor over the third oxide and the first conductor; a third conductor over the fourth oxide; a fifth oxide over the second oxide; a second insulator over the fifth oxide; and a fourth conductor positioned over the second insulator and overlapping with the fifth oxide. The fifth oxide is in contact with each of a side surface of the third oxide and a side surface of the fourth oxide. The conductivity of the third oxide is higher than the conductivity of the second oxide. The second conductor is in contact with the top surface of the first conductor.
US11355528B2
A display device includes: a bending region including a bending peripheral opening passing through the first interlayer insulating film and the first gate insulating film and a bending opening in the bending peripheral opening and passing through the second interlayer insulating film and the buffer layer to expose the substrate, a first sidewall of the bending peripheral opening includes a side surface of the first interlayer insulating film and a side surface of the first gate insulating film, the second interlayer insulating film covers the first sidewall of the bending peripheral opening, the bending opening includes a second sidewall including a side surface of the buffer layer and a portion of a side surface of the second interlayer insulating film arranged with the side surface of the buffer layer, and the first via layer fills the bending opening.
US11355517B2
An AND or OR logic device has multiple layers of ferromagnetic material separated from each other by non-magnetic layers of electrically conductive material of atomic thickness, sufficient to generate anti-magnetic response in a magnetized layer. The anti-magnetic response in a layer below a layer magnetized with a polarity is summed in a region which is coupled to an output, the output generating at least one of a AND or OR logic function on applied input magnetization.
US11355515B2
Fabricating a three-dimensional memory device may include forming an alternating stack of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers over a substrate. Stepped surfaces are formed by patterning the alternating stack. Sacrificial pads are formed on physically exposed horizontal surfaces of the sacrificial material layers. A retro-stepped dielectric material portion is formed over the sacrificial pads. After memory stack structures extending through the alternating stack are formed, the sacrificial material layers and the sacrificial pads can be replaced with replacement material portions that include electrically conductive layers. The electrically conductive layers can be formed with thicker end portions. Contact via structures can be formed on the thicker end portions.
US11355514B2
A microelectronic device includes decks comprising alternating levels of a conductive material and an insulative material, the decks comprising pillars including a channel material extending through the alternating levels of the conductive material and the insulative material, a conductive contact between adjacent decks and in electrical communication with the channel material of the adjacent decks, and an oxide material between the adjacent decks, the oxide material extending between an uppermost level of a first deck and a lowermost level of a second deck adjacent to the first deck. Related electronic systems and methods of forming the microelectronic device and electronic systems are also disclosed.
US11355512B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a logic circuit provided on the substrate, a wiring layer including a plurality of wirings that are provided above the logic circuit, a first insulating film below the wiring layer, a plug, and a second insulating film. Each of the wirings contains copper and extends along a surface plane of the substrate in a first direction. The wirings are arranged along the surface plane of the substrate in a second direction different from the first direction. The plug extends through the first insulating film in a third direction crossing the first and second directions and is electrically connected to one of the wirings. The plug contains tungsten. The second insulating film is provided between the first insulating film and the plug.
US11355505B2
Techniques and mechanisms to provide a memory array comprising a 1T1C (one transistor and one capacitor) based memory cell. In an embodiment, the memory cell comprises a transistor, fabricated on a backend of a die, and a capacitor which includes a ferroelectric material. The transistor of the 1T1C memory cell is a vertical transistor. In another embodiment, the capacitor is positioned vertically over the transistor.
US11355498B2
A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit device includes: over a substrate, forming first hard mask patterns extending in a first direction parallel to a top surface of the substrate and arranged at a first pitch in a second direction; forming a plurality of first trenches in the substrate using the first hard mask patterns as etching masks; forming a plurality of first gate electrodes on inner walls of the plurality of first trenches; over the substrate, forming second hard mask patterns extending in the first direction and arranged at a second pitch in the second direction; forming a plurality of second trenches in the substrate using the second hard mask patterns as etching masks, each of the plurality of second trenches being disposed between two adjacent first trenches; and forming a plurality of second gate electrodes on inner walls of the plurality of second trenches.
US11355488B2
A method of generating a layout diagram of an IC cell includes defining a boundary recess in a boundary of the cell by extending a first portion of the boundary along a first gate track, extending a second portion of the boundary from the first gate track to a second gate track, the second portion being contiguous with the first portion, and extending a third portion of the boundary from the first gate track to the second gate track, the third portion being contiguous with the first portion. An active region is positioned in the cell by extending the active region across a third gate track, wherein the first gate track is between the second gate track and the third gate track. The layout diagram is stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium.
US11355472B2
A package structure and a method for connecting components are provided, in which the package includes a first substrate including a first wiring and at least one first contact connecting to the first wiring; a second substrate including a second wiring and at least one second contact connecting to the second wiring, the at least one first contact and the at least one second contact partially physically contacting with each other or partially chemically interface reactive contacting with each other; and at least one third contact surrounding the at least one first contact and the at least one second contact. The first substrate and the second substrate are electrically connected with each other at least through the at least one first contact and the at least one second contact.
US11355467B2
A semiconductor device may include a semiconductor chip in an encapsulant. A first insulation layer may be disposed on the encapsulant and the semiconductor chip. A horizontal wiring and a primary pad may be disposed on the first insulation layer. A secondary pad may be disposed on the primary pad. A second insulation layer covering the horizontal wiring may be disposed on the first insulation layer. A solder ball may be disposed on the primary pad and the secondary pad. The primary pad may have substantially the same thickness as a thickness of the horizontal wiring.
US11355465B2
The present technology relates to a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same capable of improving reliability of a glass substrate on which a wiring layer is formed. A semiconductor device is provided with a glass substrate on a front surface or front and back surfaces of which a wiring layer including one or more layers of wiring is formed, an electronic component arranged inside a glass opening formed on the glass substrate, and a redistribution layer that connects the wiring of the glass substrate and the electronic component. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a high-frequency front-end module and the like.
US11355464B2
A semiconductor device structure includes a silicon layer disposed over a first semiconductor die, and a first mask layer disposed over the silicon layer. The semiconductor device structure also includes a second semiconductor die disposed over the first mask layer, and a through silicon via penetrating through the silicon layer and the first mask layer. A bottom surface of the through silicon via is greater than a top surface of the through silicon via, and the top surface of the through silicon via is greater than a cross-section of the through silicon via between and parallel to the top surface and the bottom surface of the through silicon via.
US11355451B2
In one example, a semiconductor device comprises a substrate comprising a conductive structure, a first electronic component over the substrate, an encapsulant over the substrate and contacting a lateral side of the first electronic component, a shield over the encapsulant and contacting a lateral side of the encapsulant and a portion of a lateral side of the substrate, and a communication structure coupled with the substrate. The substrate comprises a vertical groove side and a horizontal groove side defining a groove in the substrate, wherein a portion of the groove is uncovered by the shield. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein.
US11355448B2
The present invention provides an aluminum nitride wafer and a method for making the same. The method includes forming at least one alignment notch in or at least one flat alignment edge on a periphery of the aluminum nitride wafer. The alignment notch and the flat alignment edge can prevent the aluminum nitride wafer from being in a poor state during the semiconductor manufacturing process and makes it possible to position the aluminum nitride wafer precisely so that the fraction defective can be lowered. The aluminum nitride wafer of the present invention has advantages of effective insulation, efficient heat dissipation, and a high dielectric constant, and can be used in semiconductor manufacturing processes, electronic products, and semiconductor equipment.
US11355445B2
A semiconductor package includes a lower connection structure, a semiconductor chip on the lower connection structure, an upper connection structure including a first conductive pattern layer on the semiconductor chip, a first insulating layer on the first conductive pattern layer, a second conductive pattern layer on the first insulating layer, a first via penetrating the first insulating layer to extend between the first conductive pattern layer and the second conductive pattern layer, and a second insulating layer extending between a side surface of the first via and the first insulating layer, and an intermediate connection structure between the lower connection structure and the upper connection structure. A chemical composition of the first insulating layer may differ from a chemical composition of the second insulating layer.
US11355439B2
A structure includes: a plurality of through holes that are provided to an insulating base and penetrate the insulating base in the thickness direction; conductive paths that are constituted of a conductive substance filling the plurality of through-holes; and insulators with which the plurality of through-holes are filled and are constituted of an insulating substance different from that of the insulating base. Both ends of the respective conductive paths are provided with protrusions that protrude from each surface of the insulating base in the thickness direction. Both ends of the insulators are flush with each surface of the insulating base in the thickness direction, protrude with respect to the surface in the thickness direction, or are recessed from the surface in the thickness direction.
US11355437B2
A semiconductor die can include an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located on a substrate, memory stack structures extending through the alternating stack, drain regions located at a first end of a respective one of the vertical semiconductor channels of a memory stack structure, and bit lines extending over the drain regions and electrically connected to a respective subset of the drain regions. At least of a subset of the bit lines includes bump-containing bit lines. Each of the bump-containing bit lines includes a line portion and a bump portion that protrudes upward from a top surface of the line portion by a bump height. Bit line contact via structures overlie the bit lines and contact a bump portion of a respective one of the bump-containing bit lines.
US11355435B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device with air gaps for reducing capacitive coupling between conductive features. The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor structure including a substrate, a first conductive line positioned above the substrate and including two sides, a first protruding portion positioned on one of the two sides of the first conductive line, a second conductive line positioned adjacent to the first conductive line and including two sides, a second protruding portion positioned on one of the two sides of the second conductive line and face onto the first protruding portion, and an air gap positioned between the first protruding portion and the second protruding portion. A distance between the first protruding portion and the second protruding portion is less than a distance between the first conductive line and the second conductive line.
US11355433B2
A semiconductor device having a fuse structure includes a region of semiconductor material having a major surface. A dielectric region is over the major surface. A first fuse terminal is over a first part of the dielectric region, a second fuse terminal is over a second part of the dielectric region and spaced apart from the first fuse terminal to provide a gap region, and a fuse body over a third part of the dielectric region interposed between and connected to the first fuse terminal and the second fuse terminal. A dummy structure is over the dielectric region in the gap region on a first side of the fuse body, the dummy structure spaced apart and electrically isolated from the fuse body, the first fuse terminal, and the second fuse terminal. The dummy structure is configured to reduce the presence of or reduce the effects of defects, such as cracks or voids that can emanate from the fuse structure.
US11355429B2
An electrical interconnect structure includes a bond pad having a substantially planar bonding surface, and a solder enhancing structure that is disposed on the bonding surface and includes a plurality of raised spokes that are each elevated from the bonding surface. Each of the raised spokes has a lower wettability relative to a liquefied solder material than the bonding surface. Each of the raised spokes extend radially outward from a center of the solder enhancing structure.
US11355423B2
A MEMS pressure sensor packaged with a molding compound. The MEMS pressure sensor features a lead frame, a MEMS semiconductor die, a second semiconductor die, multiple pluralities of bonding wires, and a molding compound. The MEMS semiconductor die has an internal chamber, a sensing component, and apertures. The MEMS semiconductor die and the apertures are exposed to an ambient atmosphere. A method is desired to form a MEMS pressure sensor package that reduces defects caused by mold flashing and die cracking. Fabrication of the MEMS pressure sensor package comprises placing a lead frame on a lead frame tape; placing a MEMS semiconductor die adjacent to the lead frame and on the lead frame tape with the apertures facing the tape and being sealed thereby; attaching a second semiconductor die to the MEMS semiconductor die; attaching pluralities of bonding wires to form electrical connections between the MEMS semiconductor die, the second semiconductor die, and the lead frame; and forming a molding compound.
US11355419B2
The present invention relates to a power semiconductor module including a first heat dissipation substrate, a semiconductor chip, a lead plate, a PCB, and a heat dissipation plate that are packaged within a casing, wherein dualization of a heat dissipation structure is applied to facilitate superior heat dissipation performance compared to a conventional power semiconductor module.
US11355418B2
A package structure includes a wafer-form semiconductor package and a thermal dissipating system. The wafer-form semiconductor package includes semiconductor dies electrically connected with each other. The thermal dissipating system is located on and thermally coupled to the wafer-form semiconductor package, where the thermal dissipating system has a hollow structure with a fluidic space, and the fluidic space includes a ceiling and a floor. The thermal dissipating system includes at least one inlet opening, at least one outlet opening and a plurality of first microstructures. The at least one inlet opening and the at least one outlet opening are spatially communicated with the fluidic space. The first microstructures are located on the floor, and at least one of the first microstructures is corresponding to the at least one outlet opening.
US11355414B2
In described examples, a circuit (e.g., an integrated circuit) includes a semiconductor substrate that includes a frontside surface and a backside surface. A circuit element is included at the frontside surface. An optional electrical insulator layer can be included adjacent to the backside surface. A distributor layer is included adjacent to the backside surface. In some examples, the distributor layer includes a distributor material that includes a matrix of cohered nanoparticles and metallic particles embedded by the cohered nanoparticles.
US11355403B2
A semiconductor device includes through-package debug features enabling debug of a BGA package while mounted to a printed circuit board or other host device. In one example, the through-package debug features are filled or plated vias extending from a surface of the semiconductor device, through a device housing, down to test pads on the substrate. In another example, the through-package debug features are open channels formed from a surface of the semiconductor device.
