US11839163B2
A storage element including a storage layer configured to hold information by use of a magnetization state of a magnetic material, with a pinned magnetization layer being provided on one side of the storage layer, with a tunnel insulation layer, and with the direction of magnetization of the storage layer being changed through injection of spin polarized electrons by passing a current in the lamination direction, so as to record information in the storage layer, wherein a spin barrier layer configured to restrain diffusion of the spin polarized electrons is provided on the side, opposite to the pinned magnetization layer, of the storage layer; and the spin barrier layer includes at least one material selected from the group composing of oxides, nitrides, and fluorides.
US11839161B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure including a first electrode via, a first electrode on the first electrode via, a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) over the first electrode, a second electrode over the MTJ, a first dielectric layer on the first electrode via, a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer is a planar layer. A sidewall of the MTJ is in contact with the second dielectric layer, and a bottom surface of the second dielectric layer is higher than a bottom surface of the first electrode.
US11839160B2
The present disclosure provides a flexible integrated array sensor and manufacturing methods thereof. The array sensor includes a silicon wafer, a readout circuit layer, a sensing array layer, and a polymer substrate layer disposed on the silicon wafer. The manufacturing method includes: preparing a silicon wafer; fabricating a plurality of function arrays, each including m*n function units, on a surface of the silicon wafer; etching one or more deep grooves on the surface of the silicon wafer between the arrays; fabricating a thinning support; and thinning a bottom surface of the silicon wafer to a target thickness so that the arrays are separated from each other. The etching depth for etching the one or more deep grooves is equal to or greater than the thickness of the silicon wafer after thinning.
US11839140B2
The present invention relates to metal-carbene complexes comprising a central atom selected from iridium and platinum, and diazabenzimidazolocarbene ligands, to organic light diodes which comprise such complexes, to light-emitting layers comprising at least one such metal-carbene complex, to a device selected from the group comprising illuminating elements, stationary visual display units and mobile visual display units comprising such an OLED and to the use of such a metal-carbene complex in OLEDs, for example as emitter, matrix material, charge transport material and/or charge or exciton blocker.
US11839135B2
A display device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display device includes a flexible panel and a protective film. The flexible panel includes a first panel part, a second panel part, and a bendable part connected between the first panel part and the second panel part. The protective film is bonded to a surface on a non-display side of the flexible panel, and includes a first film part bonded to the first panel part and a second film part bonded to the second panel part. The flexible panel is bent at the bendable part so that the first panel part and the second panel part are overlapped in a first direction perpendicular to the surface.
US11839132B2
An electroluminescence display device including a substrate having a display area and a non-display area arranged near the display area, a light emitting diode in the display area, an encapsulation layer on the light emitting diode, the encapsulation layer including a first inorganic encapsulation layer, a second inorganic encapsulation layer and an organic encapsulation layer disposed between the first and second inorganic encapsulation layers, a through-hole arranged inside the display area to penetrate the substrate, an inner dam surrounding the through-hole, a trench arranged between the inner dam and the through-hole, and an etch-stopper arranged between the trench and the through-hole, wherein the first inorganic encapsulation layer and the second inorganic encapsulation layer are disposed on the display area and covering the inner dam and the trench.
US11839119B2
A display device includes a display substrate including a plurality of first pads arranged in a first pad area and a plurality of second pads arranged in a second pad area, wherein the first pads and the second pads are arranged in different rows from each other, a circuit board including first circuit pads facing the first pads, respectively, and second circuit pads facing the second pads, respectively, and an adhesive member disposed between the display substrate and the circuit board and including an adhesive layer and a plurality of conductive balls distributed in the adhesive layer. Here, a first density of first conductive balls overlapping the first pad area among the conductive balls is greater that a second density of second conductive balls overlapping the second pad area among the conductive balls.
US11839113B2
An organic light emitting diode display includes: a substrate; a scan line formed over the substrate and transmitting a scan signal; a data line crossing the scan line and transmitting a data voltage; a driving voltage line crossing the scan line and transmitting a driving voltage; a switching transistor connected to the scan line and the data line; a driving transistor connected to the switching transistor; a driving connection member connected to a driving gate electrode of the driving transistor; a storage capacitor including a first storage electrode and a second storage electrode; a pixel electrode electrically connected to the driving transistor; and a contact hole connecting the first storage electrode and the driving connection member. The second storage electrode may include a cut-out by a curved edge at least partially surrounding the contact hole, and the pixel electrode may be formed not to overlap the cut-out.
US11839111B2
Display device having crack prevention portions on a side portion and method of fabricating the same
A display device includes a display panel having a front portion and at least one side portion that is bent from at least one side of the front portion. The front portion includes first pixels. The side portion includes second pixels and crack prevention portions that are disposed adjacent to the second pixels. A number of the first pixels per unit area disposed in the front portion is greater than a number of the second pixels per unit area disposed in the at least one side portion.
US11839110B2
An organic light-emitting display device comprises a substrate, a driving thin-film transistor including an active layer on the substrate, source and drain electrodes directly contacting the active layer, and a gate electrode on the active layer, and an organic light-emitting element connected to the driving thin-film transistor. Each of the source and drain electrodes of the driving thin-film transistor exposes a respective side surface of the active layer.
US11839108B2
A transparent display device includes a substrate on which a pixel including first, second, and third emission areas and first and second transparent areas arranged along a first direction is defined, a light-emitting diode disposed in each of the first, second, and third emission areas and including a first electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode, and an auxiliary electrode extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and electrically connected to the second electrode. The first emission area and the auxiliary electrode are disposed between the first transparent area and the second transparent area, and the second transparent area includes a first portion between the first emission area and the second emission area. Further, the first transparent area has a higher transmittance than the second transparent area.
US11839101B2
A display substrate includes a display region and hollowed-out grooves provided at a periphery of the display region. The display substrate includes a first organic base layer, a light-emitting unit provided on the base structure layer and located at the display region; the first organic base layer is provided with a groove structure located between the hollowed-out grooves and the display region. The display substrate further includes a first inorganic package layer for covering the light-emitting unit and the groove structure.
US11839098B2
Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a transparent display region and a non-transparent display region. The display panel includes at least a first cathode and a second cathode; the first cathode is in the transparent display region; the second cathode is in the non-transparent display region; a first work function of the first cathode is greater than a second work function of the second cathode; and the first work function of the first cathode and the second working function of the second cathode are respectively in a range from 3.8 eV to 4.1 eV.
US11839092B2
A display substrate includes a substrate, and the display substrate includes a first display region with a greatest light transmittance, a second display region, and a third display region on the substrate, the third display region is contiguous to the first and second display regions. A plurality of first sub-pixels are disposed in the first display region, a plurality of second sub-pixels are disposed in the second display region, a plurality of third sub-pixels are disposed in the third display region, and a density of the second sub-pixels is the greatest. A pixel circuit for the first sub-pixels is disposed in the third display region, a first electrode of the first sub-pixel is electrically connected to a corresponding pixel circuit via a wiring, the wiring includes a first segment of transparent conductive material disposed in the first display region and a second segment disposed in the third display region.
US11839090B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards an integrated chip comprising memory cells separated by a void-free dielectric structure. In some embodiments, a pair of memory cell structures is formed on a via dielectric layer, where the memory cell structures are separated by an inter-cell area. An inter-cell filler layer is formed covering the memory cell structures and the via dielectric layer, and further filling the inter-cell area. The inter-cell filler layer is recessed until a top surface of the inter-cell filler layer is below a top surface of the pair of memory cell structures and the inter-cell area is partially cleared. An interconnect dielectric layer is formed covering the memory cell structures and the inter-cell filler layer, and further filling a cleared portion of the inter-cell area.
US11839083B2
In a method for forming a semiconductor device, a channel structure is formed that extends from a side of a substrate, where the channel structure includes sidewalls and a bottom region. The channel structure further includes a bottom channel contact that is positioned at the bottom region and a channel layer that is formed along the sidewalls and over the bottom channel contact. A high-k layer is formed over the channel layer along the sidewalls of the channel structure and over the bottom channel contact.
US11839078B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a stacked layer body including conductive layers stacked to be apart from each other in a first direction, and including a stair-like end with rising parts and terrace parts, wherein successive first conductive layers including an uppermost conductive layer function as select gate lines for a NAND string, and a first contact connected to the uppermost conductive layer provided to correspond to a first rising part which is an uppermost one of the rising parts. The first contact passes through the uppermost conductive layer to be further connected to a first conductive layer adjacent to the uppermost conductive layer.
US11839077B2
A semiconductor storage device includes: a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer arranged in a first direction; a plurality of first semiconductor layers facing the first conductive layer, the plurality of first semiconductor layers arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a first charge storage layer disposed between the plurality of first semiconductor layers and the first conductive layer; and a first insulating layer provided between the plurality of first semiconductor layers and the first charge storage layer in the first direction. The first insulating layer includes a first region, a second region, and a third region provided between the first region and the second region in the second direction. A nitrogen concentration in the first region and the second region is lower than a nitrogen concentration in the third region.
US11839076B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming first to third sacrificial layers on a substrate including a memory cell area and a peripheral area with a word line area. The second and third sacrificial layers in the word line area are removed to expose the top surface of the first sacrificial layer. The first sacrificial layer in the word line area and the third sacrificial layer in the memory cell area are removed. A word line dielectric layer and a first conductive layer are formed on the substrate in the word line area. The first and second sacrificial layers in the memory cell area are removed. A tunneling dielectric layer is formed on the substrate in the memory cell area. The thickness of the tunneling dielectric layer is smaller than the thickness of the word line dielectric layer.
US11839069B2
Disclosed is an electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet which includes a sheet-shaped fibrous substrate and carbon nanotubes positioned in a space inside in a thickness direction of the sheet-shaped fibrous substrate, wherein the fibrous substrate is composed of organic fibers, the carbon nanotubes comprise single-walled carbon nanotubes as a main component, and the electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet has an electrical conductivity of 0.7 S/cm or more and 20 S/cm or less.
US11839068B2
Provided is an electric power converter that includes an inverter which includes plural electric parts, a smoothing capacitor configured to smooth electric power, a housing configured to house the inverter and the smoothing capacitor and a first conductor portion configured to connect the smoothing capacitor and the inverter. The housing includes a base portion made of a resin material and a cover portion attached to the base portion to cover the inverter and the smoothing capacitor. The inverter and the smoothing capacitor are mounted on the base portion. The first conductor portion is placed in the vicinity of or in contact with the base portion of the housing in the middle of connection between the smoothing capacitor and the inverter.
US11839065B2
This application discloses a vehicle-mounted device comprising: a first temperature equalization board and a PCB are fastened inside a housing. The first temperature equalization board is close to a first inner wall of the housing. The PCB is close to a second inner wall of the housing. The first inner wall is opposite to the second inner wall. A first protrusion is disposed on a side that is of the first temperature equalization board and that is close to the PCB. A first heat pipe is disposed on a side that is of the first temperature equalization board and that is close to the first inner wall. A first heat emission component is disposed on a side that is of the PCB and that is close to the first temperature equalization board. A position of the first protrusion corresponds to a position of the first heat emission component.
US11839060B2
This document describes a thermal-control system that is integrated into a video-recording doorbell. The thermal-control system includes a combination of heat spreaders and materials with high thermal conductivity. The thermal-control system may spread and dissipate energy from a thermal-loading condition effectuated upon the video-recording doorbell to concurrently maintain temperatures of multiple thermal zones on or within the video-recording doorbell at or below prescribed temperature thresholds.
US11839057B2
An apparatus with a housing having a structure for heat dissipation is provided. The apparatus includes the housing having at least one surface, outer walls, and a plurality of fins, and an operating unit fixed to the housing, wherein the at least one surface of the housing includes a fin cover connected to the fins, a base exposed in an internal space in which the operating unit is disposed, and a refrigerant filled in a space between the fin cover and the base, wherein the fin cover and the base are connected through the outer walls, and wherein the fin cover has a flat surface.
US11839053B2
A fluid collecting apparatus includes a housing, a gripping member, an inlet, and an outlet. The housing includes a chamber. The gripping member is movable within the chamber, extendable toward or retractable away from a tank, and is configured to hold a computing device. The inlet is communicable with the chamber and configured to deliver a gas into the chamber. The outlet is communicable with the chamber and configured to discharge the gas out of the chamber. A method of operating a cooling system includes receiving the tank, a coolant held by the tank, and a computing device immersed in the coolant, disposing the fluid collecting apparatus over the tank, moving the computing device into the chamber by the gripping member; supplying a gas from the inlet to be blown against the computing device; and discharging the gas and a vaporized coolant out of the chamber through the outlet.
US11839051B2
An information handling system may include a chassis configured to house components of the information handling system and a modular power supply module configured to be readily removable from the chassis. The modular power supply module may include an enclosure, power supply components housed within the enclosure, an air mover configured to drive airflow to cool one or more components of the information handling system, and a mechanical assembly configured to mechanically couple the air mover to the enclosure that enables a user to remove the air mover from the enclosure while still coupled to the enclosure via the mechanical assembly, rotate the air mover 180 degrees relative to the enclosure while still coupled to the enclosure via the mechanical assembly, and reinsert the air mover into the enclosure, in order to modify a direction of airflow driven by the air mover.
US11839042B2
A display device includes a window, a display module on a rear surface of the window, and including a folding area, and a non-folding area adjacent to the folding area, and a protective cover on a rear surface of the display module, and including a cover portion configured to cover the folding area and the non-folding area of the display module, and holding portions extending in a first direction, or in a second direction crossing the first direction, from the cover portion, and protruding outside the display module when viewed in a plane.
US11839039B2
A rollable display device includes: a soft display panel; a main roller for winding or unwinding the soft display panel; an actuator coupled to the soft display panel to ascend and descend the soft display panel; a housing having the main roller mounted therein, wherein an opening extending in a first direction is defined in a top of the housing to retract and extend the soft display panel therethrough; and an elastic portion having one end coupled to a perimeter of the opening and protruding to cover at least a portion of the opening, wherein the elastic portion includes a rubber portion having a predetermined length along the first direction. The rollable display device may minimize exposure of an interior of the housing to prevent foreign substances from entering.
US11839037B2
The present invention relates to a display device. The display device according to an embodiment of the present invention can comprise: a display module; a reinforcement frame provided to the display module; a hook fastened to the reinforcement frame; a mounting bracket having a catching hole in which the hook is caught; a screw coming into contact with the upper surface or the lower surface of the reinforcement frame; and a screw fastening part which is provided to the reinforcement frame and to which the screw is fastened.
US11839031B2
Micro solder joint and stencil design. In one embodiment, a stencil for depositing solder on a printed circuit board (PCB) includes a plurality of stencil apertures, a first stencil aperture of the plurality of apertures having an aperture wall defining an aperture perimeter. The aperture wall is configured to not extend beyond an outer edge of a PCB pad provided on the printed circuit board, the aperture wall is also configured to not extend beyond an outer edge of a terminal of a surface mount component, and the first stencil aperture is configured to receive solder paste to form a non-convex solder joint between the PCB pad and the terminal.
US11839020B2
A trace embedded probe device includes a circuit board including an insulating layer unit whose upper surface has first recesses and a second recess located therebetween, grounding traces and a signal trace whose trace main bodies are disposed in the recesses respectively and flush in elevation with the upper surface, and a grounding layer disposed on a lower surface of the insulating layer unit and connected with the grounding traces by conductive vias penetrating through the first recesses and the lower surface and provided therein with conductive layers. The trace main bodies, grounding layer and conductive layers are made of a same metal material. Probes are disposed on the grounding and signal traces respectively. The probe device is easy in control of distance, width, thickness and surface roughness of the traces, and beneficial to achieve the requirements of thin copper traces, fine pitch and high frequency testing.
US11839014B2
In the present invention, an electrode pair having a discharge space therein is constituted by a combination of a high-voltage application electrode unit and a ground potential electrode unit. The high-voltage application electrode unit has, as the main components, an electrode dielectric film and a metal electrode formed on the upper surface of the electrode dielectric film. An auxiliary conductive film is formed in an annular shape so as to surround the metal electrode without overlapping the metal electrode in plan view. A metal electrode pressing member: has an annular shape in plan view; is provided to contact part of the upper surface of the auxiliary conductive film; and is fixed to a metal base flange. A ground potential is applied to the base flange.
US11839011B2
A method of creating a magnetically adhered, static dissipative floor covering (1). The method comprises the steps of providing a magnetically receptive floor surface (3), and supplying a floor covering comprising a plurality of static dissipative, magnetic floor tiles (4). The tiles (4) are held in place by magnetic interaction between the tiles (4) and the magnetically receptive surface (3). The floor tiles (4) are of composite construction comprising a) a static dissipative vinyl wearing layer (5), b) an integral, conductive ground plane (6) and c) an integral, planar magnetic layer (7), The conductive ground plane (6) comprises a non-woven synthetic fabric (8) with a nickel-copper coating and a conductive adhesive backing (9). The conductive ground plane (6) is bonded to the static dissipative wearing layer (5) by the conductive adhesive backing (9).
US11839006B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a backlight control circuit, a method for driving the same, a backlight module and a display apparatus. The backlight control circuit includes: an undervoltage protection circuit, electrically connected with a power supply voltage input end and a ground, and configured to output a closing control signal through an output end of the undervoltage protection circuit according to a voltage at the power supply voltage input end and an undervoltage threshold value; and a backlight driving circuit, electrically connected with a voltage supply end, a backlight driving output end and the output end of the undervoltage protection circuit separately, and configured to enable a port of the backlight driving circuit when receiving an enabling control signal for processing a voltage at the voltage supply end and outputting the processed voltage to the backlight driving output end, and stop working when receiving the closing control signal.
US11838990B2
According to an example aspect, there is provided a method comprising a non-cellular receiver configured to receive first sensor data from a first wireless sensor node and second sensor data from the first or a second wireless sensor node, a processor configured to determine whether the second sensor data is a duplicate of the first sensor data and a cellular transmitter configured to transmit, responsive to the determination, third sensor data to a server, wherein said third sensor data is based on at least one of said first and second sensor data.
US11838988B2
A wireless communication network wirelessly receives a device Identifier (ID), network ID, and capability ID from a wireless user device. In response to the network ID, the wireless communication network transfers the device ID to the other communication network. The wireless communication network receives an authorization for the wireless user device from the other communication network. In response to the authorization, the wireless communication network wirelessly serves the wireless user device based on the capability ID. The wireless communication network transfers the capability ID used by the wireless user device to the other communication network in response to serving the wireless user device based on the capability ID.
US11838987B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, control signaling indicating a capability of the UE to apply an amplitude control procedure to one or more antenna elements for beamforming and indicating that the UE is applying the amplitude control procedure. The UE may receive a control message scheduling transmission of an uplink message. The UE may generate a signal including the uplink message using the amplitude control procedure, which may adjust one or more amplitudes of the signal. The UE may transmit the signal via the one or more antenna elements. In some cases, UE may indicate an amount of power loss in the signal based on the amplitude control procedure, and the base station may transmit downlink transmissions using a lower order modulation and coding scheme or an applied power boost to compensate for the power loss.
US11838981B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a connection release message, the connection release message including a resource indicator indicating that a set of resources are to be used for grant-free uplink transmissions by the UE while operating in a disconnected state. The UE may transition from a connected state to a disconnected state based at least in part on the connection release message. The UE may perform, while operating in the disconnected state, the grant-free uplink transmissions using the set of resources.
US11838965B2
A terminal of a communication system may obtain location information of a server of the communication system and related information related to a public key of a communication device of the communication system by using a computer program. The terminal may send a web page request to the server by using a browser program, receive web page data from the server by using the browser program, display as web page by using the browser program and activate the connection application by using the browser program. The terminal may obtain the public key by using the connection application, send an authentication request to the communication device by using the connection application, receive an authentication response from the communication device by using the connection application and execute a target communication with the communication device by using the connection application.
US11838949B2
A wireless device receives configuration parameters of a plurality uplink grants of a cell. The wireless device determines, for transmission of a transport block (TB), a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process associated with a first uplink grant of the plurality uplink grants. The wireless device determines that a listen before talk (LBT) process for transmission of the TB via the first uplink grant indicates a busy channel. In response to the LBT process indicating the busy channel, the TB is transmitted via a second uplink grant, of the plurality uplink grants of the cell, associated with a second HARQ process.
US11838944B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging a 5G communication system, which is provided to support a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology, and a system therefor. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety related service, or the like) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT related technology. The disclosure relates to a method for recovering a beam into a correct beam according to a position of a terminal using a non-contention-based and contention-based beam failure recovery method in order to recover a beam failure in which communication is disconnected due to movement of a terminal or the like in a wireless communication system performing beam-based communication services.
US11838943B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present application discloses a method for generating a preamble, comprising the following steps of: receiving dedicated preamble configuration information and random access preamble configuration information, wherein the dedicated preamble configuration information comprises root sequence configuration information and/or cyclic shift value configuration information; determining dedicated root sequence configuration information, dedicated cyclic shift value configuration information and dedicated preamble index according to the dedicated preamble configuration information and random access preamble configuration information.
US11838942B2
Wireless communications for random access procedures are described. One or more downlink control messages may indicate a system frame number corresponding to a random access preamble. The one or more downlink control messages may indicate the system frame number in a field and/or using a radio network identifier.
US11838940B2
A method for determining a working frequency point includes: each measurement period and each frequency point to be measured in each measurement period are acquired; whether a present moment is a first scheduling slice of a present measurement period is judged; if YES, frequency point switching and measurement are sequentially performed to obtain a Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) value of each frequency point to be measured in the present measurement period, frequency point switching back to a present working frequency point is performed, and the judging is re-executed until an RSSI value of each frequency point to be measured in each measurement period is measured; if NO, the judging is re-executed; and a working frequency point is redetermined according to a relationship between the RSSI value of each frequency point to be measured in each measurement period and an interference value of the present working frequency point.
US11838938B2
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive configuration information for a first set of resources and a second set of resources for a grantless physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission. The WTRU may determine data for transmission using the grantless PUSCH transmission. Based on the data, the WTRU may select resources from the first set or the second set for the grantless PUSCH transmission. Further, the WTRU may send the grantless PUSCH transmission including the data using the selected resources. In an example, the sending of the grantless PUSCH transmission may be part of a random access procedure. The random access procedure may be a two-step random access procedure. The random access procedure may be a random access channel (RACH) procedure. The random access procedure may depend upon a double contention pool setting, and the setting may address at least one of a data pool or a control pool.
US11838935B2
The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal and respective operation method. The mobile terminal comprises circuitry, which in operation monitors PDCCH candidates of a first search space set located in a designated first frequency range from the plurality of frequency ranges, and receives a DCI transmitted in the first search space set of the designated first frequency range. The received DCI includes an indication whether or not the mobile terminal is to skip monitoring some specific or all PDCCH candidates in at least one second search space set associated with at least one second frequency range from the plurality of frequency ranges. And only if the indication in the received DCI does not indicate to skip monitoring the specific or all PDCCH candidates, the circuitry additionally monitors the specific or all PDCCH candidates associated with the at least one second frequency range for receiving a DCI thereon.
US11838932B2
A method for configuring a guard period includes: determining a target guard duration value corresponding to a guard period; and when data burst transmission is to be performed, sending target data of the data burst transmission to a receiver in the Internet of Vehicles starting from a first time point, where the first time point is a time point having an interval of the target guard duration value from a start time point, and the start time point is a time point at which the data burst transmission is determined to be performed. A guard period can be placed before sending target data, and a number of valid symbols in a subframe for data transmission can be increased by controlling a target guard duration value corresponding to the guard period, reducing performance loss of a terminal and improving performance in the Internet of Vehicles.
US11838931B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit a data packet to a user equipment (UE). The data packet may have an associated packet delay budget to maintain a quality of experience for a user of the UE. The UE may determine a packet delivery time associated with the packet based on a communications latency and a signal processing latency. The UE may assess the packet delay budget and determine a remaining delay budget based on the packet delivery time. The UE may report the remaining delay budget to the base station in a feedback message. Based on the feedback message, the base station may determine to adjust a transmission time for subsequent data packet transmissions to improve data packet transmission and processing reliability.
US11838927B2
A terminal includes: a receiver, which, in operation, receives downlink control information and downlink data; circuitry, which, in operation, determines, based on the downlink control information and an offset, a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource used for transmission of a response signal for the downlink data; and a transmitter, which, in operation, transmits the response signal using the determined PUCCH resource. A first offset is used as the offset when the terminal is configured in a coverage enhancement mode, in which the response signal is allowed to be transmitted repeatedly for one of plural repetition levels in a plurality of subframes, where the first offset is configured for each of the plural repetition levels. The first offset is different from a second offset, which is used when the terminal is not configured in the coverage enhancement mode.
US11838924B2
A method of performing wireless communication by a first device is proposed. The method includes receiving downlink control information (DCI) related to first sidelink from a base station, and transmitting, to the base station, a confirmation message for reception of the DCI related to the first sidelink through a first medium access control (MAC) control element (CE). For example, the first MAC CE may include at least one index information related to at least one semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration activated or released by the DCI.
US11838923B2
According to certain embodiments, a method is disclosed for use in a wireless device being affected by pre-emption. The method comprises receiving information from a network node and performing one or more operations based on the received information. The information indicates a portion of a buffer that is affected by pre-emption. Examples of operations that can be performed based on the received information include flushing the portion of the buffer affected by pre-emption or separately handling the portion of the buffer affected by pre-emption.
US11838917B2
In cross-carrier scheduling of DCIs on a data channel, a base station may transmit a first DCI on a first radio frequency (RF) carrier, where the first DCI schedules a data channel of a second RF carrier (and optionally indicates that the base station will transmit at least one DCI on the data channel of the second RF carrier). In some examples, the base station may transmit the first DCI in a control channel of the first RF carrier. In some examples, the base station may transmit the first DCI in a data channel of the first RF carrier. In some examples, the base station may transmit, in a data channel of the second RF carrier, a second DCI that indicates that the base station will transmit at least one DCI in the data channel of the first RF carrier.
US11838914B2
The present specification relates to a method, an apparatus, and a system for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system. The present specification provides a terminal comprising: a processor configured to determine a UCI to be dropped from among a first UCI having a first priority and a second UCI having a second priority or to multiplex the first UCI and the second UCI, under the condition in which a first PUCCH, to which the first UCI is mapped, and a second PUCCH, to which the second UCI is mapped, overlap in at least one symbol with respect to time; and a communication module configured to transmit an undropped UCI from among the first UCI and the second UCI to a base station or transmit a third PUCCH, in which the first UCI and the second UCI are multiplexed to be mapped thereto, to the base station according to the control of the processor. Communication reliability can be increased by multiplexing and transmitting UCIs having different priorities or later retransmitting a dropped UCI.
US11838912B2
Provided is an information transmission method, apparatus and system. The information transmission method includes: obtaining, by a first communication node, a control channel description list which includes description information of N control channels, where N is a positive integer and the description information of each of the control channels includes one or more of: control channel configuration information, reference signal configuration information, link resource configuration information, operating bandwidth configuration information, puncturing configuration information, frequency hopping configuration formation, transmission time interval length configuration information, power control configuration information and beam configuration information; and sending, by the first communication node, the control channel description list to a second communication node.
US11838911B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless device may receive control signaling indicating multiple sidelink channels of a sidelink resource pool, a mapping between each sidelink channel of the multiple sidelink channels to a corresponding feedback channel of multiple feedback channels, and a time gap between sidelink channel transmission and feedback transmission with respect to a feedback channel sub-slot of multiple feedback channel sub-slots within a slot. Accordingly, the first wireless device may receive a sidelink data message on a first sidelink channel of the multiple sidelink channels and may transmit sidelink feedback information for the sidelink data message in the feedback channel sub-slot of the slot on a first feedback channel of the multiple feedback channels corresponding to the first sidelink channel. The described techniques may enable the first wireless device to transmit the sidelink feedback information with reduced latency and improved reliability.
US11838903B2
Method, network device and terminal device for managing a resource in a wireless communication system are disclosed. A method may comprise determining a virtual bandwidth part, V-BWP, for a terminal device; and indicating the V-BWP to the terminal device, wherein the V-BWP comprises two or more bandwidth parts and any active bandwidth part of the V-BWP can be deactivated.
US11838890B2
A communication device and method therein for handling paging from a network node and data exchanging with a host. The communication device is one of a group of closely located communication devices capable of communicating with each other via a short-range wireless connection or a wired connection and is capable of communicating with the host over a long-range wireless connection via the network node. The communication device receives a page from the network node at a predefined occasion and evaluates if the page is targeted for itself or is targeted for one of the other devices in the group. When the page is targeted for itself, the communication device performs a paging response. When the page is targeted for one of the other devices in the group of closely located communication devices, the communication device forwards paging information to the targeted communication device.
US11838889B2
Methods for facilitating positioning determination in a Wi-Fi communication network are disclosed. An example method comprises sending, to a responding communication node, a request to start a position-related determination procedure and information of a first plurality of frequency bands over which the initiating communication node is able to communicate. The method further comprises receiving, from the responding communication node, second information related to a second number of frequency bands over which the responding communication node is able to communicate, and triggering start of the position-related determination procedure based on the received second information so that the position-related determination procedure is performed over at least one of a third number of frequency bands that occurs in both the first plurality of frequency bands and the second number of frequency bands.
US11838878B2
Disclosed is a method performed by a first unit of a base station system of a wireless communication network for handling a signal for transmission over a fronthaul link between the first unit and a second unit of the base station system. The base station system includes a base unit and a remote unit. The method includes receiving the signal having at least one complex value, each consisting of two subparts, each being represented by a first number of bits, and transmitting the signal over the fronthaul link to the second unit, wherein at least two subparts are represented in a subgroup, the subgroup being a binary codeword having an integer number of bits that is a multiple of a second non-integer number of bits allocated per subpart, the second non-integer number of bits being fewer than the first number of bits.
US11838876B2
According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for performing the following. The apparatus is configured to, first, allocate one or more of a plurality of available physical resource blocks to a plurality of terminal devices, wherein the allocating is performed so that a power spectral density for the plurality of terminal devices matches or exceeds a pre-defined limit or a plurality of respective pre-defined limits for power spectral density. In response to one or more physical resource blocks being still available following said allocating, the apparatus is configured to further allocate at least one of the one or more physical resource blocks still available to at least one of the plurality of terminal devices, wherein the further allocating is performed so that at least a pre-defined value for a modulation and coding scheme index is sustainable for said at least one of the plurality of terminal devices.
US11838866B2
Embodiments include methods for a wireless communication device comprising a main receiver and a wake-up receiver (WUR) having a channel selective filter. Such methods include determining a correlation metric for the WUR, based on the following: a signal received via the WUR using the channel selective filter configured according to a first one of a plurality of available bandwidths, and a reference signal that is representative of a wake-up signal (WUS) transmitted by an access point node. Such methods include detecting a WUS included in the received signal based on the correlation metric in relation to a first threshold, and in response to detecting the WUS, selecting a second one of the available bandwidths for the channel selective filter, based on the correlation metric in relation to a second threshold. Other embodiments include complementary methods for an access point node, as well as apparatus configured to perform such methods.
US11838862B2
In one embodiment, a first wireless access point (AP) of a first basic service set (BSS) receives, from a second wireless AP of a second BSS, data indicative of an 802.11-based target wake time (TWT) schedule of a client of the second BSS. The first wireless AP identifies, from the receive data, a scheduled communication time of the client of the second BSS in the TWT schedule. The first wireless AP generates an 802.11-based TWT schedule for a client of the first BSS that avoids the scheduled communication time of the client of the second BSS. The first wireless AP sends the generated 802.11-based TWT schedule to the client of the first BSS, wherein the sent TWT schedule causes the client of the first BSS to wake from sleep at a scheduled wake time.
US11838857B2
A method of wireless communication is performed by a user equipment (UE). The method receives, from a network, a configuration for a decision making module. The method also executes the decision making module to determine a selection parameter for a configuration of at least one machine learning module. The method selects the configuration of the at least one machine learning module based on the selection parameter. Further, the method reports, to the network, a decision resulting from executing the decision making module.
US11838850B2
A method and apparatus for device establishing redundant relay nodes in a mesh network.
