US11758830B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The structure includes a semiconductor substrate and a data storage element over the semiconductor substrate. The structure also includes an ion diffusion barrier element over the data storage element and a protective element extending along a sidewall of the ion diffusion barrier element. A bottom surface of the protective element is between a top surface of the data storage element and a bottom surface of the data storage element. The structure further includes a first electrode electrically connected to the data storage element and a second electrode electrically connected to the data storage element.
US11758825B2
A magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) device and a method of manufacturing the same, the device including a substrate; a memory unit including a lower electrode, a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure, and an upper electrode sequentially stacked on the substrate; a passivation pattern on a sidewall of the memory unit; a via on the memory unit and contacting the upper electrode; and a wiring on the via and contacting the via, wherein a center portion of the upper electrode protrudes from a remaining portion of the upper electrode in a vertical direction substantially perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate.
US11758812B2
A power generation element includes a first crystal region including Alx1Ga1-x1N (0
US11758797B2
A method of n-type doping a carbon nanotube includes the following steps: providing a single carbon nanotube; providing a film-like structure, wherein the film-like structure is a molybdenum disulfide film or a tungsten disulfide film; and converting at least one portion of the carbon nanotube from a p-type to an n-type by covering the carbon nanotube with the film-like structure.
US11758796B2
A light-emitting display device includes unit pixels each of which includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a third sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel includes a red organic light-emitting layer to emit red light. The second sub-pixel includes a green organic light-emitting layer to emit green light. The third sub-pixel includes a blue organic light-emitting layer to emit blue light. A surface level difference of the second sub-pixel is greater than a surface level difference of the first sub-pixel and smaller than a surface level difference of the third sub-pixel.
US11758792B2
A display panel is divided into a display area and a camera area. The camera area includes a first through-hole, a first light-transmitting layer, an inorganic layer, a second through-hole, a second light-transmitting layer, and an image acquisition device. The manufacturing method of the display panel includes a rigid substrate providing step, a flexible substrate forming step, a first etching step, a first light- transmitting layer forming step, a first thin-film transistor (TFT) forming step, a second etching step, a second light-transmitting layer forming step, a second TFT forming step, a rigid substrate stripping step, and an image acquisition device disposing step.
US11758789B2
An electronic device includes a display panel that includes a plurality of light emitting elements, and an input sensor disposed on the display panel and that includes a plurality of mesh patterns. The mesh patterns include a plurality of openings formed therein and spaced apart from each other in a first direction and a second direction that crosses the first direction. The mesh patterns include a plurality of conductive patterns spaced apart from each other in a direction that cross the first and second directions, where a center opening of the plurality of openings is disposed therebetween, and a plurality of mesh lines disposed along an edge of the center opening and connected to the conductive patterns. Each of the conductive patterns includes at least one cut-away portion opened toward one of the openings.
US11758788B2
Disclosed are display panels and methods of manufacturing substrates. The display panel comprises a lower display substrate that includes a plurality of light emitting elements, and an upper display substrate that includes a color control layer and is on the lower display substrate. The color control layer includes a plurality of walls each of which includes a wall base including an organic material and a reflective layer including a metallic material, and the color control layer also includes a plurality of color control parts which are disposed between the plurality of walls and at least one of which includes a quantum dot. The reflective layer surrounds at least a portion of a sidewall of the wall base, which results in an increase in luminous efficiency and an improvement in brightness.
US11758778B2
An organic light emitting display apparatus includes an organic light emitting display panel including a display area, including a transparent area and an opaque area, and a non-display area, a gate driver sequentially supplying a gate pulse to a plurality of gate lines included in the organic light emitting display panel, and an initialization unit transferring gate pulses and/or initialization control signals, output from the gate driver, to a plurality of transparent area gate lines. A camera photographing a region in a forward direction with respect to the organic light emitting display panel is provided in the transparent area of a rear surface of the organic light emitting display panel. A first pixel driving circuit provided in the transparent area includes two transistors, and a second pixel driving circuit provided in the opaque area includes at least three transistors.
US11758775B2
A display apparatus includes: a substrate including a component area, a display area, and a middle area provided between the component area and the display area; a thin-film transistor arranged in the display area; a display element including a pixel electrode, an intermediate layer, and an opposite electrode, wherein the pixel electrode is electrically connected to the thin-film transistor; a first organic insulating layer, a second organic insulating layer, and a passivation layer sequentially stacked on each other between the thin-film transistor and the pixel electrode; and a groove arranged in the middle area, wherein the groove divides an organic material layer included in the intermediate layer, wherein the groove is provided in multiple layers including an organic layer and an inorganic layer, wherein the organic layer is arranged on the substrate, and the inorganic layer is stacked on the organic layer.
US11758770B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel having a first display area and a second display area, the display panel including: a substrate; a driving device layer on a side of the substrate, including transistors; a first electrode layer in the first display area and on a side of the driving device layer away from the substrate, including first electrodes; a first transparent part in the first display area and between the driving device layer and the first electrode layer, including first padding layers, which are electrically connected to the transistors; and a second transparent part in the first display area and between the first transparent part and the first electrodes, including second padding layers for connecting to the first padding layers, that the transistors transmit signals to the first electrodes through the first padding layers and the second padding layers.
US11758763B2
A display panel is provided, including an array substrate; a light-emitting layer located at a side of the array substrate and including a plurality of light-emitting units; a touch dielectric layer located at a side of the light-emitting layer facing away from the array substrate and including a plurality of first apertures; a black matrix located within each of the plurality of first apertures; and a color filter layer located at a side of the touch dielectric layer facing away from the array substrate and including a plurality of color filter units. An orthographic projection of each of the plurality of first apertures on the light-emitting layer is located between two adjacent light-emitting units of the plurality of light-emitting units. The plurality of color filter units is in one-to-one correspondence to the plurality of light-emitting units.
US11758761B2
An organic light emitting display device includes: a substrate; a first electrode on the substrate; a pixel defining layer on the substrate, the pixel defining layer defining a first opening which exposes at least a part of the first electrode; an organic light emitting layer on the first electrode; a second electrode on the organic light emitting layer; a thin film encapsulation layer on the second electrode; a sensing electrode on the thin film encapsulation layer; a low refractive index layer on the sensing electrode, the low refractive index layer defining a second opening which overlaps the first opening; and a high refractive index layer on the thin film encapsulation layer. A gap between an edge of the first opening and an edge of the second opening is constant irrespective of direction.
US11758757B2
Flexible display devices, such as flexible cover lens films, are discussed and provided herein. The flexible cover lens film has good strength, elasticity, optical transmission, wear resistance, and thermostability. The cover lens film includes a hard coat layer with a thickness from about 5 μm to 40 μm, an impact absorption layer with a thickness from about 20 μm to 110 μm, and a substrate layer with a thickness from about 10 μm to 175 μm and is disposed between the hard coat layer and the impact absorption layer. By combining the hard coat layer and the impact resistant layer, the cover lens film is both flexible and strong with hardness from 6H to 9H.
US11758754B2
A display apparatus having enhanced heat dissipation performance is provided. The display apparatus includes a substrate including a display area with a light emitting device disposed therein and a non-display area surrounding the display area, an adhesive layer covering the light emitting device, a heat dissipation substrate provided on the adhesive layer, a pad part provided in the non-display area of the substrate, a circuit film electrically connected to the pad part, and a printed circuit board disposed on the heat dissipation substrate and electrically connected to the circuit film, wherein the heat dissipation substrate is disposed in the outermost portion of the display apparatus.
US11758740B2
A three-dimensional semiconductor device includes multiple semiconductor device layers on a substrate, wherein each layer includes a first stacked structure, a first gate dielectric layer, a first semiconductor layer, a first channel layer, a first source region, a first drain region, and a first resistive random access memory cell. The first stacked structure on the substrate includes a first insulating layer and a first gate conductor layer. The first gate dielectric layer surrounds a sidewall of the first stacked structure. The first semiconductor layer surrounds a sidewall of the first gate dielectric layer. The first channel layer is in the first semiconductor layer. The first source region and the first drain region are on both sides of the first channel layer in the first semiconductor layer. The first resistive random access memory cell is on a first sidewall of the first semiconductor layer and connected to the first drain region.
US11758734B2
A semiconductor device includes a first conductive structure extending along a vertical direction and a second conductive structure extending along the vertical direction. The second conductive structure is spaced apart from the first conductive structure along a first lateral direction. The semiconductor device includes third conductive structures each extending along the first lateral direction. The third conductive structures are disposed across the first and second conductive structures. The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor channel extending along the vertical direction. The first semiconductor channel is disposed between the third conductive structures and the first conductive structure, and between the third conductive structures and the second conductive structure. The first and second conductive structures each have a first varying width along the first lateral direction, and the first semiconductor channel has a second varying width along a second lateral direction.
US11758732B2
Embodiments of through array contact structures of a 3D memory device and fabricating method thereof are disclosed. The memory device includes an alternating layer stack disposed on a first substrate. The alternating layer stack includes a first region including an alternating dielectric stack, and a second region including an alternating conductor/dielectric stack. The memory device further comprises a barrier structure including two parallel barrier walls extending vertically through the alternating layer stack and laterally along a word line direction to laterally separate the first region from the second region. The memory device further comprises a plurality of through array contacts in the first region, each through array contact extending vertically through the alternating dielectric stack.
US11758730B2
A bonded assembly of a memory die and a logic die is provided. The memory die includes a memory array, a plurality of bit lines, and memory-side bit-line-connection bonding pads. The logic die includes sense amplifiers located in a sense amplifier region, and logic-side bit-line-connection bonding pads located within the sense amplifier region and bonded to a respective one of the memory-side bit-line-connection bonding pads. The sense amplifier region has an areal overlap with a respective first subset the plurality of bit lines in a plan view, while a second subset of the plurality of bit lines does not have an areal overlap with the sense amplifier region in the plan view.
US11758722B2
Embodiments of 3D memory devices and the fabrication methods to form the 3D memory devices are provided. A 3D memory device includes a substrate, a memory deck, and a memory string. The memory deck includes a plurality of interleaved conductor layers and dielectric layers on the substrate. The memory string extends vertically through the memory deck. A bottom conductor layer of the plurality of interleaved conductor layers and dielectric layers can intersect with and contact the memory string.
US11758720B2
A method of forming a flash memory cell includes the following steps. A first dielectric layer and a floating gate layer are deposited on a substrate sequentially. Three blocking structures having oblique sidewalls broaden from bottom to top penetrating through the first dielectric layer and the floating gate layer are formed. A first part and a second part of the floating gate layer between two adjacent blocking structures are etched respectively, so that a first floating gate having two sharp top corners and oblique sidewalls, and a second floating gate having two sharp top corners and oblique sidewalls, are formed. The three blocking structures are removed. A first isolating layer and a first selective gate covering the first floating gate are formed and a second isolating layer and a second selective gate covering the second floating gate are formed. A flash memory cell formed by said method is also provided.
US11758719B2
A three-dimensional semiconductor device includes a first gate group on a lower structure and a second gate group on the first gate group. The first gate group includes first pad regions that are: (1) lowered in a first direction that is parallel to an upper surface of the lower structure and (2) raised in a second direction that is parallel to an upper surface of the lower structure and perpendicular to the first direction. The second gate group includes second pad regions that are sequentially raised in the first direction and raised in the second direction.
US11758715B2
A memory device includes a first memory cell having a first polysilicon line associated with a first read word line and intersecting a first active region and a second active region, and a second polysilicon line and a first CPODE associated with a first program word line, the second polysilicon line intersecting the first active region and the first CPODE intersecting the second active region. The memory device also includes a second memory cell adjacent to the first memory cell, the second memory cell having a third polysilicon line associated with a second read word line and intersecting the first active region and the second active region, and a fourth polysilicon line and a second CPODE associated with a second program word line, the fourth polysilicon line intersecting the second active region and the second CPODE intersecting the first active region to form a cross-arrangement of CPODE.
US11758708B1
To compensate switching of a dielectric component of a non-linear polar material based capacitor, an explicit dielectric capacitor is added to a memory bit-cell and controlled by a signal opposite to the signal driven on a plate-line.
US11758707B2
A memory cell including a set of active regions that overlay a set of gate regions to form a pair of cross-coupled inverters. A first active region extends along a first axis. A first gate region extends transversely to the first active region and overlays the first active region to form a first transistor of the pair of cross-coupled inverters. A second gate region extends transversely to the first active region and overlays the first active region to form a second transistor of the pair of cross-coupled inverters. A second active region extends along a second axis and overlays the first gate region to form a third transistor of the pair of cross-coupled inverters. A fourth active region extending along a third axis and overlays a gate region to form a transistor of a read port.
US11758694B2
The invention relates to a switch cabinet arrangement with at least one IT rack or switch cabinet housing and with at least one cooling device, which has an air-liquid heat exchanger for cooling components accommodated in the IT rack or switch cabinet housing with cooled air, wherein the air-liquid heat exchanger comprises a first flow for cooled liquid and a first return for heated liquid, wherein the cooling device comprises a liquid-liquid heat exchanger, to the second flow of which the first return of the air-liquid heat exchanger is connected. A corresponding method is further described.
US11758692B2
A heat dissipation module is provided and includes a cold plate having a housing, and a frame body disposed on the housing and having two sidewalls and at least one first rib, where the two sidewalls are positioned at two sides of the housing, respectively, and the first rib is used to provide a deformation resistance so that the heat dissipation module will not be seriously deformed when secured.
US11758686B1
An information handling system may include an information handling resource and an air mover configured to drive a flow of air. The air mover may have one or more air mover components for driving the flow of air and a coil configured to heat the one or more air mover components.
US11758683B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for a modular field switch rack.
US11758680B2
An electronic cable system operates as an extension cable to facilitate external viewing of internal infrastructure LED status. A wired cable is provided having a first end and a second end, the first end including a first I/O coupler, LED detectors and a power jack; and the second end including a second I/O coupler and a plurality of LEDs. The plurality of LEDs of the second end illuminate in response to activation of the LED detector of the first end. The first I/O coupler may plug into an internal module of electronic infrastructure, such as a server, to detect operational status of the internal module via the LED detectors. The second I/O coupler may couple to infrastructure housing, permitting the plurality of LEDs to be viewed externally of the housing. The plurality of external LEDs on the infrastructure housing mimic internal (non-viewable) status indicator LEDs of the internal module.
US11758669B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems, devices, lockable enclosures, and methods for data centers. In one example, a lockable enclosure for a data drive is provided. The lockable enclosure includes a housing configured to retain a first data drive and a latch contained within the housing and configured to receive a second data drive, wherein the latch is configured to move within the housing for dispensing the first data drive from the housing while the second data drive remains secured therein.
US11758664B2
An apparatus includes a motherboard with a processor socket, a load frame connected to the motherboard adjacent to at least two sides of the processor socket, and a processor retainer rotatably connected to the load frame, the processor retainer being positionable in a closed position, an opened position, and an installation position. The processor retainer extends over the processor socket when the processor retainer is in the closed position.
US11758662B2
An electronic device and associated methods are disclosed. In one example, the electronic device includes a first rigid substrate, a second rigid substrate, a flexible substrate comprising a first portion attached to the first rigid substrate, a second portion attached to the second rigid substrate, a middle portion connecting the first portion to the second portion, wherein the middle portion is bent, and metallic traces therethrough, and a component forming a direct interface with the middle portion of the flexible substrate, the component electrically coupled to the metallic traces. In selected examples, the device further includes a casing.
US11758656B2
A printed circuit board includes a plurality of layers including conductive layers separated by dielectric layers; and at least one via configured for solder attachment to a connector lead of a surface mount connector, the at least one via including a conductive element that extends from an upper surface of the printed circuit board through one or more of the plurality of layers, the conductive element having a recess in a surface thereof. The recess is configured to receive a tip portion of the connector lead of the surface mount connector. The printed circuit board may have via patterns including signal vias and ground vias.
US11758649B2
A rollable display device includes a rollable structure including a plurality of unit structures, the rollable structure being configured to be rolled and unrolled based on the unit structures, and a display panel structure attached to the rollable structure, wherein respective widths of the unit structures increase in a first direction from a first side of the rollable structure to an opposite second side of the rollable structure.
US11758646B2
An antenna module includes a wiring structure including a plurality of insulating layers, a plurality of wiring layers, and a plurality of via layers; an antenna disposed on an upper surface of the wiring structure; a heat dissipation structure disposed around the antenna on the upper surface of the wiring structure; and an encapsulant disposed on the upper surface of the wiring structure and covering at least a portion of each of the antenna and the heat dissipation structure.
US11758638B2
The present application relates to a device for generating X-ray radiation and particle radiation by means of nuclear fusion, comprising: an anode and a cathode, which are separated from each other by an insulator and are arranged coaxially to each other, wherein the anode and the cathode are arranged at least partially in a reactor chamber and the cathode has a plurality of cathode electrodes a pre-discharge device for generating a pre-discharge that forms a low-impedance bridging across the insulator a gas that is contained in the reactor chamber; an electrical pre-discharge source, especially with high internal resistance that is connected with the pre-discharge device; and an electrical discharge source that is electrically connected to the confined anode and the cathode, wherein a dense, magnetically confined plasmoid is generated in front of the anode as a result of an electrical discharge from the electrical discharge source and one or more ion beams, one or more X-rays or combinations thereof are emitted.
US11758634B2
A plurality of light sources are mounted in a vehicular passenger cabin. Each light source illuminates a respective illumination zone with a midpoint. Each light source is configured to illuminate at a plurality of brightness levels up to a full brightness. A gaze tracker monitors an occupant cabin to detect a gaze point. A controller responds to an illumination request from the occupant to actuate at least two light sources to illuminate the passenger cabin at the gaze point. The controller uses the gaze point to select a respective brightness level for each light source based on a proximity of the gaze point to respective midpoints of the illumination zones. At least a first one of the actuated light sources with a midpoint closer to the gaze point provides a higher brightness level than a second one of the actuated light sources with a midpoint farther from the gaze point.
US11758631B2
The invention relates to a synchronous flyback converter (100) having terminals for supplying an LED load. The synchronous flyback converter (100) comprises a sensing winding (Lw) coupled to a primary winding (Lp) of a transformer T of the flyback converter (100), a control unit (106) controlling a primary side switch (S1) in series to the primary winding (Lp) of the flyback converter (100) using a feedback signal for a closed loop control of a secondary side voltage of the flyback converter (100) by controlling the frequency and/or duty cycle of the switching of the primary side switch (S1), wherein the feedback signal is derived from a sensing voltage across the sensing winding (Lw) sampled once during a switch-on time of a secondary side switch (S2) of the flyback converter (100).
US11758629B2
Provided is a load drive device comprising: a first input terminal for accepting an input of a first input current from a power source; a second input terminal for accepting an input of a second input current from the power source via an external resistor; an output terminal for outputting an output current to a load; a current distribution unit for summing the first input current and second input current at a prescribed distribution ratio and generating the output current and a control unit for controlling the distribution ratio. As one example, it would be appropriate for the control unit to control the distribution ratio according to the difference between a first terminal voltage present in the second input terminal and a second terminal voltage present in the output terminal.
US11758622B2
A method and system for heating a material includes an induction coil, a susceptor providing a receptacle, where the receptacle is configured to receive the material, and at least one nozzle for ejecting a heated gas onto and/or into the material. During the method, the susceptor is heated by the induction coil, and thermal energy from the susceptor can be transferred to the material. In addition to being heated by heat from the susceptor, the material is also heated by the heated gas, thereby increasing a heating rate of the material to rapidly heat the material to a processing temperature. The system can include other components such as a gas source, at least one conduit that channels gas from the gas source to the at least one nozzle, and a heat source that heats the gas prior to ejecting the gas from the at least one nozzle.
US11758615B2
Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE), Evolved Node-B (eNB) and methods for communication in accordance with a packet convergence and link control (PCLC) layer are generally described herein. The UE may receive, from a Fifth Generation (5G) eNB, a first group of medium access control (MAC) protocol data units (PDUs) that include PCLC PDUs. In accordance with PCLC sequence numbers (SNs), the UE may reorder the PCLC PDUs and may decipher the PCLC PDUs. The UE may receive, from a legacy eNB, a second group of MAC PDUs that include packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) PDUs encapsulated in radio link control (RLC) PDUs. The UE may reorder the RLC PDUs based on RLC SNs and may decipher the RLC PDUs based on PDCP SNs that are exclusive to the RLC SNs.
US11758592B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a beam configuration for each physical cell identifier (PCI) of a set of candidate PCIs. A beam configuration for a PCI may include, for example, transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for downlink channels and reference signals or spatial relations for uplink channels and reference signals. The UE may receive an indication of a selected subset of PCIs of the set of candidate PCIs. The UE may apply the beam configuration for each PCI of the selected subset of PCIs based on the indication of the selected subset of PCIs. The UE may then communicate according to the beam configurations for the selected subset of PCIs.
US11758589B2
A base station of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The base station of wireless communication includes a communication module and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a grant for scheduling a plurality of uplink transmissions from the base station, and when the UE attempts to a first fixed duration-based channel access for a first transmission which is one of the plurality of uplink transmission and fails in the first fixed duration-based channel access, attempt to a second fixed duration-based channel access for a second transmission which is a transmission following the first transmission.
US11758581B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of communications, and provides a clear channel listening method and apparatus and a device. The method comprises: determining a signal block set, the signal block set comprising n signal blocks; each signal block comprising at least one signal and/or at least one channel; n being an integer greater than 1; executing one clear channel assessment (CCA) on a channel of an unlicensed spectrum before transmitting the signal blocks comprised in the signal block set; and if the CCA result is that the channel of the unlicensed spectrum is available, using the channel of the unlicensed spectrum to transmit the signal blocks comprised in the signal block set. The present disclosure provides a solution for using an unlicensed spectrum to transmit signal blocks in an NR system, which may meet the CCA detection time by the intervals among the signal blocks.
US11758579B2
Use of a mobile user device to identify the individual operating a vehicle, which, either alone or in conjunction with a vehicle control unit (VCU), may be used to establish vehicle priority in connection with traffic control systems. This provides for a system that provides priority for the individual based on their individual and current need for priority, as opposed to providing priority generally for a vehicle.
US11758578B2
Improved resource allocation approaches for sidelink communication are provided. In an aspect, a first wireless device may reserve a first resource for a sidelink communication and second resources for retransmissions, respectively, of the sidelink communication, and may transmit the sidelink communication using the first resource. In response to determining to release the second resources, the first wireless device may transmit, to a second wireless device, a release indication indicating that the second resources are available. In an aspect, a wireless device may receive a first sidelink communication from a transmitting wireless device on a first resource, and may identify second resources reserved respectively for retransmissions of the first sidelink communication. In response to a determination that the second resources are available for a second sidelink communication, the wireless device may report the second resources to a higher layer within the wireless device for resource selection.
US11758575B2
Disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a wireless communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes a terminal device that determines a first frequency domain resource within a pre-configured resource block (RB) range; and performs interference measurement or received energy measurement over the first frequency domain resource.
US11758571B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and device for providing different services in a mobile communication system. In an embodiment, a base station sets interference influence information including information about interference of a second signal of a second system using a second TTI with regard to a first signal of a first system using a first transmission time interval (TTI). Also, the base station transmits the first signal of the first system to a terminal, and transmits the interference influence information to the terminal in a predetermined time. In a situation where different services coexist, an HARQ retransmission technique is provided for effectively overcoming a transmission failure caused by influence of interference between services.
US11758568B2
A wireless communication method and a network device are provided. The method includes operations as follows. The network device sends configuration information to a terminal device. The configuration information is used to configure a time-domain position of a first resource, the first resource is used to transmit a physical downlink control channel, the configuration information includes first configuration information and second configuration information, the first configuration information indicates at least one first time-domain unit, each first time-domain unit includes the first resource, the second configuration information indicates at least one second time-domain unit in the first time-domain unit indicated by the first configuration information, and each second time-domain unit includes a part or all of the first resource. The network device transmits the physical downlink control channel to the terminal device on the first resource.
US11758561B2
A method for cross carrier scheduling can include: determining that a candidate DCI for a UE schedules a DG PDSCH that at least partially overlaps an SPS PDSCH for the UE, wherein the DCI is configured to be transmitted on a first CC having a first SCS, and the DG PDSCH is configured for transmission on a second CC having a second SCS different from the first SCS; determining a timing gap based on the smallest of the first SCS and the second SCS; determining that an available time between the scheduled SPS PDSCH and the DCI is equal to or greater than the timing gap; cancelling the SPS PDSCH responsive to determining that the available time between the scheduled SPS PDSCH and the DCI is equal to or greater than the timing gap; and transmitting the DCI to the UE.
US11758556B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to dynamically configuring sounding reference signal (SRS) resources are provided. In some aspects, a base station may measure a SRS transmission transmitted by a user equipment (UE) and receive, using a receive beam selected based on the measuring, a transmission from the UE. In some aspects, a UE may transmit a SRS transmission; and receive, from the BS, a downlink control information (DCI) message including a SRS resource indicator (SRI) for use by the UE in selecting a beam to transmit to the BS. The SRS transmission may be transmitted using a SRS resource and may have a SRS parameter that is indicated in or related to a triggering message, or related to a transmission parameter of a communication between the BS and the UE.
US11758552B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring capability that indicates an amount of time between two consecutive PDCCH monitoring windows, a number of slots to be included in a PDCCH monitoring window, and a number of consecutive symbols in a slot to be associated with PDCCH monitoring. The UE may receive a PDCCH monitoring configuration that is based at least in part on the PDCCH monitoring capability. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11758550B2
A radio node that dynamically exchanges information specifying available spectrum in a shared-license-access band of frequencies is described. During operation, the radio node may provide a first grant request to a computer, where the first grant request includes a request to reserve a first portion of the shared-license-access band of frequencies for use by the radio node. Then, the radio node may receive from the computer a grant response. When the grant response indicates that the first grant request is denied, the radio node may provide to a second radio node a first notification that the request for a first portion of the shared-license-access band of frequencies was rejected. Similarly, the radio node may receive from the second radio node a second notification that a request for a second portion of the shared-license-access band of frequencies was rejected.
US11758538B2
According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a transmission section that performs UL grant-free transmission, in which UL data is transmitted without a UL transmission indication from a radio base station, and a control section that controls the UL grant-free transmission based on a configuration of the UL grant-free transmission, identified based on a physical layer signaling, and the transmission section transmits a delivery acknowledgment in response to receipt of the physical layer signaling. According to one aspect of the present invention, even when UL grant-free transmission is employed, the decline in communication throughput and the like can be reduced.
US11758537B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication system and technique that may be applied to intelligent services based on a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. The present disclosure provides a method for data transmission of a terminal in a wireless communication system that includes inputting a packet data convergence protocol packet data unit (PDCP PDU) output from a PDCP entity to a first radio link control (RLC) entity and a second RLC entity. The method also includes inputting a first radio link control packet data unit (RLC PDU) output from the first RLC entity and a second RLC PDU output from the second RLC entity to a medium access control (MAC) entity and transmitting a medium access control packet data unit (MAC PDU) output from the MAC entity through a first physical layer (PHY) entity and a second physical layer entity.
US11758532B2
Advances in wireless technologies have resulted in the ability of a 5G communication system to support multiple wireless communication applications. Each of these applications requires special handling in all layers and more so in scheduler and physical layer. The present disclosure presents embodiments of dynamical creating a computation instance with a slice of resources allocated for each scheduling input. Each computation instance may be independently managed, controlled, and customized according to the specific requirements of the corresponding scheduling input. Such a dynamic resource allocation allows large number of slices in PHY layer. Furthermore, when overloading happens, one scheduling inputs may be migrated from one distribution unit (DU) to another DU without interruption for end users during scheduling migration. Accordingly, efficiency and robustness of a 5G communication system may be improved to serve multiple wireless communication applications.
US11758514B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device, which may be otherwise known as user equipment (UE) may support repetition of physical downlink control channels (PDCCH) and handling a combined PDCCH candidate associated with multiple search space sets. For example, a UE may combine a first PDCCH candidate corresponding to a first search space set and a second PDCCH candidate corresponding to a second search space set to form a combined PDCCH candidate. The UE may decode the combined PDCCH candidate based on one or more factors, for example, such as a blind decoding PDCCH candidate threshold. As a result, the UE may decode the combined PDCCH candidate in addition to decoding of individual PDCCH candidates, thereby providing increased flexibility for downlink control information (DCI) and improving the reliability of PDCCH.
US11758508B2
Access Point (AP) placement using Fine Time Measurement (FTM) may be provided. First, a plurality of Time-of-Flight (ToF) values between a first service end point and a second service end point may be determined. Each one of the plurality of ToF values may be derived from packets transmitted via different beamforming vector patterns at the first service end point and the second service end point. Then a minimum ToF value of the plurality of ToF values may be determined. Next, a distance between the first service end point and the second service end point may be determined based on the minimum ToF value.
US11758507B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A position of a user equipment (UE) may be determined when communications between the UE and a base station are routed through a relay node. For example, the UE 115 may determine whether communications are received from the base station or the relay node based on positioning assistance data that contains positioning-related information about different base stations and relay nodes in the system. The UE may then transmit a position metric based on this determination, where a location server uses this position metric for determining the location of the UE. Additionally or alternatively, the location server or base station may use the positioning assistance data to determine whether an uplink transmission is received directly from the UE or via the relay node and may generate a position metric that the location server uses for determining the location of the UE.
US11758504B2
The present disclosure provides a selection method, a selection device, a management function entity, an access network node, a GMLC and a NRF. The selection method of a location management function entity includes: receiving a positioning request message sent by a GMLC; the positioning request message including an identifier of a target UE and a positioning QOS requirement; obtaining information of a wireless access network where the target UE is located; selecting a target LLMF entity according to the information of the wireless access network where the target UE is located, the positioning QOS requirement, and pre-stored related information of the LLMF entity.
US11758501B2
In one embodiment, a method executed by at least one processor includes receiving first historical location information identifying a first location area at which a first user was present at a first time and receiving second location information identifying a second location area at which a second user was present at a second time. The method includes determining that the first historical location information and the second location information each correspond to a particular location area and determining that a characteristic related to the first user corresponds to a preference related to the second user. In response to these determinations, the method includes causing information related to the first user to be presented to the second user. The information related to the first user includes the first location area of the first user relative to the second location area of the second user.
US11758493B2
Disclosed is a method of performing an operation for a sidelink user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, including generating a sidelink synchronization signal block (S-SSB) including a sidelink primary synchronization signal (S-PSS), a sidelink secondary synchronization signal (S-SSS), and a physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH); and transmitting the S-SSB, wherein the number of transmissions of the S-SSB within one period is differently set according to a subcarrier spacing.
US11758492B2
A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system 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. A method of a terminal for receiving data in a cellular network is provided. The method comprises receiving a synchronization signal block (SS block) including at least one synchronization signal and a broadcast channel from a base station, identifying an offset between the SS block and a resource block (RB) grid from system information in the broadcast channel, and determining the resource block grid based on the offset.
US11758491B2
A method for providing a mode of wireless local area network (WLAN) operation is disclosed. The method includes: sending an association request from a wireless station (STA) over a discovery channel; receiving an association response at the STA over the discovery channel in response to the association request; and associating the STA to provide a multi-user (MU) enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) mode using a scheduled access channel.
US11758490B2
A method and a device of processing synchronization indication information and a method and a device of indicating a synchronization signal block are provided. The method of processing synchronization indication information is applied to a terminal and includes receiving a synchronization signal block sent by a base station; receiving synchronization indication information sent by the base station, the synchronization indication information being used to indicate the synchronization signal block sent by the base station; determining RMSI CORESET, UE-specific CORESET and an other CORESET; determining a time-frequency resource position for data reception according to the multiplexing information and the synchronization indication information.
