US11589485B2
A shield case including a base portion made of a nonmetal material and having a mounting surface on which the electronic component is mounted, a cover portion made of a metal material and covering surroundings of the electronic component and a metal plate abutting with an outer surface of the base portion and having an end portion projecting outward from the base portion. A side-wall end portion of the cover member includes a first end abutting with the mounting surface of the base portion, and a second end extending in a thickness direction of the base portion and abutting with the end portion of the metal plate.
US11589477B2
Methods and systems for creating cold plates are disclosed. For example, in one example method for manufacturing a cold plate made of a thermally-conductive plastic includes performing a first injection-molding process using the thermally-conductive plastic to produce a first unitary body, the first unitary body including one or more elongated sections forming a unitary body, performing a second injection-molding process using the thermally-conductive plastic to produce a second unitary body, the second unitary body incorporating the first unitary body so as to cover a majority of the first unitary body and form a respective coolant pipe body corresponding to each elongated section, and performing a machining process on the second unitary body so as to create a conduit in each respective coolant pipe body suitable for a fluid to pass through to create respective coolant pipes.
US11589470B2
A cabinet For electronic components, the cabinet comprising an outer wall, a closure, and an attachment structure, the cuter wall encapsulating an internal space and forming an opening, the closure being attached to the outer wall by the attachment structure, and the attachment structure allowing movement of the closure relative to the outer wall between an open position where the opening is uncovered and a closed position where the opening is covered by the closure. To enable automatic and fast opening of the cabinet in case of over pressure, e.g. caused by arching of electronic components in the cabinet, the cabinet Further comprises a magnet structure comprising at least one magnet arranged to hold the closure in the closed position and to release the closure in response to a pressure in the internal space.
US11589468B2
An objective of the present invention is to improve the discharge capacity for liquid collected within a casing while suppressing liquid entering a discharge opening from the outside. A liquid discharge structure includes a plate-shaped bottom wall with a discharge opening for liquid, the liquid being collected inside a casing 1 which is configured to be installed in a vehicle, a blocking wall outside the bottom wall, wherein the blocking wall is overlapped with the discharge opening in a plan view on the bottom wall and opposed to the bottom wall with a gap between the blocking wall and the bottom wall, and a fixing mechanism which is disposed not to be overlapped with the discharge opening in the plan view, wherein the fixing mechanism is configured to fix the blocking wall relative to the bottom wall in an attachable and detachable manner.
US11589463B2
A method for manufacturing a circuit board including the following steps: providing a flexible double-sided metal-clad laminate including a first metal foil, a flexible dielectric layer, and a second metal foil. A carrier is attached to the second metal foil. A first wiring layer including a first wiring region and a second wiring region is formed by the first metal foil. The first wiring region includes a first connecting pad, and the second wiring region includes a connecting pad. A plurality of rigid dielectric blocks surrounded to form an interval and a first groove exposing the first connecting pad is pressed on the flexible dielectric layer to form a rigid dielectric layer. An electronic component is fixed the first groove. The carrier is removed. The intermediate structure is bent along the interval and pressed. A second wiring layer is formed by the second metal foil.
US11589449B2
A linac-based X-ray system for cargo scanning and imaging applications uses linac design, RF power control, beam current control, and beam current pulse duration control to provide stable sequences of pulses having different energy levels or different doses.
US11589443B1
Automatic drive mode lighting systems and methods are disclosed herein. An example method can include determining when a drive mode of a vehicle is an off-road mode, determining when a speed of the vehicle is below a speed threshold, determining when a location of the vehicle corresponds to an off-road location, and automatically activating off-road lighting for the vehicle when the drive mode is in an off-road mode, the speed is below the speed threshold, and the location corresponds to an off-road location.
US11589428B2
A heating assembly is used for an atomizer of an electronic cigarette. The heating assembly includes an adsorption member, and at least one heating element for generating heat after being electrified. The adsorption member comprises at least one surface defining at least one fixing groove therein, and the at least one heating element is disposed in the at least one fixing groove. The heating element is disposed in the fixing groove, so that an aerosol-generating substrate on the adsorption member can be more sufficiently coated on the heating element and dispersed to an outer surface of the heating element.
US11589424B2
The device includes at least the following components: a heating resistor intended for heating a component to be regenerated; a current source; a thermistor connected to the current source and thermally coupled to the heating resistor, the thermistor, through which the current flows, having a voltage Vtemp across its terminals, which voltage reflects the temperature of the heating resistor; an error amplifier, which amplifies the difference between the voltage Vset and the voltage Vtemp and delivers a voltage Vctrl that corresponds to the amplified difference; a switch, which switches the current flowing through the heating resistor; an oscillator, which delivers a voltage Vosc formed with a modulated duty cycle, the duty cycle of the pulses of the voltage Vosc being dependent on the voltage Vctrl, the pulses controlling the opening of the switch.
US11589423B2
A heat power management system is disclosed for an alternating current (AC) power controller for use with portable reverse osmosis water purification systems requiring precise control of a heating action for an internal water heater coupled with energy savings and the reduction of AC line disturbances. The heat power management system is designed to operate with various international electrical systems while protecting such system from excessive current draws.
US11589422B2
Examples are disclosed herein that relate to a cooking system having multiple heating elements for heating a cooking surface. One example provides a cooking system, comprising a continuous cooking surface comprising a plurality of individually controllable heating zones, and for each heating zone, a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature for the heating zone separately from the temperatures of other heating zones, and a heating element disposed beneath the heating zone and configured to provide heat to the heating zone. The cooking system further comprises a controller configured to individually control the heating element of each heating zone.
US11589420B2
A battery unit includes a power supply; a connection configured to be connectable with a load for atomizing an aerosol source or heating a flavor source and a charger for charging the power supply; and a controller that performs a specific process at least selectively executable to at least temporarily disable the supply of electric power to the load from the power supply, if erroneously determining the load connected to the connection as the charger is identified.
US11589406B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine whether a slot timing difference, between a first cell and a second cell for a dual connectivity mode, satisfies a threshold value, where the first cell is a serving cell associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and the second cell is a serving cell or a candidate cell associated with a second RAT. The UE may perform an operation to prevent the dual connectivity mode with the second cell, establish the dual connectivity mode with the second cell, maintain the dual connectivity mode with the second cell, or terminate the dual connectivity mode with the second cell based at least in part on whether the slot timing difference satisfies the threshold value. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11589404B2
An electronic device that establishes a second connection is described. After determining its location, the electronic device may provide information that specifies the location to a cellular-telephone network using a first connection to the cellular-telephone network. In response, the electronic device may receive mapping information. When the mapping information indicates that there are available channels in associated bands of frequencies at the location, the electronic device may: perform a scan of the available channels in the associated bands of frequencies; and establish the second connection with a radio node based on scan results. Alternatively, when the mapping information indicates that there are no available channels in associated frequency bands at the location, the electronic device may establish a third connection with the radio node in a licensed band of frequencies.
US11589403B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for efficiently performing dynamic power control with minimal complexity in a dual connectivity mode. In particular, a user equipment (UE) may determine the reserved power (or maximum available power) for uplink transmissions on one or more cells in one cell group to a base station based on the total power available to the UE and the minimum reserved power for uplink transmissions on one or more cells in another cell group. Once the UE determines the reserved power for conflicting uplink transmissions on one or more cells in a cell group, the UE may allocate the reserved power to each uplink transmission on the one or more cells in the cell group (e.g., based on a priority of each of the uplink transmissions).
US11589388B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to sharing channel occupancy time (COT) for a channel in an unlicensed 5G spectrum in an integrated access backhaul (IAB) network are provided. In some aspects, an IAB node of the IAB network may perform a channel access procedure to acquire the COT and share the COT with a parent IAB node and/or a child IAB node for the parent IAB node and/or child IAB node to communicate back with the COT initiating IAB node. The sharing of the COT with the parent IAB node and/or child IAB node may also include a sharing of the same COT between a distributed unit and a mobile terminal of the COT-initiating IAB node.
US11589384B2
Embodiments of this disclosure provide a data transmission method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, indication information sent by a network device, where the indication information is used to indicate a first time domain resource used by the terminal device to send first uplink transmission; and sending, by the terminal device, the first uplink transmission to the network device on the first time domain resource, and sending second uplink transmission to the network device on a second time domain resource, where the second time domain resource is a time domain resource determined by the terminal device based on the first time domain resource, and the first time domain resource and the second time domain resource are consecutive or inconsecutive in time.
US11589382B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for concurrent communications between multiple transmission-reception points (TRPs) and a user equipment (UE). A default beam for each of the TRPs may be determined, and in the case that the default beams are unable to be concurrently received at the UE, a prioritization rule may be applied to determine which TRP uses the initially determined default beam, where the other TRP(s) may use a different beam. A UE also may be configured with a subset of control resource sets for each TRP, such that beams associated with different configured subsets are compatible and able to be concurrently received at the UE. Other techniques for providing compatibility between beams of multiple concurrent TRP transmissions include determination of a first beam, and selection of a second beam based on a mapping to the first beam, or explicit configuration by a base station.
US11589375B2
The present application discloses a processing method, device, terminal and apparatus for partial bandwidth deactivation timer, including: receiving an instruction related to the uplink transmission sent by the network side; starting or restarting the partial bandwidth deactivation timer according to the received instruction. The present application clarifies the specific working mechanism of the partial bandwidth deactivation timer, so that the terminal and the base station can perform signaling and data transmission on the correct resources, thereby avoiding signaling and data transmission errors and resource waste.
US11589372B2
This disclosure describes methods, devices, and systems for techniques related to wireless communications, and more particularly uplink transmissions on one or more of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). Generally, the described techniques support handling collisions between PUSCH repetitions and a PUCCH transmission. A user equipment (UE) may identify that uplink control information (UCI) is scheduled for transmission via an uplink control transmission that overlaps with multiple repetitions of an uplink data transmission. The UE may determine, for each of the multiple repetitions, a quantity of resources available for carrying multiplexed uplink control information, generate encoded UCI by encoding the UCI based on the quantity of resources available in each of the multiple repetitions, and multiplex the encoded UCI on at least a portion of the multiple repetitions based on the quantity of resources available in each of the multiple repetitions.
US11589367B2
Disclosed in the present disclosure are an electronic device and method for use in a resource management device, an electronic device and method for use in a resource management database, and an electronic device and method for use in a resource management object. The electronic device for use in a resource management device comprises a processing circuit, which is configured to: determine a resource usage behavior pattern of a resource management object within a specific time range and a specific space range; allocate a wireless resource to the resource management object according to the resource usage behavior pattern.
US11589365B2
A method for measuring interference by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention may comprise the steps of: receiving interference measurement configuration information including a semi-persistence channel state information-interference (CSI-IM) configuration; receiving a request which indicates measurement of the semi-persistence CSI-IM configuration; and measuring the semi-persistence CSI-IM configuration in response to the received request, wherein the semi-persistence CSI-IM configuration may indicate CSI-IM which is performed at predetermined periods during a predetermined time interval.
US11589361B2
A first radio node for uplink and downlink co-scheduling is provided. The first radio node includes processing circuitry containing instructions executable to configure the first radio node to: determine a scheduling restriction for joint uplink and downlink scheduling based on passive intermodulation (PIM) generated during simultaneous uplink and downlink communications where the uplink communications corresponds to communications from a second radio node to the first radio node, and perform communications according to the scheduling restriction.
US11589355B2
A configuration for providing a UE null space report to optimize beam management for multi-UE communication. The apparatus transmits, to the base station, a null space report indicating one or more parameters for at least one null space of the UE based on the multiple antenna elements. The apparatus receives, from the base station, a downlink signal based on the null space report of the UE.
US11589352B2
A communication method and system for supporting a high data transmission rate is provided. The method and system fuses 5G communication systems with IoT technology to transmit data at a higher rate than 4G systems. The communication method and system is applied to intelligent services, based on 5G communication technology and IoT related technology, for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, security, safety-related services, etc. A method and apparatus is provided that increases the amount of MBMS, according to the demand increase in MBMS, using an MBMS dedicated carrier, in a mobile communication system.
US11589350B2
A communications device transmits and receives date via a wireless access interface in a mobile communications network. First resource allocation messages are received by communications devices to allocate one or more of plural communications resource elements of a host frequency range of a host carrier. Second resource allocation messages are received by reduced capability devices to allocate one or more of a first section of the communications resources within the first frequency range for preferable allocation to the reduced capability devices of a first virtual carrier, the first resource allocation messages identifying one or more of the communications resource of the host carrier allocated to the communications devices with reference to a first reference frequency and the second resource allocation messages identifying one or more communications resources of the first virtual earner allocated to the reduced capability devices with reference to a second reference frequency within the first virtual carrier.
US11589349B2
to the provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting/receiving sidelink HARQ feedback information. The method for transmitting the HARQ feedback information for sidelink transmission by a user equipment (UE) may include receiving configuration information for a sidelink resource pool for the sidelink transmission, receiving a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) from another UE through a resource allocated in the sidelink resource pool, and transmitting the HARQ feedback information for reception of the PSSCH through a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource allocated in the sidelink resource pool.
US11589346B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a parent node may determine that a set of resources is not available for the parent node for communication with a child node of the parent node. The parent node may provide an availability indicator to the child node based at least in part on determining that the set of resources is not available for the parent node for communication with the child node. The availability indicator may indicate the set of resources as available for the child node. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11589341B2
A transmission apparatus comprises an assignment information generator which, in operation, assigns resources on a resource unit (RU) basis to one or more terminal stations (STAs) and generates assignment information that specifies RUs allocated to the one or more STAs; a transmission signal generator which, in operation, generates a transmission signal that includes a legacy preamble, a non-legacy preamble and a data field, wherein the non-legacy preamble comprises a first signal field and a second signal field that carry a set ID and the assignment information, and wherein the set ID identifies one assignment set comprising the one or more STAs and a plurality of assignment indices, and wherein the assignment information comprises a resource assignment indication for each of a plurality of assignment which are referenced by the plurality of assignment indices; and a transmitter which, in operation, transmits the generated transmission signal.
US11589336B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a set of resource candidates in a sidelink communication system based at least in part on a set of resource assignments for a group of other UEs in the sidelink communication system. The UE may transmit a first part of a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) transmission. The UE may transmit a second part of the PSCCH transmission related to the first part of the PSCCH transmission to indicate a resource candidate, of the set of resource candidates, for a transmission associated with medium access control (MAC) protocol data units (PDUs) of a particular packet. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11589330B2
Satellite access to a PLMN with a Fifth Generation (5G) core network (5GCN) is supported by a serving satellite NodeB (gNB). The gNB determines or verifies the country in which a user equipment (UE) is located to ensure that the UE is located in the same country as the PLMN. The gNB may determine the country of the UE based on UE measurements from broadcast satellite signals and a positioning ID (PID) broadcast for each radio cell. The PID frequently changes to prevent spoofing. The gNB may use multiple UE measurements from a moving radio cell over a period of time to generate a more accurate location for the UE. The gNB may indicate to a 5GCN whether the country of the UE has been verified. The 5GCN will determine the location and country of the UE if the gNB indicates that the country is not fully verified.
US11589329B1
Distributed systems, controllers and methods for processing information from a plurality of devices are provided. A distributed system includes a plurality of devices distributed in an environment. Each device has at least a communication capability for interchanging information with others of the devices and/or with a communication system. Each of at least some of the devices has one or more sensors for acquiring sensor data related to the environment proximate to the device. At least one of the communication system or one or more of the devices is configured as a controller configured to: select a subset of devices from among the plurality of devices, receive information based on the acquired sensor data of the selected subset, and combine the received information from the selected subset to determine a characteristic of the environment proximate to one or more of the devices.
US11589321B2
Embodiments provide a user equipment for a wireless communication system. The user equipment is configured to communicate with at least one other user equipment of the wireless communication system using a sidelink resource pool of the wireless communication system. Further, the user equipment is configured to transmit, responsive to an external emergency situation, an emergency notification signal on a resource of the wireless communication system. Thereby, the user equipment is configured to transmit the emergency notification signal with a transmit power that is greater than a regular transmit power used by the user equipment for transmitting regular signals.
US11589317B2
The technologies described herein are generally directed to modeling radio wave propagation in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include, for a network application, identifying, by a system comprising a processor, a user equipment communicatively coupled to base station equipment via a first network connection implementing a first radio access technology and a second network connection implementing a second radio access technology. The method can further include identifying, by the system, performance characteristics of the first network connection and the second network connection. Further, the method can include, based on the first performance characteristic and the second performance characteristic, facilitating, by the system, allocating, to the user equipment, power for uplink transmission by the first network connection and the second network connection, resulting in an uplink power allocation.
US11589307B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may generate a wake up signal to wake up a plurality of second UEs. The wake up signal may be based at least in part on location information associated with the UE, location information associated with one or more of the plurality of second UEs, or a combination thereof. The UE may further transmit, to the plurality of second UEs, the wake up signal. Accordingly, the plurality of second UEs may receive the wake up signal and monitor for messages from the second UE based at least in part on receiving the wake up signal. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11589306B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus related to a restrictive target wake time (TWT) service period (SP) system. A device may determine a beacon frame to be sent to one or more power save devices. The device may determine a time duration of a TWT SP associated with the one or more power save devices. The device may determine a first trigger frame including a cascade indication. The device may determine a first time associated with the first trigger frame. The device may cause to send the trigger frame to the one or more power save devices based at least in part on a remaining duration of the TWT SP.
US11589300B2
A context-aware network service engine is employed to support integrated network. In one aspect, the network service engine can receive a message associated with the user's intent and/or situation via a standard and/or open application programming interface (API). Based on an analysis of the message with context data and/or defined policy data, the network service engine can establish procedures to provide integrated services. The integrated services can comprise multiple communication services that are initiated simultaneously (or substantially simultaneously) in response to receiving the message. As an example, the context data can comprise user-related data, real-time network resource availability, presence data, and the like. As an example, the network services can be initiated concurrently and/or in a specified order.
US11589295B1
In a wireless communication network, a provisioning system transfers a Session Management Function (SMF) Application Programming Interface (API) call for a User Plane Function (UPF) metric to an SMF. The SMF transfers a UPF API call for the UPF metric to the UPF over signaling. The UPF transfers a UPF API response indicating the UPF metric to the SMF over signaling. The SMF transfers an SMF API response indicating the UPF metric to the provisioning system. The provisioning system may obtain UE metrics through the SMF or an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) in a like manner. The provisioning system may obtain Radio Access Network (RAN) metrics through the SMF or AMF in a like manner.
US11589294B2
A method for wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes: receiving a master information block (MIB) from a cell, the MIB including a cell barred information element (IE); receiving a system information block type 1 (SIB1) from the cell, the SIB1 including a first non-public network (NPN) identity (ID), a first cell reserved for operator use IE associated with the first NPN ID, and a cell reserved for other use IE; and determining to treat the cell as a candidate cell for cell selection or cell reselection procedures when the cell barred IE is “not barred”, the cell reserved for other use IE is not “true”, the first cell reserved for operator use IE is “reserved”, the first NPN ID matches a registered stand-alone NPN (SNPN) ID of the UE, and an access ID of the UE is 11 or 15.
US11589287B2
A method of routing communication between nodes of a mesh network is provided. The method includes each node of the mesh network advertising a hop distance relative to a head of the mesh network, the hop distance being a measure of how many hops a node of the mesh network is from a head node of the mesh network, the head node being a node of the mesh network that controls all the other nodes of the mesh network.
US11589282B2
The present application discloses a method and eNB equipment for supporting seamless handover. The method comprises the following steps of: receiving, by a target eNB, random access information or an RRC connection reconfiguration completion message from a UE; transmitting, by the target eNB, a data transmission stopping indication message to a source eNB; and, stopping, by the source eNB, transmitting downlink data to the UE, and/or stopping, by the source eNB, receiving uplink data from the UE. The present invention further provides several other methods and eNB equipments for supporting seamless handover. By the methods for supporting seamless handover provided by the present invention, the delay of data transmission and the unnecessary data transmission or unnecessary data monitoring of a source eNB can be avoided, the waste of resources and the power consumption can be reduced, and the missing and duplication transmission of data can be avoided.
US11589280B2
Method for returning from low-standard network to high-standard network and communications apparatus
This application provides a method for returning from a low-standard network to a high-standard network, to resolve a problem that a primary card of a terminal device in dual SIM dual standby single pass mode cannot return to the high-standard network after falling back from the high-standard network to the low-standard network during a data service. The method includes: detecting that a first subscriber identification module SIM card of the terminal device falls back from a first-standard network to a second-standard network; obtaining a registration status of a second SIM card, where the registration status includes an operator of the second SIM card and a network on which the second SIM card camps, and the first SIM card and the second SIM card enable the terminal device to work in the dual SIM dual standby single pass mode; obtaining a target standard network based on the registration status of the second SIM card; and registering the first SIM card with the target standard network.
US11589269B2
A base station for communication with a plurality of mobile terminals in a mobile communications network is disclosed. The base station includes a plurality of transmitters, in which each transmitter is configured to provide a transmit radio signal to a distinct space when compared to the other transmitters. A first transmitter is configured to provide to a first space, a transmit radio signal carrying a multicast service. A second transmitter is configured to provide to a second space, distinct from the first space, a transmit radio signal carrying a unicast service, and the second space shares a first boundary with the first space.
US11589244B2
To configure a wireless sensor network, a sink node receives from nodes first reports, a first report from a node indicating quality of service requirement of the node and battery information of the node, and second reports, a second report from a node indicating at least a signal strength of one signal received from another node. The information in the first reports and in the second reports are used for determining paths from the nodes to the sink node, wherein a path of a node is either a direct link from the node to the sink node or the path comprises at least one node acting as a cluster head between the node and the sink node.
US11589242B2
Methods and systems are provided for deploying a cellular communication network, including basestation systems. A basestation system may include a plurality of femtocells including at least a first femtocell and a second femtocell, with the first femtocell being operable to support an operation in a coverage area corresponding to the second femtocell. A first transmission within the coverage area from the first femtocell may be coordinated with a second transmission within the coverage area from the second femtocell. The plurality of femtocells may further include a third femtocell, and a first reception by the first femtocell may be coordinated with a second reception by the third femtocell. The transmissions and/or receptions may be coordinated in one or more of time, power, and frequency.
US11589236B2
Embodiments are disclosed that include systems and methods performed by vehicle-to-everything (V2X) system participant to determine whether a misbehavior condition may have occurred based on the generation and/or receipt of a V2X message. The detection of a misbehavior condition may occur if the V2X message is generated and/or received too frequently or not frequently enough. In addition, a misbehavior condition may be detected if the generated and/or received V2X message does include the appropriate security credential.
US11589223B2
A terminal device may determined whether the terminal device has been established a wireless connection with an access point. In a case where it is determined that the terminal device has been established the wireless connection with the access point, the terminal device may send first connection information to the communication device, the first connection information being for establishing a wireless connection between the communication device and the access point. In a case where it is determined that the terminal device has not been established the wireless connection with the access point, the terminal device may communicate second connection information with the communication device, the second connection information being for establishing a wireless connection between the terminal device and the communication device not via the access point.
US11589215B2
An apparatus and method are provided for counting a number of uplink and/or downlink channels per slot for a UE capability in order to determine a maximum number of channels a UE is capable of processing per slot. A UE counts all PDSCHs or PUSCHs that the UE is scheduled or configured to receive or transmit, respectively, except for exception 1, exception 2, or exception 3, wherein a beginning of the symbol j is at least N_2 symbols after an end of the symbol i, the SPS PDSCH is not counted, and generates UE capability information based on the counted number of the PDSCH or PUSCH per slot.
US11589213B2
A presence server in a network can receive capability information about a UE in a publish message, and make that capability information available to other UEs on the network. When the UE later deregisters from the network, the UE can send an unpublish message. However, the presence server can at least partially disregard the unpublish message and continue to make the capability information about the UE available to other UEs. The presence server can also filter capability information of one or more target UEs provided to a watcher UE based on a registration status of a target UE, capabilities of the watcher UE, and/or whether a set of target UEs associated with a single user share certain capabilities.
US11589204B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for smart speakerphone emergency monitoring are disclosed. A method includes detecting a sound at one or more of multiple locations of a property; determining that the sound indicates an emergency at the property; sending, to a monitoring station, an indication of the emergency; receiving, from the monitoring station, a two-way voice call; and broadcasting the two-way voice call to the multiple locations of the property. Detecting the sound at one or more of multiple locations of a property includes receiving audio data generated by one or more of a plurality of speakerphones, each speakerphone being located at one of the multiple locations of the property. Each speakerphone includes an audio microphone and an audio speaker, the speakerphone being configured to communicate with a speakerphone hub device using digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (DECT) signals.
US11589202B2
A method and system for automatically connecting one customer device with another over a Bluetooth or similar connection. The automatic connection may be made by generating a unique identifier to store on a new customer device and a backend system associated with an existing customer device and connecting the new customer device with the existing customer device using the unique identifier.
US11589197B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may obtain information indicating a set of parameters associated with a vehicle-to-anything (V2X) application; determine a range parameter based at least in part on a modification to a baseline range parameter, wherein the modification is based at least in part on the set of parameters associated with the V2X application, and wherein the baseline range parameter is associated with the service type of the V2X application; and perform a V2X communication based at least in part on the range parameter for the V2X communication. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11589195B2
Asset tracking systems and methods include one or more tracking devices that pair with one or more hub devices to transmit sensor data from a tracking device only to a paired hub device with a hub device state quality rating, and from the paired hub device to a network server, thereby reducing redundant communications and communication network usage.
US11589192B2
The present invention discloses a method and a system for transmitting an uplink signal between a plurality of carriers, user equipment, and a base station, so that channel reciprocity can be effectively utilized. The method in embodiments of the present invention includes: receiving indication signaling sent by a base station; and transmitting an uplink signal in a target subframe of a corresponding target carrier based on the indication signaling.
US11589185B2
Method and system tool for playback of content on a mobile device using location data, or composing complex content in real-time on a mobile device utilizing user settings and programming, using device location data as a primary input.
US11589182B2
A method of presenting audio comprises: identifying a first ear listener position and a second ear listener position in a mixed reality environment; identifying a first virtual sound source in the mixed reality environment; identifying a first object in the mixed reality environment; determining a first audio signal in the mixed reality environment, wherein the first audio signal originates at the first virtual sound source and intersects the first ear listener position; determining a second audio signal in the mixed reality environment, wherein the second audio signal originates at the first virtual sound source, intersects the first object, and intersects the second ear listener position; determining a third audio signal based on the second audio signal and the first object; presenting, to a first ear of a user, the first audio signal; and presenting, to a second ear of the user, the third audio signal.
US11589181B1
A system for rotating sound or selective listening to sound provides for the ability of the apparent direction of sound sources in a listening environment to remain in consistent orientations in space despite rotations of the microphones used to capture the sound and despite rotations of the head of the listener, even when wearing headphones. Modules are provided in the system to distinguish the sound sources and their apparent directions, as well as to optionally rotate the sound sources in response to detected rotations of the listener's head and/or detected rotations of the microphones.
US11589178B2
An audio capture device selects between multiple microphones to generate an output audio signal depending on detected conditions. The audio capture device determines whether one or more microphones are wet or dry and selects one or more audio signals from the one or more microphones depending on their respective conditions. The audio capture device generates a mono audio output signal or a stereo output signal depending on the respective conditions of the one or more microphones.
US11589174B2
Systems and methods for improved control and performance of cochlear implants are disclosed. In an embodiment, the audio environment is sampled, and a neural network determines suggested filter setting for the cochlear implant. The process is repeated such that, as the user moves through various audio environments having differing noise levels, satisfactory performance of the cochlear implant is maintained for the user.
US11589163B2
Various implementations include headphone systems. In one implementation, a headband for a headphone system, includes: a continuous spring section sized to extend over a head of a user; an earcup mount coupled with an end of the continuous spring section, where the earcup mount allows for both translation and rotation of an earcup relative to the continuous spring section without altering a length of the continuous spring section; and a friction assembly spanning between the continuous spring section and the earcup mount.
US11589152B2
An earbud design is disclosed that is configured to sit securely within an ear of a user. The earbud can be secured within the ear by an anchoring feature formed from an elastomeric material. The anchoring feature has a size and shape in accordance with an interior geometry of an ear of a user. Because the anchoring feature positions the earbud with respect to the ear, geometries of the earbud can be focused upon audio performance and/or device aesthetics. In some embodiments, the earbud housing can have a linear design which allows an audio driver within the earbud housing to be positioned close to an opening defined by the earbud housing. In this way, acoustic degradation associated with a long audio path from the audio driver to the opening can be avoided.
US11589142B2
A digital optical data network system for improving information security in Passive Optical Networks (“PON”) by providing virtual information separation in the router, such as a premise router, or routers interfacing the entire PON, such as by utilizing virtual routing and forwarding, thus allowing safe data traffic between multiple carriers, service providers accessing the PON and multiple end users on the PON such as tenants in a building, employees of a business entity, or subscribers in a residential community.
US11589129B1
Systems and methods are described for operating a group watching session. Group communication is initiated for a group watching session displaying a media content item. A bandwidth available to at least one computing device participating in the group watching session is determined. A group communication mode for a segment of the media content item is determined. A communication parameter of the group communication and/or a buffering parameter for the media content item is set in response to determining the group communication mode for the segment of the media content item and the bandwidth available to each computing device participating in the group watching session.
US11589127B2
Interactive multimedia package methods and systems are provided. An interactive multimedia package system may generate, manage, deliver, and/or play interactive multimedia packages with various digital media. An interactive multimedia package may be incorporated into any platform such as physical media (e.g., CDs, DVDs, etc.), web services (e.g., download, or streaming), and other applications. A user may shop directly off of the digital media that he or she is experiencing (e.g., watching a movie, viewing a digital news, reading an e-book, playing a video game, etc.) The user may be directed to an e-commerce website, a digital storefront, or a list of items associated with an object, by clicking on the object of interest in the digital media.
US11589126B2
A television receiver may present live television programming along with a sports gaming interface that indicates various betting options that are selectable by a television viewer via a remote control. The television receiver may receive a selection of a betting option presented in the sports gaming interface. A request may then be sent to a mobile device of the television viewer. The television receiver may in response to the selection, transmit a bet identifier of the selected betting option and an account identifier to the television service provider system. After a user has funded the bet and completed the transaction via a mobile device, the sports gaming interface may indicate the active bet.