US11355402B2
Micro device optical inspection and repairing equipment adopting an adhesion device is provided. The micro device optical inspection and repairing equipment includes a carrying stage, an optical inspection module and at least one adhesion device. The optical inspection module is arranged corresponding to the carrying stage so as to capture image information and obtain a position coordinate from the image information. The adhesion device includes a main body and an adhesive portion. The adhesive portion is connected to the main body. The adhesion device can move to a target position of the carrying stage according to the position coordinate. The main body is adapted to drive the adhesive portion to move to the target position along a moving axis. An optical inspection and repairing method adopting the micro device optical inspection and repairing equipment is also provided.
US11355392B2
A method used in forming a conductive via of integrated circuitry comprises forming a lining laterally over sidewalk of an elevationally-elongated opening. The lining comprises elemental-form silicon. The elemental-form silicon of an uppermost portion of the lining is ion implanted in the elevationally-elongated opening. The ion-implanted elemental-form silicon of the uppermost portion of the lining is etched selectively relative to the elemental-form silicon of a lower portion of the lining below the uppermost portion that was not subjected to said ion implanting. The elemental-form silicon of the lower portion of the lining is reacted with a metal halide to form elemental-form metal in a lower portion of the elevationally-elongated opening that is the metal from the metal halide. Conductive material in the elevationally-elongated opening is formed atop and directly against the elemental-form metal. Other embodiments, including structure independent of method, are disclosed.
US11355391B2
The present disclosure generally relates to methods for processing of substrates, and more particularly relates to methods for forming a metal gapfill. In one implementation, the method includes forming a metal gapfill in an opening using a multi-step process. The multi-step process includes forming a first portion of the metal gapfill, performing a sputter process to form one or more layers on one or more side walls, and growing a second portion of the metal gapfill to fill the opening with the metal gapfill. The metal gapfill formed by the multi-step process is seamless, and the one or more layers formed on the one or more side walls seal any gaps or defects between the metal gapfill and the side walls. As a result, fluids utilized in subsequent processes do not diffuse through the metal gapfill.
US11355390B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip may comprise a first metal line disposed over a substrate. A via may be disposed directly over a top of the first metal line and the via may comprise a first lower surface and a second lower surface above the first lower surface. A first dielectric structure may be disposed laterally adjacent to the first metal line and may be disposed along a sidewall of the first metal line. A first protective etch-stop structure may be disposed directly over a top of the first dielectric structure and the first protective etch-stop structure may vertically separate the second lower surface of the via from the top of the first dielectric structure.
US11355388B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a hard mask layer overlying a device layer of a semiconductor device, a mandrel underlayer over hard mask layer, and a mandrel layer over mandrel underlayer. The mandrel layer has a plurality of mandrel lines extending along a first direction. A plurality of openings are formed in mandrel underlayer extending in a second direction substantially perpendicular to first direction. A spacer layer is formed over mandrel underlayer and layer. Spacer layer fills plurality of openings in underlayer. Portions of spacer layer are removed to expose an upper surface of underlayer and mandrel layer, and mandrel layer is removed. By using remaining portions of spacer layer as a mask, underlayer and hard mask layer are removed, to form a hard mask pattern with first hard mask pattern lines extending along first direction and second hard mask pattern lines extending along second direction.
US11355385B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency (RF) device including a device substrate, a thinned device die with a device region over the device substrate, a first mold compound, and a second mold compound. The device region includes an isolation portion, a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion, and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion with a contact layer and an active section. The contact layer resides over the BEOL portion, the active section resides over the contact layer, and the isolation portion resides over the contact layer to encapsulate the active section. The first mold compound resides over the device substrate, surrounds the thinned device die, and extends vertically beyond the thinned device die to define an opening over the thinned device die and within the first mold compound. The second mold compound fills the opening and directly connects the isolation portion of the thinned device die.
US11355384B2
A substrate processing system includes a substrate loading unit which loads a plurality of substrates, a substrate transfer unit which transfers N (where N is natural number) substrates at the same time from the substrate loading unit, and a substrate processing unit including a plurality of process chambers which receives the N substrates at the same time from the substrate transfer unit and processes the received substrates where each of the process chambers includes a stage on which the N substrates are disposed and an insulation layer disposed between the N substrates.
US11355382B2
To improve peelability, yield in a peeling step, and yield in manufacturing a flexible device. A peeling method is employed which includes a first step of forming a peeling layer containing tungsten over a support substrate; a second step of forming, over the peeling layer, a layer to be peeled formed of a stack including a first layer containing silicon oxynitride and a second layer containing silicon nitride in this order and forming an oxide layer containing tungsten oxide between the peeling layer and the layer to be peeled; a third step of forming a compound containing tungsten and nitrogen in the oxide layer by heat treatment; and a fourth step of peeling the peeling layer from the layer to be peeled at the oxide layer.
US11355380B2
A method for producing a 3D memory device, the method including: providing a first level including a first single crystal layer; forming first alignment marks and control circuits in and on the first level, where the control circuits include first single crystal transistors, where the control circuits include at least two metal layers; forming at least one second level disposed on top of the first level; performing a first etch step within the second level; forming at least one third level disposed on top of the at least one second level; performing a second etch step within the third level; and performing additional processing steps to form a plurality of first memory cells within the second level and a plurality of second memory cells within the third level, where the first memory cells include second transistors, and where the second memory cells include third transistors.
US11355374B2
A receiving means for receiving and mounting of wafers, comprised of a mounting surface, mounting means for mounting a wafer onto the mounting surface and compensation means for active, locally controllable, compensation of local and/or global distortions of the wafer.
US11355371B2
The present invention relates to a wafer storage container capable of removing fumes on a wafer or removing moisture therefrom by supplying purge gas to the wafer stored in a storage chamber. More particularly, the present invention relates to a wafer storage container capable of quickly blocking an injection hole and an exhaust hole and of preventing contaminants from flowing into a storage chamber upon the blocking of the exhaust hole.
US11355368B2
An electronics manufacturing system includes a first substrate transfer via having position detection sensors to detect a position of a substrate in the first substrate transfer via and flow-controlled valves to inject inert gas through a floor and move the substrate in a predetermined direction with reference to the position within the first substrate transfer via by adjusting a pressure of the inert gas underneath the substrate. A processing chamber is coupled to the first substrate transfer via and having a pedestal with apertures and flow-controlled devices to inject inert gas through the apertures to receive the substrate from the first substrate transfer via and move the substrate into a second substrate transfer via after processing of the substrate.
US11355366B2
In an embodiment, a system includes: a wafer support configured to secure a wafer; a nozzle configured to dispense a liquid or a gas on the wafer when the nozzle is in an active state of dispensing; a shutter configured to catch the liquid from the nozzle when the shutter is in a first position below the nozzle; and a shutter actuator configured to: move the shutter to the first position in response to the nozzle not being in an inactive state; move the shutter to a second position away from the first position in response to the nozzle being in the active state.
US11355359B2
A workpiece processing method includes a holding step of holding a workpiece with a front surface of the workpiece directed downward so as to face an upper surface side of a base supplied with a fluid curable resin, a coating step of moving the workpiece downward to press the workpiece against the curable resin, thereby coating the whole of the front surface of the workpiece with the curable resin such that the curable resin enters gaps between bumps and the front surface and the bumps are embedded in the curable resin, a curing step of curing the curable resin to form a resin film, a laser beam applying step of removing the resin film on each street, and a dividing step of supplying a gas plasma to the workpiece to divide the workpiece along each street into individual device chips with the resin film as a mask.
US11355356B1
The method of manufacturing a semiconductor package of the present disclosure includes: providing a redistribution layer having opposing first surface and second surface; disposing a die on the first surface of the redistribution layer and electrically connecting the die to the redistribution layer; forming a mask on the second surface of the redistribution layer; performing a chemical or plasma etching process on the second surface of the redistribution layer to expose the conductive traces in the redistribution layer; removing the mask; and forming a plurality of conductive bumps on the second surface of the redistribution layer and electrically connecting the conductive bumps to the exposed conductive traces in the redistribution layer.
US11355339B2
A method includes forming a silicon layer on a wafer, forming an oxide layer in contact with the silicon layer, and, after the oxide layer is formed, annealing the wafer in an environment comprising ammonia (NH3) to form a dielectric barrier layer between, and in contact with, the silicon layer and the oxide layer. The dielectric barrier layer comprises silicon and nitrogen.
US11355335B2
The invention provides hybrid mass spectrometric systems which comprise an ion source, a first trapped ion mobility spectrometry (TIMS) analyzer and a mass analyzer, wherein the TIMS analyzer is located and operated in a first vacuum chamber at an elevated pressure above 500 Pa, and methods for operating the hybrid mass spectrometric systems.
US11355332B2
The use of a capacitor (22) to serve as the principal impedance in a negative feed-back loop in a voltage amplifier component (21) of a trans-impedance amplifier and actively controlling the amount of charge accumulated within the capacitor appropriately to improve the responsiveness and/or dynamic range of the amplifier. A switch (25) is electrically coupled to the inverting input terminal of the voltage amplifier and electrically isolated from the output terminal (23) of the voltage amplifier. The output voltage of the amplifier is proportional to the accumulation of charge, and the switch is operable to ‘reset’ the charge/voltage on the feedback capacitor, as desired. This arrangement decouples the structure of the switch from the output port of the voltage amplifier, and so avoids leakage currents and/or interfering voltage signals emanating from the switch structure and being felt at the output port of the voltage amplifier.
US11355331B2
A mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising a system control module (1715) for controlling the operation of the mass spectrometer. The system control module (1715) comprises one or more functional modules, each functional module being operable to perform a predetermined function of the mass spectrometer. The system control module (1715) and/or one or more functional modules are operable to communicate non-time information with each other using a time code of a communications protocol.
US11355327B2
An ion pump with a housing enclosing an interior, a gas inlet having a through-hole extending into the interior of the ion pump, at least one cathode, at least one anode positioned in proximity to the at least one cathode, a magnet disposed on an opposite side of the at least one cathode from the anode, and a blocking shield disposed between the gas inlet and the at least one cathode. The blocking shield is electrically connected to the at least one anode. An associated method installs the blocking shield by inserting components of the blocking shield assembly through the gas inlet, and assembling (inside the interior of the ion pump) the inserted components to form the blocking shield.
US11355326B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes a processing chamber, a conductive annular member, a microwave radiating mechanism and a plasma detector. The processing chamber has a ceiling plate with an opening. The conductive annular member is disposed at the opening while being insulated from the ceiling plate. The microwave radiating mechanism is disposed on the ceiling plate to be coaxial with a center of the conductive annular member and configured to radiate microwaves into the processing chamber. Further, a plasma detector is connected to the conductive annular member and configured to detect a state of generated plasma.
US11355323B2
A dry etching apparatus plasma processes a wafer held by a carrier having a frame and an holding sheet. The carrier is placed on an electrode unit of a stage provided in a chamber. The electrode unit is cooled by a cooling section configured to cool the electrode unit. An upper face of the electrode unit is at least as large as the back side of the carrier. The holding sheet and the frame are cooled effectively by the heat transfer to the stage.
US11355319B2
The present invention is a plasma processing apparatus that includes a processing chamber where plasma processing is performed on a sample, a radio frequency power supply that supplies radio frequency power to generate plasma, a sample stage on which the sample is placed, and a gas supply unit that supplies a gas to the processing chamber. The gas supply unit includes a first pipe that supplies a first gas as a gas for etching process to the processing chamber, a second pipe that supplies a second gas as a gas for etching process to the processing chamber, and a third pipe through which a third gas as a gas for deposition process flows. The third pipe is coupled to the second pipe. A fourth valve is arranged on the second pipe. The fourth valve prevents the third gas from flowing in a direction toward a supply source of the second gas.
US11355315B2
A plasma processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a processing chamber, a first radio frequency power source, and a second radio frequency power source. The first radio frequency power source supplies radio frequency power to generate the plasma. The second radio frequency power source applies a first radio frequency voltage to a sample stage. The plasma processing apparatus further includes a third radio frequency power source and a controller. The third radio frequency power source applies, to the sample stage, a second radio frequency voltage having a frequency which is N times a frequency of the first radio frequency voltage in a case where N is a natural number of 2 or more. The controller controls a phase difference such that the phase difference between a phase of the first radio frequency voltage and a phase of the second radio frequency voltage reaches a predetermined value.
US11355311B2
The present application relates to a method and an apparatus for determining a wavefront of a massive particle beam, including the steps of: (a) recording two or more images of a reference structure using the massive particle beam under different recording conditions; (b) generating point spread functions for the two or more recorded images with a modified reference image of the reference structure; and (c) performing a phase reconstruction of the massive particle beam on the basis of the generated point spread functions and the different recording conditions, for the purposes of determining the wavefront.
US11355309B2
The present invention relates to a sensor for electron detection emitted from an object to be used with a charged particle beam column being operated at a certain column and wafer voltage. The sensor is configured and operable to at least reduce interaction of negative ions with the active area of the sensor while minimizing electrons energy loss. The sensor is also configured and operable to minimize both gradual degradation of a cathodoluminescence efficiency of the active area and dynamic change of cathodoluminescence generated during operation of the sensor and evolving throughout the scintillator's lifetime.