US11758481B2
A method of wireless communications by a sidelink UE (user equipment) includes receiving a first signal as part of a discontinuous reception (DRX) wake-up procedure at the beginning of a sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX) ON duration. The method also includes transmitting a response to the first signal as part of a DRX wake-up procedure. The method further includes starting a timer after sending the response. The method still further includes entering a sleep state upon not receiving a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) or physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) before the timer expires.
US11758479B2
A method, performed by a network node, is disclosed, for configuring resources to be used for Wake-Up Signal, WUS, transmission to a plurality of wireless device groups in the communications network. The method comprises obtaining a number of wireless device groups supported by the communications network. The method comprises allocating, based on the obtained number of wireless device groups supported by the communications network, one or more active resources, out of a set of available resources, for WUS for the number of wireless device groups. The method comprises determining, based on a set of resource configuration criteria, a WUS resource configuration defining a mapping of the wireless device groups to the determined one or more active resources. The method comprises providing, to the wireless device, a set of resource configuration parameters indicative of the determined WUS configuration.
US11758475B2
A method for network selection on a user equipment (UE) device and the UE device are shown. The user equipment device registers on a first network in a wide area cellular network (WACN) band and receives, from a wireless local area network (WLAN), a list of WACNs that support generic access network (GAN) capabilities. The user equipment device selects the WLAN if the first network is on the list.
US11758471B2
Stations (STAs) in the network transmit broadcast frames which incorporate sharing information about specific parameter settings in the basic service set (BSS). Updates are transmitted to the other STAs when parameter settings change, which include version information about the parameter settings. A STA receiving an update records version information, which is incorporated in any response or broadcast back to the transmitting station to indicate that the specific update was properly received. The transmitting STA can indicate which other STAs are to provide feedback to the update information. The sharing information, or indicated portions thereof, may be shared with overlapping BSS STAs as well.
US11758470B2
Systems and methods are provided for multiple basic service set identifier (MBSSID) beaconing (from an access point (AP) standpoint) and MBSSID/virtual AP (VAP) scanning (from a client device perspective). To facilitate easier discovery of mesh APs/VAPs, BSSIDs associated with mesh VAPs can be advertised more frequently, e.g., being broadcast as a transmitted or non-transmitted BSSID in each MBSSID beacon. Additionally, information regarding mesh VAPs, such as mesh capability information, can be provided via intermediate discovery beacons or frames such that out-of-band scanning mechanisms can discover mesh VAPs faster. Additionally still, the existence of mesh VAPs can be advertised in a dedicated field of an MBSSID beacon.
US11758468B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may transmit, to a base station associated with a non-terrestrial network and in connection with a random access procedure, a message that indicates a location of the user equipment; and receive a response to the message that indicates whether the message is accepted or rejected, the response being based at least in part on the location. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11758466B2
A facility for operating a first node in a mesh network having other nodes is described. The first node directly receives signals each encoding an identifier of one of the other nodes, at least a portion of the signals also encoding an indication that the node having the identifier has appointed itself a routing node. The facility determines a first value equal to the number of unique node identifiers encoded in signals received during a first period of time, and a second value equal to the number of unique node identifiers encoded by signals received during the first period of time that also encode the indication. The facility determines a routing score for the first node based at least upon the first value and the second value that reflects the first node's suitability as a routing node in the mesh network.
US11758463B2
A method to use UE as a mobile device relay using PC5 link or sidelink to relay data traffic to/from end UEs for coverage extension is proposed. A relay UE can be the group head UE of a UE relay group including one or more remote UEs. A remote UE can be in-coverage or out-of-coverage of the serving cell served by a serving base station. In a first novel aspect, the network is aware of remote UE existence without direct Uu link. In addition, methods for resource allocation and interference management are proposed. In a second novel aspect, solutions for synchronization of remote UEs on PC5 link, and solutions for connection setup between relay UE and remote UEs on PC5 link are proposed.
US11758460B1
Systems may comprise a connectivity manager application operating on a User Equipment (UE) for optimal and secure performance of local applications and improving user experience by optimizing application performance (e.g., by prioritizing file downloads). The systems may modify data transmission of other local applications on the UE in a multi-network environment. The connectivity manager application may detect one or more network characteristics of one or more networks providing service to the UE and determine a connectivity rule based at least in part on the one or more network characteristics and/or particular data types and indicating that data transmission for the one or more transmission paths is to be adjusted, modified, paused, or prohibited in response to particular network conditions, etc. The connectivity manager application may cause modifications to the transmission paths and present indications of the modifications at a graphical user interface (GUI) or via application programming interfaces and call-backs.
US11758458B2
Techniques for managing base station beam panic for new radio technologies may include a user equipment (UE) measuring a signal quality of a serving beam from a base station. The UE may determine the signal quality has decreased by at least a threshold amount, and enable a signal panic operation to search for a beam different from the serving beam, in response to the signal quality decreasing by at least the threshold amount.
US11758448B2
The solution outlined in this disclosure is a method for determining intra-frequency operations and inter-frequency operations, the method comprises obtaining a first measurement resource of a first cell as a reference measurement resource, obtaining a second measurement resource of a second cell, the second measurement resource of the second cell and the first measurement resource of the first cell are of the same type, and determining whether the second cell operates on an intra-frequency carrier or an inter-frequency carrier by comparing the reference measurement resource to the second measurement resource of the second cell. The method may be carried out in a user equipment or a network node.
US11758445B2
Disclosed are apparatuses and techniques for wireless communications. In an aspect, path information from a plurality of relays is received at a server. A relay cell list for an area of interest is compiled based on the received path information from the plurality of relays. The relay cell list is provided to a user equipment (UE). The UE can use the relay list to assist in the search and/or selection of relays in the wireless communications network.
US11758441B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a communication method, a source base station, a target base station, a core network device, and a terminal device, where the method includes: sending, by a source base station, a handover request to a target base station, where the handover request is used to request to hand over a session of a terminal device from the source base station to the target base station, and the handover request includes an identifier of a session requested to be handed over and indication information of a network slice corresponding to the session; and receiving, by the source base station, a handover response message from the target base station.
US11758439B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, architectures and interfaces for determining whether sidelink resources of a sidelink radio bearer are available, and for reserving resources of any number of sidelink radio bearers for transmission of periodic data are provided. The method includes determining any of a size, a period, or a pattern of a resource reservation for periodic data that is to be transmitted by the WTRU via the sidelink radio bearer; determining sidelink resources available for transmission of the periodic data via any number of sidelink radio bearers; and transmitting a message including the resource reservation including information indicating reservation of the available sidelink resources for transmission of the periodic data by the WTRU according to any of the size, the period, or the pattern of a resource reservation, wherein the message includes any of a bearer identifier (ID) or Quality of Service (QoS) information.
US11758435B2
A communication method performed by a base station in a wireless communication network is disclosed. The base station notifies a terminal of a cyclic shift increment NCS configuration information indicating an NCS value. The base station then receives from the terminal a random access preamble related to the NCS value indicated by the NCS configuration information. The NCS value belongs to a set of cyclic shift increments including all of the following cyclic shift increments of 0, 13, 15, 18, 22, 26, 32, 38, 46, 59, 76, 93, 119, 167, 279, and 419.
US11758422B2
The present disclosure provides a method used in user equipment (UE). The method comprises: detecting that a radio link control (RLC) entity associated with a packet duplication bearer or packet duplication split bearer has reached a predetermined maximum number of retransmissions; and determining that a radio link associated with the RLC entity is unavailable or fails based on whether a cell associated with the RLC entity is a special cell (SpCell) or whether a cell group associated with the RLC entity includes an SpCell.
US11758419B2
Presented are methods and systems for a software agent in an AP to recognize a service type used by a wireless communication station and optimize the wireless communication network's operation. Methods comprise acquiring communication status from a communication apparatus that may comprise a wireless communication station, a wireless LAN, wired LAN, and/or a broadband connection; learning a classifier that maps the acquired communication status to service types by analyzing historical communication status; and recognizing the service type of a wireless communication station by inputting a current communication status to the classifier. The recognized service type may be used to diagnose the operation of communication networks and stations coupled to the AP and to optimize the operation of such communication networks and stations.
US11758417B2
A technique is directed to methods and systems for providing autonomous wireless coverage. In some implementations, the autonomous wireless coverage providing machine (e.g., a mobile wireless tower) can move to various locations to optimize coverage, connectivity, and/or quality. The mobile wireless tower can collect environment data of a location and determine the terrain and wireless devices requesting coverage. The mobile wireless tower can identify a location to provide network coverage to the devices based on the terrain. In some implementations, the mobile wireless tower can determine a location to provide coverage using Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning retrieved from the network for which the mobile wireless tower provides coverage. The mobile wireless tower can have a flexible length wired or wireless backhaul capability for the mobile wireless tower to send data and retrieve data stored on the network.
US11758415B2
The present invention relates to method and device for sharing state related information among a plurality of electronic devices and, more particularly, to method and device for predicting the state of a device on the basis of information shared among a plurality of electronic devices. In order to attain the purpose, a method for sharing state related information of a device, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: generating a state model of a device on the basis of state related data; selecting one or more parameters for determining the state of the device on the basis of the generated state model; and transmitting the one or more selected parameters to at least one other device.
US11758398B2
A technique for implementing an untethered access point (UAP) mesh involves enabling AP-local switching at one or more UAPs of the mesh. A system constructed according to the technique may include an untethered access point (UAP), including: a radio; a backhaul service set identifier (SSID) stored in a computer-readable medium; an anchor access point (AAP) selection engine embodied in a computer-readable medium. In operation, the AAP selection engine may use the radio to attempt to associate with the AAP if a beaconed backhaul SSID matches the stored backhaul SSID. A method according to the technique may include beaconing with a backhaul SSID, acting in concert with an upstream switch as an authenticator for a downstream station that responds to the beacon; providing limited local switching functionality for the downstream station.
US11758384B2
This Application sets forth techniques for provisioning and activating an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) as a primary SIM for a mobile wireless device that includes a limited functionality physical SIM (pSIM) associated with a particular mobile network operator (MNO) and installed in the mobile wireless device at a time of manufacture. An eSIM associated with the particular MNO is reserved during a sales order process and later activated during device activation after receipt by a user using a secure over-the-air (OTA) cellular connection enabled by the limited functionality pSIM, when a non-cellular connection or other Internet accessible connection is available. Dual SIM device configuration processes can be suppressed during activation of the eSIM. After successful attachment of the mobile wireless device to a cellular wireless network of the particular MNO using credentials of the eSIM, the limited functionality pSIM is disabled.
US11758380B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for presenting user specific information based on mobile device proximity to short-range wireless technology beacons. For example, by determining the proximity of a mobile device to a short-range wireless technology beacon, user specific information may be displayed on a user interface such that a user may have easy access to user specific information without the need to rely on their mobile device for such access, thereby conserving mobile device battery life and improving the experience of the user.
US11758370B2
When a Rich Communications Services (RCS) data file is to be provided to a terminating user equipment (UE) that is on a different mobile communications network than an originating UE, the network address, or uniform resource locator (URL), of the RCS data file may be modified to indicate that the RCS data file is to traverse a network-to-network interface (NNI). An RCS system on the originating mobile communications network may identify if the terminating UE is on the same or different mobile communications network. If the terminating UE is on a different mobile communications network, then the RCS system may modify the URL to indicate the originating and terminating mobile communications networks and send the URL to an RCS system of the terminating mobile communications network. The modified URL enables retrieval of the RCS data file network by a content system of the terminating mobile communications network.
US11758357B2
A target user equipment (UE), which may be a vehicle or UE carried by a pedestrian, may receive sequentially broadcast ranging signals from a set of ranging source entities (SEs), which may be road side units or other vehicles. The target UE further receives location information separately broadcast by each SEs. The location information, for example, may include the position for the SE, the time of transmission of the ranging signals transmitted by the SE and/or a sequence identifier for the SE. The target UE may determine ranges to the SEs using time of arrival measurements for the ranging signals and the time of transmissions of the ranging signals or the sequence identifier received in the location information. The position of the target UE may be determined using the determined ranges to the SEs and the positions of the SEs received in the location information.
US11758356B2
A system and method for in-person proximity matching that allows a plurality of user electronic devices to identify and match with one another based on a compatibility profile. The matching is done using a near-field communication protocol, such as Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. The invention allows matching of users when they are within the near proximity, which is defined as approximately 1000 meters.
US11758352B2
A device may receive basic safety message (BSM) data from vehicles, and may determine, based on a quantity of the vehicles and speed data identified in the BSM data, a primary geofence area that includes a first set of the vehicles. The device may determine a secondary geofence area based on the speed data and the quantity of the vehicles, wherein the secondary geofence area is greater in size than the primary geofence area. The device may determine a difference between the primary geofence area and the secondary geofence area to generate a difference geofence area that includes a second set of the vehicles that is different than the first set of the vehicles. The device may generate a multicast message based on the BSM data associated with the second set of the vehicles, and may broadcast the multicast message to the first set of the vehicles.
US11758350B2
Embodiments are disclosed for user posture transition detection and classification using a linked biomechanical model. In an embodiment, a method comprises: obtaining motion data from a headset worn by a user; selecting features of a linked biomechanical model based on a current posture state; determining at least one probability that a posture transition occurred based on an output of a classifier, where the output of the classifier is based on the selected features and the motion data; determining a posture transition based on the at least one probability; and performing at least one action based on detection of the posture transition.
US11758348B1
Each of a plurality of virtual loudspeaker arrays and their channels are produced, based on a corresponding microphone array and microphone signals thereof. Channels of a hallucinated loudspeaker array are determined based on the channels of the plurality of virtual loudspeaker arrays. The plurality of virtual loudspeaker arrays and the hallucinated loudspeaker array share a common geometry and orientation. Spatial audio is rendered based on the channels of the hallucinated loudspeaker array.
US11758344B2
Higher Order Ambisonics represents three-dimensional sound independent of a specific loudspeaker set-up. However, transmission of an HOA representation results in a very high bit rate. Therefore, compression with a fixed number of channels is used, in which directional and ambient signal components are processed differently. The ambient HOA component is represented by a minimum number of HOA coefficient sequences. The remaining channels contain either directional signals or additional coefficient sequences of the ambient HOA component, depending on what will result in optimum perceptual quality. This processing can change on a frame-by-frame basis.
US11758340B2
A flexible circuit board of a hearing aid and the hearing aid are provided. The flexible circuit board has an annular portion bent into an annular shape, wherein the annular portion is used for surrounding a peripheral side of a battery, and an outer side surface of the annular portion has pads; the flexible circuit board has a device portion located on a front side of the annular portion, wherein the device portion is used for installing electronic devices and is used for electrically connecting a receiver; the flexible circuit board has a chip portion connected to a bottom end of the annular portion, wherein the chip portion is used for binding a chip. The flexible circuit board strings together the receiver, the chip and the battery into a compact structure.
US11758332B1
A biodegradable microphone has a housing fabricated from a biodegradable ferromagnetic filament. The ferromagnetic filament is based on a biodegradable polymer having embedded magnetic materials. The housing has a body portion, an open first end and an opposite second end having a central opening. A permanent magnet is removably lodged within the central opening. The ferromagnetic filament and the magnet cooperate to produce a magnetic field within the housing interior. A biodegradable diaphragm is joined to the open first end of the housing. The diaphragm has an interior side facing the housing interior. A biodegradable coil is joined to the interior side and extends downward into the housing interior and is in proximity to the permanent magnet. Vibrations of the diaphragm cause a reciprocating motion of the coil within the magnetic field thereby inducing an electrical current in the coil.
US11758319B2
An acoustic sensor includes port architecture designed to mitigate wind noise. The acoustic sensor includes a primary waveguide having two ports open to a local area surrounding the acoustic sensor. One opening of a secondary waveguide is coupled to portion of the primary waveguide, with another opening of the secondary waveguide coupled to a microphone. The secondary waveguide has a smaller cross-section than the primary waveguide. Hence, airflow is directed from a port of the primary waveguide to the other port of the primary waveguide and back into the local area, bypassing the microphone.
US11758317B1
Wireless headphones with user controls and methods for using are disclosed. In one embodiment, a wireless headphone includes a left earcup comprising a left speaker driver and a left earcup housing; and a right earcup comprising a right speaker driver and a right earcup housing; a processor; a microphone; user controls including: a voice assistant activator control; a volume slider; a play control slider; a play-pause control; and instructions configuring the processor to: commence a voice assistant recognition routine when sound received by the microphone matches a wake word, and perform an action based on instructions returned from the voice assistant; update a current volume of the headphone to a higher volume when the volume slider receives a swipe; skip to a next track of a current media content when the play control slider receives a swipe; and toggle playback of the media content when the play-pause control is activated.
US11758316B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of charging wireless earphones, in particular to a wireless earphone charging case convenient for replacing outer shells. Its outer shell has an upper shell and a lower shell that are capable of being disengaged/engaged from/with each other, wherein a containing space is arranged inside the lower shell, a charging chamber is arranged within the containing space, a screw slot is arranged on bottom of the charging chamber, the bottom of the lower shell is fixed to the screw slot on the bottom of the charging chamber by means of a metal screw.
US11758313B2
An electronic device includes a circuit board, a protective assembly, and a protective film. The protective assembly providing a cavity is arranged on one side of the circuit board. The protective assembly includes a first protective unit and a second protective unit. A third through hole communicating with the cavity is defined in the first protective unit. A supporting surface is defined on the second protective unit facing the third through hole. A projection of the third through hole is overlapped with a projection of the supporting surface along the first direction. The protective film is coupled to the protective assembly and arranged in the cavity to divide the cavity into a first cavity and a second cavity. The above-mentioned electronic device resists deformation of the protective film by setting the second protective unit between the circuit board and the protective film.
US11758307B2
A sensor device transmits, to an external device installed external to the sensor device, sensing data generated from monitoring a target, and includes a sensor unit that generates sensing data including background noise data. The background noise data represents noise from a cause other than the target. The sensor device further includes an extraction unit that extracts the background noise data from the sensing data, and a transmission unit that transmits the background noise data extracted by the extraction unit to the external device.
US11758298B2
The present disclosure relates to image processing apparatus and method that can suppress the increase in the load of processing multi-wavelength data. A subject is imaged to generate multi-wavelength data that is image data including four or more wavelength components, the generated multi-wavelength data is encoded to generate encoded data of the multi-wavelength data, and the generated encoded data is transmitted. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus, an image encoding apparatus, an image decoding apparatus, an imaging element, an imaging apparatus, or the like.
US11758294B2
Example embodiments relate to imaging systems and methods for acquisition of multi-spectral images. One example imaging system includes a detector that includes an array of light sensitive elements arranged in rows and columns. Each light sensitive element is configured to generate a signal dependent on an intensity of light incident onto the light sensitive element. The imaging system also includes a plurality of wavelength separating units. Each wavelength separating unit is configured to spatially separate incident light within a wavelength range into a number of wavelength bands distributed along a line. The line is a straight line. Each wavelength band along the line is associated with a mutually unique light sensitive element. Further, the imaging system includes a processing unit configured to define a number of mutually unique clusters of light sensitive elements for summing signals from the light sensitive elements within the respective clusters.
US11758286B1
A method and an electronic device of correcting frame for an optical camera communication (OCC) are provided. The method includes the following steps. The optical signal is captured. The optical signal is input to a first machine learning (ML) model to obtain a missing timestamp. The optical signal and the missing timestamp are input to a second ML model to obtain a first complement frame corresponding to the missing timestamp. The first complement frame is outputted.
US11758281B2
A video camera system includes a video capture device and a camera controller. The video capture device includes a sensor that receives light, a shutter that selectively permits the light to be received at the sensor based on a shutter speed, and a frame processor that generates a plurality of video frames based on the light. The camera controller includes a frame parameter calculator that calculates a luminance parameter of the plurality of frames, a frequency domain analyzer that executes a frequency domain analysis based on the luminance parameter to generate a plurality of luminance amplitude values mapped to a plurality of frequencies, and a control signal generator that generates a target shutter speed based on the plurality of luminance amplitude values mapped to the plurality of frequencies, and transmits a control signal based on the target shutter speed to cause the shutter to operate at the target shutter speed.
US11758275B2
A ratio associated with capture of image frames by cameras of a scanner during short exposure mode and long exposure mode is configurable for scanner operation. Moreover, camera activation signals for the cameras are controlled during long exposure mode of the cameras to reduce illumination by illumination sources of the scanner during the long exposure mode of the cameras.
US11758265B2
An image processing method, includes: detecting a first operation used to select a photographing mode; determining a current photographing mode based on the detected first operation; displaying a display interface used to select a field of view; detecting a second operation used to select options of at least two fields of view; determining at least two fields of view corresponding to the current photographing mode based on the detected second operation; detecting a third operation used for photographing; obtaining a plurality of images corresponding to the at least two fields of view based on the detected third operation; and synthesizing the plurality of images to form a first image, and displaying the first image. According to the image processing method provided in this application, requirements of a large field of view and fine details can be considered.
US11758258B2
A camera system of a mobile device includes: a sensor module disposed in a first body connected to a rotation member of the mobile device; and a lens module disposed in a second body connected to the rotation member. When the first body and the second body are rotated with respect to the rotation member to overlap each other, optical axes of the sensor module and the lens module correspond to each other and are operated as a common camera system, and the common camera system provides a first photographing mode and a second photographing mode with different viewing angles based on two focuses generated by a first geometry phase lens included in the lens module.
US11758256B2
Systems, methods, and devices for fluorescence imaging in a light deficient environment are disclosed. A system includes an emitter for emitting pulses of electromagnetic radiation and an image sensor comprising a pixel array for sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation. The system includes a controller comprising a processor in electrical communication with the image sensor and the emitter. The system is such that the controller synchronizes timing of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation during a blanking period of the image sensor. The system is such that at least a portion of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises one or more of electromagnetic radiation between 770 nm and 790 nm and/or electromagnetic radiation between 795 nm and 815 nm.
US11758253B2
This invention provides a camera module having a chamfer, a photosensitive assembly, a preparation method, and an electronic device. The photosensitive assembly of the camera module having the chamfer includes: a photosensitive element; a circuit board, wherein the photosensitive element is electrically connected and attached to the circuit board, and wherein the circuit board has a circuit board chamfer; and a molded body having a light window and a molded body chamfer, wherein the molded body chamfer and the circuit board chamfer are correspondingly arranged to form a chamfer portion suitable for forming a chamfer structure of the camera module, and wherein the molded body is molded on the circuit board and encapsulates the photosensitive element, so that the camera module may be installed at a corner of the electronic device, thereby increasing the screen-to-body ratio.
US11758237B2
The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method that includes identifying metadata related to television programming being presented on a display device. The method further includes extracting one or more keywords from the metadata. The method further includes generating multiple search suggestions based on the keywords and first search results based on one or more of the search suggestions. The method further includes presenting the search suggestions and the first search results together on the display device.
US11758225B1
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for managing advertisement exposure. The method may include receiving, by a first device, from a second device, an audio fingerprint based on presentation of first media content using a first media channel at a first time; determining, using automatic content recognition, that the audio fingerprint represents a portion of a first advertisement; determining that the first advertisement was presented at a second time using a second media channel and the second device; determining that a first number of times that the first advertisement has been presented to the user exceeds a first threshold number and that a second number of times that the first advertisement has been presented to the user does not exceed a second threshold number; refraining from selecting the first advertisement at a third time; and selecting the first advertisement for presentation at a fourth time.
US11758222B2
Correlating information associated with playback of video segments is disclosed. Information associated with playback of a first video segment is obtained. Information associated with playback of a second video segment is obtained. The information associated with playback of the first video segment is correlated with the information associated with playback of the second video segment based at least in part on at least one of a client application identifier, a video session identifier, and a set of timestamps. Output is provided based at least in part on the correlating.
US11758215B2
Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for customizing and dynamically generating overlay graphical user interfaces (GUIs) within the context of a video streaming environment.
US11758212B2
A video aggregation system for providing a user personalized video content from videos available on the Internet generates a selective feed by combining a first feed and a second feed. The video aggregation system receives a search request from an Internet service and transmits a search reply containing a separately resolvable link to a video content object from the selective feed.
US11758209B2
Systems and methods for video distribution synchronization are described herein. An example method to distribute a media stream over a distribution network to a number of devices may include determining, by one or more computer processors coupled to memory, a common master-client shared time reference Tref. Example methods may include determining a mean intermediate arrival time for first packets of a first type of the media stream, determining respective first playout times for the first packets based on the mean intermediate arrival time and the time reference Tref, associating the first packets with the respective first playout times, and distributing the media stream to the plurality of devices.
US11758205B2
A method of processing data in a digital receiving apparatus, the method including receiving a broadcast signal including low level signaling data, wherein the low level signaling data is carried via a specific data pipe (DP), wherein the low level signaling data includes service category information, the service category information is used to identify an AV service, an audio only service or an ESG (electronic service guide) service, wherein the low level signaling data is used to provide bootstrap information that allows the receiving apparatus to discover at least one service layer signaling information, wherein the bootstrap information includes URL data for a first service layer signaling information when the first service layer signaling information is transmitted via a broadband network, and wherein the bootstrap information includes a destination user datagram protocol (UDP) port number and a destination internet protocol (IP) address for a second service layer signaling information when the second service layer signaling information is transmitted via a broadcast network; and parsing the low level signaling data included in the broadcast signal, wherein the low level signaling data is parsed, and then the first service layer signaling information or the second service layer signaling information is processed.
US11758204B2
An electronic device is disclosed. The present electronic device comprises a display, a speaker, an input unit, and a processor for controlling the display so that an image signal inputted through the input unit is displayed, controlling the speaker so that an audio signal synchronized with the displayed image signal is outputted, and controlling the display so that caption information corresponding to the audio signal outputted during a preset previous time is displayed on the basis of the point of time when a user command is inputted.
US11758200B2
A system for converting an adaptive media stream to downloadable media includes at least one network interface, at least one memory, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to receive, from a requesting device, a request for converting at least a portion of a media stream into a downloadable multimedia container, initialize a plurality of worker threads, retrieve, via one of the plurality of worker threads, a segment of the media stream from a storage location, concatenate, via the one of the plurality of worker threads, the retrieved segment into a multimedia container, determine that each segment of the media stream associated with the at least a portion of the media stream is included in the multimedia container, and transmit, via the at least one network interface, the multimedia container to the requesting device.
US11758198B2
A method is provided to better detect a scene change to provide a prediction to an encoder to enable more efficient encoding. The method uses a Motion Compensated Temporal Filter (MCTF) that provides motion estimation and is located prior to an encoder. The MCTF provides a Motion Compensated Residual (MCR) used to detect the scene change transition. When a scene is relatively stable, the MCR score is also relatively stable. However, when a scene transition is in process, the MCR score behavior changes, Algorithmically, the MCR score is used by comparing the sliding mean of the MCR score to the sliding median. This comparison highlights the transition points. In the case of a scene cut, the MCR score exhibits a distinct spike. In the case of a fade or dissolve, the MCR score exhibits a transitional period of degradation followed by recovery. By implementing the above detection using the MCR, the location of the I-pictures in the downstream encoding process can be accurately determined for the encoder.
US11758196B2
An example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a block of a chroma component of a video and a bitstream representation of the video using a partitioning mode coding tool in which a final prediction of the chroma block is determined by blending predictions of the chroma block using weights that are based on the partitions. During the conversion, the weights are determined based on a type of chroma sample locations in the chroma component of the block.
US11758195B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for storing or parsing a visual media file according a file format include performing a conversion between a visual media data and a visual media file that stores a bitstream of the visual media data according to a format rule. The visual media file stores one or more tracks comprising one or more video layers. The format rule specifies that whether a first set of syntax elements indicative of layer dependency information is stored in the visual media file is dependent on whether a second syntax element indicating that all layers in the visual media file are independent has a value 1.
US11758188B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for image data encoding/decoding. A method of decoding an image includes receiving a bitstream in which the image is encoded; obtaining index information for specifying a block division type of a current block in the image; and determining the block division type of the current block from a candidate group pre-defined in the decoding apparatus. The candidate group includes a plurality of candidate division types, including at least one of a non-division, a first quad-division, a second quad-division, a binary-division or a triple-division. The method also includes dividing the current block into a plurality of sub-blocks; and decoding each of the sub-blocks with reference to syntax information obtained from the bitstream.
US11758180B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for video coding. In some examples, an apparatus includes processing circuitry that determines first motion vectors for a plurality of subblocks of a current block based on a first relative position in each subblock of the plurality of subblocks, and determines second motion vectors for the plurality of subblocks based on a second relative position in each subblock of the plurality of subblocks. The processing circuitry obtains a first set of predicted samples for the current block based on the first motion vectors of the plurality of subblocks. Further, the processing circuitry obtains a second set of predicted samples for the current block based on the second motion vectors of the plurality of subblocks, and obtains a third set of predicted samples for the current block based on the first set of predicted samples and the second set of predicted samples.
US11758173B2
An image coding method includes: writing, into a sequence parameter set, buffer description defining information for defining a plurality of buffer descriptions; selecting one of the buffer descriptions for each processing unit that is a picture or a slice, and writing buffer description selecting information for specifying the selected buffer description, into a first header of the processing unit which is included in the coded bitstream; and coding the processing unit using the selected buffer description, and the buffer description defining information includes long-term information for identifying, among a plurality of reference pictures indicated in the buffer descriptions, a reference picture to be assigned as a long-term reference picture.
US11758164B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a current block within a current picture from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information is indicative of usage information of an inter prediction mode that is not compatible with using the current picture as a reference picture for the current block. Then, the processing circuitry determines whether the coded video bitstream is valid based on a conformance check of the usage information to the reference picture for the current block.
US11758162B2
Various innovations facilitate the use of intra-picture prediction modes such as palette prediction mode, intra block copy mode, intra line copy mode and intra string copy mode by an encoder or decoder when wavefront parallel processing (“WPP”) is enabled. For example, for a palette coding/decoding mode, an encoder or decoder predicts a palette for an initial unit in a current WPP row of a picture using previous palette data from a previous unit in a previous WPP row of the picture. Or, as another example, for an intra copy mode (e.g., intra block copy mode, intra string copy mode, intra line copy mode), an encoder enforces one or more constraints attributable to the WPP, or a decoder receives and decodes encoded data that satisfies one or more constraints attributable to WPP.
US11758159B2
An image encoding/decoding method and device according to the present disclosure may configure a reference sample for a cross component prediction of a chroma component block, derive a cross component prediction parameter by using the reference sample, and make a cross component prediction of the chroma component block on the basis of the cross component prediction parameter and a luma component block corresponding to the chroma component block.
US11758152B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for video encoding/decoding. Prediction information for a current block in a current picture is determined. The prediction information indicates that the current block is to be encoded in (1) an intra sub-partition (ISP) mode and (2) one of a planar intra prediction mode or a DC intra prediction mode. The current block is partitioned into a plurality of sub-partitions based on the ISP mode. Each sub-partition is associated with at least one different reference sample. Residual information for each sub-partition is generated based on the at least one different reference sample associated with the respective sub-partition. The current block is encoded based on the determined prediction information and the generated residual information of the plurality of sub-partitions.
US11758151B2
A video decoder may be configured to determine a motion vector and a motion vector precision for a current block; identify a current block template within the current picture; search within a search area for a final reference block template that corresponds to the current block template, wherein to search within the search area, the one or more processors are further configured to: identify an initial reference block template based on the motion vector, search other reference block templates around the initial reference block template using a step size that is set to an initial step size, and iteratively reduce the step size from the initial step size until the step size is set to a final step size that equals the motion vector precision; determine a prediction block for the current block based on the final reference block template.
US11758149B2
According to the present invention, an image-encoding method comprises the following steps: receiving image information; generating a restored block for the current block based on the image information; and generating a finally restored block for the current block by applying an in-loop filter to the restored block on the basis of the image information. According to the present invention, image-encoding/decoding efficiency may be improved.