US11838845B2
Techniques described herein provide pooling of radio access network (RAN) resources in a disaggregated RAN in a manner that enables dynamic re-homing of RAN functions with minimal disruption to stateful communications. The RAN is a hierarchical arrangement of RAN units, each having an associated state at any given time. A RAN state pooling system (RSPS) is in communication with a pool of the RAN units via a high-speed communication channel. The RSPS is configured to maintain an updated repository of the state information for the RAN units in its serviced pool. In the event of re-homing from a first RAN unit to a second RAN unit in the pool (e.g., due to the first RAN unit failing, becoming overloaded, etc.), the RSPS provides the second RAN unit with the updated state information for the first RAN unit to facilitate a stateful re-homing.
US11838843B2
A system for communicating vehicle-specific features to one or more personal electronic devices includes one or more controllers in wireless communication with a centralized computer system including one or more database for storing the vehicle-specific features. The one or more controllers execute instructions to undergo a passive wireless interaction with the one or more personal electronic devices. The passive wireless interaction involves determining the one or more personal electronic devices are located within a predefined proximity around a vehicle without human interaction. In response to undergoing the passive wireless interaction, the one or more controllers transmit one or more vehicle-specific features to the one or more personal electronic devices, where the one or more vehicle-specific features are unique to the vehicle.
US11838836B2
Vehicle map service data, which includes information associated with a geographic area and sensor observations of a vehicle, can be used to perform various operations. The vehicle map service data is based on a vehicle map service protocol specifying layers associated with portions of the vehicle map service data to which each client system is subscribed. Further, the layers to which the client systems are subscribed can be determined and access to the plurality of layers to which each of the vehicle client systems is subscribed can be provided to each of the client systems. Access to the layers can include authorization to send or receive one or more portions of the vehicle map service data associated with a corresponding layer.
US11838830B2
Presented herein are techniques for scheduling Ultra-Wideband (UWB) anchors and mobile devices for client ranging. A control device can determine respective ranging priorities for a plurality of mobile devices, which are each assigned to at least one UWB anchor. The control device can obtain at least one collision mapping identifying, for a respective pair of the mobile devices, a collision probability that a UWB signal associated with a ranging procedure involving a first mobile device of the respective pair will collide with a UWB signal associated with a ranging procedure involving a second mobile device of the respective pair. The control device can establish a ranging schedule for the mobile devices and UWB anchors based on the respective UWB ranging priorities and the collision mapping(s). The control device can send at least one command to cause UWB ranging procedures to be performed according to the ranging schedule.
US11838828B2
An ultra-wideband assisted precise positioning system and an ultra-wideband assisted precise positioning method are provided. The method includes: arranging a plurality of device nodes in a target area; configuring a central control device node to communicatively connect to the device nodes; configuring the device nodes to perform a positioning process to obtain measured distances and positioning positions to be corrected; and configuring a central control processor to execute a positioning algorithm. The positioning algorithm includes: obtaining the measured distances and the positioning positions to be corrected; for each of the positioning positions to be corrected, performing a center-of-gravity weighting processing on neighboring points for obtaining initial guess positions; and obtaining the initial guess positions to input to an optimizer and optimize an objective function, and finding corrected positions with relatively smallest errors. The objective function includes empirical weights associated with distance errors of the measured distances.
US11838822B2
This disclosure describes techniques for selecting network protocols using heatmaps. For instance, a system may receive radio frequency information from one or more sources located within an environment. The system may then generate heatmaps using the radio frequency information, where the heatmaps represent characteristics associated with different network protocols. The characteristics may include signal strengths, throughputs, data packet drop rates, data packet retry rates, and/or the like for various locations within the environment. A user device may then receive the heatmaps from the system. Using a location of the user device and the heatmaps, the user device may determine to communicate using a network protocol from the different network protocols. The user device may then establish a connection using the network protocol.
US11838813B1
Solutions for early cellular offloading include: receiving, at a node of a wireless network, from a user equipment (UE), a first message (e.g., an A3, A5, B1, or B2 event report) containing information regarding a serving cell of a first wireless technology generation and information regarding a neighbor cell of the first wireless technology generation (e.g., reference signal receive power (RSRP), reference signal received quality (RSRQ), or signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) measurement for fifth generation cellular technology (5G)); determining that a handover to the neighbor cell will not be performed; and based on at least the information regarding the serving cell and determining that the handover to the neighbor cell will not be performed, triggering an offload from the serving cell to a cell of a second wireless technology generation (e.g., fourth generation cellular technology (4G)).
US11838792B2
The present disclosure relates to data transmission methods, network devices. One example data transmission method includes: a first network node sends a first indication information to a second network node, the first indication information includes information about an uplink data volume of a buffer of a terminal device, or the first indication information indicates a relationship between an uplink data volume of a buffer of a terminal device and a predefined data volume threshold.
US11838787B2
A service management and orchestration (SMO) entity enabling a functional split between a non-real-time (RT) radio access network (RAN) intelligent controller (RIC) and an external artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) server will, during a data collection phase, utilize the SMO entity and the non-RT RIC to collect and process RAN data and non-RAN data and, during a data transfer phase, transfer processed RAN and non-RAN data from the SMO entity to an external AI/ML server via an interface. During a training model input phase, the SMO entity receives a trained AI/ML model, metadata, and training results from the external AI/ML server via an interface and, during a configuration phase, the SMO entity uses the trained AI/ML model within the SMO entity and the non-RT RIC to transfer configuration parameters to a near-RT RIC.
US11838785B2
An electronic messaging device includes a receiver configured to receive a message at one of a first operational frequency and second operational frequency. The messaging device can added to a message distribution group comprising a plurality of existing messaging devices. A test communication can be sent through a coupling to test an operation of the messaging device and confirming the addition of the messaging device to the message distribution group without communicating with the existing messaging devices.
US11838779B2
Systems and methods for managing traffic in a hybrid environment include monitoring traffic load of a local network to determine whether the traffic load exceeds or is likely to exceed a maximum traffic load, where the maximum traffic load is a traffic load for which a service can be provided by the local network, based on a license. An excess traffic load is determined if the traffic load exceeds or is likely to exceed the maximum traffic load. One or more external networks which have a capacity to provide the service to the excess traffic load are determined, to which the excess traffic load is migrated. The local network includes one or more service instances for providing the service for up to the maximum traffic load, and the service to the excess traffic load is provided by one or more additional service instances in the one or more external networks.
US11838777B2
An apparatus for a Next Generation Node-B (gNB) includes processing circuitry coupled to memory. To configure the gNB for QoS monitoring in an NG-RAN with a control plane (CP)-user plane (UP) separation, the processing circuitry is to decode assistance information data received at a gNB Central Unit (gNB-CU) node of the gNB from a gNB Distributed Unit (gNB-DU) node of the gNB. The gNB-CU node is hosting an NR PDCP. The gNB-DU node is configured as a corresponding node of the gNB. The assistance information data includes delay information of a communication link of the NG-RAN measured by the corresponding node. A delay associated with the communication link is determined at the gNB-CU node of the gNB, based on the delay information measured by the corresponding node.
US11838776B2
A system and method for using a wireless radio frequency (RF) data packet signaling link to enable non-link control of testing of a data packet signal transceiver device under test (DUT) in which a communication session between a tester and a DUT for purposes of testing the DUT may first be initiated by a separate, commonly available, and lower cost, communication device. Following its establishment, the tester may monitor the communication session, e.g., via wireless signal sniffing, to acquire and use associated device identification information to join the session and transmit trigger based test (TBT) data packets for initiating a test sequence within the DUT. Hence, use of a non-link capable tester to perform parametric testing of a DUT at the lowest network architecture layer, e.g., the physical (PHY) layer, may be enabled.
US11838770B2
Proposed are a method and a device for transmitting and receiving important update information of another AP through an ML element in a WLAN system. Specifically, a receiving MLD receives a basic ML element from a transmitting MLD over a first link. The receiving MLD decodes the basic ML element. The basic ML element includes a profile field of the second transmitting STA. The profile field of the second transmitting STA includes a first CSF presence field. When the value of the first CSF presence field is set to 0, the profile field of the second transmitting STA includes a first CSF field. The first CSF field includes information about the current change sequence number of the second transmitting STA.
US11838769B2
In an embodiment, a multiple-antenna heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a first antenna disposed along a return airflow path from an enclosed space to the multiple-antenna HVAC system, where the multiple-antenna HVAC system supplies conditioned air to the enclosed space. The multiple-antenna HVAC system also includes a second antenna disposed outside the return airflow path. The multiple-antenna HVAC system also includes a controller in communication with the first antenna and the second antenna, where the controller wirelessly communicates via the first antenna and the second antenna.
US11838760B2
A communication system including a host computer is provided herein. The host computer may include processing circuitry configured to provide user data and a communication interface configured to forward the user data to a cellular network for transmission to a user equipment (UE). The cellular network comprises a base station having a radio interface and base station processing circuitry. The base station processing circuitry configured to store a previously active security context for the UE, receive from the UE an RRCResumeRequest message including a security token, generate a temporary security context for the UE, use the temporary security context to verify the security token, send an RRC message to the UE, if no response to the RRC message is received from the UE, discard the temporary security context and retrieve the previously active security context. Thereafter, the base station transmits the user data for a host application.
US11838757B2
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment, a method and/or system for mobile identity authentication is disclosed. For example, mobile identity authentication may be employed in a variety of situations, including purchases, financial transactions, granted access to accounts, granting access to content, etc.
US11838753B2
The present invention relates to a communication apparatus including a first execution unit, a second execution unit, and a selection unit. The selection unit selects a first process of setting a wireless parameter in another communication apparatus or a second process of setting a wireless parameter that is set in another communication apparatus in the communication apparatus.
US11838730B2
A virtual image display includes acoustic sensors and a controller, and a method is for operating the same. The acoustic sensors are for detecting the wind frequency information in the environment. The controller computes time points of the acoustic sensors receiving the wind frequency information, and computes wind direction information based on the time points.
US11838729B2
A hearing aid (1) comprises a flexible ear tip (36) for an ear piece (62) adapted for insertion into the ear canal of a user. The ear piece comprises a shroud having a generally ball-shaped hollow bulb made of soft resilient material. The shroud is oval for better adaptation to the ear canal, as ear canals of humans are generally oval. The invention further provides an ear piece, an ear plug, and a component for a communications device.
US11838726B2
A pressure wave-generating device having a support and a heating element film that is disposed over the support and that is configured to generate heat by energization, and the heating element film has a porous metal structure.
US11838725B2
The present disclosure discloses a MEMS microphone including a substrate with a back cavity, and an electric capacitance system arranged on the substrate. The electric capacitance system includes a back plate and a diaphragm opposite to the back plate. The back plate includes a body part, a fixing portion connected to the substrate, and a connecting portion connecting the body part and the fixing portion. The diaphragm is fixed to the substrate and located at a side of the back plate close to the substrate. The fixing portion includes a first surface away from the substrate, the first surface includes a first arc surface connected with the body part, the first arc surface protrudes toward a direction away from the substrate. Compared with the related art, MEMS microphone disclosed by the present disclosure has a better reliability.
US11838714B1
Electronic apparatuses according to embodiments of the present technology may include an enclosure having a lid. The enclosure may define a first cavity and a second cavity, and may include an enclosure battery. The apparatuses may include a first enclosure wireless charging coil extending about the first cavity. The apparatuses may include a second enclosure wireless charging coil extending about the second cavity. The apparatuses may include a first earbud having a first earbud battery and a first earbud wireless charging coil operably coupleable with the first enclosure wireless charging coil for wireless charging of the first earbud battery. The apparatuses may include a second earbud having a second earbud battery and a second earbud wireless charging coil operably coupleable with the second enclosure wireless charging coil for wireless charging of the second earbud battery.
US11838713B2
The present disclosure relates to a pair of glasses. The pair of glasses may include a frame, one or more lenses, and one or more temples. The pair of glasses may further include at least one low-frequency acoustic driver, at least one high-frequency acoustic driver, and a controller. The at least one low-frequency acoustic driver may be configured to output sounds from at least two first guiding holes. The at least one high-frequency acoustic driver may be configured to output sounds from at least two second guiding holes. The controller may be configured to direct the low-frequency acoustic driver to output the sounds in a first frequency range and direct the high-frequency acoustic driver to output the sounds in a second frequency range. The second frequency range may include one or more frequencies higher than one or more frequencies in the first frequency range.
US11838708B2
A sensor device includes a substrate, a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) transducer disposed on the substrate, in integrated circuit, and a cover disposed on the substrate. The sensor device includes a port or an opening for allowing acoustic energy to be incident on the MEMS transducer. The sensor device further includes an ingress protection element positioned to cover the port, the ingress protection element comprising at least one non-planar portion.
US11838703B2
An item of ONU equipment configures itself for communicating via a first transport system with an item of OLT equipment in an optical access network, and starts a synchronisation for the first transport system and transmits via the first transport system. The OLT equipment transmits, via a protocol layer fitting on top of the entire transport system of the optical access network, without waiting for the synchronisation for the first transport system to have ended, a message indicating which transport system is to be used by the ONU equipment. When the transport system to be used by the ONU equipment is the first transport system, the synchronisation continues the first communication system, otherwise the synchronisation is restarted for the second transport system.
US11838681B2
An electronic imager (1) for imaging a photographic medium, comprising at least one array (6) of micromirrors (2), each of which is suitable for reflecting, during a change in position, a light beam coming from at least one light source (3) towards a projecting optical element (4), the change in position of the micromirrors (2) being controlled by a signal modulated at a toggling frequency (fb) of the micromirrors comprised between 1 Hz and 100 kHz.
US11838679B2
An infrared imaging device comprises an infrared imaging sensor to detect infrared light as heat, a temperature drift compensation amount calculator to calculate a temperature drift compensation amount in accordance with a temperature change of the substrate, with respect to a pixel output outputted from each of the plurality of pixels, a compensation amount calculation function generator to generate a function with the temperature of the substrate as an independent variable; and a timing controller to cause the infrared imaging sensor and the substrate temperature sensor to synchronously output data to the compensation amount calculation function generator for generating the function, wherein the compensation amount calculation function generator uses the data for generation output after the generation of the function as additional data for improving accuracy of the function.
US11838672B2
A solid-state imaging element that detects address events captures high-quality images. The solid-state imaging element includes a pixel array section that has a plurality of pixels including a specific pixel arranged in a two-dimensional lattice pattern. The specific pixel includes a pixel circuit and two analog-digital converters. The pixel circuit outputs two analog signals proportional to an amount of charge produced by photoelectric conversion. The analog-digital converters convert the respective two analog signals into digital signals with different resolutions.
US11838664B2
A semiconductor device comprising: a voltage generator configured to generate a voltage; a first analog-to-digital (AD) converter configured to convert an analog value based on a voltage generated by the voltage generator into a first digital value; and a second AD converter configured to convert an analog value based on a voltage generated by the voltage generator into a second digital value, wherein the voltage generator generates voltages by dividing a power supply voltage by resistive elements.
US11838662B2
Imaging devices and electronic apparatuses incorporating imaging devices are provided. An imaging device as disclosed can include a first pixel of a first pixel and a second pixel of a second pixel. The first and second pixels each have a first electrode, a portion of a photoelectric conversion film, and a portion of a second electrode, where the photoelectric conversion film is between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode of the first pixel has a first area, while the first electrode of the second pixel has a second area that is smaller than the first area. The first pixel can include a light shielding film. Alternatively or in addition, the first pixel can be divided into first and second portions.
US11838650B2
In a night shot mode, a photo is captured and processed based on a plurality of frames. The plurality of frames is obtained based on a plurality of parameters including an exposure duration, a light sensitivity, and a number of frames. These parameters are determined based on factors, such as whether the electronic device is in a handheld state or not, and whether the current photographing scene is a dark scene or a light source scene.
US11838649B2
There is provided with an image capturing device. An image capturing unit is capable of controlling an exposure condition for each region. A first acquisition unit acquires information representing a moving object region within an imaging range of the image capturing unit. A second acquisition unit acquires brightness information of each region within the imaging range of the image capturing unit. A setting unit sets the exposure condition used by the image capturing unit for each region by using the information representing the moving object region and the brightness information.
US11838645B2
An apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire distance information indicating a distance to an object included in a divided area obtained by dividing an image capturing area, a calculation unit configured to calculate a distance distribution on the object included in the divided area based on a position of the divided area and the distance information, and a determination unit configured to determine a settable range of exposure conditions for the divided area based on the calculated distance distribution.
US11838636B2
The present invention provides a generalized proportional integral observer-based method for compensating for visual-measurement time lag of an electro-optical tracking system. For visual-measurement time lag present in an electro-optical tracking system, an improved generalized proportional integral observer-based feedback control method is used to mitigate the impact of the measurement time lag on the system and suppress kinematic uncertainty of the system. The core of the method lies in that an observer is used to estimate a state, uncertainty, and a difference of the system at a previous moment, a state and uncertainty of the system at a current moment are then calculated by using these estimated values and a state-space model of the system, and a control input of the system is finally acquired according to the estimated values of the state and uncertainty of the system at the current moment. The method mitigates the adverse impact of visual-measurement time lag on the system and enhances the uncertainty suppression and the tracking precision of the system.
US11838612B2
An electronic view finder unit provided in an image pickup apparatus is movable between a retracted state in which the electronic view finder unit is retracted in a main body and a projecting state in which the electronic view finder unit projects from the main body. The electronic viewfinder unit includes a viewfinder having a display device, an eyepiece portion, and a lens holder. The eyepiece portion is slidable between an inserted position and an extracted position in the optical axis direction of the lens. At the position where, in the projecting state, the eyepiece portion is extracted, the viewfinder is rotatable around an axis orthogonal to the optical axis of the lens. Both during the rotating operation of the viewfinder and in a state in which the rotating operation has completed, the movement of the eyepiece portion from the extracted position to the inserted position is limited.
US11838611B1
A vehicle system includes a display device that simulates a rear-facing mirror (e.g., rearview mirror). The display device displays a first video captured by a first camera to simulate the rear-facing mirror. The system detects a change in an orientation of the display device from a first orientation to a second orientation and, in response, causes the display device to display a second video captured by a second camera to maintain the simulation of the rearview mirror but from the second orientation. Alternatively, the system causes a corresponding change in the perspective of the first video being displayed on the display device thereby maintaining the effect of the rearview mirror.
US11838601B2
An advertisement display method of displaying an advertisement transmitted from a server in a terminal of a user including receiving, from the server, first video data being a part of video data of the advertisement, controlling to activate the application in response to selection of the application by the user, displaying a first display based on the first video data in a display region of the terminal while the application is active, receiving, from the server, second video data being different from the first video data included in the video data of the advertisement, based on reception of the first video data, and displaying a second display based on the second video data in the display region, in association with the first display in the display region may be provided.
US11838600B2
A system and method are disclosed for identifying a plurality of past videos posted via a first group of channels, determining, for each channel of a second group, an average number of access requests that a future video to be posted via a respective channel is predicted to receive within a first time interval after posting, determining, for each channel of the second group, a plurality of adjusted average numbers of access requests that the future video to be posted via the respective channel of the second group is predicted to receive within the first time interval, wherein each of the plurality of adjusted average numbers of access requests is determined using an adjustment factor reflecting a number of access requests received by a past video posted via a respective channel of the first group, and determining whether the second group of channels satisfies a predetermined access criterion.
US11838593B2
A system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code. The software code is executed to receive a content selection input identifying audio-video (AV) content from a user, and determine a user preferred playback mode for a core video component of the AV content using one or more of (x) a media consumption profile of the user, (y) a playback mode selection input received from the user, or (z) a playback mode supported by a user device. The software code also obtains a media package containing multiple versions of the core video component and metadata identifying a default playback mode, and streams the AV content to the user device using: the user preferred playback mode when a version of the core video component corresponding to the user preferred playback mode is contained in the media package, or the default playback mode otherwise.
US11838591B2
Methods and systems are proposed herein to address the inefficiencies in the recommendation schemes available. More specifically, the embodiments disclosed herein provide a new recommendation scheme, whereby a user enters various criteria for what he/she would like to be recommended. For example, the system may receive a user preference for content recommendations from a user. The system may retrieve a user profile for the user. The system may compare the user preference to the user profile to determine a criterion for content recommendations for the user. The system may receive a content attribute for content provided by a content provider. The system may match the criterion to the content attribute. The system may, in response to matching the criterion to the content attribute, generate for display a recommendation to the user for the content.
US11838588B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for performing trick plays of segmented video content are provided. A point at which a trick play begins may be based on a playback time associated with a video segment that includes the video frame currently displayed when a request to start the trick play is received. A point at which to resume playback of the normal rate video content may be similarly based on a trick play playback time associated with a trick play video segment that includes the trick play video frame currently outputted when a request to stop the trick play is received.
US11838583B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify user presence to a meter. An example apparatus includes memory, instructions, and at least one hardware processor to execute the instructions to at least: obtain presence information from a configuration device, the configuration device separate from the apparatus, the presence information indicating that user is present at the apparatus; verify the presence information matches user information, the user information stored in a memory of the apparatus; cause a confirmation prompt to be displayed on the configuration device, the confirmation prompt to indicate the presence information was obtained by the apparatus; and store the presence information in memory.
US11838581B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for preserving channel lock while performing dynamic ad insertion (DAI) in a multi-device setup. An example embodiment operates by identifying a secondary device that loses a channel lock on a channel based on a primary device performing DAI on the channel. The embodiment determines that that the primary device is configured to perform a DAI to replace a portion of multimedia content in the channel with a replacement portion of multimedia content. The embodiment modifies an automated content recognition (ACR) behavior for the secondary device based on the determining, thereby preventing the secondary device from losing channel lock on the channel. The embodiment then modifies a DAI behavior for the secondary device in response to the modifying the ACR behavior for the secondary device.
US11838577B2
An audio and video transmission system includes a multimedia device. The multimedia device includes a high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) receiver, a first transfer circuit, and a first universal serial bus type C (USB-C) interface. The first transfer circuit is configured to transfer a first audio signal output by an audio channel pin of the HDMI receiver into a second audio signal in a universal serial bus (USB) interface format. The first USB-C interface is configured to transmit the second audio signal. The HDMI audio channel pin is an audio return channel (ARC) pin or an enhanced ARC pin.
US11838570B2
A loudness normalization method includes receiving data for playback of content from a server in response to a user's request to play back the content; normalizing the loudness of the content by adjusting the volume output level of a player using volume level metadata of the content included in the received data; and providing the content by playing audio of the content based on the adjusted volume output level of the player.
US11838565B2
The present invention relates to a data transmission device and reception device in a wireless AV system. Disclosed in the present specification is a wireless data transmission device comprising: a processor for generating a compressed bitstream by encoding media data; and a communication unit for segmenting the compressed bitstream, mapping the segmentation results to MSDUs, generating an MPDU frame sequentially including a MAC header, a frame body, and an FCS associated with the MAC header in order to transmit the MSDUs, generating a PPDU frame sequentially, which includes a preamble to which at least a portion of the MAC header is mapped, at least one PPDU to which the frame body and the FCS are mapped, and a TRN field, and transmitting the PPDU frame through a wireless channel. A data transmission rate can be improved through a reduction in overhead information.
US11838563B2
A method includes transmitting a first preauthored video frame of a plurality of preauthored video frames to a client device. The first preauthored video frame is associated with a preauthored media object. The method includes providing a request for a composited video frame to an interactive source device. The request includes a temporal characteristic associated with the first preauthored video frame. The method includes, in response to providing the request, obtaining, from the interactive source device, the composited video frame including customizable video content and preauthored video content. The preauthored video content is associated with a portion of the preauthored media object based on the temporal characteristic. The method includes, in response to detecting that the first preauthored video frame and the composited video frame together satisfy a switching condition, transmitting the composited video frame to the client device after transmitting the first preauthored video frame to the client device.
US11838557B2
Video encoding methods and apparatuses include receiving reconstructed video samples, determining an initial clipping setting for ALF coefficients, deriving clipping setting candidates from the initial clipping setting. ALF coefficients for the initial clipping setting and the clipping setting candidates are derived by solving inverse matrices, where partial intermediate results of solving ALF coefficients are shared by two or more clipping settings. A distortion value corresponds to the derived ALF coefficients for each clipping setting is computed, and final clipping indices for final ALF coefficients are determined according to the distortion values. ALF filtering is applied to the reconstructed video samples based on the final ALF coefficients and the final clipping indices.
US11838551B2
A decoder may receive, from a bitstream for a block, an indication of a first bit depth, a residual block of samples of the first bit depth, and a prediction parameter. The decoder may receive, from the bitstream for a sequence, an indication of a second bit depth. The decoder may determine a first decoded block of samples of the first bit depth based on the first bit depth, the residual block of samples of the first bit depth, and the prediction parameter. The decoder may determine a second decoded block of samples of the second bit depth based on the first decoded block of samples of the first bit depth.
US11838550B2
An encoder determines, based on a width and a height of a block, whether or not to disable a prediction mode in which the block is split along a partitioning line defined by a distance and an angle and then prediction is performed; and encodes the block with the prediction mode disabled or not disabled according to a result of the determination on whether or not to disable the prediction mode. Here, the distance is the shortest distance between the center of the block and the partitioning line, and the angle is an angle representing a direction from the center of the block toward the partitioning line in the shortest distance. The encoder determines to disable the prediction mode when (i) a width-to-height ratio is at least 8 or (ii) a height-to-width ratio is at least 8.
US11838546B2
An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a step of deriving an intra prediction mode for a current block; a step of deriving upper neighboring samples of a plurality of rows for the current block, and left neighboring samples of a plurality of columns; a step of deriving one row of upper reference samples on the basis of the upper neighboring samples; a step of deriving one column of left reference samples on the basis of the left neighboring samples; and a step of generating a prediction sample for the current block by using at least one of the upper reference samples and the left reference samples in accordance with the intra prediction mode.
US11838544B2
Disclosed are a method for predicting a current block using a current picture referencing mode (also called intra block copy (ibc) mode), and a video encoding or decoding device therefor. The method comprises: decoding, from a bitstream, an enable flag indicating whether the application of the ibc mode is allowed, and type information indicating whether the type of slices is an inter type; depending on the enable flag and the type information, decoding from the bitstream an ibc flag indicating whether a prediction mode for the current block is the ibc mode; when the ibc flag indicates the ibc mode, decoding motion information from the bitstream; and predicting the current block by using a block indicated by the motion information within a current picture in which the current block is located.
US11838543B2
Disclosed are a method for predicting a current block using a current picture referencing mode (also called intra block copy (ibc) mode), and a video encoding or decoding device therefor. The method comprises: decoding, from a bitstream, an enable flag indicating whether the application of the ibc mode is allowed, and type information indicating whether the type of slices is an inter type; depending on the enable flag and the type information, decoding from the bitstream an ibc flag indicating whether a prediction mode for the current block is the ibc mode; when the ibc flag indicates the ibc mode, decoding motion information from the bitstream; and predicting the current block by using a block indicated by the motion information within a current picture in which the current block is located.
US11838541B2
The present disclosure provides methods for performing simplified matrix weighted intra prediction. The method can include: determining a classification of a target block; and generating, based on the classification, a matrix-weighted intra prediction (MIP) signal, wherein determining the classification of the target block comprises: in response to the target block having a size of 4×4, determining that the target block belongs to a first class; or in response to the target block having a size of 8×8, 4×N or N×4, N being an integer between 8 and 64, determining that the target block belongs to a second class.
US11838528B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for video encoding/decoding. In a method, whether an adaptive color transform (ACT) is enabled for a current block is determined. A maximum transform size is determined based on whether the ACT is enabled for the current block. Whether a subblock transform (SBT) is applied to the current block is determined based at least on the maximum transform size. Further, the SBT is performed on the current block based on the SBT being determined to be applied to the current block.
US11838522B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video processing. In some examples, an apparatus for video processing includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry converts a picture in a subsampled format in a color space into a non subsampled format in the color space. Then, the processing circuitry clips values of a color component of the picture in the non subsampled format before providing the picture in the non subsampled format as an input to a neural network based filter.
US11838521B2
An apparatus includes at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory memory including computer program code; wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: receive a picture; encode the picture as one or more slices; and encode, into a slice header of a slice of the one or more slices, a subpicture identifier indicative of a subpicture that comprises the slice; wherein the subpicture identifier is indicative of a subpicture position for the subpicture comprising the slice, the subpicture identifier being among one or more subpicture identifiers indicative of one or more subpicture positions for one or more subpictures comprising one or more slices.
US11838511B2
A decoder for decoding a data stream into which media data is coded has a mode switch configured to activate a low-complexity mode or a high-efficiency mode depending on the data stream, an entropy decoding engine configured to retrieve each symbol of a sequence of symbols by entropy decoding using a selected one of a plurality of entropy decoding schemes, a desymbolizer configured to desymbolize the sequence of symbols to obtain a sequence of syntax elements, a reconstructor configured to reconstruct the media data based on the sequence of syntax elements, selection depending on the activated low-complexity mode or the high-efficiency mode. In another aspect, a desymbolizer is configured to perform desymbolization such that the control parameter varies in accordance with the data stream at a first rate in case of the high-efficiency mode being activated and the control parameter is constant irrespective of the data stream or changes depending on the data stream, but at a second lower rate in case of the low-complexity mode being activated.
US11838505B2
Provided is an encoder which includes circuitry and memory. The circuitry encodes an image block using the memory. In encoding the image block, the circuitry: obtains one or more size parameters related to a size of the image block; determines whether the one or more size parameters and one or more thresholds satisfy a determined relationship; encodes a split parameter when the one or more size parameters and the one or more thresholds are determined to satisfy the determined relationship, the split parameter indicating whether the image block is to be split into a plurality of partitions including a non-rectangular partition; and encodes the image block after splitting the image block into the plurality of partitions when the split parameter indicates that the image block is to be split into the plurality of partitions.
US11838504B2
Sub-picture extraction is rendered less complex by providing each slice with start position information which indicates a starting position from which onwards the picture is, along a coding path, encoded into the respective slice, relative to an onset position at which the coding path starts traversing a segment the starting position is located in. Alternatively or additionally, sub-picture extraction processes are treated like choosing one layer out of a multi-layer datastream.
US11838490B2
A system and a method of calibrating a plurality of digital imaging sensors with different modality for image fusion, comprising the steps of calibrating each digital image generated by a corresponding digital imaging sensor with one or more intrinsic parameters; scaling each digital image at a scaling ratio to generate a scaled digital image which has an overlapping region of interest; cross referencing one or more scaled digital images to derive one or more extrinsic parameters; calibrating each digital imaging sensor with the extrinsic parameters; and transforming and rectifying each digital image such that the region of interest of each digital image is coplanar and aligned.
US11838486B1
In one implementation, a method of performing perspective correction is performed at a head-mounted device including one or more processors, non-transitory memory, an image sensor, and a display. The method includes capturing, using the image sensor, a plurality of images of a scene from a respective plurality of perspectives. The method includes capturing, using the image sensor, a current image of the scene from a current perspective. The method includes obtaining a depth map of the current image of the scene. The method include transforming, using the one or more processors, the current image of the scene based on the depth map, a difference between the current perspective of the image sensor and a current perspective of a user, and at least one of the plurality of images of the scene from the respective plurality of perspectives. The method includes displaying, on the display, the transformed image.
US11838480B2
A method for reducing image burn-in artifacts in an electrophotographic printing system, includes receiving a print job including image data for a set of pages to be printed. The pages are analyzed to determine that the image data for a sequence of pages in the print job are similar. The similar pages are printed using a pattern of lateral translations wherein the image data is laterally translated such that it is printed at a different lateral position on the printed page. The similar pages can also be printed using a pattern of page orientations including a first page orientation and a second page orientation, wherein the image data for the second page orientation is rotated 180 degrees relative to the image data for the first page orientation.
US11838476B2
Even in a case where a failure has occurred in a relay system or a cloud service, image data transmitted from a multi function peripheral is prevented from being lost. In an image processing apparatus that performs transfer setting of image data, at the time of a user designating a transfer destination, display control of a user interface screen is performed so that a storage server or the like other than the relay system is set as another transfer destination.
US11838472B2
A multi-function device (MFD) is disclosed. For example, the MFD includes a communication interface to establish a communication path with a network, a user interface to display a plurality of fields associated with different settings of a configuration file of the MFD, a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions. The instructions when executed by the processor cause the processor to detect selection of a field associated with a setting of the configuration file, establish a connection with at least one networked MFD on the network, query the at least one networked MFD for a value used in the field associated with the setting of the configuration file that is selected, receive the value from the at least one networked MFD, and populate the field with the value.