US11355305B2
Methods and systems for creating TEM lamella using image restoration algorithms for low keV FIB images are disclosed. An example method includes irradiating a sample with an ion beam at low keV settings, generating a low keV ion beam image of the sample based on emissions resultant from irradiation by the ion beam, and then applying an image restoration model to the low keV ion beam image of the sample to generate a restored image. The sample is then localized within the restored image, and a low keV milling of the sample is performed with the ion beam based on the localized sample within the restored image.
US11355295B2
A push switch includes: a case including a recess; a fixed contact member including a fixed contact disposed in the recess; a movable contact member including a movable contact disposed in the recess; a protective sheet disposed in a first direction from the recess and covering the recess; and a rib disposed on the protective sheet. The protective sheet includes: a pressing portion; a fixed portion fixed to the case; and an intermediate portion located between the pressing portion and the fixed portion as viewed in the first direction. As the pressing portion of the protective sheet is pressed along the first direction, the movable contact member deforms by force received from the protective sheet. The movable contact touches the fixed contact as a result of the deformation of the movable contact member.
US11355273B2
A non-liquid immersed transformer including a magnetic core having a winding axis and at least two coil windings wound around the magnetic core along the winding axis. One or more cooling tubes made of dielectric material are arranged inside at least one of the coil windings to cool down the coil winding using dielectric fluid flowing through the dielectric cooling tubes. Each cooling tube is wound continuously forming one or more complete loops around the core.
US11355271B2
Provided is a multilayer electrical steel sheet having both low high-frequency iron loss and high magnetic flux density. The multilayer electrical steel sheet has an inner layer and surface layers provided on both sides of the inner layer, in which each of the surface layers has a Si content of 2.5 mass % to 6.0 mass %, the inner layer has a Si content of 1.5 mass % to 5.0 mass %, and the multilayer electrical steel sheet has: ΔSi of 0.5 mass % or more; ΔAl of 0.05 mass % or less; Δλ1.0/400 of 1.0×10−6 or less; a sheet thickness t of 0.03 mm to 0.3 mm; and a ratio of a total thickness of the surface layers ti to t of from 0.10 to 0.70.
US11355264B2
Disclosed are cable types, including a type THHN cable, the cable types having a reduced surface coefficient of friction, and the method of manufacture thereof, in which the central conductor core and insulating layer are surrounded by a material containing nylon or thermosetting resin. A silicone based pulling lubricant for said cable, or alternatively, erucamide or stearyl erucamide for small cable gauge wire, is incorporated, by alternate methods, with the resin material from which the outer sheath is extruded, and is effective to reduce the required pulling force between the formed cable and a conduit during installation.
US11355263B2
The invention relates to insulated submarine cables including conductive cores (3a, 3b) and insulating material (5a, 5b) surrounding the conductive cores (3a, 3b). Such an insulated cable includes a first length and a second length. The cable has a roughly constant core (3a) cross-sectional area A1 and a roughly constant insulating material (5a) thickness T1 along the first length, and a different roughly constant core (3b) cross-sectional area A3 and/or a different roughly constant insulating material (5b) thickness T2 along the second length. The cable may include one or more other lengths which join the first length and the second length to one another.
US11355261B2
A rubberless, strippable, semiconducting composition that includes an ethylene-(carboxylic ester) copolymer having a low comonomeric unit content, carbon black, and a strippability additive combination comprising an amide wax and a silicone oil. Also provided are a cured product made from the composition, methods of making and using same, and articles containing same.
US11355256B2
The present invention provides systems, methods and devices for storing and/or disposing of hazardous waste material such as calcined material. In certain embodiments, the system comprises a filling nozzle having a valve body having a distal end and an outer surface, the outer surface proximate the distal end being configured to sealingly and removeably couple to an inner surface of a filling port of the container. In certain embodiments, the method comprises (a) coupling an outer surface of a filling nozzle with an inner surface of a filling port of a container to form a first seal (b) adding hazardous waste material into the container (c) decoupling the filling port from the filling nozzle and (d) inserting a fill plug into the filling port, the fill plug forming a second seal with the inner surface of the filling port, the second seal being distally spaced from at least a portion of the first seal with respect to the container.
US11355255B2
Provided are a system and method for reducing the atmospheric release of radioactive materials caused by a severe accident. The system includes a steam generator disposed in a containment building, configured to generate steam by using heat of a coolant heated in a nuclear reactor, and connected to a turbine through a main steam line, a decontamination tank connected to the main steam line through a connection line and containing decontamination water for decontaminating the steam delivered from the steam generator and reducing atmospheric release of radioactive materials when a severe accident occurs, and a depressurizing power generation unit disposed on the connection line and configured to generate emergency power while depressurizing the steam delivered from the steam generator toward the decontamination tank when the severe accident occurs.
US11355253B2
In a pressurized water reactor (PWR), emergency core cooling (ECC) responds to depressurization due to a vessel penetration break at the top of the pressure vessel by draining water from a body of water through an injection line into the pressure vessel. A barrier operates concurrently with the ECC to suppress flow of liquid water from the pressure vessel out the vessel penetration break. The barrier may comprise one or more of: (1) an injection line extension passing through the central riser to drain water into the central riser; (2) openings in a lower portion of a central riser to shunt some upward flow from the central riser into a lower portion of the downcomer annulus; and (3) a surge line providing fluid communication between a pressurizer volume at the top of the pressure vessel and the remainder of the pressure vessel which directs water outboard toward the downcomer annulus.
US11355250B2
A patient care system comprises a patient care gateway device configured for emergency response via voice and/or visual communication, wherein the patient care device is configured for paired communication with a variety of patient health monitoring devices.
US11355238B2
A system, computer program product, method and algorithm for evaluation of blood glucose variability—one of the most important parameters of diabetes management. An embodiment of the method may use routine self-monitoring blood glucose (SMBG) data collected over a period of 2-6 weeks, for example, based on a theory of risk analysis of blood glucose data. One aspect may include a method, system and computer program product for computing the Average Daily Risk Range (ADRR)—a measure of overall glucose variability. Another aspect may include a method, system, and computer program product for estimating separately the glucose variability in the hypoglycemic range via a Low BG Index (LBGI) and the glucose variability in the high BG range via High BG Index (HBGI) followed by a combination of the two indices into a single variability display.
US11355235B2
A method and device that relates to the field of medical fluid management devices, in particular dialysis machines, provided. The method and device is configured to provide for the monitoring and control of medical fluid management devices from a remote site. To do so, the screen content of the output device of a fluid management device is transmitted at least partially to an output device of a remote control unit. The screen content optionally has user interfaces, which can be selected on the remote control device and lead to changes in the control of the transmitting medical fluid management device.
US11355221B2
A method and system of associating globally and nationally recognized health and healthcare classification systems with their respective common terms, to create user-friendly classification systems. Users can suggest common terms to be added to the classification system codes. A method of storing and retrieving healthcare information including storing healthcare information for a plurality of members in a database; associating one or more classification system codes and one or more profiles with the stored healthcare information; and retrieving the stored healthcare information from the database in response to pre-defined and/or user-defined search input.
US11355212B2
An offset address generator generates a plurality of offset addresses at an interval of a basic processing unit size on the basis of an access destination address from a calculating circuit, partitions an access destination memory region from the calculating circuit to set a plurality of verification address ranges. A determiner sequentially determines whether the plurality of set verification address ranges are matched with a monitoring target address. With this configuration, it is possible to simplify the configuration of a debug function in a processor.
US11355207B2
A memory device, and a method of operating the memory device, includes a memory block configured to include a plurality of memory cells that are stacked to be spaced apart from each other on a substrate and to include word lines coupled to the plurality of memory cells, and bit lines and a source line coupled to both ends of strings including the plurality of memory cells, and peripheral circuits configured to perform an erase operation on the memory block, wherein the peripheral circuits are configured to perform the erase operation on the plurality of memory cells included in the memory block, and thereafter perform a defect detection operation on memory cells selected from among the plurality of memory cells depending on sizes of the plurality of memory cells.
US11355206B2
Discussed herein are systems and methods for compensating degradation of a transistor in a high-voltage (HV) shifter configured to transfer an input voltage to an access line, such as a global wordline. An embodiment of a memory device comprises a group of memory cells, and a HV shifter circuit including a signal transfer circuit and a compensator circuit. The signal transfer circuit includes a P-channel transistor to transfer a high-voltage input to an access line. The compensator circuit can provide a control signal to the signal transfer circuit by coupling a support voltage higher than a supply voltage (Vcc) to the signal transfer circuit for a specified time period to compensate for degradation of the P-channel transistor. The transferred high voltage is used to charge the access line to selectively read, program, or erase memory cells.
US11355205B2
A memory device includes a first memory area including a first memory cell array having a plurality of first memory cells and a first peripheral circuit disposed below the first memory cell array; a second memory area including a second memory cell array having a plurality of second memory cells and a second peripheral circuit disposed below the second memory cell array; and a pad area including a power wiring. The first and second memory areas respectively include first and second local lockout circuits separately determining whether to lock out of each of the memory areas. The first and second memory areas are included in a single semiconductor chip to share the pad area, and the first and second memory areas operate individually. Accordingly, in the memory device, unnecessary data loss may be reduced by selectively stopping an operation of only a memory area requiring recovery.
US11355194B2
A memory device including: a memory cell array disposed in a first semiconductor layer, the memory cell array including a plurality of wordlines extended in a first direction and stacked in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction; and a plurality of pass transistors disposed in the first semiconductor layer, wherein a first pass transistor of the plurality of pass transistors is disposed between a first signal line of a plurality of signal lines and a first wordline of the plurality of wordlines, and wherein the plurality of signal lines are arranged at the same level as a common source line.
US11355184B2
Numerous embodiments of analog neural memory arrays are disclosed. In certain embodiments, each memory cell in the array has an approximately constant source impedance when that cell is being operated. In certain embodiments, power consumption is substantially constant from bit line to bit line within the array when cells are being read. In certain embodiments, weight mapping is performed adaptively for optimal performance in power and noise.
US11355183B2
A memory device includes a plurality of memory cells; a word line, connected to one of the plurality of memory cells, that is configured to provide a first WL pulse having a rising edge and a falling edge that define a pulse width of the first WL pulse; a first tracking WL, formed adjacent to the memory cells, that is configured to provide, via being physically or operatively coupled to a bit line (BL) configured to write a logic state to the memory cell, a second WL pulse having a rising edge with a decreased slope; and a first tracking BL, configured to emulate the BL, that is coupled to the first tracking WL such that the pulse width of the first WL pulse is increased based on the decreased slope of the rising edge of the second WL pulse.
US11355182B2
A method of screening complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor CMOS integrated circuits, such as integrated circuits including CMOS static random access memory (SRAM) cells, for transistors susceptible to transistor characteristic shifts over operating time. For the example of SRAM cells formed of cross-coupled CMOS inverters, separate ground voltage levels can be applied to the source nodes of the driver transistors, or separate power supply voltage levels can be applied to the source nodes of the load transistors (or both). Asymmetric bias voltages applied to the transistors in this manner will reduce the transistor drive current, and can thus mimic the effects of bias temperature instability (BTI). Cells that are vulnerable to threshold voltage shift over time can thus be identified.
US11355180B2
A semiconductor system includes a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. The first semiconductor device outputs a chip selection signal, a command signal, and data. The second semiconductor device generates internal data from the data, stores the internal data, and stores the data as pattern data when the chip selection signal is enabled and a write operation is performed according to a logic level combination of the command signal. In addition, the second semiconductor device generates the internal data from the pattern data and stores the internal data without receiving the data when the chip selection signal is enabled and a write copy operation is performed according to a logic level combination of the command signal.
US11355177B2
A memory device includes: a first memory cell mat that includes first multi-layer level sub word lines positioned over a substrate; a second memory cell mat that is laterally spaced apart from the first memory cell mat and includes second multi-layer level sub word lines; a first sub word line driver circuit that is positioned underneath the first memory cell mat; and a second sub word line driver circuit that is positioned underneath the second memory cell mat, wherein the first sub word line driver circuit is positioned underneath ends of the first multi-layer level sub word lines, and the second sub word line driver circuit is positioned underneath ends of the second multi-layer level sub word lines.
US11355174B2
Self-referencing memory device, techniques, and methods are described herein. A self-referencing memory device may include a ferroelectric memory cell. The self-referencing memory device may be configured to determine a logic state stored in a memory cell based on a state signal generated using the ferroelectric memory cell and a reference signal generated using the ferroelectric memory cell. The biasing of the plate line of the ferroelectric memory cell may be used to generate the voltage need to generate the state signal during a first time period of an access operation and to generate the reference signal during a second time period of the access operation. Procedures and operations related to a self-referencing memory device are described.
US11355170B1
An example system implementing a processing-in-memory pipeline includes: a memory array to store data in a plurality of memory cells electrically coupled to a plurality of wordlines and a plurality of bitlines; a logic array coupled to the memory array, the logic array to implement configurable logic controlling the plurality of memory cells; and a control block coupled to the memory array and the logic array, the control block to control a computational pipeline to perform computations on the data by activating at least one of: one or more bitlines of the plurality of bitlines or one or more wordlines of the plurality of wordlines.