US11758134B2
A picture partitioning method and apparatus are described. The method includes determining a split mode of a current node, where the current node includes a luma block and a chroma block. The method further includes determining, based on the split mode of the current node and a size of the current node, that the chroma block of the current node is not further split. In accordance with the chroma block of the current node not being further split, the method includes splitting the luma block of the current node based on the split mode of the current node. In accordance with the chroma block of the current node not being further split, the method may be used to split only the luma block of the current node, thereby improving encoding and decoding efficiency, reducing a maximum throughput of a codec, and facilitating implementation of the codec.
US11758133B2
Techniques for coding and decoding video may include predicting picture regions defined by a time-varying tessellation and/or by a tessellation that varies spatially within a picture. These techniques improve decoded video quality, for example, by reducing block-based visual artifacts. Tessellation patterns may be irregular spatially to prevent alignment of some prediction region boundaries within a picture. Tessellation patterns may vary over time based on a spatial offset value, and the spatial offset value may be determined via a modulo function. Tessellation patterns may include overlapped shapes, for example when used in conjunction with overlapped block motion compensation.
US11758128B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for video encoding/decoding by using a geometric modified picture. The encoding method according to the present invention includes: generating a geometric modified picture by geometrically modifying a reference picture; and generating a first prediction block of a current block by performing inter prediction referencing the geometric modified picture.
US11758121B2
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for testing and validation of a camera. A device may capture a first image of a target using a camera, wherein the camera is in a clean state, and wherein the target is in a line of sight of the camera. The device may apply an obstruction to a portion of a lens of the camera. The device may apply a camera cleaning system to the lens of the camera. The device may capture a post-clean image after applying the camera cleaning system. The device may determine a post-clean SSIM score based on comparing the post clean image to the first image. The device may compare the post-clean SSIM score to a validation threshold. The device may determine a validation state of the camera cleaning system based on the comparison.
US11758103B2
A system and method for providing quality control in immersive video during pausing of a video streaming session. In one embodiment, a paused video frame may comprise a plurality of mixed quality video tiles depending on user gaze vector information. Under pause control, the video quality of all tiles of the paused video frame is equalized such that it is of same value for all the video tiles, which may be the video quality of the tiles presented in a viewport of the client device. The paused video frame having the same quality tiles throughout is used as a replacement video frame, which is presented to the client device player for decoding and displaying instead of the mixed quality video frame while the streaming session is paused.
US11758098B2
A control system includes a mirror controller generating horizontal and vertical mirror synchronization signals for a mirror based upon a mirror clock signal. Laser modulation circuitry generates horizontal and vertical laser synchronization signals as a function of first and second laser clock signals and generates control signals for a laser that emits a laser beam that impinges on the mirror. First synchronization circuitry receives the horizontal mirror synchronization signal and the horizontal laser synchronization signal, and modifies generation of the first laser clock signal to achieve alignment between the horizontal mirror synchronization signal and horizontal laser synchronization signal. Second synchronization circuitry receives the vertical mirror synchronization signal and the vertical laser synchronization signal, and modifies generation of the second laser clock signal to achieve alignment between the vertical mirror synchronization signal and vertical laser synchronization signal.
US11758095B2
A system for providing a shared contents service using remote controlling of a shared autonomous device, includes: at least one shared autonomous device unit having driving, shooting, sensing and communication functions via an Internet communication network; a license transaction unit selling a license for the shared autonomous device unit, and delegating the sold license to a purchaser; a system connection unit processing the system connection of a license purchaser communication terminal by using the license delegated through the license transaction unit; a remote control unit receiving a control instruction signal of the shared autonomous device unit from the license purchaser communication terminal remotely connected through the system connection unit, and instructing to execute autonomous driving of the shared autonomous device unit according to the received control instruction signal; and a contents information providing unit providing, to a corresponding license purchaser, contents information acquired from the shared autonomous device unit.
US11758092B2
To provide a display control device that enables a passenger to understand when an image shot of the outside of the moving body and reproduced in the moving body was shot. When displaying images shot of the outside of a moving body in the moving body, the display control device, while updating with a lapse of time, how far back in a past from now the image being displayed was shot.
US11758090B1
Systems and methods for facilitating virtual collaboration between users within virtual environments are disclosed. A plurality of users access a collaborative virtual environment system using interface devices to establish a virtual collaboration session in which users communicate via a bidirectional real-time communication channel and interact within a virtual environment. Annotations or other user interactions within the virtual environment are automatically propagated to each user in the virtual collaboration session in order to facilitate collaboration. Data from such virtual collaboration sessions may be captured for later use.
US11758078B2
Provided is a method for compensating light reflections from a cover of a time-of-flight camera in an image of a scene that is sensed by the time-of-flight camera. The method includes receiving the image of the scene from the time-of-flight camera. Further, the method includes modifying the image of the scene using a reference image to obtain a compensated image of the scene. Pixels of the reference image indicate reference values exclusively related to light reflections from the cover of the time-of-flight camera. Additionally, the method includes outputting the compensated image.
US11758068B2
The present disclosure discloses methods and systems for allowing a user to add one or more bookmarks while scanning a document. The method includes receiving a document for scanning from a user. Once received, a user interface is displayed to the user to select an option to add one or more bookmark to the document. The document is scanned to get scanned pages of the document. Based on the selection of the option by the user, one or more bookmarks are added to one or more scanned pages of the document. The scanned document including the one or more bookmarked pages is sent to the one or more recipients for the desired action.
US11758059B2
System and method for ordering a print product including a digital image utilizing augmented reality
A method for providing a custom print product comprises displaying a video that includes an exhibited physical product; comparing feature or attribute data associated with the exhibited product with a feature or attribute associated with the available product; displaying a digital overlay in the video and in association with the displayed exhibited product if the displayed exhibited product corresponds to the available product; allowing for the selection of the digital overlay and then a digital image, wherein the selected digital image is not representative of the displayed exhibited physical product, and wherein the selected digital image is configured to be disposed on a selected physical product representative of the displayed exhibited physical product associated with the selected digital overlay to provide the customized print product.
US11758057B2
Dimensioning a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) of a communication system comprises: determining a number of processing nodes of the PCRF at a time; determining a first transaction parameter indicating a number of transactions per second exchanged by the nodes at the time; determining a load parameter indicating processing load of the nodes at the time; based on the first transaction parameter, the load parameter, the number of nodes, and allowable processing load that the nodes are set, determining a second transaction parameter indicating a number of transactions per second expected for exchange at the time by the nodes set at the allowable processing load; forecasting the first and second transaction parameters for a following time thereby obtaining forecasted first and second transaction parameters; and determining a number of nodes required at the following time according to the forecasted first and second transaction parameters.
US11758055B2
A system is provided enabling creation of a portal to telecommunications services managed by an enterprise user on behalf of accountholders of the enterprise. The system includes a first layer providing access to at least a business support system, an operational support system, a provisioning system, a home location register, and a billing system. The system also includes a second layer providing access to a wizard interface programmed for: creating a portal by the enterprise user with an application enabled to selectively access and/or modify data and settings accessible through a security layer from the first layer; and publishing the portal. The system also includes a third layer providing access to the portal by an accountholder of the enterprise after publishing. The application is: a glanceable application showing the data or settings in a summary visual fashion; or a full application showing the data or settings in a detailed fashion.
US11758041B2
One example method of operation may include one or more of identifying a calling device number of a calling device, matching the calling device number with one or more of a plurality of enhanced call content profiles, selecting, based on a call identifier, one of the enhanced call content profiles comprising enhanced call content intended for one or more call recipient device numbers, and forwarding the enhanced call content associated with the selected enhanced call content profile to one of the call recipient devices.
US11758038B2
A method and system are disclosed for enabling a telephone call to be made an actionable object and enabling that actionable object to be updated. The user device may have a graphical user interface on which the phone call is presented as an actionable object. The user device may be the same device (e.g. a smartphone) on which the call was made and/or may be a separate device (e.g. a desktop or laptop or tablet computer or the like). The data received by the computer apparatus may be for example one or more of start time of the call, end time of the call, duration of the call, telephone number of the third party, location of the user and call disposition.
US11758037B2
The present invention concerns a base station (12) having a DECT communication module (13) for wirelessly communicating with one or more registered portable DECT devices 10). The base station also has a virtual assistant module connecting over an IP communication channel (28) to a virtual assistant providing responses to user instructions, and a telephony module connecting to and accessing a remote resource over a telephony communication channel (27). A device manager (15) identifies and stores communication parameters of the DECT devices, and can implement a user instruction communicated from a DECT device via the DECT communication module and can route virtual assistant responses to a user instruction. A broker module (19) establishes a communication link between the DECT devices and the virtual assistant, and between the DECT devices and the telephony communication channel. The broker module includes a transcoder module (17) operating to trans-code communications over the communication link between the DECT devices and the virtual assistant in the event of a disparity in communication parameters to enable communication of user instructions and responses between the virtual assistant and a DECT device.
US11758034B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a processors configured to: acquire a first address list stored in an external apparatus; and when synchronizing the acquired first address list and a second address list stored in the own apparatus, display a third address list in which information duplicated between the first address list and the second address list have been consolidated.
US11758029B2
A first event occurs at a first computer at a first time, as measured by a local clock. A second event is initiated at a second computer by sending a message that includes the first time. The second event occurs at a second time, as measured by a local clock. Because of clock error, the first time is later than the second time. Based on the first time being later than the second time, an alternate second time, that is based on the first time, is used as the time of the second event. When a third system determines the order of the two events, the first time is obtained from the first computer, and the alternate second time is obtained from the second computer, and the order of the events is determined based on a comparison of the two times.
US11758023B2
A multicore electronic device is provided. The multicore electronic device includes a multicore including a plurality of cores, each core being configured to process packets in a driver core layer, a network processing core layer, and an application core layer, and a memory configured to store executions instructions for causing a first core of the plurality of cores to, when the packets are received, identify a location of a driver core for delivering the packets to an operating system domain, a location of an application core for processing the packets in a user domain, and a processing amount, determine a location of a network processing core for processing the packets based on at least one of the location of the driver core, the location of the application core, and the processing amount of the session, and control the network processing core to perform network stack processing on the packets.
US11758015B2
Improved technology for managing the caching of objects that are rarely requested by clients. A cache system can be configured to assess a class of objects (such as objects associated with a particular domain) for cacheability, based on traffic observations. If the maximum possible cache offloading for the class of objects falls below a threshold level, which indicates a high proportion of non-cacheable or “single-hitter” content, then cache admission logic is configured to admit objects only after multiple clients requests during a time period (usually the object's time in cache, or eviction age). Otherwise, the cache admission logic may operate to admit objects to the cache after the first client request, assuming the object meets cacheability criteria. The technological improvements disclosed herein can be used to improve cache utilization, for example by preventing single-hitter objects from pushing out multi-hit objects (the objects that get hits after being added to cache).
US11758013B2
A computer-implemented method of caching multi-session data communications in a computer network, includes the steps of: (a) receiving, intercepting, or monitoring one or more data sessions between a client executing a multi-session application for retrieving a desired content object and one or more metadata services, said client communicating with the one or more metadata services to discover metadata for the content object; (b) analyzing queries and responses exchanged between the client and the one of more metadata services to discover metadata for the content object; (c) receiving or intercepting subsequent data sessions between the client and content sources; (d) identifying a data protocol used by the client and identifying data queries within the data sessions; (e) identifying the content object or portions thereof requested by the client in the data queries; and (f) determining if the content object or portions thereof are stored in cache and, if so, sending the content object or portions thereof stored in cache to the client, and, if not, sending the data queries to the content sources, storing data responses from the content sources, and sending the data responses to the client.
US11758008B2
A communication apparatus notifies that service information is to be communicated outside a cyclically repeated period in which a plurality of apparatuses including the communication apparatus transmits or receives a beacon to another communication apparatus included in the plurality of apparatuses and being a destination of the service information.
US11758007B2
In general, this disclosure describes a service peering exchange for creating and managing service-to-service paths among applications. For example, a service peering exchange with network connectivity with multiple networks may receive application programming interface (API) data describing APIs for services provided, e.g., by enterprises or cloud service providers (CSPs) and accessible via the networks using service requests. Such services may include, for example, data storage, eCommerce, billing, marketing, customer relationship management (CRM), social media, digital media, financial, weather, search, and other services accessible using machine-to-machine communication over a network. An administrator or customer of the service peering exchange may configure policies that are applied by the service peering exchange to orchestrate service-to-service paths among different services accessible via the different networks.
US11758002B2
This disclosure provides session processing methods and apparatuses. In an implementation, a method comprises receiving, from an application function apparatus, a request that comprises a continuity requirement of an application indicating whether a service of the application needs to remain uninterrupted for a user equipment when the user equipment moves, determining, for the application, a session and service continuity mode that satisfies the continuity requirement of the application, and sending policy information that comprises the session and service continuity mode.
US11757999B1
Various techniques described herein relate to a client application framework for a contact center environment. A role-specific thick client framework may include a web browser-based application having multiple processes that can be distributed across the computing infrastructure of the client device. A portion of the framework may include a container application image received from an internal server of the contact center and launched by the client device. The framework also may include queuing and communication services executing on the client device, which interface with the internal client application and external service providers to support a common queuing framework and an integrated model implementation across the contact center environment.
US11757994B2
Various techniques for collective perception messaging are disclosed herein. In an example, a machine receives, from a source device, a signal value for provision to a sink device, the signal value corresponding to a measurement of an environmental value. The machine accesses, from a storage device, an error term for the signal value. The machine accesses, from the storage device, a source reliability term for the source device. The machine accesses, from the storage device, a source-sink relation term based on the source device and the sink device. The machine determines a distribution for the environmental value based on the error term, the source reliability term, and the source-sink relation term. The machine determines, based on the distribution for the environmental value, whether the signal value is reliable.
US11757992B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for synchronizing the simultaneous presentation of multimedia content across multiple devices. An example embodiment operates by generating a multimedia content synchronization request configured to instruct a second media device to synchronize a presentation of multimedia content on the second media device with a first media device. The multimedia content synchronization request can include, for example, a deep link indicative of a channel of the multimedia content, a position of the multimedia content, and a state of the multimedia content to start the presentation of the multimedia content. Subsequently, the example embodiment operates by transmitting the multimedia content synchronization request to the second media device.
US11757991B2
Methods are provided for synchronizing task execution and/or data collection on multiple network devices. The methods involve obtaining a command to be executed on a plurality of target network devices and splitting the command into a plurality of single device execution tasks. Each single device execution task is for a respective network device of the plurality of target network devices. The methods further involve providing each of the plurality of single device execution tasks, via a command line interface or an application programming interface, to a respective one of the plurality of target network devices. The plurality of single device execution tasks being provided within a bounded time interval.
US11757984B2
A virtualized computing environment of a telecommunications network comprises a cluster of virtual machines with a one-to-one ratio of active and backup virtual machines. One or more additional clusters of virtual machines have a N-to-K ratio of active and backup virtual machines where N>K. The backup virtual machines are configured to provide failover capacity for processing communications sessions in an event of a failure of one of the active virtual machines. A cluster redundancy capability indicates the ratio of the active and backup virtual machines for that cluster. A predetermined type associated with a requested communication session is determined. A cluster having a cluster redundancy capability corresponding to the predetermined type is selected. Data for the requested communication session is sent to an active virtual machine in the selected cluster.
US11757981B2
An asynchronous distributed computing system with a plurality of computing nodes is provided. One of the computing nodes includes a sequencer service that receives updates from the plurality of computing nodes. The sequencer service maintains or annotates messages added to the global state of the system. Updates to the global state are published to the plurality of computing nodes. Monitoring services on the other computing nodes write the updates into a locally maintained copy of the global state that exists in shared memory on each one of the nodes. Client computer processes on the nodes may then subscribe to have updates “delivered” to the respective client computer processes.
US11757953B2
To collaborate in context, an online messaging platform is launched for a user to communicate by way of electronic messaging with one or more other users. The online messaging platform is launched in response to a user selecting text. One or more additional users are added to the online messaging platform, when the user tags the one or more additional users. Exchange of electronic messaging is facilitated, via the online messaging platform, between the user and the one or more additional users in regard to the selected text.
US11757951B2
Systems and methods for creating video watch parties are shown and described. Video and audio data indicative of the content being displayed on a plurality of smart TVs is compared to stored data in a content recognition database to determine what content is being viewed by each of a plurality of viewers at a given time. Viewers watching the same content are invited to become members of a watch party, and the televisions of those who accept the invitation are operatively connected to one another in a peer-to-peer network, enabling them to view the watch party content on a watch party screen that displays the watch party content and images or graphical icon representations of each other member of the watch party who is watching the content. Watch party participants can communicate with one another on the watch party display orally, using text messages in a text message area of the display, or by projecting emojis in the content region of other participants' displays.
US11757950B2
An example method and system for sharing an output device between multimedia devices to transmit and receive data, is provided. The method includes operations of automatically discovering one or more second multimedia devices, when a first multimedia device is positioned within communication range of the one or more second multimedia devices that transmit a low power signal; and transmitting data of the first multimedia device to the one or more second multimedia devices, when the one or more second multimedia devices are discovered.
US11757948B2
Disclosed in embodiments of the present disclosure are a communication method and apparatus, and an electronic device. A specific implementation of the method comprises: in response to a call initiation operation of a multimedia conference, determining a candidate object of the multimedia conference according to an object targeted by the call initiation operation; and displaying, on a multimedia conference interface of the multimedia conference, call state information for the candidate object.
US11757933B1
An extended enterprise browser provides protection from ransomware attacks against SaaS and private enterprise application. In one implementation, the extended enterprise browser supports at least two different endpoint security certificates. A selection of the endpoint security certificate is made based on a ransomware risk level posture. Various factors may be used to determine the ransomware risk level posture to aid preventing ransomware attacks.
US11757916B1
In some implementations, a method includes receiving an input domain name and generating a normalized domain name based on the input domain name. The normalized domain name including at least one of an internationalized domain name (IDNA) or a Unicode domain name that is converted from puny code characters in the input domain name. The method also includes determining whether the input domain name is excluded from domain impersonation analysis based on the normalized domain name and risk configuration data associated with an entity. In the event that the input domain name is not excluded from domain impersonation analysis, the method further includes calculating a confidence score representing a risk of domain impersonation to the entity, calculating the confidence score including at least one of: i) analyzing a typo-squat in the input domain name; or ii) analyzing a combo-squat in the input domain name.
US11757914B1
A received message sent from a first message account to a second message account is received. A security risk associated with the received message is determined. It is determined that the security risk associated with the received message meets one or more criteria. Based on the determination that the security risk associated with the received message meets the one or more criteria, a responsive message in response to the received message is automatically generated and sent. An interaction with the responsive message is analyzed. Based on a result of the analysis of the interaction with the responsive message, a security risk associated with the first message account is classified.
US11757906B2
A method of detecting anomalous user behavior in a cloud environment includes receiving a vector that comprises counts of actions taken by the user during a current time interval; determining whether an action count in the vector is greater than a global mean; building a scale table by combining new action skills that are above a threshold and original action skills if below the threshold; and identifying outliers when the action count is greater than the global mean multiplied by a corresponding action scale from the scale table.
US11757902B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for monitoring actions of an entity. In various embodiments the monitoring includes: monitoring a plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity, the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity corresponding to a plurality of events enacted by the entity; associating the plurality of events enacted by the entity with a story; and, using the story to derive an inference regarding the entity.
US11757899B2
Aspects of a privileged identity management system and method provide users with the ability to request elevated privileges to perform tasks on computing systems and software applications. The privileged identity management system and method also provides users with the ability to extend the elevated privileges to access privileged features or perform tasks using elevated privileges. The privileged identity management system and method utilize a different device that is readily available to the user in order to provide communications relating to the elevated privileges.
US11757884B2
A resource control system for networked devices in which the subscribers of the networked devices do not trust one another is provided. Also provided is a distributed data bank system, which, for example, is implemented by a blockchain.
US11757880B2
A method and system for performing authentication are described. The method and system include receiving, from a client, a communication for a data source at a wrapper. The wrapper includes a dispatcher and a service. The dispatcher receives the communication and is data agnostic. The communication is provided from the dispatcher to the service. The service determines whether the client is authorized to access the data source utilizing multi-factor authentication.
US11757873B2
Methods for authenticating a genuine presence of a human involve directing one or more modulated probes towards a body part of the human, receiving a response to the probes from the body part, and analyzing the response to determine whether it contains spectral characteristics that match a class of responses to such probes for the human body part in a human population. Replay attacks are countered by varying the modulation of the probe temporally, spatially, and spectrally each time authentication is performed. The probes may include electromagnetic radiation, acoustic beams, or particle beams that generate a detected reflection, absorption pattern, scintillation, or fluorescence response of the body part. The analysis of the response may be directed to one or more of temporal, spatial, and spectral variations in accordance with the nature of the probes and the modulation.
US11757869B2
A biometric authentication system may include a centralized database including stored biometric signature information for authenticating a user of one or more external systems. The biometric authentication system may extract data attributes from a biometric signature of the user and compare them to the stored biometric signature information in the database. The biometric authentication system may identify user identifier information associated with a signature key stored of the stored biometric signature information that matches the data attributes to authenticate the user to access secure information.
US11757867B2
Systems and methods are presented for implementing hacker traffic barriers for mitigating unauthorized account usage. A security system securely associates a primary trusted device with a user using encrypted tokens stored in an enclave within the primary trusted device, authorizes web browser authentication, and provides both intrinsic and explicit checks for unauthorized access to an account.
US11757866B2
An example system is configured to (i) receive, from a user device over a WAN, a request for an authorization code corresponding to a media application on the user device, (ii) based on the request transmit, to the user device over the WAN, the authorization code, (iii) receive, from a media playback system over the WAN, an authorization request that includes the authorization code, (iv) determine that the authorization code in the authorization request is valid, (v) based on determining that the authorization code is valid, generate an authorization token, (vi) transmit, to the media playback system over the WAN, the authorization token, (vii) receive, from the media playback system over the WAN, a media request including the authorization token, and (viii) responsive to the media request and a determination that the authorization token is valid, transmit, over the WAN, media content to the media playback system.
US11757856B2
A cryptographic communication system includes: a first cryptographic communication apparatus including a first tamper-resistant device configured to store a first key generation function and a first storage unit configured to store first individual information; and a second cryptographic communication apparatus including a second tamper-resistant device configured to store a second key generation function and a second storage unit configured to store second individual information. The first cryptographic communication apparatus generates a twelfth shared key using the first key generation function and the second individual information. The second cryptographic communication apparatus generates a twenty first shared key using the second key generation function and the first individual information.
US11757855B2
An operation method of a first communication node in a communication system may comprise estimating a channel state between the first communication node and a second communication node based on a pilot signal received from the second communication node; generating a first channel codebook based on the estimated channel state; transmitting information of the first channel codebook to the second communication node; receiving a response indicating whether the first channel codebook is to be used from the second communication node; when the response is an ACK indicating that the first channel codebook is to be used, generating a first secret key by using the first channel codebook; and transmitting data encrypted using the first secret key to the second communication node.
US11757854B2
A network attached storage device coupled to a local network and including a network interface configured to receive digital content from a remote content provider outside the local network. The network attached storage device includes storage having a first region accessible by a user of the local network and a secure region. The network attached storage device includes a processor coupled to the storage, the processor configured to control access to the secure region of the storage based on instructions received from a remote content provider.
US11757847B2
Systems and methods for computing a private set intersection are disclosed. A method includes storing, at a sender device, a first set of values. The method includes receiving, from a receiver device, a homomorphic encryption of a receiver device value. The method includes computing a homomorphically encrypted number based on a difference between the homomorphic encryption of the receiver device value and each value in the first set of values, and based on a hash function of the encryption of the receiver device value. The method includes transmitting the homomorphically encrypted number to the receiver device for determination, at the receiver device, whether the receiver device value is in the first set of values.
US11757843B1
A method including storing, by an infrastructure device in a read-only memory associated with a read-only device, an initial operating system to be utilized by a VPN server in association with providing VPN services; storing, by the infrastructure device in the read-only memory, authentication information associated with authenticating a requesting device as an authorized recipient of the initial operating system; and configuring, by the infrastructure device, the read-only device to control access to the initial operating system based at least in part on utilizing the authentication information. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11757840B2
A method for configuring a protocol in a virtual private network (VPN) service environment, the method including receiving, from a user device, device information associated with operation of the user device during an established VPN connection; determining, based at least in part on the device information, a given VPN protocol from among a plurality of VPN protocols for utilization during the established VPN connection; and transmitting, to the user device, information associated with the given VPN protocol to enable the user device and a VPN server to utilize the given VPN protocol during the established VPN connection. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11757832B2
An internet protocol (IP) address allocation method includes receiving, by a forwarder, an address request sent by an external network element, where the address request includes a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) request of user equipment (UE) and user characteristic information of the UE, acquiring, from a DHCP service network element according to the DHCP request, an IP address allocated to the UE, and acquiring first instruction information that is delivered by a control device according to the user characteristic information of the UE and the IP address allocated to the UE, and sending the IP address to the UE according to the user characteristic information.
US11757830B2
Disclosed are a Cluster Trivial Database (CTDB)-based virtual Internet Protocol (IP) address allocation method and apparatus, a distributed storage device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method is applied to a distributed storage cluster. A known IP Version 4 (IPV4) virtual IP address parameter and available IPV4 virtual IP address parameter corresponding to an IPV4 virtual IP address and a known IP Version 6 (IPV6) virtual IP address parameter and available IPV6 virtual IP address parameter corresponding to an IPV6 virtual IP address may be acquired to obtain an IPV4 allocation result and an IPV6 allocation result by calculation respectively, and then virtual IP addresses are allocated to each normal node by use of the IPV4 allocation result and the IPV6 allocation result.
US11757827B2
Systems and methods may include sending, to a network registrar, an extended duplicate address request (EDAR) message including a first nonce generated by a host computing device, and receiving, from the network registrar, an extended duplicate address confirmation (EDAC) message including a second nonce and a first signature, a first nonce pair including the first nonce and the second nonce being signed by the network registrar via a first key pair of the network registrar via the first signature. The systems and methods may further include sending a first neighbor advertisement (NA) message to the host computing device including the second nonce. The second nonce and a public key of the network registrar verifies the first signature from the network registrar, the verification of the first signature indicating that a router through which the host computing device connects to a network is not impersonating the network.
US11757825B2
A mid-tier messaging system receives a request to initiate a communication session via a first messaging channel that includes a first messaging interface of a first messaging application provided at a user device and a first message provider of a plurality of message providers. The mid-tier messaging system establishes a first session that is mapped to the communication session. The mid-tier messaging system establishes the communication, using the first session, between the first messaging interface and the first message provider. The mid-tier messaging system provides, through the first session, first message communications between the first message provider and the first messaging interface. The mid-tier messaging system seamlessly switches to a second message provider service when the first message provider service cannot service an intent of the first communication session.
US11757816B1
A scam detection system includes a user computer that runs a security application and a backend system that runs a scam detector. An email is received at the user computer. The security application extracts and forwards a content of the email, which includes a body of the email, to the backend system. The email body of the email is anonymized by removing personally identifiable information from the email body. A hash of the anonymized email body is generated and compared against hashes of a whitelist and a blacklist. The anonymized email body is classified. A segment of text of the anonymized email body is identified and provided to the user computer when the anonymized email body is classified as scam.
US11757810B2
A mail processing method and apparatus, a device, a medium, a computer program product, and a computer program provided in the present disclosure, where the method includes: receiving a to-be-sent mail; obtaining, if it is identified that the to-be-sent mail includes an instant messaging group identifier, a group mail address corresponding to the instant messaging group identifier; and taking the group mail address as a recipient address and performing a sending operation on the to-be-sent mail. In the present disclosure, in a case of receiving, by a mail server, a mail sent by a mail client, if it is identified that the recipient includes an instant messaging group name, the mail is sent to a group address corresponding to the group name, which improves functional integration of email and IM software, thereby providing richer collaborative office functions.
US11757796B2
In one embodiment, a system includes a peripheral device including a memory access interface to receive from a host device headers of packets, while corresponding payloads of the packets are stored in a host memory of the host device, and descriptors being indicative of respective locations in the host memory at which the corresponding payloads are stored, a data processing unit memory to store the received headers and the descriptors without the payloads of the packets, and a data processing unit to process the received headers, wherein the peripheral device is configured, upon completion of the processing of the received headers by the data processing unit, to fetch the payloads of the packets over the memory access interface from the respective locations in the host memory responsively to respective ones of the descriptors, and packet processing circuitry to receive the headers and payloads of the packets, and process the packets.
US11757788B2
In a signal transfer system including a signal transfer management apparatus and a plurality of signal transfer apparatuses connected in multiple stages and forming a network between a distribution station apparatus and a central station apparatus, a signal transfer apparatus on an upper side among the plurality of signal transfer apparatuses transmits a timing adjustment request to at least one of a plurality of signal transfer apparatuses on a lower side among the plurality of signal transfer apparatuses upon determining that there is a possibility that a microburst occurs according to mobile scheduling information received from the plurality of signal transfer apparatuses on the lower side, and the signal transfer apparatus on the lower side that has received the timing adjustment request from the signal transfer apparatus on the upper side adjusts opening and closing timings of a gate based on the timing adjustment request. This can prevent the occurrence of a microburst.
US11757787B1
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for configuration of time-sensitive networks. Time-sensitive networks utilize traffic shaping to provide for efficient and predictable flows of data through the network. A network configuration tool can be used to determine how data should be routed and shaped through the network towards its destination. The network configuration tool calculates the maximum burst size at an output port of a switch by analyzing groups of data flows that pass through the output port, rather than analyzing the data flows individually.
US11757783B2
When congestion occurs, the ENUM/DNS server can identify a priority packet without relaying on origin terminal information. An ENUM/DNS packet priority control system 100 includes a call control server 10 that, upon receiving a connection request from a terminal, determines whether or not the connection request is to be subjected to priority processing based on predetermined determination logic, and generates an ENUM/DNS packet that has a priority flag upon determining that the connection request is to be subjected to priority processing. The ENUM/DNS packet priority control system 100 also includes an ENUM/DNS server 20 that, upon receiving an ENUM/DNS packet that has the priority flag, determines that the packet is to be subjected to priority processing, and transmits, to the call control server 10, connection destination information that corresponds to the call destination terminal.
US11757781B2
A computing system includes a computing device and an input data path connecting an interface device to the computing device. The input data path has at least two data relays and at least one buffer memory temporarily storing data. Each of the data relays has first and second terminals and a central terminal and selectively interconnects the first and central terminals or the second and central terminals and leaves the first and second terminals constantly separated from each other. The first terminal of a first relay is connected to the interface device, and the second terminal is connected to the computing device. The central terminal of the first data relay is connected to the buffer memory. The intermediate buffer memory is selectively connected by the first data relay solely to the interface device or the second terminal of the first data relay, but not to both simultaneously.
US11757780B2
A switch is provided for routing packets in an interconnection network. The switch includes a plurality of egress ports to transmit packets. The switch also includes one or more ingress ports to receive packets. The switch also includes a port and bandwidth capacity circuit configured to obtain (i) port capacity for a plurality of egress ports of the switch, and (ii) bandwidth capacity for transmitting packets to a destination. The switch also includes a network capacity circuit configured to compute network capacity, for transmitting packets to the destination, via the plurality of egress ports, based on a function of the port capacity and the bandwidth capacity. The switch also includes a routing circuit configured to route one or more packets received via one or more ingress ports of the switch, to the destination, via the plurality of egress ports, based on the network capacity.
