US11659780B2
A semiconductor device and method of forming a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a pore-type heater having a center pore recess. The semiconductor device further includes a tapered structure formed on the pore-type heater and having a tip portion at least extending down to the center pore recess. The semiconductor device also includes a containment layer confining volatile active material during any of a fabrication and an operation of the semiconductor device performed above a threshold temperature.
US11659776B2
The present invention relates to a high temperature-superconducting wire having a superconducting layer laminated thereon and a method of manufacturing the same. The method includes: preparing a pair of superconducting wires each of which includes a metal substrate, a buffer layer, a superconducting layer, and a protective layer; laminating the pair of superconducting wires to allow respective protective layers to face each other; performing thermal treatment to the laminated superconducting wires to join the protective layers together; separating the metal substrate and the buffer layer from the superconducting layer on one side; and forming a protective layer on an upper part of the superconducting layer having a surface exposed. The present invention provides a high temperature-superconducting wire which includes a plurality of biaxially textured superconducting layers laminated thereby improving electro-conductivity, wherein the plurality of superconducting layers are separated from each other thereby reducing a loss of alternating current.
US11659775B2
An integrated circuit die includes a magnetic tunnel junction as a storage element of a MRAM cell. The integrated circuit die includes a top electrode positioned on the magnetic tunnel junction. The integrated circuit die includes a first sidewall spacer laterally surrounding the top electrode. The first sidewall spacer acts as a mask for patterning the magnetic tunnel junction. The integrated circuit die includes a second sidewalls spacer positioned on a lateral surface of the magnetic tunnel junction.
US11659774B2
Methods and devices are provided that include a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) element. A first spacer layer abuts sidewalls of the MTJ element. The first spacer layer has a low-dielectric constant (low-k) oxide composition. A second spacer layer is disposed on the first spacer layer and has a low-k nitride composition.
US11659773B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a first conductor extending along a first direction, a second conductor extending along a second direction and above the first conductor, and a first layer stack provided between the first conductor and the second conductor and including a first magnetoresistance effect element. The first layer stack has a rectangular shape along a stack surface of the first layer stack. The rectangular shape of the first layer stack has a side intersecting with both the first direction and the second direction.
US11659769B2
A piezoelectric composition including manganese and a complex oxide having a perovskite structure represented by a general formula ABO3, wherein an A site element in the ABO3 is potassium or potassium and sodium, a B site element in the ABO3 is niobium, a concentration distribution of the manganese has a variation, and the variation shows a CV value of 35% or more and 440% or less.
US11659768B2
Provided is a piezoelectric material filler including alkali niobate compound particles having a ratio (K/(Na+K)) of the number of moles of potassium to the total number of moles of sodium and potassium of 0.460 to 0.495 in terms of atoms and a ratio ((Li+Na+K)/Nb) of the total number of moles of alkali metal elements to the number of moles of niobium of 0.995 to 1.005 in terms of atoms. The present invention can provide a piezoelectric material filler having excellent piezoelectric properties, and a composite piezoelectric material including the piezoelectric material filler and a polymer matrix.
US11659767B2
A thermoelectric element-containing package according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a thermoelectric conversion module including: a first substrate having first and second main surfaces; a second substrate having third and fourth main surfaces; and a plurality of thermoelectric elements that are sandwiched between the first and second substrates and arranged along the second main surface and the third main surface. The thermoelectric element-containing package further includes: a frame joined to the first and second substrates so as to form a hermetically sealed space surrounding the plurality of thermoelectric elements and disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a placement member that is disposed on the first main surface of the first substrate or the fourth main surface of the second substrate and to which an additional device is to be connected.
US11659763B2
The present invention relates to iridium complexes suitable for use in organic electroluminescent devices, especially as emitters.
US11659756B2
A sensor unit including a plurality of driving electrodes, and a plurality of sensing electrodes, in which a first unit sensor is defined by R driving electrodes among the plurality of driving electrodes and S sensing electrodes among the plurality of sensing electrodes in a first driving mode, a second unit sensor is defined by P driving electrodes among the plurality of driving electrodes and Q sensing electrodes among the plurality of sensing electrodes in a second driving mode, P, Q, R and S are integers equal to or greater than 1, and R is smaller than P, and S is smaller than Q.
US11659751B2
In one embodiment, a pixel for an image sensor includes a first subpixel and a second subpixel. Each of the first and second subpixels include a polygon shape. Each of the first and second subpixels include an emissive layer, a transparent cathode layer, and a transparent anode layer.
US11659750B2
Provided is a tiled display. The tiled display includes: a first display device including a first display area including pixels, a second display device including a second display area including pixels adjacent to the first display area, and a seam between the first display area and the second display area. Each of the first display device and the second display device includes: a first base part supporting a respective one of the first display device and the second display device, a thin-film transistor layer on the first base part, the thin-film transistor layer including thin-film transistors included in the pixels and including connection lines in the seam, and bridge electrodes in the seam to couple between the connection lines of the first display device and the second display device.
US11659748B2
Disclosed is a display device including a transistor, a light emitting element disposed on the transistor and including a first electrode, a second electrode on the first electrode, and an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, a data line spaced apart from the light emitting element, and a shield electrode disposed at a same level of the first electrode. When viewed in a plan view, the shield electrode overlaps the data line and extends along the data line.
US11659744B2
A display panel includes: a display area including a main display area, and a component area; a peripheral area; a plurality of main pixel circuits at the main display area; a plurality of main gate lines extending in a first direction, and connected to the main pixel circuits; a plurality of main data lines extending in a second direction, and connected to the main pixel circuits; a plurality of auxiliary display elements at the component area; a plurality of auxiliary pixel circuits at the periphery area, and connected to the auxiliary display elements; a plurality of auxiliary gate lines connected to the auxiliary pixel circuits, and to main gate lines that are adjacent to the component area in the first direction; and a plurality of auxiliary data lines connected to the auxiliary pixel circuits, and to main data lines that are adjacent to the component area in the second direction.
US11659743B2
A display panel includes a substrate having a non-display area surrounding an opening area, and a display area outside the non-display area, a plurality of display elements arranged in the display area, a plurality of first lines extending in a first direction and bypassing the opening area along an edge of the opening area, a plurality of second lines extending in a second direction that crosses the first direction and, the plurality of second lines bypassing the opening area along the edge of the opening area, and a plurality of third lines extending in the second direction and bypassing the opening area along the edge of the opening area, at least one of the plurality of third lines including a circuitous portion between neighboring first lines of the plurality of first lines in the non-display area.
US11659740B2
An organic light-emitting display device includes a plurality of pixels, each of which includes an organic light-emitting device including a pixel electrode, an organic emission layer, and an opposing electrode; a pixel defining layer covering an edge of the pixel electrode and being configured to define a light-emission region by having an opening which exposes a portion of the pixel electrode; and a reference line overlapping the pixel electrode with an insulating layer between the reference line and the pixel electrode and extending in a first direction. The reference line overlaps with a center point of the opening, and the opening is shifted to one side of the pixel electrode in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US11659736B2
Disclosed is a light emitting display device which may block lateral leakage current. The light emitting display device includes electrode patterns arranged under a bank between adjacent subpixels so as to form a vertical channel, the bank covered by the electrode patterns functions as a gate insulating film and thus dielectric polarization occurs therein, and charges move from a common layer having high hole mobility to a common layer having low hole mobility, thereby being capable of preventing lateral leakage current.
US11659727B2
Disclosed is an electroluminescent display device including a first pixel including a first sub pixel configured to emit first colored light, a second sub pixel configured to emit second colored light, and a third sub pixel configured to emit third colored light, a first electrode in the first sub pixel, an emission layer on the first electrode, a second electrode on the emission layer, and a first charge blocking layer provided below the second electrode and configured to prevent a light emission in the emission layer, wherein the first electrode is electrically connected with a driving thin film transistor in a first contact area provided in the first sub pixel, and the first charge blocking layer is overlapped with the first contact area.
US11659716B2
A method of forming memory circuitry comprises using a digitline mask to form both: (a) conductive digitlines in a memory array area, and (b) lower portions of conductive vias in a peripheral circuitry area laterally of the memory array area. The lower portions of the vias electrically couple with circuitry below the vias and the digitlines. Pairs of conductive wordlines are formed above the digitlines in the memory array area. The pairs of wordlines extend from the memory array area into the peripheral circuitry area. Individual of the pairs are directly above individual of the lower portions of individual of the vias. Individual upper portions of the individual vias are formed. The individual upper portions both: (c) directly electrically couple to one of the individual lower portions of the individual vias, and (d) directly electrically couple together the wordlines of the individual pair of wordlines that are directly above the respective one individual lower portion of the respective individual via. Other methods, and structure independent of method of fabrication, are disclosed.
US11659698B2
A power module for electric drives is provided which comprises at least one exciter circuit with at least one power semiconductor, wherein the power module is molded and the exciter circuit with the at least one power semiconductor is integrated in the molded power module. A traction inverter is also provided which comprises a water-cooled main cooler, wherein the main cooler comprises a bearing surface which is configured to receive power modules, wherein the traction inverter comprises at least one molded power module, and wherein the main cooler forms a cooling connection which is configured to receive the molded power module on the main cooler.
US11659696B2
A thermal management assembly may implement cooling techniques to cool at least a portion of a computer system with one or more cooling systems. The techniques may include using a thermal management assembly in fluid communication with the cooling system(s) to supply fluid from at least one of the cooling systems to at least a portion of the computer system. The techniques may also or instead include using a first thermal coupling to transfer thermal energy between the first cooling system and the computer system and a second thermal coupling to transfer thermal energy between the second cooling system and the computer system. Cooling a computer system using the cooling techniques described herein lowers an operating temperature of the computer system thereby mitigating heat related computer failure.
US11659695B2
Telemetry system metric data that is collected within a data center may be collectively analyzed in order to identify zones within the data center that exhibit deviations in reported metric data. The analyzed metric data is collected from IHSs (Information Handling Systems), such as servers, operating in the data center. The metric data reported by the respective IHSs identifies the location the IHS within the data center. The collected metric data is analyzed to identify metrics that are correlated with locations within the data center. Within the identified metric data that is correlated with data center locations, a zone of the data center is identified that includes a subset of IHSs that have reported anomalous metric data relative to the metric data reported by neighboring IHSs. For instance, such a zone may be an aisle of the data center, one or more racks, and/or rows of servers spanning multiple racks.
US11659689B2
A heatsink assembly for an electronic device is described. The heatsink assembly includes a shield, a thermally conductive spacer and a heatsink. The shield has at least one indentation on a surface thereof that is positioned over a component needing thermal dissipation that is attached to the printed circuit board. The thermally conductive spacer is 5 positioned within the at least one indentation on the shield. The heatsink is positioned over the thermally conductive spacer and fastened to the printed circuit board.
US11659688B2
An information technology (IT) equipment cooling system includes a coolant unit to be coupled to an electronic rack, the coolant unit to supply a two phase liquid coolant to one or more IT equipment cooling sets mounted within on an electronic rack. Each of the one or more IT equipment cooling sets includes an IT unit having one or more pieces of IT equipment configured to provide IT services and is at least partially submerged within the two phase liquid coolant, where, while the IT equipment provides the IT services, the IT equipment generates heat that is transferred to the two phase liquid coolant thereby causing at least some of the two phase liquid coolant to turn into vapor phase. The IT equipment cooling set includes an IT condensing unit having a condenser positioned above the IT unit and the condenser is to condense the vapor back into liquid state.
US11659685B2
An information handling system may include an information handling resource, at least one fluidic conduit thermally coupled to the information handling resource and configured to convey a cooling liquid proximate to the information handling resource in order to cool the information handling resource, an air mover support infrastructure comprising a plurality of bays, each bay of the plurality of bays configured to receive an air mover for cooling components of the information handling system, and a liquid manifold sized and shaped to be received in at least one of the plurality of bays and received in a first bay of the plurality of bays and configured to enable at least one fluidic conduit to fluidically couple to an external cooling system, wherein the external cooling system is configured to deliver cooled cooling liquid to the information handling system, receive warmed cooling liquid from the information handling system, and cool the warmed cooling liquid.
US11659684B2
An energy management unit (EMU) is disclosed. The EMU including: a cold plate sandwiched between a first printed circuit board (PCB) and a second PCB, the cold plate comprising one or more magnetics; wherein the cold plate is configured to cool both the first PCB and the second PCB.
US11659674B2
A display device includes a display panel, a frame disposed on a rear surface of the display panel, a plurality of panel magnets disposed in the frame, a plurality of panel ferromagnetic substances disposed on both side surfaces of each of the plurality of magnets, and a connecting module disposed on the rear surface of the display panel and having a connecting plate for supplying power to the display panel, in which the connecting plate is configured to protrude outside the frame or be positioned more inward than the rear surface of the frame depending on the detachment from the panel ferromagnetic substances of the connecting module.
US11659659B2
A ceramic electronic component of the present disclosure includes a component body including a ceramic layer, at least one terminal electrode provided on one main surface of the component body, and an insulating covering layer provided across the ceramic layer and the terminal electrode to cover part, instead of an entire circumference, of a peripheral edge portion of the terminal electrode, wherein when viewed in plan view from one main surface of the component body, the covering layer intersects with the terminal electrode at a non-perpendicular angle at an intersection of the covering layer and the terminal electrode not covered with the covering layer.
US11659656B2
A stretchable wiring board that includes a stretchable substrate having a first main surface with a first region, a second region adjacent the first region, and a third region adjacent the second region; a first stretchable wiring line on the first main surface and extending over the first region; an insulating layer extending over the first region and the second region; and a second stretchable wiring line extending over the first region, the second region, and the third region. When a thickness of the insulating layer is defined as Z2, and when a minimum value of a length of the second region in an extending direction of the second stretchable wiring line in a plan view of the stretchable wiring board is defined as Y, Y>Z2.
US11659653B2
An electronic device includes a window, a display panel disposed under the window, a cushion member disposed under the display panel, and a first electronic module disposed under the window and inserted into a first hole defined in the display panel and the cushion member. The first hole includes a first hole portion defined in the display panel, and a second hole portion defined in the cushion member. The second hole portion has a width greater than a width of the first hole portion.
US11659652B2
A resin substrate includes an insulating base material including opposing first and second main surfaces, at least one of which is parallel or substantially parallel to each of an X-axis direction and a Y-axis direction. The insulating base material is divided into first and second sections arranged in the X-axis direction. The first section includes, when evenly divided into three in a Z-axis direction, a first region closest to the first main surface, a second region closest to the second main surface, and a third region between the first region and the second region. A degree of resin molecular orientation in the first region in the Y-axis direction is greater than a degree of resin molecular orientation in the second section of the insulating base material in the Y-axis direction.
US11659647B2
A method for generating atmospheric pressure cold plasma inside a hand-held unit discharges cold plasma with simultaneously different rf wavelengths and their harmonies. The unit includes an rf tuning network that is powered by a low-voltage power supply connected to a series of high-voltage coils and capacitors. The rf energy signal is transferred to a primary containment chamber and dispersed through an electrode plate network of various sizes and thicknesses to create multiple frequencies. Helium gas is introduced into the first primary containment chamber, where electron separation is initiated. The energized gas flows into a secondary magnetic compression chamber, where a balanced frequency network grid with capacitance creates the final electron separation, which is inverted magnetically and exits through an orifice with a nozzle. The cold plasma thus generated has been shown to be capable of accelerating a healing process in flesh wounds on animal laboratory specimens.
US11659643B2
A power supply, includes: a hot node coupled to a hot wire of an AC source, and a ground node coupled to an earth ground, where a neutral wire of the source is not present; a storage component, coupled to a return node and in series with a current limiter, where the current limiter enables the storage component to charge to a voltage while limiting leakage current to a prescribed value; a low voltage power supply including a linear voltage regulator, coupled to the storage component and to a return node that provides a reference voltage, where the low voltage power supply receives the voltage and generates an output voltage on an output node that is referenced to the reference voltage; and a wireless transceiver that employs the output voltage to transmit and receive messages from one or more corresponding wireless devices.
US11659639B2
The present invention provides a power control circuit which has a timing unit used for timing an elapsed time of current half cycle of the phase-cut AC power supply signal, outputting a current accumulated timing duration, and outputting a first control signal at a starting moment when a starting point of a half cycle of the AC power supply signal is detected; a regulating unit connected to the timing unit and comprising a temporary storage module, wherein a final reference time interval is stored in the temporary storage module, and when the current accumulated timing duration reaches the final reference time interval, the regulating unit outputs a second control signal; and a control unit connected to the detection unit and the regulating unit and used for controlling current in a load based on the first control signal and the second control signal.
US11659636B2
A display device that can display an image along a curved surface is provided. In the display device, a first display panel and a second display panel overlap each other with a light-transmitting layer provided therebetween. The light-transmitting layer is positioned on a display surface side of the first display panel, and on a side opposite to the display surface of the second display panel. The light-transmitting layer has an average transmittance of 80% or more with respect to light in the wavelength range of 450 nm to 700 nm and a refractive index higher than that of air. A display region of the first display panel overlaps a region transmitting visible light of the second display panel with the light-transmitting layer provided therebetween. It is preferred that the display region of the first display panel not overlap with a region blocking visible light of the second display panel.
US11659630B2
An electrically heatable glazing panel including a substrate and at least a first electrically heatable zone including: (i) a substantially transparent, electrically conductive coating layer, (ii) at least first and second spaced bus bars substantially parallel and configured to supply electrical voltage across the substantially transparent, electrically conductive coating layer, and (iii) a conductive pathway defined between the at least the first and the second busbars. The glazing panel further includes a conductive pathway provided by a pattern of coated and decoated regions in the substantially transparent electrically conductive coating layer of electrically heatable zone to affect electrical resistivity of the coating in the first electrically heatable coated zone.
US11659622B2
A method for wireless communications in a mesh network at a first device is disclosed. The method includes receiving, during a friendship termination procedure, direct forwarding information from a second device and storing the directed forwarding information from the second device. The method also includes terminating the friendship with the second device and establishing a friendship with a third device. The method also includes transmitting the directed forwarding information to the third device.
US11659611B2
The present disclosure proposes a method of an end-point of a user plane path between an access network and a core network in a telecommunication network, comprising: detecting whether a failure exists on the user plane path or not; and notifying a node in the core network of the failure in order for the node to handle the failure, upon detecting the failure. With this method, the failure can be handled timely, thus minimizing the service interruption.
US11659608B2
A method for Bluetooth inquiry/paging and a communication device therefor are provided. The method includes transmitting a plurality of inquiry/paging messages in a transmission time slot to inquire/page a peer device, wherein, the number of inquiry/paging messages is greater than two; and activating a plurality reception windows in a reception time slot to receive response messages from the peer device. The invention also provides a corresponding communication device. The invention reduces the time required for inquiry/paging to the peer device, thereby reducing the time it takes to establish a Bluetooth connection between the two devices.
US11659597B2
A user equipment and a method for a 2-step random access (RA) procedure are provided. The method includes performing a first Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) procedure on a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) occasion for transmitting a preamble of a message A (MSGA), performing a second LBT procedure on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) occasion for transmitting a payload of the MSGA, the payload including a Cell-Radio Network Temporary Identifier (C-RNTI) Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE), monitoring Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) candidates for a first random access response (RAR) identified by a message B (MSGB)-Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) in a MSGB window, and determining whether to monitor the PDCCH candidates for a second RAR identified by the C-RNTI in the MSGB window based on whether the second LBT procedure is successful.
US11659591B2
Provided is a wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication terminal includes a transceiver and a processor. The processer performs a contention procedure based on a back-off counter, in each of a plurality of channel and accesses, by using the transceiver, at least one of the plurality of channels based on the contention procedure.
US11659584B2
Implementations relate to configuration of wireless communication signals between devices. In some implementations, a method includes determining a transmission scenario associated with transmission of wireless signals of a particular wireless communication protocol from a first device to a second device. The transmission scenario specifies one or more transmission characteristics for the signal transmission. A test message is sent wirelessly from the first device to the second device according to the transmission scenario, and a reply message is received from the second device in response to test message. The reply message includes one or more signal quality indicators that indicate a signal quality of the test message. The transmission scenario is selected as a designated scenario based on the signal quality indicators, and data is wirelessly transmitted from the first device to the second device according to the designated scenario.
US11659581B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and device for multi-AP beamforming (e.g., nulling) and spatial reuse to mitigate interference and improve the performance of MAP wireless networks. According to one embodiment, multiple APs agree to collaborate in multi-AP beamforming, transmissions of received PDDUs are measured to determine interference information, the APS generate interference maps, and the APs perform joint and Multi-AP beamforming in a first and second BSS to avoid/mitigate interference of the MAP wireless network. An RTS and CTS frame exchange sequence can be performed prior to Multi-AP beamforming between BSSs using a flag/indicator in the RTS frame to indicate coordinated transmission, or an UL trigger frame can be used to indicate a coordinated UL transmission.
US11659580B2
Channel assignment for wireless access networks is directed toward improved overall communication capability of the networks. A network is formed of wireless access points (APs) coupled via wired (and/or wireless) links and enabled to communicate with clients via radio channels of each of the APs. Local information is collected at each of the APs and processed to determine channel assignments according to a Neighbor Impact Metric (NIM) that accounts for one-hop and two-hop neighbors as well as neighbors not part of the network. Optionally, the NIM accounts for traffic load on the APs. The channel assignments are determined either on a centralized resource (such as a server or one of the APs) or via a distributed scheme across the APs. The local information includes how busy a channel is and local operating conditions such as error rate and interference levels.
US11659572B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify a priority rule for selecting to monitor a first beam associated with a first broadcast transmission or a second beam that differs from the first beam and is associated with a unicast transmission. The UE may use the priority rule when a scheduling conflict is identified between the first broadcast transmission and the unicast transmission. Such conflicts may include at least one of a broadcast transmission, a control resource set (CORESET) monitoring occasion of the broadcast transmission, or reference signals of the broadcast transmission at least partially overlapping with a unicast transmission, a CORESET monitoring occasion of the unicast transmission, or reference signals associated with the unicast transmission. The UE may monitor, in accordance with the priority rule, one of the first beam or the second beam based on identification of scheduling conflict.
US11659566B2
Aspects relate to using less than all of an allocation for sending information. For example, a first device such as a user equipment (UE) may receive a grant from a second device such as a base station (e.g., a gNB) where the grant identifies resources and/or a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) allocated to the first device for a transmission. Due to one or more factors, the first device may elect to not use all of the allocated resources and/or may elect to use a lower MCS value. In some implementations, the first device may send an indication of this election to the second device. In some implementations, the first device may send information in a first subset of the allocated resources and apply puncturing to a second subset of the allocated resource.
US11659562B2
In one embodiment, a method in a wireless device (110) for adaptive HARQ retransmissions comprises receiving, from a network node (100), a request to initiate an adaptive hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) retransmission. The method comprises identifying a HARQ process associated with the HARQ retransmission request and determining whether a HARQ buffer of the HARQ process is empty. In response to determining that the HARQ buffer is empty, the method comprises not delivering the HARQ information to the HARQ process and not triggering an adaptive HARQ retransmission.
US11659560B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that facilitate feedback for transmissions or retransmissions, such as hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgment/negative-acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) feedback reports. A UE may report feedback for regular downlink transmission and semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) transmissions in one or more group-based acknowledgment feedback reports, in which SPS transmissions are associated with a group for providing the feedback report and any retransmissions of the feedback report. Acknowledgment feedback reports may also indicate new data indicator values according to a predetermined value for SPS transmissions in one-shot feedback reports.
US11659555B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that support non-periodic channel state information (CSI) triggering and reporting in wireless communications. In cases where two or more CSI report requests trigger multiple CSI report transmissions in an same uplink slot, a user equipment (UE) may format at least a subset of the multiple CSI reports according to a formatting configuration for transmission of multiple CSI reports in a same uplink slot. The UE may use allocated resources in the uplink slot for each CSI report that are allocated by the base station in the corresponding CSI report request. In some cases, the UE may combine the multiple CSI reports, or parts thereof, into a combined CSI report that may be transmitted using allocated resources of one of the CSI report requests.
US11659552B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to sidelink communications in a TDD system are provided. A first user equipment (UE) may receive from a base station (BS), a time-division-duplexing (TDD) configuration. The first UE may select a first TDD configuration from a set of configured TDD configurations based on the TDD configuration. Additionally, the first UE may transmit to a second UE, an indication of the first TDD configuration. The first and the second UEs may communicate a sidelink communication based on the first TDD configuration. Other features are also claimed and described.
US11659551B2
Systems and methods for sidelink configuration are provided. A transmitting user equipment (UE) transmits configuration parameters relating to a sidelink transmission between the UE and a second UE via higher-layer signalling and then transmits the sidelink transmission to the second UE. The higher layer signalling is a layer above the sidelink transmission. The parameters may include feedback channel parameters or parameters for sidelink reference signal transmission by the second UE. The parameters may be selected by the transmitting UE, or they may be received initially from the network. The parameters may be part of a sidelink configured grant configuration (SL CG) signalled to the second UE. The sidelink transmission may be a configured-grant transmission to the second UE according to the SL CG configuration. The higher layer signalling may be PC5 signalling or RRC signaling.
US11659550B2
Provided are methods and apparatuses for sending, configuring and receiving a configuration resource. A signal sending method includes: where a sending mode of a signal sent by using the first configuration resource includes a mode of time-domain code division multiplexing, and a signal sent by using the second configuration resource includes a phase tracking reference signal; and sending signals by using the first configuration resource and the second configuration resource, where a resource intersection of the first configuration resource and the second configuration resource in time domain is an empty set.
US11659549B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink control message that schedules a downlink signal on a second carrier for the UE. The UE may determine a transmission scheme of a plurality of transmission schemes based at least in part on the first carrier, the second carrier, and a second transmission reception point scheduled for transmission of the downlink signal. The UE may determine a delay between the downlink control message and the downlink signal based at least in part on the transmission scheme and receive the downlink signal via the second carrier in accordance with the determined delay.
US11659545B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a gateway wherein the method comprises to detect a downlink data packet session transmitted to the first user entity, and to amend the lifetime indicator in at least some of the data packets of the detected downlink data packet session such that the data packets for which the lifetime indicator has been amended, have reached the end of the lifetime and cannot be transmitted further when arriving at the first user entity.
US11659543B1
Systems and methods are provided for dynamically allocating SSB beams. It is determined that a relay device and a plurality of user devices are communicating with a cell site by way of a first beam. A quantity of user devices communicating by way of the first beam is then determined. It is determined that this quantity of user devices exceeds a predetermined threshold. A second beam that has a signal strength that is lower than the first beam is identified. The signal strengths are compared between the first beam and the second beam. It is determined that the difference between the signal strength of the first beam and the signal strength of the second beam is below a predetermined amount. The second beam is then dynamically reassigned to at least a portion of the user devices.
US11659534B2
The application provides a resource configuration method including: determining, by a network device, N downlink virtual carriers or determining N downlink virtual carriers and M uplink virtual carriers, where the N downlink virtual carriers are configured in a same cell, or the N downlink virtual carriers and the M uplink virtual carriers are configured in a same cell, and the cell includes at least one carrier, and the N downlink virtual carriers correspond to a same parameter set, or the N downlink virtual carriers correspond to a same parameter set, and the M uplink virtual carriers correspond to a same parameter set, N>1, and N≥M≥1; and sending, by the network device, configuration information to a terminal, where the configuration information is used to configure the N downlink virtual carriers or used to configure the N downlink virtual carriers and the M uplink virtual carriers.
US11659521B2
Aspects presented herein may enable a sidelink device to report or to receive HARQ feedback for sidelink channels based on a long PSFCH format. In one aspect, an apparatus transmits, to a second UE, an indication to provide HARQ feedback for at least one sidelink channel. The apparatus transmits, to the second UE, the at least one sidelink channel. The apparatus receives, from the second UE, an ACK or a NACK for the at least one sidelink channel via a PSFCH, the PSFCH including a long PSFCH format and associated with a sidelink resource pool.
US11659519B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for monitoring paging in extended DRX cycles in a wireless communication system.
US11659517B2
A communication system is disclosed in which am anchor base station receives, from a core network node, downlink data for a communication device. The base station attempts (e.g. by RAN-based paging) to initiate communication with the communication device, and when the communication device does not respond to the attempt to initiate communication, the base station sends a message to the core network node, the message requesting initiation of a paging procedure for the communication device (e.g. S1-based paging).
US11659511B2
The present invention relates to methods and arrangements in a base station and a user equipment for determining an uplink transmission timing correction for communication in a telecommunication system in which aggregation of component carriers is applied. The base station receives a signal from the user equipment on an uplink (UL) component carrier and measures the arrival time of the signal. A timing correction of the UL transmission timing based on the arrival time of the signal is determined. Thereupon the base station determines for which of the uplink component carriers used by the user equipment the timing correction is valid. The timing correction and the validity information is sent to the user equipment. The user equipment adjusts the UL transmission timing for each UL component carrier the timing correction is valid for.
US11659508B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for synchronization signal block reception and synchronization signal block transmission. One apparatus for synchronization signal block reception includes a receiver that receives multiple synchronization signal blocks. The multiple synchronization signal blocks have different power levels corresponding to at least two synchronization signal blocks of the multiple synchronization signal blocks.
US11659505B2
System and method for synchronizing at least one small cell with at least one macro cell in a heterogeneous network. The method comprises the at least one small cell triggering an NB-IoT modem for a clock reference signal. The NB-IoT modem detects a first synchronization signal and a second synchronization signal, the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal being transmitted by at least one NB-IoT cell connected to the at least one macro cell. The NB-IoT modem synchronizes the at least one small cell with the at least one macro cell based on at least one of the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal.
US11659498B2
A method of declaring Equivalent Isotropically Radiated Power (EIRP) for an operating frequency band of a base station. The method includes: declaring a first EIRP for a first frequency of the operating frequency band, declaring a second EIRP for a second frequency of the operating frequency band, and declaring a third EIRP for a third frequency of the operating frequency band, wherein the third frequency is between the first frequency and the second frequency, and wherein the second frequency is higher than the first frequency.
US11659487B2
The present invention provides a wireless device including a first wireless module and a second wireless module is disclosed. The first wireless module is configured to transmit data periodically, the second wireless module is configured to communicate with an electronic device, and the second wireless module and the first wireless module perform data transmission/reception based on a time-division multiplexing method. In addition, the second wireless module determines a wake interval and a doze interval based on traffic characteristics of the first wireless module.
US11659485B2
A message transmitting/receiving apparatus and method and a communication system. The message transmitting method includes: determining a message type of a message to be transmitted to one or more user equipments; scrambling control information of the message by using an identity to which the message type corresponds; wherein, different identities correspond to different message types; and transmitting data information of the message and the scrambled control information to the one or more user equipment.
US11659482B2
The present invention relates to a method of signalling in an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) network. The method comprises signalling metrics from a parent IAB node to a child IAB node for association of the child IAB node with the parent IAB node. Information related to multiplexing capability and supported modes of operation is signalled from the child IAB node to the parent IAB node. An active mode of operation is determined at the child IAB node. Timing Advance (TA) for each active mode of operation, guard information for each active mode of operation, and exchanges for In-Band Full Duplexing (IBFD) mode of operation are signalled. Further, fallback capability of IAB nodes during presence of Self-Interference (SI) is also signalled.
US11659477B2
The present disclosure provides a user equipment for a mobile telecommunications system, which includes circuitry configured to communicate with a new radio base station. The circuitry is further configured to transmit an on-demand system information request to the new radio base station, wherein the on-demand system information request is transmitted based on a backup resource.
