US11877520B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having an array region defined thereon, a ring of magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) region surrounding the array region, a gap between the array region and the ring of MTJ region, and metal interconnect patterns overlapping part of the ring of MTJ region. Preferably, the array region includes a magnetic random access memory (MRAM) region and a logic region and the ring of MTJ region further includes a first MTJ region and a second MTJ region extending along a first direction and a third MTJ region and a fourth MTJ region extending along a second direction.
US11877519B2
A semiconductor device manufacturing method, wherein the etching apparatus used includes a sample loading chamber (15), a vacuum transition chamber (14), a reactive ion plasma etching chamber (10), an ion beam etching chamber (11), a film coating chamber (12), and a vacuum transport chamber (13). Without interrupting the vacuum, reactive ion etching is first adopted to etch to an isolation layer (102); then, ion beam etching is performed to etch into a fixed layer (101) and stopped near a bottom electrode metal layer (100), leaving only a small amount of the fixed layer (101); subsequently, reactive ion etching is adopted to etch to the bottom electrode metal layer (100); and finally, ion beam cleaning is performed to remove metal residues and sample surface treatment, and coating protection is performed.
US11877515B2
An actuator and tactile sensation providing apparatus include an actuator including a piezoelectric element, a vibration plate, and a support. The vibration plate has the piezoelectric element joined thereto and vibrates in accordance with displacement of the piezoelectric element. The support supports the vibration plate and is configured so that an end of the vibration plate is displaced more in a longitudinal direction than in a normal direction of the vibration plate in accordance with displacement of the piezoelectric element. The angle between the vibration plate and the support is acute. The tactile sensation providing apparatus can further include an object of vibration configured to provide a tactile sensation to a user by vibration of the vibration plate being transmitted to the object of vibration.
US11877514B2
A process for producing a crystalline layer of PZT material, comprising the transfer of a monocrystalline seed layer of SrTiO3 material to a carrier substrate of silicon material, followed by epitaxial growth of the crystalline layer of PZT material.
US11877513B2
This method is for manufacturing a thermoelectric conversion module in which a first conductive member, a thermoelectric conversion element, a second conductive member are joined by joining members, the method comprising: a step for, after applying on the first conductive member a first paste including metal particles, disposing the thermoelectric conversion element on the first paste, and compressing and spreading the first paste; a step for disposing the second conductive member, after applying a second paste including metal particles in a controlled amount, on the thermoelectric conversion element, and compressing and spreading the second paste; and a step for sintering the first and the second pastes to obtain joining members.
US11877507B2
An organic light emitting display device is provided. The organic light emitting display device may include at least one light emitting part between al anode and a cathode, and the at least one light emitting part having at least one organic layer and a light emitting layer, wherein the at least one organic layer comprises a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 or 2.
US11877506B2
A polycyclic aromatic compound represented by Formula (1) is provided by the invention: wherein A11 ring, A21 ring, A31 ring, B11 ring, B21 ring, C11 ring, and C31 ring are an aryl or heteroaryl ring which may be substituted, Y11, Y21, Y31 are B or the like, X11, X12, X21, X22, X31, X32 are >O or >N—R, R in the above >N—R is an and which may be substituted or the like, R in the above >N—R or the like may be bonded to A11 ring, A21 ring, A31 ring, B11 ring, B21 ring, C11 ring, and/or C31 ring by a linking group or a single bond; and at least one hydrogen in the compound represented by Formula (1) may be replaced with deuterium, cyano, or a halogen.
US11877505B2
Semiconductor devices, and more particularly arrangements of fluorinated polymers with low dielectric loss for environmental protection in semiconductor devices are disclosed. Arrangements include conformal coatings or layers of fluorinated polymers that cover a semiconductor die on a package substrate of a semiconductor device. Such fluorinated polymer arrangements may also conformally coat various electrical connections for the semiconductor die, including wire bonds. Fluorinated polymers with low dielectric constants and low moisture permeability may thereby provide reduced moisture ingress in semiconductor devices while also reducing the impact of associated dielectric loss.
US11877501B2
A post-processing method of a quantum dot light-emitting diode, which includes the following steps: providing a quantum dot light-emitting diode, the quantum dot light-emitting diode includes a cathode and an anode arranged oppositely, and a quantum dot light-emitting layer arranged between the cathode and the anode; energizing the cathode and anode of the quantum dot light-emitting diode, and performing a light irradiation treatment on the quantum dot light-emitting diode.
US11877494B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate including a display area and a sensor area, the sensor area including an auxiliary display area and a transmitting area, first display elements arranged over the display area, second display elements arranged over the auxiliary display area, transmitting units arranged in the transmitting area and configured to transmit at least a portion of light incident on the transmitting units, and an optical layer including a mesh pattern covering at least the second display elements.
US11877492B2
An OLED display device includes a substrate, a pixel defining layer disposed on the substrate and provided with first openings, a black bank layer disposed on the pixel defining layer and provided with second openings corresponding to the first openings, a first thin film encapsulation sublayer, and color resist layers. A width of the second openings is greater than a width of the first openings. Each part of the pixel defining layer adjacent to the first openings and each corresponding part of the black bank layer adjacent to the second openings form a stepped structure. The first thin film encapsulation sublayer covers the black bank layer, the pixel defining layer, and the substrate. Parts of the first thin film encapsulation sublayer corresponding to the stepped structures have a stepped shape. The color resist layers are disposed on parts of the first thin film encapsulation sublayer in the first openings.
US11877491B2
A display panel includes an upper substrate to which external light is incident, a sealing member which is in a non-display area and couples the upper substrate to a lower display substrate. The upper display substrate includes: a base substrate; a light shielding layer and filter layer each corresponding to the non-display area and absorbing a portion of external light which is transmitted through the base substrate at the non-display area, the filter layer and the light shielding layer having different colors from each other. In a first non-display area of the base substrate which corresponds to the sealing member, only one among the filter layer and the light shielding layer is disposed. In a second non-display area of the base substrate which is adjacent to the first non-display area, both the filter layer and the light shielding layer are disposed.
US11877488B2
A display panel, driving method and display device, where the display panel includes: a substrate (100) that includes a first display area (A1) and a second display area (A2); a pixel circuit layer positioned in the second display area (A2) of the substrate (100) and including multiple pixel circuits; a light-emitting device layer positioned on one side of the pixel circuit layer that is away from the substrate (100) and including multiple active light-emitting devices (120) and multiple passive light-emitting devices (130), where the multiple active light-emitting devices (120) are arranged in the second display area (A2) and each of the pixel circuits is electrically connected to at least one active light-emitting device (120), and the multiple passive light-emitting devices (130) are arranged in an array in the first display area (A1).
US11877483B2
A display device includes a display module including a first base substrate and a pad on a top surface of the first base substrate; a circuit film coupled to a lateral surface of the first base substrate and including a contact pad spaced apart from the pad; and a conductive member on the top surface of the first base substrate and in contact with the pad and the contact pad.
US11877478B2
A display device includes subpixels each comprising an emission area, electrodes which are disposed in the emission area, extend in a first direction, and are spaced apart in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a first insulating layer disposed on the electrodes, a first bank, and light emitting elements. The first bank includes a first bank part disposed on the first insulating layer and surrounding the emission area, and a second bank part connected to the first bank part and disposed in the emission area. The light emitting elements are disposed on the electrodes spaced apart in the second direction. A height of the second bank part of the first bank is lower than a height of the first bank part of the first bank.
US11877477B2
Provided is an organic light-emitting display apparatus in which a dead space may be reduced. The organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: a substrate including a first display area, a second display area disposed outside of the first display area, and a third display area disposed outside of the second display area; a first thin-film transistor disposed in the first display area on the substrate; a second thin-film transistor and a third thin-film transistor each arranged in the second display area on the substrate; a first pixel electrode arranged in the first display area on the substrate and electrically connected to the first thin-film transistor; a second pixel electrode arranged in the second display area on the substrate and electrically connected to the second thin-film transistor; and a third pixel electrode arranged in the third display area on the substrate and electrically connected to the third thin-film transistor.
US11877474B2
A display device may include a display panel having a first region and a second region having a transmittance lower than a transmittance of the first region, the display panel including a substrate and a pixel layer disposed on the substrate, and an anti-reflection layer disposed on one side of the substrate in an area corresponding to the first region. The anti-reflection layer may include a first anti-reflection pattern including first metal and a second anti-reflection pattern disposed on the first anti-reflection pattern and including molybdenum oxide (MoOx) and oxide of second metal other than molybdenum.
US11877463B2
Discussed is a light emitting display device which enables a common layer having high hole conductivity among common layers in respective stacks to include a material having a high orientation factor value so as to prevent generation of leakage current between subpixels and ensure high efficiency and a long lifespan.
US11877455B2
The present disclosure provides a method for preparing a vertical memory structure with air gaps. The method includes providing a substrate; forming an impurity layer at an upper portion of the substrate; forming a semiconductor stack including a lower semiconductor pattern structure filling a recess on the substrate and protruding from an upper surface of the substrate in a first direction substantially perpendicular to the upper surface of the substrate; forming a plurality of gate electrodes surrounding a sidewall of the semiconductor stack, the plurality of gate electrodes being at a plurality of levels, respectively, so as to be spaced apart from each other in the first direction; and forming a plurality of air gap structures disposed at outer sides of the plurality of gate electrodes respectively.
US11877441B2
The present application provides a memory and a memory fabricating method. The memory includes a substrate, on which is disposed a separation layer, in which are arranged plural bitlines spaced apart from one another, the plural bitlines are arranged along a first direction, and each bitline is S-shaped. The method of fabricating the memory comprises the following steps: providing a substrate; forming on the substrate plural bitline grooves; forming in each bitline groove a first separation layer; forming bitlines on the first separation layer; forming a second separation layer on the bitlines; removing the substrate between adjacent separation walls, the separation wall including the first separation layer, the bitlines, and the second separation layer; and forming a third separation layer in a space between the adjacent separation walls, the third separation layer, the second separation layer, and the first separation layer together forming a separation layer.
US11877440B2
The disclosure relates to a buried bit line and a forming method thereof, the buried bit line is formed in a bit line slot of a substrate, the buried bit line includes a first bit line layer formed in the bit line slot, a first blocking layer and a second bit line layer. A top of the first bit line layer is lower than a surface of the substrate. The first blocking layer is at least partially formed between the first bit line layer and an inner wall of the bit line slot. The second bit line layer is formed in the bit line slot and configured to communicate the first bit line layer with a drain region in the substrate.
US11877436B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate and a conductive pad disposed on the substrate and having a first surface facing away from the substrate. The first surface of the conductive pad is recessed toward the substrate and defines a recessed portion. The semiconductor device also includes a capacitor structure at least partially-disposed within the recessed portion of the conductive pad and electrically connected with the substrate through the conductive pad.
US11877426B2
A temperature control cabinet includes at least one cabinet unit. Each cabinet unit includes: a subrack, where there is a placement space for placing a device inside the subrack, and there is at least one opening at a periphery of the cabinet; and a cabinet door mounted on the subrack and configured to buckle the opening, where at least two temperature control components are disposed on the cabinet door, the temperature control components are arranged in a first direction, the first direction is a direction from the top to the bottom of the subrack, each temperature control component is provided with an air exhaust vent and an air return vent, the air return vent of each temperature control component communicates with a hot area at the top of the placement space, and the air exhaust vent of each temperature control component communicates with the placement space.
US11877418B2
An assembly of an electronic device includes: an electronics housing for accommodating an electronic component; a base strip attachable to the electronics housing and having a plurality of plug receptacles to which plug modules are attachable; and a locking apparatus for locking the plug modules to the plug receptacles of the base strip. The locking apparatus has an actuating part movable in an actuating direction toward the electronics housing in order to remove the plug modules from the base strip. A spring element is arranged on the electronics housing for preloading the actuating part in relation to the electronics housing counter to the actuating direction.
US11877417B2
A housing module of a field device includes: a housing including a first housing chamber and a second housing chamber separated by a partition wall; measurement/control electronics disposed in the first housing chamber; interface electronics for connecting lines for supplying energy to the field device arranged in the second housing chamber, wherein the housing includes a first wall region to receive the partition wall, the first wall region separated from the partition wall by a gap having a path length, wherein the ratio of a gap width to the path length is less than 0.02; and a securing device for limiting a range of movement of the partition wall toward the second housing chamber, wherein the housing includes a second wall region with a groove extending parallel to a cross-sectional plane of the partition wall, the securing device including an engagement device to engage in the groove.
US11877407B2
A surge protection device has a housing that is formed from a first lateral portion, a middle portion, and a second lateral portion that are connected together with a plurality of fasteners. The surge protection device includes an electronic apparatus having a neutral wire and further includes a housing that advantageously includes a strain relief that causes the neutral wire to frictionally engage the housing with sufficient friction to resist a predetermined tension applied to the free end or other portion of the neutral wire at the exterior of the housing from damaging an electrical connection between the neutral wire and a circuit board within an interior region of the surge protection device.
US11877395B2
Provided is a thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer film (TLCP film) having a dielectric constant in a thickness direction of the film, which is suitable for a millimeter-wave radar substrate. The TLCP film is a film comprising a thermoplastic polymer capable of forming an optically anisotropic melt phase, wherein the TLCP film has a dielectric constant of from 2.5 to 3.2 in the thickness direction of the film at a temperature of 23° C. and a frequency of 20 GHz, and a heat deformation temperature of from 180 to 320° C. The TLCP film has, on a film plane, dielectric constants of from 2.6 to 3.7 at a temperature of 23° C. and a frequency of 15 GHz both in one direction of the film and in a direction perpendicular to the one direction of the film.
US11877391B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a conductive film that is excellent in flexibility while maintaining its sufficient transparency and conductivity, and a conductive film roll, an electronic paper, a touch panel, and a flat-panel display having the same. A conductive film having a transparent substrate and a conductive part having a fine metal wire pattern disposed on one side or both sides of the transparent substrate, wherein the fine metal wire pattern is constituted by a fine metal wire, and the conductive film satisfies the following condition (i) or (ii): (i) the fine metal wire has voids, and when the cross-sectional area of the fine metal wire is defined as SM and the total cross-sectional area of the voids included in the cross-section of the fine metal wire is defined as SVtotal on the cross-section of the fine metal wire perpendicular to the direction of drawing of the fine metal wire, SVtotal/SM is 0.10 or more and 0.40 or less; and (ii) when the maximum thickness of the fine metal wire on the cross-section of the fine metal wire perpendicular to the direction of drawing of the fine metal wire is defined as T, the width of the fine metal wire at a height of 0.90T from the fine metal wire interface on the transparent substrate side is defined as W0.90 and the width of the fine metal wire on the fine metal wire interface on the transparent substrate side is defined as W0, W0.90/W0 is 0.40 or more and 0.90 or less.
US11877389B2
An apparatus with an anti-tamper architecture includes a substrate and a layer of a pyrotechnic composite arranged on a surface of the substrate. The pyrotechnic composite includes a metal and a metal oxide, and the layer has a thickness of about 1 micrometer to about 10 millimeters. A reaction of the pyrotechnic composite is an exothermic reaction and at least partially fractures the substrate after the reaction is initiated.
US11877387B2
The present disclosure relates to a machining station for machining platelike workpieces (1) by means of at least one tool, in particular a drilling station for machining at least one circuit board, as well as to a method for controlling or identifying a platelike workpiece (1). The machining station has at least one X-ray radiation source (3), at least one detector (4) and a table (2) that can be positioned between the X-ray radiation source (3) and the detector (4), on which the workpiece (1) to be machined can be fastened. The table (2) has a receiving plate (6) made out of a material permeable to X-rays (5), in particular a plastic. The receiving plate (6) has at least one suction port (11) for extracting air and a distribution grid, which is connected in terms of flow with the at least one suction port (11) and consists of several channels (10) unilaterally open in a support surface (9) with beveled and/or rounded edges (13) and/or of inclinedly running through openings (14).
US11877379B2
An apparatus for guiding, in particular directing or accelerating, charged particles (50), comprising: a substrate (110) having a surface (115); an optically thinner layer (120) formed on the surface (115); an inhomogeneous channel (130) which is formed by two mutually opposite delimiting structures on a side of the layer (120) that is opposite the substrate (110); and a radiation device which is designed to generate at least one pulsed laser beam (140) and inject the at least one pulsed laser beam (140) into the channel (130) from a side that is opposite the optically thinner layer (120). The layer (120) for the laser beam (140) is optically thin, and the delimiting structures have a high optical density in comparison with the layer (120). The delimiting structures are designed to guide the particles (50) by means of the laser beam (140) in the channel (130) and alternatingly focus them along the channel (130) and in at least one direction perpendicular to the channel (130).
US11877371B2
Disclosed is an induction range having an automatic double side roasting function. The induction range includes a body having an internal space in which a heating coil portion configured to perform induction heating and a rotating rod configured to provide torque of a motor are formed, an induction-exclusive container which is inserted into and mounted in the body to be tilted from the ground at a first angle and is continuously or intermittently rotatable inside the body by the rotating rod and in which an object to be cooked which is accommodated therein is cooked by induction heat transferred from a side surface of the induction-exclusive container, and a control portion including a recipe memory portion configured to store a plurality of preset recipe modes, a heating coil operation portion configured to control an operation of the heating coil portion, and a motor driving portion configured to control the motor.
US11877370B2
An interior lighting system has arrangement of lighting panels mounted around a window for providing lighting around the outside of the window. The light provided depends on the exterior lighting which passes through the window. In this way, contrast between the window and the wall around the window can be reduced.
US11877369B2
Techniques for adjusting a color mixing system depending on beam clipping include receiving target information indicative of a target color of light emitted from the light fixture; receiving a beam clipping system setting for a beam clipping system, wherein the beam clipping system is configured to clip a portion of a beam of light; determining a target color mixing system setting based on the target information and the beam clipping system setting; and controlling a color mixing system according to the target color mixing system setting so as to cause the light fixture to emit light having the target color.
US11877367B2
A lighting system includes an LED array having a plurality of LED pixels and a power controller. The power controller adjusts a supply voltage for powering the LED pixels based on one or more conditions of the LED array. The power controller may determine the supply voltage based on process data of the LED array. The power controller may adjust the supply voltage based on an operating temperature of the LED pixels and the amplitude of a current driving the LED pixels.
US11877363B2
In one embodiment, a method comprising: (a) receiving a set of physiological data associated with at least one health condition of an animal subject; (b) receiving a set of environmental data associated with one or more environment conditions to which the subject is or has been exposed; (c) determining a set of operating parameters for at least one environmental device based at least partially on at least a portion of the set of physiological data and at least a portion of the set of environmental data; and (d) transmitting the set of operating parameters to the at least one environmental device to at least partially control at least one controlled environmental condition to which the subject is exposed to thereby at partially control the at least one health condition.
US11877362B2
A thermal foldback control system including a temperature sensitive circuit configured to output a reference voltage corresponding to a temperature of at least one selected from a group consisting of a light emitting diode (LED) driver, a LED engine, and a LED, wherein a driver output of the LED driver is based on the reference voltage.
US11877361B2
A controllable lighting device may comprise a drive circuit characterized by one or more cycles and a control circuit configured to control the drive circuit to conduct a load current through a light source of the lighting device. The control circuit may be configured to determine one or more operating parameters of the lighting device during a present cycle of the drive circuit based on a feedback signal indicative of a peak magnitude of the load current conducted through the light source. The control circuit may be able to adjust an average magnitude of the load current conducted through the light source so as to adjust an intensity of the light source towards a target intensity based on the operating parameters.
US11877353B2
Disclosed is a self-contained mesh radio extension unit, comprising a receiving sleeve having an open volume and a first data connector for communicative coupling to a communication device or cellular phone inserted in the open volume. A low-gain internal antenna and a high-gain external antenna are coupled to a digital data link (DDL) with a first DDL operating frequency. The DDL provides bidirectional internet protocol (IP) connectivity between the first data connector and a peer-to-peer meshed communication network, controlling one or more of the antennae as transceivers at the first DDL operating frequency. An integrated power supply system powers the DDL and includes a rechargeable internal battery and an external power interface. A control system automatically routes IP packets received or transmitted by the DDL and includes a network address translation (NAT) router and an IP addressing service for assigning and tracking IP addresses across the peer-to-peer meshed communication network.
US11877352B2
In an aspect, a wireless device is configured to transmit a physical layer protocol data unit on one or more channels, wherein the physical layer protocol data unit includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes a signal length field indicating a duration of a transmission of the physical layer protocol data unit. The second portion includes a plurality of Wi-Fi sensing fields. The wireless device is configured to receive a reflected signal and a leakage signal associated with the physical layer protocol data unit. The reflected signal includes the physical layer protocol data unit reflected off of a target object. The leakage signal is associated with the physical layer protocol data unit.
US11877350B2
A secure local area network and method for using the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the network arrangement comprises a plurality of access points that are part of one or more existing networks and operable to individually address and communicate with each other to form a local area network (LAN) to transfer data between two or more of the plurality of access points using point-to-point links independent of their function in the one or more first existing networks, where each access point of the plurality of access points is associated with a cache to store content that may be forwarded to other access points access points in the plurality of access points, and wherein one access point is operable to identify one or more of the plurality of access points from which desired content is cached and to request at least one of the one or more of the plurality of access points to transfer desired content to the one access point via one or more direct point-to-point transfers between access pairs of the plurality of access points.
US11877349B2
User circuitry within a wireless User Equipment (“UE”) that may utilize multiple subscriber identity module (“SIM”) profiles activates two or more SIM profiles to be active simultaneously. The user circuitry transfers service requests for wireless data services using the SIM profiles to network circuitry. The wireless data services may have different slice service types over different operating frequency bands of different target cells. The network circuitry wirelessly exchanges data with wireless access nodes associated with the target cells over the operating frequency bands to establish packet data unit sessions comprising the slice service types using the respective SIM profiles such that multiple packet data unit sessions are active using multiple SIM profiles simultaneously. Various applications may be mapped to the appropriate SIM profile and packet data unit session based on the respective provisioned slice characteristics matching the respective application requirements.
US11877340B2
A communication management resource such as associated with or at a first wireless access point monitors a corresponding backhaul providing connectivity between the first wireless access point and a remote network. Based on the monitoring of the backhaul, the communication management resource produces status information indicating a status such as ability of the backhaul to convey data communications between the first wireless access point and the backhaul. The first wireless access point then controls wireless connectivity between the first wireless access point and a mobile communication device based on the status of the backhaul.
US11877338B2
The present disclosure relates to handling a link failure in a wireless communication system. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a first wireless device may receive a preliminary radio link failure (pre-RLF) indication from a second wireless device, and perform proper actions upon receiving the pre-RLF indication.
US11877329B2
The present disclosure relates to a point to point radio link arrangement (100, 600) comprising at least two link nodes (110, 120; 610, 620). A first link node (110, 610) is arranged to obtain first link data (X1) over a first carrier frequency, and a second link node 5 (120, 620) is arranged to obtain second link data (X2) over a second carrier frequency separate from the first carrier frequency. The link arrangement (100, 600) further comprises a classification unit (130, 630) arranged to obtain the link data (X1, X2) from the link nodes (110, 120; 610, 620) and to determine if the link data (X1, X2) are affected by either a frequency dependent disturbance event or by a frequency independent 10 disturbance event. This is accomplished by comparing the first link data (X1) to the second link data (X2) over a time window (T). The classification unit (130, 630) is also arranged to output disturbance event decision data (Y) in dependence of whether the link data (X1, X2) have been determined to be affected by either a frequency dependent disturbance event or a frequency independent disturbance event.
US11877327B2
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. A method performed by a first entity in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting connection assistance information to a second entity in the wireless communication system.
US11877326B2
A wireless communication method includes: receiving, by a network device, a data packet which is transmitted from a first terminal device through a control plane or a user plane within a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) network; and sending, by the network device, the data packet to a second terminal device through the control plane or the user plane within the 3GPP network.
US11877321B2
A multi-link device (MLD) monitors each of first and second links in a multi-link operation in wireless communications, with the first link being a primary link and the second link being a secondary link. The MLD obtains a transmission opportunity (TXOP) on one of the first link and the second link as a result of performing a contention-based channel access on the first link and the second link. The MLD checks channel status of the other of the first link and the second link. The MLD then transmits one or more frames on the first link but not on the second link, on the second link but not on the first link, or on both the first link and the second link synchronously, responsive to the channel status of the other link given the TXOP being obtained on the one of the first link and the second link.
US11877313B2
Proposed is a method for operating a first apparatus (100) in a wireless communication system. The method may comprise the step in which a first apparatus (100) determines a first transmission count for a sidelink service, and on the basis of the first transmission count, transmits a sidelink service to a second apparatus (200), and receives, from the second apparatus (200), one hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback associated with the sidelink service. For example, the first transmission may comprise at least one blind retransmission.
US11877308B2
The present application at least describes a frame structure in new radio. The frame structure includes a self-contained transmission time interval. The transmission time interval includes a control information region including plural beams. The interval also includes a downlink transmission channel region including plural beams. The frame structure is configured for downlink control information to be swept through the time interval. The frame structure is also configured for an uplink or downlink grant resource subsequently to be swept through the time interval. The present application is also directed to a method for configuring user equipment.
US11877305B2
The disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communication. The UE receives a first signaling in a first time-frequency resource, then receives a second signaling in a second time-frequency resource, or transmits a second signaling in a second time-frequency resource, and finally operates a first radio signal; the first signaling is a Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) signaling, and the first time-frequency resource is located before the second time-frequency resource in time domain; the first signaling comprises first configuration information, the first configuration information is applicable to the first radio signal; the second signaling is used for determining a first multiantenna related parameter. The disclosure adjusts the multiantenna related parameter for semi-persistent data transmission through a dynamic signaling, thus improves the efficiency of data transmission and the flexibility of scheduling and improves the overall performance of system.
US11877304B2
A base station is disclosed, which is capable of appropriately configuring the timings of data assignment, data transmission and reception, and feedback for a case where the DL and UL sTTI lengths are different from each other. In this base station (100), a transmission section (106) transmits a downlink signal using a first short transmission time interval (sTTI) shortened in length than a TTI and used for downlink; and a reception section (107) receives an uplink signal using a second sTTI shortened in length than the TTI and used for uplink. When the first sTTI is shorter in length than the second sTTI, the reception section (107) receives the uplink signal in the second sTTI positioned after a predetermined interval from the transmission timing of the downlink signal, the predetermined interval being configured based on the length of the first sTTI.
US11877290B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink transmission via at least one of a primary cell, a secondary cell, or a combination thereof. The UE may identify a feedback indication for the downlink transmission. The UE may transmit a first feedback message that includes the feedback indication via the primary cell. The UE may transmit a second feedback message that also includes the feedback indication via the secondary cell.
US11877284B2
There is provided mechanisms for performing IAB in a cellular telecommunications network that comprises a first IAB node and a second IAB node. A method is performed by the first IAB node. The method comprises scheduling, in a first phase, downstream backhaul data from the first IAB node to the second IAB node. The method comprises receiving, in a third phase, from the second IAB node, upstream backhaul data as scheduled by the second IAB node.
US11877281B1
A method and apparatus are disclosed. In an example from the perspective of a User Equipment (UE), the UE receives one or more signals indicative of a first Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) and a second PUSCH on a first cell and in a Transmission Time Interval (TTI). The UE determines to transmit a first Uplink Control Information (UCI) in the TTI, wherein the first UCI overlaps with the first PUSCH and the second PUSCH in time domain. The UE selects the first PUSCH for multiplexing the first UCI based on whether the UE is configured with joint Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback mode or separate HARQ feedback mode. The UE transmits the first PUSCH and the second PUSCH on the first cell, wherein the first PUSCH transmitted on the first cell includes the first UCI.
US11877276B2
There is disclosed a method of operating a radio node in a wireless communication network. The method includes communicating using a first set of one or more signaling beams, wherein communicating includes performing beamforming for one or more signaling beams of the first set based on a set of beam signaling characteristics. Each beam signaling characteristic pertains to a reference beam. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US11877274B1
A communication device generates a first packet to include a first indication of one or more first frequency subchannels in a first frequency segment that will be utilized to transmit the first packet. The communication device also generates a second packet to include a second indication of one or more second frequency subchannels in a second frequency segment that will be utilized to transmit the second packet. The communication device simultaneously transmits the first packet via the first frequency segment and the second packet via the second frequency segment.
US11877270B2
A method for transmitting information, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method comprises: a terminal device receives n groups of downlink channels/signals on a downlink resource in the channel occupancy time (COT), each group of downlink channels/signals in the n groups of downlink channels/signals comprising at least one downlink channel/signal; the terminal device transmits uplink information corresponding to an i-th group of downlink channels/signals in the n groups of downlink channels/signals on an uplink resource in the COT; the starting time for transmitting uplink information corresponding to the i-th group of downlink channels/signals is determined according to the end time T0 of the i-th group of downlink channels/signals, the end time T1 of the downlink resource, and a processing delay of the downlink channel/signal.
US11877268B2
A computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by one or more processors of a UE. The instructions to configure the UE for a streamlined transmission during low latency communications in a wireless network and to cause the UE to decode configuration signaling from a base station. The configuration signaling configures SR occasions for the UE. The UE detects availability of a UL data packet from an application layer, a size of the UL data packet being higher than a size of a TTI associated with a pre-defined slot boundary. An SR is encoded for transmission during one of the SR occasions, the SR including an indication based on the size. Control information is decoded in response to the SR, the control information including a scheduling grant based on the size of the UL data packet. The UL data packet is encoded for transmission using the scheduling grant.
US11877264B2
A method, apparatus, and system for beamforming training using a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU). A WTRU may receive an indication of a number of space time slots (STSs) from an access point (AP) within a beacon frame during a beamforming training allocation. The WTRU may send a response signal to the AP in a specific STS based on a function of the number of STSs. The WTRU may receive an acknowledgement (ACK) from the AP confirming the response was received. Alternatively, the AP may send a signal indicating that a collision occurred and alter the number of STSs, and the WTRU may try again in the next beamforming training allocation.
US11877251B2
The present application relates to the technical field of communications, and provides a time synchronization method, an electronic device and a storage medium. A terminal sends a target protocol data unit (PDU) session establishment request to a session management function (SMF) according to a routing policy, wherein the target PDU session establishment request includes a target virtual private link identifier; and the terminal establishes a target PDU session with a target user plane function (UPF). The described method is applied to embodiments of the present application, so that a time synchronization message may be transmitted by means of the target PDU session and an interface indicated by target virtual private link information.
US11877240B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for sidelink (SL) power saving using SL wake up signals (WUSs). A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes determining resources for SL WUS transmissions from a second UE, based on a WUS resource configuration, monitoring the resources for an SL WUS from the second UE, and participating in SL communications with the second UE if an SL WUS is detected during the monitoring.
US11877239B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein optimize radio metrics between nodes within a mesh network by waking up nodes not actively connected to a mesh network. A mesh network system includes a computing device configured to determine that a radio metric between a first node and a second node in a mesh network is above a predetermined threshold, identify a third node operating in sleep mode, when the radio metric is above the predetermined threshold, and cause the third node to wake and connect to the mesh network, the third node is configured to relay communication between the first node and the second node.
US11877229B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, a security and security-related service, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The present disclosure discloses a method and a device for controlling the RRC state mismatch issue of a terminal, and also discloses a method and a device for providing access control configuration information of a terminal.
US11877226B2
The method at the user equipment (UE) includes first receiving authorization information, the authorization information including configuration data for reduced capability (REDCAP) devices in the communication network, second receiving system information from at least one first base station serving a first cell, the system information including information specific to a device category associated with the UE, determining access information for the first cell, based at least in part on the system information and the authorization information, and accessing the first cell, or identifying a second cell. The user equipment and the base station are configured to perform the method, thereof.