US11757769B1
End-to-end path detection and management for inter-branch communication in a wide area network (WAN)
A method of managing inter-branch communication is a network, including generating an end-to-end path, wherein the end-to-end path starts in a first computing device in a first branch and ends at a second computing device in a second branch, wherein the end-to-end path is generated using a plurality of flow records and a plurality of path records and the end-to-end path includes a wide area network (WAN) segment, and issuing, based on the generating, a notification to a network administrator, wherein the notification specifies the end-to-end path and a latency associated with at least one segment in the end-to-end path.
US11757768B1
A search engine queries a network model for behavior of the entire network, such as data flow, based on combinations of multiple network elements. The search engine provides the state information and/or predicted behavior of the network by searching network objects in a graph-based model or a network state database that satisfy constraints given in a search query. The search engine provides the state information and/or predicted behavior based on regular-expression or plain language search expressions that do not provide packet header information. The search engine parses such search expression into a sequence of atoms that encode forwarding paths of interest to the user. A flow path through the modeled network can be generated dynamically, within the context of the search queries.
US11757763B2
A network interface controller (NIC) capable of efficient memory access is provided. The NIC can be equipped with an operation logic block, a signaling logic block, and a tracking logic block. The operation logic block can maintain an operation group associated with packets requesting an operation on a memory segment of a host device of the NIC. The signaling logic block can determine whether a packet associated with the operation group has arrived at or departed from the NIC. Furthermore, the tracking logic block can determine that a request for releasing the memory segment has been issued. The tracking logic block can then determine whether at least one packet associated with the operation group is under processing in the NIC. If no packet associated with the operation group is under processing in the NIC, tracking logic block can notify the host device that the memory segment can be released.
US11757762B2
Provided are a service operation method, a service operation device a storage medium and an electronic device. The method includes: determining service information about multiple nodes in a distributed network after determining a link failure in the distributed network, computing a restore path centralizedly for services indicated by the service information about the multiple nodes, and operating the services by using the restore path.
US11757755B1
A system for adapting to topology changes in a proxy is described. The system includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions. The processor is configured to intercept a plurality of communications and match a communication signature for a topology update in a communication. The processor is further configured to identify topology update information in the communication and update listener(s) based on the topology update information. The processor also translates the topology update information and sends the translated topology information to a client.
US11757753B2
A method for distributing link state information in a network includes receiving, by a first node, from a second node, a first control message including the link state information and a first set of forwarding instructions for selecting a network interface from a plurality of network interfaces to use to further propagate the link state information. The method also includes sending over the selected network interface, by the first node, to a third node, based on the first set of forwarding instructions and a status of the plurality of network interfaces, a second control message including the link state information and a second set of forwarding instructions. The second set of forwarding instructions is based on the first set of forwarding instructions and a positional location of the third node within the network.
US11757745B2
A gateway apparatus is connected to a plurality of buses. A data frame is received by using one of the plurality of buses as a reception bus. Whether the received data frame is a monitoring target data frame is determined based on monitoring target information. The monitoring target information is stored in a storage to associate the monitoring target data frame with a monitoring target transmission source bus connected to a transmission source electronic control unit. Whether the reception bus matches the monitoring target transmission source bus is determined based on the monitoring target information in response to determining that the received data frame is a monitoring target data frame. An abnormality detection on the received data frame is performed in response to determining that the reception bus matches the monitoring target transmission source bus.
US11757744B2
Techniques for optimizing technologies related to network path tracing and network delay measurements are described herein. Some of the techniques may include using an IPv6 header option and/or segment identifier field of a segment list or a TLV of a segment routing header as a telemetry data carrier. The techniques may also include using an SRv6 micro-segment (uSID) instruction to indicate to a node of a network that the node is to perform one or more path tracing actions and encapsulating the packet and forward. Additionally, the techniques may include using short interface identifiers corresponding to node interfaces to trace a packet path through a network. Further, the techniques may include using short timestamps to determine delay measurements associated with sending a packet through a network. In various examples, the techniques described above and herein may be used with each other to optimize network path tracing and delay measurement techniques.
US11757741B2
A demand prediction apparatus allows for a prediction with a variation in terms of demand by acquiring, out of changes in demand in a first time period, changes in the demand in a second time period which is a part of the first time period acquiring changes in the demand in third time periods, which is a plurality of time periods excluding the second time period within the first time period, for each of the third time periods having different lengths, identifying, for combinations of a plurality of trend patterns and the third time periods, parameters of the corresponding plurality of trend patterns such that a value of a trend pattern of the plurality of trend patterns is equal to the demand at a certain time point in the first time period, evaluating suitability with the changes in the demand in the second time period for each of the plurality of trend patterns for each of the combinations in which a parameter of the parameters is identified, and selecting one or more trend patterns from among the plurality of trend patterns for each of the combinations based on evaluation results.
US11757732B2
A system and method are disclosed associated with a multi-tenant cloud computing environment. The system may receive information about a serverless function workload (e.g., a NodeJS, Java function or ABAP workload) to be launched in the cloud computing environment. A tenant associated with the serverless function workload to be launched may be identified and, based at least in part on the identified tenant, an objective function (e.g., throughput, latency, cost, etc.) for the serverless function workload to be launched may be identified. A recommendation service platform may then iteratively configure tuning parameters of the cloud computing environment using Bayesian optimization (e.g., to reach a global optimum using a Gaussian process) and the determined objective function. The system may then arrange for the serverless function workload to be executed in the cloud computing environment in accordance with the configured tuning parameters.
US11757728B2
This invention provides an autonomic method for controlling an algorithm on a multi-terminal computing system, wherein the algorithm is configured to analyse diagnostic data for each terminal and an outcome of the analysis is a first action or a second action, and a device for implementing the method, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a first set of data for the multi-terminal computing system; applying the algorithm to the first set of data to classify each terminal in the multi-terminal computing system as being associated with either a first action or second action; re-classifying a first subset of terminals classified as being associated with the first action as being associated with the second action; and applying the first actions, second actions, and reclassified second actions respectively to each terminal in the multi-terminal computing system.
US11757722B2
A switching fabric role assignment system includes a plurality of switch devices coupled together in a switching fabric. A first switch device included in the plurality of switch devices receives an endhost device identification communication from an endhost device when the endhost device is connected to the first switch device. The first switch device uses the endhost device identification communication to identify an endhost device type of the endhost device and determines, based on the endhost device type, a first switch device role for the first switch device. The first switch device then transmits a first switch device role communication that identifies the first switch device role to a second switch device included in the plurality of switch devices and connected to the first switch device. The second switch device may then determine, based on the first switch device role, a second switch device role for the second switch device.
US11757720B2
Various methods and systems for implementing dependency management for an infrastructure are provided. A dependency service manager of the dependency management system includes a plurality of dependency management system components that facilitate automatically discovering and analyzing data to generate dependency data. The dependency data includes dependencies and dependents of dependency service tenants which are tenant services of the infrastructure. The dependency data is generated based on data retrieved by a plurality of collectors. A collector from the plurality of collectors is an agent that retrieves data associated with dependency service tenants based on a corresponding collection time attribute of the collector. A collector accesses data for generating the dependency data at one of the following collection times: design time, deployment time and runtime. The dependency data that is generated is then stored in a data store and communicated to a dependency service interface for user access to the dependency data.
US11757719B2
An example computing device is configured to receive an instance of a customer service model representative of a plurality of customer services. Each of the plurality of customer services associated with a corresponding at least one requirement and a corresponding at least one constraint. The computing device is configured to receive an instance of a resource model representative of a plurality of resources and map the instance of the customer service model and the instance of the resource model to an internal placement model. The computing device is configured to allocate the plurality of resources to the plurality of customer services such that the at least one requirement and the at least one constraint for each of the plurality of customer services are satisfied and inverse map data indicating how the plurality of resources are allocated to a format consumable by the customer device and output the inverse mapped data.
US11757718B2
Systems and methods for facilitating secure and reliable communications among nodes of different tiers of a multi-tenant SOAR deployment are provided. According to one embodiment, data flow propagation within a hierarchy of nodes of the SOAR deployment is controlled. Responsive to creation of a record by a node: (i) when there exists a parent node in the hierarchy, setting a PID of the record to a TID of the parent node; otherwise, to a TID of the node; (ii) when there exists a child node in the hierarchy, setting a CID of the record to the TID of the child node; otherwise, to the TID of the node; and (iii) maintaining a set of propagation rules for the node relating to permissibility of propagation of the record within the hierarchy. During propagation of the record by the node, the PID and the CID of the record are updated.
US11757716B2
There is provided a network management device (1) including a capacity management unit (10) for managing the capacity in a network to be managed and a storage unit (20) for storing management information. The storage unit stores specification information of entities included in the network, and entity information including information indicative of relationships between the entities. The capacity management unit 10 includes a capacity request acquisition section (11) which receives a generation request of a first entity; reads the specification information about the first entity from the storage unit, and determines whether or not the first entity needs to consume a resource; when it is determined that the first entity needs to consume a resource, identifies a second entity capable of providing capacity consumed by the first entity, based on the entity information stored in the storage unit; and outputs information about the identification result.
US11757715B2
A method for managing networking devices. The method includes receiving, by a second management system, first network device state information (NDSI) for a first plurality of network devices, where the first NDSI is obtained by a first management system and where the first management system manages the first plurality of network devices. The method further includes initiating performance of a management action based on a result, wherein the result is obtained by processing at least the first NDSI.
US11757707B2
The present technology discloses methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for identifying a data communication session within a 5G enterprise network and providing assurance based on the identified data communication session. The present technology provides for establishing a data communication session for user equipment on a 5G network, generating a protocol data unit (PDU) session identifier for the data communication session, and distributing the PDU session identifier to one or more packet core nodes in the 5G network. The PDU session identifier can then be used for collecting one or more key performance indicators in association with the data communication session.
US11757706B2
A system is disclosed that monitors endpoints such as video cameras and audio devices for malfunction through a novel TDMA device allocation format. The system isolates and analyzes a set of groups of video streams in a rotating and recurring fashion and generates alerts and remedial commands based on the analysis. The system also provides endpoint management functions such as password analysis and firewall functions.
US11757701B2
A system and method for recommending a similar incident in operations technologies and a related device are provided. The method includes: obtaining alarm information of a to-be-processed incident; obtaining incident diagnosis information of M dimensions based on the alarm information, wherein the M dimensions include M different perspectives of incident diagnosis, and M is an integer greater than 1; performing processing based on the incident diagnosis information of the M dimensions, to obtain a feature of the to-be-processed incident; obtaining a plurality of similarity degrees through calculation based on the feature of the to-be-processed incident and features of a plurality of historical incidents, wherein the plurality of similarity degrees represent respective similarity degrees between the to-be-processed incident and the plurality of historical incidents; and obtaining a similar incident from the plurality of historical incidents through filtering based on the plurality of similarity degrees, and recommending the similar incident.
US11757699B2
The multi-agent simulation system includes a plurality of back-end servers provided for each of a plurality of service systems and a plurality of agent simulators provided for each of the plurality of agents. Each of the plurality of service systems provides a service used in the target world. The plurality of agent simulators are programmed to simulate a state of each of the plurality of agents while causing the plurality of agents to interact with each other by exchange of first messages. The plurality of back-end servers and the plurality of agent simulators are programmed to simultaneously simulate a plurality of services by exchanging second messages different from the first messages.
US11757696B2
There are provided methods for defining a Network Service Descriptor (NSD) for a Network Service (NS), and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Orchestrator (NFVO) using said NSD. The NSD comprises zero, one or more of each of: a Virtualized Network Function (VNF) Descriptor (VNFD), a Physical Network Function (PNF) Descriptor (PNFD), a Network Service Descriptor (NSD), a Virtual Link (VL) Descriptor (VLD), and a VNF Forwarding Graph Descriptor (VNFFGD). One method comprising the step of defining at least one Connection Points (CP) Profile, wherein the CP Profile is referenced through a cpProfileId in a Network Forwarding Path Descriptor (NFPD) attribute of the VNFFGD, the CP Profile specifying a Connection Point Descriptor (CPD) or Service Access Point Descriptor (SAPD) for a given VnfProfile, PnfProfile or NsProfile.
US11757695B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to transmitter systems, methods, and instructions for signal predistortion. The transmitter system includes an intermodulation distortion (IMD) filter module configured to filter a detected feedback signal (Yin) to generate a targeted filtered signal (Yout), a digital pre-distortion (DPD) coefficient estimation module configured to update signal generation coefficients based on comparing an input signal (Sin) with the targeted filtered signal (Yout), and a distortion compensation processing module configured to generate a pre-distorted signal (Uout) based on the input signal (Sin) using the updated signal generation coefficients.
US11757689B2
An apparatus and method for generating broadcast signal frame using layered division multiplexing are disclosed. The apparatus includes a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal at different power levels; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a bootstrap and a preamble using the time-interleaved signal.
US11757684B2
A retiming circuit module, a signal transmission system, and a signal transmission method are provided. The retiming circuit module includes a path control circuit and a multipath signal transmission circuit. The multipath signal transmission circuit includes built-in first signal transmission path and second signal transmission path. The multipath signal transmission circuit may perform first signal transmission between an upstream device and a downstream device based on a first signal transmission frequency and the second signal transmission path. During a period of performing the first signal transmission, the path control circuit may detect a first data sequence transmitted between the upstream device and the downstream device. The path control circuit may control the multipath signal transmission circuit to switch to perform second signal transmission between the upstream device and the downstream device based on the first signal transmission frequency and the first signal transmission path according to the first data sequence.
US11757676B2
A method for by an asset tracking system is provided. An example method includes receiving a first plurality of data messages from an asset coupled to the asset tracking system and attempting to identify an asset type fingerprint based on the first plurality of messages. In response to failing to identify an asset type fingerprint based on the first plurality of messages, the example method further includes requesting a determined asset type fingerprint for the asset from an asset data analysis system, providing access to the first plurality of data messages to the asset data analysis system, receiving the determined asset type fingerprint for the asset from the asset data analysis system, and obtaining asset information from the asset by decoding a second plurality of data messages received from the asset in accordance with a set of signal definitions linked to the determined asset type fingerprint.
US11757674B2
A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The tunnel device is selected based on an attribute, such as IP Geolocation. A tunnel bank server stores a list of available tunnels that may be used, associated with values of various attribute types. The tunnel devices initiate communication with the tunnel bank server, and stays connected to it, for allowing a communication session initiated by the tunnel bank server. Upon receiving a request from a client to a content and for specific attribute types and values, a tunnel is selected by the tunnel bank server, and is used as a tunnel for retrieving the required content from the web server, using standard protocol such as SOCKS, WebSocket or HTTP Proxy. The client only communicates with a super proxy server that manages the content fetching scheme.
US11757669B1
Generating an agenda for a meeting includes creating a content repository that includes content corresponding to feedback from previous targeted meetings and/or information corresponding to ongoing discussions between potential attendees of the meeting, automatically creating a prioritized list of discussion topics, and at least one expert providing gestures to a computer screen to create an assessment for the discussion topics, display additional data for the prioritized list of the discussion topics, and/or transfer one or more of the discussion topics of the prioritized list of the discussion topics to either a list of dropped discussion topics or to an ordered list of selected discussion topics. An agenda is automatically generated based on the ordered list of selected discussion topics and on weights assigned to the at least one expert according to relative expertise. An order of agenda items is based in part on the weights.
US11757668B1
Aspects for enabling private communications during a web conference are described. In an embodiment, one or more processors are configured for establishing a main channel for communication in a web conference comprising a plurality of users attending the web conference; transmitting main channel audio data to computing devices associated with the plurality of users; receiving a first sub-channel request comprising an invitation from a first user to at least a second user of the plurality of users; establishing a first sub-channel for communication in the web conference comprising the first user and at least the second user; generating first sub-channel audio data comprising reduced main channel audio data and first sub-channel input audio data comprising first user input audio data and second user input audio data; and transmitting the first sub-channel audio data to the first sub-channel.
US11757663B1
A method includes identifying a binary file to be executed on a client device. The method further includes comparing, by a processing device, the binary file to an authenticated version of the binary file stored on a blockchain, in response to identifying the binary file and before executing the binary file. The method further includes, in response to determining that the binary file and the authenticated version of the binary file match, executing the binary file. The method further includes, in response to determining that the binary file and the authenticated version of the binary file do not match, triggering a predefined remedial action.
US11757649B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for enhanced authentication framework using multi-dimensional hashing. The present invention is configured to electronically receive, from a computing device of a user, a resource transfer request; retrieve, from an authentication database, a multi-dimensional hash for a first set of data files for the user and a user identification artifact; retrieve, from the computing device of the user, a second set of data files matching the user identification artifact; initiate an asynchronous hash processing engine on the second set of data files; generate, using the asynchronous hash processing engine, a multi-dimensional hash for the second set of data files; compare the multi-dimensional hash for the first set of data files with the multi-dimensional hash for the second set of data files to determine a match; and authorize the resource transfer request based on at least determining the match.
US11757647B2
A security accelerator device stores a first credential that is uniquely associated with the individual security accelerator device and represents a root of trust to a trusted entity. The device establishes a cryptographic trust relationship with a client entity that is based on the root of trust, the cryptographic trust relationship being represented by a second credential. The device receives and store a secret credential of the client entity, which is received via communication secured by the second credential. Further, the device executes a cryptographic computation using the secret client credential on behalf of the client entity to produce a computation result.
US11757644B2
A method, system, and computer program product generate, with a payment network, a first value (a) and a second value (ga), the second value (ga) generated based on the first value (a) and a generator value (g); generate, with the payment network, a plurality of random merchant numbers (mi) for a respective plurality of merchant banks; determine, with the payment network, a merchant product (M) based on a product of the plurality of random merchant numbers (mi); generate, with the payment network, a public key (pki) based on the second value (ga), the merchant product (M), and the random merchant number (mi) and a random key (rki) based on the merchant product (M) and the random merchant number (mi) for each respective merchant bank; and communicate, with the payment network, the public key (pki) and the random key (rki) to at least one respective merchant bank.
US11757631B2
An apparatus for releasing received command data includes a processor unit with a code generator, a cryptography module, and a comparison module. The code generator generates a transaction code. The apparatus has a transmitting unit which provides the transaction code via an unsecured data connection, a receiving unit which receives an external authentication code and command data via the unsecured data connection, and a memory unit which stores data of a predefined private key. Also disclosed is a transmission apparatus for command data. The transmission apparatus has a basic receiving unit which receives the transaction code, an input unit which receives the command data, a basic memory unit which stores the data of the predefined private key, a basic processor unit which has a basic cryptography module, and a basic transmitting unit which provides the external authentication code and the command data via the unsecured data connection.
US11757629B2
Embodiments provide methods, and computing devices for auto-submission of user authentication credential. A method includes initiating, by a first computing device of a user, a detection of a pre-paired second computing device of the user based at least on an application requiring a credential to be entered. The application is running on the first computing device and the credential is pre-stored in an encrypted form on a companion application running on the second computing device. The method includes generating a communication channel with the second computing device based at least on generating a mutual authentication key by the first and second computing devices. The method includes sending a request to receive the credential to the second computing device. The method includes receiving the credential in the encrypted form. The method includes decrypting the credential. The method includes facilitating the entering of the credential on the application without user intervention.
US11757628B1
A system and method for protecting Sensitive Personal Information (SPI) from Multi-Party Access (MPA), including receiving a request for access to a data record, the request comprising an encrypted device identifier identifying the client device, encrypting the data record using a random symmetric key to generate an encrypted data record, encrypting the data record using a second symmetric key to generate a second encrypted data record, the second symmetric key being different from the random symmetric key, encrypting the random symmetric key to generate an encrypted symmetric key by using a public key associated with the client device or a key encryption key associated with the one or more processors, and transmitting a message comprising the encrypted symmetric key and the encrypted device identifier. The message causing the client device to access the data record using a database, the encrypted device identifier, and the encrypted symmetric key.
US11757624B2
According to an embodiment, a data transfer control device includes a controller, and the controller generates tag information when the controller receives a tag generation request, and encrypts the tag information, transmits the encrypted tag information to a device that transmits the tag generation request, processes data stored at a predetermined address to generate data for transmission when an address at which the data related to the data transfer request is stored includes the predetermined address, scrambles or encrypts the data for transmission using the tag information, and transmits the scrambled or encrypted data to the device.
US11757616B2
The present invention discloses an image encryption method based on an improved class boosting scheme, which comprises the following steps: acquiring parameters of a hyperchaotic system according to plaintext image information; generating weights required by class perceptron networks through the plain text image information; bringing the parameters into the hyperchaotic system to obtain chaotic sequences, and shuffling the chaotic sequences by a shuffling algorithm; pre-processing the chaotic sequences after shuffling to obtain a sequence required by encryption: and bringing a plaintext image and the sequence into an improved class boosting scheme to obtain a ciphertext image, wherein the improved class boosting scheme is realized based on the class perception networks. The method solves the problems that update and prediction functions in an original boosting network are too simple and easy to predict or the like, so as to obtain the ciphertext image with higher information entropy.
US11757610B1
A system includes a first integrated circuit device, a second integrated circuit device, and a reference clock provided to the first and second integrated circuit devices. The first integrated circuit device detects a first edge of a first clock utilized by the first integrated circuit device, detects a second edge of the first clock, determines a first count of cycles of the reference clock between the first edge and the second edge, and communicates the first count to the second integrated circuit device. The second integrated circuit device receives the first count, provides a third edge of a second clock utilized by the second integrated circuit device, determines that a first number of cycles of the reference clock since providing the third edge is equal to the first count, and provides a fourth edge of the second clock in response to determining that the first number of cycles is equal to the first count.
US11757605B2
A bidirectional transceiver integrated circuit (IC) includes a transmit circuit configured to transmit during a data transfer mode of operation first data over a first bidirectional communication channel to a link partner. The transmit circuit is configured, during a low power mode of operation, to transmit an encoded refresh signal over the first bidirectional communication channel to the link partner. A receiver circuit is configured to receive during the data transfer mode of operation second data independent of the first data over the first bidirectional communication channel. An encoder is configured, during the low power mode of operation, to encode third data into a refresh signal to generate the encoded refresh signal.
US11757598B2
A communications device for use in a wireless communications system comprising an infrastructure equipment and the communications device is provided. The communications device is configured to transmit an uplink channel to the infrastructure equipment in a plurality of allocated subcarriers. The communications device comprises circuitry for one or more modulation symbol repetition blocks, each configured to receive modulated symbols mapped to one of a plurality of modulated symbol sets and to repeat each of the received modulated symbols within each of the plurality of modulated symbol sets, and circuitry for a precoder block configured to carry out a precoder function on the repeated modulation symbols, the precoder function comprising multiplying each of the repeated modulation symbols by an element of a precoder vector to produce precoded symbols.
US11757595B2
A method in a user equipment is disclosed. The method comprises generating a narrowband random access preamble for a narrowband random access procedure, the narrowband random access preamble comprising a Zadoff-Chu sequence. The method comprises transmitting, to a network node, the generated narrowband random access preamble via a narrowband physical random access channel (PRACH) according to a narrowband PRACH format, wherein the narrowband PRACH is frequency multiplexed with a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and comprises: at least one narrowband PRACH slot having a narrowband PRACH slot duration; and a narrowband PRACH period.
US11757592B2
Aspects relate to techniques for signaling the capability of a wireless communication device (e.g., a UE) to support demodulation reference signal (DMRS) bundling for channel estimation across two or more slots in the sidelink or uplink. In some examples, a transmitting UE may transmit a DMRS bundling indication to a receiving device (e.g., a receiving UE for sidelink DMRS bundling or a base station for uplink DMRS bundling). The DMRS bundling indication may indicate a capability of the transmitting UE to support DMRS bundling. The transmitting UE may then transmit a respective set of DMRSs within each of two or more slots during a DMRS bundling window to the receiving device based on the transmitting wireless communication device and the receiving device supporting DMRS bundling.
US11757591B2
A user equipment (UE) that performs control signal transmission according to a single-segment subframe format is described. In an aspect, the UE selects a single-segment subframe format as an uplink transmission format for a subframe instead of a multi-segment subframe format. This selection may be based on an indication received by a network node that the single-segment subframe format is to be used for transmission of the one or more control signals. In addition, the UE transmits the one or more control signals on an uplink control channel using the single-segment subframe format.
US11757582B2
A device that comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, a central processor and a network management engine may be configured to function as relay device, relaying an input data stream from a source device to at least one other device. The relaying may include configuring one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers to particular mode of relay operation and receiving the input data stream from the source device via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers. The relaying may also include transmitting at least one relay data stream corresponding to the input data stream to the at least one other device, via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers.
US11757580B2
Provided by an embodiment of the present invention are a user equipment and base station that may be used in a wireless communication system, or a method performed by the user equipment and the base station. The user equipment according to the embodiment of the present invention includes: a receiving unit that is configured to receive multiple access signature information for the user equipment from a base station, wherein the multiple access signature information includes correction information indicating a reference signal sequence sent with respect to the user equipment; and a control unit that is configured to determine the reference signal sequence of the user equipment according to the received correction information.
US11757579B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for efficient signaling of feedback regarding communications of a relaying operation. In some aspects, a relay node may defer feedback regarding reception of a first communication until relaying feedback regarding the payload of the first communication, thereby reducing overhead and signaling burden. In some aspects, a relay node may skip the transmission of feedback regarding the first communication altogether, either on the assumption that the link between the relay node and the first wireless node is reliable, or on the basis of the first wireless node being able to infer the reception of the first communication based on subsequent communications. In some aspects, a relay node may be enabled to skip forwarding of feedback from a second wireless node, such that the first wireless node can infer that the payload was received if no negative feedback associated with the payload is received.
US11757573B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for performing sidelink communication by a first device is provided. The method comprises the steps of: transmitting at least one PSSCH to at least one reception device by using at least one sub channel and at least one slot in a resource pool; and receiving at least one HARQ feedback for the at least one PSSCH through at least one PSFCH resource from among M PSFCH resources in the resource pool, wherein the resource pool comprises K PSSCH-associated slots and L sub channels, which are associated with the PSFCH resources, M is greater than or equal to K*L, and K, L, and M may be positive integers.
US11757570B2
A first portion of a physical layer (PHY) preamble of a PHY data unit is generated for transmission via a communication channel that comprises a plurality of sub-channels. A first portion of the PHY preamble is generated to include a legacy portion and a plurality of first non-legacy signal fields spanning the respective sub-channels. A second portion of a PHY preamble that immediately follows the first portion of the PHY preamble of the PHY data unit is generated to include: a non-legacy short training field spanning all sub-channels in the plurality of sub-channels, a plurality of non-legacy long training fields immediately following the non-legacy short training field, each non-legacy training field spanning all sub-channels in the plurality of sub-channels, and a second non-legacy signal field immediately following the plurality of non-legacy long training fields, the second-legacy signal field spanning all sub-channels in the plurality of sub-channels.
US11757568B2
A transmitting apparatus is provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: an encoder configured to generate a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword by LDPC encoding based on a parity check matrix; an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword; and a modulator configured to map the interleaved LDPC codeword onto a modulation symbol, wherein the modulator is further configured to map a bit included in a predetermined bit group from among a plurality of bit groups constituting the LDPC codeword onto a predetermined bit of the modulation symbol.
US11757558B2
A system comprises a transmitter that generates a combined signal including a first group of optical signals and a second group of optical signals, the first group of optical signals comprising M+X number of optical signals in a first polarization mode, the second group of optical signals comprising N number of optical signals in a second polarization mode, wherein the number of N and M optical signals comprise payload signals, where the X number of optical signals comprises at least one first pilot signal. The system may further include a receiver comprising a polarization recovery device that receives the combined signal and that recovers, from the combined signal, the first group of optical signals with the first polarization mode and the second group optical signals with the second polarization mode based on feedback indicative of at least one signal characteristic of the at least one first pilot signal.
US11757551B2
A terminal apparatus includes circuitry and a transmitter. The circuitry, in operation, generates a reference signal using a cyclic shift value and an orthogonal sequence, which are associated with each other. The orthogonal sequence is one of two orthogonal sequences corresponding to a first orthogonal sequence [1, 1] and a second orthogonal sequence [1, −1]. The cyclic shift value is one of 12 cyclic shift values ranging from 0 to 11. The transmitter, in operation, transmits the reference signal multiplexed with a data signal. Two of the cyclic shift values having a difference of 6 are respectively associated with the two orthogonal sequences.
US11757544B2
A method for selecting a subset of devices from a plurality of devices in a wireless network to perform: a first function comprising transmitting, receiving and/or processing a first radio frequency signal in a first frequency band for detecting atmospheric conditions; and a second function comprising transmitting, receiving and/or processing a second radio frequency signal in a second frequency band, at least partially overlapping with the first frequency band, for performing network communications; wherein the first and the second function are performed during a time period; and wherein the time period comprises a first subset of timeslots and a second subset of timeslots; wherein the method comprises: selecting the subset of devices based on a physical location of the devices relative to an area in which atmospheric conditions are to be monitored; assigning the first subset of timeslots to each of the selected devices to perform the first function, wherein the first subset of timeslots is assigned based on a priority value associated with the relative priority of performing the first function compared to the second function; assigning the second subset of timeslots to each of the selected devices to perform the second function; controlling the selected devices to execute the first function and the second function during the assigned timeslots respectively.
US11757540B2
An apparatus for a reducing signal interferences in critical mission wireless communication system is provided. The first coaxal cable having a first length and a plurality of gaps in an outer conductor of the first coaxal cable, such that a radio signal can leak out of the first coaxal cable; a plurality of receivers, wherein each receiver plurality of receivers is connected in proximity to the first coax cable; and a transmitter connected at one end of the first coaxal cable, wherein the plurality of receivers and the transmitter are part of the critical mission wireless communication system.
US11757535B2
Optical transmitters and receivers for improving synchronization of data transmitted over an optical network are described. The receiver can perform non-linear filtering as part of framer index estimation operations to improve the synchronization. The receiver can determine estimated positions of framer indices in data frames received from the transmitter. Next, using a non-linear filter, the receiver can remove estimated positions that are likely erroneous or are greater than a threshold away from the median or mode estimated framer index position. By removing the likely erroneous estimated positions, the receiver can then determine the estimated position of a framer index position for multiple frames with greater confidence.
US11757530B2
A method (100) for managing Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) in a User Equipment (UE) is disclosed, the UE being configured for Radio Frequency (RF) communication with a network and comprising at least two OWC receivers. The method comprises monitoring a captured luminous flux intensity at the OWC receivers (1 10) and, if a captured luminous flux intensity at at least one of the OWC receivers is above a viability threshold (120), selecting the OWC receiver having the highest captured luminous flux intensity (130) and extracting client data from an optical signal received on the selected OWC receiver (140). Also disclosed are a UE (300, 700) configured for RF communication with a network and for OWC, the UE comprising at least two OWC receivers, and a controller (500, 600) for managing OWC in a UE.
US11757521B2
WLAN access point configured to: configure a first wireless extender device not to exceed a hop limit; cause the first wireless extender device to initiate messaging with a root APD via a root fronthaul BSS to receive credentials for a backhaul BSS; cause the first wireless extender device to onboard onto the root APD via the backhaul BSS using the received credentials; enable a second wireless extender device to initiate messaging via the first fronthaul BSS of the first wireless extender device to obtain the credentials for the backhaul BSS; and prevent, in a case that the hop limit has been reached, the second wireless extender device from onboarding onto the backhaul BSS of the first wireless extender device so as to cause the second wireless extender device to onboard onto either the root APD or another wireless extender device.
US11757497B2
This application provides a transmission precoding matrix indication method and a device. The method includes: determining a bit quantity of a transmission precoding matrix indicator field corresponding to a subband scheduled for uplink based on downlink control information received from a network device, where the bit quantity of the transmission precoding matrix indicator field corresponding to the subband is related to a quantity of subbands corresponding to the resource scheduled for uplink; and further, determining an uplink transmission precoding matrix corresponding to the subband based on the bit quantity of the transmission precoding matrix indicator field corresponding to the subband and the uplink transmission layer quantity. A transmission precoding matrix indicator field can be effectively used, and control channel resource utilization is improved.