US11589118B2
Methods and apparatus for automatically transitioning program delivery/reception between alternative sources, e.g., from a non-IP channel to an IP video source or between two alternative IP sources are described. The transition maybe triggered by a detected problem with the delivery via the non-IP channel or because of scheduled service. The transition may be in response to a command sent to a device or because the receiving device detects a problem with one of the content sources triggering an automatic switch to the alternative content source. In at least some embodiments the different content sources corresponding to different coding methods, e.g., with MPEG-2 encoded and packetized content being delivered by a non-IP content delivery channel and MPEG-4 being delivered using unicast IP content delivery techniques. The methods facilitate deployment of new services with IP content delivery being deployed initially on a regional basis with non-IP content delivery gradually being rolled out.
US11589117B2
A system that handles delivery of service(s) through a client device, includes an interactive service provider, a video service provider, and a client device. The interactive service provider inserts at least one of digital watermarks and digital fingerprints in non-programming media content. The video service provider transmits a media stream of the media content that includes programming media content and the non-programming media content. The client device detects at least one of the inserted digital watermarks and the digital fingerprints in the playback duration of the media content and renders overlay graphics on the media content. The client device activates at least one of input devices paired with the client device and the rendered overlay graphics. The client device further receives trigger responses over activated overlay graphics and displays an interactive view to enable delivery of service(s) in response to the trigger responses.
US11589114B1
System, methods, and machine-readable media to facilitate adaptive content composite interaction with respect to digitally distributed content are disclosed. Discovery may be performed, and events specified for digital distribution may be detected. A particular endpoint identifier mapped to media devices may be detected. Events may be determined as a function of access specifications. Content objects corresponding to the events may be received from a remote system via a network. Content composites corresponding to mapping specifications may be created for each content object with selecting and configuring an adaptable content object with the content object to form a content composite to facilitate presentation of the content composite. The content composites may be used to facilitate an augmentation interface with a graphical layout of the content composites, each causing display of an interface element allowing selective communications to a process-performing system to configure an executable function in accordance with parameters.
US11589108B2
In one aspect, a method includes receiving first content at a content-presentation device and presenting the first content, the first content comprising a first audio-content component. The content-presentation device may receive second content comprising a second audio-content component. The content-presentation device may determine a switch time at which to switch from presenting the first content to presenting the second content. During a first time interval prior to the switch time and ending at the switch time, the volume of the first audio-content component may be decreased to zero. At the switch time, the content-presentation device may switch from presenting the first content to presenting the second content. During a second time interval beginning at the switch time and ending at a second time after the switch time, the volume of the second audio-content component may be increased from zero to a non-zero volume level.
US11589102B2
The embodiment of the present application provides screen projection techniques applied in a computer device, and the techniques comprise obtaining first information indicative of a capability of the computer device; obtaining second information indicative of a capability of a target terminal, wherein the target terminal is configured as a projection object of the computer device; determining a performer of performing rendering operations on multimedia content based on the first information and the second information; performing the rendering operations on the multimedia content by the computer device and sending rendered multimedia content to the target terminal when the computer device is the performer. The screen projection techniques described in the embodiment may dynamically determine a performer of performing special effect rendering operations based on the capability of the computer devices and the capability of the target terminal.
US11589098B2
A system generates disparate live output stream manifests. For a disparate live media output stream manifest generated based on a first live input stream, programming schedules and/or events in a first live input stream manifest are identified. Based on a transition due to the identification, a second live input stream manifest and/or a pre-encoded media asset manifest is inserted in the disparate live output stream manifest. For the disparate live media output stream manifest s generated based on a first pre-encoded media asset, the programming schedules and/or the events in a first pre-encoded media asset manifest, and/or events in the second live input stream manifest defined in the programming schedules are identified. Based on another transition due to the identified events, a second pre-encoded media asset manifest and/or a live input stream manifest is inserted in the disparate live output stream manifest. The disparate live output stream manifest is published.
US11589094B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, that has a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, where the operations include detecting each individual of an audience viewing media content on user equipment; retrieving a user profile for each individual of the audience resulting in user profiles; creating a group profile from the user profiles; determining, based on the group profile, a recommendation for viewing a candidate media content; and providing the recommendation to the user equipment for the audience. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11589092B2
Propagating a downstream (DS) Out-of-Band (OOB) signal at a frequency receivable by a set of legacy set-top boxes (STBs) while supporting enhanced upstream peak data rates. At an input of an amplifier of a physical device, a portion of the DS-OOB signal is tapped to create a tapped DS-OOB signal, which comprises both the DS-OOB signal and all other downstream signals and channels sent from a head-end to a set of customer premises equipment (CPE) via the physical device. The tapped DS-OOB signal is introduced to a band-pass filter that passes the DS-OOB signal and attenuates all other radio frequency (RF) signals to create a filtered DS-OOB signal. The filtered DS-OOB signal is amplified and coupled to a low-pass side of a high-split diplex filter to propagate onto a transmission medium coupled to the CPE. The physical device may be a high-split RF amplifier or a high-split node.
US11589091B2
A video information processing method is performed by a computer device. The method includes: receiving source video information transmitted by a server, the source video information including a first user identifier (ID) transmitting a source video, a source video ID, and a storage location of the source video corresponding to the source video ID in the server; obtaining special effect information on the source video; generating, according to the storage location, the source video ID, and the special effect information, interaction video information associated with the source video ID, the interaction video information including the source video ID, the storage location, the first user ID, and the special effect information; and uploading the interaction video information to the server for storage, so that the server transmits the interaction video information to a terminal corresponding to the first user ID. Videos transferred based on solutions of embodiments of this application include rich information.
US11589090B2
A method for encrypting a video stream in a video encoder is provided that includes receiving the video stream and encrypting randomly selected pictures in the video stream as the video stream is encoded.
US11589083B2
Disclosed embodiments include a content consumption monitor (CCM) determines surges in content consumption based on changes in content consumptions scores. The CCM determines the content consumptions scores for domains and/or organizations (orgs) based on session events generated by different devices/users from the org and/or domain, a number of events generated by the org/domain, content and/or user interactions with the content indicated by the events, relevancy scores of the content to one or more topics, and/or other criteria. The CCM detects surges in consumption or interest in a topic for the domain/org when the consumption score reaches a threshold and/or within a period of time. The CCM may adjust the consumption score based on the changes in the relevancy, number of events and/or the number of users over different time periods. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11589077B2
A video processing method is provided to include: performing a conversion between a current video block of a video and a coded representation of the video, wherein the coded representation conforms to a format rule that specifies a last non-zero coefficient in a residual of the current video block and controls whether or how side information about a secondary transform tool is included in the coded representation, and wherein the secondary transform tool includes applying, during encoding, a forward secondary transform to an output of a forward primary transform applied to a residual of a video block prior to quantization, or applying, during decoding, an inverse secondary transform to an output of dequantization of the video block before applying an inverse primary transform.
US11589076B2
A method of and a device for decoding a coded picture coded according to a video codec technology or standard that uses a syntax structure including a Picture Header and at least one Picture Parameter Set (PPS) are provided. The method includes decoding, by a decoder, the Picture Header, the Picture Header including transient information pertaining to a plurality of Coding Units of the coded picture, and the transient information of the Picture Header including at least one reference to the at least one PPS, and further including at least one first syntax element pertaining to an aspect of the video codec technology or standard for decoding. The method further includes activating, by the decoder, a PPS of the at least one PPS that is decoded, the PPS including a second syntax element pertaining to the aspect of the video codec technology or standard for decoding.
US11589074B2
A method of encoding a digital video, comprising receiving a high dynamic range (HDR) master of a video, a reference standard dynamic range (SDR) master of the video, and target SDR display properties at an encoder, finding a color volume transform that converts HDR values from the HDR master into SDR values that, when converted for display on the target SDR display, are substantially similar to SDR values in the reference SDR master, converting HDR values from the HDR master into SDR values using the color volume transform, generating metadata items that identifies the color volume transform to decoders, and encoding the SDR values into a bitstream.
US11589063B2
A system and method for transmitting compressed video. A transmitter receives uncompressed video data from a video source, and compresses it using one or more reference frames. A receiver receives the compressed video data and decodes it, using the same reference frames, to form display data. The reference frames are stored in compressed form in both the transmitter and the receiver. Each frame of display data becomes a reference frame for the decoding of a subsequent frame.
US11589062B2
A subblock-based coding of transform coefficient blocks of the enhancement layer is rendered more efficient. To this end, the subblock subdivision of the respective transform coefficient block is controlled on the basis of the base layer residual signal or the base layer signal. In particular, by exploiting the respective base layer hint, the subblocks may be made longer along a spatial frequency axis transverse to edge extensions observable from the base layer residual signal or the base layer signal.
US11589056B2
A video decoding apparatus includes matrix reference pixel derivation circuitry that derives reference samples by using top neighboring samples and left neighboring samples of a current block, weight matrix derivation circuitry that derives a weight matrix, matrix prediction image derivation circuitry that derives a prediction image, and matrix prediction image interpolation circuitry that derives a predicted image by using the prediction image. A size index is derived according to a value of a target block width and a value of a target block height. A prediction size is derived using the size index. In a case that a first condition, that both the value of the transform block width and the value of the transform block height are equal to 4, is true, the size index is set equal to 0 and the prediction size is set equal to 4.
US11589054B2
A method includes acquiring a current picture segmented into a plurality of units and divided into a plurality of tiles, each unit divided into a plurality of blocks, the plurality of blocks in each unit being arranged as a first grid, and the plurality of units being arranged as a second grid in each tile. The method includes decoding, for one of the units in a first tile, a first current block from the plurality of blocks using an entry from a first HMVP buffer associated with the first tile. The method includes updating the first HMVP buffer with a motion vector of the decoded first current block. The method includes in response to determining that the first current block is located in a first column and a first row of a first unit of a row in the second grid of the first tile, resetting the first HMVP buffer.
US11589050B2
Method and apparatus of encoding or decoding video blocks with constraints during block partitioning
Video processing methods comprise receiving input data of a current block, checking whether the current block is a root block by considering one or more predefined criteria, applying a mode constraint, a chroma split constraint, or both the mode and chroma split constraints to the current block if the current block is set to be a root block, and encoding or decoding the current block. The mode constraint restricts all blocks split from the current block to be processed by a same prediction mode and the chroma split constraints prohibits chroma components of the current block to be further partitioned while allowing a luma component of the current block to be partitioned into smaller blocks.
US11589048B2
A method of decoding a coded video bitstream implemented by a video decoder. The method includes determining a split mode for a coding tree unit (CTU) in an encoded bitstream, where the split mode is one of triple tree (TT), vertical binary tree (BT), and horizontal BT; marking a coding unit (CU) from the CTU as not to be predicted by intra prediction when one of three conditions is met; parsing the encoded bitstream to obtain a prediction unit and residual information for the CU from the CTU; and reconstructing the CU based on the prediction unit and the residual information when the CU has been marked.
US11589046B2
The present disclosure provides methods and devices. A video method of coding implemented by a decoding device, comprising: when a prediction mode of a current coding block is intra prediction, and the current coding block is processed by using Intra sub-partition coding mode, determining whether a width of a current transform block is larger than or equal to a first threshold or not, and whether the width of the current transform block is smaller than or equal to a second threshold or not, the current transform block corresponding to the current coding block; when the width of the current transform block is larger than or equal to the first threshold and the width of the current transform block is smaller than or equal to the second threshold, performing transform process on the current transform block, wherein a transform core based on DST 7 is used on horizontal direction transform.
US11589041B2
A method and apparatus of video coding incorporating Deep Neural Network are disclosed. A target signal is processed using DNN (Deep Neural Network), where the target signal provided to DNN input corresponds to the reconstructed residual, output from the prediction process, the reconstruction process, one or more filtering processes, or a combination of them. The output data from DNN output is provided for the encoding process or the decoding process. The DNN can be used to restore pixel values of the target signal or to predict a sign of one or more residual pixels between the target signal and an original signal. An absolute value of one or more residual pixels can be signalled in the video bitstream and used with the sign to reduce residual error of the target signal.
US11589040B2
A method for derivation of a temporal motion data (TMD) candidate for a prediction unit (PU) in video encoding or video decoding is provided. The derived TMD candidate is for inclusion in an inter-prediction candidate list for the PU. The method includes determining a primary TMD position relative to a co-located PU in a co-located largest coding unit (LCU), wherein the co-located PU is a block in a reference picture having a same size, shape, and coordinates as the PU, and selecting at least some motion data of a secondary TMD position as the TMD candidate when the primary TMD position is in a bottom neighboring LCU or in a bottom right neighboring LCU of the co-located LCU, wherein the secondary TMD position is determined relative to the co-located PU.
US11589034B2
Some embodiments of a method may include defining a triggering area, the triggering area having a border with the border being arranged, at least partially, within a positioning zone for observing a multi view content displayed on a display based on a position of a viewer; and when the viewer position is located within the triggering area, triggering one or more incentive effects. Some embodiments of an apparatus may include a processor; and a memory-storing device storing instructions operative, when executed by the processor, to cause the apparatus to: define a triggering area, the triggering area having a border with the border being arranged, at least partially, within a positioning zone, for observing a multi view content displayed on a display based on a position of a viewer; and when the viewer position is located within the triggering area, trigger one or more incentive effects.
US11589028B2
The present invention provides an image processing apparatus comprising: a first camera obtaining a true-color image by capturing a subject; a second camera spaced apart from the first camera and obtaining an infrared image by capturing the subject; and a control unit connected to the first camera and the second camera, wherein the control unit matches the true-color image and the infrared image and obtains three-dimensional information of the subject by using the matched infrared image in a region corresponding to the matched true-color image and a valid pixel.
US11589017B1
A ground line monitoring system includes a camera mounted in a first automobile vehicle. A waveguide directs a light into the camera having a first in-coupling grating receiving a first light imaging data and passing the first light imaging data as a first frequency of the light and a second in-coupling grating receiving a second light imaging data and passing the second light imaging data as a second frequency of the light. A color filter wheel receives the first frequency of the light and the second frequency of the light. An image sensor of the camera receives the first frequency of the light and the second frequency of the light at different times due to rotation of the color filter wheel. A controller performs a calculation using directions and angles of the first frequency of the light and the second frequency of the light to correct a camera image.
US11589008B2
Methods and systems described herein facilitate virtual interactions between users that more closely resemble their in-person counterparts. In particular, the methods and systems simulate in-person interactions in virtual environments through the use of complex spatial algorithms. For example, in some embodiments, the methods and systems provide avatar-based video conferencing systems in which avatars are connected by video/voice chat to any avatar based on one or more criteria.
US11589006B1
A method implementing dynamic camera presets. An image is received. A list of bounding boxes and a list of classification values are generated from the image. A set of tags, for the image, are generated from the list of bounding boxes and the list of classification values. A tagged image incorporating the set of tags into the image is presented. In response to a user input, a tag selection identifying a tag of the set of tags is received. View settings are adjusted to focus on a bounding box, from the list of bounding boxes, corresponding to the tag selection. An adjusted image is presented using the view settings.
US11589002B2
A webcam apparatus, having a display surface characterized by a display area, includes an image capture device characterized by an optical axis and a first footprint in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis; and an energy transfer device with a first portion coupled to the image capture device; and a second portion allowing attachment to an edge of a display screen. When attached, the image capture device and the first portion lie against and in contact with the display surface, or in a proximate and parallel plane. An optical axis characterizing the image capture device is aligned with a gaze direction of a user addressing a viewer via the captured images. The first portion of the energy transfer device is transparent at optical wavelengths, and has a second footprint in the plane perpendicular to the optical axis. The first and second footprints are small relative to the display area.
US11588981B2
There is provided a control apparatus. A first acquiring unit acquires a user instruction identified through voice recognition. A determining unit determines a current state of an image capturing apparatus. In response to a first user instruction being acquired as the user instruction, a control unit: controls the image capturing apparatus to perform first processing in a case where the current state is a shooting state; and controls the image capturing apparatus to perform second processing in a case where the current state is a playback/display state or a menu display state.
US11588980B2
A method is disclosed for improving the quality of photographs taken in low-light conditions by adjustment of shutter speed and digital gain based on a shutter prioritization value. Using a network of sensor, a digital camera processes various parameters, such as light level of the scene and movement of the camera or of subjects within the scene, to compute a shutter prioritization value. The value is then used to select the most appropriate shutter speed and digital gain combination from a constant exposure curve. Higher prioritization values correspond to faster shutter speeds and higher digital gain. Lower prioritization values correspond to lower shutter speeds and lower digital gain. In further embodiments, the shutter prioritization value may be manually customized by a user in order to produce artistic effects.
US11588977B2
The present disclosure describes a method and apparatus that can be used to adjust for distorted ambient light readings caused by the ambient light sensor being located behind the display screen. The strategy of the disclosure relies, at least in part, on spectral decomposition of ambient light measurements into independent sources (e.g., red, green, and blue display components of an Organic Light Emitting Diode (“OLED”) display screen and ambient light). Following the spectral decomposition technique, a more accurate ambient light measurement can be obtained in some instances. This technique enables determinations such as ambient lux and correlated color temperature independent of the content displayed on the screen.
US11588976B2
An image capturing apparatus that has an image capturing device including polarization elements and sets a proper frame rate according to a situation when acquiring a video using polarization information. The image capturing device an image capturing device including polarization pixels that detect polarization information of a plurality of different directions. The polarization information of the polarization pixels is determined by performing first polarization calculation or second polarization calculation which is smaller in calculation load than the first polarization calculation, on video signals output from the polarization pixels. A polarization-processed image is generated by using the polarization information. The first polarization calculation and the second polarization calculation are switched according to a predetermined timing, a mode, or a result of detecting a predetermined state.
US11588975B2
The present invention generally relates to a technology of accurately mapping a specific point in CCTV video onto the corresponding point on a map. More specifically, the present invention relates to a technology of mapping a specific point in CCTV video onto the corresponding point on a map through coordinate transformation between pixel coordinate of canvas plane of the CCTV camera and global coordinate of physical space for the video surveillance system. The present invention may provide an advantage of improving the efficiency of video surveillance system. When an urgent situation is found in CCTV video, the location in which the urgent situation is occurring may be accurately specified, which renders an effective action possible.
US11588973B2
There is provided a camera apparatus, including circuitry configured to: output a first image signal for displaying a first image, output a second image signal for displaying a second image. The second image signal is an image signal transmitted as a return signal. Further, the second image is an image that includes one of a location of a focus adjustment in the first image and an enlarged image corresponding to a part of the first image.
US11588968B2
A system includes a transmission unit configured to generate an electromagnetic wave, a first reception unit configured to detect the electromagnetic wave, and a processing unit configured to determine whether an output of the electromagnetic wave from the transmission unit is more than or equal to a threshold based on first image information obtained by capturing an image of the transmission unit in a state where the transmission unit is irradiating the electromagnetic wave.
US11588966B2
A wearable camera includes an image capture device, a processor, and first and second memories. The image capture device images a subject. The first memory at least temporarily stores first communication setting information for communication with an in-vehicle communication device. The second memory stores a program that, when executed by the processor, causes the wearable camera to: perform a communication setting process that establishes a communication connection between the wearable camera and the in-vehicle communication device, delete the first communication setting information from the first memory after a lapse of a certain time from a timer reset, the timer reset occurring in response to establishment of the communication connection between the wearable camera and the in-vehicle communication device, and notify that the first communication setting information is not stored in the first memory, in response to determining that the first communication setting information is not stored in the first memory.
US11588962B2
A flexible screen module includes: a flexible screen, a camera component, and a driving component; wherein the flexible screen includes a first display area and a second display area, and the second display area comprises a sub-area, the camera component is provided in the sub-area of the second display area, and the driving component is configured to drive the flexible screen and the camera component to move synchronously to enable the second display area to be switched between a first position and a second position.
US11588960B2
A method for assembling a camera device. The camera device has a first camera module including at least one objective device having an optical axis; an electrical heating element; and an electrically conductive contact region; a second camera module which is connectable to the first camera module and has an electrical energy supply for the heating element; and a deflectable connection element for the electrical contacting of the heating element via the contact region, the contacting being a function of an actuation position of an actuating element which is able to be mechanically coupled with the connection element and a connection between the first and the second camera module is established in that the first camera module and the second camera module are mutually fixed in position while the connection element is in a first deflection position.
US11588948B2
A sheet discharge device includes a sheet discharge tray, a stopper, a sheet size detection unit, and a display unit. In the sheet discharge tray, sheets discharged from a sheet discharge port are stacked on the upper surface. The stopper is provided on a upper surface side of the sheet discharge tray and is movable to a position corresponding to the leading end of each of a plurality of sheet sizes to be used in a sheet discharge direction, and regulates the position of the leading end of the sheet. The sheet size detection unit detects the sheet size corresponding to the position of the stopper. The display unit visually displays the sheet size detected by the sheet size detection unit.
US11588943B2
A multi-function peripheral as an image processing device according to the present invention is wirelessly connected with a mobile terminal having a display and is capable of accepting an operation by a user via the mobile terminal. For this, a terminal side setting screen for operating the multi-function peripheral is displayed on the display of the mobile terminal. The terminal side setting screen includes buttons for an operation requiring the user to be in the vicinity of the multi-function peripheral. These buttons are brought in a mode capable of accepting the operation, when an estimated distance between the multi-function peripheral and the mobile terminal is less than or equal to a threshold value, whereas are brought in a mode incapable of accepting the operation, when the estimated distance exceeds the threshold value.
US11588939B2
An embodiment of a customer callback system operates by determining a call action indicating a customer to whom a representative is to speak. An identifier associated with the customer is determined. A plurality of computing activities corresponding to interactions between the computing device and one or more websites provided to the computing device over a defined period of time are retrieved. A pattern associated with when the plurality of computing activities corresponding to the interactions between the computing device and the one or more websites were performed is identified. The overlapping time of day is provided to the representative during which to perform the call action.
US11588933B2
The present invention relates to communications methods and apparatus for determining whether a received call originated from an artificial intelligence system and the call handling procedures to be used on the received call based on whether or not the call was determined to have been originated from an artificial intelligence system. An exemplary method embodiment includes the steps of: receiving a first call; determining whether said first call originated from an artificial intelligence system; and when said first call is determined to have originated from an artificial intelligence system performing one or more artificial intelligence call handling operations.
US11588931B2
An example operation includes one or more of receiving a request from an occupant in a first transport to initiate a voice communication with an occupant in a second transport, determining the occupant in the second transport is available for the voice communication based on a length of time the occupant will remain in the first transport and a length of time the occupant will remain in the second transport, and responsive to the determining, enabling the voice communication between the occupant in the first transport and the occupant in the second transport.
US11588928B2
A mobile telephone case that includes a housing structured to receive a mobile telephone, the housing includes a perimeter frame disposed about a perimeter of the mobile telephone to substantially cover and protect the mobile telephone, an at least partially open front face to provide access to a display screen of the mobile telephone, and a protective rear panel that is at least partially movable between an open orientation and a closed orientation when the housing is operatively disposed on the mobile telephone. The protective rear panel substantially covers and protects a rear surface of the mobile telephone when in the closed orientation, with at least a portion thereof being at least partially separable from the perimeter frame to define the open orientation that provides wireless charging access to the rear surface of the mobile telephone with the housing still disposed on the mobile telephone.
US11588925B2
The method is for the transfer of data of a message subdivided in fragments from a first intermediary electronic processing unit (43) to a second intermediary electronic processing unit (45); before the transfer, the first unit (43) receives the data encapsulated in the payload of data packets of the TCP type from a sender electronic processing unit (41) and decapsulates them; after the transfer, the second unit (45) encapsulates data in the payload of data packets of the TCP type and transmits them to a recipient electronic processing unit (47); the transfer takes place by means of data packets of the UDP type; the first unit (43) also inserts in the payload (32) of UDP packets; a first data field (C1) containing an identifier of a connection between the sender unit (41) and the recipient unit (47), a second data field (C2) containing an identifier of the message to be transferred, and a third data field (C3) containing a number that identifies the position of a fragment within the message to be transferred.
US11588924B2
In some examples, a system includes a Fibre Channel (FC) interface to communicate over an FC network, and a network stack including a network layer and a transport layer. Machine-readable instructions are executable to produce a command packet including a payload including data for transmission to another system, the payload further including headers for the network layer and the transport layer, where the command packet is according to a storage interface protocol. The FC interface is to communicate the command packet over the FC network.
US11588917B2
A method for a communication between an application and a machine in a production or a physical object with the aid of a digital twin of a machine in a production or a physical object. Descriptive data including properties of digital data are generated based on a descriptive meta model. In addition, communication information is produced. To create the digital twin, the descriptive data, the communication information and a designation of the machine or the physical object are combined and stored in a list in order to create the digital twin. The application reads out the information of the list and uses it for a data exchange with the machine.
US11588916B2
An information processing apparatus includes a first obtaining unit configured to obtain a notification information set from a cloud storage, a second obtaining unit configured to transmit user ID information of a user using the information processing apparatus to a cloud server, and to obtain notification ID information transmitted from the cloud server in response to the transmitted user ID information, and a determination unit configured to determine the notification information included in the notification information set obtained by the first obtaining unit and corresponding to the notification ID information obtained by the second obtaining unit as notification information of a display target.
US11588894B2
A method for operating a communication system, in which multiple communication units exchange data via a communication medium, the method including the following steps: shifting the communication system at least temporarily into a diagnostic operating mode, in which data exchanged by multiple, in particular, by all of the communication units via the communication medium are available on at least one of the multiple communication units and/or on at least one component of the communication medium.
US11588891B2
A system and method for storing data in a distributed network having a plurality of datacenters distributed over a plurality of geographic regions. The method may involve receiving data, including metadata, uploaded to a first datacenter of the distributed network, receiving access information about previous data that was previously stored in the plurality of datacenters of the distributed network, predicting one or more of the plurality of geographic regions from which the uploaded data will be accessed based on the metadata and the access information, and instructing the uploaded data to be transferred from the first datacenter to one or more second datacenters located at each of the one or more predicted geographic regions.
US11588887B2
A method for repairing multicast/broadcast content via peer to peer communications, which includes receiving at least a part of a file transmitted by a wireless multicast/broadcast service (WMBS) session via an access ndownetwork; exchanging, via a peer to peer network, completion messages between the UE device and peer UE devices upon completion of the WMBS session; identifying an amount of the file received at the UE device, and amounts of the file received at each of peer UE devices based on the exchanged completion messages; sending repair data to repair the file on each peer UE devices in response to identifying that the UE device received the entire file; and sending repair data via the peer to peer network, obtained from the access network, in response to identifying that the UE device received less than the entire file and more of the file than each of the group of peer UE devices.
US11588885B2
Among other things, this document describes systems, methods and devices for performance testing and dynamic placement of computing tasks in a distributed computing environment. In embodiments, a given client request is forwarded up a hierarchy of nodes, or across tiers in the hierarchy. A particular computing node in the system self-determines to perform a computing task to generate (or help generate) particular content for a response to the client. The computing node injects its identifier into the response indicating that it performed those tasks; the identifier is transmitted to the client with particular content. The client runs code that assesses the performance of the system from the client's perspective, e.g., in servicing the request, and beacons this performance data, along with the aforementioned identifier, to a system intelligence component. The performance information may be used to dynamically place and improve the placement of the computing task(s).
US11588883B2
A system for controlling access to a downstream database management system (DMS) is provided. The system comprises an interface to maintain client connections with a plurality of upstream clients; a pooling component to establish a dynamic pool, and to selectively route each client connection to a pool; within each pool maintaining a queue comprising client database requests associated with particular client connections; and selectively granting access to the client database requests within each queue to at least one downstream DMS.
US11588882B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for application migration. The method includes determining an application used by a terminal device if it is determined that the terminal device moves from a first cell provided by a first network device to a second cell provided by a second network device. The method also includes determining a migration strategy for the application, the migration strategy describing the migration of components of the application in a predetermined scenario corresponding to the application. The method also includes determining migration information of components in an initial edge node associated with the first network device to a target edge node associated with the second network device based on the migration strategy, the migration information at least indicating whether the components in the initial edge node are to be migrated to the target edge node.
US11588875B2
A computer system is provided that includes at least one processor configured to execute a host virtual machine configured to host a session with at least one client computer device. The host virtual machine includes an operating system having a multi-media framework for rendering media content. The at least one processor is further configured to execute a media application configured to access media content from a media source, process encoded media content from the media application using the multi-media framework, and execute a multi-media redirection module configured to intercept the encoded media content from being processed by a decoding module of the multi-media framework. The multi-media redirection module is configured to redirect the encoded media content to the at least one client computer device.
US11588867B2
A system and method for generating dynamic playlists utilizing device co-presence proximity. In accordance with an embodiment, the method can include identifying music preferences by analyzing the listening history on a device of a user; and recognizing what devices are co-present within a set proximity for the purposes of matching such devices. In accordance with an embodiment, the system can be determine what music each individual in a group has been listening to historically, and determine when those individuals are within a certain proximity to one another, including for example analyzing the media content played on a smartphone and recognising when two smartphones are in a same location.
US11588862B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system authenticates a communication device roaming from a home network that does not support Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) roaming, and in which the processing system communicates with a packet gateway (PGW) of an evolved packet core (EPC) separate from the processing system, to facilitate communication between the communication device and a subsystem of the EPC; the subsystem emulates the home network to provide a VoLTE roaming service to the communication device. The communication device also engages in a session initiation protocol (SIP) with the subsystem to initiate a communication session with the subsystem; in accordance with the communication session, the subsystem provides the VoLTE roaming service to the communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11588861B2
An electronic device according to an embodiment may include a communication circuit, a processor, operatively connected to the communication circuit, and a memory operatively connected to the processor. The memory may store instructions to cause the processor to update an application including IP multimedia subsystem (IMS)-related data. Based on the update data received from a server through the communication circuit, obtain the updated IMS-related data through the application when the application is updated, and renew the IMS configuration information.
US11588860B2
Various communication systems may benefit from appropriate security measures. For example, mobile networks may benefit from the flexible selection of security features. A method can include receiving an attach request. The method can also include sending a response to the request. The response can include information configured to allow selection of a control plane integrity algorithm independently of a user plane integrity algorithm.