US11877222B2
Provided are a method and a system for broadcasting a disaster alert. The method of broadcasting a disaster alert includes: receiving an Advanced Emergency Alert Table (AEAT) message and an Advance Emergency Alert (AEA) message generated to include an NRT component corresponding to a multimedia file from an AEA message application according to an AEA protocol; receiving trigger information extracted from a Cell Broadcast Service (CBS) message from a Non-3GPP InterWorking Function (N3IWF); and transmitting the AEA message to a mobile terminal through an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 broadcast station according to the trigger information.
US11877214B2
A method, apparatus and system for social networking is provided. In an embodiment, the system comprises a plurality of mobile devices that can directly connect to each other via a peer-to-peer connection. The devices can additionally connect to a server. The server maintains a profile schema which can be used to generate profiles for users for each of the mobile devices. Electronic devices are paired based on a shared key maintained in an application loaded on the first electronic device and the second electronic device.
US11877207B2
A location engine uses the empirical measurements made by a scouting wireless terminal (i) to discover the existence of a reference radio within a geographic region; (ii) to generate an estimate of the location of the newly-discovered reference radio, and (iii) to generate an estimate of the transmission power of the downlink control channel radio signal transmitted by the newly-discovered reference radio. The location engine then uses: (i) the estimate of the location of the newly-discovered reference radio, and (ii) the estimate of the transmission power of the downlink control channel radio signal transmitted by the newly-discovered reference radio, and (iii) measurements, made by a user wireless terminal, of the power of each of the downlink control channel radio signals transmitted by each of the reference radios to generate an estimate of the location of the user wireless terminal.
US11877201B2
Systems and methods include an access layer to perform handovers for a User Equipment (UE) using a mobility status of the UE. A source access node (e.g., a femto cell, small cell, or a macro cell) establishes a first network connection with the UE. Based on a mobility status of the UE, the source access node selects either a small cell access node or a macro cell access node as a target node for connecting to the UE with a handover (e.g., by establishing a second network connection with the UE). The UE may have a medium mobility status or a high mobility status and, in response, be connected to the macro cell access cell for continuous connectivity. Alternatively, the UE may have the low mobility status and, in response, a signal strength analysis of the access nodes may be performed to select the target node for the handover.
US11877200B2
A mobility management entity (MME) receives, from a wireless device, an attach request message indicating that the wireless device supports a first number of bearers. The MME selects a network gateway from a plurality of network gateways, based on a second number of bearers supported by the network gateway. The MME sends, to the network gateway, a create session request message for creating a session for the wireless device. The MME receives, from the network gateway, a create session response message confirming creation of the session.
US11877199B2
A base station information DB (11) of a base station management apparatus (1) stores base station information that indicates wireless schemes that can be implemented by base stations (5), scheduled periods for implementation of the wireless schemes, and coverage areas of the base stations (5) in which wireless terminals can be accommodated. A use base station selection unit (14) creates a list of base stations (5) that can cover an entirety or part of a coverage area of a failed base station, which is a base station (5) that has failed, with reference to the base station information, selects a base station (5) that can implement an implementation-scheduled wireless scheme, which is a wireless scheme that is scheduled to be implemented by the failed base station, during a scheduled implementation period, which is the scheduled period for implementation of the implementation-scheduled wireless scheme of the failed base station, from among the base stations (5) included in the list, and sets the selected base station (5) so as to provide the implementation-scheduled wireless scheme to the coverage area of the failed base station during the scheduled implementation period.
US11877176B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining data available for transmission. One method includes associating a packet data convergence protocol entity with a first radio link control entity and a second radio link control entity belonging to two different cell groups. The method includes determining an amount of data available for transmission, the amount of data available for transmission including packet data convergence protocol data and radio link control data pending for initial transmission in the first radio link control entity and the second radio link control entity. The method includes comparing the amount of data available for transmission with a threshold. The method includes submitting the packet data convergence protocol data to a first radio link control entity in response to the amount of data available for transmission being below the threshold.
US11877174B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing telecommunications equipment health monitoring and management. In various embodiments, a computing system might receive, from a monitoring sensor(s), one or more characteristics of each of at least one of telecommunications equipment, telecommunications equipment batteries, or battery strings, in some cases via a network maintenance tunnel. The computing system might analyze the monitored one or more characteristics to identify each telecommunications equipment, each telecommunications equipment battery, or each battery string having equipment health issues. Based on a determination that one or more of at least one telecommunications equipment, at least one telecommunications equipment battery, or at least one battery string have equipment health issues, the computing system might send a notification to a user(s), the notification comprising information regarding the at least one telecommunications equipment, the at least one telecommunications equipment battery, and/or the at least one battery string having equipment health issues.
US11877172B2
A base station (BS) and user equipment (UE) are configured to perform measurement/reporting and spectrum coordination request/response in wireless networks. A method for operating a UE includes receiving configuration information for measuring interference from a neighboring cell, measuring the interference from the neighboring cell based on the configuration information, and computing a change in the measured interference from the neighboring cell based on a current measured interference level and a previous measured interference level. The method further includes determining, based on at least in part a determination that the change in the measured interference exceeds a first threshold, whether to generate a measurement report and transmitting the measurement report on an uplink channel.
US11877169B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to receive a downlink transmission from a first cell, where the downlink transmission includes information for performing one or more actions associated with a second cell. The UE may identify a satisfaction of a trigger condition associated with one or more parameters at the UE based on a power level of the UE being less than or equal to a threshold power level, a throughput at the UE being less than or equal to a threshold throughput, or both. The UE may additionally identify at least one bandwidth associated with the second cell based on a previous wireless connection. The UE may compare, the at least one bandwidth associated with the second cell with a threshold bandwidth. The UE may then perform at least one action associated with a procedure based on the comparing.
US11877164B2
Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band. One embodiment is a digital communications system including a transmitter transmitting signals via a communication channel, the transmitter including a coder capable of receiving user bits and outputting encoded bits at a rate, a mapper capable of mapping encoded bits to symbols in a constellation, and a modulator capable of generating a modulated signal for transmission via the communication channel using symbols generated by the mapper, wherein the constellation is unequally spaced and characterizable by assignment of locations and labels of constellation points to maximize parallel decode capacity of the constellation at a given signal-to-noise ratio so that the constellation provides a given capacity at a reduced signal-to-noise ratio compared to a uniform constellation that maximizes the minimum distance between constellation points of the uniform constellation.
US11877163B2
Disclosed is a method of operating a Radio Access Network (RAN) including a Radio Unit (RU), a first Distributed Unit (DU), a second DU that functions as a dynamic standby DU, and a network management device. After the RU transmits data to the first DU using a configuration parameter set to an address of the first DU, the RU detects an outage of the first DU. In response to detecting the outage, the RU transmits to the network management device a message indicating detection of the outage. In response, the network management device configures the second DU to perform the functions of the first DU, and causes the second DU to request the RU to set the configuration parameter to an address of the second DU. The RU then uses the configuration parameter set to the address of the second DU to transmit data to the second DU.
US11877162B2
A method and system is described that performs dynamic slice management for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Flight path information associated with a flight path of a UAV is used to determine a predicted optimal application and a predicted optimal network slice for use by the UAV at a location along the flight path. Information associated with the predicted optimal application and the predicted optimal network slice is transmitted to the UAV for use by the UAV at the location. The available network slices to the UAV may be updated based on the determined predicted optimal slice. The UAV may adjust its usage of applications and/or slices based on the information it receives associated with the predicted optimal application and the predicted optimal network slice.
US11877156B2
The present disclosure relates to a method performed by a UE (103) in a communications system (100). The UE (103) provides information indicating its SI protection capability to a node (101, 105). The SI protection capability is associated with the UE's (103) capability and need to verify SI signatures. The UE (103) obtains SI protection information from the node (101, 105), and uses the SI protection information.
US11877153B2
In an embodiment, a communication method, using OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing), comprises transmitting and receiving packets between a first node and at least one second node, where each packet comprises a preamble and payload data. The method, performed by the first node, may comprise receiving packets from the at least one second node, and authenticating the at least one second node based on physical layer characteristics, i.e., on CSI (Channel State Information). The authenticating may be based on a plurality of preambles, which are extracted from a group of consecutively received packets.
US11877150B2
An information obtaining method and an apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: sending a first initial NAS message including a non-cleartext information element protected using a first root key from a terminal to a source mobility management network element; receiving a second root key and first indication information from the source mobility management network element, where the first indication information indicates that the second root key is an updated key; sending second indication information and third indication information to the terminal based on the first indication information, where the second indication information indicates the terminal to update the first root key stored by the terminal to obtain the second root key, and the third indication information indicates the terminal to resend the initial NAS message; and receiving a second initial NAS message including the non-cleartext information element protected using the second root key from the terminal.
US11877148B2
A communication terminal (10) includes control means for generating a subscription concealed identifier (SUCI) including a subscription permanent identifier (SUPI) concealed using a predetermined protection scheme, and a protection scheme identifier identifying the protection scheme, and transmission means for sending the SUCI to a first network apparatus during a registration procedure, the SUCI being sent for a second network apparatus to de-conceal the SUPI from the SUCI based on the protection scheme used to generate the SUCI.
US11877144B2
Various examples and schemes pertaining to enhancements for sidelink (SL) resource allocation in New Radio (NR) vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications are described. A user equipment (UE) transmits to a peer UE assistance information with respect to a result of sensing of one or more resources reserved for a SL communication. The UE then receives a transmission from the peer UE on a resource selected by the peer UE based on the assistance information.
US11877141B2
A method for mapping a plurality of input channels of an input channel configuration to output channels of an output channel configuration includes providing a set of rules associated with each input channel of the plurality of input channels, wherein the rules define different mappings between the associated input channel and a set of output channels. For each input channel of the plurality of input channels, a rule associated with the input channel is accessed, determination is made whether the set of output channels defined in the accessed rule is present in the output channel configuration, and the accessed rule is selected if the set of output channels defined in the accessed rule is present in the output channel configuration. The input channels are mapped to the output channels according to the selected rule.
US11877127B2
An apparatus comprising means for: capturing an audio scene using multiple microphones; determining that the captured audio scene has unacceptable detected noise; in dependence upon determining that the captured audio scene has unacceptable detected noise, searching both different sets of one or more microphones and different physical rotation angles of the microphones to find a combination of a first set of one or more microphones and a first physical rotation angle of the microphones that captures the audio scene with acceptable detected noise; and controlling the physical rotation angle of the microphones to be the first physical rotation angle of the microphones and capturing the audio scene using the combination of the first set of one or more microphones and the first physical rotation angle of the microphones.
US11877124B2
An audio system for user hearing assessment includes one or more audio capture devices, and processing circuitry. The one or more audio capture devices are configured to capture audio of a conversation of a user and convert the audio to audio signals. The processing circuitry is configured to use the audio signals to identify multiple conditions associated with user hearing difficulty. The conditions include any of words, phrases, frequencies, or phonemes, and environmental audio conditions that are followed by an indication of user hearing difficulty. The processing circuitry is configured to generate a hearing profile for the user based on the identified conditions associated with user hearing difficulty. The processing circuitry is configured to adjust an operation of an audio output device using the hearing profile to reduce a frequency of user hearing difficulty if the user requires audio enhancement.
US11877115B2
A convertible head wearable audio device is provided that may include a headband having a first earpiece at a first end and a receptacle at a second end. The convertible head wearable audio device may also include a wireless interface. The wireless interface may be configured to communicatively couple the convertible head wearable audio device to a remote device. The convertible head wearable audio device may further include an active noise cancellation module. The active noise cancellation module may be configured to reduce ambient noise from an audio output of the convertible head wearable audio device.
US11877112B2
An in-ear listening device having a device housing including a speaker housing and an elongated tube protruding away from the speaker housing, an audio port formed through the speaker housing, a speaker disposed in the speaker housing and aligned to emit sound through the audio port, a microphone port formed through the elongated tube, a microphone disposed in the elongated tube and operatively coupled to receive sound through the microphone port, a rechargeable battery and a wireless antenna disposed within the device housing, wireless circuitry coupled to the wireless antenna and configured to input and output radio frequency signals for wireless communications, a user-interface touch control disposed on the device housing and operable to control a function of the earbud, and battery charging circuitry coupled to the rechargeable battery and positioned within the device housing and operable to charge the rechargeable battery when coupled to receive power from an external power source.
US11877109B2
An earmuff module of a headphone includes a back cover, a sound-receiving hole, a microphone assembly, and an earmuff. The back cover includes a peripheral side wall. The sound-receiving hole is formed on the peripheral side wall of the back cover and penetrates through the peripheral side wall. The microphone assembly is disposed on an inner surface of the peripheral side wall and corresponds to the sound-receiving hole, and is acoustically connected with the sound-receiving hole. The earmuff is detachably assembled on the back cover, and the earmuff includes a foam and a wrapping cover. The wrapping cover includes an extension part and a covering part. The covering part covers the foam. The extension part extends from one end of the covering part to an outer surface of the peripheral side wall and covers the sound-receiving hole. The microphone assembly is located within a range covered by the extension part.
US11877104B2
A display method includes projecting, by a projector on a first projection surface located at a first distance from the projector, a first image which represents a size of a second image to be projected on a second projection surface by the projector, the second projection surface being located at a second distance, different from the first distance, from the projector.
US11877100B2
According to one embodiment, a display device including a first substrate including an organic film, a first recess and a second recess formed in the organic film, and a first projection having the organic film, a second substrate, and a sealing member located in a second area around a first area, and bonding the first substrate and the second substrate together, wherein the first substrate includes a mounting portion, the first recess and the second recess extend in the second area, a first leading end portion of the first recess is separated from a second leading end portion of the second recess, and the first projection, the first recess and the second recess overlap the sealing member.
US11877099B2
A recording system includes a shooting data acquisition unit, a passenger detection unit, a driver detection unit, a determination unit, and a recording control unit. The shooting data acquisition unit acquires shooting data from a camera for taking an image of inside/outside of a vehicle in which a driver and a passenger ride. The passenger detection unit detects at least the passenger. The driver detection unit detects the driver in a predetermined range. The determination unit determines whether the passenger inside the vehicle has gotten out thereof. The recording control unit instructs, after the driver detection unit no longer detects the driver detected until then, when the determination unit determines that the passenger has gotten out of the vehicle, a recording device to record the shooting data of the outside thereof.
US11877096B2
Provided are techniques for integrating a body camera with a locking mechanism. The techniques include assigning a body camera to a user and detecting a proximity of the body camera to a locking mechanism. The techniques also include determining a state of the locking mechanism, and automatically triggering recording of the body camera based at least in part on the proximity and the state of the locking mechanism.
US11877093B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, method, and user interfaces to facilitate communication between users via multiple modes of electronic communication. The system displays a conversation view that presents messages exchanged between a first user and at least one other user in an electronic chat conversation. The conversation view includes an interactive element to enable the first user to initiate a video call with the at least one other user. Based on receiving user input corresponding to an interaction with the interactive element, the system initiates the video call with the at least one other user. The system displays an active call view to facilitate the video call with the at least one other user. The system toggles from displaying the active call view to displaying the conversation view in response to further user input.
US11877089B2
The present invention generally relates to an attachment for a firearm that communicates with remote device or person such as emergency services. One embodiment of the present invention is selectively interconnected to a picatinny rail, weaver rail, or other mounting means, and the embodiment includes a button that allows a user to initiate communication with emergency services without removing his or her hands from the firearm.
US11877083B2
A solid-state imaging device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes two or more pixels. The pixels each include a photoelectric converter, a charge holding section, and a transfer transistor. The charge holding section holds electric charge transferred from the photoelectric converter. The transfer transistor transfers electric charge from the photoelectric converter to the charge holding section. The pixels each further include a light blocking section that is disposed in a layer between the photoelectric converter and the charge holding section. The light blocking section has an opening which a vertical gate runs through. The pixels each further include a charge blocking section that blocks transfer of electric charge to the transfer transistor via a region between an edge, of the opening, closer to the charge holding section and the vertical gate.
US11877079B2
A pixel for an image sensor includes a photon sensor, a memory, and an accumulator. The photon sensor element portion outputs a signal to an accumulator, which then may add value stored in memory together and may transfer the result to the memory of another pixel. The pixel may be analog or digital and may be used in a pixel array for compressed sensing imaging. During imaging, a pseudo-random mask may also be used. The data collected during imaging may be used in compressed sensing and may be sent to an offline storage to be processed.
US11877075B2
An electronic device includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a sensing circuit coupled to at least one of the first transistor and the second transistor. The sensing circuit includes a diode, a third transistor, and a fourth transistor. The diode has a first terminal. The third transistor has a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal of the third transistor is coupled to the first terminal of the diode. The fourth transistor has a first terminal coupled to the second terminal of the third transistor, and a second terminal coupled to a data driver.
US11877061B2
Provided are a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a signal processing program, an imaging apparatus, and a lens apparatus capable of accurately removing an offset from an output signal of a blurring detection sensor. The signal processing device comprises the blurring detection sensor and a processor. The processor is configured to execute processing of extracting a first feature amount relating to the offset from the output signal of the blurring detection sensor, processing of integrating the output signal, processing of extracting a second feature amount relating to the offset from a value obtained by integrating the output signal, processing of calculating the offset on the basis of the first feature amount and the second feature amount, and processing of subtracting the calculated offset from the output signal.
US11877052B2
A method for filming an event by an autonomous drone, the method may include acquiring, by the autonomous drone, a current set of images of the event; generating signatures of the current set of images to provide current signatures; searching for one or more relevant concept structures out of a group of concept structures; wherein each relevant concept structure comprises at least one signature that matches at least one of first signatures; wherein each concept structure is associated with filming parameters; and determining, at least in part, based on the filming parameters associated with at least one of the one or more relevant concept structures, next filming parameters to be applied during an acquisition of one or more next sets of images.
US11877050B2
The present disclosure provides systems, apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media that support linking paused video recordings captured over a period of time. In a first aspect, a method of image processing may include determining a match between first image data and second image data; presenting an indication to a user of the match; receiving user input responsive to the indication; and based on determining the match and the user input indicating to combine the first image data and the second image data, determining output image data comprising at least some of the first image data and at least some of the second image data. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US11877049B2
This application discloses a viewing angle adjustment method and device, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The method may include: detecting, by a terminal by using a sensor in the terminal, that the terminal changes from a first position to a second position, the terminal displaying a first image in a virtual scene at a first viewing angle when the terminal is located at the first position, and the first image displaying an object targeting identifier; determining a second viewing angle according to the first position, the second position, the first viewing angle, a second variation quantity from the first viewing angle to the second viewing angle corresponding to a first variation quantity from the first position to the second position; and displaying, by the terminal, a second image in the virtual scene at the second viewing angle when the terminal is located at the second position, the second image also displaying the object targeting identifier.
US11877048B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for predictive camera initialization. An example method can include obtain, from a first image capture device, image data depicting a scene; classify the scene based on the image data; based on the classification of the scene, predict a camera use event; and based on the predicted camera use event, adjust a power mode of at least one of the first image capture device and a second image capture device.
US11877042B2
An embodiment of the present invention comprises: a housing; a bobbin disposed within the housing; a first magnet disposed on a first side of the bobbin; a second magnet disposed on a second side of the bobbin; a first coil disposed in the housing so as to correspond to the first magnet; a second coil disposed in the housing so as to correspond to the second magnet; first to third springs coupled to the bobbin; and a circuit board disposed in the housing and having first and second terminals, wherein the first spring connects one end of the first coil with the first terminal of the circuit board, the second spring connects one end of the second coil with the second terminal of the circuit board, and the third spring connects the other end of the first coil with the other end of the second coil.
US11877041B2
An image sensor including a planar sensor array, a lens configured to form an optical image on the planar sensor array and characterized by a locus of focal points on a curved surface, and a cover glass with multiple thickness levels or multiple cover glasses of different sizes. The one or more cover glasses are configured to shift the locus of focal points for large field angles, such that there are multiple intersections between the planar sensor array and the locus of focal points for a large FOV, and thus multiple zones with best focus on the planar sensor array.
US11877034B2
Disclosed are a display apparatus and a channel control method. The channel control method includes: upon receiving channel number information that constructs a channel number in a display apparatus from a control device, obtaining a second channel number according to an instruction for indicating the channel number information each time; determining whether a length of the second channel number is equal to the maximum length of a channel number of a channel list in the display apparatus; and in response to the length of the second channel number being equal to the maximum length of the channel list, directly switching to program content corresponding to the second channel number.
US11877033B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for subjective evaluation. In some examples, processing circuitry receives scores graded by a subject to a media presentation. The scores by the subject includes a plurality of self comparison scores that are graded to self comparison tests in the media presentation. The processing circuitry applies a first rule and a second rule to the plurality of self comparison scores. The first rule requires a first subset of the plurality of self comparison scores in a first range. The second rule requires a second subset of the plurality of self comparison scores in a second range to limit at least an outlier to the first rule according to the second range. The processing circuitry determines that the scores by the subject are qualified for the subjective evaluation in response to the first rule and the second rule being satisfied.
US11877031B2
An audio mixing method for network streaming includes the steps of establishing a network streaming connection between the first end and the second end, generating a text voiced audio signal based on a trigger signal by the first end, mixing a play signal and the text voiced audio signal into a play signal with the text voiced audio signal, in the state of the network streaming connection, transmitting the play signal with text voiced audio signal to the second end, and the play signal with text voiced audio signal is played by the second end.
US11877028B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed herein to identify media presentation by analyzing network traffic. Example instructions cause a machine to generate a traffic profile to reduce a computational burden of identifying streaming media being presented on a media presentation device, the traffic profile including first network traffic data indicative of the streaming media; obtain the traffic profile and second network traffic data corresponding to the streaming media; and generate, in response to a score for the second network traffic data meeting a threshold of similarity, a network traffic analysis report identifying the streaming media being presented on the media presentation device.
US11877027B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine the number of people at a location. An example apparatus includes a configuration changer to change a configuration setting of the base station to cause mobile devices to register with the base station, a registration manager to respond to registration requests received from the mobile devices after the configuration setting is changed by storing device identification information for the corresponding mobile devices, and a counter controller to identify a number of the mobile devices at a location of the base station based on the stored device identification information.
US11877021B2
A transmitting device (30, 30a) is configured to transmit, to a receiving device (40, 40a), a plurality of video signals captured from different positions, the plurality of video signals being grouped by a plurality of groups depending on imaging positions at which the video signals are captured. The transmitting device (30, 30a) comprises: a controller (32) configured to assign an ID for identifying each of the plurality of groups; and a communication interface (37) configured to transmit a video signal to which the ID is assigned, to the receiving device (40, 40a).
US11877020B2
Methods and systems for calculating, storing, and allowing electronic searches for metadata associated with media titles. The metadata includes scores specific to each actor and each genre of a media title, where the scores indicate the degree to which an actor's performance in that title corresponds to a particular genre. Electronic searches for particular actors' performance in a specific genre thus return more accurate results that more correctly reflect how well the actors' performances reflect that genre.
US11877019B2
A video streaming client is configured to check whether a target version of a desired video content is available for streaming from a video streaming server, the target version being encoded to a target value of an encoding attribute. The video streaming client obtains a data communication speed to the video streaming server, and determines that the data communication speed is sufficient to stream and display the target version of the desired video content. The target value is less than a maximum value of the encoding attribute which is decodable by the video streaming client. The video streaming client is configured to select to stream the target version of the desired video content even though the data communication speed is sufficient to stream a version of the desired video content without playback interruption when encoded using a value of the encoding attribute which is higher than the target value.
US11877016B2
The present disclosure provides a technical solution of live comments generating, which may acquire candidate texts highly similar with segments of video as live comments of corresponding segments by matching the candidate texts with the segments, and further generate new live comments based on video segments and existed live comments to enrich the live comments information of related video.
US11877009B2
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.
US11877008B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus and method that make it possible to suppress degradation of the encoding efficiency. In the case where primary transform that is a transform process for a prediction residual that is a difference between an image and a prediction image of the image is to be skipped, also secondary transform, which is a transform process for a primary transform coefficient obtained by the primary transform of the prediction residual, is skipped. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to an image processing apparatus, an image encoding apparatus, an image decoding apparatus and so forth.
US11877003B2
A prediction image correcting device comprises a predictor (108) configured to predict a target image block obtained by dividing a present image frame by using a plurality of reference images to generate a prediction image corresponding to the target image block a prediction accuracy evaluator (109) configured to evaluate prediction accuracy of the prediction image based on a degree of similarity between the plurality of reference images used for generating the prediction image and a corrector (110) configured to perform correction processing on the prediction image by using a decoded neighboring block adjacent to the target image block, wherein the corrector is configured to control the correction processing based at least on an evaluation result of the prediction accuracy evaluator.
US11877001B2
A device for video decoding can be configured to obtain, from a syntax structure in a bitstream comprising an encoded representation of the video data, a syntax element indicating whether 6-parameter affine prediction is enabled for blocks corresponding to the syntax structure, wherein the blocks corresponding to the syntax structure comprise a first block; based on the syntax element indicating that the 6-parameter affine prediction is enabled for the blocks corresponding to the syntax structure, use the 6-parameter affine prediction to generate a predictive block for the first block; and use the predictive block and residual data to reconstruct the first block.
US11876998B2
An image decoding method according to the present invention can comprise the steps of: deriving merge candidates from neighboring blocks adjacent to a current block; generating a merge candidate list including the merge candidates, wherein the arrangement order of the merge candidates in the merge candidate list is determined on the basis of initial priorities; re-arranging the merge candidates included in the merge candidate list; decoding information for specifying at least one of the merge candidates included in the merge candidate list; and deriving motion information of the current block from a merge candidate corresponding to the information.
US11876995B2
A method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video comprising one or more scalable video layers and a bitstream of the video. The video comprises one or more video pictures comprising one or more slices. The bitstream conforms to a format rule. The format rule specifies that a value of a field indicative of a slice type of a slice is set to indicate a type of intra slice in case that a corresponding network abstraction layer unit type is in a predetermined range and that a corresponding video layer flag indicates that a video layer containing the slice does not use inter-layer prediction.
US11876988B2
A method of task-adaptive pre-processing (TAPP) for neural image compression is performed by at least one processor and includes generating a substitutional image, based on an input image, using a TAPP neural network, and encoding the generated substitutional image to generate a compressed representation, using a first neural network. The TAPP neural network is trained by generating a substitutional training image, based on an input training image, using the TAPP neural network, encoding the generated substitutional training image to generate a compressed training representation, using the first neural network, decoding the generated compressed training representation to reconstruct an output training image, using a second neural network, generating gradients of a rate-distortion (R-D) loss that is generated based on the input training image, the reconstructed output training image and the generated compressed training representation, and updating the generated substitutional training image, based on the generated gradients of the R-D loss.
US11876984B2
According to the disclosure of the present document, a luma mapping with chroma scaling (LMCS) process may be simplified, and a linear LMCS may be applied. Accordingly, the complexity of the LMCS may be reduced and video/image coding efficiency may be increased.
US11876983B2
A method for decoding/encoding an image signal with the decoding/encoding apparatus according to the present invention may comprise the steps of obtaining a first prediction sample of a current block by performing inter prediction on the current block, determining one or more weight prediction parameter candidates for the current block, determining a weight prediction parameter of the current block from the one or more weight prediction parameter candidates, and obtaining a second prediction sample of the current block by applying the weight prediction parameter to the first prediction sample. Herein, a number of the one or more weight prediction parameter candidates is variably determined based on a size of the current block.
US11876981B2
Coding techniques for 360-degree video are described. An encoder selects a projection format and maps the 360-degree video to a 2D planar video using the selected projection format. The encoder encodes the 2D planar video in a bitstream and further signals, in the bitstream, parameters identifying the projection format. The parameters identifying the projection format may be signaled in a video parameter set, sequence parameter set, and/or picture parameter set of the bitstream. Different projection formats that may be signaled include formats using geometries such as equirectangular, cubemap, equal-area, octahedron, icosahedron, cylinder, and user-specified polygon. Other parameters that may be signaled include different arrangements of geometric faces or different encoding quality for different faces. Corresponding decoders are also described. In some embodiments, projection parameters may further include relative geometry rotation parameters that define an orientation of the projection geometry.
US11876975B2
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for coding video data. Video data having a coding tree unit size is received. The coding tree unit size associated with the video data is signaled by setting two or more flags. The video data is encoded/decoded based on the flags corresponding to the signaled coding tree unit size.
US11876970B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines that a non-interleaved separate tree structure is used for coding different color components of coding tree units (CTUs) in a bitstream. The processing circuitry decodes a first color component of a plurality of CTUs from a first portion of the bitstream, and decodes a second color component of the plurality of CTUs from a second portion of the bitstream, the second portion is located after the first portion in the bitstream.
US11876968B2
An encoding method is presented. Transform coefficients of a block are first obtained. They are then scanned according to a scan pattern for entropy coding. The scan pattern is determined responsive to a shape of the block. FIG. 5
US11876966B2
An image decoding method according to the present document comprises a step for performing inverse first-order transform and inverse non-separable transform on a residual sample. The inverse non-separable transform is performed on the basis of a transform index indicating a predetermined transform kernel matrix, the inverse first-order transform is performed on the basis of a multiple transform selection (MTS) index indicating MTS for a horizontal transform kernel and a vertical transform kernel, and a syntax element bin string for the transform index is derived on the basis of first context information when a tree type for a split structure of a target block is not a single tree type and is derived on the basis of second context information when the tree type is the single tree type.
US11876965B2
A versatile video coding (VVC) method includes obtaining a plurality of video sources; encoding the plurality of video sources into a bitstream including a plurality of independent layers corresponding to the plurality of video sources; generating signaling information on the plurality of independent layers and integrating the signaling information with the bitstream; and transferring the bitstream for decoding processing, wherein the signaling information is to be used in the decoding process to enable a single decoder instance to decode the plurality of independent layers similar to a single-layer bitstream. The signaling information includes at least a video parameter set (VPS), and the VPS includes a flag inbl_one_pic_per_poc_flag equal to 1, which specifies that the bitstream contains independent layers and there is one and only one coded picture with a particular picture order count (POC) value in a same coded video sequence (CVS) among all layers.
US11876964B2
Block-based coding of a picture is done by providing an intra-prediction coding concept according to which a certain block of the picture is intra-prediction coded using a certain intra-coding mode by partitioning the predetermined block into partitions which are, for reconstruction purposes, sequentially subject to spatial prediction using the intra-prediction coding mode signaled for the certain block followed by correcting the thus obtained predictor using a prediction residual so that for preceding partitions a reconstruction of the samples is available to the decoder at the time of processing the next, then current, partition.
US11876957B2
A video processing method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes obtaining motion information and bi-directional prediction weight information for inter prediction of a current block, deriving a prediction sample of the current block based on the motion information and the bi-directional prediction weight information, and updating an HMVP candidate list based on a history-based motion vector predictor (HMVP) candidate including the motion information and the bi-directional prediction weight information. The motion information includes a first reference index and a first motion vector related to a first reference picture and a second reference index and a second motion vector related to a second reference picture. The bi-directional prediction weight information may be used to derive a first weight value applied to a first prediction sample from the first reference picture and a second weight value applied to a second prediction sample from the second reference picture.
US11876950B2
A system and methods for a CODEC driving a real-time light field display for multi-dimensional video streaming, interactive gaming and other light field display applications is provided applying a layered scene decomposition strategy. Multi-dimensional scene data is divided into a plurality of data layers. One or more polygons representative of corresponding portions of objects in the scene are obtained for each layer and used to determine a view-independent representation. This view independent representation and data layers are sampled using a plenoptic sampling scheme and rendered using hybrid rendering to encode light fields corresponding to each data layer. The resulting compressed, (layered) core representation of the multi-dimensional scene data is produced at predictable rates, reconstructed and merged at the light field display in real-time by applying view synthesis protocols, including edge adaptive interpolation, to reconstruct pixel arrays in stages (e.g. columns then rows) from reference elemental images.