US11659471B2
A system, method and computer-readable medium for allowing the use of an alternative numbering plan for delivering short messages to mobile subscribers using the public mobile telephone network is provided. Users of an enterprise or other closed networks as well as users that are not part of a closed network may send short messages destined to members of an enterprise or closed network from their mobile or other devices associated with their subscription using an alternative enterprise directory number, such as the office number, instead of the mobile number, such that the alternative number will be presented at the destination device as the originating number. The recipient may respond to the message by addressing the response to the enterprise or closed network number, and the response may be delivered to the originator's mobile or other device associated with their subscription.
US11659467B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes determining a failure to receive and decode at least one scheduled downlink (DL) transmission from a network entity is based, at least in part, on the UE being out of coverage and taking one or more actions, based, at least in part, on one or more conditions. The one or more actions include at least one of: performing an autonomous handover (HO) or transmitting a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) with beam sweeping across multiple slots.
US11659455B2
A processing method includes: obtaining a current movement trajectory; matching the current movement trajectory with history movement trajectories and obtaining matching degrees; determining a target cell according to a history movement trajectory having the matching degree greater than a preset matching threshold and a correspondence between the history movement trajectory and a cell; and sending a handover request to a source base station, the handover request comprising a determined target cell identifier of the target cell.
US11659447B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include methods, performed by a first node in an integrated access backhaul (IAB) network, for flow control of data transmission from a base station to a plurality of user equipment (UEs) via the IAB network. Such embodiments can include detecting a reduction in data transmission throughput in the first node, and determining that the reduction in data transmission throughput is due to congestion in one or more particular downstream nodes in the IAB network. Such embodiments can also include sending a flow-control message to an upstream node in the IAB network, wherein the flow-control message identifies one or more nodes, in the IAB network, for which a flow-control operation is requested in relation to data transmitted from the upstream node. Other embodiments include complementary methods performed by a second node (e.g., upstream from the first node) and IAB nodes configured to perform such methods.
US11659438B2
A method and apparatus for receiving a notification of missing packets include receiving a set of data packets transmitted by a device and having a corresponding set of sequence numbers, identifying one or more data packets having corresponding sequence numbers that fall within the set of sequence numbers and are yet to be received, receiving an indication from the device that the one or more data packets will not be transmitted by the device, and processing the set of data packets without the one or more data packets in response to receiving the indication.
US11659436B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises: determining, by a network switching device, whether the network switching device is configured as one of multiple leaf network switching devices, one of multiple Top-of-Fabric (ToF) switching devices, or one of multiple intermediate switching devices in a switched data network having a leaf-spine switching architecture; if configured as a leaf switching device, limiting flooding of an advertisement only to a subset of the intermediate switching devices in response to detecting a mobile destination is reachable; if configured as an intermediate switching device, flooding the advertisement, received from any one of the leaf network switching devices, to connected ToF switching devices without installing any routing information specified within the advertisement; if configured as a ToF switching device, installing from the flooded advertisement the routing information and tunneling a data packet, destined for the mobile destination, to the leaf switching device having transmitted the advertisement.
US11659432B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security, and safety services. Embodiments herein disclose a UE for managing a data communication in a wireless communication network. The UE includes a DRB management unit configured to determine a DRB for transmitting a packet based on QoS flow identifier and a PDU session associated with the packet and mapping of the QoS flow identifiers to the DRBs for each established PDU session.
US11659431B2
A receiver mounted on a vehicle moving on a route manages an operation profile that stores data in which a section that is a part of the route and a communication quality in the section are associated, and can receive a first traffic and a second traffic having a lower priority than the first traffic. The receiver determines a section having a good communication quality to a transmission section where the second traffic can be transmitted with reference to the operation profile, and generates control information for controlling transmission of the second traffic not to hinder transmission of the first traffic when the vehicle is located in the transmission section.
US11659430B2
A method of UE power profile adaptation to traffic and UE power consumption characteristics based on power profile is proposed. In one preferred embodiment, hybrid of bandwidth part (BWP) and power profile is proposed. UE is configured with multiple BWPs and each BWP includes a set of power profiles. Two types of adaptation triggering can be used, a first type of trigger is based on power saving signals sent from the network, and the second type of trigger is based on timers. When the traffic characteristic for UE changes, the network can send a power saving signal to UE to trigger power profile adaptation, e.g., BWP+power profile switching. When traffic has been digested and becomes sporadic, then power profile adaptation can be triggered based on timers, e.g., a timer for BWP adaptation and another timer for power profile adaptation.
US11659416B2
Aspects relate to mechanisms for wireless communication devices to reset a beam. A UE identifies a list of a plurality of component carriers (CCs). The UE detects a beam failure on a first CC of the plurality of CCs. The UE transmits a beam failure recovery request including a candidate beam indication of a candidate beam to a base station. The base station receives the beam failure recovery request and transmits a beam failure recovery response to the UE. The UE receives the beam failure recovery response and applies the candidate beam to at least one CC of the plurality of CCs. The UE may apply the candidate beam to every CC or to only the first CC. The UE may apply the candidate beam to the at least one CC of the plurality of CCs following a predetermined number of symbols after receiving the beam failure recovery response.
US11659415B2
Facilitating antenna farm intelligent software defined networking enabled dynamic resource controller networks (e.g., 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a system can comprise evaluating a condition, the condition being at a mobile device, and a characteristic related to a defined network service associated with a connection to the mobile device. The operations can also comprise selectively modifying a quantity of antennas utilized to provide the connection to the mobile device based on the condition being determined to influence a level of service associated with the defined network service.
US11659414B1
A connectivity apparatus and system for upgrading cellular site equipment through a remote desktop connection. The system includes an onsite computer connected to onsite switching and data equipment for the cellular site. The onsite computer establishing a network connection through an array of hotspots provided by mobile data operators. The system disabling the hotspot of the mobile data operator of the cellular site being upgraded. The onsite computer then being accessed by an offsite computer to initiate and administrator the equipment updates using offsite personnel.
US11659410B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) may include determining a directional quality of service parameter for a data packet based at least in part on sensor information or application information associated with the data packet and transmitting the data packet via sidelink communications according to the directional quality of service parameter.
US11659401B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing optimization of network resources. The system is operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment, analyze the electromagnetic environment, and extract environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment. The system extracts the environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment by including customer goals. The system is operable to use the environmental awareness with the customer goals and/or user defined policies and rules to extract actionable information to help the customer optimize the network resources.
US11659392B2
Provided is a process for mobile-initiated authentications to web services. Credential values of the user are established within a trusted execution environment of the mobile device and representations are transmitted to a server. The user of the mobile device may authenticate with the mobile device to the server, which may convey access to a web-based service from a relying device. The server may pass credentials corresponding to the web-service received from the mobile device and verified to permit user access to the web-service to the relying device. The relying device presents credentials to the web-service to login, authenticate, or otherwise obtain user-level permission for the user on the relying device. The user of the mobile device may authenticate with the mobile device to the server, and may initiate the authentication process from the mobile device, without inputting credentials corresponding to the web-service on the relying device.
US11659390B2
Systems and methods are provided for receiving, at an enterprise network, first authentication data of a citizens broadband radio service (CBRS)-enabled device, receiving, at the enterprise network, second authentication data of the CBRS-enabled device, the first authentication data of the CBRS-enabled device being a different type of authentication data than the second authentication data of the CBRS-enabled device, determining a class of the CBRS-enabled device based on the first authentication data and the second authentication data of the CBRS-enabled device, determining a network segment for the CBRS-enabled device based on the class of the CBRS-enabled device, and providing access to the CBRS-enabled device based on the determining of the network segment for the CBRS-enabled device.
US11659385B2
Methods and systems are provided for establishing dynamic and secure peer-to-peer communications channels between terminals. A network device may intercept a connection request transmitted from a first terminal to a second terminal, over a secure network, with the connection request including a first parameter that identifies the first terminal and a second parameter that identifies the second terminal, with the first parameter and the second parameter relating to a network interface that operates according to a security protocol. The network device may then send instructions to the first terminal to establish peer-to-peer communications with the second terminal over a secured ad-hoc public network, using one or more keys provided by a central unit of that network. The keys may include an authentication key, which may be used in authenticating one or both of the terminals, and/or an encryption key, which may be used in encrypting the peer-to-peer communications.
US11659383B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless device may communicate, with a second wireless device, a first set of messages of a first message type that are acknowledged according to an acknowledgement procedure. The first wireless device, the second wireless device, or both may select a first subset of messages of the first plurality of messages and a first subset of bits from each message of the first subset of messages based on the first set of messages being acknowledged and according to a sampling configuration common to both the first wireless device and the second wireless device. The first wireless device, the second wireless device, or both may generate a key using bit values of the first subset of bits from each message of the first subset of messages, encoding a message using the key, and communicate the encoded message.
US11659380B1
A mobile communication network receives capability information from a user equipment (UE) where the capability information indicates a version of the UE which the network uses to determine a 3GPP Release version of the UE. Based on the 3GPP release version, the network determines what type of system information (e.g., System Information Blocks (SIBs)) the UE requires, and transmits the required system information to the UE. Legacy UEs receive only legacy SIBs and non-legacy UEs receive one or more non-legacy SIBs in addition to the legacy SIBs.
US11659370B2
An over-the-air update apparatus in a vehicle and a method thereof are provided. The over-the-air update apparatus in the vehicle includes a communication device that receives data for an over-the-air (OTA) update of vehicle software from an external server and a processor that determines a priority for the over-the-air update based on a current consumption and a data processing speed with respect to each of a plurality of controllers. The processor allows data to be selectively transmitted based on the determined priority.
US11659365B2
Techniques are described herein for providing radio resource ownership indicators in charging records for a charging function. In one example, a method may include determining, by a session management node of a mobile network, that a user equipment is utilizing a particular radio resource of a mobile network resource for a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session of the user equipment, wherein the mobile network resource is capable of being utilized via a plurality of radio resources and the particular radio resources is associated with an enterprise entity; and reporting charging information for the PDU session of the user equipment to a charging function of the mobile network to facilitate storing a charging record for the user equipment that is to include an identifier of the enterprise entity that is associated with the particular radio resource.
US11659360B2
Describe are systems and methods for implementing a peer-to-peer (P2P) wireless group acting as a vehicular micro cloud. In one example, a system includes a processor and a memory in communication with the processor having a group coordination service module. The group coordination service module has instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to select a vehicle out of a plurality of vehicles to act as a group owner of a P2P wireless group operating as a vehicular micro cloud based on vehicle status information from the plurality of vehicles and transmit group configurations of the first P2P wireless group to the plurality of vehicles to allow the plurality of vehicles to join the first P2P wireless group. The selection of the vehicle may be based on how long the vehicle is predicted to be a member of the vehicular micro cloud.
US11659359B2
A network node (21), which is placed within a core network, receives a message from a transmission source (30) placed outside the core network. The message includes an indicator indicating whether or not the message is addressed to a group of one or more MTC devices attached to the core network. The network node (21) determines to authorize the transmission source (30), when the indicator indicates that the message is addressed to the group. Further, the message includes an ID for identifying whether or not the message is addressed to the group. The MTC device determines to discard the message, when the ID does not coincide with an ID allocated for the MTC device itself. Furthermore, the MTC device communicates with the transmission source (30) by use of a pair of group keys shared therewith.
US11659358B2
A system that can provide a real time annotation and tracking of multiple devices operating in a network using augmented reality is initiated by activating an augmented reality display system, transmitting location information to a network controller, joining a network of network devices established by the network controller, wherein the network devices of the network communicate with one another using a communication network, scanning a geographical area using a display, wherein the display comprises a display area, and in response to determining that a first device of the network devices is within the display area, displaying, via the display, a first image identifying the first device, first device location information and first distance information associated with a first distance to the first device.
US11659354B2
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a method of wireless communication performed by a first pedestrian user equipment (PUE) includes performing a ranging operation to a set of UEs, the set including at least a second PUE, and providing ranging data to a third entity, the third entity comprising a vehicle user equipment (VUE) or a road-side unit (RSU). The set of UEs may be randomly selected or selected using a selection algorithm. The set of UEs may be selected by the PUE or by the third entity. The ranging data may include the location of the first PUE, and may include a report on the battery status of the first PUE. The third entity may use the ranging data to update estimated positions of the first PUE and the set of UEs.
US11659348B2
An electronic device identifies a location of a physical object that is away from a listener. The electronic device convolves sound so the sound externally localizes as binaural sound to the physical object. The sound plays to the listener through earphones so the listener hears the sound as emanating from the physical object.
US11659347B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus that carries out a process of deriving a head related transfer function. The information processing apparatus includes a detection unit that detects a position of a head of a user, a storage unit that stores a head related transfer function of the user, a determination unit that determines a position of a sound source for measuring the head related transfer function of the user based on the position of the head detected by the detection unit and information stored in the storage unit, a control unit that controls the sound source to output measurement signal sound from the position determined by the determination unit, and a calculation unit that calculates the head related transfer function of the user based on collected sound data obtained by collecting, at the position of the head, the measurement signal sound output from the sound source.
US11659344B2
A sound signal processing method includes receiving a sound signal, generating an early reflection sound control signal that reproduces an early reflection sound and a reverberant sound control signal that reproduces a reverberant sound from the sound signal, controlling a volume of the sound signal and distributing the sound signal to generate a direct sound control signal, and mixing the direct sound control signal, the early reflection sound control signal that reproduces a direct sound, and the reverberant sound control signal to generate an output signal.
US11659337B1
A balanced armature (BA) receiver and specifically a nickel-iron (Ni—Fe) alloy armature having improved robustness and performance receivers, as well as motors and receivers including such armatures are disclosed. The Ni—Fe armature has a nickel content of 45% or less by weight, 5% or less additive and impurities by weight, and the balance Fe. The armature can be configured as a U-reed, an E-reed or in some other configuration.
US11659333B2
The description relates to a device (CTRL-DEV) for controlling a dual-mode Bluetooth low energy multimedia device (DM-BLE), the dual-mode BLE multimedia device comprising a first sound system (SS1) and a second sound system (SS2) which are arranged to simultaneously stream an input multimedia stream, the first and second sound systems being respectively associated with at least one first Bluetooth multimedia device (SPK1, SPK2, SPKN) and at least one Bluetooth multimedia device (BLE-SPK1, BLE-SPK2, BLE-SPKN). The description also refers to a dual-mode Bluetooth low energy multimedia device (DM-BLE′), a method, a computer program and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium.
US11659329B2
A digital microphone includes at least one integrator; a state detection and parameter control component directly coupled to an output of the integrator; and a signal processing component coupled to an output of the state detection and parameter control component, wherein a parameter of the signal processing component includes a first value in a first operational mode and a second value in a second operational mode different from the first operational mode.
US11659322B1
Example methods, systems, and articles of manufacture may relate to an aerial vehicle. The methods, systems, and articles of manufacture may include receiving an audio signal with a microphone of the aerial vehicle. The methods, systems, and articles of manufacture may also include processing the audio signal to determine at least one of a distance and type of aircraft located near the aerial vehicle. Additionally, the methods, systems, and articles of manufacture may include, based on the determination, performing at least one maneuver of the aerial vehicle.
US11659320B2
A method that improves the energy distribution from a multi-way loudspeaker into free space. The method reduces MF energy through the use of small depressurizing slit openings down the inner half of the HF stems. The openings are sized to be large enough to present a leak path for the secondary energy to migrate out of the stem with no return path.
US11659316B2
An acoustic device according to the present technology includes an operating portion and a control unit. The operating portion generates information for determining whether a state of an earphone portion is a wearing state in which the earphone portion is worn by the user, or a non-wearing state in which the earphone portion is not worn by the user. The control unit determines whether the earphone portion is in the wearing state or in the non-wearing state on the basis of output from the operating portion, and implements a function based on a result of the determination.
US11659311B2
A one-piece sound port adapter for a microphone assembly includes a body member configured to be fitted over a sound port of the microphone assembly. The body member includes an acoustic channel defined in part by a cavity having a sound inlet and a sound outlet, where the sound outlet is acoustically coupled to the sound port. A wall portion of the body member extends into the cavity and configured to modify an acoustic property of the acoustic channel. When mounted, the one-piece sound port adapter converts the microphone assembly from a top or bottom port microphone assembly to a side-port microphone assembly.
US11659307B2
A method for transmitting signals in a subsea environment includes determining that a quality of an acoustic signal is below a threshold. The acoustic signal travels from a first device, through water in the subsea environment, to a second device. A parameter of the first device, the second device, or both is then adjusted to improve the quality of the acoustic signal when the quality of the acoustic signal is below the threshold.
US11659304B2
An object is to reduce a circuit scale in a solid-state imaging element that detects an address event. The solid-state imaging element is provided with a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, a signal supply unit, and a detection unit. In this solid-state imaging element, each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements photoelectrically converts incident light to generate a first electric signal. Furthermore, in the solid-state imaging element, the detection unit detects whether or not a change amount of the first electric signal of each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements exceeds a predetermined threshold and outputs a detection signal indicating a result of the detection result.
US11659300B2
A solid-state image sensor includes a pixel array section including a plurality of unit pixels each having a photoelectric conversion unit, the plurality of unit pixels being arranged in a matrix, a constant current source circuit unit having a constant current source connected to each of vertical signal lines provided in association with column arrangement of the pixel array section; and a control unit configured to control the constant current source circuit unit. The constant current source includes a plurality of transistors. The control unit switches, in a case where the plurality of transistors constituting the constant current source is regarded as one transistor having a gate width and a gate length being equivalent to each other, a ratio between the gate width and the gate length of the plurality of transistors on the basis of illumination in image-capturing environment.
US11659297B2
An image sensor includes a plurality of image sensor cells, each configured to generate or not generate an image signal in response to one or more control signals, and a first driver generating a first control signal. The first driver includes a first positive supply terminal connected to a first power supply node. The image sensor also includes a voltage generator generating a first voltage at the first power supply node, where the voltage generator includes a plurality of charge pump cells selectably sourcing charge to the first power supply node in response to one of multiple enable signals, and a charge pump cell quantity controller circuit generating the enable signals. Each enable signal is either in an active or inactive state, and each charge pump cell sources charge to the first power supply node in response to receiving an enable signal in an active state.
US11659296B2
A system for structured light depth computation using single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) is configurable to, over a frame capture time period, selectively activate the illuminator to perform interleaved structured light illumination operations. The interleaved structured light illumination operations comprise alternately emitting at least a first structured light pattern from the illuminator and emitting at least a second structured light pattern from the illuminator. The system is also configurable to, over the frame capture time period, perform a plurality of sequential shutter operations to configure each SPAD pixel of the SPAD array to enable photon detection. The plurality of sequential shutter operations generates, for each SPAD pixel of the SPAD array, a plurality of binary counts indicating whether a photon was detected during each of the plurality of sequential shutter operations.
US11659289B2
The present technology relates to an imaging apparatus and method, and an image processing apparatus and method that make it possible to control the resolution of a detection image. A resolution is set, and a restoration matrix is set including coefficients used when a restored image is restored from output pixel values of a plurality of pixel output units, of an imaging element including the plurality of pixel output units that receives incident light entering without passing through either an imaging lens or a pinhole, and each outputs one detection signal indicating an output pixel value modulated by an incident angle of the incident light, depending on the resolution set. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an imaging apparatus, an image processing apparatus, an information processing apparatus, an electronic device, a computer, a program, a storage medium, a system, and the like.
US11659288B2
An image sensing device that can adjust parameters of an image before sending it to a processor for reducing computing power and/or storage requirement is disclosed. The image sensing device includes an array of sensing pixels; an output amplifier; an analog-to-digital converter; a first set of registers and a second set of registers; an activation circuit; and a profiling logic. The profiling logic conducts statistical analysis on output data and adjusts parameters stored in the first set of registers until results of the statistical analysis reaches a target standard, wherein the adjusted parameters are used to generate an output image by each sensing pixel of the array of sensing pixels once the target standard is reached and a notification signal is sent to an external device for notifying the failure of parameter adjustment if the target standard fails to be reached within a predetermined times of adjustment.
US11659270B2
An imaging device and a horizontal direction detection method capable of detecting a horizontal angle of a camera with high accuracy in a simple configuration are provided. The imaging device includes an imaging unit configured to obtain image data by photographing a predetermined subject, an image rotation unit configured to cause a display image based on the image data to be rotated on a display plane step by step, a count unit configured to count the number of pixels of a specific color included in the display image in a scanning line direction within the display plane and obtain a count value for each of rotated display images, and a determination unit configured to determine a horizontal direction of a photographing angle of the imaging unit based on the count value for each of the rotated display images.
US11659265B1
A dual camera module system includes a housing and a pair of camera modules (e.g., digital cameras) that are aligned with fields of view that overlap below the housing. The camera modules are mounted to a bench within the housing. The dual camera module system is configured for mounting above areas such as retail establishments or other materials handling facilities. The housing is formed from one or more sections of plastic or like materials, and includes inlets and outlets that enable air to flow past the camera modules and other components within the housing, and to maintain such components at a desired temperature. Images captured by the imaging devices of the camera module may be utilized for any purpose.
US11659259B1
A method that includes receiving a manifest associated with a video, wherein the manifest indicates an insertion point for a first ad break and the manifest comprises first ad break duration information indicating a duration of the first ad break. The method also includes: generating a modified manifest, wherein generating the modified manifest comprises inserting into the manifest at the insertion point first segment locator information for causing a player to request a number of segments, wherein the first segment locator information comprises a first uniform resource locator (URL) or URL template information for generating the first URL, and wherein the first URL includes a segment identifier, and further wherein the modified manifest comprises segment duration information specifying a segment duration associated with the segment identifier. The method also includes providing the modified manifest to a player; receiving from the player a segment request comprising the segment identifier; and, in response to receiving the segment request comprising the segment identifier, providing to the player a segment or a redirect message for causing the player to request the segment, wherein the segment is either a segment identified by the segment identifier or another segment, and the duration of the segment is less than the segment duration associated with the segment identifier.
US11659247B2
A device may receive content data, a first model, and a second model. The first model may be trained on different types of metadata than the second model. The content data may include a first identifier of a first content item and a first set of metadata associated with the first content item. The device may process the first set of metadata to generate first recommendations from the first model and second recommendations from the second model. The device may provide the first identifier and a combination of the first recommendations and the second recommendations to client devices. The device may receive, from the client devices, user-generated target recommendations based on the combination. The device may process the user-generated target recommendations, the first recommendations, and the second recommendations, to provide feedback to update the first model and the second model.
US11659245B2
Systems and methods for identifying, assembling, and publishing content are described. A video content item, having a first time length, is identified by a system to be included in a program scheduled for a first time period. The video may be hosted on a third party system. A first time span within the first program is allocated for the video, wherein the first time span is longer than the first time length. The system determines, prior to or at the first time period, a time difference between a current length of the video and the first time span. At least partly in response to determining that the video has a time length shorter than the first time span, the system selects supplemental content based at least in part of the determined time difference to be streamed to user terminals over a data network within the first time period.
US11659241B2
Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus for adaptive metering are disclosed. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a condition analyzer to determine a condition associated with a mobile device, a meter selector to select a meter for the mobile device based on the condition, and a data collector to collect data pertaining to the mobile device based on the selected meter.
US11659233B2
A system may perform operations including displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) for recording a video on a display screen of a user device, wherein the GUI comprises a plurality of features, including a prompt screen; displaying a content prompt on the prompt screen, wherein the prompt screen may be disposed on the GUI proximate to an edge of the GUI; displaying a video playback screen, which is one of the plurality of features, configured to display visual information in real time captured through a camera, wherein the prompt screen may be disposed at least partially within the video playback screen; and/or recording a video clip during the displaying the content prompt, wherein the content prompt comprises at least one of a text or an image configured to solicit at least one of a desired reaction or a desired information from a user during the recording of the video clip.
US11659224B2
Network content delivery apparatus and methods based on content compiled from various sources and particularly selected for a given user. In one embodiment, the network comprises a cable television network, and the content sources include DVR, broadcast, nPVR, and VOD. The user-targeted content is assembled into a playlist, and displayed as a continuous stream on a virtual channel particular to that user. User interfaces accessible through the virtual channel present various functional options, including the selection or exploration of content having similarity or prescribed relationships to other content, and the ability to order purchasable content. An improved electronic program guide is also disclosed which allows a user to start over, record, view, receive information on, “catch up”, and rate content. Apparatus for remote access and configuration of the playlist and virtual channel functions, as well as a business rules “engine” implementing operational or business goals, are also disclosed.
US11659221B2
At least some embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a program production method, a program production device, a program production system and a computer-readable medium. The program production method includes that: at least one medium is acquired; at least one playlist is generated according to the at least one medium, each of the at least one playlist being associated with the at least one medium; at least one program is generated according to the at least one playlist, each of the at least one program including a play region and the play region corresponding to the at least one playlist; and the play region is scheduled.
US11659218B2
Methods and systems are described for managing blackout restrictions. A user device may retrieve a blackout condition from a blackout device. The blackout device may be a node in plurality of blackout nodes. Each of the blackout nodes may store blackout conditions for different corresponding content. The user device may retrieve the blackout condition from a blackout device associated with content in response to a request for the content. The user device may determine whether information associated with the user device satisfies the blackout condition. If the information satisfies the blackout condition, the requested content may be blocked. Alternative content may be output instead of the requested content.
US11659213B2
The exemplary embodiments relate to devices, systems and methods for a streaming service to provide fast video stream startup at a user device. The streaming service may determine that a video stream for on-demand content is to be provided to the user device and is to include multiple subclips corresponding to the on-demand content and a dynamic content insertion opportunity (DCIO). A first set of multimedia data is transmitted to the user device that corresponds to a first subclip of the on-demand content. When a predetermined condition corresponding to the DCIO is satisfied, a second set of multimedia data is transmitted to the user device that includes multimedia data corresponding to at least the multiple subclips.
US11659208B2
A device may be configured to signal level information according to one or more of the techniques described herein.
US11659207B2
An example method includes decoding, from a coded video bitstream, a first syntax element that specifies a constraint for a second syntax element that specifies whether subpicture information is present in the coded video bitstream and whether more than one subpicture is allowed to be present in the coded video bitstream; and decoding, based on the constraint specified by the first syntax element, the second syntax element.
US11659199B2
According to embodiments according to the present document, merge mode motion vector differences (MMVD) and symmetric motion vector differences (SMVD) may be performed on the basis of reference picture types and, in particular, short-term reference pictures may be used. Accordingly, prediction performance and coding efficiency in an inter prediction mode may be increased.
US11659198B2
Method and apparatus of video coding using decoder derived motion information based on bilateral matching or template matching are disclosed. According to one method, merge index for merge candidate group comprising bilateral matching merge candidate and/or template matching merge candidate are signalled using different codewords. According to another method, the first-stage MV or the first-stage MV pair is used as an only initial MV or MV pair or used as a central MV of search window for second-stage search. According to yet another method, after the reference template for a first reference list is found, the current template is modified for template search in the other reference list. According to yet another method, the sub-PU search is disabled for the template search. According to yet another method, block difference calculation is based on reduced bit depth during MV search associated with the decoder-side MV derivation process.
US11659197B2
An example method includes encoding, in a video bitstream, a first syntax element specifying whether affine model based motion compensation is enabled; based on affine model based motion compensation being enabled, encoding, in the video bitstream, a second syntax element specifying a maximum number of subblock-based merging motion vector prediction candidates, wherein a value of the second syntax element is constrained based on a value other than a value of the first syntax element; and encoding a picture of the video data based on the maximum number of subblock-based merging motion vector prediction candidates.
US11659194B2
A method of adjusting a bitrate of an image based includes: identifying magnitudes of one or more frequency components in the image; determining a frequency filter based on a difference between a current bitrate and a target bitrate of the image such that the greater is the difference between the current bitrate and the target bitrate, magnitudes of the more high frequency components are reduced by the frequency filter; and applying the determined frequency filter to the magnitudes of the one or more frequency components.
US11659191B2
An image decoding method according to the present invention includes: receiving information on a set of reference pictures for configuring a set of reference pictures of a current picture, wherein the information on the set of reference pictures includes the most significant bit (MSB) information that may calculate the MSB of the picture order count (POC) of a long-term reference picture relative to the current picture, and flag information that represents whether there is MSB information; and eliciting the set of reference pictures by using received MSB information when the flag information is 1, and performing marking on the reference picture, wherein the flag information may be 1 when a temporal sub-layer identifier is 0, and there is at least one POC value for which a remainder obtained by dividing by a maximum value MaxPicOrderCntLsb capable of being represented by the LSB is the same as the least significant bit (LSB) of the POC of the long-term reference picture, in a set of POCs of a previous picture including POC values related to the previous picture that may not be discarded without affecting whether other pictures of the same temporal layer may be decoded.
US11659190B2
A method of operating a semiconductor device includes receiving a video stream including a plurality of frames encoded in a hierarchical manner. Each frame is classified as one of a plurality of layers, and the plurality of layers includes a first layer and a second layer. The method further includes decoding the frames classified as the first layer in a chronological order, storing the decoded frames classified as the first layer in a decoded picture buffer (DPB), decoding a latest one of the frames classified as the second layer, storing the decoded latest one of the frames classified as the second layer in the DPB, reading the DPB to display the latest one of the frames classified as the second layer, and decoding and displaying the frames classified as the second layer other than the latest one of the frames classified as the second layer in a reverse chronological order.
US11659174B2
The present invention provides an image encoding method and an image decoding method. The image decoding method, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: determining a transformation performing region; segmenting the determined transformation performing region into at least one sub-transform block by using at least one of quadtree segmentation and binary tree segmentation; and performing inverse transformation on the at least one sub-transform block.
US11659173B2
Disclosed is a method and chip for vertically filtering an image, including: caching and reading image data; calling a filter to vertically filter the image data to obtain first filtered data; updating the image data according to the first filtered data, and judging whether a to-be-read row is the last row of the image data; if not, updating the to-be-read row to the next row of the to-be-read row, and returning to execute the step of caching the image data; and if so, determining the vertically filtered image data. In the present application, point-by-point feedback is changed to row-by-row feedback according to an algorithm principle of a digital recursive filter and the characteristics of an image chip.
US11659171B2
Several systems and methods for intra-prediction estimation of video pictures are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes accessing four ‘N×N’ pixel blocks comprising luma-related pixels. The four ‘N×N’ pixel blocks collectively configure a ‘2N×2N’ pixel block. A first pre-determined number of candidate luma intra-prediction modes is accessed for each of the four ‘N×N’ pixel blocks. A presence of one or more luma intra-prediction modes that are common among the candidate luma intra-prediction modes of at least two of the four ‘N×N’ pixel blocks is identified. The method further includes performing, based on the identification, one of (1) selecting a principal luma intra-prediction mode for the ‘2N×2N’ pixel block and (2) limiting a partitioning size to a ‘N×N’ pixel block size for a portion of the video picture corresponding to the ‘2N×2N’ pixel block.
US11659165B2
A video signal processing method and device for encoding or decoding a video signal may perform operations of determining whether a coding tree block is divided into a plurality of blocks; determining whether an upper boundary of a current block is adjacent to an upper boundary of the coding tree block, determining a first intra prediction mode for prediction of the current block based on whether the upper boundary of the current block is adjacent to the upper boundary of the coding tree block, reconstructing the current block based on the first intra prediction mode.