US11838470B2
A reading apparatus includes a reading part that reads information of a document, a housing that accommodates the reading part, a document feeding port through which the document is fed, a cover member disposed on the housing to be displaced to an open position at which the document feeding port is open and a closed position at which the document feeding port is closed, a drive source that displaces the cover member to the open position and the closed position, a position detection mechanism that detects a position of the cover member, and a control part, wherein the control part is configured to displace the cover member to the closed position by the drive source when a time during which reading by the reading part is not performed exceeds a predetermined time, and the position detection mechanism detects that the cover member is at the open position.
US11838455B2
A printing apparatus capable of communicating with at least an inspection apparatus and a processing apparatus, the printing apparatus comprising one or more controllers having one or more processors and one or more memories, the one or more controllers configured to receive a registration job for registration of image data in the inspection apparatus and an inspection job for execution of an inspection, to transmit, in a case where the registration job is received, image data based on the registration job to the inspection apparatus, to receive a notification of completion of the registration of the image data from the inspection apparatus, and to perform, in a case where the notification is received, control to perform printing based on the inspection job and to transmit an inspection instruction to the inspection apparatus.
US11838448B2
Methods and systems for audio-based polling during a conference call discussion are provided. During a conference call, a user selection of an element on a client device is detected. The element is designated to initiate audio-based polling of participants of the conference call. In response to the detection of the user selection of the element on the client device, a verbal statement provided by a first participant of the conference call is recorded. A determination is made of whether the recorded verbal statement includes a question that is to be used for audio-based polling of one or more second participants of the conference call. Responsive to a determination that the verbal statement includes the question that is to be used for audio-based polling, audio-based polling of the one or more second participants is initiated.
US11838442B2
Systems and methods for making a multitrack recording of a telephony communication, such as a conference call, record the contributions of each participant its own respective, separate recording track. In some instances, the contribution(s) of one or more participants is recorded in separate recording tracks, and the contributions of multiple other participants is mixed and recorded in a single recording track. An organizer or administrator of a telephony communication, such as a conference call, can instruct a multitrack recording system as to how to format a multitrack recording of the telephony communication via commands submitted through an application programming interface (API).
US11838436B2
Systems and methods for notification forwarding may include forwarding all or selected notifications generated by one or more applications running on a wireless mobile device to a television receiving device that is connected to the television. This forwarding may occur over the short-range wireless network or on a home wireless local area network on which the television receiving device is also present. The receiving device may cause the forwarded notifications to be displayed on the television while the television is also displaying other programming received from various other sources. The particular location on the presentation device to display the forwarded notification and the size, color and appearance of the notification may be selected by the user via a graphical user interface of the wireless mobile device and/or the television receiving device.
US11838431B2
A method is suggested for providing a response, wherein the method comprises: obtaining a challenge from a host, determining the response based on the challenge, determining an auxiliary value based on the response or the challenge, providing the auxiliary value to the host, obtaining a random value from the host, checking the validity of the challenge based on the random value, and providing the response to the host only if the challenge is valid. Also, corresponding methods running on the host and system are provided. Further, corresponding devices, hosts and systems are suggested.
US11838427B2
A method, a computer program product, and a system for usage restrictions on digital certificates. The method includes selecting a digital certificate relating to a user and determining a usage restriction policy for the digital certificate based on the user. The method also includes populating an extension field of the digital certificate with the usage restriction policy. The method further includes providing the digital certificate including the usage restriction policy to the user. The method also includes gathering parameters relating to the digital certificate, determining usage patterns based on the parameters, inputting the usage patterns into a machine learning model, outputting a risk assessment, and updating the usage restriction policy based on the risk assessment.
US11838423B2
An embodiment involves persistent storage and one or more processors. The persistent storage may contain a plurality of hardware models specifying types of computing devices, wherein the hardware models include attributes representing manufacturer names, product names, and model numbers of the computing devices. The processors may be configured to: obtain, from the persistent storage, a hardware model; calculate a hash value over attributes of the hardware model; compare the hash value to hash values in a curated list, the curated list including normalized hardware models that map the hash values to normalized manufacturer names, normalized product names, or normalized model numbers; determine that the hash value matches a particular hash value for a normalized hardware model; and update, in the persistent storage, the hardware model to include at least one of a normalized manufacturer name, a normalized product name, or a normalized model number associated with the normalized hardware model.
US11838412B2
A processor-based method for secret sharing in a computing system is provided. The method includes encrypting shares of a new secret, using a previous secret and distributing unencrypted shares of the new secret and the encrypted shares of the new secret, to members of the computing system. The method includes decrypting at least a subset of the encrypted shares of the new secret, using the previous secret and regenerating the new secret from at least a subset of a combination of the unencrypted shares of the new secret and the decrypted shares of the new secret.
US11838410B1
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for gathering performance information for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is provided. An example method includes generating, by a QC detection data generation circuitry, QC detection data. The example method further includes encrypting, by a PQC cryptographic circuitry, the QC detection data based on a PQC cryptographic technique The example method further includes decrypting, by a PQC decryption circuitry, the QC detection data. The example method further includes storing, by a PQC cryptographic performance circuitry, encryption metadata generated by the PQC cryptographic circuitry and decryption metadata generated by the PQC decryption circuitry as PQC cryptographic performance information associated with the PQC cryptographic technique.
US11838407B2
A computer-implemented security may be implemented on a blockchain comprising applying a one-way function to a first secret value to create a first veiled secret value; communicating the first veiled secret value to a user; receiving a second veiled secret value from the user, wherein the second veiled secret value is created by applying a one-way function to the second secret value; and constructing a first blockchain transaction comprising the first veiled secret value and the second veiled secret value, the first blockchain transaction arranged to be unlockable to transfer control of a first resource upon provision of both the first secret value and the second secret value to a respective blockchain transaction.
US11838403B2
The present techniques may provide improved processing and functionality of performance of the 128-bit AES Algorithm, which may provide improved power consumption. For example, in an embodiment, an encryption and decryption apparatus may comprise memory storing a current state matrix of an encryption or decryption process and a plurality of multiplexers configured to receive from the memory current elements of the state matrix stored in the memory, perform a cyclic shift on the received elements of the state matrix, and transmit the shifted elements to the memory for storage as a new state matrix.
US11838383B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine, by an edge enabler client of the UE, to trigger generation of a shadow application context to support an application that is associated with an application context and that is served by an edge network device. The UE may determine, by the edge enabler client, to transfer support of the application from the application context to the shadow application context, and transfer, by the edge enabler client, support of the application from the application context to the shadow application context. In some aspects, an application context may be transferred between a UE and an edge network directly, without the shadow application context. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11838382B2
Provided are systems, methods, and computer-program products for a proxy network that can determine, for a set of objects, an initial differential, where the initial differential is determined using a rules data store of a host network. The proxy network can further determine a supplemental differential for the set of objects. The proxy network can further determine a final differential that is the sum of the initial differential and the supplemental differential. The proxy network can further determine a final sum for the set of objects that is the object value less the final differential. The proxy network can further generate an outbound data packet that includes values corresponding to the set of objects and the final sum. When the host network receives the outbound data packet, the host network can modify an object data store using the values corresponding to the set of objects and the final sum.
US11838374B2
A software architecture within a public cloud network may include units of: (i) a plurality of computational instances respectively related to managed networks, (ii) a plurality of servers configurable as load simulators, (iii) administrative components configured to deploy and update the software architecture, and (iv) shared infrastructure services, wherein the units of the software architecture are implemented on virtual machines of the public cloud network and are connected to but logically isolated from one another by way of different access controls or policies. A provider network, coupled to the software architecture by way of network gateways within the shared infrastructure services, may be configured to deliver the configuration, software packages, and database schema to the infrastructure-as-code platform.
US11838370B1
Systems and methods are described herein for generating for display, at an extended reality (XR) device executing an application, an XR environment comprising an entity and associated with an XR session of a user profile. Execution of the application enables the XR device, while generating for display the XR environment, to transmit data to, and receive data from, a particular device using a first communication protocol, and transmit data to, and receive data from, the entity using a second communication protocol. Based on monitored activity of the user profile during the XR session, the XR device may be enabled to transmit data, received at the XR device from the entity using the second communication protocol, to the particular device using the first communication protocol, and transmit data, received at the XR device from the particular device using the first communication protocol, to the entity using the second communication protocol.
US11838366B2
A system for detecting and verifying an environmental anomaly within a shipping container (transported on a transit vehicle having an external transceiver) has wireless sensor-based ID nodes at different locations within the container and multiple command nodes mounted to the container. A first command node is programmatically configured to be operative to detect the sensor data broadcasted from the ID nodes; responsively identify the anomaly based upon the sensor data detected by that command node; and transmit a validation request to another command node. The other command node is configured to be operative to also detect the sensor data broadcasted from the ID nodes; receive the validation request from the first command node; verify the anomaly in response to the validation request and based upon the sensor data detected by the second command node; and broadcast a verification message based upon whether the anomaly for the shipping container is verified.
US11838358B2
Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application code written in an XML programming language as input. Functionality is provided to interpret or translate the application code written in an XML programming language into code that is suitable for execution across computer platforms. Moreover, the XML virtual machine supports the Model View Controller (MVC) design paradigm that facilitates true data abstraction from applications to a common data model. Multi-instance applications, with each instance potentially supporting multiple views, may be created and executed.
US11838357B1
Techniques for incremental stream switching in a distributed system with flip events are described. A special-purpose flip event is inserted into an event stream that indicates, to recipients of the stream, whether they are to switch to use of an alternate event stream. The flip event may identify which other event stream to use, how to obtain events of that event stream, when to switch to the other event stream, and/or whether that particular recipient is to switch. The recipients may be selectively or iteratively migrated using flip events targeting different recipients, limiting the blast radius of a switch. Via use of a tracking data structure, event replay and event skips can be avoided.
US11838352B2
An apparatus and method for sharing data between a cloud server and at last one terminal are provided. The method includes displaying, when a data type is selected on a setting menu screen of a cloud service, meta information of real data corresponding to the selected data type, the meta information being downloaded from a server, downloading, when a piece of meta information is selected, the real data corresponding to the selected piece of meta information from the server, and deleting, when the downloaded real data is consumed completely, the consumed real data.
US11838350B2
Techniques are described herein for identifying issues related to digital interactions. For example, a detection system may be provided to analyze suspect sessions to determine if one or more stages associated with the suspect sessions are underperforming compared to corresponding stages associated with similar sessions. The detection system may provide a user interface that allows a user to select one or more attributes that may be associated with one or more sessions. Selection of the one or more attributes may identify multiple sessions (referred to as suspect sessions herein). The one or more suspect sessions may be analyzed to determine whether one or more stages associated with the one or more suspect sessions are underperforming compared to corresponding stages associated with one or more other sessions determined to be similar to the one or more suspect sessions.
US11838334B2
Updating user-specific instances of a second application for individual users of a group based on a data file for the second application being shared via a collaboration object that corresponds to the group within a first application. The instances of the second application present each individual user with their own custom user experience that is configured to provide access to specific content based on object permissions data. An application extension is executable, by the first application, to extend content editing functionalities of the second application into the collaboration object. Responsive to specific content being associated with the collaboration object via the application extension, each of the instances of the second application may be automatically updated to provide direct access to the specific content. Thus, each user within the group defined for collaboration object can access the data file via the collaboration object and their own instance of the second application.
US11838330B2
A system and method are described for information extraction from network traffic traces that are both encrypted and non-encrypted. The system includes a client computer and a remote computer, where the client computer communicates data over a network. The client computer sets a session key log file environment variable, such that when the client computer launches a supported browser, a session key log file (KLF) is created, computer network traffic traces are captured by retrieving data from encrypted traffic, and the KLF and captured traffic are periodically transferred to a remote server. A remote computer performs traffic mining to analyze the captured traffic traces and extract sensitive pieces of information.
US11838329B1
New intrusion detection system (IDS) rules to be deployed on an IDS that generates alerts based on an applied ruleset are accessed. A trial window that includes incorporating the new IDS rules into a candidate list to enable summarization and filtering of the alerts is started and the applied ruleset that includes existing IDS rules is supplemented with the candidate list that includes the new IDS rules. The applied ruleset is transmitted to a network sensor associated with the IDS upon the supplementation and alerts generated based on network events implicated by both the existing IDS rules and the new IDS rules in the applied ruleset are received from the IDS. Upon completion of the trial window, a set of alerts generated only by the new IDS rules in the applied ruleset are designated as suppressed alerts and a set of new IDS rules is eliminated from the applied ruleset upon determining that the set of new IDS rules generate a subset of alerts that exceed an alert threshold. The update and modified applied ruleset is then transmitted to the network sensor associated with the IDS.
US11838325B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for elastic policy scaling in multi-cloud fabrics. A method can involve deploying a cluster of policy agents on a hub virtual private cloud (VPC) that interconnects spoke VPCs in a cloud associated with a multi-cloud fabric, and mapping endpoints in the spoke VPCs to the policy agents. The method can involve distributing groups of policies for the endpoints across the policy agents based on the mapping of endpoints to policy agents, and advertising, by each policy agent to a respective first set of virtual gateways in the spoke VPCs, routes associated with endpoints mapped to the policy agent and preventing the policy agent from advertising routes associated with a second set of virtual gateways in the spoke VPCs. The method can involve applying, via the policy agent, a group of policies on the policy agent to traffic received by the policy agent.
US11838324B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods that allow for secure access to websites and web-based applications and other resources available through the browser. Also described are systems and methods for invocation of a secure web container which may display data representative of a requesting party's application at a user's machine. The secure web container is invoked upon receipt of an API call from the requesting party. Thus, described in the present specification are systems and methods for constructing and destroying private, secure, browsing environments (a secure disposable web container), insulating the user and requesting parties from the threats associated with being online for the purposes of providing secure, policy-based interaction with a requesting party's online services.
US11838322B2
A phishing site detection device extracts, from a phishing kit, a condition of access sources with which the access to a phishing site is blocked. Then, the phishing site detection device accesses a phishing site constructed by the phishing kit using one or more extracted conditions of access sources, and stores an access result for each condition of access sources in an access result storage module. Thereafter, the phishing site detection device sets a condition of access sources with which the access to the phishing site constructed by the phishing kit is blocked, accesses a website to be detected, and determines whether the website is a phishing site on the basis of the access result.
US11838321B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for verifying an incoming communication. A recipient client device receives an incoming communication including an identifier identifying a second client device as having initiated the incoming communication. A verification service installed on the recipient client device queries a call placement service directory based on the first identifier. The call placement service directory maintains a listing of identifiers for client devices and corresponding communication providers that manage the identifiers. The call placement service directory returns information identifying the communication provider that manages the identifier. In turn, the verification service transmitting a request to the communication provider to confirm whether the second client device initiated the incoming communication. The verification service processes the incoming communication based on the response from the communication provider indicating whether the second client device initiated the incoming communication.
US11838309B1
A method of evaluating risk associated with a social media account. Content associated with the account and with social media accounts connected to the account is scanned. Collected data relating to the account content and the connected account content is stored. The account content is analyzed by determining one or more of characteristics of a posted image, parameters of posted comments, and changes in the list of connected social media accounts. The collected data is also analyzed in order to characterize the connected social media accounts with levels of suspicion. A report may be generated that includes one or more of: information identifying at least some of the account content as presenting a risk based upon characteristics of posted images or comments, information identifying material changes in account user traffic, and information identifying one or more of the connected social media accounts as being associated with suspicious activity.
US11838299B2
Systems and methods include receiving a request for resources that are one of web content and a cloud application from a user device; determining the request requires isolation based on any of policy, category of the web content, type of the user device, and location of the user device; rendering content associated with the request in a secure environment that is isolated from the user device; and providing image content based on the content to the user device. The user device can execute a web browser that loads the image content utilizing a JavaScript application and that interacts with the image content by sending keyboard and mouse inputs via a WebSocket channel.
US11838294B2
A method for identifying a user includes: controlling an electronic device to connect to a first communication network; obtaining target behavior data of a user to be identified from a data pool corresponding to the first communication network, in which, the data pool stores at least one type of candidate behavior data of a candidate user, the candidate behavior data is obtained from a data source corresponding to a second communication network, and a security level of the first communication network is higher than a security level of the second communication network; and obtaining a category of the user to be identified by analyzing the target behavior data based on the first communication network.
US11838293B2
Providing access to consumer information on a private data exchange is described. In an example, privileges are assigned to a share object, granting access to consumer information obtained from a query against data referenced by a data listing of a data exchange. The data exchange comprises one or more data listings provided by one or more data providers. In response to the share object being added to a list of consumed share objects of a data provider that provided the data listing, a database is generated that references the consumer information based on the share object. Access to the database is granted to the data provider that provided the data listing.
US11838292B2
In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes receive, by a networking device, a request from a first computing device, to connect to the networking device. The method also includes creating a first network. The first network is one of a set of networks of the networking device. The first computing device is one of a set of computing devices that are connected to the network device. Each network of the set of networks is initially isolated from other networks of the set of networks when the network is created. Each network of the set of networks comprises a respective computing device of the set of computing devices. The method further includes assigning the first computing device to the first network.
US11838287B2
A computerized-method for enabling a mode of interaction to support specially-abled needs of agents, via a web-app, in a contact-center. The computerized-method is operating an Application Programming Interface (API) client. The API-client includes receiving credentials from a user, upon login of the user to the web-app and then communicating with an authentication-server for an authentication-service and forwarding the credentials thereto. After successful completion, forwarding the credentials to an authorization-service that is retrieving a preassigned disability role-ID, according to the credentials and transmitting a preassigned disability role-ID in an access-token. The API-client receives the access-token, having the preassigned disability role-ID and sends the access-token to the authorization-service, to receive a permissions-list, according to the preassigned disability role-ID of the user and then stores the permissions-list of the user on a database associated with the API-Client and loads a component to support specially-abled needs, according to the stored permissions-list.
US11838284B2
This disclosure describes techniques for implementing a Single-sign-On Domain-Agnostic Proof-of-Possession (SODA-POP) token (or access token) to solve generation of multiple POPs for authentication of multiple domains that may belong to a single mobile network operator (MNO). The access token may be implemented by a JSON Web Token (JWT) that includes a map of key-value pairs as confirmation claims. The key-value pairs may include multiple domains/sub-domains and their corresponding public keys. These key-value pairs may be registered and added in the confirmation claims to automatically authenticate each one of the domains to access a corresponding service provider. To register a new domain, the new domain redirects a request back to an already registered domain, which updates the access token and then redirects the request back to the new domain. After registration, the updated access token may be used to access services at all registered domains without further reauthentication.
US11838283B2
An enclave manager of a network enclave obtains a request to retrieve configuration information and state information corresponding to compute devices and network devices comprising a network enclave. The request specifies a set of parameters of the configuration information and the state information usable to generate a response to the request. The enclave manager evaluates the compute devices, the network devices, and network connections among these devices within the network enclave to obtain the configuration information and the state information. Based on the configuration information and the state information, the enclave manager determines whether the network enclave is trustworthy. Based on the parameters of the request, the enclave manager generates a response indicating a summary that is used to identify the trustworthiness of the network enclave.
US11838278B2
Systems and methods are provided for managed file transfer. A managed file transfer server may receive a request from a sender to send a file (bulk data) to a recipient and may determine a location server that is closest to the location of the recipient. A server-to-server transfer can be automatically initiated to move the file to the location server that is closest to the location of the recipient.
US11838276B2
This document describes, among other things, systems and methods for more efficiently resuming a client-to-origin TLS session through a proxy layer that fronts the origin in order to provide network security services. At the time of an initial TLS handshake with an unknown client, for example, the proxy can perform a set of security checks. If the client passes the checks, the proxy can transmit a ‘proxy token’ upstream to the origin. The origin can incorporate this token into session state data which is passed back to and stored on the client, e.g., using a TLS session ticket extension field, pre-shared key extension field, or other field. On TLS session resumption, when the client sends the session state data, the proxy can recover its proxy token from the session state data, and upon successful validation, bypass security checks that it would otherwise perform against the client, thereby more efficiently handling known clients.
US11838268B2
Disclosed are a method, a device and a system for data communication control. In the method for data communication control, data sent from a first communication device is received by a data forwarding device, where the data is transmitted through at least two types of physical interfaces in sequence. The data is then forwarded by the data forwarding device to a second communication device that is preconfigured. During the process of sending the data by the first communication device, the data is physically isolated by at least two types of physical interfaces, and then forwarded to the second communication device that is preconfigured. Even if the first communication device is illegally invaded by outsiders, the outsiders only know the IP address of the first communication device but fail to know the IP address of the destination of the physically isolated data.
US11838267B2
Methods and systems for identity-based firewall policy evaluation and for encoding entity identifiers for use in identity-based firewall policy evaluation. A packet from a sender entity to a recipient entity is intercepted. A determination is made whether the sender entity is permitted to communicate with the recipient entity according to a firewall policy, wherein the firewall policy indicates a plurality of entity identifiers, and each entity identifier is unique among the plurality of entity identifiers. Rules for communications among the plurality of entities include a list of pairs of entities which are permitted to communicate with each other. The packet is forwarded to the recipient entity when it is determined that the sender entity is permitted to communicate with the recipient entity. At least one mitigation action is performed when it is determined that the recipient entity is not permitted to communicate with the sender entity.
US11838259B1
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for VoIP communication with VoIP-enabled devices via a network address translator (NAT). A set of proxy servers is configured to relay communications through mapped data-communication paths of the NAT during operations including VoIP sessions through or with the plurality of VoIP-enabled devices and during other operations not involving VoIP sessions through or with the plurality of VoIP-enabled devices. The mapped paths are susceptible to being unmapped by the NAT if the mapped path is unused for a threshold duration of time. The proxy servers maintain the mapped paths through the NAT by prompting the VoIP-enabled devices to communicate data to the set of proxy servers. More specifically, a VoIP-enabled device is prompted to communicate data to the set of proxy servers, in response to the VoIP-enabled device not communicating with the set of proxy servers for a duration of time exceeding the threshold duration of time.
US11838245B2
An apparatus of a base station in a wireless communication system supporting time division duplex (TDD) and a method thereof are provided. The apparatus includes at least one transceiver, and at least one processor operatively connected with the at least one transceiver. The at least one processor may be configured to perform signaling for preventing transmission of an uplink (UL) signal in a cell, and measure a strength of a downlink (DL) signal received from at least one base station during at least one symbol in a UL subframe. The apparatus relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long-Term Evolution (LTE).
US11838243B2
A method for a first device to perform wireless communication and a device supporting same. The method may include the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a time division duplex uplink-downlink (TDD UL-DL) configuration including information related to a UL resource; receiving, from the base station, information related to the start of sidelink (SL) symbols, information related to the number of the SL symbols, and a bitmap indicating one or more slots included in an SL resource pool; and determining the SL resource pool.
US11838240B2
Uplink control information (UCI) mapping indicator for long term evolution (LTE) carrier aggregation
A system and method to instruct a user equipment (UE) how Uplink Control Information (UCI) on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) should be transmitted with carrier aggregation. A semi-static signaling of a UCI mapping bit (via a Radio Resource Control (RRC) parameter) is used by a base station such as an eNodeB to require the UE to transmit UCI using one of two pre-determined UCI transmission modes. The bit can be decided by the base station, considering, for example, the available bandwidth or quality of different Uplink Component Carriers (UL CCs) associated with the UE. This network-based solution allows the network to either configure a general rule of UCI transmission by the UE or to enforce the UCI transmission on the Uplink Primary cell (UL Pcell). Because of the rules governing abstracts, this abstract should not be used to construe the claims.
US11838237B2
A wireless communication method includes receiving a reference signal and a data signal, based on a coverage enhancement level represented by a number of transmission repetitions; processing the reference signal and the data signal received by the receiving; setting a number of resource elements for transmitting the reference signal based at least on a channel type; and setting usage of resource elements indicated by a System Information Block (SIB). The reference signal is a Cell-specific Reference Signal (CRS) or a Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS).
US11838235B2
A method, wireless device, and network node for increasing the capacity on a control channel when using Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM) of data and DMRS are disclosed. According to one aspect, a wireless device (WD) is configured to perform intra-symbol frequency division multiplexing of data subcarriers and demodulation reference signal, DMRS, subcarriers. The WD is also configured to apply intra-symbol orthogonal cover codes, OCCs, to the data subcarriers. The WD is further configured to apply intra-symbol cyclic shifts to the DMRS subcarriers.
US11838234B2
The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting a demodulation reference signal. Specifically, the method performed by the terminal comprising: receiving, from a base station, a radio resource control (RRC) signaling including control information representing that transform precoding for an uplink is enabled; generating a low peak to average power ratio (PAPR) sequence based on a length-6 sequence; generating a sequence used for the demodulation reference signal based on the low PAPR sequence; and transmitting, to the base station, the demodulation reference signal based on the sequence used for the demodulation reference signal, wherein the length-6 sequence has an 8-Phase Shift Keying (PSK) symbol as each element of the sequence.
US11838219B1
Disclosed methods provision a host with a pair of proxy resources. A first proxy resource may be configured to forward traffic from an in-band management interface of the host to a link-local interface of a BMC or the like. The second proxy resource is configured to forward traffic received via a link-local interface of the host to a management network interface of a cluster manager. Upon receiving an event subscription message from the cluster manager via the in-band management interface of the host, the event subscription message is forwarded by the first proxy to the link-local interface of the BMC to register a link-local interface of the host as a subscriber for one or more events. Responsive to receiving an event notification from the BMC via the link-local interface of the host, the event notification is automatically forwarded to the management network interface of the cluster manager.
US11838210B2
Local Congestion Mitigation re-routes traffic around a congested network segment without regard for end point destinations of the re-routed traffic. By inhibiting consideration of end point destinations, determinations of alternate routes are simplified relative to techniques that compute new end-to-end routes for traffic when a congested segment is encountered. These methods therefore remain relatively efficient as a network grows in size and network routes within the network become increasingly complex.
US11838204B2
According to the present invention, programs that use signals, such as multi-media signals, received over communication channels from one or more sources are produced in a computing system by executing an application software in one or more servers of the computing system. At least one of the servers has one or more processors that process defined logical entities. A signal used in production of a program is received from a source over a communication channel at a server. An input logical entity having attributes associated with the source of the signal is defined such that the input logical entity is responsive to a user defined predicate comprising a logical expression for accepting or rejecting the signal. Also defined are a stream logical entity that identifies an accepted signal and a routing logical entity that establishes a connection between the stream logical entity and a destination. The accepted signal is routed to the destination based on a routing rule.
US11838203B2
A multipath data transmission method and device are provided, where a multipath proxy client and a multipath proxy gateway establish at least two multipath data subflows based on a first internet protocol (IP) address, and perform multipath data subflow data transmission. Based on the first IP address for establishing the at least two multipath data subflows between the multipath proxy client and the multipath proxy gateway, the multipath proxy gateway establishes a TCP connection to and performs TCP-based data transmission with an application server to be accessed by the multipath proxy client. MPTCP-based multipath data transmission based on IP address information of the multipath proxy client is implemented through proxy of the multipath proxy client and the multipath proxy gateway.
US11838200B2
In one embodiment, a network comprises a first forwarding domain using a first data plane forwarding protocol and a second forwarding domain using a second data plane forwarding protocol different than the first data forwarding plane forwarding protocol. The first forwarding domain includes a first path node and a particular border node. The second forwarding domain includes a second path node and the particular border node. The particular border node performs Segment Routing or other protocol interworking between the different data plane forwarding domains, such as for transporting packets through a different forwarding domain or translating a packet to use a different data forwarding protocol. These forwarding domains typically include Segment Routing (SR) and SR-Multiprotocol Label Switching (SR-MPLS). Paths through the network are determined by a Path Computation Engine and/or based on route advertisements such associated with Binding Segment Identifiers (BSIDs) (e.g., labels, Internet Protocol version 6 addresses).
US11838197B2
A Method and a system for securing a SDN controller from denial of service attack are provided. A SDN controller receives, from a networking device, data packets pertaining to a flow in Packet_IN messages, if the flow does not match flow entries in a first flow table of the networking device. A table miss flow entry pertaining to the flow is created in a second flow table of the networking device for sending the Packet_IN. The SDN controller installs a flood prevention flow entry in the second flow table to enable the networking device to drop subsequent data packets pertaining to the flow until the SDN controller installs, in the first flow table, a flow entry matching the flow. The flood prevention flow entry is deleted from the second flow table after the installation of the flow entry matching the flow.
US11838191B2
Software performance can be automatically managed in a distributed computing environment. In one example, a system that can receive metrics information describing resource usage by a first instance of a service in a distributed computing environment. The system can also determine a quality-of-service (QoS) constraint for the service. The system can then modify a definition file based on the metrics information and the QoS constraint, the definition file being configured for deploying instances of the service in the distributed computing environment. The system can deploy a second instance of the service in the distributed computing environment using the modified definition file. As a result, the second instance can more closely satisfy the QoS constraint than the first instance.
US11838185B2
Example bulk device processing systems and methods are described. In one implementation, techniques receive a plurality of application programming interface (API) requests, where each of the plurality of API requests is associated with a particular device. The techniques further sort the plurality of API requests based on an associated carrier. The techniques also create a first batch of API calls associated with devices using a first carrier and create a second batch of API calls associated with devices using a second carrier. The techniques then create multiple threads for parallel execution of the first batch of API calls and the second batch of API calls, and automatically execute the API calls associated with the plurality of threads.
US11838184B2
Systems and systems and methods for managing neighbor awareness networking (NAN) technologies for intelligent connectivity are described. In an embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: determine that an intelligent connectivity rule is satisfied by context information collected by the IHS, and, in response to the determination, change the discovery state of a NAN-Aware engine.
US11838183B2
Provided is a process of autonomous distributed workload and infrastructure scheduling based on physical telemetry data of a plurality of different data centers executing a plurality of different workload distributed applications on behalf of a plurality of different tenants.
US11838181B2
A first network device determines configuration information of a target flexible Ethernet (FlexE) group to be adjusted, and adjusts the target FlexE group synchronously with a second network device based on the configuration information of the target FlexE group. The second network device communicates with the first network device through a physical layer link in the target FlexE group. The configuration information of the target FlexE group includes a backup FlexE group number and a backup FlexE map of the target FlexE group, and the backup FlexE map includes information about the physical layer link in the target FlexE group. The first network device and the second network device perform synchronous adjustment.
US11838179B2
A method for operation of a broadband access network of a telecommunications network includes: in a first step, a program or configuration information is provided to or received by an orchestrator node or functionality; in a second step, subsequent to the first step, at least one piece of program or control information is provided or transmitted to at least one programmable network node; and in a third step, subsequent to the second step, the at least one piece of program or control information is activated to be executed by the at least one programmable network node.
US11838168B2
A method for supporting a receiving operation based on 2D-NUC performed by a first wireless device according to the present embodiment, comprises the steps of: receiving first and second input information from a second wireless device; performing equalization on the first and second input information; and generating LLR information on the basis of lookup table information predetermined for the equalized first and second input information and 2D-NUC.
US11838167B2
Provided is a wireless communication system configured to accommodate a plurality of circuits to transmit a signal from a transmitter to a receiver, the system including a number-of-circuits observation unit configured to observe the number of circuits among the plurality of circuits through which communication is being performed; a quality observation unit configured to observe a quality of each of a plurality of communications; a determination unit configured to determine a modulation scheme for transmitting a signal based on the number of circuits observed by the number-of-circuits observation unit, the quality of each of the plurality of communications observed by the quality observation unit, and a required throughput of each of the plurality of circuits; and a modulation unit configured to modulate the signal using the modulation scheme determined by the determination unit.
US11838164B2
The disclosure relates to a method performed by a wireless device, for receiving system information from a network node of a wireless communication system. The system information is received in a synchronization signal (SS) block of an SS burst set comprising at least one SS block. The system information is multiplexed with information providing a time index indicating which SS block of the SS burst set that is being received. The method comprises receiving the information providing the time index, and receiving the system information, which comprises descrambling the system information using a scrambling sequence generated based on the information providing the time index. The method also comprises determining an accuracy of the information providing the time index, based on an error-detection code related to the received system information. The disclosure also relates to corresponding network node method and apparatus.
US11838161B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems to enable a channel estimation of more than one channel for Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) communications in a wireless network is provided. The method includes determining a first set of complex numbers comprising first channel estimation signal associated with a first channel, determining a second set of complex numbers comprising second channel estimation signal associated with a second channel, and transmitting the first set of complex numbers and the second set of complex numbers via a physical layer (PHY) frame, wherein the second set of complex numbers are complex conjugates of the first set of complex numbers.