US11876947B2
Provided is a method for creating a virtual reality content, storing the virtual reality content in a transmission buffer, and after that, managing the transmission buffer. A server creates the virtual reality content based on user's motion information, stores the virtual reality content in the transmission buffer and is allowed to modify the virtual reality content stored in the transmission buffer based on subsequently received user's motion information, so that the most recent user's motion information can be appropriately reflected in the virtual reality content. It is possible to provide a more immersive virtual reality service.
US11876945B2
A method for acquiring shadow-free images of a document for scanning or other purposes is applied in a device. The method includes training a shadow prediction model based on sample documents of a sample library and inputting a background color and a shadow mask of each of the sample documents extracted by the shadow prediction model into a predetermined shadow removing network for training, to obtain a shadow removing model. The method further includes obtaining a background color and a shadow mask of the document through the shadow prediction model and removing the shadows of the document based on the shadow removing model. The device utilizing the method is also disclosed.
US11876939B1
A power management apparatus for managing a power supply to an electrical device, includes an interface circuit connectable to a plurality of different types of sensors, and a processor configured to generate first log data of states of each of the sensors in a plurality of periods of a day, acquire from the electrical device second log data of operational states of the electrical device in the periods, generate usage data that associates the operational states of the electrical device with the states of each of the sensors and the periods, using the usage data, determine an expected operational state of the electrical device corresponding to current states of each of the sensors and a current period, and control the power supply based on the expected operational state and a current operational state of the electrical device.
US11876925B2
An electronic device and a method for controlling the electronic device are provided. The method for controlling the electronic device includes, based on an occurrence of an event for outputting information being determined, obtaining data for determining a context corresponding to the electronic device, inputting the obtained data to a first model trained by an artificial intelligence algorithm and obtaining information about a person located in a vicinity of the electronic device, inputting the obtained information about the person and information about the event to a second model trained by an artificial intelligence algorithm and obtaining output information corresponding to the event, and providing the obtained output information.
US11876910B2
Exemplary systems, implement a multi-tenant blockchain platform for managing the Einstein cloud platform's decisions using Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) in conjunction with a cloud based computing environment. The system operates a blockchain interface to a blockchain on behalf of a plurality of tenants of the host organization, configures the blockchain to share a training data set between two or more tenants pursuant to a consent agreement, trains an AI model to make recommendations based on the training data set, receives a request to register the AI model with an audit record keeping service, receives a transaction at the blockchain, issues a decision by the AI model to accept or reject the transaction; and then proceeds to transact a new asset onto the blockchain recording the decision to accept or reject the transaction and the data set utilized to train the AI model with a version of the AI model.
US11876903B2
A processor may incorporate one or more keys in a media. The one or more keys may each be associated with a specific instance and the one or more keys may be included in a blockchain. The processor may identify that a first specific instance has been encountered. The processor may provide a first key associated with the first specific instance. The processor may determine to allow access to content of the media.
US11876891B2
Systems and methods are provided for implementing swarm learning while using blockchain technology and election/voting mechanisms to ensure data privacy. Nodes may train local instances of a machine learning model using local data, from which parameters are derived or extracted. Those parameters may be encrypted and persisted until a merge leader is elected that can merge the parameters using a public key generated by an external key manager. A decryptor that is not the merge leader can be elected to decrypt the merged parameter using a corresponding private key, and the decrypted merged parameter can then be shared amongst the nodes, and applied to their local models. This process can be repeated until a desired level of learning has been achieved. The public and private keys are never revealed to the same node, and may be permanently discarded after use to further ensure privacy.
US11876888B2
A division unit (22) divides a plaintext M every b bits from a beginning, thereby generating b-bit values M1, . . . , Mm-1 and a value Mm having 1 or more bits to b or less bits. An S1 calculation unit (241) assigns a b-bit value H1 to a value M0, and for each integer i of i=1, . . . , m in an ascending order, takes a value Mi-1 as input to an encryption function E, thereby calculating a value S1(i), and calculates a value Ci from the value S1(i) and a value Mi. An S2 calculation unit (242) assigns an r-bit value H2 to a value S2(0), and for each integer i of i=1, . . . , m in an ascending order, calculates a value S2(i) from the value S1(i) and from a value S2(i−1). A ciphertext generation unit (243) generates a ciphertext C from a value Ci for each integer i of i=1, . . . , m. An authenticator generation unit (25) generates a (b+r)-bit authenticator T by using a value S1(m) and a value S2(m).
US11876878B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to data transport for an event machine based application. An electronic device identifies a first higher layer protocol for processing an Ethernet frame. The electronic device extracts an ingress payload from the Ethernet frame based on the identified first higher layer protocol. In accordance with a determination that the ingress payload is associated with a plurality of services, the electronic device converts the ingress payload into a first group of events associated with the plurality of services. The electronic device provides the first group of events to an ingress queue so as to be scheduled to the plurality of services.
US11876875B2
In some aspects, an aggregation system of a cloud system may receive, by an aggregation system of a cloud system and from a data catalog, one or more events from one or more data sources of the cloud system, the one or more data sources having one or more resource types. The aggregation system may store event data to a message queue. The aggregation system of a cloud system may process, by one or more workers of the cloud system, a subset of events from the message queue at a time. The aggregation system may for each event in the subset of events: determine whether an event source has been updated based on information in the event. The aggregation system may in accordance with a determination that the event source has been updated, send an updated status to a dashboard, the dashboard configured to be displayed on a user device.
US11876869B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for improved management, selection, and provision of network asset data objects. For example, embodiments described throughout are configured to score various network assets corresponding to real-world assets, items, products, and/or the like, for selection and provision associated with one or more particular user profile identifiers. Embodiments are configured to train network asset scoring model(s) based on specific data, such as prioritized network asset data set(s), such that the trained network asset scoring model(s) efficiently generate more accurate, improved scores for network asset data objects. Additional or alternative embodiments are configured to provide data tagged network asset set(s) utilizing specially trained model(s), such as one or more multi-armed bandit models and/or one or more network asset scoring model(s).
US11876868B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for deriving an operating system identity. One method includes determining, at a remote unit, a type of operating system used by the remote unit. The method includes determining a domain name corresponding to the type of operating system. The method includes deriving an operating system identity by applying a hash function to the domain name and a predetermined value. The method includes transmitting a first message to a mobile communication network. In such embodiments, the first message includes the operating system identity.
US11876856B2
A method for computational-power sharing is provided. In implementations of the disclosure, a computational-power sharing network element is connected with a network to perform control plane transmission and data plane transmission, or the computational-power sharing network element is connected with the network to perform control plane transmission. The computational-power sharing network element acquires computational-power demand information transmitted by a computing demand side and available computational-power information transmitted by at least one computing cooperation side. The computational-power sharing network element determines a computing cooperation side from the at least one computing cooperation side according to the computational-power demand information and the available computational-power information, and directly or indirectly indicates the computing cooperation side to complete a computing task of the computing demand side, where the computing cooperation side is able to provide computational power for the computing demand side.
US11876851B2
A messaging channel is embedded directly into a media stream. Messages delivered via the embedded messaging channel are extracted at a client media player. According to a variant embodiment, and in lieu of embedding all of the message data in the media stream, only a coordination index is injected, and the message data is sent separately and merged into the media stream downstream (at the client media player) based on the coordination index. In one example embodiment, multiple data streams (each potentially with different content intended for a particular “type” or class of user) are transmitted alongside the video stream in which the coordination index (e.g., a sequence number) has been injected into a video frame. Based on a user's service level, a particular one of the multiple data streams is released when the sequence number appears in the video frame, and the data in that stream is associated with the media.
US11876838B2
Methods and devices employed in providing lawful interception (LI) by products related to a service session of an LI target as a unique chain. The packets sent to a legal enforcement agency are chained and have shorter headers. The number of packets is reduced by including both intercept-related information (IRI) and content of communications (CC) in the same packet if time-wise appropriate.
US11876837B2
A user of a client device accesses a service provided by a server computer. The server computer gathers data about the user. The data gathered may be kept private by the server computer, shared only with other computers and users owned by the same entity, shared with selected third parties, or made public. The server computer provides a privacy policy document that describes how the data gathered is used. A privacy server analyzes the privacy policy document and, based on the analysis, generates a privacy score. The privacy score or an informational message selected based on the privacy score are provided to the client device. In response, the client device presents the privacy score or the informational message to the user. In this way, the user is informed of privacy risks that result from accessing the server computer.
US11876832B2
A Web site comprise detection method and system are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a resource identifier associated with a remote computer, and then receiving source code associated with the resource identifier. The method also includes parsing the source code, analyzing the source code to determine an indicator of compromise is present in the source code, determining that the indicator of compromise is associated with malware meta-data, and storing the resource identifier associated with the source code associated with the malware meta-data in a database.
US11876829B2
One variation of a method for emulating a known attack on a computer network includes: generating a set of data packets by recombining packet fragments within a packet capture file representing packet fragments transmitted between machines during a prior malicious attack on a second network; defining transmission triggers for transmission of the set of data packets between pairs of agents connected to a target network based on timestamps of packet fragments in the packet capture file; initiating transmission of the set of data packets between the pairs agents according to the set of transmission triggers to simulate the malicious attack on the target network; and, in response to absence of a security event related to the simulation in a log of a security technology deployed on the target network, generating a prompt to reconfigure the security technology to respond to the malicious attack.
US11876828B2
Systems and methods are described for using a template for simulated phishing campaigns based on predetermined date from a date associated with a user. The predetermined date may by an event, an anniversary or a milestone associated with employment of the user with a company. The campaign controller may identify a date associated with the user and based on the identification of the date associated with the user, the campaign controller may select one or more templates for one or more simulated phishing campaigns to be triggered by a predetermined date related to the date associated with the user.
US11876824B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving a AAG from computer-readable memory, generating from logical network ontology data, asset inventory data, and asset communication data, a logical topology of the enterprise network as a computer-readable data structure, defining, at least partially by executing community detection over the logical topology, a sub-set of groups within the enterprise network, each group representing a process of a plurality of process, each process being at least partially executed by one or more assets within the enterprise network, processing the AAG based on the sub-set of groups and data from one or more contextual data sources to provide the process aware AAG, the process aware AAG defining a mapping between an infrastructure-layer of the enterprise network and a process-layer of the enterprise network, and executing one or more remedial actions in the enterprise network in response to analytics executed on the process aware AAG.
US11876817B2
A system and a method for modeling queue-based message-oriented middleware (MoM) are provided. The method commences with connecting with a MoM system and converting information associated with the MoM system into a standardized object model. The standardized object model may include a queue-based node, at least one producer application, and at least one consumer application. The at least one producer application provides a message to the queue-based node. The at least one consumer application receives the message from the queue-based node. The message persists in the queue until consumed by the at least one consumer application. The method continues with generating a standardized graph of relationships between a producer and a consumer over a period of time. The method further includes creating a policy, periodically analyzing the standardized graph for at least one deviation from the policy, and issuing an alert in response to detecting the at least one deviation.
US11876815B2
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; and an anomaly detection engine including instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: periodically collect telemetry for a performance parameter; compute and maintain a local trend line for the performance parameter; receive from a cloud service a global trend line for the performance parameter for a class of devices including the computing apparatus; and perform anomaly detection including analyzing the local trend line and the global trend line to detect an anomaly.
US11876810B2
A method of detecting a malicious node in a bus network system includes pre-storing, by a receiving node, autocorrelation characteristics and node identifiers for each signal received from nodes excluding than the receiving node in a bus network system, receiving, by the receiving node, a target signal from any one of the nodes, generating, by the receiving node, an autocorrelation characteristic of the target signal, searching for an autocorrelation characteristic, which is identical to the autocorrelation characteristic of the target signal or similar to the autocorrelation characteristic of the target signal by a reference level or more, among the autocorrelation characteristics of each of the signals stored by the receiving node, determining, by the receiving node, whether a first node identifier matching the searched autocorrelation characteristic and a second node identifier extracted from a packet transmitted to the target signal are the same.
US11876806B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to user authentication. In some embodiments, a first computing device receives, from a second computing device, a request for a user credential to be input into an authentication prompt associated with the second device. The first computing device determines a proximity associated with the second computing device based on a received wireless location beacon and, based on the request and the determined proximity, presents a selection prompt asking a user of the first computing device to select a user credential stored in the first computing device. The first computing device then provides the selected user credential to the second computing device to input into the authentication prompt. In some embodiments, the first computing device receives the wireless location beacon from a remote controller of the second computing device and determines a proximity based on a signal strength associated with the received location beacon.
US11876800B2
A device may determine that a first link of the device is active. The device may determine whether a Media Access Control Security (MACsec) session is established on the first link. The device may selectively enable or disable a second link of the device based on determining whether the MACsec session is established on the first link.
US11876798B2
A virtual delivery appliance may communicate with a client device over a network to provide the client device with a virtualized session for a user. A processor may be configured to communicate with the client device over the network to perform a registration operation with a relying party. An application within the virtualized session may perform an authentication operation with the relying party to access a resource. The processor may be configured to forward an authentication challenge message to the client device in response to the application receiving the authentication challenge message from the relying party for the user to access the resource, and receive an authentication answer message in response to the authentication challenge message from the client device.
US11876797B2
A method includes logging into a server and sending geolocation information to the server by a first device. The first device requests rights to decrypt a secure data file, and in response, the server sends a machine-readable optical label to the first device. The first device displays the machine-readable optical label. A second device logs into the server, and scans the machine-readable optical label displayed by the first device to create a scanned image. The second device decodes data from the scanned image to form decoded data. Geolocation information of the second device and the decoded data are submitted to the server. The decoded data and the geolocation information are validated by the server, and in response to successfully validating the geolocation information, a link completion status indicator is sent to the second device, and information to decrypt the secure data file is sent to the first device.
US11876793B2
Simultaneous distributed application support of multiple identity management systems is provided through the use of virtual web server instances, which enable one identity management system, on physical servers already running a pre-existing web server instance, which enables a different identity management system. Further, an intelligent rules-based determination is implemented to determine whether to route an access request to either the virtual or pre-existing web server instance. Since the virtual web server instances are generated on the same physical server that executes the pre-existing web service instance, the the existing network flow (i.e., a single URL) and physical infrastructure is leveraged to create a simplified approach to managing the simultaneous use of multiple identity management systems across different distributed applications.
US11876790B2
A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by an authentication device, from a client device and via a network device, a plurality of passcode packets as part of a request to be authenticated by the authentication device; recording, by the authentication device, a sequence of port identifiers corresponding to respective ports of the network device via which the plurality of passcode packets are received; and authenticating, by the authentication device, the client device based on the sequence of port identifiers.
US11876784B2
A service proxy is described herein. The service proxy is configured to act as an intermediary between a client and a service. The service proxy may observe communications, modify communications, log communications, or the like, particularly so as to enhance the security and reliability of the host device. In some implementations, the service proxy may cooperate with an operating system to take over a named port object. In some implementations, the service proxy may receive messages as an intermediary between the client and the server. In some implementations, the service proxy may attach to a shared memory to intercept communications. In some implementations, the service proxy may be injected into a client process to appear to be the client itself.
US11876780B2
A facility controlling a communication device to create a disconnected ad hoc network and then to rejoin an internetwork is described. The communication device makes a direct or indirect wireless connection with a participant in a network in which the communication device was formerly a participant. In response to making the connection, the communication device: (1) communicates with a registration authority of the network to synchronize a provisional registration authority state established by the first communication device during a period after the communication device was formally a participant in the network and before the connection was made; and (2) communicates with a security authority of the network to synchronize a security authority state established by the communication device during the period.
US11876776B2
In one aspect, an example method includes receiving, from a first content-presentation device, a request for supplemental content for use in connection with performing a content-modification operation; identifying a download conflict between the first content-presentation device and a second content-presentation device having a same IP address as the first content-presentation device; and providing, to the first content-presentation device, a response to the request, with the request including a download delay instruction. Reception of the download delay instruction by the first content-presentation device causes the first content-presentation device to wait until a condition associated with the download delay instruction is satisfied before downloading a supplemental content item specified in the response.
US11876774B2
A request to resolve at least a name of a domain of a name identifier is received. It is automatically determined that the name of the domain is to be resolved using a blockchain. The identifier of the non-fungible token is used to send a request to a smart contract associated with the blockchain to obtain one or more resolution records for the domain. The blockchain stores the non-fungible token associating the domain to an account address of an owner of the domain. The one or more resolution records of the domain are received. The received one or more resolution records are used to resolve at least the name of the domain.
US11876766B2
A noise management system analyzes messages from a sender to a plurality of recipients. The noise management system prepares a message frequency of a quantity of messages sent to a unique recipient over a period of time. The noise management system sends the message frequency with a noise rank to the client device for the recipient to review.
US11876762B1
Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging and imaging software and systems by generating and displaying media overlays with avatars of different users. For example, media overlays can be generated by the system and displayed in conjunction with media content (e.g., images and/or video) generated by an image-capturing device (e.g., a digital camera).
US11876749B2
A DCI transmission method, a terminal, and a base station are provided. The method includes: receiving DCI, wherein when there is simultaneously in a network a paging message for an idle-state terminal and a change of system information, the DCI carries PDSCH scheduling information for the paging message and a short message; otherwise, the DCI carries the scheduling information or the short message, where the short message is used to indicate the change of system information; and obtaining at least one of the scheduling information or the short message from the DCI.
US11876745B2
A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that reduces a resource to which at least one of an uplink channel and a sounding reference signal (SRS) is mapped, in a case that a first resource provided for the uplink channel overlaps a second resource provided for the SRS, and a transmitting section that performs at least one of a transmission of the uplink channel and a transmission of the SRS. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, in a case that a resource provided for an uplink transmission overlaps a resource provided for an SRS, appropriate processing is performed.
US11876736B2
A time-frequency resource allocation method includes: obtaining an uplink reference signal of user equipment (UE) on which allocation is to be performed when scheduling a time-frequency resource for the UE; measuring, based on the obtained uplink reference signal, each beam in a second preset quantity of orthogonal beam groups including a first preset quantity of beams, to determine a level of each beam; then determining, based on the level of each beam, a beam attribute that is of the UE and that is in the second preset quantity of orthogonal beam groups; and then, allocating, based on the beam attribute that is of the UE and a beam attribute that is of one or more UEs on which allocation has already been performed and that is in the second preset quantity of orthogonal beam groups, the time-frequency resource to the UE on which allocation is to be performed.
US11876730B2
A method performed by a network node connected to one or more additional network nodes, the network node and the one or more additional network nodes forming a cloud. The method including setting a first timer to a first value, the first timer associated with determining whether another network node from the one or more additional network nodes is an active controller in the cloud. The method further includes determining, before the first timer expires, whether a first message that indicates that another network node from the one or more additional network nodes is the active controller is received. The method further includes based on determining the first message is received before the first timer expires, restarting the first timer. The method further includes, based on determining the first message is not received before the first timer expires, assigning one or more tasks to at least one network node.
US11876712B2
An example method may include identifying upload packets at a VPN client operating on a client device, and the upload packets include a header with a destination server as the destination field and the client device as the source field, adding, via the VPN client, an additional header identifying the client device in an additional source field and identifying an interconnect server center (ISC) device in an additional destination field, to create modified upload packets, receiving the modified upload packets from the client device at the ISC device, replacing, via the ISC device, the additional source field of the modified upload packets with a new additional source field identifying the ISC device and replacing the additional destination field of the modified upload packets with a new additional destination field identifying a VPN server to create further modified upload packets, and forwarding the further modified upload packets to the VPN server for routing to the destination server.
US11876711B2
A network gateway is provided for routing data flows across a plurality of network connections, the network gateway including a plurality of network interfaces for transmitting data over the plurality of network connections, the plurality of network interfaces including a first network interface; at least one processor configured for: transmitting a sequential burst of packets across the first network interface; based on timestamps recorded when packets in the sequential burst of packets are received at a receiving node, and the size of the packets, generating a bandwidth of the first network interface; and routing a data flow of sequential packets across the plurality of network connections based on the generated bandwidth of the first network interface.
US11876703B2
A method performed by a function in a network node in a telecommunications network having at least one service communication proxy, SCP, deployed between a first network node and a second network node. The method includes receiving a request for routing information to signal a message from the first network node to the second network node. The method further includes responsive to the request from the first network node, providing a response to a network node that sent the request wherein the response identifies at least a portion of a routing path for the message based on a routing path configuration.
US11876693B1
A method comprising identifying a plurality of compute resources of an enterprise network, the compute resources including ports associated with each compute resource, each port being in communication with entities within and outside the enterprise network, for each identified compute resources, identifying a subset of ports associated with a particular compute resource based on a number of connections and a port number of each port, and the ports of the subset of ports being an N most frequently used ports of a particular compute resource of the plurality of compute resources, determining a port signature associated with the particular compute resource based on the identified subset of ports, and determining one or more applications of the enterprise network being executed by the particular compute resource based on the port signature associated with the particular compute resource and providing a report of the one or more applications of the enterprise network.
US11876686B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for conducting a network traffic simulation using hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) archive (HAR) data are disclosed. One method includes receiving HAR file information generated by a web client entity in a test environment, utilizing at least a portion of the HAR file information to generate one or more HTTP transaction test definitions, and utilizing the one or more HTTP transaction test definitions to generate an associated web application server emulation used for performing a test on a system under test (SUT). The method further includes utilizing the web application server emulation to generate a plurality of test packets and generating associated performance metric data representative of the SUT in response to the SUT processing the plurality of test packets.
US11876684B1
Systems and methods are described for controlled migration of workloads between cell systems arranged in a cell-based architecture. Each cell system can implement a portion of an overall workload of the architecture, which may represent a network-accessible service. The isolation provided by cells may prevent widespread problems at the service, but may also conceal errors that might occur should workloads between the cells be redistributed. Such redistribution is often forced at inopportune moments, such as when a cell of the service has already failed. Systems and methods described herein enable detection of such errors by repeatedly migrating portions of workloads between cells. The system can monitor health information during or between migrations to ensure continued health of the service. If the service appears to be unhealthy after a migration, future migrations can be halted to enable a cause of the unhealthy state to be identified and rectified.
US11876682B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for a consensus-based node retirement in a mesh network. An example system includes: a mesh network comprising a plurality of nodes, including a first node, a second node, and a mesh controller; a processor; and memory. The memory may store instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, may cause the mesh controller to: distribute a mesh membership contract to the mesh network, the mesh membership contract comprising membership rules; receive, from the first node, based on a performance status of the second node, an identification of a deficiency in a performance metric of the second node, wherein the deficiency is based on a failure of the second node to satisfy a membership rule; and remove, after a consensus by the mesh network for the identified deficiency, one or more capabilities of the second node from the mesh network.
US11876677B1
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for WAN (wide area network) optimization for a WAN that connects multiple sites, each of which has at least one router. At a gateway router deployed to a public cloud, the method receives from at least two routers at least two sites, multiple data streams destined for a particular centralized datacenter. The method performs a WAN optimization operation to aggregate the multiple streams into one outbound stream that is WAN optimized for forwarding to the particular centralized datacenter. The method then forwards the WAN-optimized data stream to the particular centralized datacenter.
US11876674B1
The innovation disclosed and claimed herein, in one aspect thereof, comprises systems and methods of determining network segmentation. The innovation can search a network to determine a set of network entities, the network entities belonging to the network, and determine network factors of each network entity in the set of network entities. The innovation can evaluate each network factor and determine segmentation candidates based on the evaluation of each network factor. The innovation can determine a risk ranking for each network factor for each network entity and aggregate each risk ranking into a segmentation score for each network entity. The innovation can determine a segmentation candidate when a network entity segmentation score satisfies a threshold score. The innovation can generate a sub-network that is part of the network for the segmentation candidate, and transfer the segmentation candidate to the sub-network.
US11876664B2
Provided is a transmission method that improves data reception quality in radio transmission using a single-carrier scheme and/or a multi-carrier scheme. The transmission method includes: generating a plurality of first modulated signals and a plurality of second modulated signals from transmission data, the plurality of first modulated signals being signals generated using a 16QAM modulation scheme, and the plurality of second modulated signals being signals generated using uniform constellation 64QAM modulation; generating, from the plurality of first modulated signals and the plurality of second modulated signals, a plurality of first signal-processed signals and a plurality of second signal-processed signals which satisfy a predetermined equation; and changing the predetermined equation when a 64QAM modulation used to generate the plurality of second modulated signals is switched from the uniform constellation 64QAM modulation to a non-uniform constellation 64QAM modulation.
US11876649B2
Equalization circuitry for a data channel in an integrated circuit device includes an analog equalization stage coupled to the data channel, and a digital signal processing stage downstream of the analog equalization stage. The digital signal processing stage generates control signals to control the analog equalization stage, and includes a digital equalization stage that operates on output of the analog equalization stage. The analog equalization stage may further include an enhanced processing stage for optical signals, which may be selectably coupled to the analog equalization stage. The analog equalization stage may include at least one feed-forward or feedback equalization stage, and a decision stage that outputs decision signals at one of a first plurality of signal levels. The enhanced processing stage operates on the decision signals to output enhanced decision signals at one of a second plurality of signal levels of higher resolution than the first plurality of signal levels.
US11876644B2
The invention discloses a high-efficiency transmission Ethernet device comprising, a data transmitting module, wherein when receiving a data packet sent by an upper-layer device, and judging that other Ethernet devices in the same local area network for data transmission support a small packet aggregation function, the data transmitting module is configured to aggregately encapsulate all small packets contained in the data packet to form at least one aggregated Ethernet frame and to send it to other corresponding Ethernet devices; and a data receiving module, wherein when receiving data frames sent by other Ethernet devices in the same local area network supporting the small packet aggregation function, performing data parsing on the data frames when judging that the received data frames are routine Ethernet frames, and performing data parsing on the data frames when judging the data frames are aggregated Ethernet frames.
US11876640B2
A user station for a serial bus system and a method for transferring data with manipulation protection in a serial bus system. The user station includes a communication control device for creating messages which are to be transmitted serially via a bus line to at least one other user station of the bus system, and/or for reading the messages which have been received serially from the bus line. The communication control device is designed to use a predetermined communication rule for creating and/or reading messages, and the communication control device, for creating and/or reading messages, is designed to use at least one rule for creating and/or reading the messages, which is different from the predetermined communication rule, when a predetermined trigger occurs.
US11876638B2
A device controller can communicate with a local network of devices and one or more intermediary devices for transmitting scene commands for implementation of a scene. The device controller may create a mesh bridge with the one or more intermediary devices to establish a communication link with a controlled device and generate and transmit a set of one or more scene commands via the mesh bridge to the controlled device to execute the scene.
US11876631B2
A network information transmission method, comprising the following steps: receiving a first media information by a first terminal device; processing the first media information to obtain a processed first media information; integrating the processed first media information into a second media information to generate an integrated second media information; outputting the integrated second media information to a second terminal device through the network; decompressing the integrated second media information through the second terminal device; capturing the integrated second media information through the second terminal device; obtaining the first media information based on the integrated second media information; and playing the first media information by the second terminal device.
US11876629B1
The present disclosure provides a method, a device, electronic equipment, and a storage medium for data transmission, wherein the method includes sending data acquisition commands to a plurality of target devices and turning on a timer; for any first target device of the plurality of target devices, detecting whether there is first target data transmitted by the first target device on the bus within a preset timing time; if yes, performing a data verification on the first target data and determining a communication flag bit of the first target device based on the check result; and determining whether to receive the first target data transmitted by the first target device based on the communication flag bit of the first target device.
US11876623B2
The present disclosure discloses an example communication method and apparatus. One example communication method includes receiving, by a first node, decoding information and coded data from a second node, where the coded data is obtained after data of a node group in which the first node is located is encoded, the data of the node group includes data expected to be received by at least two nodes in the node group, and the at least two nodes include the first node. Data expected to be received by the first node is obtained by the first node based on the decoding information and the coded data.
US11876621B2
Devices and methods for enhancing forward error correction techniques for communications using chirp spread spectrum are disclosed. Systems, devices, and methods for error correction coding and decoding are described. On the coding side, K bits of data are sequentially loaded into an M bit by N bit (M×N) matrix in a first direction as Q sequences of D bits, each D bit row of data in the M×N matrix is coded with an error correction code to generate an M bit row of coded data, each Q bit column in the M×N matrix is coded with the error correction code to generate N bits of coded data, N sequences of M bits are sequentially unloaded from the M×N matrix in a second direction, and a chirp signal is generated having a plurality of chirps.
US11876607B2
A baseline difference is determined between a slave line card time stamp corresponding to a slave line card frame sync signal and a master line card time stamp corresponding to a master line card frame sync signal. The slave line card generates subsequent slave line card time stamps for subsequent slave line card frame sync signals and the master line card generates subsequent master line card time stamps for subsequent master line card frame sync signals. Current differences are determined between subsequent slave line card time stamps and the subsequent master line card time stamps and the current differences are compared to the baseline difference. When a mismatch difference occurs (current difference differs from the baseline difference), the mismatch difference causes a phase-locked loop in the master line card to be adjusted or an offset to be provided to the master line card time of day counter.
US11876602B2
The application provides a communication method, an apparatus, and a system that are used in a satellite network. A user terminal receives, on a management channel, a sounding signal sent by a management satellite. The management satellite manages one or more serving satellites. The user terminal sends a respiratory signal to the management satellite. The respiratory signal carries information about the user terminal. The information about the user terminal is used to determine information about a serving satellite that serves the user terminal. The management satellite or a ground station may uniformly schedule the serving satellite to serve the user terminal. When the serving satellite is switched, a negotiation between satellites may be omitted.
US11876600B2
A method, a server, and a non-transitory computer readable medium are disclosed for switching from a radio frequency (RF) signal to an Internet Protocol (IP) connection based on rain fade events. The method includes receiving, on a server, current rain fade event data from one or more set-top boxes; receiving, on the server, past rain fade event data from the one or more set-top boxes; receiving, on the server, past weather data; receiving, on the server, current weather data; calculating, on the server, a likelihood of the one or more set-top boxes experiencing a rain fade event; and sending, from the server, an IP message to switch from the radio frequency (RF) signal to the Internet Protocol (IP) connection to each of the one or more set-top boxes likely to experience the rain fade event before the rain fade event occurs.
US11876591B2
A reception apparatus includes reception circuitry and decoding circuitry. The reception receives a signal including a legacy header field, an enhanced directional multi-gigabit (EDMG) header field, and a data field. The decoding circuitry decodes data included in the data field of the received signal. The legacy header field includes a Length field comprising multiple bits. The reception apparatus is an EDMG terminal, and a subset of the multiple bits of the Length field included in the legacy header field is used to indicate bandwidth over which the signal is transmitted. Remaining bits of the Length field included in the legacy header field are used to indicate data length of the received signal.
US11876579B2
A method of serving a given data stream to a target mobile terminal, in a cellular communications network that includes a plurality of transmitting sites wherein each transmitting site including at least one antenna, is provided. The method includes designating at least two of the plurality of transmitting sites as cooperating sites; assigning tones to each transmitting site from a sub-band associated with the cooperating sites; dividing the data stream into at least two sub-data streams, each of the sub-data streams for transmission over selected tones; and interlacing tones of the cooperating sites in accordance with a selected one of a time switching and a frequency switching transmit diversity technique. Other techniques for multi-site MIMO cooperation are also provided.