US11588857B2
Systems and methods for network asset lifecycle management are described. Network assets may include ephemeral Internet-accessible assets such as IP addresses, domain names, digital certificates, and cloud infrastructure accounts. A set of addresses associated with a computer network such as the Internet are scanned. Response data is received from one or more network systems connected to the computer network and processed to identify one or more network assets associated with an entity such as an enterprise organization. Asset data indicative of the identified network assets are then stored to build a record of the network assets associated with the entity.
US11588855B2
A customer of a policy management service may use an interface with a configuration and management service to interact with policies that may be applicable to the customer's one or more resources. The customer may create and/or modify the policies and the configuration and management service may notify one or more other entities of the created and/or modified policies. The one or more other entities may be operated by user authorized to approve the created and/or modified policies. Interactions with the configuration and management service may be the same as the interactions with the policy management service.
US11588850B2
Malicious attacks by certain devices against a radio access network (RAN) can be detected and mitigated, while allowing communication of priority messages. A security management component (SMC) can determine whether a malicious attack against the RAN is occurring based on a defined baseline that indicates whether a malicious attack is occurring. The defined baseline is determined based on respective characteristics associated with respective devices that are determined based on analysis of information relating to the devices. In response to determining there is a malicious attack, SMC determines whether to block connections of devices to the RAN based on respective priority levels associated with respective messages being communicated by the devices. SMC blocks connections of devices communicating messages associated with priority levels that do not satisfy a defined threshold priority level, while managing communication connections to allow messages satisfying the defined threshold priority level to be communicated via the RAN.
US11588839B2
Systems and methods for improving security event classification by leveraging user-behavior analytics are provided. According to an embodiment, a UEBA-based security event classification service of a cloud-based security platform maintains information regarding historical user behavior of various users of an enterprise network. An endpoint protection platform running on an endpoint device that is part of the enterprise network performs an initial classification of the event, based on which the endpoint protection platform blocks activity by the process. The endpoint production platform requests input from the cloud-based security platform which causes the cloud-based security platform performs a reclassification of the event based on contextual information, multiple data feeds and the UEBA-based security event classification service. Based on the reclassification of the event, the cloud-based security platform causes the endpoint protection platform to allow the process to proceed by providing the resulting security event classification to the endpoint protection platform.
US11588830B1
A method for training a machine learning model using information pertaining to characteristics of upload activity performed at one or more client devices includes generating first training input including (i) information identifying first amounts of data uploaded during a specified time interval for one or more of multiple application categories, and (ii) information identifying first locations external to a client device to which the first amounts of data are uploaded. The method includes generating a first target output that indicates whether the first amounts of data uploaded to the first locations correspond to malicious or non-malicious upload activity. The method includes providing the training data to train the machine learning model on (i) a set of training inputs including the first training input, and (ii) a set of target outputs including the first target output.
US11588827B2
An attack communication detection device that is robust against a deviation from the design value of a communication interval is provided. The attack communication detection device is an attack communication detection device that detects an attack communication from a communication of each electronic control unit in a communication network and includes: a receiving unit that receives communication data for detection which may or may not include an attack communication; a sum-of-communication-intervals calculation unit that calculates the sum of communication intervals, which is the sum of two adjacent communication intervals, of the communication data for detection; an estimated distribution model storage that stores in advance an estimated distribution model of a communication interval and the sum of communication intervals of communication data for learning which does not include an attack communication; and a detection unit that detects whether or not the communication data for detection includes an attack communication based on the estimated distribution model and the sum of communication intervals of the communication data for detection.
US11588819B1
In one embodiment, a secure object transfer system is described. The system features a virtual private cloud network (VPC) and a controller. The VPC includes a plurality of gateways and a network load balancer, which configured to conduct a load balancing scheme on access messages from computing devices deployed within an on-premises network to direct the access memory to one of the plurality of gateways for storage or retrieval of an object from a cloud-based storage element. Each gateway includes Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) filtering logic to restrict access of the computing devices to certain cloud-based storage elements in accordance with a security policy. The controller is configured to maintain and update the security policy utilized by each gateway of the plurality of gateways.
US11588809B2
A certified application is installed onto a content creation device and a mobile certified application is installed onto a mobile device, the applications establish first and second trust relationships with the cloud service. The certified application and mobile certified application establish the third trust relationship via a proximity network. The mobile certified application generates a first ephemeral key pair having a private part. The certified application generates a second ephemeral key pair having a private part. The mobile certified application requests a service from the content creation device involving the transfer of data between the content creation device and the cloud service. The data is protected by at least one of the first and second ephemeral key pairs in response to invocation of the service. The service results in the data being stored at the cloud service and/or rendered at the content creation device.
US11588808B2
An operating system with automatic login mechanism and an automatic login method are provided. The operating system includes a first electronic device, a second electronic device and a server device. The second electronic device includes a biometric sensor. When a login event of the first electronic is triggered, the first electronic device sends a login request to the second electronic device directly or via the server device, so that the second electronic device performs a biometric verification by the biometric sensor according to the login request. When the biometric verification is passed, the second electronic device sends a first login credential to the first electronic device directly or via the server device, so that the first electronic device performs an automatic login operation of the first electronic device according to the first login credential.
US11588807B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor programmed to: detect a request submitted from a terminal to an external server providing a service; and upon a determination that the detected request is submitted from the terminal located in a base, transmit a validation request for validating a certificate of the terminal to a CRL distribution server in which the certificate of the terminal is invalid.
US11588794B2
A security platform architecture is described herein. The security platform architecture includes multiple layers and utilizes a combination of encryption and other security features to generate a secure environment. A method, system and apparatus include/are configured for maintaining a secure vault, accessing building block modules and implementing an orchestrator. The vault stores code. The building block modules are formed using the code stored in the secure vault. The orchestrator controls access to the building block modules.
US11588793B2
A system and method for dynamic geospatially-referenced cyber-physical infrastructure inventory and asset management using state models, wherein a computing device with a geolocation device and wireless networking capability is attached to each of a plurality of physical assets, and used to periodically determine a state of the physical asset to which it is attached using the geolocation device, periodically generate a status update message and send it to a remote computer, and wherein the remote computer stores the status of the physical asset as time series data in a state model and, if a status message is not received in a defined period of time, applies a machine learning algorithm to the state model to predict a current or future state of that particular physical asset.
US11588790B2
A UE communicates with a network gateway to access a provisioning device via a provisioning network. The provisioning device uses identification data of the UE to authenticate the UE for a primary network, and provides primary network configuration data to the UE. Using the primary network configuration data, the UE communicates with the network gateway to access the primary network. The primary network configuration data can include data to enable the UE to establish communications with one or more private networks accessible via the primary network.
US11588785B2
Methods and apparatuses are described for dynamic medium access control (MAC) address distribution in a wireless network. A station (STA) may receive, from an access point (AP), a frame that includes an indicator indicating at least one MAC address type or MAC address policy supported by an extended service set (ESS) associated with the AP. The indicator may comprise an 8 bit bitmap. The STA may then transmit, to the AP, a request message that includes MAC Address Assignment Protocol information determined based on the at least one MAC address type or MAC address policy. The STA may receive a response message that includes a local medium access control (MAC) address assigned based on the MAC Address Assignment Protocol information. The STA may transmit, to the AP, an association request frame with the local MAC address.
US11588784B2
A method and a device for managing a remote communication service (streaming) between a terminal in a communications network and an object of a local area network. The terminal and the object are capable of communicating via a gateway of the local area network. The method includes the following steps on a service provision device providing the service: establishing a list of associations between an address for accessing the object and at least one feature of the service; obtaining at least one criterion linked to the terminal; selecting at least one association in the list of associations according to said criterion; and sending to the terminal at least one address associated with said at least one selected association.
US11588775B2
Methods and systems are disclosed herein for using machine learning to send notifications. A computer system may receive a message and may determine a sentiment level and/or an urgency level associated with the message. The computer system may use the sentiment level and/or urgency level to predict when the user will respond to the message. The computer system may compare the predicted response time with one or more thresholds to determine a time to send a notification for the message to the user device.
US11588761B2
The disclosed technology includes systems and methods for controlling enrollment and secure persistent SMS texting account servicing communications. A method is provided that includes receiving, at an enrollment web portal, enrollment data including: enrollment credentials identifying a user for authentication, a phone number of a mobile device associated with the user, and consent by the user to persistently interact with an account servicing system via SMS texting. The method includes: processing the received enrollment data, authenticating the user responsive to processing the received enrollment data, storing the phone number of the mobile device associated with the user in a phone number data storage, and generating, responsive to the authenticating, a revocable token for persistent access to a natural dialogue module via a SMS texting gateway for the mobile device identified by the phone number.
US11588755B2
Information describing changes to a collection of items maintained by a database may be stored in a log file. The information in the log file may be converted into a stream of records describing the changes. The records may be directed to a computing node selected for performing a trigger function in response to the change, based on applying a hash function to a portion of the record, identifying a hash space associated with a value output by the hash function, and mapping from the hash space to the selected computing node.
US11588753B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for generating deployment architecture and template. The method can include determining properties of the instantiated resources in the stack; and generating a template corresponding to the instantiated resources based on the properties.
US11588750B1
A request may be identified having one or more constraints for accessing disaggregated resources in a computing environment. One or more resources in a plurality of disaggregated resources may be identified based on the request. Computing server instances may be dynamically orchestrated using the one or more resources in the plurality of disaggregated resources based on the one or more constraints.
US11588748B1
A device configured to receive a resource reservation request that identifies a user and a resource. The device is further configured to generate a resource allocation that includes an association between the user, location information for the resource, a resource identifier for the resource, and a token value. The device is further configured to associate the resource allocation with a time interval indicating a deadline for using the resource allocation. The device is further configured to receive a reservation verification request from a network device. The device is further configured to determine the location information for the network device is within a predetermined distance from the location information for the resource, to determine the resource identifier matches the resource identifier for the resource, and to determine a current time is within the time interval. The device is further configured to generate resource allocation instructions authorizing access to the resource.
US11588744B1
A triggering system of a message processing service invokes a dispatch function to execute code to determine a set of message consumption functions to launch in order to process a set of messages from a queue. The dispatch function determines, based at least in part on the number of messages in the queue, the number of message consumption functions of the set that are to process these messages. The dispatch function invokes, based on the determination, the set of message consumption functions to process the set of messages from the queue.
US11588735B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses related to edge processing of sensor data using a neural network to reduce network traffic to and/or from a server. In one approach, a cloud server processes sensor data from a vehicle using an artificial neural network (ANN). The ANN has several layers. Based on analyzing at least one characteristic of the sensor data received from the vehicle and/or a context associated with processing the sensor data, the cloud server determines to send one or more of the layers of the ANN for edge processing on the vehicle itself. In other cases, the cloud server decides to send the one or more layers to an edge server device located on a communication path between the vehicle and the cloud server. The edge processing reduces network data traffic.
US11588733B2
In a slice-based network, switches can be programmed to perform routing functions based on a slice identifier. The switch can receive a packet and determine a slice identifier for the packet based on packet header information. The switch can use the slice identifier to determine a next hop. Using the slice identifier with a multi-path table, the switch can select an egress interface for sending the packet to the next hop. The multi-path table can ensure that traffic for a slice stays on the same interface link to the next hop, even when a link aggregation group (“LAG”) is used for creation of a virtual channel across multiple interfaces or ports.
US11588729B2
A cell site gateway comprises a first interface, a second interface, and a third interface. The first interface is configured to communicate with a cellular base station. The second interface is configured to communicate with a network gateway. The third interface is configured to receive, from a control server, control information for a forwarding layer and comprising a first label and a second label. The forwarding layer is configured to: remove the first label from first packets received from the network gateway via the second interface; attach the second label to second packets received from the cellular base station; and transmit the second packets to the network gateway via the second interface.
US11588712B2
Examples of services described herein expose an application programming interface (API) which may return the run-time configuration information. In this manner, software external to the service (e.g., an orchestrator) may query the service to determine the run-time configuration information, then provide both the initial configuration information known to the external software and the run-time configuration information to an Internet-facing gateway. Examples described herein may accordingly avoid or reduce instances of an upgrade dependency. When the service is upgraded, the run-time configuration information may be obtained by calling the API without a need to also upgrade the software external to the service.
US11588699B2
Systems and methods for detecting access points proximate to a mobile computing device to facilitate wireless network troubleshooting and management of the access points are provided. According to an embodiment, a mobile application, running on a mobile device that is operating within a physical environment, discovers a subset of wireless access points (APs) of various managed APs of a private network that are proximate to the mobile device by receiving short-range beacons originated by the subset of APs. The mobile application presents a list of the subset of APs within a user interface of the mobile application and bridges the physical environment and a network environment containing information regarding the private network. The mobile application facilitates management of a particular AP of the subset of APs by presenting configuration information or operating information for the particular AP within the user interface.
US11588698B2
Example techniques for pod migration across nodes of a cluster are described. In an example, in response to receiving a request to migrate a pod from a first region of a cloud computing platform to a second region of the cloud computing platform, the pod may be migrated from a first node in the first region to a second node in the second region. The first node and the second node may each be a part of a cluster of nodes.
US11588696B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a software-defined spectrum controller that may be used to dynamically and adaptively change rules and/or policies in a wireless network. The SDSC may dynamically change the rules or policies based on usage of spectrum and/or network resources or any other criterion, e.g., established by a service provider, to allow the service provider to use the spectrum and network resources more efficiently for delivering content and services to customers. In accordance with the disclosed embodiments, the SDSC may use at least one optimization algorithm to determine which policies or rules should be enforced at each of the network nodes in the wireless network. Based on the optimization algorithm, the SDSC may interact with other network nodes to dynamically change one or more of the rules or policies that are enforced in the service provider's network to provide content and services to customers.
US11588688B2
Disclosed are various examples of device and management service integration using a device connector service that acts as a proxy. The device connector service can receive a device communication that is relayed by a device connector client executed on an edge device. The device communication includes device connector authentication data, and a device identifier for a device. The device communication is modified into a modified device communication that includes management service authentication data, and a management unique device identifier (UDID) that is different from the device identifier. The device connector service transmits the modified device communication to a management service.
US11588686B2
A small form-factor pluggable (SFP) transceiver is detected to be plugged into an SFP port of the network router following a bootup of the network router. Information on one or more device features of the SFP transceiver is obtained from the SFP transceiver plugged into the SFP port of the network router. Subsequently, a port configuration policy that corresponds to the one or more device features of the SFP transceiver and one or more router parameters of the network router is applied to the SFP port of the network router.
US11588682B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide novel methods for providing a stateful service at a network edge device (e.g., an NSX edge) that has a plurality of north-facing interfaces (e.g., interfaces to an external network) and a plurality of corresponding south-facing interfaces (e.g., interfaces to a logical network). In some embodiments, each interface associated with a different bridge calls a service engine based on identifiers included in data messages received at the interface. Each data message flow is associated with a particular identifier that is associated with a particular service engine instance that provides the stateful service. In some embodiments, the interface that receives a data message identifies a service engine to provide the stateful service and provides the data message to the identified service engine. After processing the data message, the service engine provides the data message to the egress interface associated with the ingress interface.
US11588673B2
According to various embodiments, a receiving station (STA) may receive a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU). The PPDU may include a first signal field and a second signal field. The first signal field may include 3-bit information. The receiving STA may determine whether the PPDU is related to single user (SU) transmission or multiple user (MU) transmission, whether the PPDU is related to orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), whether the PPDU is related to multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO), and whether the PPDU is related to a trigger-based (TB) PPDU, based on the 3-bit information.
US11588672B2
Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for digital wireless communication, and more specifically, for initializing and using demodulation reference signals. In one exemplary aspect, a method of wireless communication performed by a communication node includes generating a first portion of an initial value of a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) based, at least in part, on combining a time index and at least a portion of an ID index. The method also includes generating a second portion of the initial value of the DMRS based, at least in part, on the ID index, and generating the initial value of the DMRS by combining at least the first and second portions. The method further includes transmitting or receiving the DMRS.
US11588663B1
A Controller Area Network (CAN) transceiver determines a voltage differential signal from analog signaling and provides a digital output signal at a receiver output to a CAN controller based on the voltage differential signal. The analog signaling received from the CAN bus can operate with a first voltage level scheme of a first CAN protocol and a second voltage level scheme for a second CAN protocol. A first comparator compares the voltage differential signal to a first threshold which is set to a value which differentiates between a logic low bit and logic high bit in accordance with the second CAN protocol. Filtering circuitry selectively filters an output of the first comparator based on detection of noise on the CAN bus to provide a first digital signal indicative of activity on the CAN bus according to the second CAN protocol.
US11588658B2
System and method for providing network support services and premises gateway support infrastructure
A service management system communicates via wide area network with gateway devices located at respective user premises. The service management system remotely manages delivery of application services, which can be voice controlled, by a gateway, e.g. by selectively activating/deactivating service logic modules in the gateway. The service management system also may selectively provide secure communications and exchange of information among gateway devices and among associated endpoint devices. An exemplary service management system includes a router connected to the network and one or more computer platforms, for implementing management functions. Examples of the functions include a connection manager for controlling system communications with the gateway devices, an authentication manager for authenticating each gateway device and controlling the connection manager and a subscription manager for managing applications services and/or features offered by the gateway devices. A service manager, controlled by the subscription manager, distributes service specific configuration data to authenticated gateway devices.
US11588656B2
A session management function (SMF) receives, from an access and mobility management function (AMF): a request to establish at least one packet data unit (PDU) session for a wireless device; and a device type of the wireless device. The SMF sends to a policy control function: a request for at least one charging policy for the at least one PDU session; and the device type received by the SMF from the AMF. The SMF receives, from the policy control function, the at least one charging policy determined based on the device type. The SMF selects a user plane function based on the device type received by the SMF from the AMF. The SMF sends, to the user plane function, reporting rules based on the at least one charging policy.
US11588654B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for operating a blockchain system, a device and a storage medium. The method is described below. To-be-processed blockchain data is acquired through a kernel engine of a blockchain system. The to-be-processed blockchain data is processed through the kernel engine, and a kernel component interface provided by a component adaptor is called during the processing process of the to-be-processed blockchain data to call a kernel component.
US11588647B2
Provided is a method for validating a predetermined digital certificate having a validation device, wherein the validation device stores approval information that specifies which digital certificates of a plurality of digital certificates are permissible digital certificates, and wherein the validation device further stores trust information which indicates a trust level of the permissible digital certificates. The method includes determining, while taking account of the approval information, whether the predetermined digital certificate is permissible for the planned use under the current conditions; and if it is determined that the predetermined digital certificate is permissible, determining the trust level of the predetermined digital certificate by taking into consideration the trust information for the planned use and the current conditions, is provided. A trust level can be determined for a digital certificate which indicates how trustworthy the digital certificate is for a planned use under the current conditions.
US11588646B2
A system and method for establishing application identities including application runtime properties. A method includes signing at least one artifact of a first application communicating with a second application, wherein each of the at least one artifact includes data used for executing the first application, wherein a signing result of each artifact is a signed cryptographic hash of the artifact; monitoring events related to communications between the first application and the second application to identify a file event; generating at least one runtime hash for the file event, wherein the at least one runtime hash represents runtime properties of the first application; and generating an application identity for the first application, the application identity for the first application including the signed cryptographic hash of each of the at least one artifact and the at least one runtime hash of the file event.
US11588645B1
A new compromise-resilient and compact cryptographic tool is provided that ensures a breach-resilient authentication and integrity of system measurements in computer systems. The described methods are forward-secure digital signatures with signature and partial public key aggregation capabilities. The methods reduce the total space overhead of signature and public key storage. The methods offer a high space efficiency for systems who has relatively low state transitions, wherein the same message is continuously signed and then followed by different messages.
US11588644B2
A data storage device is provided. The data storage device includes a storage medium having a first subset configured to store user data and a second subset configured to store snapshot data. The data storage device further includes a controller configured to (i) receive, from a host operably coupled to the data storage device, a command to configure the second subset, to (ii) verify an authenticity of the command, and to (iii) execute the command in response to the verification of the authenticity of the command.
US11588635B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for providing strong resource identification. When a resource is created, saved, or re-based, a cryptographic key pair may be generated and associated with the resource. A public key of the cryptographic key pair may be used as a unique identifier. Information about the resource, such as the name of the resource and its actual location may be stored in an index based upon the resource's public key. Sharing the resource with other devices may comprise sending the resource's key, as opposed to information about the resource's actual location, to one or more recipient device.
US11588623B2
A system includes an application TEE and a first cloud service of a trusted cloud provider. The first cloud service is configured to receive an encrypted disk image and to launch the application TEE. The system also includes a second cloud service of a first alternate cloud provider, which is configured to launch a first attestation service instance from an attestation disk image that includes a secret and to provide the secret to the application TEE instance. Additionally, the system includes a third cloud service of a second alternate cloud provider, which is configured to launch a second attestation service instance and to provide the secret to the application TEE instance when the second cloud service is unavailable.
US11588611B2
Method and system for managing the reception of data frames, scheduled statically and periodically, a frame includes a header provided with an identifier (id) of the frame and an index (index) representing the occurrence of the frame in a hyper-period.
US11588590B2
Provided are systems and methods for adaptive payload extraction and retransmission in wireless data communications. An example method commences with transmitting a network packet to a receiver via a communication channel. The method further includes receiving a further network packet including a further payload. The method continues with determining, based on the payload and the further payload, an error vector. The method includes generating, based on the error vector, a plurality of indices. An index of the plurality of indices corresponds to a portion of a plurality of non-overlapping portions of the payload. The method further continues with selecting, based on the error vector, at least one index from the plurality of indices. The method includes sending, to the receiver via the communication channel, a further network packet. The further network packet includes the selected index and a portion of the payload corresponding to the selected index.
US11588584B2
The invention relates to an improved transmission protocol for uplink data packet transmission in a communication system. A receiver of a user equipment receives a Fast Retransmission Indicator, referred to as FRI. The FRI indicates whether or not a base station requests a retransmission of a previously transmitted data packet. A transmitter of the user equipment retransmits the data packet using the same redundancy version as already used for the previous transmission of the data packet.
US11588577B2
A communication data processing method can be applied to a terminal device, and include: detecting an actual transmission rate between the terminal device and a base station; and performing, if the actual transmission rate is less than a preset rate threshold for maintaining a connection between the terminal device and the base station, communication of compensation data with a preset server through the base station according to a difference between the actual transmission rate and the preset rate threshold, where the sum of a transmission rate of the compensation data and the actual transmission rate is greater than or equal to the preset rate threshold.
US11588556B1
A High Bandwidth Individual Channel Control via Optical Reference Interferometry (HICCORI) system actively controls the phase and/or polarization of the optical emission of each element in a tiled optical array. It can also actively align any high-frequency broadening waveform applied to the array beams for spectral broadening or data transmission. By maintaining consistent polarization and manipulating the phase relationships of the beams emitted by the array elements, the HICCORI system can manipulate the spatial pattern of constructive and destructive interference formed as the individual emissions coherently combine. Active feedback control allows the desired phase, polarization, and/or spectral broadening alignment to be maintained in the presence of external disturbances.
US11588540B2
Herein is disclosed a wireless communication device comprising two or more antennas; one or more transceivers, configured to process wireless signal for one or more processors received via the two or more antennas; and one or more processors, configured to determine a timing of data transmissions within the wireless signal; determine a timing of intervals between beam selection protocol transmissions in the wireless signal; determine a testing period corresponding to an overlap of one data transmission selected from the data transmissions and one interval of the intervals; and measure a signal quality of the selected data transmission during the testing period using a candidate receive-beam setting from a plurality of predefined receive-beam settings for receiving the wireless signals via the two or more antennas.
US11588537B2
There is provided a wireless device configured to perform both multi-user spatial multiplex communication and single user communication with a communication device. The wireless device is configured to set a first waiting time for the single user communication, and count the first waiting time in a period in which a second waiting time for the multi-user spatial multiplex communication is counted. The wireless device then transmits data through the single user communication after the first waiting time expires.
US11588534B2
The present disclosure relates to a timer control method, which is applicable to an electronic device. The method includes: when a medium access control layer receives a beam failure instance indication sent by a physical layer, determining whether a count value of a beam failure indication counter is greater than or equal to a preset value; if the count value of the beam failure indication counter is greater than or equal to the preset value, triggering a random access; determining whether to initiate the triggered random access; if it is determined to initiate the triggered random access, upon initiating the triggered random access, resetting or restarting a beam failure recovery timer. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the case that user equipment occupies resources of contention-free random access for a long time can be avoided.
US11588530B2
Provided are an information feedback method, terminal, base station, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: decomposing a channel state information (CSI) matrix H to obtain a matrix Ud and a matrix Vd, where Ud is a matrix having d columns, and every two column vectors are mutually orthogonal; and Vd is a matrix having d columns, and every two column vectors are mutually orthogonal; and feeding back amplitude and phase information of elements in Ud including d left eigenvectors and/or amplitude and phase information of elements in Vd including d right eigenvectors.
US11588521B2
Provided is a communication apparatus and communication method for channel estimation. The communication apparatus includes a transmitter, which in operation, transmits a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) to one or more other communication apparatus in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless network. The PPDU includes a long training field (LTF) that permits the one or more other communication apparatus to estimate respective channels for respective communications with the communication apparatus. The communication apparatus includes a controller, which in operation, establishes the number of LTF symbols (NLTF) for generating the LTF in the PPDU. The NLTF depends on a maximum value (NSTSMAX) of the number of space-time streams for each resource unit (RU) in the PPDU.
US11588510B2
A network communication power supply with digital signal isolation includes a transformer, a transformer drive circuit, a rectifier, and a modulation signal duty cycle detection circuit. The transformer has a primary side and a secondary side. The transformer drive circuit is coupled to the primary side, and receives a digital signal input. The transformer drive circuit converts the digital signal input into a drive signal with a duty cycle corresponding to a logic level of the digital signal input according to the logic level. The digital signal input includes a power content. The rectifier is coupled to the secondary side and converts the power content to provide a power source. The modulation signal duty cycle detection circuit is coupled to the rectifier and supplied power by the power source, and provides a digital signal output with a high or low level according to the duty cycle.
US11588508B2
Disclose herein are embodiments related to a system made up of a lighting fixture and a radio frequency detection device. The lighting fixture having a secure housing and at least one power connection, and the radio frequency detection device being designed to operatively connect to the at least one power connection device within the lighting fixture.
US11588499B2
A system and a method provide compression and decompression of weights of a layer of a neural network. For compression, the values of the weights are pruned and the weights of a layer are configured as a tensor having a tensor size of H×W×C in which H represents a height of the tensor, W represents a width of the tensor, and C represents a number of channels of the tensor. The tensor is formatted into at least one block of values. Each block is encoded independently from other blocks of the tensor using at least one lossless compression mode. For decoding, each block is decoded independently from other blocks using at least one decompression mode corresponding to the at least one compression mode used to compress the block; and deformatted into a tensor having the size of H×W×C.
US11588492B2
An analog to digital converter (ADC) receives first and second analog input signals. A charge sampling demultiplexer includes multiple capacitors that sample the first and second analog input signals, and generates multiple input samples representative of charge stored on the capacitors. A plurality of sub-ADCs each include first and second charge-to-time converters, which receive from the charge sampling demultiplexer respective first and second input sample of the first and second analog input signals and output respective first and second pulse-width-modulated (PWM) signals responsively to the respective first and second input samples. Temporal processing circuitry processes the PWM signals to generate a digital value indicative of a temporal difference between the first and second PWM signals. Output reordering circuitry receives the digital value from each of the sub-ADCs and generates a digital output indicative of a difference between the first and second analog input signals.
US11588487B1
An eye opening monitor device and an operation method thereof are provided. The eye opening monitor device includes a phase interpolator, a first sampling circuit, a second sampling circuit, and a clock centering circuit. The first sampling circuit samples a data signal according to a data clock to generate first sampled data. The second sampling circuit samples the data signal according to a phase interpolation clock to generate second sampled data. The phase interpolator changes a phase of the phase interpolation clock according to a phase interpolation code. The clock centering circuit counts multiple comparison results of the first sampled data and the second sampled data in multiple clock cycles to obtain an error count value for any one of different phase interpolation codes. The clock centering circuit determines the phase interpolation code provided to the phase interpolator based on the error count values corresponding to different phase interpolation codes.
US11588485B2
A power domain change circuit includes an input circuit and an output circuit. The input circuit is suitable for operating in a first power domain and generating first and second intermediate processing signals. The output circuit is suitable for operating in a second power domain and generating a final output signal by averaging and combining transition jitter components of the first and second intermediate processing signals.
US11588483B1
In one aspect, a quasi-resonant turn-off circuit is provided. The quasi-resonant turn-off circuit is couplable in parallel with a pair of anti-parallel thyristors. The quasi-resonant turn-off circuit includes a resonant capacitor and an energy recovery circuit. The resonant capacitor is configured to supply a charge to the pair of anti-parallel thyristors to decrease a turn-off time of the pair of anti-parallel thyristors. The energy recovery circuit is configured to recharge the resonant capacitor using remnant energy left in parasitic inductances coupled to the quasi-resonant turn-off circuit after the pair of anti-parallel thyristors is off.
US11588480B2
A circuit is configured to drive a switch mode regulator and to control the slew rate at a switching terminal of the regulator. The circuit includes first and second transistors coupled between a voltage supply terminal and a switching terminal, and includes third and fourth transistors coupled between the voltage supply terminal and the switching terminal. The circuit includes a fifth transistor coupled to the fourth transistor in a current mirror configuration and a sixth transistor coupled between the voltage supply terminal and the third transistor. The circuit includes a first resistor coupled between the voltage supply terminal and the fifth transistor, and includes a second resistor coupled between the sixth transistor and the second transistor.
US11588479B2
Provided are a spread spectrum clock generator and a spread spectrum clock generation method, a pulse pattern generator and a pulse pattern generation method, and an error rate measuring device and an error rate measuring method capable of improving usability when adjusting a waveform of a modulation signal during training. A setting screen 60 includes a 0-th frequency shift input unit 71 for arbitrarily setting a frequency shift of a waveform of a modulation signal in a plurality of time sections, a first frequency shift input unit 72, a second frequency shift input unit 73, a third frequency shift input unit 74, and a modulation selection unit 67 for switching a waveform pattern of the modulation signal from a first pattern to a second pattern.