US11838155B2
A wireless communication method including receiving, through a wireless channel, table indication information indicating one of a first Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) table supporting up to 64 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) and second and third MCS tables supporting up to 256 QAM, the third MCS table including a same number of MCS indices as the second MCS table and including less MCS indices corresponding to 256 QAM than the second MCS table, and identifying one of the first to third MCS tables according to the received table indication information to recognize a demodulation scheme for data to be received through the wireless channel may be provided.
US11838153B1
A digital signal processor includes analog to digital converters to convert an analog voltage to digital voltage in unit intervals of an analog signal. A decision feedback equalizer (DFE) determines a first level of a digital sum of a digital voltage in a first UI and digital voltages of adjacent UIs (taps). The DFE identifies predetermined sequences of levels of consecutive UIs that include the first level and selects one of the predetermined sequences to decode digital data encoded in the analog signal in the UI. The DSP may be programmable to include taps from UIs that may affect the first UI. The predetermined sequences may include levels of the digital sums of consecutive UIs of the analog signal. The predetermined sequences may be identified in a look-up table based on the first level.
US11838142B2
A device may receive meeting data associated with a first meeting, the first meeting having previously occurred. The device may obtain, based on the meeting data, data identifying at least one individual associated with the first meeting and data identifying at least one topic associated with the first meeting. In addition, the device may identify a second meeting based on the at least one individual or the at least one topic, the second meeting having not yet occurred. The device may provide, to a user device associated with the second meeting and based on identifying the second meeting, at least a portion of the meeting data associated with the first meeting.
US11838137B2
Disclosed are a method and device for performing uplink transmission and reception in a wireless communication system. The method by which a terminal performs an uplink transmission, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, comprises the steps of: receiving a first downlink transmission and a second downlink transmission from a base station; and transmitting, to the base station, first HARQ-ACK information associated with the first downlink transmission and second HARQ-ACK information associated with the second downlink transmission, which have been multiplexed on a PUCCH, wherein, on the basis of the first downlink transmission being a unicast SPS downlink transmission and the second downlink transmission being a multicast downlink transmission being scheduled by first DCI, a resource for the PUCCH may be based on information related to the unicast SPS downlink transmission.
US11838136B2
A method and apparatus for providing for full-duplex (FD) operation in time division duplex (TDD) communications are disclosed herein. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive an indication of a first, UL heavy, TDD uplink (UL)/downlink (DL) configuration and an indication of a second, DL heavy, TDD UL/DL configuration. The WTRU may also receive a grant in a common DL subframe. The WTRU may apply the hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process timing associated with one of the TDD UL/DL configurations for DL HARQ feedback. Also, the WTRU may monitor a set of subframes for a UL or a DL grant. Further, the WTRU may receive a grant in a subframe which may include an indication of a reference TDD UL/DL configuration. The WTRU may then apply the HARQ process timing associated with the reference TDD UL/DL configuration for DL HARQ feedback.
US11838134B2
A transmitting device includes a first layer processor configured to include a buffer to store therein transmission data, the first layer processor configured to execute processing for a first layer on the transmission data, a second layer processor configured to execute processing for a second layer that differs from the first layer on the transmission data, and a transmitter configured to transmit the transmission data processed by the first layer processor and the second layer processor. The first layer processor discards the transmission data stored in the buffer in accordance with a parameter used for transmission control in the processing for the second layer.
US11838130B2
Methods and systems for partial retransmission are provided. According to one aspect, a method for receiving, at a receiver, a partial retransmission from a sender, comprises: receiving a control information message indicating a second transmission to be received, the second transmission comprising retransmitted data, the retransmitted data comprising a retransmission of a portion of a first transmission; receiving the second transmission; determining, based on a mapping indicator, a location of the retransmitted data within the second transmission; and decoding the retransmitted data at the determined location within the second transmission. The mapping indicator may be received as part of the control information message or may be received separately from the control information message. In one embodiment, the combination of the control information and the mapping indicator indicates what portions of the first transmission are being retransmitted and where they are located within the second transmission.
US11838128B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for triggering HARQ-ACK feedback for a downlink slot set. An apparatus includes a receiver that receives a first downlink control information (“DCI”) format from a base unit for triggering hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (“HARQ-ACK”) feedback for a plurality of downlink transmissions, the HARQ-ACK feedback for the plurality of downlink transmissions multiplexed in a HARQ-ACK codebook. An apparatus includes a processor that identifies the plurality of downlink transmissions and determines a slot for transmitting the HARQ-ACK codebook based on the first DCI format. An apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits the HARQ-ACK codebook to the base unit in the slot.
US11838125B2
The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure relates to encoding and decoding by using a polar code in a wireless communication system, and an operation method of a transmission-end apparatus includes determining segmentation and the number of segments, based on parameters associated with encoding of information bits, encoding the information bits according to the number of check bits, and transmitting the encoded information bits to a reception-end apparatus.
US11838124B2
A receiver is provided. The receiver includes: a first decoder configured to decode a superposition-coded signal by using a parity check matrix to generate Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) information word bits and first parity bits corresponding to a first layer signal; an encoder configured to encode the LDPC information word bits and the first parity bits to generate second parity bits, or encode the LDPC information word bits to generate the first parity bits and the second parity bits, by using the parity check matrix; and a second decoder configured to decode a signal which is generated by removing the first layer signal, corresponding to the LDPC information word bits, the first parity bits, and the second parity bits, from the superposition-coded signal, to reconstruct bits transmitted through the second layer signal.
US11838114B2
A method for selecting an access network in a terminal of a mobile communication system according to one embodiment of the present specification comprises the steps of: if traffic is generated in the terminal, selecting an access network according to the characteristics of the generated traffic and network selection policy information; and transmitting and receiving the generated traffic via the selected access network. According to the embodiment, the present invention adjusts priorities of accesses given to users and applications in a wireless communication system including heterogenerous networks, thereby reducing processes for reselecting an access network of a user terminal, and reducing the cases of unnecessarily accessing a network having a low priority or requiring high costs for a long time. Therefore, the present invention can enhance user convenience and improve communication efficiency.
US11838112B1
Disclosed embodiments include systems, methods, and media for receiving and transmitting digital data over a plurality of channels. Disclosed embodiments may include receiving data from a plurality of sources through one or more networks. Disclosed embodiments may also include assigning a geographic area to the data from the plurality of sources, the geographic area corresponding to one or more locations associated with the data. Additionally, disclosed embodiments may include determining health effects for a predetermined location based on the data and its associated geographic locations. Further, disclosed embodiments may include generating, by querying a predetermined response database, instructions that address the determined health affects for the predetermined location, the instructions including an action and an associated device. And, disclosed embodiments may include transmitting, to the associated device, the action associated with the instructions.
US11838105B2
This disclosure describes digitally generating sub-carriers (SCs) to provide isolation and dynamic allocation of bandwidth between uplink and downlink traffic between transceivers that are communicatively coupled via a bidirectional link including one or more segments of optical fiber. Separate uplink and downlink communication channels may be created using digitally generated SCs and using the same transmitter laser. In some implementations, one or more of the nodes include a transceiver having at least one laser and one digital signal processing (DSP) operable for digitally generating at least two SCs and detecting at least two SCs. The transceiver can transmit selected SCs, and can receive other SCs. Accordingly, the transceiver can facilitate bidirectional communication, for example, over a single optical fiber link. In some instances, techniques can facilitate dynamic bandwidth assignment by facilitating adding or blocking of optical subcarriers from transmission in an uplink or downlink direction.
US11838095B2
A satellite communication system and method are presented for operation in one or more frequency bands to simultaneously relay data signals between a plurality of remote terminals and one or more ground stations (gateways) in both return and forward links. This allows the remote terminal to be of a few centimeters in size. The satellite communication system comprises a processor configured and operable to receive from each of the remote terminals an uplink return signal in the form of a plurality of terminal return signals spread over a predetermined first frequency allocation in said one or more frequency bands according to a predetermined spread function, de-spread the received plurality of terminal return signals, and generate a downlink return signal, corresponding to at least some of the received plurality of spread terminal return signals and having a predetermined second frequency allocation, to be sent to one of the ground stations.
US11838093B2
A method by which a terminal performs a beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present specification, comprises the steps of: receiving setting information related to a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH); transmitting the PUCCH on the basis of the setting information, the PUCCH being related to BFR of at least one secondary cell (SCell); and transmitting a message comprising information related to the BFR. The message comprising the information related to the BFR is related to a beam failure detected before a specific time point.
US11838084B2
Disclosed are a codebook constraint and codebook parameter determination method and apparatus, and same are used for preventing the generation of a beam with an orientation bringing about interference, and to prevent interference. The codebook constraint method includes determining codebook sub-set constraint indication information for indicating that one or more beam groups in a candidate combination beam set are constrained and coefficients in a first coefficient set corresponding to each beam of the beam groups are constrained, and sending the codebook sub-set constraint indication information to a terminal.
US11838083B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration signal indicating a codebook construction configuration for constructing a codebook of sequences for conveying a first type of uplink payload in a resource block that is orthogonal to a second type of uplink payload transmitted from a second UE in the resource block. The UE may construct the codebook of sequences for the first type of uplink payload according to the codebook construction configuration. The UE may generate the first type of uplink payload for transmission using a first sequence from the codebook of sequences. The UE may transmit the first type of uplink payload in the resource block, wherein the first type of uplink payload is multiplexed in the resource block with the second type of uplink payload from the second UE.
US11838081B2
Channel state information (CSI) report sending and receiving methods, devices and electronic devices
Provided are methods and devices for determining a quasi-co-location (QCL) parameter, and the method comprises: receiving configuration information; and determining whether the configuration information satisfies a predetermined constraint condition, and determining an acquisition mode of a QCL parameter of a signal according to the determination result; in a case where the configuration information satisfies the constraint condition, determining the QCL parameter of the signal according to a first acquisition mode; in a case where the configuration information does not satisfy the constraint condition, determining the QCL parameter of the signal according to a second acquisition mode.
US11838080B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive a configuration that indicates multiple sidelink channel state information (CSI) reporting sets, wherein different sidelink CSI reporting sets include different combinations of CSI parameters; receive an indication of a sidelink CSI reporting set, of the multiple sidelink CSI reporting sets, to be reported in a sidelink CSI report; and transmit the sidelink CSI report, wherein the sidelink CSI report includes a set of values for one or more CSI parameters included in the indicated sidelink CSI reporting set. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11838068B2
A transceiver having a shared filter for both transmit and receive modes is disclosed. A transceiver includes a transmitter having an output coupled to a signal node, wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit signals onto the signal node during transceiver operation in a transmit mode. The transceiver also includes a receiver having an input coupled to the signal node, and configured to receive signals from the signal node during operation in the receive mode. The transceiver further includes a first filter coupled to the signal node, wherein the filter is shared by the transmitter and the receiver. The filter is coupled between the transceiver and a first terminal of a transmission line.
US11838054B2
A method, system and apparatus for optimizing parameters between two optical coherent transceivers connected via an optical link, including determining performance of a second optical receiver; wherein the second optical transceiver uses a set of parameters; and inputting information into a side channel communication between a first optical transceiver and the second optical transceiver to update the set of parameters for the second transceiver.
US11838044B2
A system is disclosed, comprising: a wireless fronthaul access point coupled to a radio mast and in communication with a remote baseband unit, the wireless fronthaul access point further comprising a first millimeter wave wireless interface; and an antenna-integrated radio for providing access to user equipments (UEs), mounted within line of sight on the radio mast with the wireless fronthaul access point, the antenna-integrated radio further comprising: a second millimeter wave wireless interface configured to receive the digital I and Q signaling information from the remote baseband unit wirelessly via the wireless fronthaul access point, wherein the wireless fronthaul access point thereby wirelessly couples the remote baseband unit and the antenna-integrated radio.
US11838040B2
Described are concepts, systems, devices and methods that enhance decoding performance of channels subject to correlated noise. The concepts, systems, devices and methods can be used with any combination of codes, code-rates and decoding techniques. In embodiments, a continuous realization of effective noise is estimated from a lead channel by subtracting its decoded output from its received signal. This estimate is then used to improve the accuracy of decoding of an otherwise orthogonal channel that is experiencing correlated effective noise. In this approach, channels aid each other through the post-decoding provision of estimates of effective noise. In some embodiments, the lead channel is not pre-determined, but is chosen dynamically based on which of a plurality of decoders completes first, or using soft information including an estimate of effective noise that is least energetic or most likely to have occurred.
US11838036B2
Monitoring, systems and methods for data collection in an industrial environment are disclosed. A system may include a data collector communicatively coupled to a plurality of input channels and to a network infrastructure, wherein the data collector collects data based on a selected data collection routine, a data storage structured to store a plurality of collector routes and collected data, a data acquisition circuit structured to interpret a plurality of detection values from the collected data, and a data analysis circuit structured to analyze the collected data, and sense a change in operation and determine an aggregate rate of data being collected from the plurality of input channels. If the aggregate rate exceeds a throughput parameter the data analysis circuit alters the data collection to reduce the amount of data collected or, based on the sensed change, modify a collector route.
US11838034B2
A system and method for faster communication between blockchain mining nodes and faster block validation. The system uses machine learning on data chunks to generate codebooks which compact the data to be stored, processed, or sent with a smaller data profile than uncompacted data. The system uses a data compaction in an existing blockchain fork or implemented in a new blockchain protocol from which nodes that wish to or need to use the blockchain can do so with a reduced storage requirement. The system uses network data compaction across all nodes to increase the speed of and decrease the size of a blockchain's data packets. The system uses data compaction firmware to increase the efficiency at which mining rigs can computationally validate new blocks on the blockchain. The system can be implemented using any combination of the three data compaction services to meet the needs of the desired blockchain technology.
US11838027B2
An all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) and a calibration method thereof are provided. The ADPLL includes a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO), a time-to-digital converter (TDC) coupled to the DCO, and a normalization circuit coupled to the TDC. The TDC is configured to generate a clock signal according to a frequency control signal. The TDC is configured to generate a digital output signal according to a phase difference between the clock signal and a reference signal. The normalization circuit is configured to convert the digital output signal into a clock phase value according to a gain parameter. The normalization circuit selects one of a plurality of candidate gain parameters stored in the normalization circuit in response to the digital output signal, for being utilized as the gain parameter.
US11838019B2
An optical fingerprint identification circuit and a display panel are provided. The optical fingerprint identification circuit adds a reset unit at the gate of the driving transistor. The anode of the photodiode is electrically connected to the scan line. The optical fingerprint identification circuit could effectively avoid the reverse breakdown risk of the photodiode while realizing the fingerprint identification. It could reduce the requirement for the reverse breakdown voltage of the photodiode and requirement for the performance of the sensor. Furthermore, the circuit structure is simpler and the number of the TFTs is reduced. This improves the integration of the circuit.
US11838010B2
The present invention provides a power supply circuit with an adjustable channel switch impedance and an electronic device. The power supply circuit includes N main channel MOS transistors, a control module, an execution module and a detection module, wherein the execution module includes a first MOS transistor; the detection module includes a detection resistor and a second MOS transistor; a gate-source voltage of the main channel MOS transistors and a gate-source voltage of the first MOS transistor are configured to be consistent, and a source-drain voltage of the main channel MOS transistors and a source-drain voltage of the second MOS transistor are consistent; the control module is connected to the detection resistor and configured to: detect voltage drop information on voltage drop at two ends of the detection resistor, wherein the voltage drop information can represent a current of a load.
US11838008B2
A current detection circuit includes normally-on-type and a first normally-off-type switching elements with main current paths that are connected in series, and a second normally-off-type switching element that has a source and a gate that are connected to a source and a gate of the first normally-off-type switching element and a drain that is connected to a constant current source, and executes a division process by using drain voltages of the two normally-off-type switching elements.
US11838004B2
An assembly including an electrical connection substrate formed of material having a Young's modulus of less than about 10 MPa, an acoustic device die having opposite end portions mounted on and electrically connected to the electrical connection substrate and a mold compound layer encapsulating the acoustic device die and interfacing with the substrate.
US11837995B2
A one-coil multi-core inductor-capacitor (LC) oscillator is provided. The one-coil multi-core LC oscillator includes a main coil and at least one mode suppression device. The main coil includes an outer wire and a central wire, wherein the outer wire is coupled to a first core circuit and a second core circuit, and the central wire is coupled between a first node and a second node of the outer wire. More particularly, an outer loop formed by the outer wire corresponds to a first mode of the one-coil multi-core LC oscillator, and inner loops formed by the outer wire and the central wire correspond to a second mode of the one-coil multi-core LC oscillator, where the at least one mode suppression device is configured to suppress one of the first mode and the second mode.
US11837992B2
The invention is directed to an insulation piercing cable connection system, to an insulation piercing cable and an insulation piercing connector for use in said insulation piercing cable connection system, and to a photovoltaic system.
US11837991B2
A system for cleaning solar panels (photo-electric and/or water heating etc.) is driven by fluid driven motor (water and/or air driven motor) such as a piston motor or a vane motor. Some or all of the outlet water/air from the motor is used for cleaning the panels. The motor preferably also operates a cleaning mechanism, such as a rotating and or linear brush arrangement. The motor, gear system and/or components may be made from plastic. Optionally, a cleaning device travels along the edges of panels, optionally without requiring an additional rail structure. The cleaning device optionally includes a trailing water/air supply hose. In some embodiments, electrical components of the cleaning device are powered by an internal power supply. Control is optionally via an electrically actuated valve, a timer (for example a real time clock), a wireless receiver and/or a controller.
US11837987B2
A motor control device controls a drive of a motor in a motor drive system including the motor and a detent mechanism. The detent mechanism has a detent member that rotates integrally with an output shaft to which the rotation of the motor is transmitted, and an engaging member that moves a valley portion by a rotation of the motor and positions the output shaft by stopping within a positioning range. The motor control device includes a positioning determination unit and an energization control unit. The positioning determination unit determines whether or not the engaging member is stopped within the positioning range based on control parameter other than a detection value of a motor rotation angle sensor that detects a motor rotation angle. When the energization control unit determines that the engaging member is stopped within the positioning range, the energization control unit turns off the energization of the motor.
US11837977B2
Proposed is a self-resonance tuning piezoelectric energy harvester with broadband frequency, including: a piezoelectric beam which is extended along a horizontal direction; a fixing member which fixes opposite ends of the piezoelectric beam; and a mobile mass which the piezoelectric beam passes through, and which is capable of self-movement along the piezoelectric beam through a through-hole which has a free space in addition to a space which the piezoelectric beam passes through, wherein as the mobile mass moves to a position of the piezoelectric beam, generated displacement of a piezoelectric beam is increased, and as the generated displacement becomes greater than the free space, the mobile mass is fixed to a position of a piezoelectric beam at which resonance will occur.
US11837974B2
The invention relates to a stroke transmitter for an actuator device. The stroke transmitter comprises a first and a second conversion unit, which are mechanically connected to one another in series, wherein the first conversion unit is designed as a hydraulic conversion unit, it can be connected to an actuator on its drive side and it is connected to the drive side of the second conversion unit on its output side, wherein the second conversion unit is designed as a cable system and has an output element on its output side. The invention also relates to an actuator device comprising an actuator and a stroke transmitter mechanically connected in series with the actuator.
US11837968B2
An apparatus converts an AC power panel into a persistent DC power panel with a persistent power switch. The persistent power switch includes a removable power unit for coupling to the AC power switch in order to convert the AC power panel into a persistent DC power panel. The removable power unit can be mounted in the power panel or can be implemented as a stand-alone external device for connecting to the power panel.
US11837965B2
A high-voltage generator may be provided. The high-voltage generator may include a rectifying unit, a grid-controlled unit, and a shielding device. The rectifying unit may be configured to rectify an electric current generated in the high-voltage generator. The grid-controlled unit may be configured to generate a high voltage and electrically connected to the rectifying unit. The grid-controlled unit may have a conductive surface that opposes the rectifying unit. The shielding device may be located between the rectifying unit and the conductive surface of the grid-controlled unit. The shielding device may be spaced apart from the rectifying unit and the conductive surface of the grid-controlled unit. The shielding device may be electrically connected to the rectifying unit.
US11837963B2
A power conversion apparatus includes: matrix converter circuitry configured to perform bidirectional power conversion between a primary side and a secondary side; and control circuitry configured to: calculate a deterioration level based on a secondary side current of the matrix converter circuitry, a carrier frequency, and a primary-secondary frequency difference between a primary side frequency and a secondary side frequency of the matrix converter circuitry; and output a deterioration notification in response to determining that the deterioration level exceeds a predetermined level.
US11837955B2
A power converter circuit included in a computer system may employ a compensation loop to adjust the durations of active times during which the power converter circuit sources energy to a load circuit via an inductor. The compensation loop includes an error signal whose value is based on a difference in the output voltage of the power converter circuit from a desired voltage level. During output transients, the error signal is adjusted using an injection current that tracks current flowing through the inductor.
US11837952B2
A three-phase alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) power converter includes a boost power factor correction (PFC) circuit that includes a low frequency diode-based converter, and a PFC inductor and a PFC capacitor connected in series together and in parallel to a PFC output of the converter. The boost PFC circuit further includes either a high frequency PFC diode and a high frequency PFC switch or a plurality of high frequency PFC switches. A Ćuk converter includes a first Ćuk inductor and a Ćuk capacitor, a second Ćuk inductor and a high frequency Ćuk diode, and a transformer having a primary side connected in parallel to the PFC capacitor and a secondary side connected in parallel to the Ćuk capacitor.
US11837940B2
A transmission mechanism device includes a transmission mechanism including a hollow shaft, and a bearing supporting an outer face of the shaft. A holder holding the bearing is on the inner face of a housing of the transmission mechanism. The holder has a facing face facing an end of the shaft, a tubular portion holding the bearing and protruding in the axial direction radially from the facing face, and a rib inside the tubular portion and protruding in the axial direction from the facing face. The rib extends in a concave shape opening upward. A lower end of an inner face of the rib is below an upper end of an inner face of the shaft when viewed from the axial direction. At least one end of the rib in an extending direction faces an inner face of the tubular portion via a gap when viewed from the axial direction.
US11837919B2
According to one embodiment, a rotor core satisfies a relationship: W2/W1≤(A1+A2)/A1. Where, A1 represents an area of a region defined by a polar central axis, an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core and a first imaginary linear line extending on an outer circumferential-side long edge of an embedding hole, A2 represents an area of a region defined by the polar central axis, a q-axis, the outer circumferential surface of the rotor core, a second imaginary linear line extending on an inner circumferential-side long edge of the embedding hole, a third imaginary linear line extending on a first edge of the cavity hole, W1 represents a half-width of a first bridge portion, and W2 represents a half-width of the second bridge portion.
US11837910B2
A power supply control apparatus includes: a first system capable of supplying electric power from a first power supply to a first load; a second system capable of supplying electric power from a second power supply to a load group including a second load and a third load having consumed electric power smaller than that of the second load; a plurality of load switches as defined herein; and a control unit configured to control the load switches so that backup control performed by the second system is executed by the electric power supply from the second power supply, in a case where an occurrence of a ground fault in the first system is detected, and when the control unit inspects as to whether the backup control can be executed, the control unit connects the load switch corresponding to the third load of the load group to execute the inspection.
US11837895B2
Embodiments include smart jumper cables for jump-starting a vehicle. A jumper cable is configured with an electronic control module that monitors the connection at each end of the jumper cable, and only closes the circuit when a battery or vehicle electrical system is detected as properly connected to each end. In some embodiments, the electronic control module opens the circuit when a successful jump-start is detected. In some embodiments, the electronic control module further monitors the temperature of the jumper cable, and modulates the power transfer or opens the circuit if the temperature exceeds a predetermined level.
US11837894B2
An electrical power system including: an electrical power source, a power electronics converter, an electrical network, a current limiting diode and a controllable circuit interruption device, wherein: the current limiting diode is configured to limit a fault current passing between the electrical power source and the electrical network in a fault condition; and the controllable circuit interruption device is configured to interrupt the fault current in response to a determination that the electrical power system is in the fault condition.
US11837893B2
A charging system includes: an interface configured to removably and electrically couple to an external battery; a connector configured to removably and electrically couple to an on-board diagnostic (OBD) port of a vehicle; charge management circuitry electrically coupled to the interface and the connector; and a microcontroller unit (MCU) coupled to the charge management circuitry. The MCU is configured to execute computer readable program code for managing an output of current from the external battery to a vehicle battery of the vehicle through the electrical coupling of the connector and the OBD port. The charging system can be used to prevent a vehicle battery from becoming discharged during extended periods of storage.
US11837886B2
The disclosure provides a charging device and a method for positioning an electronic device. The method includes: in response to determining that a positioning request signal from an electronic device is received, enabling multiple antennas; controlling each antenna to receive a first radio frequency signal broadcast by the electronic device, and determining an arrival angle of the first radio frequency signal and a distance between the electronic device and the charging device based on the first radio frequency signal received by each antenna; and determining a relative position between the charging device and the electronic device based on the arrival angle and distance.
US11837870B2
An EMS includes a control unit that controls a power generation facility and a power adjustment unit that adjusts an amount of supply of supply power. The control unit includes: a reverse power flow suppression process determination unit; a priority decision unit that decides a priority for adjusting an amount of power generated for the two power generation devices of the power generation facility on the basis of a predicted degree of fluctuation in load power; and a device control unit that controls the power generation facility such that the amount of power generated is adjusted in descending order of the priority decided by the priority decision unit when the reverse power flow suppression process determination unit determines to reduce the amount of power generated by the power generation facility.
US11837868B2
A photovoltaic system and a leakage current control method for the photovoltaic system includes at least one photovoltaic module group, at least one photovoltaic inverter, a grounded metal frame, and a sampling control unit. The photovoltaic module group is mounted on the grounded metal frame. An output end of the photovoltaic module group is connected to an input end of the photovoltaic inverter, and an output end of the photovoltaic inverter is connected to a power grid. The sampling control unit is coupled to both the photovoltaic module group and the photovoltaic inverter and is configured to detect a current value of a leakage current formed by a common-mode voltage of the photovoltaic inverter on a parasitic capacitor. Herein, the parasitic capacitor exists between the photovoltaic module group and the grounded metal frame.
US11837867B2
The present invention provides a high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system (300, 600) comprising: a first station (102) comprising series-connected first and second HVDC converters (110, 130); a second station (104) comprising series-connected third and fourth HVDC converters (150, 170), wherein a neutral node (164) coupling the third HVDC converter (150) to the fourth HVDC converter (170) is coupled to earth; a first transmission line (200) connecting a positive node (114) of the first HVDC converter (110) to a corresponding positive node (154) of the third HVDC converter (150), wherein a first pole (240) of the system (300, 600) comprises the first HVDC converter (110), the third HVDC converter (150) and the first transmission line (200); a second transmission line (210) connecting a negative node (138) of the second HVDC converter (130) to a corresponding negative node (178) of the fourth HVDC converter (170), wherein a second pole (250) of the system (300, 600) comprises the second HVDC converter (130), the fourth HVDC converter (170) and the second transmission line (210); characterised in that: a neutral node (124) connecting the first HVDC converter (110) to the second HVDC converter (130) is coupled to a parallel combination of a resistance (310) and a neutral bus ground switch (312) for coupling the neutral node (124) to earth.
US11837865B2
In one aspect, a hybrid circuit protection device for current-limiting a fault current between a source and a load during a fault is provided. The hybrid circuit protection device includes an input configured to couple to the source, an output configured to couple to the load, a return configured to couple the source to the load, a main switch configured to selectively couple the input to the output, a switching network coupled in parallel with the main switch, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine that the main switch has opened in response to the fault current, where the fault current has an initial value, and activate the switching network to current-limit the fault current to less than the initial value during the fault.
US11837864B2
Electrical devices are connected to a DC voltage power supply grid being connected to a power source and having a supply voltage. Protection devices protect the electrical devices against an unintentional overcurrent sensed by a sensor unit. The protection devices disconnect the electrical devices from the DC voltage power supply grid when an overcurrent is detected. A pulse circuit having a capacitor with a semiconductor switching element connected in series with the capacitor is connected to respective inputs of the protection devices and supplies an amount of electric charge when a voltage dip occurs, wherein the amount of supplied electric charge is determined based on the detected overcurrent and a predetermined time period.
US11837860B2
A cable-gland system provides a sealing function to openings in an electronic chassis that receive cables. The cable-gland system comprises a plurality of individual cable glands. Each of the plurality of individual cable glands includes an exterior end to be positioned adjacent an exterior of the chassis, and an interior end for positioning within the chassis. Each of the plurality of individual cable glands includes a through-hole extending between the exterior and interior ends for receiving one of the cables, and an outer surface between the exterior and interior ends. Each of the plurality of individual cable glands has a male projection on one side of the outer surface and a female recess on an opposing side of the outer surface. The cable glands are connectable to form the cable-gland system by mating the male projection on one cable gland with the female recess of an adjacent cable gland.
US11837858B1
An electrical box which utilizes fastening devices to provide improved box fastening to wall assembly materials with common fasteners. The electrical box possesses one or a plurality of externally situated fastener housings each with characteristics that support fastener placement, guide fastener insertion, limit fastener travel and house the fastener, once fully driven, outside of the box body interior. The externally situated fastener housing's placement outside of the box body allows for fastener insertion from the box body interior while not diminishing volumetric capacity of the box body. Alternative embodiments include round enclosure and bottom mount versions.
US11837853B2
The present invention relates to a device for dispensing a wire management system which can include a dispenser housing. A kit includes the device for dispensing a wire management system, a base and a cover. The base and cover can be individually dispensed from the dispenser housing. After dispensing of a desired length of the base and/or the cover, the respective end of the base and or cover can be pushed back into the dispenser housing to recoil the base and/or the cover back into the dispenser housing.
US11837849B2
The invention relates to a control circuit (50) for pulsed control of a light-emitting means (52), in particular an LED or a laser diode (52), having a switched-mode power supply unit (54) with a first switch (64) arranged in a primary circuit of the switched-mode power supply unit (54), wherein the switched-mode power supply unit (54) has a primary-side connector (62) for connection to a supply voltage, a secondary-side connector (67) for supplying the light-emitting means (52) and a switching input (65) for operating the first switch (64), having a storage capacitor (68) arranged between the secondary-side connector (67) and a ground (66), having a second switch (70) arranged in a current path (71) in parallel with the storage capacitor (68), wherein the light-emitting means (52) is positionable in the current path (71), and having a control unit (72) to control the first and the second switch (64, 70), wherein the control unit (72) is designed to operate the first switch (64) in order to induce at least one charge pulse for charging the storage capacitor (68) in the secondary circuit and to operate the second switch (70) in order to discharge the storage capacitor (68) while generating a light pulse (82) via the light-emitting means (52). The invention also relates to a LiDAR-based environmental sensor, in particular a laser scanner, for use in a vehicle, having an abovementioned control circuit (50) and a laser diode (52). The invention further relates to a method for the pulsed control of a light-emitting means (52), in particular an LED or a laser diode (52), comprising the steps of providing a storage capacitor (68) and a current path (71) that is parallel thereto and in which the light-emitting means (52) is arranged, of generating at least one charge pulse for charging the storage capacitor (68), and of discharging the storage capacitor (68) via the light-emitting means (52) while generating a light pulse (82).
US11837848B2
A fly-back or boost stage transfers its stored energy to the energy storage capacitor of the fast driver discharge stage in a single event pulse. The charging voltage of a single flyback pulse on the capacitor is measured in real time and, if necessary, the charging current is diverted via a shunt active device or transistor, to ground, thus preventing the storage capacitor from overcharging with the risk of component damage. A series sense resistor is used to determine the presence and amount of the wasted shunt current in order that this current may be minimized by turning down the flyback energy, thus maximizing the overall efficiency.
US11837847B2
A DFB laser DC-coupled output power configuration scheme belongs to the field of laser drivers in optical communication integrated circuits. The present invention solves the existing problems in the conventional DFB laser power supply configuration scheme. The power configuration scheme of the present invention utilizes an external or internal power configuration unit to provide two electric DC power supplies with a fixed voltage difference for the transmitting unit TX of the DFB laser and the optical transceiver integrated chip, and at the same time optimizes the transmitting unit TX. The optimization scheme is that: the transistors in the transmitting unit TX are all low-voltage high-speed tubes, the transmitting unit TX includes a negative capacitance structure composed of capacitors C1 and C2, serving as an auxiliary structure for improving bandwidth. After optimization, the minimum voltage of the power supply voltage port TVCC of the transmitting unit TX is 2.7V.