US11876574B2
The present disclosure aims to provide a power wiring network apparatus capable of constructing a highly portable power wiring network, without the need to maintain infrastructure. A power wiring network apparatus of the present disclosure includes circuit elements each including a first connector, a second connector, and a conductive portion electrically connecting the first connector and the second connector. The circuit elements include energy harvesting elements as circuit elements capable of outputting power generated by energy harvesting and load elements as circuit elements capable of consuming inputted power. The circuit elements are mechanically and electrically attachable via the first connector and second connector. At least some energy harvesting elements and load elements are capable of power line data communication via a power line including the first connector, second connector, and conductive portion.
US11876571B2
System and techniques for radio link quality prediction are described herein. A mobile device may receive a device registration. Motion data for the mobile device may then be obtained. A predicted path for the mobile device may be derived from the motion data. A set of predicted radio metrics for the mobile device along the predicted path mat be produced via a dynamic coverage map. The set of predicted radio metrics may then be transmitted.
US11876566B2
Computational nodes are connected to each other via multiple point to point communication ports to form a mesh network. When a node receives such a routing information, it will be a set of {Route ID, Forwarding Ports} pair, where the ports can be multiple targets including the node itself. When all the nodes within the routing path receive such information, the mesh system can handle the packet transfer for the given Route ID. Each node looks up the table with Route ID and determines where to forward the packet.
US11876565B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of providing the next generation of quantum enabled cyber security systems. Such systems include a quantum network of satellites that will provide global coverage. The quantum satellite network includes quantum subnetworks comprised of LEO satellites. Some of these LEO satellite-based quantum subnetworks are connected to a subnetwork of MEO satellites. The MEO satellite subnetworks may then be interconnected to the global network of GEO satellites. The LEO/MEO satellites may also be used to interconnect terrestrial quantum networks. Each quantum communication subnetwork may be based on the cluster state concept.
US11876554B2
An optical transceiver includes processing circuitry to calculate, when test signals are sent to a transmission line from a transmitter and a receiver receives the test signals having passed through a wavelength filter, a bandwidth of the received test signals, the transmitter generating, as the test signals, a collection of narrowband signals, the narrowband signals having a narrower bandwidth than a bandwidth of the wavelength filter and having different frequencies, and the wavelength filter included in an optical splitter inserted in the transmission line, and the collection of narrowband signals including a narrowband signal having a higher frequency than a highest frequency in the bandwidth of the wavelength filter and a narrowband signal having a lower frequency than a lowest frequency in the bandwidth of the wavelength filter, and to determine a modulation rate and a modulation level of the transmission signal depending on the calculated bandwidth.
US11876548B2
Wireless devices, and particularly mobile devices such as cellphones, PDAs, computers, navigation devices, etc., as well as other devices which transmit or receive data or other signals at multiple frequency bands utilize at least one antenna to transmit and receive and a plurality of different bands (e.g., GSM cellular communication band; Bluetooth short range communication band; ultrawideband (UWB) communications, etc.). These wireless devices can simultaneously transmit or receive at a plurality of different bands, or simultaneously transmit and receive at different bands. The wireless devices have the ability to use a single physical structure (e.g., an antenna for transmission and reception of many different bands. The antenna can he either actively tuned or passively tuned using one or more elements. The antenna may comprise a plurality of antenna elements or antennas, and at least one antenna may be a steerable antenna.
US11876544B2
The present disclosure discloses a two-group portable same-frequency or different-frequency control radio frequency circuit, including two groups of radio frequency circuits and a circuit for controlling the two groups of radio frequency circuits; each group of radio frequency circuit includes a power filter circuit, a quartz crystal oscillator, a harmonic suppression circuit, an input end bias circuit, an input matching inductor, an amplifier, an output end bias circuit, an output matching circuit, a detection circuit, an antenna matching circuit, and an antenna. According to the disclosure, a controller and the detection circuits are used to perform time-sharing work on two groups of signals, and the two groups of signals are continuously switched to work, so that the problem of local heat accumulation is not caused, an action area is enlarged, and a load on key components is reduced, thereby improving the effect, the application range, and the reliability.
US11876539B2
A current to digital converter circuit has an integrator amplifier with an input adapted to receive a current signal and an output adapted to provide a voltage signal as a function of an integration of the current signal, a quantizer circuit with an input which is coupled to the output of the integrator amplifier and with an output adapted to provide a binary result signal as a function of a comparison of the voltage signal with at least a first reference voltage signal, a digital-to-analog converter circuit which is coupled in a switchable manner as a function of the binary result signal to the input of the integrator amplifier, and a controlled current source which is coupled to the output of the integrator amplifier via a first switch which is controlled as a function of the binary result signal such that an auxiliary current is supplied to the output of the integrator amplifier.
US11876533B2
In a method for computer-assisted operation of a memory unit, encoded data is saved in the memory unit. The data is retrieved and decoded after retrieval. The memory unit is monitored for errors in that a temporal sequence of computer-assisted checking operations is carried out for the memory unit. For first-time encoding of the data, each required application data set is generated or selected, containing check data segments. For each application data set, the check data segment is occupied by count data, which characterizes the checking operation being implemented. After retrieving and decoding the application data sets, an error is determined when the count data characterizes neither the checking operation being implemented nor the most recent completely implemented checking operation. The check data segment of the relevant application data set is occupied by count data, which characterizes the checking operation being implemented, if no error was determined.
US11876532B1
A method for determining a bit-error rate in data received on high-speed data channel that uses a forward-error-correcting decoder includes receiving at receiver circuitry on the high-speed data channel a received predetermined data pattern, comparing, bit-wise, the received predetermined data pattern to a locally generated copy of the predetermined data pattern to derive output bits representing whether there was an error in a corresponding bit of the received predetermined data pattern, to determine error bits in the received predetermined data pattern, grouping output bits from the comparing into symbols and codewords, and for each codeword for which a count of symbols containing errors exceeds a number of symbols correctable by the forward-error-correcting decoder, counting a total number of bit errors contained in the symbols containing errors, for use in adjusting the receiver circuitry in response to the total number of bit errors.
US11876530B2
An example apparatus includes: a voltage-to-current circuit including a first input terminal, a first output terminal and a second output terminal, a subtraction circuit including a second input terminal and a third output terminal, the second input terminal coupled to the second output terminal, a first driver circuit including a third input terminal and a fourth output terminal, the third input terminal coupled to the third output terminal, and a second driver circuit including a fourth input terminal and a fifth output terminal, the fourth input terminal coupled to the first output terminal, the fifth output coupled to the fourth output terminal.
US11876526B2
The present invention discloses an analog to digital conversion (ADC) apparatus having quick conversion mechanism. Each of ADC circuits receives a previous higher-bit conversion result to perform prediction to generate a current higher-bit conversion result, performs conversion on an input analog signal according to a sampling clock that has a frequency at least twice of the frequency of the input analog signal based on a successive-approximation mechanism to generate a current lower-bit conversion result, and combines the current higher-bits and current lower-bit conversion results to generate a current conversion result and output a remained signal amount as a residue. A noise-shaping circuit performs calculation based on the residue to generate a noise-shaping reference signal. Each of the ADC circuits combines the current conversion result and the noise-shaping reference signal to generate an output digital signal.
US11876524B2
There is described a hybrid ADC device for converting an analog input signal (Vin) into a digital output signal (Vout), the device comprising a first ADC circuit configured to receive the analog input signal (Vin) and convert it into a first digital signal (Y0); a DAC circuit configured to receive the first digital signal and convert it into a first analog signal; a delay circuit configured to delay the analog input signal; a first combiner configured to generate an analog residual signal by subtracting the first analog signal from the delayed analog input signal; a second ADC circuit configured to receive the residual analog signal and convert it into a second digital signal (Y1); a filter circuit configured to receive the first digital signal and output a filtered first digital signal (Y0′), the filter circuit having a transfer function corresponding to a combined transfer function of the DAC circuit and the second ADC circuit; and a second combiner configured to generate the digital output signal (Vout) by adding the second digital signal and the filtered first digital signal, wherein the first ADC circuit comprises an anti-aliasing filter. Furthermore, a corresponding method and an automobile radar system are described.
US11876523B1
Embodiments herein describe normalizing an output of a TDC in a DPLL to a resolution of the TDC. A DTC can delay a reference clock which is then input into the TDC. The TDC outputs a digital code indicating a time difference between the delayed reference clock output by the DTC and a clock generated by a DCO in the DPLL. This digital code is normalized to a resolution of the TDC and the result is filtered by a DLF.
US11876514B2
In an optocoupler circuit, a first direction path, which transmits signals from a first to a second terminal, includes a first level shifter, a second level shifter, and a first optocoupler. The first level shifter receives a first input signal at the first terminal, and shifts a voltage level of the first input signal to a first shifted voltage level with respect to a first ground level in a first power domain, to provide a first shifted signal. The first optocoupler receives the first shifted signal, and generates a first optocoupler signal in response to the first shifted signal. The second level shifter receives the first optocoupler signal, and shifts a voltage level of the first optocoupler signal to a second shifted voltage level with respect to a second ground level in a second power domain, to provide a second shifted signal at the second terminal.
US11876498B2
Filter devices and methods are disclosed. A filter device includes a substrate and a piezoelectric plate attached to the substrate, the piezoelectric plate forming diaphragms spanning respective cavities in the substrate. A first portion of the piezoelectric plate has a first thickness. A front surface of a second portion of the piezoelectric plate is recessed relative to a front surface of the first portion of the piezoelectric plate such that the second portion of the piezoelectric plate has a second thickness less than the first thickness. A conductor pattern is formed on the front surfaces of the first and second portions of the piezoelectric plate. The conductor pattern includes a first interdigital transducer (IDT) with interleaved fingers on a diaphragm having the first thickness, and a second IDT with interleaved fingers on a diaphragm having the second thickness.
US11876496B2
Differential input circuits employ protection transistors and feedback paths to limit the differential voltage applied to input transistors. In an example arrangement, a differential input voltage is applied to terminals of the protection transistors, and current paths couple the respective protection transistors to control terminals of the input transistors, respectively. A control terminal drive voltage source is coupled to the control terminals of the input protection transistors to control the drive voltage applied to those terminals. Feedback paths, one for each of the input transistors, control voltages applied to the control terminals of the input transistors, maintaining the input differential voltage at a relatively low level and defined by the product of a specified current value and a specified resistance value.
US11876494B2
A protection circuit is provided. The protection circuit protects a power amplifier that includes a power transistor configured to receive a power voltage, and a bias circuit configured to supply a bias current to the power transistor. The protection circuit includes: a first transistor, connected between a terminal of the bias circuit and a ground, and configured to sink a first current from the terminal of the bias circuit; and a second transistor, comprising a first terminal connected to the power voltage, a second terminal connected to a control terminal of the first transistor, and a control terminal connected to a reference voltage.
US11876490B2
Described embodiments include an integrated circuit for temperature gradient compensation of a bandgap voltage. A bandgap core circuit has a bandgap feedback input, a bandgap adjustment input and a bandgap reference output. A resistor is coupled between the bandgap adjustment input and a ground terminal. An offset and slope correction circuit has an offset correction output that is coupled to the bandgap adjustment input. A signal at the offset correction output is trimmed at an ambient temperature. A thermal error cancellation (TEC) circuit has a TEC output coupled to the bandgap adjustment input. The TEC circuit includes first and second temperature sensors that are located apart from each other. A signal at the TEC output is responsive to temperatures at the first and second temperature sensors. An amplifier has an amplifier input and an amplifier output. The amplifier input is coupled to the bandgap reference output.
US11876488B2
The present disclosure discloses a direct current (DC)-DC boost converter, which includes a battery terminal providing a battery voltage, a charge pump coupled between the battery terminal and an interior node, and a power inductor coupled between the interior node and a power supply terminal that provides a power voltage to a radio frequency transceiver. The charge pump is configured to provide an interior voltage at the interior node based on the battery voltage. Herein, the interior voltage toggles between the battery voltage and two times the battery voltage. The charge pump includes a first switch coupled between the battery terminal and the interior node, a second switch coupled between the battery terminal and a connecting node, a third switch coupled between the connecting node and ground, and a flying capacitor coupled between the interior node and the connecting node of the second switch and the third switch.
US11876487B2
An oscillator includes a crystal oscillation circuit configured to generate an oscillation signal having a natural frequency, an injection circuit configured to inject a first injection signal and a second injection signal into the crystal oscillation circuit, a dithering circuit configured to transmit a first control signal for generating the first injection signal to the injection circuit, and a phased-lock loop (PLL) circuit configured to lock a phase of the first injection signal to the natural frequency, to transmit a second control signal for generating the second injection signal to the injection circuit.
US11876471B2
A motor controller integrated circuit (IC) includes a storage device containing software. The IC also includes a processor core coupled to the storage device. The processor core has an output adapted to be coupled to a motor. The processor core is configured to execute the software to implement a resonant controller at a frequency that is a harmonic of a speed of a motor.
US11876465B2
A motor driving apparatus includes: an inverter that includes at least one switching element and that is configured to output alternating current power to a motor, a vibration sensor configured to detect vibrations, and a controller (i) comprising a compensation signal generator that is configured to, based on an output value of the vibration sensor, generate a compensation signal and (ii) configured to generate a control signal for controlling the inverter.
US11876463B2
An electric generator (10) that comprises:—a first layer (11) based on a polyvinyl polymer;—a second layer (12) made of graphite or graphene in contact with the first layer (11);—a first electrical contact (13) connected to the first layer (11); and—a second electrical contact (14) connected to the second layer (12).
US11876462B1
A method for storing new harvestable energy with excess or unutilized energy includes providing an object configured to be transitioned between at least a depleted energy state and a stored energy state. Obtained excess or unutilized energy which is utilized to transition the object to the stored energy state. At least a portion of this stored energy is harvested for use when the object is released from the stored energy state and transitions towards the depleted energy state.
US11876453B2
A switching converter circuit, which switches one terminal of an inductor to different voltages, includes a high side MOSFET, a low side MOSFET, and a driver circuit which includes a high side driver, a low side driver, and a dead time control circuit. According to an output current, The dead time control circuit adaptively delays a low side driving signal to generate a high side enable signal for enabling the high side driver to generate a high side driving signal according to a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal; and/or adaptively delays the high side driving signal to generate a low side enable signal for enabling the low side driver to generate the low side driving signal according to the PWM signal, so as to adaptively control a dead time in which the high side MOSFET and the low side MOSFET are both not conductive.
US11876452B2
A DC-DC converter including a switching buck regulator including a first power switch connected to a first power node, a second power switch connected to a second power node, a driver configured to drive the first and second power switches, an output filtering inductor connected to a node between the first and second power switches, and an output filtering capacitor connected to the output filtering inductor, a controller configured to compensate for an output signal of the switching buck regulator in a time domain using a reference voltage, and a feed forward circuit connected between the switching buck regulator and the controller, and including a first buffer, a second buffer, an RC filter, and an adder may be provided. Accordingly, the DC-DC converter can reduce a delay of a compensation circuit, improve transient response characteristics of the switching buck regulator, and further improve the performance of the DC-DC converter.
US11876444B2
A power control unit is provided to control the efficiency of a charge pump converter having a first input terminal and a second input terminal, a primary attenuator and a secondary attenuator between a first input terminal and the second input terminal, a first output terminal, a second output terminal, a secondary attenuator controlling terminal and a primary attenuator controlling terminal to be plugged to the power control unit. The primary attenuator controlling terminal and the secondary attenuator controlling terminal are to attenuate or amplify a signal of the first input terminal and the second input terminal.
US11876442B2
The present invention relates to advanced control for a DC-to-DC converter. For this purpose, in the determination of a controlled variable for the control of the DC-to-DC converter, the control dynamics are adjusted according to an electric current through the DC-to-DC converter. In particular, it is possible to determine the controlled variable from a combination of a first controlled variable of a voltage controller and a second controlled variable of a feedforward control. In particular, the control dynamics of the feedforward control can be adjusted according to the electric current through the DC-to-DC converter. By adjusting the control dynamics according to current, it is possible to minimize possible current ripple on the output side.
US11876429B2
A vibration motor includes a stationary portion and a movable portion vibrable in an axis direction with respect to the stationary portion. The stationary portion includes a coil and a housing. The housing includes a first region expanding in a first direction orthogonal to the axis direction, and a second region disposed on one side in a second direction orthogonal to the axis direction and the first direction relative to the first region and expanding in the first direction. In a cross-section across the axis direction, a distance in the second direction between the second region and the first region is longest at a center in the first direction of the first region. In the cross-section, a shape formed by the first and second regions is asymmetric with respect to an axis extending parallel to the first direction through a center of the housing in the second direction.
US11876425B2
A vibrator support structure, a vibration motor including the vibrator support structure, and an electronic device including the vibration motor are provided. The vibrator support structure includes a housing, a vibrator, and a first support member. The vibrator is slidable in a first direction D1 and a second direction D2 that crosses the first direction D1. The vibrator is supported within the housing by the first support member, which includes a first deformation portion and a first engagement portion. The first deformation portion undergoes elastic deformation associated with vibrations of the vibrator in the first direction D1. The first engagement portion engages with the vibrator in such a manner that the vibrator produces a sliding motion associated with vibrations of the vibrator in the second direction D2.
US11876424B2
A motor is provided including: a stator including a stator core, stator windings, and an end insulator; a rotor rotatably received within the stator; and stator terminals supported by the routing insulator and extending away from the stator. Each stator terminal includes a main body having a curved portion, a tang portion folded over the main body and receiving a portion of a magnet wire therein to make an electrical connection with at least one of the stator windings, and a terminal pin projecting axially away from the stator core. The stator core has a maximum diameter of less than or equal to approximately 34 mm defining an outer envelope of the stator, and the stator terminals are fully contained within the outer envelope.
US11876413B2
The present disclosure in some embodiment provides a hybrid induction motor including dual stators. According to at least one embodiment, the present disclosure provides a hybrid induction motor including a hollow rotor including a single conductor bar which is annularly disposed and spaced apart from a rotation axis by a predetermined distance, an outer stator having an outer stator winding disposed in parallel with an outer circumferential surface of the hollow rotor, and an inner stator having an inner stator winding disposed in parallel with an inner circumferential surface of the hollow rotor.
US11876409B2
A rotor for an electric machine includes a rotor body formed from a plurality of rotor laminations defining a first axial end and a second axial end. Each of the plurality of rotor laminations includes a plurality of openings that are aligned so as to define a plurality of passages through the rotor body. A plurality of reinforcement elements extend through the plurality of laminations. Each of the plurality of reinforcement elements is arranged in a corresponding one of the plurality of passages and includes a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion and the second end portion of select ones of the plurality of reinforcement elements extend outwardly of the first axial end and the second axial end. An end ring is positioned at the first axial end. The end ring is integrally formed with the select ones of the plurality of reinforcement elements.
US11876404B2
The electric machine includes a rotor and an internal stator operatively coupled to the rotor. The internal stator further includes a back iron having a bearing and a plurality of teeth, a plurality of ring coils wound around the back iron, a central hub, and a plurality of connectors that connects the central hub to the back iron. The back iron is made of a first material and at least one connector is made of a second material that is different from the first material.
US11876401B2
A UPS system includes a plurality of UPSs coupled in parallel and each having a bypass switch and a controller that is in communication with the controller of the other UPSs and including: a first unit monitoring the current flowing through a bypass line of its UPS and determining the effective value of the current strength; a second unit collecting the effective values of all of the UPSs having the bypass switch closed and defining a reference effective value corresponding to the lowest collected effective value; a third unit determining a delay for closing the bypass switch of said UPS, the delay being zero if the effective value of its UPS is equal to the reference effective value; and a fourth unit keeping the bypass switch closed if the delay is zero, or opening it for a duration corresponding to the delay before closing it.
US11876390B2
A battery with switched accumulators, including: a first cell; a plurality of second cells series-connected with the first cell, each first and second cell including: an electric accumulator series-connected with a first switch, a second switch connected in parallel with the accumulator and the first switch, and a first diode, the cathodes of the first diodes being connected to an output node, the anode of the accumulator of the first cell being connected to ground, the anode of the first diode of each second cell being coupled to the cathode of the accumulator by at least one third switch; and a control circuit capable of measuring characteristics of at least certain accumulators and of controlling the first, second, and third switches according to the characteristics.
US11876384B2
An illustrative example embodiment of a wireless power transfer device includes an inductor panel and a capacitor panel adjacent the inductor panel. The capacitor panel includes a first conductive plate adjacent one side of the inductor panel, a dielectric layer adjacent the first conductive plate, and a second conductive plate adjacent the dielectric layer on an opposite side of the dielectric layer from the first conductive plate.
US11876383B1
A wireless charging system having a power transmitting device may wirelessly transfer power to a power receiving device. The power receiving device may include a voltage regulator that operates independently from the power transmitting device. The voltage regulator may output a rectified voltage and may activate pull-down rectifier switches during zero voltage crossings to boost the rectified voltage. The power receiving device may send control error packets to the power transmitting device to direct the power transmitting device to adjust the transmit power level.
US11876373B2
Disclosed are a power-aware method, a power-aware system and a converter. The power-aware method includes: receiving an input signal, wherein the input signal is a capacitive type, a resistive type, a voltage type or a current type, coarsely quantizing the input signal and outputting a numerical control code, the numerical control code indicating size information of the input signals, and turning on a corresponding number of power-consuming modules based on the numerical control code. By the power-aware method, the power-aware technical effect of a circuit may be provided and turned-on power-consuming modules always have the most suitable number regardless of the size of the input signals, which may ensure normal operation, and will not waste power consumption due to too many power-consuming modules and energy efficiency is improved as a whole.
US11876363B2
A unitary molded audio/video cable holder is disclosed that is easily linked to similar cable holders using ends that cooperate in a male/female relationship. Each cable holder comprises rows of recesses that each hold a cable and include retention structures to releasably hold the cables in their respective recess. The holders further may include windows adjacent the recesses to receive a zip tie to keep the cables in the holder where the cables care moved, twisted, or otherwise subjected to forces that would otherwise pull the cables from the holder. The capability of the holders of the present invention to interlock and expand allows the invention to hold an unlimited number of cables easily and safely. Fastener bores facilitate the holders being mounted to a wall or other flat surface.
US11876360B2
A conduit coupling assembly facilitates connection of liquid-tight tubing with a conduit section through which associated electrical wiring and/or cables are routed. The assembly includes a transition coupling, which is joined to male and female, liquid-tight connectors. The coupling assembly is joined to the conduit and projects above an associated concrete slab or the like to position the liquid-tight connectors for efficiently joining associated liquid-tight tubing to the conduit. The conduit coupling assembly thus particularly facilitates routing of wiring from a conduit section positioned within a concrete slab or like flooring element, through the transition coupling, and the liquid-tight connectors.
US11876355B2
Disclosed in the present invention is an electric switching apparatus, comprising a drawer apparatus, an electric connection apparatus, a driving mechanism, and a locking mechanism. A busbar of the breaker body at the separate position is separated from the electric connection apparatus, and the breaker body cannot be switched on. The busbar of the breaker body at the trial position is separated from the electric connection apparatus, and the breaker body can be switched on. The busbar of the breaker body at the connected but not clamped position is in touch with the electric connection apparatus, the electric connection apparatus does not clamp the busbar, and the breaker body cannot be switched on. The busbar of the breaker body at the connected and clamped position is in touch with the electric connection apparatus, the electric connection apparatus clamps the busbar, and the breaker body can be switched on.
US11876354B2
A wearable pouch operable to hold at least one portable battery pack and other power or communications equipment. The wearable pouch includes a main body with a front side, a back side opposite the front side, at least one sealable opening, and at least one opening for at least one lead from the at least one portable battery pack secured within the wearable pouch.
US11876352B2
The present invention concerns a device for pulsed electric discharge in a liquid comprising a control module configured to control a voltage generator such that the voltage generator applies a predetermined heating voltage setpoint between electrodes during a heating period until a pulsed electric discharge is obtained between the electrodes, in order to measure the breakdown voltage during the pulsed electric discharge, in order to estimate the quantity of energy supplied to the liquid during the heating period, referred to as the “quantity of heating energy”, from the predetermined heating voltage setpoint and the measured breakdown voltage, and in order to determine a new heating voltage setpoint to apply between the electrodes of the at least one pair of electrodes at the next pulsed electric discharge based on the estimated quantity of heating energy and a predefined breakdown voltage setpoint.
US11876350B2
A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) array is fabricated to produce multiple wavelengths. A first distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) is formed on a substrate, and an optical layer having an active region is formed on the first DBR. The optical layer has a variation in optical characteristic configured to generate multiple wavelengths. To do this, a first portion of the layer is formed on the first DBR. Different dimensioned features (profiles, wells, trenches, gratings, etc.) are then formed on a surface of the first portion. Subsequently, a second portion of the layer is formed by filling in the dimensioned features on the first portion's surface. Finally, a second DBR is formed on the second portion of the layer. The variation in optical characteristic can include variation in refractive index, physical thickness, or both. The assembly can be processed as usual to produce a VCSEL array having multiple emitters.
US11876344B2
In various embodiments, laser systems or resonators incorporate two separate cooling loops that may be operated at different cooling temperatures. One cooling loop, which may be operated at a lower temperature, cools beam emitters. The other cooling loop, which may be operated at a higher temperature, cools other mechanical and/or optical components, for example optical elements such as lenses and/or reflectors.
US11876341B1
Disclosed are a thin-disk regenerative amplifier and an amplification method. The thin-disk regenerative amplifier includes an input and output light path and an amplification light path. A seed laser is input into the thin-disk regenerative amplifier through the input and output light path, and reflected and amplified by the amplification optical path to obtain an amplified laser. After reaching a predetermined threshold, the amplified laser is output through the input and output light path. The input and output optical path includes an optical isolator, a first polarization beam splitter, an optical rotator, a second polarization beam splitter, a first reflective mirror, and a second reflective mirror. The amplification light path includes an input mirror, a thin-disk crystal, a pumping device, a first concave reflective mirror, and a second concave reflective mirror.
US11876327B1
A direct current (DC)-DC conversion system including at least one DC source, at least one source cable, a DC-DC converter, at least one output cable, and at least one DC load. Each of the at least one source cable includes a source input connector, a source output connector, and a source input cable. The DC-DC converter includes a housing, a DC-DC input connector, and a DC-DC output connector. Each of the at least one output cable includes a load input connector, at least one load output connector, and a load output cable. The DC-DC converter is operable to receive energy from the at least one source via the at least one source cable, and is operable to provide energy to the at least one DC load via the at least one output cable.
US11876325B2
An electrical connector includes a socket, a plug and a locking component. The socket includes a socket case having a fixing groove disposed at the outer surface and a socket terminal configured in the socket case. The plug includes a plug case having a locking hole, a containing space configured for containing the socket case and a plug terminal configured in the containing space. The locking component is disposed in the locking hole and configured to move in the locking hole. When the plug is connected to the socket, the socket terminal embeds into the plug terminal, so that the socket case is located between the plug case and the plug terminal and the fixing groove is corresponding to the locking hole. Then, the locking component moves toward the plug terminal and engages to the fixing groove to lock the plug and the socket.
US11876316B2
A connector includes a housing having a contact receiving passageway extending through a mating end of the housing in a longitudinal direction and a contact disposed in the contact receiving passageway. The housing has a window extending through a wall of the housing in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The contact has a mating section disposed at the mating end and a contact section extending from the mating section. An exposed portion of the contact section is exposed to an area exterior of the housing through the window.
US11876312B2
A connector for connecting a flexible interconnect circuit includes a base, having a first set of protrusions and a second set of protrusions. The first set of protrusions and the second set of protrusions are configured to secure the flexible interconnect circuit at a first set of apertures and a second set of apertures of the flexible interconnect circuit, respectively. The first set of protrusions may be positioned at a first distance from the second set of protrusions on the base. The first set of apertures may be positioned on the flexible interconnect circuit at a second distance, greater than the first distance, from the second set of apertures. The base causes the flexible interconnect circuit into an arched configuration when the apertures are secured to the respective protrusions. The connector further includes a cover piece configured to secure the flexible interconnect circuit in the arched configuration.
US11876309B2
Three elements of a first (¼) wavelength element and a second (¼) wavelength element which have a length of (¼) wavelength at an arbitrary frequency designated in advance and a half-wavelength element which has a length of a half-wavelength at the arbitrary frequency are arranged in a three-orthogonal state where those are orthogonal to each other, one end portion of the first (¼) wavelength element is joined to one end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element, another end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element is joined to one end portion of the half-wavelength element, a feeding point for antenna power feeding is arranged in a position in which the one end portion of the first (¼) wavelength element is joined to the one end portion of the second (¼) wavelength element, and an antenna is formed as a one-wavelength twisted Z-shaped three-orthogonal dipole antenna.
US11876305B2
An electronic apparatus includes a rectangular or substantially rectangular plate-shaped housing including a first side and a second side which are long sides and a third side and a fourth side which are short sides, and an antenna device. The antenna device includes a first coil including a first coil conductor and a second coil including a second coil conductor. A portion of the first coil overlaps with the second coil opening, a portion of the second coil overlaps with the first coil opening, a straight line connecting a center of gravity of the first coil opening and a center of gravity of the second coil opening intersects with the third side and the fourth side, and the center of gravity of the second coil opening is closer to the third side than the center of gravity of the first coil opening.
US11876304B2
Examples relate to concepts for patch antennas and particular to a method for forming a multiband patch antenna. A multiband patch antenna may comprise a ground layer and an excitation layer, comprising a first excitation patch, a second excitation patch and a feeding patch, wherein the patch is arranged to excite the first excitation patch and the second excitation simultaneously.
US11876292B2
A slot antenna assembly adapted to a metal case is provided in the disclosure. The slot antenna assembly includes a substrate and a metal wire. The substrate includes a first sheet plate and a second sheet plate. The first sheet plate is conductive and is provided with a slot opposite to an opening of the metal case, a size of the slot being less than or equal to a size of the opening. The second sheet plate is not conductive and is connected to the first sheet plate. The metal wire is located on a surface of the second sheet plate to be connected to a feeding signal. A vertical projection of the metal wire on the first sheet plate crosses the slot, and the metal wire and the slot together excite a low-frequency mode and a high-frequency mode.
US11876274B2
A phase shifter and an antenna device are provided. The phase shifter includes a substrate, a signal line on the substrate, ground lines in pairs on the substrate, and a capacitance adjusting component. Two ground lines in a same pair of ground lines are on both sides of the signal line and spaced apart from the signal line, respectively. The capacitance adjusting component includes a film bridge, and both ends of the film bridge are on the two ground lines, respectively. The signal line is in a space enclosed by the film bridge and the substrate. The capacitance adjusting component is configured to adjust a capacitance between the film bridge and the signal line to a target capacitance when the capacitance adjusting component receives a bias voltage, and the target capacitance has a linear correlation with a magnitude of the bias voltage.
US11876269B2
The invention relates to a rechargeable battery system 1, comprising: at least one electrochemical cell 2 adapted for in charge mode to convert one or more gaseous electrochemical reaction reactant(s) 3 into one or more gaseous electrochemical reaction product(s) 4, at least one storage arrangement 5 for storing said gaseous electrochemical reaction reactants and products, wherein at least one of the gaseous electrochemical reaction product(s) 4 is converted to and stored as at least one chemical reaction product(s) 7,11, where said chemical reaction product(s) 7,11 has a lower gas pressure upon formation than the corresponding gaseous electrochemical reaction product(s) 4, a first fluid communication system 12 between the at least one cell and the at least one storage arrangement 5, wherein the first fluid communication system is configured to form a closed system within the battery system, whereby the battery system is adapted to generate an automatic gas flow between the at least one storage arrangement 5 and cell 2.
US11876265B2
In order to improve usability of hybrid or fully electric aircraft, a fuel cell having improved efficiency and increased volume/weight specific energy density is provided. The fuel cell has a self-supporting membrane structure that is formed as a triply periodic level surface, which separates a first cavity supplied with gaseous fuel from a second cavity supplied with gaseous oxidizer in a gas-sealed manner while connecting the cavities in an ion-conductive manner.