US11659163B2
A video encoding/decoding device according to the present invention may determine an intra prediction mode of a current block on the basis of a most probable mode (MPM) of the current block or an intra prediction mode of a neighboring block, determine a reference region for intra prediction of the current block, and perform intra prediction on the current block by using the intra prediction mode and the reference region.
US11659161B2
A reference frame obtaining method includes determining a first reference frame list and a second reference frame list of a current picture block, determining, from the first reference frame list, whether an X-directional reference frame x1 satisfying a condition A1 exists, determining, from the second reference frame list, whether a Y-directional reference frame y1 satisfying a condition B1 exists, and in response to determining that the X-directional reference frame x1 exists and determining that the Y-directional reference frame y1 exists, obtaining index values (R1, R2) of bidirectional reference frames of the current picture block.
US11659159B2
Provided are an image encoding method and device. When carrying out image encoding for a block within a slice, at least one block in a restored block of the slice is set as a reference block. When this is done, the encoding parameters of the reference block are distinguished, and the block to be encoded is encoded adaptively based on the encoding parameters.
US11659151B2
There are disclosed various methods, apparatuses and computer program products for volumetric video encoding and decoding. In some embodiments of a method for encoding, one or more patches comprising information of a three-dimensional scene are obtained. An attribute parameter set is formed on the basis of visual properties of a surface of an object in the three-dimensional scene. Also an indication that the attribute parameter set relates to visual properties of the surface of the object and an indication on a range for which the attribute parameter set is valid.
US11659150B2
A processor system processes image data for rendering a virtual environment for a user present in a real environment. The system receives head tracking data indicative of the orientation of the head of the user. An image processor generates image data for rendering a viewport of the virtual environment on a display system based on the head tracking data. A real-view area is defined in the virtual environment, having at least one boundary. The boundary corresponds to predetermined coordinates in the virtual environment. Thereby a corresponding part of the real environment is made visible in the real-view area, the part showing the real environment as perceived from the user head pose. Effectively the virtual environment is augmented by integrating part of the real environment via the real-view area.
US11659142B2
A pipeline inspection system may include a cable that may be configured to be directed into a conduit. The pipeline inspection system may further include a camera disposed on a distal end of the cable and operable to capture an image. The pipeline inspection system may further include a monitor including a display configured to display an image. The pipeline inspection system may further include an electronic processor that may be configured to receive a user input indicating a characteristic of the conduit. The electronic processor may be further configured to determine an image setting of the display based on the characteristic of the conduit. The electronic processor may be further configured to control the monitor to display the image on the display according to the image setting.
US11659140B2
Systems and methods for redundant storage among networked video cameras are described. Video data for a group of video cameras is received by a parity video camera. The parity video camera calculates parity across the peer video data, stores the parity data to one storage location and backup video data for the storage location to another storage location. In some examples, the storage locations are selected from among the non-volatile memory of the group of video cameras or another group of video cameras.
US11659136B2
A data conversion device includes a storage circuit and a frequency tuning circuit. The storage circuit is configured to store a pixel data in a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) signal according to a first clock, and output an image data according to a second clock. The frequency tuning circuit is configured to adjust the second clock according to a control signal and the second clock in the HDMI signal, and transmit the adjusted second clock to the storage circuit.
US11659122B2
A sheet conveyance device has a sheet conveyance path with a first path and a second path. A wireless tag communication device can write information to a wireless tag on a sheet on the first and second paths and receive responses from the wireless tag. A controller controls the wireless tag communication device to attempt to write information to the wireless tag while on the first path, then determines whether information has been written to the wireless tag on the first path according to a response received from the wireless tag. The controller switches a conveyance destination for the sheet to the second path if the information has not been written or to a discharge location if the information has been written. The controller then controls the wireless tag communication device to attempt to write information to the wireless tag while the sheet is on the second path.
US11659109B2
An image scanner includes a display unit configured to display a UI screen, an authentication unit configured to authenticate a user based on an identification information of the user, a display control unit configured to control display, a setting unit configured to set functions of the image scanner according to setting information selected on the UI screen in a state in which the user is successfully authenticated, and a storage unit configured to store a database in which the identification information, at least one of the functions, and the setting information are registered in association with each other, in which the display control unit acquires the setting information from the database corresponding to the identification information and the functions displayed to the UI screen when the identification medium is read corresponds, and causes the display unit to display the acquired setting information.
US11659107B2
An information processing device includes a processor configured to receive, as an utterance, an instruction for executing a service, detect a physical operation for executing the service on a device, and cause the device where the operation is detected closest to a time of receiving the instruction to execute the received service.
US11659087B1
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for detecting potentially fraudulent voice calls to a financial services institution. A computing system may receive an indication of a voice call placed by a voice caller to an operator. The computing system may generate a network address indicator describing a network location. The network address indicator may be provided to the voice caller. The computing system may receive an indication of a financial services account indicated by the voice caller. The computing system may also receive an indication of an access to the network location by a remote device. The computing system may determine, using the indication of the access to the network location, a first location associated with the remote device and determine that the first location does not match a second location associated with the financial services account. The computing system may generate an alert indicating that the voice call is potentially fraudulent.
US11659077B2
Disclosed is a mobile terminal and method for controlling the same. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a mobile terminal includes a display; a sensing unit; and a controller, wherein the display is configured to display a virtual keyboard and display a content entered by a user using the virtual keyboard on a content input window, wherein the virtual keyboard includes an undo key for canceling a task performed in the content input window and a redo key for restoring a canceled task, and wherein when the sensing unit detects a first drag past a first border line designated on a side of the undo key after a touch on the undo key, the controller is configured to display a first expected change of content expected to be changed and displayed in the content input window to be identified when one of tasks performed in the content input window is to be canceled in a designated unit.
US11659074B2
Provided is a mobile information terminal that allows a high-performance camera to be directed in any arbitrary direction relative to the terminal body and that allows photographing to be performed in a free position, while allowing for the viewing of a camera viewpoint image. An information processing terminal 1 comprises: a camera 21 serving as an image capture unit for capturing an image of a subject; a body part 11 having a front surface 11a which is a predetermined surface on which a display unit 13 for displaying a captured image including the subject captured by the image capture unit is disposed; and a coupling part 12 that directly or indirectly couples the image capture unit relatively rotatably to the body part 11 via a plurality of rotation axes including a pivot axis Z1 that is a first rotation axis for changing an angle formed by an optical axis direction of the image capture unit and the normal direction to the display unit 13, and a pivot axis Z3 that is a second rotation axis in a direction different.
US11659073B1
A hinge includes a fixed seat, and two symmetrically-disposed support modules that are convertible between an unfolded state and a folded state. Each of the support modules includes a sliding pivot arm that is slidable and pivotable with respect to the fixed seat, a pivot guide unit that is movably engaged with the sliding pivot arm, and a slide block that has a slide slot movably engaged with the sliding pivot arm, and an oblique sliding portion movably engaged with the pivot guide unit, such that the slide block is slidable with respect to the sliding pivot arm and the pivot guide unit when the support modules are converted between the unfolded state and the folded state.
US11659066B2
Systems and techniques for dynamic computation in an information centric network (ICN) are described herein. An interest packet to perform a computation may be received at a first interface of an ICN node. The ICN node may then perform a lookup in a forwarding information base (FIB) to identify a second interface to forward the interest packet. The interest packet may be forwarded on the second interface. Upon receipt of a data packet on the second interface in response to the interest packet, the ICN node may update an entry in the FIB for the second interfaces with a processing payload included in the data packet. The ICN node may then transmit the data packet downstream towards the originator of the interest packet.
US11659058B2
A first service of a provider network obtains an identification of one or more substrate addressable devices included in an extension of the provider network. Based on the identification, a launch of one or more compute instances within the provider network is initiated. The one or more compute instances are to connect the provider network to the extension of the provider network across at least a third-party network by receiving a first control plane message directed to a first substrate addressable device of the one or more substrate addressable devices, by updating a message state data store based at least in part on the first control plane message, and by sending a second control plane message to the first substrate addressable device via a secure tunnel.
US11659057B2
The disclosure relates generally to providing content from a source to a user device. In one implementation, a source such as a server receives a request for a master manifest file. The server may identify one or more other manifest files and at least one data block associated with the content. The other manifest files can include manifest files referenced by the master manifest file, or can include manifest files associated with related content. The requested master manifest, the one or more other manifest files, and the at least one data block can be pushed to the user device.
US11659056B2
A system is provided for tracing end-to-end transactions. The system uses bytecode instrumentation and a dynamically injected agent to gather web server side tracing data, and a browser agent which is injected into browser content to instrument browser content and to capture tracing data about browser side activities. Requests sent during monitored browser activities are tagged with correlation data. On the web server side, this correlation information is transferred to tracing data that describes handling of the request. This tracing data is sent to an analysis server which creates tracing information which describes the server side execution of the transaction and which is tagged with the correlation data allowing the identification of the causing browser side activity. The analysis server receives the browser side information, finds matching server side transactions and merges browser side tracing information with matching server side transaction information to form tracing information that describes end-to-end transactions.
US11659047B2
Methods and apparatus for managing configuration sessions on remotely configurable network components, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for managing configuration sessions on such components. The method includes configuring a remote configuration interface to transmit a heartbeat signal or keep alive message within a defined interval while the remote configuration interface remains operational and closing a remote configuration session on a remotely configurable network component if a heartbeat signal or keep alive message is not received within a period corresponding to the defined interval.
US11659031B2
A user device configured to operate in a blockchain network includes a communicator; a memory; and a processor configured to: based on a peer-to-peer communication based content being received from at least one of a plurality of external apparatuses constituting the blockchain network, generate, through the communicator, block information related to the received content, store the generated block information in the memory, and transmit, through the communicator, the generated block information to the blockchain network; based on a user command for reporting the received content being received, transmit information on the reported content to the blockchain network; identify, based on verification on the reported content performed by at least one administrator device from among the plurality of external apparatuses, whether or not the reported content corresponds to an illegal content; and based on the reported content corresponding to the illegal content, block distribution of the received content.
US11659028B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to determining an optimal data offloading rate for one or more connected mobile devices. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving mobile device transmission information and receiving edge server resource information. The method includes determining an offloading rate for a mobile device to an edge server based on the mobile device transmission information, the edge server resource information, and a mean-field game algorithm. The method includes outputting the offloading rate to the mobile device.
US11659024B2
The present invention relates to a method for enabling status updates in a 5G core network. The method is performed in a network function (NF), service producer node and comprises sending (S310) a hypermedia message to an NF repository function (NRF), wherein the hypermedia message comprises an NF status indication and a hypermedia link for query of current NF status of the service producer, receiving (S350) a hypermedia message from a service consumer by the hypermedia link, which hypermedia message request a current NF status of the service producer, and sending (S360) the current NF status to the service consumer in response to the received request.
US11659018B2
A system designed for increasing network communication speed for users, while lowering network congestion for content owners and ISPs. The system employs network elements including an acceleration server, clients, agents, and peers, where communication requests generated by applications are intercepted by the client on the same machine. The IP address of the server in the communication request is transmitted to the acceleration server, which provides a list of agents to use for this IP address. The communication request is sent to the agents. One or more of the agents respond with a list of peers that have previously seen some or all of the content which is the response to this request (after checking whether this data is still valid). The client then downloads the data from these peers in parts and in parallel, thereby speeding up the Web transfer, releasing congestion from the Web by fetching the information from multiple sources, and relieving traffic from Web servers by offloading the data transfers from them to nearby peers.
US11659013B2
Systems and methods for call direction detection on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) include monitoring SIP register messages, such as “401 UNAUTHORIZED” messages inside the IMS core to detect and log the IP addresses of the Proxy-Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF). The systems and methods include monitoring SIP registration messages; determining and storing addresses of P-CSCFs based on the monitoring of the SIP registration messages, wherein P-CSCF addresses are determined from any SIP registration messages having cipher or encryption keys therein; monitoring SIP INVITE messages; and, for a specific call associated with a SIP INVITE message, determining a direction of the specific call based on a comparison of address in the SIP INVITE messages with the stored addresses of the P-CSCFs.
US11659011B2
A method for performing initial registration is provided. The method includes receiving a server timeout message, the server timeout message including at least a field set to a value equal to a value received during a first registration. The method further includes initiating restoration procedures by performing an initial registration.
US11659000B2
Mechanisms, which can include systems, method, and media, for protecting network devices from malicious rich text format (RTF) files are provided, the mechanisms comprising: intercepting an RTF file destined for a network device; parsing the RTF file to identify a plurality of objects in the RTF file; checking a first object of the plurality of objects for a first heuristic; based upon an outcome of the checking of the first object for the first heuristic, increasing a cumulative weight by a first weight value; comparing the cumulative weight against at least one threshold to classify the RTF file; and based on the classification of the RTF file, taking a protective action on the RTF file.
US11658997B2
Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission system between transmitting and receiving devices are provided. In an embodiment, each of the transmitting and receiving devices can contain a master key. The transmitting device can generate a diversified key using the master key, protect a counter value and encrypt data prior to transmitting to the receiving device, which can generate the diversified key based on the master key and can decrypt the data and validate the protected counter value using the diversified key. In an embodiment, the transmitting device can signal an attack or potential attack through the counter value. The attack signaling can further include information relating to the attack or potential attack.
US11658995B1
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, network traffic management apparatuses, and network traffic management systems that identify when a domain name identifier in a received request matches one of a plurality of domain names stored in a whitelist domain name storage. When the identification indicates the received domain name identifier fails to match one of the plurality of domain names stored in the whitelist domain name storage, then a determination is made on whether the received request is a suspicious request. Another storage is updated when the determination indicates the received request is the suspicious request or otherwise updating the received request as a valid request.
US11658975B2
A device, method, and system for forwarding, to a pod, a utility container associated with each of at least one network service for enabling a pre-registration of a network function (NF) with an NF registration function (NRF); sending, from the utility container, an authorization code to an NF authorization platform, wherein the authorization code is associated with the at least one network service; suspending a registration procedure for the NF with the NRF until the authorization code is forwarded from the NF authorization platform to the NRF; and resuming, responsive to a service registration request, the registration procedure based on a validation of the authorization code identified in the service registration request.
US11658972B2
The present disclosure relates to system and techniques for enabling provisioning of cloud services for a client in an isolated yet scalable manner. In some embodiments, various computing resources are implemented within a cell (a self-sufficient unit). A number of cells are generated for a service or a group of services and distributed across a number of computing devices. Various cells may be generated that each pertain to a different aspect, or particular functionality, of the service. In some embodiments, cells providing various functionality for the service are implemented and distributed across different computing devices.
US11658970B2
A computing device infrastructure trust domain system includes first and second computing devices included in a computing device infrastructure system. The second computing device stores authentication information specific to the computing device infrastructure system, and operates to receive a first communication broadcast by the first computing device, verify that the first communication includes the authentication information and, in response, add the first computing device to a trust domain and store a first computing device component hash value included in the first communication. When the second computing device subsequently receives a second communication from the first computing device, it determines whether the second communication includes the first computing device component hash value: If so, the second computing device removes the first computing device from the trust domain, if not, the second computing device performs at least one trust domain operation associated with the first computing device.
US11658958B2
Techniques are described that enable maintaining of session stickiness across authentication and authorization channels in an access management system, through the use an identifier for an access manager from a plurality of access managers. The access manager authenticates a user of a client device based on an authentication request. In response to response to successful authentication of the user, the access manager creates a session. The access manager also generates the identifier and causes the identifier to be stored for the session. The access manager can then receive a second request, which is sent to the access manager based on identifying the access manager using the stored identifier.
US11658957B2
Methods, and apparatuses are provided for access limitations to a network in a session using a formatted web token. The method includes: formatting a web token by a schema to create a formatted web token for user access to the network; receiving a log-in request for the user access to the network server via an app hosted by a computing device remotely located to the network server; in response to receipt of a user access request, creating the session by the network server with network limitations for user access to data and resources of the network; passing the formatted web token to a client for enabling user access to the data and resources of the network; decoding payload data of the formatted web token at the client to authenticate the user access; and enabling the client with access limitations based on decoded payload data.
US11658956B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media provide for secure access to virtual machines in heterogeneous cloud environments. In an example embodiment, client credentials, such as a public key of a public-private key pair, are provided to a virtual machine in a first cloud, such as a private cloud. The virtual machine can be migrated from the first cloud to a second cloud, such as one of a plurality of heterogeneous public clouds. The virtual machine in the second cloud can be accessed from the first cloud via Secure Shell (SSH) authentication using the client credentials. The client credentials can be updated, and the updated client credentials can be used for subsequent SSH access to the virtual machine in the second cloud.
US11658955B1
This application describes methods, mediums, and systems for verifying a device for use in a messaging system. Using the device verification procedures described, a messaging system can securely authorize new devices to send and receive encrypted messages on behalf of a user, preferably without the need to share a private encryption key between the users' different devices. The application describes several techniques that can be used to provide such a system, including distributing a computer-perceptible code that encodes encryption information between a secondary device and a primary device. This allows the information to be distributed without intervention by a server. Other techniques provide unique ways to build and reverify authorized device lists, distribute encryption keys in chat channels, ensure that lists of authorized devices are distributed in the correct order and remain valid for an appropriate amount of time, add new devices to an ongoing or new conversation, and more.
US11658934B2
A first network device associated with a network may establish an Internet protocol version 6 Multiprotocol BGP session with a second network device associated with the network. The first network device and second network device are both capable of forwarding both IPv4 and IPv6 packets with only an IPv6 address configured on the interface of both the first network device and second network device. The first network device may exchange Multiprotocol Reachability capability with second network device for corresponding 2-tuple Address Family Identifier/Subsequent Address Family Identifier. The first network device may advertise Internet protocol version 4 network layer reachability information and may advertise Internet protocol version 6 network layer reachability information with IPv6 extended next hop encoding using Internet Assigned Numbering Authority assigned capability code value 5 to second network device.
US11658933B2
Techniques are described for learning an unknown virtual network information, such as an virtual Internet Protocol (IP) address, of a pod in a virtual network. In some examples, a virtual router executing at a computing device may receive an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) packet from a virtual execution element in the virtual network, the virtual execution element executing at the computing device. The virtual router may determine, based at least in part on the ARP packet, whether virtual network information for the virtual execution element in a virtual network is known to the virtual router. The virtual router may, in response to determining that the virtual network information of the virtual execution element in the virtual network is not known to the virtual router, perform learning of the virtual network information for the virtual execution element.
US11658932B2
A message sending method includes: receiving a first input of a user on a target icon, where the target icon is used to indicate a target application; displaying a target interface in response to the first input, where the target interface includes at least one message, and each of the at least one message corresponds to at least one contact; receiving a second input of the user on a first message, the first message is a message in the at least one message; and sending, in response to the second input via the target application, the first message to at least one first contact corresponding to the first message.
US11658931B2
Systems and methods are provided for transmitting events. The systems and methods include operations for: receiving data indicating a level of user engagement with a messaging application for a given user; determining that the level of user engagement is below a specified threshold; prioritizing a plurality of events, associated with the messaging application, for transmission to a client device of the given user in response to determining that the level of user engagement is below the specified threshold; and transmitting a first event of the plurality of events to the client device based on prioritizing the plurality of events.
US11658926B2
Techniques for generating smart replies involving image files are disclosed herein. In some example embodiments, a computer system detects that a first message comprising a first image file has been transmitted from a first computing device of a first user to a second computing device of a second user, and generates a first plurality of smart replies based on a first embedding vector of the first image file, where the first embedding vector of the first image file is based on at least one of first textual metadata of the first image file, first image data of the first image file, and a first set of query text used by a first set of users in a first set of searches that resulted in the first image file being included in a first set of transmitted messages.
US11658920B2
Embodiments are described for an autonomously and dynamically allocating resources in a distributed network based on forecasted a-priori CPU resource utilization, rather than a manual throttle setting. A multivariate (CPU idle %, disk I/O, network and memory) rather than single variable approach for Probabilistic Weighted Fuzzy Time Series (PWFTS) is used for forecasting compute resources. The dynamic throttling is combined with an adaptive compute change rate detection and correction. A single spike detection and removal mechanism is used to prevent the application of too many frequent throttling changes. Such a method can be implemented for several use cases including, but not limited to: cloud data migration, replication to a storage server, system upgrades, bandwidth throttling in storage networks, and garbage collection.
US11658917B2
A system and a method are disclosed for receiving, by a server, based on input by a user, a request to lock a set of data. Responsively, the server modifies the set of data to be locked, and determines whether an amount of bandwidth required to index the locked data exceeds a threshold. Responsive to determining that the amount of bandwidth exceeds the threshold, the server instructs a secondary server to allocate bandwidth to index a first portion of the locked data. The server indexes a second portion of the locked data in parallel with the secondary server indexing the first portion of the locked data, and generates an index by collating the indexed first and second portions of the locked data. The server receives a search request for a portion of the locked data, and retrieves the portion of the locked data based on referencing the index.
US11658915B2
The invention concerns a method for transmitting a piece of digital content consisting of a plurality of data packets to a mobile terminal (10), via a communication network (20), in which a management device (30) implements the obtaining (E11, E23, F8, F33), from the communication network, of at least one piece of information related to the bandwidth available on at least one link of the network to the mobile terminal, the selection (E12, E24, F10, F34), depending on said piece of information related to the bandwidth, of an encoding rate (RES) to use for at least one of said data packets, and the sending (E14, E25, F16, F38), to a device intended to provide the digital content (41), of a message indicating the selected encoding rate, in order to instruct the equipment intended to provide the digital content (41) to transmit, to the mobile terminal, at least one of the data packets, encoded with the selected encoding rate, on one of the network links.
US11658912B2
Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for providing a quality of service between nodes. A service provider can receive, from a first node of a customer network to an ingress node of a service provider network, packets bound for a second node on the customer network that is remote from the first node. The packets are mapped to a network segment according to a traffic type based on an identifier associated with the packets that identifies the traffic type of the packets. The packets are sent via their mapped network segment to an egress node with connectivity to the second node of the customer network according to a quality of service associated with the traffic type identified by the identifier.
US11658909B2
A network monitoring engine uses the routing and interface data of a monitored network to enrich received flow records with exit information. The routing data of the same network device at which the flow record is received is used to determine a next hop based upon the destination IP address of the flow record. In addition, interface data of the other devices is used to determine an egress device and interface of the network used to transmit traffic to the identified next hop. The flow record is enriched with exit information indicating an interface of the network the data packets of the flow record are expected to exit the network. By enriching the flow records as they are received, the exit information reflects how traffic is routed through the network at that time, even if the routing or interface information of the network later changes.
US11658907B2
A method may include storing and updating published resource entitlements for a plurality of client devices at a computing device. The method may also include using a plurality of virtual delivery appliances to receive connection requests from the client devices, with the connection requests including connection leases having associated resource entitlements the client devices are respectively permitted to access, and request validation of the connection leases from the computing device. At the computing device, responsive to validation requests from the virtual delivery appliances, the connection leases may be compared to the updated published resource entitlements and validated based thereon. At the virtual delivery appliances, the client devices may be provided with access to virtual sessions corresponding to the published resource entitlements responsive to the virtual session request validations from the computing device.
US11658906B2
An observation platform comprises a computer system associated with an organization, a first communication device associated with a first user, a second communication device communicatively coupled with the computer system, and a plurality of additional communication devices associated with different users of a plurality of additional users. The computer system communicates with the first and additional communication devices via the second communication device. The computer system receives, via the second communication device, a signal from the first communication device. A characteristic of the signal corresponds to audible source which is a voice of the first user. The computer system derives context information from a speech to text analysis of the characteristic. The context information comprises a query about the organization. The computer system compiles a response to the query and responds based on the compiled response, via the second communication device, to the first communication device about the query.
US11658903B2
A method for processing routes by a network device connected to a network includes: generating a programmable route based on a route programming request associated with a route between the network device and a request origin device; storing the programmable route in a temporary route storage in the network device; and upon receiving a data packet associated with the programmable route, permitting installation of the programmable route in a network device hardware of the network device.
US11658902B2
A first router generates session establishment metrics for use in network path selection. For example, a plurality of routers connect a client device to a network service instance hosted by a server. A first router is connected to the network service instance via first and second paths. The first router receives session performance requirements for a session between the client device and the network service instance. The first router forwards, along the first path, network traffic for the session by modifying a first packet of the session to include a session identifier for the session. The first router determines that session establishment metrics for the session do not satisfy the session performance requirements. In response, the first router forwards, along the second path, the network traffic for the session by modifying a second packet of the session to include the session identifier for the session.
US11658901B2
Techniques are disclosed for session-based routing of multipoint Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Model Layer-2 (L2) frames of an L2 network extended over Layer-3 (L3) networks. In one example, L2 networks connect a source device to an ingress router and receiver devices to egress routers. An L3 network connects the ingress and egress routers. The ingress router receives, from the source device, a multipoint L2 frame destined for the receiver devices. The ingress router forms, for each egress router that is connected to at least one multipoint receiver device, a unicast L3 packet for the L2 frame and forwards the unicast L3 packet to the egress router. Each egress router generates, in response to receiving the unicast L3 packet, the multipoint L2 frame and forwards, to the receiver devices, the multipoint L2 frame.
US11658900B2
Systems and methods for extending Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) protocols are provided. A Link Aggregation Group (LAG), according to one implementation, includes a plurality of Ethernet Segments (ESs) and a plurality of service ports configured to communicate over the plurality of ESs. The service ports are configured to enable an operator device to access an EVPN to receive Layer 2 (L2) and Layer 3 (L3) Ethernet services. Also, the service ports are configured to enable the operator device to operate with multi-homing functionality to receive the L2 and L3 Ethernet services via redundant paths associated with the plurality of ESs. The services ports are further configured to respond to operator commands, whereby the operator commands include one or more operator commands related to switching among the redundant paths.
US11658895B2
An example network device includes a memory configured to store a plurality of counts of packets of a data flow. The network device also includes one or more processors in communication with the memory. The one or more processors are configured to determine the plurality of counts of packets of the data flow, wherein each count of the plurality of counts includes a number of packets occurring in a predetermined time period. The one or more processors are configured to assign a corresponding range to each count of the plurality of counts, so as to assign a plurality of corresponding ranges. The one or more processors are also configured to determine a pattern in the plurality of corresponding ranges and send a number of active probe packets based on the determined pattern.
US11658892B2
A method of reducing the Packet Internet Grope (PING) latency, e.g., in 5G New Radio (NR) or LTE system, is provided. When first two PING requests are received from a user equipment (UE) in uplink (UL), the UE will use Scheduling Request (SR) and Buffer Status Report (BSR) cycle to obtain UL grants for the first two PING requests. Starting from the third PING request, the size of the proactive allocation window for giving UL allocation to the PING request is uniquely configured, using a “delay timer” and a “proactive allocation window.” The delay timer is to delay the start of the proactive allocation window from the transmission time interval (TTI) in which the packet type is detected. The proactive allocation window is the number of TTIs over which the proactive allocations are given to a UE.
US11658890B1
A distributed cloud computing system is disclosed that includes a controller configured to deploy a first gateway in a first cloud computing network and a second gateway in a second cloud computing network, and logic. The logic, upon execution by one or more processors, causes performance of operations including receiving, from the controller, metadata pertaining to a plurality of constructs corresponding to a plurality of time instances, receiving, from each of the first and second gateways, network data corresponding to the plurality of time instances, wherein the metadata and the network data identify each of the plurality of constructs, communication paths between each construct, and in which cloud computing network each construct is deployed, generating a visualization illustrating differences between the plurality of constructs and communication paths at the first time instance and at the second time instance, and causing rendering of the visualization on a display screen.
US11658887B2
A route viewing system includes a computing system that receives information associated with one or more routes through a network, and identifies the routes that are associated with at least one illicit user computer used by an illicit user. The computing system then obtains a source location of a source address of the routes and a destination location of a destination address of the routes, and displays the routes on a geographical display at the source location of the source address and the destination location of the destination address of each of the routes.
US11658863B1
Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance incident response for an information technology (IT) environment. In one implementation, an incident service identifies an incident in the IT environment and determines a correlation between the incident and other incidents in the IT environment. Once correlated, the incident service aggregates incident data of the incident with incident data of the other incidents and generates a summary using the aggregated incident data.
US11658859B2
A wireless network includes access points with at least pairwise overlapping wireless coverage, each access point including an OFDMA modulation system and a channel scheduler coupled to the OFDMA modulation system configured to set up a number of virtual wireless interfaces of the access point, each virtual wireless interface being associated with a dedicated set of subcarriers within the OFDMA spectrum. At least one first of the virtual wireless interfaces is configured to host all communication links between the access point and local mobile clients to the access point. A least one second of the virtual wireless interfaces is configured to host communication links between the access point and one of the neighboring access points.
US11658853B2
An operation method of a receiver, which includes setting a coefficient of an equalizer based on one of a plurality of first codes, setting a coefficient of an amplifier based on one of a plurality of second codes, performing offset calibration by driving the equalizer and the amplifier based on the coefficient of the equalizer and the coefficient of the amplifier, storing an offset code corresponding to a voltage offset generated when the equalizer and the amplifier are driven, determining whether the offset calibration is completed, performing a normal operation of obtaining reception data from an input signal, in response to determining that the offset calibration is completed, and removing the voltage offset based on the offset code, in the normal operation.
US11658848B2
A communication system comprises a plurality of network elements and a management apparatus. Each of the network elements transfers a data signal. The management apparatus manages a line service provided by a network element as management object among the plurality of network elements. The management apparatus generates an authentication code corresponding to the network element as management object and notifies the generated authentication code to the network element as management object. The network element as management object, using the notified authentication code, judges whether or not to accept a change concerning the line service of the own network element.
US11658842B2
Methods and Apparatus for Adaptive Interaction with Remote Devices Methods and apparatus for adaptively interacting with remote devices via a separate user device are disclosed. The user device can configure a user interface (UI) for interacting with the remote device on the basis of received device information associated with the remote device, the UI including one or more UI elements for controlling the user device to interact with the remote device. The device information defines one or more types of interaction between the user device and the remote device, and comprises a script for converting user input into an interaction request capable of being understood by the remote device. In response to user input relating to one of the one or more UI elements, the user device is caused to perform the associated type of interaction with the remote device. This approach enables the UI to be adapted according to the particularly types of interaction that are supported by the connected remote device. Local and remote discovery methods for obtaining the device information are also disclosed.
US11658841B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying a presence of a plurality of mobile devices at a geographic location, determining security system automation settings for the geographic location based on the identified plurality of mobile devices, and based on the determination, configuring a security system automation setting for the geographic location.
US11658838B2
A mobile station may comprise a receiver to receive, from a base station, a broadcast signal indicating a TDD configuration of uplink OFDM symbols and downlink OFDM symbols. The receiver may receive an indication of a symbol range and a subchannel range for use in transmission of CQI feedback. The mobile station may receive first downlink data and transmit first uplink data, using the TDD configuration, wherein the first uplink data comprises CQI feedback information transmitted in accordance with the symbol range and the subchannel range. The receiver may receive second downlink data, from the base station, on a different frequency as the first uplink data is transmitted, while the first uplink data is transmitted.
US11658836B2
Technologies for preserving contextual data across video conferences include a compute device. The compute device includes circuitry configured to provide a graphical user interface that enables authenticated and approved users to hold a first video conference and share contextual data among the users in association with the first video conference. The circuitry is also configured to store a record of the contextual data shared among the authenticated and approved users. Additionally, the circuitry is configured to provide, in the graphical user interface and in association with a subsequent video conference among the users, the record of the contextual data that was shared among the users in association with the first video conference. The contextual data includes at least one of a textual communication and a file.