US11757485B2
Embodiments of this disclosure provide a radio frequency front-end circuit and a mobile terminal. The radio frequency front-end circuit includes: a first transmit path, a first receive path, a second receive path, a third receive path, a fourth receive path, a double-pole four-throw switch, a first single-pole double-throw switch, a second single-pole double-throw switch, a third single-pole double-throw switch, a first antenna, a second antenna, a third antenna, and a fourth antenna.
US11757483B2
Wireless communications may use one or more devices for transmission and/or reception that may lead to potentially harmful exposure. One or more safety measures may be used for wireless communication devices, such as maximum power exposure (MPE) reporting and/or related operations. An MPE report may be sent based on MPE detection and one or more messages, such as for cell activation, bandwidth part (BWP) or other wireless resource activation and/or switching, and/or a discontinuous reception (DRX) or other state transition.
US11757476B2
A radio frequency module includes a transmit filter that allows a transmit signal of a band A for FDD to pass through, a receive filter that allows a receive signal of the band A to pass through, a filter that allows a transmit/receive signal of a band B for TDD to pass through, power amplifiers, a low noise amplifier, a switch between connecting the receive filter to the low noise amplifier and connecting the filter to the low noise amplifier, a switch between connecting the filter to the power amplifier and connecting the filter to the low noise amplifier, a matching circuit connected between the power amplifier and the transmit filter, a matching circuit connected between the power amplifier and the switch, and a module board. On the module board, each of the power amplifiers and the switch is arranged in between the matching circuit and the matching circuit.
US11757474B2
A base station type replacement method, a software defined radio (SDR) network management system, a base station type replacement apparatus and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method may include: creating a blank target base station rack diagram in a view area in a source base station rack diagram according to a new base station creation operation of a user through an SDR network management system (201); and moving a graphical managed object (MO) in the source base station rack diagram to the target base station rack diagram according to a graphical move operation of the user, storing service location keyword information of the MO in the source base station rack diagram and the target base station rack diagram, and configuring data of a target base station based on the target base station rack diagram during the graphical move operation to complete base station type replacement (202).
US11757473B2
A method of telecommunications includes the steps of receiving an encoded block having a plurality of values, dividing the received encoded block into a plurality of received segments, each received segment comprising at least two of the values, decoding each received segment by providing, for each received segment, a plurality of estimated encoded sequences, each estimated encoded sequence comprising at least two data units, merging estimated encoded sequences for consecutive segments to provide a plurality of candidate sequences, and selecting one of the plurality of candidate sequences by performing a closest fit calculation between the received encoded data block and each of the candidate sequences. The method is suitable for use in software-defined radios.
US11757469B2
Various embodiments include methods and devices for compression and decompression of weight data sets. Some embodiments may include compressing weight data by receiving a weight data set of binary numbers representing weight values, generating a frame payload including a compressed first frame of a first subset of the weight values in the weight data set, and generating a block of compressed weight data having the frame payload. Some embodiments may include decompressing weight data by retrieving a block of compressed weight data, in which the block of compressed weight data includes a frame header associated with a frame payload, in which the frame header includes a normalization factor indicator, and in which the frame payload includes compressed weight values, and generating a first decompressed frame comprising decompressed weight values of the compressed weight values of the frame payload.
US11757439B2
Delay elements and multiplexers are in programmable delay elements. Each programmable delay element has a chain of delay elements to produce successive delays of a clock of the programmable delay element. Each programmable delay element has a first multiplexer to select among an input clock and delay element outputs in the chain of delay elements to produce a skewed clock output of the programmable delay element. In at least a subset of the programmable delay elements, each programmable delay element has a second multiplexer to select among clocks that include a first clock, and a second clock that is from one of the delay elements of another programmable delay element to produce the clock of the programmable delay element.
US11757435B2
A circuit includes first and second power nodes having differing first and second voltage levels, and a reference node having a reference voltage level. A master latch outputs a first data bit based on a received data bit; a slave latch includes a first inverter that outputs a second data bit based on the first data bit and a second inverter that outputs an output data bit based on a selected one of the first data bit or a third data bit; a level shifter outputs the third data bit based on a fourth data bit; and a retention latch outputs the fourth data bit based on the second data bit. The first and second inverters and the level shifter are coupled between the first power node and the reference node, and the retention latch includes a plurality of transistors coupled between the second power node and the reference node.
US11757433B2
A spike generation circuit includes a first CMOS inverter connected between a first power supply and a second power supply, an output node of the first CMOS inverter being coupled to a first node that is an intermediate node coupled to an input terminal to which an input signal is input, a switch connected in series with the first CMOS inverter, between the first power supply and the second power supply, a first inverting circuit that outputs an inversion signal of a signal of the first node to a control terminal of the switch, and a delay circuit that delays the signal of the first node, outputs a delayed signal to an input node of the first CMOS inverter, and outputs an isolated output spike signal to an output terminal.
US11757425B2
A resonance device that includes a MEMS substrate including a resonator, an upper cover, and a bonding portion that bonds the MEMS substrate to the upper cover to seal a vibration space of the resonator. The bonding portion includes a eutectic layer composed of a eutectic alloy of germanium and a metal mainly containing aluminum, a first titanium (Ti) layer, a first aluminum oxide film, and a first conductive layer consecutively arranged from the MEMS substrate to the upper cover.
US11757409B2
An oscillator includes: a resonator element; a circuit element; and a container including a substrate mounted with the circuit element, in which the circuit element includes a first coupling terminal coupled to the resonator element, a second coupling terminal coupled to the resonator element and aligned in a first direction with the first coupling terminal in the first direction, and an output terminal disposed adjacent to the first coupling terminal in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, in the second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and in which the substrate includes a first surface mounted with the circuit element and a second surface, and the substrate includes a first coupling electrode provided on the first surface and coupled to the first coupling terminal, a second coupling electrode coupled to the second coupling terminal, an output electrode coupled to the output terminal, a first coupling wiring provided on the second surface and coupled to the first coupling electrode, a second coupling wiring coupled to the second coupling electrode, an output wiring coupled to the output electrode, and a shield wiring that is provided between the first coupling wiring and the output wiring and to which a direct-current potential is applied.
US11757408B2
An electrical field detector includes an electromechanical oscillator, part of which is included of a piezoelectric element, a frequency measuring device which is coupled to the oscillator so as to measure the oscillation frequency, and an electrical masking assembly. The electrical masking assembly is arranged close to the piezoelectric element so that, during an use of the detector, the piezoelectric element moves by vibrating relative to the electrical masking assembly. A variable part of the piezoelectric element is thus exposed to the electrical field to be measured. A change in the oscillating frequency then forms an electrical field measurement result.
US11757406B2
An oscillator circuit is provided, which relates to the field of electronic technologies, to improve performance of an oscillator. The oscillator circuit includes: a first amplifier (Am1) and a second amplifier (Am2), where the first amplifier (Am1) and the second amplifier (Am2) are switchable, and the oscillator circuit is operable in an inductive feedback mode or a negative resistance mode through switching. The oscillator circuit further includes a capacitive element and an inductive element, where the inductive element includes a tapped inductor that includes four terminals (V1, V2, V3, and V4), two of the four terminals are coupled to differential inputs of the first amplifier (Am1) and differential outputs of the second amplifier (Am2), and the other two terminals are coupled to differential outputs of the first amplifier (Am1).
US11757403B2
A telescopic guide assembly for bridging a first solar panel table and a second solar panel table is disclosed. The telescopic guide assembly may include an inner pipe partially disposed within an outer pipe. The inner pipe may be configured to rotate within the outer pipe and may be further configured to partially slide-in or slide-out of the outer pipe. The telescopic guide assembly may further include a first coupler configured to mechanically couple the inner pipe with the first solar panel table at an associated first position on an inner side of the first solar panel table facing a second solar panel table, and a second coupler configured to mechanically couple the outer pipe with the second solar panel table at an associated second position on an inner side of the second solar panel table facing the first solar panel table.
US11757400B1
This disclosure discusses devices for mounting solar PV panels to a roof and other mounting structures. One device may include a railless mounting assembly that includes a roof attachment bracket and a panel attachment bracket. The roof attachment bracket may include a spring clip and a hook. The device may include a solar panel frame with built-in detents for mounting. It may include a solar panel frame capable of attaching to the spring clip and hook.
US11757392B2
Provided are a controller and a program with which it is possible to easily output the state of mechanical loss in an induction motor. A controller for controlling industrial machinery that has an induction motor comprises: an electric power cutoff unit that cuts off the supply of electric power to the induction motor; a speed acquisition unit that acquires the speed of the induction motor; an acceleration calculation unit that calculates acceleration on the basis of the acquired speed; a moment-of-inertia acquisition unit that acquires the moment of inertia of a spindle of the induction motor; a mechanical loss calculation unit that calculates mechanical loss in the induction motor on the basis of the acquired speed, the calculated acceleration, and the acquired moment of inertia; and an output unit that outputs the calculated mechanical loss.
US11757391B1
A motor drive system of a vehicle includes: an inverter that receives power from a power source via a bus, where the inverter is connected to a motor of the vehicle; a driver that drives the inverter; a filter that filters a current signal received from the bus to generate a filtered signal; and a control module that operates in an impedance determination mode. The impedance determination mode includes: based on the filtered signal, controlling the driver and the inverter to generate a pulsed signal applied to the power source; determining a current level and a voltage of the power source due to generation of the pulsed signal, and determining impedance based on the current level and the voltage. The control modules are configured to: determine a characterization parameter of the power source based on the impedance; and perform a control operation or a countermeasure based on the characterization parameter.
US11757387B2
An electric motor assembly is configured to determine a motor winding resistance value. Predicted values are determined for a first and second position of motor commutator sections relative to the motor brushes, with at least one of the brushes contacting different numbers of the sections in the first position and the second position. The predicted values are based on a temperature value measured by the temperature sensor and a predetermined dependence of variation of the motor resistance dependent on the temperature value. An electric motor current value is measured by a current sensor when the electric motor is substantially at standstill. A selection is made between different factors for determining the motor resistance value using the electric current value, dependent on which of the predicted values most closely corresponds to the electric current value. The motor resistance is determined using said electric current value according to the selected factor.
US11757374B2
We describe techniques to reduce DC ripple voltage in an inverter by determining a plurality of switching events for each of the three phases in each Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) period. The switching events provide a desired target output voltage for the respective PWM period. From this determination of the switching events, a comparison can be made to determine a first time period between a first and second switching event across all of the phases, and a second time period between the second and a third switching event across all of the phases. The timing of one or more switching events in only one of the phases in the respective PWM period is adjusted in response to the determined time period being greater than a threshold in order to reduce the determined first or second time period.
US11757372B2
A measurement device configured to deliver a voltage corresponding to an overlay of an input voltage applied to the terminals of the measurement device and of an image voltage of a current circulating in a first capacitor to the terminals of which the input voltage is applied, the measurement device includes a shunt filter intended to be mounted in parallel with the first capacitor and comprising a second capacitor and a first resistor mounted in series with the second capacitor, a second resistor mounted in parallel with the second capacitor.
US11757364B2
The present disclosure relates to a new bidirectional low voltage DC-DC converter (LDC), that is, a DC-DC converter capable of satisfying a safety level required for an eco-friendly vehicle and an autonomous vehicle and improving power conversion performance, and a method and an apparatus for controlling the same. The LDC proposed in the present disclosure is a new concept bidirectional LDC in which a plurality of converters having the same power circuit topology are subjected to a parallel interleaving operation so as to enable both a buck operation and a boost operation, satisfy a high safety level, and improve power conversion performance. To this end, a plurality of bidirectional active-clamp flyback converters (for example, two or more bidirectional active-clamp flyback converters) are connected in parallel and are interleaved and controlled by a controller (for example, a microcomputer).
US11757362B2
The invention disclose a power supply circuit. The power supply circuit includes one or a plurality of first-stage voltage conversion circuits and one or a plurality of second-stage voltage conversion circuits; an input end of the first-stage voltage conversion circuit is coupled to a power supply; the first-stage voltage conversion circuit is configured to convert a first voltage received at the input end into a second voltage, where the second voltage is less than the first voltage; an input end of the second-stage voltage conversion circuit is coupled to an output end of the first-stage voltage conversion circuit; the second-stage voltage conversion circuit is configured to convert the second voltage into a third voltage, and supply the third voltage to a load.
US11757349B2
This disclosure is directed to power systems for transferring power between electrical components. An exemplary power system includes a first electrical component (e.g., an inverter system) having a current sensor assembly for detecting current flowing between the first electrical component and a second electrical component (e.g., an electric motor) in order to more reliably manage and control operation of the second electrical component. The current sensor assembly may include an integrated cooler that includes an internal cooling circuit configured to circulate coolant for cooling one or more bus bars of the current sensor assembly.
US11757348B2
A control device, for a power conversion device using a three-phase magnetic coupling reactor, includes: a first outer coil; a second outer coil; an inner coil disposed between the first outer coil and the second outer coil; and a core including a first outer core portion around which the first outer coil is wound, a second outer core portion around which the second outer coil is wound, and an inner core portion around which the inner coil is wound. Directions of magnetic fluxes generated in the first outer coil, the second outer coil, and the inner coil are opposite to each other in any combination. In a three-phase operation, the control device controls a value of the current flowing through the inner coil so as to approach values of the currents flowing through the first outer coil and the second outer coil.
US11757346B2
An embodiment circuit comprises first and second output nodes with an inductor arranged therebetween, and first and second switches coupled to opposed ends of the inductor. The switches are switchable between non-conductive and conductive states to control current flow through the inductor and produce first and second output voltages. The current intensity through the inductor is compared with at least one reference value. Switching control circuitry is coupled with the first and second switches, the first and second output nodes, and current sensing circuitry, which is configured to control the switching frequency of the first and second switches as a function of the output voltages and a comparison at the current sensing circuitry. The switching control circuitry is configured to apply FLL-FFWD processing to produce the reference values as a function of a timing signal, targeting maintaining a constant target value for the converter switching frequency.
US11757341B2
An actuator device includes a support part, a first movable part, a second movable part, a first connecting part, a second connecting part, a spiral coil provided to the second movable part, a magnetic field generator, a first external terminal provided to the support part; and a first wiring connected to an inner end portion of the coil and the first external terminal. The first wiring includes a lead wiring connected to the first external terminal, and a straddle wiring formed in a shape of a layer, provided to the second movable part so as to straddle the coil, and connected to the inner end portion of the coil and the lead wiring. A thickness of the straddle wiring is smaller than a thickness of the coil. The straddle wiring is electrically insulated from the mirror surface.
US11757339B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to electrically driven power end apparatus and methods, and associated components thereof. In one implementation, a power end for a pump includes a crankshaft coupled to a plurality of actuation rods, and a motor. The motor includes a rotor coupled to the crankshaft. The rotor includes a plurality of electrical coils wound at least partially around the rotor. The motor includes a stator disposed radially outside the rotor, and the stator includes one or more magnets. The plurality of electrical coils apply a magnetic force to the rotor to turn the crankshaft when the plurality of electrical coils are powered.
US11757328B2
A sealed induction motor for a chiller assembly is provided. The induction motor includes a stator, a rotor, and a shaft with a first end and a second end. The rotor and the shaft are configured to rotate relative to the stator. The induction motor further includes a first magnetic bearing assembly located proximate the first end of the shaft and a second magnetic bearing assembly located proximate the second end of the shaft. The first and the second magnetic bearing assemblies are configured to support the shaft. The shaft is coupled to a centrifugal compressor using a direct drive connection.
US11757312B2
A power receiving apparatus for receiving power transmitted by wireless power transmission from a power transmitting apparatus, comprises a first communication unit for communicating with the power transmitting apparatus, and a second communication unit for performing communication at a speed higher than the first communication unit. The power receiving apparatus determines, by communication via the first communication unit, whether the power transmitting apparatus has a function of transmitting/receiving, via the second communication unit, information for device authentication with the power transmitting apparatus, and enables the second communication unit to execute transmission/reception of the information for the device authentication with the power transmitting apparatus via the second communication unit if it is determined that the power transmitting apparatus has the function and the second communication unit is in a disabled state.
US11757304B2
An electrical distribution site energy management and router device, or SER device, may be installed between a customer premises and a distribution grid, and one or more alternative energy sources and energy storage devices may be electrically connected to the SER device. The SER device may intelligently route power from alternative energy sources to the customer premises, energy storage devices, even to the grid, through various modes of operation. The SER device may efficiently and economically route power during peak electricity price periods and outside of peak periods.
US11757295B2
A marine battery charger cable extender includes a terminal end that has a positive extender ring terminal and a negative extender ring terminal, and a connection end configured to connect to a terminal end of a pre-wired battery charger. The connection end includes a positive ring end, a positive ring connector configured to hold the positive ring end and galvanic connection with a positive ring terminal of the pre-wired battery charger, and a positive connection cover configured to completely encapsulate the connected positive ring end of the cable extender and the positive ring terminal of the pre-wired battery charger. The connection end also includes a negative ring end, a negative ring connector configured to hold the negative ring end in galvanic connection with a negative ring terminal of the pre-wired battery charger, and a negative connection cover configured to completely encapsulate the connected negative ring end of the cable extender and the negative ring terminal of the pre-wired battery charger.
US11757292B2
Embodiments are disclosed of an electronic power conversion apparatus. The apparatus includes a first circuit comprising a first plurality of bidirectional switches coupled in parallel and a second circuit comprising a second plurality of bidirectional switches coupled in parallel. The apparatus further includes a power converter circuit coupling the first and the second circuit. The apparatus includes a control circuit operatively coupled to the first and second plurality of bidirectional switches. The control circuit controls a state of each of the first and second plurality of bidirectional switches.
US11757286B2
A method for providing frequency response for a plant coupled to an electric power grid, the plant having an intermittent energy source, comprising: measuring frequency of the power output from the plant and determining a first difference between the measured frequency and a frequency reference; measuring power output from the plant and storing the measured power output as a stored value; while the first difference is within a deadband, determining a second difference as a difference between a power reference and the measured power output; while the first difference indicates over-frequency, determining the second difference as a difference between the stored value and the measured power output; while the first difference indicates under-frequency, setting the second difference equal to the power reference; generating an error by limiting a sum of the first and second differences between error limits; generating a control signal; and, applying the control signal to the source.
US11757283B2
The invention relates to a method and a system for providing current from a DC power supply to pulsed loads in an array. The array comprises at least two electronic units. Each electronic unit comprises a regulator connected to an energy storage, to a pulsed load and to a charge control unit. The charge control unit is arranged to control the supply of DC current to the pulsed load connected to the electronic unit. The method comprises: selecting a pulse load pattern for the pulsed loads, selecting a charge control sequence by a control system connected to the electronic units and the DC power supply, starting the selected charge control sequence, starting the pulse load pattern, providing DC current from the DC power supply to each electronic unit at different times according to the selected charge control sequence set by the charge control unit.
US11757281B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device includes: a first resistor coupled between a first input terminal of the ESD protection device and a first node of the ESD protection device; a second resistor coupled between the first node and a first output terminal of the ESD protection device; and a first ESD protection component coupled between the first node and a reference voltage terminal of the ESD protection device, where the reference voltage terminal is configured to be coupled to a reference voltage.
US11757256B2
A multi-junction VCSEL is formed by as a compact structure that reduces lateral current spreading by reducing the spacing between adjacent active regions in the stack of such regions used to from the multi-junction device. At least two of the active regions within the stack are located adjacent peaks of the intensity profile of the VCSEL, with an intervening tunnel junction positioned at a trough between the two peaks. The alignment of the active regions with the peaks maximizes the generated optical power, while the alignment of the tunnel junction with the trough minimizes optical loss. The close spacing on adjacent peaks forms a compact structure (which may even include a cavity having a sub-λ optical length) that lessens the total path traveled by carriers and therefore reduces lateral current spread.
US11757253B2
A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) may include an epitaxial structure that includes a first active layer, a second active layer, and a tunnel junction therebetween. The VCSEL may include a set of contacts that are electrically connected to the epitaxial structure. The set of contacts may include three or more contacts, and the set of contacts may be electrically separated from each other on the VCSEL. At least one contact, of the set of contacts, may be electrically connected to the epitaxial structure at a depth between the first active layer and the second active layer.
US11757251B2
A QCL may include a substrate, an emitting facet, and semiconductor layers adjacent the substrate and defining an active region. The active region may have a longitudinal axis canted at an oblique angle to the emitting facet of the substrate. The QCL may include an optical grating being adjacent the active region and configured to emit one of a CW laser output or a pulsed laser output through the emitting facet of substrate.
US11757245B2
An apparatus and method for cooling an optical fiber, comprising impinging electromagnetic radiation from a laser on an optical fiber comprising a core, in which the electromagnetic radiation is substantially confined, and a cladding, in thermal communication with the core, configured to provide optically activated cooling of the core via the electromagnetic radiation from the laser.
US11757227B2
A housing includes a plurality of cavities arranged in a width direction and housing-side engaging portions provided on both end sides in the width direction. A rear holder includes a plurality of insertion holes arranged in the width direction and communicating with the cavities, and holder-side engaging portions provided on both end sides in the width direction to contact the housing-side engaging portions. Terminals are connected to wires arranged from the insertion holes to the cavities. The housing-side engaging portions are arranged to cover the holder-side engaging portions from outside. A guide receiving portion extending in a front-rear direction is provided on an inner surface of the housing-side engaging portion. A guide portion extending in the front-rear direction and to be fit to the guide receiving portion is provided on an outer surface of the holder-side engaging portion.
US11757214B2
A terminal block with a handle structure includes an insulation base having an accommodation space, an insertion port, and a side opening. The insulation base has a limit column and a pivot part formed in the accommodation space. A conductive terminal includes a conductive body and plural lead pins, and the conductive body is positioned in the accommodation space, and the lead pin passes out from the insulation base. An elastic plate includes an abutting arm with a curved surface, a bend section sheathing the limit column, and the abutting arm is suspended on a side of the insertion port, and a pivot of the handle structure is combined with the pivot part to make a handle protrude from the insulation base, and a pressing cam abuts against the curved surface of the abutting arm, so that the handle structure may avoid damages and provide a labor-saving effect.
US11757210B2
Method of manufacturing a ground apparatus and ground apparatus comprising an aluminum nut (16) having an internal thread and adapted to clamp an eyelet (28) of an electrical conductor on a corresponding contact area of the stud (12), wherein the nut (16) has at least one coating (30) which contains at least zinc, characterized in that the coating further comprises tin, in that the coating consists of an acid tin-zinc electroplating on the aluminum nut (16) and is such that the tin is between 60 and 80% by weight of the coating and the tin-zinc coating forms a layer with an average thickness of from about 5 to 16 microns.
US11757205B2
An antenna comprising a ground plane, a composite radiation patch, and an excitation circuit is described herein. The composite radiation patch is disposed on a printed circuit board and comprises a conducting plate and a plurality of conductive strips. The composite radiation patch comprises an outer region and an inner region separated by a circle of a given radius. The conducting plate comprises 1) a first set of arcuate slots disposed on the circle and 2) a second set of slots each contacting an external perimeter of the conducting plate at one end and a corresponding slot of the first set of arcuate slots at another end. The plurality of conductive strips is disposed within the outer region of the composite radiation patch, with one or more of the plurality of conductive strips galvanically contacting the conducting plate. The excitation circuit is disposed on the printed circuit board for exciting a right hand circularly polarized wave. The excitation circuit comprises a plurality of microstrip lines and a feeding network to which the plurality of microstrip lines are connected.
US11757203B2
Disclosed is an antenna apparatus including a first subassembly having a plurality of antenna elements, and a second subassembly adhered to the first subassembly. The second subassembly may include a plurality of components of a beamforming network encapsulated within a molding material. One or more interconnect layers may be disposed on the molding material to electrically couple the plurality of components of the beamforming network to the plurality of antenna elements. Methods of fabricating the antenna apparatus are also disclosed.
US11757196B2
An antenna includes a dielectric substrate having a planar shape. The dielectric substrate has a first side and a second side. An elongated feed is disposed on the first side of the substrate. A ground plane is disposed adjacent to and spaced apart from the feed on the first side of the substrate. A meander has a first end coupled to the elongated feed. The meander comprises a second end disposed opposite the first end. A first extension extends from the second end adjacent to the meander. A second extension extends from the second end adjacent to the meander.
US11757194B2
An electronic device includes a display panel on which a display area and a peripheral area around the display area are defined, a patch part disposed on the display panel and including a first side and a second side, a first transmission part disposed on the display panel, facing the first side of the patch part, spaced apart from the patch part, and coupled with the patch part, and a second transmission part disposed on the display panel, facing the second side of the patch part, spaced a plurality of openings part from the patch part, and coupled with the patch part.
US11757186B1
An ultra-wide band dipole antenna assembly for transmitting or receiving electromagnetic signals is disclosed herein. The antenna assembly comprises a dipole antenna element and coplanar waveguide feeding network. The dipole antenna delivers the ultra-wide band matching through a pre-determined arrangement after the coplanar waveguide feeding network is applied.
US11757185B2
A system includes a distributed ledger storing one or more smart contracts; one or more 5G small cells, each having one or more antennas mounted on a housing, each small cell sending packets of data trackable with the distributed ledger; and a processor to control a directionality of the antennas in communication with a predetermined target using 5G protocols.
US11757182B2
A millimeter wave RF phase shifter includes an input and an output. The RF phase shifter further includes a transmission line coupled to the input. The transmission line can include a plurality of taps. The RF phase shifter can further include a plurality of switching devices. Each switching device can be coupled between the output and a corresponding tap of the plurality of taps. The RF phase shifter can include a control device operatively coupled to the plurality of switching devices. The control device can be configured to control operation of the plurality of switching devices to selectively couple one of the plurality of taps to the output to control a phase shift of a RF signal propagating on the transmission line.
US11757169B2
An architecture for, and techniques for fabricating, a thermal decoupling device are provided. In some embodiments, thermal decoupling device can be included in a thermally decoupled cryogenic microwave filter. In some embodiments, the thermal decoupling device can comprise a dielectric material and a conductive line. The dielectric material can comprise a first channel that is separated from a second channel by a wall of the dielectric material. The conductive line can comprise a first segment and a second segment that are separated by the wall. The wall can facilitate propagation of a microwave signal between the first segment and the second segment and can reduce heat flow between the first segment and the second segment of the conductive line.
US11757165B2
This document describes a folded waveguide for antenna. The folded waveguide may be an air waveguide and includes a hollow core that forms a rectangular opening in a longitudinal direction at one end, a closed wall at an opposite end, and a sinusoidal shape that folds back and forth about a longitudinal axis that runs in the longitudinal direction through the hollow core. The hollow core forms a plurality of radiation slots, each including a hole through one of multiple surfaces that defines the hollow core. The radiation slots are arranged on the one surface to produce a particular antenna pattern. The radiation slots and sinusoidal shape enable the folded waveguide to prevent grating lobes from appearing in the particular antenna pattern on either side of a horizontal-polarity, main beam, or to prevent X-band lobes from appearing in the particular antenna pattern on either side of a vertical-polarity, main beam.
US11757163B2
Disclosed is a terminal cover, which covers a terminal of a battery pack and is detachably mounted to the battery pack. The terminal cover includes a cover body coupled to a pack case of the battery pack by hook coupling, and a detachment guide unit provided at both side surfaces of the cover body to allow the hook coupling of the cover body to be released based on pressing by a user.
US11757157B2
The present disclosure relates to a cap assembly and a secondary battery. The cap assembly includes a cap plate, an electrode terminal, a fixing member and a connection member. The cap plate includes an electrode lead-out hole, the electrode terminal includes a terminal board, the terminal board is located at a side of the cap plate and covers the electrode lead-out hole, the fixing member at least partially surrounds the terminal board to fix the terminal board to the fixing member, the connection member is separated from the electrode terminal by the fixing member, and the connection member is connected with the cap plate. The connection member includes a main body, the main body is provided with a first groove opened downwardly along a top of the main body, and a part of the fixing member is located in the first groove.
US11757154B2
Disclosed are a battery apparatus and an electronic device. The battery apparatus includes: a first shell including a first tubular side wall and a top cap; and a second shell including a second tubular side wall and a bottom cap, wherein a recessed structure is formed in at least part of a connection region between the second tubular side wall and the bottom cap; the first tubular side wall sleeves the second tubular side wall; an insulation sealing piece is arranged between the first tubular side wall and the second tubular side wall; a portion of the first tubular side wall close to its open end is bent towards the recessed structure along part of a circumference of the open end to form a partial crimped edge; and the partial crimped edge is clamped to the recessed structure.
US11757153B2
A cylindrical battery with an opening sealing body that seals an opening of a battery can. The opening sealing body includes a valve member, a metal plate disposed on an inner side of the battery with respect to the valve member, and an annular insulating member interposed between the valve member and the metal plate. The valve member and the metal plate are connected to each other at respective central portions. The valve member has an annular thin-walled portion which is deformable when an internal pressure of the battery increases. The metal plate and the insulating member have respective holes which communicate with each other. The insulating member has a section that covers a surface, on the valve member side, of the metal plate, and a section that is provided subsequent to the section and covers a lateral surface of the hole of the metal plate.
US11757135B2
The present invention relates to an electrolytic solution for a lithium secondary battery, and a lithium secondary battery comprising the same. The lithium secondary battery according to the present invention employs the electrolytic solution for a lithium secondary battery, containing a difluorophosphite compound, according to the present invention, and thus has improved characteristics.
US11757127B2
A method of manufacturing a lithium solid electrolyte, the method including: providing a composition including a lithium precursor, a lanthanum precursor, and a zirconium precursor; disposing the composition on a substrate having a temperature of 270° C. to 500° C. to form a film; and heat-treating the film at 300° C. to less than 750° C. for 1 hour to 100 hours to manufacture the lithium solid electrolyte.
US11757109B2
The invention provides a hybrid power system, which integrates an internal combustion engine with a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stack and provides power for the vehicle through the internal combustion engine at first in the preheating stage of the SOFC stack, thereby solving the problem that an SOFC stack is unable to provide power for the vehicle in the preheating stage. At the same time, the internal combustion engine burns fuel gas, outputs high temperature exhaust gas, heats the heat exchanger with the high temperature exhaust gas, then discharges the exhaust gas from an exhaust turbine and inhales air from the outside of the system. The air first passes through an air preheater, then passes through a heat exchanger and then enters the inside of the SOFC stack, preheats the air preheater through an air pipeline and then is discharged. After multiple cycles, the preheating of the SOFC stack is completed. As the air preheater is connected to the heat exchanger in series to heat the air, the heating speed of the air entering the SOFC stack is raised, the preheating time is shortened and a quick start of the SOFC stack is achieved so that the SOFC stack can be used to achieve the purpose of providing power for the vehicle efficiently.
US11757106B2
A porous body includes a framework having a three-dimensional network structure, the framework having a body including crystal grains including nickel and cobalt as constituent elements, the cobalt having a proportion in mass of 0.2 or more and 0.8 or less with respect to a total mass of the nickel and the cobalt, the crystal grains having a shorter grain diameter of 2 μm or more, as determined in a first observed image obtained by observing the body of the framework in cross section at a magnification of 200 times.
US11757098B2
A negative electrode includes a current collector and a negative electrode active material layer that is provided on the current collector and includes a negative electrode active material. The negative electrode active material includes a carbon material, and a surface of the negative electrode active material layer has a spectral reflectance Ra in a range of 7.0≤Ra≤10.8% at a wavelength of 550 nm.