US11876256B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide: fuel cell system that can further stabilize an operation of the system; and control method thereof. Fuel cell system comprises: fuel cell; a turbocharger; oxidizing gas supply line that supplies, to cathode, oxidizing gas compressed by a compressor; a heat exchanger that heats the oxidizing gas of the oxidizing gas supply line by means of exhaust gas discharged from a turbine, and flows the exhaust gas to combustion exhaust gas line; bypass lines each having one end connected to the upstream side of the heat exchanger in the oxidizing gas supply line and bypassing the oxidizing gas; flow rate regulating valves provided in the bypass lines; and a control unit that controls the flow rate regulating valves on the basis of the ambient air temperature, and controls the bypass flow rate of the oxidizing gas.
US11876254B2
A solid-state thermal battery system is disclosed herein. The system includes a stationary thermal storage medium that can be charged by adding heat to the thermal storage medium. Actuated heat engines can be utilized to discharge the solid-state thermal battery, converting the heat stored in the thermal storage medium into electricity. The heat engines are actuated in a manner that reduces thermal gradients in the thermal storage medium to increase the efficiency of the system. In one embodiment, the thermal storage medium is contained in a main chamber of an insulated container. The heat engines are stored, when idle, in an ancillary chamber adjacent to the main chamber and moved into the main chamber by an actuation system to begin discharging the solid-state thermal battery. The heat engines follow a path during discharge to dynamically move between regions of the thermal storage medium to reduce thermal gradients induced therein.
US11876240B2
A battery-based portable power supply includes a battery pack that is configured to protect the batteries and components therewithin. An outer tube protects inner components from impacts that can be expected in transport and usage. A suspension system within a battery pack of the power supply protects the batteries from jolts and bumps. The batteries can be removed and replaced. A switch structure for actuating the electrical outlet is disposed within the battery pack. The switch structure is actuated by compressing the battery pack from outside.
US11876236B2
A vehicle with a hybrid drivetrain including a fuel-fed engine coupled to a first drive axle, an electric motor coupled to a second drive axle and an APU for providing electrical power at stopover locations, and further including a controller for determining a location of the vehicle, a location of a stopover location, determining a target SOC of a battery for operating the APU at the stopover location and operating a hybrid control system to provide the target SOC for the vehicle at the stopover location.
US11876235B2
Disclosed are a method for manufacturing a secondary battery pouch film having at least an outer layer, a metal layer, a primer layer, and a sealant layer, or at least an outer layer, a metal layer, a primer layer, a melt-extrusion resin layer, and a sealant layer in this order, the method including: a drying process of applying and heating a primer layer composition on the metal layer so as to dry the primer layer composition and cure at least a part of the primer layer composition. The organic solvent-based emulsion composition contains acid-modified polypropylene and a curing agent and has a curing start temperature of 150° C. or lower, preferably 135° C. to 150° C., and a drying process temperature of 150° C. or lower, preferably 135° C. to 150° C. The method is not subjected to a thermal lamination process when laminating sealant layer.
US11876230B2
An energy storage device can include a cathode and an anode, where at least one of the cathode and the anode are made of a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) composite binder material including PTFE and at least one of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), a PVDF co-polymer, and poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO). The energy storage device can be a lithium ion battery, a lithium ion capacitor, and/or any other lithium based energy storage device. The PTFE composite binder material can have a ratio of about 1:1 of PTFE to a non-PTFE component, such a PVDF, PVDF co-polymer and/or PEO. Methods of fabricating the anode and/or the cathode of the energy storage device are also disclosed.
US11876222B2
Provided are a cathode active material having a suitable particle size and high uniformity, and a nickel composite hydroxide as a precursor of the cathode active material. When obtaining nickel composite hydroxide by a crystallization reaction, nucleation is performed by controlling a nucleation aqueous solution that includes a metal compound, which includes nickel, and an ammonium ion donor so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 12.0 to 14.0, after which, particles are grown by controlling a particle growth aqueous solution that includes the formed nuclei so that the pH value at a standard solution temperature of 25° C. becomes 10.5 to 12.0, and so that the pH value is lower than the pH value during nucleation. The crystallization reaction is performed in a non-oxidizing atmosphere at least in a range after the processing time exceeds at least 40% of the total time of the particle growth process from the start of the particle growth process where the oxygen concentration is 1 volume % or less, and with controlling an agitation power requirement per unit volume into a range of 0.5 kW/m3 to 4 kW/m3 at least during the nucleation process.
US11876221B2
A primary battery includes a cathode having a non-stoichiometric metal oxide including transition metals Ni, Mn, Co, or a combination of metal atoms, an alkali metal, and hydrogen; an anode; a separator between the cathode and the anode; and an alkaline electrolyte.
US11876220B2
Silicon-based anode material for secondary battery and preparation method thereof, secondary battery
A silicon-based anode material for secondary batteries, a preparation method thereof and a secondary battery are provided. The silicon-based anode material includes: an inner core including an Si particle and silicon oxide SiOx1, where 0
US11876219B2
A method of manufacturing a composite electrode for an all-solid-state battery includes: preparing a precursor solution by mixing at least one solid electrolyte precursor and at least one polar solvent; stirring the precursor solution; preparing an electrode slurry by adding an active material to the stirred precursor solution; and heat-treating the electrode slurry and obtaining the composite electrode for the all-solid-state battery, wherein the composite electrode for the all-solid-state battery includes: the active material; and a coating layer disposed on the active material and including a solid electrolyte.
US11876217B2
A lithium secondary battery includes a cathode, a separator, and an anode including an anode current collector and an anode active material layer formed on the anode current collector and facing the cathode with the separator interposed therebetween. The anode active material layer includes a first anode active material layer formed on the anode current collector and including a first anode active material and a first anode binder containing a styrene-butadiene-based rubber (SBR) binder and a second anode active material layer formed on the first anode active material layer and including a second anode active material and a second anode binder containing a acryl-based binder. Each of the first anode active material and the second anode active material includes a silicon-based active material and a graphite-based material and contains 2 to 9.5 parts by weight of silicon with respect to the 100 part by weight of the graphite-based active material.
US11876215B2
The present invention relates to a secondary battery comprising a cathode, an anode and a separator interposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the anode comprises an anode current collector and an anode mixture layer formed on at least one surface of the anode current collector, the anode mixture layer comprises an anode active material, a binder, and a conductive material, a loading amount of the anode mixture layer is 5 mg/cm2 to 15 mg/cm2 and value R of the anode mixture layer is 3,000 or less, wherein R means (permeability of the anode mixture layer)×(current density of a battery)2. According to the present invention, an overvoltage phenomenon of an anode surface and the deposition of lithium metal caused thereby can be prevented so that charging can be performed with a higher current, and thus rapid charging performance is improved, and lifespan is excellent even in the same current.
US11876211B2
A prelithiated lithium ion battery includes: ion beam implanted lithium; a cathode; and an anode disposed on the cathode and an electrolyte in electrical communication with the cathode and the anode, the cathode or the anode including the ion beam implanted lithium such that: when the cathode includes the ion beam implanted lithium, the ion beam implanted lithium is present in an absence of solid electrolyte interface composition in the cathode; and when the anode includes the ion beam implanted lithium, the ion beam implanted lithium is present in an absence of solid electrolyte interface composition in the anode.
US11876210B2
A positive electrode active material includes a lithium transition metal oxide, which is doped with doping element M2, wherein M2 includes at least one of Al, Ti, Mg, Zr, W, Y, Sr, Co, F, Si, Na, Cu, Fe, Ca, S, or B, and contains nickel in an amount of 60 mol % or more based on a total number of moles of transition metals excluding lithium, wherein the lithium transition metal oxide has a single particle form, and includes a center portion having a layered structure and a surface portion having a rock-salt structure, and the doping element M2 is included in an amount of 3,580 ppm to 7,620 ppm based on a total weight of the positive electrode active material.
US11876206B2
A compact battery unit of refillable aluminum-air battery with concurrent hydrogen utilization system comprises a stack core, an electrolyte circulation system, an air circulation system, a hydrogen fuel battery and hydrogen storage facility. The stack core is assembled by one or more cylindrical cells, a cell base, a cell house, an electrolyte cover, an air cover, a hydrogen cover, an electrolyte outlet sink, a electrolyte inlet chamber, soft pipes and a vibrator. The cylindrical cell is further assembled from a cylindrical cathode and a cylindrical anode. The cylindrical cathode comprises a multi-layer cathode electrode, a support frame and a cathode electric connector. And the cylindrical anode comprises an electric-conductive frame, anode membrane meshes, granular aluminia etc. Strong alkaline electrolyte, such as NaOH, is used to make it possible to mechanically recharge the aluminum-air battery.
US11876200B2
An electric vehicle battery pack with a thermal shield that protects internal components from, for example, battery ventilation, and in particular allows battery pack electrical components to be placed above venting ends of batteries. The thermal shield is positioned above the venting ends of one or more batteries, and various battery pack electrical components may be placed above the thermal shield. Gases and particulate matter from battery venting are thus intercepted and deflected by the thermal shield, instead of damaging battery pack electrical components. In this manner, various battery pack electrical components may be placed above battery venting ends without risk of damage. This allows for a more compact and versatile arrangement of battery pack components.
US11876196B2
A method of treating a leaching solution derived from a black mass from spent lithium-ion batteries comprising setting pH of the leaching solution to about pH 1.2 to 2.5, adding iron powder to induce copper cementation, adding lime after copper cementation, and after adding lime, transiting pH of the leaching solution to about pH 6 to extract calcium fluoride, titanium hydroxide, aluminium hydroxide, iron hydroxide, and iron phosphate. A black mass recycling system comprising an impurity removal reactor configured to receive a sodium hydroxide feed, an iron powder feed, and a lime feed.
US11876195B1
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and devices for mitigating distribution of metallic debris associated with a catastrophic failure of a battery pack. According to one embodiment, a battery pack includes a first lithium-ion battery cell; a first magnetic surface; and an enclosure. The first magnetic surface may be configured (e.g. positioned) to attract metallic debris associated with a catastrophic failure of the first lithium-ion battery cell. The catastrophic failure may be a result of thermal runaway of the first lithium-ion battery cell.
US11876193B2
A battery system includes a plurality of battery modules, each of the battery modules has an assembled battery, which includes a plurality of battery cells connected in series, a monitoring unit that monitors the assembled battery, and an external member that is electrically connected to the monitoring unit. The monitoring unit of each of the battery modules has a generation unit that generates, based on an electric signal input from the external member, an identification information item on the corresponding one of the battery modules, the identification information items of the respective battery modules being different from one another.
US11876191B2
The present invention relates to a method for activating a secondary battery. The present invention comprises: a primary charging step of charging a secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and an electrolyte; a room temperature-aging step of storing, at a room temperature, the secondary battery that has undergone the primary charging step; and a high temperature-aging step of storing, at a high temperature, the secondary battery that has undergone the room temperature-aging step, wherein charging/discharging is performed by alternately applying + current and − current to the secondary battery at the end of the primary charging step. The method for activating a secondary battery according to the present invention includes alternately applying + current and − current to the secondary battery at the end of the primary charging step to stabilize an SEI film, thereby shortening a following-up aging time.
US11876186B2
An alkaline storage battery includes a spiral electrode group in which a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, and a separator arranged between the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate are laminated, the negative electrode plate is located on the inner peripheral side of the positive electrode plate at an innermost peripheral portion, and an electrically conductive outer packaging can in which the spiral electrode group is accommodated together with an alkaline electrolytic solution. The negative electrode plate includes a negative electrode core body, a first negative electrode mixture layer carried on a surface on the outer peripheral side of the negative electrode core body, and a second negative electrode mixture layer carried on a surface on the inner peripheral side of the negative electrode core body. The negative electrode core body has a burr protruding toward the outer peripheral side at an edge portion of an innermost peripheral portion of the negative electrode core body. The thickness of the edge portion of an innermost peripheral portion of the first negative electrode mixture layer is smaller than the thickness of a portion other than the edge portion of the first negative electrode mixture layer. The height of the burr is 30% or less of the thickness of the separator.
US11876180B2
Electrolytes and electrolyte additives for energy storage devices comprising metal sulfide compounds are disclosed. The energy storage device comprises a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein 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 selected from a metal sulfide compound.
US11876174B2
A sulfide glass solid electrolyte sheet can be protected from reaction with moisture by a thin metal layer coating converted to a thin electrochemically functional and protective compound layer. The converted protective compound layer is electrochemically functional in that it allows for through transport of lithium ions.
US11876169B2
The application provides a non-aqueous electrolyte for lithium ion battery. The non-aqueous electrolyte for lithium ion battery comprises a compound A represented by formula I and a compound B represented by formula II, In formula I, R1, R2 and R3 are independently selected from C1-C5 alkyl or haloalkyl, C2-C5 unsaturated hydrocarbon group or unsaturated halohydrocarbon group, and at least one of R1, R2 and R3 is the unsaturated hydrocarbon group or unsaturated halohydrocarbon group; In formula II, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8 and R9 are each independently selected from one of hydrogen atom, fluorine atom and C1-C5 group. The non-aqueous electrolyte for lithium ion battery provided by the application enables the battery to have excellent cycle performance and high-temperature storage performance through the synergistic effect of the compound A and the compound B.
US11876168B2
Composites comprising anode and cathode active materials conformally coupled to few-layered graphene, corresponding electrodes and related methods of preparation.
US11876162B2
A pouch forming method and a pouch forming device are provided. In particular, the pouch forming method for forming an accommodation part that accommodates an electrode assembly in a pouch sheet includes a seating process of seating the pouch sheet on a top surface of a lower die in which a forming groove is formed in an upper portion thereof. In a vacuum elongation process, a lower portion of the pouch sheet, in which the accommodation part is formed, is elongated by vacuum, and in an accommodation part formation process, the portion of the pouch sheet, which is elongated by the vacuum, is pressed by a punch disposed above the pouch sheet in a direction in which the forming groove is formed to form the accommodation part.
US11876156B2
A light emitting device including first, second, and third light emitting parts disposed near each other and each including a first-type semiconductor layer, a first active layer, and a second-type semiconductor layer, a first pad electrically coupled with the second-type semiconductor layer of the first light emitting part, a second pad electrically coupled with the second-type semiconductor layer of the second light emitting part, a third pad electrically coupled with the second-type semiconductor layer of the third light emitting part, and a common pad electrically coupled with the first-type semiconductor layer of the first, second, and third light emitting parts, in which, in a current density per light emitting part of about 20 A/cm2, one of the first, second, and third light emitting parts that is configured to emit light having the longest peak wavelength has a largest normalized external quantum efficiency.
US11876153B2
A light emitting apparatus includes: an electrically insulating base member having, in a top plan view, a first edge, a second edge opposite the first edge, a third edge, and a fourth edge opposite the third edge, wherein the first and second edges of the base member extend in a first direction, and the third and fourth edges of the base member extend in a second direction; first and second electrically conductive pattern portions formed on an upper surface of the base member; at least one light emitting device that is electrically connected to the first and second electrically conductive pattern portions; a transparent member disposed on the at least one light emitting device; and a resin portion that surrounds the transparent member in the top plan view, and that partially covers the first and second electrically conductive pattern portions.
US11876151B2
A display apparatus including a display panel, and a backlight to provide light toward the display panel, the backlight including a circuit board, an optical layer disposed on the circuit board, at least one light emitter disposed between the circuit board and the optical layer and including a light emitting structure disposed on the circuit board and having first and second conductivity type semiconductor layers and an active layer therebetween, first and second electrode pads electrically connected to the first and second conductivity type semiconductor layers, respectively, a reflector on the light emitting structure, a light transmitting layer disposed on the circuit board and contacting the light emitter, and a dam disposed on the circuit board and surrounding the light emitter and including a portion having a curved shape.
US11876140B2
A photovoltaic device is presented. The photovoltaic device includes a layer stack; and an absorber layer is disposed on the layer stack. The absorber layer comprises selenium, wherein an atomic concentration of selenium varies across a thickness of the absorber layer. The photovoltaic device is substantially free of a cadmium sulfide layer.
US11876138B2
A semiconductor device capable of measuring a minute current is provided. The semiconductor device includes an operational amplifier and a diode element. An inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier and an input terminal of the diode element are electrically connected to a first terminal to which current is input, and an output terminal of the operational amplifier and an output terminal of the diode element are electrically connected to a second terminal from which voltage is output. A diode-connected transistor that includes a metal oxide in a channel formation region is used as the diode element. Since the off-state current of the transistor is extremely low, a minute current can flow between the first terminal and the second terminal. Thus, when voltage is output from the second terminal, a minute current that flows through the first terminal can be estimated from the voltage.
US11876137B2
To provide a field-effect transistor, containing: a substrate; a protective layer; a gate insulating layer formed between the substrate and the protective layer; a source electrode and a drain electrode, which are formed to be in contact with the gate insulating layer; a semiconductor layer, which is formed at least between the source electrode and the drain electrode, and is in contact with the gate insulating layer, the source electrode, and the drain electrode; and a gate electrode, which is formed at an opposite side to the side where the semiconductor layer is provided, with the gate insulating layer being between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer, and is in contact with the gate insulating layer, wherein the protective layer contains a metal oxide composite, which contains at least Si and alkaline earth metal.
US11876135B2
Epitaxial source/drain structures for enhancing performance of multigate devices, such as fin-like field-effect transistors (FETs) or gate-all-around (GAA) FETs, and methods of fabricating the epitaxial source/drain structures, are disclosed herein. An exemplary device includes a dielectric substrate. The device further includes a channel layer, a gate disposed over the channel layer, and an epitaxial source/drain structure disposed adjacent to the channel layer. The channel layer, the gate, and the epitaxial source/drain structure are disposed over the dielectric substrate. The epitaxial source/drain structure includes an inner portion having a first dopant concentration and an outer portion having a second dopant concentration that is less than the first dopant concentration. The inner portion physically contacts the dielectric substrate, and the outer portion is disposed between the inner portion and the channel layer. In some embodiments, the outer portion physically contacts the dielectric substrate.
US11876129B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method for the semiconductor structure, which solve problems of complicated manufacturing process and poor stability and reliability of existing semiconductor structures. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate; a channel layer and a barrier layer sequentially superimposed on the substrate, wherein the channel layer and the barrier layer are made of GaN-based materials and an upper surface of the barrier layer is Ga-face; and a p-type GaN-based semiconductor layer formed in a gate region of the barrier layer. An upper surface of the p-type GaN-based semiconductor layer is N-face.
US11876125B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a 3D semiconductor apparatus and a method for fabricating the same. The 3D semiconductor apparatus can include a first semiconductor device including sidewall structures of a first gate metal sandwiched by dielectric layers, a first epitaxially grown channel surrounded by the sidewall structures; a second semiconductor device formed on the same substrate adjacent to the first semiconductor device that includes sidewall structures of a second gate metal sandwiched by dielectric layers, a second epitaxially grown channel surrounded by the sidewall structures; a salicide layer formed between the first and second semiconductor devices and metallization contacting each of the S/D regions and the gate regions. The 3D semiconductor apparatus may include a P+ epitaxially grown channel formed on the same substrate adjacent to an N+ epitaxially grown channel, the P+ epitaxially grown channel separated from N+ epitaxially grown channel by a diffusion break.
US11876122B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device. A substrate having a fin structure is provided. A dummy gate is formed on the fin structure. A polymer block is formed adjacent to a corner between the dummy gate and the fin structure. The polymer block is subjected to a nitrogen plasma treatment, thereby forming a nitridation layer in proximity to a sidewall of the dummy gate under the polymer block. After subjecting the polymer block to the nitrogen plasma treatment, a seal layer is formed on the sidewall of the dummy gate and on the polymer block. An epitaxial layer is then grown on a source/drain region of the fin structure. The dummy gate is then replaced with a metal gate.
US11876121B2
Self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architectures having gate or contact plugs, and methods of fabricating SAGE architectures having gate or contact plugs, are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a first gate structure over a first semiconductor fin. A second gate structure is over a second semiconductor fin. A gate endcap isolation structure is between the first and second semiconductor fins and laterally between and in contact with the first and second gate structures. A gate plug is over the gate endcap isolation structure and laterally between the first gate structure and the second gate structure. A crystalline metal oxide material is laterally between and in contact with the gate plug and the first gate structure, and laterally between and in contact with the gate plug and the second gate structure.
US11876120B2
A semiconductor device includes: a channel layer not containing Al; a barrier layer above the channel layer containing Al; a recess; and an ohmic electrode in the recess, which is in ohmic contact with a two-dimensional electron gas layer. An Al composition ratio distribution of the barrier layer has a maximum point at a first position. The semiconductor device includes: a first inclined surface of the barrier layer which includes the first position and is in contact with the ohmic electrode; and a second inclined surface of the barrier layer which intersects the first inclined surface on a lower side of the first inclined surface, and is in contact with the ohmic electrode. To the surface of the substrate, an angle of the second inclined surface is smaller than an angle of the first inclined surface. A position of the first intersection line is lower than the first position.
US11876112B2
Provided are a display panel and a spliced display device. The display panel includes pixel rows and spacing areas. The pixel rows include a type-A pixel row adjacent to a first panel edge and type-B pixel rows including a first type-B pixel row. The spacing areas correspond to and are adjacent to the type-B pixel rows, and close to the first panel edge. The pixel row includes light-emitting devices and pixel circuits. The pixel circuit includes a first part and a second part. In the type-A pixel row, the first part is located at a side of the light-emitting device close to the first panel edge, and the second part is located in the spacing area corresponding to the first type-B pixel row. In at least one type-B pixel row, the pixel circuit is located at a side of the light-emitting device close to the first panel edge.
US11876111B2
A sensor includes a sensor array. The sensor array includes a plurality of passive imaging pixels and a plurality of time of flight (TOF) imaging pixels. A method of imaging includes collecting passive imaging data from a sensor array and collecting time of flight (TOF) imaging data from the sensor array. Collecting passive imaging data and collecting TOF imaging data can be performed at least partially at the same time and along a single optical axis without parallax.
US11876085B2
A package comprising a substrate and an integrated device coupled to the substrate. The substrate includes at least one dielectric layer, a plurality of interconnects comprising a first interconnect and a second interconnect, a capacitor located at least partially in the substrate, the capacitor comprising a first terminal and a second terminal, a first solder interconnect coupled to a first side surface of the first terminal and the first interconnect, and a second solder interconnect coupled to a second side surface of the second terminal and the second interconnect.
US11876076B2
A memory structure is provided, including a NAND block comprising a plurality of oxide layers, the plurality of layers forming a staircase structure at a first edge of the NAND block, a plurality of vias disposed on the staircase structure of NAND block, two or more of plurality of vias terminating along a same plane, a plurality of first bonding interconnects disposed on the plurality of vias, a plurality of bitlines extending across the NAND block, and a plurality of second bonding interconnects disposed along the bitlines. The memory structure may be stacked on another of the memory structure to form a stacked memory device.
US11876073B2
A process for collectively fabricating a plurality of semiconductor structures comprises providing a substrate including a carrier having a main face, a dielectric layer on the main face of the carrier and a plurality of crystalline semiconductor growth islands on the dielectric layer. At least one crystalline semiconductor active layer is formed on the growth islands. After the step of forming the active layer, trenches are formed in the active layer and in the growth islands in order to define the plurality of semiconductor structures.
US11876062B2
The present invention relates to a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes: a first main electrode provided on an active region; a second main electrode provided on an opposite side of the semiconductor substrate from the first main electrode; a protection film covering a terminal region; and a non-electrolytic plating layer provided on the first main electrode not covered by the protection film, the first main electrode includes a center electrode in a center part and an outer peripheral electrode provided along the center electrode to be separately from the center electrode, the protection film is provided to extend from the terminal region to an end edge portion of the outer peripheral electrode, the center electrode and the outer peripheral electrode include: a first metal layer; and a second metal layer provided on the first metal layer, and the outer peripheral electrode includes a hole part to reach the first metal layer.
US11876061B2
Provided here are: an electrically-conductive semiconductor substrate with which a semiconductor circuit is formed; an insulating film deposited on a major surface of the electrically-conductive semi-conductor substrate; and a bonding pad having fixing parts fixed onto the insulating film, side wall parts rising up from the fixing parts, and an electrode part connected to the side wall parts and disposed in parallel to the major surface; wherein the electrode part forms, together with the insulating film, a gap region therebetween, and portions of the electrode part where it is connected to the side wall parts are configured to have at least one of: a positional relationship in which they sandwich therebetween a central portion of the electrode part in its bonding region to be bonded to a bonding wire; and a positional relationship in which they surround the central portion.
US11876053B2
A multi-chip package includes a substrate (110) having a first side (111), an opposing second side (112), and a third side (213) that extends from the first side to the second side, a first die (120) attached to the first side of the substrate and a second die (130) attached to the first side of the substrate, and a bridge (140) adjacent to the third side of the substrate and attached to the first die and to the second die. No portion of the substrate is underneath the bridge. The bridge creates a connection between the first die and the second die. Alternatively, the bridge may be disposed in a cavity (615, 915) in the substrate or between the substrate and a die layer (750). The bridge may constitute an active die and may be attached to the substrate using wirebonds (241, 841, 1141, 1541).
US11876043B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a chip region and a scribe lane region having first edges extending in a first direction and second edges extending in a second direction, a first insulating interlayer structure on the scribe lane region and including a low-k dielectric material, first conductive structures on a portion of the scribe lane region adjacent one of the first edges and each extending through the first insulating interlayer structure in a vertical direction and extending in the first direction, a second insulating interlayer on the first insulating interlayer structure and including a material having a dielectric constant greater than that of the first insulating interlayer structure, first vias each extending in the first direction through the second insulating interlayer to contact one of the first conductive structures, and a first wiring commonly contacting upper surfaces of the first vias.
US11876034B2
A power module is provided and includes first stack, second stack, and third stacks of layers, a heat pipe, and at least one cold plate or heat sink. The third stack of layers is disposed between the first and second stacks of layers and includes a first semiconductor die, a second semiconductor die and a center spacer layer disposed between the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die. The heat pipe extends at least partially into the center spacer layer. The at least one cold plate or heat sink receives thermal energy from the first stack of layers and the second stack of layers. The first stack of layers, the second stack of layers, the third stack of layers, the heat pipe and the at least one cold plate or heat sink facilitate dual sided cooling of each of the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die.
US11876033B2
An object of the present disclosure is to provide a technique capable of relaxing the stress to be applied around the attachment hole of the resin case at the time of fixing the resin case accommodating the semiconductor element to the heat dissipation component with a bolt. A semiconductor device includes a base plate, a heat dissipation component, and a resin case. In a state where the resin case is disposed on the heat dissipation component via the base plate, the resin case is attached to the heat dissipation component with a bolt. The resin case has a recess portion, an attachment hole formed below the recess portion, and at least one groove formed between a wall portion on an inner peripheral side forming the recess portion and the attachment hole. One end of the at least one groove reaches an outer peripheral end of the resin case.
US11876022B2
A substrate treatment method includes: generating, for each of layers constituting a stacked film on a substrate, a captured image of the substrate after a treatment regarding a relevant layer; and acquiring information indicating a feature amount estimated based on the captured image for each of a plurality of layers including an outermost layer of the stacked film on the substrate.
US11876018B2
Semiconductor devices made by forming hard mask pillars on a surface of a substrate, forming sacrificial spacers on a first side of each hard mask pillar and a second side of each hard mask pillar. The open gaps may be formed between adjacent sacrificial spacers. The semiconductor devices may also be formed by etching the hard mask pillars to form pillar gaps, etching gate trenches into the substrate through the open gaps and the pillar gaps, forming a gate electrode within the gate trenches, implanting channels and sources in the substrate below the sacrificial spacers, forming an insulator layer around the sacrificial spacers, etching the sacrificial spacers to form contact trenches within the substrate, and filling the contact trenches with a conductive material to form contacts.
US11876013B2
Gate cutting techniques for integrated circuit devices, particularly for fin-like field effect transistor devices, are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes receiving an integrated circuit device that includes a gate structure and performing a gate cut process to separate the gate structure into a first gate structure and a second gate structure. The gate cut process includes selectively removing a portion of the gate structure, such that a residual gate dielectric layer extends between the first gate structure and the second gate structure. In some implementations, the residual gate dielectric includes a high-k dielectric material. The method further includes forming a gate isolation region between the first gate structure and the second gate structure.
US11876010B2
There is provided a configuration that includes a substrate holder configured to hold substrates; a transfer mechanism configured to transfer the substrates to the substrate holder; and a controller configured to: acquire a number of substrates mountable on the substrate holder and a number of the product substrates to be mounted on the substrate holder; divide the product substrates into product substrate groups; divide the dummy substrates into dummy substrate groups based on the number of the product substrates, the number of the substrates mountable on the substrate holder, and a number of the product substrate groups; combine the product substrate groups and the dummy substrate groups; create substrate arrangement data for distributing and mounting the product substrates on the substrate holder; and cause the transfer mechanism to transfer the substrates according to the substrate arrangement data.
US11876008B2
Vertical batch furnace assembly for processing wafers comprising a cassette handling space, a wafer handling space, and a first wall separating the cassette handling space from the wafer handling space. The first wall has at least one wafer transfer opening in front of which a wafer transfer position for a wafer cassette is provided. The cassette handling space comprises a cassette storage, and a cassette handling mechanism. The cassette storage has a plurality of cassette storage positions and is configured to store a plurality of wafer cassettes. The cassette handling mechanism comprises a first cassette handler which is configured to transfer wafer cassettes between a first set of the cassette storage positions and the wafer transfer position. The cassette handling mechanism is provided with a second cassette handler which is configured to transfer wafer cassettes between a second set of the cassette storage positions and the wafer transfer position.
US11875996B2
A method of depositing a metal material on an isolated seed layer uses a barrier layer as a conductive path for plating. The method may include depositing a barrier layer on a substrate wherein the barrier layer provides adhesion for seed layer material and inhibits migration of the seed layer material, forming at least one isolated seed layer area on the barrier layer on the substrate, and depositing the metal material on the at least one isolated seed layer area using an electrochemical deposition process wherein the barrier layer provides a current path to deposit the metal material on the at least one isolated seed layer area.
US11875989B2
A semiconductor device including a first semiconductor section including a first wiring layer at one side thereof, the first semiconductor section further including a photodiode, a second semiconductor section including a second wiring layer at one side thereof, the first and second semiconductor sections being secured together, a third semiconductor section including a third wiring layer at one side thereof, the second and the third semiconductor sections being secured together such the first semiconductor section, second semiconductor section, and the third semiconductor section are stacked together, and a first conductive material electrically connecting at least two of (i) the first wiring layer, (ii) the second wiring layer, and (iii) the third wiring layer such that the electrically connected wiring layers are in electrical communication.
US11875983B2
The invention generally relates to systems and methods for quantifying an analyte extracted from a sample. In certain embodiments, the invention provides methods that involve introducing a solvent into a capillary, introducing the capillary into a vessel including a sample such that a portion of the sample is introduced into the capillary, moving the sample and the solvent within the capillary to induce circulation within the sample and the solvent, thereby causing the analyte to be extracted from the sample and into the solvent, analyzing the analyte that has been extracted from the sample, and quantifying the analyte. In certain embodiments, the quantifying step is performed without knowledge of a volume of the sample and/or solvent.
US11875981B2
A method of operating a mass spectrometer that allows for high-speed operation is disclosed. The method consists in separating the various steps needed to produce a mass spectrum into three or more conceptual stages in a pipeline, such that the instrument is performing steps to process more than two precursor-ion species simultaneously. In general, the number of stages in the pipeline should at least one more and, preferably, at least two more than the number of buffering storage devices in the instrument. The presently-taught methods and apparatus allow for nearly 100% duty cycle of ion accumulation for precursors of interest.