US11355163B2
The systems and methods are configured to efficiently and effectively include processing capabilities in memory. In one embodiment, a processing in memory (PIM) chip a memory array, logic components, and an interconnection network. The memory array is configured to store information. In one exemplary implementation the memory array includes storage cells and array periphery components. The logic components can be configured to process information stored in the memory array. The interconnection network is configured to communicatively couple the logic components. The interconnection network can include interconnect wires, and a portion of the interconnect wires are located in a metal layer area that is located above the memory array.
US11355156B2
Video production systems and methods are provided for generating annotated class discussion videos, which contain real-time student commentary post-production annotations responsive to such student commentary, or a combination thereof. In an embodiment, the video production system includes a display device, a dedicated video input source, and a video processing device. The video processing device contains, in turn, a wireless receiver configured to receive wireless input signals from the dedicated video input source and a plurality of devices executing a student commentary capture application during a presentation, a controller operably coupled to the wireless receiver, and a memory storing computer-readable instructions. When executed by the controller, the computer-readable instructions cause the video processing device to generate an output video containing student commentary synchronized with the presentation as captured, at least in part, utilizing the dedicated video input source. The output video is then presented on the display device.
US11355152B2
According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a recording medium, a suspension, a magnetic head, an actuator, a circuit board, an FPC, a preamplifier, and an actuator driver. The magnetic head and the actuator are mounted on the suspension. The circuit board includes a control circuit. The FPC is connected to the suspension and the circuit board. The preamplifier is mounted on the FPC, outputs a write signal, to the magnetic head, corresponding to information to be written to the recording medium by the magnetic head, and receives, from the magnetic head, a read signal corresponding to information read from the recording medium by the magnetic head. The actuator driver is mounted apart from the preamplifier on the FPC, the actuator driver that outputs a drive signal for driving the actuator to the actuator.
US11355151B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a disk including two first servo sectors and at least a second servo sector, a head, and a controller, wherein the first servo sector includes burst data and a first data pattern written before the circumferential direction of the burst data, the second servo sector includes the burst data, the first data pattern, and a second data pattern written after the circumferential direction of the burst data, a first frequency of the first data pattern is different from a second frequency of the second data pattern, and a first length of the first data pattern is different from a second length of the second data pattern.
US11355148B2
The magnetic recording medium includes: a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder, in which a difference Safter−Sbefore between a spacing Safter measured on a surface of the magnetic layer by optical interferometry after ethanol cleaning and a spacing Sbefore measured on the surface of the magnetic layer by optical interferometry before ethanol cleaning is more than 0 nm and 6.0 nm or less, and the non-magnetic support is an aromatic polyester support having a moisture absorption of 0.3% or less.
US11355146B2
The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support and a magnetic layer, in which an edge shape of the timing-based servo pattern, specified by magnetic force microscopy is a shape in which a difference between a value L99.9 of a cumulative distribution function of 99.9% and a value L0.1 of a cumulative distribution function of 0.1% in a position deviation width from an ideal shape of the magnetic tape in a longitudinal direction is 180 nm or less, and in which a difference between a spacing Safter measured on a surface of the magnetic layer by an optical interferometry after ethanol cleaning and a spacing Sbefore measured on the surface of the magnetic layer by an optical interferometry before ethanol cleaning is greater than 0 nm and 6.0 nm or less.
US11355143B2
Described are magnetic recording heads that include an air-bearing surface and that are designed to be useful or potentially useful in two or more different types of fluid atmospheres; also described are related methods of testing the magnetic recording heads and installing the magnetic recording heads in a hard disk drive, as well as hard disk drives that contain a magnetic recording head as described.
US11355141B2
A PMR (perpendicular magnetic recording) write head configured for microwave assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) in the form of spin assisted writing (SAW) or spin torque oscillation (STO) includes a spin-torque oscillator (STO) or SAW device and trailing shield formed of high moment magnetic material (HMTS). By patterning the STO or SAW and the HMTS in a simultaneous process the HMTS and the STO or SAW layers are precisely aligned and have very similar cross-track widths. In addition, the write gap at an off-center location has a thickness that is independent from its center-track thickness and the write gap total width can have a flexible range whose minimum value is the same width as the STO or SAW width.
US11355130B2
An audio coding method, comprising: obtaining an ith audio frame in n consecutive audio frames and obtaining an ith piece of coded data and an ith piece of redundant data based on the ith audio frame, wherein the ith piece of coded data is obtained by coding the ith audio frame, and the ith piece of redundant data is obtained by coding and buffering the ith audio frame, wherein n is a positive integer, and 1≤i≤n; and packing the ith piece of coded data and at most m pieces of redundant data before the ith piece of redundant data into an ith audio data packet, wherein m is a preset positive integer. An audio decoding method and a computer device are further provided.
US11355119B2
An electronic record voice assistant system can include one or more processors that receive audio data, apply a machine learning model to the audio data to generate speech data including at least one value, determine a state of an electronic record, and update one or more fields of the electronic record using the state and the at least one value.
US11355101B2
Disclosed is an artificial intelligence (AI) apparatus for training an acoustic model, and more particularly, an AI apparatus for training an acoustic model including a shared network and a branch network connected to the shared network using speech data and phonemes corresponding to the speech data.
US11355095B2
The present invention relates to a mixer apparatus (30) for mixing audio signals from a musical instrument (10). The mixer apparatus (30) comprises plural input circuits (34) and an audio signal mixer (36). Each of the plural input circuits (34) has an audio signal input which, in use, is coupled electrically with and thereby receives an audio signal from a different one of plural musical instrument pickups (32) comprised in the musical instrument. The audio signal mixer (36) receives audio signals from the plural input circuits (34) and mixes the received audio signals with one another. Each of the plural input circuits (34) comprises a linear active circuit in an audio signal path between the audio signal input and the audio signal mixer (36).
US11355077B2
A display device including a pair of substrates, a display medium formed between the pair of substrates and including charged particles encapsulated therebetween such that an image is displayed by moving the charged particles electrophoretically, a drive unit that applies a voltage to the display medium, and a display control unit that controls a display of the display medium. After data communication for rewriting a display of a display device commences and before the data communication ends, the display control unit commences rewriting using a first waveform, and after completion of the data communication and after the rewriting using the first waveform, the display control unit executes rewriting using a second waveform.
US11355063B2
A pixel circuit for controlling driving current for a light-emitting element is disclosed. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor configured to supply driving current to the light-emitting element, a first switching transistor configured to transmit a data signal corresponding to the driving current, a storage capacitor configured to receive the signal from the first switching transistor and store a voltage to be applied to a gate of the driving transistor, a second switching transistor configured to correct the voltage to be stored to the storage capacitor, and a first capacitor including an electrode connected with a drain of the driving transistor and an electrode to be supplied with a predetermined potential.
US11355057B2
A scan-type display apparatus includes a light emitting module, a display module, a control module and a driver module. The light emitting module includes an LED array having a common anode configuration. The control module generates an image stream, a plurality of switching signals that cause the LED array to emit light in a line scan manner, and an image refresh signal that is related to refreshing of images on a display constituted by the light emitting module and the display module. The driver module generates a drive output to drive the display module, such that the display shows images represented by the image stream and that the refreshing of images on the display is synchronous to the line scan.
US11355050B2
A method of image processing, the method including performing linear processing of an input data signal encoded with a nonlinear function to generate a linear representation of the input data signal including linearized image data, and using an integrated circuit to generate a processed linear image by nonlinearly quantizing the linearized image data to generate nonlinear quantized data, generating a memory address based on the nonlinear quantized data, and accessing a lookup table based on the generated memory address.
US11355040B2
A method for inspecting functionality of a display device and a test equipment are provided. The method for inspecting functionality of the display device is utilized in a test equipment of an auto-test system. The method includes controlling an image capturing device to capture a test image shown on a screen of the display device for generating a captured image, acquiring an encoded pattern from the captured image and decoding the encoded pattern, wherein the test image is a source image generated by an image providing device superposed with the encoded pattern, determining whether the encoded pattern is successfully decoded to generate a resultant data, and comparing the resultant data with reference data to generate a comparison result after the encoded pattern is successfully decoded, wherein the reference data comprises information associated with the test image and information associated with system configuration of the display device.
US11355037B2
An LED display screen, includes: a frame, modules disposed at a side of the frame and including an LED light board, and a non-display surface of the LED light board is provided with a first socket configured to be connected with a board-to-board connector; and a power box disposed inside the frame and located between the modules, with a control board connected with the LED light board via the board-to-board connector; wherein the control board comprises a main control board and at least one sub-control board, a surface of the sub-control board facing a surface of the LED light board is provided with a second socket configured to match with the first socket, each of the sub-control boards is fixed by an elastic mechanism and a bottom surface of the power box opposite to the LED light board.
US11355030B2
A system for teaching computer programming includes a computer, a display connected to the computer, software executable by the computer to generate a window on the display, and a user input for transitioning the window between a first configuration and a second configuration. In the first configuration, the window displays an application. In the second configuration, the window displays a programming interface for the application. The system further includes an editor displayed in the programming interface for changing a code listing related to a parameter of a feature displayed in the application. By changing the code listing related to the parameter of the feature and transitioning between the first configuration and the second configuration, a user is able to observe how differences in the code listing affects the parameter of the feature in the application.
US11355029B2
The invention relates to a method for estimating the attentional resources invoked for execution of a primary task and/or attention sharing strategies developed by an individual, said method being implemented in a mobile terminal, being based on utilization of the dual-task paradigm, and comprising the following steps: Evaluation of first performance ratings of the individual during the execution of a primary task alone, Evaluation of second performance ratings of the individual during the execution of a secondary task alone, Evaluation of third performance ratings of the individual during the simultaneous execution of the primary and secondary tasks, Estimation of the attentional demand required for the execution of the primary task and/or of the effect (beneficial or negative) of a secondary task on the control mechanisms involved in the execution of the primary task and/or attention sharing strategies developed by an individual by comparing the first, second, and third performance ratings.
US11355028B2
The invention provides a device for music theory comprehension. The device includes a base portion and a first stencil. The base portion includes a plurality of marks. Each mark includes indicia representing a musical note. The first stencil includes a first interior shape, wherein the first stencil and the base portion are selectively positionable relative to each other. At each of a plurality of predetermined positions determined by the plurality of marks, the first interior shape of the first stencil surrounds multiple marks. The multiple marks include indicia representing seven musical notes representing a unique chord family.
US11355026B2
A mounting panel for flight simulator instruments and flight controls features affordable panels that can install onto any flat edge, such as a desk or table. The mounting panel for flight simulator instruments and flight controls is an apparatus used to provide a foundation for the positioning and mounting of flight simulation tools, including various monitors, displays, controls, and more. The apparatus is also configured to mount easily to a table or surface for secure usage. The apparatus includes a mounting board and a plurality of table-attachment brackets. The mounting board serves as the primary foundational support structure for the avionics and mounting brackets. The plurality of table-attachment brackets is a set of rigid units capable of arranging the mounting board in an appropriate position. The arrangement of the mounting board and the plurality of table-attachment brackets allows for arrangement of avionics appropriately for use in flight simulation.
US11355019B2
A device projects a virtual three-dimensional map of a physical environment onto an area captured by an image sensor of the device. The device receives user input to begin tracking device motion. In response to receiving the user input, the device tracks its motion within the area. The device determines location data within the area and orientation data of the image sensor within the area based on the tracked motion of the device. At least one of the location data or the orientation data is converted to real-world coordinates based on the virtual three-dimensional map of the physical environment. Path data is generated for a physical vehicle based on the at least one converted location or orientation data.
US11355015B2
A display device for a vehicle, including: a rear imaging section that captures a rear image; a rear lateral imaging section that captures rear lateral images; and a control section that generates a combined image in which a rear processed image obtained by processing the rear image with a first parameter, and rear lateral processed images obtained by processing rear lateral images with a second parameter, are combined, wherein the control section further identifies an object existing in the rear image or the rear lateral images; acquires relative information including relative position and relative speed of the object with respect to the vehicle, and blind spot regions of the combined image; and, based thereon, if the object will disappear from the combined image due to entering into the blind spot regions, changes the blind spot regions by adjusting the first and second parameters.
US11355007B2
A configuration is realized that enables to acquire and accumulate driving evaluation data of another car from a vehicle and evaluate driving of a driver of each vehicle. Vehicle information, driver information, and location information are transmitted from a vehicle-side information processing apparatus to an information management apparatus, and in addition, evaluation information regarding driving of the other vehicle is transmitted to the information management apparatus. The information management apparatus receives the vehicle information, the driver information, and the location information from the vehicle and stores the received information in a database and receives evaluation information and time information, driver information, and the like at the time of evaluation. By matching processing on the data stored in the database and the data received together with the evaluation information, an evaluation target vehicle and a driver are specified, stored in an evaluation information database, and analysis processing based on the stored data is executed, and the analysis result is provided to the driver and the like.
US11355002B2
A method for an alarm silencing or suppression routine following activation of a wake-up alarm on an electronic device (42). The method comprises, following the alarm activation, monitoring (14) light levels at a light sensor (44) of the device and automatically silencing (20) or otherwise suppressing the alarm signal responsive to sensing (16) a light level at the sensor above a pre-defined threshold. Following alarm signal suppression, a further confirmatory monitoring period follows in which light levels at the sensor continue to be monitored (22). If they fall to below a further predefined threshold (26), or below the original silencing threshold, the alarm signal is reactivated (28). This ensures that a user has not returned to a darkened environment a short space of time after alarm silencing, which might lead to the user falling back to sleep.