US11757094B2
A battery includes a cathode layer, a cathode current collector on the cathode layer, an anode layer on the cathode layer, an anode current collector on the anode layer, a separator between the cathode layer and the anode layer, and an electrolyte, wherein the cathode layer includes a plurality of crystal grains of a cathode active material and aligned in a first direction, and at least one groove formed in a direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the cathode layer that is in contact with the separator, and wherein a side surface of the cathode layer exposed by the at least one groove is aligned with a <101> crystal direction, a
US11757093B2
Provided herein are energy storage device electrode films comprising a hybrid electrode film, and methods of forming such multilayer hybrid electrode films and energy storage devices comprising multilayer hybrid electrode films. Each hybrid electrode film may comprise a self-supporting dry coated active layer and a wet cast active layer, wherein each active layer comprises a binder and an active material. The binder and/or active material may be the same or different as any other active layer. The hybrid multilayer electrode film may further comprise at least one additional layer, and the hybrid multilayer electrode film may be laminated with a current collector to form an electrode.
US11757091B2
A method for preparing a sulfur-carbon composite including the steps of: (a) mixing a carbon-based material with sulfur or a sulfur compound; (b) placing the sulfur-carbon mixture mixed in step (a) and a liquid which is vaporizable into a sealable container; and (c) heating the sealed container to a temperature of 120 to 200° C.; a positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery including the sulfur-carbon composite prepared by the above method, and a lithium secondary battery including the above positive electrode.
US11757084B2
A lithium-ion secondary battery includes an inorganic filler having a mean particle size of 1 μm to 10 μm. A ratio A/B is 14 to 28, where A is a weight ratio of a second binder and the inorganic filler (i.e., second binder/inorganic filler) in an insulating layer, and B is a weight ratio of a first binder and positive electrode active material particles (i.e., first binder/positive electrode active material particles) in a positive electrode active material layer.
US11757076B2
A light source module includes a circuit board, light emitting diode chips on an upper surface of the circuit board, the light emitting diode chips being spaced apart and each emitting blue light and having a first surface facing the upper surface of the circuit board, a second surface opposite the first surface, and first and second electrodes on the first surface, a first multilayer reflective structure on the second surface and including a plurality of alternately stacked insulating layers having different refractive indices, and a lens respectively covering each of the light emitting diode chips and contacting the upper surface of the circuit board at an acute contact angle, the lens having a thickness of 2.5 mm or less from the upper surface of the circuit board, and a contact region with the upper surface of the circuit board with a diameter of 1 mm to 3 mm.
US11757064B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor nanoparticle, the method includes performing a heat treatment of a first mixture containing a silver (Ag) salt, an alkali metal salt, a salt containing at least one of indium (In) and gallium (Ga), a sulfur source, and an organic solvent. A ratio of the number of atoms of an alkali metal to the total number of atoms of Ag and the alkali metal in the first mixture is greater than 0 and less than 1.
US11757063B2
A method for manufacturing a linear light source includes: providing a base having a first surface defining recesses in an array in a first direction, and a second surface having a curved contour in a cross section orthogonal to the first direction and a straight contour in a cross section parallel to the first direction; providing light sources each having a top surface and a bottom surface including electrodes; placing the light sources at positions overlapping the recesses in a plan view with the top surface of the light source facing a bottom surface of the recess; placing a first reflective member to cover the light sources and the first surface so that the electrodes of the light sources are exposed; placing a second reflective member on the second surface; and cutting the base along the first direction to define a third surface continuous with the first and second surfaces.
US11757059B2
A photosensitive sensor, a manufacturing method thereof and a display panel are provided. The photosensitive sensor includes a first type semiconductor layer, an intrinsic semiconductor layer disposed on a side of the first type semiconductor layer, and a second type semiconductor layer disposed on a side of the intrinsic semiconductor layer away from the first type semiconductor layer. The intrinsic semiconductor layer is provided with metal particles capable of generating a surface plasmon effect. The metal particles are dispersely distributed in the intrinsic semiconductor layer.
US11757055B2
An electromagnetic wave detector 100 comprises: a substrate 5 having a front surface and a back surface; an insulating layer 4 formed of a rare earth oxide, which is provided on the front surface of the substrate 5; a pair of electrodes 2 provided on the insulating layer 4 so as to be arranged to face each other across a gap; and a two-dimensional material layer 1 provided on the insulating layer 4 so as to be electrically connected to the pair of electrodes 2. The rare earth oxide contains a base material made of an oxide of a first rare earth element, and a second rare earth element different from the first rare earth element, which is activated in the base material.
US11757052B2
A semiconductor light receiving element includes a first semiconductor layer, a waveguide type photodiode structure, an optical waveguide structure, and a fourth semiconductor layer. The waveguide type photodiode structure is provided on the first semiconductor layer. The waveguide type photodiode structure includes an optical absorption layer, a second semiconductor layer, a multiplication layer, and a third semiconductor layer. The optical waveguide structure is provided on the first semiconductor layer. The optical waveguide structure includes an optical waveguiding core layer and a cladding layer. An end face of the waveguide type photodiode structure faces to an end face of the optical waveguide structure. The fourth semiconductor layer is located between the end face of the waveguide type photodiode structure and the end face of the optical waveguide structure. The fourth semiconductor layer contacts the multiplication layer at the end face of the waveguide type photodiode structure.
US11757045B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first poly-material pattern, a first conductive element, a first semiconductor layer, and a first gate structure. The first poly-material pattern is over and protrudes outward from the substrate, wherein the first poly-material pattern includes a first active portion and a first poly-material portion joined to the first active portion. The first conductive element is over the substrate, wherein the first conductive element includes the first poly-material portion and a first metallic conductive portion covering at least one of a top surface and a sidewall of the first poly-material portion. The first semiconductor layer is over the substrate and covers the first active portion of the first poly-material pattern and the first conductive element. The first gate structure is over the first semiconductor layer located within the first active portion.
US11757042B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a first interconnect structure including metallization patterns; a second interconnect structure including a power rail; a device layer between the first interconnect structure and the second interconnect structure, the device layer including a first transistor, the first transistor including an epitaxial source/drain region; and a conductive via extending through the device layer, the conductive via connecting the power rail to the metallization patterns, the conductive via contacting the epitaxial source/drain region.
US11757039B2
Example embodiments relate to methods for inducing stress in semiconductor devices. One method includes a method for producing a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device configured to conduct current through the controlled density of charge carriers in a channel area. The charge carriers of the first semiconductor device have opposite polarity to the charge carriers of the second semiconductor device. The method includes producing a stress relaxed buffer (SRD) layer. The back side of the SRB layer is positioned on a substrate. The method also includes producing a semiconductor layer on the front side of the SRB layer. Additionally, the method includes producing the first semiconductor device and the second semiconductor device on the semiconductor layer, removing the substrate, thinning the SRB layer, producing a cavity in the SRB layer, and filling the cavity with a material to create a stress compensation area.
US11757037B2
Epitaxial oxide plugs are described for imposing strain on a channel region of a proximate channel region of a transistor. The oxide plugs form epitaxial and coherent contact with one or more source and drain regions adjacent to the strained channel region. The epitaxial oxide plugs can be used to either impart strain to an otherwise unstrained channel region (e.g., for a semiconductor body that is unstrained relative to an underlying buffer layer), or to restore, maintain, or increase strain within a channel region of a previously strained semiconductor body. The epitaxial crystalline oxide plugs have a perovskite crystal structure in some embodiments.
US11757033B2
A wide band gap semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a trench formed in the semiconductor layer, first, second, and third regions having particular conductivity types and defining sides of the trench, and a first electrode embedded inside an insulating film in the trench. The second region integrally includes a first portion arranged closer to a first surface of the semiconductor layer than to a bottom surface of the trench, and a second portion projecting from the first portion toward a second surface of the semiconductor layer to a depth below a bottom surface of the trench. The second portion of the second region defines a boundary surface with the third region, the boundary region being at an incline with respect to the first surface of the semiconductor layer.
US11757032B2
A transistor is disclosed. In an embodiment a transistor includes a first semiconductor region of a substrate, a first trench delimiting the first semiconductor region on a first side, a first electrically-conductive element located in the first trench, a channel area in contact with the first semiconductor region and a first area of contact with the first semiconductor region, wherein the channel area and the first area of contact are on the same surface side of the substrate.
US11757031B2
According to an embodiment of a semiconductor device, the device includes: a plurality of device cells formed in a semiconductor substrate, each device cell including a transistor structure and a Schottky diode structure; and a superjunction structure that includes alternating regions of a first conductivity type and of a second conductivity type formed in the semiconductor substrate. For each transistor structure, a channel region of the transistor structure and a Schottky metal region of an adjacent one of the Schottky diode structures are interconnected by semiconductor material of the first conductivity type without interruption by any of the regions of the second conductivity type of the superjunction structure, the semiconductor material of the first conductivity type including one or more of the regions of the first conductivity type of the superjunction structure.
US11757027B2
Embodiments include a transistor and methods of forming such transistors. In an embodiment, the transistor comprises a semiconductor substrate, a barrier layer over the semiconductor substrate; a polarization layer over the barrier layer, an insulating layer over the polarization layer, a gate electrode through the insulating layer and the polarization layer, a spacer along sidewalls of the gate electrode, and a gate dielectric between the gate electrode and the barrier layer.
US11757021B2
The present disclosure provide a method for using a hard mask layer on a top surface of fin structures to form a fin-top mask layer. The fin-top mask layer can function as an etch stop for subsequent processes. Using the fin-top hard mask layer allows a thinner conformal dielectric layer to be used to protect semiconductor fins during the subsequent process, such as during etching of sacrificial gate electrode layer. Using a thinner conformal dielectric layer can reduce the pitch of fins, particularly for input/output devices.
US11757018B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes forming an n-type doped region in a semiconductor substrate and forming a semiconductor stack over the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor stack has multiple sacrificial layers and multiple semiconductor layers laid out alternately. The method also includes introducing n-type dopants from the n-type doped region into the semiconductor stack during the forming of the semiconductor stack. The method further includes patterning the semiconductor stack to form a fin structure and forming a dummy gate stack to wrap around a portion of the fin structure. In addition, the method includes removing the dummy gate stack and the sacrificial layers to release multiple semiconductor nanostructures made up of remaining portions of the semiconductor layers. The method includes forming a metal gate stack to wrap around the semiconductor nanostructures.
US11757015B2
A semiconductor device including a substrate; a gate structure on the substrate; a gate spacer on a sidewall of the gate structure; and a polishing stop pattern on the gate structure and the gate spacer, the polishing stop pattern including a first portion covering an upper surface of the gate structure and an upper surface of the gate spacer; and a second portion extending from the first portion in a vertical direction substantially perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate, wherein an upper surface of a central portion of the first portion of the polishing stop pattern is higher than an upper surface of an edge portion of the first portion thereof, and the upper surface of the central portion of the first portion of the polishing stop pattern is substantially coplanar with an upper surface of the second portion thereof.
US11757010B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes separating an interlayer dielectric (ILD) into a plurality of portions. The plurality of portions of ILD, separated from each other along a first lateral direction and a second lateral direction, overlay a plurality of groups of epitaxial regions, respectively. The method includes performing an etching process to expose the plurality of groups of epitaxial regions, wherein the etching process comprises a plurality of stages, each of the stages comprising a respective etchant. The method includes forming a plurality of conductive contacts electrically coupled to the plurality of epitaxial regions, respectively.
US11757006B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided, the method including forming an intermediate region including Alx3Ga1-x3N (0
US11757001B2
A high voltage superjunction MOSFET includes a semiconductor substrate and a semiconductor layer having columns of first and second conductivity. A buffer layer of the first conductivity is between the semiconductor substrate and semiconductor layer. A plug region of the second conductivity is formed at a semiconductor layer surface and extends to the columns. A source/drain region is formed at the semiconductor layer surface and is connected to the plug region. The source/drain region has a concentration of the first conductivity between about 1×1019 cm−3 and 1.5×1020 cm−3. A body region of the second conductivity is between the source/drain region and the first column and is connected to the plug region. A gate trench is formed in the semiconductor layer surface and extends toward the first column and has a trench gate electrode disposed therein. A dielectric layer separates the trench gate electrode from the first column.
US11756996B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate material with a semiconductor material with a predetermined crystal orientation, a gate stack having a plurality of nanosheet channel layers, each nanosheet channel layer being controlled by metal gate layers located above and below the nanosheet channel layer, each nanosheet channel layer having the same semiconductor material and crystal orientation as that of the substrate, and a source/drain region on opposite sides of the gate stack. Each source/drain region includes bridging structures respectively connected to each nanosheet channel layer.
US11756994B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor base body, and a first main electrode and a second main electrode provided on the semiconductor base body. The semiconductor base body includes a drift region of a first conductivity type through which a main current flows, a column region of a second conductivity type arranged adjacent to the drift region in parallel to a current passage of the main current, a second electrode-connection region of the first conductivity type electrically connected to the second main electrode, and a low-density electric-field relaxation region of the first conductivity type having a lower impurity concentration than the drift region and arranged between the second electrode-connection region and the column region.
US11756987B2
A memory device, transistor, and methods of making the same, the memory device including a memory cell including: a bottom electrode layer; a high-k dielectric layer disposed on the bottom electrode layer; a discontinuous seed structure comprising discrete particles of a metal disposed on the high-k dielectric layer; a ferroelectric (FE) layer disposed on the seed structure and directly contacting portions of high-k dielectric layer exposed through the seed structure; and a top electrode layer disposed on the FE layer.
US11756980B2
A light emitting package includes a first LED sub-unit having first and second opposed surfaces, a second LED sub-unit disposed on the second surface of the first LED sub-unit, a third LED sub-unit disposed on the second LED sub-unit, a plurality of connection electrodes having side surfaces and electrically connected to at least one of the LED sub-units, the connection electrodes covering a side surface of at least one of the LED sub-units, a first passivation layer surrounding at least the sides surfaces of the connection electrodes, the first passivation layer exposing at least a portion of the first surface of the first LED sub-unit, a substrate having first and second opposed surfaces, with the first surface of the substrate facing the LED sub-units, and a first electrode disposed on the first surface of the substrate and connected to at least one of the connection electrodes.
US11756978B2
In some examples, an apparatus comprises: a first photodiode to sense a first component of light associated with a first wavelength, and a second photodiode configured to sense a second component of the light associated with a second wavelength, the first component and the second component being associated with, respectively, a first wavelength and a second wavelength. The apparatus further comprises a first optical structure and a second optical structure positioned over, respectively, the first photodiode and the second photodiode. The first optical structure is configured to increase a propagation path of the first component of the light within the first photodiode and has a first optical property based on the first wavelength. The second optical structure is configured to increase a propagation path of the second component of the light within the second photodiode, and has a second optical property based on the second wavelength.
US11756969B2
A method for fabricating an image sensor array having a first group of photodiodes for detecting light at visible wavelengths a second group of photodiodes for detecting light at infrared or near-infrared wavelengths, the method including growing a germanium-silicon layer on a semiconductor donor wafer; defining pixels of the image sensor array on the germanium-silicon layer; defining a first interconnect layer on the germanium-silicon layer, wherein the interconnect layer includes a plurality of interconnects coupled to the first group of photodiodes and the second group of photodiodes; defining integrated circuitry for controlling the pixels of the image sensor array on a semiconductor carrier wafer; defining a second interconnect layer on the semiconductor carrier wafer, wherein the second interconnect layer includes a plurality of interconnects coupled to the integrated circuitry; and bonding the first interconnect layer with the second interconnect layer.
US11756962B2
Provided is a semiconductor device including a substrate, one hybrid fin, a gate, and a dielectric structure. The substrate includes at least two fins. The hybrid fin is disposed between the at least two fins. The gate covers portions of the at least two fins and the hybrid fin. The dielectric structure lands on the hybrid fin to divide the gate into two segment. The two segments are electrically isolated to each other by the dielectric structure and the hybrid fin. The hybrid fin includes a first portion, disposed between the two segments of the gate; and a second portion, disposed aside the first portion, wherein a top surface of the second portion is lower than a top surface of the first portion.
US11756957B2
A semiconductor device structure and method for fabricating the same. The semiconductor device structure includes a first vertical transport field effect transistor (VTFET) comprising at least a first gate structure having a first gate length, and a second VTFET stacked on the first VTFET and comprising at least a second gate structure having a second gate length that is less than the first gate length. The method includes forming, on a substrate, a first VTFET including at least a first gate structure having a first gate length. The method further includes forming a second VTFET stacked on the first VTFET and including at least a second gate structure having a second gate length that is less than the first gate length.
US11756954B2
A silicon carbide MOSFET device includes a gate pad area, a main MOSFET area and a secondary MOSFET area. A main source contact is electrically coupled to the source region of each of the main MOSFETs, and a separate secondary source contact is electrically coupled to the source region of each of the secondary MOSFETs. A gate contact electrically connects to each of the insulated gate members of the main and secondary MOSFETs. An asymmetric gate clamping circuit is coupled between the secondary source contact and the gate contact. In a first mode of operation of the MOSFET device the main source contact is electrically coupled with the secondary source contact to activate the gate clamping circuit. When activated, the circuit clamping a gate-to-source voltage to a first clamp voltage in an on-state of the MOSFET device, and to a second clamp voltage in an off-state of the MOSFET device.
US11756953B2
A semiconductor device includes a P-doped well having a first concentration of P-type dopants in the substrate; a P-doped region having a second concentration of P-type dopants in the substrate and extending around a perimeter of the P-doped well; a shallow trench isolation structure (STI) between the P-doped well and the P-doped region; an active area on the substrate, the active area including an emitter region and a collector region; a deep trench isolation structure (DTI) extending through the active area and between the emitter region and the collector region; and an electrical connection between the emitter region and the P-doped region.
US11756950B2
An integrated circuit includes a first circuit with m first units coupled in parallel, any of the first units including one or more first transistors coupled in series, and a second circuit with n second units coupled in parallel, any of the second units including one or more second transistors coupled in series. A gate terminal of the first circuit is coupled to a gate terminal of the second circuit. M and n are different positive integers.
US11756946B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a plurality of memory chips and a circuit chip. The plurality of memory chips and the circuit chip are stacked on each other. Each of the plurality of memory chips has a memory cell array that includes a plurality of memory cells. The circuit chip includes a data latch configured to store page data for writing or reading data into or from the memory cell array of each of the memory chips.
US11756938B2
A light emitting device includes: a substrate; a first electrode and a second electrode on the substrate and spaced apart from each other; a light emitting diode between the first electrode and the second electrode and connected to the first and second electrodes; a first contact on the first electrode; and a second contact on the second electrode. The first contact contacts the first electrode and a first portion of the light emitting diode, and the second contact contacts the second electrode and a second portion of the light emitting diode.
US11756929B2
A semiconductor package includes a first chip, a first chip and a molding compound. The first chip has a first via protruding from the first chip. The second chip has a second via protruding from the second chip, wherein a thickness of the first chip is different from a thickness of the second chip. The molding compound encapsulates the first chip, the second chip, the first via and the second via, wherein surfaces of the first via, the second via and the molding compound are substantially coplanar.
US11756921B2
A method includes determining a first offset between a first alignment mark on a first side of a first wafer and a second alignment mark on a second side of the first wafer; aligning the first alignment mark of the first wafer to a third alignment mark on a first side of a second wafer, which includes detecting a location of the second alignment mark of the first wafer; determining a location of the first alignment mark of the first wafer based on the first offset and the location of the second alignment mark of the first wafer; and, based on the determined location of the first alignment mark, repositioning the first wafer to align the first alignment mark to the third alignment mark; and bonding the first side of the first wafer to the first side of the second wafer to form a bonded structure.
US11756917B2
A method for processing a semiconductor wafer is provided. A semiconductor wafer includes a first main surface and a second main surface. Defects are generated inside the semiconductor wafer to define a detachment plane parallel to the first main surface. Processing the first main surface defines a plurality of electronic semiconductor components. A glass structure is provided which includes a plurality of openings. The glass structure is attached to the processed first main surface, each of the plurality of openings leaving a respective area of the plurality of electronic semiconductor components uncovered. A polymer layer is applied to the second main surface and the semiconductor wafer is split into a semiconductor slice and a remaining semiconductor wafer by cooling the polymer layer beneath its glass transition temperature along the detachment plane. The semiconductor slice includes the plurality of electronic semiconductor components.
US11756905B2
An illustrative embodiment of a packaged integrated circuit includes: an integrated circuit chip having a SerDes signal pad; and a package substrate having a core via and an arrangement of micro-vias connecting the SerDes signal pad to an external contact for solder ball connection to a PCB trace. The core via has a first parasitic capacitance, the solder ball connection is associated with a second parasitic capacitance, and the arrangement of micro-vias provides a pi-network inductance that improves connection impedance matching. An illustrative method embodiment includes: obtaining an expected impedance of the PCB trace; determining parasitic capacitances of a core via and a solder ball connection to the PCB trace; minimizing the core via capacitance; calculating a pi-network inductance that improves impedance matching with the PCB trace; and adjusting a micro-via arrangement between the core via and the solder ball connection to provide the pi-network inductance.
US11756893B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first wafer comprising a first substrate and a plurality of first alignment marks positioned on the first substrate and parallel to each other; and a second wafer positioned on the first wafer and comprising a plurality of second alignment marks positioned above the plurality of first alignment marks. The plurality of second alignment marks are arranged parallel to the plurality of first alignment marks and adjacent to the plurality of first alignment marks in a top-view perspective. The plurality of first alignment marks and the plurality of second alignment marks comprise a fluorescence material.
US11756892B2
A method for forming a chip package structure is provided. The method includes forming a first redistribution structure over a first carrier substrate. The method includes bonding a chip structure to the first surface through a first conductive bump. The method includes forming a first molding layer over the first redistribution structure. The method includes removing the first carrier substrate. The method includes forming a second conductive bump over the second surface. The method includes forming a second redistribution structure over a second carrier substrate. The method includes bonding the first redistribution structure to the third surface. The method includes forming a second molding layer over the second redistribution structure. The method includes removing the second carrier substrate. The method includes removing a portion of the second redistribution structure from the fourth surface. The method includes forming a third conductive bump over the fourth surface.
US11756886B2
Microelectronic assemblies fabricated using hybrid manufacturing, as well as related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. As used herein, “hybrid manufacturing” refers to fabricating a microelectronic assembly by arranging together at least two IC structures fabricated by different manufacturers, using different materials, or different manufacturing techniques. For example, a microelectronic assembly may include a first IC structure that includes first interconnects and a second IC structure that includes second interconnects, where at least some of the first and second interconnects may include a liner and an electrically conductive fill material, and where a material composition of the liner/electrically conductive fill material of the first interconnects may be different from a material composition of the liner/electrically conductive fill material of the second interconnects.
US11756885B2
The present application discloses a method for fabricating a semiconductor device with metal spacers. The method includes providing a substrate; forming a plurality of plugs above the substrate; forming a plurality of metal spacers above the plurality of plugs; and, forming a plurality of air gaps positioned between the plurality of plugs; wherein the step of forming wherein the plurality of metal spacers comprises forming a first set of metal spacers, forming a second set of metal spacers, forming a third set of metal spacers, and forming a fourth set of metal spacers; wherein the second set of metal spacers is formed between the first set of metal spacers and the third set of metal spacers, and the third set of metal spacers is formed between the second set of metal spacers and the fourth set of metal spacers.
US11756882B2
A semiconductor package includes a metallic pad and leads, a semiconductor die including a semiconductor substrate attached to the metallic pad, and a conductor including a sacrificial fuse element above the semiconductor substrate, the sacrificial fuse element being electrically coupled between one of the leads and at least one terminal of the semiconductor die, and a multilayer dielectric between the sacrificial fuse element and the semiconductor substrate, the multilayer dielectric forming one or more planar gaps beneath a profile of the sacrificial fuse element.
US11756880B2
Representative techniques and devices, including process steps may be employed to mitigate undesired dishing in conductive interconnect structures and erosion of dielectric bonding surfaces. For example, an embedded layer may be added to the dished or eroded surface to eliminate unwanted dishing or voids and to form a planar bonding surface. Additional techniques and devices, including process steps may be employed to form desired openings in conductive interconnect structures, where the openings can have a predetermined or desired volume relative to the volume of conductive material of the interconnect structures. Each of these techniques, devices, and processes can provide for the use of larger diameter, larger volume, or mixed-sized conductive interconnect structures at the bonding surface of bonded dies and wafers.
US11756877B2
A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, memory stack structures vertically extending through the alternating stack, a finned dielectric moat structure including a dielectric core portion vertically extending through each layer within the alternating stack and a vertical stack of dielectric fin portions laterally extending outward from the dielectric core portion, a vertical stack of insulating plates and dielectric material plates laterally surrounded by the finned dielectric moat structure, and an interconnection via structure vertically extending through the vertical stack and contacting a top surface of an underlying metal interconnect structure.
US11756871B2
The present disclosure provides a fan-out packaging structure and a method for fabricating the fan-out packaging. The fan-out packaging structure includes a first redistribution layer, a second redistribution layer, metal connecting posts, a semiconductor chip, a first filling layer, a first packaging layer, a stacked chip package, a passive element, a second filling layer, a second packaging layer, and metal bumps. By means of the present disclosure, various chips having different functions can be integrated into one packaging structure, thereby improving the integration of the fan-out packaging structure. By means of the first redistribution layer, the second redistribution layer, and the metal connecting posts, a three-dimensional vertical stacked packaging is achieved. In this way, the integration level of the packaging structure can be effectively improved, and the conduction path can be significantly shortened, thereby reducing the power consumption, increasing the signal transmission speed, and increasing the data processing capacity.
US11756870B2
A stacked via structure disposed on a conductive pillar of a semiconductor die is provided. The stacked via structure includes a first dielectric layer, a first conductive via, a first redistribution wiring, a second dielectric layer, a second conductive via, and a second redistribution wiring. The first dielectric layer covers the semiconductor die. The first conductive via is embedded in the first dielectric layer and electrically connected to the conductive pillar. The first redistribution wiring covers the first conductive via and the first dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer covers the first dielectric layer and the first redistribution wiring. The second conductive via is embedded in the second dielectric layer and landed on the first redistribution wiring. The second redistribution wiring covers the second conductive via and the second dielectric layer. A lateral dimension of the first conductive via is greater than a lateral dimension of the second conductive via.
US11756867B2
A power module is disclosed. A power module according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a first substrate and a second substrate spaced apart from each other, an electronic device unit provided on at least either one of the first and second substrates, and a lead frame unit provided between the first and second substrates. One side of the lead frame unit may be connected to an external circuit, and the other side thereof may be configured to electrically connect the first and second substrates. Accordingly, the lead frame unit may perform a function of electrically connecting the first and second substrates instead of a via spacer in the related art.
US11756861B2
An opto-electronic package is described. The opto-electronic package is manufactured using a fan out wafer level packaging to produce dies/frames which include connection features. Additional structures such as heat exchanged structures are joined to a connection component and affixed to packages, using the connection features, to provide structural support and heat exchange to heat generating components in the package, among other functions.
US11756857B2
An electronic circuit has three circuit carriers and two semiconductor components. A first semiconductor component contacts with its upper side an underside of a first circuit carrier, and with its underside an upper side of a second circuit carrier. The first circuit carrier has vias, with a first via connecting the first semiconductor component to a first conducting path and a second via connecting a connection element forming a second conducting path providing an integral connection between the circuit carriers. A second semiconductor component contacts the underside of the first circuit carrier and is electrically connected to the first or second conducting path. An underside of the second semiconductor component contacts an upper side of the third circuit carrier. A lateral thermal expansion coefficient of the first circuit carrier is greater than a lateral thermal expansion coefficient of both the second and the third circuit carrier.
US11756855B2
A structure includes a circuit substrate, a device, a metal layer, a lid and a thermal interface material layer. The device is disposed on and electrically connected to the circuit substrate. The device includes at least one semiconductor die laterally encapsulated by an insulating encapsulation. The metal layer is covering a back surface of the at least one semiconductor die and the insulating encapsulation. The lid is disposed on the circuit substrate, and the lid is adhered to the metal layer through the thermal interface material layer.
US11756848B1
An electronic assembly has a backside capping layer, a host wafer having a back surface bonded to a top surface of the backside capping layer except for cavities in the wafer formed over areas of the backside capping layer, the cavities having side surfaces of the wafer. Chiplets have backsides bonded directly to at least portion of the areas of the top surface of the backside capping layer. A lateral dielectric material between side surfaces of the chiplets and side surfaces of the wafer, mechano-chemically bonds the side surfaces of the chiplets to the side surfaces of the wafer.
US11756845B2
A glass carrier-attached copper foil is provided that can achieve a desired circuit mounting board that reduces separation of a copper layer at the cut edge even if the copper foil is downsized to dimensions enabling mount of a circuit, and has an intended circuit pattern with a fine pitch. The glass carrier-attached copper foil includes a glass carrier, a release layer, and a copper layer with a thickness of 0.1 to 3.0 μm. The glass carrier has, at least on its surface having the copper layer thereon, a plurality of flat regions each having a maximum height Rz of less than 1.0 μm as measured in accordance with JIS B 0601-2001 and a rough region having a maximum height Rz of 1.0 to 30.0 μm as measured in accordance with JIS B 0601-2001. The rough region has a pattern of lines that define the flat regions.
US11756840B2
A system includes a factory interface, an etching tool, and at least one measuring device. The factory interface is configured to carry a wafer. The etching tool is coupled to the factory interface and configured to process the wafer transferred from the factory interface. The at least one measuring device is equipped in the factory interface, the etching tool, or the combination thereof. The at least one measuring device is configured to perform real-time measurements of reflectance from the wafer that is carried in the factory interface or the etching tool.
US11756831B2
A wafer manufacturing method includes a wafer preparing step of preparing a wafer including a semiconductor device formed in each of a plurality of regions demarcated by a plurality of streets intersecting each other, a removing step of removing, from the wafer, a defective device region including a semiconductor device determined to be a defective product among a plurality of the semiconductor devices formed in the wafer, a support substrate fixing step of fixing the wafer to a support substrate, and a fitting step of fitting, into a removed region formed by removing the defective device region from the wafer, a device chip including a semiconductor device as a non-defective product having same functions as those of the semiconductor device determined to be a defective product and having a size capable of being fitted into the removed region, and fixing the device chip to the support substrate.
US11756823B2
A semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) transistor includes a semiconductor layer situated over a buried oxide layer, the buried oxide layer being situated over a substrate. The SOI transistor is situated in the semiconductor layer and includes a transistor body, gate fingers, source regions, and drain regions. The transistor body has a first conductivity type. The source regions and the drain regions have a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type. A heavily-doped body-implant region has the first conductivity type and overlaps at least one source region. A common silicided region electrically ties the heavily-doped body-implant region to the at least one source region. The common silicided region can include a source silicided region, and a body tie silicided region situated over the heavily-doped body-implant region. The source silicided region can be separated from a drain silicided region by the gate fingers.
US11756802B2
A method includes forming a release film over a carrier, attaching a device over the release film through a die-attach film, encapsulating the device in an encapsulating material, performing a planarization on the encapsulating material to expose the device, detaching the device and the encapsulating material from the carrier, etching the die-attach film to expose a back surface of the device, and applying a thermal conductive material on the back surface of the device.
US11756800B2
Described herein are methods and systems for forming metal interconnect layers (MILs) on engineered templates and transferring these MILs to device substrates. This “off-device” approach of forming MILs reduces the complexity and costs of the overall process, allows using semiconductor processes, and reduces the risk of damaging the device substrates. An engineered template is specially configured to release a MIL when the MIL is transferred to a device substrate. In some examples, the engineered template does not include barrier layers and/or adhesion layers. In some examples, the engineered template comprises a conductive portion to assist with selective electroplating. Furthermore, the same engineered template may be reused to form multiple MILs, having the same design. During the transfer, the engineered template and device substrate are stacked together and then separated while the MIL is transitioned from the engineered template to the device substrate.