US11875975B2
Device for hydrogen sulfide plasma dissociation includes a plasma chemical reactor including an arc plasma generator that has a cathode and an anode; the anode having a working surface for contacting hydrogen sulfide plasma, wherein the working surface is made from a material that includes stainless steel, tungsten or molybdenum; the cathode having a tip for arc attachment where a cathode spot is formed, wherein the cathode tip is made from pure tungsten, pure molybdenum, a tungsten or molybdenum alloy with tungsten as a major component or a composite material in which tungsten or molybdenum is the major component; and a flow path configured to have an inlet for gaseous hydrogen sulfide for dissociation in plasma into hydrogen and sulfur, and an outlet for gaseous products of hydrogen sulfide plasma dissociation. Optionally, the alloy or composite material has up to 10% low work function elements (thorium, cerium, lanthanum, or zirconium).
US11875967B2
System apparatus and method for enhancing electrical clamping of substrates using photo-illumination
An apparatus may include a clamp to clamp a substrate wherein the clamp is arranged opposing a back side of the substrate; and an illumination system, disposed to direct radiation to the substrate, when the substrate is disposed on the clamp, wherein the radiation comprises a radiation energy equal to or above a threshold energy to generate mobile charge in the substrate, where the illumination system is disposed to direct radiation to a front side of the substrate, opposite the back side of the substrate.
US11875958B2
A method of connecting an electric element (20) to a switch part (10) provided with a fixed contact (11a), i.e., an example of a first contact, a first terminal (12) connected to the fixed contact (11a) and exposed out of the switch part (10), a movable contact (11b), i.e., an example of a second contact, capable of moving to a position at which the movable contact (11b) is in contact with the fixed contact (11a) and a position at which the movable contact (11b) is spaced apart from the fixed contact (11a), and a second terminal (13) connected to the movable contact (11b) and exposed out of the switch part (10) includes: connecting the electric element (20) in parallel to the fixed contact (11a) and the movable contact (11b) between the first terminal (12) and the second terminal (13).
US11875955B2
A vacuum circuit breaker includes: an insulating rod disposed within a grounded tank; a drive conductor connected to the insulating rod; a first bushing and a second bushing connected to the side of the grounded tank; vacuum valves including movable contacts; levers rotatably coupled at end portions on one side to the insulating rod or the drive conductor; movable conductors electrically connected at end portions on one side to the movable contacts; and links rotatably coupled at end portions on one side to the end portions on the other side of the movable conductors and rotatably coupled at end portions on the other side to the end portions on the other side of the levers.
US11875953B2
A calibration joint for a three-phase electric disconnect switch includes a linkage pipe extending through a lock ring, which includes an axial guide shaft, a threaded shaft, and a self-piercing set screw securing the lock ring to the linkage pipe. The linkage pipe also extends through a clevis housing, which includes an axial joiner shaft and a clevis bracket securing the clevis housing to an operating lever of the disconnect switch. An adjustment rod extending through the axial guide shaft of the lock ring, through the axial joiner shaft of the clevis housing, and engaging with lock nuts allows axial adjustment of the clevis housing with respect to the lock ring, and thus with respect to the linkage pipe. This, in turn, allows fine adjustment of the blade and jaws of an associated phase switch with respect to the switch actuator independent of the other phase switches.
US11875950B2
An electrolytic capacitor that includes a resin molded body having opposed first and second end surfaces, the body including a stack that includes a capacitor element with an anode exposed at the first end surface, a dielectric layer on a surface of the anode, and a cathode opposite to the anode and exposed at the second end surface, and a sealing resin that encloses the stack; a first external electrode on the first end surface of the resin molded body and electrically connected to the anode; and a second external electrode on a second end surface of the resin molded body and electrically connected to the cathode, wherein the first external electrode and the second external electrode each include a resin electrode layer containing a conductive component and a resin component.
US11875945B2
A capacitor component includes a body having a stacked portion in which first internal electrodes and second internal electrodes are alternately stacked with each other and with dielectric layers therebetween in a first direction, and having first and second connection portions disposed on opposite surfaces of the stacked portion, respectively, in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. First and second external electrodes are disposed on the first and second connection portions, respectively. The first and second connection portions each include a metal layer disposed on the stacked portion and a ceramic layer disposed on the metal layer. Corners of the body have a rounded shape in a cross-section of the body extending in the first and second directions.
US11875944B2
A film capacitor that includes a dielectric resin film having a glass transition temperature of 160° C. or higher and a density at 25° C. of 1.22 g/cm3 to 1.26 g/cm3; and a metal layer on at least one surface of the dielectric resin film.
US11875941B2
In an embodiment a capacitor includes a winding element arranged in a case, a mounting plate which has a non-conductive material and which is fixed to the case and a metal element arranged between the case and the mounting plate, wherein the metal element includes a protruding part protruding through the mounting plate.
US11875935B2
An electronic device includes a substrate; a porous semiconductor material layer arranged on the substrate; a first high magnetic permeability material arranged inside the pores of a first portion of the porous semiconductor layer, the first portion of the porous semiconductor material layer impregnated with the first high magnetic permeability material forming a first magnetic layer separated from the substrate by a second portion of the porous semiconductor material layer; and a coil arranged on the first magnetic layer.
US11875934B2
The disclosure is directed to an iron-nitride material having a polycrystalline microstructure including a plurality of elongated crystallographic grains with grain boundaries, the iron-nitride material including at least one of an α″-Fe16N2 phase and a body-center-tetragonal (bct) phase comprising Fe and N. The disclosure is also directed a method producing an iron-nitride material. The method includes some combinations of preparing a raw material comprising iron, carrying out a microstructure build-up by annealing the prepared raw material at an elevated temperature and subsequently quenching the prepared raw material to produce a microstructure build-up material, annealing the microstructure build-up material, reducing the microstructure build-up material in a hydrogen environment, nitriding the reduced material to produce a nitrided material and subsequently quenching the nitrided material to a martensitic transformation temperature, stress annealing the nitrided material, and magnetic field annealing the stress-annealed material.
US11875924B2
A method of fabricating resistors in igniter is provided. The method includes punching an alloy material to obtain a plurality of alloy components. The alloy components are disposed on a substrate, and electrodes are disposed on the substrate. Resistors in igniter are obtained by disposing electrodes on the substrate such that two electrically connecting regions of each alloy component are physically contacting and electrically connecting to the electrodes, respectively. The resulting resistors in igniter have uniform size and stable shape hence showing great ignition performance.
US11875923B2
A noise reduction element includes a protruded portion on which a bent portion of a conductive wire is hooked, and a winder portion around which both a first conductive wire portion extending in one direction from the bent portion of the conductive wire hooked on the protruded portion and a second conductive wire portion extending in another direction from the bent portion of the conductive wire hooked on the protruded portion are wound in a state where the first and second conductive wire portions are parallel to each other.
US11875921B2
A carbon nanotube (CNT) cable includes: a pair of plated twisted wires, each wire comprising one or more sub-cores, at least one sub-core comprising CNT yarn; a dielectric surrounding the plated twisted wires; and an electrical layer surrounding the dielectric, the electrical layer configured to shield the CNT cable. A method for making a CNT cable includes: controlling a deposition rate, depositing plating so as to surround a pair of wires, each wire comprising one or more sub-cores, at least one sub-core comprising CNT yarn; twisting the plated wires together; and surrounding the plated twisted wires with an electrical layer configured to shield the plated twisted wires, thereby creating the CNT cable.
US11875912B2
A shielded flat cable includes a plurality of ground lines disposed in a first plane, a pair of signal lines provided between the plurality of ground lines and disposed in the first plan, an insulating layer covering the plurality of ground lines and the pair of signal lines, and a shield layer covering the insulating layer. In a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction, the plurality of ground lines include an adjacent ground line adjacent to one signal line of the pair of signal lines. A minimum distance between the pair of signal lines is smaller than a minimum distance between the adjacent ground line and the one signal line.
US11875906B2
The present relates to the integration of the primary functional elements of graphite moderator and reactor vessel and/or primary heat exchangers and/or control rods into an integral molten salt nuclear reactor (IMSR). Once the design life of the IMSR is reached, for example, in the range of 3 to 10 years, it is disconnected, removed and replaced as a unit. The spent IMSR functions as the medium or long term storage of the radioactive graphite and/or heat exchangers and/or control rods and/or fuel salt contained in the vessel of the IMSR. The present also relates to a nuclear reactor that has a buffer salt surrounding the nuclear vessel. During normal operation of the nuclear reactor, the nuclear reactor operates at a temperature that is lower than the melting point of the buffer salt and the buffer salt acts as a thermal insulator. Upon loss of external cooling, the temperature of the nuclear reactor increases and melts the buffer salt, which can then transfer heat from the nuclear core to a cooled containment vessel.
US11875890B2
A system is described. This system may include a processor, storage for a table of foods consumed by a user, and a presentation system. The table may associate a serving of a food with a number of coins. The presentation system may inform the user that the user has spent too many coins based at least in part on a total of the number of coins in the table exceeds a recommended number of coins for the user. The number of coins associated with the serving of the food may be calculated based at least in part on a first number of grams of carbohydrates in the serving of the food, a second number of grams of proteins in the serving of the food, and a third number of grams of fats in the serving of the food.
US11875887B2
A system configured to be coupled with a participant of an activity. The system comprises: a participant activity monitoring unit configured for monitoring a performance of the activity by the participant; an activity information module configured for storing performance information corresponding to the activity; and a participant performance correlator configured for delivering comparative performance data based on the monitored performance of the activity by the participant and the stored performance information.
US11875882B1
Disclosed is an system for predicting end-stage renal disease complication risk based on contrastive learning, including an end-stage renal disease data preparation module, configured to extract structured data of a patient by using a hospital electronic information system and daily monitoring equipment, and process the structured data to obtain augmented structured data; and a complication risk prediction module, configured to construct a complication representation learning model and a complication risk prediction model, perform training and learning on the augmented structured data through the complication representation learning model to obtain a complication representation, and perform end-stage renal disease complication risk prediction by using the complication representation through the complication risk prediction model.
US11875864B2
A storage device includes 3D NAND including layers of multi-level cells. When a shutdown command is received, whether a block is partially written is evaluated. If so, dummy lines are written after the last written wordline of the block. Partially written blocks may be those having a fill percentage less than a threshold. The threshold may be a function of the PEC count of the block. If a maximum retention time is exceeded by data stored in a partially written block, dummy lines may also be written to the block.
US11875852B2
Numerous embodiments of analog neural memory arrays are disclosed. Certain embodiments comprise an adaptive bias decoder for providing additional bias to array input lines to compensate for instances where ground floats above 0V. This is useful, for example, to minimize the voltage drop for a read, program, or erase operation while maintaining accuracy in the operation.
US11875850B2
The application provides a content addressable memory (CAM) memory device, a CAM memory cell and a method for searching and comparing data thereof. The CAM memory device includes: a plurality of CAM memory strings; and an electrical characteristic detection circuit. In data searching, a search data is compared with a storage data stored in the CAM memory strings, the CAM memory strings generate a plurality of memory string currents, the electrical characteristic detection circuit detects the memory string currents to generate a plurality of sensing results, or detects a plurality of match line voltages on a plurality of match lines coupled to the CAM memory string to generate the plurality of search results. The storage data and the search data is a range storage data and a single-bit search data, or the storage data and the search data is a single-bit storage data and a range search data.
US11875848B2
The present description concerns a memory device (200) including a non-volatile memory circuit (101); a buffer memory circuit (203) comprising a volatile memory circuit (221); an input-output circuit (105); a first data link (104) coupling the non-volatile memory circuit (101) to the buffer memory circuit (203); a second data link (106) coupling the buffer memory circuit (203) to the input-output circuit (105); and a control circuit (225), wherein the buffer memory circuit (203) is adapted to implementing calculations having as operands data stored in the volatile memory circuit (221).
US11875834B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a first memory cell and a control circuit. The first memory cell includes a first magnetoresistance effect element and a first switching element coupled in series. The control circuit is configured to repeatedly apply a first voltage to the first memory cell until a first condition is satisfied in a first operation.
US11875818B2
Systems and methods of predicting glottal insufficiency by at least one hardware processor including receiving a voice recording comprising a phonation by a subject, analysis of the voice recording to calculate a fundamental frequency contour curve of the phonation, and measurement of at least one of (i) a time period from a start of the phonation until the contour curve reaches a settled level, (ii) a slope of the contour curve during the time period, and (iii) an area under the contour curve during that time period. In certain embodiments, the processor subsequently, determines a glottal closure insufficiency in the subject based on these measurements.
US11875816B2
An electronic device and a method for controlling thereof is provided. The electronic device includes a memory storing a neural network model and a processor configured to input, to the neural network model, input data to obtain output data, and, based on comparison between first output data based on input first modality and second output data based on input second modality, in response to the second modality being input, the neural network model is trained to output the first modality corresponding to the first output data, and the second modality may include at least one masking element.
US11875813B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, device, and other implementations, including a method (performed by, for example, a hearing aid device) that includes obtaining a combined sound signal for signals combined from multiple sound sources in an area in which a person is located, and obtaining neural signals for the person, with the neural signals being indicative of one or more target sound sources, from the multiple sound sources, the person is attentive to. The method further includes determining a separation filter based, at least in part, on the neural signals obtained for the person, and applying the separation filter to a representation of the combined sound signal to derive a resultant separated signal representation associated with sound from the one or more target sound sources the person is attentive to.
US11875812B2
A system comprises an ear-worn electronic device configured to be worn by a wearer. The ear-worn electronic device comprises a processor and memory coupled to the processor. The memory is configured to store an annoying sound dictionary representative of a plurality of annoying sounds pre-identified by the wearer. A microphone is coupled to the processor and configured to monitor an acoustic environment of the wearer. A speaker or a receiver is coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to identify different background noises present in the acoustic environment, determine which of the background noises correspond to one or more of the plurality of annoying sounds, and attenuate the one or more annoying sounds in an output signal provided to the speaker or receiver.
US11875811B2
A method includes receiving sound input features representative of sound received during an electronic conference, the sound including voice and input device activation sound, receiving an input event feature indicative of the input device activation, and processing the received sound input features and input event feature via a trained model to identify a stored spectral file to be subtracted from the received sound to suppress the input device activation sound.
US11875810B1
At a first layer of an echo canceler, a first compensation for a first set of properties of output of an audio capture device of a first communication environment is applied. The first set of properties includes a property resulting from a difference in clock speeds of an audio capture device and an audio rendering device of the first communication environment. At a second layer of the echo canceler, at which output of the first layer is received, a second compensation for a second set of properties of the output of the first layer is applied. The second set of properties includes an echo. Applying the compensations comprises modifying neural network weights. Output of the second layer is transmitted to a second communication environment.
US11875809B2
Developed and presented herein are embodiments of a new end-to-end approach for audio denoising, from a synthesis perspective. Instead of explicitly modelling the noise component in the input signal, embodiments directly synthesize the denoised audio from a generative model (or vocoder), as in text-to-speech systems. In one or more embodiments, to generate the phonetic contents for the autoregressive generative model, it is learned via a variational autoencoder with discrete latent representations. Furthermore, in one or more embodiments, a new matching loss is presented for the denoising purpose, which is masked on when the corresponding latent codes differ. As compared against other method on test datasets, embodiments achieve competitive performance and can be trained from scratch.
US11875805B2
There is provided methods and apparatuses for decoding and encoding of audio signals. In particular, a method for decoding includes receiving a waveform-coded signal having a spectral content corresponding to a subset of the frequency range above a cross-over frequency. The waveform-coded signal is interleaved with a parametric high frequency reconstruction of the audio signal above the cross-over frequency. In this way an improved reconstruction of the high frequency bands of the audio signal is achieved.
US11875804B2
A decoder for generating an audio output signal having one or more audio output channels is provided, having a receiving interface for receiving an audio input signal having a plurality of audio object signals, for receiving loudness information on the audio object signals, and for receiving rendering information indicating whether one or more of the audio object signals shall be amplified or attenuated, further having a signal processor for generating the one or more audio output channels of the audio output signal, configured to determine a loudness compensation value depending on the loudness information and depending on the rendering information, and configured to generate the one or more audio output channels of the audio output signal from the audio input signal depending on the rendering information and depending on the loudness compensation value. One or more by-pass audio object signals are employed for generating the audio output signal. Moreover, an encoder is provided.
US11875799B2
A method and device for fusing voiceprint features. The method includes: obtaining at least two voiceprint features of a voice sample of a target speaker (S3; S4); fusing the at least two voiceprint features on the basis of linear discriminant analysis (S5). The present method introduces a technique employing linear discriminant analysis to fuse various voiceprint features, so as to improve complementarities between the various voiceprint features and distinctions between the fused features, thereby increasing the recognition rate for target speakers and reducing the misrecognition rate for non-target speakers in voiceprint authentication scenarios, and providing personalized and improved user experience.
US11875797B2
A scripted audio production system in which the scripted audio production computerized process decreases production time by improving computerized processes and technological systems for pronunciation research and script preparation, narration, editing, proofing and mastering. The system enables the user to upload their manuscript and recorded audio of the narration of the manuscript to the system. The system then compares the recorded audio against previously uploaded manuscript and any mistakes or deviations from the manuscript are highlighted or otherwise indicated to the user. The system automatically pieces together the last-read audio into a clean file without the need for significant user interaction. The process may also be performed on the recorded audio by the narrator first uploading the audio and manuscript to the scripted audio production technology system.
US11875788B2
Techniques described herein relate to facilitating end-to-end multilingual communications with automated assistants. In various implementations, speech recognition output may be generated based on voice input in a first language. A first language intent may be identified based on the speech recognition output and fulfilled in order to generate a first natural language output candidate in the first language. At least part of the speech recognition output may be translated to a second language to generate an at least partial translation, which may then be used to identify a second language intent that is fulfilled to generate a second natural language output candidate in the second language. Scores may be determined for the first and second natural language output candidates, and based on the scores, a natural language output may be selected for presentation.
US11875774B2
Provided is a sound image localizing device, a sound image localizing method, and a program that enable a virtual speaker to reproduce sound in a wide frequency band with high sound quality. A sound image localizing device 10 includes a directivity control filter design unit 11 that computes a directivity control filter from a desired directional characteristic, a filter coefficient correction unit 12 that corrects the directivity control filter computed by the directivity control filter design unit 11, and a convolution operation unit 13 that computes an output acoustic signal by performing convolution of an input acoustic signal and the directivity control filter corrected by the filter coefficient correction unit 12. Filters that respectively correspond to speakers constituting a speaker array are computed by the directivity control filter design unit 11 and the filter coefficient correction unit 12, an acoustic beam is generated using directivity control by the speaker array, and the acoustic beam is caused to be reflected from a wall surface or a ceiling to generate a virtual sound source.
US11875772B2
An adaptive active noise control (ANC) system includes an ANC circuit and a control circuit. The ANC circuit generates an anti-noise signal, and includes at least one adaptive filter. The control circuit receives a first input signal derived from a reference signal output by a reference microphone that picks up ambient noise, receives a second input signal derived from an error signal output by an error microphone that picks up remnant noise resulting from noise reduction, and performs a comparison operation based on a first characteristic value of the first input signal and a second characteristic value of the second input signal to control the at least one adaptive filter.
US11875764B2
A media composition application, such as a musical scorewriter or a digital audio workstation, provides in situ suggestions for continuation or completion of a media composition. The suggestions are based on some or all of the portion of the composition already composed or are based on a corpus of compositions, such as those by a particular composer or those of a specific genre. The length of the suggestions is specified by the user. The suggestions are provided within a graphical user interface of the application and displayed as a possible direct continuation of the composition within a musical stave. If the user rejects the suggestion, additional suggestions are automatically displayed in situ. Reductive, most-probable suggestions may be offered as well as exploratory suggestions that facilitate a creative compositional interaction between user and application. Data filters enable selected aspects of a data source to be used for suggestion generation.
US11875757B2
An information processing system (2000) includes a camera (10), a polarization filter (20), a display device (30), and an information processing apparatus (200). The display device (30) includes a display screen (32), and an object (40) is placed on the display screen (32). The camera (10) has an image area in which the display screen (32) is included. The information processing apparatus (200) displays, on the display screen (32), a first display based on a captured image (12) generated by the camera (10). The polarization filter (20) is located between a lens of the camera (10) and the display screen (32) when the lens of the camera (10) faces the display screen (32).
US11875756B2
Provided are a backlight board and a driving method thereof, a backlight module and a driving method thereof, and a display device. The backlight board includes light-emitting devices arranged in rows and columns and a first connector, where each first pin of the first connector is electrically connected to first electrodes of light-emitting devices in one row, each second pin of the first connector is electrically connected to second electrodes of light-emitting devices in one column; and in one drive cycle, a first drive signal drives light-emitting devices in each row for a duration T/n at different times, and a second drive signal drives light-emitting devices in each column for a duration T/n at different times.
US11875749B2
A display substrate and manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate, and a shift register unit and a first clock signal line that are on the base substrate, the first clock signal line extends along a first direction on the base substrate and is configured to provide a first clock signal to the shift register unit, the shift register unit includes an input circuit, an output circuit, a first control circuit and an output control circuit, and the input circuit includes an input transistor, an active layer of the input transistor is in a strip shape extending along a second direction, and the second direction is different from the first direction.
US11875748B2
Provided are a gate driving circuit, a display substrate, a display device and a gate driving method, the gate driving circuit includes: a frequency doubling control circuit and an effective output circuit including first shift registers, the first shift register at the first stage has a first signal input terminal coupled with an output control signal line and a second signal input terminal coupled with the frequency doubling control circuit; the frequency doubling control circuit is coupled to the output control signal line, for providing a frequency doubling control signal thereto after a preset time period from the receipt of the output control signal in response to an output control signal from the output control signal line; the first shift register at the first stage outputs a scanning signal in response to the output control signal and a scanning signal in response to the frequency doubling control signal.
US11875747B2
A pixel driving circuit includes: an energy storage sub-circuit, a reset sub-circuit, a compensation sub-circuit, a driving sub-circuit, and a current leakage suppression sub-circuit. The energy storage sub-circuit is coupled to a first node and a second node. The reset sub-circuit is coupled to the second node, a first scan timing signal terminal, and an initialization signal terminal. The compensation sub-circuit is coupled to the second node, a third node, and a second scan timing signal terminal. The driving sub-circuit is coupled to the second node, the third node, and a first voltage signal terminal. The current leakage suppression sub-circuit is coupled to the energy storage sub-circuit, the reset sub-circuit, and the compensation sub-circuit. The current leakage suppression sub-circuit is configured to suppress current leakage of the energy storage sub-circuit in a process of generating and transmitting the driving signal by the driving sub-circuit.
US11875745B2
A display may have an array of pixels each of which has a light-emitting diode such as an organic light-emitting diode. A drive transistor and an emission transistor may be coupled in series with the light-emitting diode of each pixel between a positive power supply and a ground power supply. The pixels may include first and second switching transistors. A data storage capacitor may be coupled between a gate and source of the drive transistor in each pixel. Signal lines may be provided in columns of pixels to route signals such as data signals, sensed drive currents from the drive transistors, and predetermined voltages between display driver circuitry and the pixels. The switching transistors, emission transistors, and drive transistors may include semiconducting-oxide transistors and silicon transistors and may be n-channel transistors or p-channel transistors.
US11875744B2
Methods of compensating for common unwanted signals present in pixel data measurements of a pixel circuit in a display having a plurality of pixel circuits each including a storage device, a drive transistor, and a light emitting device. First pixel data is measured from a first pixel circuit through a monitor line. Second pixel data from the first pixel circuit or a second pixel circuit is measured through the monitor line or another monitor line. The first measured pixel data or the second measured pixel data or both are used to clean the other of the first measured pixel data or the second measured pixel data of common unwanted signals to produce cleaned data for parameter extraction from the first pixel and/or second pixel.
US11875741B2
A pixel includes: a light emitting diode; a first transistor; a first capacitor connected between a first node and a gate electrode of the first transistor; a second transistor including a first electrode electrically connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor, a second electrode and a gate electrode which receives a first scan signal; and a third transistor including a first electrode electrically connected to the second electrode of the second transistor, a second electrode electrically connected to a third voltage line, and a gate electrode which receives a second scan signal. During an initialization period, an initialization voltage provided from the third voltage line is provided to the gate electrode of the first transistor through the third and second transistors, and, when the initialization period is terminated, at least one of the second transistor and the third transistor is turned off.
US11875737B2
A scan-type display apparatus includes an LED array and a data driver. The LED array has a common cathode configuration, and includes multiple scan lines, multiple data lines and multiple LEDs. The data driver includes multiple data driving circuits, each of which includes a current driver and a detector. The current driver has an output terminal connected to the data line corresponding to the data driving circuit, and outputs one of a drive current and a clamp voltage at the output terminal of the current driver based on a pulse width control signal. The detector is connected to the current driver, and generates a detection signal that indicates whether any one of the LEDs connected to the data line corresponding to the data driving circuit is short circuited based on a detection timing signal and a feed-in voltage related to a voltage at the output terminal of the current driver.
US11875736B2
A driving controller includes a compensator that calculates a compensation value based on first accumulated stress, and outputs an output image signal by compensating for the input image signal with the compensation value, a stress converter that converts the output image signal into current stress in response to an enable signal, an accumulation stress calculator that outputs second accumulated stress by adding the first accumulated stress and the current stress in response to the enable signal, a memory that stores the second accumulated stress and provides the first accumulated stress to the compensator and the accumulation stress calculator, and an operating time calculator that receives a current operating frequency and outputs the enable signal of an active level based on the current operating frequency.
US11875722B2
A display panel and a display device. The display panel comprises a transition region, and further comprises: a base substrate; multiple pixel units located on the side of the base substrate and integrated in the transition region; and a first gate drive circuit located on the side of the base substrate facing the pixel units, integrated in the transition region, and comprising a first shift register unit and a first signal line group. The first signal line group comprises a first signal line segment group used for providing a drive signal for the first shift register unit. The base substrate comprises multiple integration portions which are located between orthographic projections of two adjacent pixel units in the same row on the base substrate.
US11875721B2
The application provides a display panel and a driving method thereof. The display panel comprises a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a matrix, and the sub-pixels are grouped into a plurality of cell areas arranged repeatedly along the row direction and the column direction. Each cell area comprises at least two sub-pixels, with polarities of adjacent sub-pixels opposite to each other. For at least two consecutive frames during a display cycle, the gray-levels of sub-pixels in the cell area maintain unchanged while polarities of the sub-pixels are reversed.
US11875712B2
A safety sign device is for a vehicle. The safety sign device may include a hinge being coupled a side of the vehicle, and an arm. The arm may include an elongate base, an electric motor coupled to the elongate base, an elongate housing coupled to the elongate base, and visual indicators carried by the elongate housing. The safety sign device may also include a sign coupled to the arm and being parallel to the arm. The hinge may include a pin, and a link assembly coupled between the pin and the electric motor and being rotatable about the pin. The electric motor may be configured to extend and retract the arm between a retracted position and an extended position.
US11875707B2
A method and apparatus for driver/operator training includes, in a training system, while presenting a simulation segment: collecting data from at least one input device and analyzing the data to predict a potential future issue. If this analysis indicates that there exists the potential future issue, an informational message is presented to warn of the trainee of the potential future issue.
US11875704B2
A nasal simulator includes a three-dimensional (3D) printed nasal cavity within based on diagnostic imagery of a human nasal cavity. The nasal simulator comprising a fan system positioned to mimic air flow through the human nasal cavity. A first probe access bore is formed through the 3D printed nasal cavity to a first location having a first internal contour. An anemometer insert having an outer diameter sized to be slidingly received in and to pneumatically seal the first probe access bore, the anemometer insert having a distal contour that aligns with the first internal contour of the 3D printed nasal cavity, the anemometer insert having a longitudinal bore that is sized to receive a probe of an anemometer to detect characteristics of the air flow through the 3D cavity.
US11875697B2
A sports training aid comprising a body unit (110) attachable to a person's body or the person's sports implement wherein the body unit (110) is provided with a positioning sensor module; a feedback stimulator; and a processor. The sports training aid is configured to provide instantaneous feedback on motion faults of a studied sports motion, and the body unit (110) is intended to be attached to a person's body (or a person's sports implement) at a representative location, the location being bound to travel a path representative of the studied sports motion, and the positioning sensor module comprises acceleration sensors and gyro sensors, and the processor is configured to determine a still position corresponding to an event wherein the body unit (110) is determined to be still, and the processor is configured to keep track of the sensor module's movements relative to the still position, and the processor is configured to activate the feedback stimulator in real time, upon detection of a sports motion fault of the studied sports motion of the person as represented by the motion path of the sensor module.
US11875694B2
An operation motion is accurately determined in an operational information management system. The system includes a motion verification portion that combines and verifies plurality of pieces of sensor information and recognizes a specific body motion, a signal determination portion that determines whether an operation content of an operator is correctly performed based on the body motion recognized by the motion verification portion, and a report portion that reports a determine result of the signal determination portion.
US11875688B2
A system, method, node, and computer program for determining a flight start policy to be applied to an unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV, (10) is described. The UAV (10) is associated with a first UAV-Application Server, UAV-AS (100) maintaining a flight policy applicable for the geographical service area (150) where the UAV (10) is located. The method comprising the first UAV-AS (100) determining whether the UAV (10) is going to leave the geographical service area (150) towards a second geographical service area (150), wherein the second geographical service area (150) is associated with a second UAV-AS (130). If so querying by the first UAV-AS (100) a flight policy applicable for the second geographical service area (150) from the second UAV-AS (130), and instructing a received flight policy applicable for the second geographical service to the UAV (10), before the UAV (10) has entered the second geographical service area (150).
US11875687B2
A method may include receiving, from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a first message via a first network using User Datagram Protocol (UDP). The method may further include determining whether a second message that is identical to the first message has been received from the UAV via a second network that is different than the first network. The method may additionally include processing the first message when the second message has not been received and discarding the first message when the second message has been received.
US11875679B2
A vehicle presence detection system for determining whether a parking space is vacant or occupied and utilizing this information to guide vehicles to available parking spaces. generally includes a LIDAR device, a cloud-based processing unit, a database, and a guidance light. The LIDAR device generally includes a light emitter, a light sensor, a CPU, a memory unit, and a communications device. The LIDAR device determines the distance between itself and a parking spot or a vehicle parked in that parking spot using an algorithm that accounts for variances in the ambient conditions. This status information can be communicated to a cloud-based processing unit, which can store this information in a database and/or use this information to send parking status indications to an autonomous vehicle dynamic sign, mobile device, or guidance light.
US11875677B2
A method in a vehicle includes receiving a vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) message transmitted from a communication system affixed to infrastructure at a location. The V2I message includes at least one category of information among a plurality of categories of information and the plurality of categories of information include map-based information and road safety information. The method also includes determining, based on performing at least one type of verification, whether a misbehavior has occurred with respect to the V2I message. The misbehavior indicates incorrect information in the V2I message. A counter is maintained of a number of times the misbehavior has occurred with respect to the V2I message at the location, and the misbehavior is reported based on the counter.
US11875672B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for a remote control system that improves one or more of directionality, target specificity, signal specificity, and bandwidth. An example embodiment is a remote control system that includes a radiation source configured to generate an infrared radiation projection based on one or more remote control codes to control a device. The remote control system further includes an optical controller configured to adjust one or more parameters associated with the infrared radiation projection before the infrared radiation projection is emitted to the device.