US11837841B2
Systems and methods are described that relate to a scanning laser system configured to emit laser light and an interlock circuit communicatively coupled to the scanning laser system. The interlock circuit may carry out certain operations. The operations include, as the scanning laser system emits laser light into one or more regions of an environment around the scanning laser system, determining a respective predicted dosage amount for each region based on the emitted laser light. The operations further include detecting an interlock condition. The interlock condition includes a predicted dosage amount for at least one region being greater than a threshold dose. In response to detecting the interlock condition, the operations include controlling the scanning laser system to reduce a subsequent dosage amount in the at least one region.
US11837829B2
Adapter device (1) for connecting at least one electrical device (2) adapted for a busbar subsystem (11, 12) to a busbar main system (7), wherein the adapter housing (4) of the adapter device (1) comprises a busbar main interface (22) on a rear side of the housing for electromechanical contacting of busbars (6) of the busbar main system (7) and one or more busbar sub-interfaces on a front side of the housing, which are provided for placing the at least one electrical device (2) on the adapter device (1) and for its electrical connection to the busbar main system (7) via busbars (15, 16) of the respective busbar sub-system (11, 12) integrated in the adapter housing (4) or attached thereto and via electrical conductors (28) contained in the adapter housing (4).
US11837827B2
A vehicle power adaptor module includes a vehicle-sided connector and an interchangeable socket. The vehicle-sided connector includes a connector body and a first connecting portion. The first connecting portion is connected with the connector body. The connector body is configured to electrically connect with an electric vehicle. The interchangeable socket includes a socket body and a second connecting portion. The second connecting portion is connected with the socket body. The socket body is configured to electrically connect with an electronic equipment. The second connecting portion is configured to detachably connect with the first connecting portion.
US11837826B2
A bus bar includes a load terminal connector comprising a conductive plate that extends from a first edge to an opposite second edge and extends from a third edge to an opposite fourth edge. The third and fourth edges extend from the first edge to the second edge. The plate includes a window opening located between the first and second edges and between the third and fourth edges. The plate also includes a slot extending into the plate from the first edge to the window opening. The plate includes first and second sets of openings configured to receive connections with first and second power terminals of switch packages. The first set of openings and the second set of openings are located on opposite sides of the slot.
US11837820B2
This interconnection module (10) between a connection cord and a connection panel comprises a pair of spring-loaded conductive pins (12) and a molded body (14) in which a portion of said pair of pins (12) is embedded. At least one of the ends (121, 122) of each pin (12) projects from the body (14) and the body (14) forms a hollow volume making the module (10) clippable.
US11837818B2
The electrical power unit is provided with: a power unit body; an electrical component for driving the power unit body; and a connecting terminal which is disposed at the tip end of an electrically conductive path member extending from the power unit body and connectable to the electrical component. The connecting terminal is provided detachably to an attaching portion of the power unit body.
US11837816B2
Systems, devices, and methods including one or more isolation breaks connected between one or more first portions of a first wire and one or more second portions of a second wire, wherein the one or more isolation breaks prevent moisture intrusion between the one or more first portions of the first wire and the one or more second portions of the second wire; an inner housing; an upper compressing plate; a lower compressing plate; a grommet and an outer housing sized to receive the inner housing; where the one or more isolation breaks are connected between the one or more first portions of the first wire and the one or more second portions of the second wire prior to compressing the grommet between the upper compressing plate and the lower compressing plate.
US11837815B2
A sealing member is attached to a connector opening of an electronic device to seal between an insulating cover of a cable inserted in the connector opening and a main body of the electronic device. The sealing member includes a housing made of an elastic material. The housing includes a first opening, a second opening facing the first opening and located to an inside of the electronic device than the first opening, and an inclined surface having a tapered shape that is tapered inward from the first opening to the second opening. The housing includes a first cylindrical portion forming the inclined surface inside the first cylindrical portion, a second cylindrical portion provided outside the first cylindrical portion, and a gap formed between the first cylindrical portion and the second cylindrical portion. The first cylindrical portion and the second cylindrical portion are connected to each other around the first opening.
US11837814B2
A modular electrical connector with modular components suitable for assembly into a right angle connector may also be used in forming an orthogonal connector or connector in other desired configurations. The connector modules may be configured through the user of extender modules. Those connector modules may be held together as a right angle connector with a front housing portion, which, in some embodiments, may be shaped differently depending on whether the connector modules are used to form a right angle connector or an orthogonal connector. When designed to form an orthogonal connector, the extender modules may interlock into subarrays, which may be held to other connector components through the use of an extender shell. The mating contact portions on the extender modules may be such that a right angle connector, similarly made with connector modules, may directly mate with the orthogonal connector.
US11837813B2
A multipole electrical plug-in connector includes a plug-in connector housing and a mounting block. The plug-in connector housing has a housing base that extends perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the plug-in connector housing. The housing base has insertion openings. Contact elements are respectively inserted through the housing base insertion openings. Each contact element has a contact portion that is connectable to a mating plug-in connector, a press-in portion, with a fir tree profile, that is pressed into the housing base insertion opening in which the contact element is inserted through, and a connection portion for connecting an electrical connection line. Each contact element further has a retaining portion between the press-in portion and the connection portion. The retaining portions of the contact elements are inter-lockingly fastened in the mounting block. A method for producing a multipole electrical plug-in connector of this type is provided.
US11837797B2
A circuit includes a radio frequency (RF) channel including an input node and an output node and being configured to receive an RF oscillator signal at the input node and to provide an RF output signal at the output node; a mixer configured to mix an RF reference signal and an RF test signal representative of the RF output signal to generate a mixer output signal; an analog-to-digital converter configured to sample the mixer output signal in order to provide a sequence of sampled values; and a control circuit configured to provide a sequence of phase offsets by phase-shifting at least one of the RF test signal and the RF reference signal using one or more phase shifters, calculate a spectral value from the sequence of sampled values; and calculate estimated phase information indicating a phase of the RF output signal based on the spectral value.
US11837796B2
A feeding structure is provided that includes a reference electrode, first and second substrates opposite to each other, and a dielectric layer between the first and second substrates. The first substrate includes a first base plate and an input electrode on a side of the first base plate proximal to the dielectric layer. The second substrate includes a second base plate and a receiving electrode on a side of the second base plate proximal to the dielectric layer, and orthographic projections of the receiving electrode and the input electrode on the first base plate at least partially overlaps each other to form a coupling structure. An output terminal of the input electrode or the receiving electrode is connected to a phase shifting structure to differ a phase of a microwave signal transmitted via the first substrate from a phase of a microwave signal transmitted via the second substrate.
US11837795B2
A slider includes: a first coupling section; a second coupling section; and an impedance conversion line, which is connected between the first coupling section and the second coupling section, and includes a series portion and a parallel portion connected in series, wherein the series portion includes only one first connection line, and the parallel portion includes at least two second connection lines connected in parallel.
US11837787B2
A high frequency filter comprising a waveguide and at least one resonant cavity is disclosed. The waveguide is a so-called gap waveguide, and comprises a metal or metallized base layer, a lid arranged in parallel with said metal or metallized baser layer, a waveguiding structure in the form of a ridge, a groove or a microstrip line, and an artificial magnetic conductor arranged on said base layer, between the baser layer and the lid, and arranged aligned with said waveguiding structure to prevent waveguide propagation along other directions than along said waveguide structure. The filter further comprises at least one resonant cavity arranged within said baser layer, and extending essentially perpendicular to a plane of said baser layer. The filter may e.g. be used in a phased array antenna.
US11837784B2
The present disclosure relates to a metasurface arrangement including a first metasurface and a second metasurface which run mutually parallel and face each other. Each metasurface includes a corresponding periodic or quasi-periodic structure formed in a respective pattern. The first metasurface is formed in a dielectric material structure and the second metasurface is formed in either a dielectric material structure or in an electrically conducting structure. The periodic or quasi-periodic structure on the first metasurface is configured to yield a first response to an incident electromagnetic wave between the two metasurfaces, and the periodic or quasi-periodic structure on the second metasurface is configured to yield a second response to the incident electromagnetic wave between the two metasurfaces that is equivalent to the first response, thereby rendering the two metasurfaces mutually electromagnetically symmetric.
US11837780B2
A radiofrequency signal control device of a domestic electrical apparatus, configured to be supplied with electrical energy by a mains electrical supply network, comprises a first electrical conductor, a second electrical conductor, a radiofrequency unit, a printed circuit board and an antenna. A first end of each of the first and second electrical conductors is configured to be electrically connected to the mains electrical supply network. The radiofrequency unit is electrically connected to a connection point. The connection point is arranged at a second end of the first electrical conductor. The radiofrequency signal control device further comprises an adaptation line section. A first end of the adaptation line section is electrically connected to the connection point. Furthermore, a second end of the adaptation line section is either electrically connected to a reference voltage or is devoid of an electrical connection.
US11837775B2
A described example includes: an antenna formed in a first conductor layer on a device side surface of a multilayer package substrate, the multilayer package substrate including conductor layers spaced from one another by dielectric material and coupled to one another by conductive vertical connection layers, the multilayer package substrate having a board side surface opposite the device side surface; and a semiconductor die mounted to the device side surface of the multilayer package substrate spaced from and coupled to the antenna.
US11837770B2
A directional coupler includes a main line and a sub-line electromagnetically coupled to each other, a variable termination circuit that is connected to one end of the sub-line and that has a variable impedance, a variable matching circuit that is connected to the other end of the sub-line and that has a variable impedance or a variable attenuator that has a variable attenuation, and a control circuit that controls the impedance of the variable termination circuit and that controls the impedance of the variable matching circuit or the attenuation of the variable attenuator. The control circuit includes a non-volatile memory and controls the impedance of the variable termination circuit in accordance with data stored in the memory.
US11837766B2
System and method for continuous fabrication of graded structured units using additive manufacturing
A system and method of continuous fabrication of multi-material graded structures using additive manufacturing is disclosed. Using multi-material feedstocks and optimized processing parameters, the gradient on composition and structure are controlled to achieve smooth transition from one functional component to another functional component. A multi-material graded structure is produced as the feedstocks are transported from the feedstock reservoir system comprised of many different materials. Interface transition from one functional layer to the next is gradient, controlled by feedstock mixture ratios based on the flow rate control for the feedstock system. Composition includes chemical composition, physical composition, and porosity. Continuous automatic additive manufacturing method makes the fabrication more efficient and avoids joining problems. This method finds application in fabrication of a fuel cell, battery, reformer and other chemical reaction and process units, including structures made of multiple units, such as stacks, that incorporate multiple functional components.
US11837764B2
Methods and devices and aspects thereof for generating power using PEM fuel cell power systems comprising a rotary bed (or rotatable) reactor for hydrogen generation are disclosed. Hydrogen is generated by the hydrolysis of fuels such as lithium aluminum hydride and mixtures thereof. Water required for hydrolysis may be captured from the fuel cell exhaust. Water is preferably fed to the reactor in the form of a mist generated by an atomizer. An exemplary 750 We-h, 400 We PEM fuel cell power system may be characterized by a specific energy of about 550 We-h/kg and a specific power of about 290 We/kg. Turbidity fixtures within the reactor increase turbidity of fuel pellets within the reactor and improve the energy density of the system.
US11837761B2
A vehicle includes a fuel cell stack, an ejector, a first injector, a second injector, and a controller. The fuel cell stack is configured to generate power to propel the vehicle. The fuel cell stack has an anode side. The ejector is configured to deliver hydrogen to the anode side. The ejector has a nozzle configured to accelerate and direct the hydrogen toward the anode side. The first and second injectors are configured to deliver hydrogen to the nozzle. The controller is programmed to, in response to a command to deliver hydrogen to the anode side, open each of the first and second injectors and subsequently close the second injector while the first injector remains open.
US11837758B2
A humidification system for a fuel cell system is provided, comprising a feed line for supplying cathode gas which is to be or is humidified, to a heat exchanger, further comprising a liquid supply and an eddy generator, located upstream of the liquid supply, for generating eddies in the flowing cathode gas. A fuel cell system comprising a humidification system is also provided.
US11837757B2
A chemical reactor includes one or more solid oxide fuel cells, each cell having an electrolyte layer joining a cathode and an anode, the one or more fuel cell cathodes being located in a first gas zone of the reactor, and the one or more fuel cell anodes being located in a second gas zone of the reactor. The chemical reactor further includes a first gas supply route for supplying a flow of oxidant to the first gas zone. The chemical reactor further includes a second gas supply route for supplying a flow of reactant to the second gas zone. The chemical reactor further includes a gas removal route for removing a flow of reaction products away from the second gas zone. The chemical reactor further includes one or more leakage paths which fluidly connect the first gas zone to the second gas zone such that a leakage flow of oxidant leaks from the first gas zone into the second gas zone to support a direct exothermic chemical reaction between the oxidant and the reactant, while substantially preventing a reverse flow of reactant into the first gas zone. The reaction products are a mixture of reaction product from the direct reaction and reaction product from an indirect electrochemical oxidation reaction of the reactant at the anode or anodes. The reactor further includes a catalyst in the second gas zone for catalysing the direct reaction, and a controller for drawing a controlled electric current from the fuel cell or cells to control the rate of the indirect reaction and thereby the temperature of the catalyst.
US11837751B2
This polyolefin micro-porous film includes a multilayered structure, wherein the multilayered structure contains a first layer composed of polypropylene resin, a second layer composed of polyethylene resin and provided on the first layer, and a third layer composed of polypropylene resin and provided on the second layer. Furthermore, a thickness of the first layer is thinner than a thickness of the second layer, a thickness of the third layer is thinner than the thickness of the second layer, and in the multilayered structure, a thickness is 16 μm or less, a porosity is 40 to 70%, and a surface opening ratio is 10 to 30%.
US11837743B2
A battery with a fire protection device, wherein the battery includes a plurality of battery cells and a battery housing, wherein a respective battery cell is arranged in an interior space of the battery housing. The fire protection device includes a composite layer with a thermal insulation layer and with a protective layer arranged on the insulation layer, wherein the composite layer is arranged on a battery housing interior side facing the interior space of the battery housing, and the insulation layer is arranged as an intermediate layer between a surface of the battery housing interior side and the protective layer and is protected by the protective layer against a gas and/or flame stream exiting the respective battery cell in the event of damage, whereby its thermally insulating properties are maintained.
US11837741B2
The electrical apparatus, in which a series connection state and a parallel connection state of an upper cell unit including five battery cells and a lower cell unit can be automatically switched by means of a difference in a terminal shape on the electrical apparatus body side, has a terminal holder and holds apparatus side terminals. The terminal holder, which establishes an electrically connected state with the connection terminals of the battery pack, is provided with two parallel protruding parts that extend in the forward-backward direction, and second rail grooves fitted to the protruding parts on the electrical apparatus side. Due to the fitting, relative movement of the terminal holder and the battery pack in the vertical direction can be suppressed, and wear on the apparatus side terminals can be greatly suppressed.
US11837736B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a secondary battery, a battery module, a battery pack, a device, and a manufacturing method. The secondary battery includes: an electrode unit, including a main body portion and a first tab and a second tab extending out from the main body portion; a casing, including an accommodating cavity for accommodating the main body portion and a first opening which is in communication with the accommodating cavity; a first cover plate capping the first opening, the first cover plate including a first relief hole penetrating therethrough, the first tab passes through the first relief hole and is connected to a side of the first cover plate facing away from the accommodating cavity; and a sealing plate, which is sealingly connected to the side of the first cover plate facing away from the accommodating cavity and covers the first relief hole.
US11837716B2
Electrode assembly for rechargeable lithium battery, and rechargeable lithium battery including same
An electrode assembly for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same are disclosed. The electrode assembly for the rechargeable lithium battery includes: a negative electrode including a current collector; a negative active material layer; an organic-inorganic composite layer integrated with the negative active material layer, the negative active material layer including an organic layer and an inorganic layer; and a positive electrode, the negative active material layer including a first layer physically contacting the current collector, the first layer including a first carbon-based negative active material, and a second layer on the first layer, including a second carbon-based negative active material, wherein a DD value of the first layer is about 30% to about 90% of a DD value of the negative active material layer, and the DD values are defined by Equation 1. DD(Degree of Divergence)=(Ia/Itotal)*100 Equation 1
US11837715B2
The present disclosure provides a composite wherein NaCl nanoparticles are uniformly dispersed on reduced graphene oxide (rGO), a positive electrode active material including the same, a sodium secondary battery including the same, and a method for preparing the same. The positive electrode active material according to the present disclosure has a structure wherein NaCl nanoparticles are uniformly dispersed on rGO in a one-step process through chemical self-assembly. Therefore, the positive electrode active material according to the present disclosure exhibits superior electrochemical properties with high capacity because the small NaCl particles are dispersed uniformly and is economically favorable because the preparation process is simple.
US11837711B2
Electrolytes and electrolyte additives for energy storage devices including an anhydride compound are provided. The energy storage device includes a first electrode and a second electrode, where at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is a Si-based electrode, a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, an electrolyte, and at least one electrolyte additive which is an anhydride compound.
US11837702B2
An electric energy storage device, the electric energy storage device configured to be detachably coupled with an electrical device, the electric energy storage device comprises a housing, N sets of battery units received in the housing, N being a composite number, each battery unit comprising at least one battery cell, a plurality of switches, each switch connected to the output end of two different battery units, a control unit electrically connected to the switches and configured to control the switches to switch on or off in order to connect the battery units in parallel or series, wherein the electric energy storage device can output at least three different voltages. The electric energy storage device can be used for different types of power tools with different voltage requirements.
US11837695B2
An oxide including a compound represented by Formula 1: (LixM1y)(M2)3-δ(M3)2-ωO12-zXz Formula 1 wherein, in Formula 1, 6≤x≤8, 0≤y<2, −0.2≤δ≤0.2, −0.2≤ω≤0.2, and 0≤z≤2; M1 is a monovalent cation, a divalent cation, a trivalent cation, or a combination thereof; M2 is a monovalent cation, a divalent cation, a trivalent cation, or a combination thereof; M3 is a monovalent cation, a divalent cation, a trivalent cation, a tetravalent cation, a pentavalent cation, a hexavalent cation, or a combination thereof; wherein at least one of M1, M2, or M3 includes at least four elements; and X is a monovalent anion, a divalent anion, a trivalent anion, or a combination thereof.
US11837689B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a current collector that has high strength and is easily impregnated with an electrolyte. This current collector is provided with an opening formation portion provided with a plurality of openings, the current collector being characterized in that a protruding portion is formed at the tip of each opening, and only partial locations of the opening formation portion reach an end surface of the current collector and the other locations thereof do not reach the end surface.
US11837687B2
A display panel and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel includes an active area and a non-active area located at least on one side of the active area, wherein the non-active area includes a first fanout area; a plurality of sub-pixels located in the active area; a plurality of data lines located in the active area and extending from the active area to the first fanout area, the plurality of data lines electrically connected to the plurality of sub-pixels and configured to provide data signals for the plurality of sub-pixels; the first fanout area includes at least two data line fanout sub-areas, and the plurality of data lines are respectively located in the at least two data line fanout sub-areas.
US11837685B2
A dimming agent according to one or more embodiments is disclosed that may include at least one of terbium, praseodymium, manganese, titanium. A diffuse reflection intensity of the dimming agent in a wavelength of from 400 nm to 750 nm may be 80% or less.
US11837684B2
Submount structures for light-emitting diode (LED) packages are provided. Submounts may include a base material that is configured to provide high thermal conductivity and a ceramic layer on the base material that is configured to provide high reflectivity for one or more LED chips that are mounted thereon. In certain aspects, the base material may include a ceramic base having a ceramic material that is different than a material of the ceramic layer. In certain aspects, submounts may also include additional ceramic layers configured to provide high reflectivity. In certain aspects, LED packages include electrical traces that are arranged either on one or more ceramic layers or at least partially embedded within one or more ceramic layers. The arrangement of such ceramic layers may provide increased reflectivity in areas where it may be difficult for other reflective materials to be present, such as gaps formed between tightly spaced electrical traces.
US11837674B2
A poly-layered, poly-dimensional solar photovoltaic stack structure may be provided in a tower form. A plurality of solar panels may be stacked on top of one another to create a solar stack tower. Using the solar stack tower, reflection, refraction, diffusion, and transportation of light may transmit photons from a higher area of photon saturation to a lower area of photon saturation. The solar stack tower may provide an enclosed structure, protecting and insulating the solar panels from heat, moisture, dust, and other elements that usually damage solar panels over time.
US11837667B2
A planar insulating spacer layer is formed over a substrate, and a vertical stack of a gate electrode, a gate dielectric layer, and a first semiconducting metal oxide layer may be formed thereabove. The first semiconducting metal oxide layer includes atoms of a first n-type dopant at a first average dopant concentration. A second semiconducting metal oxide layer is formed over the first semiconducting metal oxide layer. Portions of the second semiconducting metal oxide layer are doped with the second n-type dopant to provide a source-side n-doped region and a drain-side n-doped region that include atoms of the second n-type dopant at a second average dopant concentration that is greater than the first average dopant concentration. Various dopants may be introduced to enhance performance of the thin film transistor.
US11837662B2
A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same are provided. A semiconductor device of the present disclosure includes a first fin including a first source/drain region, a second fin including a second source/drain region, a first isolation layer disposed between the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region, and a second isolation layer disposed over the first isolation layer. A first portion of the first isolation layer is disposed on sidewalls of the first source/drain region and a second portion of the first isolation layer is disposed on sidewalls of the second source/drain region. A portion of the second isolation layer is disposed between the first portion and second portion of the first isolation layer.
US11837657B2
A power semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor layer structure having a wide band-gap drift region having a first conductivity type, a gate trench having first and second opposed sidewalls that extend in a first direction in an upper portion of the semiconductor layer structure, first and second well regions having a second conductivity type in the upper portion of the semiconductor layer structure, the first well region comprising part of the first sidewall and the second well region comprising part of the second sidewall. A deep shielding region having the second conductivity type is provided underneath the gate trench, and a plurality of deep shielding connection patterns that have the second conductivity type are provided that electrically connect the deep shielding region to the first and second well regions. The deep shielding connection patterns are spaced apart from each other along the first direction.
US11837654B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second electrodes, a semiconductor part therebetween, and a control electrode between the semiconductor part and the first electrode. The semiconductor part includes first, third and fifth layers of a first conductivity type and second and fourth layers of a second conductivity type. The second layer is provided between the first layer and the first electrode. The third layer is provided between the second layer and the first electrode. The fourth layer and the fifth layer are selectively provided between the first layer and the second electrode. In a method for controlling the semiconductor device, first to third voltages are applied in order to the control electrode while a p-n junction between the first and second layers is biased in a forward direction. The second and third voltages are greater than the first voltage, and the third voltage is less than the second voltage.
US11837632B2
Provided is a wafer including a ring part and a processed part. The processed part is connected to the ring part. The processed part has a top surface which has been grounded and a bottom surface opposite to the top surface. The processed part is surrounded by the ring part. A region where the top surface connects to the ring part is a curved surface curved upwards.
US11837623B2
Methods and apparatus for an assembly having directly bonded first and second wafers where the assembly includes a backside surface and a front side surface. The first wafer includes IO signal connections vertically routed to the direct bonding interface by a first one of the bonding posts on the first wafer bonded to a first one of the bonding posts on the second wafer. The second wafer includes vertical routing of the IO signal connections from first one though the bonding posts on the second wafer to IO pads on a backside surface of the assembly.
US11837615B2
An image sensor may include a substrate having first and second surfaces opposite to each other and including unit pixel regions and impurity regions near the first surface, a device isolation pattern provided on the first surface to define the impurity regions, and an interconnection layer including an insulating layer covering the first surface of the substrate, interconnection lines on the insulating layer, and a penetration structure penetrating the insulating layer. The penetration structure may include a first pattern connected to one of the impurity regions and in contact with at least a portion of the device isolation pattern, a second pattern provided on the first pattern and in contact with the interconnection lines, and a third pattern provided between the first and second patterns. A top surface of the first pattern may be higher than that of the device isolation pattern.
US11837611B2
Disclosed herein, in some embodiments, is a memory device. The memory device includes a bottom electrode disposed over a substrate and a top electrode disposed over the bottom electrode. An upper surface of the bottom electrode faces away from the substrate. A bottom surface of the top electrode faces the substrate. A data storage layer is arranged between the bottom electrode and the top electrode. At least a portion of the bottom surface of the top electrode does not overlap with any portion of the top surface of the bottom electrode along a first direction parallel to the bottom surface of the top electrode. Furthermore, at least a portion of the top surface of the bottom electrode does not overlap with any portion of the bottom surface of the top electrode along the first direction.
US11837605B2
A structure including a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate. The SOI substrate includes an SOI layer over a buried insulator layer over a base semiconductor layer. The structure includes a high-voltage first field effect transistor (FET) adjacent to a high performance, low voltage second FET. The high voltage FET has a gate electrode on the buried insulator layer, and a source and a drain in the base semiconductor layer under the buried insulator layer. Hence, the buried insulator layer operates as a gate dielectric for the high voltage FET. The low voltage FET has a source and a drain over the buried insulator layer, i.e., in the SOI layer. A trench isolation is in each of the source and the drain of the first, high voltage FET. The source of the high voltage FET surrounds the trench isolation therein.
US11837593B2
A method and structure for receiving a micro device on a receiving substrate are disclosed. A micro device such as a micro LED device is punched-through a passivation layer covering a conductive layer on the receiving substrate, and the passivation layer is hardened. In an embodiment the micro LED device is punched-through a B-staged thermoset material. In an embodiment the micro LED device is punched-through a thermoplastic material.
US11837586B2
A package structure includes a package substrate, a first die, a second die, a first underfill, and a second underfill. The first die and a second die are disposed on the package substrate. The first underfill is between the first die and the package substrate, and the first underfill includes a first extension portion extending from a first sidewall of the first die toward the second die. The second underfill is between the second die and the package substrate, and the second underfill includes a second extension portion extending from a second sidewall of the second die toward the first die, the second extension portion overlapping the first extension portion on the package substrate.
US11837584B2
A manufacturing method of a display device is provided. The manufacturing method of the display device includes forming a switching structure. The switching structure includes a plurality of switching elements. The manufacturing method of the display device also includes forming a light-emitting structure. The light-emitting structure includes a plurality of light-emitting elements. The manufacturing method of the display device further includes arranging the light-emitting structure on the switching structure, so that each of the light-emitting elements is above each of the switching elements. The manufacturing method of the display device includes connecting each of the light-emitting elements to a corresponding switching element via a laser.
US11837575B2
A package includes a package substrate, an interposer over and bonded to the package substrate, a first wafer over and bonding to the interposer, and a second wafer over and bonding to the first wafer. The first wafer has independent passive device dies therein. The second wafer has active device dies therein.
US11837574B2
A bonding apparatus includes a holder; a pressing member; and a curvature adjuster. The holder is configured to attract and hold a substrate to be bonded. The pressing member is configured to come into contact with a central portion of the substrate attracted to and held by the holder and press the substrate to allow the central portion of the substrate to be protruded. The curvature adjuster is configured to adjust a curvature of the substrate pressed by the pressing member.
US11837572B2
An apparatus and method for manufacturing a semiconductor package structure are provided. The method includes: providing a process line comprising a first semiconductor manufacturing portion configured to provide a first operation including a first process step, and a second semiconductor manufacturing portion configured to provide a second operation including a second process step; passing a packaging structure through the second semiconductor manufacturing portion, wherein the second semiconductor manufacturing portion applies the second process step to the packaging structure; passing the packaging structure through the first semiconductor manufacturing portion, wherein the first semiconductor manufacturing portion applies the first process step to the packaging structure; and passing the packaging structure through the second semiconductor manufacturing portion again without applying the second process step thereon.
US11837565B2
A device includes a semiconductor chip including an electrical contact arranged on a main surface of the semiconductor chip. The device includes an external connection element configured to provide a first coax-like electrical connection between the device and a printed circuit board, wherein the first coax-like electrical connection includes a section extending in a direction vertical to the main surface of the semiconductor chip. The device further includes an electrical redistribution layer arranged over the main surface of the semiconductor chip and configured to provide a second coax-like electrical connection between the electrical contact of the semiconductor chip and the external connection element, wherein the second coax-like electrical connection includes a section extending in a direction parallel to the main surface of the semiconductor chip.
US11837558B2
A process for manufacturing a strained semiconductor device envisages: providing a die of semiconductor material, in which elementary components of the semiconductor device have been integrated by means of initial front-end steps; and coupling, using the die-attach technique, the die to a support, at a coupling temperature. The aforesaid coupling step envisages selecting the value of the coupling temperature at a value higher than an operating temperature of use of the semiconductor device, and moreover selecting the material of the support so that it is different from the material of the die in order to determine, at the operating temperature, a coupling stress that is a function of the different values of the coefficients of thermal expansion of the materials of the die and of the support and of the temperature difference between the coupling temperature and the operating temperature. Furthermore, additional stress can be enhanced by means of different embodiments involving the support, such as ring or multi-layer frame.
US11837556B2
Apparatuses relating generally to a microelectronic package having protection from electromagnetic interference are disclosed. In an apparatus thereof, a platform has an upper surface and a lower surface opposite the upper surface and has a ground plane. A microelectronic device is coupled to the upper surface of the platform. Wire bond wires are coupled to the ground plane with a pitch. The wire bond wires extend away from the upper surface of the platform with upper ends of the wire bond wires extending above an upper surface of the microelectronic device. The wire bond wires are spaced apart from one another to provide a fence-like perimeter to provide an interference shielding cage. A conductive layer is coupled to at least a subset of the upper ends of the wire bond wires for electrical conductivity to provide a conductive shielding layer to cover the interference shielding cage.
US11837547B2
A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) die includes a silicon nitride optical component over an active region. Multiple interconnect layers are over the silicon nitride optical component, each of the multiple interconnect layers including a metal interconnect therein. At least one optical deflector is over the multiple interconnect layers and over the silicon nitride optical component. The optical deflector(s) may also include a contact passing therethrough to the interconnect layers, but do not include any other electrical interconnects. Each optical deflector may deflect light within an ambient light range of less than 570 nanometers (nm) to protect the silicon nitride optical component from light-induced degradation.
US11837544B2
The present disclosure describes a method for forming liner-free or barrier-free conductive structures. The method includes depositing an etch stop layer on a cobalt contact disposed on a substrate, depositing a dielectric on the etch stop layer, etching the dielectric and the etch stop layer to form an opening that exposes a top surface of the cobalt contact, and etching the exposed top surface of the cobalt contact to form a recess in the cobalt contact extending laterally under the etch stop layer. The method further includes depositing a ruthenium metal to substantially fill the recess and the opening, and annealing the ruthenium metal to form an oxide layer between the ruthenium metal and the dielectric.
US11837532B2
A packaged semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die having a top side including a semiconductor surface layer having circuitry configured for a function coupled to bond pads, and a bottom side. A leadframe includes a die pad and leads or lead terminals on at least two sides of the die pad. At least one non-through hole for delamination prevention is in at least one of the die pad and the lead or the lead terminals. The semiconductor die is mounted by a die attach material with the bottom side down on the die pad. A mold compound provides encapsulation for the package semiconductor device except for at least a bottom side of the lead terminals or sidewalls of the package for the leads. The non-through hole is a filled hole filled with either the die attach material or the mold compound.
US11837527B2
Various semiconductor chips and chip stack arrangements are disclosed. In one aspect, a semiconductor chip stack is provided that includes a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip stacked on the first semiconductor chip. The first semiconductor chip includes a first logic layer and a first semiconductor layer on the first logic layer. The first semiconductor layer has plural first through-silicon transistors operable to selectively control the transmission of data from the first semiconductor chip to the second semiconductor chip and has plural first through-silicon vias to convey control signals to the second semiconductor chip.
US11837501B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device having a vertical metal line interconnect (via) fully aligned to a first direction of a first interconnect layer and a second direction of a second interconnect layer in a selective recess region by forming a plurality of metal lines in a first dielectric layer; and recessing in a recess region first portions of the plurality of metal lines such that top surfaces of the first portions of the plurality of metal lines are below a top surface of the first dielectric layer; wherein a non-recess region includes second portions of the plurality of metal lines that are outside the recess region.