US11588473B1
A circuit with a metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor and a diode module is applied to a power factor correction circuit, which can effectively reduce the heat generated by the whole system under heavy load. The circuit includes a metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor and a diode module and a load determination unit. The diode module includes a plurality of diodes with a switch. The load determination unit can control the connection/disconnection of each diode in the diode module based on the magnitude of the load current. It can effectively reduce the current generated by each diode due to the load, thereby reducing the heat generation of the overall system. Moreover, due to the contact capacitance effect after the diodes are connected in parallel, the electromagnetic interference (EMI) characteristics of the power factor correction circuit of the system can be further optimized.
US11588464B2
A TF-SAW resonator with improved quality factor is provided. The resonator has its piezoelectric material in the form of a thin film and an electrode structure arranged on the piezoelectric layer. Pitch (P) and metallization ratio (n) are chosen to maximize the quality factor (Q).
US11588463B2
A surface acoustic wave (SAW) device and methods of making the same are disclosed. The surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric layer coupled to a high acoustic velocity layer at a first surface of the piezoelectric layer. At least one transducer is provided over a second surface of the piezoelectric layer. The at least one transducer comprises a plurality of IDT electrodes that are formed from a substantially two-dimensional (2D) conductive material and configured to propagate a surface acoustic wave having an operating wavelength along the piezoelectric layer.
US11588461B2
A resonant element includes first, second, and third plane electrodes, a first via electrode defining a first inductor, a second inductor, and a third inductor. The first via electrode connects the first plane electrode and the second plane electrode, and each of the second inductor and the third inductor connects the first plane electrode and the third plane electrode. The third plane electrode defines a first capacitor together with the second plane electrode, the second inductor includes second via electrodes, and the third inductor includes third via electrodes. Each of the second via electrodes and the third via electrodes is a columnar conductor extending in the extending direction of the first via electrode.
US11588457B2
An analog front-end circuit capable of dynamically adjusting gain includes a programmable gain amplifier (PGA) circuit, a sensor, a calculation circuit, a gain coarse control circuit and a gain fine control circuit. The PGA circuit includes an amplifier, a gain coarse adjustment circuit and a gain fine adjustment circuit. The gain coarse adjustment circuit is controlled by a coarse control signal, and a gain is adjusted in a coarse step according to an initial gain. The gain fine adjustment circuit is controlled by a fine control signal in a data mode, and the gain is adjusted in a fine step. The calculation circuit calculates a primary gain adjustment and a secondary gain adjustment. The gain coarse control circuit generates the coarse control signal according to the primary gain adjustment, and the gain fine control circuit generates the fine control signal according to the secondary gain adjustment.
US11588456B2
Traveling-wave tube amplifiers and methods for making slow-wave structures for the amplifiers are provided. The SWSs include helical conductors that are self-assembled via the release of stressed electrically conductive strips from a sacrificial material. The helical conductors can be electroplated post-self-assembly to fortify the helix, reduce losses, and tailor the dimensions and operating parameters of the helix.
US11588454B2
Various embodiments are directed to apparatuses and methods to generate a first signal representing modulation data and a second signal representing an amplitude of the modulation data, the first signal and the second signal to depend on an output signal and vary a power supply voltage to a gain stage in proportion to the amplitude of the modulation data.
US11588450B2
Provided is an amplification circuit that includes: a low-noise amplifier that includes an FET as an amplification element and that amplifies a radio-frequency signal inputted to the gate of the FET; an input matching network that matches the input impedance of the low-noise amplifier; and a switch that is serially connected between ground and a node on a line connecting the input matching network and the gate of the FET to each other.
US11588449B2
An envelope tracking (ET) power amplifier apparatus is provided. The ET power amplifier apparatus includes an amplifier circuit configured to amplify a radio frequency (RF) signal based on an ET voltage and a tracker circuit configured to generate the ET voltage based on an ET target voltage. The ET power amplifier apparatus also includes a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to dynamically determine a voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) change at a voltage output relative to a nominal VSWR and cause an adjustment to the ET voltage. By dynamically determining the VSWR change and adjusting the ET voltage in response to the VSWR change, the amplifier circuit can operate under a required EVM threshold across all phase angles of the RF signal.
US11588448B2
A packaged radio frequency transistor amplifier includes a package housing, an RF transistor amplifier die that is mounted within the package housing, a first capacitor die that is mounted within the package housing, an input leadframe that extends through the package housing to electrically connect to a gate terminal of the RF transistor amplifier die, and an output leadframe that extends through the package housing to electrically connect to a drain terminal of the RF transistor amplifier die. The output leadframe includes an output pad region, an output lead that extends outside of the package housing, and a first arm that extends from one of the output pad region and the output lead to be adjacent the first capacitor die.
US11588443B2
Various embodiments disclose a method and a device including: an antenna, a switching regulator, communication chip including an amplifier and a linear regulator operably connected to the amplifier and the switching regulator, the communication chip configured to transmit a radio-frequency signal from the electronic device through the antenna, and control circuitry configured to control the communication chip such that the linear regulator provides the amplifier with a voltage corresponding to an envelope of an input signal input to the amplifier, the input signal corresponding to the radio-frequency signal.
US11588434B2
The present disclosure describes an expandable splice configured for reinforcing a tube of a solar owner system, the splice including a top panel, a bottom panel, a first side panel, a second side panel, and at least one beveled corner panel, wherein the first and second side panels are connected to the top and bottom panels either directly or by the at least one beveled corner panel to form a channel therebetween.
US11588420B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses related to thermo-dielectric-elastomer-cells may be shown and described. In one embodiment a thermo dielectric elastomer cell (TDEC) can include a layer of carbon nanotubes that absorb sunlight; a layer of photo switchable molecules; a plurality of dielectric elastomer layers, each of the plurality of dielectric elastomer layer comprising a layer of dielectric elastomer material and a layer of N-P junction transistors between the layers of dielectric elastomer material; a layer of insulators separating each of the plurality of dielectric elastomer layers; and an elastic cushioning which is placed between the plurality of dielectric elastomer layers and surrounding the dielectric elastomer material.
US11588414B2
A method for operating an electric power converter and an electric power converter configured to convert DC power into AC power supplied to a three-phase AC network, conclude, during the converting, that a single-phase tripping has started in the three-phase AC network connected to the three-phase output of the converter, and after the concluding that the single-phase tripping has started in the three-phase AC network, control an active current in the three-phase output of the converter such that a negative sequence voltage in the three-phase output of the converter remains at or below a predetermined level, wherein the converter is configured to perform the controlling until concluding that the single-phase tripping has ended in the three-phase AC network.
US11588406B2
A battery charging circuit can include: a primary rectifier circuit configured to rectify an input AC voltage into a rectified voltage signal; a DC-DC converter configured to generate a charging current according to the rectified voltage signal, in order to charge a battery; a control circuit configured to adjust the charging current by controlling an operation state of the DC-DC converter according to a charging requirement, in order to make an average value of the charging current meet the charging requirement; and where the charging current is controlled to be zero when an absolute value of the input AC voltage is lower than a predetermined threshold.
US11588405B2
System and method for regulating a power conversion system. A system controller for regulating a power conversion system includes a first controller terminal and a second controller terminal. Additionally, the system controller is configured to receive an input signal at the first controller terminal, and generate a drive signal at the second controller terminal based at least in part on the input signal to turn on or off a transistor in order to affect a current associated with a secondary winding of the power conversion system. Moreover, the system controller is further configured to determine whether the input signal is larger than a first threshold at a first time, in response to the input signal being determined to be larger than the first threshold at the first time, determine whether the input signal is smaller than a second threshold at a second time.
US11588402B2
The present technology relates to systems and methods for rapidly charging a battery of a device when the device is attached to an AC adapter. Some embodiments of the present disclosure describe an activation circuit in an AC adaptor and a detection circuit in a downstream device that cooperatively ensure optimal power delivery. Some embodiments of the present disclosure describe a device with a system load, a battery, and a control circuit, wherein the control circuit is configured to provide the battery with a charging current of Ibat=Imax−Isys when the device is in a USB compliant mode of operation and a charging current of Ibat=Imax when the device is connected to an AC adapter.
US11588396B2
A method of operating a power conversion system including converting variable frequency AC voltage to constant frequency AC voltage by a power converter, setting a first peak current reset threshold above operating currents previously observed during steady state short circuit current regulation in by a controller of the power converter, setting a second peak current reset threshold at a current lower than the previously observed steady state short-circuit regulation point observed during previous operation during steady state short circuit current regulation by the controllers of the power converter, resetting inverter converter AC output regulating voltage to 0 volts, and ramping AC output regulating voltage back up into steady-state operation when the second a peak current reset threshold is exceeded.
US11588394B2
In the parallel operation of power supply units, a high line ripple current may be observed in output when the power supply units (PSUs) are supplied with different inputs. For example, a high line ripple current may be observed when PSUs were supplied with different line frequency inputs and/or when PSUs were supplied with different phase angle input lines. A low pass filter is in a control loop which is capable of filtering the line frequency to get an average current reference signal. The average current reference signal is compared with the real time output current to generate an error signal. This error signal is fed back to a voltage control loop to adjust the output in order to compensate the line ripple.
US11588388B2
A control device of a power supply system includes a processor configured to set a sampling period, at which measurement values of a reactor current flowing through a reactor of a DC-DC converter and measured by an ammeter are sampled, so as to minimize a sum of differences between the length of a first period in a switching cycle of a switching element of the DC-DC converter and an integer multiple of the sampling period and between the length of a second period in the switching cycle and an integer multiple of the sampling period, the reactor current increasing during the first period and decreasing during the second period; sample, at intervals of the sampling period, measurement values of the reactor current measured by the ammeter; and average measurement values sampled in the switching cycle, thereby measuring an average of the reactor current in the switching cycle.
US11588381B2
A rotor assembly includes a rotor plate to rotate around a first axis, a bucket attached to the rotor plate and to rotate around a second axis, and a stop plate to rotate around the first axis between an open position and a closed position. When in the closed position, the stop plate engages the bucket to fix an angular position of the bucket relative to a plane of rotation of the rotor assembly. The rotor assembly further includes a housing for a sensor array component, the housing disposed in the bucket and including a solution inlet, a solution outlet, a transfer basin, a solution retainer disposed between the solution outlet and the transfer basin, and a collection reservoir in fluid communication with the transfer basin. The solution inlet and the solution outlet to engage ports of a flow cell of a sensor array.
US11588376B2
An adaptor is disclosed for connecting a rotating electrical machine 12 to a prime mover 10. The adaptor comprises at least one air outlet. The adaptor is arranged to provide an increase in a cross-sectional area of air flow towards the outlet. In this way part of the dynamic pressure can be converted into additional static pressure rise through steady expansion of the air flow cross-section. This in turn may help to improve the overall amount of cooling air passing through the machine for a given fan input power.
US11588361B2
An interior permanent magnet rotor, for a drive unit disposed in the interior of a hermetically sealed housing of a refrigerant compressor, whereas the rotor includes a first axial section with permanent magnets, followed by a second axial section without permanent magnets. In order to reduce the risk of a magnetic short-circuit it is provided that the second axial section, adjacent to the first axial section, includes a first axial subsection with a reduced radial dimension not going beyond the permanent magnets in the first axial section, whereas the axial length of the first axial subsection is smaller than the axial length of the first axial section, and the second axial section, adjacent to its first axial subsection, includes a second axial subsection with a radial dimension larger than the reduced radial dimension of the first axial subsection.
US11588345B2
Example implementations relate to concurrent alternating-current and direct-current. In one example, a device comprises a power module connected to a first power outlet, the power module connected to a second power outlet, and a controller to the power module to concurrently provide alternating-current (AC) power to the first power outlet and direct-current (DC) power to the second power outlet by switching a transistor including switching circuitry in response to an absence of AC input power to the device.
US11588341B2
The present disclosure discloses a quick battery charging system including a lithium secondary battery having a negative electrode porosity of 25 to 35% and a negative electrode loading amount of x0. The system includes a storage unit which stores a lookup table for mapping first coefficient information of an upper bound condition associated with a C-rate of a charge current represented by a quadratic function and information associated with the negative electrode loading amount (x0). The system includes a charging control apparatus which reads the information associated with the negative electrode loading amount (x0) from the storage unit, determines the first coefficient information of the quadratic function representing the upper bound condition from the lookup table, determines the C-rate range of the charge current using the first coefficient information, and supplies the charge current satisfying the determined C-rate range to the lithium secondary battery.
US11588329B2
Methods for implementing power delivery transactions between a buyer and a seller of electrical energy supplied to an electrical grid by an integrated renewable energy source (RES) and energy storage system (ESS) of a RES-ESS facility are provided. Estimated total potential output of the RES is compared to a point of grid interconnect (POGI) limit to identify potential RES overgeneration, and the buyer is charged if potential RES overgeneration is less than potential overgeneration during one or more retrospective time windows. The method provides a basis for the RES-ESS facility owner to be paid for an estimated amount of energy that did not get stored as a result of a grid operator not fully discharging an ESS prior to the start of a new day.
US11588328B2
An energy supply system comprises a plurality of grids that include an energy supply source and demanding equipment that demands energy supplied from the energy supply source, and a first management unit that manages the plurality of grids. Each of the plurality of grids includes a second management unit configured to control the energy supply source and the demanding equipment and adjust demand and supply of energy inside the grid. The first and second management unit include: a first obtainment unit that obtains states of the grids; a judgment unit that judges whether a supply of energy from an outside of the grids is necessary based on a result obtained by the first obtainment unit; and a supply unit that supplies energy to a grid that has been judged to be in need of energy supply from an outside.
US11588320B2
A power distribution assembly comprising a chassis having at least one wall, a deformable material layer positioned on the at least one wall of the chassis and configured to deform in response to a triggering even. The power distribution assembly further comprising a conductive sense layer positioned on the deformable material layer opposite the at least one wall of the chassis.
US11588313B2
There is provided an electrical junction box including: a bolt holding portion that includes a stud bolt and a bolt holding portion body configured to hold the stud bolt; a first holding portion that includes a first busbar provided with a first connection terminal and a first holding portion body configured to hold the first busbar and a first electronic component; and a second holding portion that includes a second busbar provided with a second connection terminal and a second holding portion body configured to hold the second busbar and a second electronic component. The bolt holding portion, the first holding portion, and the second holding portion are assembled with a nut in a connection state in that the stud bolt is passed through the first connection terminal and the second connection terminal, and in that the first busbar and the second busbar are overlapped with each other.
US11588312B2
The invention relates to a wall feedthrough having a frame which is divided by at least one intermediate web into at least two chambers, wherein at least one grommet of elastic material is arranged in each of the chambers, and wherein the grommet has at least one passage opening for accommodating an elongated object to be passed through the wall. It is provided according to the invention that two adjacent grommets, having an intermediate web between them, are respectively designed in such a way that they overlap the intermediate web on at least one side of the frame in the longitudinal direction of the elongated objects over the entire height of one side edge of the grommet and make sealing contact with each other.
US11588303B2
An apparatus for igniting a fuel mixture provides an ignition system for generating a high-voltage ignition voltage, a circuit device comprising a circuit for superimposing a high-frequency signal on to the high-voltage ignition voltage, a spark plug in an engine block, and a transmission element having a high-voltage conductor which is guided in an insulation element. The high-voltage conductor is used for transmitting the ignition voltage, onto which the high-frequency signal has been superimposed, to the spark plug. Further provided is an electrically conducting shielding element which surrounds the high-voltage conductor in an electromagnetically shielding manner at least along one portion of the longitudinal axis of the high-voltage conductor. The shielding element is connected in an electrically conducting manner to a ground potential of the circuit device and establishes a connection between the ground potential of the circuit device and a ground electrode of the spark plug.
US11588300B2
The light emitting device includes a substrate, and a laminated structure provided to the substrate, and including a plurality of columnar parts, wherein the columnar part includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer different in conductivity type from the first semiconductor layer, and a light emitting layer disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, the laminated structure includes a third semiconductor layer which is connected to an opposite side to the substrate of the second semiconductor layer, and is same in conductivity type as the second semiconductor layer, the second semiconductor layer is disposed between the light emitting layer and the third semiconductor layer, the third semiconductor layer is provided with a recessed part, an opening of the recessed part is provided to a surface at an opposite side to the substrate side of the third semiconductor layer, and a diametrical size in a bottom of the recessed part is smaller than a diametrical size in the opening of the recessed part.
US11588298B2
Coupled-cavity vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) are provided by the present disclosure. The coupled-cavity VCSEL can comprise a VCSEL having a first mirror, a gain medium disposed above the first mirror, and a second mirror disposed above the gain medium, wherein a first cavity is formed by the first mirror and the second mirror. A second cavity is optically coupled to the VCSEL and configured to reflect light emitted from the VCSEL back into the first cavity of the VCSEL. In some embodiments, the second cavity can be an external cavity optically coupled to the VCSEL through a coupling component. In some embodiments, the second cavity can be integrated with the VCSEL to form a monolithic coupled-cavity VCSEL. A feedback circuit can control operation of the coupled-cavity VCSEL so the output comprises a target high frequency signal.
US11588295B2
A system and method for communicating supervisory information between amplifier nodes in an optical communication network utilizes modulation of an included pump source to superimpose the supervisory information on through-transmitted customer signals (or ASE associated with the amplifier if no customer traffic is present). The supervisory information (which may include monitoring messages, provisioning data, protocol updates, and the like) is utilized as an input to an included modulator, which then forms a drive signal for the pump controller. In a preferred embodiment, binary FSK modulation is used.
US11588291B2
A laser chamber apparatus may include a pipe, an inner electrode extending along a longitudinal direction of the pipe and disposed in a through hole in the pipe, an outer electrode including a contact plate extending along the longitudinal direction of the pipe and being in contact with an outer circumferential surface of the pipe and a ladder section formed of bar members each having one end connected to the contact plate and juxtaposed along a longitudinal direction of the contact plate, and a leaf spring extending along the longitudinal direction of the pipe and configured to press the outer electrode against the pipe. The leaf spring may include leaf spring pieces separated by slits, and the leaf spring pieces may each include a bent section bent along the edge and are configured to press the bar members in a position shifted from the bent sections toward the edge.
US11588290B2
A system includes a light transmitter configured to emit a first light beam. The first light beam includes a primary portion and an amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) portion. The system also includes a host material configured to receive the first light beam and emit a second light. The host material is configured to generate the second light by depopulation of chromophores of one or more dopants in the host material caused by energy of the primary portion of the first light beam. The second light is continuous wave and speckle free.
US11588279B2
An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a dual-in line memory module (DIMM) socket having a first electrical circuit component embedded in a latch of the DIMM socket. The first electrical circuit component has a first exposed electrical contact that is to contact or not contact a second exposed electrical contact of a second electrical circuit component that is embedded in a housing of the socket depending on whether a corner of a DIMM is or is not properly inserted into the DIMM socket.
US11588271B2
Modular connectors for rigid tubing are provided. An assembly according to embodiments of the present disclosure may include a rigid tube connected to a coupling assembly, the coupling assembly including a main body having a first tubular section and a second tubular section. The assembly may further include a connector head coupled to the coupling assembly, the connector head including a first section coupled to a second section, wherein the first and second sections define an internal cavity for housing an electrical connector, and wherein the first tubular section extends within the internal cavity.
US11588247B2
An antenna apparatus includes: a first dielectric layer having a first dielectric constant; a first patch antenna pattern disposed in the first dielectric layer; a second dielectric layer having a second dielectric constant; a second patch antenna pattern disposed on the second dielectric layer; a first feed via coupled to the first patch antenna pattern; and a second feed via coupled to the second patch antenna pattern. The first dielectric constant is higher than the second dielectric constant, and a frequency of a signal transmitted/received by the first patch antenna pattern is lower than a frequency of a signal transmitted/received by the second patch antenna pattern.
US11588239B2
An array of antennae includes a monobit transmitter to insert dither into a transmit signal to form a dithered transmit signal. Monobit receivers process received signals that are combined with the dithered transmit signal to form composite received signals. Digital down converters process the composite received signals to form down converted received signals. A beamformer circuit processes the down converted received signals to form recovered signals.
US11588238B2
An antenna assembly includes a plurality of antenna elements, a microstrip feed network that is configured to supply power to the plurality of antenna elements, and one or more resistors disposed within the microstrip feed network proximate to one or more of the plurality of antenna elements. The resistors are configured to control sidelobes of the antenna assembly.
US11588234B2
Techniques are disclosed for providing isolation between a pair of partially overlapping antennas. An example electronic device includes a first antenna coupled to a first transceiver through a first signal path comprising a first feed, and a second antenna coupled to a second transceiver through a second signal path comprising a second feed. The first antenna and second antenna partially overlap. The example electronic device also includes compensation circuitry coupled to the first signal path and the second signal path and configured to generate a compensation signal that provides analog cancellation of an interference signal received at the second antenna from the first antenna.
US11588227B1
An aviation antenna assembly may include a base portion for operably coupling the antenna assembly to an aircraft body, a support platform, and a plurality of antenna elements including a first antenna element, a second antenna element, a third antenna element, and a fourth antenna element. The support platform may be operably coupled to the base portion to support each of the first, second, third and fourth antenna elements uniformly distributed about a central axis. The support platform may support the first antenna element opposite the third antenna element relative to the central axis, and support the second antenna element opposite the fourth antenna element relative to the central axis. A line intersecting a center of the first and third antenna elements may form a 45° angle relative to a line of symmetry passing through the antenna assembly.
US11588225B2
Techniques are provided for fabricating a low profile antenna that operates with increased efficiency. An antenna implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes a first arm comprising a first spiral portion and a first rectilinear portion, and a second arm comprising a second spiral portion and a second rectilinear portion. The second spiral portion is concentric with the first spiral portion. The antenna further includes an insulator to separate the arms. The insulator and the arms are planar surfaces disposed within a rectangular region. The first rectilinear portion is adjacent to a first and second side of the perimeter of the rectangular region, and the second rectilinear portion is adjacent to a third and fourth side of the perimeter of the region. The antenna is fabricated as a printed circuit board which is mounted on the fuselage of an aircraft, which serves as a ground plane for the antenna.
US11588221B1
A dual-use spring attached to a small satellite that performs two common functions for small satellites including operating as a communications antenna for the small satellite, which eliminates the need for a separate antenna deployment step, and ejecting the small satellite from a modified deployment container mounted on a launch vehicle. The deployment container is modified by removing a conventional deployment spring and pusher plate, which increases available container space.
US11588214B2
A battery and straps for a battery are disclosed. The battery according to various embodiments comprises a number of straps which connect a number of battery cells in series. The battery straps may pass through cutouts provided in a cell divider wall. The cutouts and straps may define a common headspace. The battery may have five connecting straps and two end straps.
US11588213B2
Implantable medical devices that include a battery to power circuitry utilize a battery connector to electrically interconnect the battery to the circuitry. The battery connector may be mounted directly to a device housing to have the battery connector a fixed position within the device. Battery terminals of the battery are electrically connected to terminals on the battery connector, and the terminals on the battery connector are electrically connected to power terminals of the circuitry. The battery connector may include various features such as mounting grooves formed in a connector body, tapered pins to connect to power terminals on a circuit board, as well as plates to engage the battery terminals. The device housing may provide mounting features that allow the battery connector to be affixed directly to the device housing.
US11588205B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a battery, a power consumption device, a method and device for preparing a battery. The battery includes: a battery cell including a pressure relief mechanism, the pressure relief mechanism being disposed at a first wall of the battery cell; and a thermal management component configured to accommodate a fluid to adjust a temperature of the battery cell; where a first surface of the thermal management component is attached to the first wall of the battery cell, the thermal management component is configured to be capable of being damaged by emissions discharged from the battery cell when the pressure relief mechanism is actuated, such that the emissions pass through the thermal management component. According to the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the safety of the battery can be enhanced.
US11588201B2
Various battery packs are presented for use with twenty volt (20 V) power tools. In some embodiments, one or more lithium-ion battery cells of the battery packs are received by a handle of the power tool.
US11588200B2
A battery module includes an output electrode base and an end plate, and the output electrode base is inserted into and fitted to the end plate. A first limiting element is disposed on the output electrode base, a limiting plate is disposed on the end plate, and the first limiting element is fitted to the limiting plate. A stop hole is provided in one of the output electrode base and the end plate, and a second limiting element is disposed on the other. The second limiting element is accommodated in the stop hole; and the second limiting element is fitted to the stop hole. The first limiting element is fitted to the limiting plate and the second limiting element is fitted to the stop hole to limit the relative movement of the output electrode base and the end plate.
US11588186B2
A battery module, a device, and a failure handling method for a failed battery cell. The battery module includes: a battery cell arrangement structure, including a plurality of battery cells arranged along a length direction, where the battery cells include electrode terminals, and the battery cells include a failed battery cell; a box body, having an accommodation cavity in which the battery cell arrangement structure is located; a mounting beam, located in the accommodation cavity and at an end of the battery cell arrangement structure along the width direction; a pressing plate; and a conductive component, connected to a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal of the failed battery cell. The conductive component is easily connected to electrode terminals of a failed battery cell, so that a maintenance process can be simplified and maintenance costs can be reduced.
US11588175B2
An electrolytic copper foil includes a raw foil layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. In the X-ray diffraction spectrum of the first surface, a ratio of the diffraction peak intensity I(200) of the (200) crystal face of the first surface relative to the diffraction peak intensity I(111) of the (111) crystal face of the first surface is between 0.5 and 2.0. In the X-ray diffraction spectrum of the second surface, a ratio of the diffraction peak intensity I(200) of the (200) crystal face of the second surface relative to the diffraction peak intensity I(111) of the (111) crystal face of the second surface is also between 0.5 and 2.0. A method for producing the electrolytic copper foil, and a lithium ion secondary battery is also provided.
US11588173B2
This solid-state lithium ion rechargeable battery includes a laminated body which includes a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte sandwiched between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, and a liquid repellent film which is provided to be in contact with the laminated body, in which the liquid repellent film contains a fluorine element and a carbon element, and has a contact angle of 30° or more when an acetic acid aqueous solution is dropped thereon.
US11588168B2
In order to provide a separator for fuel cells, or a current collecting member for fuel cells, which has low contact resistance, excellent corrosion resistance and which can be economically manufactured, and a manufacturing method thereof, this separator for fuel cells comprises a substrate having iron or aluminum as the main component, a gas barrier film formed directly on said substrate and having excellent corrosion resistance, and a conductive resin film formed on the gas barrier film and containing a conductive ceramics or graphite particles having a particle diameter of 1-20 μm.
US11588162B2
A method of detecting degradation of a membrane electrode assembly of a fuel cell is provided. In the method, it is possible to detect degradation (cross leakage) of the fuel cell. In the measurement step, the pressure drop value of the pressure of the fuel gas which decreases in the power generation state after discharging of the predetermined amount of the fuel gas, in each predetermined period of time is measured a plurality of times. Thereafter, in the determination step, it is determined that the membrane electrode assembly has been degraded in the case where the minimum pressure drop value, among a plurality of pressure measurement values, exceeds a threshold value.
US11588160B2
A gas and liquid separator includes a first separating portion configured to separate a liquid droplet from a first exhaust gas discharged from a negative electrode of a fuel cell, a first container accommodating the first separating portion, a first storage reservoir storing water flowing down from the first separating portion, a second container provided at a lower side of the first storage reservoir, a second storage reservoir provided at a lower portion of the second container, and a valve apparatus including a valve discharging water stored in the first storage reservoir, wherein a second exhaust gas discharged from a positive electrode flows in the second container, and water discharged from the first storage reservoir is stored in the second storage reservoir.
US11588159B2
A control system and method for preventing a fuel cell from overheating are disclosed. The system includes: a fuel cell that generates electric power through reaction of fuel gas and oxidation gas; a cooling line in which a cooling medium flows and performs heat exchange with the fuel cell; a cooling pump installed on the cooling line and configured to circulate the cooling medium through the cooling line; a cooling controller that controls an operating state of the cooling pump on the basis of the temperature of the fuel cell or the cooling medium; and a power generation controller that limits power generation of the fuel cell on the basis of the operating state of the cooling pump.
US11588153B2
A positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is represented by a general formula of LixNiyM1-yO2 (where M includes at least one metal element selected from Co and Mn, 0.1≤x≤1.2, 0.3
US11588149B2
In a method of preparing an immobilized selenium system or body, a selenium-carbon-oxygen mixture is formed. The mixture is then heated to a temperature above the melting temperature of selenium and the heated mixture is then cooled to ambient or room temperature, thereby forming the immobilized selenium system or body.
US11588148B2
Powder comprising particles comprising a matrix material and silicon-based domains dispersed in this matrix material, whereby the matrix material is carbon or a material that can be thermally decomposed to carbon, whereby either part of the silicon-based domains are present in the form of agglomerates of silicon-based domains whereby at least 98% of these agglomerates have a maximum size of 3 μm or less, or the silicon-based domains are not at all agglomerated into agglomerates.
US11588146B2
A lithium metal electrode has no more than five ppm of non-metallic elements by mass, and is bonded to a conductive substrate. Optionally, the lithium metal electrode may be bonded on one side to a conductive substrate and on another side to a lithium ion selective membrane. The lithium metal electrode may be integrated into lithium metal batteries. The inventive lithium metal electrode may be manufactured by a process involving electrolysis of lithium ions from an aqueous lithium salt solution through an ion selective membrane, carried out under a blanketing atmosphere having no more than 10 ppm of non-metallic elements, the electrolysis being performed at a constant current between about 10 mA/cm2 and about 50 mA/cm2, and wherein the constant current is applied for a time between about 1 minute and about 60 minutes.
US11588132B2
The present disclosure discloses a thin film package structure, a thin film packaging method and a display device. The thin film package structure includes: an inorganic layer, a buffer layer and an organic layer successively covering an external of an electroluminescence unit structure from inside to outside; composition of said buffer layer is organic, and a thickness of said buffer layer is less than that of said organic layer. The thin film packaging method includes: covering a buffer layer on an inorganic layer encapsulating an electroluminescence unit structure; covering an organic layer on a surface of said buffer layer; composition of said buffer layer is organic, and a thickness of said buffer layer is less than that of said organic layer.