US11658831B2
A computer-implemented method of permitting authentication of data added to an initial plurality of unique data items stored on a computer, all of the data items being converted via a one-way function to respective equal length unique digests (or hashes); and the hashes being stored as a linked dataset in which the value of each successive hash is dependent on the value of the previous hash combined with a new hash resulting from the hashing of the most recently added data. The most recent hash in the linked dataset (hash chain) is the cumulative result of all previous hashes in their original sequence, each hash in the dataset being unique to the most recently added data. Each cumulative hash is constructed by incorporating one or more pre-existing cumulative hashes into the source data, before the new hash is calculated.
US11658827B2
Some embodiments are directed to a system for selectively disclosing attributes and data entries of a record. An issuer device generates a digital signature on a message comprising the attributes and a secret record identifier, and digital signatures on messages comprising respective data entries and each comprising the secret record identifier. The record, secret record identifier, and signatures are provided to a selector device. The selector device selectively discloses attributes and data entries of the record to a receiver device, proving authenticity by means of a zero-knowledge proof of knowledge of the signature on the attributes and signatures on respective data entries. The receiver device verifies the proof with respect to the public key of the issuer and the received attributes and data entries.
US11658824B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request to verify a first encrypted document from a computing device, retrieving a second set of encrypted tokens of a second encrypted document from a blockchain, determining a similarity value of the first encrypted document with respect to the second encrypted document based on a first set of encrypted tokens in the first encrypted document and the second set of encrypted tokens in the second encrypted document, and outputting the determined similarity value to the computing device in response to the request.
US11658816B2
An example operation includes one or more of initiating a transaction of a blockchain by a contributing member of a group to assign a digital data based document to itself or to at least one other member of the group, validating a block of the blockchain associated with the transaction by the contributing member or the at least one other member that are verified, sending an ephemeral location of the document to the contributing member or the at least one other member that are verified, and modifying the document in the ephemeral location by the contributing member or the at least one other member that is verified.
US11658815B2
In certain embodiments, shares related to an output of a function having multiple shares of a secret as input may be computed. In some embodiments, with respect to initial key shares of a key that are collectively held by multiple parties, an output of an arithmetic function (performed on an initial key share of the initial key shares) may be received from each of the multiple parties. The outputs from the multiple parties may be provided as input for a Multi-Party Computation (MPC) process, where the MPC process outputs final key shares in connection with the outputs from the multiple parties being provided as input for the MPC process. With respect to each party of the multiple parties, a final key share of the final key shares may be sent to the party.
US11658814B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for facilitating storage encryption and decryption. During operation, the system receives a first request to encrypt data which is to be stored on a remote device, wherein the first request indicates the data. The system updates a key based on a dynamic key refreshment protocol. The system determines a key label for the updated key. The system encrypts the data based on the updated key, and transmits the encrypted data and the key label to the remote device, thereby facilitating secure encryption and decryption of data on the remote device.
US11658812B1
A distributed key management system (KMS) includes a central KMS server and multiple intermediate KMS servers. The central KMS server replicates managed keys to the intermediate KMS servers. An intermediate KMS server receives a KMS service request from a KMS client, where any of the intermediate KMS servers are capable of servicing the request. The intermediate KMS server performs the action requested if it has access to the necessary managed key and returns the response to the KMS client. If it does not have access to the necessary managed key, the intermediate KMS server transmits a request for the managed key to the central KMS server. The intermediate KMS server receives the managed key, performs the action requested, and returns the response to the KMS client.
US11658799B2
A first share value and a second share value may be received. A combination of the first share value and the second share value may correspond to an exponent value. The value of a first register is updated using a first equation that is based on the first and second share values and the value of a second register is updated using a second equation that is based on the second share value. One of the value of the first register or the value of the second register is selected based on a bit value of the second share value.
US11658797B2
A synchronization timing detector includes n correlators, a calculation unit, and a symbol timing estimating unit. The n correlators calculate and output correlation values, between a received signal oversampled m times for one symbol period and a known synchronization pattern, by shifting sample timings by m/n samples each, where m is a natural number, and n is a natural number that satisfies 3≤n≤m and is a divisor of m. The calculation unit generates n correlation value vectors by arranging the correlation values output from the n correlators on polar coordinates at intervals of an angle of 2π(n/m) radians, and adds the n correlation value vectors to calculate an angle of a resultant vector of the correlation value vectors. The symbol timing estimating unit estimates a symbol timing of the received signal based on the angle of the resultant vector calculated by the calculation unit.
US11658792B2
The present disclosure relates to technique for facilitating PDCCH monitoring in carrier aggregation for lower power consumption. A UE stops a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring on a set of activated secondary cells (SCells) in response to a monitoring stoppage event. The UE may resume the PDCCH monitoring on at least one SCell of the set of activated SCells in response to a monitoring resumption event. The set of activated SCells may remain activated during a period between the stopping of the PDCCH monitoring and the resuming of the PDCCH monitoring.
US11658790B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive a communication from a second UE. The UE may transmit, to the second UE, sidelink hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback using a sidelink component carrier based at least in part on the communication received from the second UE, wherein the sidelink component carrier is associated with conveying the sidelink HARQ-ACK feedback when sidelink carrier aggregation is configured for a group of UEs that includes the first UE and the second UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11658787B2
Control channel candidates can be transmitted in at least one shortened transmission time interval in a subframe and set of resource blocks corresponding to control channel candidates in the at least one shortened transmission time interval. A determination can be made about whether at least one resource block of the set of resource blocks at least partially overlaps with a broadcast control channel or signal. A determination can be made about control resource elements for transmission of a control channel candidate based on the determination about whether the at least one resource block of the set of resource blocks at least partially overlaps with the broadcast control channel or signal. The control channel candidate can be transmitted in the at least one shortened transmission time interval according to the determined control resource elements.
US11658779B2
Disclosed by the present application are a resource mapping method and apparatus and device, comprising: determining to-be-sent data hosted on a data-channel physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH)/physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); mapping said to-be-sent data to a virtual resource block (VRB); mapping the virtual resource block to a physical resource block (PRB) in resource block (RB) bundle units. Using the present application, it is possible to prevent the problem of the size of a virtual resource block bundle being inconsistent with the size of a physical resource block bundle, thus causing it to be impossible to map the virtual resource block to the physical resource block.
US11658777B2
In one aspect, a method of wireless communication includes transmitting, by a wireless communication device, a negative acknowledgement message (NACK) for a first Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) via a first frequency band; and receiving, by the wireless communication device, a second PDSCH via a second frequency band, wherein the first frequency band is different from the second frequency band. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US11658776B2
A method includes sending wireless data to a receiver node. The method includes receiving feedback from the receiver node that identifies a subset of the wireless data that the receiver node failed to receive correctly and that includes a token value as a label for the subset of the wireless data as a group. The method includes constructing retransmission wireless data that includes the subset of the wireless data and the token value. The method includes sending the retransmission wireless data to the receiver node.
US11658768B2
A multi-link device (MLD) includes a transmit (TX) circuit, a receive (RX) circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit controls the RX circuit to receive a first frame under an operation mode parameter with a first setting, control the TX circuit to transmit a second frame responsive to the first frame under the operation mode parameter with the first setting, and after the second frame is transmitted, controls the RX circuit to receive at least one physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) under the operation mode parameter with a second setting, wherein the second setting is different from the first setting.
US11658764B2
The disclosure relates to an apparatus including a receiver configured to process a radio frequency (RF) signal to generate a baseband signal; a radio frequency (RF) jammer detector configured to generate a signal indicative of whether an RF jammer is present at an input of the receiver; and a receiver bias circuit configured to generate a supply voltage for the receiver based on the RF jammer indication signal. In another aspect, the apparatus includes constant gain bias circuit to maintain the gain of the receiver constant in response to changes in the supply voltage. In other aspects, the receiver bias circuit may suspend the generating of the supply voltage based on the RF jammer indication signal if the power level of the target received signal is above a threshold. In other aspects, the receiver bias circuit changes the supply voltage during cyclic prefix (CP) intervals between downlink intervals.
US11658756B2
Disclosed are techniques for handling of radio frequency (RF) front-end group delays for roundtrip time (RTT) estimation. In an aspect, a network node transmits first and second RTT measurement (RTTM) signals to a user equipment (UE) and receives first and second RTT response (RTTR) signals from the UE. The network node measures the transmission times of the RTTM signals and the reception times of the RTTR signals, and the UE measures the transmission times the RTTM signals and the transmission times of the RTTR signals. The group delays of the transmit/receive chains of the network node and the UE are determined for one set of transmit/receive chains based on the first RTTM signal and first RTTR signal. The group delays of the transmit/receive chain used for the second RTTM signal and the second RTTR signal are determined relative to the group delay of the one set of transmit/receive chains.
US11658755B2
There is set forth herein, in one embodiment, receiving an aggregate scanning signal stream from a set of scanning antennas configured in a scanning configuration; receiving aggregate communication signal streams from first to Nth sets of communication antennas configured in respective communication configurations; identifying an interfering signal stream within the aggregate scanning signal stream and determining a direction associated to such interfering signal stream, wherein the identifying and determining are performed with use of processing of the aggregate scanning signal streams received from the scanning antennas configured in a scanning configuration; and returning an action decision responsively to the identifying and the determining.
US11658754B2
The present disclosure presents aerial communication systems and methods. One such system comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle platform and a communication component integrated with the unmanned aerial vehicle platform, wherein the communication component is configured to establish an Air to Air (A2A) communication channel with a remote directional antenna that is integrated with a remote unmanned aerial vehicle platform. The system further includes a computing component integrated with the unmanned aerial vehicle platform, wherein the computing component is configured to determine an optimal heading angle for transmission of communication signals from a directional antenna to the remote directional antenna in an unknown communication environment from received signal strength indicator (RSSI) information obtained from the remote directional antenna. Other systems and methods are also disclosed.
US11658746B2
A method may include obtaining a topology of an optical network. The topology may indicate multiple optical links within the optical network. The method may also include determining a signal noise tolerance for each of multiple optical signal types supported by the optical network and obtaining an optical noise for each of the multiple optical links. The method may also include determining a number of the multiple optical signal types that each of the multiple optical links is able to support based on the optical noise for each of the optical links and the signal noise tolerance for each of the multiple optical signal types and ranking the multiple optical links based on the number of the multiple optical signal types that each of the optical links is able to support.
US11658740B2
Disclosed is a solution for monitoring an operation of an optical fiber. An arrangement for the purpose includes: an indicator device arranged to: receive, from an optical component, a sample of a signal conveyed in the communication channel; determine an indicator value indicative of an amount of light in the sample of the signal; and a computing device arranged to compare the indicator value to a reference value, and set a detection result to express either that the sample of the signal carries a predefined amount of light or the predefined amount of light is absent from the sample. Also disclosed is a method, a computing device, a computer program product and a communication system thereto.
US11658737B2
Systems and methods include receiving a plurality of symbols that are part of a defined Digital Signal Processing (DSP) frame for coherent optical communication, wherein the DSP frame structure has a messaging channel incorporated therein that includes a subset of the plurality of symbols; capturing multiple samples of the messaging channel; and determining a message in the messaging channel based on analysis of the multiple samples. The method can further include transmitting, in the messaging channel, a reply to the message with the reply being repeated multiple times. The analysis is performed prior to Forward Error Correction (FEC) decoding on the data path.
US11658735B1
A constellation of many satellites provides communication between devices such as user terminals and ground stations. A collaborative constellation management interface (CCMI) provides collaborative interaction capabilities to operators at different locations, facilitating management and operation of the constellation. A lightweight presentation client, such as a browser, handles receiving input data from an operator and presenting output data to the operator. An operator initiates a session that participates in a common session. Limited to the permissions associated with the operator's session, input data is processed by the systems referred to by the common session. Output data for presentation is sent to the participating operator sessions, limited to their respective permissions. As a result, each common session accepts input and presents consistent output, allowing for collaborative interaction by many operators at different locations. Input and output data may be stored for later use, review, and so forth.
US11658729B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, in a full duplex transmission mode, a measurement trigger indicating a set of candidate base station beam pairs, wherein a candidate base station beam pair comprises a base station uplink (UL) beam and a base station downlink (DL) beam, wherein the corresponding identified UE beam pair comprises a UE UL beam and a UE DL beam, wherein the set of candidate base station beam pairs are identified based at least in part on a base station self-interference measurement; and transmit, to the base station, a beam measurement report based at least in part on a plurality of beam measurements obtained based at least in part on the measurement trigger. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11658725B2
A system having an array of antennas with particular weights for signals associated with different groups of antennas. The array of antennas includes a first group of antennas positioned in a middle portion of the array of antennas, a second group of antennas positions at one or more edges of the array of antennas, and a third group of antennas positioned at one or more corners of the array of antennas. The system includes a control module configured to control each respective and tenant in the array of antennas. The control module can further be configured to weight the first group of antennas a first weighting amount, to weight the second group of antennas a second weighting amount and to weight the third group of antennas a third weighting amount. The weighting improves the system's ability to reduce ambiguities in an angle of arrival associated with the object.
US11658721B2
Method and apparatus for beam selection for CSI reporting in advanced wireless communication systems
A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided, the method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), configuration information including a number of total beam quantities (N) and a number of selected beam quantities (L), wherein L≤N; calculating an index indicating L selected beam quantities out of N total beam quantities based on the configuration information and a predefined mapping table including combinatorial binomial coefficient values, C ( x , y ) = ( x y ) (i.e., x choose y); and transmitting, to the BS, the index indicating the L selected beam quantities.
US11658717B2
One example includes a phased-array antenna system (10). The system includes antenna elements (16) each including an element adjustment circuit (24) and a radiating element (114). A beamforming network (14) receives a carrier signal and generates element carrier signals. A baseband DSP (22) generates a plurality of composite beamforming data signals associated with a respective one of the antenna elements (16) and is generated based on combining individual beamforming data signals. Each of the individual beamforming data signals is associated with a respective beam and is based on combining a data signal associated with the respective beam with an antenna weight associated with the respective beam and the respective one of the antenna elements (16). The element adjustment circuit (24) modulates the associated composite beamforming data signal onto the respective element carrier signal to generate a respective element signal that is provided to the respective radiating element (114), such that the beams are generated from the antenna elements (16).
US11658713B2
The disclosure relates to a communication technique of combining a 5G communication system to support a higher data transfer rate than in a 4G system with IoT technology, and a system thereof. The disclosure provides a terminal in a wireless communication system. The terminal includes at least one processor configured to: obtain a codebook set for the terminal; generate uplink signals by using a plurality of codebooks of the codebook set; and control at least one transceiver to transmit the uplink signals to a base station. A first uplink signal of a first resource among the uplink signals is generated based on a codeword of a first codebook among codebooks and a second uplink signal of a second resource adjacent to the first resource among the uplink signals is generated based on a codeword of a second codebook which is different from the first codebook among codebooks.
US11658710B2
A transmission device includes: a weighting synthesizer that generates a first precoded signal and a second precoded signal from a first baseband signal and a second baseband signal, respectively; a phase changer that applies a phase change of i×Δλ to the second precoded signal; an inserter that inserts a pilot signal into the second precoded signal applied with the phase change; and a phase changer that applies a phase change to the second precoded signal applied with the phase change and inserted with the pilot signal. The weighting synthesizer performs, in the precoding process, a calculation that uses F = ( e j θ 11 e j ( θ 11 + π 4 ) e j θ 21 e j ( θ 21 + π + π 4 ) ) on the first baseband signal and the second baseband signal modulated via a modulation scheme of QPSK.
US11658707B2
A transmission type is determined for a specific station on a Wi-Fi network. A transmission type of OFDMA is selected responsive to the mobility value for the specific station meeting a mobility threshold. A transmission type of MU-MIMO is selected responsive to the similarity value for the specific station meeting a similarity threshold. A transmission type of SU-MIMO is selected responsive to the specific station not meeting the similarity threshold. The network interface transmits data packets to stations using OFDMA, SU-MIMO or MU-MIMO as selected.
US11658699B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for generating a frequency hopping arrangement are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes calculating a number of useable frequency channels between a starting frequency channel and a stopping frequency channel for a frequency hopping arrangement for a communication session; calculating a frequency channel step value based at least in part on a predetermined required minimum number of frequency channels for the frequency hopping arrangement; selecting frequency channel values to be used in the communication session by iterating through frequency channel values for the useable frequency channels between the starting frequency channel and the stopping frequency channel at intervals of a random frequency channel selection offset value; and establishing the frequency hopping arrangement based at least in part on the selected frequency channel values.
US11658691B2
To achieve miniaturization, a high-frequency module includes a mounting substrate, a power amplifier, and an electronic component. The mounting substrate has a first main surface and a second main surface on opposite sides. The power amplifier is arranged on a mounting substrate. The power amplifier has a driver stage amplifier and an output stage amplifier. The driver stage amplifier is arranged on the second main surface of the mounting substrate. The output stage amplifier is arranged on the first main surface of the mounting substrate. The electronic component is arranged on the first main surface of the mounting substrate. The electronic component overlaps the driver stage amplifier in a plan view from a thickness direction of the mounting substrate.
US11658688B2
Embodiments of this disclosure relate to multiplexers that include acoustic wave filters for filtering radio frequency signals. In certain embodiments, a multiplexer includes a first acoustic wave filter including bulk acoustic wave resonators and a second acoustic wave filter including multilayer piezoelectric substrate surface acoustic wave resonators. The second acoustic wave filter can have a second pass band that is above a first pass band of the first acoustic wave filter. Related acoustic filter assemblies, packaged radio frequency modules, wireless communication devices, and methods are disclosed.
US11658687B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods which include wireless devices and systems with examples of mixing input data with coefficient data. For example, a computing system with processing units may mix the input data for a transmission in a radio frequency (RF) wireless domain with the coefficient data to generate output data that is representative of the transmission being processed according to the wireless protocol in the RF wireless domain. A computing device may be trained to generate coefficient data based on the operations of a wireless transceiver such that mixing input data using the coefficient data generates an approximation of the output data, as if it were processed by the wireless transceiver. Examples of systems and methods described herein may facilitate the processing of data for 5G wireless communications in a power-efficient and time-efficient manner.
US11658686B2
A control node for an array antenna configured so as to apply an attenuation and a phase shift to a radiofrequency signal on the basis of a control signal, to a beamforming network, to an array antenna and to a satellite includes the control node. It comprises a quadratic divider that delivers an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal on separate transmission channels, a combiner configured so as to sum the signals transmitted on two of the transmission channels, each transmission channel comprising at least: one attenuation cell activated on the basis of the value of a dedicated bit of the control signal, and one phase shift cell configured so as to apply a fixed phase shift, activated on the basis of the result of combinational logic implemented on bits of the control signal.
US11658683B2
The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method, which are capable of securing excellent communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleave, an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16200 bits and an encoding rate r is 6/15, 8/15, or 10/15 is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleave, a sequence of the LDPC code that has undergone the group-wise interleave is restored to an original sequence. For example, the present technology can be applied to a technique of performing data transmission using an LDPC code.
US11658678B2
Systems and methods for improving noise efficiency in a Delta Sigma modulator. A bypass scheme for a noise splitter is disclosed that reduces toggling activity for small signals. In particular, a sample-by-sample bypass noise splitter is disclosed that includes a noise splitting module and a bypass line. The bypass line bypasses the noise splitting module when signals are below a selected threshold, increasing efficiency of the system.
US11658663B2
A magneto-electric (ME) inverter includes two anti-ferromagnetic spin orbit read (AFSOR) circuit elements, each AFSOR circuit element has a CMOS inverter; and an AFSOR device with a ME base layer; a semiconductor channel layer on the ME base layer and comprising a source terminal and a drain terminal, where the source terminal is coupled to an output of the CMOS inverter; and a gate electrode on the semiconductor channel layer. The gate electrode of a second AFSOR device of the two AFSOR circuit elements is coupled to the drain terminal of a first AFSOR device of the two AFSOR circuit elements.
US11658662B2
Methods, systems, and devices for leakage current reduction in electronic devices are described. Electronic devices may be susceptible to leakage currents when operating in a first mode, such as an inactive (e.g., a standby) mode. To mitigate leakage current, an electronic device may include transistors coupled in cascode configuration where a gate of a drain-side transistor in the cascode configuration is configured to be biased by an adjustable (e.g., a dynamic) control signal. When the transistors are inactive (e.g., “off”), the control signal may be adjusted to prevent leakage associated with the inactive transistors. Further, a source-side transistor in the cascode configuration may be configured to have a high threshold voltage (e.g., relative to the drain-side transistor).
US11658660B1
A device comprises first and second qubits, and a qubit coupler coupled between the first and second qubits. The second qubit comprises first and second modes with the first mode configured to store data. The qubit coupler comprises first and second modes, and operates in a first state or second state. In the first state, the first qubit is exchange coupled to the first mode of the qubit coupler, and the second mode of the second qubit is exchange coupled to the second mode of the qubit coupler, to suppress interaction between the first and second qubits. In the second state, the first qubit and the first mode of the second qubit are exchange coupled to both the first and second modes the qubit coupler, to enable interaction between the first and second qubits for an entanglement gate operation in response to a control signal applied to the qubit coupler.
US11658656B2
A clock gating cell including: a first circuit configured to receive an enable signal and an inverted output clock signal and generate a first signal through a first node; a second circuit configured to receive the first signal and generate an inverted first signal; a third circuit configured to receive the first signal, the inverted first signal, and an input clock signal, generate the first signal by being connected to the first circuit through the first node, and generate the inverted output clock signal through a second node; and a fourth circuit configured to receive the first signal, generate the inverted output clock signal by being connected to the third circuit through the second node, and generate the output clock signal, wherein the third circuit includes a pair of transistors receiving the input clock signal.
US11658655B2
A circuit may include or may be coupled to a precharge structure to reduce or minimize a net perturbation, caused by switching, in the input source. Apparatus and techniques shown herein may enable low input current operation in a signal chain of an analog circuit by such reduction or minimization of such perturbation.
US11658651B1
An RF switch circuit is provided. The RF switch circuit may include a first switch disposed between a transmitting port and an antenna port and including a plurality of first transistors; a second switch disposed between the antenna port and a receiving port and including a plurality of second transistors; and a switch control circuit configured to generate control voltages to control the first transistors and the second transistors, generate a first Off voltage to turn off at least one first transistor among the plurality of first transistors and the plurality of second transistors in a transmitting mode, and generate a second Off voltage to turn off at least one second transistor among the plurality of first transistors and the plurality of second transistors in a receiving mode, wherein the second Off voltage may be higher than the first Off voltage.
US11658648B1
A system includes a sampler, a receiver phase-locked loop circuit configured to provide one or more input clock signals, and a phase interpolation circuit coupled to the receiver phase-locked loop circuit and the sampler. The phase interpolation circuit further includes a first phase interpolator configured to generate a first recovered clock signal based on the one or more input clock signals and a first code, and a second phase interpolator configured to generate a second recovered clock signal based on the one or more input clock signals and a second code, wherein the second code has an interpolation code offset from the first code, wherein the interpolation code offset corresponds to a phase shift in the second recovered clock signal relative to the first recovered clock signal, wherein the outputs of the first phase interpolator and second phase interpolator are configured to be merged.
US11658644B2
A method and system for controlling duty cycle distortion in a signal. The system includes an input configured to receive a square wave input signal and a filter configured to transform the square wave input signal into a signal with sloped transitions. One or more linear buffers introduce duty cycle distortion into the signal based on a duty cycle distortion signal to create a duty cycle distorted signal. One or more output buffers receive and transform the duty cycle distorted signal into a distorted square wave signal. A feedback loop receives the distorted square wave signal and compares it to a duty cycle distortion control signal to generate an error signal, which indicates the difference between the square wave signal and the desired output duty cycle. The error signal is converted to the duty cycle distortion signal and presented to the one or more linear buffers.
US11658637B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to quartz crystal devices and more particularly to quartz crystal devices configured to vibrate in torsional mode. In one aspect, a quartz crystal device configured for temperature sensing comprises a fork-shaped quartz crystal comprising a pair of elongate tines laterally extending from a base region in a horizontal lengthwise direction of the fork-shaped quartz crystal, wherein each of the tines has formed on one or both of opposing sides thereof a pair of vertically recessed groove structures laterally elongated in the horizontal lengthwise direction, wherein the pair of groove structures are separated in a horizontal widthwise direction by a line structure. The quartz crystal device further comprises a first electrode and a second electrode formed on the one or both of the opposing sides of each of the tines and configured such that, when an electrical bias is applied between the first and second electrodes, the fork-shaped quartz crystal vibrates in a torsional mode in which each of the tines twists about a respective axis extending in the horizontal lengthwise direction.
US11658634B1
Technologies directed to a wireless device with RF port impedance detection using concurrent radios are described. One wireless device includes an impedance detection circuit with a bi-directional RF coupler and switching circuitry. A processing device at least two radios, at least two RF ports, and an impedance detection circuit. The impedance detection circuit is configured to measure a first receive signal strength indicator (RSSI) value of a first reflected signal. The first reflected signal corresponding to a first signal sent by one of the at least two radios. The impedance detection circuit determines that the first RSSI value exceeds a threshold. The threshold represents an impedance mismatch condition at or beyond at least one of the two RF ports. The processing device sends a first indicative of the impedance mismatch condition to a second device.
US11658628B2
A semiconductor device includes an equalizer for receiving a first signal and outputting a second signal that has been adjusted to compensate for attenuation of the first signal. A filter is connected to the output terminal of the equalizer. A cancellation circuit operates to cancel a DC offset in the output of the equalizer. A processing circuit is configured to control the cancellation circuit to cancel the DC offset according to an output from the filter. The processing circuit sets a time constant for the filter to a first value to permit the cancellation circuit to cancel the DC offset when the equalizer is in a first state, and then sets the time constant to a second value when the equalizer is set to a second state to permit the cancellation circuit to cancel the DC offset when the equalizer is in the second state.
US11658623B2
The present disclosure relates to Class D amplifier circuitry comprising a mode controller configured to dynamically adjust an operational switching mode of the Class D amplifier over a range between a Class AD mode and a Class BD mode.
US11658622B2
A power amplifier circuit includes a lower transistor having a first terminal, a second terminal connected to ground, and a third terminal, wherein a first power supply voltage is supplied to the first terminal, and an input signal is supplied to the third terminal; a first capacitor; an upper transistor having a first terminal, a second terminal connected to the first terminal of the lower transistor via the first capacitor, and a third terminal, wherein a second power supply voltage is supplied to the first terminal, an amplified signal is outputted to an output terminal from the first terminal, and a driving voltage is supplied to the third terminal; a first inductor that connects the second terminal of the upper transistor to ground; a voltage regulator circuit; and at least one termination circuit that short-circuits an even-order harmonic or odd-order harmonic of the amplified signal to ground potential.
US11658618B2
Provided is a distortion compensation device performing distortion compensation on a signal to be amplified by an amplifier, of which an internal state affecting a distortion characteristic varies, using a distortion compensation model, wherein the distortion compensation model includes a plurality of calculation models having respective distortion compensation characteristic for the amplifier in different internal states, and a combiner combining the plurality of calculation models at a combination ratio corresponding to the internal state that varies.
US11658605B2
A hybrid solar thermal and photovoltaic power generation system with a pumped thermal storage system with a mode switchable heat pump/heat engine apparatus realizes utility scale stabilized power generation with low cost thermal storage, ultra-high conversion efficiency with hybrid solar thermal and photovoltaic cogeneration system, and low capital cost with the mode switchable heat pump/heat engine apparatus. The present system heat, cool, and supply power to buildings simultaneously over the four seasons. The synergistically combination of the hybrid solar thermal and photovoltaic cogeneration and the pumped thermal storage of the present invention is to make a transformative change of power supply landscape.
US11658604B2
Embodiments provide controlling an actuator such that inaccurate actuator control caused by the heat created when the actuator moves can be compensated. In some embodiments, a temperature sensor is implemented in an actuator controller outside of the actuator, and the temperature sensor is connected to the actuator through heat conductive materials. In these embodiments, the cost and the form factor of the aforementioned actuator is reduced compared to implementation of temperature sensors within the actuator.
US11658603B2
A digital positioner for a valve includes a valve controller configured to obtain a set point value for a valve travel of a valve, and generate a pulse-width modulated current signal based on the set point value. The digital positioner also includes a current-to-pressure converter configured to receive the pulse-width modulated current signal from the valve controller, convert the pulse-width modulated current signal to a pulse-width modulated pressure signal, and provide the pulse-width modulated pressure signal to a pneumatic actuator in the valve to adjust a position of the valve.
US11658601B2
A motor control device includes a power converter that supplies a three-phase voltage to two motors being connected in parallel, a three-phase power line that connects between one of the two motors and the power converter, a branch three-phase power line that connects between the other of the two motors and the power converter, a switching device having two switches that are provided on the branch three-phase power line, a current detection device that detects three-phase currents flowing in the two motors, and a controller. The controller performs a failure determination of the switching device by identifying a phase of a power line in which no current flows in the three-phase power line and the branch three-phase power line, and, when a failure is detected in one of the two switches in the failure determination, controls to change a state of the other switch, which operates normally, to coincide with a state of the failed switch.
US11658600B2
A motor controller 100-1 includes an inverter 23, a current detection unit 24, and a current detector 27. The motor controller includes a duty-cycle setting unit 31 that sets a duty cycle of each of a first PWM signal, a second PWM signal, and a third PWM signal, based on a corresponding detected value for a given phase. The motor controller includes a PWM signal generator 32. The PWM signal generator 32 adjusts, upon occurrence of a condition in which a given setting value changes, a time sequence order of timings at which the first PWM signal, the second PWM signal, and the third PWM signal respectively change after a change in the given setting value, to be the same as a time sequence order of timings at which the first PWM signal, the second PWM signal, and the third PWM signal respectively change prior to the change in the given setting value, so that a first energization time period and a second energization time period are ensured within half of one period of the carrier. The first energization time period has an energization width in which the current detector enables detecting of a given phase current for any one of phases. The second energization time period has an energization width in which the current detector enables detecting of a given phase current for any one of the phases.
US11658596B2
A motor control device of an embodiment includes a power supply unit that supplies AC power to a motor; a current detection unit that detects a current flowing through a winding of the motor; a speed and electric angle estimation unit that estimates a rotation speed and an electric angle of the motor based on a voltage outputted by the power supply unit and the current; a coordinate conversion unit that obtains an excitation current and a torque current based on the current and the electric angle; a torque current command determination unit that substitutes a predicted torque calculated based on a mechanical motion equation into a torque component current command value calculated based on a torque expression of a vector control coordinate, to generate a torque component current command value for bringing a difference between an inputted speed command and an estimated speed closer to zero; and a model prediction control unit that applies, to a plurality of predicted currents including a current change ratio determined depending on each of a plurality of switching patterns based on a space voltage vector that are able to be outputted by the power supply unit, an evaluation function to evaluate a size of a difference from a predicted current corresponding to each of the torque component current command value and an excitation component current command value inputted from outside, and that selects and outputs a switching pattern.
US11658591B2
A motor controller is configured to stabilize the motor current. The motor controller is used for driving a motor. The motor controller comprises a switch circuit, a control unit, and a phase detecting unit. The phase detecting unit generates a phase signal to the control unit for switching phases. The phase signal sequentially generates a first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth time interval. The first to sixth time intervals correspond to first to sixth phases, respectively. The motor controller further comprises a first driving time for driving the motor in the fifth phase, where the first driving time is related to the first time interval. The motor controller further comprises a second driving time for driving the motor in the sixth phase, where the second driving time is related to the second time interval.