US11875668B2
An information transmission system includes a bell, a transmitter, a manual actuator that is manually operated by an operator and actuates the bell, and a controller having a sensor and a memory, wherein the controller analyzes operation information of actuation of the bell actuated by the manual actuator based on an output from the sensor and stores the operation information to the memory, and wherein the transmitter determines operator information corresponding to the operator in the operation information recorded in the memory when the operator rings the bell, and sends the determined operator information.
US11875666B2
Devices, systems, and methods for self-testing event devices of a building alarm system are described herein. One self-test alarm system device having a self-testing capability includes a first independent power source connected to a detector module and a second independent power source connected to a self-test module.
US11875660B2
A multiple proximity sensors based electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a plurality of proximity sensors, which are configured to iteratively capture at least one proximity parameter at predefined time intervals. A processor within the electronic device determines a value of the at least one proximity parameter and compares the value with a predefined threshold value. The processor then identifies at least one proximity sensor from the plurality of proximity sensors based on the comparing and determines relative coordinates of each of the at least one proximity sensor with respect to the display. The processor then performs a predefined action within the electronic device based on the relative coordinates determined for each of the at least one proximity sensor.
US11875646B2
A system may manage a first prize pool based on a plurality of wagers placed at a plurality of electronic gaming machines (EGMs) for a game of chance or skill. A second prize pool may be managed based on a plurality of back-bet wagers placed at the plurality of user computational devices for an outcome of the game of chance or skill. An award can be distributed from the first prize pool in connection with the game of chance or skill to a player at one of the plurality EGMs and an award from the second prize pool can be automatically distributed to a player at one of the user computational devices in response to distributing the award from the first prize pool.
US11875640B2
Methods, apparatus and article of manufacture for computing an aggregate tax liability at a gaming device comprises receiving an indication from the gaming device of a start and end of a gaming period. A plurality of games are played by a player during the gaming period. The amount of the player's winnings and losses for each game played is monitored. A total winnings and a total losses incurred by the player during the gaming period is computed, and an aggregate amount that comprises a summation of the total winning and the total losses during the gaming period is also computed. Based on the location of the gaming device, determine a jurisdiction that governs the aggregate tax liability. Compute the aggregate tax liability based on the aggregate amount and the jurisdiction.
US11875639B2
Systems and methods for verifying the eligibility of players attempting to participate in gaming events are disclosed. Communication objects having RFID tags and closed electrical circuits are individually assigned to and worn by players within a gaming player verification system. These RFID tags may communicate with associated player tracking units attached to gaming machines and other devices via radio frequency waves, and each communication object may alter its communication pattern in response to any break of its closed electrical circuit. In some embodiments, a communications object may emit a signal that conveys a privilege of the player wearing the communications object. Bracelets, wristwatches or collars can be used as communication objects, such that the removal of such an object from a player cannot be accomplished without breaking the closed electrical circuit contained therein, thereby disabling or de-authenticating the device.
US11875618B1
A lock for an access door having an electrically powered electronic smart lock control and a keyless mechanical lock control, and a single locking bolt element. The single locking bolt element is made movably operable, to permit opening of the access door, with either of an electronic code entry via the electrically powered electronic smart lock control or a mechanical code entry via the keyless mechanical lock control. The mechanical lock control, with mechanical code entry, thereby provides a fail-safe back up for keyless entry through the access door in the event of electrical failure on the electronic smart lock.
US11875599B2
A method for detecting blurriness of a human face in an image includes: performing a face detection in a target image; when a human face is detected in the target image, cropping the human face from the target image to obtain a face image and inputting the face image to a first neural network model to perform preliminary detection on a blurriness of the human face in the face image to obtain a preliminary detection result; and when the preliminary detection result meets a deep detection condition, inputting the face image to a second neural network model to perform deep detection on the blurriness of the human face in the face image to obtain a deep detection result.
US11875585B2
Enhanced techniques and circuitry are presented herein for providing responses to user questions from among digital documentation sources spanning various documentation formats, versions, and types. One example includes a method comprising receiving a user question directed to subject having a documentation corpus, determining a set of passages of the documentation corpus related to the user question, ranking the set of passages according to relevance to the user question, forming semantic clusters comprising sentences extracted from ranked ones of the set of passages according to sentence similarity, and providing a response to the user question based at least on a selected semantic cluster.
US11875576B2
Provided is a traffic sign recognition method based on a lightweight neural network, which including: a lightweight neural network model is constructed for training and pruning to obtain a lightweight neural network model; the lightweight neural network model comprises a convolution feature extraction part and a classifier part; the convolution feature extraction part includes one layer of conventional 3×3 convolution and 16 layers of separable asymmetric convolution. The classifier part includes three layers of separable full connection modules.
US11875571B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for emphasizing a portion of audio data. In some implementations, a method may include determining that a first person is wearing a hearing aid, determining, from images captured by a camera, that a second person is speaking to the first person, determining an audio stream for an environment in which the first person is located, determining whether more than one sound stream is encoded in the audio stream, based on determining that more than one sound stream is encoded in audio data, identifying a portion of captured sounds that corresponds to the second person speaking to the first person, and providing, to the hearing aid, audio data that increases a volume of the portion of captured sounds relative to other portions of the captured sounds.
US11875570B1
Described is a multiple-camera system and process for re-identifying an agent located in a materials handling facility based on anterior views of agents. An anterior view of a newly detected agent may be partitioned and color signatures generated for each partition. Likewise, stored anterior views of agents (candidate agents) that may potentially be the newly detected agent are partitioned and color signatures generated for each partition. Based on the color signatures, a similarity between the anterior view of the newly detected agent and the candidate agents is determined. The similarity may be used to either determine that the newly detected agent is one of the candidate agents or reduce the set of candidate agents that are considered during a manual review.
US11875568B2
Embodiments are directed to segmentation and hierarchical clustering of video. In an example implementation, a video is ingested to generate a multi-level hierarchical segmentation of the video. In some embodiments, the finest level identifies a smallest interaction unit of the video—semantically defined video segments of unequal duration called clip atoms. Clip atom boundaries are detected in various ways. For example, speech boundaries are detected from audio of the video, and scene boundaries are detected from video frames of the video. The detected boundaries are used to define the clip atoms, which are hierarchically clustered to form a multi-level hierarchical representation of the video. In some cases, the hierarchical segmentation identifies a static, pre-computed, hierarchical set of video segments, where each level of the hierarchical segmentation identifies a complete set (i.e., covering the entire range of the video) of disjoint (i.e., non-overlapping) video segments with a corresponding level of granularity.
US11875565B2
A method for selecting important digital images in a collection of digital images, comprising: analyzing the digital images in the collection of digital images to identify one or more sets of similar digital images; identifying one or more sets of similar digital images having the largest number of similar digital images; selecting one or more digital images from the identified largest sets of similar digital images to be important digital images; and storing an indication of the selected important digital image in a processor accessible memory.
US11875563B2
Systems and methods for presenting an augmented reality view are disclosed. Embodiments include a system with a database for personalizing an augmented reality view of a physical environment using at least one of a location of a physical environment or a location of a user. The system may further include a hardware device in communication with the database, the hardware device including a renderer configured to render the augmented reality view for display and a controller configured to determine a scope of the augmented reality view authenticating the augmented reality view. The hardware device may include a processor configured to receive the augmented reality view of the physical environment, and present, via a display, augmented reality content to the user while the user is present in the physical environment, based on the determined scope of the augmented reality view.
US11875551B2
In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining candidate data generated by a vehicle. The candidate data comprises a subset of sensor data identified based on a set of neural network models executing on the vehicle. The method also includes determining whether the candidate data can be associated with one or more categories of a set of categories for training data based on a set of categorization models. The method further includes associating the candidate data with the first category in response to determining that the candidate data can be associated with at a first category of the set of categories. The method further includes determining whether the candidate data can be associated with a second category. The set of categories lacks the second category. The method further includes including the second category in the set of categories in response to determining that the candidate data can be associated with the second category. The method further includes associating the candidate data with the second category.
US11875547B2
An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processor. The processor acquires a classification result of classifying each of a plurality of regions set in a processing target image into one of a plurality of predetermined classes. The processor converts multidimensional data corresponding to each of the plurality of regions set in the image into low-dimensional data. The processor causes a display image including one or more regions to be displayed together with a plotted diagram including a plurality of plot points having different colors or patterns applied according to the classification result to the low-dimensional data in each of the plurality of regions, and in a case where an instruction for selecting a selected point from among the plot points is issued, the processor performs a discriminative display causing the selected point and a region corresponding to the selected point in the display image to be visually identifiable.
US11875544B2
Systems and methods include an infrared camera configured to capture an infrared image of a scene, a visible light camera configured to capture a visible light image of the scene, and a logic device configured to simultaneously capture a pair of images of the scene comprising the infrared image of the scene and the visible image of the scene, align the pair of images so that a pixel location in one of the pair of images has a corresponding pixel location in the other image, classify the visible image, annotate the infrared image based, at least in part, on the classification of the visible image, and add the annotated infrared image to a neural network training dataset for use in training a neural network for infrared image classification.
US11875542B2
A parking assist system for a vehicle includes an environment information obtainer, a sufficient parking space setter, a parked-vehicle inter-space calculator, a parking capable space setter, and a parking assister. The environment information obtainer obtains environment information around the vehicle. The sufficient parking space setter sets a sufficient parking space for the vehicle by including a parking allowance width on each of left and right sides of the vehicle. The parked-vehicle inter-space calculator calculates a space between parked vehicles, based on the obtained environment information. The parking capable space setter compares the space between the parked vehicles with the sufficient parking space and, when determining the space between the parked vehicles is greater than or equal to the sufficient parking space, sets the space between the parked vehicles to be a parking capable space. The parking assister guides the vehicle to the parking capable space.
US11875538B2
A point cloud encoding method is provided to improve coding efficiency. The method includes: obtaining global matched patches in N frames of point clouds in a point cloud group; determining M union patch occupancy maps corresponding to M sets, where a union patch occupancy map corresponding to an mth set is a union set of occupancy maps of all global matched patches in the mth set; packing the M union patch occupancy maps to obtain a global occupancy map; packing each of the N frames of point clouds to obtain occupancy maps of the N frames of point clouds; and encoding the N frames of point clouds based on the occupancy maps of the N frames of point clouds.
US11875536B1
A method and system for calibrating a lens. The method includes defining a plurality of omni-symmetrical regions within the lens, determining one or more localized lens parameters associated with each of the plurality of omni-symmetrical regions, and defining a localized set of calibration parameters for each of the plurality of omni-symmetrical region. The localized set of calibration parameters may then be employed in a computational image application.
US11875528B2
A system and method for identifying an object to be picked up by a robot. The method includes obtaining a 2D red-green-blue (RGB) color image and a 2D depth map image of the objects using a 3D camera, where pixels in the depth map image are assigned a value identifying the distance from the camera to the objects. The method generates a segmentation image of the objects using a deep learning convolutional neural network that performs an image segmentation process that extracts features from the RGB image, assigns a label to the pixels so that objects in the segmentation image have the same label and rotates the object using the orientation of the object in the segmented image. The method then identifies a location for picking up the object using the segmentation image and the depth map image and rotates the object when it is picked up.
US11875526B1
Method of training an object detector for predicting centers of mass of objects projected onto a ground is provided. The method includes steps of: acquiring training images from training data set; inputting each of training images into the object detector to thereby instruct the object detector to perform object detection for the training images and thus generate object detection results including (i) information on predicted bounding boxes, corresponding to one or more ROIs, acquired by predicting each of locations of the objects in the training images and (ii) information on predicted projection points acquired by projecting the centers of mass of the objects onto the ground; and training the object detector by using object detection losses generated by referring to the object detection results and information on ground truths corresponding to the training images.
US11875522B2
Described herein is a method for determining a filling level in at least one storage unit. The method includes illuminating the storage unit with at least one illumination pattern; selecting at least one first reflection feature and at least one second reflection feature; for the first reflection feature, generating at least two first sensor signals, and for the second reflection feature, generating at least two second sensor signals; evaluating the two first sensor signals and the two second sensor signals; determining at least one position of the first reflection feature and at least one position of the second reflection feature and determining at least one first vector of the first reflection feature and at least one second vector of the second reflection feature; and determining from the first vector and the second vector at least one elevation map and determining therefrom the filling level in the storage unit.
US11875521B2
A method for self-supervised depth and ego-motion estimation is described. The method includes determining a multi-camera photometric loss associated with a multi-camera rig of an ego vehicle. The method also includes generating a self-occlusion mask by manually segmenting self-occluded areas of images captured by the multi-camera rig of the ego vehicle. The method further includes multiplying the multi-camera photometric loss with the self-occlusion mask to form a self-occlusion masked photometric loss. The method also includes training a depth estimation model and an ego-motion estimation model according to the self-occlusion masked photometric loss. The method further includes predicting a 360° point cloud of a scene surrounding the ego vehicle according to the depth estimation model and the ego-motion estimation model.
US11875518B2
According to an example embodiment, an object feature extraction device includes a video acquisition means for acquiring a video and generating the acquired video as an image sequence, an object detection means for detecting an object from the generated image and generating a detection result, an object tracking means for tracking the object based on the generated image and the detection result and generating a tracking result, an image storage means for storing the image, a detection result storage means for storing the detection result, a tracking result storage means for storing the tracking result, an object selection means for calculating, based on the detection result and the tracking result, a quality index for predicting the quality of a feature of the object detected at an extraction time, selecting the object to be subjected to feature extraction, and generating object selection information.
US11875512B2
Embodiments are disclosed for training a neural network classifier to learn to more closely align an input image with its attribution map. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods comprise receiving a training image comprising a representation of one or more objects, the training image associated with at least one label for the representation of the one or more objects, generating a perturbed training image based on the training image using a neural network, and training the neural network using the perturbed training image by minimizing a combination of classification loss and attribution loss to learn to align an image with its corresponding attribution map.
US11875507B1
Systems and methods are provided for processing image data generated by a medical imaging device such as an ultrasound or echocardiogram device and processing the image data using artificial intelligence and machine learning to determine a presence of one or more congenital heart defects (CHDs) and/or other cardiovascular anomalies in the image data. The image processing system may be used to detect CHDs and/or other cardiovascular anomalies in a fetus. The image data may be processed using a spatiotemporal convolutional neural network (CNN). The spatiotemporal CNN may include a spatial CNN for image recognition and a temporal CNN for processing optical flow data based on the image data. The outputs of the spatial CNN and the temporal CNN may be fused (e.g., using late fusion) to generate a likelihood of CHDs and/or other cardiovascular anomalies.
US11875499B2
A tamper-evident glass and methods of using the tamper-evident glass are provided herein. The tamper-evident glass comprising at least a first plurality of tamper-evident elements, which may be unique or near unique to each manufacturing of tam per-evident glass. The initial state of tamper-evident glass and positioning of the plurality of tamper-evident elements may be mapped through digital scanning to create a digital file of the current state of the tamper-evident glass. The tamper-evident glass may be scanned again to create a new digital file for comparison and to determine if a tampering event has occurred. The tamper-evident elements may include any combination of inorganic fluorescent material, crystals grown through nucleation and crystallization, or added colorants.
US11875488B2
A method for parallel processing of retinal images includes: optimizing an objective function with a chaotic supply-demand algorithm to enhance a real retinal image; synthesizing a virtual retinal image by a hybrid image generation method; establishing a parallel multi-layer decomposed interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy convolutional neural network model based on the virtual retinal image and the enhanced real retinal image; and integrating outputs from a plurality of parallel multi-layer decomposed interval type-2 intuitionistic fuzzy convolutional neural network models as a final classification result.
US11875483B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of removing, by an imaging processing device, remanence artifacts from an image (fn) of a sequence of images captured by an infrared imaging device, the method comprising: inpainting a zone of remanence in the image (fn) to generate an inpainted image; generating a remanence measure for at least some pixels in the image (fn) based on the inpainted image; and removing remanence artifacts from at least some pixels of the image (fn) based on a remanence estimation for each of the at least some pixels, each remanence estimation being generated based on the remanence measures of a plurality of the images in the sequence.
US11875476B2
Methods and apparatus for systems using a scene codec are described, where systems are either providers or consumers of multi-way, just-in-time, only-as-needed scene data including subscenes and subscene increments. An example system using a scene codec includes a plenoptic scene database containing one or more digital models of scenes, where representations and organization of representations are distributable across multiple systems such that collectively the multiplicity of systems can represent scenes of almost unlimited detail. The system may further include highly efficient means for the processing of these representation and organizations of representation providing the just-in-time, only-as-needed subscenes and scene increments necessary for ensuring a maximally continuous user experience enabled by a minimal amount of newly provided scene information, where the highly efficient means include a spatial processing unit.
US11875474B2
A protractor image changing method includes: acquiring an image of a protractor having a plurality of indices used for measurement; determining whether a size change instruction or a shape change instruction for the image of the protractor has been received; when it is determined that the size change instruction or the shape change instruction for the image of the protractor has been received, performing a first change process for changing a size or shape of the image of the protractor based on whether the received instruction is the size change instruction or the shape change instruction, and a second change process for changing a mode of the indices of the image of the protractor to a mode based on the received instruction; and outputting the image of the protractor in which the size or shape and the mode of the indices are changed or data of the image.
US11875473B2
An image processing method for receiving M lens images and generating a projection image is disclosed. The method comprises: determining P optimal warping coefficients of P control regions in the projection image according to a 2D error table and the M lens images from an image capture module; generating M projection images according to the M lens images, a first vertex list and the P optimal warping coefficients; determining a seam for each of N seam regions; and, stitching two overlapping seam images to generate a stitched seam image for each seam region according to its corresponding seam. The 2D error table comprises multiple test warping coefficients and multiple accumulation pixel value differences in the P control regions. The P control regions are respectively located in the N seam regions respectively located in N overlap regions, where M>=2, N>=1 and P>=3.
US11875471B1
The present disclosure relates to a system for controlling an interactive virtual environment. The system includes a computer for generating a three-dimensional computer-generated environment including a player controllable character within the three dimensional computer-generated environment, displaying linear content on a virtual display presented within the three-dimensional computer-generated environment, the linear content associated with at least one interactive experience, receiving input controlling the player controllable character to move the player controllable character into close proximity to the linear content displayed on the virtual display, and generating a second three-dimensional computer-generated environment including the player controllable character within the at least one interactive experience associated with the linear content.
US11875470B2
A virtual environment may be generated, the environment including a procedurally generated virtual property. The virtual property may include various features automatically generated based upon a procedural rule set, so as to provide variability between two or more virtual properties. One or more procedurally generated virtual properties may be provided to a user, and various virtual tools may be provided via which the user may identify relevant aspects corresponding to risk associated with the virtual property.
US11875469B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for displaying an augmented reality virtual object on a multimedia device. One method comprises detecting, in an augmented reality environment displayed using a first device, a virtual object; detecting, within the augmented reality environment, a second device, the second device comprising a physical multimedia device; and generating, at the second device, a display comprising a representation of the virtual object.
US11875461B2
A system and method for creating, storing, interacting, and manipulating a digital facility is disclosed. One or more computing platform(s) may be configured to electronically receive a plurality of machine-readable sensor data of a physical facility having multiple 3D objects. One or more computing platform(s) may be configured to electronically process the plurality of machine-readable sensor data to output a machine-readable point cloud model configured for augmented virtual navigation. One or more computing platform(s) may be configured to generate a machine-readable configuration database of geotagged-locations of the 3D objects. One or more computing platform(s) may be configured to generate a machine-readable dynamic configuration database of 3D objects.
US11875458B2
According to at least one embodiment, a method for generating a mesh deformation of a facial model includes: generating a first plurality of deformation maps by applying a first plurality of neural network-trained models; extracting a first plurality of vertex offsets based on the first plurality of deformation maps; and applying the first plurality of vertex offsets to a neutral mesh of the facial model to generate the mesh deformation of the facial model.
US11875455B2
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that generates a three-dimensional (3D) model based on a selected subset of the images and depth data corresponding to each of the images of the subset. For example, an example process may include acquiring sensor data during movement of the device in a physical environment including an object, the sensor data including images of a physical environment captured via a camera on the device, selecting a subset of the images based on assessing the images with respect to motion-based defects based on device motion and depth data, and generating a 3D model of the object based on the selected subset of the images and depth data corresponding to each of the images of the selected subset.
US11875445B2
Systems and methods for performing a processing operation for a tiled image region are disclosed. The tiled image region may include a plurality of tiles or images. Further, the tiled image region may correspond to a plurality of image resolutions. A system may execute a game development application to perform the processing operation for the tiled image region. The system may identify the tiled image region corresponding to the processing operation. The system can utilize a texture array, a lookup texture, and a scaling factor to determine position data for the tiled image region. The system can then render a continuous image region that represents the tiled image region. The system can seamlessly process the continuous image region according to the processing operation and use the continuous image region to update the tiled image region.
US11875438B2
A method of automatically providing personalized augmented mathematical learning content and activities to users of an online learning platform is described. Upon detecting that a user has captured an image or a video stream, one or more points of interest in the image or video stream are determined. Augmented mathematical information is then detected for the one or more points of interest and superimposed on the captured image or video stream.
US11875437B2
An image drawing method, an apparatus, a readable medium and an electronic device. The method relates to the field of image processing technology, and includes: determining a drawing area corresponding to a target template image according to a display interface; acquiring a user input operation according to the display interface; and in response to determining that an operation position corresponding to the user input operation and the drawing area meet a preset condition, drawing an image according to the operation position.
US11875434B2
A method for correcting projection images in CT image reconstruction is provided. The method may include obtaining a plurality of projection images of a subject. Each of the plurality of projection images may correspond to one of the plurality of gantry angles. The method may further include correcting a first projection image of the plurality of projection images according to a process for generating a corrected projection image. The process may include performing, based on the first projection image and a second projection image of the plurality of projection images, a first correction on the first projection image to generate a preliminary corrected first projection image. The process may also include performing, based on at least part of the preliminary corrected first projection image, a second correction on the preliminary corrected first projection image to generate a corrected first projection image corresponding to the first gantry angle.
US11875428B2
A method of predicting a resulting hue, tint, tone, or shade of a lipstick product on a user includes generating one or more instances on a graphical user interface indicative of a predicted applied lipstick hue, tint, tone, or shade based on receiving user lip-hue information and a lipstick product selection; and generating one or more instances on a graphical user interface of a lipstick product predicted to result in a hue, tint, tone, or shade, on the user, based on the received user lip-hue information and a desired coated lip-hue.
US11875427B2
An electronic device may include an electronic display to display an image based on processed image data. The electronic device may also include image processing circuitry to generate the processed image data based on input image data and previously determined data stored in memory. The image processing circuitry may also operate according to real-time computing constraints. Cache memory may store the previously determined data in a provisioned section of the cache memory allotted to the image processing circuitry. Additionally, a controller may manage reading and writing of the previously determined data to the provisioned section of the cache memory.
US11875426B2
A graph sampling and random walk acceleration method and system based on GPU. The graph data is read from the storage medium through the CPU and converted into CSR format and then output to the GPU. The GPU works based on the defined working mode: Real-time generation of alias table and sampling; or offline judgment whether there is a pre-generated alias table and sampling, which executes the alias method efficiently and in parallel, and can significantly improve the performance of graph data processing on the same hardware platform, including improving the sampling throughput and reducing the overall running time.
US11875409B1
Disclosed embodiments include determining whether the insurance claim comprises an anomaly based on whether the claim violates a rule in a Rules Engine or is scored by an Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning engine below a threshold. When the claim comprises an anomaly, (i) for each feature of the claim, (a) determining a sensitivity value of the feature relative to each other feature of the claim, and (b) determining a saliency value of the feature relative categories relevant to the claim, and (ii) estimating a value of the claim based on a multi-variate linear regression model. And based on the sensitivity values, saliency values, and estimated value, recommending one or more ways to cure the anomaly based on (i) a Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations based recommendation and/or (ii) a Global Surrogate Model based recommendation.
US11875408B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for accurate evaluation of a financial portfolio. Techniques described herein may include an apparatus comprising: a processing circuit; and an approximate computing engine, executed on the processing circuit, operative to process data items corresponding to prices of funds, compute a Net Asset Value (NAV) based on the data items, determine a precision associated with the Net Asset Value (NAV), and based upon a precision metric, determine whether to use the Net Asset Value (NAV) in a business decision. Other embodiments are described.
US11875407B1
Systems and methods for offering and purchasing tokenized securities on a blockchain platform meeting current and future federal, state, and offering and holding entity rules and regulations. Tokenized securities purchased during or after the tokenized securities offering are tradable on a secondary market. The server computer of the tokenized securities provides an automated transfer capability for tokenized securities holders.
US11875402B2
The technology disclosed relates to creation and operation of a marketplace among trusted small and medium sized banks for participation in commercial loans too large for an individual participating bank to undertake on its own. This technology can be applied to formation of other marketplaces in which trust matters and controlled dissemination of opportunity information, as in layers or rounds, proceeds manually. Aspects of the technology disclosed can be used by initiators and participants to syndicate loans once a marketplace is established, whether the market is established applying the technology disclosed or otherwise. This technology also can be applied to syndicate other opportunities or to resell participations in syndicated loans that have closed and been funded.
US11875391B2
According to various exemplary embodiments, an electronic text message is received from a source telephone number, the electronic text message including content describing a product item. A seller of the product item is identified, based on the source telephone number, and the product item is identified, based on the content included in the electronic text message. Thereafter, a draft version of an item listing is automatically generated, where the item listing lists the product item as being for sale by the seller on a marketplace website.
US11875384B2
A system and method allows an offeror to identify parameters for determining whether a user could benefit from an offer, and transaction data for each of several users, and the parameters, are used to determine which of several users could benefit from the offer. The offer is presented to those users, along with the data of how the user could benefit, and the system and method allows the user to accept the offer, transmitting information to the offeror or his agent if the user accepts the offer. Payment may be made based on the offers, acceptances, or both.
US11875380B2
A method for generating advertising content includes: during a content creation period, receiving a video advertisement from an entity; packaging the video advertisement with a pointer to the entity and a checkout portal for content linked to the video advertisement to generate an augmented video advertisement; during a live period succeeding the content creation period, for a first instance of the augmented video advertisement accessed at a first computing device associated with a first user, associating a first purchase completed within the checkout portal of the first instance of the augmented video advertisement with the entity based on the pointer; and, for a second instance of the augmented video advertisement accessed at a second computing device associated with a second user, associating a second purchase completed within the checkout portal of the second instance of the augmented video advertisement with the entity based on the pointer.
US11875375B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for automatically modifying a financial product associated with a user, where the modified financial product is associated with an updated benefit at a partner system. One example method comprises receiving an indication of acceptance associated with a particular partner-related product for replacing a current product associated with a first customer. At least one term or condition associated with the particular partner-related product different than terms or conditions associated with the at least one current product are identified, including a change to at least one benefit associated with the partner system. The terms associated with the current product are modified without changing the unique identifier, and an indication of the at least one updated benefit associated with the partner system is transmitted to the partner system for immediate usage by the first customer.
US11875373B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing an account holder with an incentive-consent matrix at a point-of-sale device of a merchant. The account holder can provide consent to store transaction related data and obtain an incentive in exchange. The incentive out be a coupon or other offering associated with the merchant. Varying levels of consent can be offered, with each level associated with an incentive having a different relative value. The transaction data can subsequently be provided to a recipient in accordance with the consent received from the account holder.
US11875367B2
Systems and methods for dynamic demand sensing in a supply chain in which constantly-updated data is used to select a machine learning model or retrain a pre-selected machine learning model, for forecasting sales of a product at a specific location. The updated data includes product information and geographic information.
US11875359B2
Embodiments for presenting real-time contact options are described herein. In example embodiments, as system identifies a number of user devices actively viewing a web page that includes a real-time contact option. The system then determines whether the number of user devices actively viewing the web page that includes the real-time contact option exceeds a predetermined limit. If the number of user devices actively viewing the web page that includes the real-time contact option exceeds the predetermined limit, the system prevents presentation, to a further user device, of the real-time contact option on the web page. Conversely, if the number of user devices actively viewing the web page that includes the real-time contact option does not exceed the predetermined limit, the system causes presentation of the web page with the real-time contact option to the further user device.
US11875350B2
A computer-implemented method comprising providing a graphical user interface for user selection of fraud rules that comprises fraud transaction parameters determined based on transaction parameters included in a plurality of known fraudulent transactions. The GUI also comprises high risk merchants with a fraud rate that exceeds a threshold fraud rate. The method includes receiving a user selection of fraud rules relating to at least the fraud transaction parameters, the high risk merchants, and the high frequency merchants. The method includes receiving test transaction data including at least one transaction parameter and at least one merchant associated with the test transaction, applying the fraud rules to the received transaction data to identify probable fraudulent transactions.
US11875347B2
A system and computer-implemented method for depersonalizing financial transaction data being switched by a switching service (e.g., an interchange network) between an acquirer and an issuer located in different countries. The acquirer's host sends a personalized transaction to a depersonalization service via an independent communications channel. The service depersonalizes the transaction and sends it back to the acquirer's host, and also sends a reverse depersonalization dictionary to the issuer's host. The acquirer's host sends the depersonalized transaction to the acquirer's interface, which sends it via the switching service to the issuer's interface, which sends it to the issuer's host. The issuer's host uses the dictionary to repersonalize the transaction, processes the repersonalized transaction, and sends a response code to the acquirer's host. The service and the acquirer's interface may independently calculate a hash value, and the acquirer's interface may send the depersonalized transaction only if the values match.
US11875342B2
An attempted transaction is identified involving a customer device and the first customer device is redirected to a security broker. A security report for the first customer device is received from the security broker. The security report is based on security data transmitted from the customer device to the security broker. An action can be performed in association with the attempted transaction based at least in part on the received security report. In some aspects, the security broker receives security data describing security conditions on the customer device in connection with the transaction between the customer device and a transaction partner. A risk tolerance policy is identified that corresponds to the transaction partner, such as an ecommerce provider. A security report is generated based on a comparison of the risk tolerance policy and the security data and the security report.
US11875341B2
Disclosed herein is digital object generator that makes uses a one-way function to generate unique digital objects based on the user specific input. Features of the input are first extracted via a few-shot convolutional neural network model, then evaluated weight and integrated fit. The resulting digital object includes a user decipherable output such as a visual representation, an audio representation, or a multimedia representation that includes recognizable elements from the user specific input.
US11875334B2
An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program capable of improving a convenience of a user in an information code payment. A shop terminal includes: an authentication information acquiring unit configured to acquire authentication information corresponding to a user terminal; an authentication information transmitting unit configured to transmit the authentication information acquired by the authentication information acquiring unit to a plurality of payment apparatuses; and an authentication result acquiring unit configured to acquire an authentication result for the authentication information from at least one of the plurality of payment apparatuses.
US11875331B2
Provided is a computer-implemented method for conducting a secure payment transaction for a purchase at a merchant using a client device and a remote point-of-sale (POS) system associated with the merchant. The method includes receiving, with a client device, at least one identifier for at least one product to be purchased, the at least one product associated with a transaction value, and detecting a checkout action with the client device. In response to detecting the checkout action, the method includes generating at least one transaction message based on the transaction value of the at least one item to be purchased and at least one account identifier, generating a cryptogram based at least partially on the at least one transaction message and the at least one issuer key, and transmitting the cryptogram to the remote POS system associated with the merchant. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11875330B2
The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for facilitating micropayments between distributed, independent consumers and content creators. A computer-implemented method is disclosed related to enabling tips between at least one content consumer and at least one content creator, comprising: receiving, at a web application from a user interface, an intent to tip; sending, via the web application, a payment initiation based on the intent to tip to a processing service; generating, at the processing service, a payment event based on the payment initiation, wherein the payment event comprises payment data; and updating, at the processing service, at least one wallet based on the payment data.