US11588129B2
Provided is an organic light-emitting diode display device (100) in which an anode electrode (134) extends to cover sides of a reflective metal (131) below the anode electrode (134).
US11588124B2
Photovoltaic module comprising a plurality of multijunction photovoltaic cells, at least one of said multijunction photovoltaic cells comprising: a first photovoltaic sub-cell extending over a first predetermined area; a second photovoltaic sub-cell provided on said first photovoltaic sub-cell and in electrical connection therewith, said second photovoltaic sub-cell extending over a second predetermined area which is smaller than said first predetermined area so as to define at least one zone in which said first photovoltaic sub-cell is uncovered by said second photovoltaic sub-cell; an electrically-insulating layer situated upon said first photovoltaic sub-cell in at least a part of said zone; and an electrically-conductive layer situated upon at least part of said electrically-insulating layer and in electrical connection with a surface of said second photovoltaic sub-cell, wherein at least one of said multijunction photovoltaic cells is electrically connected to at least one other of said multijunction photovoltaic cells by means of at least one electrical interconnector electrically connected to said electrically-conductive layer in said zone.
US11588120B2
A condensed cyclic compound and an organic light-emitting device including the same are provided. The condensed cyclic compound is represented by Formula 1:
US11588114B2
An organic molecule, comprising a structure of Formula III: especially for use in optoelectronic components.
US11588105B2
A device includes an electronic component, and the electronic component includes a first pad, a second pad, and a strip connecting the first pad and the second pad. The device further includes a first electrode in contact with the first pad and a second electrode in contact with the second pad. The electronic component is made of a phase change material. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is coated with a material that is configured to increase a difference in workfunction between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US11588104B2
Embodiments of the present invention include a memory cell that has a vertically-oriented fin. The memory cell may also include a resistive memory device located on a first lateral side of the fin. The resistive memory device may include a bottom electrode, a top electrode, and a resistive element between the bottom electrode and the top electrode. The memory cell may also include a vertical field-effect transistor having a metal gate and a gate dielectric contacting a second lateral side of the fin opposite the first lateral side.
US11588099B2
A reservoir element of the first aspect of the present disclosure includes: a first ferromagnetic layer; a plurality of second ferromagnetic layers positioned in a first direction with respect to the first ferromagnetic layer and spaced apart from each other in a plan view from the first direction; and a nonmagnetic layer positioned between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layers.
US11588098B2
A multi-level piezoelectric actuator is manufactured using wafer level processing. Two PZT wafers are formed and separately metallized for electrodes. The metallization on the second wafer is patterned, and holes that will become electrical vias are formed in the second wafer. The wafers are then stacked and sintered, then the devices are poled as a group and then singulated to form nearly complete individual PZT actuators. Conductive epoxy is added into the holes at the product placement step in order to both adhere the actuator within its environment and to complete the electrical via thus completing the device. Alternatively: the first wafer is metallized; then the second wafer having holes therethrough but no metallization is stacked and sintered to the first wafer; and patterned metallization is applied to the second wafer to both form electrodes and to complete the vias. The devices are then poled as a group, and singulated.
US11588095B2
In some embodiments, a piezoelectric biosensor is provided. The piezoelectric biosensor includes a semiconductor substrate. A first electrode is disposed over the semiconductor substrate. A piezoelectric structure is disposed on the first electrode. A second electrode is disposed on the piezoelectric structure. A sensing reservoir is disposed over the piezoelectric structure and exposed to an ambient environment, where the sensing reservoir is configured to collect a fluid comprising a number of bio-entities.
US11588082B2
A micro device includes an epitaxial structure and a light guide structure. The epitaxial structure has a top surface. The light guide structure is disposed on the top surface, and the light guide structure includes a connecting portion and a covering portion. The connecting portion is disposed on an edge of the epitaxial structure and extends along a sidewall of the epitaxial structure. The covering portion is disposed on the top surface and connected to the connecting portion. A width of the connecting portion at the edge of the epitaxial structure is smaller than a width away from the top surface.
US11588075B2
An interpolated flat-panel display comprises a display substrate, pixel controllers disposed in a controller array over the display substrate, and pixels disposed in a pixel array over the display substrate. Each pixel controller is connected to one or more control lines and is operable to output pixel information. Each pixel is operable to emit light in response to pixel information received from a pixel controller. The pixel array is larger than the controller array, each pixel is connected to at least one pixel controller, and at least some pixels are interpolated pixels connected to at least two pixel controllers and are operable to emit light in response to pixel information received from the at least two pixel controllers.
US11588073B2
This application describes a light emitting device or an assembly of light emitting devices. In the completed light emitting device, a distributed Bragg reflector minimizes the possibility of disturbing adjacent light emitting devices. Methods to fabricate such devices and assemblies of devices are also described.
US11588068B2
A photo detector having a substrate and a first structure formed on the substrate. The first structure includes an emitter layer formed on the substrate and a base layer formed on the emitter layer. Further, the first structure includes a collector layer formed on the base layer. The collector layer has a plasmonic structure. The plasmonic structure includes a first plurality of mesa structures. Each of the mesa structures of the first plurality of mesa structures includes a second plurality of mesa structures having ridges arranged in a regularly repeating pattern.
US11588065B2
A solar cell and a photovoltaic module including the solar cell. The solar cell includes: a semiconductor substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other; a first dielectric layer located on the first surface; a first N+ doped layer located on a surface of the first dielectric layer; a first passivation layer located on a surface of the first N+ doped layer; a first electrode located on a surface of the first passivation layer; a second dielectric layer located on the second surface; a first P+ doped layer located on a surface of the second dielectric layer; a second passivation layer located on a surface of the first P+ doped layer; and a second electrode located on a surface of the second passivation layer.
US11588064B2
A method includes providing an electrically conductive mandrel having an outer surface layer comprising a preformed pattern. The metallic article is electroformed. The metallic article includes a plurality of electroformed elements formed in the preformed pattern on the outer surface layer of the mandrel. The plurality of electroformed elements have a first side adjacent to the outer surface layer of the mandrel and a second side. The metallic article is separated from the mandrel. The plurality of electroformed elements are interconnected such that the metallic article forms a unitary, free-standing piece. A solution is applied to create a blackening of the first side of the plurality of electroformed elements.
US11588063B2
A photovoltaic apparatus (1000) is provided including a front sheet (250) having a first portion (2501) and a second portion (2502). The photovoltaic apparatus further includes a back sheet (210) having a first portion (2101), a second portion (2102), and a first folded portion (2103), where the second portion of the front sheet is disposed between the second portion of the back sheet and the first folded portion of the back sheet. The photovoltaic apparatus further includes one or more photovoltaic devices (100) disposed between the first portion of the front sheet and the first portion of the back sheet, where each of the one or more photovoltaic devices includes an array of photovoltaic cells (105).
US11588061B2
A photoelectric conversion module (10) comprises a photoelectric conversion cell (12) and a grid electrode (31) provided in the photoelectric conversion cell (12) on a substrate. The photoelectric conversion cell (12) includes a first electrode layer (22), a second electrode layer (24), a photoelectric conversion layer (26) between the first electrode layer (22) and the second electrode layer (24). The second electrode layer (24) is formed of a transparent electrode layer located on opposite side of the photoelectric conversion layer (26) to the substrate (20). The grid electrode (31) is provided between the photoelectric conversion layer (26) and the transparent electrode layer.
US11588056B2
A structure includes a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate including a semiconductor substrate, a buried insulator layer over the semiconductor substrate, and an SOI layer over the buried insulator layer. At least one polycrystalline active region fill shape is in the SOI layer. A polycrystalline isolation region may be in the semiconductor substrate under the buried insulator layer. The at least one polycrystalline active region fill shape is laterally aligned over the polycrystalline isolation region, where provided. Where provided, the polycrystalline isolation region may extend to different depths in the semiconductor substrate.
US11588041B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a gate trench over a semiconductor fin, the gate trench including an upper portion and a lower portion. The method includes sequentially forming one or more work function layers, a capping layer, and a glue layer over the gate trench. The glue layer includes a first sub-layer and a second sub-layer that have respective different etching rates with respect to an etching solution. The method includes removing the second sub-layer while leaving a first portion of the first sub-layer filled in the lower portion of the gate trench.
US11588038B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure in accordance with some embodiment. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate having a first circuit region and a second circuit region; active regions extended from the semiconductor substrate and surrounded by isolation features; first transistors that include first gate stacks formed on the active regions and disposed in the first circuit region, the first gate stacks having a first gate pitch less than a reference pitch; and second transistors that include second gate stacks formed on the active regions and disposed in the second circuit region, the second gate stacks having a second pitch greater than the reference pitch. The second transistors are high-frequency transistors and the first transistors are logic transistors.
US11588030B2
A method includes forming a gate structure over a substrate. A dielectric cap is formed over the gate structure. A source/drain contact is formed over a source/drain region over the substrate. An etch stop layer is selectively formed over the dielectric cap such that the etch stop layer expose the source/drain contact. An interlayer dielectric is formed over the etch stop layer and the source/drain contact. A source/drain via is formed in the ILD and is connected to the source/drain contact.
US11588028B2
A method for manufacturing a device may include providing an ultra-high voltage (UHV) component that includes a source region and a drain region, and forming an oxide layer on a top surface of the UHV component. The method may include connecting a low voltage terminal to the source region of the UHV component, and connecting a high voltage terminal to the drain region of the UHV component. The method may include forming a shielding structure on a surface of the oxide layer provided above the drain region of the UHV component, forming a high voltage interconnection that connects to the shielding structure and to the high voltage terminal, and forming a metal routing that connects the shielding structure and the low voltage terminal.
US11588021B2
A trench MOSFET and a manufacturing method of the same are provided. The trench MOSFET includes a substrate, an epitaxial layer having a first conductive type, a gate in a trench in the epitaxial layer, a gate oxide layer, a source region having the first conductive type, and a body region and an anti-punch through region having a second conductive type. The anti-punch through region is located at an interface between the source region and the body region, and a doping concentration thereof is higher than that of the body region. The epitaxial layer has a first pn junction near the source region and a second pn junction near the substrate. N regions are divided into N equal portions between the two pn junctions, and N is an integer greater than 1. The closer the N regions are to the first pn junction, the greater the doping concentration thereof is.
US11588015B2
An epitaxial structure includes a substrate, a nucleation layer on the substrate, a buffer layer on the nucleation layer, and a nitride layer on the buffer layer. The nucleation layer consists of regions in a thickness direction, wherein a chemical composition of the regions is Al(1-x)InxN, where 0≤x≤1. A maximum value of the x value in the plurality of regions is the same, a minimum value of the x value in the plurality of regions is the same, and an absolute value of a gradient slope of each of the regions is 0.1%/nm to 50%/nm. A thickness of the nucleation layer is less than a thickness of the buffer layer. A roughness of a surface of the nucleation layer in contact with the buffer layer is greater than a roughness of a surface of the buffer layer in contact with the nitride layer.
US11588002B2
A display device may include a first substrate, a second substrate, a plurality of display elements, a sealing unit, and a common power supply line. The second substrate may overlap the first substrate. The display elements may be positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate. The sealing unit may surround the display elements in a plan view of the display device and may be arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate. The common power supply line may at least partially surround the display elements in the plan view of the display device and may include a protrusion. The protrusion may protrude beyond the sealing unit and may be positioned between the sealing unit and a first edge of the first substrate in the plan view of the display device.
US11587996B2
A display apparatus includes a first transistor, a first pixel electrode, a second transistor, and a second pixel electrode. The first transistor includes a first drain electrode. The first pixel electrode is positioned between an edge of the display apparatus and a center of the display apparatus and includes a first recessed structure. The first recessed structure directly contacts the first drain electrode. The second transistor includes a second drain electrode. The second pixel electrode is positioned between the edge of the display apparatus and the first pixel electrode and includes at least one recessed structure. The at least one recessed structure includes a second recessed structure. The second recessed structure directly contacts the second drain electrode. A total maximum width of the at least one recessed structure is greater than a maximum width of the first recessed structure.
US11587995B2
The present disclosure provides an organic light emitting diode device and a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel and a display device. The organic light emitting diode device includes: a substrate; and a light emitting component and a first structural layer provided on a side of the substrate, wherein the light emitting component is provided on a side of the first structural layer distal to the substrate, and a light emitting surface of the light emitting component comprises a curved surface recessed towards the substrate, and the curved surface comprises a spherical-cap curved surface or a concave-convex curved surface which is constituted by a plurality of spherical-cap curved surfaces.
US11587994B2
A method for manufacturing the pixel definition layer includes forming a photolithographic material film on a substrate; performing a pre-drying treatment, a first exposure treatment, and a development treatment sequentially on the photolithographic material film to form an initial pattern of the pixel definition layer; and performing a second exposure treatment and a curing treatment sequentially on the initial pattern to form a final pattern of the pixel definition layer.
US11587982B2
One object of this invention is to provide a novel light-emitting device with low power consumption. The light-emitting device includes a first light-emitting element and a second light-emitting element. The first light-emitting element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer. The second light-emitting element includes the first electrode, a third electrode, and the light-emitting layer. The second electrode comprises only a first conductive film, and the third electrode comprises a second conductive film and a third conductive film. The first electrode has a function of reflecting light. The second conductive film has functions of reflecting light and transmitting light. The first conductive film and the third conductive film each have a function of transmitting light.
US11587975B2
A display device includes a substrate; a semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate; a gate insulating film disposed on the semiconductor layer; a gate layer disposed on the gate insulating film and insulated from the semiconductor layer; an insulating film disposed on the semiconductor layer and the gate layer; and a metal layer disposed on the insulating film, wherein the semiconductor layer and the gate layer are electrically connected through the metal layer, and the semiconductor layer overlaps the gate layer in a plan view.
US11587974B2
A micro light emitting diode (LED) transferring method includes setting a micro LED transfer substrate and a target substrate to initial positions and transferring a plurality of micro LEDs arranged in a partial region of the micro LED transfer substrate to the target substrate. Once the micro LEDs in the partial region are transferred to the target substrate, the micro LED transfer substrate is rotated and a plurality of micro LEDs, arranged in a remaining region of the micro LED transfer substrate, are then transferred to the target substrate.
US11587963B2
To enhance a charge transfer efficiency in a transfer gate having a vertical gate electrode. A solid-state imaging element includes a photoelectric conversion section, a charge accumulating section, and a transfer gate. The photoelectric conversion section is formed in a depth direction of a semiconductor substrate, and generates charges corresponding to a quantity of received light. The charge accumulating section accumulates the charges generated by the photoelectric conversion section. The transfer gate transfers the charges generated by the photoelectric conversion section to the charge accumulating section. The transfer gate includes a plurality of vertical gate electrodes which is filled to a predetermined depth from an interface of the semiconductor substrate, and at least a part of a diameter is different in the depth direction of the semiconductor substrate.
US11587962B2
An imaging system includes a light sensor, a pulse detection imaging (PDI) circuit, and an image processing unit. The light sensor generates one or both of an image signal and a pulse signal. The pulse PDI circuit includes a first terminal in signal communication with the light sensor to receive one or both of the image signal and the pulse signal and a second terminal in signal communication with a voltage source. The image processing unit is in signal communication with the PDI circuit to receive one or both of the image signal and the pulse signal and to simultaneously perform imagery and pulse detection based on the image signal and the pulse signal, respectively.
US11587961B2
An image sensor is disclosed, which relates to technology for detecting the distance to a target object. The image sensor includes a first tap configured to capture and accumulate signal carriers, and a second tap spaced apart a set distance from the first tap. The first tap and the second tap are disposed in a diagonal direction at opposite vertex regions of a unit pixel.
US11587956B2
An array substrate includes a gate layer, a first insulating layer, a channel layer, a source-drain layer, a second insulating layer, and a common electrode layer that are sequentially stacked, wherein the second insulating lay is provided with via holes formed therein; and the source-drain layer includes a plurality of sources, a plurality of drains, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of common electrode signal lines. The common electrode signal line includes a plurality of common electrode signal line segments, each of the common electrode signal line segments passes through at least one sub-pixel row, and each of the common electrode signal line segments is connected to the common electrode layer through the via hole.
US11587955B2
A TFT backplane and a micro-LED display are provided A metal light shielding layer is placed at the lower surface of the substrate and the position of the metal light shield layer is corresponding to the active layer. This reduces the size of the side frame, which is used when assembling multiple displays in a large-size micro LED display application. This could meet the demand of large-size micro-LED display. In addition, this could further reduce the steps of depositing and patterning a conventional shield metal layer in a convention process of manufacturing the TFT. Therefore, the manufacturing steps of the TFT backplane are simplified and thus the manufacturing cost is reduced.
US11587952B2
A thin film transistor according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a substrate; a semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate and including a channel region, and an input region and an output region disposed on both sides of the channel region and doped with an impurity; a buffer layer disposed between the substrate and the semiconductor layer; a control electrode overlapping the semiconductor layer; a gate insulation layer disposed between the semiconductor layer and the control electrode; and an input electrode connected to the input region and an output electrode connected to the output region, wherein the semiconductor layer includes polysilicon and is crystallized by a blue laser scan.
US11587947B2
In a 3D semiconductor memory device, a stack structure includes electrodes and first insulating layers disposed between the electrodes. The stack structure has a stair structure on a connection region. A vertical channel structure penetrates the stack structure on a cell array region. A vertical dummy structure penates the stair structure on the connection region. A second insulating layer is selectively disposed on the cell array region. A maximum thickness of the second insulating layer ranges from 1.5 times to 10 times a maximum thickness of the first insulating layer on the second insulating layer. The vertical channel structure includes an abrupt diameter change at a level of a top surface of the second insulating layer. The abrupt diameter change has a surface which is parallel to the top surface of the second insulating layer and is substantially coplanar with the top surface of the second insulating layer.
US11587941B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a stacked structure including trenches having different depths, forming an insulating layer on the stacked structure to fill the trenches, and forming a plurality of protrusions located corresponding to locations of the trenches by patterning the insulating layer. The method also includes forming insulating patterns filling the trenches, respectively, by planarizing the patterned insulating layer including the plurality of protrusions.
US11587939B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method for opening a source line in a memory device. An erase gate line (EGL) and the source line are formed elongated in parallel. The source line underlies the EGL and is separated from the EGL by a dielectric layer. A first etch is performed to form a first opening through the EGL and stops on the dielectric layer. A second etch is performed to thin the dielectric layer at the first opening, wherein the first and second etches are performed with a common mask in place. A silicide process is performed to form a silicide layer on the source line at the first opening, wherein the silicide process comprises a third etch with a second mask in place and extends the first opening through the dielectric layer. A via is formed extending through the EGL to the silicide layer.
US11587936B2
Methods for DRAM device with a buried word line are described. The method includes forming a metal cap layer and a molybdenum conductor layer in a feature on a substrate. The method includes depositing the metal cap layer on the substrate by physical vapor deposition (PVD) and depositing the molybdenum conductor layer by atomic layer deposition (ALD) on the metal cap layer.
US11587929B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a stack including a plurality of layers vertically stacked on a substrate, each of the layers including a bit line extending in a first direction and a semiconductor pattern extending from the bit line in a second direction crossing the first direction, a gate electrode along each of the semiconductor patterns stacked, a vertical insulating layer on the gate electrode, a stopper layer, and a data storing element electrically connected to each of the semiconductor patterns. The data storing element includes a first electrode electrically connected to each of the semiconductor patterns, a second electrode on the first electrode, and a dielectric layer between the first and second electrodes. The stopper layer is between the vertical insulating layer and the second electrode.
US11587926B2
Semiconductor structures are provided. Each transistor includes a first source/drain region over a semiconductor fin, a second source/drain region over the semiconductor fin, a channel region in the semiconductor fin and between the first and second source/drain regions, and a metal gate electrode formed on the channel region and extending in a second direction. In a first transistor of the transistors, the first source/drain region is formed between the metal gate electrode of the first transistor and the metal gate electrode of a second transistor of the transistors. The second source/drain region is formed between the metal gate electrode of the first transistor and the dielectric-base dummy gate. A first contact of the first source/drain region is separated from a spacer of the metal gate electrode of the first transistor. A second contact of the second source/drain region is in contact with a spacer of the dielectric-base dummy gate.
US11587923B2
Multichip package manufacturing process is disclosed to form external pins at one side or each side of die-bonding area of package carrier board and to bond first IC and second IC to die-bonding area in stack. First IC and second IC each comprise transistor layer with core circuits, plurality of metal layers, plurality of VIA layers and solder pad layer. During production of first IC, design of at least one metal layer, VIA layer and dummy pads can be modified according to change of design of second IC. After chip probing, die sawing and bonding, wire bonding, packaging and final test are performed to package the package carrier board, first IC and second IC into automotive multichip package, achieving purpose of first IC only need to modify at least one layer or more than one layer to cooperate with second IC design change to carry out multichip packaging process.
US11587918B2
Semiconductor devices and semiconductor device packages may include at least one first semiconductor die supported on a first side of a substrate. The at least one first semiconductor die may include a first active surface. A second semiconductor die may be supported on a second, opposite side of the substrate. The second semiconductor die may include a second active surface located on a side of the second semiconductor die facing the substrate. The second semiconductor die may be configured to have higher median power consumption than the at least one first semiconductor die during operation. An electronic system incorporating a semiconductor device package is disclosed, as are related methods.
US11587917B2
The present application provides a backlight module, a display panel and an electronic device, including a substrate; a plurality of driving units, formed on the glass substrate; and a plurality of mini-LEDs, each of which includes a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the driving unit includes a switching module, a driving module and a storing module, one end of the switching module is connected to the driving module and the storing module, the driving module is connected to the mini-LED.
US11587914B2
A light emitting chip including a first LED sub-unit, a second LED sub-unit disposed on the first LED sub-unit, a third LED sub-unit disposed on the second LED sub-unit, a passivation layer disposed on the third LED sub-unit, and a first connection electrode electrically connected to at least one of the first, second, and third LED sub-units, in which the first connection electrode and the third LED sub-unit form a first angle defined between an upper surface of the third LED sub-unit and an inner surface of the first connection electrode that is less than about 80°.
US11587910B2
A device comprises a first chip comprising a first connection pad embedded in a first dielectric layer and a first bonding pad embedded in the first dielectric layer, wherein the first bonding pad comprises a first portion and a second portion, the second portion being in contact with the first connection pad and a second chip comprising a second bonding pad embedded in a second dielectric layer of the second chip, wherein the first chip and the second chip are face-to-face bonded together through the first bonding pad the second bonding pad.
US11587906B2
A package structure includes a lower substrate, substrate connection terminals on the lower substrate, a semiconductor package on the substrate connection terminals, the semiconductor package including a package substrate and a first encapsulant covering the package substrate, first underfills between the lower substrate and the semiconductor package, the first underfills covering corner portions of the semiconductor package, as viewed in a plan view, and covering at least one of the substrate connection terminals, and a second underfill between the lower substrate and the semiconductor package, the second underfill covering a side surface of the semiconductor package in a plan view.
US11587902B2
A method includes encapsulating a device in an encapsulating material, planarizing the encapsulating material and the device, and forming a conductive feature over the encapsulating material and the device. The formation of the conductive feature includes depositing a first conductive material to from a first seed layer, depositing a second conductive material different from the first conductive material over the first seed layer to form a second seed layer, plating a metal region over the second seed layer, performing a first etching on the second seed layer, performing a second etching on the first seed layer, and after the first seed layer is etched, performing a third etching on the second seed layer and the metal region.
US11587896B2
A pillar structure is provided. The pillar structure includes a plurality of pillars. Each of the pillars include a capping material layer formed in a pit etched into a template wafer, a conductive plug formed on the capping material layer, a base layer formed on the conductive plug, and an attach material layer formed on the base layer. The pillars are joined vertically together to form the pillar structure.
US11587891B2
In examples, a semiconductor package comprises a ceramic substrate and first and second metal layers covered by the ceramic substrate. The first metal layer is configured to carry signals at least in a 20 GHz to 28 GHz frequency range. The package comprises a semiconductor die positioned above the first and second metal layers and coupled to the first metal layer. The package comprises a ground shield positioned in a horizontal plane between the semiconductor die and the first metal layer, the ground shield including an orifice above a portion of the first metal layer. The package includes a metal seal ring coupled to a top surface of the ceramic substrate, the metal seal ring having a segment that is vertically aligned with a segment of the ground shield. The segment of the ground shield is between the orifice of the ground shield and a horizontal center of the ground shield. The package comprises a metal lid coupled to a top surface of the metal seal ring.
US11587884B2
A patterned ground shield device includes a first patterned ground shield layer and a second patterned ground shield layer. The first patterned ground shield layer is located on a first layer, and the second patterned ground shield layer is located on a second layer. The first patterned ground shield layer includes a plurality of first strip-shaped structures, and each of the first strip-shaped structures includes an oxide diffusion material. The second patterned ground shield layer includes a plurality of second strip-shaped structures, and each of the second strip-shaped structures includes a conductive material, wherein the first strip-shaped structures and the second strip-shaped structures are disposed to each other in an interlaced manner.
US11587880B2
An electronic device stretchable from a first state to a second state includes a substrate, a plurality of light emitting groups, and a plurality of signal pads. The substrate has a first region and a second region. The light emitting groups are disposed on the first region. The signal pads are disposed on the second region. When the electronic device is stretched from the first state to the second state, the first region has a first stretching ratio (R1) and the second region has a second stretching ratio (R2), and the first stretching ratio (R1) is greater than the second stretching ratio (R2).
US11587879B2
An electronic device includes a first part, and a circuit plate including a circuit substrate, a plating film made of a plating material and being disposed on a front surface of the substrate. The plating film includes a first part region on which the first part is disposed via a first solder, and a liquid-repellent region extending along a periphery side of the first part region in a surface layer of the plating film, and having a liquid repellency greater than a liquid repellency of the plating film. The liquid-repellent region includes a resist region. The plating film includes a remaining portion between the liquid-repellent region and the front surface of the circuit substrate in a thickness direction of the plating film orthogonal to the front surface. The remaining portion is made of the plating material and is free of the oxidized plating material.
US11587867B2
Semiconductor devices includes a first interlayer insulating layer, a lower interconnection line in the first interlayer insulating layer, an etch stop layer on the first interlayer insulating layer and the lower interconnection line, a second interlayer insulating layer on the etch stop layer, and an upper interconnection line in the second interlayer insulating layer. The upper interconnection line includes a via portion extending through the etch stop layer and contacting the lower interconnection line. The via portion includes a barrier pattern and a conductive pattern. The barrier pattern includes a first barrier layer between the conductive pattern and the second interlayer insulating layer, and a second barrier layer between the conductive pattern and the lower interconnection line. A resistivity of the first barrier layer is greater than that of the second barrier layer. A nitrogen concentration of the first barrier layer is greater than that of the second barrier layer.
US11587866B2
A method of manufacturing an integrated electronic device including a semiconductor body and a passivation structure including a frontal dielectric layer bounded by a frontal surface. A hole is formed extending into the frontal surface and through the frontal dielectric layer. A conductive region is formed in the hole. A barrier layer is formed in the hole and extends into the hole. A first coating layer covers a top and sides of a redistribution region of the conductive region and a second coating layer covers is formed covering the first coating layer. A capillary opening is formed extending into the first and second coating layers to the barrier layer. A cavity is formed between the redistribution region and the frontal surface and is bounded on one side by the first coating layer and on the other by the barrier structure by passing an aqueous solution through the capillary opening.
US11587862B2
Embodiments of the invention include a microelectronic device that includes a substrate, at least one dielectric layer on the substrate and a plurality of conductive lines within the at least one dielectric layer. The microelectronic device also includes an air gap structure that is located below two or more of the plurality of conductive lines.
US11587851B2
An integrated circuit (IC) package comprising a-substrate having a first side and an opposing a second side, and a bridge die within the substrate. The bridge die comprises a plurality of vias extending from a first side to a second side of the-bridge die. The-bridge die comprises a first plurality of pads on the first side of the bridge die and a second plurality of pads on the second side. The plurality of vias interconnect ones of the first plurality of pads to ones of the second plurality of pads. The bridge die comprises an adhesive film over a layer of silicon oxide on the second side of the bridge die.
US11587850B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes: first and second plate-shaped portions which extend in a stacking direction of each layer of a first stacked body and a first direction intersecting the stacking direction and are arranged between the first stacked body and a second stacked body on both sides of the second stacked body in a second direction intersecting the stacking direction and the first direction; and an isolation layer that penetrates at least the uppermost conductive layer among a plurality of conductive layers and isolates the uppermost conductive layer in the second direction. The isolation layer extends in a portion of the first stacked body in the first direction toward the second stacked body, and is connected to a side surface of the first plate-shaped portion from a first region on an inner side of the first and second plate-shaped portions.
US11587846B2
A semiconductor device includes a heat dissipation substrate and a device layer. The thermal conductivity of the heat dissipation substrate is greater than 200 Wm−1K−1 and the device layer is disposed on the heat dissipation substrate. The device layer includes a transistor. A method of forming a semiconductor device includes providing a base substrate, forming a heat dissipation substrate on the base substrate, wherein a thermal conductivity of the heat dissipation substrate is greater than 200 Wm−1K−1. The method further includes forming a device layer on the heat dissipation substrate, wherein the device layer comprises a transistor. The method further includes removing the base substrate.
US11587845B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a die stack disposed over the substrate, a heat spreader disposed over the substrate and having a surface facing the substrate, and a thermal interface material (TIM) disposed between the die stack and the heat spreader. A bottommost die of the die stack includes a surface exposed from remaining dies of the die stack from a top view perspective; and the TIM is in contact with the exposed surface of the bottommost die and the surface of the heat spreader, and is in contact with a sidewall of at least one of the plurality of dies of the die stack.
US11587841B2
A semiconductor module includes: a case; a semiconductor chip provided inside the case; a seal material injected to inside of the case and sealing the semiconductor chip; and a lid provided inside the case and contacting an upper surface of the seal material, wherein a tapered portion is provided at an end portion of the lid on an upper surface side, a gap is provided between a side surface of the end portion of the lid and an inner side surface of the case, and the seal material crawls up to the tapered portion through the gap.