US11355000B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for detecting a state transition for sensors of a monitoring system, and determining whether the state transition is abnormal such that further action is warranted. The determination may be based on a history of state transitions in the monitoring system, and may be based on whether the same state transition has previously occurred at a corresponding time in the history, whether the new state has previously occurred following the corresponding time in the history, and other factors.
US11354992B2
An identification and exclusion system and method for restricting access to recreation venues by a person who caused an incident at a recreation venue (22). The system includes a mobile communications device (12) having a camera and a GPS chip, and a computer processor (14) configured to receive an incident record (24) from the mobile communications device and broadcast over a communications network (16) the incident record to a plurality of recreation venues within a predetermined area. The incident record includes an image of the person and a record of the incident type.
US11354991B2
A security system (10) includes an image information acquisition unit (11) that acquires input image information on an image taken of a person in a store, a tracking unit (12) that tracks an action of a hand of the person based on the input image information, and a suspicious action detection unit (13) that detects a suspicious action of the person based on the tracked action of the hand. A security system, a security method, and a security program capable of accurately detecting a suspicious action are thereby provided.
US11354986B2
Disclosed herein is a haptic device having at least one vibration motor, such as a linear vibration motor, configured to selectively generate a vibration at least partially along an actuator axis. An interfacing plate is configured to transmit the vibration and is at least partially composed of a compliant material. The linear vibration motor and the interfacing plate are embedded in a host. The host defines a first surface with a recessed zone extending from the first surface. The interfacing plate is configured to fit in the recessed zone. The host includes a chamber contiguous with the recessed zone, with the linear vibration motor being positioned in the chamber. The chamber may include respective walls having a plurality of protrusions configured to at least partially absorb the vibration. The haptic device may be part of a seat assembly.
US11354979B2
Gaming systems and methods which utilize alternative gaming presentations of the results of sporting event wagers.
US11354978B2
Innovations in game design features of an electronic gaming device are presented. A progressive jackpot is associated with an escrow. At least a portion of the escrow can be applied to a reset amount for the progressive jackpot. The amount of escrow applied to the reset amount can vary, such as based on a current escrow value. The progressive jackpot can be associated with an increment rate and an escrow rate. The increment rate or the escrow rate may vary based on one or more parameters, including one or more game parameters. Game parameters can include game output parameters, such as a coin out amount, a number of games played, a handpay amount, or a number of players actively engaged in game play with a particular progressive jackpot. Changes in how escrow is applied, or how increment or escrow rates are determined, can be based on time periods or events.
US11354972B2
Gaming table systems include electronic gaming tables, gaming terminals, and a system server. A system or table can be configured to administer a live wager-based table game involving an initial shared hand that is shared by multiple live players. Each player can make different live game decisions regarding discarding physical playing items from the initial shared hand, and game outcomes include final hands that vary by player depending upon the different decisions. The live table game can be draw poker, which can involve dealing five physical cards face up for the initial shared hand and five additional cards face down for a first set of replacement cards before any live game player decisions. A second set of replacement cards can provide a second play from the same initial shared hand. Methods of providing the draw poker game can include preventing further user inputs prior to revealing the face down cards.
US11354958B2
An encrypted security system and associated methods for controlling physical access are described. The system includes a security server configured to receive a request for authentication from a mobile device, the request including information identifying the mobile device and a physical access control device. The security server forwards an encryption message including a plurality of unique identifiers to the physical access control device via the mobile device. The physical access control device is configured to authenticate the plurality of unique identifiers in the encryption message and operate an access control mechanism.
US11354954B2
A concealed carry weapon (CCW) container offers a user a fail-secure locking mechanism to ensure that the CCW stays locked at all times even when there is no power. The CCW container enables the user to quickly and automatically unlock when the user utilizes the biometric recognition system, a pass code, or an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tag. The CCW container employs interior and exterior lighting, quick access magnetic closure with or without a locking mechanism attached, and a ballistic armor plate to protect the user's vital body parts using the ballistic armor plat as a shield. Further, a method for managing the fail-secure locking mechanism allows the user to efficiently access the CCW content using a mobile app, the RFID tag, or any other biometric technology. Additionally, the method provides a panic switch that alerts security authorities of an incident and forwarding any salient video or sound thereto.
US11354951B2
The invention relates to a method for diagnosing error of at least one of an ego vehicle (10) and a surrounding vehicle (12), which method comprises the steps of: the ego vehicle (10) receiving (S1) sensor data about the surrounding vehicle (12) from an on-board sensor (14) of the ego vehicle (10) and vehicle to vehicle data from the surrounding vehicle (12); the ego vehicle (10) comparing (S2) the received sensor data and the received vehicle to vehicle data; and the ego vehicle (10) detecting (S3) a difference between the received sensor data and the received vehicle to vehicle data, whereby the ego vehicle (10): stops (S4) receiving vehicle to vehicle data from the surrounding vehicle (12); registers (S5) a potential error of the ego vehicle (10); and reports (S6) a potential error of the surrounding vehicle (12) to at least one of the surrounding vehicle (12) and a remote server (18). The invention also concerns a method for diagnosing error of a surrounding vehicle (12).
US11354942B2
In an input data creation device, a reception unit is configured to acquire diagnostic information of a vehicle and traffic information output from an external device. A data generation unit is configured to extract vehicle status data including a plurality of data elements indicating a vehicle status from the diagnostic information to generate input data for operating a multimedia device for a vehicle. A command unit is configured to give an instruction such that the multimedia device operates based on the input data. The data generation unit is configured to set a timing at which traffic information is generated on a time axis of the input data, and change values of the data elements.
US11354933B2
A wearable device may include a main body, a sensor formed on a stem disposed on a side of the main body, and configured to acquire a partial fingerprint image of a finger of a user based on the finger being in contact with the sensor, and a processor configured to control a display to guide the user based on the acquired partial fingerprint image and a full fingerprint image of the finger to permit a measurement site of the finger to contact the sensor.
US11354931B2
A fingerprint sensing device and an operation method thereof are provided. The fingerprint sensing device includes a fingerprint sensor, a driver integrated chip, and a fingerprint sensing chip. The fingerprint sensing chip is coupled to the fingerprint sensor, and is coupled to the driver integrated chip via a general purpose input/output (GPIO) interface. The fingerprint sensing chip provides a control signal to the driver integrated chip via the GPIO interface to control the driver integrated chip according to the control signal to disable touch sensing during a fingerprint sensing period. The fingerprint sensing chip drives the fingerprint sensor to obtain a fingerprint image during the fingerprint sensing period.
US11354930B2
An optical fingerprint identification system includes a cover, a light emitting layer, an optical layer, an image sensor and a base that are sequentially disposed from top to bottom. The cover has a fingerprint contact surface on top. The image sensor has an image surface. The optical layer includes a first array layer and a second array layer, and the first array layer is stacked on top of the second array layer. The first array layer and the second array layer respectively include a plurality of first array lens elements and a plurality of second array lens elements respectively arranged at equal intervals in a first direction. Each of the first array lens elements and a corresponding second array lens element of the second array layer are coaxial along an optical axis and form an imaging unit.
US11354929B2
A fingerprint recognition device includes a light source, a light conversion layer, a light detector, and a light filter. The light source is configured to emit a first light having a first wavelength. The light conversion layer is configured to convert the first light to a second light having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength. The light detector is configured to detect the second light reflected by a fingerprint. The light filter is disposed between the light conversion layer and the light detector, and configured to substantially filter out the first light and substantially pass the second light.
US11354915B2
The invention refers to an image extraction method importing into SDL model in the field of information processing, and is characterized in that the target image are labeled artificially for plural times on computer data. The target image that has been labeled to be extracted for plural times will obtain the maximum probability value and scale of each parameter constituting the target image by machine learning. And the target image can be obtained from the sample computer data according to the maximum probability value or its scale range. The implementation effect of this method is to extract the required image arbitrarily from an image, eliminate the interference of background image affecting the result of image recognition, and improve the effect of image processing and the accuracy of image recognition, which is a new image processing algorithm that subverts the traditional binaryzation algorithm.
US11354910B2
An identity of a customer within an establishment is authenticated using a variety of captured biometric features obtained from sensors and/or video. Video capturing movements/interactions of the customer is analyzed in real time to identify the customer's behavior and actions. Any staff of the establishment who interact with the customer are identified from the video. Transaction data and other data retained for the customer by the establishment are aggregated and linked with the video and the customer identity. The linked data is analyzed in combination with the customer behavior and actions to determine responses within the establishment to customer-initiated transactions. In an embodiment, the customer is authorized to perform at least one transaction within the establishment based on the authenticated identity and linked data without a presentation by the customer of an identification card, a Personal Identification Number (PIN), a password and/or verification by a staff member.
US11354909B2
In an approach for detecting queuing information, a processor analyzes a video monitoring a queue area. A processor detects a queue barrier in the queue area using an instance segmentation technique based on the video. A processor identifies a queue in the queue area using a heuristic technique. A processor recognizes a number of people in the queue. A processor provides an estimation of a wait time for the queue.
US11354904B2
Techniques for generating a grounded video description for a video input are provided. Hierarchical Attention based Spatial-Temporal Graph-to-Sequence Learning framework for producing a GVD is provided by generating an initial graph representing a plurality of object features in a plurality of frames of a received video input and generating an implicit graph for the plurality of object features in the plurality of frames using a similarity function. The initial graph and the implicit graph are combined to form a refined graph and the refined graph is processed using attention processes, to generate an attended hierarchical graph of the plurality of object features for the plurality of frames. The grounded video description is generated for the received video input using at least the hierarchical graph of the plurality of features.
US11354897B2
An output control apparatus includes circuitry configured to acquire image data of a plurality of target objects captured at a site by an image capture device as captured image data; detect the plurality of target objects included in the captured image data; estimate a recognition level of an observing person on the detected plurality of target objects; identify a specific target object having lower recognition level among the detected plurality of target objects based on the estimated recognition level; and output screen-display image data including additional information set for the identified specific target object having lower recognition level, the screen-display image data generated for the acquired captured image data.
US11354883B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an image processing method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The method includes: obtaining a key frame image that includes a target object, and obtaining a to-be-processed frame image that includes the target object; extracting a feature point in the key frame image and a feature point in the to-be-processed frame image, respectively; determining a matching relationship between each feature point in the key frame image and each feature point in the to-be-processed frame image; determining a transformation relationship based on the feature point in the key frame image and a feature point in the to-be-processed frame image that matches the feature point in the key frame image; and processing the to-be-processed frame image based on the transformation relationship to obtain a target frame image.
US11354880B2
Systems, assemblies, and methods for detecting changes in polarization states are described. Example systems may include a light receiving unit including a sensor and a receiving polarizer. The sensor is configured to sense light from a polarized light source deflected through the receiving polarizer by a light directing article. The sensor is configured to generate a signal indicative a received polarization state of light deflected by the light directing articles. Such systems may be coupled to vehicles and may be useful for sensor-detectable signs, indicia, and markings to facilitate automated or assisted vehicular transport.
US11354879B1
Techniques are described for detecting a periphery of a surface based on a point set representing the surface. The surface may correspond to a display medium upon which content is projected. A shape model may be matched and aligned to a contour of the point set. A periphery or edge of the surface and corresponding display medium may be determined based on the aligned shape model.
US11354871B2
An apparatus for configuring an avatar responsive to a content having at least one of a video and an audio signal includes an authoring unit configured to detect one or more events in a content comprising at least one of a video and an audio signal, categorise one or more of the detected events, and generate an event track for the content, the event track comprising one or more of the categorised events associated with a respective time; a selecting unit configured to select a configuration of an avatar to correspond to a respective categorised event of the event track; and an output generator configured to generate control data to configure an avatar in response to a selected configuration.
US11354868B1
Systems and methods for producing remote assistance via augmented reality (AR) by utilizing a field service device and a remote expert device are disclosed herein. An example method includes a field service device generating a non-AR video feed, and sending the non-AR video feed to a remote expert device. A user of the remote expert device then annotates the non-AR video feed by drawing a scribble pattern onto the non-AR video feed. The remote expert device then sends the scribble pattern to the field service device as an array of coordinates. The field service device then maps the received scribble pattern to a plane to create an AR scribble pattern. The field service device then creates an AR video feed based on the AR scribble pattern.
US11354867B2
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that enable presenting environments comprising visual representations of multiple applications. In one implementation, a method includes presenting a view of an environment at an electronic device on a display of the electronic device. The environment comprising visual representations corresponding to a plurality of applications. A first application among the plurality of applications is designated as an elevated application. The elevated application is provided with access to a control parameter configured to modify an ambience of the environment. Other applications of the plurality of applications are restricted from accessing the control parameter while the first application is designated as the elevated application.
US11354863B2
Systems and methods for immersive and collaborative video surveillance, in the commercial security industry are provided. Some methods can include receiving a video data stream from a surveillance camera in a monitored region via a cloud network, a user interface device of or coupled to a virtual reality headset displaying the video data stream, and the user interface device receiving user input corresponding to a movement of a user's body to navigate the video data stream and simulate the user navigating the monitored region from within the monitored region.