US11875322B2
An Automated Transaction Machine (ATM) is associated with a beacon. The beacon may communicate with an electronic device running a software application that is configured to detect the beacon. The software application may have a reaction based upon the detection of the beacon. The ATM or related systems may respond to data directly or indirectly from the software application to make a customization or take other action based there on.
US11875314B1
Remote deposit of checks can be facilitated by a financial institution. A customer's general purpose computer and image capture device may be leveraged to capture an image of a check and deliver the image to financial institution electronics. Additional data for the transaction may be collected as necessary. The transaction can be automatically accomplished utilizing the images and data thus acquired.
US11875311B2
Techniques for enabling an efficient means of collaborating via a collaborative document associated with a communication platform are described herein. In some examples, the collaborative document can be created within and managed by the communication platform. In at least one example, a collaborative document can support editable text and/or objects that can be ordered, added, deleted, modified and/or the like, such as by members thereof. Additionally, the collaborative document can include messaging functionalities. In at least one example, the collaborative document can include or be associated with a document identifier configured to enable functionalities associated with the type of virtual space corresponding to the virtual space identifier. That is, the collaborative document can leverage existing paradigms associated with the communication platform to enable the functionalities. In at least one example, the functionalities can enable the members to collaborate efficiently and effectively via the collaborative document.
US11875310B2
A spray rig monitoring system having a plurality of sensors that detect and transmit operational parameters to a computer. The operational parameters are processed to determine if a spray rig and its crew are operating within preset parameters.
US11875305B2
Described herein are systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products configured for image detection/recognition of products. The disclosed systems and techniques utilize video data to provide the necessary number of images and view angles needed to train a machine learning product detection/recognition system to recognize a specific product within later provided images. In various embodiments, a user may provide video data and the video data may be transformed in a manner that may aid in training of the machine learning system.
US11875304B2
This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically grouping the same or similar items provided by various suppliers that may use various supplier identification systems to identify the items to a retailer. In some examples, a computing device receives a supplier identifier from a supplier. The supplier identifier identifies an item that the supplier provides to the retailer for sale. The computing device may determine a group identifier for the item, where the group identifier identifies the item within a group of the retailer. The computing device may update the supplier identifier's association to the retailer identifier based on whether the group identifier is also associated with the retailer identifier. In some examples, the computing device executes a machine learning model to determine anomalies within a current database of supplier identifiers and associated retailer identifiers. In some examples, the computing device indicates changes to associations and any detected anomalies.
US11875285B2
Provided is a method for scheduling resource-constrained project by IWO. The method establishes a resource-constrained project scheduling model first, converts the project scheduling issue in actual engineering into the combination and optimization in a mathematical model, then the optimization aims at minimizing the project total duration, while considering the immediate predecessor/successor constraints of the project activities and a variety of renewable resource constraints, to construct project scheduling model, lastly IWO is used to seek the solution for large-scale project scheduling. In the solution process, a right-shift decoding strategy was designed to rectify the ineligible solutions that occurred during the generation of weed seeds, ensure that all solutions are in compliance with the immediate predecessor/successor constraints of the project activities, and improve the efficiency of algorithm. Solution efficiency. The resource-constrained project scheduling scheme of the present invention can effectively shorten the total construction period of large-scale project.
US11875284B2
An asset identification and tracking system includes one or more monitoring units configured to monitor at least one designated area. Each of the monitoring units includes an imaging device and one or more processors. The imaging device is configured to generate image data depicting one or more mobile assets that move through the at least one designated area. The one or more processors are operably coupled to the imaging device and configured to analyze the image data to detect and decipher one or more identifiers that are displayed on a particular mobile asset of the one or more mobile assets that move through the at least one designated area. The one or more processors are further configured to generate a detection message that includes the one or more identifiers for communication to an asset control system.
US11875281B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to diamond trading system and method for trading diamonds. The system and method may allow rough diamond sellers to list their diamonds for sale individually and enter an ask price for each listed diamond. The system and method may also allow rough diamond buyers to submit their polished diamond parameters and orders. The order may contain a bid price. The system and method may then determine if any of the listed diamonds match to the polished diamond parameters and ordering requirements and if any of the matched diamonds have a bid price at or higher than a ask price. If there is a match and the bid price is at or higher than the ask price, the system and method allow the transaction to proceed.
US11875280B2
Systems and methods for designing a virtual environment are provided. Various data are used, including images that depict different room layouts and styles, physical measurements and limitations of objects depicted in the images (e.g., dimension information, attributes purchase information, etc.), and object placement rules to assist with object placement in a virtual environment. The data may be displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI), and in response to selection of an object and/or room layout, the GUI may be populated with a virtual environment displayed in a design window of the GUI with objects placed in the virtual environment. The objects may be visually organized based on object placement rules and/or inspirational design elements.
US11875271B2
The present invention provides a method and a system for train periodic message scheduling based on a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm, relating to the field of information and communications technology, mainly including: acquiring an MVB periodic message table; binary encoding the MVB periodic message table and initializing it randomly, to generate an iterative population; performing crossover and mutation operations on the individuals of the iterative population using a genetic algorithm, to update the iterative population; constructing an MVB periodic scheduling table that meets scheduling needs and minimizes the macro cycle according to a multi-objective algorithm and the updated iterative population; scheduling train periodic messages according to the MVB periodic scheduling table, thereby meeting the real-time requirement of periodic data transmission in actual scheduling scenarios.
US11875269B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a generator neural network and an encoder neural network. The generator neural network generates, based on a set of latent values, data items which are samples of a distribution. The encoder neural network generates a set of latent values for a respective data item. The training method comprises jointly training the generator neural network, the encoder neural network and a discriminator neural network configured to distinguish between samples generated by the generator network and samples of the distribution which are not generated by the generator network. The discriminator neural network is configured to distinguish by processing, by the discriminator neural network, an input pair comprising a sample part and a latent part.
US11875265B2
A computer-implemented method for training an artificial neural network using training data, which include features and identifiers, the features characterizing term candidates from a corpus, the corpus including a text from a domain, the identifier characterizing a degree of association to at least three classes for term candidates that differ from one another, different classes indicating different degrees of association of the term candidates to the domain, the training data including an assignment of features to identifiers. An artificial neural network, method for classifying term candidates, and computer-implemented method for generating training data, are also described.
US11875264B2
An event detection method can include encoding a plurality of training video snippets into low dimensional descriptors of the training video snippets in a code space. The low dimensional descriptors of the training video snippets can be decoded into corresponding reconstructed video snippets. One or more parameters of the encoding and decoding can be adjusted based on one or more a loss functions to reduce a reconstruction error between the one or more training video snippets and the corresponding one or more reconstructed video snippets, to reduce a class entropy of the plurality of event classes of the code space, to increase fit of the training video snippet, and/or to increase compactness of the code space. The method can further include encoding one or more labeled video snippets of a plurality of event classes into low dimensional descriptors of the labeled video snippets in the code space. The plurality of event classes can be mapped to class clusters corresponding to the low dimensional descriptors of the labeled video snippets. After training, query video snippets can be encoded into corresponding low dimensional descriptors in the code space. The low dimensional descriptors of the query video snippets can be classified based on their respective proximity to a nearest one of a plurality of class cluster of the code space. An event class of the query video snippet can be determined based on the class cluster classification.
US11875257B2
A normalization method for machine learning and an apparatus thereof are provided. The normalization method according to some embodiments of the present disclosure may calculate a value of a normalization parameter for an input image through a normalization model before inputting the input image to a target model and normalize the input image using the calculated value of the normalization parameter. Because the normalization model is updated based on a prediction loss of the target model, the input image can be normalized to an image suitable for a target task, so that stability of the learning and performance of the target model can be improved.
US11875254B2
Methods, systems and apparatuses may provide for technology that trains a neural network by inputting video data to the neural network, determining a boundary loss function for the neural network, and selecting weights for the neural network based at least in part on the boundary loss function, wherein the neural network outputs a pixel-level segmentation of one or more objects depicted in the video data. The technology may also operate the neural network by accepting video data and an initial feature set, conducting a tensor decomposition on the initial feature set to obtain a reduced feature set, and outputting a pixel-level segmentation of object(s) depicted in the video data based at least in part on the reduced feature set.
US11875252B2
Some embodiments are directed to a neural network training device for training a neural network. At least one layer of the neural network layers is a projection layer. The projection layer projects a layer input vector (x) of the projection layer to a layer output vector (y). The output vector (y) sums to the summing parameter (k).
US11875250B1
An indication of semantic relationships among classes is obtained. A neural network whose loss function is based at least partly on the semantic relationships is trained. The trained neural network is used to identify one or more classes to which an input observation belongs.
US11875249B2
Technical solutions are described for storing weight in a crosspoint device of a resistive processing unit (RPU) array. An example system includes a crosspoint array, wherein each array node represents a connection between neurons of the neural network, and wherein each node stores a weight assigned to the node. The crosspoint array includes a crosspoint device at each node. The crosspoint device includes a counter that has multiple single bit counters, and states of the counters represent the weight to be stored at the crosspoint device. Further, the crosspoint device includes a resistor device that has multiple resistive circuits, and each resistive circuit is associated with a respective counter from the counters. The resistive circuits are activated or deactivated according to a state of the associated counter, and an electrical conductance of the resistor device is adjusted based at least in part on the resistive circuits that are activated.
US11875242B2
Systems and methods may involve processing of entity data by nested machine learning models to produce one or more aggregate risk scores, which may be compared to one or more thresholds to determine when one or more predefined actions should be taken. The entity data may be collected for various entities related to an exam registration and delivery process, which may include a candidate, an exam, a test center, an exam registration event, a proctor, and an exam delivery event. Entity data for each entity may be separately processed by entity-specific machine learning models to generate intermediate entity risk scores. The intermediate entity risk scores may be input to an aggregate machine learning model, which may output an aggregate risk score. A resource management server may cause the predefined actions to be taken after comparing the aggregate risk score to the one or more thresholds.
US11875238B2
A computing system obtains a first preconfigured feature set. The first preconfigured feature set defines: a first feature definition defining an input variable, and first computer instructions for locating first data. The first data is available for retrieval because it is stored, or set-up to arrive, in the feature storage according to the first preconfigured feature set. The computing system receives a requested data set for the input variable. The computing system generates an availability status indicating whether the request data set is available for retrieval according to the first preconfigured feature set. Based on the availability status, generating, by the computing system, the requested data set by: retrieving historical data for the first preconfigured feature set; retrieving a data definition associated with the historical data; and generating the requested data based on the historical data and the data definition.
US11875229B2
A method, apparatus and product includes obtaining a logical representation of a quantum circuit; modifying the quantum circuit to transfer a gate operation defined in a first cycle to be performed in a second cycle, thereby obtaining a modified quantum circuit, wherein said modifying does not change a functionality of the quantum circuit, and synthesizing the modified quantum circuit using a dynamic error correction scheme. The dynamic error correction scheme implements error correction operations using a first assignment of first physical qubits to a logical qubit for a first set of cycles and using a second assignment of second physical qubits to the logical qubit for a second set of cycles, wherein the first set of cycles comprises the first cycle, and the second set of cycles comprises the second cycle.
US11875226B2
A shaken-lattice station and a cloud-based server cooperate to provide shaken lattices as a service (SLaaS). The shaken-lattice station serves as a system for implementing “recipes” for creating and using shaking functions to be applied to light used to trap quantum particles. The cloud-based server acts as an interface between the shaken-lattice station (or stations) and authorized users of account holders. To this end the server hosts an account manager and a session manager. The account manager manages accounts and associated account-based and user-specific permissions that define what actions any given authorized user for an account may perform with respect to a shaken-lattice station. The session manager controls (e.g., in real-time) interactions between a user and a shaken-lattice station, some interactions allowing a user to select a recipe based on results returned earlier in the same session.
US11875200B2
A message limit value to be used in enqueuing one or more messages on a queue of a device of the computing environment is obtained. The message limit value indicates whether an extended maximum message length is supported by the device. The extended maximum message length is different from a default maximum message length supported by the device. Based on determining that the extended maximum message length is supported and that the obtained message limit value has a defined relationship with a select value, at least one message of an extended length is enqueued on the queue of the device.
US11875199B2
A system comprising: at least one hardware processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon program instructions, the program instructions executable by the at least one hardware processor to: receive a data stream representing events; receive a plurality of complex event patterns (CEPs) comprising (a) a set of conditions reflecting relations among said events, and (b) a set of attributes associated with each of said events; and calculate an optimal multi-pattern evaluation plan corresponding to said CEPs by: (i) generating an initial evaluation plan, (ii) applying a search method to calculate modified versions of said initial evaluation plan, (iii) assigning a score to each of said modified versions based on a cost function, and (iv) selecting one of said modified versions having a highest said score as said optimal multi-pattern evaluation plan.
US11875194B2
A processor may receive user data associated with one or more locations of a user in an environment. The processor may receive edge computing data associated with utilization of edge computing resources by the user. The processor may analyze the edge computing data to associate a context with an edge computing resource need. The processor may analyze the user data to associate a context with a location of the user within the environment. The processor may determine a first location of the user in the environment at a first time. The processor may predict a first edge computing need of the user in the first location. The processor may determine an arrangement of one or more edge computing devices configured to meet the first edge computing need of the user at the first time.
US11875192B2
A system and method capable of efficiently using and operating resources and allowing a cluster satisfying requirements of functions/services provided to terminals to be configured of multi-access edge computing (MEC) servers are provided. A clustering system 100 includes a monitoring unit 110 configured to monitor a usage status of MEC servers and a network and store telemetry information in a storage unit 120, a cluster planning request unit 130 configured to acquire non-telemetry information such as provision area information and requirement information of functions/services and deployment information of the MEC server, store the non-telemetry information in the storage unit 120, a cluster planning unit 140 configured to set a virtual region including one or more bases satisfying a provision area and requirements on the basis of each piece of information in the storage unit 120 and calculate a cluster plan for providing the functions/services from a plurality of MEC servers disposed at the base belonging to the virtual region, and a cluster construction unit 150 configured to perform a clustering process on the basis of the cluster plan.
US11875188B2
Disclosed is a data processing system that processes data therein and a method of using the data processing system. The data processing system includes a plurality of data processing nodes that are coupled together via a data communication network arrangement. The data processing system distributes a plurality of computing tasks across plurality of data processing nodes, wherein plurality of computing tasks are distributed according to a directed acyclic graph (DAG) allocation arrangement, wherein the DAG allocation arrangement employs consensus voting arrangement employing recursive elections of nodes or users of data processing system to control operation of the DAG allocation arrangement to incentivize participation of the plurality of data processing nodes to process the plurality of computing tasks and wherein the DAG allocation arrangement is associated with a ledger arrangement operable to control or record execution of the plurality of computing tasks.
US11875187B2
A computer-implemented method at a data management system comprises: generating, with one or more processors, a containerized runtime in a memory in communication with the one or more processors; instantiating, with the one or more processors, an app in the runtime; receiving, with the one or more processors, a request from the app for data; retrieving, with the one or more processors, a copy of the requested data from a data source; and transmitting, with the one or more processors, the data to the containerized runtime for the app to operate on.
US11875184B1
A method for translating memory addresses in a manycore system is provided, which is executed by one or more processors, and includes receiving identification information of a thread accessing a memory associated with one or more cores of a cluster that includes a plurality of cores, receiving a virtual address of data accessed by the thread, and determining a physical address of data in the memory based on the virtual address and the identification information of the thread.
US11875175B2
Providing physical host hardware state information to virtual machines deployed on the physical host
A device may receive, from a virtual machine deployed on the device, a request to register for an event associated with a hardware component of the device, and may create a path to a script associated with providing information about the event when the event occurs. The device may provide the script to an event plugin associated with the event and the hardware component, and may register the event plugin with a kernel associated with the device. The device may receive, the kernel, information indicating occurrence of the event associated with the hardware component, and may cause, via the event plugin, execution of the script based on the occurrence of the event associated with the hardware component. The device may provide, based on execution of the script, a notification to the virtual machine, where the notification may indicate the occurrence of the event associated with the hardware component.
US11875168B2
Techniques for reducing overhead in native function calls are disclosed. The system may receive a method invocation instruction for invoking a particular method. The method invocation instruction includes a function descriptor, a method type, and an application binary interface (ABI) descriptor. The function descriptor includes a memory layout corresponding to any data returned by the function and memory layouts corresponding to each argument for the particular method. The system can select an ABI for processing the particular method based on the received ABI descriptor. The system can further associate each argument with a corresponding particular physical register into which the argument is to be loaded. The particular register is selected based on at least the selected ABI and the function descriptor. The system can cause a virtual machine to move each argument into the corresponding associated physical register.
US11875158B2
An automation system and a method of injecting transactional services in automation is provided. The method performed by the automation system comprises providing a gatekeeper for deployment access control to determine which components can be deployed by an abstraction layer. The method further comprises providing a plugin interface between a consumer plugin associated with a first automation function and a provider plugin associated with a second automation function. The method further comprises injecting an interceptor plugin associated with a transactional service of the transactional services between the consumer plugin and the provider plugin based on an interceptor design pattern.
US11875155B2
An integrated circuit comprising instruction processing circuitry for processing a plurality of program instructions and instruction prediction circuitry. The instruction prediction circuitry comprises circuitry for detecting successive occurrences of a same program loop sequence of program instructions. The instruction prediction circuitry also comprises circuitry for predicting a number of iterations of the same program loop sequence of program instructions, in response to detecting, by the circuitry for detecting, that a second occurrence of the same program loop sequence of program instructions comprises a same number of iterations as a first occurrence of the same program loop sequence of program instructions.
US11875153B1
A system for processing a plurality of concurrent threads comprising: a reconfigurable processing grid, comprising logical elements and a context storage for storing thread contexts, each thread context for one of a plurality of concurrent threads, each implementing a dataflow graph comprising an identified operation; and a hardware processor configured for configuring the at reconfigurable processing grid for: executing a first thread of the plurality of concurrent threads; and while executing the first thread: storing a runtime context value of the first thread in the context storage; while waiting for completion of the identified operation by identified logical elements, executing the identified operation of a second thread by the identified logical element; and when execution of the identified operation of the first thread completes: retrieving the runtime context value of the first thread from the context storage; and executing another operation of the first thread.
US11875151B1
Inter-process serving of machine learning features from mapped memory for machine learning models is described. ML features are populated in a data structure that is serialized. State data is stored that indicates that reader process(es) are to read from a first memory mapped data file and not a second memory mapped data file. The serialized bytes are stored in the second memory mapped data file and the state data is updated to indicate that the reader process(es) are to read from the second memory mapped data file. A request is received and parsed to prepare keys from attributes of the request. Based on the state data, the serialized bytes are read from the second memory mapped data file that correspond to the keys. The serialized bytes are deserialized and copied to a data structure available to an inference algorithm.
US11875150B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to arithmetic and logical operations in a multi-user network are described. Circuitry may be part of a pool of shared computing resources in a multi-user network. Data (e.g., one or more bit strings) received by the circuitry may be selectively operated upon. The circuitry can perform operations on data to convert the data between one or more formats, such as floating-point and/or universal number (e.g., posit) formats and can further perform arithmetic and/or logical operations on the converted data. For instance, the circuitry may be configured to receive a request to perform an arithmetic operation and/or a logical operation using at least one posit bit string operand. The request can include a parameter corresponding to performance of the operation. The circuitry can perform the arithmetic operation and/or the logical operation based, at least in part, on the parameter.
US11875136B2
Edit automation functionality generalizes edits performed by a user in a document, locates similar text, and recommends or applies transforms while staying within a current workflow. Source code edits such as refactoring are automated. The functionality uses or provides anchor target lists, temporal edit patterns, edit graphs, automatable edit sequence libraries, and other data structures and computational techniques for identifying locations appropriate for particular edits, for getting transforms, for selecting optimal transforms, for leveraging transforms in an editing session or later, and for displaying transform recommendations and results. The edit automation functionality enhances automation subtool generation, discoverability, and flexibility, for refactoring, snippet insertion, quick actions in an integrated development environment, and other automatable edit sequences.
US11875120B2
A system and method are disclosed that enable rapid and cost-effective human-in-the-loop synthesis of domain-specific textual training data for a deep learning model. The data augmentation process incorporates a sentence generator, a sentence classifier, and weak-supervision by a domain expert that is ‘in the loop.’ Generally, both the sentence generator and the sentence classifier are implemented as machine learning models. The sentence generator generates new sentences based on manually labeled sentences and the sentence classifier generates labels for the newly generated sentences. The new sentences are corrected or verified by a domain expert and then used to retrain one or both of the sentence generator and the sentence classifier.
US11875116B2
A method including inputting, into a phrase recognition model comprising a neural network, a vector comprising a plurality of ngrams of text. The method also includes applying, using the phrase recognition model, a filter to the plurality of ngrams during execution. The filter has a skip word setting of at least one. The method also includes determining, based on the skip word setting, at least one ngram in the vector to be skipped to form at least one skip word. The method also includes outputting an intermediate score for a set of ngrams that match the filter. The method also includes calculating a scalar number representing a semantic meaning of the at least one skip word. The method also includes generating based on the scalar number and the intermediate score, a final score for the set of ngrams. A computer action is performed using the final score.
US11875111B2
A method, computer system, and computer program manage revisions in a document. The document is displayed in a graphical user interface. The document comprises a structured data object composed from a set of tiles, wherein each tile corresponds to one or more data nodes. The tiles are composable according to a domain-specific language of an integrated development environment. One or more revisions to the structured data object are received in sequence. The revisions to each data node of the set of tiles composing the structured data object are independently managed, enabling each revision to be independently reverted to a prior state irrespective of the sequence and revisions to other data nodes of the set of tiles and without reverting the other data nodes of the structured data object to their prior state.
US11875109B1
A system and method for or facilitating correction of data in documents is disclosed. The method includes receiving one or more documents from and scanning the received one or more documents by using a document processing system for obtaining one or more mis-captured data fields. The method further includes obtaining a historical correction data and determining one or more deltas based on the obtained historical correction data by using a trained data correction-based ML model. Further, the method includes parsing the determined one or more deltas into one or more datasets, generating one or more correct data fields corresponding to the one or more mis-captured data fields and automatically replacing the one or more mis-captured data fields with the generated one or more correct data fields based on one or more predefined rules.
US11875106B2
A document creation system includes a term object creation configured to create term objects in which terms and attributes thereof are integrated, a term object management configured to record and manage the created term objects, a term object selection configured to select a necessary term object from among the term objects managed in the term object management, and a term object placement configured to place the selected term object in a document being edited.
US11875105B2
A system and method for integrating machine learning algorithms to enrich documents in a content management system. The content management system includes a content services engine, a transformation engine to execute one or more transformations on documents stored in the content management system, and a machine learning services to apply a machine learning algorithm to the documents based on the one or more transformations.
US11875097B1
Systems and methods are provided. A physical measurement of the core loss increase associated with a physical deformation of a material of the device is obtained. A data structure describing a model of the device is accessed. A first edge of the model of the device associated with a physical deformation of the device is identified. A finite element mesh is generated to include a single layer mesh comprising a plurality of mesh elements associated with the first edge of the finite element mesh. A core loss value is assigned to each of the plurality of mesh elements. Each of the core loss values representative of the physical measurement of the core loss increase of the material as a result of the physical deformation of the material. An electromagnetic model is generated by performing a finite element analysis based on the finite element mesh and the single layer mesh.
US11875086B2
Methods, apparatus, and computer readable media related to interaction between a user and an automated assistant during a dialog between the user and the automated assistant. Some implementations are directed to adapting a graphical and/or audible presentation of search results provided by the automated assistant for presentation to the user. The adaptation may be in response to attribute(s), of one or more of the search results, referenced in spoken and/or typed textual input provided by the user during the dialog. Some of those implementations may enable a user to provide textual input to navigate the search results within the dialog and within resource and/or interface constraints associated with the dialog. Some of those implementations may additionally and/or alternatively enable adapting, based on textual input provided by a user to the automated assistant, when and/or whether search results having certain attributes are provided to the user by the automated assistant.
US11875084B2
Systems and methods are described herein for displaying subjects of a portion of content and searching for content related to a particular subject in the content. Media data of content is analyzed during playback, and a number of audio signatures are identified. Each audio signature is associated, based on audio characteristics, with a particular subject within the content. The audio signature is stored, along with a timestamp corresponding to a playback position at which the audio signature begins, in association with an identifier of the particular subject. Upon receiving a command, icons representing each of a number of audio signatures at or near the current playback position are displayed. Upon receiving user selection of an icon corresponding to a particular signature, a portion of the content corresponding to the audio signature is played back or a search is performed for content related to the signature represented by the selected icon.
US11875079B2
An indication icon sharing method of multi-screens, applied to a first screen and a second screen, comprising: (a) performing a first trigger action by a first control device; (b) displaying a first indication icon at a first location on the first screen corresponding to the first trigger action; and (c) displaying the first indication icon on the second screen.
US11875077B2
A history information management device includes a storage capable of storing a predetermined limit number of pieces of setting history information pertaining to execution of a job; and a controller that controls execution of the job by using the setting history information. In a case where the number of pieces of the stored setting history information has reached the predetermined limit number, the controller deletes, from the storage, the setting history information according to a result of use of the setting history information.
US11875065B2
A control device includes a first controller, a second controller and a storage. The first controller performs safety control for a drive device. The second controller performs standard control for the drive device. The storage is accessible by both the first and second controllers and includes a first storage area and a second storage area. The first storage area stores data involved with the safety control, and the second storage area stores data involved with the standard control. The first controller accesses both the first storage area and the second storage area, and the second controller accesses the second storage area but is restricted from accessing the first storage area.
US11875062B1
Disclosed are systems and methods for proactively recovering files stored in flash storage devices. The method may be performed at a flash file system. The method may include receiving a write command targeting a first file in a flash memory. The method may also include generating a reference hash corresponding to the first file, and storing the reference hash in the flash memory. The method may also include receiving a read command targeting the first file. In response to receiving the read command, the method may also include: providing a request for a logical block address corresponding to the first file to the flash manager, and receiving a response for the read command. The method may also include, in accordance with a determination that one or more hashes do not map to the first file, performing a file recovery operation for a second file based on the one or more hashes.
US11875061B2
A system includes a memory sub-system including a single-level cell (SLC) cache, a first multiple level cell (XLC) storage including a first XLC block, and a second XLC storage including a second XLC block. Data is indirectly written to the first XLC storage via the SLC cache in a first XLC write mode, and data is directly written to the second XLC storage in a second XLC write mode. The system further includes a processing device to perform operations including receiving data from a host system, in response to receiving the data, initiating a write operation to write the data to the first XLC storage and the second XLC storage, and causing subsets of the data to be alternatively written to the first XLC block in the first XLC write mode and to the second XLC block in the second XLC write mode using page level interleave.
US11875057B2
A processing unit can include a performance monitor for monitoring the performance of the processing unit and associated sub-units. The performance monitor includes a logic analyzer, and implements a state machine via state machine data entries stored in a memory associated with the performance monitor. A state machine data entry includes output signals associated with state transitions. The output signals include a next state and a trigger to the logic analyzer. The performance monitor implements logic circuits that determine, based on input signals and the state machine data entries, the next state to transition and associated output signals. If a state transition includes a trigger to the logic analyzer, the trigger is transmitted to the logic analyzer. In response to the trigger, the logic analyzer assembles and samples input signals and stores the sampled input signals into the memory associated with the performance monitor, overwriting the state machine data entries.
US11875054B2
A method comprising: stopping to use one or more first approximate membership filters for servicing of read requests that are incoming to a storage system; increasing a size of a set of first data structures that are available in the storage system, each of the first data structures being used by the storage system for write request amortization; replacing the one or more first approximate membership filters with one or more second approximate membership filters, and building each of the one or more second approximate membership filters by: freezing all non-empty first data structures in the set, and copying respective contents of each of the frozen non-empty first data structures into any of the one or more second approximate membership filters; and starting to use the one or more second approximate membership filters for servicing of read requests that are incoming to the storage system.
US11875050B2
Provided herein is a memory device including a memory block with memory cells to which word lines and bit lines are connected; page buffers, connected to the memory block through the bit lines, during a program operation, configured to convert original data that is received from an external device into variable data that is divided into groups according to a number of specific data, and configured to apply a program enable voltage or a program inhibit voltage to the bit lines according to the variable data; and a data pattern manager configured to control the page buffers to convert the original data into the variable data during the program operation.
US11875041B2
A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a seed generator circuit configured to generate a seed from inputted data by using first random number sequence data generated by an XorShift circuit; and a random number generator circuit configured to receive the seed as input to generate second random number sequence data by a second XorShift circuit.
US11875037B2
Aspects and features of this disclosure provide a high-availability storage platform employing multiple redundant sites. Replication to multiple sites can begin upon receiving content and can be completed quickly, in part through the use of a small and efficient file that can be sent to storage sites. The file enables each storage site to efficiently build appropriate entries in a reference registry for storing and indexing the content. In some examples, a registration request including the content is received and the content is stored in an instance of the centralized storage system at an initial storage site. The aforementioned file is transmitted to additional storage sites to cause the content to be stored in additional instances of the centralized storage system. The file can also be accessed at the additional storage sites to update instances of the reference registry.
US11875035B2
According to certain embodiments, an electronic device comprises: a memory; and a processor operatively coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to: identify a remaining capacity of the memory, and when the remaining capacity of the memory is less than a specified ratio of a total capacity of the memory, block compilation using a profile of an application, or delete an artifact created through compilation using the profile of the application.
US11875034B2
Systems and methods for displaying a scorecard for rating pilot performance by registering a wearable device based on the identification of the wearable device through pilot profile data, location data, and an identification key data received from the wearable device; linking, the wearable device to the avionic system to receive flight data, and to a cloud server to receive computed performance scores for in-flight display by the wearable device; alternately, in response to a manual input action, authenticating pilot identity to enable pilot access and linking of the flight data to the cloud server for display; generating a set of flight components via a model specified for a flight phase based on data from the wearable device if available, and the flight data, the model includes flight performance score values; displaying a flight phase performance score; and displaying on the graphical user interface in a cockpit display the performance scorecard.
US11875032B1
Techniques are disclosed for anomaly detection based on a predicted value. A search query can be executed over a period of time to produce values for a key performance indicator (KPI), the search query defining the KPI and deriving a value indicative of the performance of a service at a point in time or during a period of time, the value derived from machine data pertaining to one or more entities that provide the service. A graphical user interface (GUI) enabling a user to indicate a sensitivity setting can be displayed. A user input indicating the sensitivity setting can be received via the GUI. Zero or more of the values as anomalies can be identified in consideration of the sensitivity setting indicated by the user input.
US11875029B2
A video display method includes: displaying an initial video on a user interface in a first display mode; and displaying, in response to a video display mode of the user interface being switched from the first display mode to a second display mode, a target video associated with the initial video on the user interface in the second display mode, the first display mode and the second display mode having different video content display directions, and the target video including at least part of video content of the initial video.
US11875027B2
Embodiments of the present invention analyze a context in which a user interacts with a computer interface and automatically optimizes the interface for the context. The controller or control mode the user selects for interaction may define the context, in part. Examples of control modes include gesturing, audio control, use of companion devices, and use of dedicated control devices, such as game controllers and remote controls. The different input devices are designed for different tasks. Nevertheless, a user will frequently attempt to perform a task using a control input that is not adapted for the task. Embodiments of the present invention change the characteristics of the user interface to make it easier for the user to complete an intended task using the input device of the user's choice.
US11875024B2
An acquisition unit acquires image data by performing screen capture of a screen operated by a user, at a predetermined interval. A detection unit detects the user operation. An estimation unit estimates an amount of delay time from a user operation time point to a time point at which the user operation is detected by the detection unit. The selection unit selects image data of the user operation time point out of the acquired image data.