US11837498B2
A process of forming a 3D memory device includes forming a stacked structure with a plurality of stacked layers, etching the stacked structure to form stepped trenches each comprising a plurality of steps, forming a hard mask layer with a plurality of openings over the stepped trenches, forming a photoresist layer over the hard mask layer, and etching through the plurality of openings using the hard mask layer and the photoresist layers as an etch mask to extend a bottom of the stepped trenches to a lower depth.
US11837490B2
An electrostatic chuck heater according to the present invention includes an alumina substrate having a wafer placement surface on its upper surface; an electrostatic electrode, a resistance heating element provided for each zone, and a multilayer jumper wire for supplying power to the resistance heating element, which are buried in the alumina substrate in this order from the wafer placement surface side; a heating element coupling via for vertically coupling the resistance heating element to the jumper wire; and a power supply via extending outward for supplying power to the jumper wire. At least the heating element coupling via and the power supply via contain ruthenium metal.
US11837487B2
A transfer device, configured to hold a substrate to be thinned and configured to be moved along a transfer path through which the substrate is transferred, includes a grip member configured to hold a frame to which the substrate is mounted with a tape therebetween; a guide member configured to be moved along the transfer path together with the grip member and configured to place thereon the frame held by the grip member; and a moving mechanism configured to move the grip member with respect to the guide member to move the frame held by the grip member along the guide member.
US11837483B2
An apparatus and method for reducing moisture within a wafer handling chamber is disclosed. The moisture reduction results in reduced oxidation of a wafer. The moisture reduction is made possible through use of valves and purging gas. Operation of the valves may result in improved localized purging.
US11837478B2
A process chamber includes one or more vertical walls at least partially defining a chamber portion of the process chamber, and multiple zones located about a periphery of the one or more vertical walls, wherein one or more of the multiple zones extends from a top to a bottom of the one or more vertical walls. The process chamber further includes a plurality of temperature control devices, each thermally coupled to the one or more vertical walls in one of the multiple zones, and a controller coupled to the plurality of temperature control devices and configured to set temperatures of one or more of the plurality of temperature control devices to obtain temperature uniformity within 2% across a substrate located in the chamber portion.
US11837476B2
A flip-chip package and a method for assembling a flip-chip package includes positioning the die on a substrate and introducing an underfill material into a space between the die and the substrate, where a portion of the underfill material extends beyond an edge of the die and forms a fillet that at least partially surrounds the die. The underfill material is cured, and a portion of the fillet is removed to reduce the area of the fillet.
US11837472B2
Disclosed herein is a new and improved system and method for fabricating monolithically integrated diamond semiconductor. The method may include the steps of seeding the surface of a substrate material, forming a diamond layer upon the surface of the substrate material; and forming a semiconductor layer within the diamond layer, wherein the diamond semiconductor of the semiconductor layer has n-type donor atoms and a diamond lattice, wherein the donor atoms contribute conduction electrons with mobility greater than 770 cm.sup.2/Vs to the diamond lattice at 100 kPa and 300K, and Wherein the n-type donor atoms are introduced to the lattice through ion tracks.
US11837470B2
A method for fabricating a nano-structure includes: providing a phase mask having an uneven lattice structure to contact a photoresist film; exposing the photoresist film to a light through the phase mask such that the light is obliquely incident on a surface of the photoresist film; and developing the photoresist film to form a nano-structure.
US11837469B2
According to one embodiment, an imprint apparatus includes a first light source positioned to irradiate a substrate with light, a second light source positioned to irradiate the substrate with light, an illuminance changing portion selectively configured to change the illuminance distribution of light from the first light source on an irradiation surface on the substrate, and a controller configured to control the first light source, the second light source and the illuminance changing portion to irradiate the substrate with light from the first light source, and to subsequently irradiate the substrate with light from the second light source directly through the template.
US11837466B2
There is provided a technique that includes: (a) supplying a silicon- and ligand-containing gas to a substrate having a surface on a first base and second base are exposed to adsorb silicon contained in the silicon- and ligand-containing gas on a surface of one of the first and second base; (b) supplying a fluorine-containing gas to the substrate after the silicon is absorbed, to cause the silicon to react with the fluorine-containing gas to modify the surface to be F-terminated; and (c) supplying a film-forming gas to the substrate after the surface is modified, to thereby form a film on a surface of the other of the first base and the second base, which is different from the one of the first base and the second base.
US11837463B2
A method for manufacturing a substrate includes the following steps: (a) providing a support substrate with a first coefficient of thermal expansion, having on one of its faces a first plurality of trenches parallel to each other in a first direction, and a second plurality of trenches parallel to each other in a second direction; (b) transferring a useful layer from a donor substrate to the support substrate, the useful layer having a second coefficient of thermal expansion; wherein an intermediate layer is inserted between the front face of the support substrate and the useful layer, the intermediate layer having a coefficient of thermal expansion between the first and second coefficients of thermal expansion.
US11837457B2
RF transistor amplifiers an RF transistor amplifier die having a semiconductor layer structure, an interconnect structure having first and second opposing sides, wherein the first side of the interconnect structure is adjacent a surface of the RF transistor amplifier die such that the interconnect structure and the RF transistor amplifier die are in a stacked arrangement, and one or more circuit elements on the first and/or second side of the interconnect structure.
US11837456B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are in the field of advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication and, in particular, 10 nanometer node and smaller integrated circuit structure fabrication and the resulting structures. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a fin. An insulating structure is directly adjacent sidewalls of the lower fin portion of the fin. A first gate electrode is over the upper fin portion and over a first portion of the insulating structure. A second gate electrode is over the upper fin portion and over a second portion of the insulating structure. A first dielectric spacer is along a sidewall of the first gate electrode. A second dielectric spacer is along a sidewall of the second gate electrode, the second dielectric spacer continuous with the first dielectric spacer over a third portion of the insulating structure between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode.
US11837453B2
A nebuliser outlet comprises an inlet end and an outlet end, a first channel and one or more second channels arranged between the inlet end and the outlet end. The first channel is configured to receive a capillary, and the one or more second channels are configured to pass gas to the outlet end. The nebuliser outlet is a single integrated component.
US11837445B2
The present disclosure relates to a substrate processing device and a substrate processing method, the substrate processing device comprising: a chamber; a substrate support part installed in a processing space inside the chamber so as to enable one or more substrate to rotate; a first gas spraying part for spraying a source gas on a first area of the processing space; a second gas spraying part for spraying, on a second area of the processing space, a reactant gas reacting with the source gas on the second area; and a third gas spraying part for spraying, on a third area, a purge gas for dividing the first area and the second area.
US11837441B2
Methods and related apparatus for depositing an ashable hard mask (AHM) on a substrate include pulsing a low frequency radio frequency component at a high power. Pulsing low frequency power may be used to increase the selectivity or reduce the stress of an AHM. The AHM may then be used to etch features into underlying layers of the substrate.
US11837436B2
In one embodiment, a waveform generating device includes a first DA converter converting input data, a controller outputting a first signal having a command value based on the input data, and a second signal having a command value differing by a constant value from the first signal, a second DA converter converting the first signal, a third DA converter converting the second signal, and a combiner combining the output of the first DA converter, the output of the second DA converter, and the output of the third DA converter. When a value of a predetermined first high-order bit of the input data is inverted, the controller changes the command value of the first signal such that a value of the first high-order bit or a second high-order bit different from the first high-order bit is inverted.
US11837425B2
According to one embodiment, a MEMS element includes a first member, and an element part. The element part includes a first fixed electrode fixed to the first member, and a first movable electrode facing the first fixed electrode, a first conductive member electrically connected with the first movable electrode, and a second conductive member electrically connected with the first movable electrode. The first movable electrode is supported by the first and second conductive members to be separated from the first fixed electrode in a first state before a first electrical signal is applied between the second conductive member and the first fixed electrode. The first conductive member is separated from the first movable electrode in a second state after the first electrical signal is applied. The first movable electrode is supported by the second conductive member to be separated from the first fixed electrode in the second state.
US11837422B2
The present invention is directed to an electronic switch device, the device including a housing assembly including a front cover assembly having a user accessible surface, a back body assembly, terminals configured to be coupled to an AC power source and the load; an antenna assembly including an antenna substrate disposed inside the housing assembly adjacent a portion of the front cover assembly, an antenna being disposed on the antenna substrate having a conductive grid structure; and a circuit assembly disposed inside the housing assembly coupled to the terminals, the circuit assembly comprising a printed circuit board, the printed circuit board including a ground plane, the circuit assembly being electrically connected to the antenna assembly via a conductor, the printed circuit board being separated from the antenna assembly by a predetermined distance, the circuit assembly including a relay switch having at least one solenoid winding connected to the circuit assembly and a set of contacts.
US11837415B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor comprising a capacitor element, anode lead extending from a surface of the capacitor element, an anode termination that is in electrical connection with the anode lead, a cathode termination that is in electrical connection with the solid electrolyte, and a casing material that encapsulates the capacitor element and anode lead is provided. A barrier coating is disposed on at least a portion of the capacitor element and is in contact with the casing material. The coating contains a polymeric material that includes a fluorinated component and a non-fluorinated component. The polymeric material has a glass transition temperature of from about 10° C. to about 120° C. and a thermal decomposition temperature of about 200° C. to about 300° C.
US11837412B2
A ceramic electronic component includes a body including a capacitance formation portion including a dielectric layer and a plurality of internal electrodes disposed to face each other with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween and forming capacitance and protective portions disposed on upper and lower surfaces of the capacitance formation portion and external electrodes including electrode layers disposed on the body and connected to the plurality of internal electrodes and conductive resin layers respectively disposed on the electrode layers, wherein ta2/ta1 is 0.05 or greater, where ta1 is the thickness of the electrode layer at a central portion of the capacitance formation portion and ta2 is the thickness of the electrode layer at a boundary between the capacitance formation portion and the protective portion.
US11837409B2
A ceramic electronic device includes a plurality of dielectric layers of which a main component is a ceramic having a perovskite structure, and a plurality of internal electrode layers, each of which is stacked through each of the plurality of dielectric layers and includes a co-material which is inactive against the main component of the plurality of dielectric layers.
US11837399B2
An inductive power outlet operable to transfer power to an inductive power receiver includes a driver wired to a primary inductive coil and operable to provide a driving voltage across the primary inductive coil. The primary inductive coil is configured to form an inductive couple having a characteristic resonant frequency with at least one secondary inductive coil wired to an electric load, the secondary inductive coil being associated with the inductive power receiver. The driving voltage oscillates at a transmission frequency substantially different from the characteristic resonant frequency of the inductive couple.
US11837397B2
A wire-wound inductor component includes a core having a columnar shaft portion, first and second support portions provided on first and second end portions of the shaft portion, first and second terminal electrodes provided on the respective support portions, a wire wound around the shaft portion, and a cover member covering an upper surface of the shaft portion. In a height direction of the core, a distance between an upper surface and a top surface of the support portions is a top surface step, and a distance between a lower surface of the shaft portion and a bottom surface of the support portions is a bottom surface step. The top surface step is smaller than the bottom surface step and larger than a wire diameter, and a distance between the upper surface and an uppermost surface of the wire is larger than half of the top surface step.
US11837395B2
An inductor component includes a substantially rectangular parallelepiped device body including a first lateral surface and includes a coil conductor layer formed into a spiral wound more than one turn on a main surface parallel to the first lateral surface inside the device body. In the coil conductor layer, a wiring spacing between two wiring portions adjacent to each other (straight portions) in a first direction from an inner side portion to an outer side portion of the coil conductor layer differs from a wiring spacing of two wiring portions adjacent to each other (curved portions) in a second direction from the inner side portion to the outer side portion of the coil conductor layer, the second direction differing from the first direction.
US11837380B2
Provided are: a superconducting wire rod in which the non-uniform deformation of the shape of an MgB2 core material has been controlled; a superconducting coil; a magnetic generator; and a method for producing a superconducting wire rod. A superconducting wire rod (100A) according to the present invention comprises: a center material (106) of which at least the outer circumferential surface is formed of a metal that does not react with Mg; a plurality of single-core wires (103) disposed around the center material (106), each of the single-core wires having an MgB2 superconductor core material (101) coated with a first coating material (102) made of a metal that does not react with Mg; and an outer shell material (105) disposed outside the plurality of single-core wires (103), wherein at least the inner circumferential surface of the outer shell material (105) is formed of a metal that does not react with Mg.
US11837376B2
A method for producing a composite conductive material having excellent dispersibility is provided. The method includes supporting a catalyst on surfaces of carbon particles; heat treating the catalyst in a helium or hydrogen atmosphere such that the catalyst penetrate the surfaces of the carbon particles and are impregnated beneath the surfaces of the carbon particles at a contact point between the carbon particles and the impregnated catalyst; and heating the carbon particles having the impregnated catalyst disposed therein in the presence of a source gas to grow carbon nanofibers from the impregnated catalyst to form a composite conductive material, wherein the source gas contains a carbon source, and wherein the carbon nanofibers extend from the contact point to above the surfaces of the carbon particles.
US11837368B1
Described are systems and methods directed to a multi-channel communication system that enables real-time or near real-time communication between two or more individuals, such as a patient and a clinician in which at least one of the individuals uses one device for audio/video communication and another device for exchange of data, such as annotated images. For example, a patient may utilize a patient device to communicate with a clinician via a first clinician device. In addition to the first clinician device, the clinician may also use a second clinician device to annotate and share visual data, such as templates or patient images, with the patient, without disrupting the audio/video communication between the patient device and the first clinician device.
US11837347B2
A method may include filling an order of a plurality of orders with a dosing filler system. The method may include receiving pharmaceutical orders including order for drugs used in multi-drug regimens using an order processing device. Each of the multi-drug regimen may have a plurality of scheduled dosing events. The method may include transporting containers to a dosing device, using the dosing device to dispense drugs for scheduled dosing events into the containers based on the received pharmaceutical orders, transporting the containers with the dispensed drugs to the container sealing device, using the container sealing device to seal the plurality of the containers with the dispensed drugs, transporting the dosage unit containers to the container identifier assembly, and using the container identifier assembly to identify the dosage unit containers based on the received pharmaceutical order.
US11837345B2
A method of providing secure access to prescription information includes transmitting a text message including a short URL with a secure token to a device, receiving the secure token, transmitting to the device when the token matches, receiving a refill request; and transmitting a confirmation. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium includes computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause a computer to determine a user of a device, provide a status including a short URL with a secure token, receive a short URL access request, validate the request; and provide authorized PHI access. A system includes a processor and a memory storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to determine a user corresponding to a device, provide a status including a short URL with a secure token, receive a short URL access request, validate the request; and provide authorized PHI access.
US11837344B2
Upon receipt and verification of a patient's key, a medical questionnaire may be provided to a patient via an electronic device (e.g., computer, mobile phone, etc.). A set of responses to the medical questionnaire may be received from the patient and packaged for storage on a blockchain. The packaged set of responses may then be broadcast to the blockchain.
US11837329B2
A method for classifying multi-granularity breast cancer genes based on a double self-adaptive neighborhood radius includes large-scale gene locus data are read and normalized, and a data analysis is performed on the large-scale gene loci. An optimum value K is selected by adopting a combination of contour coefficients and a PCA dimensionality reduction visualization, and a model of information granulation is adjusted. A heuristic reduction algorithm is used to implement a multi-granularity attribute reduction of a self-adaptive neighborhood radius based on a cluster center distance and a multi-granularity attribute reduction of a neighborhood radius based on an attribute inclusion degree, and big data for breast cancer genes are classified and predicted by adopting a machine learning classification algorithm based on a SVM support vector machine.
US11837326B2
The present invention relates to optimization logic for preparing an optimal introduction of degenerate bases and/or universal bases into an oligonucleotide used to detect a plurality of target nucleic acid sequences, in a completely different approach from conventional methods, i.e., empirical and manual methods. In addition, the optimization logic of the present invention may be used in (i) the preparation of an oligonucleotide into which a limited number of degenerate bases and/or universal bases are introduced for detecting a plurality of target nucleic acid sequences with a maximum target coverage, and (ii) the determination of a probing region in a plurality of target nucleic acid sequences.
US11837325B2
Provided is a method for identifying balanced translocation breakpoints and a carrying state for balanced translocations in embryos, comprising the following steps: amplifying and sequencing a sample; comparing the sequence which is obtained by means of sequencing with a reference genome and analyzing copy numbers; accurately determining the position of a translocation breakpoint; detecting single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) around the breakpoint and genotyping the SNPs; analyzing an embryonic haplotype, and comprehensively determining a normal chromosome and a translocation chromosome haplotype; determining the embryonic carrying state and, according to the haplotype, selecting an embryo which does not carry a balanced translocation.
US11837323B2
A device including: defining unit to define lattice space that is collection of lattices compound groups are sequentially arranged; limiting unit to, in the case where any of the compound groups is arranged in any of the lattices of lattice space followed by arranging next compound group in the lattice space, generate limited lattice space created by eliminating, from the lattice space, undesirable regions for the next compound group to be arranged; and assigning unit to assign bit to each of lattice points, to which the compound groups can be arranged, in the limited lattice space; and an arithmetic unit configured to perform ground state search on Ising model obtained through conversion based on restriction conditions related to each lattice point according to simulated annealing, to calculate minimum energy of the Ising model, wherein the device is for searching compound in which the compound groups are linked with one another.
US11837322B2
A memory is provided. The memory includes a control chip (114) and a plurality of memory chips (100). The plurality of memory chips are electrically connected to the control chip (114) by sharing a channel (01). The plurality of memory chips (100) are configured to adopt the same clock signal, and each of the plurality of memory chips (100) is configured to perform information interaction with the control chip (114) in a different clock state of the clock signal.
US11837317B2
A memory device including a plurality of nonvolatile memory chips each including a status output pin and a buffer chip configured to receive a plurality of internal state signals, which indicate states of the plurality of nonvolatile memory chips, from the status output pins and output an external state signal having a set period on the basis of the internal state signals indicating a particular state, wherein in a first section of the external state signal having the set period, a duty cycle of the external state signal determines depending on an identification (ID) of the nonvolatile memory chip which outputs the internal state signal indicating the particular state among the plurality of nonvolatile memory chips.
US11837313B2
A memory is provided that is configured to practice a sleep mode without retention in which a both bitcell array and a memory periphery are powered down responsive to an assertion of sleep mode without retention control signal. The sleep mode without retention control signal is also asserted during a DVS scan to power down the bitcell array. The memory includes a power management circuit that responds to an assertion of a DVS scan control signal to prevent the assertion of the sleep mode without retention control signal from causing a power down of the memory periphery during the DVS scan. The memory periphery may thus be thoroughly tested by the DVS scan because leakage current from the bitcell array is prevented by the powering down of the bitcell array.
US11837311B2
A memory includes: a memory array; a nonvolatile memory circuit suitable for storing a plurality of data sets each including flag information and multi-bit data; a plurality of repair register sets suitable for receiving and storing the multi-bit data included in the data sets whose flag information is marked for repair among the data sets during a boot-up operation; a plurality of setting register sets suitable for storing setting information included in the data sets whose flag information is marked for setting among the data sets during the boot-up operation; and a repair circuit suitable for repairing a defect in the memory array based on the multi-bit data stored in the repair register sets.
US11837308B2
A method of identifying cell-internal defects: obtaining a circuit design of an integrated circuit, the circuit design including netlists of one or more cells coupled to one another; identifying the netlist corresponding to one of the one or more cells; injecting a defect to one of a plurality of circuit elements and one or more interconnects of the cell; retrieving a first current waveform at a location of the cell where the defect is injected by applying excitations to inputs of the cell; retrieving, without the defect injected, a second current waveform at the location of the cell by applying the same excitations to the inputs of the cell; and selectively annotating, based on the first current waveform and the second current waveform, an input/output table of the cell with the defect.
US11837302B1
The disclosure provides a novel system and method of storing multi-bit information, including providing a nano-channel-based polymer memory device, the device having at least one memory cell comprising at least two addition nano-channels, each of the addition nano-channels arranged to add a unique chemical construct (or codes) to the polymer when the polymer enters the respective addition nano-channel, the polymer having a bead or origami on a non-writing end of the polymer; each nano-channel having a nano-port constriction having a port width which allows the polymer to pass through the nano-port, and does not allow the bead or origami to pass through and does not allow addition or deblocking enzymes (or beads attached thereto) to pass through the nano-port; successively steering the polymer through the nanopore into the addition nano-channels to add the codes to the polymer based on a predetermined digital data pattern to create the digital data pattern on the polymer.
US11837293B2
A memory device includes; a memory cell array including a first memory block and a second memory block adjacently disposed in a first direction, driving signal lines respectively corresponding to vertically stacked word lines, and a pass transistor circuit including an odd number of pass transistor groups and connected between the driving signal lines and the memory cell array. One of the odd number of pass transistor groups includes a first pass transistor connected between a first word line of the first memory block and a first driving signal line among the driving signal lines, and a second pass transistor connected between a first word line of the second memory block and the first driving signal line adjacently disposed to the first pass transistor in a second direction.
US11837288B2
According to one embodiment, a memory device includes: a memory cell including a memory element and a switching element; and a circuit that applies a first write pulse having a first polarity to the memory cell at the time of writing first data in the memory cell and applies a second write pulse having a second polarity different from the first polarity to the memory cell at the time of writing second data in the memory cell. The switching element has polarity dependence according to the first and second polarities.
US11837279B2
A method for execution by a Dynamic Random Access (DRAM) cell processing circuit, includes charging a bit-line operably coupled to a plurality of DRAM cells of a DRAM memory device, including a current DRAM cell, at a first voltage to pre-charge the parasitic capacitance between ground and the bit-line to a second voltage, where the second voltage is between a logic 1 voltage and a logic 0 voltage. The method continues by sensing a voltage change on the bit-line based on a difference between a voltage stored on a DRAM cell capacitor of the current DRAM cell and the second voltage and outputting a read output voltage that is generated based on the sensed voltage change. The method then continues by supplying, while outputting the read output voltage, the read output voltage to the bit-line to refresh the voltage stored in the DRAM cell capacitor of the current DRAM cell.
US11837278B2
Disclosed are a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) device, an on-die termination (ODT) resistance value setting method thereof, and a computer program therefor, and the DRAM device includes at least one DRAM module and a memory controller configured to measure a resistance value of an ODT resistor corresponding to one of a rank included in the DRAM module, a chipset included in the rank, and a DQ included in the chipset and set a resistance value of an ODT resistor corresponding to one of the rank, the chipset, and the DQ on the basis of the measured resistance value.
US11837274B2
A method and apparatus for improving a system DRAM reliability, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The method comprises: obtaining an apparent voltage of a DRAM, and performing a reliability check on a voltage value of the apparent voltage (S100); according to a verification result of the reliability check, calculating a voltage deviation value of a power supply voltage under an ideal DRAM model (S200); and according to the voltage deviation value, adjusting the power supply voltage of the DRAM (S300).
US11837273B2
A semiconductor device includes a first die connected to a first channel, the first die comprising a first memory chip; and a second die connected to a second channel, the second die comprising a second memory chip, the first and second channels being independent of each other and a storage capacity and a physical size of the second die being the same as those of the first die. The first and second dies are disposed in one package, and the package includes an interconnection circuit disposed between the first die and the second die to transfer signals between the first memory chip and the second memory chip.
US11837272B2
A method of operating a memory device is provided, comprising determining a number of operations corresponding to a memory location during a first timing period; and scheduling an extra refresh operation for the memory location after the first timing period when the determined number of operations exceeds a predetermined threshold. A memory device is provided, comprising a memory including a memory location; and circuitry configured to: determine a number of operations corresponding to the memory location during a first timing period; and schedule an extra refresh operation for the memory location after the first timing period when the determined number of operations exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US11837270B2
A ferroelectric memory is intended to reduce an applied voltage required at the times of writing and reading. A ferroelectric capacitor includes a ferroelectric film and a top electrode and a bottom electrode including materials with different work functions formed above and below the ferroelectric film. The transistor is connected to either the top electrode or the bottom electrode to select the ferroelectric capacitor. A drive control unit applies, at the times of writing and reading, a voltage lower than that at the time of erasing by a predetermined potential difference to the ferroelectric film.
US11837264B2
A data storage device comprises a lead actuator that actuates a first read-write head over a first disk and a support actuator that actuates a second read-write head over a second disk. A spindle motor rotates the first and second disks. In response to an emergency power off (EPO) event, a processing device retracts and parks the actuators using an internal supply voltage generated from a back electromotive force (BEMF) voltage of the spindle motor, and egresses data from a volatile to a non-volatile semiconductor memory. Egress is throttled before the actuators are retracted and parked when the internal supply voltage falls to or below a first egress throttling threshold voltage. Egress is throttled after the actuators are retracted and parked when the internal supply voltage falls to or below a second egress throttling threshold voltage.
US11837257B2
An electronic device determines a transfer mode to be used to communicate with a recording medium that has first and second transfer modes. The second transfer mode does not guarantee a minimum transfer speed but a higher transfer speed than the minimum transfer speed in the first mode is capable. If the medium supports the second transfer mode, the device determines that the first transfer mode is to be used when the minimum transfer speed is higher than a necessary transfer speed for data that is to be recorded through the communication with the recording medium and that the second transfer mode is to be used when the minimum transfer speed is not higher than the necessary transfer speed. If the medium does not support the second transfer mode, the device determines that the first transfer mode is to be used.
US11837252B2
The present invention discloses a speech emotion recognition method and system based on fused population information. The method includes the following steps: S1: acquiring a user's audio data; S2: preprocessing the audio data, and obtaining a Mel spectrogram feature; S3: cutting off a front mute segment and a rear mute segment of the Mel spectrogram feature; S4: obtaining population depth feature information through a population classification network; S5: obtaining Mel spectrogram depth feature information through a Mel spectrogram preprocessing network; S6: fusing the population depth feature information and the Mel spectrogram depth feature information through SENet to obtain fused information; and S7: obtaining an emotion recognition result from the fused information through a classification network.
US11837248B2
In some embodiments, an echo cancellation method which includes adaptation of at least one prediction filter, with adaptation step size controlled using gradient descent on a set of filter coefficients of the filter, where control of the adaptation step size is based at least in part on a direction of adaptation and a predictability of a gradient of adaptation (e.g., a gradient vector). Other aspects of embodiments of the invention include systems, methods, and computer program products for controlling adaptation step size of adaptive (e.g., low-complexity adaptive) echo cancellation. In some embodiments, adaptation step size control is based on a normalized, scaled gradient of adaptation, or includes smoothing of a normalized gradient of adaptation.
US11837247B2
An audio decoder for providing a decoded audio signal representation on the basis of an encoded audio signal representation is configured to adjust decoding parameters in dependence on a configuration information, to decode one or more audio frames using a current configuration information, to compare a configuration information in a configuration structure associated with one or more frames to be decoded by the current configuration information, and to make a transition to perform decoding using the configuration information in the configuration structure associated with the one or more frames to be decoded as a new configuration information if the configuration information in the configuration structure associated with the one or more frames to be decoded, or a relevant portion thereof, is different from the current configuration information, and to consider a stream identifier information included in the configuration structure when comparing the configuration information.
US11837243B2
A processing method of a sound watermark and a speech communication system are provided. Multiple sinewave signals are generated. Frequencies of the sinewave signals are different from each other, and the sinewave signals belong to a high-frequency sound signal. A watermark pattern is mapped into a time-frequency diagram, to form a watermark sound signal. Two dimensions of the watermark pattern in a two-dimensional coordinate system respectively correspond to a time axis and a frequency axis in the time-frequency diagram. Each of multiple audio frames on the time axis corresponds to the sinewave signals with different frequencies on the frequency axis. A speech signal and the watermark sound signal are synthesized in a time domain to generate a watermark-embedded signal. Accordingly, a sound watermark may be embedded in real-time.
US11837240B2
A frame error concealment method based on frames including transform coefficient vectors including the following steps: It tracks sign changes between corresponding transform coefficients of predetermined sub-vectors of consecutive good stationary frames. It accumulates the number of sign changes in corresponding sub-vectors of a predetermined number of consecutive good stationary frames. It reconstructs an erroneous frame with the latest good stationary frame, but with reversed signs of transform coefficients in sub-vectors having an accumulated number of sign changes that exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US11837236B2
This speech processing device is provided with: a contribution degree estimation means which calculates a contribution degree representing a quality of a segment of the speech signal; and a speaker feature calculation means which calculates a feature from the speech signal, for recognizing attribute information of the speech signal, using the contribution degree as a weight of the segment of the speech signal.
US11837216B2
A method for training a generative adversarial network (GAN)-based text-to-speech (TTS) model and a speech recognition model in unison includes obtaining a plurality of training text utterances. At each of a plurality of output steps for each training text utterance, the method also includes generating, for output by the GAN-Based TTS model, a synthetic speech representation of the corresponding training text utterance, and determining, using an adversarial discriminator of the GAN, an adversarial loss term indicative of an amount of acoustic noise disparity in one of the non-synthetic speech representations selected from the set of spoken training utterances relative to the corresponding synthetic speech representation of the corresponding training text utterance. The method also includes updating parameters of the GAN-based TTS model based on the adversarial loss term determined at each of the plurality of output steps for each training text utterance of the plurality of training text utterances.
US11837214B1
Various embodiments of the present disclosure evaluate transcription accuracy. In some implementations, the system normalizes a first transcription of an audio file and a baseline transcription of the audio file. The baseline transcription can be used as an accurate transcription of the audio file. The system can further determine an error rate of the first transcription by aligning each portion of the first transcription with the portion of the baseline transcription, and assigning a label to each portion based on a comparison of the portion of the first transcription with the portion of the baseline transcription.
US11837203B1
An apparatus for storing, organizing and displaying picks for a stringed musical instrument includes a disc having a top, bottom, center and a circumference, and a plurality of slots extending radially between the center and circumference. Each slot is configured to receive and securely hold a musical instrument pick through the top of the disc, and a protrusion at the center of the top of the disc is configured to be pushed by a finger of a user of the apparatus to retrieve a pick from each of the plurality of slots.
US11837192B2
A device information display system includes a device information display chassis with a display device, a device information display connector that is configured to connect to a computing device connector on any of a plurality of computing devices, and a device information retrieval subsystem coupled to each of the display device and the device information display connector. The device information retrieval subsystem automatically receives first device information associated with a first computing device from the first computing device in response to the device information display connector being connected to the first computing device and, while the device information display connector is connected to the first computing device, provides the first device information for display on the display device. Subsequent to the device information display connector being disconnected from the first computing device, the device information retrieval subsystem continues to provide the first device information for display on the display device.
US11837190B2
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal panel; a source driver configured to output a grayscale voltage to the liquid crystal panel; a power supply configured to provide a voltage to the source driver; and a controller configured to control the power supply and the source driver to change a maximum voltage provided to the source driver and a grayscale voltage based on conversion of a screen mode, and to set a predetermined grayscale region and an over driving region within an entire grayscale region.
US11837186B2
When, in a liquid crystal projector, optical responsiveness of a liquid crystal panel corresponding to G is better than optical responsiveness of a liquid crystal panel corresponding to R, a display control circuit performs a tr correction and a tf correction of overdrive processing for R, and performs only the tr correction of the overdrive process for G, and does not perform the tf correction for G. The display control circuit performs a black floating process for R, G, and B.
US11837180B2
A low-resolution image is displayed at higher resolution and afterimages are reduced. Resolution is nude higher by super-resolution processing. In this case, the super-resolution processing is performed after frame interpolation processing is performed. Further, in that case, the super-resolution processing is performed using a plurality of processing systems. Therefore, even when frame frequency is made higher, the super-resolution processing can be performed at high speed. Further, since frame rate doubling is performed by the frame interpolation processing, afterimages can be reduced.
US11837174B2
A display device includes dots and a grayscale correction unit. Each dot among the dots includes a first pixel of a first color, a second pixel of a second color, and a third pixel of a third color. The grayscale correction unit is configured to generate corrected grayscale values for a target dot via application of weights to grayscale values of the target dot and grayscale values of neighboring dots of the target dot among the dots. The grayscale correction unit is configured to determine the weights based on the grayscale values of the target dot.