US11658582B2
Techniques to send digital information from the secondary side to the primary side of a power converter, such as a flyback power converter, without the need for a separate, isolated communication channel. The power converter of this disclosure may send digital information from secondary side to the primary side through a power transformer while the power converter operates in a mixed mode scenario, e.g. critical conduction mode (CRCM) and discontinuous conduction mode (DCM). In CRCM, a controller circuit for the power converter may encode digital information by modulating the diode conduction time in a switching cycle. In DCM, the controller circuit may encode digital information by modulating the period of time for each switching cycle, e.g. increased period, decreased period or no change to the period.
US11658576B2
An embodiment DC to DC conversion circuit comprises a DC to DC converter and a regulation circuit. The regulation circuit comprises a comparator configured to detect, during a discharge phase of the DC to DC converter, an overshoot period during which an output voltage of the DC to DC converter exceeds a target voltage, and a timer configured to measure a duration of the overshoot period.
US11658572B2
For a buck-boost DC-DC converter with n-type high-side field effect transistor (HSFET), a supply is derived from input and output rails, and this supply maintains a constant differential voltage independent of input supply voltage. The derived supply is used as the high supply (HS) of an HSFET Driver. As such, the HSFET resistance becomes independent of supply variation. A wide range ultra-low IQ (Quiescent current), edge triggered level-shifter provides support to a bootstrapped power stage of the inverting buck-boost DC-DC converter. When p-type HSFET is used, a supply is derived from the input and output supply rails, and this derived supply maintains a constant differential voltage independent to the input supply voltage. The derived supply is used as the low supply (LS) or ‘ground’ of the HSFET Driver. As such, the p-type HSFET resistance becomes independent of supply variation.
US11658571B2
Techniques are described that can solve the problem of being low power while running a device on battery and alternatively running on the output of a switching regulator. In a low power mode, a voltage regulator circuit can be powered down and a switch can connect an input voltage of the regulator, e.g., a battery, to the CPU. In addition, internal and/or external loads, such as voltage feedback resistors, can be disconnected in order to further reduce the power consumption. If the device is going into operation, the CPU can be disconnected from the input voltage of the regulator, e.g., the battery, and switched to the output of the regulator. This can ensure that the circuit consumes very little power consumption in standby mode.
US11658565B2
An apparatus for controlling a power factor correction circuit of a charger for charging a vehicle batter is configured to correct a power factor of an input AC voltage through switching of a switching element. The apparatus for controlling the power factor correction circuit includes: a phase angle detection unit configured to detect phase angle information of the input AC voltage; and a frequency determination unit configured to synchronize a period in which a preset frequency variation value varies, with a period of the input AC voltage by applying the phase angle information to the frequency variation value, and determine, as a switching frequency of the switching element, a value obtained by applying the synchronized frequency variation value to a preset fundamental frequency value.
US11658526B2
A motor includes a rotor, a stator, and a magnetic pole position detection element to detect a position of a magnetic pole of the rotor. The rotor includes a resin magnet having a first orientation and a second orientation, and a shaft fixed to the resin magnet, and the first and second orientations and are different from each other in a radial direction. The magnetic pole position detection element faces the resin magnet in an axial direction.
US11658512B1
An energy storage system stores power received from a power grid as potential energy in compressed earth materials. The energy storage system includes a motor-generator coupled to an anchor via a tensile member. The motor-generator is configured to apply a tensile force to the tensile member. The tensile force causes the motor-generator and the anchor to apply a compression force to the earth materials in the ground, and causes the anchor to displace, thereby storing the received power as potential energy. The energy storage system provides power to the power grid by relieving some of the tensile force on the tensile member and thereby relieving some of the compression force on the earth materials. The anchor displaces towards its original position, and thereby causes the motor-generator to generate electrical power from the stored potential energy.
US11658511B2
Energy flows are segmented into components for tracking the location of energy consumption and production. Data collected on energy flows is used to create profiles of energy production and consumption over specified time windows for specific clients. Data profiles are also created for an aggregation of clients. The portion of an energy flow that is distributed to each client within an area is calculated. Based on data obtained and portions calculated of the energy flow, incentives are created to encourage energy production and usage in locations that reduce energy losses due to transmission of the energy flow. Aggregated data and feedback information about production and consumption is sent back to clients. Incentives can be in the form of pricing adjustments for both production and consumption during specified time periods.
US11658499B2
A battery diagnosis apparatus determines whether a battery may be reused and includes a data obtaining device configured to output a perturbation signal, a signal regulating device configured to generate a current by applying the perturbation signal to a battery and performing feedback of a current signal output from the battery, and a noise canceling device configured to cancel noises of the current signal and a voltage signal received from the battery. The data obtaining device outputs the perturbation signal while changing a frequency, obtains an impedance spectrum based on the noise-canceled current signal and voltage signal for each frequency, and determines whether to reuse the battery based on the obtained impedance spectrum.
US11658498B2
A chargeable gunsight bracket and a gunsight having the same are provided. The gunsight bracket includes a bracket body, a chargeable battery, and a power supply circuit board electrically connected to the chargeable battery. A bottom of the bracket body is provided with a groove, and the bracket body is further provided with a battery holder and a charging interface. The power supply circuit board and the chargeable battery are both mounted in the battery holder, two ends of the charging interface are respectively connected to the power supply circuit board and external environment. The chargeable gunsight bracket is fixedly mounted on a gun through the groove, and the chargeable battery is mounted in the battery holder. When power of the chargeable bracket is running out, the external power supply can directly charge the chargeable battery through the charging interface, so that the gunsight can be used continuously.
US11658497B1
Implementations disclosed herein provide a charging station configured to attach to or be positioned adjacent to a wall in a confinement institution and to simultaneously charge multiple tablets, mobile phones, laptops, or other portable electronic devices. In some implementations, the charging station is configured with protective sides that may help protect inserted electronic devices from damage. The charging and use of the electronic devices within the confinement institution may be automatically managed based connections at the charging stations, communications with the electronic devices, audio, images, or video of the electronic devices or users captured cameras on the charging station or the electronic devices, and/or information provided by the users.
US11658492B2
A charging cable configured to obtain power from different power supply devices for delivery to a chargeable electronic device, and to techniques and equipment to enable the charging cable to identify current limitation of the connected power supply device and to enforce that current limit via the charging cable. The charging cable has a logic circuit coupled to signal pins to detect a signal indicating a power limitation of the power supply device. The logic circuit controls a current limiter connected in the power delivery bus of the charging cable to limit current flowing through the charging cable.
US11658488B2
The disclosure discloses a photovoltaic power optimization system, comprising: a plurality of photovoltaic panels; a photovoltaic optimizing module array comprising a plurality of photovoltaic optimizing modules connected in series, each of the photovoltaic optimizing modules being electrically connected to at least one of the photovoltaic panels; an inverter electrically connected to an output terminals of the photovoltaic optimizing module array for converting a DC power into an AC power; and a data center unit communicates wirelessly with at least one of the photovoltaic optimizing modules, and also communicates with the inverter via power line.
US11658477B2
A multi-port power converter includes a housing that includes a plurality of ports structured to electrically interface to a plurality of loads, the plurality of loads having distinct electrical characteristics. The multi-port power converter also includes a plurality of solid state components configured to provide selected electrical power outputs and to accept selected electrical power inputs and a plurality of solid state switches configured to provide selected connectivity between the plurality of solid state components and the plurality of ports.
US11658458B2
An optical device includes: a base having first and second ends in first and second directions, respectively, and extends in the first direction; an optical module having a head adjacent to the base and is positioned close to the second end and a neck protruding from the head and is thinner than the head; a substrate attached on the base arranged with the head; and a pressing member having a first fixing portion fixed to the base, a second fixing portion fixed to the base, a first extension portion extending from the first fixing portion, a second extension portion extending from the second fixing portion, and a pressing portion provided in at least one of the first and the second extension portions and presses the head against the base.
US11658454B2
A system and method for tuning and infrared source laser in the Mid-IR wavelength range. The system and method comprising, at least, a plurality of individually tunable emitters, each emitter emitting a beam having a unique wavelength, a grating, a mirror positioned after the grating to receive at least one refracted order of light of at least one beam and to redirect the beam back towards the grating, and a micro-electro-mechanical systems device containing a plurality of adjustable micro-mirrors.
US11658446B2
A relay connector connects a plurality of front female terminals that are fitted from a front side in a front-rear direction and a plurality of rear female terminals that are fitted from a rear side in the front-rear direction together. The relay connector includes a housing and a busbar. The housing includes a front insertion recess portion, a rear insertion recess portion, an intermediate wall portion, and a busbar holding portion disposed at the intermediate wall portion. The busbar includes a base portion, a rear tab, an extension portion extending from the base portion to the same side in an up-down direction, and a front tab extending from an extension end of the extension portion to the front-insertion-recess-portion side. The rear tab includes a rear held portion adjacent to the base portion and a rear male terminal portion housed in the rear insertion recess portion. The front tab includes a front held portion adjacent to the extension end of the extension portion and a front male terminal portion housed in the front insertion recess portion. The busbar holding portion includes a first holding portion that holds the rear held portion of the rear tab, a second holding portion that holds the front held portion of the front tab, and a third holding portion that holds the extension portion.
US11658444B2
The present disclosure relates to a charging cable having a protective sleeve which extends to an extended position to protect the charging end of the cable. The protective sleeve may be retracted to a retracted position to reveal the charging end and allow the cable to be plugged into an electronic device. Various embodiments are disclosed in which the protective sleeve may be spring loaded by a single spring, by a plurality of springs, or it may be manually operated.
US11658441B2
An electrical connector includes an insulating body and a terminal module. The terminal module includes a first terminal module, a second terminal module, and a shielding piece. The first terminal module includes a number of first conductive terminals. Each first conductive terminal includes a first elastic contact arm and a first tail portion. The second terminal module includes a number of second conductive terminals. Each second conductive terminal includes a second elastic contact arm and a second tail portion. The shielding piece includes a connecting portion and a number of ground terminals. The ground terminals include a number of first ground elastic arms arranged in a same row as the first elastic contact arms and a number of second ground elastic arms arranged in a same row as the second elastic contact arms. As a result, the shielding performance of the electrical connector is improved.
US11658436B2
The present disclosure describes a power cable connector. The connector includes a generally cylindrical main body having a bore therethrough, a back cover configured to be removably secured to an end of the main body, a first seal sized to fit within at least a portion of the bore of the main body, a pair of female conductor pins configured to be coupled to the inner conductors of a power cable, an insulator having a pair of inner channels sized to receive the pair of female conductor pins, wherein the insulator is configured to be removably secured to an opposing end of the main body, a second seal sized to fit within at least a portion of the insulator, an end cap, a third seal residing between the insulator and the end cap, and a locking nut configured to secure to the end cap to the insulator. Power cable connector assemblies and methods of assembling a power cable connector are also described herein.
US11658435B2
An electrical connector for charging has a connector base, a first conductive terminal, a second conductive terminal, and an insulation base. The first conductive terminal is mounted in the connector base and has an upper chamber and a lower chamber. The second conductive terminal is located in and coaxial with the first conductive terminal and is electrically isolated from the first conductive terminal. The insulation base is mounted between the first and the second conductive terminals. An end of the second conductive terminal is located in the upper chamber and another end protrudes out of a bottom of the insulation base. The insulation base has at least one first groove lower than an imaginary datum plan and at least one platform higher than the imaginary datum plane and coaxial with the first groove. By the first groove and the platform, the creepage distance is increased.
US11658431B2
A connector that is easy to manufacture, does not cause short molds, does not cause flux to adhere to the contact part of the terminals, and enables for miniaturization and high reliability. A connector body and a plurality of terminals attached to the connector body are provided; the connector main body is a member integrated with the terminals by insert molding, and includes a protruding part extending in the longitudinal direction thereof that retains the terminals, and a flange protruding outward in the width direction from a side surface of the mounting surface side end of the connector main body. The terminal includes a standing part in which a surface is exposed on a side surface of the protruding part, and a tail part connected to the mounting surface side end of the standing part via a curved connecting part, extending outward in the width direction from the flange, and a tail part soldered to a substrate. The flange includes a notch formed at a location corresponding to each terminal, and the tail part, the curved connecting part, and at least a part of the surface of the standing part are exposed in the notch.
US11658423B2
A multibeam antenna comprises a direct radiating array (DRA) comprising a plurality of radiating elements, a reflector facing the DRA so as to reflect a field generated by the DRA, and a DRA controller configured to control the plurality of radiating elements of the DRA according to a plurality of coefficients, such that the field generated at the DRA produces a plurality of beams when reflected by the reflector. The DRA controller is configured to determine the plurality of coefficients by using a bifocal antenna model to determine a field that would be produced by a subreflector and feed horn arrangement in an equivalent bifocal antenna configured to produce the plurality of beams, and determine the plurality of coefficients required to produce a similar incident field at the surface of the reflector. A method of controlling the multibeam antenna, and corresponding computer program instructions, are also disclosed.
US11658413B2
An array antenna capable of steering a beam in a first communication node of a wireless communication system may comprise: a plurality of single antennas each capable of variably adjusting a beam steering direction; a plurality of beamforming control units each of which is connected to each of the plurality of single antennas to control a beamforming operation of each of the plurality of single antennas; and an array antenna control unit connected to the plurality of beamforming control units to control a beamforming operation of the entire array antenna, wherein the plurality of single antennas are arranged in a cylindrical shape and are installed to face a direction opposite to a central direction of the cylinder shape, and the array antenna is configured to steer a beam to a predetermined area around the first communication node through at least one single antenna among the plurality of single antennas.
US11658410B2
An apparatus has a Radio Frequency (RF) signal generator to produce RF signals phase shifted relative to one another in accordance with RF frequency waveform parameters. Amplifier chains process the RF signals to produce channels of amplified RF signals. Each amplifier chain has amplifiers and at least one amplifier has a tunable gate voltage synchronized with the RF signals.
US11658405B2
An antenna-attached substrate according to the present disclosure includes a substrate layer, a lower antenna element that is disposed in the substrate layer, an antenna-holding layer that is stacked on an upper surface of the substrate layer, and an upper antenna element that is disposed in the antenna-holding layer and that faces an upper surface of the lower antenna element. The antenna-holding layer is composed of a dielectric material having a relative dielectric constant lower than that of the substrate layer. A lower surface, a side surface, and an upper surface of the upper antenna element are covered by the antenna-holding layer.
US11658402B2
Disclosed is an electronic device having a space formed between front and rear surfaces thereof, the electronic device comprising: a first cover arranged on the front surface; a second cover arranged on the rear surface; a frame surrounding the first cover and the second cover; and a multilayered circuit board coupled to the second cover so as to constitute the housing of the electronic device, wherein the multilayered circuit board may comprises an insulated metal layer having a surface coupled to the second cover and a substrate-structured antenna device having a surface coupled to the insulated metal layer.
US11658401B2
An antenna apparatus includes a ground plate, a radiator, and a signal source. The radiator is disposed on the ground plate. The signal source is configured to feed an electromagnetic wave signal of a first frequency band into the radiator. A first slot and a second slot are disposed on the ground plate. Both slots are closed slots and surround the radiator, and are used to restrain current distribution on the ground plate.
US11658397B2
Disclosed herein are systems for routing wireless communications. Some systems may include an apparatus comprising an enclosure configured to attach to an external portion of an aircraft and which may contain: a wireless communications device, and an antenna in communication with the wireless communications device and configured to send or receive signals to and/or from aircraft.
US11658389B2
An information handling system to wirelessly transmit and receive data may include a base chassis including a processor, a memory, and a wireless adapter; a metal C-cover of the base chassis to house a speaker grill, the speaker grill covering a speaker to emit audio waves; the speaker grill formed within the C-cover, the speaker grill including a slot formed around a portion of a perimeter of the speaker grill that physically separates the portion of the speaker grill as a peninsula in the C-cover; a millimeter wave antenna element coupled to a back side of the speaker grill; and a sub-6 GHz antenna element to transmit via the slot formed around the perimeter of the speaker grill; wherein the speaker grill has a mesh pattern of grill openings sized to be transparent to millimeter wave frequencies emitted by the millimeter wave antenna element.
US11658386B2
An antenna unit for glass according to the present invention is installed on the indoor side of a glass sheet, and transmits and receives electromagnetic waves at the indoor side through the glass sheet.
US11658373B2
A packaging structure, a method of manufacturing a packaging structure, and a quantum processor include a substrate; a coplanar waveguide including a first ground wire, a second ground wire, and a signal wire, wherein the first ground wire, the second ground wire, and the signal wire are disposed on a surface of the substrate at intervals, and the signal wire is located between the first ground wire and the second ground wire; an air bridge including a first end connected with the first ground wire and a second end connected with the second ground wire, wherein a gap exists between the air bridge and a surface of the signal wire away from the substrate; and a compensation structure located on the surface of the substrate.
US11658369B2
A prismatic lithium ion battery cell includes a packaging having a cover. The cover includes: a first spiral disk feature disposed below a first terminal pad; a second spiral disk feature disposed below a second terminal pad; a first reversal disk disposed below the first spiral disk feature; and a second reversal disk disposed below the second spiral disk feature. The first and second reversal disks are configured to deflect upwards to displace the first and second spiral disk features to contact the first and second terminal pads, respectively, in response to a pressure within the packaging being greater than a predefined pressure threshold and form an external short-circuit between the first and second terminal pads via the first and second spiral disk features. Subsequently, a portion of the power assembly fails in response to the external short-circuit and interrupts current flow between the first and second terminal pads.
US11658359B2
A battery device has a battery housing, a plurality of battery cells arranged therein, around which a dielectric thermal management medium can flow in the battery housing at least in some areas in an immersion circuit inside the battery for the purpose of immersion thermal management, and thermally conductive elements. The thermally conductive elements are each arranged between two adjacent battery cells which each bear with at least one side against the respective thermally conductive element in thermally conductive contact with the latter. The thermally conductive elements here project in at least one direction beyond the battery cells and through a housing wall of the battery housing to the outside. The thermal management medium can likewise flow around those sections of the thermally conductive elements running from the battery cells to the corresponding housing wall.
US11658355B2
A method for analyzing a swelling behavior of a lithium secondary battery includes: (S1) installing a detachable pressurizing holder for fixing a battery sample and a charge/discharge cable connected with an external charging/discharging device to an X-ray CT (computed tomography) imaging equipment; (S2) inserting the battery sample into the pressurizing holder, contacting an electrode lead of the battery sample with a terminal of the charge/discharge cable, and then operating the external charging/discharging device to perform charging and discharging; and (S3) while rotating the battery sample during charging and discharging of the battery sample, irradiating and scanning the X-ray on the battery sample at an angle ranging from −10° to 10° to obtain a 3D image, and then measuring a change in the thickness of the electrode inside the battery sample from the 3D image.
US11658349B2
An energy system includes an energy storage device and a link device. The energy storage device includes a housing and a battery disposed within the housing. The battery has a first chemistry. The link device is configured to facilitate electrically coupling the energy storage device to an external battery having a second chemistry different than the first chemistry, receive input power from the external battery, and regulate a power profile of the input power received from the external battery such that the energy storage device can accept the input power from the external battery. The energy storage device is configured to receive the input power from the external battery having the second chemistry through the link device and provide output power to a load using the input power received from the external battery having the second chemistry.
US11658348B2
An electrolyte composition for use in an electrolytic cell and an electrolytic cell that includes the same. The electrolytic cell includes a chemical component having the general formula: [ H x O ( x - 1 ) 2 ] Z y I wherein x is an odd integer ≥3; y is an integer between 1 and 20; and Z is one of a monoatomic ion from Groups 14 through 17 having a charge value between −1 and −3 or a polyatomic ion having a charge between −1 and −3. The electrolytic composition also includes between 1 and 300 ppm ionic salts selected from the group consisting of alkali metals salts and alkali earth metal salts and mixtures thereof; and water. The battery electrolyte composition has a specific gravity between 1.07 and 1.4.
US11658344B2
The present disclosure provides a wound-type electrode assembly comprising a first and second electrode plates, a first and second electrode tabs, and a separator. The first and second electrode plates include a first current collector and active substance layer, and a second current collector and active substance layer. Two surfaces of the first current collector of the first winding start section of the first electrode plate are not coated with first active substance layer and defined as a first start blank current collector, the first start blank current collector is welded to a first electrode tab. The second pole piece comprises a second groove, a bottom of which is a second current collector and a circumference thereof is a second active substance layer; the second electrode tab is accommodated in the second groove and electrically connected to the second current collector at the second groove.
US11658338B2
Set forth herein are garnet material compositions, e.g., lithium-stuffed garnets and lithium-stuffed garnets doped with alumina, which are suitable for use as electrolytes and catholytes in solid state battery applications. Also set forth herein are lithium-stuffed garnet thin films having fine grains therein. Disclosed herein are novel and inventive methods of making and using lithium-stuffed garnets as catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes for all solid state lithium rechargeable batteries. Also disclosed herein are novel electrochemical devices which incorporate these garnet catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes. Also set forth herein are methods for preparing novel structures, including dense thin (<50 um) free standing membranes of an ionically conducting material for use as a catholyte, electrolyte, and, or, anolyte, in an electrochemical device, a battery component (positive or negative electrode materials), or a complete solid state electrochemical energy storage device. Also, the methods set forth herein disclose novel sintering techniques, e.g., for heating and/or field assisted (FAST) sintering, for solid state energy storage devices and the components thereof.
US11658335B2
Embodiments provide a secondary battery and a preparation method thereof, and a battery module, battery pack, and apparatus containing such secondary battery. In those embodiments, a negative electrode plate includes a negative-electrode current collector and a negative-electrode film layer that is disposed on at least one surface of the negative-electrode current collector and that includes a negative-electrode active material. The negative-electrode active material contains graphite, and the negative electrode plate satisfies that, when the negative electrode plate and a lithium metal sheet constitute a button battery which is discharged to 5.0 mV at 0.05 C, a capacity increment curve V-dQ/dV of the button battery has a third-order lithiation phase transition peak of graphite at position 0.055V-0.085V.
US11658320B2
A method of operating a fuel cell system includes providing an anode exhaust from a fuel cell stack to a water injector, supplying water to the water injector, and injecting the water from the water injector into the anode exhaust to vaporize the water and generate a humidified anode exhaust.
US11658319B2
In a method of operating a fuel cell system, a stable-period voltage difference is calculated in a state where output power of the fuel cell stack is stable. Thereafter, a voltage difference is calculated during power generation. Then, it is determined whether or not the change amount of the voltage difference with respect to the stable-period voltage difference has exceeded a predetermined threshold value. When it is determined that the change amount has exceeded the predetermined threshold value, electric power is generated with the supply amount of the anode gas to the fuel cell stack being increased.
US11658318B2
A control method for a fuel cell stop mode is provided. The method includes measuring an air flow rate supplied to a fuel cell stack and when a fuel cell stop mode is entered, determining an oxygen distribution state between cells included in the fuel cell stack based on the measured air flow rate. Air supply is then supplied to the fuel cell stack or the air supply to the fuel cell stack is interrupted based on the determined oxygen distribution state.
US11658314B2
In order to prevent injury from hot exhaust gas, water is condensed by a metal net in the exhaust pipe.
US11658311B2
The present disclosure relates to a cathode for a lithium air battery and a method of manufacturing the same, and more particularly to a method of manufacturing a cathode for a lithium air battery, in which a hollow structure including a carbon material having a nitrogen functional group is synthesized through electrospinning of a thermally decomposable polymer, coating with a nitrogen-containing polymer and heat treatment, and is utilized without a binder as a cathode carbon material for a lithium air battery, thereby increasing the performance and lifespan of a lithium air battery.
US11658310B2
A high-performance positive electrode catalyst for a metal-air battery is disclosed, which is composed of transition metal nitride-transition metal oxide heterogeneous particles and a mesoporous carbon matrix. The nano heterogeneous particles, which are 10-50% based on the total mass of the catalyst, are dispersed in the mesoporous carbon matrix; and the oxide is 10-100% based on the heterogeneous particles. A preparation method of the catalyst includes: treating mesoporous carbon with a strong acid solution to obtain surface-functionalized mesoporous carbon; immersing the surface-functionalized mesoporous carbon in an aqueous solution of a transition metal salt, and stirring and washing; adding ammonia water and stirring to enable a confined complexation reaction; washing again, and vacuum drying; and calcining the product in an inert atmosphere or a vacuum condition.
US11658304B2
Composite reference electrode substrates and relating methods are provided. The composite reference electrode substrate includes a separator portion and a current collector portion adjacent to the separator portion. A method for forming the reference electrode substrate includes anodizing one or more surfaces of a first side of an aluminum foil so as to form a porous separator portion disposed adjacent to a porous current collector portion. The porous separator portion includes aluminum oxide, and the current collector portion includes the aluminum foil. The separator portion and the current collector portion each have a porosity of greater than or equal to about 10 vol. % to less than or equal to about 80 vol. %.
US11658299B2
A lithium secondary battery is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a lithium battery includes a positive electrode having a lithium-nickel-cobalt-manganese-based electrode active material wherein nickel has a content of 80 mol % or greater, relative to the other transition metals, a negative electrode including a silicon-based negative electrode active material, a separator, and a non-aqueous electrolyte solution including a non-aqueous organic solvent and a lithium salt, the lithium salt being contained in a concentration of 1.8 M to 5 M, and wherein the lithium salt includes LiPF6 and a lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide.
US11658296B2
Use of nickel in a cathode material of the general formula Li (4/3-2x/3-y/3-z/3)NixCoyAlzMn(2/3-x/3-2y/3-2z/3)02 wherein x is greater than 0.06 and equal to or less than 0.4; y is equal to or greater than 0 and equal to or less than 0.4; and z is equal to or greater than 0 and equal to or less than 0.05 for suppressing gas evolution during a charge cycle and/or increasing the charge capacity of the material.
US11658286B2
Presented in the present disclosure are nanocomposites and rechargeable batteries which are resistant to thermal runaway and are safe, reliable, and stable electrode materials for rechargeable batteries operated at high temperature and high pressure. The nanocomposites include a plurality of transition metal oxide nanoparticles, a plurality of ultrathin sheets of a first two-dimensional (2D) material, and a plurality of ultrathin sheets of a different 2D material, which act in synergy to provide an improved thermal stability, an increased surface area, and enhanced electrochemical properties to the nanocomposites. For example, rechargeable batteries that include the nanocomposites as an electrode material have an enhanced performance and stability over a broad temperature range from room temperature to high temperatures. These batteries fill an important need by providing a safe and reliable power source for devices operated at high temperatures and pressures such as downhole equipment used in the oil industry.
US11658271B2
A deep ultraviolet (DUV) light-emitting diode (LED) module structure contains: a holder configured to accommodate a substrate. The holder including a receiving cup mounted therein and a transparent layer mounted on a top of the receiving cup. The holder includes a DUV LED chip adhered on the substrate, and the holder, the substrate, and the DUV LED chip are connected and packaged. The substrate is electrically connected with a drive circuit, and the drive circuit is configured to turn on/off the DUV LED chip. Thereby, the DUV LED module structure enhances DUV radiation intensity, reduces a loss of optical path, and slows down deterioration because of DUV irradiation.
US11658267B2
An example tunnel junction ultraviolet (UV) light emitting diode (LED) is described herein. The UV LED can include a mesa structure having at least one of: an n-doped bottom contact region, a p-doped region, and a tunnel junction arranged in contact with the p-doped region. Additionally, a geometry of the mesa structure can be configured to increase respective efficiencies of extracting transverse-electric (TE) polarized light and transverse-magnetic (TM) polarized light from the tunnel junction UV LED. The mesa structure can be configured such that an emitted photon travels less than 10 μm before reaching the inclined sidewall.
US11658245B2
Gate-all-around (GAA) devices and methods of manufacturing such devices are described herein. A method includes forming a multi-layer structure over a substrate and forming a plurality of source/drain regions in the multi-layer structure. Fins are then patterned into the multi-layer structure through adjacent source/drain regions. A wire release process is performed to remove materials of one or more of the layers in the multi-layer stack. The remaining layers of the multi-layer stack form a stack of nanostructures connecting adjacent source/drain regions of the fins.
US11658239B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device and a fabrication method. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a first well region in the substrate, having first ions; an isolation layer in the first well region; a second well region and a third well region, formed in the first well region, located respectively on opposite sides of the isolation layer, having second ions with an opposite conductivity type as the first ions, and with a minimum distance from the isolation layer greater than zero; a first gate structure on the second well region and the first well region; a second gate structure on the third well region and the first well region; a barrier gate on the isolation layer, located between the first gate structure and the second gate structure, and having the second ions; and source-drain doped layers in the second well region and the third well region, respectively.
US11658233B2
A device including a substrate, a passivation layer, a source, a gate, a drain, and the gate including at least one step portion. Where the at least one step portion is arranged within the passivation layer, the at least one step portion includes at least one first surface and at least one second surface, where the at least one first surface is connected to the at least one second surface, where the gate includes a third surface, and where the at least one step portion is connected to the third surface. A process is also disclosed.
US11658232B2
A method for making a field effect transistor includes providing a graphene nanoribbon composite structure. The graphene nanoribbon composite structure includes a substrate and a plurality of graphene nanoribbons spaced apart from each other. The plurality of graphene nanoribbons are located on the substrate and extend substantially along a same direction, and each of the plurality of graphene nanoribbons includes a first end and a second end opposite to the first end. A source electrode is formed on the first end, and a drain electrode is formed on the second end. The source electrode and the drain electrode are electrically connected to the plurality of graphene nanoribbons. An insulating layer is formed on the plurality of graphene nanoribbons, and the plurality of graphene nanoribbons are between the insulating layer and the substrate. A gate is formed on a surface of the insulating layer away from the substrate.
US11658229B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of first forming a gate structure on a substrate, forming a spacer adjacent to the gate structure, forming a recess adjacent to the spacer, trimming part of the spacer, and then forming an epitaxial layer in the recess. Preferably, the semiconductor device includes a first protrusion adjacent to one side of the epitaxial layer and a second protrusion adjacent to another side of the epitaxial layer, the first protrusion includes a V-shape under the spacer and an angle included by the V-shape is greater than 30 degrees and less than 90 degrees.
US11658226B2
Semiconductor structures and methods of forming the same are provided. A semiconductor structure according to one embodiment includes first nanostructures, a first gate structure wrapping around each of the first nanostructures and disposed over an isolation structure, and a backside gate contact disposed below the first nanostructures and adjacent to the isolation structure. A bottom surface of the first gate structure is in direct contact with the backside gate contact.
US11658211B2
Occurrence of short-channel characteristics and parasitic capacitance of a MOSFET on a SOI substrate is prevented. A sidewall having a stacked structure obtained by sequentially stacking a silicon oxide film and a nitride film is formed on a side wall of a gate electrode on the SOI substrate. Subsequently, after an epitaxial layer is formed beside the gate electrode, and then, the nitride film is removed. Then, an impurity is implanted into an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate with using the gate electrode and the epitaxial layer as a mask, so that a halo region is formed in only a region of the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate which is right below a vicinity of both ends of the gate electrode.
US11658206B2
A deep trench structure may be formed between electrodes of a capacitive device. The deep trench structure may be formed to a depth, a width, and/or an aspect ratio that increases the volume of the deep trench structure relative to a trench structure formed using a metal etch-stop layer. Thus, the deep trench structure is capable of being filled with a greater amount of dielectric material, which increases the capacitance value of the capacitive device. Moreover, the parasitic capacitance of the capacitive device may be decreased by omitting the metal etch-stop layer. Accordingly, the deep trench structure (and the omission of the metal etch-stop layer) may increase the sensitivity of the capacitive device, may increase the humidity-sensing performance of the capacitive device, and/or may increase the performance of devices and/or integrated circuits in which the capacitive device is included.