US11587838B2
A grinding control method and device for a wafer, and a grinding device are provided. A grinder is controlled to grind a mass production wafer with a set grinding parameter. In a case that it is determined to perform a test using a test wafer, the grinder may be controlled to grind the test wafer with the set grinding parameter. A first total thickness variation of the grinded test wafer is acquired by a dedicated measurement device, and an updated grinding parameter is acquired based on the first total thickness variation. The grinder is controlled to grind the mass production wafer with the updated grinding parameter. In this way, a wafer with a uniform thickness can be obtained, thereby improving flatness of the grinded wafer.
US11587837B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to fabrication method and resulting structures for vertical tunneling field effect transistors (VFETs) having an oxygen vacancy passivating bottom spacer. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, a first semiconductor fin is formed in a first region of a substrate and a second semiconductor fin is formed in a second region of the substrate. A bilayer bottom spacer is formed in direct contact with sidewalls of the semiconductor fins. The bilayer bottom spacer includes a first layer and an oxygen-donating second layer positioned on the first layer. A first dielectric film is formed on the sidewalls of the first semiconductor fin. The first dielectric film terminates on the first layer. A second dielectric film is formed on the sidewalls of the second semiconductor fin. The second dielectric film extends onto a surface of the oxygen-donating second layer.
US11587828B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device and a method for forming a semiconductor device with a graphene conductive structure. The semiconductor device includes a first gate structure disposed over a semiconductor substrate, and a first source/drain region disposed in the semiconductor substrate and adjacent to the first gate structure. The semiconductor device also includes a first silicide layer disposed in the semiconductor substrate and over the first source/drain region, and a graphene conductive structure disposed over the first silicide layer. The semiconductor device further includes a first dielectric layer covering the first gate structure, and a second dielectric layer disposed over the first dielectric layer. The graphene conductive structure is surrounded by the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer.
US11587824B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes at least following steps. A device layer is formed on a first semiconductor substrate. The device layer is separated from the first semiconductor substrate. A dielectric layer is formed on a second semiconductor substrate. The device layer is bonded onto the dielectric layer.
US11587809B2
A wafer supporting mechanism and a method for wafer dicing are provided. The wafer supporting mechanism includes a base portion and a support portion. The base portion includes a first gas channel and a first outlet connected to the first gas channel. The support portion is connected to the base portion and including a second gas channel connected to the first gas channel. An accommodation space is defined by the base portion and the support portion.
US11587808B2
A chip carrier device includes a frame, a chip support and a limiter. The chip support is disposed on the frame, and includes a supporting film for chips to be adhered thereto. A peripheral portion of the supporting film is attached to a surrounding frame part of the frame. A crossing portion of the supporting film passes through a center of the supporting film, and interconnects two opposite points of the peripheral portion. The supporting film is formed with through holes. The limiter includes a limiting part that interconnects two opposite points of the surrounding frame part, that is positioned corresponding to the crossing portion, and that is positioned on one side of the supporting film where the chips are to be arranged.
US11587806B2
The present invention relates to a temperature control device for a chemical liquid used in a semiconductor manufacturing process, which is located on a chemical liquid circulating and supplying tube to control a temperature of the chemical liquid. The device includes: a first heat sink having a cooling water flow path formed therein; a plurality of thermoelectric modules coming into contact with both side surfaces of the first heat sink, respectively; and a second heat sink coming into contact with the thermoelectric modules, while placing the first heat sink between the thermoelectric modules, and having a plurality of chemical liquid flow path tubes adapted to flow the chemical liquid therealong.
US11587797B2
A semiconductor device includes a metal base plate, a case component, and a metal component. The metal component is fixed to the case component. A partial region of the metal component is exposed from the case component. The partial region is bonded to the base plate in a bonding portion. In the bonding portion, a surface of the partial region and a surface of the base plate are in direct contact with each other and integrated.
US11587784B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to forming a titanium nitride layer, and more particularly to forming by atomic layer deposition a titanium nitride layer on a seed layer. In one aspect, a semiconductor structure comprises a semiconductor substrate comprising a non-metallic surface. The semiconductor structure additionally comprises a seed layer comprising silicon (Si) and nitrogen (N) conformally coating the non-metallic surface and a TiN layer conformally coating the seed layer. Aspects are also directed to methods of forming the semiconductor structures.
US11587783B2
Methods and precursors for depositing silicon nitride films by atomic layer deposition (ALD) are provided. In some embodiments the silicon precursors comprise an iodine ligand. The silicon nitride films may have a relatively uniform etch rate for both vertical and the horizontal portions when deposited onto three-dimensional structures such as FinFETS or other types of multiple gate FETs. In some embodiments, various silicon nitride films of the present disclosure have an etch rate of less than half the thermal oxide removal rate with diluted HF (0.5%).
US11587781B2
An electrodeless laser-driven light source includes a laser that generates a CW sustaining light. A pump laser generates pump light. A Q-switched laser crystal receives the pump light generated by the pump laser and generates pulsed laser light at an output in response to the generated pump light. A first optical element projects the pulsed laser light along a first axis to a breakdown region in a gas-filled bulb comprising an ionizing gas. A second optical element projects the CW sustaining light along a second axis to a CW plasma region in the gas-filled bulb comprising the ionizing gas. A detector detects plasma light generated by a CW plasma and generates a detection signal at an output. A controller generates control signals that control the pump light to the Q-switched laser crystal so as to extinguish the pulsed laser light within a time delay after the detection signal exceeds a threshold level.
US11587772B2
Methods and apparatus for preparing a protective coating are described. In one example aspect, an apparatus for preparing a protective coating includes a chamber, a substrate positioned within the chamber configured to hold at least a target object, an inlet pipe configured to direct a monomer vapor into the chamber, and one or more electrodes configured to perform a chemical vapor deposition process to produce a multi-layer coating. The chemical vapor deposition process comprises multiple cycles, each cycle comprising a pretreatment phase and a coating phase to produce a layer of the multi-layer coating.
US11587765B2
A method of reducing reflected Radio Frequency (RF) power in substrate processing chambers may include accessing input parameters for a processing chamber that are derived from a recipe to perform a process on a substrate. The input parameters may be provided to a model that has been trained using previous input parameters and corresponding sensor measurements for the chamber. A predicted amount of reflected RF power may be received from the model and it may be determined whether the predicted reflected RF power is optimized. The input parameters may be repeatedly adjusted and processed by the model until input parameter values are found that optimize the reflected RF power. Optimized input parameters may then be provided to the chamber to process the substrate.
US11587756B2
An electrical assembly comprising a housing forming a liquid tank inside thereof, dielectric liquid in the liquid tank, at least one fuse, and a blown fuse indication system. Each of the fuses is immersed in the dielectric liquid, and is provided with a striker pin. The blown fuse indication system is adapted to indicate a blowout of any one of the fuses by an indication signal. The blown fuse indication system comprises a first indication member and a second indication member. The first indication member is movable by the striker pins. The second indication member is immovably connected to the housing, and adapted to generate the indication signal as a response to relative movement between the first indication member and the second indication member.
US11587755B2
A power switch with an independent light-emitting chamber includes a housing, a press-key, a power assembly, at least one light-emitting unit, and a circuit board. The housing is provided therein with a partition wall that divides the interior of the housing into a first receiving space and a second receiving space. The press-key and the power assembly can be disposed in the first receiving space. The press-key can bring the power assembly into a power-off state or a power-on state. The light-emitting unit can be disposed in the second receiving space and thereby turn the second receiving space into an independent light-emitting chamber. The circuit board can be disposed in the housing and electrically connected to the power assembly and the light-emitting unit. The power switch is enhanced in safety as the partition wall keeps the light-emitting unit and the power assembly from each other and hence from short-circuiting.
US11587750B2
Electromechanical relay constructions comprise an external housing, a pair of switchable electrical contacts disposed within the housing, an element for activating the pair of electrical contacts, and a temperature sensing element disposed within the housing adjacent the electrical contracts. The temperature sensing element provides a signal for determining the temperature within the relay housing. The relay may comprise two or more temperature sensing elements disposed within the housing a desired distance from one another. The temperature sensing element may be attached to a member or substrate disposed within the housing, may be attached to an existing internal structure of the housing, or may be attached to one of the contacts. The temperature sensing element may be selected from the group consisting of resistance temperature detectors, negative temperature coefficient thermistors, thermopile sensors, thermocouples, and combinations thereof.
US11587748B2
A high-voltage power switch, preferably with a dead tank design, contains: a switching unit that has a switching device and an actuation element that is axially movable in relation to a longitudinal axis of the switching device to actuate the switching device and a closing resistor unit that has a closing resistor arrangement and an adjusting element that is axially movable in relation to a longitudinal axis of this closing resistor arrangement to actuate the closing resistor arrangement. The actuation element is coupled to the adjusting element in order to move the latter. Accordingly, the longitudinal axis of the switching unit and the longitudinal axis of the closing resistor unit are spaced apart, and the actuation and adjusting elements are coupled by a coupling device of the high-voltage power switch.
US11587746B2
A keyboard including a substrate and a key structure is provided. The key structure is disposed on the substrate and includes a keycap, an antenna, and a sensor. The keycap is disposed on the substrate, and a length of the keycap is greater than a width of the keycap. The antenna is disposed on a back surface of the keycap facing toward the substrate. The sensor is disposed below the keycap and is electrically connected with the antenna.
US11587731B2
An electronic component includes a laminate in which first internal electrodes and second internal electrodes are alternately laminated in a lamination direction with dielectric layers interposed therebetween, the laminate including a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to each other in the lamination direction, a first side surface and a second side surface opposite to each other in a width direction, and a first end surface and a second end surface opposite to each other in a length direction, a first external electrode provided on a surface of the laminate and electrically connected to the first internal electrodes, a second external electrode provided on a surface of the laminate and electrically connected to the second internal electrodes, and side margin portions each including a dielectric including Ca, Zr, and Ti.
US11587730B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body in which dielectric layers are layered, first internal electrode layers extending to opposing end surfaces of the multilayer body, second internal electrode layers extending to opposing side surfaces of the multilayer body, first and second external electrodes connected to the first internal electrode layers and provided on the respective opposing end surfaces, and third and fourth external electrodes connected to the second internal electrode layers and provided on the respective opposing side surfaces. A number of the first internal electrode layers is larger than a number of the second internal electrode layers, at least two first internal electrode layers are successively layered, and a thickness of the second internal electrode layers is larger than a thickness of the first internal electrode layers.
US11587727B2
The present application is directed to an electrical system including a housing configured to hold electrical components within an internal volume. In one aspect the electrical system is a power transformer. A sensor is mounted to the housing and is configured to sense a parameter associated with one or more electrical components during operation of the electrical system. A control system including a communication unit and a data processing unit is operable for analyzing the sensed parameter and comparing the sensed parameter to a predetermined minimum or maximum threshold value.
US11587726B2
A system comprises a first inverter and a second inverter connected in parallel, a coupled inductor connected to outputs of the first inverter and the second inverter, wherein the coupled inductor comprises a plurality of windings formed by a single winding wire and an output filter coupled to an output of the coupled inductor.
US11587725B2
An inductor component includes a core including a winding core portion, a first collar disposed at a first end of the winding core portion in an axial direction, and a second collar disposed at a second end of the winding core portion in the axial direction. The inductor component further includes a first electrode disposed on the first collar; a second electrode disposed on the second collar; and a wire electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode and wound around the winding core portion in such a manner as to form a plurality of wound regions arranged along the axial direction of the winding core portion. A distance between adjacent ones of the wound regions is greater than a winding pitch of the wire in each of the wound regions.
US11587720B2
A multilayer coil component includes a multilayer body formed by stacking a plurality of insulating layers in a length direction and that has a built-in coil, and first and second outer electrodes that are electrically connected to the coil. The coil is formed by a plurality of coil conductors stacked in the length direction being electrically connected to each other. The first and second outer electrodes respectively extend along and cover at least parts of first and second end surfaces and parts of a first main surface. A stacking direction of the multilayer body and a coil axis direction of the coil are parallel to the first main surface. A low-dielectric-constant layer having a smaller relative dielectric constant than the insulating layers is provided between the multilayer body and the part of the first outer electrode that extends along the first main surface.
US11587715B2
An apparatus for securing a transformer that includes a mounting bracket coupled to an exterior surface of the transformer, the mounting bracket having a first length, a first height, and a first width to define a mounting bracket having an interior cavity includes a housing having a second length, a second height, and a second width to define an interior cavity with at least one interior surface. The second length is larger than the first length of the mounting bracket and the second width is larger than the first width such that the mounting bracket is receivable into the interior cavity. A shaft member extends from the at least one interior surface along the second length within the housing interior cavity. The shaft member receives a securing strap around at least a portion of the shaft member within the mounting bracket to secure the transformer to the apparatus.
US11587714B2
A transformer for mounting on a mast of an air-insulated energy distribution network has a core which is protected against corrosion and environmental influences, while at the same time stable retention is provided. The transformer contains a winding block having a solid insulating body, in which at least one upper voltage winding and at least one lower voltage winding are arranged. The winding block delimits a completely peripherally closed central retention opening. Furthermore, a core unit is provided which has at least one magnetizable core and is inductively coupled to each lower voltage winding by each upper voltage winding. The core unit extends through the retention opening via at least one core leg and annularly extends around the winding block on the outside by a ring portion. Retention devices are provided for fastening the ring portion to the mast.
US11587710B2
An inductor device includes first, second, third and fourth wire, first and second connector, and eight-shaped inductor structure. First and second wires are disposed in first and second areas. Third wire is disposed in first area and partially overlapped with first wire in a vertical direction, and third wire is coupled to second wire. Fourth wire is disposed in second area and partially overlapped with second wire in the vertical direction, and fourth wire is coupled to first wire. First connector is partially overlapped with first wire or third wire in the vertical direction, and is coupled to inner wire and outer wire of third wire. Second connector is partially overlapped with second wire or fourth wire in the vertical direction, and is coupled to inner and outer wire of fourth wire. Eight-shaped inductor structure is disposed on outer side of third wire and fourth wire.
US11587707B2
A magnet system for use in a nuclear magnetic resonance (“NMR”) apparatus includes a first magnet and a second magnet located on a backplane to form a gap therebetween, wherein the first magnet and the second magnet are each shaped to form trapezoidal prisms with dimensions selected to optimize a magnetic field at a target region in space external to the magnet system.
US11587697B2
The application discloses a flat cable assembly, which includes a plurality of cables and an insulating film. The cables are arranged in a row and have a center line. The plurality of cables respectively have a first connecting portion and a second connecting portion symmetrically disposed with the first connecting portion, a signal wire and a grounding wire. The first connection portion is located on one side of the center line, and the second connection portion is located on the other side of the center line. The insulating film is provided on the first connection portion and the second connection portion of any one of the plurality cables. The two sides of the insulating film do not protrude outward from the two outermost cables, and the two surfaces of the insulating film in the direction perpendicular to the center line are planes.
US11587695B2
A silver powder is produced by reducing silver carboxylate and a particle size distribution of primary particles comprises a first peak of a particle size in a range of 20 nm to 70 nm and a second peak of a particle size in a range of 200 nm to 500 nm, organic matters are decomposed in an extent of 50 mass % or more at 150° C., gases generated in heating at 100° C. are: gaseous carbon dioxide; evaporated acetone; and evaporated water.
US11587690B2
A method of controlling a plasma in a nuclear fusion reactor. The nuclear fusion reactor comprises sensors and plasma control inputs. An initial control model is provided, relating readings of at least a subset of the sensors to control of the plasma control inputs. A control loop is performed, comprising: operating the plasma control inputs in dependence upon the sensors according to the control model; determining correlations between readings of each of the sensors, and/or between readings of the sensors and states of the plasma control inputs; and adjusting the control model based on the determined correlations.
US11587688B2
An apparatus, including a memory or a database which stores an electronic healthcare record of or for an individual or a patient a comment, note, or message, in advance of a video call, and information regarding an appointment for or regarding the video call; a processor which generates an appointment message or reminder message containing information regarding the appointment and containing a link or hyperlink for initiating the video call, wherein the video call is initiated via the link or the hyperlink; a receiver which receives information regarding the individual or the patient during the video call, receives information input into or entered into a provider communication device or a user communication device, wherein the processor or a computer generates a report containing information regarding the video call; and a transmitter, wherein the transmitter transmits the report to the user communication device.
US11587675B2
A system and a method determine a value for a parameter. Reference values for the parameter are determined from a group of objects. A first technique is used by the system for determining for each object the reference value from a first set of data. A learning dataset is created by associating for each object of the group of objects a second set of data and the reference value. The second set of data is acquired by the system according to a second technique for determining values of the parameter and is configured for enabling a determination of the parameter. A machine learning technique trained on the learning dataset is used for determining a value of the parameter. The second set of data obtained for each of the objects is used as input in a machine learning algorithm and its associated reference value is used as output target.
US11587671B2
An infusion system automatically determines when an infusion device moved within a physical area associated with a patient, and automatically displays an electronic list of procedures or prescriptions associated with the patient based on determining the infusion device moved within the physical area associated with the patient and receiving the indication of the operation. When a selection is received from the electronic list, operating parameters associated with the selection and the patient are automatically downloaded from a remote computing device to the infusion device.
US11587670B2
A medical operation system includes an information processing apparatus, including processing circuitry configured to cause a map of an operating room to be displayed on a display, the map including an icon representing a device located in the operating room or accessible from the operating room, receive, via a user operation on the displayed map, designation information representing a designation of a change in at least one of an input source, an output destination, or an internal setting for the device, generate a control signal to control the device based on the designation information, and transmit the generated control signal to the device.
US11587666B2
The current invention describes a method and system for delivering reconfigured digital content or reconfigured delivery of digital content designed to allay the effects of Q/D-related EMS. Disclosed is a system/method for delivering an extended digital therapeutic (ExRx) based on a selected emotional/mental state (EMS) and home-bound state (HBS).
US11587663B2
Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for administering and tracking medicine to patients and providing health management capabilities for patients and caregivers. In some aspects, a system includes an injection pen device in communication with a mobile communication device having a software application to determine a recommended dose based on prior dose data, analyte data, and nutrient data and to generate a report illustrative of a relationship between the medicine data, the health data, and the contextual data.
US11587660B2
Provided are computer implemented method and systems for providing and monitoring patient compliance with a patient healthcare treatment plan. The method includes receiving, from a healthcare provider over a network, application features for generating a patient application including patient instructions for using a medical therapy, and generating an application for a patient. The application includes at least an input for the user to input data for use in evaluating patient compliance with a treatment plan. In addition, the method includes receiving, from the healthcare provider over the network, a prescription for the application for the patient, and activating the application after the patient receives training on use of the application. The method also may include receiving patient compliance data from the application over the network based on the input.
US11587656B2
A personalized assistance system for a user of a vision correction device includes a remote computing unit with a controller having a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory on which instructions are recorded. The controller is configured to selectively execute one or more machine learning models. A user device is operable by the user and includes an electronic diary module configured to prompt the user to answer one or more preselected questions at specific intervals. The electronic diary module is configured to store respective answers, entered by the user in response to the one or more preselected questions, as self-reported data. The controller is configured to obtain the self-reported data from the electronic diary module and generate an analysis of the self-reported data, via the one or more machine learning models. The controller is configured to assist the user based in part on the analysis.
US11587651B2
Computer based methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing genomic services are provided. A request is received from a user. The request is applied to one or more from a group of a personalized data repository for the user and supporting knowledge bases, wherein the personalized data repository includes genetic test results, health/clinical information, and insurance coverage, and wherein the knowledge bases include information pertaining to genetic tests and clinical guidelines. Data from the applied request is integrated with results from service modules performing one or more from a group of content search, variation interpretation, and report generation to produce results for the request. The personalized data repository and supporting knowledge bases are updated based on the results of the request. Surveillance services are triggered based on one or more events.
US11587636B2
The disclosure relates to a system and method for maintaining stability during a scan shift operation on multiple embedded memories in an integrated circuit. Examples disclosed herein include an integrated circuit comprising a plurality of memory modules and a built-in self-test controller, wherein the BIST controller and memory modules are arranged and configured to reduce toggling of cells in the memory modules during a scan shift operation.
US11587632B1
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a plurality of fuse elements, a reference resistor unit, a first conductive terminal, a first switching circuit, and a second switching circuit. Each of the plurality of fuse elements has a first terminal and a second terminal. The reference resistor unit is configured to receive a first power signal and electrically couple with the first terminal of each of the plurality of fuse elements. The first conductive terminal is configured to receive a second power signal and is electrically connected to the second terminal of each of the plurality of fuse elements.
US11587630B2
A data storage system includes a storage medium including a plurality of strings of single-level cell (SLC) memory cells connected to a plurality of word lines; and a storage controller in communication with the storage medium, the storage controller including write circuitry configured to write data to the storage medium by: selecting a first word line of the plurality of word lines, the first word line being connected to a first plurality of strings; consecutively programming a first group of memory cells of the first plurality of strings connected to the first word line; and subsequent to programming the first group of memory cells, consecutively verifying respective programming results of the first group of memory cells.
US11587624B2
A memory device to perform a calibration of read voltages of a group of memory cells. For example, the memory device can measure signal and noise characteristics of a group of memory cells to determine an optimized read voltage of the group of memory cells and determine an amount of accumulated storage charge loss in the group of memory cells. Subsequently, the memory device can perform a read voltage calibration based on the determined amount of accumulated storage charge loss and a look up table.
US11587622B2
A memory device includes a memory cell array, a voltage switching circuit configured to switch a plurality of voltages provided to the memory cell array in response to a switching control signal, a discharge circuit configured to discharge the voltage switching circuit in response to a discharge signal, and a control circuit configured to generate the switching control signal based on a command and a high voltage enable signal received from outside of the memory device. The voltage switching circuit includes a high voltage switching circuit, and a low voltage switching circuit. The control circuit is configured to generate the discharge signal based on the command and an activated high voltage enable signal responsive to detecting external abortion while performing an operation corresponding to the command from among a program operation and an erase operation.
US11587609B2
A multi-level signal receiver includes a data sampler having (M−1) sense amplifiers therein, which are configured to compare a multi-level signal having one of M voltage levels with (M−1) reference voltages, to thereby generate (M−1) comparison signals. The data sampler is further configured to generate a target data signal including N bits, where M is an integer greater than two and N is an integer greater than one. An equalization controller is provided, which is configured to train the (M−1) sense amplifiers by: (i) adjusting at least one of (M−1) voltage intervals during a first training mode, and (ii) adjusting levels of the (M−1) reference voltages during a second training mode, based on equalized values of the (M−1) comparison signals, where each of the (M−1) voltage intervals represents a difference between two adjacent voltage levels from among the M voltage levels.
US11587605B2
An integrated circuit includes a physical layer interface having a control timing domain and a data timing domain, and circuits that enable the control timing domain during a change in power conservation mode in response to a first event, and that enable the data timing domain in response to a second event. The control timing domain can include interface circuits coupled to a command and address path, and the data timing domain can include interface circuits coupled to a data path.
US11587604B2
Methods and devices for reading a memory cell using a sense amplifier with split capacitors is described. The sense amplifier may include a first capacitor and a second capacitor that may be configured to provide a larger capacitance during certain portions of a read operation and a lower capacitance during other portions of the read operation. In some cases, the first capacitor and the second capacitor are configured to be coupled in parallel between a signal node and a voltage source during a first portion of the read operation to provide a higher capacitance. The first capacitor may be decoupled from the second capacitor during a second portion of the read operation to provide a lower capacitance during the second portion.
US11587599B2
A memory system includes a memory chip, one or more signal lines including a first signal line, and a controller. The controller is connected to the memory chip via the one or more signal lines. The controller is configured to transmit and receive signals via the first signal line in accordance with a first standard under which voltages of communicated signals transition in a first range and with a second standard under which voltages of communicated signals transition in a second range narrower than the first range. The controller is configured to transmit a command to the memory chip via the first signal line in accordance with the first standard, and based on a response to the command from the memory chip, enable communication in accordance with the second standard.
US11587589B1
Various circuits, systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed to provide dynamic direct current (DC) level shifting for use with a summing component of a quad channel detector (QCD) of a media scanning system configured to detect carbon voids or other defects on the surface of a magnetic recording medium. In an example, a summing circuit receives separate input signals from four optical sensors of the scanning system and generates a summed output signal with an alternating current (AC) component representative of a defect and a direct current (DC) component representative of a total power of an optical transmitter of the scanning system. A DC level shifting circuit receives a fixed DC offset signal and the same four variable input signals. The DC level shifting circuit provides dynamic level shifting of the DC component of the summed output signal based on the fixed DC offset and the four input signals.
US11587586B1
Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, comprising: one or more disks; an actuator assembly comprising a head, and configured to position the head over a corresponding disk surfaces; and one or more processing devices, wherein the head comprises: a write element; a laser unit; and a fly height control element, and wherein the one or more processing devices are configured to: iteratively perform write start operations of write start patterns with the head on the corresponding disk surface, at a plurality of values of at least one of laser pre-bias current, and write backoff; detect pattern signal amplitudes of the write start patterns on the corresponding disk surface; and determine a relation of write backoff to laser pre-bias current for the head, based at least in part on the pattern signal amplitudes.
US11587583B1
Described herein are sliders and data storage devices that promote particle mobility to improve particle robustness. In some embodiments, a data storage device includes a recording medium and a slider. A surface of the slider air-bearing surface near the leading edge includes at least one roughening feature that causes the surface to be rougher than other surfaces of the slider to promote particle mobility. The roughening feature may include a regular or irregular pattern, and it may be created using a photoresist mask during the manufacturing process so that the surface is deliberately made rougher (e.g., has a higher friction coefficient) than the surface of a leading pad of the slider.
US11587573B2
The disclosure provides a speech processing method and a device thereof. The method includes: acquiring a speech sampling signal frame in a mixed-excitation linear prediction (MELP) speech coding system and estimating signal quality of the speech sampling signal frame; determining, based on the signal quality, a specific linear prediction coding (LPC) order used by an LPC circuit; controlling the LPC circuit to convert the speech sampling signal frame into a line spectrum pair parameter based on the specific LPC order; replacing a speech signal spectrum of the speech sampling signal frame with the line spectrum pair parameter to generate a predicted speech signal; and performing a speech coding operation and a signal synthesizing operation of the MELP speech coding system based on the predicted speech signal.
US11587571B2
An electronic apparatus includes: at least one processor configured to: receive audio of a voice input of a user; obtain, from a plurality of voice recognizers capable of recognizing the voice input, a plurality of recognition results of the received audio; and perform an operation based on a recognition result of which recognition suitability for the voice input is identified to be high, among the plurality of recognition results.
US11587561B2
A communication system is provided that generates human emotion metadata during language translation of verbal content. The communication system includes a media control unit that is coupled to a communication device and a translation server that receive verbal content from the communication device in a first language. An adapter layer having a plurality of filters determines emotion associated with the verbal content, wherein the adapter layer associates emotion metadata with the verbal content based on the determined emotion. The plurality of filters may include user-specific filters and non-user-specific filters. An emotion lexicon is provided that links an emotion value to the corresponding verbal content. The communication system may include a display that graphically displays emotions alongside the corresponding verbal content.
US11587559B2
Systems and processes for intelligent device identification are provided. In one example process, audio input may be sampled with a microphone at each of two or more of the plurality of electronic devices. A first electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices for determining a task associated with sampled audio input may be identified. The process may determine the task based on the sampled audio input with the first electronic device and identify identifying a second electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices for performing the task. The task be performed with the second electronic device. The second electronic device is not the first electronic device in some examples.
US11587558B2
A computer-implemented method includes generating an empirically derived acoustic confusability measure by processing example utterances and iterating from an initial estimate of the acoustic confusability measure to improve the measure. The method can further include using the acoustic confusability measure to selectively limit phrases to make recognizable by a speech recognition application.
US11587556B2
A method for recognising at least one of a non-verbal sound event and a scene in an audio signal comprising a sequence of frames of audio data, the method comprising: for each frame of the sequence: processing the frame of audio data to extract multiple acoustic features for the frame of audio data; and classifying the acoustic features to classify the frame by determining, for each of a set of sound classes, a score that the frame represents the sound class; processing the sound class scores for multiple frames of the sequence of frames to generate, for each frame, a sound class decision for each frame; and processing the sound class decisions for the sequence of frames to recognise the at least one of a non-verbal sound event and a scene.
US11587550B2
A method and an apparatus for outputting information are provided. The method includes acquiring voice information received within a preset time period before a device is awakened, where the device is provided with a wake-up model for outputting preset response information when a preset wake-up word is received; performing speech recognition on the voice information to obtain a recognition result; extracting feature information of the voice information in response to determining that the recognition result does not include a preset wake-up word; generating a counterexample training sample according to the feature information; and training the wake-up model using a counter-example training sample, and outputting the trained wake-up model.
US11587547B2
An electronic apparatus which acquires input data to be input into a TTS module for outputting a voice through the TTS module, acquires a voice signal corresponding to the input data through the TTS module, detects an error in the acquired voice signal based on the input data, corrects the input data based on the detection result, and acquires a corrected voice signal corresponding to the corrected input data through the TTS module.
US11587542B2
A noise barrier system and method for quickly and modularly installing or erecting a temporary sound interruption wall. The system can include one or more panels each, a leveling bracket adjustably mountable to a support member, a clamping bracket for mounting a panel to a support member, a double clamping bracket for clamping a pair of panels together and mounting them to a support member, and a panel clamp for clamping a pair of panels together. The leveling bracket can include a support wall to support portions of adjacent panels, and an arm for removably securing to a flange of the support member. The panel clamp, the clamping bracket and the double clamping bracket can each include open channel configuration configured to receive a single portion of a panel or portions of pair panels, and a slidably adjustable clip for securing the portion of the panels therein.
US11587539B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a wind instrument apparatus, comprising: an attachment element configured to attach the apparatus to a wind instrument, a spring structure attached to or comprised by the attachment element, and a support bar. The support bar is partially insertable into the elastic structure and the apparatus comprises a fastening mechanism configured to selectively fasten the support bar in relation to the elastic structure, so that the flexibility of the attachment element is adjustable in relation to the support bar.