US11354860B1
Systems and techniques are provided for performing video-based activity recognition. For example, a process can include generating a three-dimensional (3D) model of a first portion of an object based on one or more frames depicting the object. The process can also include generating a mask for the one or more frames, the mask including an indication of one or more of regions of the object. The process can further include generating a 3D base model based on the 3D model of the first portion of the object and the mask, the 3D base model representing the first portion of the object and a second portion of the object. The process can include generating, based on the mask and the 3D base model, a 3D model of the second portion of the object.
US11354857B2
A method includes providing a three-dimensional representation of a doubly curved surface as a smooth function or triangulated mesh. The three-dimensional surface is cut into one or more panels representing each panel by a triangulated mesh. A two-dimensional approximation of the set of panels is created by representing the two-dimensional pattern as a triangulated mesh that is topologically equivalent to the three-dimensional meshes representing the panels.
US11354855B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for generating 3D models of floor plans using two-dimensional (2D) image inputs. According to an embodiment, a three-dimensional building model generation system is disclosed that can include a two-dimensional image receive module to receive a 2D image pertaining to the floor plan, an image processing module to processes the two-dimensional image to generate a binary image, a two-dimensional floor plan graph generation module to extract two-dimensional geometry from the binary image to generate a two-dimensional floor plan graph, and a three-dimensional model generation module to generate a 3D model of the floor plan by performing geometric extrusion of the two-dimensional floor plan graph based on one or more cyclic wall graphs and one or more connectives.
US11354853B2
Systems and methods for constructing a three-dimensional panorama model of an object are disclosed. An exemplary system includes a storage device configured to receive a plurality of point clouds each acquired at a different view angle. Each point cloud includes three-dimensional positions of a plurality of target points on a surface of the object. The system further includes at least one processor configured to determine elevation and normal at each target point in each point cloud and convert the elevation of each target point to color information. The at least one processor is further configured to register every two adjacent point clouds among the plurality of point clouds based on the three-dimensional positions, the normal, and the color information of the respective target points of the two adjacent point clouds. The at least one processor is also configured to render the three-dimensional panorama model based on the registered point clouds.
US11354851B2
Reference images of an object may be mapped to an object model to create a reference object model representation. Evaluation images of the object may also be mapped to the object model via the processor to create an evaluation object model representation. Object condition information may be determined by comparing the reference object model representation with the evaluation object model representation. The object condition information may indicate one or more differences between the reference object model representation and the evaluation object model representation. A graphical representation of the object model that includes the object condition information may be displayed on a display screen.
US11354836B2
The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods that efficiently display tabular data (e.g., a large data set of a million or more rows of data with multiple data fields). More particularly, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods that compress the tabular data to a representative data set that maintains the data density and data variation of the original tabular data, and that display the representative data set with respect to clusters formed.
US11354832B2
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions readable and executable by an imaging workstation (14) including at least one electronic processor (16) to perform a dataset generation method (100) operating on emission imaging data acquired of a patient for one or more axial frames at a corresponding one or more bed positions, the method comprising: (a) identifying a frame of interest from the one or more axial frames; (b) generating simulated lesion data by simulating emission imaging data for the frame of interest of at least one simulated lesion placed in the frame of interest; (c) generating simulated frame emission imaging data by simulating emission imaging data for the frame of interest of the patient; (d) determining a normalization factor comprising a ratio of the value of a quantitative metric for the simulated patient data and the value of the quantitative metric for the emission imaging data acquired of the same patient for the frame of interest; and (e) generating a hybrid data set comprising the emission imaging data acquired of the patient for the one or more axial frames at the corresponding one or more bed positions with the frame of interest replaced by a combination of the simulated lesion data scaled by the normalization factor and the emission imaging data acquired of the patient for the frame of interest.
US11354830B2
The present disclosure a system and method for generating a tomographic image of a subject. In some aspects, the method includes receiving an initial image acquired from a subject using the tomographic imaging system, and performing, using the initial image and a cost function model, a penalty calculation based on a spatially variant hyper-parameter. The method also includes generating an updated image using the penalty calculation, and generating a finalized image by iteratively updating the updated image until a stopping criterion is met.
US11354825B2
A method and an apparatus for generating a special effect based on a face, an electronic device, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. With the method, a standard face image is displayed, a reference point is selected on the standard face image in response to a received reference point selecting command, a special effect is formed on the standard face image in response to a received special effect forming operation, a parameter of the special effect is generated, a first face image recognized by an image sensor is acquired, and the special effect is generated on the first face image based on the parameter of the special effect and the reference point.
US11354821B2
An image processing method includes detecting, for image positions in an input image, the presence of a predetermined key colour; generating an image texture, the generating step comprising: setting a texture background of the image texture to a predetermined background colour; generating transparency values at image positions of the image texture, the transparency value at an image position being dependent upon a detected property of the predetermined key colour in the input image, the transparency values; and providing a texture foreground of the image texture; and applying the image texture to the input image at image positions at which the predetermined key colour is present.
US11354820B2
Systems and methods for determining a location based on image data are provided. A method can include receiving, by a computing system, a query image depicting a surrounding environment of a vehicle. The query image can be input into a machine-learned image embedding model and a machine-learned feature extraction model to obtain a query embedding and a query feature representation, respectively. The method can include identifying a subset of candidate embeddings that have embeddings similar to the query embedding. The method can include obtaining a respective feature representation for each image associated with the subset of candidate embeddings. The method can include determining a set of relative displacements between each image associated with the subset of candidate embeddings and the query image and determining a localized state of a vehicle based at least in part on the set of relative displacements.
US11354814B2
A computer vision-based fastener loosening detection approach is described. A first image is captured at a first time and a second image is captured at a second time. A feature-based image registration is performed to create a third image. An intensity-based image registration is performed to create a fourth image. Registration errors are determined based on a comparison of the first and fourth images. A feature enhancement process is performed on the registration errors to determine whether the fastener has loosened between the first time and the second time.
US11354813B2
A method and system for 3D/3D medical image registration. A digitally reconstructed radiograph (DRR) is rendered from a 3D medical volume based on current transformation parameters. A trained multi-agent deep neural network (DNN) is applied to a plurality of regions of interest (ROIs) in the DRR and a 2D medical image. The trained multi-agent DNN applies a respective agent to each ROI to calculate a respective set of action-values from each ROI. A maximum action-value and a proposed action associated with the maximum action value are determined for each agent. A subset of agents is selected based on the maximum action-values determined for the agents. The proposed actions determined for the selected subset of agents are aggregated to determine an optimal adjustment to the transformation parameters and the transformation parameters are adjusted by the determined optimal adjustment. The 3D medical volume is registered to the 2D medical image using final transformation parameters resulting from a plurality of iterations.
US11354809B2
The present invention relates to a device for detecting motion of a person. The present invention further relates to a system incorporating the aforementioned device and a corresponding method. The proposed device comprises a projection sweep unit configured to obtain image data comprising depth information corresponding to an image showing the patient and to generate one or more projection images of the patient for different viewpoints, a motion detection unit configured to detect motion of the patient in the one or more projection images and to generate one or more motion detection signals indicating if motion is detected or not in a respective projection image, and an analysis unit configured to detect and localize body movements of one or more body parts of the patient based on one or more combinations of motion detection signals.
US11354804B1
Systems and methods for predicting images with enhanced spatial resolution using a neural network are provided herein. According to an aspect of the invention, a method includes accessing an input image of a biological sample, wherein the input image includes a first spatial resolution and a plurality of spectral images, and wherein each spectral image of the plurality of spectral images includes data from a different wavelength band at a different spectral channel; applying a trained artificial neural network to the input image; generating an output image at a second spatial resolution, wherein the second spatial resolution is higher than the first spatial resolution, and wherein the output image includes a fewer number of spectral channels than the plurality of spectral images included in the input image; and outputting the output image.
US11354803B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for filtering a set of tracts that are predicted to be included in a selected neuro-network. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving selection data selecting a network of a brain, processing magnetic resonance image data of the brain to identify a set of tracts that are predicted to be included in the selected network, determining a blocking surface for the selected network, comprising: obtaining a set of parcellations for the selected network and determining, based on a respective position in the brain of each parcellation in the set of parcellations, a set of parameters defining the blocking surface, and generating filtered tract data by filtering the set of tracts that are predicted to be included in the selected network to remove tracts that intersect the blocking surface.
US11354802B2
Systems, devices, and methods are described for providing patient anatomy models with indications of model accuracy included with the model. Accuracy is determined, for example, by analyzing gradients at tissue boundaries or by analyzing tissue surface curvature in a three-dimensional anatomy model. The determined accuracy is graphically provided to an operator along with the patient model. The overlaid accuracy indications facilitate the operator's understanding of the model, for example by showing areas of the model that may deviate from the modeled patient's actual anatomy.
US11354796B2
A method of identifying and retrieving component digital images for component fault analysis includes generating a known-fault database of digital images of known faults of a previously analyzed component and corresponding remedial actions. The method also includes accessing the known-fault database with a digital image of a current fault of a new component. The method additionally includes comparing the digital image of the current fault with the digital images in the known-fault database based on a computed target characteristic. The method also includes sorting the digital images in the known-fault database in order based on a magnitude of the computed target characteristic for each respective digital image in the known-fault database relative to the digital image of the current fault. The method further includes outputting the sorted digital images to facilitate correlation of the current fault to a particular known fault and identifying the corresponding remedial action.
US11354795B2
A deposit detection device according to an embodiment includes a detection module and a storage processing module. The detection module detects a deposit region corresponding to a deposit adhering to an imaging device, based on brightness information of an image captured by the imaging device. The storage processing module stores deposit information on the deposit region in a storage unit that is nonvolatile, when an ignition power of a vehicle is turned off in a state in which the deposit region is detected. For an initial detection process after the ignition power is turned on, the detection module detects the deposit region based on the deposit information stored in the storage unit.
US11354789B2
An image processing apparatus that records a high dynamic range (HDR) signal as a file. The apparatus acquires information indicating peak luminance corresponding to one output dynamic range, of a plurality of different output dynamic ranges, in accordance with shooting settings of the HDR signal. The apparatus then records a first value based on the acquired information to the file along with the HDR signal.
US11354777B2
According to various embodiments of the present invention, an electronic device can comprise: a light source configured to allow light, excluding a visible light band, to be incident on a designated pattern; a memory for storing designated pattern information; a camera configured to receive the light, which is incident from the light source and reflected by an external object; and a processor. The processor can be configured to: acquire a first image on an external object by using a camera, wherein the first image includes a pattern formed when the designated pattern is deformed by a curve of the surface of the external object; extract deformed pattern information from the first image by using the first image and the designated pattern information; and generate a second image from which the pattern deformed in the first image has been removed, by using the first image and the extracted deformed pattern information. Additional various embodiments are possible.
US11354761B2
Methods and systems for gathering real estate data. The system includes a vehicle camera configured to detect image data associated with a house and a realtor sign. The system includes a GPS unit configured to detect location data associated with the vehicle. The system also includes an electronic control unit (ECU) configured to determine sign data based on the image data associated with the realtor sign and house data based on the image data associated with the house. The ECU is also configured to determine house location data based on the location data. The system includes a vehicle transceiver configured to communicate the sign data, the house data, and the house location data. The system includes a remote data server configured to receive the sign data, the house data, and the house location data and update the real estate listing data stored in memory.
US11354743B1
A securitization, exposure, portioning, and exchange platform for enabling the securitization or fixing of quantitative values of data parcels, which correspond to external assets, and the exchange of data parcels between account systems operating via computers over a network. The security of data parcels, which corresponds to their quantitative integrity, is controlled by removing their exposure to changes in their corresponding external assets.
US11354738B1
A method of performing a currency trade involving a math-based currency (“MBC”) for a customer having a MBC account with a financial institution is described. The financial institution receives a trade order and determines an optimal trade sequence that may involve more than one trade to achieve the initially requested currency trade. The financial institution updates account balances associated with the customer on an overlay ledger to reflect the currency trade. The overlay ledger includes information relating to account balances of a plurality of MBC accounts associated with a plurality of customers.
US11354735B2
A system for interfacing with a decisioning service from a third-party domain. A backend system may receive a request to interface with the decisioning service to generate a prequalification result for a user for a specified product, in response to the actuation of a button included in a third-party web domain rendering a product. The backend system may execute a call on a website of the decisioning service. The backend system may receive the product information from the button. The backend system may generate the website within the third-party domain, including a request for information about the user, in response to executing the call to the website. The backend system may transmit a request for generating prequalification result for the product to the decisioning service. The backend system may receive the prequalification result from the decisioning service.
US11354710B2
A method and system is provided for facilitating affiliate link generation using a web browser application. A publisher enables the system by identifying a webpage on an affiliate web site. The system performs an initial assessment of the page to extract webpage information, which is compared to information stored in a database. If the extracted information matches stored information, a record of the webpage is displayed and an affiliate link is dynamically generated for immediate use. If the extracted information does not match stored information, a new record of the webpage is created. If the webpage contains product-specific data, a product-specific record is stored. If the webpage does not contain product-specific data, a non-product record is stored. An affiliate link is then dynamically created. The new record of the product and dynamically created affiliate link is added to the database for immediate use.