US11837173B2
A gate driving circuit that minimizes output characteristic deviation between a plurality of scan output buffer units, and a display device comprising the gate driving circuit, are discussed. An Nth stage of the gate driving circuit, N being a natural number, can include a node controller configured to control voltages of a first node and a second node according to a set signal and a reset signal, a carry pulse output unit configured to receive a carry clock and output the carry clock as a carry pulse according to voltages of the first node and the second node, and a plurality of scan pulse output units configured to receive a plurality of scan clocks and output each of the scan clocks as a scan pulse according to voltages of the first node and the second node.
US11837162B2
A pixel circuit, a method of driving a pixel circuit and a display panel. The pixel circuit (10) includes: a drive circuit (100), a data writing circuit (200), a compensation circuit (300), and a light emitting element (500). The drive circuit (100) includes a control terminal (130), a first terminal (110) and a second terminal (120), and is configured to control a drive current flowing through the first terminal (110) and the second terminal (120) for driving the light emitting element (500) to emit light. The data writing circuit (200) is configured to write a data signal to a first terminal (110) of the drive circuit (100) in response to a first scanning signal. The compensation circuit (300) is configured to store a data signal written by the data writing circuit (200) and compensate the drive circuit (100) in response to a second scanning signal. A first terminal (510) of the light emitting element (500) is configured to receive a drive current, and a second terminal (520) of the light emitting element (500) is connected to a second voltage terminal (VSS). The pixel circuit may realize a low-frequency driving.
US11837157B2
A display module includes: a module substrate; a plurality of pixels provided on the module substrate; and a plurality of micro-pixel controllers provided in spaces between the plurality of pixels and configured to supply a drive current to at least two pixels among the plurality of pixels, where each micro-pixel controller of the plurality of micro-pixel controllers includes a pixel circuit configured to, based on a first voltage and a second voltage being applied to the micro-pixel controller, control an amplitude of the drive current based on the first voltage and control a pulse width of the drive current based on the second voltage, and, based on the display module being in a power saving mode, the first voltage is adjusted to decrease a brightness of a pixel in a specified region, among the plurality of pixels.
US11837155B2
Provided is a display apparatus including a plurality of subpixels and configured to emit light based on each of the plurality of subpixels, the display apparatus including a substrate, a driving layer provided on the substrate and including a driving element which is configured to apply current to the display apparatus, a first electrode electrically connected to the driving layer, a first semiconductor layer provided on the first electrode, an active layer provided on the first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer provided on the active layer, a second electrode provided on the second semiconductor layer, and a reflective layer provided on the second semiconductor layer, wherein light emitted from the active layer resonates between the first electrode and the reflective layer.
US11837154B2
A driving device, an operation method thereof, and a display apparatus are disclosed. The driving device is configured to drive a display panel. The driving device divides an image frame period into a plurality of sub-frame periods. A target pixel circuit in the display panel corresponds to target pixel data comprising at least one bit. Each bit in the target pixel data corresponds to at least one corresponding sub-frame period among the sub-frame periods. Different bits in the target pixel data correspond to different sub-frame periods among the sub-frame periods. According to a current bit in the target pixel data, the driving device determines whether to light up the target pixel circuit during the at least one corresponding sub-frame period corresponding to the current bit.
US11837153B2
A light emitting substrate is provided. The light emitting substrate includes a plurality of light emitting controlling units arranged in M rows and N columns, M is an integer equal to or greater than one, N is an integer equal to or greater than one, wherein a respective one of the plurality of light emitting controlling units includes a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in J rows and I columns, J being an integer equal to or greater than one, I being an integer equal to or greater than one, a i-th column of the I columns of light emitting elements includes J rows of light emitting elements, 1≤i≤I; (M×J) number of first voltage signal lines; and (M×J) number of groups of second voltage signal lines.
US11837151B2
A display module includes a substrate; a plurality of pixels provided on a surface of the module substrate; a plurality of first micro-pixel controllers provided in spaces between the plurality of pixels, and a plurality of second micro-pixel controllers provided in a periphery area of the upper surface of the module substrate, wherein each of the plurality of first micro-pixel controllers controls two or more pixels of the plurality of pixels, and at least one function performed by the plurality of first micro-pixel controllers is different from at least one function performed by the plurality of second micro-pixel controllers.
US11837149B2
A driving method for a display panel, a display panel and a display apparatus, including: determining a gaze region, watched by eyes of a user, in a display region of the display panel; and refreshing data of at least some of sub-pixels in the display panel according to a set rule and in combination with the gaze region.
US11837147B2
A display substrate, a display panel, a display apparatus, and a display driving method are provided. The display substrate includes: a display region and a peripheral region at a periphery thereof. Gate lines, data lines and a pixel array are in the display region. The pixel array includes pixel units each coupled to a corresponding gate line and data line, and color mixing pixel columns each including multiple pixel units emitting light of different colors and including periodic structures along the column direction. The number of pixel units in each periodic structure is constant. A gate driving circuit is in the peripheral region and includes cascaded shift registers each having a cascading signal output terminal and scanning signal output terminals each coupled to a corresponding gate line. The number of scanning signal output terminals of each shift register is equal to the number of pixel units in each periodic structure.
US11837142B2
The present disclosure relates to an array substrate and a display device. The array substrate includes a plurality of initialization signal lines and a plurality of connection lines. The initialization signal lines are arranged in a conductive layer, extend along a first direction and are arranged at intervals along a second direction, and are used to provide initialization signals to the sub-pixels. The connection lines are arranged in another conductive layer, extend along the second direction and are arranged at intervals along the first direction. Projections of at least one initialization signal line and at least one connection line on the base substrate intersect, and the at least one initialization signal line and the at least one connection line are connected through a via hole, so that the projections of the initialization signal lines and the connection lines on the substrate form a grid-like structure.
US11837137B2
A display panel, an electronic device and a method are provided. The display panel includes: a base substrate; a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a matrix; a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines, the data line intersect the gate line; at least some of the plurality of sub-pixels are divided into a plurality of sub-pixel association groups, each sub-pixel association group includes a plurality of sub-pixels of a same color electrically connected to a same data line; the display panel further includes an associated pixel control circuit configured to independently perform data writing on the plurality of sub-pixels of the same color in the sub-pixel association group in the first image display mode; and synchronously perform data writing on the plurality of sub-pixels of the same color electrically connected to the same data line in the sub-pixel association group in the second image display mode.
US11837136B2
Provided are a display panel and display device. The display panel includes a driver circuit comprising a shift register that is N-stage cascaded; wherein the shift register comprises: a third control unit configured to receive a first voltage signal and generate an output signal in response to a signal of a third node, or receive a second voltage signal and generate an output signal in response to a signal of a second node; and a fourth control comprising a first capacitor and a first transistor, wherein a second plate of the first capacitor is connected to a drain of the first transistor, a first plate of the first capacitor and a gate of the first transistor are connected to a same node; and/or a first plate of the first capacitor and a gate of the first transistor receive a same signal.
US11837135B2
Provided are a display panel and display device. The display panel includes a driver circuit comprising a shift register that is N-stage cascaded; wherein the shift register comprises: a third control unit configured to receive a first voltage signal and generate an output signal in response to a signal of a third node, or receive a second voltage signal and generate an output signal in response to a signal of a second node; and a fourth control comprising a first capacitor and a first transistor, wherein a second plate of the first capacitor is connected to a drain of the first transistor, a source of the first transistor receives a first control signal, and a gate of the first transistor receives a second control signal.
US11837132B2
An output buffer is disclosed that includes: a buffer circuit that outputs an output signal to an output terminal based on a first input signal provided to a first input terminal and a second input signal provided to a second input terminal; and a current supply circuit that is connected in parallel to the buffer circuit, and provides an auxiliary current to the output terminal based on the first input signal and the second input signal.
US11837128B2
A method for compressing and applying data of the sensing-less compensating system may be provided for a display device having subpixels. As the system can update an accumulated stress data of a subpixel which is accumulated according to a display driving data signal in a real time and perform a compensation, a real time compensation for a degradation of the subpixel can be performed without sensing the subpixel. Furthermore, as the system may provide a bit size information for restoration according to a comparison result of data subject to loss-compress and a loss reference value when loss-compressing the accumulated stress data, a loss ratio of a loss-compression data can be reduced. A display device and a sensing-less compensation system are also disclosed.
US11837121B2
A display correction system includes a first obtainer, a second obtainer, a third obtainer, a predictor, and a corrector. The first obtainer obtains travel route information on a travel route ahead of a moving body. The second obtainer obtains speed information on a speed of the moving body. The third obtainer obtains orientation information on an orientation of the moving body. The predictor predicts, based on the travel route information and the speed information, a time period during which the moving body travels through a specific section in the travel route. The corrector performs correction of a displacement of a display position of a content on a display image based on the orientation information. Based on prediction result of the predictor, the corrector executes first control when the moving body is traveling in a normal section, and executes second control when the moving body is traveling in the specific section.
US11837120B2
In a display device, when blue (B) light enters a first liquid crystal panel, radiated light radiated from the first liquid crystal panel contains red (R) phosphorescence having a wavelength range longer than blue (B) light due to a deterioration of a liquid crystal material. Thus, in the display device, an optical sensor device is provided behind a mirror comprised of a dichroic mirror to monitor or the like the service life of the first liquid crystal panel on the basis of a result of reception, at the optical sensor device, of light having a frequency band ranging from 600 nm to 650 nm, and makes notification of the result. Furthermore, on the basis of a result from the optical sensor device, an electrode used to suck impurities provided at the first liquid crystal panel is driven to sweep ionic impurities from a display region.
US11837118B2
In a display device including a display panel, the display device includes: an active region; a plurality of hole areas at least partially surrounded by the active region; and a folding line extending in one direction, wherein each of the hole areas includes at least one hole, and wherein the holes of each hole area are arranged in an extending direction of the folding line.
US11837106B2
An apparatus and method for employing data from the person and from the environment where the person is situated facilitate the detection and prediction of severity of high altitude-induced Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB, and specifically Central Sleep Apnea (CSA)). Longitudinal tracking of local barometric pressure and severity of SDB symptoms (objective or subjective or both) allow for prediction of occurrence of SDB (per altitude). Some of all of the data can be obtained from one or more wearable devices that may be worn by the person. Additionally, personalized mapping for dosing of medication (e.g. acetazolamide, low-flow oxygen therapy) to treat high altitude-induced SDB are provided, with recommended dosing provided to the person per altitude.
US11837105B2
The number n of times of chewing is counted by chewing number of times calculation means (13b2) based on a change in the distance l from a photoreflector (50), which is received together with time t by measurement value receiving means (13b1). To vary hardness h of a bag (30) to a stage that can be sensed, according to the number n of times of chewing, a required air pressure is set according to the current number n of times, based on a hardness/air pressure correspondence recording unit (13g) in which stages that have a significant difference therebetween and are stored in association with the number n of times of chewing are recorded. To realize the set air pressure inside the bag (30), the amount of sucking performed using a vacuum pump 20 is controlled by air pressure control means (13b4).
US11837103B1
An automatic, autonomous, and aircraft-centric interference advisory method is executed entirely on a fist aircraft operating on a movement area of a runway, the movement are including ramps, taxiways, and runways. The method includes a processor onboard the first aircraft computing a first movement projection for the first aircraft using first aircraft data received at the first aircraft; the processor computing additional second movement projections for multiple second aircraft operating on the movement area of the airport using second data regarding each of the multiple second aircraft; the processor detecting a threat to the first aircraft on approach to a defined intersection of the movement area from any of the multiple second aircraft based on a corresponding second movement projection within a configurable time limit of entry into the defined intersection by the first aircraft; and providing on the first aircraft, a threat advisory for a detected threat.
US11837096B2
A supercomputer, with traffic-modeling software and 5G/6G connectivity, can assist an autonomous vehicle in avoiding, or at least minimizing the expected harm of, an imminent collision. Upon detecting the imminent collision, the autonomous vehicle can transmit a message to an access point, requesting an uncontested direct communication link to the supercomputer, and then transfer sensor data and other traffic data to the supercomputer through the access point. The supercomputer can calculate a multitude of sequences of braking, steering, and accelerating actions of the autonomous vehicle, and can select the sequence that enables the autonomous vehicle to avoid the collision if possible. If all sequences cannot avoid the collision, the supercomputer can select the sequence that results in the least harm (fatalities, injuries, and property damage) in the unavoidable collision. The supercomputer relays the selected best sequence of actions through the access point to the autonomous vehicle, thereby mitigating the collision.
US11837095B2
The alarm device includes an acquisition part, an alarm judging part, a notification part, a static extraction part, a shielding boundary setting part, and a suppression part. The acquisition part acquires reflection point information and object information. The alarm judging part determines whether the object is an alarm candidate for each of the objects. The notification part issues a notification regarding the alarm candidates. The static extraction part extracts static reflection points. The shielding boundary setting part sets an approximate straight line as a shielding boundary by robust estimation. The suppression part suppresses notification of alarm candidates that are on the opposite side of the shielding boundary.
US11837090B2
A method may include obtaining input information relating to an environment in which an autonomous vehicle (AV) operates. The input information may describe a state of the AV, an operation of the AV within the environment, a property of the environment, or an object included in the environment. The method may include setting up a traffic rule profile for the AV that specifies societal traffic practices corresponding to a location of the environment. The method may include identifying a first traffic rule relevant to the AV based on the obtained input information and determining a first decision corresponding to the traffic rule profile and the first traffic rule. The method may include sending an instruction to a control system of the AV, the instruction describing a given operation of the AV responsive to the traffic rule profile and the first traffic rule according to the first decision.
US11837089B2
A method may include obtaining input information relating to an environment in which an autonomous vehicle (AV) operates in which the input information describes at least one of: a state of the AV, an operation of the AV within the environment, a property of the environment, or an object included in the environment. The method may include identifying a region of interest that represents a section of the environment based on the input information and identifying a portion of the environment based on the identified region of interest. The portion of the environment may include an object that affects operation of the AV. The method may include determining a first decision that relates to the object and sending an instruction to a control system of the AV describing a given operation of the AV responsive to the object according to the first decision.
US11837086B2
A method for traffic diversion management in a smart city is provided. The method applied to the management platform includes obtaining a first traffic feature of a target road within a first time period from an object platform through a sensor network platform, wherein the first traffic feature is a feature reflecting a flow situation of the target road, determining a target tidal lane opening scheme of the target road within the first time period based on the first traffic feature, wherein the target tidal lane opening scheme is a scheme for managing an opening time of a tidal lane, a flow direction of the tidal lane, and a number of tidal lanes for the target road, sending the target tidal lane opening scheme to the target object through a sensor network platform, and sending the target tidal lane opening scheme to the user platform through a service platform.
US11837074B2
Methods, devices, and systems for an aspirating smoke detector device operational analysis are described herein. One device includes a memory, and a processor to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive operational information associated with an aspirating smoke detector device and generate, using the received operational information, an aspirating smoke detector device operational analysis including a real-time operational parameter associated with the aspirating smoke detector device, and a user interface configured to display the aspirating smoke detector device operational analysis.
US11837070B2
Provided is technology to reduce interlayer noise occurring in a multi-story house such as an apartment, and more particularly, an environmental and contextual custom-built artificial intelligence (AI) based, interlayer noise abatement apparatus that defines a standard of interlayer noise based on a user environment or a user-specified context, allows an interlayer noise maker to recognize when the noise exceeding the above standard occurs and allows the interlayer noise maker to voluntarily reduce the interlayer noise, and a method of the same.
US11837059B2
A method for dispensing a beverage container to a consumer. The method includes receiving in a beverage container dispenser a first beverage container that contains a beverage corresponding to a beverage selection of a user. The method further includes dispensing a second beverage container containing the beverage from a temperature-regulated compartment of the beverage container dispenser. The second beverage container that is dispensed from the temperature-regulated compartment corresponds to the beverage selection of the user.
US11837048B2
In various embodiments, players may compete in a gaming context.
US11837046B2
A system includes a smart table configured to provide a wagering game. The smart table includes a plurality of player positions, and each player position is associated with at least one radio-frequency identification (RFID) reader of a plurality of RFID readers, each of which is configured to read data from one or more RFID chips on the smart table. The system is configured to identify a player at a player position of the plurality of player positions, and determine, using at least one RFID reader associated with the player position, a turnover accumulated by the player during a specified period, where the turnover is an aggregate amount wagered during the specified period. The system is further configured to compare the turnover accumulated by the player to a threshold turnover, and if the accumulated turnover at least meets the threshold turnover, to provide a bonus award to the player.
US11837038B2
An electronic device displays a user interface corresponding to a respective user of a home automation system that includes statuses indicating whether the respective user has access to a plurality of lock accessory devices of the home automation system.
US11837035B2
A multifunctional unit for analysis and calibration of devices and components of a vehicle and, in particular, of a motor vehicle, comprising a movable trolley of support; above the movable trolley there is a base, which carries a screen or panel, at the top of which a video projector is placed, suitable for projection of calibration panels used in driver assistance systems of vehicles.
US11837029B2
The objective is to achieve highly accurate authentication even when there is variation in the ambient light environment during biometric imaging. A biometric authentication device includes an image capturing unit that captures images of a living body, a light source for capturing images of the living body, an optical filter that selectively passes and blocks light according to wavelength, a spectroscopic processing unit that separates multiple wavelengths captured simultaneously, respectively, and a calculation unit that calculates the shape and posture of a predetermined part of the living body in the captured images, a background removal unit that removes the background from the image of the living body using the spectral images of the living body and the spectral image of the unwanted ambient light, and an authentication unit that performs biometric authentication using the image of the predetermined part.
US11837015B2
Provided is an imaging apparatus that includes an irradiation unit that irradiates a subject with light, an imaging unit that images the subject a plurality of times, a control unit that controls the imaging unit and the irradiation unit, and a combination unit that combines a plurality of imaged images obtained by the imaging unit. The imaging unit has a plurality of imaging elements disposed in a matrix when viewed from the side of the subject. The irradiation unit has a plurality of light emitting elements provided so as to correspond to the plurality of imaging elements. The control unit controls the irradiation unit to turn on the plurality of light emitting elements different for each imaging among the plurality of light emitting elements, and controls the imaging unit to drive the plurality of imaging elements corresponding to the plurality of light emitting elements that are not turned on.
US11837013B2
An image sensor, a fingerprint detection apparatus, and an electronic device are provided. The image sensor includes a pixel circuit array, wherein each pixel circuit is configured to generate an output signal according to a received light signal; and an output circuit is configured to simultaneously receive output signals of a plurality of pixel circuits in the pixel circuit array, and output a signal average value of the output signals of the plurality of pixel circuits. The image sensor has a small area and power consumption.
US11837010B2
An input sensing device includes: sensor pixels, a horizontal driver, a selection circuit, and a vertical driver. Each of the sensor pixels is connected to a plurality of driving lines and a one of a plurality of signal input lines. The horizontal driver sequentially applies a horizontal driving signal to the sensor pixels through the driving lines. The selection circuit is connected to n of the signal input lines (n is a natural number of 2 or more) and to one output line. The selection circuit sequentially outputs n sensing signals received through the n signal input lines to the one output line. The vertical driver receives the n sensing signals through the one output line. The horizontal driver applies the horizontal driving signal n times to a given one of the driving lines to correspond to the n sensing signals.
US11837009B2
An ultrasonic fingerprint sensor may include sensor pixels with interleaved ultrasonically-sensitive regions. Each of a plurality of sensor pixels in the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor may include nine distinct ultrasonically-sensitive regions electrically coupled to a common readout circuit, where there is an ultrasonically-sensitive region of another sensor pixel disposed between each of the nine distinct ultrasonically-sensitive regions. The ultrasonic fingerprint sensor may further include circuitry for binning together groups of sensor pixels during certain lower-resolution operations such as touch sensor operations. The ultrasonic fingerprint sensor may be used in capturing fingerprint images that are then used in an authentication process.
US11837007B2
This invention proposes a pedestrian re-identification method based on virtual samples, comprising following steps: s1) obtaining virtual persons generated by game engine, and generating the virtual samples with person labels by fusing a background of a target dataset and a pose of real persons through a multi-factor variational generation network; s2) rendering the generated virtual samples according to lighting conditions; s3) sampling the rendered virtual samples according to person attributes of target dataset; s4) constructing a training dataset according to virtual samples obtained by sampling to train a pedestrian re-identification model, and verifying identification effect of the trained model. The present invention uses a virtual image generation framework that integrates translation-rendering-sampling to narrow the distribution between virtual images and real images as much as possible to generate virtual samples, and conduct person re-identification model training, which can be effectively and effectively applied to pedestrian datasets in real scenes.
US11837004B1
Method includes generating a base model by training a pretrained model using a base training dataset including first training datapoints identifying tables in historical document images that include the tables and text, where the generated base model is configured to extract the tables as objects; and generating a table extraction model by training the base model using an enhanced training dataset including second training datapoints that are different from the first training datapoints and identify a plurality of cells disposed in each of the tables in a row direction and a column direction. The table extraction model is trained to output content of the tables and table information in an XML format, the table information including cell level information of the plurality of cells that is searchable via a query configured to provide target content that corresponds to one or more cells.
US11836989B2
A vehicular vision system includes a camera disposed at an in-cabin side of a windshield of a vehicle. Responsive to image processing at an ECU of captured frames of image data, the vehicular vision system detects an object present in a field of view of the camera. As the vehicle moves relative to the detected object, captured frames of image data are processed to determine a point of interest, present in multiple captured frames of image data, on the detected object. The vehicular vision system, via processing of captured frames of image data as the vehicle moves relative to the detected object, and based on the determined point of interest present in multiple captured frames of image data, estimates a location in three dimensional space of the determined point of interest and determines distance to the determined point of interest on the detected object.
US11836980B2
Systems, devices, and methods for providing assistance in human-to-human interactions are described. When it is determined that a user of a wearable heads-up display is interacting with another human, interaction assistance information can be presented to the user, such as biographic information relating to the other human, indication of emotional states of the user and/or other human, indication of when the interaction is one-sided, candidate conversation topics and candidate conversation questions. Additionally, interaction assistance functions or applications can also be provided which enable recording and storing of interactions, generation of summaries or lists based on the interaction, transcription of the interaction, note taking, event input, and notification management.
US11836973B2
Techniques are described for automated operations related to analyzing visual data from images captured in rooms of a building and optionally additional captured data about the rooms to assess room layout and other usability information for the building's rooms and optionally for the overall building, and to subsequently using the assessed usability information in one or more further automated manners, such as to improve navigation of the building. The automated operations may include identifying one or more objects in each of the rooms to assess and one or more target attributes of each object, and generating and providing instructions to cause the capture of images and optionally additional data about those objects and target attributes for further automated analysis, such as instructions provided to an automated image acquisition device in the room and/or an associated user. Once received, the captured images and other data is then analyzed accordingly.
US11836969B2
A text extraction computing method that comprises calculating an estimated character pixel height of text from a digital image. The method may scale the digital image using the estimated character pixel height and a preferred character pixel height. The method may binarizes the digital image. The method may remove distortions using a neural network trained by a cycle GAN on a set of source text images and a set of clean text images. The set of source text images and clean text images are unpaired. The source text images may be distorted images of text. Calculating the estimated character pixel height may include summarizing the rows of pixels into a horizontal projection, and determining a line-repetition period from the projection, and quantifying the portion of the line-repetition period that corresponds to the text as the estimated character pixel height. The method may extract characters from the digital image using OCR.
US11836963B2
System and techniques for computer vision assisted item search are described herein. A composite image, including visual data and depth data, may be obtained. The composite image may be filtered to isolate a clothing article represented in the composite image. A classifier may be applied to the depth data to produce a set of clothing attributes for the clothing article. The clothing attributes may then be provided to a remote device.
US11836960B2
An object detection device (1) includes an object detection unit (2) that detects an object from an image including the object by neural computation using a CNN. The object detection unit (2) includes: a feature amount extraction unit (2a) that extracts a feature amount of the object from the image; an information acquisition unit (2b) that obtains a plurality of object rectangles indicating candidates for the position of the object on the basis of the feature amount and obtains information and a certainty factor of a category of the object for each of the object rectangles; and an object tag calculation unit (2c) that calculates, for each of the object rectangles, an object tag indicating which object in the image the object rectangle is linked to, on the basis of the feature amount. The object detection device (2) further includes an excess rectangle suppression unit (4) that separates a plurality of object rectangles for which a category of the object is the same into a plurality of groups according to the object tags, and deletes an excess object rectangle in each of the separated groups on the basis of the certainty factor.
US11836948B2
An image calibration method applied to an image calibration device includes comparing a first image with a second image to acquire a first overlapping region of the first image and a second overlapping region of the second image, analyzing color distribution of the first overlapping region to acquire at least one first base color value, analyzing color distribution of the second overlapping region to acquire at least one second base color value, setting a ratio of the at least one first base color value to the at least one second base color value as an luminance compensation value when the at least one first base color value is greater than the at least one second base color value, and utilizing the luminance compensation value to adjust pixels of the second image. The first overlapping region is overlapped with the second overlapping region.
US11836947B2
A system for adjusting a sensor of a vehicle comprises: a base unit; a support structure connected to the base unit; and a vehicle calibration assistance structure mounted on the support structure and including a target panel, which has a surface facing forward towards a service area. The surface of the target panel bears a combination of predetermined graphical features, and the vehicle is positioned in the service area. A processing system is operatively connected to the vehicle calibration assistance structure. A positioning device aids with the relative positioning between the vehicle and the vehicle calibration assistance structure.
US11836937B2
A method comprising obtaining, from a sensor, depth data representing a target object; selecting a model to fit to the depth data; for each data point in the depth data: defining a ray from a location of the sensor to the data point; and determining an error based on a distance from the data point to the model along the ray; when the depth data does not meet a similarity threshold for the model based on the determined errors, selecting a new model and repeating the error determination for the depth data based on the new model; when the depth data meets the similarity threshold for the model, selecting the model as representing the target object; and outputting the selected model representing the target object.
US11836935B2
A current motion grid comprising a plurality of elements is generated by storing in each element of the current motion grid an indication of whether there is a change between corresponding elements of at least two images captured from the video. A motion model comprising a plurality of elements is provided by accumulating information from motion grids obtained from the video. At least one element of the current motion grid is compared to at least one corresponding element of the motion model. It is determined whether there is motion deviation in accordance with the result of the comparison.
US11836932B2
Technology is disclosed herein for learning motion in video. In an implementation, an artificial neural network extracts features from a video. A correspondence proposal (CP) module performs, for at least some of the features, a search for corresponding features in the video based on a semantic similarity of a given feature to others of the features. The CP module then generates a joint semantic vector for each of the features based at least on the semantic similarity of the given feature to one or more of the corresponding features and a spatiotemporal distance of the given feature to the one or more of the corresponding features. The artificial neural network is able to identify motion in the video using the joint semantic vectors generated for the features extracted from the video.
US11836926B2
Disclosed herein are a system and method for contouring a set of medical images. The system for contouring a set of medical images receives a medical image set including a plurality of medical images via the communication interface module, receives region-of-interest (ROI) information as an object for the drawing of a contour via the user interface module, checks whether a contour corresponding to the ROI information has been drawn on a target image currently displayed to a user, predicts a contour candidate based on contouring conditions if the contour corresponding to the ROI information has not been drawn on the target image, and displays the contour candidate on the target image. The contouring conditions include the relevance between at least one source image, on which the contour corresponding to the ROI information has been already drawn, and the target image, and anatomical information related to the ROI information.
US11836923B2
An image processing apparatus according to the present invention calculates, even in a case where a region of a part as an observation target included in an image capturing range is different between a plurality of medical images in different time phases, a degree of slippage of the region of the part as the observation target with high accuracy.
US11836920B2
An apparatus for classifying a brain tissue area as functional or non-functional by a stimulation of the brain includes a receiver unit for receiving information about a performed stimulation, a recording device for recording images that represent the brain tissue area, a detection unit for detecting a change in perfusion in the brain tissue area, and a classification unit configured to determine with the information whether there is a correlation between the performed stimulation and the detected change in perfusion, and to classify the brain tissue area as functional or as non-functional. The recording device is an endomicroscope for recording endomicroscopic images of the brain tissue area with a spatial resolution better than 20 μm and a frame rate of at least 0.4 frames per second. The detection unit is configured to detect a change in perfusion based on the positions of certain tissue structures in the recorded images.
US11836916B2
Methods, systems, devices and apparatus for vascular calcification detection are provided. In one aspect, a vascular calcification detection method includes: obtaining a three-dimensional non-angiographic image, obtaining one or more to-be-detected sub-regions included in each of at least two to-be-detected regions in the three-dimensional non-angiographic image by inputting the three-dimensional non-angiographic image into a pre-trained region identification network, the to-be-detected regions including an aortic region and a coronary region; for each of the to-be-detected regions, obtaining a calcification region in the to-be-detected region by threshold segmentation; based on the calcification region and the one or more to-be-detected sub-regions included in the to-be-detected region, determining a corresponding calcification sub-region in each of the one or more to-be-detected sub-regions; and displaying the corresponding calcification sub-region in each of the one or more to-be-detected sub-regions in the three-dimensional non-angiographic image.
US11836914B2
An information processing method calculates a position of a feature corresponding to a trace in a first coordinate system, calculates a position of the feature corresponding to the trace in a second coordinate system, and calculates a size of a first distribution of the position of the feature corresponding to the trace in the first coordinate system and a size of a second distribution of the position of the feature corresponding to the trace in the second coordinate system. Additionally, the information processing method outputs information indicating that the feature corresponding to the trace is the trace formed on the surface of the workpiece in the machining process, and outputs information indicating that the feature corresponding to the trace is a false detection of the trace in the inspection process.
US11836911B2
An image data management method of managing image data includes an image capturing step of capturing an image of an object by an image capturing portion, a storage priority obtaining step of obtaining a storage priority of the image data, an imparting step of associating the image data obtained by the image capturing portion with the storage priority obtained for the image data and storing the image data and the storage priority in a storage device, and an updating step of, in a case where the object whose image is captured by the image capturing portion is in a specific state, updating, on a basis of detection of the specific state, a storage priority associated with image data including image data stored in the storage device before image data in which the object is determined as being in the specific state is stored.
US11836906B2
An object of the present invention is to achieve both suppression of data amount of an image processing system that learns a collation image to be used for image identification using a discriminator and improvement of identification performance of the discriminator. In order to achieve the above object, there is proposed an image processing system including a discriminator that identifies an image using a collation image, the image processing system further including a machine learning engine that performs machine learning of collation image data required for image identification. The machine learning engine searches for a successfully identified image using an image for which identification has been failed, and adds information, obtained based on a partial image of the image for which identification has been failed and which has been selected by an input device to the successfully identified image obtained by the search to generate corrected collation image data.
US11836882B2
Three-dimensional point cloud-based initial viewing angle control and presentation method and system
Provided are an initial view angle control and presentation method and system based on a three-dimensional point cloud and a point cloud system. A three-dimensional media stream is read and parsed. An initial viewpoint, a normal vector and a forward direction vector in the three-dimensional media stream are parsed. A user can view an initial angle, that is, a region of interest, designated by a content producer when initially consuming three-dimensional media content. Moreover, scaling, that is, scale transformation, of the three-dimensional media content is allowed in an optimized manner. In a real-time interactive scene, the view range of the user can be adjusted based on the position of the user relative to the initial viewpoint. The freedom degree of visual media consumption is fully improved according to the interactive behavior of the user, providing an immersive user experience.
US11836877B2
Systems and methods for generating AR content to virtually alter a real-world item are provided. The real-world item may be a deformable item including one or more flexible surfaces. According to an embodiment, a method includes determining the relative positions of a plurality of points on the real-world item. Based on the relative positions of the plurality of points, a 3D model of a virtual item is distorted to produce a distorted 3D model of the virtual item. The distorted 3D model may have substantially the same shape as the real-world item. AR content is then generated based on the distorted three-dimensional model.
US11836875B2
An augmented reality screen system includes an augmented reality device and a host. The augmented reality device is configured to take a physical mark through a camera. The host is configured to receive the physical mark, determine position information and rotation information of the physical mark, and fetch a virtual image from a storage device through a processor of the host. The processor transmits an adjusted virtual image to the augmented reality device according to the position information and the rotation information, and the augmentation device projects the adjusted virtual image to a display of the augmented reality device. The adjusted virtual image becomes a virtual extended screen, and the virtual extended screen and the physical mark are simultaneously displayed on the display of the augmented reality device.