US11587536B2
The present invention is an apparatus used to connect a typical guitar strap in non-traditional positions on the body of a guitar or bass guitar, which affixes to the instrument to provide stability and balance. The core components of the apparatus are a resilient hollow plastic outer shell with an external protrusion extending from the apex, a protective non-slip thermoplastic rubber inner layer, and metal hardware, suitable for use with virtually all guitar straps presently in use, attached to the external protrusion. The invention can be used to attach a strap to a guitar or bass guitar securely, without damaging the finish or affecting the tonal integrity of the instrument. Furthermore, it should be noted that the apparatus is generally a parabolic shape, intended to securely fit over the upper or lower horn of a guitar or bass guitar.
US11587535B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a user operating a cross reality headset, receiving a first location of the cross reality headset, providing image content and audio content to the cross reality headset, and receiving a second location of the cross reality headset. Further embodiments can include determining the cross reality headset is stationary based on the first location and the second location resulting in a determination, and providing instructions to the cross reality headset to adjust positioning the image content on a display of the cross reality headset and to provide the audio content according to the determination resulting in an adjustment of the positioning of the image content. The cross reality headset presents the image content according to the adjustment on the display. The cross reality headset provides the audio content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11587529B2
A handheld imaging device has a data receiver that is configured to receive reference encoded image data. The data includes reference code values, which are encoded by an external coding system. The reference code values represent reference gray levels, which are being selected using a reference grayscale display function that is based on perceptual non-linearity of human vision adapted at different light levels to spatial frequencies. The imaging device also has a data converter that is configured to access a code mapping between the reference code values and device-specific code values of the imaging device. The device-specific code values are configured to produce gray levels that are specific to the imaging device. Based on the code mapping, the data converter is configured to transcode the reference encoded image data into device-specific image data, which is encoded with the device-specific code values.
US11587517B2
An electronic apparatus is provided, which includes a memory storing an input image, a backlight unit, a driver configured to output a driving current to the backlight unit, and a processor configured to identify a time interval at which current is applied among a plurality of time intervals based on a value of a plurality of first bits among a plurality of bits representing a gray level value of the input image, and control the driver to change a magnitude of a current of a time interval among the plurality of time intervals based on at least one second bit which is the rest of the plurality of bits excluding the plurality of first bits, and a number of the plurality of time intervals is determined based on the number of the plurality of first bits.
US11587514B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a display device and a driving method thereof, and the display device includes a demultiplexer connected to a first data line and transferring a data signal from the first data line to a plurality of second data lines during a data writing period of one frame, a compensator calculating an on-pixel ratio (OPR) using input data in the one frame and generating compensation data corresponding to a calculated OPR, and a data driver supplying the data signal to the first data line using the input data during the data writing period, and supplying a compensation data signal to the first data line using the compensation data in a blank period of the one frame, and the demultiplexer supplies the compensation data signal from the first data line to a second data line during the blank period.
US11587511B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel, a display device and a driving method. The display panel includes a display substrate and a driving chip. The display panel is configured to write a data signal to a corresponding pixel circuit at a pre-writing phase and a target data writing phase. The driving chip includes a voltage compensation module configured to obtain a compensation voltage value for the pixel circuits in each row in accordance with the quantity of pre-writing phases. Each pixel circuit is configured to write a pre-writing voltage stored in a parasitic capacitor to a gate electrode of a driving transistor in response to a pre-scanning signal at the pre-writing phase, and write a target writing voltage stored in the parasitic capacitor to the gate electrode of the driving transistor in response to a target scanning signal at the target data writing phase.
US11587510B2
A display device includes: a first pixel including a first organic light emitting diode; an initialization voltage generator for generating a first initialization voltage to be supplied to an anode of the first organic light emitting diode; and a timing controller including a first lookup table in which a plurality of first initialization voltage values corresponding to a plurality of maximum luminances are recorded, the timing controller being configured to determine a value of the first initialization voltage, based on reception information on a target maximum luminance and the first lookup table.
US11587506B2
Pixel structure, driving method thereof and display device are disclosed. The pixel structure includes: light-emitting device having first electrode coupled to corresponding first voltage line. Driving chip includes: receiving circuit configured to decode first digital clock signal on first control line in display phase to obtain first address data and light emission data; address storage circuit configured to store reference address data before the display phase; data processing circuit configured to output PWM signal and current control signal corresponding to each light-emitting device according to the light emission data when the first address data is the same as the reference address data; current output circuit configured to output driving current according to the current control signal; and gating circuit configured to sequentially receive the PWM signal corresponding to each light-emitting device and transmit the driving current to the output terminal when the PWM signal is in active-level state.
US11587498B2
The invention discloses a driving method and a device for a light-emitting element. The method includes: acquiring a display image; calculating a backlight brightness required for the display image; and selecting at least one pulse signal from the preset plurality of pulse signals to drive the light emitting element according to the backlight brightness.
US11587489B2
A method for driving display panel includes: for one of adjacent two frames of displayed images, when scanning odd-numbered row of sub-pixels, inputting data signals to the data lines coupled to the data selector in first order by a data selector; when scanning even-numbered row of sub-pixels, inputting data signals to the data lines coupled to the data selector in second order by the data selector; first and second orders each represents an order of inputting data signals to the data lines; first order is opposite to second order; for the other of the adjacent two frames of displayed images, when scanning odd-numbered row of sub-pixels, inputting data signals to the data lines coupled to the data selector in second order by the data selector; when scanning even-numbered row of sub-pixels, inputting data signals to the data lines coupled to the data selector in first order by the data selector.
US11587482B2
The present application relates to the field of display technologies, and in particular, to display substrate devices. One of the described display substrates comprises: a flexible substrate; a pinhole array configured to transmit light on the flexible substrate; at least one curved electrode responsive to bending of the flexible substrate around the pinhole array on the flexible substrate; and a plurality of detecting lines; wherein the at least one curved electrode comprises a plurality of curved sub-electrodes connected in series; and at least one of the plurality of curved sub-electrodes is coupled to one of the plurality of detecting lines.
US11587480B2
A display screen lighter and a display screen detection device are provided. The display screen lighter comprises a mainboard, a switching board and an electrostatic discharge assembly, wherein the mainboard comprises a mainboard signal connecting port and is configured to generate a detection signal for electrically testing a display screen to be detected; the adapter plate comprises an adapter signal connecting port and is configured to transmit the detection signal to the display screen to be detected; the static charges releasing assembly comprises a signal transmission structure and a electrostatic discharge structure, the signal transmission structure is respectively and electrically connected with the mainboard signal connecting port and the display screen binding structure to form a plurality of signal channels, and the electrostatic discharge structure and the display screen to be detected are connected between the signal channels and the grounding terminal in parallel to discharge static charges in the display screen to be detected into the grounding terminal through the electrostatic discharge structure.
US11587470B1
A business form comprises a first portion and a second portion adhesively secured to the first portion via a control bond adhesive. The control bond adhesive is a mixture comprising: between about 1 kg and 2 kg of a flexible adhesive; between about 1 kg and 2 kg of water; between about 12 g and 16 g gypsum, and between about 13 g and 23 g fumed silica.
US11587465B2
A renal hilum surgical simulation system is provided. The renal hilum surgical simulation system includes simulated tissue layers and simulated renal organs and/or vasculatures. The renal hilum surgical simulation system is adapted for but not limited to laparoscopic donor nephrectomy surgical procedures.
US11587458B2
People facing emergencies, such as disasters, may not receive external assistance in a timely manner, instead having to rely on themselves for critical or extended periods. A system including emergency response containers providing both for organizational structure, including a method of assigning roles to available individuals, and task domain knowledge for organizational elements, namely the people facing and experiencing the emergency, allows for organic emergency response and eases transition to and effectiveness of external professional emergency response providers. In some embodiments the system is modular and adjustable for different situations.
US11587456B2
Systems and methods include providing a virtual reality (“VR”) flight emulator system that simulates control, operation, and response of a vehicle. The flight emulator includes a control interface and a head-mounted display worn by a user. Motion, orientation, and/or forces experienced by the simulated vehicle are imparted to a user through a motion-control seat. Multiple flight emulators can be connected to a communication network, and a master flight emulator may teleport into a slave flight emulator in order to observe, overtake, override, and/or assume control of the slave flight emulator. Inputs made via the control interface of the master flight emulator or during playback of a pre-recorded training exercise or flight mission are translated into the control interface, head-mounted display, and motion-control seat of the slave flight emulator to provide real-time feedback to the user of the slave flight emulator.
US11587451B2
A VR education system includes a teaching plan storage unit that stores the teaching plan for each lecture including lecture information and at least one keyword and key image, an instructor evaluation unit that converts the instructor's voice data, input through the voice module of the instructor's terminal, into text data by speech-to-text processing and compares the converted data with the teaching plan data stored in the teaching plan storage unit, an instructor recommendation unit that generates an instructor list in the order of matching rate, from highest to lowest, based on the matching rates calculated by the instructor evaluation unit, a lecture providing unit that provides the lecture of an instructor, selected from the instructor list from a trainee terminal, to the trainee terminal, and a lecture monitoring unit that monitors lectures in progress to detect any event that may occur during the lecture.
US11587442B2
An information processing system includes vehicles and a server. Each of the vehicles generates a video obtained by imaging outside scenery in association with a time and transmit the video and position information of a host vehicle at a time when the video is generated to the server. The server detects attribute information of a person in the video from the video and detects position information of the person at the time based on the position information of the host vehicle at the time when the video is generated, when the video and the position information are received from the host vehicle. The server specifies the same person appearing in two or more videos of videos respectively received from the vehicles and transmits the attribute information of the specified person and movement path information including time-series data of the position information of the person to a client.
US11587396B2
A head-to-head (H2H) jai alai wager system may include a scoring module, an odds generator, an interface module, a wager module, and a transaction module. The scoring module may be configured to collect scoring related data from a H2H jai alai competition. The odds generator may be configured to receive scoring data from the scoring module and generate odds based at least in part on the scoring data. The interface module may be configured to receive odds data from the odds generator, the odds data comprising odds with respect to a plurality of wagers options corresponding to the H2H jai alai competition. The interface module may generate display data that integrates the odds data with corresponding wager options of the plurality of wagers for graphical display on a user interface. The wager module may receive wager requests from users via user interaction with the user interface. The transaction module may process transactions with respect to the wager requests from users.
US11587394B2
A computer-implemented for reducing memory requirements for a user interface method includes generating, by one or more processors, a first matrix of symbols with columns that correspond to reels of cyclical symbols. The reels are configured to be rendered in adjacent sections of a display. The method further includes rotating, by one or more processors, each reel by a random amount responsive to receiving a spinning instruction. The method includes configuring a first reel to occupy both a first section of the display associated with the first reel and a second section of the display associated with an adjacent reel so that the adjacent reel will not be rendered when a pattern of symbols of the rendered reels is determined to correspond to a particular pattern. Data that represents the symbols of the reels is maintained in a shadow matrix stored in memory. The one or more processors determine the existence of particular patterns from the shadow matrix and search a table in memory for scores associated with the patterns. Data in the shadow matrix is copied between cells of the shadow matrix to correspond to the rendered reels in such a way as to obviate increasing the size of the table. This, in turn, reduces memory requirements associated with the rendering of the reels.
US11587393B2
A convenience gaming system is provided. The convenience gaming system allows users to access applications via gaming communication devices coupled to a communication network. At least a portion of the network may be wireless. The gaming applications include gambling, financial, entertainment service, and other types of transactions. The system may include a user location determination feature to prevent users from conducting transactions from unauthorized areas.
US11587391B2
The present disclosure relates broadly to a gaming device operable under control of a processor together with a method of operating a gaming device. The disclosure relates particularly, although not exclusively, to a gaming device and method where a wild symbol is in the course of a plurality of games extends along at least one of a plurality of symbol reels.
US11587390B2
A gaming system including one or more gaming machines provides a game to one or more players. The game includes a primary game and a bonus game with first and second features. In the first feature a plurality of objects are presented to a player. The player is allowed to select one of the objects and an associated award may be awarded. Any unselected objects are added to an escrow meter. In the second feature, the player is allowed to select one or more of the escrow objects.
US11587388B2
Gaming devices, systems, and methods include a gaming device that includes a display device and an image capture device to capture a plurality of images of an eye of a player of the gaming device at a plurality of respective times. The gaming device generates, for each image of the plurality of images, gaze direction data indicative of a gaze direction of the eye of the player at the respective time corresponding to the image. The gaming device accesses a player database including player data for a plurality of players, the player data including, for each player, stored gaze data. Based on the gaze direction data and the stored gaze data, the gaming device determines a player parameter value corresponding to a player parameter for the player. Based on the player parameter value, the gaming device modifies a game feature of a wagering game at the gaming device.
US11587384B1
Described are implementations that facilitate group determination and association at entry into a facility so that activities of group members of the group are associated with the group and/or applied to a single account designated for the group. For example, if four individuals enter the facility together, the disclosed implementations determine whether the four individuals are to be associated as a group. If associated as a group, an account, such as an account of one of the individuals, is also determined and associated with the group. Activities, such as an item pick, performed by one of those individuals is associated with the group and if there is a fee or charge associated with the activity it is applied to the associated account.
US11587382B1
A package delivery system for secured delivery of packages without the need for a person to be present to accept them in person is disclosed. The package delivery system includes a vertical structure such as a wall, a door, and a garage door; a package delivery door dispositioned within the vertical structure; and one or more user devices in communication with the package delivery door via a network.
US11587379B2
An embodiment system for authenticating a user of a robotaxi includes a smart phone configured to request an authentication of the user based on a digital key, an authentication server configured to create a first authentication number, transmit the first authentication number to the smart phone, receive a second authentication number from the robotaxi when the authentication using the digital key fails, and request unlocking of a door to the robotaxi when the first authentication number and the second authentication number match, and the robotaxi configured to receive the second authentication number from the user, transmit the second authentication number to the authentication server, and unlock the door in response to the request from the authentication server.
US11587378B2
A device includes sensing circuitry, compression circuitry, and a memory. The sensing circuitry, in operation, generates sensor data. The compression circuitry is coupled to the sensing circuitry, and, in operation, determines environmental contexts based on variation rates of sensor data and compresses sensor data based on determined environmental contexts. The compressed data is stored in the memory.
US11587377B2
A vehicle system includes a first vehicle and a second vehicle. The first vehicle includes an information storage configured to store vehicle characteristic information representing a vehicle characteristic, and an information output unit configured to output the stored vehicle characteristic information to a predetermined storage medium. The second vehicle includes an information input unit configured to input vehicle characteristic information from the storage medium, and a vehicle characteristic setter configured to set a vehicle characteristic represented by the input vehicle characteristic information in the second vehicle.
US11587376B2
Embodiments of the invention include a vehicle telematics system that receives different types of identification information from different vehicle modules on the vehicle bus of a vehicle, identifies a vehicle platform based on the identification information by matching the identification information with information stored in a database that has been reverse engineered for a vehicle with a same and/or similar platform and identifies a set of communication data associated with the vehicle platform for communicating with the at least one vehicle module.
US11587375B2
A method of operating a wireless communication device installed in a vehicle to transmit data indicative of trips made by the vehicle to a remote device. An ignition state of the vehicle is determined, wherein said ignition state includes at least an ignition ‘on’ state. A time window is defined based on a time at which the vehicle is determined to be in the ignition ‘on’ state, and a type is assigned to a trip to be made by the vehicle, wherein the trip is of a first type when input data indicative of an input by a user on an input device operatively connected to the wireless communication device is received in the defined time window, and is otherwise of a second type. A message is generated, at least for trips of the first type, indicating the type assigned to the trip, and is wirelessly transmitted to the remote device.
US11587367B2
A system and method that includes collecting vehicle sensor data, wherein prioritizing vehicle sensor data includes identifying a level of importance for each of a plurality of vehicle sensor data types included in the vehicle sensor data; generating a vehicle sensor data schedule, wherein generating the vehicle data schedule includes one or more of (i) identifying a transmission order for each of the plurality of vehicle sensor data types and (ii) identifying a storage scheme selected from a hierarchy of data storage types for each of the plurality of vehicle sensor data types; transforming vehicle sensor data into message data, wherein the transforming includes selectively converting one or more of the vehicle sensor data types of the vehicle sensor data to a messaging format based on the prioritization; and transmitting, via one or more selected communication networks, the message data according to the vehicle sensor data schedule.
US11587365B2
Data transmission method between an on-board device adapted to acquire data relating to motion and/or driving parameters of a vehicle and a remote processing center, comprising the steps of: acquiring said data through the on-board device and storing it in a log memory of the on-board device; assessing by means of the on-board device if a logical condition is satisfied; sending, if said logical condition is satisfied, by means of the on-board device, a data connection request message requesting connection to a mobile cellular radio network to request the establishment of a GPRS connection between the on-board device and the remote processing center; receiving the data connection request at the remote processing center, by means of the mobile cellular radio network; processing the data connection request message at the remote processing center to accept or reject the connection request based on said identifying data.
US11587361B2
A monitoring or tracking system may include an input port and a controller in communication with the input port. The input port may receive data from a data recorder. The data recorder is optionally part of the monitoring system and in some cases includes at least part of the controller. The controller may be configured to receive data via the input port and determine values for one or more dimensions of subject performing a task based on the data and determine a location of a hand of the subject performing the task based on the data. Further, the controller may be configured to determine one or both of trunk angle and trunk kinematics based on the received data. The controller may output via the output port assessment information.
US11587341B2
A method of detecting at least one element of interest visible on an input image, by means of a convolutional neural network, CNN, the method comprises the steps of: (a) extracting, by means of an ascending branch of a first subnetwork of said CNN of feature pyramid network, FPN, type, a plurality of initial feature maps (C1, C2, C3, C4, C5) representative of the input image at different scales, said FPN further comprising a descending branch and lateral connections between the ascending branch and the descending branch, at least one lateral connection comprising an attention module; (b) generating, by means of said descending branch of the FPN, a plurality of enriched feature maps (P2, P3, P4, P5) also representative of the input image at different scales, each enriched feature map (P2, P3, P4, P5) incorporating the information from the initial feature maps (C1, C2, C3, C4, C5) of smaller or equal scale; (d) detecting at least one element of interest visible on an input image, by means of a second subnetwork of said CNN, referred to as detection network, taking said enriched feature maps (P2, P3, P4, P5) as input.
US11587335B2
A method for influencing a system for monitoring alertness of an operator when operating a device includes providing one or more representations of features of the operator in a detection region of the system, where each of the one or more representations reproduces at least one feature of the operator and where the influencing is based on the detection of the one or more representations by the system.
US11587328B2
A method for operating a sensor unit of a vehicle. The method includes providing a time signal for the sensor unit of a first vehicle, it also being possible to provide the time signal for at least one sensor unit of a second vehicle, and controlling sensor devices of the sensor unit using the time signal for detecting an environment of the vehicle in a temporally defined manner; and providing the detected environment data.
US11587320B2
A computing system obtains a video feed. For a frame of the video feed, the computing system analyzes the frame to determine whether the frame includes a potential instance of an event. In accordance with a determination that the frame includes the potential instance of an event, the computing system determines for the event an event category from a plurality of predefined event categories. It stores an indication of the event category. It determines whether the event category matches a predefined notification filter definition. In accordance with a determination that the event category matches the predefined notification filter definition, the computing system issues an alert notification to a user client device. In accordance with a determination that the event category does not match the predefined notification filter definition, the computing system refrains from issuing the alert notification.
US11587318B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for finding lost objects. In some implementations, a video frame is displayed. An input drawing a shape around an area of the video frame is received. A second video frame is displayed. An indication of the shape in the second video frame is displayed. An input to adjust the shape such that the shape is drawn around a second area is received.
US11587313B2
A method of identifying a bale of material includes capturing an initial image of a region of an initial bale with an initial image sensor and identifying a unique band pattern of at least one multi-colored band of the initial bale. The identified unique band pattern is associated with the initial bale. Data related to the initial bale is associated with the identified unique band pattern. The identified unique band pattern of the initial bale may then be used as an identifier of the initial bale. A second image of the bale is captured and analyzed to determine if the second image includes the unique band pattern of the at least one multi-colored band, thereby identifying the bale in the second image as the initial bale. The data associated with the initial bale may then be retrieved by an operator.
US11587312B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first plurality of inputs that identify a plurality of geographical locations and a plurality of infrastructure located at the plurality of geographical locations, classifying each of the plurality of geographical locations in accordance with the first plurality of inputs to obtain a plurality of classes, obtaining a second plurality of inputs that identify costs, revenue, profits, or any combination thereof, associated with the plurality of infrastructure, processing the second plurality of inputs in conjunction with the plurality of classes to identify a first plurality of locations included in the plurality of geographical locations to decommission infrastructure included in the plurality of infrastructure, and presenting the first plurality of locations via a device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11587298B2
A method to efficiently update and manage outputs of real time or offline 3D reconstruction and scanning in a mobile device having limited resource and connection to the Internet is provided. The method makes available to a wide variety of mobile XR applications fresh, accurate and comprehensive 3D reconstruction data, in either single user applications or multi-user applications sharing and updating the same 3D reconstruction data. The method includes a block-based 3D data representation that allows local update and maintains neighbor consistency at the same time, and a multi-layer caching mechanism that retrieves, prefetches, and stores 3D data efficiently for XR applications. Between sessions of an XR device, blocks may be persisted on the device or in remote storage in one or more cache layers. The device may, upon starting a new session, selectively use the blocks from one or more layers of the cache.
US11587297B2
Systems, apparatuses (or devices), methods, and computer-readable media are provided for generating virtual content. For example, a device (e.g., an extended reality device) can obtain an image of a scene of a real-world environment, wherein the real-world environment is viewable through a display of the extended reality device as virtual content is displayed by the display. The device can detect at least a part of a physical hand of a user in the image. The device can generate a virtual keyboard based on detecting at least the part of the physical hand. The device can determine a position for the virtual keyboard on the display of the extended reality device relative to at least the part of the physical hand. The device can display the virtual keyboard at the position on the display.
US11587292B2
Various embodiments of the invention disclosed herein provide techniques for generating a virtual object for a VR/AR environment in response to a trigger. A VR/AR application executing on a client device receives a media content item. The VR/AR application detects an event trigger associated with the media content item. The VR/AR application generates at least a portion of a virtual object based on the event trigger. The VR/AR application displays the media content item and the at least a portion of the virtual object on a display associated with a user device.
US11587291B2
An electronic apparatus performs a method of recovering a complete and dense point cloud from a partial point cloud. The method includes: constructing a sparse but complete point cloud from the partial point cloud through a contrastive teacher-student neural network; and transforming the sparse but complete point cloud to the complete and dense point cloud. In some embodiments, the contrastive teacher-student neural network has a dual network structure comprising a teacher network and a student network both sharing the same architecture. The teacher network is a point cloud self-reconstruction network, and the student network is a point cloud completion network.
US11587285B2
A Head-Mounted Display (HMD) is provided which comprises a camera configured to capture a video of a real-world scene with a first field-of-view (FoV), a network interface circuit configured to stream video to a receiving display device, and processing means which is operative to generate a 3D model of the real-world scene, and to generate a video from the 3D model using a second FoV which is wider than the first FoV. The processing means is further operative to estimate a motion of the camera, and to stream the generated video to the receiving display device if the estimated motion of the camera satisfies one or more conditions indicative of rapid motion, else stream the captured video to the receiving display device.
US11587279B2
Examples of systems and methods for augmented facial animation are generally described herein. A method for mapping facial expressions to an alternative avatar expression may include capturing a series of images of a face, and detecting a sequence of facial expressions of the face from the series of images. The method may include determining an alternative avatar expression mapped to the sequence of facial expressions, and animating an avatar using the alternative avatar expression.
US11587269B2
Systems and methods for determining a distribution map of susceptibility property of an object are provided. The method may include one or more of the following operations. A phase diagram corresponding to a magnetic resonance (MR) signal of the object may be obtained. A preliminary field map may be determined based on the phase diagram. Preliminary error limiting information associated with the preliminary field map may be obtained. A preliminary distribution map of susceptibility property of the object may be determined based on the preliminary field map and the preliminary error limiting information. An iteration process including at least one iteration may be performed to determine a target distribution map of susceptibility property of the object.
US11587266B2
Techniques are disclosed to add augmented reality to a sub-view of a high resolution central video feed. In various embodiments, a central video feed is received from a first camera on a first recurring basis and time-stamped position information is received from a tracking system on a second recurring basis. The central video feed is calibrated against a spatial region encompassed by the central video feed. The received time-stamped position information and a determined plurality of tiles associated with at least one frame of the central video feed are used to define a first sub-view of the central video feed. The first sub-view and a homography defining placement of augmented reality elements on the at least one frame of the central video feed are provided as output to a device configured to use the first sub-view and the homography display the first sub-view.
US11587243B2
A tracking system includes a camera subsystem that includes cameras that capture vide of a space. Each camera is coupled with a camera client that determines local coordinates of people in the captured video. The camera clients generate frames that include color frames and depth frames labeled with an identifier number of the camera and their corresponding timestamps. The camera clients generate tracks that include metadata describing historical people detections, tracking identifications, timestamps, and the identifier number of the camera. The camera clients send the frames and tracks to cluster servers that maintain the frames and tracks such that they are retrievable using their corresponding labels. A camera server queries the cluster servers to receive the frames and tracks using their corresponding labels. The camera server determines the physical positions of people in the space based on the determined local coordinates.
US11587234B2
The present disclosure relates to a class-agnostic object segmentation system that automatically detects, segments, and selects objects within digital images irrespective of object semantic classifications. For example, the object segmentation system utilizes a class-agnostic object segmentation neural network to segment each pixel in a digital image into an object mask. Further, in response to detecting a selection request of a target object, the object segmentation system utilizes a corresponding object mask to automatically select the target object within the digital image. In some implementations, the object segmentation system utilizes a class-agnostic object segmentation neural network to detect and automatically select a partial object in the digital image in response to a target object selection request.
US11587225B2
A pattern inspection system inspects an image of an inspection target pattern of an electronic device using an identifier constituted by machine learning, based on the image of the inspection target pattern of the electronic device and data used to manufacture the inspection target pattern. The system includes a storage unit which stores a plurality of pattern images of the electronic device and pattern data used to manufacture a pattern of the electronic device, and an image selection unit which selects a learning pattern image used in the machine learning from the plurality of pattern images, based on the pattern data and the pattern image stored in the storage unit.
US11587222B2
A method for clustering based on unsupervised learning according to an embodiment of the invention enables clustering for newly generated patterns and is robust against noise, and does not require tagging for training data. According to one or more embodiments of the invention, noise is accurately removed using three-dimensional stacked spatial auto-correlation, and multivariate spatial probability distribution values and polar coordinate system spatial probability distribution values are used as learning features for clustering model generation, making them robust to noise, rotation, and fine unusual shapes. In addition, clusters resulting from clustering are classified into multi-level clusters, and stochastic automatic evaluation of normal/defect clusters is possible only with measurement data without a label.
US11587217B2
Systems and methods for generating and processing images captured while inspecting above-ground pipelines are disclosed. Embodiments may include a robotic crawler or other devices which carry imaging equipment and traverse a target pipe which are configured to capture image data simultaneously from a plurality of angles. Such systems may substantially reduce and in some cases overcome the need to take multiple traversals of a pipeline under inspection. Embodiments may also be directed toward control systems for such devices as well as image processing systems which process the multiple image sets to produce a composite imaging result.
US11587210B1
In one embodiment, a method includes a computer system accessing a curvilinear image captured using a camera lens, generating multiple rectilinear images from the curvilinear image based at least in part on one or more calibration parameters associated with the camera lens, identifying semantic information in one or more of the rectilinear images by processing each of the multiple rectilinear images using a machine-learning model configured to identify semantic information in rectilinear images, and identifying semantic information in the curvilinear image based on the identified semantic information in the one or more rectilinear images.
US11587194B2
Embodiments herein are directed to a vehicle floating fleet vehicle system for determining a location of a user and one or more car-sharing vehicles. The system includes a server computing device operated by a floating fleet service provider. The server computing device includes at least one processor; a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; and machine readable instructions stored in the memory. The machine readable instructions cause the vehicle floating fleet system to perform at least the following when executed by the at least one processor receive a request for the one or more car-sharing vehicles, determine the one or more car-sharing vehicles in one or more nearby gated parking facilities, send information about the one or more car-sharing vehicles to the user, and receive a selected car-sharing vehicle in a nearby gated parking facility of the one or more nearby gated parking facilities from the user.
US11587193B2
Smart vehicle parking apparatus and related methods are disclosed herein. An example system includes a processor to reserve a personal vehicle for a time interval. The personal vehicle is to park at a location during the time interval. The processor is also to match a vehicle use option to the personal vehicle based on the time interval and the location. The vehicle use option is associated with a person to use the personal vehicle during the time interval.
US11587187B2
The disclosed embodiments combine an energy balance (e.g., averaged energy profiles) with original time series data having smaller time steps to establish an energy balance (e.g., averaged profiles) and a power balance (e.g., smaller time step with original time series data) for a Distributed Energy Resources (DER), microgrid, or other energy system. In an embodiment, a method comprises: solving, with at least one processor, a first optimization problem on time series data related to energy system planning, the first optimization including applying a power balancing framework to the time series data that captures intra-hour variability; and selecting, with the at least one processor, technology assets and sizing for the energy system based on an average hourly and sub-hourly datasets.
US11587181B1
A property damage assessment system may include a drone. The drone may include imaging equipment and a controller. The controller may include a device processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions executable by the device processor to perform the following steps: receiving imagery data of property from the imaging equipment of the drone; and automatically controlling the drone to obtain additional imagery data of the property based on the received imagery data.
US11587169B2
Methods, systems and computer-readable storage media are provided for controlling operation of a trading algorithm based on operating condition rules. Certain embodiments provide a method including determining, using a computing device, an approval of use of a trading algorithm by monitoring for an occurrence of an operating condition defined in an operating condition rule. The example method includes determining if the trading algorithm complies with the operating condition rule during the occurrence of the operating condition. The example method includes sending, using the computing device, a notification to a trading instrument to approve or not approve the use of the trading algorithm. The trading algorithm is to be used to implement a trading strategy.
US11587161B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for generating a human readable summary explanation to a user for an outcome generated by a complex machine learning model. In one embodiment, a risk assessment service can receive a request from a user in which a risk model of the risk assessment service performs a specific task (e.g., determining the level of risk associated with the user). Once the risk model determines the risk associated with the user, in order to comply with regulations from a compliance system, the risk model can provide a user with an explanation as to the outcome for transparency purposes.