US11756798B2
The present application provides a method for improving the metal work function boundary effect in FinFET process, the method comprises steps of: depositing a first TiN layer on four fin structures. The first TiN layer has no gap between the second and the third fin structures; removing the first TiN layer up to a first distance from the midline between the second and third fin structures at the second fin structure side; depositing a second TiN layer; removing the second and first TiN layers from second fin structure. The thickness of the TiN layer at the bottom edge of the fin structure at the later structure of the ultra-low threshold voltage P-type transistor will be smaller from this process. Thus formed TiN layer is less prone to a bottom undercut during etching, thereby reducing the metal boundary effect and increasing of the threshold voltage of the device.
US11756796B2
A method may include providing a substrate having, on a first surface of the substrate, a low dielectric constant layer characterized by a layer thickness. The method may include heating the substrate to a substrate temperature in a range of 200° C. to 550° C.; and directing an ion implant treatment to the low dielectric constant layer, while the substrate temperature is in the range of 200° C. to 550° C. As such, the ion implant treatment may include implanting a low weight ion species, at an ion energy generating an implant depth equal to 40% to 175% of the layer thickness.
US11756795B2
The present disclosure provides a method for forming a semiconductor structure. The method includes providing a target etching layer; sequentially forming an initial mask layer, an anti-reflection layer, and a patterned structure on the target etching layer; performing a first etching process on the anti-reflection layer to remove a surface portion of the anti-reflection layer using the patterned structure as a mask; performing a surface treatment process on the patterned structure; and performing a second etching process on the anti-reflection layer until exposing a surface of the initial mask layer.
US11756789B2
The present disclosure provides an apparatus for manufacturing a semiconductor structure. The apparatus includes a stage, an optical transceiver over the stage, configured to obtain a first profile of a first surface of a substrate, an acoustic transceiver over the stage, configured to obtain a second profile of a top surface of a photo-sensitive layer over the substrate, wherein the stage is adapted to be displaced based on the first profile and the second profile.
US11756786B2
A method of fabricating a dielectric film includes depositing a first precursor on a substrate. The first precursor includes a cyclic carbosiloxane group comprising a six-membered ring. The method also includes depositing a second precursor on the substrate. The first precursor and the second precursor form a preliminary film on the substrate, and the second precursor includes silicon, carbon, and hydrogen. The method further includes exposing the preliminary film to energy from an energy source to form a porous dielectric film.
US11756781B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus for supplying reagent ions, for example ETD or PTR reagent ions, to a mass spectrometer. The apparatus includes a reagent material reservoir, coupled to a carrier gas supply, which delivers an entrained reagent vapor flow to an inlet of a mixing junction through a first flow restrictor. A control gas flow of carrier gas is delivered to another inlet of the mixing junction via a variable pressure regulator and a second flow restrictor. The outlet of the mixing junction is coupled via a third flow restrictor and a reagent transfer junction to an inlet of an ionizer, such as a glow-discharge ionizer. By dynamic adjustment of the output pressure of the variable pressure regulator, the flow rate of reagent vapor may be controlled over a broad range, even for reagent materials of relatively high volatility.
US11756772B2
An ion source assembly and method has a source gas supply to provide a molecular carbon source gas to an ion source chamber. A source gas flow controller controls flow of the molecular carbon source gas to the ion source chamber. An excitation source excites the molecular carbon source gas to form carbon ions and radicals. An extraction electrode extracts the carbon ions from the ion source chamber, forming an ion beam. An oxidizing co-gas supply provides oxidizing co-gas to chamber. An oxidizing co-gas flow controller controls flow of the oxidizing co-gas to the chamber. The oxidizing co-gas decomposes and reacts with carbonaceous residues and atomic carbon forming carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide within the ion source chamber. A vacuum pump system removes the carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, where deposition of atomic carbon within the ion source chamber is reduced and a lifetime of the ion source is increased.
US11756770B2
A post-discharge plasma coating device for a wired substrate comprising an inner tubular electrode on an inner tubular wall for receiving the substrate and a precursor moving axially in a working direction; an outer tubular electrode coaxial with, and surrounding, the inner tubular electrode. The inner and outer electrodes are configured to be supplied with an electrical power source for producing a plasma when a plasma gas is supplied between the electrodes and is thereby excited, the plasma excited gas flowing axially in the working direction and reacting with the precursor in a coating area at the end of the inner tubular wall in the direction. The inner tubular wall extends axially towards the coating area at least until, in various instances beyond, the end of the outer electrode, in the working direction and at least one dielectric tubular wall extends axially between the inner tubular electrode and the outer tubular electrode.
US11756765B2
Methods for exposing a desired shape in an area on a surface using a charged particle beam system include determining a local pattern density for the area of the desired shape based on an original set of exposure information. A backscatter for a sub area is calculated, based on the original set of exposure information. Dosage for at least one pixel in a plurality of pixels in the sub area is increased, in a location where the backscatter of the sub area is below a pre-determined threshold, thereby increasing the backscatter of the sub area. A pre-PEC maximum dose is determined for the local pattern density, based on a pre-determined target post-PEC maximum dose. The original set of exposure information is modified with the pre-PEC maximum dose and the increased dosage of the at least one pixel in the sub area to create a modified set of exposure information.
US11756763B2
A scanning electron microscope includes a spin detector configured to measure secondary electron spin polarization of secondary electrons emitted from the sample, and an analysis device configured to analyze secondary electron spin polarization data measured by the spin detector. The analysis device evaluates the strain in the sample by calculating a difference in the secondary electron spin polarization data of adjacent pixels.
US11756754B2
A switch device includes: an adhesive base adhered to a surface of a surface member; and an operation assembly connected to the adhesive base. The operation assembly includes: an operation base connected to the adhesive base; and an operation knob that is rotatable with respect to the operation base. The operation knob is connected to the adhesive base and is removable from the adhesive base in an axial direction of the operation knob.
US11756748B2
Systems and methods for contact erosion mitigation are provided. To perform contact erosion mitigation, an order of opening/closing poles and/or contact relays of particular poles is altered, resulting in a sharing of potential arcing conditions amongst the poles/contact relays of these poles.
US11756742B1
A solid electrolytic capacitor comprising a capacitor element is provided. The capacitor element contains an anode body that includes tantalum, a dielectric that overlies the anode body, and a solid electrolyte that overlies the dielectric that includes a conductive polymer. The capacitor exhibits a normalized aged leakage current of about 20% or less.
US11756738B2
An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element, an exterior body covering the capacitor element, an anode terminal electrically connected to an anode body of the capacitor element, and a cathode terminal electrically connected to a cathode portion of the capacitor element. Each of the anode terminal and the cathode terminal includes a connection portion in contact with the capacitor element, a lead-out portion led out from the connection portion to an outer surface of the exterior body, and an external terminal portion disposed along the outer surface of the external body and having an exposed surface exposed from the external body. At least a part of a covered portion of the lead-out portion, the covered portion being covered with the exterior body, has a cross-sectional shape including a chamfered shape corner portion in a cross section parallel to a surface region of the outer surface of the exterior body where the lead-out portion is led out.
US11756735B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a capacitor main body including a multilayer body including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers alternately laminated therein, and external electrodes each at one of two end surfaces of the multilayer body and connected to the internal electrode layers, and two interposers on a surface in a lamination direction of the capacitor main body, and opposed and spaced apart from each other in a length direction connecting the two end surfaces. The two interposers each include a first recess portion on an end surface of the interposer opposed to an end surface facing the other interposer, in an area around a middle portion of the interposer in a width direction, and second recess portions on both sides in the width direction of the first recess portion, and each having a thickness of about ±10% of a half of a thickness of the interposer.
US11756733B2
A ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer chip having a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrode layers that are stacked, and having a first main face and a second main face, and a plurality of external electrodes, the plurality of external electrodes being spaced from each other, each of the plurality of external electrodes being connected to a part of the plurality of internal electrode layers, the plurality of external electrodes having a predetermined area in the planar view. On at least one of the first main face and the second main face, at least one of the plurality of external electrodes has an extension portion extending along a side of the rectangular shape toward at least one of external electrodes adjacent to the at least one of the plurality of external electrodes.
US11756732B2
A method for the assembly of a metal part and a ceramic part, including the following steps: supplying a solid ceramic part of the alumina type; supplying a solid metal part, the metal being selected from platinum and tantalum, or an alloy including a majority of one of these metals; depositing at least one layer, called interface layer, on at least one of the solid parts, the interface layer containing magnesium oxide; bringing into contact the solid metal part and the solid ceramic part such that the interface layer is located between the solid parts; and hot densification under pressure of the solid parts brought into contact, to create a close bond between the solid parts and form a spinel from the interface layer. An electrical device, such as a capacitive sensor having a sensitive part produced according to the present method, is also provided.
US11756730B2
An apparatus for assembling a repelling magnet combination, comprising a first and second magnet, a first and second holding magnet, a first holding base with a first holding base first end, and a second holding base with a second holding base first end. The first and second holding magnets are positioned at the first and second holding base first ends, and the first and second magnets are magnetically attached to the first and second holding magnets respectively, with outward faces exhibiting like magnetic polarities. The first and second magnets are brought into contact by moving the first and second holding base first ends into close proximity, whereby the first and second holding magnets exert holding forces on the first and second magnets which overcome a repelling force generated therebetween, allowing a repelling force countering means, such as an adhesive, to bond the magnets together into a repelling magnet combination.
US11756726B2
New and Useful magnetic structures are provided. One feature of the magnetic structures is that they are configured to help minimize the air gap reluctance, improving the magnetic structure's coupling coefficient. Another feature is that reducing the windings AC impedance of a magnetic structure is produced by shielding the winding under ears formed of magnetic material. Still another feature is that leakage inductance of a magnetic structure is reduced, by making ears with cuts which converge toward the magnetic rods that are used in the formation of the structure.
US11756717B2
A coil component includes: a laminate including a magnetic portion and an insulator, the insulator having a higher insulation quality than the magnetic portion; a first external electrode; a second external electrode; and a coil conductor provided in the laminate, wherein the coil conductor includes a plurality of conductor patterns each extending along a planar direction perpendicular to the coil axis, the plurality of conductor patterns being separated from each other in the direction of the coil axis, the plurality of conductor patterns include a first conductor pattern and a second conductor pattern, the first conductor pattern contacting with the first external electrode, the second conductor pattern contacting with the second external electrode, and in the planar direction, the insulator is provided between the first conductor pattern and the second external electrode and between the second conductor pattern and the first external electrode.
US11756710B2
A wire harness manufacturing method includes: an insertion step of inserting a binding member into an insertion hole of a protective member including a base member forming a routing space, the insertion hole provided in the base member and into which the binding member is insertable, and a temporary holding part provided on an outer surface of the base member and capable of temporarily holding an end of the binding member in a state in which the binding member is inserted into the insertion hole; a temporary holding step of temporarily holding the end of the binding member; a routing step of routing an electric wire in the routing space; and a binding step of removing the end of the binding member from the temporary holding part, and binding the electric wire to the base member by the binding member.
US11756707B2
Cable foil tape having random or pseudo-random patterns or long pattern lengths of discontinuous metallic shapes and a method for manufacturing such patterned foil tape are provided. In some embodiments, a laser ablation system is used to selectively remove regions or paths in a metallic layer of a foil tape to produce random distributions of randomized shapes, or pseudo-random patterns or long pattern lengths of discontinuous shapes in the metal layer. In some embodiments, the foil tape is double-sided, having a metallic layer on each side of the foil tape, and the laser ablation system is capable of ablating nonconductive pathways into the metallic layer on both sides of the foil tape.
US11756706B2
The present invention provides a portable charging light-emitting cable for new energy vehicles, including power configuration wires, a signal wire, electroluminescent wires, a filling layer and an outer protective sleeve. The power configuration wires are evenly arranged around the signal wire. At least more than two electroluminescent wires are mutually helically twisted with the power configuration wires in the same number of groups around an outer wall of the signal wire into a cable shape. Each electroluminescent wire is arranged between two adjacent power configuration wires. According to the present invention, the electroluminescence technology is incorporated into light-emitting charging cables. While charging, cables emit light evenly, which is suitable for charging observation at night, and rich colors are provided to play a warning role to prevent accidents. During the light-emitting process, light-emitting wires do not generate any heat, and energy consumption is extremely low.
US11756705B1
Energy and a control signal may be provided using a coupled power and control cable. The coupled power and control cable may comprise a power cable, a control cable, and an overall jacket. The power cable may be connected between a switch and a fixture and may provide energy to the fixture from the switch. The control cable may be connected between the control circuit and the fixture and may provide the control signal to the fixture from the control circuit. The power cable and the control cable may be disposed beneath the overall jacket.
US11756697B2
This disclosure enables a creation of a detachable connection between a linear motor tubular armature and a vertical cylindrical rod of an actuator of a control and protection system of a nuclear reactor. Such configuration reduces a dose load on a member of personnel, as well as provides an increase in reliability of a coupling of the linear motor tubular armature and the vertical cylindrical rod in conditions of high temperature and radiation.
US11756689B2
A method for simulating a deep-brain stimulation in a computer-assisted platform that includes providing to a neurosurgeon, through a man-machine interface, visual information of a pre-operative situation, including a representation of a brain. The method also includes monitoring inputs of said neurosurgeon on the man-machine interface, until a trajectory is determined between an entry point and a target for the placement of an electrode. The method further includes comparing said trajectory to a set of previously-established trajectories for the pre-operative situation, so as to determine an overall measurement representative of a quality of the trajectory compared to the previously-established trajectories.
US11756688B2
A method for determining cardiology disease risk from electrocardiogram trace data and clinical data includes receiving electrocardiogram trace data associated with a patient, receiving the patient's clinical data, providing both sets of data to a trained machine learning composite model that is trained to evaluate the data with respect to each disease of a set of cardiology diseases including three or more of cardiac amyloidosis, aortic stenosis, aortic regurgitation, mitral stenosis, mitral regurgitation, tricuspid regurgitation, abnormal reduced ejection fraction, or abnormal interventricular septal thickness, generating, by the model and based on the evaluation, a composite risk score reflecting a likelihood of the patient being diagnosed with one or more of the cardiology diseases within a predetermined period of time from when the electrocardiogram trace data was generated, and outputting the composite risk score to at least one of a memory or a display.
US11756685B2
The computer system and computer-implemented method of generating and providing skin care product recommendations to a subject, wherein the method comprises determining, by a computing device, a UV-B exposure of the subject; determining, by the computing device, a vitamin D intake due to the UV-B exposure; determining, by the computing device, a target vitamin D of the subject; and providing, by the computing device, a skin care product recommendation to the subject when the vitamin D intake due to the UV-B exposure is less than the vitamin D target of the subject.
US11756682B2
The present disclosure relates to techniques for receiving glucose data from a continuous glucose sensor and controlling the use and redistribution of that data so it is used in an intended manner. In one aspect, a system includes a plurality of continuous glucose monitor (CGM) devices; a plurality of display devices to receive data from the CGM devices classified into a plurality of classifications based on data type; a cloud server architecture to receive the data from the display devices on an intermittent basis, in which the data routed to a particular server of the plurality of servers is determined by the data type, and in which the intermittent basis varies depending upon data type; a plurality of remote monitor display devices; and an analysis and report engine.
US11756669B2
Item-management systems, apparatus, and methods are described, preferably for management of items such as medicaments. In embodiments, an item-management system comprises a container defining plural cells, a docking station configured to receive the container, sources of visible information to indicate the cell(s) into which an item is to be loaded, and at least one controller operable to control the visible information sources to indicate the cell into which the item is to be received.
US11756664B2
A mobile and adaptable fitness system allows a fitness device to be used to control an application running on a host device. The system includes one or more controllers, a motion sensing device, and a host device. The hand controllers may be mounted on the handlebars of the fitness device or held in a user's hands and include buttons that the user can press. The motion sensing device may be mounted on the user or on a moving part of the fitness device and contains sensors that capture motion performed by the user. The host device receives input data from the hand controllers and the motion sensing device and generates an activity vector representing the intensity at which the user performs a fitness activity. Based on the activity vector, the host device controls an object in an application, such as a character, based on the input data.
US11756662B2
A peristaltic pump having at least first, second, and third stages is provided. The peristaltic pump includes a plunger, inlet and outlet valves, a spring, and an actuator. The plunger actuates toward and away from a tube, the inlet valve is upstream of the plunger, the outlet valve is downstream of the plunger, the spring biases the plunger toward the tube, and the actuator mechanically engages and disengages from the plunger. In the first stage, the inlet valve is opened and the plunger is actuated from the tube, in the second stage, the inlet valve is closed, the plunger is actuated toward the tube, and the actuator is mechanically disengaged from the plunger, and in the third stage, the outlet valve is opened. In the third stage or in a fourth stage, the actuator actuates the plunger toward the tube to discharge fluid downstream past the outlet valve.
US11756660B1
A system includes a plurality of tracking devices, such as RFID tags, affixed to items, such as vehicles, a data collection engine, client devices and backend devices. The backend devices include trained machine learning models, business logic, and attributes of a plurality of events. A plurality of data collection engines and systems send attributes of new events to the backend devices. The backend devices can track the items and predict particular outcomes of new events based upon the attributes of the new events utilizing the trained machine learning models.
US11756658B2
A medical information query system is provided. The medical information query system includes: a processor and a memory, wherein the memory is configured to store computer instructions: and the processor is configured to load the computer instructions and execute: receiving clinical data and acquiring query rules matched with the clinical data; and inquiring medical information corresponding to the query rules in a graphic database.
US11756657B2
A system for use with a user interface system, a first data provider, a second data provider and a display device. The system comprises a data input component, a fishbone diagram generating component, an output component, a user interface component, and a data trend generating component. The data trend generating component can generate data trend image data based on a trends diagram instruction. The output component can further output the data trend image data to the display device to be displayed so as to include a first graphical function and a second graphical function, wherein the first graphical function corresponds to first patient laboratory test data, and wherein the second graphical function corresponds to second patient laboratory test data.
US11756652B2
The invention provides methods for comparing one set of genetic sequences to another without discarding any information within either set. A set of genetic sequences is represented using a directed acyclic graph (DAG) avoiding any unwarranted reduction to a linear data structure. The invention provides a way to align one sequence DAG to another to produce an alignment that can itself be stored as a DAG. DAG-to-DAG alignment is a natural choice wherever a set of genomic information consisting of more than one string needs to be compared to any non-linear reference. For example, a subpopulation DAG could be compared to a population DAG in order to compare the genetic features of that subpopulation to those of the population.
US11756649B2
An apparatus, computer program product, and method are provided for the determination of one or more components of an EC number through the application of a level-by-level modeling approach capable of conducting feature reconstruction and classifier training simultaneously, based on encoded aspects of a sequence listing for a protein with an unknown function. The method includes receiving a sequence source data object associated with an enzyme; extracting a sequence data set from the sequence source data object; encoding the sequence data set into a first and second encoded sequence; generating a first predicted characteristic of the enzyme by applying the first and second encoded sequence to a first level of a model comprising a plurality of levels; and generating a second predicted characteristic of the enzyme by applying the first and the second encoded sequences to a second level of the model comprising a plurality of levels.
US11756645B2
A control circuit, a memory system and a control method are provided. The control circuit is configured to control a plurality of memory cells of a memory array. The control circuit comprises a program controller. The program is configured to program a first electrical characteristic distribution and a second electrical characteristic distribution of the memory cells according to error tolerance of a first bit of a data type. A first overlapping area between the first electrical characteristic distribution and the second electrical characteristic distribution is smaller than a first predetermined value.
US11756641B2
The present disclosure provides a method for determining status of a fuse element of a memory device. The method includes providing the memory device including a first terminal and a second terminal and applying a first power signal on the first terminal of the semiconductor device. The memory device includes a configurable reference resistor unit electrically coupled to the fuse element. The method also includes obtaining an evaluation signal at the second terminal of the memory device and identifying the evaluation signal to determine whether the memory device is redundant. The configurable reference resistor unit includes a first resistor, a first transistor connected in parallel with the first resistor, and a first configurable unit connected to a gate of the first transistor. The first configurable unit is configured to generate a first configurable signal to turn on the first transistor.
US11756638B2
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, memory devices, machine readable mediums configured to intentionally degrade NAND performance when a value of a NAND health metric indicates a potential for failure to encourage users to replace or backup their devices before data loss occurs. For example, the system may track a NAND health metric and when that metric reaches a predetermined threshold or state, the system may intentionally degrade performance. This performance degradation may be more effective than a warning to effect device backup or replacement.
US11756629B2
In certain aspects, a method for operating a memory device is disclosed. The memory device includes memory planes and multiplexers (MUXs). Each MUX includes an output coupled to a respective one of the memory planes, a first input receiving a non-asynchronous multi-plane independent (AMPI) read control signal, and a second input receiving an AMPI read control signal. Whether an instruction is an AMPI read instruction or a non-AMPI read instruction is determined. In response to the instruction being an AMPI read instruction, an AMPI read control signal is generated based on the AMPI read instruction, and a corresponding MUX is controlled to enable outputting the AMPI read control signal from the second input to the corresponding memory plane. In response to the instruction being a non-AMPI read instruction, a non-AMPI read control signal is generated based on the non-AMPI read instruction, and each MUX is controlled to enable outputting the non-AMPI read control signal from the respective first input to the respective memory plane.
US11756626B2
Methods, systems, and devices for memory die resource management are described. A resource manager can determine, from a set of global resources for multiple memory dies of a memory sub-system, a set of die-specific resources for a memory die of the multiple memory dies of the memory sub-system. In some case, the set of die-specific resources can be allocated for read commands for the memory die. The resource manager can assign a read command to a die-specific resource of the set of die-specific resources based on the die-specific resource being available and refrain from assigning the read command to the die-specific resource based on the die-specific resource being unavailable.
US11756623B2
A semiconductor storage device includes word lines extending in first and second directions, and separated from each other in a third direction, sense amplifier circuits that partially overlap the word lines in the third direction, memory strings intersecting the word lines and extending in the third direction, memory-side bit lines extending in the first direction, separated from each other in the second direction, and including first and second adjacent memory-side bit lines, circuit-side bit lines between the word lines and the sense amplifier circuits and partially overlapping the respective memory-side bit lines in the third direction, and contact plugs extending in the third direction and respectively connecting the memory-side bit lines and the circuit-side bit lines. The contact plugs include first and second contract plugs that are electrically connected to the first and second memory-side bit lines, respectively, and are not aligned along the first or second direction.
US11756615B2
An embodiment memory device comprises a plurality of memory cells, each exhibiting a transconductance depending on a value of a stored bit, a plurality of bit lines associated with respective groups of memory cells, each bit line configured to flow a respective electric current indicative of the bit stored in a selected memory cell of the respective group of memory cells, and a computing circuit providing an output electric quantity indicative of a linear combination of a plurality of input electric quantities. The computing circuit comprises a biasing stage configured to bias each bit line with a respective input electric quantity, the electric current flowing through each bit line based on a product of the respective input electric quantity and the transconductance of the selected memory cell, and a combining stage for combining the electric currents flowing through the plurality of bit lines thereby obtaining the output electric quantity.
US11756613B2
A memory device includes: a first substrate; a peripheral circuit provided on the first substrate; a first metal bonding layer provided on the peripheral circuit; a second metal bonding layer directly bonded to the first metal bonding layer; a memory cell array provided on the second metal bonding layer; and a second substrate provided on the memory cell array. A page buffer circuit in the peripheral circuit receives a verification result through the metal bonding layers, divides the verification result into stages, and sequentially outputs the verification result for the division into the stages, and a pass/failure checker in the peripheral circuit sequentially performs a counting operation about each of the stages to generate accumulated values, and compares the accumulated values and a reference value which increases from an initial value as the counting operation is performed, and the initial value is set by an external memory controller.
US11756612B2
Control logic in a memory device identifies a set of a plurality of memory cells configured as multi-level cell (MLC) memory to be programmed during a program operation and causes one or more programming pulses to be applied to the set of the plurality of memory cells configured as MLC memory to program memory cells in the set of memory cells configured as MLC memory to respective programming levels of a plurality of programming levels as part of the program operation. Responsive to the one or more programming pulses being applied, the control logic further performs a program verify operation to verify whether the memory cell in the set of memory cells configured as MLC memory were programmed to the respective programming levels of the plurality of programming levels.
US11756605B2
A semiconductor device capable of decreasing a jitter component is provided. A first calibration circuit searches a second delay value of a data delay circuit while determining a delay value of a strobe delay circuit to be a first delay value that is larger than the minimum value and smaller than the maximum value. A second calibration circuit determines a first corrected delay value and a second corrected delay value by shifting both the first delay value and the second delay value by the same correction value in a direction toward the minimum value, and sets the first corrected delay value and the second corrected delay value to the strobe delay circuit and the data delay circuit, respectively.
US11756604B2
A memory access operation performed on a first memory unit of a memory device is detected. A counter associated with the first memory unit is modified. It is determined that the counter satisfies a threshold criterion, wherein the threshold criterion is based on a random or pseudo-random number within a margin of an average number of memory access operations. A refresh operation is performed on a second memory unit.
US11756600B2
A spin-orbit torque magnetization rotational element includes a first ferromagnetic layer and a spin-orbit torque wiring facing the first ferromagnetic layer and extending in a first direction. The spin-orbit torque wiring has a plurality of atomic planes in which atoms are arranged and the plurality of atomic planes have reference surfaces in which the same atoms are arranged and a buckling surface having a buckling part. The buckling surface has a plurality of first atoms forming a main surface substantially parallel to the reference surfaces and one or more second atoms forming a buckling part bent toward the main surface.
US11756596B1
Methods, systems, and devices for transition structures for three-dimensional memory arrays are described. A memory device may include a staircase region which includes a set of vias. The set of vias may include a first subset of vias which couple respective word line plates of the memory region with associated word line decoders, and a second subset of vias which are electrically isolated from the word line plates. The second subset of vias may be arranged in one or more rows positioned between the first subset of vias and the memory region. In some cases, the second subset of vias may be positioned above respective conductive contacts. Additionally or alternatively, the second subset of vias may be positioned above a common conductor shared with pillars of the memory region.
US11756595B2
A memory device includes memory cells operably connected to column signal lines and to word signal lines. The column signal lines associated with one or more memory cells to be accessed (e.g., read) are precharged to a first voltage level. The column signal lines not associated with the one or more memory cells to be accessed are precharged to a second voltage level, where the second voltage level is less than the first voltage level.
US11756591B2
Disclosed herein are related to a memory array including a set of memory cells and a set of switches to configure the set of memory cells. In one aspect, each switch is connected between a corresponding local line and a corresponding subset of memory cells. The local clines may be connected to a global line. Local lines may be metal rails, for example, local bit lines or local select lines. A global line may be a metal rail, for example, a global bit line or a global select line. A switch may be enabled or disabled to electrically couple a controller to a selected subset of memory cells through the global line. Accordingly, the set of memory cells can be configured through the global line rather than a number of metal rails to achieve area efficiency.
US11756590B2
A method of decoding an incoming audio/video stream received by a decoder box that is connected to audio playback equipment and to video playback equipment, the method comprising the steps of evaluating an audio latency and a video latency; if the audio (or respectively video) latency is greater than the video (or resp. audio) latency, testing a first condition to ensure that the time difference (Δt_a, Δt_v) between the presentation time stamp of the audio (or resp. video) samples and the reference clock signal is sufficient, and if the first condition is satisfied, acting, when decoding the audio (or resp. video), to decrease the presentation time stamp of the audio (or resp. video) samples in order to advance playback of the audio (or resp. video) samples, thereby compensating at least in part the latency difference between the audio (or resp. video) latency and the video (or resp. audio) latency.
US11756588B2
The present disclosure discloses an image processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method therein includes: acquiring an original video; selecting, from the original video, a first video frame image; selecting, from the original video, a second video frame image in which a target object is contained, and separating, from the second video frame image, an image portion occupied by the target object in the second video frame image; performing transparentization processing on the image portion occupied by the target object in the second video frame image to obtain a transparentized image, and superposing the transparentized image on the first video frame image to obtain a special effect image; and replacing, in the original video, the second video frame image with the special effect image to form a target video.
US11756587B2
Methods and devices for combining a mask with a selectively progressing video stream may include receiving a selection of at least one mask with a mask zone that obscures at least a portion of the video stream. The methods and devices may include receiving a selection to emplace the at least one mask at a first location within the video stream. The methods and devices may include receiving a selection to enable a tracking icon to move the at least one mask to a second location within the video stream while the video stream progresses. The methods and devices may include generating a combined output of the video stream and the selective emplacement and movement of the at least one mask during the video stream progression.
US11756586B2
The present disclosure provides a method for splicing an audio file and a computer device. The method includes: an intelligent terminal determines a target insertion location in response to an insertion operation, obtains an audio clip corresponding to the insertion operation, and then determines a playback duration corresponding to the audio clip, furthermore, based on the target insertion location and the playback duration, inserts a playback switching point to a source audio file corresponding to the source multimedia file, where the playback switching point is configured to switch playback between the source audio file and the audio clip during playing the source multimedia file.
US11756583B2
A removable disk clamp assembly for mounting disk media on a motor-driven spindle of a magnetic read-write device includes a disk clamp and a mechanism for generating a predetermined force to press the disk media to a flange of the spindle such that the predetermined force can be repeatedly overcome by an applied counterforce to remove the disk clamp from engagement with a hub of the spindle. Such a mechanism may include a spring-loaded removable disk clamp assembly or a magnetic removable disk clamp assembly, and whereby a vacuum-driven chuck may be employed for disk and clamp handling purposes, all of which are suitable for implementation and use in a read-write device configured for use in an archival data storage system library such as in a cleanroom storage system.
US11756579B2
A data storage device includes a ramp configured to support at least one head in the data storage device, and a movement mechanism coupled to the ramp and configured to move the ramp from a first position to a second position by at least one of expansion or contraction of at least a portion of the movement mechanism. The data storage device further includes a ramp motion control module operably coupled to the movement mechanism. The ramp motion control module is configured to provide the movement mechanism with a first control signal that causes the movement mechanism to move the ramp from the first position to the second position. The data storage device additionally includes a latch configured to hold the ramp.
US11756570B2
Apparatus and methods related to separation of audio sources are provided. The method includes receiving an audio waveform associated with a plurality of video frames. The method includes estimating, by a neural network, one or more audio sources associated with the plurality of video frames. The method includes generating, by the neural network, one or more audio embeddings corresponding to the one or more estimated audio sources. The method includes determining, based on the audio embeddings and a video embedding, whether one or more audio sources of the one or more estimated audio sources correspond to objects in the plurality of video frames. The method includes predicting, by the neural network and based on the one or more audio embeddings and the video embedding, a version of the audio waveform comprising audio sources that correspond to objects in the plurality of video frames.
US11756569B2
A sound quality evaluation method and a sound quality evaluation system using same are provided. The sound quality evaluation system records playback of a test audio file on a plurality of playback devices to generate a plurality of pieces of audio data, and divides the audio data into a plurality of frequency bands. The sound quality evaluation system calculates the frequency bands to obtain a plurality of evaluation scores of the playback devices. The sound quality evaluation system captures sound quality ranking information corresponding to the playback devices from a reference source, and adjusts the evaluation scores according to the sound quality ranking information, to further obtain a reference model. The sound quality evaluation system adjusts correspondingly evaluation scores of a plurality of to-be-tested playback devices according to the reference model, to obtain sound quality ranking information of the to-be-tested playback devices.
US11756568B2
Systems and methods for efficient management of an audio/video conferences is disclosed. The method includes receiving an audio question from a first user of a plurality of users connected to a conference, recording the audio question and preventing an immediate transmission of the audio question to the plurality of users connected to the conference, analyzing the recorded question and a recorded portion of the conference to determine that the question has been answered during the recorded portion of the conference, and in response to the determining that the audio question has previously been answered, transmitting a relevant section of the recorded portion of the conference consisting of an answer to the audio question to the first user.