US11354702B2
Systems, devices, media, instructions, and methods are provided for presentation of media collections with automated interactive advertising. In one embodiment, a server system merges advertising data with interaction elements to create an advertising element, and communicates the advertising element to a client device with other pieces of content. In another embodiment, advertising data is received at a client device and merged at the client device with interaction elements to generate an advertising element. The advertising element is then displayed between content elements that are part of one or more content collections. In various embodiments, interaction data recorded at the device is used to manage the presentation of future advertising elements.
US11354699B2
Methods, systems and apparatus for identifying illegitimate selections of content items. In some implementations, one or more servers can receive display data specifying a display state of a web page in a viewport. The web page includes a content item. Display instances are identified. A display instance is a display of at least a portion of the content item in the viewport. Selection instances of the content item are identified. A selection instance is a selection of the content item. The server(s) determines whether a selection of the content item occurred during a display of at least a portion of the content item in the viewport based on the display instances and the selection instances. A selection of the content is defined as an illegitimate selection if the selection did not occur during a display of at least a portion of the content item in the viewport.
US11354697B2
The disclosed embodiments provide systems, methods, and techniques for managing merchandising cards. A merchandising card may be, for example, a gift card, loyalty card, or the like. Consistent disclosed embodiments, a system for managing merchandising cards may include one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to acquire, from a device over a network, a plurality of locations associated with the device, the device locations being acquired at different instances in time within a predetermined period of time. Additionally, the one or more processors may be configured to calculate an overall merchant confidence rating for a merchant using the device locations. Further, the one or more processors may be configured to, based on the overall merchant confidence rating, determine that the merchant matches a merchant that is associated with merchandising card, and send a reminder a user of the device.
US11354691B2
A system and method for omnichannel voice and text-based advertising using voice recognition. The system comprises an application that allows a user who has viewed an advertisement on a non-interactive medium to speak one or more words dictated by the advertisement into the application in order to receive business incentives. A speech recognition engine recognizes the words spoken into the application and matches the words to the relevant advertisement and delivers a text-based incentive to the user. Furthermore, with the potential customer's phone number now available, an omnichannel text-based communicator may now send other advertisements, reminders (such as to use the incentive), and communications to the user of the application.
US11354687B2
An information processing apparatus disclosed includes a control unit configured to execute the processing of acquiring location information indicating the present locations of empty taxis, detecting an overpopulated region in which there are taxis larger in number than a predetermined upper limit based on the location information, and sending to a taxi located in the overpopulated region a removal request containing information requesting its removal to a specific region other than the overpopulated region and information about an incentive that will be given if the taxi removes to the specific region.
US11354685B2
A product obsolescence forecast system includes machine instructions stored in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the machine instructions. A processor executes the instructions to receive an identity of a first product and identities of one or more second products similar to the first product, each of the second products having gone obsolete; receive a determinant of obsolescence of one or more of the obsolete second products; generate one or more observations related to the first product by inputting each received determinant to a trained network; and generate a statistical analysis of the one or more observations to provide an expected value of an actual obsolescence date for the first product.
US11354680B2
Systems and methods for detecting potential shrink events within a venue are provided. The example systems include, a plurality of RFID readers disposed throughout the venue and a controller operatively coupled to the plurality of RFID readers. The controller includes a processor and a non-transitory machine-readable memory storing machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the example systems to (1) monitor RFID tag data associated with an RFID tag disposed within an environment, the RFID tag data including an environmental metric associated with at least a portion of the environment; and (2) responsive to a change in the RFID tag data exceeding a predetermined threshold, generate an alert indicative of a potential shrink event. The change in the RFID tag data may include a change in the environmental metric resulting from a positioning of the RFID tag relative to a body of an individual.
US11354673B1
Payment card information of a consumer is protected during online payment card based transactions by equipping a user device of the consumer with a control that, when activated by the consumer during an online shopping session, causes the user device automatically to request and receive, from a third-party payment processing service (PPS), temporary proxy payment card information, and to populate that information into an online transaction web interface of the merchant. The temporary proxy payment card information is associated in the third-party PPS with a real payment card account of the consumer. When the PPS receives a transaction authorization request from a merchant via a payment card network, the PPS uses the consumer's real payment card information to authorize the transaction. The consumer's real payment card information is never exposed to the merchant.
US11354670B2
A fraud prevention exchange system is provided for gathering transaction data for centralized review. The system comprises a database for storing transaction data received from participating lenders and a data retrieval and processing engine for receiving transaction data including a first transaction status code and one or more transaction attributes for a pending transaction from a first participating lender; storing the first transaction status code in association with the transaction attribute(s) in the database; receiving a transaction verification request comprising at least one of the transaction attribute(s) from a second, different participating lender; determining one or more risk alerts for the at least one of the transaction attribute(s) based on the first transaction status code and one or more prior transaction status codes previously stored in the database in association with said attribute; and transmit said risk alert(s) to the second participating lender.
US11354667B2
A computer-implemented method of authenticating the identity of a user is provided, where the user is associated with a computer signature and is in possession of a mobile phone. The method involves obtaining a current geographical location of the mobile phone, determining if the computer signature is associated in a database with a stored geographical location of the phone, and, if the computer signature is associated in the database with a stored geographical location, comparing the stored geographical location to the current geographical location of the phone.
US11354665B1
Spending digital currency without owning digital currency may be facilitated. The user may use a software application running on the user's computing platform to scan a digital currency public address quick-response code (QR), or a near-field-communication (NFC) based public address. The user may be prompted to swipe-to-authenticate the transaction. The user may authenticate the transaction by fingerprint-swiping a biometric-enabled transitory password authentication device. The biometric-enabled transitory password authentication device may transmit an encrypted transitory password a server via the user's computing platform. Upon receiving and verifying the transaction, the server may send an amount of digital currency to the target address on behalf of the user. The server may charge the user's debit card an equivalent amount of sovereign currency.
US11354663B2
Methods and devices are provided for use in carrying out a transaction between a transaction device and a point of interaction. In connection therewith, a device for interacting with a point of interaction to carry out a transaction by a consumer includes a processor comprising a payment application and a system environment module, where the system environment module is configured to determine whether the payment application is eligible for a transaction. The device also includes an input in communication with the processor and configured to receive transaction data from a point of interaction in connection with the transaction, and an output in communication with the processor and configured to transmit transaction data to the point of interaction in connection with the transaction when the system environment module determines that the payment application is eligible for the transaction.
US11354660B1
Various embodiments relate to a method performed by a processor of a computing system. An example method includes receiving a digitally signed cross-border payment message, the digitally signed cross-border payment message generated by digitally signing a first hash of a cross-border payment message with a first financial institution private key. A first financial institution public key is retrieved, the first financial institution public key of a public/private key pair that includes the first financial institution private key. The first financial institution public key is verified that it is associated with a first financial institution. A second hash of the cross-border payment message is generated. The second hash is digitally signed with the first financial institution public key to generate a verification cross-border payment message, wherein data integrity of the cross-border payment message can be verified if the verification cross-border payment message matches the digitally signed cross-border payment message.
US11354658B2
A method for conducting an offline data exchange associated with a blockchain includes: storing a structured data set associated with a blockchain network, the data set including a network identifier, unspent output hash, output index, output value, and key pair; receiving the network identifier and a transaction amount from a point of sale; validating the structured data set as including the network identifier and an output value greater than or equal to the transaction amount; transmitting the unspent output hash and output index to the point of sale; receiving a destination address from the point of sale; generating transaction data including the destination address and a payment amount based on the transaction amount; and transmitting the transaction data to the point of sale.
US11354648B2
A transaction card receives sound waves that represent a user command, where the user command identifies one or more transaction restrictions of the transaction card. The transaction card converts the sound waves to a digital signal and identifies, based on an analysis of the digital signal, user command data that identifies the user command. The transaction card sets, based on identifying the user command data, one or more transaction restriction values for the one or more transaction restrictions. The transaction card receives transaction metadata associated with a transaction and determines whether the transaction is compliant with the one or more transaction restrictions. The transaction card causes, based on determining whether the transaction is compliant with the one or more transaction restrictions, the transaction to be processed by a server device, or to be declined.
US11354647B2
An information display method, a storage medium, and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: obtaining, by a terminal, resource transfer information used for transferring a resource; splitting, by the terminal, the resource transfer information into multiple pieces of resource transfer sub information; and displaying, by the terminal, a dynamic screen for indicating the resource transfer sub information. A quantity of pieces of the resource transfer sub information indicated on the dynamic screen at one moment is less than a total quantity of the multiple pieces of resource transfer sub information.
US11354641B2
A walk-through gate is provided. The walk-through gate includes a first semi-transparent side wall and a second semi-transparent side wall encapsulating a walk-through gate volume having an ingress portion and an egress portion. The walk-through gate further includes a plurality of antennas for wirelessly receiving product identifiers for wireless checkout. At least one of the plurality of antennas is made of a semi-transparent conductive material.
US11354638B2
An item level security system is provided that uses dynamic security settings to optimize the competing requirements for high security and transaction throughput. Customer metrics such as customer traffic volume and the number and type of items purchased change over the course of a day and are further influenced by the day of the week and by holidays and certain vacation schedules for local schools and employers. The invention provides dynamic security settings for the item level security system that address the changing customer metrics.
US11354632B1
A system includes a customer database that stores user information concerning a plurality of customers, a network interface configured to communicate data over a network, and a processing circuit comprising a processor and memory. The memory is structured to store instructions that are executable by the processor and cause the processing circuit to receive an indication that a customer is within a predetermined distance from an automated teller machine (ATM), transmit, responsive to receiving the indication, an authorization signal to a customer computing device associated with the customer, the authorization signal configured to activate an ATM pre-stage function of an application implemented on the customer computing device, receive, by the network interface over the network, customer transaction preferences from the customer computing device, and authorize an ATM transaction at the ATM based on the received customer transaction preferences.
US11354631B1
Systems and methods of remotely configuring a transaction based, in part, on location information for execution by a computing device associated with a financial institution computing system include a backend system configured to receive location information associated with a user device, determine the location information associated with the user device matches a location configured for pre-staging an ATM transaction, transmit an ATM pre-stage authorization signal to the user device, transmit an authentication decision to the user device, and transmit a transaction code to the user device.
US11354630B1
Disclosed is a method of processing information in an electronic apparatus, the method including transmitting a point inquiry request including user information for identifying a user to servers of one or more affiliates, acquiring balance information of a first point corresponding to the user from a first affiliate among the one or more affiliates in response to the point inquiry request, providing the balance information of the first point to the user, and processing, when information including a conversion request for conversion between the first point and a second point related to a service of the electronic apparatus is acquired from the user, a transaction corresponding to the conversion request.
US11354623B2
Embodiments are directed to providing remote healthcare services including remote diagnostics, and facilitating third-party healthcare payments. In one embodiment, a computer system receives an input including authentication credentials from a healthcare entity, and also requests assistance from another healthcare entity. The computer system authenticates the first healthcare entity using the authentication credentials, receives an input including authentication credentials from the other healthcare entity, and authenticates the other healthcare entity using these authentication credentials. The computer system further receives real-time information related to a health condition of a patient, where the real-time health condition information is provided to the second healthcare entity. The computer system also receives, from the other healthcare entity, diagnostic information related to the patient's health condition, and provides the received diagnostic information to the first healthcare entity, the patient and/or a payment entity.
US11354615B2
Managing digital workflows based on events involving digital representations of physical assets in enterprise asset management (EAM) systems. Events are detected and workflows are generated based on information in the digital representations and one or more digital libraries having resources for the digital representations.
US11354613B2
Described are a system, method, and computer program product for evaluating location-based risk associated with a remote transaction request. The method includes receiving, from a service provider system, a transaction request for a transaction between a user and the service provider system for a requested service, the transaction request identifying at least a location for the requested service. The method also includes generating a risk score for the transaction based at least partially on the transaction request, the location for the requested service, and historical transaction data. The method further includes communicating the risk score for the transaction to the service provider system. Communicating the risk score to the service provider system causes the service provider system to take at least one action based at least partially on the risk score for the transaction.
US11354607B2
An iterative process for cognitive assessment of generated work products relies on a variety of assessors providing different granularities such as coarse, medium and fine, in combination with user guidance. A cognitive system generates candidates based on soft constraints such as user preferences. The candidates are analyzed using first assessors to compute preliminary scores which are ranked and presented to a user. Based on user selection/adjustment, the system generates a final work product which is analyzed using second assessors, and presents the final work product and final scores to the user. There may be multiple iterations of the user adjustment and refined presentation of final work products. The invention may be consummated by receiving confirmation of the final work product from the user, and taking some action such as electronically completing a purchase of a product or electronically reserving a third-party service.
US11354600B2
A computer-implemented method for generating an interpretable kernel embedding for heterogeneous data. The method can include identifying a set of base kernels in the heterogeneous data; and creating multiple sets of transformed kernels by applying a unique composition rule or a unique combination of multiple composition rules to the set of base kernels. The method can include fitting the multiple sets into a stochastic process model to generate fitting scores that respectively indicate a degree of the fitting for each of the multiple sets; storing the fitting scores in a matrix; and standardizing the matrix to generate the interpretable kernel embedding for the heterogeneous data.