US11658193B2
An image sensor including: a first photodiode; a first circuit including an overflow transistor and a first transfer transistor connected to the first photodiode, a switch element connected to the first transfer transistor and a capacitor disposed between the first transfer transistor and the switch element, wherein the capacitor is a physical capacitor; a second photodiode; and a second circuit including a second transfer transistor connected to the second photodiode, a reset transistor connected to an output of the first circuit and a driving transistor connected to the second transfer transistor and the output of the first circuit.
US11658187B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a substrate, a first gate circuit, a second gate circuit, a signal line, and a shielding layer. The substrate includes a display area and a peripheral area. The first gate circuit is disposed in the peripheral area. The second gate circuit is disposed in the peripheral area. The signal line is coupled between the first gate circuit and the second gate circuit. The signal line includes a specific line segment, and the specific line segment overlaps the display area. The shielding layer is disposed in the display area. The shielding layer overlaps the specific line segment.
US11658176B2
An electronic device includes a substrate having a second conductivity type including a semiconductor surface layer with a buried layer (BL) having a first conductivity type. In the semiconductor surface layer is a first doped region (e.g., collector) and a second doped region (e.g., emitter) both having the first conductivity type, with a third doped region (e.g., a base) having the second conductivity type within the second doped region, wherein the first doped region extends below and lateral to the third doped region. At least one row of deep trench (DT) isolation islands are within the first doped region each including a dielectric liner extending along a trench sidewall from the semiconductor surface layer to the BL with an associated deep doped region extending from the semiconductor surface layer to the BL. The deep doped regions can merge forming a merged deep doped region that spans the DT islands.
US11658171B2
Described implementations provide wireless, surface mounting of at least two semiconductor die on die attach pads (DAPs) of the semiconductor package, where the at least two semiconductor die are electrically connected by a clip. A stress buffer layer may be provided on the clip, and a heatsink may be provided on the stress buffer layer. The heatsink may be secured with an external mold material.
US11658169B2
A semiconductor device has a first substrate including an element region, a peripheral region that surrounds the element region, a first insulator with a first recess portion in the peripheral region, a first metal layer in the element region, and a first conductor in the peripheral region to surround the element region. A second substrate has an element region, a peripheral region that surrounds the element region, a second insulator with a second recess portion that faces the first recess portion, a second metal layer in contact with the first metal layer, and a second conductor that surrounds the element region of the second substrate.
US11658167B2
Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate and a plurality of pixel units disposed on the substrate. Each pixel unit includes a driving circuit and a light-emitting component, the driving circuit is disposed between the substrate and the light-emitting component, and the driving circuit is used for driving a corresponding light-emitting component to emit light. At least one light-emitting component is a micro Light Emitting Diode (LED). For a pixel unit in which the light-emitting component is the micro LED, the driving circuit at least includes a first thin film transistor, and a source and a drain of the first thin film transistor are disposed in a source-drain layer. A first electrode of the micro LED is electrically connected to a source or a drain of a corresponding first thin film transistor.
US11658163B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a lighting device that is configured to provide light with a high color rendering index (CRI) value and/or uniform planar illumination. The lighting device may include a circuit board, a light emitting diode (LED) mounted to the circuit board and configured to emit broad spectrum light having a first CRI value, a photo-luminescent material disposed above the LED mounted to the circuit board configured to increase the CRI of the broad spectrum light emitted by the LED from the first CRI value to a higher, second CRI value, and an elastomer encapsulating at least part of the circuit board. Additionally, the lighting device may include a lens disposed over the LED configured to increase the maximum emission angle of light from the LED and a diffuser disposed above the lens and configured to diffuse the broad spectrum light.
US11658156B2
Systems and devices for routing signals between a memory device and an interface of a host device are described. Some memory technologies may have a defined, preconfigured interface (e.g., bumpout), where each interface terminal may have a specific location and a specific function. Using preconfigured interfaces may allow device maker and memory makers to make parts that are able to connect with one another without special designs. In some cases, a memory device may include a redistribution layer that includes a plurality of interconnects that may be configured couple channel terminals of the memory device with an interface associated with the host device.
US11658155B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a substrate, a plurality of conductive layers arranged in a first direction intersecting a surface of the substrate, and a semiconductor layer extending in the first direction and penetrating the plurality of conductive layers. The plurality of conductive layers includes a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer that are adjacent to each other, a third conductive layer and a fourth conductive layer that are adjacent to each other, and a fifth conductive layer and a sixth conductive layer that are adjacent to each other. When a distance between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer in the first direction is a first distance, a distance between the third conductive layer and the fourth conductive layer in the first direction is a second distance, and a distance between the fifth conductive layer and the sixth conductive layer in the first direction is a third distance, the second distance is smaller than the first distance, and the third distance is smaller than the second distance.
US11658153B2
A chip includes a semiconductor substrate, an electrical connector over the semiconductor substrate, and a molding compound molding a lower part of the electrical connector therein. A top surface of the molding compound is lower than a top end of the electrical connector. A recess extends from the top surface of the molding compound into the molding compound.
US11658152B1
A die bonding structure includes a first die and a second die. The first die includes a first sealing ring and a plurality of first metal contacts, wherein sidewalls of the first metal contacts align a sidewall of the first sealing ring. The second die includes a second sealing ring and a plurality of second metal contacts, wherein sidewalls of the second metal contacts align a sidewall of the second sealing ring. The first metal contacts are directly bonded to the second metal contacts, respectively, and the first sealing ring is directly bonded to the second sealing ring.
US11658146B2
A bonding apparatus configured to bond substrates includes a first holder configured to vacuum-exhaust a first substrate to attract and hold the first substrate on a bottom surface thereof; a second holder disposed under the first holder and configured to vacuum-exhaust a second substrate to attract and hold the second substrate on a top surface thereof; a rotator configured to rotate the first holder and the second holder relatively; a moving device configured to move the first holder and the second holder relatively in a horizontal direction; three position measurement devices disposed at the first holder or the second holder rotated by the rotator and configured to measure a position of the first holder or the second holder; and a controller configured to control the rotator and the moving device based on measurement results of the three position measurement devices.
US11658142B2
A connection arrangement for forming a component carrier structure is disclosed. The connection arrangement includes a first electrically conductive connection element and a second electrically conductive connection element. The first connection element and the second connection element are configured such that, upon connecting the first connection element with the second connection element along a connection direction, a form fit is established between the first connection element and the second connection element that limits a relative motion between the first connection element and the second connection element in a plane perpendicular to the connection direction. A component carrier and a method of forming a component carrier structure are also disclosed.
US11658131B2
A semiconductor package includes a first substrate including a circuit pattern and a dummy pattern on an upper face of the first substrate, a solder ball, a second substrate on the first substrate, and an underfill material layer between the first and second substrates. The underfill material layer wraps around the solder ball. The dummy pattern is not electrically connected to the circuit pattern. The first substrate includes a solder resist layer on the circuit pattern and the dummy pattern. The solder resist layer includes a first opening for exposing at least a part of the circuit pattern. The solder ball is in the first opening and electrically insulated from the dummy pattern by the solder resist layer. The second substrate is electrically connected to the first substrate by the solder ball. The second substrate is electrically insulated from the dummy pattern by the solder resist layer.
US11658125B2
A semiconductor device may include first and second sub chips stacked sequentially and a through contact electrically connecting the first and second sub chips to each other. Each of the first and second sub chips may include a substrate and a plurality of interconnection lines, which are interposed between the substrates. The interconnection lines of the second sub chip may include first and second interconnection lines having first and second openings, respectively, which are horizontally offset from each other. The through contact may be extended from the substrate of the second sub chip toward the first sub chip and may include an auxiliary contact, which is extended toward the first sub chip through the first and second openings and has a bottom surface higher than a top surface of the uppermost one of the interconnection lines of the first sub chip.
US11658115B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device with a copper-manganese liner and a method for forming the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first electrode and a second electrode disposed in a first dielectric layer. The semiconductor device also includes a first liner separating the first electrode from the first dielectric layer. The semiconductor device further includes a fuse link disposed in the first dielectric layer. The fuse link is disposed between and electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode, and the fuse link and the first liner are made of copper-manganese (CuMn).
US11658109B2
An electronic module has a first substrate 11, a first electronic element 13, a second electronic element 23, a second substrate 21, a first terminal part 110 provided on a side of the first substrate 11 and a second terminal part 120 provided on a side of the second substrate 21. The first terminal part 110 has a first surface direction extending part 114 and a first normal direction extending part 113 extending toward one side or the other side. The second terminal part 120 has a second surface direction extending part 124 and a second normal direction extending part 123 extending toward one side or the other side. The second surface direction extending part 124 is provided on one side of the first surface direction extending part 114, and the first surface direction extending part 114 and the second surface direction extending part 124 overlap one another in a surface direction.
US11658099B2
Methods and system for flip chip alignment for substrate and leadframe applications are disclosed and may include placing a semiconductor die on bond fingers of a metal leadframe, wherein at least two of the bond fingers comprise one or more recessed self-alignment features. A reflow process may be performed on the semiconductor die and leadframe, thereby melting solder bumps on the semiconductor die such that a solder bump may be pulled into each of the recessed self-alignment features and aligning the solder bumps on the semiconductor die to the bond fingers. The recessed self-alignment features may be formed utilizing a chemical etch process or a stamping process. A surface of the recessed self-alignment features or the bond fingers of the metal leadframe may be roughened. A solder paste may be formed in the recessed self-alignment features prior to placing the semiconductor die on the bond fingers of the metal leadframe.
US11658097B2
Curable material layer is coated on surface of first die. First die includes first substrate and first contact pad. Second die is bonded to first die. Second die includes second substrate and second contact pad. Second contact pad is located on second substrate, at an active surface of second die. Bonding the second die to the first die includes disposing second die with the active surface closer to the curable material layer and curing the curable material layer. A through die hole is etched in the second substrate from a backside surface of the second substrate opposite to the active surface. The through die hole further extends through the cured material layer, is encircled by the second contact pad, and exposes the first contact pad. A conductive material is disposed in the through die hole. The conductive material electrically connects the first contact pad to the second contact pad.
US11658095B2
An IC package, comprising a first IC component comprising a first interconnect on a first surface thereof; a second IC component comprising a second interconnect on a second surface thereof. The second component is above the first component, and the second surface is opposite the first surface. A thermoelectric cooling (TEC) device is between the first surface and the second surface. The TEC device is electrically coupled to the first interconnect and to the second interconnect.
US11658086B2
A semiconductor package includes a package substrate, an interposer on the package substrate, a plurality of semiconductor devices on the interposer and spaced apart from each other, the semiconductor devices being electrically connected to the interposer, a dam structure on the interposer extending along a peripheral region of the interposer, the dam structure being spaced apart from the semiconductor devices, and a stress relief on the interposer, the stress relief including an elastic member that fills gaps between the semiconductor devices and the dam structure.
US11658081B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a mounting board, a system on chip (SOC) package and a memory package which are provided on the mounting board. The SOC package includes a semiconductor chip and a package substrate on which the semiconductor chip is mounted. The semiconductor apparatus further includes a signal wiring line through which a signal between the semiconductor chip and the memory package is transmitted, being provided on the package substrate and in the mounting board and a measurement terminal connected to the signal wiring line on main surface of the package substrate.
US11658078B2
A method of polishing a substrate includes polishing a conductive layer on the substrate at a polishing station, monitoring the layer with an in-situ eddy current monitoring system to generate a plurality of measured signals values for a plurality of different locations on the layer, generating thickness measurements the locations, and detecting a polishing endpoint or modifying a polishing parameter based on the thickness measurements. The conductive layer is formed of a first material having a first conductivity. Generating includes calculating initial thickness values based on the plurality of measured signals values and processing the initial thickness values through a neural network that was trained using training data acquired by measuring calibration substrates having a conductive layer formed of a second material having a second conductivity that is lower than the first conductivity to generated adjusted thickness values.
US11658071B2
To more reliably suppress deterioration in characteristics due to signals (distortions) other than input and output waves while suppressing manufacturing cost. A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a circuit substrate including an insulating film layer located above a predetermined semiconductor substrate and a semiconductor layer located above the insulating film layer, a plurality of passive elements provided on the circuit substrate and electrically connected with one another, and an electromagnetic shield layer locally provided in the insulating film layer corresponding to a portion where at least one of the plurality of passive elements is provided, and the electromagnetic shield layer and the semiconductor substrate are electrically separated from each other.
US11658064B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes: forming a first conductive feature in a first dielectric layer disposed over a substrate; forming a metal cap layer over an upper surface of the first conductive feature distal from the substrate; selectively forming a dielectric cap layer over an upper surface of the first dielectric layer and laterally adjacent to the metal cap layer, wherein the metal cap layer is exposed by the dielectric cap layer; and forming an etch stop layer stack over the metal cap layer and the dielectric cap layer, wherein the etch stop layer stack comprises a plurality of etch stop layers.
US11658060B2
Described herein are an SiC material and a method for manufacturing same. The SiC material includes an SiC layer having a low thermal conductivity region formed in at least a portion thereof, wherein the low thermal conductivity region has an average crystal grain size of 3.5 μm or less and (111) plane preferential growth according to X-ray diffraction analysis.
US11658054B2
A substrate processing system includes a processing container body having an opening, a lid which closes an opening, a mover for relatively moving the lid with respect to the opening to open and close the opening, and a lock mechanism which locks the lid to the processing container body. The lock mechanism includes an arm member and a locking member. The arm member is provided on one of the processing container body and the lid and extends toward the other when the processing container body is located at a position where the lid is separated from the processing container body. The locking member restricts a displacement of the arm member by being engaged with a part of the arm member. This part is located beyond the gap space when the lid is at the separated position.
US11658049B2
A method for evaluating a heat sensitive structure involving identifying a heat sensitive structure in an integrated circuit design layout, the heat sensitive structure characterized by a nominal temperature, identifying a heat generating structure within a thermal coupling range of the heat sensitive structure, calculating an operating temperature of the first heat generating structure; calculating a temperature increase or the heat sensitive structure induced by thermal coupling to the heat generating structure at the operating temperature; and performing an electromigration (EM) analysis of the heat sensitive structure at an evaluation temperature obtained by adjusting the nominal temperature by the temperature increase induced by the heat generating structure.
US11658043B2
A method of patterning a substrate is provided. The method includes modifying a surface of a metal-containing layer formed over a substrate positioned in a processing region of a processing chamber by exposing the surface of the metal-containing layer to plasma effluents of a chlorine-containing gas precursor and an oxygen-containing gas precursor to form a modified surface of the metal-containing layer. The method further includes directing plasma effluents of an inert gas precursor towards the modified surface of the metal-containing layer. The plasma effluents of the inert gas precursor are directed by applying a bias voltage to a substrate support holding the substrate. The method further includes anisotropically etching the modified surface of the metal-containing layer with the plasma effluents of the inert gas precursor to form a first recess having a first sidewall in the metal-containing layer.
US11658038B2
A substrate processing method is described for etching silicon carbide films for resist underlayer applications. The method includes providing a substrate containing a silicon carbide film thereon, and a photoresist layer defining a pattern over the silicon carbide film, plasma-exciting an etching gas containing a fluorocarbon-containing gas and an oxygen-containing gas, and exposing the substrate to the plasma-excited etching gas to transfer the pattern to the silicon carbide film, where at least a portion of a thickness of the photoresist layer survives the exposing. For example, the photoresist layer includes an EUV resist layer and the etching gas includes C4F8 gas, O2 gas, and Ar gas. In another example, the exposing includes exposing the substrate to a) a plasma-excited etching gas containing C4F8 gas, O2 gas, and Ar gas, and b) exposing the substrate to a plasma-excited Ar gas, where steps a) and b) are sequentially performed at least once.
US11658032B2
A method includes providing a semiconductor structure having an active region and an isolation structure adjacent to the active region, the active region having source and drain regions sandwiching a channel region for a transistor, the semiconductor structure further having a gate structure over the channel region. The method further includes etching a trench in one of the source and drain regions, wherein the trench exposes a portion of a sidewall of the isolation structure, epitaxially growing a first semiconductor layer in the trench, epitaxially growing a second semiconductor layer over the first semiconductor layer, changing a crystalline facet orientation of a portion of a top surface of the second semiconductor layer by an etching process, and epitaxially growing a third semiconductor layer over the second semiconductor layer after the changing of the crystalline facet orientation.
US11658027B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming, on or above a GaN-based semiconductor layer, an electron beam resist containing chlorine; forming, in the electron beam resist, a first opening that exposes a portion of a surface of the semiconductor layer; forming a film of a shrink agent that covers a sidewall surface of the first opening; and forming, in a state in which the sidewall surface is covered by the film of the shrink agent, a Ni film that contacts the semiconductor layer through the first opening.
US11658025B2
Chalcogen silane precursors are described. Methods for depositing a silicon nitride (SixNy) film on a substrate are described. The substrate is exposed to the chalcogen silane and a reactant to deposit the silicon nitride (SixNy) film. The exposures can be sequential or simultaneous. The chalcogen silane may be substantially free of halogen. The chalcogen may be selected from the group consisting of sulfur (S), selenium (Se), and tellurium (Te).
US11658023B2
A method for forming a semiconductor structure is provided, which comprises the following steps. A gate is formed by a method comprising the following steps. A gate dielectric layer is formed on a substrate. A gate electrode is formed on the gate dielectric layer. A nitride spacer is formed on a sidewall of the gate electrode. A phosphorus containing dielectric layer is formed on the gate. The phosphorus containing dielectric layer has a varied phosphorus dopant density distribution profile. The phosphorus containing dielectric layer comprises a phosphorus dopant density region on an upper surface of the gate and having a triangle-like shape.
US11657994B2
A protected switch includes first and second electromechanical relays with guided contacts, each including an electromagnet and electrical contacts. A first contact of the first relay and a first contact of the second relay are connected in series in order to form a switching circuit. The switch further includes an interconnection circuit which connects at least a portion of the other electrical contacts of the first and second relays. The excitation of the first electromagnet is conditional on the state of the second relay and the excitation of the second electromagnet is conditional on the state of the first relay.
US11657991B2
An electrical switch includes a base, an actuating rod comprising a lateral wall guided in a bore of the base, a return spring for the rod which moves with respect to the base. The return spring comprises a last elastic turn which, during the actuating travel of the rod, bears against an abutment surface of the base and which cooperates with a ramp formed in the side wall which deforms it radially. The bore has a series of axial ribs projecting into the bore, each of which is slidably received in a complementary axial groove formed in the side wall. A radial upper end facet of each axial rib forms a portion of the abutment surface.
US11657985B2
The emergency stop switch unit 2 as an operation switch unit includes a direct operation part 20A and an alternative operation part 20B. The direct operation part 20A has an emergency stop button 21 adapted to be directly operated. The alternative operation part 20B is adapted to be linked with the direct operation part 20A and alternatively operates the emergency stop button 21 in place of the direct operation part 20A. The alternative operation part 20B has a reception part 32 that detects a remote operation of the emergency stop button 21 and an electromagnetic solenoid 3 that actuates the emergency stop button 21 on the basis of the remote operation detected by the reception part 32.
US11657980B1
A variable capacitor includes an enclosure having first and second conductive collars separated by an intermediate electrically insulating element. A movable capacitor plate assembly is electrically coupled to the first conductive collar, and a fixed capacitor plate assembly is electrically coupled to the second conductive collar. An actuator extends into the enclosure for advancing and retracting the movable capacitor plate assembly relative to the fixed capacitor plate assembly. A hermetically sealed volume within the enclosure contains a dielectric fluid serving as a dielectric between a capacitor plate of the movable capacitor plate assembly and a capacitor plate of the fixed capacitor plate assembly. A flexible structure is provided to contain the dielectric fluid displaced when the movable capacitor plate assembly is advanced toward the fixed capacitor plate assembly.
US11657979B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrodes disposed with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween and disposed in point-symmetry with each other; first and second connection electrodes penetrating the body in a direction perpendicular to the dielectric layer and connected to the first internal electrode; third and fourth connection electrodes penetrating the body in a direction perpendicular to the dielectric layer and connected to the second internal electrode; first and second external electrodes disposed on both surfaces of the body and connected to the first and second connection electrodes; and third and fourth external electrodes spaced apart from the first and second external electrodes and connected to the third and fourth connection electrodes, and the first and second internal electrodes include a region in which an electrode is not disposed.
US11657968B2
A multilayer capacitor includes: a capacitor body including first and second dielectric layers, internal electrodes, and including first to six surfaces; first and second external electrodes disposed on the third and fourth surfaces, respectively; and third and fourth external electrodes disposed on the fifth and sixth surfaces, respectively. The internal electrodes include: first internal electrode disposed on the first dielectric layer, having both ends connected to the first and second external electrodes, respectively, and having a hole; a second internal electrode disposed on the second dielectric layer so as to overlap a portion of the first internal electrode and be connected to the third external electrode; and a third internal electrode disposed on the second dielectric layer so as to overlap a portion of the first internal electrode, be spaced apart from the second internal electrode, and be connected to the fourth external electrode.
US11657963B2
Methods and apparatus for producing helix windings used for a transformer are provided. For example, apparatus comprise an electrically conductive mandrel comprising an elongated body, a head comprising an eyelet detail, and a winding structure disposed along the elongated body.
US11657962B2
An inductor includes an air-core coil assembled with a T-shaped core and a composite magnetic material and resin mixture embedding the T-shaped core and the air-core coil. The air-core coil has: a coil member having a coil axis and first and second sides opposite to each other; and first and second leads that are integrally connected to the coil member. The first and second leads respectively have: first and second bent members at the first side; first and second ends at the second side; and first and second bottom extensions respectively connected between the first and second bent members and the first and second ends. The first and second bent members extend in a first direction parallel to the coil axis, the first and second ends extend in a second direction parallel to the coil axis, and the first and second bottom extensions extend perpendicular to the coil axis.
US11657961B2
A method for manufacturing an electric winding of an electromagnetic induction apparatus includes providing a conductor structure and forming an electric winding by means of the conductor structure. The conductor structure includes a conductor element extending longitudinally along a main extension direction and one or more spacer bands arranged on corresponding lateral surfaces of the conductor element. Each spacer band includes a supporting structure made of electrically insulating material and spacer elements made of electrically insulating material arranged on the supporting structure. The spacer elements are spaced one from another along the supporting structure. The electric winding extends axially along a winding direction and has a plurality of turns arranged around the winding direction. Each turn of the electric winding is formed by a corresponding longitudinal portion of the conductor element. The spacer elements are interposed between adjacent turns of the electric winding at opposite sides of the turns.
US11657952B2
A coil component is capable of suppressing occurrence of peeling at an interface between a coil conductor and resin in a magnetic portion due to heating during mounting. The coil component includes an element body that includes a coil conductor formed by winding a conductive wire coated with an insulating film, and a magnetic portion that contains metal magnetic particles and resin, and external electrodes that are electrically connected to exposed surfaces of extended portions of the coil conductor exposed on a surface of the element body, and are arranged on the surface of the element body. The metal magnetic particles are arranged in recesses formed in a surface of the conductive wire in the extended portions of the coil conductor.
US11657947B2
A switching power supply module includes a power inductor which includes a magnetic core and L-shaped metal end electrodes and a switching power supply chip which includes a packaging body, a bare chip and a bottom bonding pad of the bare chip; the L-shaped metal end electrode includes a first electrode part which is welded at 90° to the magnetic core and a second electrode part which extends in parallel from the first electrode part to the middle of the magnetic core and is perpendicular to the first electrode part; the bare chip and the packaging body are embedded between the first, the second electrode part and the magnetic core; the bottom bonding pad abuts between the two second electrode parts and is insulated from the second electrode part, and the weld face of the bottom bonding pad is flush with that of the second electrode part.
US11657938B2
An optimizer includes a processor configured to: optimize a change amount of a interlinkage magnetic flux in a coil by using an objective function formula that maximizes a sum of Δφirightxi (i=1 to Nc) and Δφileftyi (i=1 to Nc), when it is assumed that a surface of the magnetic device where the coil is arranged be divided into Nc (Nc is integer) coil regions, in an i-th coil region Ni, an auxiliary variable of a clockwise coil that may exist in the coil region Ni be xi, and an auxiliary variable of a counterclockwise coil that may exist in the coil region Ni be yi, and a change amount of an interlinkage magnetic flux of the clockwise coil in the coil region Ni be Δφiright and a change amount of an interlinkage magnetic flux of the counterclockwise coil in the coil region Ni be Δφileft.
US11657928B2
An insulated electric wire includes a conductor comprising twisted elemental wires and an insulation covering. The insulated electric wire includes an exposed portion in which the insulation covering is removed from the outer surface of the conductor, and a covered portion in which the insulation covering covers the outer surface of the conductor. The exposed portion and the covered portion are adjacent with each other along a longitudinal axis of the insulated electric wire. A density of the conductive material per unit length is higher in the exposed portion than in the covered portion. The elemental wires are twisted in both the exposed portion and the covered portion including an area that is positioned away from the exposed portion by at least a distance corresponding to a length of the exposed portion. Gaps between the elemental wires of the exposed portion are filled with a sealant.
US11657926B2
The present disclosure relates to a flexible cable for use in moving applications, comprising: one or more insulated cores; a filler layer surrounding the one or more insulated cores, having an external surface defining a filler layer external perimeter substantially forming a closed convex polygonal chain with a plurality of line segments connecting consecutive vertices; and an outer sheath surrounding the filler layer and directly applied on the filler layer, having an external surface defining an outer sheath external perimeter forming a continuous closed curve.
US11657914B2
A system and process for dynamically managing a procedure. The system includes a data collection device(s) that objectively monitor a subject and transmit such information to the system and real time position components that report on the availability of an individual(s) to perform the procedure. The system reviews the information, provides a subject diagnosis and recommends equipment. The system can also schedule and monitor the procedure. The individual(s) performing the procedure have the option of consulting with relevant experts and visually interacting with the experts.
US11657910B2
An improved emergency response system includes a set of databases which relates to volunteer responders and patients, which is controlled by a central system computer. The system interacts with patients and volunteer responders through a wireless network to patient and volunteer communicator devices. The emergency response system calculates and provides a compensation to the volunteer responders based upon their on-duty time, proximity to enrolled patients, and optionally based upon their performance during training and cardiac rescue events.
US11657905B2
A patient platform for patient engagement and treatment compliance is disclosed. In an example, a system includes a clinician server, a personal mobile communication device storing first registration information for communicating with the clinician server, and a home therapy machine assigned to a patient and configured to transmit treatment information related to a dialysis treatment performed on the patient. The home therapy machine is capable of being communicatively coupled to the clinician server via a separate Internet connection as specified by second registration information and the personal mobile communication device via a local connection. The home therapy machine is configured to transmit the treatment information to the personal mobile communication device when the second registration information is not available or the separate Internet connection is not available. The personal mobile communication device is configured to transmit the received treatment information to the clinician server using the first registration information.
US11657895B2
The invention includes methods and systems for identifying targets for therapeutic intervention for various diseases and conditions; and provides specific materials and methods for treatment of specific diseases and conditions.
US11657889B2
Error correction values for a memory device include row error correction values and column error correction values for the same memory array. The memory device includes a memory array that is addressable in two spatial dimensions: a row dimension and a column dimension. The memory array is written as rows of data, and can be read as rows in the row dimension or read as columns in the column dimension. A data write triggers updates to row error correction values and to column error correction values.
US11657878B2
Methods, systems, and devices for initialization techniques for memory devices are described. A memory system may include a memory array on a first die and a controller on a second die, where the second die is coupled with the first die. The controller may perform an initialization procedure based on operating instructions stored within the memory system. For example, the controller may read a first set of operating instructions from read-only memory on the second die. The controller may obtain a second set of operating instructions stored at a memory block of the memory array on the first die, with the memory block indicated by the first set of operating instructions. The controller may complete or at least further the initialization procedure based on the second set of operating instructions.
US11657875B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory, and a controller. The semiconductor memory includes a memory cell, and a write circuit configured to write data to the memory cell by applying a program voltage to the memory cell and comparing a threshold voltage of the memory cell with a first reference voltage corresponding to the write data. The write circuit is configured to execute a first programming operation to obtain a value of a write parameter by comparing the threshold voltage with a second reference voltage different from the first reference voltage.
US11657872B2
An example method includes determining a time between writes in place to a particular memory cell, incrementing a disturb count corresponding to a neighboring memory cell by a particular count increment that is based on the time between the writes to the particular memory cell, and determining whether to check a write disturb status of the neighboring memory cell based on the incremented disturb count.
US11657868B2
A memory is disclosed that includes a logic die having first and second memory interface circuits. A first memory die is stacked with the logic die, and includes first and second memory arrays. The first memory array couples to the first memory interface circuit. The second memory array couples to the second interface circuit. A second memory die is stacked with the logic die and the first memory die. The second memory die includes third and fourth memory arrays. The third memory array couples to the first memory interface circuit. The fourth memory array couples to the second memory interface circuit. Accesses to the first and third memory arrays are carried out independently from accesses to the second and fourth memory arrays.
US11657867B2
A memory device in which bit line parasitic capacitance is reduced is provided. The memory device includes a sense amplifier electrically connected to a bit line and a memory cell array stacked over the sense amplifier. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cells. The plurality of memory cells are each electrically connected to a bit line. A portion for leading the bit lines is not provided in the memory cell array. Thus, the bit line can be shortened and the bit line parasitic capacitance is reduced.
US11657864B1
An in-memory computing apparatus and a computing method thereof are provided. A memory array includes a shifted weight storage area that stores shifted weight values, a shift information storage area that stores the number of shift units, and a shift unit amount storage area that stores a shift unit amount. A shift restoration circuit restores a weight shift amount of a shifted sum-of-products according to the number of shift units of the shifted weight values and a column shift unit amount, so as to generate multiple restored sum-of-products.
US11657858B2
A nonvolatile memory device may include a plurality of memory planes and a plurality of plane-dedicated pad sets. The plurality of memory planes may include a plurality of memory cell arrays including nonvolatile memory cells and a plurality of page buffer circuits. Each of the plurality of page buffer circuits may be connected to ones of the nonvolatile memory cells included in each of the plurality of memory cell arrays through bitlines. A plurality of plane-dedicated pad sets may be connected to the plurality of page buffer circuits through a plurality of data paths respectively such that each of the plurality plane-dedicated pad sets is dedicatedly connected to each of the plurality of page buffer circuits. A bandwidth of a data transfer may be increased by reducing a data transfer delay and supporting a parallel data transfer, and power consumption may be decreased by removing data multiplexing and/or signal routing.
US11657855B2
A memory card includes a plurality of interconnection terminals aligned in a row direction and a column direction on a substrate. Each of the plurality of interconnection terminals has a first-axis length equal to no more than 1.2 time that of a second-axis length thereof. A non-volatile memory device is disposed on the substrate. The non-volatile memory device is electrically connected to at least one interconnection terminal corresponding thereto from among the plurality of interconnection terminals.
US11657853B1
The tractor and trailer radio with. CD Player is the only product of its kind that has the capability of functioning as an alarm clock, a speaker, a charger, and a radio, yet showcases as an automotive small-scale accessory. This avant-garde product is uniquely designed with durable materials to ensure long term sustainability, and includes cutting-edge features such as wireless charging, illuminated cab lights and interchangeable volume and tune headlights for any AM/FM radio with the station numbers in the grill.