US11756562B2
Systems and methods are presented for cross-fading (or other multiple clip processing) of information streams on a user or client device, such as a telephone, tablet, computer or MP3 player, or any consumer device with audio playback. Multiple clip processing can be accomplished at a client end according to directions sent from a service provider that specify a combination of (i) the clips involved; (ii) the device on which the cross-fade or other processing is to occur and its parameters; and (iii) the service provider system. For example, a consumer device with only one decoder, can utilize that decoder (typically hardware) to decompress one or more elements that are involved in a cross-fade at faster than real time, thus pre-fetching the next element(s) to be played in the cross-fade at the end of the currently being played element. The next elements(s) can, for example, be stored in an input buffer, then decoded and stored in a decoded sample buffer, all prior to the required presentation time of the multiple element effect. At the requisite time, a client device component can access the respective samples of the decoded audio clips as it performs the cross-fade, mix or other effect. Such exemplary embodiments use a single decoder and thus do not require synchronized simultaneous decodes.
US11756559B2
A method for decoding an encoded audio bitstream is disclosed. The method includes receiving the encoded audio bitstream and decoding the audio data to generate a decoded lowband audio signal. The method further includes extracting high frequency reconstruction metadata and filtering the decoded lowband audio signal with an analysis filterbank to generate a filtered lowband audio signal. The method also includes extracting a flag indicating whether either spectral translation or harmonic transposition is to be performed on the audio data and regenerating a highband portion of the audio signal using the filtered lowband audio signal and the high frequency reconstruction metadata in accordance with the flag.
US11756557B2
A method for encoding an audio signal includes obtaining an ITD value of a current frame of an audio signal; obtaining a characteristic parameter of the current frame, wherein the characteristic parameter comprises at least one of a signal-to-noise ratio of the current frame or a peak feature of cross correlation coefficients of the current frame; determining, based on the characteristic parameter, whether to use the initial ITD value as the finalized ITD value of the current frame; and encoding the current frame based on the finalized ITD value of the current frame, wherein if the initial ITD value is determined as not used as the finalized ITD value of the current frame, the finalized ITD value of the current frame is the same as a finalized ITD value of a previous frame of the current frame.
US11756556B2
An audio packet error concealment system includes an encoding unit for encoding an audio signal consisting of a plurality of frames, and an auxiliary information encoding unit for estimating and encoding auxiliary information about a temporal change of power of the audio signal. The auxiliary information is used in packet loss concealment in decoding of the audio signal. The auxiliary information about the temporal change of power may contain a parameter that functionally approximates a plurality of powers of subframes shorter than one frame, or may contain information about a vector obtained by vector quantization of a plurality of powers of subframes shorter than one frame.
US11756543B2
Methods and systems for multi-modalities integration via speech, chatbot, low-code, and no-code enterprise integration. Methods and systems for application integration for both application integration and macro/system aware integration technology. Methods and systems for integrating services between different software systems, the computer having a processor and a data repository including storing one or more service connectors configured to connect an origin software system to a target software system in the data repository, receiving integration instructions, the integration instructions including at least one of the origin software system, a directionality of the integration, the directionality indicating whether the integration is unidirectional or bidirectional, a frequency of integration, and the target system software, and performing the integration from the origin software system to the target software system using the one or more service connectors according to the integration instructions.
US11756542B2
An audio signal processing method receives, by a terminal, a backtalk input instruction from a performer, obtains, by a microphone connected to the terminal, voice information from the performer, and outputs, in a case where the backtalk input instruction has been received by the terminal, a backtalk signal corresponding to the voice information obtained by the microphone connected to the terminal to a monitor bus of a mixer.
US11756534B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for neural network adaptive beamforming for multichannel speech recognition are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving a first channel of audio data corresponding to an utterance and a second channel of audio data corresponding to the utterance. The actions further include generating a first set of filter parameters for a first filter based on the first channel of audio data and the second channel of audio data and a second set of filter parameters for a second filter based on the first channel of audio data and the second channel of audio data. The actions further include generating a single combined channel of audio data. The actions further include inputting the audio data to a neural network. The actions further include providing a transcription for the utterance.
US11756533B2
The presentation of an automated assistant response may be selectively pre-empted in response to a hot-word free utterance that is received during the presentation and that is determined to be likely directed to the automated assistant. The determination that the utterance is likely directed to the automated assistant may be performed, for example, using an utterance classification operation that is performed on audio data received during presentation of the response, and based upon such a determination, the response may be pre-empted with another response associated with the later-received utterance. In addition, the duration that is used to determine when a session should be terminated at the conclusion of a conversation between a user and an automated assistant may be dynamically controlled based upon when the presentation of a response has completed.
US11756522B2
One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a noise masking method through variable masking sound level conversion, capable of adjusting an interval for changing a level of a masking sound for masking noise to an optimal interval so that the masking sound is not perceived as noise, by determining a fluctuation trend of a level of audible noise and adjusting the interval for changing the level of the masking sound for masking the noise into an optimal environment through a control unit.
US11756521B2
Provided are a soundproof structure and a soundproof unit that can be reduced in size and thickness in the soundproof structure using Helmholtz resonance. The soundproof structure that includes a housing forming a space therein and having a through hole that allows the space to communicate with an outside, and generates Helmholtz resonance by the space and the through hole, the soundproof structure includes a rear surface plate disposed at a position overlapping the through hole on the space side as viewed from a penetrating direction of the through hole, in which assuming that a diameter of the through hole is Φ and a distance from the rear surface plate to an opening surface of the through hole on the space side is d, d≤Φ is satisfied and d≤6 mm is satisfied.
US11756508B2
An electronic device operates in a first mode and a second mode and includes: a display panel including a min part on which an opening area and a display area surrounding the opening area are defined, and a sub-display part disposed below the main part; and an electronic module disposed below the display panel. In the first mode, the sub-display part is disposed below and overlaps the opening area in a plan view, and in the second mode, the electronic module is disposed below and overlaps the opening area in the plan view.
US11756496B2
A display device includes: pixel electrodes including a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode adjacent to the first pixel electrode in a first direction; switching elements including a first switching element coupled to the first pixel electrode and a second switching element coupled to the second pixel electrode; gate lines including a first gate line coupled to the first switching element and a second gate line coupled to the second switching element; a gate driver supplying a gate signal to the gate lines; and drive electrodes including a first drive electrode and a second drive electrode adjacent to the first drive electrode in the first direction. The first drive electrode overlaps the first and second pixel electrodes, and the second gate line. The second drive electrode overlaps the first gate line. The gate driver supplies the gate signal to the first and second gate lines simultaneously.
US11756495B2
A pixel structure driving method and a display device are provided. The driving method includes obtaining a polarity of each of the data lines of a current frame, determining a polarity of each of the sub-pixels according to the polarity of each of the data lines and an arrangement of the pixel structure, performing a value look-up process according to a polarity and an initial gray value of each of the sub-pixels to obtain a polarity high/low gray value of each of the sub-pixels, if a luminance of a high gray value of a positive polarity of a sub-pixel of a color is different from a luminance of a high gray value of a negative polarity of the sub-pixel of the color, adjusting the polarity high/low gray value of the sub-pixel. In this way, the occurrence of vertical strips in a still image could be alleviated.
US11756486B2
A display panel, a display device and a driving method are disclosed, the display panel includes a plurality of display regions, the plurality of display regions include a first display region and a second display region, the first display region includes rows of first pixel units, the second display region includes rows of second pixel units; the display panel further includes a first light-emission control scan driving circuit for controlling the rows of first pixel units to emit light, and a second light-emission control scan driving circuit for controlling the rows of second pixel units to emit light, and the driving method includes: providing a first start signal to the first light-emission control scan driving circuit, and providing a second start signal to the second light-emission control scan driving circuit; the second start signal and the first start signal are applied independently, respectively.
US11756483B2
A display apparatus and a method for driving the same are provided. The display apparatus includes pixel circuits and a threshold detection module. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor and a data voltage writing module including an output terminal electrically connected to the driving transistor. The threshold detection module is configured to detect a threshold voltage of the driving transistor. An operating process of the pixel circuit includes a first phase and a second phase. The first phase includes a data writing phase and a light-emitting phase. The second phase includes an adjusting phase and a light-emitting phase. The driving transistor receives a data voltage during the data writing phase. During the adjusting phase, the driving transistor receives an adjusting voltage corresponding to the threshold voltage of the driving transistor that is detected by the threshold detection module.
US11756473B2
Disclosed are a digital gamma circuit capable of reducing a chip area and adjusting white color coordinates, and a source driver including the same. The digital gamma circuit may include a digital gamma algorithm for setting a gamma curve for each R, G, or B. Through the digital gamma algorithm, values of X-axis points of the gamma curve may be set, values of Y-axis points of the gamma curve corresponding to the values of the X-axis points may be set, and a value of at least one Y-axis point indicative of white among the values of the Y-axis points may be adjusted by adding an offset value thereto.
US11756472B2
A driving controller includes an image analyzer, a grayscale setter and a time-and-space arranger. The image analyzer analyzes input image data to determine a peak luminance. The grayscale setter receives a gamma value and the peak luminance and to determine a boundary grayscale value and a minimum grayscale value. The time-and-space arranger is configured to temporally and spatially arrange first data having the boundary gray scale value and second data having the minimum grayscale value. The driving controller is configured to drive a display panel using the first data and the second data for a low grayscale range of which a grayscale is equal to or less than the boundary grayscale value and to drive the display panel based on a data signal corresponding to a grayscale value of the input image data for a normal grayscale range of which a grayscale is greater than the boundary grayscale value.
US11756470B2
A display device includes a display panel including data lines configured to receive an image signal, gate lines configured to receive a scan signal, and gate connection lines configured to transmit the scan signal to the gate lines; and a multi-chip film package including, on a film, a first gate integrated circuit (IC) configured to transmit a first scan signal to the gate connection lines through first gate output lines, a second gate IC configured to transmit a second scan signal to the gate connection lines through second gate output lines, and a source IC configured to transmit the image signal to the data lines through source output lines. Each of the first gate output lines is between two adjacent source output lines, and each of the second gate output lines is between two adjacent source output lines.
US11756465B2
A gate driver circuit and a display device including the same have a voltage difference between output lines of the gate driver circuit that is reduced. To this end, a first gate driver is disposed on one side of a display panel, while a second gate driver is disposed on side of the display panel opposite the one side. An odd-numbered output line of the first gate driver is connected to an even-numbered output line of the second gate driver, while an even-numbered output line of the first gate driver is connected to an odd-numbered output line of the second gate driver. Therefore, the voltage difference between the output lines of the gate driver circuit is minimized or reduced.
US11756463B2
Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) displays, novel pixel circuits therefor, and methods of programming the pixel circuit and measuring the current of the pixel circuit and OLED thereof are disclosed. One pixel circuit includes four TFT transistors, a storage capacitor and an OLED device and is programmed with use of voltage supplied through a data line. One method measures currents of the OLED and the pixel circuit through the data line by a readout circuit.
US11756459B2
A display device includes display panels; and a specular reflection structure that converts positions of images displayed by the display panels and merges the images at a predetermined position to generate an integrated image, wherein the specular reflection structure includes at least one specular mirror that corresponds to each of the display panels, and the at least one specular mirror converts a display direction by reflecting the images displayed on the display panels wherein a size of each of the images is maintained.
US11756456B2
A clipboard is realised as a base for a sheet of paper and with a fastening therefor, with the base provided with at least one RFID transponder. It comprises a marking on the base, which indicates, where exactly the paper is to be placed, as well as at least one sheet of paper with a RFID transponder, wherein a RFID transponder each of the base and of the paper are arranged so as to be close to each other for communication, when the sheet of paper is fixed to the fastening. The base includes a plurality of switches, which are preferably arranged in a matrix, whereas the sheet is provided with various information, instructions and/or choice variants as well as with a number of marking fields, which are respectively arranged at the locations of the switches of the clipboard, when the sheet is fastened on the marking of the base.
US11756449B2
A system and method for teaching users reading comprehension. In an aspect, user's educational teaching system and method utilizes visual representations on a user's device display of a focusing point called a Bindu and a viewpoint called a Mind's Eye to assist in the learning of words. The combination of the Bindu with the Mind's Eye force a user to align the two with one another in order to present an unobstructed view of a 3-D representation of 2-D letters, numbers, punctuations, and words.
US11756433B2
A flight emulation system receives global positioning system (GPS) data into one or more EGIs (embedded GPS/inertial navigation system (INS)) or GPS receivers from a GPS emulator. The GPS data are based on a pre-defined flight trajectory plan of an aircraft. The system calculates real-time positional, orientational, and inertial emulation data using outputs of the EGIs or GPS receivers and platform-specific, flight dynamics data, and then transmits the real-time positional, orientational, and inertial emulation data to one or more subsystems associated with the aircraft for use by operations of the one or more subsystems.
US11756432B2
The present disclosure provides a server apparatus and method for detecting connectivity anomalies for guiding unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The apparatus comprises an interface configured for acquiring a connectivity measurement result at a location in the flight area, and circuitry configured for determining a deviation between the measurement result and a predicted connectivity to detect a connectivity anomaly. Further provided is an aviation control node configured for receiving a report on a connectivity anomaly, and a method for an aviation control node. The present disclosure facilitates monitoring of a current connectivity state for providing safe and efficient UAV operation.
US11756427B1
A traffic signal system for congested trafficways has a plurality of stationary alarm light/sensor-reader combinations and mobile alarm light/sensor-reader combinations monitoring each other and monitory tags placed on individuals, machines, and hazards to provide real time alarms to not only pedestrians but also machine operators, who are potentially approaching harm's way, or have the better ability to avert potential harm. Different forms of alarms are provided to indicate different kinds of alarm conditions and to reduce complacency to alarms, and thus improve effectiveness.
US11756425B2
An authentication method includes receiving an initial user authentication factor; storing the initial authentication factor; receiving one or more user verification authentication factors; and authenticating the user when a verification authentication factor matches the initial authentication factor. A user authentication system includes a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: receive an initial user an initial authentication factor; store the initial user authentication factor; receive one or more user verification authentication factors; and authenticate the user when a verification authentication factor matches the initial authentication factor. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing program instructions that when executed, cause a computer to: receive an initial user an initial authentication factor; store the initial user authentication factor; receive one or more user verification authentication factors; and authenticate the user when a verification authentication factor matches the initial authentication factor.
US11756417B2
An approach is provided for detecting and/or verifying a traffic incident (e.g., a road closure) on one of nearby paths that are susceptible to location sensor errors, digital map errors, and/or map mis-matching errors. The approach involves, for example, determining sensor data collected from one or more sensors of one or more devices traveling on either road link of the at least two road links connected at an intersection point. The approach also involves aggregating the sensor data to said either road link of at least two road links. The approach further involves filtering the sensor data based on a distance threshold from the intersection point. The approach further involves determining a traffic incident on said either road link based on the filtered sensor data.
US11756413B2
A radio frequency connection between a controlling device and a one of a plurality of controllable appliances in an environment is used to determine when the controlling device is pointing more towards the one of the plurality of controllable appliances relative to remaining ones of the plurality of controllable appliances. When it is determined that the controlling device is pointing more towards the one of the plurality of controllable appliances relative to remaining ones of the plurality of controllable appliances, the controlling device automatically makes active a command codeset usable to transmit commands to command functional operations of the one of the plurality of controllable appliances.
US11756410B2
During operation of the door system one or more sensors may be utilized in order to monitor the operation of the door assembly (e.g., door system, door, frame, etc.), review the operating parameters, troubleshoot potential issues, schedule and monitor service requests, review and take actions for potential security threats, and/or the like. Consequently, users may determine if the door system operates the door in accordance with the desired operating parameters by reviewing the movement, vibration, speed, acceleration, force, or the like based on the sensor information captured and use the information to adjust the door assembly. Notifications regarding the operation of the door systems may be sent automatically and/or in response to requests from users. The users may utilize one or more applications and interfaces thereof to remotely connect to the door systems in order to review and analyze the sensor information and take the desired actions.
US11756404B2
Methods, systems and apparatuses are described herein to provide adaptive severity functions for alerts, particularly security alerts. The adaptive severity functions may be aligned with an existing global security situation to upgrade or downgrade the severity of new and existing alerts. By taking into consideration the time factor along with other parameters, the alerts may be prioritized or reprioritized appropriately. The modification of the severity level for the alerts may be made based on rules and/or one or more triggering events or by using severity functions with or without the aid of artificial intelligence based on best-practice preferences.
US11756402B2
An infrastructure article includes a signal receiver device configured to receive a wireless signal from a signal emitter device configured at an electrically powered scooter; and a controller configured to determine information, coded in the wireless signal, that is based on an operator proficiency of an operator of the electrically powered scooter; and to perform, based at least in part on the information that indicates the operator proficiency of the operator of the electrically powered scooter, at least one operation.
US11756395B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to recoilers, merchandise security systems, and methods for displaying and protecting an article of merchandise from theft. In one example, the merchandise security system includes a sensor configured to be secured to the article of merchandise and a base for removably supporting the sensor and the item of merchandise thereon. The system also includes a recoiler operably coupled to the sensor. The recoiler includes a rotatable member defining a helical recess. The system further includes a cable configured to connect to the sensor and to be unwound from and wound on the rotatable member as the cable is extended and retracted. The cable is configured to be extended from the recoiler in response to the sensor being lifted off of the base, and the cable is configured to be retracted into the recoiler in response to the sensor being moved to a seated position on the base. The helical recess is configured to at least partially receive the cable therein as the cable is wound on the rotatable member.
US11756383B2
A processor of a gaming machine receives input via an player input device that selects a denomination for a play of a base game and displays symbols of a base game outcome at base game display positions of a display device. The processor randomly assigns to a configurable symbol of the base game outcome a prize that is based on the selected denomination and triggers a play of a feature game based on the play of the base game. For the play of the feature game, the processor retains each configurable symbol of the base game outcome at a corresponding feature game display position of the display device, and for each feature game display position without a configurable symbol, selects and displays a replacement symbol. The processor determines a feature game award based on a sum of prizes for each configurable symbol displayed at its feature game display position.
US11756382B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a system that provides zero, one or more benefits to a consumer in association with the consumer utilizing an instrument associated with a qualifying financial account to purchase goods and/or services, wherein an amount of any benefits may be disproportionate to the value of the purchased goods and/or services.
US11756380B2
This invention in certain example instances relates generally to coin-operated video entertainment systems. More particularly, certain exemplary aspects of the invention provide methods and/or systems for controlling access to a portable coin-operated interactive entertainment device that may be used to play video games and access other forms of entertainment as well as providing features via such portable coin-operated interactive entertainment devices.
US11756379B2
A system for wagering on outcomes of a live sporting event. The system further includes using AI to balance itself between how much it will lose bets to encourage game players to bet more, ultimately to win more profit and gain a larger game player user base. This allows the system to reduce immediate profits in exchange for long term profits due to a larger market share.
US11756375B2
An electronic gaming machine (EGM) includes a cabinet, a wireless transmitter, a memory device storing a unique device identifier (ID) of the EGM, and a game controller. The game controller is configured to execute a first node of a blockchain network on the EGM and store a first copy of the blockchain on a first memory partition, execute a second node of the blockchain network on the EGM and store a second copy of the blockchain on a second memory partition, generate a metering event associated with game play, submit a first blockchain transaction to the blockchain network, causing the first blockchain transaction to be added to a new block on the blockchain, and locally determine consensus for the new block on the blockchain between the first node and the second node of the EGM.
US11756374B2
A method of managing bets is provided. The method includes receiving one or more bets. Each bet comprises a selection of a first number of events selected from a group of events, a selection of a respective participant for each of the first number of events selected and a bet amount. The method also includes combining each bet amount to form a betting pool and determining an amount of a total payout based at least in part on the betting pool.
US11756372B2
Provided is a casino game medium and a game table system capable of reducing adjacent reading without limiting a design of a game table. The casino game medium 100 includes the medium side antenna 110, the resistance element 111 connected to the medium side antenna 110, and the IC chip 112 that stores medium information and outputs the medium information based upon an induced electromotive force generated in the medium side antenna 110. The medium side antenna 110 is designed so that the resonance frequency thereof is higher than the specified frequency band.
US11756361B2
A storage case for being provided in a vehicle includes a case body having a storage space for an electronic key; a first actuator to protrude into the storage space and pressing an unlocking button of the electronic key in the storage space; a second actuator; an adjustment piece for adjusting positions of the first actuator and the second actuator; a transceiver for communicating with an external terminal apparatus; and a processor to, in response to the transceiver receiving an unlocking request signal transmitted from the external terminal apparatus, cause the first actuator to press the unlocking button. The adjustment piece includes a rotating plate rotatably provided with respect to the case body; and, with respect to the rotating plate, the first and the second actuators being adjustable to become nearer to each other and adjustable to become farther from each other.
US11756358B2
An effective strategy should result in reduced resource consumption in association with an event. Reducing time at a bottleneck in event check-in would be considered a positive result. However, it is desirable to maintain privacy policy compliance. Utilizing the techniques described in this paper reduces time at check-in related to physical badge preparation and distribution while maintaining privacy policy compliance. The system and method can include pre-event activities, event-concurrent activities, and post-event activities related to accuracy, precision, aesthetics, coordination, and learning in association with badge preparation and distribution.
US11756353B2
A method includes detecting an event occurring on a vehicle. The vehicle includes at least one computing device that controls at least one operation of the vehicle. The at least one computing device includes a first computing device comprising system memory. In response to detecting the event, data is downloaded from the system memory to a non-volatile memory device of the vehicle. In some cases, a control action for the vehicle is implemented based on analysis of the downloaded data.
US11756352B2
A pilot protection method includes: obtaining time-domain signals data of target element at a preset sampling frequency; fusing time-domain signals data of multiple first sampling periods to obtain first time-domain signals combination data; based on a machine learning model, determining whether a fault occurs in target element according to the first time-domain signals combination data; when it is determined that a fault occurs in target element according to the first time-domain signals combination data, based on the machine learning model, determining whether a fault occurs in target element in the second sampling period according to the second time-domain signals combination data. The second sampling period is the sampling period after determining a fault occurs; when it is determined that the same type of fault occurs in target element in multiple consecutive second sampling periods, the pilot protection system is controlled to perform the protection action on the target element.
US11756348B2
This on-vehicle data management device includes: a data collection section configured to collect data that is obtained by a first apparatus of a vehicle and that is recorded in a record region provided in the first apparatus; an information obtaining section configured to obtain information related to travel of the vehicle from a second apparatus of the vehicle, the second apparatus being different from the first apparatus; and a storage processing section configured to store target data collected by the data collection section in association with the information related to travel of the vehicle obtained by the information obtaining section.
US11756346B1
An analytics reporting system to perform operations that include: aggregating sensor data collected from a plurality of sensor devices within a database, the sensor data comprising a set of values that correspond with a metric; generating a threshold value based on the set of values that correspond with the metric; accessing a portion of the sensor data based on an identifier associated with the portion of the sensor data; determining the portion of the sensor data transgresses the threshold value; and generating a report that comprises a display of the portion of the sensor data based on the determining that the portion of the sensor data transgresses the threshold value.
US11756342B2
In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method comprises: validating data in a vehicle system database; identifying data to be collected from at least one vehicle system; validating sufficient data rights; if sufficient data rights are validated, collecting the identified data; identifying at least one analysis to be performed; performing the at least one analysis on the collected data; identifying at least one analysis report to be generated; and generating the at least one analysis report.
US11756339B2
Systems and methods for determining dwell time is provided. The method includes receiving images of an area including one or more people from one or more cameras, and detecting a presence of each of the one or more people in the received images using a worker. The method further includes receiving by the worker digital facial features stored in a watch list from a master controller, and performing facial recognition and monitoring the dwell time of each of the one or more people. The method further includes determining if each of the one or more people is in the watch list or has exceeded a dwell time threshold.
US11756335B2
An apparatus for providing gaze tracking in a near-eye display. Certain examples provide an apparatus including a light modulator configured to receive light of a first range of wavelengths and generate an image beam therefrom. The light modulator is further configured to receive light of a second range of wavelengths and generate a probe beam therefrom. The apparatus also includes one or more light guides including one or more in-coupling element areas, and one or more out-coupling element areas. The one or more in-coupling diffractive element areas are configured to receive and in-couple the image beam and the probe beam into the one or more light guides. The one or more out-coupling element areas are configured to out-couple, from the one or more light guides: the image beam to a user's eye for user viewing, and the probe beam to the user's eye for detection of reflection therefrom.
US11756325B2
A vehicle exterior environment recognition apparatus includes a three-dimensional object region identification unit, a bicycle determination unit, and a bicycle identification unit. The three-dimensional object region identification unit identifies a three-dimensional object region including a three-dimensional object, in an image. The bicycle determination unit divides the three-dimensional object region into a plurality of divisions, to determine bicycle-likeliness of the three-dimensional object on the basis of a state of occupation of each of the plurality of the divisions by the three-dimensional object. The bicycle identification unit identifies the three-dimensional object as a bicycle on the basis of the bicycle-likeliness.
US11756317B2
Systems and methods for processing point cloud data are disclosed. The methods include receiving a 3D image including point cloud data, displaying a 2D image of the 3D image, and generating a 2D bounding box that envelops an object of interest in the 2D image. The methods further include generating a projected image frame comprising a projected plurality of points by projecting a plurality of points in a first direction. The methods may then include displaying an image frame that includes the 2D image and the 2D bounding box superimposed by the projected image frame, receiving a user input that includes an identification of a set of points in the projected plurality of points that correspond to the object of interest, identifying a label for the object of interest, and storing the set of points that correspond to the object of interest in association with the label.
US11756312B2
Systems and methods include obtaining observation points of a lane line using a sensor of a vehicle. Each observation point indicates a location of a point on the lane line. A method includes generating or updating a lane model with the observation points. The lane model indicates a path of the lane line and the lane model is expressed in a lane-specific coordinate system that differs from a vehicle coordinate system that is defined by an orientation of the vehicle. The method also includes transforming the lane-specific coordinate system to maintain a correspondence between the lane-specific coordinate system and the vehicle coordinate system based on a change in orientation of the vehicle resulting in a change in the vehicle coordinate system.
US11756311B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for a detection system for a vehicle. The detection system includes at least one of a camera or a sensor. The camera is configured to capture image data of a surrounding environment. The sensor is configured to detect sensor data. The detection system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is coupled to the camera and is configured to determine that there is an available parking spot or a person is positioned on a side of a road based on the image data or the sensor data. The electronic control unit is configured to provide a location of the available parking spot or the person to another device or to the vehicle.
US11756304B2
A method for removing satellite trails from images includes the following: obtaining an initial image having stars, locating stars in the image, removing the located stars from the initial image to form a star-removed image, locating the satellite trail in the star-removed image, determining brightness information for the satellite trail in the initial image including trail wobble information, creating a satellite-trail-containing image with only satellite trail brightness information based on the determined brightness information, and subtracting the satellite-trail-containing image from the initial image to remove the satellite trail so as to form a satellite-trail-removed image. Systems for removing satellite trails from images are also provided, as are other aspects.
US11756301B2
A system including a scene detection engine (SDE) and a method for automatically detecting and marking logical scenes in media content using artificial intelligence are provided. The SDE detects boundaries of shots in media content. The SDE generates an image similarity matrix by extracting color features from a middle frame of each shot. The SDE generates an audio similarity matrix by extracting audio features of each shot. The SDE generates a resultant similarity matrix from the image and audio similarity matrices. The SDE executes a clustering algorithm using the resultant similarity matrix with reduced or no noise to generate an ordered sequence of shots that define a boundary of each scene of the media content. The SDE executes a linear traversal algorithm on the shots that define the boundary of each scene for correcting errors in the defined boundary of each scene.
US11756297B2
The disclosure relates to system and method for providing assistance to a user using augmented reality. The method includes acquiring a video stream and a set of data associated with a task being performed by a user, in real-time, using a camera and/or a sensor device. The video stream includes sequential frames. The method further includes determining a present state associated with the task based on the sequential frames using an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based action prediction model; determining scenarios and events corresponding to the scenarios based on the video stream and the set of data using an ANN based augmented intelligence model; and determining sequential instructions required for assisting the user to accomplish the task, dynamically, based on the present state and the events associated with the task, using at least one of a rule-based engine and an ANN based instruction prediction model.
US11756289B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a first preprocessing arithmetic device configured to execute preprocessing for analog data from a first sensor; and a first post-processing arithmetic device connected to the first preprocessing arithmetic device and configured to execute post-processing for first preprocessed data, wherein the first preprocessing arithmetic device includes a first processor configured to: receive the analog data from the first sensor and convert the analog data into digital data; output feature data on the basis of a result of execution of feature extraction processing for the digital data; and output the feature data, and the first post-processing arithmetic device includes a second processor configured to: input the feature data; store the feature data in a first memory; and store, in the first memory, recognition result data based on a result of execution of recognition processing for the feature data.
US11756288B2
The present disclosure provides an image processing method and apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium, which relate to the field of computer technology, and more particularly to artificial intelligence technology including computer vision, deep learning and the like. The image processing method includes: recognizing the image to be processed to determine attribute information of each object included in the image to be processed; determining a target thermal image to be recognized according to the attribute information of each object and the image to be processed; reconstructing the target thermal image to generate a first reconstructed image; and determining whether the image to be processed includes an object of a preset class according to a difference between the first reconstructed image and the target thermal image.
US11756269B2
The present disclosure relates to techniques for providing tangibility visualization of virtual objects within a computer-generated reality (CGR) environment, such as a CGR environment based on virtual reality and/or a CGR environment based on mixed reality. A visual feedback indicating tangibility is provided for a virtual object within a CGR environment that does not correspond to a real, tangible object in the real environment. A visual feedback indicating tangibility is not provided for a virtual representation of a real object within a CGR environment that corresponds to a real, tangible object in the real environment.
US11756268B2
A device receives an image including image data of a scale model of a vehicle, and processes the image data, with a model, to identify a make, a model, and a year represented by the scale model. The device determines augmented reality (AR) vehicle information based on the make, the model, and the year represented by the scale model of the vehicle, and provides the AR vehicle information to enable a user device to associate the AR vehicle information with the image of the scale model of the vehicle. The device receives an input associated with the AR vehicle information, and determines updated AR vehicle information based on the input associated with the AR vehicle information. The device provides the updated AR vehicle information to enable the user device to associate the updated augmented reality vehicle information with the image of the scale model of the vehicle.
US11756259B2
A sensor unit (105) included in a display device (100) detects a shift in orientation of a display (104) included in the display device (100) in a real space. A display control device configured by a control unit (101) changes the sight line direction in a virtual space, which includes a plurality of still and moving objects, in accordance with the detected shift in orientation, and generates an image representing a view of the virtual space in the sight line direction. The generated image is displayed on the display (104). The display control device configured by the control unit (101) then specifies a focus object among the objects, transfers an observation site about the focus object in the direction opposite to the direction of change in the sight line direction, and then generates the image of the virtual space from the observation site in the sight line direction.
US11756249B2
Systems and methods described herein provide for retrieving, from a storage device, first image data previously captured by a client device. The systems and methods further detect a selection of a first image processing operation and perform the first image processing operation on the first image data to generate second image data. The systems and methods further detect a selection of a second image processing operation and perform the second image processing operation on the second image data to generate third image data. The systems and methods generate a message comprising the third image data.
US11756247B2
An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a focus identifier to identify a focus area, and a color compressor to selectively compress color data based on the identified focus area. Another embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a motion detector to detect motion of a real object, a motion predictor to predict a motion of the real object, and an object placer to place a virtual object relative to the real object based on the predicted motion of the real object. Another embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a frame divider to divide a frame into viewports, a viewport prioritizer to prioritize the viewports, a renderer to render a viewport of the frame in order in accordance with the viewport priorities, and a viewport transmitter to transmit a completed rendered viewport. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