US11354598B1
An AI agent may be trained using online session logs of actual customers interacting with an online software application. Datasets may be generated using the session logs, and the AI agent may be trained to use the online application by applying various machine learning techniques to the datasets. The AI agent may be provided login credentials and instructed to log into and perform specified tasks using the online application as part of training. Once trained, the AI agent may be instructed to perform the same or other tasks using a modified version of the application. The AI agent mimics the responses and behaviors of actual users of the modified application. The AI agent can be trained to mimic users sharing a certain demographic characteristic, and its performance can be used to more effectively and efficiently enhance the software application for users at large and/or for users in the demographic.
US11354591B2
Mechanisms are provided to implement a genomic database curation (GDC) system. The GDC system generates a ground truth database based on a training subset of datasets from an uncurated large scale genomic database, and label metadata for the training subset. The GDC system trains at least one classification engine of the GDC system based on the training subset and the ground truth database at least by performing a machine learning operation on the at least one classification engine. The GDC system automatically applies the at least one trained classification engine on the uncurated large scale genomic database to generate an automatically curated large scale genomic database. A meta-classifier engine generates an output specifying at least one of significant gene signatures or gene pathways for at least one of diseases or drug agents based on the automatically curated large scale genomic database.
US11354589B2
The disclosure describes various aspects of a practical implementation of multi-qubit gate architecture. A method is described that includes enabling ions in the ion trap having three energy levels, enabling a low-heating rate motional mode (e.g., zig-zag mode) at a ground state of motion with the ions in the ion trap; and performing a Cirac and Zoller (CZ) protocol using the low-heating rate motional mode as a motional state of the CZ protocol and one of the energy levels as an auxiliary state of the CZ protocol, where performing the CZ protocol includes implementing the multi-qubit gate. The method also includes performing one or more algorithms using the multi-qubit gate, including Grover's algorithm, Shor's factoring algorithm, quantum approximation optimization algorithm (QAOA), error correction algorithms, and quantum and Hamiltonian simulations. A corresponding system that supports the implementation of a multi-qubit gate architecture is also described.
US11354587B2
A system and associated methods for organizing, representing, finding, discovering, and accessing data. Embodiments represent information and data in the form of a data structure termed a “Feature Graph”. A Feature Graph includes nodes and edges, where the edges serve to “connect” a node to one or more other nodes. A node in a Feature Graph may represent a variable, that is, a measurable object, characteristic or factor. An edge in a Feature Graph may represent a measure of a statistical association between a node and one or more other nodes that has been retrieved from a source or sources. Datasets that demonstrate or support the statistical association, or measure the associated variable are “linked to” from the Feature Graph.
US11354583B2
Logical rules can be automatically generated for use with event detection systems according to some aspects of the present disclosure. For example, a computing device can extract a group of logical rules from trained decision trees and apply a test data set to the group of logical rules to determine count values corresponding to the logical rules. The computing device can then determine performance metric values based on the count values, select a subset of logical rules from among the group of logical rules based on the performance metric values, and provide at least one logical rule in the subset for use with an event detection system. The event detection system can be configured to detect an event in relation to a target data set that was not used to train the decision trees.
US11354581B2
An artificial intelligence (“AI”)-based system is disclosed for presenting activity-specific views of relevant activity-specific content. An AI engine selects activity-specific content relating to a multitude of activities. The selected activities can have associated relevance scores exceeding a predefined threshold value. The selected activity-specific content can be used to render user interface (“UI”) elements in a UI for the activities. The UI elements present an activity-specific view of the activity-specific content relating to each activity.
US11354580B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process including determining whether first answer information has been cited in a generation process of second answer information for a first inquiry based on history information, stored in a storage device, indicating a citation histories regarding pieces of answer information, and generating training data associating the first inquiry with the first answer information when the first answer information has been cited in a generation process.
US11354573B2
A minibatch in a neural network execution may be dynamically resized based on on-chip memory. For example, a size of the minibatch is configured such that the minibatch fits within on-chip memory. The size of the minibatch may be resized for a sequence of layers in the neural network execution. A next layer's execution can commence responsive to the resized minibatch being completed in a previous layer without having to wait for all of the minibatch to be completed in the previous layer.
US11354572B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of generating spikes by a neuron of a spiking neural network. The method comprises generating at each time, wherein the spike generation encodes at each time instant at least two variable values at the neuron. Synaptic weights may be optimized for a spike train generated by a given presynaptic neuron of a spiking neural network, wherein the spike train being indicative of features of at least one timescale.
US11354570B2
A compiler receives a description of a machine learning network and generates a computer program that implements the machine learning network. The computer program includes statically scheduled instructions that are executed by a mesh of processing elements (Tiles). The instructions executed by the Tiles are statically scheduled because the compiler can determine which instructions are executed by which Tiles at what times. For example, for the statically scheduled instructions, there are no conditions, branching or data dependencies that can be resolved only at run-time, and which would affect the timing and order of the execution of the instructions.
US11354567B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for classifying data sets using associated functions from neural networks. In one example, a system for classifying data sets by corresponding functions includes at least one processor and at least one non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor cause the system to perform operations including: obtaining a neural network associated with a data set, the neural network being trained to generate synthetic data sets related to the data set; selecting a test set of inputs to the neural network; obtaining a corresponding set of outputs by applying the neural network to the test set of inputs; estimating one or more functions describing the test set of inputs and the corresponding set of outputs; and indexing the estimated one or more functions to the data.
US11354564B2
An example includes a sequence generator to generate a plurality of sequence pairs, a first one of the sequence pairs including: (i) a first input sequence representing first accesses to first tensors in a first loop nest of a first computer program, and (ii) a first output sequence representing a first tuned loop nest corresponding to the first accesses to the first tensors in the first loop nest; a model trainer to train a recurrent neural network based on the sequence pairs as training data, the recurrent neural network to be trained to tune loop ordering of a second computer program based on a second input sequence representing second accesses to a second tensor in a second loop nest of the second computer program; and a memory interface to store, in memory, a trained model corresponding to the recurrent neural network.
US11354561B2
A system and a method for on-line analysis of a structure of dried shredded tobacco are provided. The system includes a shredded tobacco structure on-line analysis module, a shredded tobacco filling capacity prediction model module, and an early-warning module. The shredded tobacco structure on-line analysis module includes a sample extraction unit, a sample analysis unit and a shredded tobacco filling capacity data acquisition unit. The shredded tobacco filling capacity prediction model module includes a model parameter screening unit and a model construction unit. An early-warning threshold is provided in the early-warning module, and when a deviation of a predicted shredded tobacco filling capacity from a standard value exceeds the early-warning threshold, an alarm is given. The new system is an intelligent system with functions of shredded tobacco structure analysis, shredded tobacco filling capacity prediction, and abnormality early-warning determination and analysis.
US11354557B2
An RFID tag board includes an insulating substrate provided with a first surface conductor, a second surface conductor, a short-circuit part through conductor, a capacitance conductor, a capacitance part through conductor, a first electrode and a second electrode. The short-circuit part through conductor electrically connects the first surface conductor and the second surface conductor. The capacitance conductor faces at least part of one of the first and second surface conductors to form a capacitance element. The capacitance part through conductor electrically connects the capacitance conductor and the other one of the first and second surface conductors. First and second conductors of the capacitance element are electrically connected to the first and second electrodes, respectively, not via the short-circuit part through conductor. A distance from the first electrode to the short-circuit part through conductor is shorter than a distance from the second electrode to the short-circuit part through conductor.
US11354555B1
Exemplary embodiments relate to updatable displays for transaction cards, such as credit cards or event passes. The displays may be, for instance, an electrophoretic or memory liquid crystal diode display. The transaction card may include a contact pad capable of engaging in wireless communication. Information may be exchanged between the transaction card and a mobile device or terminal, where a processor on the mobile device processes the received information to generate displayable information. The processor updates the display with the displayable information. The contact pad may be electrically connected to the display, and the display may derive electrical power to perform the updating from the wireless communication. For example, where the wireless communication is a near field communication (NFC), a radio frequency field may be generated that supplies enough power to run the processor and at least partially update the display.
US11354548B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing images using recurrent attention. One of the methods includes determining a location in the first image; extracting a glimpse from the first image using the location; generating a glimpse representation of the extracted glimpse; processing the glimpse representation using a recurrent neural network to update a current internal state of the recurrent neural network to generate a new internal state; processing the new internal state to select a location in a next image in the image sequence after the first image; and processing the new internal state to select an action from a predetermined set of possible actions.
US11354546B2
An insect sortation system can track movement of insects along a predefined pathway. The insect sortation system includes a puff-back system for moving insects toward an inlet of the pathway and a puff-forward system for moving insects toward an outlet of the pathway. An overhead imaging system captures images of the insects at one or more locations along the pathway. Once imaged, the insect may be classified into a category (e.g., sex category, species category, size category, etc.) using a variety of different classification approaches including, for example, an industrial vision classifier and/or a machine learning classifier. Once classified, the insects can be directed to various chambers for subsequent processing.
US11354535B2
A method with image recognition includes: extracting, using a feature extraction layer, feature data from an input image received by an image sensor; and outputting a recognition result of an object appearing in the input image, by applying a fixed mask and a variable mask to the extracted feature data, wherein the variable mask is adjusted in response to the extracted feature data.
US11354534B2
An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for object detection and identification. The method, computer program product and computer system may include computing device which may receive an image from a user device. The image may be a screenshot captured by the user device from a display. The computing device may classify the image based on features present in the image and detect a salient object contained within the image. The computing device may identify the object in the image and one or more sources of the object in the image.
US11354528B2
A code reading device for the parallel reading of a plurality of codes on a plurality of objects arranged next to one another is provided that has a camera unit having at least one camera head for recording an image of the objects, a control and evaluation unit that is configured to localize code zones of the codes in the image and to read the code information of the codes, and a display unit to present the image and to mark the read codes and/or objects having read codes, Here a hand reading unit for reading codes is provided to subsequently read codes not read by means of the camera unit and to transfer the subsequently read code information to the control and evaluation unit.
US11354525B2
An optical information reader includes a main body portion in which a reading opening is formed; and a grip portion that is connected to a section of the main body portion other than a section in which the reading opening is formed, and is gripped by a user. The reader further includes a light-receiving sensor that captures an image of a predetermined imaging area AR through the reading opening; and a control circuit that performs an interpreting process of a code image of an information code imaged by the light-receiving sensor. An extending portion that extends towards the information code side is provided in a periphery of the reading opening. An opened portion is formed in a section of the extending portion other than a section on the grip portion side.
US11354524B1
Computer-implemented techniques and systems for generating vehicle profiles may include scanning a plurality of vehicles, each vehicle located at a respective vehicle location, identifying respective vehicle locations for each of the plurality of vehicles, based on scanning the plurality of vehicles, associating a vehicle identification tag for each vehicle with its respective vehicle location, interpreting a signal to determine a user location, determining that the user location is within a threshold distance from a first vehicle location of a first vehicle from the plurality of vehicles, providing a first vehicle identification tag corresponding to the first vehicle based on determining that the user location is within the threshold distance, generating a first vehicle profile based on the first vehicle identification tag, and providing the first vehicle profile to a user device.
US11354519B2
The present invention relates to a numerical information management device enabling numerical information search according to a user's purpose. More particularly, the present invention relates to a numerical information management device enabling numerical information search comprising: a DB which separately stores cube data having a set row structure including at least one of a temporal viewpoint recording temporal information, spatial viewpoint recording spatial information, and a user viewpoint recording information other than the temporal information and the spatial information and a numerical value and metadata for analyzing the cube data and stores at least one graph template; a search unit receiving a search keyword and a search option; and a content providing unit which extracts metadata corresponding to the input search keyword and search option, extracts and analyzes the corresponding cube data using the extracted metadata, and generates and provides at least one graph.
US11354518B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for model localization. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for model localization includes parsing a model to identify translatable terms, generating a seed file associating each of the translatable terms with a corresponding tag and replacing each translatable term in the model with a corresponding tag and submitting each of the translatable terms to machine translation for a target language to produce a different translation file mapping each tag from the seed file with a translated term in the target language of a corresponding one of the translatable terms. Then, the model may be deployed in a data analytics application using the different translation file to dynamically translate each translatable term into a corresponding translated term within a user interface to the data analytics application.
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A system models web content including learning resources available on a website, and makes suggestions of potentially useful learning resources when a user highlights text of interest within the website. In order to facilitate these suggestions, a neural network-based system is trained on learning resources and other content available on the website to create a common word embedding for learning resources and other website text. A student model may then be created to facilitate real time or near real time suggestions of relevant learning resources in response to selections of text from the website.
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A technique for intelligently identifying concept labels for a text fragment where the identified concept labels are representative of and semantically relevant to the information contained by the text fragment is provided. The technique includes determining, using a knowledge base storing information for a reference set of concept labels, a first subset of concept labels that are relevant to the information contained by the text fragment. The technique includes ordering the first subset of concept labels according to their relevance scores and performing dependency analysis on the ordered list of concept labels. Based on the dependency analysis, the technique includes identifying concept labels for a text fragment that are more independent (e.g., more distinct and non-overlapping) of each other, representative of and semantically relevant to the information represented by the text fragment.