US11657847B1
A write command is received to write data in a target zone including one or more tracks and it is determined whether a data structure is stored in a memory for counting writes performed in a track of the target zone. If such a data structure is not stored in the memory, at least one Low Repeat Write (LRW) data structure is created for the target zone to count writes in sectors of respective tracks of the target zone since creation of the at least one LRW data structure. In another aspect, a write count for a segment is incremented in a data structure for a track to account for a write in the segment. A current overall Track Interference (TI) write count for the target zone is incremented if the incremented segment write count is the highest write count among respective segment write counts in the data structure.
US11657846B1
A method to determine a relative delay between a current-overshoot signal and a write data signal for a hard disk drive preamplifier, the method including using a memory element to strobe a test current-overshoot signal with a test data signal; counting a number of strobed transitions of the test current-overshoot signal; adjusting the delay based on the number of strobed transitions; setting a phase difference between the current-overshoot signal and the write data signal according to the delay; and using the memory element to strobe the current-overshoot signal with the write data signal.
US11657843B2
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a plurality of disk surfaces, a first plurality of heads actuated over a first subset of the disk surfaces by a first actuator, and a second plurality of heads actuated over a second subset of the disk surfaces by a second actuator. A first access command is executed using the first actuator and a second access command is executed using the second actuator. When the first access command finishes before the second access command finishes, a third access command is selected to execute using the first actuator based on a time remaining (To2) to finish the second access command, and at least part of the second access command is executed while concurrently executing at least part of the third access command during To2.
US11657842B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a tape embedded drive having a head-gimbal assembly (HGA) and a contact plate. By using a support structure or contact plate beneath the tape, read and write heads can be designed to be narrower than the tape. The support structure or contact plate can stretch or relax the tape so that the spacing between servo tracks on the tape corresponds to the servo to servo spacing on the head. HGAs, which are narrower than the tape, can fly over the tape and read data from and write data to the tape. The HGA can have a single head or multiple heads. Additionally, multiple independent head assemblies can also be used for reading from and writing to the same tape.
US11657841B2
A hard disk drive flexible printed circuit (FPC) includes a plurality of fingers extending from a main portion, with each finger having a thermally-conductive stiffener, at least one wiring layer over the stiffener, and a cover film over the at least one wiring layer, where the centroid of the stiffener is offset from the centerline of the cover film. Thus, utilizing the heat-sink characteristics of the stiffener, temperature differences among the upper and lower electrical pads of the FPC resulting from a heat-based interconnection procedure can be reduced and the temperatures across the FPC finger made more uniform, damage to the FPC prevented, and soldering yields improved.
US11657830B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for data driven radio enhancement. For example, methods may include demodulating a radio signal to obtain a demodulated audio signal; determining a window of audio samples based on the demodulated audio signal; applying an audio enhancement network to the window of audio samples to obtain an enhanced audio segment, in which the audio enhancement network includes a machine learning network that has been trained using demodulated audio signals derived from radio signals; and storing, playing, or transmitting an enhanced audio signal based on the enhanced audio segment.
US11657827B2
Different embodiments on hearing enhancement enhancing a user's hearing. For example, a system can include an interface unit with a directional speaker and a microphone. The microphone captures input audio signals that are transformed into ultrasonic signals. The speaker transmits the ultrasonic signals, which are transformed into output audio signals by interaction with air. At least part of the output audio signals is modified to enhance the hearing of the user. Based on the system, the user's ear remains free from any inserted objects and thus is free from annoying occlusion effects. Compared to existing hearing aids, the system is relatively inexpensive. In another embodiment, the system can also be used as a phone. In another embodiment, the system can also access audio signals from other portable or non-portable instruments, wired or wirelessly, such as from home entertainment units, phones, microphones at a conference or speakers at a movie theater.
US11657823B2
A system for generating channel-compensated features of a speech signal includes a channel noise simulator that degrades the speech signal, a feed forward convolutional neural network (CNN) that generates channel-compensated features of the degraded speech signal, and a loss function that computes a difference between the channel-compensated features and handcrafted features for the same raw speech signal. Each loss result may be used to update connection weights of the CNN until a predetermined threshold loss is satisfied, and the CNN may be used as a front-end for a deep neural network (DNN) for speaker recognition/verification. The DNN may include convolutional layers, a bottleneck features layer, multiple fully-connected layers and an output layer. The bottleneck features may be used to update connection weights of the convolutional layers, and dropout may be applied to the convolutional layers.
US11657822B2
System and method for processing and presenting a conversation. For example, a system includes a sensor configured to capture an audio-form conversation, and a processor configured to automatically transform the audio-form conversation into a transformed conversation. The transformed conversation includes a synchronized text, and the synchronized text is synchronized with the audio-form conversation. Additionally, the system includes a presenter configured to present the transformed conversation including the synchronized text and the audio-form conversation.
US11657817B2
Implementations set forth relate to suggesting an alternate interface modality when an automated assistant and/or a user is expected to not understand a particular interaction between the user and the automated assistant. In some instances, the automated assistant can pre-emptively determine that a forthcoming and/or ongoing interaction between a user and an automated assistant may experience interference. Based on this determination, the automated assistant can provide an indication that the interaction may not be successful and/or that the user should interact with the automated assistant through a different modality. For example, the automated assistant can render a keyboard interface at a portable computing device when the automated assistant determines that an audio interface of the portable computing device is experiencing interference.
US11657813B2
Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example method includes receiving, from one or more external electronic devices, a plurality of speaker profiles for a plurality of users; receiving a natural language speech input; determining, based on comparing the natural language speech input to the plurality of speaker profiles: a first likelihood that the natural language speech input corresponds to a first user of the plurality of users; and a second likelihood that the natural language speech input corresponds to a second user of the plurality of users; determining whether the first likelihood and the second likelihood are within a first threshold; and in accordance with determining that the first likelihood and the second likelihood are not within the first threshold: providing a response to the natural language speech input, the response being personalized for the first user.
US11657801B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for predicting an end of a command in a voice recognition input are described herein. The system may receive data comprising a voice input. The system may receive a signal comprising a voice input. The system may detect, in the voice input, data that is associated with a first portion of a command. The system may predict, based on the first portion and while the voice input is being received, a second portion of the command. The prediction may be generated by a machine learning algorithm that is trained based at least in part on historical data comprising user input data. The system may cause execution of the command, based on the first portion and the predicted second portion, prior to an end of the voice input.
US11657800B2
An artificial intelligence device is provided. The artificial intelligence device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an input unit configured to receive a speech input; and a processor configured to operate in an interaction mode if a second wakeup word for setting an operation mode is recognized after a first wakeup word for calling the artificial intelligence device is recognized, and process one or more commands received after the second wakeup word according to the operation mode indicated by the second wakeup word.
US11657796B2
An active control method for filtered reference affine projection sign algorithm based on variable step size includes: S1, acquiring impulse noise signals and transmitting the signals to control filters; S2, transmitting the impulse noise signals by the control filters to post filters; S3, generating cancellation signals of the impulse noise signals by the post filters according to the impulse noise signals and internal active control algorithms, and transmitting the cancellation signals to a speaker; S4, sending out the cancellation signal by the speaker to superimpose with the impulse noise signals to cancel the impulse noise signal. A convex combination structure and a variable step size strategy are adopted, and by adjusting step size coefficients in the control filter structure, convergence speed of algorithm is controlled, contradiction between convergence speed and steady-state error is coordinated, convergence performance of control algorithm to impulse noises is improved, and impulse noises are effectively controlled.
US11657789B2
A sensing system for a keyboard. Each key sensor comprises passive and active resonant circuits. The passive resonant circuit has a resonant frequency and the active resonant circuit excites the passive resonant circuit at the resonant frequency. A sensor driver drives the active resonant circuit with an RF drive signal, a multiplexing system multiplexes the drive signal such that simultaneously driven key sensors are separated by at least (k−1) keys, and a detector detects a level of RF signal from a driven key sensor for sensing a position and/or velocity of a key.
US11657788B2
The present document relates to audio coding systems which make use of a harmonic transposition method for high frequency reconstruction (HFR), and to digital effect processors, e.g. so-called exciters, where generation of harmonic distortion adds brightness to the processed signal. In particular, a system configured to generate a high frequency component of a signal from a low frequency component of the signal is described. The system may comprise an analysis filter bank (501) configured to provide a set of analysis subband signals from the low frequency component of the signal; wherein the set of analysis subband signals comprises at least two analysis subband signals; wherein the analysis filter bank (501) has a frequency resolution of Δf. The system further comprises a nonlinear processing unit (502) configured to determine a set of synthesis subband signals from the set of analysis subband signals using a transposition order P; wherein the set of synthesis subband signals comprises a portion of the set of analysis subband signals phase shifted by an amount derived from the transposition order P; and a synthesis filter bank (504) configured to generate the high frequency component of the signal from the set of synthesis subband signals; wherein the synthesis filter bank (504) has a frequency resolution of FΔf; with F being a resolution factor, with F≥1; wherein the transposition order P is different from the resolution factor F.
US11657782B2
A display apparatus includes a pixel array, an optical modulator, a controller, and at least one memory device storing a frame memory. The optical modulator modulates the light emitted from the pixel array to corresponding angles. The controller generates images of a scene with different lighting profiles corresponding to different viewing angles according to information stored in the frame memory. The frame memory stores color information and material information of objects in the scene. The display apparatus displays the images through the first pixel array at the same time.
US11657778B2
A display presents picture-in-picture and/or picture-by-picture formatted visual information initiated by secondary information handling systems while the display presents primary visual information. The display broadcasts plural partial video buffer definitions to plural information handling systems that can selectively initiate network sessions to present visual images in areas of the display by storage of visual image information in a portion of the display video buffer. The secondary display area may present visual images for IoT or similar headless devices having relevance to an end user of a primary information handling system.
US11657768B2
A display device includes a display panel including a pixel including a light emitting element emitting light and electrically connected to a data line and a sensing line, a timing controller varying a driving frequency of the display panel based on an input frequency of digital video data, and a data driver supplying a data voltage to the data line based on the digital video data during a data addressing period of a frame period and receiving a sensing signal from the sensing line during a sensing period. The data driver electrically connects the sensing line to an initialization voltage line during the data addressing period in case that the digital video data is changed, and electrically connects the sensing line to a high impedance during the data addressing period in case that the digital video data is not changed.
US11657767B2
Provided are a display device and a driving method thereof. The display device includes: a display panel for displaying an image, based on data signals supplied from data lines; a load controller for determining a scale factor for controlling a target luminance of the image displayed in the display panel, based on a load of first image data input from the outside; and a data driver for outputting data signals to the data lines, corresponding to the first image data corrected using the scale factor. The data driver includes a plurality of data driver chips coupled to at least one data line among the data lines. The load controller determines the scale factor, based on at least one of a total load of the first image data and local loads with respect to the respective data driver chips.
US11657759B2
A pixel circuit and a method of driving the same, and a display panel. The pixel circuit includes a drive circuit, a data writing circuit, a compensating circuit, a reset circuit and a first light emitting control circuit. The drive circuit is configured to control a drive current for driving a light emitting element to emit light; the data writing circuit is configured to write a data signal to the first terminal of the drive circuit; the compensating circuit is configured to compensate the drive circuit; the reset circuit is configured to apply a reset voltage to the control terminal of the drive circuit and the first terminal of the light emitting element; the first light emitting control circuit is configured to apply a first voltage of the first voltage terminal to the first terminal of the drive circuit.
US11657753B2
The present application relates to a voltage compensating circuit and a display. The voltage compensating circuit includes: an electroluminescence device; a driving unit, used for driving the electroluminescence device; a luminescence time length control unit, respectively connected with the driving unit and the electroluminescence device, and used for controlling luminescence time length of the electroluminescence device; and a compensation unit, respectively connected with the driving unit and the luminescence time length control unit, and used for providing a compensation voltage to the voltage compensating circuit. Through the voltage compensating circuit in the present application, a dropped voltage value is compensated, thereby brightness uniformity of the display is improved, and image quality is improved.
US11657751B2
Provided are a display driving chip, a display apparatus and a display driving method. The display driving chip includes a gaze tracker, an image receiver, an image parser and an image driver, wherein the gaze tracker is configured to achieve real-time locating for the pupil center of human eyes and real-time calculation for gaze point coordinates, and output the gaze point coordinates of human eyes to the image parser; the image receiver is configured to receive image data to be played through a first image interface and input the image data to be played to the image parser; the image parser is configured to compress or decompress the image data to be played according to the gaze coordinates of human eyes and output the image data to the image driver.
US11657737B2
An aircraft emergency sign comprising a base layer comprising a photoluminescent material arranged to be charged by electromagnetic wavelengths in a first range and arranged to emit electromagnetic emissions in a second range; a barrier layer; and a print layer, the print layer being printed with at least one of a color or a pattern wherein the print layer is above the barrier layer and on a side remote from the base layer, and wherein the print layer is at least semi-transparent to wavelengths in the first range and the second range, the sign further comprising a mask layer provided between the barrier layer and the print layer.
US11657736B2
A display device includes a window and a display panel attached to the window. The display panel includes a flat display area and a curved display area, and the curved display area may be thinner than the flat display area.
US11657731B2
A device for training users in a proper mixing of pharmaceutical components, or for aiding in the mixing, or for performing the mixing, and administration of pharmaceutical components is disclosed. The device comprises a housing for receiving a pharmaceutical delivery device containing the pharmaceutical components. There is also a microcontroller disposed in the housing and a motion/orientation detection device disposed within or on the housing and in communication with the microcontroller. A method for use of the device is also disclosed, along with a substance for use as one of the pharmaceutical components.
US11657713B2
A management system of an automated valet parking lot according to an example in the present disclosure is a management system of an automated valet parking lot attached to a facility. The management system includes a setting unit for setting a management area for the facility, an authentication unit for performing, when a vehicle is deposited in the automated valet parking lot, usage authentication of the automated valet parking lot with a portable terminal associated with the vehicle, a tracking unit for tracking the position of the portable terminal authenticated for the usage, and a notification unit for notifying the portable terminal of an alarm when the portable terminal is outside the management area.
US11657709B2
A safety confirmation support system includes: a moving object detector which detects a moving object in each of detection regions set around the vehicle; display units each associated with a different one of the detection regions; a line-of-sight detector which detects a line of sight of the driver; and a display controller which controls the display units based on detection results from the moving object detector and the line-of-sight detector. When the moving object is detected in a specified detection region, the display controller (i) displays moving object information on a specified display unit associated with the specified detection region when the line of sight is away from the specified detection region, and (ii) stops display of the moving object information on the specified display unit when the line of sight is towards the specified detection region while the moving object information is displayed on the specified display unit.
US11657706B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to identify a lane level traffic surprise. In the context of a method, historical lane level traffic information is received including a representation of a speed of travel along a respective lane of a link. The method also receives recent lane level traffic information including a representation of a speed of travel along the respective lane of the link. The recent lane level traffic information is indicative of more recent traffic conditions, than the traffic conditions represented by at least some of the historical lane level traffic information. The method further includes determining a representation of a difference between representations of the speed of travel provided by the historical lane level traffic information and the recent lane level traffic information, and identifying the lane level traffic surprise based upon representation of the difference.
US11657704B2
In some examples, a system detects an accident involving a first vehicle, and responsive to the detecting of the accident, collects event data relating to the accident from a second vehicle that is different from the first vehicle.
US11657693B2
A fire detector for monitoring an environment and a method of operating a fire detector including a smoke sensor and a volatile organic compound, VOC, sensor are described. A fire detector 10 for monitoring an environment 20 includes a smoke sensor 12 and a volatile organic compound, VOC, sensor 14, the fire detector 10 is configured to adjust a smoke sensitivity of the fire detector 10 based on a VOC concentration detected by the VOC sensor 14. The smoke sensitivity is decreased when increased VOC concentrations are detected.
US11657689B1
This disclosure describes, in part, systems for enabling physical retail stores and other facilities to implement automated-checkout techniques for the purchase of items that are priced per unit weight. For example, the described systems may enable a facility to implement technology where users are able to remove items from inventory locations, place the items on weight sensors, and then be charged for the prices of the items without performing manual checkout of the items. The price of an item is determined based at least in part on the identifier of the item and the price per unit weight of the item. The systems described herein thus enable customized retail facilities, as opposed to a retail facility that allows automated-checkout only for prepackaged-type or otherwise non-customizable merchandise.
US11657684B2
An optical module includes a housing with a first end and a handle extending from the second end. A temperature indicator on the handle is thermally coupled to the housing to improve correlation with an optical module surface temperature. The temperature indicator provides an indication that the optical module surface temperature of the housing exceeds a predefined temperature limit.
US11657683B2
A transaction terminal includes a vertically integrated bagging weigh scale and a vertically integrated scanner. The scale includes two posts that extend horizontally out from the terminal and upon which a bag hangs. Items placed in the bag cause displacement of the posts and/or pressure detected on the posts resulting in a recorded weight by a weight sensor of the scale. A current recorded weight of the bag is reported from the scale to the terminal during a transaction as each item is placed into the bag. The terminal uses the item weights to record prices for those items sold by weight and to verify that items scanned by the scanner and placed in the bag have expected weights for those items.
US11657681B1
A computer-implemented method includes: receiving by a skimming prevention system operatively coupled to a machine, a plurality of sound data from a plurality of corresponding sound sensors operatively coupled to the machine; identifying by the skimming prevention system, a type of user action input of the machine; retrieving by the skimming prevention system from a storage system operatively coupled to the machine, a baseline acoustic signature associated with the machine and corresponding to the type of user action input; comparing by the skimming prevention system, the received plurality of sound data to the baseline acoustic signature associated with the machine and corresponding to the type of user action input; and in response to a determination that the compared plurality of sound data and the baseline acoustic signature differ more than a predetermined threshold, triggering by the skimming prevention system, an execution/alert mode of the machine.
US11657680B2
A sportsbook odds optimization and parlay correlation analysis platform may be provided. The platform may be configured to assess the correlation value for proposition bet parlays. The platform may be employed by a sportsbooks or other betting event hosting establishment. The platform may be configured to establish parameters for processing at least one parlay offered to the establishment. The parameters may include, for example, but not be limited to, a correlation value and a payout type. Next, at least one parlay may be received for processing. A correlation value and a payout value associated with the at least one parlay may be calculated. The platform may be configured to determine whether to accept or decline the at least one parlay offering based on the parameters defined by the establishment. The at least one parlay may then be accepted or declined in accordance to the determination.
US11657677B2
The disclosed technology describes various embodiments for providing a non-standard progressive jackpot mechanic, which can be used to control an electronic gaming machine (“EGM”). Certain embodiments, for example, comprise inputting wager data identifying a wager selected by a player of a reel game offered by the EGM, wherein the reel game includes one or more progressive jackpot awards; and in response to the inputting, computing updated values of the one or more progressive jackpot awards, wherein the updated values are computed based at least in part on a multiplier value that alters a first set of the one or more progressive jackpot awards into a second set of the one or more progressive jackpot awards different than the first set.
US11657671B2
A gaming machine, method, and program product provide a slot machine game with group gaming mode features. A set of gaming machines enter a group gaming mode in which prize objects are displayed on a group mode game board and are available to be awarded to individual gaming machines in the set, and are then removed from the group mode game board. Primary game results at each of the set of gaming machines are presented through the group gaming mode.
US11657662B2
An exemplary method includes operating an access control device in a standalone mode, which involves controlling a locked/unlocked state of the access control device locally, and operating a wireless transceiver of the access control device in a lower-power state in which the wireless transceiver is operable to receive a lockdown signal from an external device. The method further includes operating the access control device in a networked lockdown mode in response to receiving the lockdown signal from the external device. Operating the access control device in the networked lockdown mode involves placing the access control device in a locked state, establishing a wireless communication connection with the external device via the wireless transceiver while operating the wireless transceiver in a higher-power state.
US11657653B2
A lottery ticket dispensing system includes a cabinet housing and a lottery ticket array insertable into the cabinet housing. The array includes a plurality of individual bins in a stacked configuration. A dispensing unit is inserted into each of the bins and includes a ticket compartment in which a continuous strip of lottery tickets is contained and an automatic separation module in which a leading ticket of the continuous strip of lottery tickets is automatically separated and dispensed from the bin. The bins are connected together in the stacked configuration such that the lottery ticket array is insertable into and removable from the cabinet housing as a single unit. The stacked configuration has opposite sides defined by the sides of the bins. At least one first component of a detachable support system is attached to the opposite sides of the stacked configuration, the first component cooperating with a second component of the detachable support system provided on inner side walls of the cabinet housing.
US11657648B2
A method and a system for measuring a feature of persons. The method includes defining the feature of persons being measured. The method further includes measuring values of data points from a sample of digital images comprising the persons, according to the defined feature by a first algorithm. The method further includes generating a distribution curve of the measured values. The method further includes standardizing the measured values by implementing a hyperbolic tangent function transformation.
US11657644B2
In some implementations, a method includes: receiving, from the camera, a sample image that includes a fingerprint and a mensuration reference device, where the sample image is associated with a resolution; identifying (i) a plurality of edge candidate groups within the sample image, and (ii) a set of regularity characteristics associated with each of the plurality of edge candidate groups; determining that the associated set of regularity characteristics indicates the mensuration reference device; identifying a ruler candidate group, from each of the plurality of edge candidate groups, based at least on determining that the associated set of regularity characteristics indicates the mensuration reference device; computing a scale associated with the sample image based at least on extracting a set of ruler marks from the identified ruler candidate group; and generating, based at least on the scale associated with the sample image, a scaled image.
US11657615B2
A bed system includes: an imaging device; a bed on which the imaging device is to be installed; and a controller configured to process an image acquired by the imaging device to predict a possibility of overturning of a user, in which, when it is determined that a state of the user is a first state, the controller predicts the possibility of overturning of the user based on a first parameter, when it is determined that the state of the user is a second state, the controller predicts the possibility of overturning of the user based on a second parameter, the first state is a state of the user different from the second state, and the first parameter is different from the second parameter.
US11657609B2
A device, apparatus, and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, a device may include an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image, and a transmission unit configured to transmit information associated with the image to an information processing apparatus, such as a server. The server may be associated with a first feature quantity dictionary. The device also may include a receiving unit configured to receive a second feature quantity dictionary from the server in response to the transmission. The second feature quantity dictionary may include less information than the first feature quantity dictionary, and the server may generate the second feature quantity dictionary based on the image information and the first feature quantity dictionary. The device may include an identification unit configured to identify an object within the image using the second feature quantity dictionary.
US11657603B2
Systems and methods for performing semantic segmentation of three-dimensional data are provided. In one example embodiment, a computing system can be configured to obtain sensor data including three-dimensional data associated with an environment. The three-dimensional data can include a plurality of points and can be associated with one or more times. The computing system can be configured to determine data indicative of a two-dimensional voxel representation associated with the environment based at least in part on the three-dimensional data. The computing system can be configured to determine a classification for each point of the plurality of points within the three-dimensional data based at least in part on the two-dimensional voxel representation associated with the environment and a machine-learned semantic segmentation model. The computing system can be configured to initiate one or more actions based at least in part on the per-point classifications.
US11657600B2
A method for remotely assessing oral health of a user of a mobile device by obtaining, using the mobile device (40), at least one digital image (1) of said user's (30) oral cavity (31) and additional non-image data (2) comprising anamnestic information about the user (30). The digital image (1) is processed both using a statistical object detection algorithm (20) to extract at least one local visual feature (3) corresponding to a medical finding related to a sub-region of said user's oral cavity (31); and also using a statistical image recognition algorithm (21) to extract at least one global classification label (4) corresponding to a medical finding related to said user's oral cavity (31) as a whole. An assessment (10) of the oral health of said user (30) is determined based on the local visual feature(s) (3), the global classification label(s) (4) and the non-image data (2).
US11657597B2
A system for detecting clouds and cloud shadows is described. In one approach, clouds and cloud shadows within a remote sensing image are detected through a three step process. In the first stage a high-precision low-recall classifier is used to identify cloud seed pixels within the image. In the second stage, a low-precision high-recall classifier is used to identify potential cloud pixels within the image. Additionally, in the second stage, the cloud seed pixels are grown into the potential cloud pixels to identify clusters of pixels which have a high likelihood of representing clouds. In the third stage, a geometric technique is used to determine pixels which likely represent shadows cast by the clouds identified in the second stage. The clouds identified in the second stage and the shadows identified in the third stage are then exported as a cloud mask and shadow mask of the remote sensing image.
US11657587B2
Some embodiments provide a mapping application that displays a rotation of a 3D map and corresponding rotation of a set of map labels overlaying the 3D map in response to receiving input to rotate the 3D map. When a particular map label in the set of map labels rotates towards an upside down orientation, the mapping application also replaces the particular map label with a version of the particular map label arranged in a right side up orientation to prevent the particular map label from being displayed in the upside down orientation in the 3D map.
US11657585B2
A method is disclosed, the method comprising the steps of identifying a first real object in a mixed reality environment, the mixed reality environment having a user; identifying a second real object in the mixed reality environment; generating, in the mixed reality environment, a first virtual object corresponding to the second real object; identifying, in the mixed reality environment, a collision between the first real object and the first virtual object; determining a first attribute associated with the collision; determining, based on the first attribute, a first audio signal corresponding to the collision; and presenting to the user, via one or more speakers, the first audio signal.
US11657576B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to generating, conducting, and reporting digital surveys utilizing augmented reality devices and/or virtual reality devices. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods assist administrators in generating digital surveys utilizing interactive virtual environments via a virtual reality device and/or augmented reality elements via an augmented reality device. Similarly, the disclosed systems and methods can provide digital surveys via augmented reality devices and/or virtual reality devices, for instance, by monitoring user interactions via the augmented reality and/or virtual reality devices and providing digital surveys based on the monitored user interactions. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods can present survey results and allow administrators to interact with survey results utilizing augmented reality devices and/or virtual reality devices.
US11657573B2
The mesh tracking described herein involves mesh tracking on 3D face models. In contrast to existing mesh tracking algorithms which generally require user intervention and manipulation, the mesh tracking algorithm is fully automatic once a template mesh is provided. In addition, an eye and mouth boundary detection algorithm is able to better reconstruct the shape of eyes and mouths.
US11657566B2
A map having surfaces that are depicted at different levels that are not related to topography, with boundaries between the surfaces, where the boundaries are disposed at travel ways. The travel ways form cliff faces in the map between the surfaces, with information items disposed on the cliff faces at positions corresponding to items of interest at locations along the travel ways where the information items are disposed.
US11657565B2
A method and system is provided for culling hidden objects in a tile-based graphics system before they are indicated in a display list for a tile. A rendering space is divided into a plurality of regions which may for example be a plurality of tiles or a plurality of areas into which one or more tiles are divided. Depth thresholds for the regions, which are used to identify hidden objects for culling, are updated when an object entirely covers a region and in dependence on a comparison between a depth value for the object and the depth threshold for the region. For example, if the depth threshold is a maximum depth threshold, the depth threshold may be updated if an object entirely covers the tile and the maximum depth value of the object is less than the maximum depth threshold.
US11657562B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that utilize hemispherical clamping for importance sampling of an image-based light (IBL) to generate a digital image of a virtual environment. For example, the disclosed systems identify a hemispherical portion of an IBL image that corresponds to a reflective surface location on a virtual object. The disclosed systems can then clamp the IBL image using one or more importance sampling algorithms to exclude portions of the IBL image outside of the hemispherical portion that do not contribute direct lighting onto the reflective surface location. The disclosed systems can further utilize the one or more importance sampling algorithms to efficiently sample a ray direction between the reflective surface location and the hemispherical portion of the IBL image. In certain embodiments, the disclosed systems use the sampled ray direction to generate a digital image rendering portraying the virtual object.
US11657560B2
Techniques for performing shader operations are provided. The techniques include, performing pixel shading at a shading rate defined by pixel shader variable rate shading (“VRS”) data, and updating the pixel VRS data that indicates one or more shading rates for one or more tiles based on whether the tiles of the one or more tiles include triangle edges or do not include triangle edges, to generate updated VRS data.
US11657554B2
A system and method for creating customized, personally relevant greeting cards, e-cards, mementos, invitations, decorations, and other types of printed and virtual media to convey affection, friendship, emotional connections, celebration, gratitude, condolence and other types of sentiments to relatives, friends, coworkers, business associates, and acquaintances regardless of the cultural backgrounds of the giver and the recipient.
US11657541B2
A method to compress an image includes assigning each pixel of the image to a cluster based on a red-green-blue (RGB) location of the pixel. The method also includes updating a centroid of the cluster after each pixel is assigned, based at least in part on the RGB location of the pixel, where the centroid is an RGB location. The method includes replacing each pixel in the image with an RGB value of the centroid of the cluster to which the pixel is assigned. The method also includes instructing a display to display a compressed image where, in the compressed image, each pixel in the image is replaced with the RGB value of the centroid of the cluster to which the pixel is assigned.
US11657539B2
3D data representing a three-dimensional structure is divided into a plurality of pieces and encoded, an obtained plurality of divided bitstreams is multiplexed, and one bitstream including a separator indicating a position of a joint between the divided bitstreams is generated. Furthermore, a separator indicating a position of a joint between divided bitstreams obtained by dividing 3D data representing a three-dimensional structure into a plurality of pieces and encoding the plurality of divided pieces of the 3D data, which is included in a bitstream obtained by multiplexing a plurality of the divided bitstreams, is analyzed, and the bitstream is divided into every divided bitstream on the basis of information included in the analyzed separator, and decoded. Applications of the technology include being implemented in, for example, an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, electronic equipment, an information processing method, a program, or the like.
US11657533B2
A system for detecting and extracting a ground surface condition from an image comprising a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor performs a high resolution scan of at least one input image and generates an orthomosaic model and a digital surface model based on the performed high resolution scan. The processor generates an image tile based on the generated models and determines a label indicative of a probability of a presence of a ground surface condition for each pixel of the generated image tile via a computer vision model. The processor generates a label tensor for the at least one input image based on the determined labels and extracts a two-dimensional geospatial representation of a detected ground surface condition based on the generated label tensor. The processor generates a report indicative of damage associated with the detected ground surface condition based on the extracted two-dimensional geospatial representation.
US11657524B2
An image capturing and depth alignment method includes radar scanning step, image capturing step, translation and synchronization step, alignment step, client detection step, client positioning step, scene map construction step, view image transmitting step, view image processing step, virtual object placement step. through translating, synchronizing, and aligning the radar scanning step's 3D point cloud map and the image capturing step's planar image of the scene, the back-end server therefore obtains surveillance information with both image and depth. Then, through positioning, multiply superimposing, image rotation and matching, speed comparison, uniformization of coordinate systems, and display through the smart glasses, a wearer of the smart glasses may be positioned and tracked in the scene. The wearer may also be instructed to reach a specific target or place of a specific object.
US11657515B2
There is provide a device including: a first storage unit configured to store, when an object moves between separate image capturing areas which are captured by a plurality of surveillance cameras, a plurality of movement histories of the object between image data respectively captured by the surveillance cameras; an identification unit configured to identify, among the plurality of surveillance cameras, one surveillance camera that has captured a target object to track, and an image capturing time, according to an operation of an operator; and an estimation unit configured to estimate at least one other surveillance camera that is different from the one surveillance camera and that captures the target object, among the plurality of surveillance cameras, and an estimated time when the other surveillance camera captures the target object, based on the movement history and an identification result obtained by the identification unit.