US11836874B2
Systems and methods for augmented in-vehicle experiences. In particular, systems and methods for an immersive in-vehicle experience are provided, with customizable virtual and augmented reality options. Systems and techniques are provided for vehicles to perform real-time detection and augmentation of the real world environment, including tracked objects and buildings in the real world environment. The vehicles use intelligently matched vehicle sensor data, map data, and other source data for detection and augmentation of the environment. In some examples, procedurally generated three-dimensional (3D) environments are provided, which are based on a current ride route and surrounding real world environment.
US11836871B2
A method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, one or more environmental sensors, and a display. The method includes displaying computer-generated content on the display. The method includes determining a first positional value associated with a physical object, based on environmental data from the one or more environmental sensors. The method includes identifying a portion of the computer-generated content that satisfies an occlusion criterion with respect to a corresponding portion of the physical object, based on the first positional value. The method includes, in response to identifying that the occlusion criterion is satisfied, generating a mesh associated with the physical object based on the first positional value, and displaying the mesh on the display. The mesh overlaps with the portion of the computer-generated content.
US11836869B1
Techniques are disclosed for generating a three-dimensional (3D) visualization of data in an extended reality (XR) environment. One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method that includes receiving, via an input device, a repositioning of a first panel displayed within an XR environment and determining that, subsequent to the repositioning, at least one portion of the first panel overlaps with a second panel displayed within the XR environment. The method further includes, subsequent to the determination, generating a first 3D visualization of first data associated with the first panel and second data associated with the second panel. In addition, the method includes causing the first 3D visualization to be displayed within the XR environment.
US11836858B2
Systems and methods allow for incident data collection and management system based on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), that is, drones to help accelerate the data collection and analytics, information dissemination, and decision support at incident sites. The system architecture may include onsite, server, and offline components including flight planning subsystem, flight execution and mission control subsystem, information dissemination subsystem to travelers and traveler information services, the interface with traffic management center, and the data analytic, visualization, and training subsystems. Other embodiments include the video-based 3D incident site reconstruction methods, site positioning and scaling methods with pre-collected static background infrastructure data, data management and user charging methods, and training methods with the generated 3D model.
US11836843B2
Systems and methods are provided for enhanced pose generation based on conditional modeling of inverse kinematics. An example method includes accessing an autoencoder trained based on poses, with each pose being defined based on location information of joints, and the autoencoder being trained based on conditional information indicating positions of a subset of the joints. The autoencoder is trained to reconstruct, via a latent variable space, each pose based on the conditional information. Information specifying positions of the subset of the joints is obtained via an interactive user interface and the latent variable space is sampled. An output is generated for inclusion in the interactive user interface based on the sampling and the positions.
US11836835B2
Systems and methods herein describe novel motion representations for animating articulated objects consisting of distinct parts. The described systems and method access source image data, identify driving image data to modify image feature data in the source image sequence data, generate, using an image transformation neural network, modified source image data comprising a plurality of modified source images depicting modified versions of the image feature data, the image transformation neural network being trained to identify, for each image in the source image data, a driving image from the driving image data, the identified driving image being implemented by the image transformation neural network to modify a corresponding source image in the source image data using motion estimation differences between the identified driving image and the corresponding source image, and stores the modified source image data.
US11836828B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include generating a virtual item within a virtual environment. The method may also include detecting, using various hardware sensors, a current position of a physical object that is to be portrayed within the virtual environment. The method may next include generating a virtual representation of the physical object within the virtual environment. The virtual representation of the physical object may be configured to at least partially follow movements of the physical object relative to the virtual item. The method may also include presenting the virtual item and the generated virtual representation of the physical object within the virtual environment, where the virtual representation of the physical object is at least partially, controllably decoupled from the movements of the physical object relative to the virtual item. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11836827B2
Providing optical watermark signals for a visual authentication session by performing at least the following: receive, at an anti-spoof engine, an instruction to perform visual authentication operations for a visual authentication session, generate, with the anti-spoof engine, an optical watermark signal based on receiving the instruction, wherein the optical watermark signal includes at least one optical identifier to authenticate images captured during the visual authentication session, obtain, with the anti-spoof engine, an image source that includes captured images of the visual authentication session, determine, with the anti-spoof engine, whether the image source includes a reflected optical watermark signal, and compare, with the anti-spoof engine, whether the reflected optical watermark signal matches the generated optical watermark signal based on the determination that the image source includes the reflected optical watermark signal.
US11836821B2
The present invention relates to a system and method for motorists which can be employed during law enforcement investigations. The method includes receiving an indication that a motorist is being investigated by law enforcement. The method further includes presenting options of available legal counsel to the motorist during the law enforcement investigation. Next, the method includes facilitating a selection of a legal counsel of the available legal counsel options to represent the motorist during the law enforcement investigation. Furthermore, the method includes creating a first channel of communication between law enforcement and the motorist's legal counsel.
US11836815B2
A system that includes a fuel dispenser terminal and a remote controller. The fuel dispenser terminal is configured to send a service request for a fuel purchase to the remote controller and receive a personalized offer in response to sending the service request. The fuel dispenser terminal is further configured to display the personalized offer, receive a user response indicating the personalized offer was accepted, and send the user response to the remote controller. The fuel dispenser terminal is further configured to receive an authorization token for retrieving the personalized offer and output the authorization token to the customer. The remote controller is configured to update the service request by adding a purchase associated with the personized offer to the fuel purchase, send an encrypted service request to a service processor, generate the authorization token, and send the authorization token to the fuel dispenser terminal.
US11836807B2
A method, system and network for prefabricating and constructing Class-A fire-protected wood-framed and mass timber buildings, while builders and owners are provided with knowledge of the quantity of carbon mass securely stored in Class-A fire-protected wood, represented by fire-protected carbon units (FPCUs), certified by the system and network. The network includes a system and mobile devices for estimating, recording and reporting the quantities of carbon mass securely stored in Class-A fire-protected wood-framed and mass-timber buildings on construction job-sites, and Class-A fire-protected wood-framed and mass timber components in factory environments, including engineered wood products (EWPs), mass timber assemblies and buildings constructed therefrom, whose quantized fire-protected carbon units (FPCUs) are also registered on the network for use in supporting various credits of value.
US11836803B1
To enable efficient processing of an insurance claim that is submitted by a client, the presently disclosed embodiments include systems and methods that enable an insurance computing system to autonomously assess the risk of fraud associated with a claim by generating a risk score. The risk score may provide an indication of a likelihood of fraud associated with the claim based on similar insurance claims in the same geographical area, client information indicative of a likelihood to commit fraud, and/or a type of the claim. The insurance computing system may compare the risk score with a threshold number, and if the threshold number is exceeded, the insurance computing system may prompt the client to contact a service representative to further process or validate the claim. Otherwise, if the threshold number is not exceeded, the insurance computing system may continue processing the claim autonomously.
US11836802B2
The present disclosure is directed to methods and apparatus for controlling a vehicle based on motion or kinematic data received by a computer when the behavior of a driver is being monitored. Such methods and apparatus may generate one or more safety indices that may include a driver score, a vehicle safety score, and/or an environment safety score. These safety indices may optionally be weighted and combined into an overall safety score, grade, or index. The safety scores or indices may be used to generate a personalized speed threshold or acceleration threshold for a vehicle and/or a driver of the vehicle. Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure may result in the speed of a vehicle being reduced, an increase in vehicle location accuracy, or functions such as headlights or windshield wipers or automated driving assistance being turned on to increase safety.
US11836794B2
A method is provided that comprises collecting financial data points and normalizing the data points into a time series. The time series is merged into aggregates according to sliding windows that comprise different time periods and a sliding step increment. A periodic change in an increasing and convex transformation is computed for each aggregate, and multi-dimensional time-delayed coordinate embedding is applied to each aggregate. The sliding windows are applied to the time-delayed aggregates, and time series of variances and point clouds are derived within each sliding window. Persistence homologies and time series norms are computed for the point clouds, and the time series norms are correlated with the time series of variances. A warning of an impending financial crisis is output if the correlation of the time series norms with the time series of variances exceeds a predefined threshold.
US11836790B2
Methods and systems are provided for providing an alternative payment platform, including method and systems for providing a platform for presenting an alternate offer to a user who is engaged with a primary offer and receiving an indication of the user's engagement with the alternate offer, wherein the user's engagement with the alternate offer serves as an alternative form of payment for an item associated with the primary offer. Such methods and systems may further include methods and systems for selecting one or more alternate offers engagement with which serves as an alternative form of payment for an item associated with a primary offer, presenting the selected alternate payment offers to a user, receiving an indication of engagement with at least one of the alternate offers, receiving payment in exchange for presenting the accepted offer and providing payment to the offeror of the primary offer.
US11836787B2
A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and computer-implemented method for a transient local commerce search service is provided. A search query including a user specified location and a user specified time period is received. One or more transient merchants temporarily located within the user specified location at least during the user specified time period are identified. A user interface displaying a map and an indicator of temporary location of the one or more transient merchants is displayed.
US11836784B2
Disclosed is a method including presenting an input field on a user interface of a generalized search entity, wherein the generalized search entity processes data using a generalized search engine that indexes and searches both merchant sites and non-merchant sites, receiving user input in the input field and determining whether the user input corresponds to a product in a product database to yield a determination. When the determination indicates that the user input does correspond to the product in the product database, the method includes presenting a purchase-related search result, wherein the purchase-related search result is configured such that when a user interacts with the purchase-related search result and confirms a purchase associated with the purchase-related search result, the generalized search entity initiates a purchasing process for the product.
US11836782B2
A method being implemented via execution of computing instructions configured to run at one or more processors and stored at one or more non-transitory computer-readable media. The method can include training two sets of item embeddings for items in an item catalog and a set of user embeddings for users, using a triple embeddings model, with triplets. The triplets each include a respective first user of the users, a respective first item from the item catalog, and a respective second item from the item catalog, in which the respective first user selected the respective first item and the respective second item in a respective same basket. The method also can include randomly sampling an anchor item from a category of items selected by a user. The method additionally can include generating a list of complementary items using a query vector associated with the user and the anchor item. The query vector is generated for the user and the anchor item using the two sets of item embeddings and the set of user embeddings. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11836775B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to presenting for selection, services comprising at least one bundled set of healthcare services to be performed separately by respective providers, determining a bundle price for the at least one bundled set of healthcare services and in response to receiving payment in an amount of the bundle price, generating a persistent purchase data record with a unique confirmation number that is selectively redeemable by the user to receive each of the healthcare services in the bundled set. The bundle price may be discounted and/or based on the location or time at which at least one service will be performed. The bundle price may also be based on the user's remaining health insurance deductible. A single payment may be disbursed to multiple providers of the bundled set of healthcare services. The received and/or disbursed payment may be in virtual funds.
US11836771B2
A system and a method are provided for generating a digital receipt for purchases made utilizing a digital wallet or with other payment procedures. The digital receipt is stored in the cloud in a digital receipts repository for later retrieval. The digital receipt can be standardized to facilitate data processing of the data contained in data fields of the digital receipt. The data fields are text/field searchable and actionable so that the receipts and the data therein can be viewed in any manner desired by the user of the digital wallet.
US11836769B2
A computer-implemented method for providing an estimated utility expenditure to a user may include: obtaining, via one or more processors, historical transactional data of one or more customers other than the user from one or more transactional entities, wherein the historical transactional data includes: at least one address of a given customer of the one or more customers; and a historical utility expenditure associated with the at least one address; generating, via the one or more processors, a heatmap based on the historical transactional data of the one or more customers via one or more algorithms, wherein the heatmap is indicative of at least the estimated utility expenditure associated with the at least one address during a predetermined period; and causing a display of a user device associated with the user to demonstrate the heatmap.
US11836758B1
Systems, methods, and media are disclosed for tracking viewability of content, such as Internet content, by associating a color-changing animated image file with the content and determining, based on whether color of an image is changing, whether the content is in a viewable region of a browser.
US11836756B1
Systems and methods are provided to generate a user interface conveying subscriber behavior of subscribers within a membership platform. Exemplary implementations may: obtain subscribership information for content creators of a membership platform, the subscribership information characterizing subscribership of individual subscribers to individual ones of the content creators for individual intervals of time; determine, based on the subscribership information, values of a behavior attribute representing behavior of the individual ones of the subscribers with respect to the individual ones of the content creators for the individual ones of the intervals of time; effectuate presentation of a user interface based on the values of the behavior attribute; and/or perform other operations.
US11836753B1
A computer-implemented method performed by one or more processors of a mobile wallet computer system is provided. The method includes: receiving, by network interface logic of the mobile wallet computer system, at least one offer from at least one merchant; determining, by one or more processors of the mobile wallet computer system, an offer to provide to a mobile device of a user; causing, by the one or more processors, an image to be displayed on the mobile device taken from a camera of the mobile device; generating, by augmented reality logic, an overlay display configured to overlay the image, the overlay display providing additional information related to the offer to the user; generating, by the one or more processors, an offer code for the mobile device of the user for providing to a merchant; and sending, by the one or more processors, the offer code to the mobile device.
US11836740B2
A system for staging and executing secure, service-based, transactions. The transactions are staged by a mobile device. The system may include a receiver. The receiver receives a communication from the mobile device in order to stage a transaction. The system may also include a near-field communication (NFC) device mounted in the CSC. The NFC device may communicate with the receiver. When the receiver receives a pre-staging communication, the receiver sets the NFC device to a staged state. In the staged state, the NFC device performs an NFC handshake with the mobile device. Following the NFC handshake, the receiver receives a signal from the mobile device. The signal includes a biometric confirmation of the identity of the user and an identification of the mobile device. The biometric confirmation may be derived by the mobile device from a biometric parameter associated with the user. The handshake initiates completion of the transaction.
US11836724B2
A method of performing a fund transfer at an ATM includes receiving an active authentication transaction key at an ATM from a mobile financial transaction instrument via a wireless communication protocol, generating a PIN at the ATM, and storing the PIN in a machine readable storage medium. An authorization request message is transmitted to a financial institution identified by the active authentication transaction key. The authorization request message includes the PIN and at least a portion of the active authentication transaction key. The PIN is received from a user of the mobile financial transaction instrument, and the funds are dispensed in response to receiving the PIN.
US11836703B2
Embodiments of the present specification provide methods and apparatuses for generating two-dimensional codes. One method comprising: receiving, by a secure element chip comprised in a two-dimensional code display device, code information comprising an account identifier of an account associated with the two-dimensional code display device; in response to obtaining a digital certificate for a private key stored in the secure element chip, signing, by the security element chip, the code information by using the private key to generate signed code information; and providing, the signed code information to the two-dimensional code display device for the two-dimensional code display device to generate and display a two-dimensional code based on the code information, wherein the two-dimensional code comprises information associated with the account identifier and changes dynamically over time.
US11836697B1
A service tracking and guidance system includes processing circuitry configured to receive, from a location tracking device and/or an online service, usage data indicative of usage of a service by a consumer. The processing circuitry is also configured to determine a usage value based on the usage data, to receive remittance data indicative of recurring payments made by the consumer for the service, and to retrieve a usage threshold that represents a level of usage of the service that justifies the recurring payments. The processing circuitry is further configured to compare the usage value determined based on the usage data for a time period that corresponds to at least one of the recurring payments to the usage threshold and to provide an output with directions to increase the usage value or to facilitate cancellation of the service in response to the usage value being below the usage threshold.
US11836694B2
A method of network configuration of personal identification number (PIN) pads includes obtaining a PIN pad configuration hash value for a current configuration of the PIN pad, comparing the obtained PIN pad configuration hash to a locally stored PIN pad configuration hash, upon determining that the obtained PIN pad configuration hash and the locally stored PIN pad configuration hash do not match, performing additional operations, which include requesting a new PIN pad configuration, receiving the new PIN pad configuration, receiving a new PIN pad configuration hash, and storing the PIN pad configuration hash.
US11836680B1
A system for interactive learning has a database of content, the content including spatial, temporal, material, psychological, moral, artistic, philosophical, scientific, and probability elements from which to create a story track. At least one software program is disposed on at least one computer system designed to calculate story vectors from which to craft stories and select learning objectives. A learning management system with at least one user interface is designed to allow at least one or more people to, via at least one or more of video, audio, and text, interact with at least one or more of the software program and people, people inclusive of audience members, characters, actors, clients, and moderators. The software program is designed to direct the story within degrees of freedom calculated from the story vectors to create new story vectors, the story vectors used to create one or more new story tracks.
US11836679B2
Traditionally, meetings are widely utilized in business and personal communications, whether in-person and/or virtual. Organizing such meetings typically involves multiple exchanges of content and messages between users before, during, and after the meeting. In some cases, meetings may occur impromptu and may result in inefficient and unproductive collaboration. A collaboration object configured to enable users to dynamically collaborate before, during, and after a meeting is provided. In aspects, the collaboration object links content generated before, during, and after the meeting in a single location and provides functionality for concurrent multi-user interaction and synchronization of the content across applications. The collaboration object may be available from a variety of application platforms, enabling and persisting real-time editing and collaboration before, during and after the meeting.
US11836677B2
In accordance with some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, mechanisms (which can, for example, include systems, apparatuses, methods, and media) for managing inventory associated with a facility are provided. In some embodiments, a method is provided comprising: receiving identifying information of items; causing a mobile device to present a subset of items in a user interface; receiving transmitting device identification information, the device associated with a first location; determining, based on the transmitter identifying information, a location of the mobile device within the facility; receiving an indication items are being stored at the location of the mobile device; associating the items with the location; causing a computing device to present a user interface that includes identifying information associated with the items in connection with a location of the items.
US11836673B2
Example methods and systems are directed to a managed inventory. A database may store information regarding items owned by a user. The information regarding an item may include a quantity owned and one or more triggering events. Based on the occurrence of a triggering event, an order for the item may be placed without user intervention. Data to the database may be provided by one or more sensors. Triggering events may be defined in terms of sensor data. The triggering event may be defined by a user or through machine learning. The order may be placed using a predetermined modality or a dynamically-determined modality based on one or more criteria, such as price, shipping speed, and the urgency of the order.
US11836669B2
Systems and methods are directed to supply chain management. In particular, the tracking, tracing, authenticating, and reporting of supply chain events for products, is disclosed. Various embodiments can store, analyze, and track supply chain events and help to coordinate and maintain trading partner connections. Various embodiments also help to enhance patient safety, secure the supply chains for pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and other healthcare products, and help users to follow regulatory requirements.
US11836667B2
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided. In one embodiment, computing entities can establish direct communications with one another using a variety of protocols and standards. Such direction communications can be monitored or attempted to be established to determine whether an item is allowed or disallowed for delivery.
US11836658B2
In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided herein useful to assess or determine available cargo capacity for multiple commercial product delivery vehicles (“delivery vehicles”). In some embodiments, systems are provided to assess delivery vehicles and may include multiple electronic user devices each having a delivery agent interface operating thereon and an association with one or more delivery agents. At least one control circuit is communicatively coupled to the electronic user devices. By one approach, the control circuit may estimate delivery requirements for purchased orders, which includes volume requirements and geometric configurations of purchased orders. The control circuits may evaluate delivery vehicles, utilizing cargo space sensor data, to determine which are suitable for the purchased order by comparing delivery requirements with the available vehicular cargo spaces, and present, to the appropriate electronic user devices, an opportunity to deliver at least a portion of the purchased order to a delivery location.
US11836649B2
In one embodiment, a system and method for reporting lost items includes presenting a lost item reporting link associated with an entity having a plurality of different physical establishment locations; receiving a user selection of the lost item reporting link; presenting at a website, in response to the user selection of the lost item reporting link, a graphical user interface configured to solicit lost item recovery information, the website being associated with the entity having the plurality of different physical establishments; receiving the lost item recovery information via the graphical user interface; and transmitting the lost item recovery information to a third party online lost and found system.
US11836646B2
A model generator constructs a model for estimating selectivity of database operations by determining a number of training examples necessary for the model to achieve a target accuracy and by generating approximate selectivity labels for the training examples. The model generator may train the model on an initial number of training examples using cross-validation. The model generator may determine whether the model satisfies the target accuracy and iteratively and geometrically increase the number of training examples based on an optimized geometric step size (which may minimize model construction time) until the model achieves the target accuracy based on a defined confidence level. The model generator may generate labels using a subset of tuples from an intermediate query expression. The model generator may iteratively increase a size of the subset of tuples used until a relative error of the generated labels is below a target threshold.
US11836639B2
A source code and module recommendation system according to the present invention includes: a module assembly including a control module including a function unit including a topology management unit sensing and generating topology information and a plurality of other modules including a different function unit from the control module; a user terminal connected to the module assembly; and a recommendation server connected to the user terminal through a network, storing topology information of the module assembly, and providing information on a recommended source code to the user terminal based on the topology information, in which the topology information may include a connection ranking representing an order in which the plurality of other modules are connected to the control module and the recommendation server may determine the information on the recommended source code based on the connection ranking and transmit the determined information to the user terminal.
US11836637B2
A construction method of human-object-space interaction model based on knowledge graph belongs to the technical field of knowledge graph construction and smart communities and includes steps of: obtaining information from a large number of active and passive sensing devices and thereby building a knowledge base; and fusing perceptual information in the knowledge base, forming entity-relation-entity structured data, and building a general knowledge graph conceptual model with entity-relation attributes. The construction method can overcome technical problems such as difficulty in multi-source information extraction, inability to fuse heterogeneous data, and inability of interaction of human-object-space caused by poor universality of perception technology and complex entity relations in a smart community environment, and provide a method support for monitoring and early warning of dangerous events in the smart community and community environment situational awareness.
US11836634B2
Systems, devices, methods and instructions are described for detecting GAN generated images. On embodiment involves receiving an images, generating co-occurrence matrices on color channels of the image, generating analysis of the image by using a convolutional neural network trained to analyze image features of the images based on the generated co-occurrence matrices and determining whether the image is a GAN generated image based on the analysis.
US11836629B2
A computation unit comprises first, second, and third circuits. The first circuit traverses gradient loss elements gpn and normalized output elements pn and produces an accumulation C. The accumulation C is produced by element-wise multiplying the gradient loss elements gpn with the corresponding normalized output elements pn and summing the results of the element-wise multiplication. The second circuit, operatively coupled to the first circuit, element-wise subtracts the accumulation C from each of the gradient loss elements gpn and produces modulated gradient loss elements gpn′. The third circuit, operatively coupled to the second circuit, traverses the modulated gradient loss elements gpn′ and produces gradient loss elements gxn for a function preceding the softmax function. The gradient loss elements gxn are produced by element-wise multiplying the modulated gradient loss elements gpn′ with the corresponding normalized output elements pn.
US11836627B2
Determining that a motor vehicle driver is using a mobile device while driving a motor vehicle. Multiple images of a driver of a motor vehicle are captured through a side window of the motor vehicle. Positive images show a driver using a mobile device while driving a motor vehicle. Negative images show a driver not using a mobile device while driving a motor vehicle. Multiple training images are selected from both the positive images and the negative images. The selected training images and respective labels, indicating that the selected training images are positive images or negative images, are input to a machine (e.g. Convolutional Neural Network, (CNN)). The CNN is trained to classify that a test image, captured through a side window of a motor vehicle, shows a driver using a mobile device while driving the motor vehicle.
US11836609B2
Utilizing the principles of wavelength-dependent evanescent wave coupling in closely-spaced optical waveguides, along with optical resonators, a method for creating a neural network out of entirely electro-optical components is discussed. Optical resonators, which can store energy as standing waves or whispering gallery modes, act as neurons. Waveguides integrated onto a chip act as dendrites or connectomes, with coupling between them simulating the analog exchange of signals in brains. Additional electro-optic controls can be utilized, such as conductive plates utilizing the electro-optic effect to change the refractive indices of the optics and coupling coefficients based on electrical signals from outside stimuli.
US11836606B2
A storage device is provided including an interface circuit configured to receive application information from a host; a field programmable gate array (FPGA); a neural processing unit (NPU); and a central processing unit (CPU) configured to select a hardware image from among a plurality of hardware images stored in a memory using the application information, and reconfigure the FPGA using the selected hardware image. The NPU is configured to perform an operation using the reconfigured FPGA.
US11836591B1
Techniques are described herein for selecting, curating, normalizing, enriching, and synthesizing the results of user experience tests. In some embodiments, a system identifies a qualitative element within a result set for a user experience test. The system then selects a machine learning model to apply based on one or more attributes associated with the user experience test and generates a predicted visibility, quality, and/or relevance for the qualitative element. Based on the prediction, the system generates a user interface that curates a set of results of the user experience test.
US11836584B2
A fully or semi-automated, integrated learning, labeling and classification system and method have closed, self-sustaining pattern recognition, labeling and classification operation, wherein unclassified data sets are selected and converted to an assembly of graphic and text data forming compound data sets that are to be classified. By means of feature vectors, which can be automatically generated, a machine learning classifier is trained for improving the classification operation of the automated system during training as a measure of the classification performance if the automated labeling and classification system is applied to unlabeled and unclassified data sets, and wherein unclassified data sets are classified automatically by applying the machine learning classifier of the system to the compound data set of the unclassified data sets.
US11836582B2
A system and method for automatically predicting deviation on a metric of a use-case and deriving interconnections between metrics for generating action recommendations is provided. The system includes a deviation management system 104 which captures data from a plurality of external sources and internal sources and comprises of a deviation management platform 106 and a deviation management environment 108. The system includes various computation modules which work the deviation management platform 106 to provide a deviation management service to a set of clients that are associated with that service. The service and its users are specific to use-case, wherein the use-case is specified by a client device 116 inside the system. The system comprises of external data which is horizontal across a plurality of deviation management services and internal data which is specific to every deviation management service.
US11836579B2
Disclosed is a technique that can be performed by an electronic device. The electronic device can generate time-stamped events, extract training data from the time-stamped events, and send the training data over a network to a remote computer. The electronic device can receive model data generated by the remote computer from the training data by use of a machine learning process, update a local model of the electronic device based on the received model data, and generate an output by processing locally sourced data of the electronic device with the updated local model.
US11836575B2
Methods, systems and apparatus for approximating a target quantum state. In one aspect, a method for determining a target quantum state includes the actions of receiving data representing a target quantum state of a quantum system as a result of applying a quantum circuit to an initial quantum state of the quantum system; determining an approximate quantum circuit that approximates the specific quantum circuit by adaptively adjusting a number of T gates available to the specific quantum circuit; and applying the determined approximate quantum circuit to the initial quantum state to obtain an approximation of the target quantum state.
US11836569B1
A system combining readers for RFID transponders and Bluetooth® devices for for automated roadway tolling and monitoring is described. Because of the ubiquity of Bluetooth® devices, filtering methods are described to narrow received Bluetooth® signals to a particular monitored traffic lane and to further associate the Bluetooth® signal with a registered RFID toll tag in a vehicle. Signal strength of the Bluetooth® signal at each of a plurality of receiver antennas may be used to identify the location of the Bluetooth® device that emitted the signal.
US11836565B2
RFID devices comprising (i) a transponder chip module (TCM) having an RFIC chip (IC) and a module antenna (MA), and (ii) a coupling frame (CF) having an electrical discontinuity comprising a slit (S) or non-conductive stripe (NCS). The coupling frame may be disposed closely adjacent the transponder chip module so that the slit overlaps the module antenna. The RFID device may be a payment object such as a jewelry item having a metal component modified with a slit (S) to function as a coupling frame. The coupling frame may be moved (such as rotated) to position the slit to selectively overlap the module antennas (MA) of one or more transponder chip modules (TCM-1, TCM-2) disposed in the payment object, thereby selectively enhancing (including enabling) contactless communication between a given transponder chip module in the payment object and another RFID device such as an external contactless reader. The coupling frame may be tubular. A card body construction for a metal smart card is disclosed.
US11836563B2
The disclosure features a method of creating a communications network. In this method, a first tape node includes a first type of wireless communication interface and a second type of wireless communication interface having a longer range than the first type of wireless communication interface. A second tape node includes the first type of wireless communication interface that is operable to communicate with the first tape node over a wireless communication connection established between the first type of wireless communication interfaces of the first and second tape nodes. Over a wireless communication connection, the first tape node sends programmatic code executable by the first tape node to function as a master tape node with respect to the second tape node.
US11836555B2
In an information processing device, a support program supports a printer, and a printing program is built in an operating system. The support program causes the information processing device to perform: in a case that a print instruction to execute printing by using the built-in printing program is issued, at least one of a command outputting process and an outputting instruction process. The command outputting process outputs a preceding operation command to the printer before starting transmitting print execution data to the printer. The preceding operation command commands the printer to execute a preceding operation prior to starting printing. The printer having a function to execute the preceding operation specified in the preceding operation command. The outputting instruction process instructs a command transmission program to output the preceding operation command while the outputting instruction process designates the printer as an outputting destination.
US11836550B2
Systems and methods for moving, reconciling, and aggregating data from mainframe computers to hybrid cloud are disclosed. A method may include: a mainframe computer program receiving a trigger event; the mainframe computer program generating a message comprising data from one of a plurality of logical partitions in the mainframe computer program; the mainframe computer program loading the message to a message log database; the mainframe computer program sending the message to a cloud-based target database by making an asynchronous call with the message to a messaging service, wherein a cloud-based listener receives the message from the messaging service and writes the data from the message to the cloud-based target database; a message purge/retransmission service computer program receiving an acknowledgement message that the data in the message was successfully written to the cloud-based target database; and the message purge/retransmission service computer program purging the message from the message log database.
US11836537B2
Systems and methods for determining neural network brittleness are disclosed. For example, the system may include one or more memory units storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving a modeling request comprising a preliminary model and a dataset. The operations may include determining a preliminary brittleness score of the preliminary model. The operations may include identifying a reference model and determining a reference brittleness score of the reference model. The operations may include comparing the preliminary brittleness score to the reference brittleness score and generating a preferred model based on the comparison. The operations may include providing the preferred model.
US11836535B1
Technologies are provided for a multi-cloud bursting service. An example method can include receiving, via a cloud bursting service associated with different clouds, a cloud bursting configuration enabling the cloud bursting service for a local compute environment; based on the cloud bursting configuration, determining a number of jobs in a jobs queue associated with one or more cloud environments from the different clouds; determining a number of nodes available to process the number of jobs in the jobs queue; based on the number of jobs in the jobs queue and number of nodes available, determining whether to spin up a new node, take offline an existing node, or shutdown the existing node to yield a determination; and based on the determination and cloud bursting configuration, performing a cloud bursting action including spinning up the new node, taking offline the existing node, or shutting down the existing node.
US11836532B2
A computer implemented method implemented on an allocation computing unit for distributing a pre-defined workflow comprising a nonempty set of workflow components, the workflow components being ordered in a directed acyclic precedence graph, onto a set of general purpose computing units comprising at least two general purpose computing units.
US11836526B1
A system receives a time series of data values from instrumented software executing on an external system. Each data value corresponds to a metric of the external system. The system stores a level value representing a current estimate of the time series and a trend value representing a trend in the time series. The level and trend values are based on data in a window having a trailing value. In response to receiving a most recent value, the system updates the level value and the trend value to add an influence of the most recent value and remove an influence of the trailing value. The system forecasts based on the updated level and trend values, and in response to determining that the forecast indicates the potential resource shortage event, takes action.
US11836523B2
Introspection of a containerized application in a runtime environment is disclosed. Application information that identifies a plurality of resources that compose an application is obtained. Based on the application information, deployment information for one or more of the plurality of resources is requested from a first cluster controller of a first cluster. The first cluster controller is configured to control resources implemented on a plurality of different nodes of the first cluster. Based on the application information and the deployment information, user interface imagery is generated that identifies at least some of the resources and a corresponding deployment status of the at least some of the resources. The user interface imagery is presented on a display device.
US11836521B2
Methods and systems disclosed herein relate generally to evaluating resource loads to determine when to transform queues and to specific techniques for transforming at least part of queues so as to correspond to alternative resources.
US11836520B2
An inference system applies a machine-learning transformer model to a batch of requests with variable input length or variable target length or variable internal sate length by selectively batching a subset of operations in the transformer model but processing requests in the batch individually for a subset of operations in the transformer model. In one embodiment, the operation to be processed individually is an attention operation of an encoder or a decoder of the transformer model. By selective batching, the inference system can allow batching operations to be performed for a batch of requests with variable input or target length or internal state length to utilize the parallel computation capabilities of hardware accelerators while preventing unnecessary computations that occur for workarounds that restrain the data of a batch of requests to a same length.