US11587159B2
Systems and methods related to a bridge application that facilitates interoperability between a remotely-served application and locally connected peripheral devices. The bridge application may execute on a local machine and be addressable at the loop-back address of the local machine. Requests issued to the bridge application may be verified as originating from a trusted source. In turn, requests from a locally performed and remotely-served application may be issued to local hardware resources such as peripheral devices or the like.
US11587155B2
Techniques for integrating a product model into a user supplied image are presented herein. A method is disclosed that includes receiving an image of a user space from a user, receiving one or more definitions that describe the user space, retrieving, based on search terms provided by the user, one or more items available at a networked marketplace that fit within the definitions of the user space, and generating a composite image by overlaying an image of one of the items on the image of the user space. The method further scales the image of the item according to the definition of the user space and the physical dimensions of the item, and depicts virtual guidelines indicating a current scale of the image of the item.
US11587145B1
Systems and methods to predict and optimize automated recipe selection and item delivery for a customer. An item-selection server selects a plurality of predicted recipes based on customer preferences and order history. Hard and soft constraints are obtained to perform the optimization of the predicted recipes. The hard constraints define parameters that cannot be violated by a recipe or set of recipes, and soft constraints define parameters that expresses a tradeoff value associated with a recipe or set of recipes. Optimization includes selecting multiple sets of predicted recipes based on the hard constraints and scoring each recipe set based on the soft constraints, item inventory, and customer preferences. A specific set of recipes is selected for the order based on the scores, and the filling of the order is initiated for the customer with items associated with the selected set of recipes.
US11587141B2
A method of presenting product information in a vending machine may include detecting audio information from a consumer and converting the audio information to a text string. The method may include identifying a keyword in the text string, and determining products from a product database associated with the keyword. The method may include returning a list of the products that correspond to the keyword.
US11587133B1
A system and process provide online service providers with a platform to list services. The platform provides standardized templates for various business segments and business services associated within each segment. The electronic templates allow providers to conveniently enable/disable service offerings and input price, service tiers, and optional upgrades by toggling settings. The listing data is then received by the host and available to be listed through an online marketplace which may be presented to mobile application users. A search query by a consumer returns service listings that can be compared one to one by price a service offered.
US11587129B2
The present disclosure provides computerized, automated real estate valuation systems and methods that take into account subjective factors of the property like curb appeal and property condition. In preferred embodiments, the valuation system uses image recognition of images (photos and/or videos) associated with the property to automatically identify which comparable properties to include and to exclude in determining the value of the property.
US11587126B2
In a method a web page hosting a tag script has a first area and a second area smaller than the first area. The first area contains a third area smaller than the first area. The third area is not positioned within the second area when the web page is loaded, and the third area contains a first ad content sourced from a first real-time ad bidding auction. Determining in real time via the tag script (a) whether the first ad content was loaded in the web page for a predefined time period, and (b) based on the other determining whether the third area has been scrolled into the second area as of or after the predefined time period has expired, and requesting a second real-time ad bidding auction for a second ad content to be input into the third area and replace the first ad content.
US11587124B2
A first server controls insertion of media content into a media stream, and transmits the media stream from the first server to a media player. The first server also transmits, to a second server, information linking a particular consumer to both a third-party service and to the media player. Control of inserting media content into the media stream is passed from the first server to the second server. The second server receives consumer-specific content associated with the particular consumer from the third-party service, and maps the consumer-specific content to the media player based, at least in part, on the information linking the particular consumer to both the third-party service and to the media player. The second server then inserts the consumer-specific content into the media stream during a time period the second server is in control of inserting media content into the media stream.
US11587123B2
In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for ranking promotions selected for recommendation to consumers based on predictions of promotion performance and consumer behavior. In embodiments, a set of promotions to be recommended to a consumer can be sorted and/or ranked according to respective relevance scores representing a probability that the consumer's behavior in response to the promotion will match a ranking target. In embodiments, calculating scores is based on a relevance model (a predictive function) derived from one or more contextual data sources representing attributes of promotions and consumer behavior. In embodiments, an absolute relevance score represents an absolute prediction of a ranking target variable. In embodiments, absolute relevance may be used to determine personalized local merchant discovery frontiers; featured result set thresholding for impressions; and/or promotion notification triggers. In embodiments, predictive models based on gross revenue may be optimized using promotion category-dependent price boosting.
US11587122B2
A method and system for content display. The method includes: capturing, by an imaging device, a plurality of images of an environment; generating, by a computing device, first user profiles based on appearance of users recognized in the images; detecting devices in the environment and associating the detected devices to the users to obtain associated devices that are held by the users; retrieving, by the computing device, second user profiles of the users based on identifications of the associated devices; selecting at least one content based on the first user profiles and the second user profiles; and displaying the at least one selected content.
US11587117B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for creating, editing, sharing and distributing high-quality, media-rich web-based communications. The communications are created in a layered fashion that integrates user-selected text, colors, background patterns, images, sound, music, video, or other media. The systems and methods are used to generate, edit, broadcast, and track electronic presentations, brochures, advertisements (such as banner advertisements on highly trafficked media websites), announcements, and interactive web pages, without the need for the user to understand complex programming languages.
US11587115B2
A system and methods for facilitating transactions relating to slots in a content promoter's performance. The system allows content promoters to publish available slots in their performances and receive submissions from artists requesting their content be presented in those slots. The system facilitates transactions between promoters and artists using an escrow and “proof of play” system. The escrow system charges an artist in advance for content submitted to be presented, but holds payment of those charges until after the promoter has presented the content and proof of play has been confirmed. Proof of play may be directly confirmed by the artist, may be confirmed by the system, or may be provided to the artist in an audiovisual recording made by the promoter. The escrow and proof of play system helps protect promoters and artists against potential default by either party to the transaction.
US11587110B2
A television service provider system includes interactive elements embedded within advertisements or other content related to a particular product or service that a user may select to receive an initially non-redeemable coupon for the product. The system then electronically communicates to the seller or advertiser system the indications of such electronic interactivity between the viewers of content and content related to the product being sold or advertised. The advertiser or seller may then electronically activate and thus convert the non-redeemable coupon into a redeemable coupon. A system for processing retail transactions redeems the coupons for the product for a particular user using an identifier of the user associated with the account of the user with the television service provider.
US11587107B2
A system and method for customer and business referral with a smart device concierge system, comprising a database comprising customer and business information, a mobile device operating a concierge application and an automation application, and a referral engine, to allow users to register for and install the concierge application and automation application, and use them to place orders for products, services, or reservations with participating businesses via linked smart devices using the automation application, gives or place these orders for other users who approve of receiving the product, service, or reservation, and compensating application users who have a commercial interest in operating the application, called a commercial concierge, who may be compensated for referring users to various businesses for products, services, or reservations the user may enjoy or be searching for, in lieu of a traditional concierge that may help refer customers manually.
US11587103B2
The present invention provides a registration system (10) including a recognition unit (11) that analyzes an image obtained by a camera imaging a placing surface of a table on which a product is placed and recognizes the product in the image, a registration unit (12) that registers the recognized product as a checkout target, a first display unit (13) that displays a list of the products registered as the checkout targets on a display, a first selection unit (14) that selects one or more of the products from the list, and a second display unit (15) that displays information for determining the selected product, on the placing surface.
US11587102B2
A system for instant qualification cross channel offer targeting is disclosed. The system may receive a plurality of personally identifiable information (PII) elements from at least one of a customer device or an affiliate system. The system may determine a credit authorization state in response to the PII element. The system may receive a first request to generate an offer from at least one of the customer device or the affiliate system. The system may generate the offer in response to an offer optimization model, the credit authorization state, and the first request to generate an offer. The system may hash the plurality of PII elements and determine a unique hash based on the plurality of PII elements. The system may associate the unique hash to the offer and store the offer as offer data.
US11587098B2
The disclosed embodiments can be used to automate the acquisition and management of user consents for one or more campaigns, thus reducing the possibility of unintended violations of consent requirements as compared with existing systems. In accordance with the disclosed embodiments, each user consent may be associated with at least three different values. The consent management system may be configured to filter consent values for various users and send user-consent requests to certain users based on their filtered user-consent values. In some disclosed embodiments, a user may provide consent to allow communications of the user's information to certain “connected parties.” The connected parties, moreover, may need to separately provide user consent(s) as necessary to effectuate communications for a campaign in compliance with one or more laws, rules, or regulations.
US11587096B2
A system for digitally verifying credential sets and its method of use are provided. A credentials set is made up of a number of credentials, each linked to a particular Entity. If all of the credentials are validated and verified, then the credentials' status identifier will be set to a value. If the various status identifiers meet a predetermined value, the set will be verified and digitally signed.
US11587091B1
A method for logging and reporting driver activity and operation data of a vehicle. The method utilizes an onboard recorder operatively connected to a data bus of the vehicle and configured to continuously electronically monitor and obtain vehicle operation data including vehicle mileage data. Data processing software is operable for generating an hours of service log and a vehicle fuel tax log.
US11587088B2
Generally, embodiments of the invention are directed to methods, computer readable medium, servers and systems for enabling merchants to use hosted order pages (HOPs) and/or silent order posts (SOPs) and thereby avoid handling payment information and the costs associated Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance, while at the same time utilize third-party fraud detection screens and thereby avoid costs associated with fraudulent transactions.
US11587087B2
A method for validating user credentials in a transaction initiated with a portable payment device associated with a biometric verification process including establishing a communication protocol between the portable payment device and the point-of-sale system, determining at least one result corresponding to a verification requirement of the biometric verification process, in response to determining an absence result or a failure result of the verification requirement of the biometric verification process, determining an alternate verification process associated with the portable payment device, determining a verification requirement of the alternate verification process, and transmitting the verification requirement of the alternate verification process to the point-of-sale system. A system and computer program product for validating user credentials in a transaction are also disclosed.
US11587083B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for providing a transaction validation service. A device can receive a request to validate a transaction requested by a user device, where the transaction can be performed by an application and where the request to validate the transaction can be obtained with a first hash that is created by the user device. The first hash can include a hash of transaction data that is hashed using data stored on the user device. The device can receive an indication that the transaction has been approved, obtain a second hash of the transaction data that is hashed using the data stored on the user device, and determine, based on the first hash and the second hash, whether the transaction should be allowed or blocked.
US11587068B2
System and methods for supporting legacy and tokenized transactions are disclosed. According to one embodiment, in an information processing device comprising at least one computer processor, a method for selecting an electronic payment credential to communicate to a merchant, may include (1) an electronic wallet backend receiving a plurality of payment credentials associated with a payment account; (2) the electronic wallet backend receiving a credential capability for a merchant; (3) the electronic wallet backend selecting one of the payment credentials for a transaction with the merchant based on the credential capability; and (4) the electronic wallet backend communicating the selected payment credential to a point of transaction device for the merchant.
US11587065B2
A method may include generating, by a computing device, a first dynamic QR code comprising a plurality of QR code frames, each QR code frame transmitted at a first frequency, the plurality of QR code frames comprising non-viable QR code frame(s) and at least one viable QR code frame. The method may include displaying, by the computing device, the first dynamic QR code, the at least one viable QR code frame displayed at a first time. The method may include transmitting, by the computing device, a first pulse to a user device. The method may include capturing, by the user device at the first time and in response to receiving the first pulse, the at least one viable QR code frame. The method may include generating and displaying, by the user device, a second dynamic QR code, causing the computing device to complete a requested transaction.
US11587061B2
A system and method of interaction with beacons to execute a multiple layer authenticated transaction process including receiving a signal from the beacon, analyzing a relative signal strength of the beacon, enabling a portable computer device to complete the digital transaction based on the proximity of the portable computer device to an item for purchase. A first user verification input is additionally received via the portable computer system. In response to the first user verification, receiving a verification signal.
US11587045B2
A system to facilitate organized scheduling of a plurality of tasks comprises a communication device, a processing device, and a storage device. The communication device may be configured for receiving at least one schedule request from at least one first user device. The processing device may be configured for analyzing the at least one schedule request to identify a schedule type. The processing device may be configured for retrieving at least one task preset associated with the plurality of categories of the schedule type. The communication device may be further configured for transmitting the at least one task preset and receiving at least one task preset selection associated with the at least one task preset. The processing device may be further configured for generating at least one schedule reminder based on the at least one task preset selection. A corresponding method is also provided.
US11587043B2
Systems and methods associated with providing portals that processes electronic requests as well as generates and displays associated data are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary method may comprise providing a portal comprising user interfaces configured to receive inputs from members of an organization and process related information, utilizing iframes in the portal to integrate forms from different applications within the organization that have different computing platforms, generating an intake request dashboard for the members comprising an intake form and a cost estimator tool, and generating an approver dashboard comprising an interactive user interface that displays integrated information regarding events to an approver and a UI mechanism for approving the electronic request.
US11587041B2
A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computer device, preference information from a plurality of people, the preference information including an individual level of preference for various activities for each of the people; receiving, by the computer device, biometric data of the people, the biometric data relating to the various activities; building, by the computer device, a corpus of relationships between the preference information and the biometric data; receiving, by the computer device, biometric data of a user; and predicting, by the computer device, a user level of preference with a particular activity of the various activities, the predicting being based on a comparison of the biometric data of the user and the biometric data of the people who participated in the particular activity.
US11587038B2
A mobile Quality Management/Control system for performing mobile product inspections is provided. A mobile device, such as a tablet, is configured to communicate with one or more databases and allow for real time entry (and subsequent access) of the details of product inspections for quality control and management purposes. The details of such inspections are maintained and available for all subsequent inspections. The mobile device is further configured to provide inspectors with inspection procedures and/or tutorials associated with the inspections being performed.
US11587036B2
Systems and methods for the preparation of recipe-based products may include a computer-based system for parsing recipe steps and instructions, such that each of a plurality of product preparation stations receives and displays on an associated human-machine interface only those instructions associated with that product preparation station.
US11587035B2
A system and method for order fulfillment includes receiving an order for a plurality of items, initiating collection of the plurality of items for the order, detecting presence of a user at a selected one of a plurality of delivery locations when the plurality of items are ready for delivery, and initiating delivery of the items to the user at the selected delivery location.
US11587034B2
A robot-based electronic commerce warehouse order picking method is provided, box body identity information of a circulation box is acquired and the circulation box and a robot are bound based on the box body identity information, the circulation box includes at least one circulation position, a tag and a goods placement mark are correspondingly arranged at the circulation position, and the box body identity information includes information of the tag and information of the goods placement mark; warehouse order information is acquired and the warehouse order information is associated with the box body identity information to obtain order binding information; an interaction terminal of the robot is controlled according to the order binding information to display an interaction interface to instruct a picker to pick goods at a corresponding goods position and place the goods at the circulation position according to the goods placement mark.
US11587031B2
A management device includes a distance sensor, a sensor interface, and a processor. The distance sensor is configured to measure a distance between a predetermined position and a backmost side of a commodity line having commodities biased in an arrangement direction and supported from a foremost side of the commodity line. The sensor interface transmits and receives data to and from the distance sensor. The processor calculates a length of the commodity line based on the distance before a change in the distance and the distance after the change in the distance when the distance is changed, and determines whether the length of the commodity line matches a thickness of the commodity indicated by shelf label information. The processor calculates the increased or decreased number of commodities based on the determination.
US11587025B2
A computer implemented method for procedure tray management, comprising storing in a database a set of procedure tray types, displaying, on a user interface, a list of procedure tray types, and displaying, in response to a user input, a list of items included in a selected procedure tray type. The method further includes automatically determining a recommended modification to the selected procedure tray type by identifying recommended item additions as items which are included in a template associated with the selected procedure tray type and not included in the selected procedure tray and electronically communicating the proposed modified procedure tray type to at least some users associated with the selected procedure tray. In response to a confirmation from at least one user the selected procedure tray type is updated in the database.
US11587024B2
A supply chain model generation system independently uses a business entity code and an item code representing an item related to a transaction in result information on a supply chain operation of a plurality of business entities; transaction information is extracted from the result information and a transaction time series information table is generated; a relationship in the transaction time series information table in each business entity is analyzed and a virtual business entity code on a supply side and a virtual business entity code on a demand side are assigned for each business entity code; and further a logical model information table where a virtual item code is assigned with respect to an item code related to the transaction of a business entity of the virtual business entity code on the supply side and a business entity of the virtual business entity code on the demand side is generated.
US11587013B2
Systems and methods for dynamic quality metrics forecasting and management are provided. In embodiments, a method includes receiving, by a computing device, parameter data from one or more data sources for selected parameters, wherein the parameters are associated with one or more processes; generating, by the computing device, output values for plural quality metrics based on the parameter data; identifying, by the computing device, relationships between the plural quality metrics based on changes in the received parameter data and output values for the plural quality metrics over time; receiving, by the computing device, user-selected values for the selected parameters; and generating, by the computing device, predicted output values for the quality metrics based on the identified relationships between the quality metrics and the user-selected values.
US11586994B2
Systems and transaction-enabled methods for providing provable access to a distributed ledger with serverless code logic are disclosed. A transaction-enabling system may include a controller configured to access a distributed ledger comprising serverless code logic, tokenize the serverless code logic, interpret an access request for the serverless code logic and, in response to the access request, provide a provable access to the serverless code logic.
US11586988B2
There are provided a method of knowledge transferring, an information processing apparatus and a storage medium. The method of knowledge transferring includes: obtaining a first model which has been trained in advance with respect to a predetermined task; and training a second model with respect to the predetermined task by utilizing a comprehensive loss function, such that the second model has knowledge of the first model. The comprehensive loss function is based on a first loss function weighted by accuracy of an output result of the first model for a training sample in regard to the predetermined task, and a second loss function. The first loss function represents a difference between processing results of the second model and the first model for the training sample. The second loss function represents accuracy of an output result of the second model for the training sample in regard to the predetermined task.
US11586975B2
An artefact is received. Thereafter, features are extracted from the artefact and a vector is populated. Later, one of a plurality of available classification models is selected. The classification models use different scoring paradigms while providing the same or substantially similar classifications. The vector is input into the selected classification model to generate a score. The score is later provided to a consuming application or process. The classification model can characterize the artefact as being malicious or benign to access, execute, or continue to execute so that appropriate remedial action can be taken or initiated by the consuming application or process. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US11586972B2
A computer-implemented method is presented for automatically generating alerting rules. The method includes identifying, via offline analytics, abnormal patterns and normal patterns from history logs based on machine learning, statistical analysis and deep learning, the history logs stored in a history log database, automatically generating the alerting rules based on the identified abnormal and normal patterns, and transmitting the alerting rules to an alerting engine for evaluation. The method further includes receiving a plurality of online log messages from a plurality of computing devices connected to a network, augmenting the plurality of online log messages, and extracting information from the plurality of augmented online log messages to be provided to the alerting engine, the alerting engine configured to approve and enforce the alerting rules automatically generated by the offline analytics processing.
US11586968B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for performing non-classical computations. The methods and systems generally use a plurality of spatially distinct optical trapping sites to trap a plurality of atoms, one or more electromagnetic delivery units to apply electromagnetic energy to one or more atoms of the plurality to induce the atoms to adopt one or more superposition states of a first atomic state and a second atomic state, one or more entanglement units to quantum mechanically entangle at least a subset of the one or more atoms in the one or more superposition states with at least another atom of the plurality, and one or more readout optical units to perform measurements of the superposition states to obtain the non-classical computation.
US11586963B2
An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for forecasting future states of a multi-active cloud. The method, computer program product and computer system may include a computing device that determines the operating state of the passive server. The operating state of the passive server is one or more of a deploying state and a smoke testing state. The computing device may determine the probability of the operating state successfully completing. The computing device may delay the second asynchronous workflow until the operating state successfully completes based on the probability of the operating state successfully completing exceeding a predetermined value.
US11586959B2
An environmental state analysis method includes obtaining key data that affects an environmental state of a designated place, and determining a degree of influence of the key data on the environmental state of the designated place according to the key data by using an analysis model. The key data includes one or more of environmental protection data, pollution source data, and environmental monitoring data. The environmental state includes one or more of a diffusion speed of harmful gas and a concentration of dust in the air.
US11586955B2
In an example, an ontology analyzer may generate an ontology, based on a claim adjudication request. The claim adjudication request may be processed, based on the ontology to provide an ontology based inference. A rule based analyzer may identify a predefined rule corresponding to the claim adjudication request and process the request, based on the predefined rule. A conflict resolver may resolve a conflict which may occur between the ontology based inference and the rule based inference. When a conflict is detected, a predefined criteria may be selected for resolving the conflict, the predefined criteria comprising rules to select one of the ontology based inference and the rule based inference to maximize a probability of accurately processing the claim adjudication request in case of a conflict.
US11586951B2
A learning unit 81 generates a plurality of sample groups from samples to be used for learning, and generates a plurality of prediction models while inhibiting overlapping of a sample group to be used for learning among the generated sample groups. An optimization unit 82 generates an objective function based on an explained variable predicted by the prediction model and based on a constraint condition for optimization, and optimizes a generated objective function. An evaluation unit 83 evaluates an optimization result by using a sample group that has not been used in learning of a prediction model used for generating an objective function targeted for the optimization.
US11586950B2
Aspects of the disclosure include, for example, obtaining input data. Further embodiments include a determination of a fast path prediction for a first time period according to the input data based on a fast path model. Embodiments include providing instructions to deliver information to a user device according to the fast path prediction. Additional embodiments include obtaining additional input data. Embodiments include a determination of a slow path prediction for the first time period according to the input data and the additional input data based on a slow path model, retraining the fast path model according to the input data and the fast path prediction, and training the slow path model according to the slow path prediction. Embodiments include a determination of a fast path negative impact metric and determination of a slow path negative impact metric. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11586942B2
A system may receive events derived from historical sensor data. The system may generate repeat event records based on the events. The system may cluster the repeat event records into repeat event clusters. The system may determine filter ranges for the repeat event clusters. The system may generate a binarization filter comprising instructions to generate a binary sequence indicative of at least one of the filter ranges. The system may execute the binarization filter to generate binary sequences corresponding to the repeat event records, respectively. The system may train a prediction model based on the binary sequences. The system may deploy the binarization filter and the prediction model to a real-time platform.
US11586941B2
A recommendation method includes generating a feature sequence based on to-be-predicted data of a user for a target object and according to a preset encoding rule, obtaining probability distribution information corresponding to each feature in the feature sequence, and obtaining, through calculation, a feature vector corresponding to each feature, obtaining a predicted score of the user for the target object based on values of N features and a feature vector corresponding to each of the N features, and recommending the target object to the user when the predicted score is greater than or equal to a preset threshold.
US11586935B2
Systems and methods to semantically compare product configuration models. A method includes receiving a first configuration model and a second configuration model. The method includes generating a first order logic (FOL) representation of the first configuration model and an FOL representation of the second configuration model. The method includes performing a satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) solve for nonequivalence satisfiability on the FOL representation of the first configuration model and the FOL representation of the second configuration model. The method includes storing an indication that the first configuration model is equivalent to the second configuration model when the SMT solve for nonequivalence satisfiability is not satisfied.
US11586933B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a soma-related information storage unit in which two or more pieces of soma-related information having a soma identifier are stored; a connection information storage unit in which one or more pieces of connection information for specifying connection between two or more somas are stored; an information transfer unit that acquires soma identifiers of one or more somas that accept information based on accepted input information; an output information acquiring unit that acquires output information, which is information that is output, using the information accepted by each soma identified with the one or more soma identifiers acquired by the information transfer unit; an information output unit that outputs the output information; and a growth unit that performs soma generation processing for generating soma-related information and accumulating the information in the soma-related information storage unit.
US11586928B2
A method and system for incorporating regression into a Stacked Auto Encoder utilizing deep learning based regression technique that enables joint learning of parameters for a regression model to train the SAE for a regression problem. The method comprises generating a regression model for the SAE for solving the regression problem, wherein regression model is formulated as a non-convex joint optimization function for an asymmetric SAE. The method further comprises reformulating the non-convex joint optimization function as an Augmented Lagrangian formulation in terms of a plurality of proxy variables and a plurality of hyper parameters. The method comprises splitting the Augmented Lagrangian formulation into sub-problems using Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers and jointly learning parameters for the regression model to train the SAE for the regression problem. The learned weights enable estimating the unknown target values.
US11586920B2
A circuit for performing neural network computations for a neural network comprising a plurality of neural network layers, the circuit comprising: a matrix computation unit configured to, for each of the plurality of neural network layers: receive a plurality of weight inputs and a plurality of activation inputs for the neural network layer, and generate a plurality of accumulated values based on the plurality of weight inputs and the plurality of activation inputs; and a vector computation unit communicatively coupled to the matrix computation unit and configured to, for each of the plurality of neural network layers: apply an activation function to each accumulated value generated by the matrix computation unit to generate a plurality of activated values for the neural network layer.
US11586919B2
A task-based learning using task-directed prediction network can be provided. Training data can be received. Contextual information associated with a task-based criterion can be received. A machine learning model can be trained using the training data. A loss function computed during training of the machine learning model integrates the task-based criterion, and minimizing the loss function during training iterations includes minimizing the task-based criterion.
US11586910B1
Some embodiments provide a neural network inference circuit (NNIC) for executing a neural network that includes computation nodes at multiple layers. The NNIC includes multiple value computation circuits for computing output values of computation nodes. The NNIC includes a set of memories for storing the output values of computation nodes for use as input values to computation nodes in subsequent layers of the neural network. The NNIC includes a set of write control circuits for writing the computed output values to the set of memories. Upon receiving a set of computed output values, a write control circuit (i) temporarily stores the set of computed output values in a cache when adding the set of computed output values to the cache does not cause the cache to fill up and (ii) writes data in the cache to the set of memories when the cache fills up.
US11586908B1
Systems and methods for training a neural network model includes providing a quantization function including a quantization log threshold parameter associated with a log value of a quantization threshold. A quantization training to a neural network model is performed to generate quantized neural network parameters. The quantization training includes: generating first values with a first precision for the neural network parameters; performing a first optimization process to generate an updated quantization log threshold parameter; and generating quantized values with a second precision lower than the first precision for the neural network parameters by applying the quantization function with the updated quantization log threshold parameter to the first values. The neural network model with the quantized values for the neural network parameters is provided for performing a task.
US11586893B2
Core utilization optimization by dividing computational blocks across neurosynaptic cores is provided. In some embodiments, a neural network description describing a neural network is read. The neural network comprises a plurality of functional units on a plurality of cores. A functional unit is selected from the plurality of functional units. The functional unit is divided into a plurality of subunits. The plurality of subunits are connected to the neural network in place of the functional unit. The plurality of functional units and the plurality of subunits are reallocated between the plurality of cores. One or more unused cores are removed from the plurality of cores. An optimized neural network description is written based on the reallocation.
US11586891B2
Provided are an integrated circuit chip apparatus and a related product, the integrated circuit chip apparatus being used for executing a multiplication operation, a convolution operation or a training operation of a neural network. The present technical solution has the advantages of a small amount of calculation and low power consumption.
US11586887B2
According to an embodiment, a neural network apparatus includes a plurality of neuron circuits, each including an integration circuit, a firing circuit, and a secondary battery. The integration circuit is configured to output an integral signal obtained by integrating input signals. The firing circuit is configured to generate, in accordance with the integral signal, a pulse signal to be transmitted to the neuron circuit provided at a subsequent layer. The secondary battery is configured to supply the firing circuit with drive electric power used for generating the pulse signal.
US11586878B1
Methods and systems for a cascading model architecture for providing information on a reply email. Training sample data can be created using a user's incoming reply emails from external computer devices to a user's computer device. A receptivity neural network model can be trained using the training sample data of the reply emails, and a trained receptivity neural network model can be used to determine a receptivity classification for whether new reply emails are positive reply emails or non-positive reply emails. Sample data of non-positive reply emails can be augmented, and an objection identification neural network model can be trained on the augmented sample data of the non-positive reply emails. A trained objection identification neural network model can be used to determine a objection classification for new non-positive reply emails. Explainability information for a classified reply email can be determined to provide information key words and/or key phrases that were used by the trained receptivity neural network model and the trained objection identification neural network model to classify new positive reply emails and new non-positive reply emails.
US11586866B2
A system includes a server and a printing apparatus. The server manages a first printing content and a second printing content as a predetermined printing target. When an instruction user issues a speech instruction for printing the predetermined printing target to an audio control device as an n-th speech print instruction, the server selects the first printing content associated with the predetermined printing target.
US11586849B2
Techniques regarding mitigating bias in one or more machine learning models are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a model component that can evaluate a machine learning model at a plurality of threshold settings to generate a sample set and can define a relationship between a fairness metric and a utility metric of the machine learning model based on the sample set.
US11586848B2
An object recognition device including an artificial neural network (NN) engine configured to receive learning data and weights, make an object recognition model (ORM) learn by using the received information, and provide selected weight data including weights from the selected portion of the weights, and further configured to receive a feature vector, and apply the feature vector extracted from an object data that constructs the object and the selected weight data to the learned ORM to provide an object recognition result, a nonvolatile memory (NVM) configured to store the learned ORM, and an error correction code (ECC) engine configured to perform an ECC encoding on the selected weight data to generate parity data, provide the selected weight data and the parity data to the NVM, and provide the selected weight data to the NN engine by performing an ECC decoding on the selected weight data based on the parity data.
US11586845B2
A method for using images that represent time-series data to forecast future images depicting future values as pixelated information is provided. The method includes: receiving a first set of time-series data; converting the received first set of time-series data into a first image; and using the first image to forecast a future image depicting future values as pixelated information that corresponds to a future time interval Training sets of time-series data are used to generate historical data that provides input to a machine learning algorithm, which provides, as an output, a composite image that depicts the future values as pixelated information that reflects associated uncertainties in the value predictions.
US11586844B2
This disclosure relates to method and system for detecting and tracking at least one object in a rotational environment. The method includes receiving a set of first features based on first data and a set of second features based on second data, detecting at least one object based on the set of first features using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based predictive model, determining a set of first parameters for the at least one object, detecting the at least one object based on the set of second features using the CNN based predictive model, determining a set of second parameters for the at least one object, and tracking the at least one object based on the set of first parameters and the set of second parameters. It should be noted that the first data and the second data sequentially belong to an input dataset that includes images or video frames.