US11657514B2
An object of the present invention is to extract an area of a foreground object with high accuracy. The present invention is an image processing apparatus including: a target image acquisition unit configured to acquire a target image that is a target of extraction of a foreground area; a reference image acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of reference images including an image whose viewpoint is different from that of the target image; a conversion unit configured to convert a plurality of reference images acquired by the reference image acquisition unit based on a viewpoint corresponding to the target image; and an extraction unit configured to extract a foreground area of the target image by using data relating to a degree of coincidence of a plurality of reference images converted by the conversion unit.
US11657499B2
A method for predicting a pulmonary disease includes acquiring a three-dimensional computed tomography (CT) image from two-dimensional CT images, each of which captures a respective body position of a first patient, dividing the three-dimensional CT image into a plurality of regions to obtain region-based three-dimensional CT images configured to be used for fractal analysis, calculating a region-based fractal dimension value indicating a fractal complexity of a respective region-based three-dimensional CT image among the generated region-based three-dimensional computed tomography images, adding additional information to the region-based fractal dimension value to generate high-dimensional data, and generating status information of the first patient based on the complexity of the generated high-dimensional data.
US11657497B2
A method of identifying potential lesions in mammographic images may include operations executed by an image processing device including receiving first image data of a first type, receiving second image data of a second type, registering the first image data and the second image data by employing a CNN using pixel level registration or object level registration, determining whether a candidate detection of a lesion exists in both the first image data and the second image data based on the registering of the first image data and the second image data, and generating display output identifying the lesion.
US11657496B2
An inspection support apparatus comprises a support bed and a platform base wherein the support bed includes spaced first and second index surfaces adapted to support first and second portions, respectively, of an airfoil in fixed positions relative to the support bed. An adjustment apparatus is coupled to the support bed and the platform base and is adapted to establish a desired fixed positional relationship between the support bed and the platform base in three dimensions.
US11657491B2
Provided are a learning data collection apparatus, a learning data collection method, and a program for collecting learning data to be used for efficient retraining. A learning data collection apparatus (10) includes an inspection image acquisition unit (11) that acquires an inspection image, a region detection result acquisition unit (damage detection result acquisition unit (13)) that acquires a region detection result the region detection result indicating a region detected by a region detector that is trained, a correction history acquisition unit (15) that acquires a correction history of the region detection result, a calculation unit (17) that calculates correction quantification information obtained by quantifying the correction history, a database that stores the inspection image, the region detection result, and the correction history in association with each other, an image extraction condition setting unit (19) that sets a threshold value of the correction quantification information as an extraction condition, the extraction condition being a condition for extracting the inspection image to be used for retraining from the database, and a first learning data extraction unit (21) that extracts, as learning data for retraining the region detector, the inspection image satisfying the extraction condition and the region detection result and the correction history that are associated with the inspection image.
US11657486B2
Systems and methods for improving soft tissue contrast, characterizing tissue, classifying phenotype, stratifying risk, and performing multi-scale modeling aided by multiple energy or contrast excitation and evaluation are provided. The systems and methods can include single and multi-phase acquisitions and broad and local spectrum imaging to assess atherosclerotic plaque tissues in the vessel wall and perivascular space.
US11657479B2
A mobile device can implement a neural network-based domain transfer scheme to modify an image in a first domain appearance to a second domain appearance. The domain transfer scheme can be configured to detect an object in the image, apply an effect to the image, and blend the image using color space adjustments and blending schemes to generate a realistic result image. The domain transfer scheme can further be configured to efficiently execute on the constrained device by removing operational layers based on resources available on the mobile device.
US11657473B2
A method, implemented by a computer system, and a system of organizing data of a wide area motion imagery frame and a method and a system of retrieving objects that match a user defined AOI from an image in a WAMI frame in a WAMI collection are described. The method of organizing includes dividing, by the computer system, an image of a WAMI frame into a plurality of tiles, each tile in the plurality of tiles comprising a plurality of pixels and having a pixel width and a pixel height; storing, by the computer system, the plurality of tiles as objects in an OSD, each object having an object identifier (OID); collecting, by the computer system, object identifiers (OIDs) of the objects; and storing, by the computer system, the OIDs in the OSD.
US11657472B2
Apparatus and method for compressing an acceleration data structure such as a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH). For example, one embodiment of a graphics processing apparatus comprises: one or more cores to execute graphics instructions including instructions to perform ray tracing operations; and compression circuitry to compress lowest level nodes of a hierarchical acceleration data structure comprising a plurality of hierarchically arranged nodes, each of the lowest level nodes comprising pointers to leaf data; the compression circuitry to quantize the lowest level nodes to generate quantized lowest level nodes and to store each quantized lowest level node and associated leaf data without the pointers to the leaf data.
US11657471B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a GPU. The apparatus may generate a table including a plurality of entries to store data associated with at least one of a constant value or an immediate value. The apparatus may also process, upon generating the table, first data including at least one of a constant value or an immediate value. Further, the apparatus may store, in the generated table, at least one of the constant value or the immediate value of the first data. The apparatus may also transmit, upon storing at least one of the constant value or the immediate value in the table, the table including the stored at least one of the constant value or the immediate value of the first data.
US11657469B2
The present disclosure relates generally to signal encoding for printed objects. One implementation selects an embed direction based on a minimal visibility axis of a 1 JND ellipse at a certain color center. One claim recites an apparatus comprising: memory for storing chromatic contrast sensitivity data representing multiple color encoding angles; one or more multi-core processors configured for: using the stored chromatic contrast sensitivity data, generating an ellipse around a first color center; and from the ellipse, determining a signal encode direction, the signal encode direction comprising an angle α representing a negative angle between the ‘a*’ axis in an CIELAB space and a direction of minimum sensitivity of an encoded signal, in which the angle α comprises −9 degrees≥α≥−25 degrees. Other technology described.
US11657468B2
A method for optimizing the load factor of luggage compartments in an aircraft cabin for a flight includes creation of at least one digital image of a piece of luggage, which is intended to be transported in the luggage compartments during the flight, by a passenger of the flight using a camera, determination of dimensions of the piece of luggage using the at least one digital image, comparison of the previously determined dimensions with free volume in the luggage compartments in the aircraft cabin on the flight, and consideration of the result of the comparison when loading the luggage compartments before the beginning of the flight.
US11657456B2
Provided is a system to allocate resources using an information technology infrastructure. The system receives financial and health data of a participant. The system identifies a healthcare expense prediction model to predict the future healthcare expenses of the participant. The system determines from the prediction model using the multi-dimensional feature vector of the participant, the predicted lifetime healthcare expenses of the participant. The system identifies lifetime non-healthcare expenses of the participant. The system identifies a healthcare tax benefit account to provide funds towards the predicted lifetime healthcare expenses and a non-healthcare tax benefit account to provide funds towards lifetime non-healthcare expenses. The system determines a first amount of funds to allocate to the healthcare tax benefit account and a second amount of funds to allocate to the non-healthcare tax benefit account. The system provides the first and second amount of funds to an interactive user interface.
US11657452B2
Methods, systems and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, are described herein to manage transactions relating to assets, such as carbon dioxide (“CO2”) offtake agreements, via a distributed ledger system. The platform may allow for authorized users to create large bundles of CO2 offtake agreements, transfer offtake bundles to other users in exchange for payment, create and issue securities backed by offtake bundles and/or manage various payments and contractual obligations relating to the same.
US11657450B1
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for interfacing a computing system to a human user. For example, a computing system may provide a graphical user interface at a display of a user computing device. The user interface may include a positive financial profile indicator at a first position on the display; a negative financial profile indicator at a second position on the display opposite the positive financial profile indicator; and a user financial profile indicator describing a user, the user financial profile indicator positioned between the positive financial profile indicator and the negative financial profile indicator. The computing system may receive user transaction data describing a financial transaction. The computing system may determine that the financial transaction worsens a financial profile of the user. The computing system may also modify the user interface to orient the user financial profile indicator towards the negative financial profile indicator.
US11657443B2
In various example embodiments, a system and method for data mesh-based environmental augmentation are presented. Attribute data associated with a user may be received from a plurality of attribute sources. A portion of the attribute data may include real-time data. A portion of the real-time data indicative of an identity of the user may be identified. The identity of the user may be authenticated with respect to the real-time data by analyzing the identified portion of the real-time data. Based on the authentication of the identity of the user, a user activity being performed by the user may be identified based on the real-time data, and the user activity may be augmented according to a user setting.
US11657439B2
A system for providing a vehicle part change service is provided, may include a server provided with part information related to changeable parts for a plurality of vehicle kinds, the server providing kinds of the changeable parts to a user terminal if a part change request for a specific vehicle kind is received from the user terminal, guiding a cost for a change target part through the user terminal if the corresponding part is selected through the user terminal and processing to transport the changed part to a service center, and outputting at least one of vehicle specification information or vehicle control data being changed due to the change of the part.
US11657438B2
Examples of systems and methods for bridging virtual and physical spaces are described. In some of these examples, a particular communicant's real world state drives changes in one or more of the communications connections, virtual state, and communications interface of the particular communicant or another communicant.
US11657437B2
An apparatus for providing drone data provides a method of matching a user who needs drone data of a certain area with at least one provider capable of providing drone data of a part or the entirety of the certain area.
US11657416B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for determining segments of online users from a correlated dataset. One method includes receiving, over a network, a plurality of datasets including user-related data of a plurality of users, each dataset being transmitted from a data owner; correlating, by at least one processor, the plurality of datasets into a correlated dataset; receiving a segmentation request for determining a plurality of users that qualify for a segment, the segmentation request including a set of segment rules to apply to the correlated dataset; determining, by accessing the correlated dataset, whether each user of the plurality of users qualifies for the segment based on the segment rule; and storing an indication of the segment in the correlated dataset for each user determined to qualify for the segment.
US11657409B2
This disclosure relates to a system and method to estimate demand transfer of a product while considering performance of all the products of a category simultaneously. It would be appreciated that the demand of a removed product transfers to other products of same category in a store. In addition the demand transfer is influenced by sales drivers such as product level promotion and competitor prices, store location, weather and seasonality. By considering these factors the proposed approach provides a method to estimate demand transfer of a product. It is addressed by creating multivariate multi structure machine learning models and estimating demand transfer values by using suitable scenario generator for product availability. It enables to estimate more holistic demand transfer values by simultaneous consideration of individual product behaviours with respect to other products availability and other sales drivers.
US11657407B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for filtering data with probabilistic filters for content selection. In one embodiment, an example method may include determining a user interaction history with a first product identifier for a user account, determining a first parent product identifier of the first product identifier, and generating a database with the first parent product identifier and a user account identifier for the user account. Example methods may include determining a set of candidate content with first content and second content for the user account, determining a second product identifier associated with the first content, and determining a second parent product identifier of the second product identifier. Example methods may include determining that the second parent product identifier is not present in the database using a probabilistic filter, and determining that the first content is eligible for presentation.
US11657402B2
Embodiments are directed to a method for determining an interview script in a claims submission. The method may comprising receiving data relating to a claim being submitted, which may include claims submission data input by a user, information relating to the user, and one or more features. Data associated with the one or more features may be determined from an artificial intelligence model. A first score based on the data associated with the one or more features and data associated with the information relating to the user may be determined and used to determine an interview script. In one embodiment, questions in the interview script may continue to be provided to the interviewer computer if a continually updated score remains above a predetermined threshold. In another embodiment, the user may be routed to a live interview with a human representative if a continually updated score drops below a predetermined threshold.
US11657394B2
There are provided systems and methods for a browser tool and application for providing an exact amount transaction funding source or gift card. A digital gift card may be generated for an exact amount by detecting a checkout total is finalized on a merchant website having a checkout process. This may be done using a computing script that parses a DOM tree for the website and identifies webpage elements to monitor. By monitoring the webpage elements, a checkout total may be detected. This may occur by detecting when input and elements are finalized and present within one or more webpage fields, such as by monitoring HTML or XML code snippets A gift card network may be used to offer an exact amount gift card to a user to be used for full payment of the transaction.
US11657393B2
A settlement device includes an application reception unit that associates and stores a user ID for specifying a user and application information indicating an application to grant a privilege at the time of purchase of a target commodity in a storage unit when the user ID and the application information are acquired, a token generation unit that generates a settlement token and transmits the settlement token to a user terminal when a request for acquiring the user ID and a settlement code is received from a user terminal, a settlement information reception unit that is configured to receive the settlement information used to perform settlement of commodities, the settlement token, and privilege target commodity information for specifying a commodity which is a privilege target from a store terminal that is configured to read the settlement code according to the settlement token, and a privilege granting unit that is configured to grant the privilege corresponding to application information to the user when the application information associated with the user ID corresponding to the received settlement token corresponds to the received privilege target commodity information.
US11657381B2
In general, one aspect disclosed features a system, comprising: a hardware processor; and a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by the hardware processor to perform operations comprising: identifying a seat in which a passenger is seated in a conveyance having multiple seats based on wireless signals exchanged with a device of a passenger; determining a payment status of the ticket of the passenger using the wireless signals; and generating a map of the conveyance indicating the seat in which the passenger is seated and the payment status of the ticket of the passenger.
US11657379B2
Provided is a computing technology for controlling information display of an electronic shelf label that is connected to a management server via a network and displays electronic information. The electronic shelf label measures a distance to at least one product arranged behind the electronic shelf label, and when a change in the distance occurs, activates a wireless tag reader. When product identification information acquired by the wireless tag reader is different from currently displayed product identification information, the electronic shelf labels request a label change registration to a server. Changed product information is received according to the label change registration, and the changed product information is reflected in displayed product information.
US11657378B2
Apparatus and methods for authenticating a user of a transaction device are provided. The methods may include designating an element of the device as a focal point. The methods may include storing the focal point in a transaction system database. The methods may include receiving from the device a gesture pattern. The methods may include determining that the pattern identifies the focal point. The methods may include accepting the focal point. The methods may include authenticating the user. The methods may include receiving, after the authenticating, from the user a personal identification number (“PIN”) that is associated with a transaction card of the user that is not present at the transaction.
US11657372B1
An improved computerized e-commerce system, optimized for smaller merchants such as florists who often provide seasonal perishable gifts that require local delivery, and who often desire to form cooperative networks with local merchants offering related gift services, as well as other related merchants such as other florists in more distant locations. The web server based system allows merchants to easily set up non-static (time variable) websites that automatically provide schedule driven promotions. New products can be quickly uploaded from smartphones, and sophisticated time and location aware algorithms can compute accurate delivery costs and make such costs transparent to customers. The system may also include backend software configured to assist in product production, inventory control, product cost optimization, and product delivery optimization, management, and tracking.
US11657367B2
A workflow support apparatus includes a classification section that classifies a document included in an original document from image data acquired by reading the original document, and a workflow searching section that searches for a workflow to which the document is to be attached, from the document classified by the classification section.
US11657364B1
A system and methods to facilitate transporting goods is disclosed. In aspects, the system can have a user interface comprising a display, a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions, and a processor in communication with the non-transitory computer-readable medium and with the display. The instructions can be executed by the processor to process a user request for transporting the good from a pickup location to a destination location. Based on the user request, a preferred route from the pickup location to the destination location can be generated. The transporting can be controlled using a display by modifying a task icon.
US11657361B2
A system and method for food traceability from a food service location to the consumer is disclosed. The method comprises marking food items with a received label as the food items are received. This received label identifies a storage location for the food item and generates traceability information for the food item. If the food item is not intended for storage, then the food item is transferred to a prep table and unique item information is generated for the food item. The food item can then be prepped for usage. During the prepping process, the food item's expiration date is verified, and a serial number is generated, and a use by date is calculated. If the prepped food item is to be served to a consumer, a label is generated with traceability information, and unneeded ingredients are re-purposed or properly disposed of.
US11657356B2
A system and method are disclosed for campaign planning and include modeling the use of campaign operations and campaignable resources of a supply chain network including a production line to produce products using campaign operations and campaignable resources as campaign planning problems, defining an evaluation function comprising a weighted sum of features evaluated from the campaign planning problem, initializing weights to build a consumption profile and evaluation function, determining fitness values that indicate a level of variability, evaluating reward values based on the fitness values, selecting a sub-sample of the top fitness values having the best associated objective function, repeating the generating, the evaluating and the selecting steps to adjust the weights until a stopping criterion is met indicating an optimal solution has been reached, and determining a campaign plan for the use of the campaign operations and campaignable resource.
US11657352B2
A multiplier is utilized to quantify a cybersecurity risk level of a portfolio of entities (e.g., companies) and enable actions to mitigate that quantified risk. In doing so, features or attributes of one or more companies in a portfolio are compared to features or attributes of one or more companies that experienced an adverse cybersecurity event (e.g. a data breach). Further, a degree of dependency, such as a matrix of a number of shared vendors and the proximity of those vendors to the companies, can be measured between (1) portfolio companies and one or more companies that experienced a cybersecurity event, and/or (2) the portfolio companies themselves to better quantify the risk. That is, to more meaningfully analyze a cybersecurity event that occurred at one or more companies and better predict the likelihood of an occurrence at portfolio companies, embodiments can determine an n-degree interdependency between companies.
US11657350B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus for testing a workflow, the information processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a first user who executes a first work step of the workflow; and a display unit configured to display a first simulation screen based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit, the first simulation screen simulating a first screen on which the first user executes the first work step of the workflow, wherein the display unit displays a second simulation screen, the second simulation screen simulating a second screen on which a second user executes a second work step of the workflow, the second work step of the workflow executed by the second user following the execution of the first work step by the first user on the first screen.
US11657341B2
A system for transcription is controlled and optimized by computer software which implements a competitive market for jobs is presented. Jobs are characterized by type, deadline, domain, difficulty, pay rate, customer and other factors. Editors are given credentials to perform jobs based on a complex of editor and job characteristics, and all editors qualified for a given job may then perform actions to preview and to claim the job. Job characteristics are adjusted dynamically to ensure that they are completed accurately and according to schedule.
US11657340B2
Transaction-enabled methods for providing provable access to a distributed ledger with a tokenized instruction set for biological production processes are described. A method may include accessing a distributed ledger comprising an instruction set for a biological production process and tokenizing the instruction set. The method may further include interpreting an instruction set access request and, in response to the access request, providing a provable access to the instruction set. The method may further include providing commands to a production tool of the biological production process in response to the instruction set access request and recording the transaction on the distributed ledger.
US11657336B2
In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a computer system, a request for outdoor adventures that satisfy one or more criteria; accessing a centralized data repository of outdoor adventures that are provided by a plurality of different guides; identifying, by the computer system, one or more outdoor adventures based on a comparison of the one or more criteria to data associated with the outdoor adventures; generating code that includes information for the one or more outdoor adventures, the code being generated for execution or interpretation on the client computing device; and transmitting the code to the client computing device, wherein the client computing device is programmed to automatically execute or interpret the code upon receipt so as to present a graphical user interface presenting the one or more outdoor adventures and a selectable feature to reserve at least a portion of the one or more adventures.
US11657329B2
A system and method is disclosed for augmenting image data of an invasive medical device having non-medical structures. An invasive medical device having markers with distinct physical shapes relative to other portions of the invasive medical device can be inserted in a patient. An imaging device can generate images of the invasive medical device within the patient. A trained model for the invasive medical device can be trained on annotated images of the invasive medical device annotated with marker and spatial information. An imaging computer system can apply the trained model to images of the invasive medical device having depictions of the markers to determine current spatial information. The depictions of the markers can be identified and correlated with the spatial information from the annotated images. The images and visual spatial information representing the spatial information of the invasive medical device can be outputted to a display.
US11657317B2
Under one aspect, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a query at a query interface about whether a computer file comprises malicious code. It is determined, using at least one machine learning sub model corresponding to a type of the computer file, whether the computer file comprises malicious code. Data characterizing the determination are provided to the query interface. Generating the sub model includes receiving computer files at a collection interface. Multiple sub populations of the computer files are generated based on respective types of the computer files, and random training and testing sets are generated from each of the sub populations. At least one sub model for each random training set is generated.
US11657310B2
Method, apparatus and product for utilizing stochastic controller to provide user-controlled notification rate of wearable-based events. The method comprises obtaining events issued by a module based on analysis of multiple sensor readings of one or more sensors of a wearable device. The method further comprises determining by a stochastic controller whether to provide an alert to a user based on the events and based on a user preference, wherein the user preference is indicative of a desired notification rate of the user, wherein the stochastic controller comprises a stochastic model of an environment. Based on such determination, alerts are outputted to the user.
US11657308B2
A method may include generating a first user interface for providing, to a client, a first selection of inputs for attributes of a rule scenario for defining a rule. The rule may be applied to modify a data processing functionality of the application. Parameters of the rule may be determined based on the rule scenario and a first input from the first selection of inputs being selected via the first user interface. The parameters of the rule may correspond to data objects affected by the application of the rule. A second user interface for providing, to the client, a second selection of inputs for defining a condition of the rule may be generated. The condition of the rule may evaluate the parameters of the rule. The rule may be generated based on a second input from the second selection of inputs being selected via the second user interface.
US11657293B2
In some embodiments, an archipelago model is provided for distributed execution of evolutionary computing techniques. In some embodiments, an archipelago manager computing device manages a centralized archipelago management queue, and provides population subsets to a plurality of island computing devices. The archipelago manager computing device receives candidate solutions from the island computing devices, stores the candidate solutions in the archipelago management queue, and transmits candidate solutions from the archipelago management queue to the island computing devices in order to exchange candidate solutions between the island computing devices. The use of an archipelago management queue allows transfer of candidate solutions between different island computing devices, is robust to failure of any given island computing device, and does not require homogeneity within the plurality of island computing devices.
US11657292B1
Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and products comprising an analytic server that automates training dataset generation for different application areas. The server may perform an automated, iterative refinement process to build a collection of dataset generator models over time. The server may receive a set of seed examples in a domain and generate candidate examples based on the features of the seed examples using data synthesis techniques. The server may execute a pre-trained label discriminator (LD) and domain discriminator (D2) on the candidate examples. The LD may identify and reject mislabeled data. The D2 may identify and reject out of domain data. The analytic server may regenerate new labeled data based on the feedback of the LD and D2. The analytic server may train a dataset generator by iteratively performing these steps for refinement until the regenerated candidate examples reach a pass rate threshold.
US11657274B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for performing weakly supervised semantic segmentation of input images that utilizes self-guidance on attention maps during training to cause a guided attention inference network (GAIN) to focus attention on an object in an input image in a holistic manner rather than only on the most discriminative parts of the image. The self-guidance is provided jointly by a classification loss function and an attention mining loss function. Extra supervision can also be provided by using a select number pixel-level labeled input images to enhance the semantic segmentation capabilities of the GAIN.
US11657269B2
Verification of discriminative models includes receiving an input; receiving a prediction from a discriminative model for the input; encoding, using an encoder, a latent variable based on the input; decoding, using a decoder, a reconstructed input based on the prediction and the latent variable; and determining, using an anomaly detection module, whether the prediction is reliable based on the input, the reconstructed input, and the latent variable. The encoder and the decoder are jointly trained to maximize an evidence lower bound of the encoder and the decoder. In some embodiments, the encoder and the decoder are further trained using a disentanglement constraint between the prediction and the latent variable. In some embodiments, the encoder and the decoder are further trained without using inputs that are out of a distribution of inputs used to train the discriminative model or that are adversarial to the discriminative model.
US11657268B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a neural network configured to receive a network input and to assign a respective score to each of a plurality of locations in the network input. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a training input and a corresponding ground truth output; processing the training input to generate a training output; computing a loss for the training input, comprising: selecting a plurality of candidate locations; setting to zero the training scores for any location in the selected candidate locations that has a ground truth score below a threshold value; for each of a plurality of pairs of locations in the selected candidate locations: computing a pair-wise loss for the pair; and combining the pair-wise losses to compute the loss for the training input; and determining an update to the current values of the parameters.
US11657265B2
Described herein are systems and methods for training first and second neural network models. A system comprises a memory comprising instruction data representing a set of instructions and a processor configured to communicate with the memory and to execute the set of instructions. The set of instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to set a weight in the second model based on a corresponding weight in the first model, train the second model on a first dataset, wherein the training comprises updating the weight in the second model and adjust the corresponding weight in the first model based on the updated weight in the second model.
US11657261B1
A neural processing device is provided. The neural processing device comprises a plurality of neural processors, a shared memory shared by the plurality of neural processors, a plurality of semaphore memories, and global interconnection. The plurality of neural processors generates a plurality of L3 sync targets, respectively. Each semaphore memory is associated with a respective one of the plurality of neural processors, and the plurality of semaphore memories receive and store the plurality of L3 sync targets, respectively. Synchronization of the plurality of neural processors is performed according to the plurality of L3 sync targets. The global interconnection connects the plurality of neural processors with the shared memory, and comprises an L3 sync channel through which an L3 synchronization signal corresponding to at least one L3 sync target is transmitted.
US11657260B2
Neural network hardware acceleration data parallelism is performed by an integrated circuit including a plurality of memory banks, each memory bank among the plurality of memory banks configured to store values and to transmit stored values, a plurality of computation units, each computation unit among the plurality of computation units including a processor including circuitry configured to perform a mathematical operation on an input data value and a weight value to produce a resultant data value, and a computation controller configured to cause a value transmission to be received by more than one computation unit or memory bank.
US11657256B2
Embodiments use a hierarchy of machine learning models to predict datacenter behavior at multiple hardware levels of a datacenter without accessing operating system generated hardware utilization information. The accuracy of higher-level models in the hierarchy of models is increased by including, as input to the higher-level models, hardware utilization predictions from lower-level models. The hierarchy of models includes: server utilization models and workload/OS prediction models that produce predictions at a server device-level of a datacenter; and also top-of-rack switch models and backbone switch models that produce predictions at higher levels of the datacenter. These models receive, as input, hardware utilization information from non-OS sources. Based on datacenter-level network utilization predictions from the hierarchy of models, the datacenter automatically configures its hardware to avoid any predicted over-utilization of hardware in the datacenter. Also, the predictions from the hierarchy of models can be used to detect anomalies of datacenter hardware behavior.
US11657245B2
Multiple first gradation values corresponding respectively to the multiple inks are quantized to generate multiple first quantized values indicating printing or non-printing of dots with the respective inks. In this case, multiple second gradation values corresponding respectively to multiple multinary colors expressible by combinations of overlapping of the multiple inks are generated based on the first gradation values. Next, the multiple second gradation values are quantized to generate multiple second quantized values indicating printing or non-printing of dots of the respective multinary colors. Then, the first quantized values corresponding to the inks to be overlapped one on top of another to express the multinary colors are generated based on the second quantized values corresponding respectively to the multiple multinary colors.
US11657242B2
There is provided an information code in which first cells have lightness that is intermediate between lightness of second cells and lightness of a predetermined marginal area. The first cells and the second cells are configured to have a difference in lightness therebetween sufficiently smaller than a difference in lightness between the first cells and the predetermined marginal area, in a predetermined area occupying at least a part of the code area. There is also provided an information code reader in which colors of an image of the information code captured by an imaging unit are corrected such that the difference in lightness between the first and second cells increases. Using the corrected image, decoding processing is performed to decode the information code.
US11657218B2
A method of generating a custom template includes importing user account data including a plurality of user-defined account identifiers, receiving a user input on a graphical user interface including a mapping of the plurality of user-defined account identifiers to predetermined categories and a selected ordering of two or more of the user-defined account identifiers that are mapped to the same one of the predetermined categories, for each of the user-defined account identifiers, generating a code defining the predetermined category to which the user-defined account identifier is mapped and an order ranking of the user-defined account identifier relative to any others of the user-defined account identifiers that are mapped to the same predetermined category, and generating one or more templates comprising a representation of at least a portion of the user account data organized according to the predetermined categories and order rankings defined by one or more of the codes.
US11657215B2
An automated natural dialogue system provides a combination of structure and flexibility to allow for ease of annotation of dialogues as well as learning and expanding the capabilities of the dialogue system based on natural language interactions.
US11657211B2
A method, system and computer program product for workflow style governance includes creating a document and specifying a document style of the document—either a linear workflow style or a branched workflow style. Thereafter, in response to a subsequent request to load the document, the specified document style for the document may be retrieved and, on condition that the specified document style is a linear workflow style, a specified version of the document is retrieved into a document editor for editing as a new version of the document. But otherwise, on condition that the specified document style is a branched workflow style, different components of the document are retrieved as a composition of components, each of an independent version, and a selected one of the components of the composition of the components making up the document is then loaded into a component editor for editing as a new version.
US11657209B2
For generating visual enhancement suggestions for source content, a system performs storing, in a data storage, a plurality of context data sets, each context data set including a set of visual enhancements and a context for selecting the set of visual enhancements; receiving the source content including source content data and source attribute data; providing, to an artificial intelligence (AI) engine, the received source content, the AI engine configured to select, based on the source content and the context data sets, a first set of visual enhancements and apply the selected first set of visual enhancements to the source content to generate a first visual enhancement suggestion for the source content; extracting, from the AI engine, the first visual enhancement suggestion; and causing the first visual enhancement suggestion to be displayed via a display of a user device.
US11657208B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory, machine-readable media to facilitate adaptive processing and content control are disclosed. Content composites may be created and configured according to a computational model that may include a hierarchical ordering of the content composites using a hierarchical data structure. The configured content composites may be presented with a graphical user interface of an endpoint device. Metrics of interactions with interface elements corresponding to the configured content composites may be determined using a processing device that monitors inputs. The computational model may be automatically trained using the metrics of interactions to create an adapted computational model. Adapted content composites may be created and configured according to the adapted computational model that may include a second hierarchical ordering using a second hierarchical data structure. The adapted content composites may be presented with the graphical user interface.
US11657192B2
The present invention is a method for accessing a model of a building, selecting a set of roof trusses, wherein the roof trusses comprised of a first set of members, isolating plurality of wall panels, wherein the wall panels are comprised of a second set of members, selecting a group of interfacing members between a roof truss and a wall panel, detecting an interface type between the roof truss and the wall panel, wherein each interface has a predetermined set of requirements, calculating a set of actual values associated with the interface type, comparing the set of actual values with a set of required values and determining the delta of the actual values and the required values, and identifying each interface where the delta is outside a predetermined range.
US11657190B2
A platform for design of a lighting installation generally includes an automated search engine for retrieving and storing a plurality of lighting objects in a lighting object library and a lighting design environment providing a visual representation of a lighting space containing lighting space objects and lighting objects. The visual representation is based on properties of the lighting space objects and lighting objects obtained from the lighting object library. A plurality of aesthetic filters is configured to permit a designer in a design environment to adjust parameters of the plurality of lighting objects handled in the design environment to provide a desired collective lighting effect using the plurality of lighting objects.
US11657189B2
Preventing the loss of physical objects using cognitive computing includes receiving, by a wearable device, information associated with a user of the wearable device. The information received includes one or more gestures to be used as a digital handshake and at least one physical object to be tracked. A set of models associated with the at least one physical object is downloaded to the wearable device. In response to an activation command, the wearable device performs the digital handshake with the at least one object to be tracked. The wearable device continuously monitors actions and movements performed by the user to determine whether the at least one physical object is in possession of the user.
US11657188B2
An information handling system includes a policy store, wherein one of the policies is associated with a feature of a device of the information handling system. If a first assertion for the information handling system to enter a non-interactive mode is detected, then a configuration setting associated with the feature of the device is modified. Modifying the configuration setting associated with the feature of the device includes restricting power transition states of the device.
